[ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 ℕ𝕚𝕟𝕖]
𝕾𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖎𝖙 𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖔𝖘. 𝖂𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖎𝖙 𝕱𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖞.
Some call it Chaos. We call it Family.
X
The fall from Skypea had forced them to take in the condition of the Going Merry, so then it was decided to go to Water 7. When the crew asked Luna if they had any new orders, Luna said that they were laxer on her lately, not sure why.
They're stay in water 7 might have been eventful in a different universe, but not in this. Luna had found out that CP0 was there, and CP9 was undercover as shipwrights. She had Robin hiding from the government agents, and had gotten in contact with the mayor of the Island, who led them towards his adoptive brother. Franky was a... Super character, to say the least. Rude at the beginning, but Luna managed to hit it off well with him. They let him look at Merry, only to hear the bad news of her not being able to go on anymore.
Luna had not been surprised by the news, and when asked, she shrugged and said that she heard Merry say so.
"What do you mean by heard?" Usopp asked.
"It's just what I mean. Merry told me." Luna replied.
Iceberg, who was the mayor, and Franky were with them as they had this conversation.
"There have been rumours," Iceberg started, gaining the attention of Luna and her crew. "That once a ship is lived in and loved, it develops a spirit, a Klabautermann..."
Luna tilted her head, "Is that what Merry is called?"
With a nod, "so, are you telling me that you met a Klabautermann?"
"No." Luna said, "I just hear her voice. She said she will appear when it's time to leave, but until then, she will take us where we want to go with her limits."
Usopp's eyes started to tear up, "Oh Merry."
Nami patted his back, she also felt hurt, Merry has been with them for so long, and now she's going to leave them. Sanji took in a drag on his cigarette while leaning against the walls of the room. Similarly, Zoro was leaning the door, taking watch as Luna ordered him not to let anyone in. Chopper was already bawling his eyes out, while Robin, who had a mask to cover her face, sat silently in a corner of the room.
"Say, Luna," Nami began, "Why did you not tell us that you heard Merry, isn't something important that you should inform us of?"
Luna looked confused, "But I always hear things, so why should Merry be special?"
"No," Nami sighed in frustration, "This is special cuz you heard a non-living thing speak to you. Merry is not a human."
Luna still had a confused expression, frowning slightly, "That's what I'm saying, merry is not the first one I heard."
"Luna-" but Robin interrupted Nami's sentence with her own question, "Captain-san. Are you saying that you hear other things speak to you? Besides humans? Like animals?"
This made everyone else pause, turning towards Luna, and saw her nod. "Yeah! Sometimes I can hear animals when something important is going to occur! And sometimes I can hear the sea speak to me, it warned me a few times of events. Oh! And when I can hear the intention of people, like if they mean me harm or not! It's why I chose you guys to join me in the first place! You had good voices!"
Nami's and Usopp's jaws dropped. Sanji's cigarette fell from his mouth. Chopper let out a squeak, looking excited at the aspect of having someone who can understand animals, even if sometimes. Zoro let out a huff of amusement, Luna will just keep shocking the crew all the time, won't she? And then went back to watch over. Robin chuckled, "I see."
Iceberg blinked in surprise, then let out a hum, "Well, from what I heard from our previous caretaker, the Pirate King had a similar ability to what you just described."
"Gol D. Roger did?" Luna grinned, "This wasn't in Nee-chan's journals and Nii-chan never told me that!"
"Who?" Iceberg asked, only for him to be ignored as his younger brother started to laugh.
"You guys are SUPER funny!" Franky said, "I like you people, let me build you a SUPER ship for you to sail and I can use some parts of your current ship to make a memento of sort for you guys!"
And he did do that. Franky had built them Sunny Go after the Going Merry had been burned, and with the remaining remnants parts of Merry, he built a small ship with the figure head. It might have been a sad moment, however on the Sunny Go, an almost transparent figure had appeared on board, bowing to the crew, and let out a whisper of "Thank you, I'll continue to help you all as much as I can."
Franky had joined them in the end, having bonded with them and not willing to part yet. And so, they set sail, unknown to them, an agent of CP9 had caught site of Robin with them, and sent a report to the five Elders.
And then, they were going to issue an order, but as Luna had already left, and not being in direct contact with the five Elders, as they send letters containing all the information regarding her missions by her grandfather.
So, for now, they managed to avoid the letter with her grandfather, and Garp did not call her to allow her to enjoy as much with her friends. However, Sengoku did contact her, giving her a mission, this being not from the government, but from him, asking her to check on one of the seven warlords, Moriah.
And so, they set to Thriller Bark, on the way, meeting a talking skeleton inhabiting an empty ship. Hearing the story of Brook, the skeleton, Luna felt happy knowing that Laboon had not been abandoned. Finding out that Brook's shadow was stolen, Luna promised to get it back from Moriah, in exchange, he is to join them. He had agreed.
Meeting Moriah and finding out what he has been doing had disgusted her. So, deciding to do whatever she wants, she beats him up, and freeing the shadows, and reporting to Sengoku of his doings.
After the report, she got a call from her father, informing her of some suspicions.
"Sabrina got a boyfriend?" Luna asked.
Dragon sighed over the call, "I think she has a boyfriend. I know that she's interested in a pirate, but I'm not aware if they are together."
Luna giggled, "Who is it?"
"Trafalgar Law."
"Oh! Torao!" Luna exclaimed, "He's not bad, he would go well with Sabrina! Ohh, he's been trying to get a warlord position, maybe when he gets it, I can meet him properly and try and see if he's interested!"
Dragon sighed once more, voice exasperated, "As the older sister, shouldn't you be preventing your sisters from dating rather than set them up?"
Luna giggled again, "As their older sister, I need to ensure they end up with someone that can take care of them. I know Smokey will take care of Ann, now I need to meet Torao again to see if he's good for Sab."
Dragon chuckled, "Alright, if you say so. By the way, what is this that I heard from my father, about you having a boyfriend?"
"You mean Marco?" Luna asked, "We've been dating Marco for around five years now. This is old news. Shanks even went to kill Marco three years ago when he found out."
"And how come I just heard of it now? Does he know about who you are and that you're a marine?"
"Well first of all, we've been keeping it on the low, which by the way, he only knows I'm related to Jii-chan and yes that I'm a marine, to answer your other questions. We wanted this news to avoid reaching the government, since I informed him of a part of the reason why I'm with the navy. The only one on his crew that knows I'm a marine are his captain and the commanders; the others just think of me as Shanks' baby sister."
"Since he doesn't know about me then I can't go and threaten him yet," Dragon chuckled, "I guess I have to wait until it's revealed that you're my daughter."
Luna pouted for it be imitated by the snail so that Dragon can see his child's face. "Don't threaten him, Jii-chan already approved of him, and Shanks has been getting better! Marco doesn't need someone else after his head!"
Huffing, Dragon replied with amusement, "No promises."
"Dad!"
Luna had been in a good mood after her call with her father. They didn't talk much usually, so not only had she gotten an update about one of her baby sitters, but with Dragon teasing her, she felt that they were getting closer. But her happy mood didn't last, because Garp had reached her, with a letter in hand.
Robin had been about to hide herself from the Vice-Admiral, only for her captain to shake her head. "No need to hide, Jii-chan won't spill to the government that you're with me."
"Jii-chan?" The last four members to join chorused.
"Yup! Shishishi!"
Garp chucked at his granddaughter, but he had a sad gleam in his eyes.
Luna frowned at her grandfather, usually when he delivers her missions, he doesn't look this sad. "What happened?"
Garp sighed, glancing at Robin, "Nico Robin was sighted with you guys in Water 7, and the CP9 agents reported to the five Elders."
Robin tensed, knowing that now there will be an order to kill her. She didn't know how to feel about this anymore, in the months she spent with the crew, she came to love being with them... She doesn't want to leave them.
Luna took the letter being handed to her.
To Fenrir.
You are to get rid of Nico Robin.
"Absolutely not!" Luna said, looking at her grandfather, "Can you call them right now?"
With a nod of confirmation, Garp took out a DenDen mushi and called a number. There was a click, showing that the call was be picked up.
"What is it, Garp?"
This was the first time Luna heard the voice of any of the elders. And it is to oppose their order.
Before Garp could reply, Luna snatched the DenDen and spoke, "I will not kill Robin."
There were a few moments of silence before one spoke, "Are you breaking our deal, Fenrir?"
Luna gritted her teeth, she had always hated that title, finding it mocking, but with Robin informing her of the tale of the wolf god, Luna had hated it more.
"I'm not breaking my deal."
"You are not obeying our orders!"
"And my family was supposed to be under the government protection are they not?"
"That has nothing to do with this! Your family is safe, aren't they? Your sisters are not being hunted!"
"My sisters aren't my only family. My crew is too!" Luna huffed, taking in breathes to calm herself down, "My crew is my family too, so Robin is family too, meaning she is under your protection too."
Robin started tearing up at the declaration, the rest sent her sympathetic smiles and looks.
Garp smiled proudly at his granddaughter and her friends, but then it turned into a sad one.
"Alright."
Luna didn't expect this answer. No one on the ship did.
"However!"
Of course, there is a however. Luna shared a glance with her grandfather. Garp shrugged, he had no idea what the government will make his granddaughter do now.
"Any freedom we granted you in the past years will be taken away from you! From now onwards you are not to go to any islands unless given permission to or to fulfil missions! You are to not meet Red-haired Shanks! Don't think we weren't aware of your meetings with that pirate."
Robin jolted in her place, opening her mouth to object, but Luna already spoke without any hesitation.
"I agree."
"We'll give you a few days to rest after your fight with Moriah, however you are not to leave your ship."
And the call ended, leaving an angry crew.
"Why did you agree?" Robin whispered, but as she continued on her voice got louder. "If you killed me then you won't have much restrictions. You already can't see your sisters. Why restrict yourself even more? Why?!"
Luna grinned in her direction, "Because you're Nakama, Robin! Shishishi! I would do this for any of you guys!"
Tears started to fall from Robin's eyes, she tilted her head down to cover her face, but everyone saw the water droplets falling on the wooden floor.
Luna moved forwards and pulled Robin into a hug, still grinning. She left an arm gesturing for the others join in the hug. Almost everyone rushed, each having tears trailing down their cheeks, the only ones not in the hug being Zoro, who watched with a smirk, Sanji, smiling softly, and Garp, who also was crying.
It is once everything has calmed down and the crew left the granddaughter and grandfather alone that Luna seemed to remember something, "Ah! Marco is supposed to be visiting tomorrow! I need to explain to him what happened!"
"What will you do about him?" Garp asked, "Will you explain what happened?"
"Yeah, I'm not hiding this from him. Besides..." Luna smiled, "I wanna ask him an important question."
Garp raised an eyebrow, "An important question? You make it look like you're gonna ask him to marry you."
"Shishishi!" Luna giggled, "Jii-chan is so smart! Yeah, I want to ask him to marry me when this is all over!"
Garp smiled sadly, Luna had always said that it is a "when" situation, not an "if", in front of him. But he also knows that she told Shanks that there is a chance of her dying before all of this is dealt with. He just hoped that she won't, that she will get to live her happily ever after.
"Bahaha! I better be invited to the wedding then!" Garp laughed.
"Of course! By then, our family will be complete, we will all be there and no one will be missing! You, Dad, Shanks, Makino, Dadan, Ann and Sabrina! You all will be there for my wedding!" Luna exclaimed. "Oh! And Smokey too! And Torao if he ends up with Sab!"
Garp frowned, "Why Smokey? I know Smokey, but who is Torao? And why would he end up with Sab?"
Luna grinned, "Smokey is family at this point!" Luna wanted to tell her grandfather about Smoker possibly being an In-Law in the future since he's dating Ann, but she promised that she won't say anything, but Sab... She never promised her dad not to say anything. "And Torao is Law! You know that pirate who wants to become a Warlord? Dad said that he heard from Koala that Sab has a crush on him!"
"SHE HAS A WHAT? SHE IS ONLY SEVENTEEN! SHE CAN'T BE WITH SOMEONE!"
Maybe it was the best choice that Luna didn't say anything about Smoker. But Luna thought to herself, why is Garp acting like this about Torao? He doesn't seem to have an issue with Luna being with Marco?
It seems her questions are answered as Garp started rambling.
"It's enough that I have handed my older granddaughter to a pirate! But at least that Phoenix will take care of Luna! He's responsible! And there is no other option too! And Luna is old enough to have a boyfriend... But Sabrina? She's the youngest, I can't let her date anyone, especially someone who has the title of Surgeon of Death... I NEED TO GET RID OF HIM! Ann is not allowed to date so Sab is not too!" Garp rounded up, turning towards Luna and gave her a hug, "I'll be going now, Luna. Enjoy your time tomorrow with the Phoenix, I have a surgeon to kill."
And with that, he is gone...
Maybe she shouldn't have said anything about Torao. Well, what happened has happened. She hopes he won't actually kill Torao, she wanted him as her brother-in-law.