"Sir, should we find the princess and-" Giovanni shouts "NO!" He stops, takes a breath, and continues. "Tell her the trip was extended. I will tell her in time... she's too young." The messenger bowed and exited, looking for Harmony. He later found her with Waxbeard as they were looking for apples in a tree since he could reach but she couldn't. "Ok, so mama will be back later~" She took a hefty cronch of an apple. "Shoooo goooooood~ Can you fill my bag?" She opened her lil backpack. It fit two apples. "ⁿᵉᵉᵈᵃ ᵇⁱᵍᵍᵉʳ ᵇᵃᵍ..." Waxbeard watched the man leave, and disappointment filled his eyes. "Kid... I don't think... your mom's coming back." She stopped chewing and looked up at him. "H... huh..?"
A week earlier, Waxbeard was on a whole vessel. The crew was all riled up. "Say... Captain? What's this job we are doing?" The captain turned to the waxy fellow. "Well, some dainty queen of some third world thinks she can best my son in combat?" Blackchain, a captain of the most infamous pirates on the seas, known as the Celestial Pirate, as he's the only Celestial Dragon at this point to be a captain of a pirate crew. Waxbeard hated this, but he had no choice. Blackchain had Waxbeard's home town under his protection, and without it, the pirate infested area would eradicate the poor town. But this was the one time he finally snapped.
"You can't just kill someone like that!" A swift strike in his gut shut him up. "Talk back like that again, I'll destroy Candela myself." His demeanor was unfazed, unchanged. He was determined to kill the queen just for winning a duel. This is the cruelty of the Celestial Dragons. But Waxbeard just couldn't do it. He faked his death with his trusty wax powers, by sinking a wax clone he spent hours painting himself in the sea. They moved on, as no one cared enough to save a sinking Devil Fruit user.
He made his way to Cleomoria to try and warn them, but once he heard about her being out at sea in some secret meeting, he believed there was no way Blackchain would find her. He stayed, ready to try and protect this place, as he found himself fond of their princess with a curious piratey heart. He got worried when the pirate never showed up, but he hoped deep down he had just given up. Now he cursed himself for not trying to protect the queen directly. Giovanni, lost in thought for his lost wife, watched as his daughter spent more and more time with this Waxbeard fellow.
One day he followed them, and saw the small ship Waxbeard called his own. He saw the flag, and was filled with rage. He banished the man from the kingdom, and began trying to steer the princess away from pirating, but all he did was push her away from him. He believed deep down she was too far gone, but couldn't explain why. But he kept trying...
Present day, the knights have informed the king. This was the last straw. "She tried to flee the kingdom, and there was definitely a ship out there!" Giovanni scoffed. "Let her go." The knights looked dumbfounded. "M-my lord?" He slammed his fist in the table. "She wants to be a pirate so damn bad let her!" The knights looked at each other, and simultaneously sighed. One spoke up, "The queen was informed..." The king sighed, smothering his face with his hands in annoyance. "And she did what..?"
"You must saaaave heeeeer!! Send your closest vessel!" The queen, a diplomatic solution to a crises that plagued Cleomoria and a trade route, cried into the transponder snail. The marines tried to calm her down. "We'll ask the closest marines! Don't worry your majesty!" Another navy-man leaned close to him. "Uh... the closest one is a training ship..." The operator shrugged. "Oh well- good training." He shot a thumbs up as he hailed the vessel.