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The Merry continued to sail through the mist and did not make any progress, in the end the straw hats dropped the anchor and tried to get Adéwalé to tell them where the kids were but their guest still refused mainly because Luffy kept saying he would beat Edward up.

Luffy sat on the Merrys figure head still yelling for Edward to come and get his ass kicked, Usopp and Connor were leaning against the ships railing by the figurehead looking out into the mist.

"Oi Connor can't you see the way out?" Usopp asked.

Connor shook his head.

"I can't see through the mist, I've tried but I just can't," Connor answered sadly.

"Hey it's okay, we'll figure something out," Usopp assured.

"Hey Connor if you can't find the way out can you find Edward?" Luffy asked looking back at the boy.

"Luffy I've never met this Edward so how would I find him?" Connor asked.

"I don't know, you're the one with the weird eyes," Luffy said.

"My eyes are not weird," Connor huffed.

"Can you try….Please?" Luffy asked pleadingly.

Connor sighed and activated his second sight, he looked around but saw nothing and Connor turned around and looked over the other side of the ship. His glowing eyes passed over Adéwalé who had a red aura around him.

Adéwalé stared in shock as he saw Connors eyes, he was sure the boys eyes had been brown and now they had changed to yellow; Adéwalé had only seen one other person with eyes like that.

'T…T…That's impossible…His eyes are they like Edwards?' Adéwalé thought.

"So can you find him?" Luffy asked.

Connor shook his head.

"No, I still can't see through the mist and no one is hiding nearby," Connor answered.

"Aww….oh well Edward will turn up eventually," Luffy smiled.

"Man I'm getting Hungary, where's blondie when you need him?" Zoro complained, he was keeping an eye on Adéwalé.

"Don't you lot have a cook?" Henzo asked.

"Yes but he's back in town," Robin answered.

"Dose anyone else know how to cook?" Luffy asked.

"No," Zoro and Connor answered.

"Yes," Robin, Usopp and Henzo answered at the same time.

"You can cook?" Zoro asked Robin.

"Yes I learned when I was little. Though I can only do small stuff like eggs and toast," Robin admitted.

"Well I lived alone for many years and learned how to make some basic and easy meals," Usopp said "I bet I could whip something edible up,"

Usopp turned to Connor.

"Hey want to help me?" Usopp asked.

"I…I don't know how," Connor responded a bit hesitant.

Usopp looked over at Connor in surprise, he would have thought that one of his former masters would have had him do some work in the kitchen but apparently that was not the case.

"You've never had to cook before?" Usopp asked.

"I did once but it came out burnt and inedible, I was not allowed back in the kitchen after that," Connor said.

"Well come on then I'll show you a thing or two," Usopp urged.

Connor sighed and went with the sniper, he hoped he would not have to do much; he did not want to repeat his previous cooking experience…especially the punishment he had received for burning the food.

'Then again if the food dose turn out burnt, I could always feed it to Luffy,' Connor thought to himself.

Adéwalé watched them head into the ship, he looked over at Luffy. He did not want to tell him where Edward and the other children were but Edward would need to know that there was someone else with the same gift as him.

If it came down to a fight Adéwalé had no doubt Edward would win, after all he had seen the man clear the decks of both pirate and marine ships alike in under a minute and when it came to combat there was very few who could match Edwards skills.

"Hey Straw hat," Adéwalé called out.

Luffy looked over to him.

"Let me go and I'll lead you to Edward," Adéwalé said.

Luffy smiled excitedly.

Edward sat behind a desk with a serious expression on his face as he listed to what Lappuni and Isoka were saying: he was having a hard time believing them.

He was a man of about medium height with messy blond hair; he had a semi-shaven beard and light blue eyes. He wore what looked to be pale white and sea-washed blue hooded robe, it was hard to see them under the layers of leather armour that covered his torso and arms.

He was armed with four flintlocks two hanging on his chest and two behind his twin sheathed cutlasses. The weapons were attached to leather straps that sat on a frayed red sash around his waist.

According to the children there was another pirate crew that had entered the mist, Edward had little doubt that this was true because sometimes new ships just appeared in the mist for no reason but they were always abandoned.

However he did doubt that the children's story of their missing friend suddenly turning into an old man, it just seemed impossible. He had been on the grand line for half a year now and in that time he had seen and experienced things that could be only described as Impossible.

After all he had a Dragon as his first mate.

"Longo don't believe them their here to steal our tressure," Lappuni insisted.

"But he knew that the Boom #3 was a fake and what the other two models did. We never told anyone outside our group about them," Longo claimed.

"So he saw through our tricks that does not make the old man Henzo," Lappuni urged.

"But he said our names…and we certainly didn't tell him them,"

"Humph lucky guess,"

"But what if it really was Henzo? What if years have passed while we've been stuck in the mist?" Pauku asked.

Edward continued to listen to the children bicker and he decided to intervene.

"Has anyone seen Adéwalé?" Edward asked.

The children stopped arguing and looked over towards him.

"He went to spy on the pirates," Isoka answered.

"Yeah after he flew us to safety he said he was going to keep an eye on them," Akibi agreed.

"He should've been back by now," Edward commented and stared off into space for a few seconds "Oh well he can handle himself,"

"Edward, do you think that Hezo could have grown into an old man while we've been in the mist?" Akibi asked.

"Henzo was your friend who fell of the galleon that brought you right?" Edward asked.

"Yeah we met an old man who claimed that he was our friend. He knew out names and even what each Boom model did,"

"Well it's obviously a lie, only gullible children would believe something so outrageous," Lapunni scoffed.

Edward shot Lappuni a glare and the boy flinched under the gaze.

"Need I remind you that you are a child," Edward pointed out.

"Edward…it is Henzo right?" Longo asked desperately.

"It's a little farfetched…but there is another pirate ship with a crew has entered the mist and that's never happened before," Edward started "There are a lot of unexplained and Impossible things on the sea this mist being one of them,"

"But just because the mist is real does not mean that someone can just age instantly," Lauppuni reasoned.

"Why not? Do you have any other theories?" Edward asked.

"No…But… it can't happen It's impossible," Lappuni argued.

"Lappuni things are only impossible if you refuse to believe in them. If Longo believes that this old man is Henzo then he's Henzo until we can prove otherwise," Edward said with a smile.

Longo smiled.

Suddenly a loud bell rang the occupants of the room all looked towards the ceiling listing to the bell.

"That's the perimeter alarm…a ship must be approaching," Akibi said.

"But the only other ship is the one those pirates are on," Lappuni said

Edward ran out the door onto the deck and quickly scaled up the crow's nest. He could see the approaching pirate ship on the distance.

"So there are other pirates here, how did they find us?" Edward wondered.

He pulled out his spyglass and spotted the approaching ship. He saw Adéwalé on deck with the pirates pointing directly at the ship Edward and the children were on.

The Merry approached a large broken warship, it was an older model and Robin recognised it from the type of ships used over 50 years ago. The mast was destroyed and there was a large how in the ships side, thankfully it looked like the ship had run aground on some other sunken ships in the shallow waters so it sat above the water line.

"So that's where you've been living," Zoro stated as the Merry approached a wrecked Marine Warship.

"Yes it's fairly big and it's easy to defend," Adéwalé responded.

"Defend against what?" Robin asked.

"Ships aren't the only thing that comes into the mist," Adéwalé warned.

Suddenly a man with a white hood covering his face landed in a crouching position on the Merrys figure head. Luffy lost his balance and fell backwards onto the deck.

"Hey that's my spot!" Luffy shouted.

The man didn't respond and drew one of his cutlasses; he jumped off the figure head and aimed his swords at Luffy. Luffy's face paled and he quickly jumped out of the way, he then aimed a punch at the man but Edward took a step back and Luffy's outstretched arm went straight past him.

If Edward was shocked to see Luffy's arm stretched no one could tell because of his hood. Luffy pulled his arm back to its normal shape and swept his leg across the deck trying to catch Edward off guard, but the assassin rolled over the leg cutting it with his cutlass in the process. Luffy growled in pain and annoyance before trying to punch Edward again this time Edward slid under Luffy's arm on his knees he stuck his sword in the air cutting a long gash across the rubber captains arm.

"Hey that hurt!" Luffy yelled as he pulled back his arm.

Edward pulled out one of his guns and shot Luffy. The bullet hit Luffy directly where his heart was and the bullet caused Luffy's skin to be pushed back, once there was no longer any force behind it the bullet was slingshot back at twice the speed. It hit the side of the warship blowing a portion of the front of.

All the occupants on the Merry stared at the new hole in shock.

"Oi Luffy don't go destroying their home," Zoro scolded.

"Sorry, but I can't control where the things that bounce off me go," Luffy said sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head.

Edward put his gun away and drew his second cutlass, he then charged at Luffy. He crouched down and brought his swords across horizontally and a gust of air hit Luffy and blew him off the ship.

"Zoro he's all yours," Luffy cried as he disappeared into the mist.

Zoro looked at the spot that Luffy had disappeared form and rolled his eyes; he turned his attention to their attacker and drew two of his swords.

"So he can make attacks like I can," Zoro said as an exited smirk formed on his face.

Edward turned his attention towards Zoro and the two swordsmen clashed, Zoro let lose a flurry of blows and Edward blocked each one. The attacks were so strong that shockwaves were formed from the blows. Their swords locked together and they started pushing against each other.

Edward slammed his knee into Zoro's stomach causing the swordsman to hunch over in pain, the assassin rolled over Zoro's hunched over form and when he stood up Edward slashed across Zoro's back causing him to cry out in pain Zoro turned in time to block Edward's finishing blow.

"That's cheating," Zoro growled.

"Cheaters win mate," Edward said with a smirk.

The two pirates continued exchanging blows each one was blocked and parried by the other suddenly Edward pulled out a ball and threw it to the ground creating a smoke screen that surrounded him and Zoro, Zoro quickly looked around but couldn't see two feet in front of him.

"I can't see!" Zoro shouted.

"I can," Edward's voice said.

Zoro suddenly felt a sharp pain across his chest, he swung out but didn't hit anything he then felt the same pain across his arms and then his legs, finally Zoro was able to block Edward's next attack. He then took a page from Edward's playbook and kicked the assassin in the head that sent him flying against the railing of the ship.

"Now you're getting it," Edward said.

They clashed again each was pushing against the other not willing to give up or let the other win.

"Your pretty good," Zoro smirked.

"You're not so bad yourself," Edward claimed.

However before the fight could continue Luffy reappeared from the mist an crashed into Edwards back, causing both fighters to drop their swords and sending them flying across the deck. They hit the railing bounced off it and fell into the sea with a splash.

"Well that was anti-climactic," Robin stated.

Luffy went over the side of the railing in time to see both swordsmen surface.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Both Zoro and Edward yelled at the same time, clearly angry.

"Sorry Zoro," Luffy laughed.

"NO YOUR NOT!" Zoro yelled back.

Edward took the opportunity to swim back to the ship and Zoro followed. Once on deck Zoro picked up and sheathed his weapons; he started to wring his shirt out of the water. Edward made a dash for his swords and once he retrieved them he was about to start fighting again when Adéwalé came up to Edward and smacked him on the back of the head.

"Ow," Edward said, he turned and glared at Adéwalé.

"What do you think you're doing?" Adéwalé asked "We've talked about you just attacking random ships,"

"I was trying to rescue you," Edward defended.

"Rescue me?"

"Yes they captured you and made you tell them where we were,"

Adéwalé groaned and ran his hand over his face.

"Edward they did capture me but not in the way you think…" Adéwalé started but didn't finish because Luffy interrupted.

"You're Edward?" Luffy interrupted running up to him.

"Yes," Edward answered.

"I'm going to kick your ass," Luffy declared.

"Uhh…what?" Edward asked confused.

"If I beat you then Adéwalé has to join my crew," Luffy claimed pointing at Adéwalé.

"That's not…I never said or agreed to that," Adéwalé claimed.

"Ade…is there something you want to tell me?" Edward asked "Are you leaving?"

"What? No…he saw my Dragon form and now he wants me in his crew," Adéwalé sighed.

"And he thinks if he beats me you'll join him," Edward stated in a disbelieving tone.

"That's about it," Adéwalé nodded.

Edward looked at Luffy confused by his logic…then it dawned on him.

"Wait…his crew? He's the Captain?" Edward asked in shock.

Zoro came over and bonked Luffy on the head.

"What was that for?" Luffy demanded.

"Luffy don't leave an enemy to me if you're just going to finish him off yourself," Zoro scolded.

"Sorry I didn't know I was going to be in the way when I landed," Luffy apologised.

"It doesn't matter, you said he was mine and then you go knocking him and me off the ship,"

"But Zoro, he sent me flying in the first place,"

"Listen you rubber idiot next time you pick a fight with someone finish them off first. Don't go knocking them and me into the sea!" Zoro yelled.

Edward watched as Zoro scolded the captain and did not know what to make of this other crew. He spied Robin and Henzo watching and he guessed the old man was the one Longo had been on about.

"Exuse me but who are you?" Robin asked approaching Edward.

Edward put his hands on the hilt of his cutlasses, ready just encase the woman tired anything and eyed her suspiosly; then Luffy who was still being scolded by Zoro. He turned his attention to Adewle.

"And you're sure you're not a prisoner?" Edward asked.

"No, I brought them here for other reasons," Adéwalé claimed.

He leaned closer and whispered something in Edwards's ear. Edwards's eyes went wide and he looked at Adéwalé in surprise.

"You sure?" he asked.

"Positive, but I would like you to confirm it," Adéwalé said.

"What are you talking about?" Robin asked.

"Nothing," Edward said and sheathed his blades.

Zoro and Luffy walked over to him, Luffy seemed to ignore his injuries. Edward tuned to them and held out his hand.

"Captain Edward Kenway," Edward introduced.

"I'm Luffy," Luffy said and shook Edwards hand.

"Sorry about attacking you, I thought you had captured my first mate," Edward said.

"Your first mate?" Zoro asked.

"He means me," Adéwalé said "My Name's Adéwalé,"

"I can't pronounce that…I'm going to call you Adds?" Luffy asked.

"No," Adéwalé said.

"How about Dew?"

"No,"

"Whale?"

"How about my name?"

"Whale it is," Luffy said with a smile.

Edward couldn't help but laugh at this.

"I think you might have a new nickname," Edward laughed.

"Call me that and I will run you through with a harpoon," Adéwalé growled at Edward.

"Don't worry I'll stick to Ade," Edward assured.

He then turned to Zoro.

"Your pretty good when it comes to sword fighting," Edward complimented "Sorry about trying to hack you to pieces,"

"Meh it gave me something to do," Zoro shrugged.

"Do you want some help treating your injuries?" Edward offered.

"Nah, I'll get Chopper to do it later," Zoro answered.

"Chopper?" Edward asked.

"Our Doctor," Robin supplied.

"You have a doctor named Chopper…that is not scary at all," Adéwalé joked.

"Getting back to the point, if you did not capture my mate and force him to tell us where we were…why did you come here?" Edward asked.

"We did not come here to fight, we want to know how to get out of the mist," Robin claimed "Adéwalé told us that you lived here so we were hoping you could help us,"

Before Edward could answer someone called his name.

"EDWARD!" a young voice suddenly yelled.

Everyone on the Merry's deck turned and looked up at the warship where Lappuni and his friends were, they were looking at the other pirates ship in fear. Lappuni jumped down onto the Merry and drew a small sword.

"Don't worry I'll back you up," Lappuni said.

Edward sighed.

"Put it away lad, we're not fighting," Edward instructed.

"What? But Adéwalé…"

"I'm fine, I'm not hurt. This is all one big misunderstanding," Adéwalé claimed.

"I bet they forced him to say that," Lappuni accused.

Edward signed and removed his hood, Lapunni was very closed minded. He then turned back to Robin.

"Look as much as I'd like to help you we don't know of any way out of this mist," Edward said honestly "If we did we would have used it already,"

"I see…that's a disappointment," Robin said.

"Why are you disappointed, I bet you were plaining on taking the treasure with you," Lappuni accused.

"Trust me Lappuni that is the las thing these pirates want," Henzo said.

Lappuni turned to the old man and glared at him.

"Shut up, I don't trust pirates or Adults," Lappuni declared.

"Does that mean you do not trust me or Edward?" Adéwalé asked.

Lauppuni turned to them.

"And after we saved your life too," Edward sighed in a fake hurt tone.

"I must admit that trusting pirates is a bad idea, but if he doesn't trust adults does that mean you do not trust your mother?"

"Of course I trust my mother," Lappuni defended.

"But she's an adult," Edward pointed out.

"No she's not my mother is a mum," Lappuni declared.

Edward and Adéwalé burst out laughing at Luppunis naivety.

"Hey what's so funny?" Lappuni demanded.

"You, you're still so young and childish," Adéwalé laughed.

"I AM NOT!"

"It's all right lad, stop trying to be a grown up and enjoy your youth," Edward advised.

"This is getting us nowhere," Zoro said.

Just then Connor and Usopp came on deck holding plates of hot food, everyone turned to them and Luffy started drooling at the sight of the food.

"Ta Da! Usopp's special lunch is ready," Usopp declared.

Luffy ran over and started shoving some of it in his mouth. Usopp noticed Edward, Adéwalé and Lapunni.

"Do you guys want some too?" Usopp offered.

"Do you have any booze?" Edward asked.

"I like the way you think," Zoro smiled and walked into the ship, he came back with two bottles of alcohol and gave one to Edward.

Robin walked over and helped put the plates down on the deck, Edward and Adéwalé went to join the other pirate crew in eating lunch. Luffy noticed that Isoka, Akibi, Paoku and Longo were watching them eat.

"Hey you guys want any? It's yummy," Luffy offered.

"Can we?" Longo asked.

"Sure, it's not as good as Sanji's but it's still tasty," Luffy answered.

The four children jumped onto the merry and ran over to the straw hats and helped themselves to the food, Lappuni tried to stop them but they would not listen. Once the kids were settled and eating Usopp started telling them about the straw hats adventures on the Grand Line and how they came from the East Blue.

"The East Blue that means you came here over Reverse Mountain right?" Edward asked.

"Yeah it was really fun, scary but fun," Usopp asked.

"How did you get to the Grand Line?" Robin asked.

"I was a Privateer, but our crew eventually turned to piracy because the Captain was not satisfied with the crew cut of what we stole," Edward explained "So we came to the Grand Line and became pirates,"

"What's a Privateer?" Longo asked.

Connor leaned closer he was curious to know as well.

"Privateers are people who are employed by governments to steal cargo, supplies and treasure form other countries, usually ones that are at war with each other," Edward answered.

"There like the seven warlords of the sea, only the world government does not recognise them and countries that have Privateers are genially not affiliated with the world government," Robin added.

"So they're like Pirates for hire," Long said.

"In away, but only for one country; they're also used as naval scouts and part of that countries Navy," Edward added.

"What about you how did you get out in the grad line?" Usopp asked Adéwalé.

"I was born here," Adéwalé answered.

"Really? How did you get involved with Edward?" Luffy asked.

"I was on the wrong ship at the wrong time," Adéwalé claimed.

"It wasn't that bad," Edward said.

"You sailed through a cyclone,"

"So we lived," Edward claimed causally.

"A cyclone Edward, what idiot with a death wish sails through a cyclone on the Grand Line?" Adéwalé asked.

"You sailed through a Cyclone?" Luffy asked enviously "Lucky Nami always avoids storms or makes us get out of them as fast as we can,"

"I think I'm starting to like him," Edward smiled.

Adéwalé groaned.

As Lunch went on Lappuni refused to eat and glared at his friends who were engaged in Usopp's story's Edward was only half listening as he had gotten into a drinking contest with Zoro much to Adéwalé annoyance.

Once Zoro and Edward had finished their fifth bottle, Adéwalé decided to stop it before things got out of hand.

"But Ade I'm not even tipsy yet," Edward whined.

"Yeah plus we haven't hit the heavy stuff either," Zoro added.

"Edward," Adéwalé warned.

"Ughh fine, you're such a kill joy you know that," Edward said.

He turned to Zoro.

"Sorry mate I have to pull out, he never lets me drink and sail," Edward apologised.

"For good reason, last time you nearly ran the Jackdaw into a cliff," Adéwalé reminded

"But I didn't,"

"No the sharp jagged rocks that punctured the hull got in your way,"

"It was one time," Edward claimed.

"It was four times, why any of our crew still lets you at the helm is beyond me," Adéwalé corrected.

Zoro laughed at this, he really liked these two. After a few more minutes of conversation Edward pulled Adéwalé to the side away from the other pirates.

"Now which one has the gift?" Edward asked in a low unshed voice.

"The boy, I don't know how but he possesses it," Adéwalé said and gestured at Connor.

"Right, how do you think we should do this?" looking in Connors direction.

"Subtlety he may be hesitant to show it to you," Adéwalé advised.

"Got it," Edward said.

He and Adéwalé approached Connor who was listing to Usopp's retelling of saving Alabasta and even though he was there for them Usopp made it sound so exiting and different then what he remembered. Connor looked up at Edward as the older pirate looked down on him.

"So Ade tells me your eyes glow, is that true?" Edward asked.

Connors eyes went wide as he stared at Edward and Adéwalé. Luffy Usopp and Zoro stopped what they were doing and looked at the other two pirates in surprise.

"EDWARD!" Adéwalé yelled.

"What?" Edward asked.

"How do you know about the kid's sight?" Zoro asked suspiciously.

"Adéwalé just told me," Edward said.

"I…I saw it earlier," Adéwalé admitted.

Edward bent down so he was eye level with Connor, Connor moved back a bit in fear.

"So how does it work? Dose the world go dark and you can see people in different colours? Do certain places appear lighter than others?" Edward asked.

Connor stared at Edward in surprise.

"H…How do you know?" Connor asked surprised.

"Well…I have it too," Edward said and his eyes turned a familiar yellow.

The straw hats stared at Edward in shock; they were amazed that someone other than Connor had the same sight as him. Edward looked at the straw hats and noticed that there Auras were blue though Connors was a bit brighter than normal.

"So care to show me yours?" Edward asked as his eyes went back to normal.

Connor instantly activated his sight and saw Edward and Adéwalé were glowing blue. Edward looked into Connors glowing eyes and nodded in satisfaction.

"Yep that looks like mine, can you tell me what colour I am?" Edward asked.

"your blue," Connor answered and deactivated his sight.

"So you have the same power as Connor?" Luffy asked.

"Looks that way," Edward agreed.

"Can you teach me how to use it?" Connor asked.

"No, but I can teach you about it," Edward claimed.

"Why not?" Zoro asked.

Edward turned his attention to Zoro.

"Because no one can teach someone else how to use this gift, it's like breathing. If you have it you just know how to turn it on and off," Edward claimed "Figuring out what each colours mean and knowing about it…that can be taught,"

He then looked back at Connor.

"So would you like to know about your gift?" Edward asked.

"Yes," Connor answered.