Chapter 4: Memory Lane, Bye-Bye bad Clowns Part 2!
Luffy listened to the Mayor as he told the group about the Buggy Pirates, ChouChou's past and the town. Right now saying Luffy was upset was a bit of an understatment.
"Quei grandi no buoni bastardi! (Those big no good bastards!)" Luffy said in yet another language that the group could not understand, but they did know whatever she said was not good.
"Seruisly what's with the language change?" Zoro asked in a bored tone of voice.
"I get bored kinda easily and as the saying on my home island goes,'A bored D is a dangerous D', so whenever someone saw that I was getting bored they would teach me things like languages, braiding, perfume making, herb stuff and other things to keep me from braking things."
Zoro shrugged, "Makes sense I geuss. I'm going upstairs to take a nap before the fight. Wake me up when its time to kick big nose's ass." Zoro said before going upstairs to sleep.
"So whats the plan here Lu?" Boris asked curiously with amusement at the situation at hand. The girl seemed to be a magnet for trouble and boy was he having fun dealing with it.
"I heard about big nose from Shanks before, he ate the chop-chop fruit so he can't be sliced but a hit should work out just fine. Zoro will handle that guy with the swords that I saw since he actually looks more skilled then the rest. Boris I want you to take out that man that's with the overgrown kitty cat. Elliot, keep the Mayor and Mar safe. Mei will keep Nami safe as she steals the big-noise's treasure and map. But before all that, Boris please take Polo's food to him."
"Aye, aye captain!" Boris said clearly enjoying the role of a pirate he was taking up.
As he left with a plate of food Luffy turned to Nami," Nami, your going to need to leave haft the treasure you get for the town."
"What! Do you know how much Belly that is?!"
" No, but we can't just leave them with nothing." Luffy said while unknowingly pouting, a cute pout, a cute pout with big kicked puppy eye's. If it weren't for the fact that she would lose money Nami would have hugged her and screamed Kawaii. The fact that the owl on her shoulder was mimicking her only made the scene cuter.
"Arg, FINE!"
"Shishishi! Nami is so nice! Right Owliver?"
"Hoot Hoot!" The bird replied. Causing everyone in the room to blink at the bird.
"You named it Owliver?" Elliot asked in a deadpan tone of voice.
"He and yeah he seems to like it. May as well stick to it."
Elliot stared at Luffy for a few minutes before shrugging," Ah, not the worst thing you can name a bird."
Before anyone could say anything else a load noise was heard outside causing the whole group in the kitchen to go outside. There they saw Polo in hybrid form with a twitching cat ear, a man and lion on the ground extra crispy and Boris staring at the fried duo with his head tilt to the side.
"Shishishi looks like Polo did your job Boris!" Luffy laughed.
"Yup looks like, now what am I to do captain?"
"Um," Polo said pausing between bites," You think you could take my boat and go tell my wife and son I'll be a bit late meeting up with them?"
"Ok, but how will I know where to go? And do you have a photo or something I could see so I know what they look like?"
"Yeah, hold on." Polo said before putting his plate down and digging through what appeared to be an shirt pocket on the inside of his shirt. He pulled out a folded picture and...
"Is that a purple and red Log-pose?" Luffy asked, eyes filled with mirth at the odd colors.
"Yeah, this Log-pose was specially made to point the way to where-ever my wife happens to be instead of a place. If I didn't have this thing I would have lost track of my wife a lot of times in the past." Polo smiled and then showed the group the photo. In the photo was Polo, a women who the group could only guess to be his wife. She had bloody red hair that was wavy and held up in a messy bun. She had a dark tan, almond shaped purple eye's, a playful smirk and tattoos that while giving her a slightly intimidating look only made her seem more beautifully exotic. She had the body of a dancer, a chest that could make many girls green with envy, she wore a long skirt and a tank top that showed her stomach, the thing that set Luffy off into a laughing fit was the fact that she was tall, very tall. If the picture was right then she was at least twice the height of Polo, who was slightly taller than an average man. Really Polo looked tiny barely standing at about the height of her stomach.
"Polo! You look so TINY! Shishishishi!" Luffy said through tears of laughter.
"*Snort* Yeah I know, but what can I say. I love the troublesome women even if she will cause me to die of worry before I reach old age." Polo said before giving Boris directions to his small boat.
Boris stoped after he walked a few feet away and asked another question, "Oi, What's your wife's name?"
"Roxanna, Don Quixote Roxanna."
This caused Luffy to stop laughing. "Wait, you mean the cousin of that Warlord that was reported to vanish off the face of the earth a few years back? The tall, blonde guy with the pink, feathered coat?"
"Yeah that sounds about right, how did you know that?"
"Gramp's often kept a lot of old newspapers in the room he had in his boat and I took a couple when he wasn't looking. I also took a lot of the old wanted posters, most are outdated thou. I have one with a picture of Mihawk when he was 19!"
"You are one odd kid...my wife will live you to death."
~ Elsewhere, On Whitebeards ship~
"Ok, how did I get pulled in to coming here again?" Sabo asked in a flat tone of voice.
"Well Pops called us back to the ship because we needed to talk to him about Luffy and I wanted to introduce you to him so I basically dragged you along with us." Ace said as if it was no big deal that he basically kidnapped...er captainnapped Sabo from his crew who was searching the East Blue for their little sister.
"Your lucky Kurollo doesn't mind looking for Luffy with the crew without me you know." Sabo said with an eye twitch, but he stopped suddenly and stared at the person on the other side of the ship.
"Sabo? What's wrong? Why are you starring at Teach? I know he doesn't really have a lot of table manners but come on no need to stare." Ace asked in confusion.
"...Nothing why don't you go tell Whitebeard that we're here, ok." Sabo said still watching Teach. Ace nodded and scratched his head confusedly before going to see his captain.
"...So what's really wrong yoi?" Marco asked, wondering why Sabo was tense all of a sudden.
"Nothing but a warning Luffy gave me when we were just kids playing pirate at our home island. You ever have a brother or sister give you some really strange advice, but not know what it meant until much later?"
A memory flashed in the back of Marco's mind. "Marco, you're strong but you use your power like its nothing special and nothing bad will ever harm you. You should use your devil fruit wisely." Polo said to his nine year old brother with a look of exasperation.
"Why, just because other people don't have one doesn't mean that I should stop using mine." Young Marco said looking at his older brother who was fixing the sleeve of his (Polo's) favorite purple jacket.
"I didn't say to stop using it, I'm just saying that you should be more careful and learn when you should use it. One who flaunts what he has that others do not will suffure a wound worse then on inflicted one the body. One who uses his gift for the happiness of others more then himself will grow." Polo said with wisdom more suited for an older person than the young 12 year old that he was.
"I don't get it, you're making no sense brother." Marco said in frustration.
Polo finished sewing the sleeve and cut the thread before giving Marco a knowing grin and placed his jacket around Marco's shoulders." One day you'll understand Marco. I only hope that you don't have to bare a wound like that." Polo said kneeling in front of Marco.
"Yeah, I do." Marco said trying not to remember what came a few short years after that.
"One day after Luffy had been off swimming on her own she came back to Dadan's, the person that looked after the three of us, and just went to bed. That wasn't anything like the ball of energy that Luffy is normally like so we were worried. Ace forgot to ask what happened the next day because she was acting like normal. It took me three weeks to pull some information out of her and she only said this, 'Sabo, please whatever you do don't trust a pirate with missing teeth, bushy chest hair that's fat and eats lots of pie.' "
Marco's eye twitched, "She ever say why yoi?"
Sabo shook his head, " She only said 'His heart was so dark through he had a kind smile on his face. So very dark.'"
Marco sighed, "You seem so sure that your sisters words are true."
Sabo glared at Marco like he had insulted Luffy, which he didn't, and bluntly said," When my sister was 6 and haft years old and considered a friend of Shanks for haft a year she walked in and saw Shanks speaking to Mihawk. She looked at Mihawk for 2 seconds apparently then sat in his lap before insulting Shanks and complementing him in the same sentence. Causing Mihawk to burst out laughing and Shanks to fall off the stool he was on. Don't believe me, ask Shanks or Mihawk for yourself, that's what Ace and I did and they confirmed the story. Excuse me for believing in my sisters judge of character."
"Marco, Sabo, Pops said we can go see him now-Marco you ok? You seem shocked." Ace said.
"I told him the story of Shanks, Luffy and Mihawk." Sabo stated walking to Whitebeard's cabin.
"Oh, yeah we didn't believe it at first either. But its' true. Hey Marco did you hear? Thatch found a devil fruit." Ace said dragging Marco to Whitebeard's cabin.
"...That's good." Marco said, 'Why do I have a bad feeling in my gut now?'
~Back with Luffy a little while later.~
Luffy watched as the battle between Zoro and the guy on the unicycle drew to a close from the corner of her eye. And smirked as Zoro won.
"Well big nose its just you and me now." Luffy said with a grin as Buggy fumed and Polo made sure none of the others interfered.
End Chapter, Hope you all liked it. I don't own One Piece and I don't know why a disclaimer is needed in Fanfiction.