Hey, everyone sorry for the long delay but, here is the latest chapter of 'One Piece: A New Start'.

Now, on to two important things:

First, since only one person has guessed as to who the mystery character was they win. So, Luffykotheevee is the winner and you get to send in a Leak idea that will be used at the Drum Island Arc. The character has to be from a show or something they can not be an OC sorry. Just message me the deatials

Second, Tai I really like tha allias you sent in, but I may change it from 'The Laughing Demon' to 'The Laughing Beast' just becuase, I really don't want to have the same thing in common with one of the crew members.

Now, on with the story!

Chapter 12: To Whiskey Peak

"Aaaah..." I said as I stretched out my muscles after eating a large amount of Sanji's food. I may think he's a annoying pervert but, damn his food is the best thing I've ever eaten in my entire life.

"I'm heading off for a nice nap." I announced to everyone as I got up and made my way to the Merry.

Of course on the way there I heard Sanji, Luffy, and Usopp argueing over some food.

"I'm the one who slaved over the ovens for it! Its mine!" Sanji yelled.

"Whose the one who always fixes the ship? Me!" Usopp shouted back.

"I'm captain! The last piece goes to me!" Luffy bellowed.

I just ignored them, until someone slammed into my back.

I turned around to see it was Luffy and not only that but, apparnetly he broke our Log Pose on his little flight.

"Luffy…Sanji…Usopp…" Nami's voice was deadly calm as her hair shadowed her eyes.

Before the three even had time to react she clubbed all three of them in the head sending them flying into the ocean. "Go Soak Your Heads! Dumbasses!" she shouted. She then began whining about our Log Pose being destroyed.

I, of course, had to make my opinion known. "Some navigator you turned out to be. Can't even keep our Log Pose from being broken."

That was not my best idea. Nami turned towards me her hair shadowing her eyes once agian. But, unlike the other three, I recieved no warning as she punched me sending flying towards the Merry and landing on the deck.

"Ow!" I shouted. "Don't see why she over reacted, we get a new one." I said under my breath.

'True, but she doesn't know that.' Morgan replied.

"Whatever. I'm taking that nap." I told him as I climbed up into the crow's nest and went to sleep.

Of course, not everything goes how I want. I opened my eyes to see I was in the big room of gray, that was my head once agian.

"Why am I here?" I asked.

"Ahem!"

I turned around to see Morgan and he had a serious look on his face.

"Cortez." he said to make sure he had my full attention. "I think we need to have an impoortant discussion."

I rolled my eyes at him. "Can't this wait till later or just through my head?" I asked him.

The look he gave me said 'No'.

"Fine." I replied.

Morgan waved his hand and two chairs materialized. He sat down in one and I took the other.

"Have you thought of what you plan on doing in the future?" he asked as he made a cup appear in his hand.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

The glare he gave me told me that he wasn't going to have any of the run around.

"Don't play dumb. You know exactly what I'm talking about." he replied.

"You mean what am I going to change for the crew?" I re-asked him.

He nodded his head, letting me know I was right.

"I'm not real sure." I told him.

"Cortez, this isn't a game!" he shouted. "You need to think of the things your going to change here."

"Like what?" I asked. "The Straw Hat's being seperated or Ace's death? Cause, I'm pretty sure we've been over the fact that I can't change those!"

Morgan was about to say something, but I didn't let him as I jumoed up from my chair continueing my rant.

"You should already know Morgan that if I keep us from being seperated then we''l just go straight to Fishman Island and I'm sure that everthing there will go how it does in canon! Luffy will get lost, find the princess, but this time he may not be strong enough to stop the axe that Decken throws, so she might die and to make things worse we wouldn't be strong enough to stop the New Fishman Pirates, so a lot of people will probably die! I will not have that on my hands no matter what, even if I have to let myself and my crewmates suffer for it. Now, on to Ace's death." I told him.

"See, if I stopped us from being seperated then we wouldn't here about his execution until we reached Fishman Island and then we wouldn't make it to him in time. Also, I'm more then likely not even going to be sent to the same island as Luffy so, the chances of me being able to help him are slim. Finally, do you want me to tell him about everything that is going to happen to him and his brother when we're seperated? If i did, he might still fail and you know what that does? When he got back together, he would hate me! Not for his brother death, but he'll probably guess that I knew everyhing that happened to us was going to happen to us he'd be pissed that I did nothing to stop them. Plus,he sin't going to believe me when I tell him that 'If I changed anything then we all might have die.' cuase, he would just reply that I didn't know that and we could have gotten strong enough before any of it happned. You know what he'd be right I honestly don't know if any of this will even happen, I mean we could get stronger and survive." I finished in a saddened tone.

By this point Morgan was up and beside me.

"I just don't want them to die. They're more then my crewmates, they're my family since I'll never get to see mine again." I told him.

Morgan put a hand on my shoulder. "I'm sorry, Cortez." he told me.

I gave him a confused look. Which, he seemed to notice.

"I shouldn't have been so hard on you about this. I can see that you have been thinking about this for a long time. Not only that but, I completely forgot what lost by being here." he explained.

"Hey, it's not like you did all this on purpose." I replied. "Besides, your in just as bad a boat as me."

"Yeah, but I promise that I'll find some wat to get you back home no matter what." he told me.

"Thanks, that means a lot." I told him.

"Hey, anything for a friend." he replied. "Now, with that out of the way, you might as well wake up."

He didn't need to tell me twice. If I stayed asleep to long then Nami was going to make me be her personal bag carrier for a month. No really, she is. She told me they already have one lazy bum on the ship, a second one was not happening.

I woke up to see we we're sailing. After stretching I decided to make why way to the deck. About half way down the newly repaired mast I heard shouting.

"What the Hell!?"

I looked to see Mr. Nine and Miss Wednesady on deck staring at me like some kind of circus side show.

I made my way down the rest of the mast and looked towards Usopp. "Uhhhhh?" was all I asked him, while pointing towards the two.

He turned to see what I was 'Uhhing' about. "Oh, Luffy agreed to take them to they're home island." he answered.

After he answered I remembered that little bit of information. "Alright, then." I replied and began walking over to the side of the Merry.

"Um...Excuse me, sir?"

I turned to see Miss Wednesday or Vivi, looking at me.

"Yes?' I asked.

"How did you do that just now?" she asked.

"You mean walking down the mast like it was normal ground?" I asked, which she nodded her head 'Yes'. "It's one of my speacial talents." I told her.

"So you ate a Devil Fruit?" she asked.

"Nope. I can still swim." I told her and made my way over to the edge of the deck.

Once I got to it a channeled some chakra into my hands and did a handstand on the railing and then proceeded to do one-handed handstand push-ups. Hey, the talk with Morgan made me realize I need to workout or I'm going to get left behind.

During my workout I heard Usopp and Luffy shouting about it snowing. My workout was then cut short, becuase it didn't take long for the Merry to be covered in snow.

"Yosh! Mr. Snowman…ready!" Luffy proclaimed, patting a somewhat childish made snowman made of snow, barrels, and spare wood.

Usopp was putting the finishing touches on a sculpture of a mermaid, that made Luffy's snowman look like crap.

The two then began fighting about destroying the other sculpture. I was just ignoring them until a snowball pegged me in the back of the head. I turned around to see who threw it, but had another one hit me in the face.

I brought my hand up to wipe the snow from my face. "Alright." I said a low voice, my beret shadowing my eyes. "Who threw that?" I asked.

The two just pointed at each other.

I decided since I was hit with two snowballs there was enough punishment for the both of them. So, after a nice little beating, which included me using Usopp as a club on Luffy, the two were helping Sanji shovel the snow off the Merry.

I just leaned up agianst the mast, watching all three work.

"Why aren't you helping?" Nami asked.

"Hey! I got those two idiots to do something useful, so I did my work." I replied.

Nami just rolled her eyes at me and went back inside the cabin to do whatever she was doing earlier.

I was planning on taking another nap. Hey, I had nothing better to do and I wasn't going to risk falling into the ocean with my workout.

But, that was quickly changed when Nami let out a loud scream and came running out from the cabin. Shouting at us to turn the ship around and all kinds of other things, I don't pay much attention to what she says I just do it.

It was a good thing we stepped into high gear on it to, cause a little bit later we almost hit a giant iceberg. I think we got luck cause, I remember in the show that the Merry took a bit of damage...I think not real sure. But, to make things worse a fog rolled in and the weather became worse as the wind threatened to capsize our ship. We were lucky we had Nami or we all would have died the moment the storm showed up.

So after it was all gone everyone was laying all over the deck trying to get they're breath back. Except Luffy who was sitting on the Merry's head and me, who was laughing like I was crazy.

"What's so funny?" Zoro asked in an annoyed voice.

"We just survived our first disaster on the Grand Line!" I shouted.

And with that everyone just pretty much ignored me. They're lucky I wasn't singing and dancing then they really would have thought I was crazy.

"Guys! Look!" Luffy shouted.

We all looked to what he was talking about to see a bunch of large cacti.

That was our guests cue and they thanked us and jumped over board and began swimming towards the island.

"And I thought Luffy was impatient." I said.

We sailed onward to the island, deciding to enter a river mouth in hopes it would lead to a good spot to disembark. The mist was heavy around the island, covering much of it save the massive cacti that now towered over us.

"Oi, there are people on shore! I can barely make them out though." Sanji spoke up.

"Everyone…be on your guard…" Zoro said dangerously as he handled his blades.

"Alright…come on now...be you monsters…or p-p-p-p-p-people….I-I-I-I-I-I'll take you all on!" Usopp stammered as he pulled his slingshot back.

Once we got even closer to the island we all heard a loud noise.

*POP POP POP POP*

And the next thing that happened was Usopp screamed like a girl and fell back on the deck followed by me, as I laughed at the whole thing.

We were sailing right through a small town, with near every inhabitant; children, men, women; all had gathered near the river and where shouted and praising us.

'I can't wait for the party!' I thought as we all got ready to dock.

Let the fun begin.

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