Chapter 16
"Look!" Arya shouted in panic and pointed towards the coast.
The members of the pirate crew not already on the bow of the ship ran over and looked off towards the shore. "It's Jon," Usopp shouted and pointed at a man with his back to the water. The shore was covered in sand and further towards the snow-covered fields behind it there was a dead horse lying with two arrows in its side.
The man in the black fur coat was standing with his sword raised towards the other men in front of him. He had a large white wolf next to him whose head was raised and made him taller than his master.
"Runt of the litter?" Nami asked the younger girl on her right.
Arya wasn't in the mood for jokes though as Jon and Ghost were pinned with their backs to the water. There were a dozen men in black walking slowly towards them in a closing semicircle.
Gendry didn't have any of his armor on but he had his sword with him and put his hand on the hilt. "What did you think would happen to a deserter of the Night's Watch?"
"But he's their leader?" Luffy said confused as Jon seemed to be yelling at the men coming towards him.
"Once he chose to come with us, he gave up that position," Robin explained to the confused members of the pirate crew. Only the two Stark children and Gendry understood this already. She continued, "He's breaking his oath to them in order to come with us."
"So they're going to kill him?!" Chopper exclaimed furiously.
Zoro didn't care much either way, but he could understand why the other men in black would be after him. He looked over at Arya and nodded, reaching for his blades at his side.
"I've got this," Luffy stated and extended his arms in front of him, grabbing the two highest points on Sunny's lion face. "Gum Gum," he started and Gendry took a step back, still not used to the strange power, "ROCKET!"
1 MINUTE EARLIER
"I don't want to hurt you," Jon said. Despite the words coming out of his mouth, he had his sword pointed at the closest man to him. In his defense, that man was pointing a sword right back.
There were a dozen horses standing behind the semicircle of men. None of them cared about the other horse which just got killed in front of them, but Jon cast a look past his former men to his horse. "Please, turn around now and head back to Castle Black."
"You don't seem to understand, Lord Commander," one of them sneered. "We're not the ones who will be dying here. Wildling lover."
"Thorne was always right about you," another muttered. Jon looked his way and it was a man who voted for him to be Lord Commander, Remmy. "How you knew about your execution is beyond me."
Jon was confused but didn't lower his sword, pointing it a different direction at a man who was feeling risky and moving too close. His sworn brother, Pester, growled and stopped where he was walking. "I bet it was that brat Olly. The kid must've warned him it was coming and he escaped just in time."
Warned me? Execution? Jon was putting the pieces together quickly. "You were, going to kill me?" The Lord Commander asked and every man there stopped walking forward.
Their leader seemed genuinely stunned by what they were saying. "D-Don't play stupid," one of them quipped fast and glared at him, holding his sword tighter. "You knew we were, so you," the man trailed off as Jon's face turned from one of shock to one of fury.
"You would betray your Lord Commander?!" He yelled and rose Longclaw above his head. Jeor Mormont's face flashed in his mind and his fury peaked, "How many Lord Commanders will die from their own men's blades?" He swung it down in front of him and grabbed it by the hilt tight. He didn't look as against hurting them anymore and the men were hesitant about taking a single step further with Ghost growling at them.
Unfortunately for Jon, he forgot about the man with the crossbow. At the moment it was pointed right at him from back near the horses. "For the Watch," the man whispered and let his arrow fly.
It zipped right towards Jon, between two of the men standing in the circle around him. He saw it when it was a foot away and his eyes popped, but it never hit. It wasn't that the arrow was off its mark, Jon just wasn't in the same spot any longer.
The Lord Commander had his sword clenched in his left hand but his vision was blurry. He felt like he was just trampled by a horse and tilted his head to the right to see what had knocked him down and thrown him across the sand.
"Shishishi," Luffy laughed and the man below him lowered his jaw. "Hey Jon, ready to join my crew?"
The men in the group around Jon turned their heads slowly to the other side of the beach where their leader was standing up with a strange man. The skinny teen had a straw hat tied around his neck so it was secure on his back and had a mess of black hair where the hat belonged. Luffy held an open palm in front of himself and punched his other fist into it. "Can I kick these guy's asses?"
Jon looked at his black brothers. He really believed them to be loyal to him, at least some of them. Even Allister Thorne, he believed the man was appeased by his decision to make him First Ranger, but he'd betrayed him too. And Olly. His parents were killed and I became friends with the man who did it. I can't blame him, but I thought he understood, Jon grimaced and his eyes darkened as he glared at his men.
They all rose their swords and one of them shouted, 'Attack!' Jon turned to Luffy and answered his question, "Be my guest."
Jon's head was still a little dizzy from getting tackled by Luffy from out of nowhere, and he felt like he had a few bruises, but it was nothing compared to the thrashing Luffy dealt to his men.
The pirate started punching both arms in front of him shouting, "Gum Gum Gattling Gun!" Most of the men were down with the first few punches. A few of his men were able to dodge away from the sand and into the snow, turning and staring at Luffy's strange power for a few seconds before remembering what they were sent to do.
"Kill the Wildling fucker!"
"For the Watch!"
"For the Watch!"
Four men charged at Luffy and Jon and the pirate stopped his Gattling Gun. The men he hit with it were down on the ground, all unconscious from hits to the head. Luffy pulled back his leg and swung it forward yelling out Gum Gum Stamp, but the man already saw his stretching power and stuck his sword out in front of himself right as Luffy attacked. The pirate's eyes went wide and he moved his leg a little off course so the sword only nicked him. Another Crow swung his sword down at the extended leg but Luffy snapped it back quick enough to escape.
Jon rose his sword but Luffy held up a hand and said, "I got this." Right as he did, an arrow flew straight at his face and the man with the crossbow thought he had him. The pirate's right hand shot up and grabbed the arrow in midair when it was inches from his nose, not even flinching in the process.
His reaction time made the man closest to him falter and that was all it took for the captain. "Gum Gum Pistol!" Luffy punched and his fist slammed Remmy in the face, knocking him back into another man who fell but quickly started pushing himself back up.
The other two brought down their swords at the same time towards the rubber man, but Luffy rose both his hands and caught the blades in midair. He saw another crossbow bolt coming at him and pulled the blade in his right hand down, dragging the man behind it who was tugging back hard to no avail, not budging the pirate an inch. The arrow hit the blade and its shaft shattered.
The pirate smirked and yanked the blades from the men's hands, tossing them behind his head into the ocean.
"Show off," Sanji muttered as he watched the captain grab the two men by their heads and slam them into each other. Gendry was staring off the ship in amazement at the man whose command he was now under.
Luffy turned to the man who he knocked down before but looked like he was getting back and he saw Jon decided to fight the man himself. Jon lifted his large sword which was double the size of his opponent's and swung it down. Pester jumped out of he way though and slashed back, almost cutting Jon in the arm. "I'm not like those petty thieves and rapists you so often like to prove your better than," the man said and lifted his sword above his head, arcing it around his body.
Arya was watching from the ship and her eyes went wide. "He's using, the Water Dance," she stared at the man who was nowhere near as good as Syrio Forel, but still looked proficient in the art.
"I am going to gut you," the man said and no longer sounded like a Westerosi peasant who wound up in the Night's Watch.
"Pester?" Jon was confused as he'd never heard this man's accent before. The man laughed at the name he was called and then charged at the Lord Commander, swinging his sword around his head and clashing it with Jon's. At the same time he closed the gap between them and punched Jon in the throat.
The leader of the Crows ducked his head at the last second and took most of the blow to his chin. He lifted his right foot and kicked his opponent in the chest, knocking 'Pester' backwards and then charging with his sword. He swung down at the man who fell from the heavy kick, but his opponent rolled to the left, pushed down with his hands and spun his body around off the ground into a backflip that he landed.
Pester was panting hard and tried not to rub his ribs. He circled with Jon, holding his sword up while he faced him. "I spent the first twenty years of my life in Braavos, a Westerosi orphan on the streets. Decided one day that I should try my luck in the land of my parents. The ship I hopped on to take me to King's Landing was a smugglers ship though and I got sent here before I even had a chance. That was years before you arrived, and I plan on living a lot longer after you're dead."
The smirk on Jon's foe's face was too smug and the Lord Commander realized it a second too late. He was caught mid-turn and the arrow went right through his right shoulder.
Luffy was so exited by the sword fight and rooting on Jon, to the point that he forgot there was one more man. The one-on-one fight was interrupted by the guy with the crossbow and Luffy snapped his head around with a furious glare on his face.
The Crow back near the horses saw the look and starting cranking the crossbow as fast as he could.
Luffy started walking towards him and was seven feet away when the man shot the crossbow. It was point blank range and the guy grinned as he pulled the trigger and let the bolt fly. He didn't even see the pirate move, but Luffy had his hand wrapped around the shaft of the arrow and he snarled furiously as he gripped the bolt tighter and tighter and it snapped in half, splinters shattering around as he dropped the halves.
The man dropped his crossbow and held his arms up in front of him but he couldn't stop the fist that barreled into his stomach and sent him flying so hard backwards he knocked down the horse behind him. Luffy spat on the ground and then turned to see if Jon needed help. He grinned again, losing his bad mood at the sight in front of him.
The man with the fancy Water Dance was trying to dodge, but Jon's moves were too fast. The leader of the Crows pretended to strike down vertically on his man, but then went diagonal in the direction Pester dodged to. He clashed blades with a man he once thought of as a brother, but he was much stronger and pushed the other blade away, throwing it up in the air. He kept pushing and his sword slashed across Pester's body, splattering blood up in the air.
"Ready to go?" Luffy asked his new nakama and walked towards him. Jon looked over his left shoulder and saw a pirate ship down the coast a little bit. He had no idea how Luffy got all the way down here, but he was glad the pirate came.
Jon nodded his head and took a step, but then felt a hand on his ankle. He looked down and saw Pester grabbing him, "You can run," the man said in a raspy voice, "but you'll never be free in Westeros again. Your head will be on a spike the next time I see it, unless I get the privilege to cut it off mys-" Jon stuck his blade into Pester's open mouth and out the other side of the man's head.
Luffy stared at Jon in shock from the sudden act. All of Luffy's punches were hard and knocked out the men, but they were defeated now. That man was already too injured to continued, but Jon... he executed him. To do that after the battle was already won, it just didn't seem right to the rubber teen.
The man pulled the blade out of his opponent's head and it was soaked in blood. Rather not have you chasing me Pester, or whatever the Hell your name really was. My sister's going to be with me, and I'm going to keep her safe. "Let's go," Jon said to his new captain as he slid his sword away.
"Alright," Luffy shook his head and got rid of the bad vibes, getting back to the fun things going on. "Everyone's waiting for you on the ship. Our crew's getting bigger by the day," he sounded really happy about getting Gendry the day before and now Jon as well. "You're going to be surprised," he added as he ran down the beach with the former Lord Commander chasing him.
"Surprised by what?" Jon asked as they ran.
Luffy grinned, "You'll see." He wanted to tell him now, but Bran really wanted to make it a surprise when they were on their own. He wasn't even waiting on the deck with the others because he wanted to be reunited with Jon later on when they were alone.
"Jon!" The two on shore turned towards the ship coming towards them and there were people waving at them from the bow. There was a girl shouting louder than the rest and waving both of her hands in the air.
For the first time since he left Castle Black, Jon had no doubt that he was doing the right thing. She's... taller, the man stared at the boat his sister was on. The top of her head was still below the shoulders of the teens standing on either side of her, but he could swear she was taller than the last time he saw her a month before. Maybe I just didn't notice it then, he reasoned with himself.
Luffy laughed at Jon's smile and he stretched his arm out to the ship. The crow didn't have time to panic as Luffy's other arm wrapped around him, and he and Luffy were slingshotted into the air.
"You could have killed me!" Jon shouted as he stood up on the deck. He slammed hard enough into the cabin wall to leave a crack in the wood. "What are you thinking?!"
"Shishishi,, sorry," Luffy laughed and got back to his feet. The rest of the crew ran over to where they crashed and Arya was the first to run forward.
"Jon!" The girl called out and the curly haired man was shaken from his foul mood. He looked down at his sister and her smile was contagious.
The man just learned his own men were going to turn on him even before he left them, and he was breaking his vows by coming here, but Arya's smile was all it took to make him grin back. "Arya," he said with a warm smile. She looked like she wanted to charge in for a hug, but the others wanted to introduce themselves first.
Jon politely reintroduced himself to the crew. He forgot all the names he learned a month before, except for Luffy's. Nami, Robin, and the boys all greeted their newest crew member who they briefly met after Hardhome.
"You're a cyborg?" The man asked the strange looking guy with blue hair.
"A SUPER cyborg," he corrected and posed with his arms over his head.
"And you're a reindeer, who can talk?" Jon was skeptical.
"And he has seven transformations," Luffy exclaimed.
"I'm a doctor!" Chopper yelled and transformed huge, punching the captain on the top of the head. The fact that Luffy never mentioned it hurt his feelings. Chopper started dealing with the injury to Jon's shoulder while he talked to the others.
The man in black nodded at the strange creature when his arm was fully wrapped and Chopper smiled and backed off. He then turned to the man standing next to Arya. "You're a knight? So you aren't a pirate?"
Gendry shook his head and stated, "I'm here to serve Lord B-" Arya elbowed him in the gut and the knight oofed. "Oh, um, yeah I'm a pirate now." Arya shot her friend a harsh glance and he had an apologetic look for almost letting it slip.
"Well," the man who left the Night's Watch began, "where to now? We have to stop at shore first to pick up Ghost."
The crew members looked at each other and then walked to the side, looking off towards shore. "I don't think we do," Usopp started as they saw the white direwolf paddling through the water.
"Thought you said it was the runt of the litter," Zoro said to his pupil. The girl looked over as well and her eyes opened wide in surprise. Ghost was as big if not bigger than Summer. His legs were almost as long as a horse's and his torso was longer and wider.
The sniper looking off the side whispered, "Two of these wolves on the ship..." Arya ran over and smacked Usopp on the back of the head midway through his sentence.
It was too late though, "Two?" Jon asked and stepped forward. The girl sighed and smiled as she turned to face him.
"Jon," Arya began. The man looked down at her and she smiled, "Go down below deck. There's a surprise for you."
"We'll get your dog on deck while you're below," Nami stated and patted him on the back, giving him a light shove towards the cabin door.
I don't know much about them and they're sending me below deck, Jon felt a twinge of nervousness. He didn't think Arya would purposely hurt him, but then again he hadn't seen her for a long time, and he was a cautious man. It wouldn't be the first time he was betrayed today.
He walked towards the door and looked back over his shoulder. Some of the crew were smiling at him and he wondered what could be down there. The bastard boy walked into the cabin and admired the different rooms he was walking past.
Jon Snow was starting to get nervous again as he heard a low growl down the hallway he turned down. There was an open door at the end of the hall and he saw movement on the other side. What is... they do have another, is it Arya's? He didn't see Nymeria the last time he was here, but she could have been below deck the whole time.
"Nymeria," he called down the hall. The wolf on the other side of the door didn't make any sudden movement, showing that wasn't its name.
"This isn't Arya's wolf," a voice said from the room Jon was walking towards. The man froze for a few seconds and then rushed towards the room and looked on the wolf's back. His eyes turned into saucers and he couldn't find any words to say as he looked at the creature's rider. "Hey Jon," the boy greeted with a smile.
"Br-" he stopped and rubbed his eyes. How is this possible? In the entire vast expanse of the North, they ran into Bran. He opened his eyes again but the boy was still there, staring at his older brother. "Bran, you," Jon paused and stared closer at the direwolf in front of him. His eyes widened larger, "When I climbed the Wall, and the wildlings turned against me..."
"I was there," Bran stated. "So was Rickon. We were in the building next to you when it happened."
"But Summer, and Shaggydog, they saved me," Jon added, confused at how that was possible.
"They did," Bran paused and scratched his wolf's head. Summer lowered to the ground and he was at eye level with his brother. "I'm a warg," he stated.
Just like Orell, Jon shook his head, trying to forget the rat-faced wildling he despised. Bran continued, "That wasn't the only time I saw you," he didn't want to keep secrets from his brother. The longer he kept it from him, the more it would eat away at him and he had to say it, "Beyond the Wall, at Crastor's Keep." Jon was shocked again that his brother had been so close to him, "I wanted to say something," the boy admitted, "I wanted to call out for you. You were right in front of me, but if I did, you would have taken me back to Castle Black with you."
"Yes I would have," Jon said, "and what would have been wrong with that?"
"I needed to go North," the younger boy answered. He held up a hand before Jon could ask why and said, "It's too confusing to go into detail now."
Jon hesitated with his mouth halfway open, but then he accepted and closed it. A smile tugged at his lips and he walked closer to the wolf. Summer sniffed him and seemed fine with his scent, allowing him to walk towards Bran who watched him come around. "The last time I saw you, you were in a coma, so we never got to say goodbye."
"Now we don't have to," Bran said quickly and his brother stared for a few seconds before nodding. The younger boy smiled, "It's great to have you back Jon."
A/N Yay! Jon and Bran reunite! Hope you enjoyed this latest chapter of Luffy Takes the Iron Throne, and thank you for reading. Leave me a review telling me what you think or questions you have below.
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You should make a naval battle happen soon between the Ironborn and the strawhats, pirates vs pirates right?
Hehehe, I'm planning on it!
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Is anyone going to learn about their haki, and if they are, will the people from GoT get it since haki is something that every living being is supposed to have the potential to use. If so, will Luffy be the only conquerer.
There will be Haki, and though Luffy will be strongest, he will probs not be the only conqueror. Thanks again to everyone who reviewed and I'll see you next time!