Main pov

The morning sun beamed through the small circular window that was built onto the ship to provide the inner occupants a glimpse of the outside world. The soft mattress of the bed hugged my naked body as I was contemplating whether to get up or not. The hand over my chest was steering my decision towards not leaving the bed. Stella rested her head on my shoulders as she dreamt peacefully.

'I don't want to wake her up as she might still be a bit tired from our nightly activities', I thought as I looked over her smiling face and brushed her hair away 'but my shoulder is going numb'.

Starring at the wooden ceiling my thoughts began to run wild. 'I have all the knowledge about future events that still has yet to occur', I thought with a sigh .

'If the story didn't deviate from the original then both Stella and I would have been enslaved by that celestial dragon and Stella would have died after two years due to the abuse', just the thought made my blood boil and my previous comment about not feeling guilty for killing them were reaffirmed.

'I would have then escaped when Fisher Tiger attacked Mariejois. I would then go down a darker path and become obsessed with being the richest and try to become more influential than the celestial dragons. I would have made my own crew and even steal a devil fruit from Doflamingo. The devil fruit would then grant me the ability to control gold which seems kinda ironic. I would then proceed to open a traveling grand casino in the new world and proceed to put people in crippling debt and enslaving them to pay off the said debt. Becoming the richest person in the world second only to celestial dragons I would have lost any resemblance to my present self. I would continue to terrorize the seas until I was stopped by a monkey wearing a straw hat', I thought as I chuckled grimly 'or that would have happened if I was canon but since I'm not canon I don't know how my life could have gone this time'.

I felt some stirring besides me as Stella was starting to wake up. I left these troublesome thoughts for later and tried to nudge Stella to get up faster as my shoulder was going numb.

"Hmm? Don't you like my company?", Stella asked groggily as she rubbed her eyes.

"No it's not that but I fear that if you sleep any longer my arm would be numb for the rest of my life", I said with a chuckle.

"Eh, it's already morning?", Stella muttered as she got up and stared at the clock on the wall which showed that we had been in the bed till ten in the morning.

"Yes, now let's get up I bet Boss must have already prepared breakfast for us", I sat up started to head towards the bathroom to freshen up.

Stella followed after me with a wobbly walk. She grimaced as she muttered, "I feel sore all over because of you" she pouted.

I laughed, "Sorry, sorry I had lost myself in the heat of the moment", I made excuses while scratching my head. Stella just huffed at me before entering the bathroom, where we both freshened up.

I tried to initiate some morning play but was met with a harsh "NO" by an angered Stella who claimed that I had enough.

We were greeted at the deck by boss who seemed to have been reading the daily news.

"I have been kept out my cabin the whole night thanks to all the noises you guys were making", he declared with a frown but didn't lift his eyes from the paper.

"Eh! We are so sorry!", Stella bowed and apologized. Her face was red as a tomato as she refused to meet bosses gaze.

I just smirked at her antics as I changed the subject, "Boss, how long till we reach the Conami Islands? ", I asked.

Boss read his watch and answered, "We will reach by the time you guys are done with breakfast or lunch in this case. So just go to the kitchen and eat, I've already prepared enough to meet your appetite".

"Thanks again boss", I saluted jokingly.

"Don't mention it", he went back to reading the morning paper.

Sure enough just as boss had predicted we reached the island a moment after breakfast? Lunch? Brunch.

"Whoa the climate is a bit warm even near the end of the year", exclaimed Stella.

Ahead of us laid Conomi islands, a tropical island with plenty of tangerines. The warm air brushed my hair as I looked beside us to see the ship that harbored all the slaves. They seemed really excited to see land again and started seeing light at the end of the tunnel, some of them held each other and wept.

'I hope they can go back to their old lives', I thought with a solemn smile.

Boss started preparing to anchor the ship while the helmsman on the other boat did the same. As the distance from the island dwindled the dock could be seen more clearly, there were some fishermen who had halted their activity at the sight of the two large boats approaching the island.

General pov

The fishermen started murmuring amongst themselves as the ships neared. They had no news that any ship was suppose to dock today, they couldn't be the usual merchant ships as they would have been informed beforehand. They would have feared them to be pirates but they had no flags and a dead give away was all the rugged look some people had as they wore torn clothes of the poorest quality. It rather looked like they had been attacked by pirates and wandered here for assistance.

Some of the men were cautious and went to call Genzo the sheriff and the old mayor.

Genzo pov

I arrived at the dock as swiftly as possible while bringing along Nako the town doctor with me as the people had informed me that there could possibly be people injured from a pirate attack.

On reaching the dock I saw that the ship had already docked and people had started getting off. I went over to talk to them and offer them any assistance if needed as pirate attacks were common and we should help each other out whenever we can during this great pirate era.

Nako tried to treat them but except for some minor scratches and bruises here and there they had no fresh wounds. But to our surprise they had scars that seemed to have been accumulated throughout the years.

After asking around for longer we managed to find out that they were former slaves and had managed to escape from their captive due to two men. Although they seemed grateful they also seemed to be a bit frightened at the mention of one of their savoir, it seemed a bit strange.

I searched around for a bit trying to find the said saviors to thank them personally for their good deed. I eventually found them to be near the shore talking to the old mayor, there was a tall muscular man who was around 8 feet tall, a shorter more thinly built man who looked kind of familiar with a beautiful blond woman beside him. I was mesmerized by her beauty and was stunned for a moment before shaking my head and heading towards the group.

Main pov

"And that's why came here to ask for your aid uncle Bruno", Boss ended his explanation to his uncle who seemed to be the mayor of this part of the island.

"I see, it's a pity that these people had to suffer so much. You have my word that they would reach their homes safely and if they have no where else to go we would be happy to accept them to live in these islands.", the mayor said with an earnest smile.

"Thanks old man, it's greatly appreciated", I bowed.

"I'm only 86 hmp!", uncle Bruno exclaimed as he stomped his walking stick.

As we were laughing at his antics we heard a footstep coming towards us.

I turned around too see a man of similar stature to me wearing a brown military uniform of sort with a pinwheel stuck to his hat, he had a thick mustache that reminded me of Stalin.

'It's Genzo, Nami's future father figure', I thought as Genzo reached closer to us and bowed.

"I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for saving all those people", Genzo exclaimed before raising his back and staring at us.

His eyes flicked over boss quickly as he looked rather intimidated before he stopped at me and squinted his eyes.

"You look familiar, have I seen you somewhere before?", he asked with curiosity. I chuckled and scratched my head as both Stella and boss coughed onto their fists, 'It must have been my wanted poster. Shit!', I thought.

"I think you might be mistaking me for someone", I muttered as I used my iron manipulation to form a knife and reflect sunlight directly upon his eyes.

He blinked his eyes several times before replying, "Ah sorry, it must have been a mistake on my part".

Stella chuckled as she found out that I had used my power for deceit. Genzo's attention turned towards Stella as he blushed, "I'm sorry for not paying attention to you", he bowed his head.

"Ah what? No it's ok", Stella stammered.

I grew a bit jealous at their interaction for some unknown reason. I instinctively pulled Stella by her hip and brought her closer to me, Stella was a bit startled but settled closer to me and relaxed.

I coughed into my hand, "I think my darling has had a long and exhausting trip and would now like to rest." I said out loud emphasizing the 'darling'.

Genzo starred between us before shaking his head seemingly showing that he understood the hidden message as he said, "I'm really sorry for interrupting. Then I would be on my way. Thanks again for saving all of the people.", he said quickly before dashing off.

The mayor started, "Ah if you guys are tired I can arrange some rooms for you. Come follow me". It seemed that the mayor had believed my lie so I just played along.

"What about you Takezo?", the mayor asked boss.

"Nah I'm good, I have my own bed in the ship. Besides I need to make a phone call.", said boss before he walk towards the ship.

"Then you two newly wed love birds follow me", the old man ordered as he started walking away.

Stella and I blushed a bit because we still hadn't gotten married officially yet, we followed the mayor quietly as we whispered with each other.

The mayor was still in the process of giving us the tour when a little girl stumbled and hit my leg. Stella was being occupied by the mayor in some conversation regarding tourism and art museums.

I looked down to see a orange hair girl with cute big eyes. The ginger girl was clutching her knee as she seemed to have scratched it. She seemed to be two years old and wore a small yellow dress with tangerine designs. 'Nami!', I exclaimed in my head.

She seemed to be on the verge of tears as I bent down to console her.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there", I stammered as I tried to see her injury.

The girl sniffled and look at me before bawling her eyes out.

I was immediately worried and picked her up trying to console her. I tried lifting her up and down, even making funny faces but nothing seemed to work. Since we were in a market place right now the people all around were staring at us. I looked around for a remedy for this situation and that's when I caught sight of the thing that kid Nami loved the most. I went towards a store and bought several pinwheels, and in an instant when Nami saw the pinwheels she started to calm down and chuckled as she played with them in my arms.

Nami started laughing as she played around with the pinwheels. "Thanks uncle!", she giggled.

"Ah there you are Nami!", a voice called out from below me.

I looked down to see a blue haired tanned girl in overalls, red hair band and a red bracelet. She seemed to be around four years old but looked rather responsible and mature for her age.

"Sorry mister, my sister must have troubled you", she apologize to me and bowed.

'This must be Nojiko Nami's sister', I thought as I replied, "Ah it was nothing, she's no trouble at all. It was all my fault for not looking where I was walking anyway".

"Hey Nojiko look at all these gifts the uncle got me", Nami exclaimed in my arms as she showed off the pinwheels to her sister.

"Ugh! Nami don't you remember what mom thought us about taking things from strangers?", Nojiko asked angrily.

"That we should always take them?", Nami acted innocent and played dumb.

Nojiko sighed before relenting, "What would I ever do with you? Come now mom must be worried", she said as she motioned towards Nami.

I put down Nami so that she could walk back towards her house, she was struggling a bit as she seem to have wanted to stay in my arms and played with the pinwheels for a bit longer. But before I could do it.

"TAKE YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM MY KIDS PERVERT!!", I heard a scream as I instantly turned my powers on and scanned my surroundings.

My powers to scan my surroundings almost worked like observation haki by sensing the iron in people's body around me and I could see a fist coming towards me. I wanted to use my powers to stop it but when I looked up to see the assailant I didn't do anything and just took a punch to the face.

I flew up in the air for a solid second or two before falling with a thud. I hit the ground hard and couldn't think for a moment, I blinked rapidly and gathered my bearing to sit up and examine the person who punched me.

There before me stood a woman with a red Mohawk hair, wearing a blue checkered shirt with "MACE" written on it and long blue jeans. She seemed to be smoking a cigarette. She excluded a masculine aura and looked even frightening. 'There is no question that she's Bellemere, Nami's adopted mom.

She held Nami in her arms as she checked her all over for injuries. When she saw that she was alright except for a minor scratch on her knee she sighed in relief before she turned towards me in anger.

"Whats a stranger like you doing in these parts messing with my daughters?", she asked angrily as she cracked her knuckles.

'I swear I can see fire blazing around her', I thought as a chill ran down my spine.

"Tesoro! What happened?", Stella's voice called out from behind me. She came over to my side and put her arms around my shoulder.

"Oh so you know this pervert", Bellemere angrily accused Stella.

"Pervert?", Stella asked

"Yeah, your friend over there was getting chummy with my daughters", Bellemere said.

"No! It must have been a misunderstanding, Tesoro isn't that kind of a man", Stella defended me.

"Are you telling me my eyes deceived me!?", Bellemere got angrier.

But before the situation could escalate Nojiko and Nami clutched their mother's pants and exclaimed,

"No mother you've got it all wrong, he was not harming Nami in any way!"

"The nice uncle was just giving me pinwheels"

The daughters tried to explain to their mother as her anger subsided.

After a while Bellemere realized her mistake and apologized profusely.

"I'm so sorry for the misunderstanding! I was just worried that someone was taking advantage of my kid's innocence", Bellemere exclaimed as she bowed regretfully.

"No, no it's ok misunderstandings happen", I rubbed my hair as I tried to make her feel less guilty.

The mayor who had also been made aware of this incident came over and exclaimed, "It's ok now Bellemere, I was just finishing up showing these youngsters around the village. They must be tired so just let this matter drop I have to prepare a room for them to stay in ."

Bellemere look at me and Stella and smiled before saying, "As my apology please let me at least host you guys for today"

"Yay! Gift uncle will come for dinner", little Nami said with excitement.

Nojiko sighed at her sister's blunt greediness before telling us, "Yes, you guys should join us for dinner. That is the least we could do since our mom sent you flying".

Bellemere winced a bit at her daughter's portrayal of her violent outburst.

"Well it'll be rude to say no right now won't it Tesoro?" , asked Stella

At this I just nodded and agreed, "Ok let's go I'm hungry", I said and smiled at Bellemere as a sign of forgiveness.

She smiled back as we headed towards her house.

General pov

Few days ago.

[Marine fort]

"Yes, we'll catch him in no time!", the voice belonged to a man who seemed very tired.

"Don't worry, no no there is no need for a buster call", the man exclaimed warily.

"Yes, yes thank you.", the man finally sighed in relief.

Katcha*

The man rubbed his temples as the call he was on seemed to have given him a bad headache.

'That Damn prince just had to go without taking any of our men as security', the man sighed and thought as he took a seat at his chair behind a desk filled with paperwork.

"Bwahahaha", a voice in the room laughed out loud.

"It seems those old man are troubling you Sengoku", exclaimed the joyful and carefree voice coming from a man with a thick black beard and short black hair that seemed to be going gray on the sides.

The man seemed like he had no responsibility that he cared about as he sat on a couch and continued eating cracker chips.

"Garp! It's all your fault. You used conqueror's haki to intimidate the prince and then he refused to take any marines with him!.", Sengoku exclaimed as he hit the desk with his fists.

"Bwahahaha!"

"It's not my fault at all. He was looking for trouble when he thought he could order me around.", Garp exclaimed as he shoved more crackers into his mouth.

Sengoku rubbed his temples as he sighed, "Now I have to catch this brat who brought us all this trouble. Who knew that there would be someone in West blue capable of taking down prince's personal guards. They even had one cipher pol member with them."

Just as Sengoku was contemplating his next course of actions a man walked into the room.

The man was very tall and had slim arms but was rather muscular . He had curly black hair and a slightly tanned skin. The man had a lean and tall build but did not seem menacing at all.

The man wore a white buttoned-up vest with standing collar over a long-sleeved navy-blue shirt, with matching white trousers and black dress shoes. This was accompanied by a matching white suit jacket.He also wore a yellow tie divided geometrically by black lines and a sleep mask on his forehead.

"Ah Garp-san what are you doing here? Are you still annoying Sengoku-san", the man exclaimed in a nonchalant manner.

"Don't diss my hobby Kuzan", exclaimed Garp as he poured the whole bag of cracker into his mouth before taking out another bag from his pocket.

"Ah Kuzan, you are here at the perfect time. As you might have heard a celestial dragon has been killed in the West blue. We need you to go to the blues and capture the man for a trial.", Sengoku announced with a frown, "or the government wants to initiate a buster call on the island where the prince died".

"A buster call?, I see. I guess I can handle this problem", Kuzan answered reluctantly as he scratched his head.

"Bwahahaha"

"Since you are going to West blue I think you can give me a lift. I need to go visit my grandson.", said Garp with a grin as he expected Kuzan his former disciple to help his teacher out.

"Garp! You still have work to do. The young cadets under you still need training", shouted Sengoku.

"Tch! The young cadets have all ran away. They couldn't handle my training. I mean really why can't they just keep punching mountains", Garp muttered the final sentence to himself but Sengoku heard it nonetheless.

"GARP! GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!!"

[Outside Cocoyashi village]

General pov

Pereperepere*

The transponder snail, that was specially made to not make anyone trace the call, rang before it was picked up.

"Hello, yeah it's me. Yeah you must have seen the paper. No, I'm fine, the slaves are free yes, I'm at the Conomi islands. Yes I have warned the residents to desert incase of a buster call. I did leave an altar over there so they should be fine and I've even informed the mayor about it.", Boss answered each and every question properly.

"Yeah I need to ask for a favor. It's the kid and the girl, I think they can be trusted.", boss said with a serious expression.

After getting confirmation from the person on the otherside of the call, Boss sighed in relief.

"Thanks Dragon", Boss replied with a smile.