Hello everyone! Sorry for the long wait. Had a lot of things going on, like this: Going to Thailand for three weeks, and having to come back to school after missing a week. Not to mention the added amount of jetlag upon that, so yeah. Here's what I propose: I will update after every three months, mainly to give me some time to write. So in the next three months come back to read. Feel free to leave your criticism. Enjoy.

"A brat? What's a brat doing here?"

Winter bonked Garrett on the head.

"Come on, as much as you hate those two; you have to admit she's adorable."

Garrett pondered about it. Using his observation haki made him feel a familiar aura around the girl. He was able to "hear" every bit of her, so to speak. Still, he just wasn't fond of kids.

"She's still a brat in my books, might as well give her to Garp."

Said eight year old kid started to walk away.

"NO! NO GO BACK TO GWAMPA!"

That statement made him freeze in his tracks.

'Grandpa?'

"Oi kid. 'Woofy' was it? You said old man Garp was your grandpa, why don't you want to go back? You shouldn't be hanging around us, you know."

Ever since their encounter, Winter and Garrett have made names for themselves. A lot of smaller kids whom were bullied were either frozen, knocked in, knocked out, or all at the same time. For a charge of 500 berries, their services can be bought. An extra 200 for 'souveniers'.

"I THAID IT WATH 'WOOFY!'"

"That's what I'm saying. I'm just repeating what you're saying"

"Wat repea-ting mean?"

"It means to say ba... Wait.."

Crack crack

"Shut up!"

As the temperature dropped (literally), Garrett only knew that the Ice Queen seems to have had it.

"Oi oi..."

Crack crack crack

The Ice cube now shown in the sun, as Garrett was trapped inside of it. Garrett is strong, but nowhere strong enough to break the wall of ice, even with his haki. Winter smirked, seemingly proud as she seemed to have shut up her annoying adopted brother.

"Now sweety now that we have that taken care of, why don't you want to go back to Garp? He might be worried about you here."

"Owd man bweak waw, he want mak me Mawine."

"Do you want to be a Marine?"

"NO! I want to be piwate king!"

Winter chuckled for a bit. The kid was just too damn adorable, and she did have a sister before, so it wasn't as if she didn't have expirience when handling kids. Garrett, even though he had siblings, utilized a rather "interesting" way on dealing with them.

Flashback (Garrett, and Winter: age 7. Ace and Sabo: Age 5)

We see Garrett unarmed, "training" Ace.

"Oi, Ace. You can hit much harder than that."

Pant.. Pant.. "You're much more cruel than Gramps you know that? Tell me why I need this training again? Also, why does Sabo get's to take a break?

"You're going to need it if you're going to survive the New World. I'm doing this because you're my brother, and I thought it might be a good idea to at least teach him somethings before he fights against the World's Strongest Man. Also, Sabo already unlocked his Haki a long time ago. He already has all three you know."

Garrett sighed.

"If you just ignored those people and embraced DAD's name, we wouldn't be doing this now would we?"

Ace's blood began to boil. His arm, turning black didn't go unnoticed by his older brother.

"Just because we are brother's by blood... Doesn't mean we HAVE THE SAME FATHER!"

Garrett raised his arm, and concentrated Haki in it. He raised it just in time to bring up his defense.

PCK!

"Took you long enough."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Look at your arm dummy. That black stuff on there? That's Armament Haki."

Ace looked over to see his arm covered in a blackish purple tint. Never in his life had he felt so accomplished.

"YES!" Ace screamed as he kept bouncing. Garrett stared at the sky to see an image of Portgas D. Rouge and Gol D. Roger.

'You should be proud, mom, dad.'

Flashback end

Winter smiled, looking back on old memories of Garrett teaching Ace Haki. She looked over at the little girl, whom the former has been taken a liking too.

"Come let's get you home."

Winter began to pick up the baby when she spotted a few not so friendly targets due to her Observation Haki.

'NO! Not right now! There's a little girl here and they have the audacity to ambush us?! I can't get Garrett out of the ice yet, there's a defenckess girl here, and my haki isn't strong enough to knock them out. If anyone's there, please help!'

The answer came when a sudden tingling down the spine nearly knocked her out. She looked over at the girl, who was still awake. Her Observation Haki tracked the source back to the girl.

"I must say, that little girl is impressive. Unlocking Haki at such a young age, you two aren't bad either."

Winter feeling unease grabbed Flint and Blush, she assumed her normal fighting stance.

"Who are you?"

"'Who am I?' You might ask?"

The woman took a few steps forward. She was wearing thick black robes and matching black pants. On her head was a cap that covered her hair, and an incredibly triangular face. On her back, a bow with blades on the front of it, literally a bowblade. (Think of Bloodborne for the entire description. Her eyes, pale, almost as white as snow itself. She didn't halt until she was in their full view, her height giving a towering appearance, although she was just five feet seven inches tall.

"I guess you can say, I'm a deadshot of sorts."