(A/N: I own nothing, one piece is owned by whoever created one piece)
Sum Head canons (For this story anyway)
-Most of the Charlotte sibling's nationality will be based on their name's country of origin, Smoothie being Brazilian with how it's one of the countries recipes, Katakuri being Japanese with how his namesake is potato starch from that country, Amande being French with how her name is Almonds in French and all that.
-The family tends to gamble during nighttime on a Saturday with minimum money being around 100million, sometimes they also use valuable items to gamble with.
-Cracker normally eats popcorn while sitting on a lawn chair when seeing his siblings spar which happens normally in the mirror world, sometimes betting money with his siblings on who would win.
-Rayleigh has visited the Gran Tesoro along with his wife once... he lost most of his money in that city of all places.
-Shanks normally avoids meeting up with Rayleigh in Sabaody, solely because the former right-hand man would try and get some money off from him in anyway possible to further fuel his gambling addiction.
-The government knows about Luffy's devil fruit after Marine Ford instead of canon, but can't really do shit without raising suspicions from unwanted eyes on why they were targeting a specific individual beside what he had done in Marineford (Like the Yonkos, they would be interested on a brat being targeted by the government itself)
A couple of theories I have in the one piece series itself.
-Not confirmed, but it's most likely, the Sweet general that kid injured was most likely Smoothie, she's the most plausible one out of all of them.
-Edward Weevil was a failed experimentation of trying to clone a younger version of Whitebeard by Vegapunk, he originally was going to dispose of him but Stussy took him away for her own gains and purposes (Like convincing him he is the son of whitebeard)
-Most likely, all Warlord's had their blood sampled, under the guise of a "blood test" of sorts, but in actuality they were using them to genetically clone them along with mixing their blood with King's before he was freed by Kaido.
-Taking into account that Linlin was exiled from her kingdom and shunned by elbaf giants, Kaido being treating like some pawn for his kingdom and Whitebeard growing up in a rough village as an orphan, all Rock pirates are in some way a social outcast, rejected/shunned/betrayed by their kingdom, Hometown, parents and friends, they all may have been murderous upon one another, but they could bond with each other through their past.
-Dragon might not be Garp's son, but in fact he is a son-in-law, throughout the series, Garp doesn't call Dragon "My boy", "My damn brat" or "My son", he normally and only refers to him as "Luffy's dad". So maybe Garp's actual biological child is a female that fell in love with Dragon that might have later died in the series. and that death could possibly be the reason Dragon hates the government.
-God Valleys disappearance might be the result of Garp and Roger fighting against Rocks, Linlin, Kaido, Shiki and Whitebeard. With their absurd power... it's easy to see why an island would vanish.
-Shanks is a manipulator, he was strong during his time in Foosha, he could have easily fended that sea king from biting his arm off, but instead, he let his arm be eaten, he did it to emotionally manipulate Luffy in a way that would bound his path into becoming a pirate via his crippled state, even probably making Luffy's resolve strengthen to become king of the pirates. Same could be said for Uta(Kind of), in order to lead her to the path of being an Idol and to not make her guilt ridden, he left her under the guise of being the one who destroyed Elegia, using her to gain access to the peaceful island to rob them, intentionally making Uta scorn him and pirates in general which steered any suspicion for Uta being related to the red-haired pirates, letting her go off sin from being affiliated with them.
-This is a popular and well-known theory, Teach having some form of Multiple personality Disorder or multiple souls, at least 2 alter egos lives within him, thus his Jolly roger featuring 3 skulls. He may have switched personalities during his time with the whitebeards before returning back to himself when his fellow crewmate found the devil fruit he was searching for.
Summary: Old memories, Devil's luck, A talk amongst sweet commanders
list of charlottes in this chapter because there's a lot of them: Luffy, Smoothie, Cracker, Custard, Angel, Katakuri, Bavarois, Mondee, Amande, Hachee, Effiler, Oven, Daifuki
PREVIOUSLY:
Luffy walked away, summarizing the dead man with one-word which smoothie nodded in agreement with before she followed him closely behind.
"Coward"
PRESENT:
Chapter 23
Smoothie and Luffy walked back down to Hank, both had grim expressions while their eyes of various emotions pierced at him which had him looking down, finding the floor more enticing rather than facing their expressions of disappointment.
They both wordlessly walked outside while Smoothie simply dug her fingers into Hank's scalp and dragged him along with them. Both sibling's moods being dampened by the sight they saw upstairs.
Going outside, she lightened the grip on his head and slammed it towards the wall, hard, with all the pent-up frustration from what she saw upstairs, knocking him out instantly from the impact.
Luffy and Smoothie just stood there in silence before the older woman broke it with a sigh noticing the gloomy look in her brother's eyes.
"Most people take themselves out for many reasons, either to not give the enemy the satisfaction of finishing them off or giving up in general... but it's still a sight you don't really want to see, even if you have seen it multiple times."
Luffy hummed in reply, looking downwards as his bangs covered his head.
"Not the first time..."
Smoothie raised an eyebrow at that, filled with curiosity before Luffy elaborated, diving back into memories he long left ago.
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[10 Years ago, when Luffy was 7-years old]
"M-monster! Gyah!" A young Luffy panted as he knocked the last of Bluejam's man down before he glared at the man who was petrified in fear at the sight in front of him as the flames around them burned brightly.
"H-How?! Those are bloody sea-stone shackles?!" Bluejam staggered, taking steps back as he unsheathed his swords and pointed it shakily towards the small menace in front of him, this demon of a child.
"Ace, are you okay?" Luffy continued staring towards Bluejam as the younger Ace breathed heavily but ultimately got up with hands on his knees.
"Yeah!" The elder brother responded as he clenched unto his pipe after knocking down a couple of em.
They both have taken out around 20-30 men that now laid lifelessly around them.
Luffy let out a sigh of relief before his stance become slouched and he knelt down, exhausted as he raised one of his hands lazily, cursing the seastone cuffs on his wrists.
They all ganged up on him, just to put the cuffs on to take weaken him and beat the shit out of him, but not before 2 of them were kneeling in pain from the punch and kicks of retaliation he gave out.
They forced them to do their gang's bidding for a bit as they constantly had 10 men on them on watch, on guard knowing their capabilities despite being children.
But unfortunately, they just had to talk about what was going on with Sabo, which led to this scenario of 2 brothers pissed beyond belief.
Immediately Ace quickly got towards his little brother side and knelt down, putting a hand on his shoulders and looking towards the weird cuffs that put him in such a state and started cursing.
"Damn! There isn't anything around to picklock them." Ace cursed his luck, feeling like shit he couldn't really do much to prevent those bastards from weakening him severely with sea stone.
He knew Luffy was leagues ahead of him, but that was no excused for letting this happen as an older brother to him, it was pathetic of him honestly.
Luffy gave a big grin albeit very forcefully "I will be fine! We just got to kick his ass!" With resolve rekindled and burning brightly one last time before the curse of the sea fully does him in, he groaned harshly as he forced himself upwards and cracked his knuckles, clenching his fist, blackening them with Haki that only lasted for a second before it dissipated.
"Damn, I can't concentrate properly!" Luffy gritted his teeth at the cuffs that could somehow nullify his devil fruit powers and put him in such a state along with getting beaten severely while weaken, honestly it was a miracle he was still up and going.
"Why is that brat so important to you?! His just some god damn noble child in his rebellious phase! That brat is going to grow up and out of that phase and show his true colors... becoming like his shitty little daddy! A rich scumbag glaring down at us like trash!"
The older man clenched his fist in frustration as everything was crumbling down, the flames closing in as his life seemed to have reached a roadblock, the end of his journey for he couldn't see anything ahead.
Luffy and Ace snapped their heads towards him with fury that burned brightly as the flames around them, but out of the two, Ace Rage burned brighter, blue jam could even physically feel the heat he irradiated purely from anger.
If he had his devil fruit from the future right now, he could have actually been burned alive by it.
"Don't compare Sabo's failure of an asshole father towards him! He will never ever become like that sack of shit!" He was drilling holes into the man's soul, disregarding his swear filter around Luffy just for this time.
"Yeah! Sabo ain't like that!" Luffy added his two cents in as both brothers raised their fist/weapon up, ready to throttle the son of a bitch before...
he chuckled which got them confused.
"What are ya laughing at? Have you finally lost your mind?!" Ace taunted him but was tense as the only thing that did was having him laughing more.
"It seems..."
"Captain!" Luffy and Ace frozen stiff at the unfamiliar masculine voice that sounded from a distance behind them,
No... They were already tired for crying out loud.
"That fortune is on my side" Bluejam grinned maniacally as both exhausted brothers, turned around and couldn't help but sweat at the sight.
It was another group of Bluejam's man, they had no idea where they came from, but it wasn't looking good, could they pull it off one more time? especially when after dealing with them, they had to face off with Bluejam?
It was fight or die, and if this was their resting place, then fuck it, they weren't going down easily.
But before they could reach them...
"What do you think you're trying to pull off on my boys?"
Luffy and Ace lit up at the familiar voice, smiles spreading on their faces as the mountain bandits intercepted Bluejam's man and clashed head-on with Dadan calmly coming into view with her Axe slumped on her shoulders, walking towards them with a cigarette and a dark look on her voice, clearly not amused by Bluejam's shenanigans.
"Dadan!" Said woman huffed but visibly lightened up seeing the two brothers call out to her, looking at the two they were a bit roughed up but ultimately ok, just scrapes and bruises at best, no Permanant damage by the looks of it.
But they were clearly struggling to stand up right while breathing heavily.
She looked further on ahead and upwards and changed demeanor quickly as she drilled holes into Bluejam's soul, said man had his jaw hanging low in disbelief as hope shattered right in front of him.
"Ace! Get whatever is off from Luffy's wrist and kick that bastard's ass!" Dogra came running towards his boss's side, reeling his arm back before throwing a set of lockpicks towards Ace who caught it, jumping to grab it and immediately got to work.
Bluejam tried to take a cheap shot by leaping towards the brothers when they weren't focused on him, but before he could even swing down his sword, A weird looking man whose appearance somewhat resembled a chicken, bursted forth from the flames and met his blade with his own.
"Don't even try it" Magra said with narrowed eyes as he pushed him back with his own blade which had Bluejam gritting his teeth at the man.
*Clink*
"Alright! I'm going to kick your ass!" Luffy cracked his knuckles as the cuffs fell onto the floor, he got into a stance but before he could launch himself towards Bluejam, Ace patted him on the shoulder, getting his attention.
"Launch me at that bastard!" The younger brother nodded without protesting on getting a hit on the bastard himself and stretched his arms way back while Ace got in front and kneeled.
"GOMU GOMU NO... BAZOOKA!" Luffy gritted his teeth as his arms violently retracted and lashed forwards towards Ace with open palms, the older brother jumping perfectly in time to get send flying towards Bluejam's head like a Missile with the older man staggering back in shock and surprise.
*Bonk*
"GAAAH!" Bluejam choke on his vocals as his head violently snapped backwards as Ace swung his Haki-coated fist towards his head, memories flowing threw in his head off every lesson from Luffy on how Haki worked.
And also unknowingly unlocking his Conqueror's Haki back in the time this way, the sheer emotions flowing through him was at its peak for it to shine.
"NEVER TALK SHIT ABOUT MY BROTHER!"
Ace sighed as he looked towards the sky, taking a deep breath before turning and facing his younger brother who grinned and gave a thumbs up which had him doing the same thing back at him.
He walked towards Luffy calmly, it was over... for now, they still needed to get Sabo back from his jerk of a parents.
"Huh, so this is it."
Ace immediately turned 180 back at Bluejam who slowly and shakingly raised his torso up, clearly still feeling the pain from Ace's hit along with the effect of Conqueror's Haki.
"You still want more you son of a bitch?!" Ace easily reignited and was ready to throw another one, and quite possible an extra to make sure he stayed down for good.
Bluejam snorted and raised his hands up "Nah, I give up, this is it for me" He stood up while groaning harshly in pain before bending down and grabbing his sword which had Ace doubting he was actually surrendering.
He snorted at how tense the brat was "Relax kid, this sword ain't pointing towards you... this is it for me, my crew's beaten up and I myself got beaten by you brats, honestly pathetic, even took orders from a bloody noble too of all people."
He sighed, disappointed at himself as rubbed his palm downwards on his face before grinning at them.
His final words echoed and ringed in their head for a long time before they moved on, him placing his own sword on his throat took more time to forget about.
"When you brats come over to where I'm going, let's all sit down and have a drink, ay? Be sure ya die as man though!"
He slit his neck and fell back, choking on his blood as he shook violently before becoming still, staring at the night skies in his final moments.
Luffy and Ace just stared at the bodies, even with Magra trying to block their views, it was already imbedded into their minds, they had seen enough already.
Dadan pat their shoulders form behind with an unreadable expression on her face, but the tone of her voice was enough.
"...Let's go home."
"...No... not until we get-"
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*Thud*
Dadan made sure to catch them before they fell from exhaustion.
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[Back to the present]
Smoothie didn't interrupt her brother as he recollected the day before Sabo died, for two boys to beat that many people was honestly impressive, especially when Luffy had seastone cuffs on throughout the brawl.
When he got to Dadan's family coming in and saving them from another brawl, she paid close attention in hearing about how Luffy described the mountain bandits that raised them coming in to intercept a second group of enemies, she respected the woman herself along with the bandits for what they did,
Smoothie genuinely wanted to meet Dadan and give her gratitude for what she did for her brother, maybe she could ask Mama to make Dadan the godmother of Luffy? She was a tough but caring woman deep within, secretly loving them but didn't show it from what Smoothie had gathered.
Now Ace was a person she took great interest in with how he was not only the son of Gold Roger but also Luffy's sworn brother. To unlock Haki and especially conqueror's Haki at such a young age was also abnormal like Luffy but to be expected with his blood lineage along with prior lessons from his younger brother, who was trained by Garp and taught by Shanks.
Honestly, she couldn't help but think about the elder siblings, especially Perospero, Compote and Katakuri when hearing about how Ace violently snapped at a person talking shit about his sibling. But to be fair, anyone would.
The only person allowed to talk shit about their brother or sister was another sibling and no one else.
And then there's Bluejam... she honestly didn't know how to feel about his death.
"Dadan told me later that when people's dreams and ambitions are crushed with no hope in sight, they will get super sad, sometimes, those people kill themselves." Luffy said softly, still remembering how she dragged him away from Ace for that private talk.
"Is that why most of the people you fight, you let live?" Smoothie asked, remembering that detail, despite how strong his brother was, he never killed that many. A couple of bones at best and life-changing injuries at worst, but ultimately, anyone who fights Luffy tends to still be alive majority of the time.
Luffy shrugged at that "Something like that, I just don't see the point in killing people unless I really need to and besides..."
he slowly tilted his head towards Smoothie, his face making even a sweet commander like her have shivers tingle down her spine.
"what's the point of killing someone whose already dead at that point?"
"I see" She simply replied before they just stood there awkwardly.
"How about you?"
Smoothie blinked as Luffy looked at her in curiosity, fortunately he seemed to be somewhat back to his usual self.
She hummed to herself before gazing towards the night skies while Luffy just patiently waited.
"It's neither a common nor an uncommon sight around here, but it really depends on the person and situation" She finally said after some thought as she dug through her memories.
"The first time I saw someone killing themselves was when I was 10" She sighed remembering that sight.
"Cracker was out claiming territory and I begged him to bring me along because I was interested what places outside Totto Land looked like."
"He brought the topic to Mama who gave the green light, but added the condition to bring his sisters with him to babysit me."
"Naturally, Me and Cracker along with Angel and Custard sailed towards the island, we decimated their forces, burned a couple of their buildings, and well, I just stumbled upon a person leaping off a chair, hanging from a noose around their neck while I was drinking my smoothie...My appetite was ruined quite quickly" She quicky summarized.
"Huh? you talking about us?"
Smoothie and Luffy looked up to see the mentioned Triplets walking up to them.
"Ah, nice for you three to join us~ I was telling about little bro here about past memories" Smoothie smiled towards them.
"Memories?" Custard tilted her head while Smoothie nodded "That island you guys conquered when I was 10."
"Ah, that time" Angel simply said while nodding to herself, having a neutral face before having a frown, remembering what Smoothie saw.
"Why that of all things to talk to Luffy about?"
Smoothie leaned forward and gestured for them to do the same, whispering to them a summary of what Luffy told her which had them grimacing.
"Damn, that's rough little bro" Cracker said while ruffling Luffy's hair as he got out of his armor a while ago "What about those bastards that were under him?"
"Probably dead, any survivors from the fire would be put down by weird man in these yellow suits covering everything" Luffy simply replied shrugging, he felt bad for them, but he didn't know them well, so he never gave that much of a damn about them.
"Cleanup probably" Angel soundly concluded grimly with the older siblings nodding in agreement in solemn.
"10 years ago, nearly around the time where Smoothie became a Sweet general, huh" Custard muttered while rubbing her chin while Luffy perked up at that.
"Sweet general? What's that? Food?" Luffy asked which had the siblings blinking before they huddled towards the sidelines, leaning forward to one another leaving Luffy aside who had question marks hanging above his head.
"Now that I think about it... did any of us explain how our family generally works towards him?" Custard asked, looking at her 2 sisters and older brother who was also just looking at one another before they all looked at Custard.
"Probably not"
"Yeah, figures... Is it me or do I have this gut feeling he won't give a shit if we explained how we worked towards him?" Custard now asked another question which had Smoothie snorting.
"Don't doubt it at all, well, maybe if meat is involved then he might listen" She shrugged which had the siblings staring at her in confusion before the sweet general elaborated with a simple sentence.
"Imagine a version of Mama who loves meat instead of sweets."
"Ah, say no more" Cracker nodded getting the gist of it immediately with his triplet sisters humming alongside him.
"What are you guys talking about?" They blinked before looking at Luffy as one and speaking in perfect unity.
"Nothing!" They dispersed which had Luffy pouting wanting to know more about what they were talking about.
"Oh yeah, what about the boss, you guys dealt with him?" Cracker asked while looking toward the top of the castle while Smoothie sighed.
"Why do you think we suddenly talked about such a grim topic?"
"Oh... Another spineless fool"
He scoffed while slumping down on the wall, no wonder his two younger siblings started to talk about such a shitty event.
"Where's Katakuri and Snack by the way?" Smoothie asked noticing how her fellow sweet commanders weren't here which was an odd site, especially when Katakuri absolutely wastes no time.
"Not sure about Snack, but Katakuri is definitely going door-to-door in every house, even if he uses observation Haki, his very thorough in extermination" Cracker huffed while leaning back on the wall before he took out a deck of cards.
"So, Blackjack?" He innocently asked which had them all deadpanning while Luffy perked up at that.
"Sure, why not" Luffy walked up and sat across Cracker who raised an eyebrow "You gamble?" Luffy nodded and grinned "Sabo, Ace and I would go to gambling dens because I'm really lucky!"
"Is that so? How about you three?" He took out the joker cards and started shuffling them as his head faced towards his three present sisters who looked at each other.
"Nothing really better to do so why not" Custard sat next to Luffy's left side while Angel shrugged before joining in on the younger brother's right side. Cracker looked at Smoothie who shook her head.
"Spectator"
Cracker nodded, respecting his little sister's decision and placed the deck down, Luffy being the fastest and cutting the deck to which Cracker started shuffling once again for a bit before flicking the cards towards his siblings.
"Same rules with me, first is Luffy and last is Angel" his sisters nodded while Luffy tilted his head. "Cards face down instead of up and if you have 5 cards and it's equal or less than 21, it's the same as a blackjack."
"Oh" Luffy slowly nodded in understanding the difference about his version now.
"Are we betting on anything?"
"Nah, we playing for fun, save our game faces and all for Saturday night at the Treasury." Custard nodded.
"Smoothie, mind if you find some crates or chairs along with a table? Got a gut feeling it will be a long game" Angel simply said while looking down towards her cards.
"Sure" With that, the 4 were left alone as they looked at their cards.
-Luffy-(20)/King, King-
-Custard(6)/4,2-
-Angel(16)/Ace,5-
All their cards were hidden alongside Cracker, they all look at their cards with small emotions.
Cracker slide the deck towards Luffy who shook his head and grinned "Nah, I'm good!" He simply nodded before moving on to Custard who took a card.
-Custard(8)/4,2,2- She took another one and hummed at it, -Custard(18)/,4,2,2, Ace- "I'm good~" Custard smiled as her brother moved onto Angel who was in a dilemma.
"Eh, screw it" She shrugged as she wasn't losing anything and picked a card which had her eyebrow twitching. -Angel(17)/Ace,5,2- she wordlessly grabbed another card and blinked -Angel(11)/Ace,5,2,3- she grinned and flipped her cards showing them before taking another card, doesn't matter, it was her win no matter what.
-Angel(18)/Ace,5,2,3,7- "My win~" She grinned which had her brother snorting "Not bad, not bad, now then..."
Cracker tapped his fingers as he had a calculative gaze, he leaned forward and tapped Custard's card "Open em" She did and proudly showed her hand to which her brother snorted.
"Ooh, one short~ alright open all" -Cracker(19)/King, 9-, Custard huffed before lookign at Luffy who grinned and opened his cards "My win~"
Cracker hummed, alright, that was a pretty good hand, but what about the second round?"
"I'm back~" Smoothie put a bit of melody into her tone as she dropped the crates, immediately they sat on them while Smoothie plopped a table in the center of them. Smoothie sitting down on a crate she found for herself and sitting with a barrel of juice next to her.
"So, who won first round?"
"Luffy"
"Oh, good job lil bro" She nodded at his general Location while Luffy grinned back "Thanks!"
As the cards were reshuffled, with Custard cutting the deck this time, they proceeded towards the second round, but before Cracker could flick the cards towards his siblings...
"Oi, you 4 playing right now of all time?!" The five siblings turned their heads towards a grinning Snack who had Bavarois and Katakuri behind him.
"Their boss is dead, so we are killing time with cards, not betting on anything too" Cracker reported as his three brothers approached him.
"Got room for two more?" Snack grinned while pointing at himself and towards Bavarois behind who took his gloves off while smirking.
"Sure, why not, just sit your ass down next to them, we start with Snack and end with Bavarois now" Cracker announced while both brothers sitting across from each other.
Katakuri walked towards Smoothie who looked on with legs crossed while sipping her drink, smoothie.
"Whose that guy over there?" The elder brother pointed towards an unconscious Hank, slumped down on the wall with a cracked wall above him.
"Someone that Mama might have use for." Katakuri just simply hummed in acknowledgement as he gazed towards his siblings playing cards, many of them having mixed facial reactions towards the hands they were given with.
"Saturday game night practice?"
"Saturday game night practice" Smoothie nodded in confirmation as they both gazed onwards.
Both siblings enjoyed the silent solace of each other's presence, although Smoothie noticed the glances Katakuri was shooting at Luffy while subconsciously reaching for his scarf which made her frown at his worries.
"...Even though it was a short time spent with Luffy, I know little bro wouldn't give a shit about your teeth, he would probably have flowers spewing from his mouth about them... and you too know that, don't you?" Smoothie leaned forward as her head slumped against her hand as she gazed at her brother.
Katakuri sighed as he dropped his hand that was clenched on his scarf.
The only people Katakuri has shown his teeth to and explained why he hid them were the older siblings along with his triplet brothers, the sweet commanders and Mama.
"I know, but... It isn't that easy for me Smoothie, never will be after what happened to Brulee, I must keep up this image no matter what, I can't fail anyone else, even if it was once."
Smoothie sighed but didn't push her older brother, respecting his decision and wishes, but she still prays for the day to whatever deity to give Katakuri a break.
"One day big brother, one day you can be yourself without self-scrutiny about your weakness, about your failure."
She sighed sadly but held hope for the day Katakuri could smile freely at the dining table amongst their family.
And as she gazes onwards to Luffy, she smiled.
"And maybe that day won't be so far off."
"Where's Mama and the rest by the way? they should have come by now" Smoothie tilted her head while the brother answered about their absence.
"I intercepted with them mid-slaughter, more specifically, Mama along with our baby siblings with a handful mix of older and younger siblings accompanying them. Raisin stumbled across their warehouse, and they all decided to go see and loot for all it's worth, don't know about the others though" Smoothie hummed at Katakuri's report, now understanding for why most of them were late, but that doesn't excuse the rest though.
"...You think Mama has fully gotten over it and moved on?"
"Doubt it, it's hard to overcome such grief, guilt and self-hatred that easily, but Luffy helped tremendously in getting her out of her gloomy mindset, and our mother is strong, she will get over it, we just need to be there for her." Smoothie said while genuinely smiling on.
Katakuri hummed in agreement "Time shall heal those wounds."
Smoothie nodded at that as they continue watching onwards as their siblings gambled on.
Cracker groaned when he went past 21 which had the siblings chuckling at his bad luck for this round "Damn, if this is my luck on Saturday night, I'm fucked..." He muttered under his breath while shivering internally at that thought as he collected his siblings cards and re-shuffled again.
As he flicks the cards towards his siblings, he looked at his hand and grinned a bit.
"Blackjack!" He flipped his hand to show the Ace and King he had while his siblings shrugged and flicked their cards towards him, all except Luffy who grinned and flipped his hand.
"Me too!" To reveal the same hand as his.
Cracker twitched his eye but nodded in acknowledgment, ok, he was starting to see how lucky his little brother was.
[10 MINUTES LATER, ROUND 11]
"Oh hey! Blackjack!"
"What the fuck is this?" Cracker muttered as his eye twitched heavily while gasping in disbelief.
Currently, some of the siblings had arrived, majority taking a seat on the table to play along while the rest just spectated.
"How many times has he hit Blackjack?" Amande asked curiously while sipping a glass of wine as she and her quadruplet sisters sat next to smoothie who was sipping her own glass along with sitting with her own triplet sisters.
"5, along with getting 5 cards under 21 3 times which is it's equivalent" Smoothie said, keeping tabs as she leaned forward impressed by the absurd luck she was witnessing.
"Must be real fun for Casinos when he comes knocking around" Hachee commented, smirking as she watched Cracker trying to process how this was possible.
"If this was a real game, Luffy would be a billionaire" Cinnamon mused as she looked at her siblings around the table playing, just staring at their brother who just beamed brightly as if he didn't performed some kind of godly miracle with the luck he had in this game.
"Speaking of gambling, why aren't you playing with them Amande? Even if it's practice without money on the line, out of all of us, you're one of the top 5 in the family who is an absolute degenerate gambler."
Effiler asked as she sat on the grass, drinking a bottle of whiskey before spitting it out as Amande smacked her head while huffing.
"Because unlike Cracker, Oven and the others, I know when to cut my losses. And also, I would rather watch Oven's eventual eruption."
Amande pointed towards Oven who was fuming as he looked at his shit hands, his devil fruit reacting towards his anger as the temperature around him became warmer. But he cooled off when Daifuki bonked his head with Armament Haki with an annoyed grunt.
"But during the last Saturday night, you kept betting all in 4 times in a ro-"
Effiler was once again swiftly bonked on her head, this time with Amande using the hilt of a sheathed Shirauo.
"And I won them all, still doesn't change the fact that I . Know . When . To . Cut . My . Loss" Amande still kept her poker face, but there was a certain edge towards it which had the siblings around her sweat dropping.
"R-right" Effiler sweated heavily as she rubbed her head, soothing the pain.
"Oh, finally" Bavarois sighed placing his hand down as the siblings first looked at him before looking at where he was gazing off to.
Mama along with the rest of their siblings slowly came walking towards them with Pudding at the lead with Flampe behind her...
Rubbing her head while whistling as she avoided facing them.
Eventually Pudding awkwardly just stood in front of her siblings around the table gambling as she waved awkwardly towards them.
"H-hey everyone, h-having fun y-yeah?"
The stuttering had either given them confusion why she was acting like this or setting alarms off their head, concerned about what happened.
The most vocal of the latter being Luffy who immediately stood up and walked towards Pudding worried.
"What's wrong? Why are you acting weird?"
"U-Um..." She started twiddling her fingers, not finding the courage to face her brother which caused him to tilt his head.
"Um?"
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Katakuri pinched his nose and sighed.
"I may have eaten a devil fruit on accident?"
Luffy blinked as he didn't see what the big fuss was about.
The rest of the siblings on the other hand...
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"What?"
(A/N)
Yeah, took a while for me to finish writing, right now exams are kind of coming up so I need to study and all that.
Anyway, here's a Canon Omake.
The Lion reunites with the Snake.
"Citizens of Sabaody! This is Vice admiral Momonga speaking! Currently there is a catastrophic threat heading this way, we have several Temporary Evac ships docked at the Harbor, please proceed in an orderly manner towards the ports where you will be further instructed on what to do, if you unfortunately cannot do this, then please find a building to stay inside and make sure to NEVER take a peak outside until the threat is officially clear" A sigh came from out of the speakers as the Vice admiral sounded grim, but held determination in his voice.
"We understand most of you will doubt our forces able to deal with the threat after that shameful display at Marineford, but please believe in us and the admirals! We are currently doing the best as we can to uphold justice for the sake of peace! We promise that you will be able to come back to your homes that will be in one piece!"
Shakky huffed out smoke as she sat outside on a lawn chair while smoking a cig, listening to the announcement that was followed by regular people frantically running towards her left side as they were advised, the screams of despair echoed loudly which had her sighing.
But she ultimately did what she was told, well the second part anyway, folding up the chair and heading inside and closing up shop until whatever threat was cleared.
She sighed, taking out the cancer stick out of her mouth and extinguishing it before kicking back behind her counter.
*Knock Knock*
She narrowed her eyes and slowly stood up as she stared at the door.
"Sorry, but the bar's closed for today"
"Aw, even for little ol me?" She stilled at the familiar voice before she cracked a smile.
She walked up to the door and opened it to be met with Shiki who was grinning madly while getting a good look of her before scoffing.
"You haven't aged a fucking bit Ya wretched snake!"
"Naturally~ And what is that I see? The Angry little Lion is starting to lose its Maim?" Shakky grinned wider as he fumed at the reminder of the fact that he was balding.
Both pirates continued staring down at each other before Shiki couldn't hold up the facade, snorting which set off Shakky who giggled before they both devolved into full blown laughter in amusement.
"Good to see ya kicking around Shiki~"
"Same for you, Shakky" They shook hands as they both genuinely smiled at each other before Shakky retracted and went to her fridge behind the counter.
"You need a drink?"
"Bourbon if ya got the stuff" Shakky hummed as she grabbed it, she didn't even bother to get a glass, just tossing the entire bottle towards her former comrade who caught it effortlessly before she grabbed a bottle for herself and sat across Shiki who sat on a stool.
"So, you're the "catastrophic threat?" She mused as Shiki huffed, taking a big swig.
"Why else would they sound such an alarm?"
"Good point, but how are you out of Impel down?" Shiki snorted before giving her the general run down of what went down in Impel down to which she snorted in turn.
"Just like how they covered up what we Rocks Pirates did to those kingdoms from the public huh?"
Shakky mused as the Gold Lion snorted.
"Pretty much"
Both former crewmates just sat there in silence before the atmosphere became gloomy, mostly due to the negative energy radiating from Shiki.
"So... about Edward..." Shiki looked down as he inspected the brand with a frown on his face.
"...Eddie-Chan knew his time was coming, he wanted to end it with a bang while getting his sons safely out, especially Ace." She kept her smile on her face, but her eyes spun a different tale.
"...Out with the old and in with the new huh?"
Shiki gazed at the ceiling, his expression hard to read as it was neutral while Shakky looked on before throwing her own thoughts about it.
"We are getting old my friend, people change over time, even Lin-Chan mellowed out, became a proper mother to her children" Shiki at that choked hard on his alcohol before looking at Shakky in disbelief.
"Linlin?! The same Charlotte "All children are my tools and are born for my own benefits" Linlin?!" Shakky nodded in amusement as Shiki slumped down, still unable to process this into his head.
"Rayleigh came across her children who told him about her well-being, imagine my own surprise hearing the news of her turning a new leaf for their sake." And how Luffy-Chan was her son to which she left out, she would let Shiki find out by himself about that fact.
"Time truly has pass, at least those brats of hers are being raised better... Unlike us in our childhoods" Shiki bitterly smiled at that before taking a swig.
Shakky gave her own sad smile as she looked down a bit. "We all were truly the black sheep among our respective people, weren't we?" Shiki grinned, knocking his bottle on hers which got her attention.
"At Least we didn't live a boring life, desperately trying to fit in to a society that gives us the finger in our attempts, that shit got lame real quick, so we gave them our own finger and banded together under a shitty captain given the chance." Shakky giggled at that.
"Indeed, I wouldn't have been happily engaged towards my dear husband if I didn't join our little crazy crew of misfits."
"Oh, you're married! good fo- WAIT, YOU LET SOMEONE GET LAID WITH YOU?!"
Shiki eyes comically popped out of his skull as the sentence finally registered fully in his brain while Shakky chuckled and shook her head of her friend's "way with words."
"Indeed, it's not surprising that I'm engaged with Rayleigh~"
"WAIT YOUR- Actually this explains a lot."
Shiki rubbed his chins, reminiscing on the many moments where their crew and Roger's would clash and how Shakky and Roger's first mate tend to fight off in a desolate place, well, that's what Shakky said when she came back after the fight ended along with a huge smile on her face for some reason, no wounds nor scars on her body to boot.
How she for some reason gets really, really close to Rayleigh whenever they did clash for both crews to see, but both crews silently agreed to just ignore and keep fighting who was in front of them...
Huh...
"Where's Rayleigh anyway?" Shiki blinked as he looked around while Shakky placed her bottle down after a swig, not bothering to hide anything.
"His off training Luffy-Chan Observation Haki" Shiki raised an eyebrow, that brat again, and for Shakky to add Chan to their names at the end indicates trust towards the individual.
"I heard of that brat from the newspapers, fucked up the marines really good, specially neutering the red dog and making it his bitch, right?~" Shiki grinned sinisterly while Shakky giggled.
"That's the straw-hat Luffy that you have been hearing about in the newspaper alright, he even has me rooting for him personally too~"
"Huh, now I'm more interested in him" The gold lion huffed while Shakky snorted before grabbing a piece of paper and writing on it, slipping the note towards Shiki who stared at the paper in confusion before she explained.
"You can find Luffy-Chan around this island... But..." Shakky clasped Shiki's right hand before directly staring into his Soul, her eyes resembling a snake gazing at its prey which even had him sweating.
"Try not to do anything funny, especially towards my beloved yeah? Shiki-Chan~"
"I will happily walk to my grave if I were to do that!" Shakky let go and went back to her calm smile as Shiki took deep breaths.
Damn, Shakky might be weaker than him, but she still could decently kick his ass.
"Do your best to keep your promise~" Shiki simply nodded at her advice, seemingly seeing an end to the conversation, but before he left.
"Oh yeah, take this."
"Oh?" Shakky looked at the Den-Den Mushi that Shiki took out from his Kimono.
"I'm planning to get all of us Rocks pirates that are still alive together at his grave, a last drink with our buddy, you down?" Shakky widened her eyes before she huffed.
"It seems, time has also changed you too Shiki~" She teased which had him huffing, still waiting for a response before she nodded "Of course, he was a good guy that you could get along with."
"Good" Shiki simply said before standing up, drinking the last bit of Bourbon and tossing it into the trashcan.
"Oh yeah, I'm also gonna give the marine's a bigger headache too!"
Shakky blink at this random announcement that came kind of last second.
"That so?"
"Yup"
"And how are you going to do that?"
"Educate everyone in this new generation about us~" Shakky blinked before she smiled, although it felt and looked sharper.
"Sure, why not?"
"A little history lesson about what we did in our youth to the public wouldn't hurt~"
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