I changed my mind about going on Hiatus! I'm going to do the next arcs from Memory so keep in mind that somethings might change because I'm working off my memory and this IS a REWRITE. Therefore there are bound to be changes in how things go down or what happens here and there.
So without Further Ado! I bring you Chapter 16.
Enjoy!
-Brightspark4
Punk Hazard!
{No POV}
After sailing off from Fishman Island they traveled peacefully for about a month, before things got crazy once more.
"Papa! What's that?!" Asked Reiki, Olivia, Luna, and Rouge to their fathers in unison.
Like that fight number 40 between Olivia and Reiki and number 20 between Luna and Rouge broke out.
The adults were too distracted though by what the children had pointed out, except the two preteens who broke up the fighting kids before focusing on what the adults were so caught up by.
"The fishes here are all dead..." Usopp commented.
"The water looks to be boiling..." Commented Brook.
"It's getting so hot out here..." Nami and Rena commented.
"Yes... It's getting far too hot. Chopper, Aisa, Kei, head inside with the children and stay there. Brook go with them. We don't need this heat melting you if it gets any worse." Instructed Zoro growing more serious as the men all took off their shirts.
The women following suit revealing they had swimsuits on underneath their clothes.
"Ace! Do you know what could be causing this extremely hot weather? It's too unatural. The water is scalding hot!" Mia asked her husband.
"No clue! As far as I remember the water here was never so hot, much less the weather... But I haven't been here in almost three years so somethings might be different." Ace answered.
"Anchor the ship! It's too risky right now to go any further!" Ordered Luffy.
"Yes Captain!" Shouted the other adults quickly getting the ship anchored and sails furled.
"Mia! Ace! Do you see that?" Asked Luffy to Mia and Ace suddenly.
They looked and saw it, growing surprised.
"An Island?" Ace gasped out seriously but suspicious about it.
"I'm with you Ace, something is definitely NOT right here... It doesn't seem natural..." Mia said to her husband.
"We should go explore it! But only some of us. We need some people to stay here with the children. We don't know anything about this mysterious Island after all... It could be dangerous." Luffy said.
"I can get the Mini Merry there with the use of a milky road made with my climatact. But that means we can only send five people since only five of us can fit in the Mini Merry." Said Nami seriously standing at Luffy's.
"I've got it! Let's all draw straws! The five who choose a straw with a red tip can go on the island in the mini merry and the others stay here with Aisa, Kei, Chopper and Brook who already decided they'd stay on the ship. That leaves Luffy, Myself, Ace, Mia, Zoro, Robin, Sanji, Rena, Franky, and Usopp to the luck of the draw." Nami said before showing them she'd grabbed 10 straws.
She handed the straws to Aisa who held the ends out of sight, turned, shuffled all of them around, and then turned back to her Nakama.
"Okay, each one of you grab a straw." Aisa said.
Luffy went first and to his enjoyment he grabbed one with a red end, meaning he gets to go.
Nami went second and ended up grabbing one with a white end meaning she'd stay.
Mia then went and grabbed one with a red end.
Ace then went and grabbed a red-ended one as well.
Then it was Zoro's turn and he grabbed a red end as well.
Sanji went next and found he had gotten to stay.
Rena went next and ended up grabbing a red end meaning that she was the fifth chosen to go.
They all gave the straws back to Nami and Franky got out the Mini Merry for the ones who would be going. Before they boarded Mia turned to Kei, Chopper, Usopp, Brook, and Franky as did Ace.
"If you let anything happen to our kids, we will teach you the true meaning of panic for an hour straight! Got it?" Mia said darkly.
The group nodded fiercely before Ace took over with a terrifying smile.
"Nami, Sanji, and Robin are in charge of making calls concerning the kids while we're gone. Ja ne!" Said Ace before taking Mia by the arm and like the gentleman he was taking his wife lovingly to the Mini Merry with which they'd sail to the Island.
The call came in after the quintet left for the Island and were out of sight.
A distress call calling for help from an Island known as Punk Hazard.
The adults shared a look speaking of the fact they needed to be on alert and stuck with the children in the aquarium room as Sanji worked in the Kitchen to make them all a snack.
They were all worried for the five but knew they would be just fine.
Meanwhile...
-With The Five On The Island-
The five reached land and got inside fairly quickly Ace, Mia and Luffy were the only ones who noticed the obvious.
'This island...' Luffy thought.
'This island is the result of a major fight...' Mia thought to herself.
'One of the forces that clashed here to make this was definitely fire related...' Ace thought.
Then they continued to all explore with the three acting as if they noted nothing. Soon they faced against a talking dragon and found a pair of legs without an upper body. They continued after Luffy decided to keep the legs and went forwards only to have a run in with a centaur and other strange creatures. As they fought the sudden enemies, they heard something said by the centaur that made Luffy, Zoro and Rena stand back.
"So, Miss Monet got hold of only three children? What about the other children? Oh? She couldnt because the people on board the ship awoke when she was about to and injured her? Well i'm sure she'll be fine once the Master heals her... Yes, Yes of course, we'll-" He began to say before Mia suddenly stole the transponder from the centaur.
"You'll what?" Asked the person on the other end.
"What did the children look like?" Asked Mia impersontaing the voice of the centaur that was now being held captive by Ace by a fire sword to the neck.
"Well one of them was a girl with black hair and blue almost violet eyes. The other two were boys, and one had blonde hair and brown eyes while the other had black hair and he has heterochromia so he has both eye colors. But why does that matter."
Mia and Ace's deadly auras intensified a hundred fold.
"So..." Mia began revealing she was not their allies, "Who is your so called Master? Because I promise you... He will PAY DEARLY... for kidnapping my babies..." Mia said.
The centaurs around them froze in fear.
'Oh SHIT! We've gone and pissed off Mama and Papa Bears!' They thought before they saw the dark auras surrounding the three others with the parents as the one with the straw hat took the transponder snail from the woman gently not to hurt her.
"Your boss tried to take our kids and captured my niece and nephews?" He asked dangerously calm.
"Y-yes" The man on the other end admitted fearfully.
"Then tell that bastard to be ready. Because when I get my hands on him, I'll make him pay 1,000-fold for his transgression against me and my crew... I, my brother and my sister in law will be coming for him.. and we won't stop until we have him tied to our mast beggin for mercy until we get to kill him and drop his dead corpse to the bottom of the ocean... THAT'S A DAMNED PROMISE!" Luffy said ending in a shout before destroying the device effortlessly.
"Mia, Ace! Pull out your vivre cards for your children, that will take us to them! Zoro! With us! Rena! Find Sanji and the others with the vivre card you have for Sanji. Knowing them they got off somewhere on the island to take shelter from the enemy." Luffy ordered.
"Yes Captain." They all replied dangerously calmly before breaking off and doing as told.
As they followed the vivre card they found themselves meeting up with Brook, Olivia, and Luna.
"Luna! Olivia! Brook!" Exclaimed Rena.
Luffy and Zoro ran to their daughters and looked them over.
"Auntie Robin was taken with Rue, Sei, and Roge, Papa! They fought back but they passed out and Auntie Robin tried to save them from the bird lady, but then she passed out too!" Luna said frantically.
Luffy hugged his now crying daughter close and soothed her.
"Papa! T-they took M-mama... They tried to take us too but Auntie Nami and the others grabbed us and fled the ship...!" Cried Olivia.
Zoro tried to soothe his daughter, but was failing much like Luffy was as well.
Ace and Mia shared an undecipherable look amongst themselves.
They then crouched down infront of the two children.
"There there, girls... Calm down your mama's nor anyone else in our nakama would want to see you angels crying... It'd make them sad... It also makes your papas sad..." Ace helped to soother while Mia walked a bit aways with Brook.
"What exactly happened on the ship Brook?" Asked Mia gently.
Brook turned serious.
"Well... We were all waiting for our snacks in the Aquarium Room but we heard some noise so I went out to investigate and just saw some kind of gas on the ship. I made to go back inside to tell the others of the possible ambush when I blacked out for several moments, when I awoke Rouge, Seiji and Roger were gone from the ship and this bird like woman was about to fly off with Luna and Bellomere, so I slashed one of her wings with my sword and went to catch them but by then the others woke up and Nami-san caught them and instructed us to grab the remaining kids and run, that she and Sanji would deal with the people on the ship or at least buy us time. It must have worked because before long we found ourselves in a well-hidden cave. We knew we needed to find our captain and vice captains though to figure out what we should do next. So I was sent to search the island but Luna and Olivia stowed away on me somehow since I was too far from the others and the ship by then to be able to take them back I took them with me. I apologize for making a judgement call despite instructions not too but I figured the particular situation called for it..." Brook answered seriously but gently.
Mia smiled and hugged the skeleton in gratitude.
"It's alright Brook..." She began as she pulled away from the hug and instead placed a hand delicately on his shoulder. "The situation called for it so it's alright that you made a careful judgement call. For now, Luffy, Zoro and I need to take some moments to figure out the plan of action in this situation. This is a large organized enemy so we have to be very careful. For now, you and Ace play with the girls while we figure out what to do. Deal?" Mia asked to Brook with a gentle and warm smile.
Brook relieved nodded and then him and Ace got to playing a safe distance away from the other three as they got to planning so that the kids wouldn't hear.
-With Mia, Luffy and Zoro-
"So what should we do? It's obvious we can't delay too much, we HAVE to rescue Robin and the triplets from these people. If they are kidnapping children and pregnant ladies their up to nothing remotely good." Zoro said at last.
Mia sighed frustrated but in agreement crossing her arms as she grew pensive, Luffy doing the same as he thought it over.
"Well, for now, the first step is definitely to gather up all together. But we NEED a definite plan of action. We can't just wing it while we're here in the new world. I'm sure we could all tell with the close calls we've had so far. We have to be smarter than we've been so far. I would've thought the extremely close call on Sabaody two years ago would've been proof enough. Had it not been for Kuma, we would have all been dead that day. I hate to admit it, but it is the truth." Mia said at last.
"You have a point." The men said in unison.
"So do you have any ideas?" Asked Luffy.
Mia then created an improvised map of the island on the snow infront of them with a knife she had hidden between her breasts.
Then she drew a building on the side of the island they were at but still a ways away and an X at where they currently stood by the large stream they just crossed mere minutes ago and some mountains near them.
"Once we gather with the others at the cave, we form teams of three. Aisa, Kei, and Ace will stay in the cave with the children that we still have with us since they can protect them and keep them out of harms way. Brook, Zoro, and Usopp go and bring the ship to this side of the island. While those teams do that Chopper, Nami, and Rena work on saving the triplets and any other children they have locked up. The final team comprised of Franky, Sanji, and myself will go rescue Robin wherever she might be being kept. While you, Captain, go take on this Master guy. After we get Robin out, we have Franky go and defeat the bird lady real good until she learns not to ever lay a finger on our crew's children. Sanji and I then split up and he goes to join the children and Ace for more protection for the little ones and I go and help Nami, Rena, and Chopper's team in getting the other children to the safety of the cave. Zoro's team should go join us in the building as effective back up against the other numerous chronies of this 'Master' guy while you and I take on the boss. Ace can join us once Sanji returns to the Cave." Mia explained.
"That's a good plan, but what kind of complications could happen and by how much would our odds be affected?" Zoro asked.
"We might have the complication of Marines coming here, While we were on Sabaody, I heard that Smoker, the marine from Loguetown was moved up the ranks and stationed in the New World recently and with how obsessed he is with capturing us, we might face the challenge of going through them before we can go through the real enemy. But at most that'll only drop our odds of this strategy working by 5%. The main complication we face is honestly getting Law on our side. He's on this Island. I sensed it right when we were approaching the large stream. But as far as I can tell he holds no ill intent towards us and I can't hear his heartbeat from his direction, I hear it from the building where our enemy is at." Mia answered.
"How can you hear his heartbeat from so far away?" Asked Luffy confused.
Mia sighed awkwardly.
"It started happening when I turned 10, I don't really know why or how I hear heartbeats. But it happens, so after 10 months of not being able to sleep right because of hearing heartbeats all over the island, I worked hard to train my hearing so that I could only hear the heartbeats when I wanted to hear them. It took me 3 years to master that but I did it. When we found out the triplets had been kidnapped I allowed myself to hear the heartbeats all over this place to locate them and everyone else... I never said anything about it because knowing the others they'd all freak out or eventually try to use me as a human lie detector and that would really get in the way of my research." Said Mia awkwardly.
"Okay, I understand that, but why would Law not have his heart in his body?" Asked Zoro.
Mia grew pensive.
"My guess is that he had to strike a deal with this 'Master' guy in order to do something he needed to do, and the only way to get him to take deal was to give this guy his heart as insurance that he would not betray them. His devil fruit powers would easily allow Law to remove his own heart without him ending up dead from not having it in his body. Devil Fruits are terrifyingly strange like that. Luffy can stretch like rubber but can also inflate himself, give him self incredible speed, make himself grow in size, etc. I can turn to water, mold myself into anything, increase or decrease the amount of water, control ice and anything made of water, the possibilities are endless. When youlearn your devil fruit and learn to effectively use it, anything is possible." Mia answered after some thought.
The boys understood what she said so they nodded in understanding.
"Okay. Now that we have our plan of action let's hurry to the cave. We have to get the others filled in and get going. We should also find Tra-guy."
"He'll find us at the cave, captain. He's there waiting for us with the others." Mia replied.
Luffy picked up Luna and Zoro picked up Olivia.
"Let's go meet with the others at the cave. We've got a plan." Said Luffy to Brook and Ace.
Then they all raced over to the caves where they would find the rest of their nakama and Law.
When the group reached the cave, they found Trafalgar Law holding Nami up a wall by the neck with Usopp, Rena, and Sanji each holding a weapon up to Law's neck.
"Tra-guy." Called out Luffy darkly.
"I'll give you only one chance to answer my question. Why do you have my wife, my Pirate Queen, held up to the wall by the neck, choking her?" Luffy asked grimly as Rena,Usopp, and Sanji stepped back and Mia and Zoro took their place each holding sword to a part of Law's neck with dangerously cold looks on their face.
"She attacked me when I approached. I was only drawing my sword to get them all switched back to normal after they stepped through the shambles space along with Smoker-ya and his marines." Law explained calmly as his eyes betrayed his calm demeanor as he glanced at the swords at his neck.
"Put her down and I'll call off my Vice Captains. Only then will I let you change them back and talk with you." Luffy instructed.
Law let go of Nami allowing her to stand and breathe properly, and Luffy signaled Zoro and Mia to let him go.
The two vice captains backed off and put their swords away before Zoro joined the rest of their Nakama and Ace and Mia stepped off to another part of the cave to have some space.
As everything went quiet where most of the people in the cave stood they heard the sound of Mia crying in Ace's arms violently.
Law immediately became quiet...
"Um... will she be alright Straw Hat-ya?" Asked Law quietly showing some concern.
Luffy sighed sadly.
"They both won't be alright until we get the triplets back to safety... Their kids were kidnapped after all.. I don't think any parent that loves their children would be alright if that happened to their kids.." Luffy answered just as quietly as he and Nami each carried one of their children in their arms.
Sanji, Rena and Zoro all winced. Although Zoro himself was looking about ready to cry in both rage and sadness as well.
"On top of the triplets being kidnapped, our nakama Robin who was pregnant was also captured by this stupid 'Master' guy so my Vice Captain Zoro is understandably also pretty messed up right now. He just doesn't show it much." Luffy finished answering.
Law nodded understandingly.
"I understand, I have a wife too, she's currently pregnant and we already have one newborn child as well.. They are my life right along with being a Pirate. If anything happened to them I don't know if I would be strong enough to not break down completely. Thankfully they are in the safety of our crew's ship away from this place and protected by my crew." Law replied as he place a supportive hand on the shoulders of Zoro and Ace (who had returned as he was talking and had handed a sleeping Mia to Chopper.
Ace and Zoro nodded appreciatively before they all sat and began to fill in everyone on Mia's strategy to allow the poor exhausted and emotionally drained woman to get some rest.
~Two Hours Later~
Mia awoke as if she hadn't cried at all, and they all quickly filled her in on the information Law had provided before everyone separated into teams and got to work on their tasks for her strategy to work.
~One Hour Later~
Mia, Luffy, and Ace stood face to face with Caesar Clown in the former's lair.
"Why'd you bring a woman with you two?" He asked ACTUALLY confused and not meaning any offense.
"You... shouldn't have said that..." Luffy said carefully as he stepped back a ways away with Ace.
"As my wife would say," Ace began to quote. "I'd have to concur with what the Captain has said..." He quoted.
Then Clown grew worried as he saw an intense murderous aura surrounding the female infront of him and slowly filling up the room.
'Well... I may be in trouble here...' Caesar thought to himself.
Unfortunately for him it was not his words that made her murderous it was the thought that she heard the now racing heartbeats of her children racing from possibly fear not very far away and stationary.
"You and your people made the grave mistake of kidnapping my children and now they are afraid. I can hear their racing heartbeats loud and clear..." She said taking brief notice of the heartbeats of Tashigi and Smoker now at the doorway.
"So you better prepare yourself... because my husband, younger brother in law and myself will not go easy on you. We will bring you to near death when we're through with you. THAT'S A FUCKING PROMISE YOU DAMN BASTARD!" Mia said grimly freezing the marines in place as she suddenly was behind Caesar Clown kicking him towards Ace who mercilessly punched him straight through the gut with Armament Haki towards Luffy.
Like this, they kept beating mercilessly onto the man with Haki and bare hands only until the man seemed to be dead and Mia stopped the two males.
"There. He'll know not to threaten our crew's children now... He'll live. Although frankly I would have loved to murder his child-napping ass." Mia said coldlly but more calmly than before as they dusted themselves off.
They finally noticed Smoker.
"You marines should be concerned. This imbecile has children he whas been kidnapping over the years held captive here that need to be taken home... WE are the least of your worries, don't you think?" Ace spoke to Smoker and Tashigi calmly.
That finally snapped them out of it and got them to follow the now leaving Straw Hats to where Mia heard Nami, Chopper and Usopp's heartbeats.
When they reached their nakama they saw the situation and Mia finally knew what had been going on here.
"That..." She began making the adults flinch and cover the ears of the children thinking she was about to curse.
She surprised them, however as she took and deep breath and refrained from saying anything. She just approached the children and smiled at them.
"Okay kiddos! I want to help you get better, because that 'Master Caesar' guy was poisoning your bodies by feeding you drugs..."
"He was?!" Asked the children shocked but trusting of the lady who was speaking to them as if they weren't just little kid.
"Yes he was... That's why some of you are so large now... He was feeding you some kind of candy right? That candy is bad, it's a drug he made into the form of a Candy to experiment it on you. Now tell me, do any of you know what a drug is?" Asked Mia calmly and warmly.
"Mm-mm" They hummed shaking their heads no.
"What is a drug, Miss?" Asked the girl known as Mocha.
"A drug is a medicine or, in this case, a substance that causes a bodily reaction when it's eaten or brought into the body in some other way." Mia explained understandingly that they were kids but being bluntly honest so they understood what had been done to them.
They gasped in horror.
"So this guy took us from our homes to test drugs on us?! He's a bad man!" They all exclaimed collectively.
Mia nodded seriously but then smiled soothingly and warmly at them.
"But our ship's doctor and myself will help you! But you have to all promise to behave while we get the drug out of your system okay?" Mia said to them sweetly.
'If I didn't know she was a pirate and a lethal person to cross, I'd think she was Marine material...' Tashigi thought to herself.
"Robin. Stay back with Olivia while I help Mia and Chopper get the drugs out with the others. Okay? I wouldn't want you or my children to even possibly be in harms way." Zoro said to Robin near where Tashigi was.
Then it clicked for her.
'He married Devil Child Robin and had a daughter plus he's expecting more?! Holy Crap!' Tashigi thought suddenly feeling very shocked.
Then she turned back to look at where Water Queen Mia and Tony Tony Chopper were gently lining up the kids from tallest to smallest.
When done Mia turned to Chopper.
"Doctor-san, remember the procedure in Book #8 of my Medical Works Collection?" Asked Mia.
"Yes, when dealing with a large amount of ingested drug in the human body extract it through means of Sweat or if you're around through the use of your powers. It is best to get it out of the system through sweat glands as that way you can get most of it out quickly before the patient suffers withdrawl symptoms. Once most of it is out we make the medicine that they then take for 5 days to help their bodies naturally attack the drug and bring it out harmlessly without the patient suffering any withdrawls, right?" Responded Chopper.
Mia petted his head gently and smiled.
"Exactly right, Doctor. Now, we must begin, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Rena, hold each of the kids steady so that I can get most of the drug out of their bodies. It'll feel very weird and uncomfortable for them so their bodies will naturally try to spasm and move. If they move or spasm it'll be far too difficult to get most of it out." Mia instructed.
They all quickly got to work and slowly but surely got all the kids back to their natural height for their age and fed them the medicine they'd have to take for five days.
Mia took the large quantity of little bottles of medicine over to Tashigi and handed it all to her.
"One bottle per child, only a spoonful once a day for the next four days. Today they already had a spoonful. Get them back to their homes okay? We can't do it ourselves as we're pirates, we'd be accused of having stolen them immediately. I wish we could take them back to their homes ourselves but we can't." Mia said before going with Chopper to check on Robin and her own children as the marines and the children left quickly.
After making sure everyone was alright the straw hats met up with Law on their ship and all of them sailed off together with Caesar Clown chained to the mast with reinforced sea stone chains and handcuffs.
As they all gathered for a dinner on the deck with Law as a special guest on their ship and as a celebration of saving those kids and taking down Caesar, the long distance Den Den Mushi rang out.
"I'll go answer it Captain, You deal with Caesar he's about to wake up any second now." Said Mia capmly and happily.
When Mia went and picked up the call.
"Hello?" She answered calmly.
"Water Queen Mia right?" Asked the voice she easily recognized.
"Smoker?" She thought outloud.
-With The Others-
"Shololololo! My boss if formidabble! And he won't be happy when he learns of what you did! So you're better off just letting me go!" Said Caesar trying to scare them.
"No matter what you say you are staying chained up in there. Unless you would prefer for my husband, Zoro-kun, Nami-chan, Captain-kun, myself and Ace-san to be allowed to torture you in THAT room..." Rena said hinting very evilly that they had a room where they could torture their enemies.
"Oh! And don't take our lax attitude for enjoyment of having you here on the ship. We'd very much prefer you dead." Nami said so sweetly it scared the man chained to the mast into silence.
For mere moments anyways.
-With Mia-
"Yeah. It's me. Don't worry, we aren't tracing this call. I just wanted to let you know of some information I got hands on moments ago that you should know." He said as he vocally blew out smoke from whatever two cigars he had in his mouth.
"What is it?" Asked Mia seriously but calmly.
"Appearantly Red Hair Shanks was discovered to have married and had a baby recently. A year ago so says the report. They're sending Marine Admirals and Vice Admirals over to the four seas to find that child and once found use it to lure Shanks into turning himself in. I figured your crew and Captain would like to know. So you can go help save that child." Said Smoker very seriously.
Mia smiled gratefully.
"Thank you. But might I ask why you informed us?" Replied Mia.
"I'm just returning the favor on behalf of us honest marines that are out there for your information that you gave us back in Alabasta. That's all. After this is over we're enemies again, you got that?" Smoker answered before hanging up.
Mia turned serious and with a sigh returned the Den Den Mushi to it's former position.
Then she headed out to call most of the others inside.
-Back To Normal Reading!-
Mia came out with a dark expression.
"Everyone except Zoro, Sanji and the children come inside. There's something we have to discuss. It's urgent." She said seriously returning inside to the aquarium room once more.
Everyone obeyed her orders and Mia promptly turned to her Nakama.
"That call just now was from Smoker. To return a certain favor from two years ago. He gave me some very important and urgent information." Mia said after they were closed off from the outside.
"What did he say?" Asked Luffy serious.
"He informed me that he received a report some minutes ago that Red Hair Shanks appearantly married and has had a child. Marine Admirals and Vice Admirals all over have been tasked to go to the four seas to capture the wife and child to lure Red Hair Shanks into surrendering to the Marines." Mia answered grimly.
"But who is he married to?" Asked Nami.
"And what does that have to do with us?" Asked Franky.
"Red Hair Shanks is the one who helped me find my dream. He saved my life when I was a seven years old by sacrificing an arm to a Sea King back on Dawn Island where Ace, Mia and myself are from."
"We all owe him a lot. That and Yasopp, his sniper, is the father of our own nakama Usopp. If Shanks gets captured, the Red Hair Pirate Crew wont be far behind." Mia explained before sighing awkwardly.
"That, and Auntie Mia also owes her life to Shanks." Aisa revealed warmly for Mia who seemed to be struggling to speak.
They all turned to Mia for confirmation.
"Yes, I do. When we were all still on Dawn Island, I was wondering in the village and I was about to be mobbed to my death by some of the villagers when Shanks stepped in and had them all back off. I was already almost dead when he stepped in but he had his ship's doctor save my life. After that day nobody in the village ever bothered me and soon even welcomed me warmly. I owe my life to him and to Makino who I suspect is his wife. They were very close and she was all he would speak of when she wasnt around. He often asked her to go and join his crew but she being the always very caring person she was refused because she wanted to take care of those of us who didnt have anyone to rely on." Mia answered turning around away from her nakama suddenly.
"Shanks and Makino taught me everything basic that I know. They taughts me to speak, read and write. My basic subjects since I couldn't go to school, how to dress, how to eat with manners, everything. Shanks' crew taught me a lot as well... I owe my life and everything I am today to the Red Hair Pirates and to Makino." Mia admitted turning around a lot more calm now that Ace was hugging her close.
"He saved both my wife, and my brother. I owe plenty to the man as well, and I owe Makino a lot personally as well."
"We need to be sure it was Makino who he married and had a child with first. So we need to call the Red Hair Pirates somehow and reach them." Luffy said.
"I have a number he gave me incase I ever needed to reach him for his help." Mia said.
"Okay you and Ace make the call to Shanks' crew. I can't speak to him until I fulfill my promise. Once we have confirmation of who his wife is we head to pick her up and take her to Shanks. She'll be safe with the Red Hair Pirates until she can be safely returned with the baby to wherever they may be from." Luffy instructed.
They all then went to go back to doing what they had to do.
Until Mia stopped them.
"If I may Captain..." She spoke up making them all pause.
"I believe in this kind of situation, subtleties might be very useful..." Mia said.
Luffy thought it over.
"What's your idea then?" He asked.
"Well, Ace and I could go on the two boats we had Franky build for us powered by our devil fruits and travel through the calm belts to get to the whichever sea it may be before the marines. In each of the boats we can fit two other people comfortably so we could take four people with us for back up. This way, we don't make the marines suspicious while the rest of you head towards Dressrosa and wait for us near there. We catch up to the rest of you after delivering the wife and child to Shanks' crew." Mia answered.
"Very well, but I'm going with, Zoro and Nami can handle things here without us. Now, go make the call."
TBC