"Luffy won!" Usopp yelled. Oriana smiled at Luffy but noticed that he wasn't moving probably after taking so much damage from the fight. Nami told them to take the ship to him instead, but Oriana just jumped over to him without problems.
"What you did here is so amazing and I'm proud of you!" she said emotionally, "Shishi, it was nothing!" he smiled happily. There were cannons being fired everywhere. There was a sound going around while Oriana grabbed Luffy and swung him over her shoulder, "The others are worried about you. Let's go show them you alive," Luffy started blankly out, "Look down?" he said unsure.
"Jump into the sea!" Usopp yelled and the crew started jumping down by the end of the bridge. Oriana hesitated a little but followed them nonetheless and down there was a familiar ship, "Merry!" Luffy smiled brightly.
They got onboard the ship, Oriana laid Luffy down, "Hey Robin!-" but the older woman covered his mouth, "Thank you, everyone." Robin said with a smile. The young captain told her not to worry about it. Zoro said something that made Chopper and Sanji attack him. They were surrounded by warships and quickly prepared to get away when cannonballs were down raining on them.
Suddenly the warships crashed into each other because the gate of justice was closing. Sanji had sneaked away earlier to help them get away. Nami navigated the ship to make them ride the whirlpool at a high-speed easily.
Robin used her powers to spout arms on the leader of CP0 before snapping his back. That gave Franky a chance to use a familiar attack, "Coup de vent!" which made the ship fly helping them get away. Once they landed further away the pirates relaxed, "We won the fight!" they yelled happily.
Luffy couldn't walk and was carried by Chopper while searching for Usopp who had put on his Soge King mask. He told them that Usopp had left on a small ship. Oriana relaxed by the rail and looked out to the sea. Now, that her drawing was done and Robin saved, there was nothing left her here.
Oriana turned to the pirates talking, "Guys...-" her attention turned to a ship approaching. It turned out to be the mayor and his citizens when suddenly the Merry broke in half. Luffy begged Iceberg to do something to save the ship.
"It's time to let her go," Iceberg said and explained that it was a miracle that it was still standing. "I get it." Luffy took a deep breath, "Is everyone ready?" he asked, "Yeah," they responded and got onto a smaller boat except for Luffy. He had his own boat as he set Merry on fire.
They were watching the ship burning from the distance, "I'm sorry, I wanted to carry you even further. I'm sorry, I wanted to have adventures with you forever, but… I…" everyone heard, and it sounded like the Merry speaking to them.
"We are the ones who should be sorry, Merry! I'm no good at steering the ship so I ran you into an iceberg. And I ripped your sails! And Zoro and Sanji are stupid, so they broke all kinds of stuff! Usopp would fix you every time, but he stinks at it! We're the ones who are sorry!" Luffy yelled crying.
"Even so I was happy. Thank you for caring about me. I was truly happy," Merry burned and everyone except for Zoro, Robin, Sanji, and Oriana. "Merry!" their beloved ship sank into the dark deep sea.
When they got back to Water Seven the sun had already risen. Oriana had fallen asleep on the way and barely noticed someone carrying her inside and laid her on a bed. She knew she had long days ahead of her needing the extra rest.
-x-
Oriana suddenly opened her eyes and quickly sat up, "What time is it?" she asked no one in particular, "Oh, Oria-sama, it's noon- What are you doing?" he asked as she got up and walked around the room, "I'm looking for my bag. I need to pack my things and food and…" she felt stressed.
Sanji laid a plate on the table, "I can help you with the food, Oria-sama!" his eye turned into a heart. "Oh, thanks Sanji!" she took his hand and squished it gently. The cook danced around happily when the monster granny came in with Chimney, Gombe, and the giant frog who was forced to stay outside.
After eating her food, she could still eat and turned to Luffy sleep eating. Oriana snatched some of his food, while Sanji came with more. A group of men came with their stuff and Nami's orange tree which the navigator was sulking for earlier. Chopper came in with Robin proud for not letting her out of his side like last time.
Soon, Franky came in and started telling them how he used their money to buy a special wood from the jewel tree, Adam. He once swore never to build a ship again but found himself drawing the blueprints of his dream ship, "Can you please sail on the ship I made!"
It confused them that Franky would give them the ship, however, he explained that he would love for the people he liked to sail on a ship he made, and it was their money he stole anyway. The crew started thanking him happy to get a new ship.
Once Oriana had finished her food, she got up to change her clothes while making sure her things were inside along with the gold. She went over to Luffy shaking him awake, "Luffy… Luffy… wake up already!" she gently slapped his cheek, "What's wrong, Oria?" Nami asked.
"I'm going-" Oriana's face suddenly changed into horror, "No, no!" a second later the wall broke down, "So, you're the Straw Hat pirates? I have someone I want Monkey D. Luffy to meet." A familiar old man came through the hole, "Navy!" the crew got in front of their captain.
The vice-admiral went through them and directly towards the two, punching Luffy in the process, "Wake up, Luffy!" the young captain screamed out in pain giving Oriana the chance to sneak towards the window, "There's no defense against the fist of love," the man took off his dog mask.
"You've caused a lot of trouble, Luffy!" Garp grinned madly, "G-g-grandpa!" Luffy screamed shocking everyone except Oriana. When she lifted her leg to climb out a hand grabbed the back of her shirt lifting her close to his face, "Where do you think you going, brat?"
"Hi, gramps," she said sweetly without giving any signs of fear or trying to.
"I've always had high expectations of you. You could have been a great marine, Oriana!" Garp yelled. "I was a marine! Don't you remember my trip back to my crew? It was the worst! They expected me to follow their. every. single. order! Do I look like someone's bitch?" she said annoyed.
"Hahaha, you still have a big mouth. You shouldn't have given up," Garp said. Oriana rolled her eyes, "I was never meant to be a marine, but why are we talking about me? I was supposedly part of the navy for some time. Luffy and Ace refused to even try it out!" she rushed his attention to Luffy.
Garp turned to his grandson with a glare, "You're right!" he let her down and charged over to Luffy. She saw the look of betrayal on his face, and she mouthed a sorry to him before Garp had a talk with him about how Luffy owed him an apology.
Luffy wasn't the only one that was confused. Nami and Sanji asked if the navy vice-admiral really was his grandpa which he confirmed and told them not to attack him since he would kill them. He also told them how he almost was killed by Garp many times.
Garp said that he threw him into a ravine, tied him to a balloon before letting him fly up to the sky, and threw him into the jungle at night all to make him stronger. He had entrusted Luffy, Ace, and Oriana to a friend *cough mountain bandits cough* for training to be a marine.
Luffy had told him many times that he always wanted to be a pirate which wasn't a secret to Garp. The marine accused Red-haired of corrupting his grandson. Luffy defended Shanks and told his grandpa that the pirates saved his life.
The vice-admiral grabbed Luffy by the front of his shirt and scolded him for talking to his grandpa like that. He apologized and soon they both fell asleep which shocked everyone except Oriana, but Garp woke up first and gave Luffy a good beating for sleeping while getting yelled at.
The crew didn't know what to do and Oriana just told them not to do anything, "It's a family thing," she smiled at their interactions. After their small fun, Garp explained what kind of pirate Shanks was. He was one of the four emperors that rolled over the second half of the Grand Line.
The emperors along with their names, were one of the great powers and the navy allied with the warlords to go against them. Luffy didn't understand but was happy to hear that Shanks was doing great.
"You're on a yonko's crew, Oria," the small reindeer pointed out, "Is that right? I must be a big shot, then?" she chuckled at his cute innocence. Suddenly a fight emerged outside as Zoro attacked the marines.
Luffy ran out to stop him but got kicked by a marine. It angered him and was about to punch him, but he disappeared and reappeared right behind him. The pirate captain was prepared for it as he grabbed him and slammed him down to the ground ready with a punch. At the same time, Zoro had finished off his opponent.
The two introduced themselves to Luffy and Zoro who knew at least one of them. Oriana didn't have time for this and used this chance to grab her back. She opened the back to make sure everything was inside one last time.
Everyone went inside while the navy fixed the wall, "By the way Luffy, I heard you've met your old man in Lougue Town" Garp said while fixing the wall. "Dad? What do you mean dad? I have a dad?" Luffy asked while sounding very confused as Oriana slapped him over the head, "Of course, everybody has a dad!"
Garp picked his nose, "Oh, so he didn't introduce himself to you. Your father is Monkey D. Dragon, the revolutionary," he had his back to them. The people yelled out shocked except for Oriana because she learned the secret of Luffy's father years ago along with Ace.
Luffy didn't understand the people's reaction and Robin explained, "Pirates would usually not try to dispute the government or the marine by themselves, but there is currently a power trying to overthrow the government. That's the revolutionary army and Dragon is the leader of them."
"The three of us got famous fathers!" she smiled fondly. "Oh right," he said and looked at his grandpa, "Oh, I shouldn't have said that. Forget everything!" he laughed which they obviously couldn't.
Oriana just shook her head and embraced Luffy, "I'm leaving now sunshine. It's been so fun traveling with you!" she felt his arms around her. "What? Aren't you going to stay for the party?" he asked. "I would love to, but I can't. My crew is coming to get me," she smiled sadly.
"So, you're the reason Whitebeard is moving so close to the Red Line," Garp said. "Do you know if they've arrived yet?" Oriana asked avoiding answering him. "I don't know, but last I heard they were four days away," he explained to her.
"I have to hurry… Oi, gramps have you heard anything about Ace?" she didn't expect him to but was surprised when the vice-admiral said, "I heard he invaded a marine base not too long ago," Oriana raised an eyebrow and turned to Luffy, "Show me Ace's paper."
Luffy didn't resist, he just took his hat off and took the paper out. Oriana grabbed it happy it was whole, "Do you mind if I take a piece of it?" he looked at her, "No, but why?" Luffy asked, "Thanks. You know I promised Ace that I wouldn't tell you. You'll find out soon enough!" she smiled before hugging him again.
"I hope, I'll see you soon, Luffy," she turned to his crew with a hand raised, and the other one still holding on to him. "Guys, I want to thank you for welcoming me onboard. It's been great sailing with you!" she smiled gratefully.
"No, you're really leaving, Oria-sama?!" Sanji almost cried.
"Thanking me doesn't make me happy at all!" Chopper danced cutely around.
"You're always welcome again!" Nami said happily.
"Thank you for helping me," Robin smiled.
"Will meet again!" Zoro smirked.
"I'm going to miss you, Oria!" Luffy smiled brightly.
Oriana smiled at their words as she took her bag and turned to the marines, "I'm going back to Whitebeard gramps. Are you going to stop me?" she asked Garp. "No, you are family and that's the excuse I'm going to give the Navy. So, relax!"
She walked past them while waving goodbye to the pirates, "Bye everyone. Bye gramps!". Once she was outside, she turned to a certain long-nose, "Don't let it end like that" she said before continuing in the direction of the harbor without waiting for an answer. She stopped shortly to buy food.
When she arrived at the port and watched Ace's paper before saving it inside her book. "Hey, which way is the Red Line?" she asked a local stranger, "Not sure. You can buy a log pose in a small shop," Oriana opened her back found an old log pose, and got on a boat.
It pointed down-ish Oriana knew it locked on to Fishman-island which was right under the Red Line. She used her powers to steer the ship in the right direction and released a strong wind at full speed.
Oriana took breaks every now and then before arriving at the Red Line the next day at noon.
She touched the great continent with a smile, her family was on the other side of this wall somewhere. Since Oriana didn't want to go over or under the Red Line she decided to go through it. She placed both hands in front of herself to open up a hole big enough to stand.
Oriana continued expanding the space while setting her feet on fire which lit up the space with every step she took; because it quickly got dark in there. It felt like she had been going for hours. She almost went crazy in there. Oriana didn't know how much was left or if she was even going straight.
It started to stress her out. Oriana decided to calm down feeling her way to the other side. She touched the wall to find the right direction before breaking the stone to get to the other side. The fresh air felt so nice, and she sat down to enjoy it while eating.
She pulled out her den-den mushi and called her crew, "Hello?" her father answered, "Hey dad. I'm at the New World side of the Red Line, how long till you get here?" she asked. "It's hard to say treasure. The Red Line is quite long," her father teased.
"True…hmm," she tried to figure out a way for them to see her location. "How far are you from the Red Line dad?" she asked, "We aren't there yet but we can see it in the distance. We'll arrive by afternoon," Whitebeard informed.
"Oh, okay. Here I thought that I was late," Oriana chuckled, "Gurarara, it's a first," he said amused. While waiting Oriana told her father a short version of her adventures with the small pirate crew. Whitebeard noticed the fondness in her voice while telling her stories.
She started her adventures with the Whitebeard Pirates at a young age with every crewmate much older than her. Oriana joined when the crew were already at the top and it was like she missed out of being part of a up growing crew.
Oriana loved the crew, and the captain knew that, but it was like she needed another kind of adventure the smaller crew had provided her with. To see what it was like to start from the beginning as a pirate and work your own way up.
Oriana saw a ship in the distance and assumed it were them, "I think I see you, dad! I'm coming to you!" she hung up without waiting for Whitebeard to answer. She jumped to the ocean and surfed over to the ship with a big smile.
When she saw her home, she rode a wave to the ship, and climbed onto the deck surprising her crew, before jumping onto the deck. Oriana flashed through them and bowed in front of the emperor, "I've returned, captain!"
Whitebeard looked at her, "Took you long enough," he said before pulling her into a hug. "Welcome back, treasure," he said. Oriana eyes soften and embrace him back, "I've missed you so much, dad!" she felt herself getting emotional.
Their reunion ended shortly after because of, "Captain! Red-hair is now boarding!" someone announced.
Oriana looked at her father, "We'll catch up after this, dad," she said before walking over to Marco and Jozu. She half-hugged the first commander and fist bumped the third as she sat between them. "Here comes Red-hair," Jozu said.
Marco stood up, "The weak ones, stay back. You can't handle this." He pointed around, "What do you mean you can't handle this?" someone asked, and Oriana didn't recognize him, "Doesn't matter, just go inside," but as soon as he said that people started falling.
As Shanks was getting closer, more people were dominated by the conquers haki, "Calm down, they just passed out!" Marco warned because people panicked. "Those who have a weak will can't remain standing in the presence of that man. As always, his haki is overwhelming," Jozu said.
Oriana noticed that his haki even damaged their ship and smirked, hoping she inherited that from her father. "You'll have to excuse me. I have trouble staying relaxed when I stay on an enemy ship," Shanks stood in front of her captain.
"Shut up! You clearly want to show off!" Oriana yelled from the side. "Oriana, it's been so long! How've you been?" Shanks greeted her. "Can't complain," she leaned back and crossed her legs. "Weren't you with Ace?" he suddenly asked.
"I was," Oriana answered simply, "Where is he now?" Shanks continued, "I don't know," she said honestly, "Why did you separate?" he asked again, "What's with all these questions, Red-hair?" she crossed her arms too.
"I think that was a mistake," he turned to her serious, "What did you just say to me?" she asked in disbelief. "I think-" but the enemy captain didn't get a chance to repeat it, "Hey, red-hair, look what you've done!" Marco suddenly yelled.
"Oh, you're Marco of the first division. You want to join me?" Shanks changed his attention to the first commander. "Shut up, yoi!" Whitebeard dismissed them and told them to leave the two alone. Oriana hesitated a bit when the captain nodded, she walked over to the others.
"Oria-chan!" the rest of the crew greeted her. They started wondering what the two Yonkos could be talking about, "It's probably about Ace and Blackbeard," she said and looked down and slowly began to feel… regret? Shame?
"Right, he most likely have the same opinion as Pops," Jozu replied. "I made a mistake! I shouldn't have left Ace alone!" Oriana fell onto her knees. She felt a hand on her back, "Don't say that. Ace left on his own free will. You couldn't have followed him around the world," Marco comforted.
"But… but I-!" she felt tears gathering in her eyes. "No, buts. You can't continue blaming yourself. We have to trust Ace and as the second division commander we can't keep tap on him like a child," Marco argued. Oriana wanted to say something else but heard their captain laugh.
The crew stood there patiently waiting for the conversation to end. Oriana changed her ears to her elf form's and listened to the two captains talk, "You're a hundred years too early to tell me what to do!" Whitebeard said before throwing his empty 'bottle' at the red-haired man.
Shanks drank the last of it before throwing it to the side, "No one can stop this era from spiraling into chaos!" there was suddenly a hand on her shoulder, "What do you think you're doing, yoi?" Marco raised an eyebrow. Oriana smiled innocently, "Nothing…" she quickly turned her ear back without him noticing, or did he?
The first commander shook his head, but suddenly a powerful force hit them, "Red-hair that bastard, what is he doing to pops!" someone started, "Wait, wait, he's not the type of man to do something stupid, yoi!" Marco said, "It seems the talking is over. Look at the sky. They spit the clouds, no, they spit the heavens!" Jozu informed.
Oriana looked up in amazement, it wasn't even close to what her captain and Roger did all those years ago, but it still interesting to see Shanks getting up to that level. In order to calm herself down she opened her book to see Ace's vivre card still intact, "Is that Ace's card?" Marco asked.
"Yeah, still good!" she smiled and put it back in her book. While the crew were waiting for the enemy captain to leave Oriana went over to the infirmary to see a certain someone, "Hi, Thatchie," she sat on the chair next to the bed and held his hand.
"I'm sorry for being gone for so long. It's been crazy months," she had a sad smile on her face. Oriana laid her head on the bed trying not to cry, "I'm sorry for not avenging you, but hopefully Ace would be able to."
After a while Oriana heard the door opening and felt a hand on her shoulder and judging by the size, she knew exactly who it was, "What if he never wakes up, dad?" her eyes met his, "Treasure, we've been talking about turning off the machine that helps Thatch breath," the captain said.
"What! You're letting Thatch die?!" Oriana couldn't believe her father suggested that "Don't you think Thatch would want to be trapped like that? confined to a bed without knowing when he'll wake up?" Whitebeard replied.
"Why do you always have to be the voice of reasoning, dad?" she pouted, "It comes with age, Oriana!" he laughed, "When will it happen?" Oriana said more seriously. "Everybody have already said their farewell, we were waiting for you and Ace to return," the captain informed.
"I don't know if I'll ever be ready for that," Oriana said as a tear went down her cheek. "I know, no one will ever be when it comes to family," Whitebeard rubbed her back. "How long will we have to wait for Ace?" she asked.
"Will wait a little for news about him," Whitebeard said, and Oriana just nodded looking at the fourth commander. She stayed there until she eventually had to go to bed. She looked through her drawings to remember a time Thatch was alive enough to be one of her closest friends.
Two days later Haruta approached her at breakfast with a huge smile on his face, "What's wrong?" she asked him before he put down a piece of paper in front of her with her face, "Let me present you with your new bounty of nine hundred and eleven million berries!"
Oriana picked up the paper with a smile on her face, "So, Oria-chan tell us about how you invaded the judicial island with another pirate crew!" she wasn't sure if they were offended or just playing but she didn't see the big deal, "It all started the day we arrived at Water Seven…"