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Chapter 10

A Chosen Captain?

Luffy had decided to stay with Naguri while he did his training. The others were okay with it. Though Harry admits that it was weird not having Luffy close by after years of being right next to him. Even though Luffy had left the brothers still challenged the Tiger Lord whenever they could. They were doing exactly that one afternoon, about a week after Luffy left with Naguri.

Ace led off, striking the tiger on the head with the pipe. That did nothing except agitate the animal. Sabo tried his pipe against the tiger's legs with equal results. Harry learned a new stunning ability with his magic and tried to use it on the tiger, but possible because of it's size the stun spell had no effect either. Leading to all three boys running away from the tiger as it chased after them.

Eventually, they got away from it and started walking back to the treehouse as they stewed in yet another failure. Sabo broke the silence after a while by saying "It's been some time since Luffy started his training." Harry slumped his shoulders in agreement. "I know, I wonder if he's doing alright." The two then looked towards Ace who hasn't seemed to acknowledge their conversation. Much to Sabo's annoyance. "Hey come on Luffy's your bother to. At least admit that you miss him!" he shouted at Ace.

Harry snorted. "Since when has Ace ever showed any open emotion other than mad?" he asked Sabo in a teasing voice. At that Ace turned around. "And what's that suppose to mean?" he questioned Harry. Harry was saved from answering when all three of them heard a creaking noise. They looked to see a nearby tree about to fall onto them. All three quickly scrambled out of the way as the tree fell to the ground. Right then a familiar voice called out "Sorry my bad."

Whatever anger Harry had at almost getting killed by a tree was quickly evaporated when he saw Luffy standing there with an ax in his hand. Naguri was with him as well. Luffy also got excited when he saw the other three. "Hey what's up guys?" Luffy asked as he approached them. Harry didn't answer as he simply wrapped Luffy in a big hug. After Harry let go, Ace smacked Luffy upside the head with his pipe. "Are you trying to kill us stupid!?" he asked angrily.

Luffy glared at Ace as he rubbed the spot where Ace hit him. "Hey I said I was sorry didn't I?" he asked annoyed. Sabo went and pacified the two as Naguri stepped up to them. "Well, now what a surprise to see you three here. How have you been?" he asked them. Sabo nervously laughed, still shaken up from the incident. "We've been doing alright," he said.

Naguri then took the others back to where he lives. It was modest enough. A simple tent on the outskirts of Grey Terminal, a campfire not too far from the tent, and what looked like some kind of sign. But when Harry and Sabo got a closer look they saw that it had a picture of a tiger on it. "What's this suppose to be?" Sabo asked. "I don't know," Harry replied. "Some kind of target maybe."

"Harry, Sabo!" The two turned to see Luffy standing a few feet away from them. "Now watch. You guys are going to see the result of my training," he told them and geared up his Gum Gum Pistol. To everyone's surprise, his punch went right past his two brothers...and hit Naguri square in the jaw. Much to Sabo's and Harry's amusement. "That's great Luffy. You weren't able to stretch that far a week ago," Sabo complimented. Harry nodded and added, "All you need to work on now is your aim and you'll be set."

As Naguri recovered from the punch Ace turned to him and asked. "Hey, so what kind of training are you giving him anyway?" Naguri straightens himself up and replied "Not much. To tell the truth, I've mostly been having him chop down trees." Ace raised an eyebrow. "How is that training?" he asked. At that Luffy turned to Naguri and asked: "Hey can we show them?" Naguri nodded and the two led the other three boys to a small cave.

"So where exactly are you taking us?" Harry asked. Luffy started to giggle excitedly. "Just you wait Harry. This is going to be awesome." They all came out of the cave to discover what appeared to be a ship near the shores of the ocean. It looked as though it was made out of dozens of logs and other junk. Ace walked over to get a closer look. "Is this what you two have been working on?" he asked.

Naguri nodded. "You see I'm hoping to set sail once again and regain my old crew," he explained. "So what do you say. You three want to help me out?" Sabo and Harry looked unsure. Ace just looked annoyed. "We don't have time. We're training to defeat the Tiger Lord," he said. "I can help you defeat him," Naguri insisted. That got Ace's attention and so he and the others agreed.

Time marched on and the brothers spent their days' training and helping with the ship. Finally, around spring time it was finally finished. But before Naguri sailed off he watches the boys go up against the Tiger Lord. He stood atop a cliff while the others waited out in a plain.

The four waited by the treeline when the giant tiger finally approached them. Ace went first, charging at the beast. The tiger made a swipe for him but Ace anticipated this and jumped on his paw. Running up its arm so he could deliver a powerful smack with his pipe. What Ace didn't count on though was the tiger's tail coming out and knocking him out.

Harry went next. Casting the stun spell on his limbs and his tail, trying to weaken him before charging upfront with his own pipe. Sadly the spell was still weak and, while numbed, the tiger was still able to knock Harry aside.

Sabo took advantage of the opportunity and used his fishing rod to wrap a line around the tiger's neck. After a brief tug-of-war, the tiger pulled Sabo towards him and knocked him down as well. "Harry, Ace, Sabo!" Luffy cried out before noticing the Tiger Lord advancing on him.

Luffy tried his Gum-Gum Pistol but it bounced off the Tiger Lord and struck Luffy instead. He quickly backs off as the tiger made to pounce on him. Seeing their brother in trouble, the other boys rushed towards Luffy. Harry was the fastest and managed to cast a shield spell over him and his twin. Blocking the tiger's paw. Harry struggled to keep the shield up.

"Are you two alright?" Sabo called. "Yea, but I can't keep this up for long," Harry replied. Ace griped his pipe as he tried to come up with a plan. "Sabo go for the paw," he instructed as he readied his pipe. Sabo followed and the two knocked his paw away so the twins could escape. The four quickly started to run. "Look there's no way we'll be able to outrun this thing. But we can use Luffy's power to our advantage," Ace figured.

He had Sabo and Harry keep the Tiger Lord busy while he and Luffy went to the treeline. Luffy grabbed two trees and pulled himself back a few feet away. His arms stretching as he did so. Ace got in front of Luffy and asked "Ready?" Harry and Sabo started running towards where the other two were with the tiger right behind them. Once they got close enough, Luffy launched himself and Ace at the tiger.

With Ace's pipe at the ready, he managed to knock the tiger out cold. All four brother cheered at their victory but Sabo and Luffy quickly realized something. Ace was now the captain. Luffy slumped down dejected. "Aww man I trained so hard," he said. Ace then laughed and said, "Don't worry I'm not going to be the captain."

That surprised the other three and they asked him "Why not?" Ace turned away looking uncomfortable and replied: "Because I didn't defeat him on my own." The twins blushed a little at the somewhat praise and Sabo simply said "Ace."

Ace then regained his cool composure and said "Well, whatever. When we get old enough you guys are going to be begging me to be your captain." That got the others to laugh. "Are you two going to beg," Sabo asked the twins. "Nope," Luffy replied. "As if," Harry added. That pissed Ace off and the four got into a small fight.

Naguri then turned to walk away before Ace called out to him. "Next time we meet, I'll beat you. Don't lose to anyone else until then." The others said goodbye to the old pirate who nodded in return. "I'll be waiting for you at sea," he told them. He then took off his cloak which turned out to be a pirate flag. It had a fist in place of the standard skull and two hammers for the crossbones.

Naguri made his way back to the ship where it was already floating in the sea and sailed off. The brothers watched him until his ship was but a tiny dot in the distance before heading back to the tree house.

Man, I really dragged my feet with this one. I'm honestly sorry it took so long. Again didn't divert much from canon on this one because I didn't really know what to do with Naguri's arc since his stuff with Ace was replaced with Harry doing the talking. Same is most likely going to happen with what's coming next but I'm going to do what I can to spice things up a little.

Matt: It's not really possible for me to have Ussop and Neville be brothers. Harry and Luffy look similar enough to pull off the twin thing but Neville and Ussop look nothing alike. Also, I already established that Neville's family has already been reincarnated into this world so he's going to have his parent's back. That being said (SPOILER CENSOR). Wait what just happened? I can't talk about that yet? Fine!

See you all in the next chapter.