115Luffy and Robin made their way to the capital with Crocodile slung over Luffy's shoulder to provide proof of his victory. As they walked Luffy was testing out his new fruits abilities getting the hand of bring out and manipulating the Chilly Chilly power.
Extending his right arm, Luffy activated his power and his arm instantly froze over. Luffy slammed his arm onto the ground causing it to shatter but after a couple seconds his arm stump, still frozen, grew and ice arm that then reformed into his right arm not looking any different than before. It was a strange sensation thought Luffy, not having an arm but still feeling it and knowing it was there.
But one thing was for sure.
This logia was awesome! He can see why people with these fruits thought themselves invincible. It was hard for him not to think that! But he just proved that logia's weren't invincible considering he just beat a logia without a fruit. Luckily his fruits opposite was fire or heat and he knew that he wouldn't be fighting Ace in any life or death battles so he was thankful that his largest weakness would be that Haki stuff.
Robin watched as the young Captain tested his abilities with an amused expression. She did the same thing years ago when she got her Flower Flower fruit. She knew that Luffy was instinctively learning to use his fruit, much the same with all fruit users. It was an interesting phenomenon that devil fruit users all had, after all it would be impossible for some people to know what their fruit was if they didn't instinctively learn what it was and the name of it. People ate them by accident most of the time after all.
"Hey," Said Luffy getting her attention. "What's your name?"
Robin looked at him surprised but then realized she never actually gave her name to him. "Nico Robin, nice to meet you Monkey D. Luffy."
Luffy looked at Robin for a moment then grinned in realization. "Wait a second, you were on our ship on the way here! Oh yeah! You had that cowboy hat on and everything. You're pretty awesome! Why don't you join my crew? We'd love a new friend!" Offered Luffy with a smile on his face already liking this women. She didn't fight him despite working for Crocodile and gave him an incredibly powerful devil fruit that she could have sold for a fortune. In Luffy's mind, she was already a member of his crew just unofficially.
Shocked by his words but managing to hide it from showing Robin replied. " I...that certainly sounds interesting."
"Great! You're gonna love everyone, we got an awesome swordsman, a kick ass cook, a reindeer for a doctor, a navigator with sticky fingers and the worlds biggest liar as a sharpshooter!" Boasted Luffy always happy to brag about his crew.
Robin smiled at the way he spoke about his crew and friends. It was different than any other pirate crew she's ever met. While she knew there were many pirates that cared deeply for each other such as the infamous Whitebeard who would go to war for his sons. She had never been lucky enough to meet and join one herself. She was once again reminded of Saul and his words, and for a brief instant hope filled her body at the possibility of finding people who would care about her.
"Sounds interesting," She said about the crew. "I wouldn't mind tagging along, at least for a little while. There is something I want to find in the capital."
"What is it?" Asked Luffy ceasing his devil fruit practice to look at her.
Robin smiled at his curiosity and gave him an honest answer, "There is a large stone tablet in the ruins under the capital I want to read."
Luffy tilted his head with a confused expression, "Read a stone?"
"There are carvings on the rock of an ancient language." Laughed Robin, "I want to learn the true history of the world and there are stone tablets all over the world called Poneglyphs that tell the history of the world. My dream is to learn the true history." She said with passion not usually heard in her normally more monotone like voice.
Luffy nodded at her dream, finding it to be a worthy dream to have. "Then all the more reason to join my crew! You can sail with us to find these stones and go on adventures with us through the Grand Line!" Cried Luffy with a fist pumped into the air.
Robin couldn't hold back the smile on her face or the warm feeling in her chest at the thought of having a genuine group of people that would help her accomplish her dream. "That is a very tempting offer, Monkey D. Luffy. But first we should stop this war."
At the word war, Luffy remembered his mission. He'd taken down Crocodile and needed to get to Alubarna to stop all the soldiers and rebels from killing each other. Filled with determination and getting a second wind he threw off his bloody and tattered robe leaving him shirtless.
"Let's go Robin!" He said before running off with Robin following not far behind.
It didn't matter. No matter how loud she yelled, no matter how much she begged, Vivi couldn't get people to hear her.
Her father was next to her, he was injured but would pull through, thankfully. She had to watch Pell fly off with the bomb which nearly killed her inside. Her Straw-Hat friends were finished with their battles with the various Baroque Works officers and were all making their way to her, hopefully they could help. She hasn't heard anything from Luffy or Crocodile despite it being nearly twenty hours since he jumped off the Moving crab to confront the warlord.
"Vivi!" A voice shouted from below that had her widen her eyes in shock before a huge smile broke out on her face. Luffy was standing, battered and bloody but victorious with a defeated Crocodile slung over his shoulder. "I'm going to get them to listen to you! Get ready!"
Robin took Crocodile from Luffy's shoulder before he jumped into the middle of the conflict and put both hands on the ground. Luffy had been around Ace while he was learning to use his Flame Flame fruit for seven years. If there was one thing that he learned from his brother about logia's was that there wasn't a limit to the amount of power you could bring out. It was all about how much you could control and the speed in which you could bring it out.
Luffy knew that he could summon more power from his fruit with more control than Ace could at this level. Fire was harder to control than ice, so Luffy- both hands touching the ground, summoned his power causing his arms to freeze over and the cold to spread towards the ground.
People close to Luffy looked around curiously as they felt the environment drastically drop in temperature, for a summer island cold was only common at night in the desert not in the middle of the afternoon. From the spot on the ground that Luffy's hands were touching ice spread out in all directions far faster than anyone would expect ice to move. The hundreds of people fighting in the capital all stopped when they felt their legs freeze, immobilizing them and causing some to cry out in shock and pain.
Luffy, with frost rolling off of him and several parts of him frozen over, jumped high into the air and landed on the rooftop next to Vivi and Robin.
Vivi saw her chance and took a deep breath. "Everyone! Please Listen to me!" She screamed at the top of her lugs.
Everyone in the square recognized their kingdom's princess atop a roof trying with all her might to get their attention and turned to listen to what she was trying to say.
"You've been deceived! The royal family didn't take your water! We didn't kill those citizens! It was Crocodile! He had his followers frame both sides of the war stirring up an unnecessary conflict! So Please! Please! Stop all of this bloodshed!" She screamed with tears flowing out of her eyes.
Luffy watched as people started to drop their weapons and begin talking to one another. Luffy stumbled slightly and his vision started to darken, knowing that he was about to pass out he made his way over to Robin who was still carrying Crocodile.
"Robin as a new crew member make sure that everyone knows I'm okay. They might not trust you so wear my hat, Zoro and Nami will know to trust you." Luffy said before falling face first onto the ground, unconscious from the massive amount of blood-loss and exhaustion.
Robin smiled down at her new Captain, she never gave him an official answer if she was going to actually join his crew. She supposed that to Luffy, she was already a full member of his crew. That alone gave her a feeling of warmth that spread through her chest. The thought of join his crew, who seemed to be good people made an old memory fill her mind.
Luffy groaned when his eyes were hit by the brightness of the room after waking up. He rubbed the crust out of his eyes and took a deep breath, feeling his chest he noticed that he was still bandaged but there wasn't much pain. Luffy knew that he could recover from injuries quickly but he didn't think his broken bones would mend that fast. Maybe having a devil fruit made it so he could recover even faster than before?
"Welcome back," Luffy turned to see that Sanji sitting next to his bed smoking a cigarette. "You've been out for a while."
Luffy smiled seeing that his cook was alright. "Sanji! Is everyone okay? What happened after we separated?"
Sanji exhaled a small plume of smoke before he spoke. "You were the worst of us with Moss-head right behind you in terms of injuries. Other than that nobody was really injured too bad. The fighting stopped when Vivi and Robin displayed the unconscious body of Crocodile for the people and Vivi was able to explain everything. Baroque Works was disbanded with several officers being taken into custody by the royal guards."
Sanji nodded at his explanation before he fell to his knees with tears streaming out of his heart shaped eyes. "Captain! Thank you for bringing in such a beautiful angel into the crew! Robin will be a welcome member of the crew and I will forever be grateful!"
Luffy snickered at his pervy cook's words as he stood up. He noticed that he had some black shorts on with the bandages wrapped around his chest. Luffy did notice that his trademark hat was missing, he turned to Sanji with wide eyes.
"Sanji! Where's my hat?!" Yelled Luffy having a small breakdown at the thought of loosing his treasure.
"Robin has it." Sanji replied while getting up to lead Luffy to where the rest of the crew was.
Luffy looked around the palace as he followed his cook. He could tell that everything in the palace was incredibly expensive. If Vivi wasn't his friend he would probably steal most of this stuff, he was sure that Nami would help if she hadn't already taken a few things.
Entering a lounge like room Luffy saw his crew sitting around and relaxing. Zoro was napping in the corner, Chopper and Usopp were laughing and joking around while Nami and Vivi were talking to each other on a couch. In the corner, not far from Zoro, was their newest crew member: Robin, who was quietly reading a book. The part that stood out was the straw hat that was on her head.
Luffy didn't waste another second and started to close the distance between himself and Robin to retrieve his most prized possession.
"Luffy!" Shouted Chopper and Usopp breaking everyone out of what they were doing to see the now walking around Captain.
Luffy grinned at his crew. "Hey guys! I'm glad you're all alright." He greeted while walking over to Robin.
Robin looked up from her book and smiled slightly as she reached up for the straw hat. "I kept it safe for you, Captain."
He nodded gratefully and put it back on his head. As he went to sit down he was cornered by Nami. "Why did you invite the second in command of the Baroque Works into the crew?! Crocodile's partner in all this!?" She asked, loudly and angrily.
Scratching his head, Luffy smiled at his navigator. "She's awesome, she helped me out after I kicked Crocodile's ass and gave me an awesome devil fruit."
That got everyone's attention, Zoro walked over to his Captain and peered down at him. "What kind is it?" The swordsman asked trying to see any change in Luffy.
Smirking, Luffy lifted his fist as his hand and arm froze over and the rest of his body followed suit. Frost rolled off of Luffy's body while the floor underneath Luffy froze over, everyone in the room started to feel cold while everyone except Zoro and Robin started shivering in the freezing atmosphere. Zoro nodded in approval at the fruits power before going back to his spot in the corner.
"Its called the Chilly Chilly fruit making me a freezing human. It's like Ace and Smokey's fruit, a logia. Robin said that the Marines were going to buy it off of Crocodile for ninety million berry, it's a super cool fruit!" He bragged with a wide grin on his face.
Robin laughed and stood up getting everyones attention. "Actually it was nine hundred million beli." She said getting shocked looks from everyone.
"The Chilly Chilly fruit is a logia that can drastically lower temperatures and control ice. Like all Logia's, low in number and are also referred to as invincible powers are highly coveted and users heavily watched by the Marines. Two of the current Admirals have similar fruits."
Most of the crew had shock faces as those words sunk in, their Captain was now one of those crazy strong devil fruit users. Which was good considering they were only a few weeks into the Grand Line and they had already confronted a Warlord.
Nami was the first one to regain her focus and nearly tackled Luffy. "Can we take the devil fruit out?! I think the money is worth more than the power! Come on Luffy you're already crazy strong give me the fruit!" She begged, her eyes no longer normal but in the shape of beli.
It was Chopper that spoke up next as the resident doctor and long time devil fruit user. "Nami, you can't remove a devil fruit from a person. The only way for a person to lose their fruit is death."
Nami sat on the floor, depressed that her riches were taken from her with the ever loyal Sanji trying to comfort his love. The rest of the crew just either laughed at the two or rolled their eyes in the case of Zoro.
Luffy plopped down next Zoro. "So who did you end up fighting? Sanji said you were pretty injured."
The crew's swordsman grunted slightly, "It was Mr. One or Bones or something, apparently he was the second strongest guy. Strong but it was his devil fruit that made it troublesome, he could turn his body into blades so cutting him was a pain."
Luffy hummed and leaned back to relax. His time in Alabasta turned out pretty great- he met up with his brother, fought and beat a Warlord and got a devil fruit. If every island turned out this helpful then he was going to be the Pirate King much sooner than he thought. Then Luffy thought more about his battle with Crocodile, the fight was the hardest fight of his life so far and he was nearly killed several times by the Warlord's sand powers.
Luffy sat up in surprise. "Wait! How did I hit Crocodile that first time?" He asked out loud rubbing his chin in thought.
"I was meaning to ask how you beat a logia without a devil fruit or that Haki stuff." Said Zoro, curious himself at how his Captain came out on top in the battle.
It was Robin answered. "He actually awakened his Armament Haki in his desperation to live. I saw it with my own eyes."
Luffy jumped up with the biggest grin he could muster before wincing at his injuries. "Awesome! I got that Haki stuff. Wait, how does it work?" He said as he sat back down to try and bring out his Haki.
None of the others knew how it worked and only shrugged. "Maybe you have to think about it really hard." Suggested Ussop.
Luffy thought about it and held out his fist. The only thing that happened was it froze over getting a sigh out of the Freezing human. "Nope, I can only feel my devil fruit powers."
"We'll look into it, I want to learn it myself." Said Sanji, he knew the basics about the three types of Haki but didn't know how they worked. All he knew was that if they wanted to survive in the big leagues, they would all need it.
"Yeah, I'm sure Mihawk has it meaning I need it." Nodded Zoro. Being able to cut steel was a nice milestone but he knew he was still a long way off from where he needed to be. "I'm going to go train." He said while walking out of the room.
Everyone just watched him walk off then continued doing what they were doing. Chopper started grilling Luffy on his injuries and how dangerous it was to lose nearly a third of his blood. Luffy explained that only a liquid could make it so he could hit Crocodile so he used his own blood since he was already bleeding.
Ussop, Nami, Vivi and Chopper were shocked that Luffy went so far to beat the Warlord. Sanji took another drag of his cigarette with a slight smirk on his face. The former Baratie cook felt proud of his Captain's determination, he was glad that he wasn't following a weakling.
"Don't worry about it guys," Calmed Luffy with a grin still on his face. "I beat him, I'm all good thanks to Chopper and now I'm way stronger thanks to the devil fruit I got from Robin. I think our time here turned out for the better."
Luffy was about to ask Sanji about some food when another thought popped up in his mind.
"Robin, did you get to see the Poneglyph?"
Robin and Vivi looked at him with surprise on their faces. Robin managed to answer first.
"I didn't have a chance to go look yet." She said with a shake of her head.
Vivi was less calm about it, "What do you mean you want to read our Poneglyph? How could you understand it?" She was both shocked that someone knew about her families Poneglyph and the fact that Robin wanted to read it.
"I'm an archeologist and scholar, I'm able to read the ancient language." Answered Robin.
Luffy jumped back into the conversation, "Then we'll go after we eat some food! I want to see this Poneglyph."
"Hold on Luffy! We can't go down there without my fathers permission!" Said Vivi trying to stop them from entering her families sacred ground, who knew what else was down there.
"Then we'll go ask him." Shrugged Luffy, "We have a crew member who's dream depends on it! So we have to help her!"
Nami and Vivi shook their heads with the former having a smile on her face, knowing that when Luffy decides something it's next to impossible to get him to change his mind. Robin however couldn't keep the look of shock off of her face, it had been twenty years since someone cared about helping her. Much less help her learn about the true history.
"WHAT!" Screamed a voice through a snail phone.
Smoker grimaced at the sound of his highest superiors voice. Ever since the war stopped he was stuck in a dilemma, Straw Hat saved the country from a Warlord, someone who was supposed to be on the World Government's side, and managed to end a revolution and stop a subsequent hostile take over. In other words, a pirate did the job of the Marine's and he was having trouble finding a way to move forward.
With that in mind Smoker called Headquarters and was quickly sent up the chain, where he found himself speaking directly to Fleet Admiral Sengoku.
"Captain Smoker! I sent Vice-Admiral Garp to buy the fruit from Crocodile so he should be there soon if he hasn't made it to Alabasta already. I want you and Garp to take out Straw Hat Luffy and make sure you retrieve the Chilly Chilly fruit. I won't let a Logia slip through our fingers, especially into the hands of a rookie pirate who was already making waves. I also may have already promised it to someone at headquarters." Sengoku muttered at the end.
"Yes, Sengoku sir." Smoker replied with an eye roll.
It did make him feel better that a beast like Vice-Admiral Garp was coming to help deal with Straw Hat. Not that he couldn't take out a brat like that himself, but he knew that the kid didn't eat a devil fruit prior to fighting Crocodile. Which could only mean that he had a means of fighting a logia on his own without a devil fruit. That and Smoker wasn't sure just how his smoke would do against ice.
"One more thing, we're updating his bounty along with his crew just incase we're too late to get him today. Thanks to your info we could raise them accordingly. Have Garp call me when he gets there." The call ended and Smoker let out a plume of smoke as he set the snail down.
"He seemed pretty stressed, I like to eat cookies when I'm stressed." A cookie came into Smoker's peripheral. "Want one, rookie?" The elderly voice asked getting an angry growl out of Smoker as he spun to yell at the person who was talking down to him. Only to freeze when he saw who it was.
Vice-Admiral Garp was here already.
"Sir!" The Captain exclaimed trying to seem professional in front of one of the people he looked up to. Vice-Admiral Garp the Fist was a legend.
The Hero picked his nose as he crunched on a cookie. "Why are you yelling I'm right here? Anyway, pass me the new bounties for that moron and his crew."
Smoker was momentarily confused at Garp's words regarding Straw Hat but passed it off as someone not thinking this assignment was worthy of their time. And for how strong Vice-Admiral Garp was, it was likely true.
Garp hummed as he read through the new bounty posters. "Lets go find them."
Smoker didn't have time to respond as Garp blasted a hole in the wall and walked through it to find Straw Hat Luffy.
The Straw-Hat Pirates had finally decided to leave the Alabasta Kingdom to continue on their journey. Most of the crew were all putting supplies onto the Going Merry while Nami was in their treasury, King Cobra was so grateful to their help in ending the civil war he gave them a couple chests of gold. Luffy and the others had expected Nami to kiss the old man by the look on her face when he gave them the gold.
Along with the gold, King Cobra had taken them down to the Grave of Kings to see the Poneglyph. Robin had been noticeably excited the whole way down. Until she actually read the Poneglyph. It wasn't about the history of Alabasta or the world, it was about a weapon, of which she had no interest in and she decided to keep it to herself. She was already hunted for what she knew, she didn't want her new friends to suffer for knowing something like that.
She told them that there wasn't that much information and nothing regarding treasure or adventure, no one asked about it anymore. Now she was standing by her new crew as they were preparing to set off.
"Let's go guys! I want to get to the next island!" Exclaimed Luffy with an impatient whine. They had waited around Alabasta too long, he was recovered after a day but Chopper wanted to wait two more to make sure. He was the Captain, he should decide when they stay or leave. But he was out voted so there wasn't anything he could do.
Yes there was! He was the Captain dammit! He —
"Brat!" A loud voice called from the distance as a cannonball flew through the air at impossible speeds.
Before anyone else could recognize the threat- Zoro jumped up and sliced the ball in half with Wado-Ichimonji. Zoro took out the rest of his swords and readied himself for whoever was coming. Whoever they were was strong, he clenched his teeth around Wado tighter in excitement.
Luffy on the other hand was far from excited, frost rolled off of his body drastically dropping the temperature of the surroundings as ice formed around his body. However it wasn't out of a lust for battle like Zoro but fear of what he knew was coming. Faster than any of the Straw-Hats could react to a large person blitzed passed them and punched Luffy in the back of the head bypassing his Logia abilities and slamming him into the ground.
"Ah!" Luffy screamed out in pain. "Grandpa's punches hurt the worst!"
Garp didn't let up and planted another punch on his foolish grandson's skull. "You idiot! Why did you have to eat that devil fruit, swimming is much more important than some power!"
Luffy cried out in pain at his grandfather's fist's of love and encouragement while the surrounding Straw-Hats and Marine's just watched in bewilderment. Zoro sheathed his swords when he realized that the large Marine wouldn't kill Luffy when he was clearly able to.
"You know eating that devil fruit made your bounty go up." Said Garp after he finished disciplining his grandson. The old Vice-Admiral took off his dog hood getting shocked looks from all the pirates watching.
Instead of the expected reaction of fear, Luffy perked up happily. "My bounty went up? Awesome! What's it at now?"
Nami was the only Straw-Hat to react poorly to the fact that their Captain had a higher bounty. Not to mention everyone's reaction after realizing that their Captain was related to the famous Hero Garp the Fist. It did explain Luffy's abnormal strength despite not having a devil fruit he was far stronger than normal humans, being related to a monster like Garp would surely explain it.
It was a man in a suit that spoke up next, " Monkey D. 'Straw-Hat' Luffy, Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, bounty: 250 million beli." He paused as Luffy cheered along with his crew. Vice-Admiral Garp was furiously picking his ear over in the corner.
The Marine flipped through his stack of papers. "Then there's 'Pirate Hunter' Roronoa Zoro with a bounty of 70 million Beli. Black-Leg Sanji: 45 million beli. 'Cat Burglar' Nami: 8 million beli. 'Long Nose' Ussop: 12 million beli. Then finally Chopper (the pet): 25 beli."
Luffy cheered alongside his crew at their new bounties. Zoro and Ussop were grinning right with their Captain while Sanji was consoling Nami about being a wanted woman. Chopper was yelling at the Marine with the bounty posters, telling him that he fought like a man and that he wasn't a pet. None of the Marines could believe that the small little reindeer was a fighter so they just ignored him.
"I hope you guys will be okay with those bounties. It will certainly attract more attention now that all of you have bounties." Worried Vivi, she along with her father came to see the Straw Hats off.
"Ah don't worry Vivi!" Swooned Sanji towards his princess. "If anyone dares try anything against my beautiful Nami and Robin I'll annihilate them!" He roared while channeling the power of lust to create flames of love to surround his body.
"70 million's pretty good but I'm disappointed it's not higher." Said a smirking Zoro to Luffy who laughed still happy at his bounties incredible increase.
"Luffy," Spoke up Garp having finished digging into his ear. "Defeating Crocodile and having a logia is what shot you and your crew's bounties so high. Sengoku keeps a close eye on all logia users. Ace was the same, he only had one bounty below 100 million thanks to his Flame Flame Fruit."
"What's Ace's bounty?" Asked Ussop, they all liked their Captain's older brother and were interested what a powerful pirate like him was worth. Especially being a commander in the Whitebeard Pirates.
"Who knows." Shrugged Garp without care.
Again the Marine with the suit on spoke up. "'Fire Fist' Portgas D. Ace, Second Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, Bounty: 750 million berry."
"Ah! Three times higher!" Shouted Luffy in shock.
"I thought it'd be higher." Mused Zoro with a smirk, now he wanted to try and fight Ace next time they saw him.
The rest of the crew were shaking their heads at the two's reactions while having varied ones of their own. Nami and Robin were mildly impressed the former believing that her Captain would pass it and the latter already knowing. Chopper was still yelling at the Marines and Ussop was trying to stop him.
Garp thumped Luffy on his head to snap him out of his shock. "How'd you manage to beat Crocodile anyway? Smoker said you didn't have the fruit until after the fight."
"Oh I used Haki." Said Luffy while raising his right fist. "I got pretty lucky since I didn't know how I actually managed to use it but whatever works right grandpa!" He laughed.
"Bwahahaha! Of course you did! Leave it to my grandson to awaken his Haki in a fight with a logia!" Garp's laughing hid the shocked cries of his crew mates, most of the Marines couldn't believe that someone was lucky enough to awaken his Haki in the perfect moment that likely saved his life.
After getting over his amusement about Luffy's fight he started walking away. "Stay safe out there Luffy. Don't fall in the water now that you can't swim."
"But sir we were order to take out Straw Hat Luffy and harvest the Chilly Chilly fruit! Sengoku'll kill us if we abandon a direct order." Yelled a Marine Captain.
The Captain was punched through a nearby building by the irritated Vice-Admiral. "Please, you amateurs need to calm down. That Sengoku knows the second he sent me after Luffy that the mission wasn't going to happen."
Garp's right hand man shook his head and addressed the lower level Marine's. "Garp goes to the beat of his own drum. It's best if we just say we tried to get him to listen and leave it at that." He knew how Garp acted and also knew that Sengoku was aware that Garp didn't listen to orders when he didn't want to. Garp's close friendship with the Fleet Admiral and above reproach record made him untouchable, not as if Sengoku would really care in the end.
The surrounding Marine's, seeing what happened when one of them spoke up, decided to shut up and follow their superior.
The Straw Hat's watched the Marines leave as randomly as they arrived with bewildered expressions on their faces.
Nami turned to her Captain, "I see where you get your personality Luffy." She said while thinking that this was more evidence that Ace couldn't be his older brother with his normal personality when Luffy and Garp were this crazy.
"Yeah grandpa's pretty awesome right and he's crazy strong! He could beat both me and Ace while he was half asleep when he was training us." Said Luffy as he walked onto the Going Merry.
The rest of the crew followed with Robin being the last on board. "Vivi! You can still join the crew if you want!" Called Luffy out to the princess who smiled back to the Captain.
"Sorry Luffy but Alabasta needs me! Maybe one day I can join you!" She yelled out to the Straw Hats who were slowly sailing away. All of which were waving goodbye.
The Straw-Hats made it out to open into the open water. All of them were getting back into their chosen positions on the ship while Nami got them to on track to their next destination. Luffy smiled out toward the horizon while standing on the sheep head at the front of the ship.
Their peaceful departure was interrupted by an enormous spike that hit the Going Merry getting dangerously close to the mast. All of the crew jumped to the back of the ship and saw several Marine ships all slowly catching up to them.
The ships fired off several more large spikes that were diverted from hitting the ship by the monster trio. The many ships that were gaining on them all began to fire cannons and spikes.
"That's the Marine Captain Hina!" Called Robin over the sounds of cannon fire.
Zoro and Sanji were getting overwhelmed by all the incoming projectiles but kept batting them away as they came. However, as the number kept increasing they were forced to only block the one that would hit vital spots on the ship. Luffy ran and jumped to the back of the ship as ice and frost began to cover him, might as well use his new devil fruit to get them out of this.
"Okay here goes," Luffy said as he pointed his hands towards the water. Both his arms froze over and the air in front of them froze creating a long line of ice from Luffy's hands to the water. The points of impact in the water instantly froze and the affected area quickly grew.
"ICE!" Luffy shouted as the water froze at more and more alarming rates. "WALL!"
The water behind the Going Merry instantly froze for hundreds of meters and from there it grew higher and higher until none of the spikes or canons could hit them.
Luffy broke the ice on his arms and jumped back onto the deck grinning as he looked at his handy work. "Not bad huh? I'll have to think of some more ways to use this."
He turned to see what his crew thought only to see all of them covered in ice and shivering. Luffy, thanks to his devil fruit, was the only one capable of speaking and moving normally.
Sanji was the first one to get over the cold, "We may need to get some new clothes if just using your devil fruit causes this otherwise we won't be able to fight with you."
Aboard the Marine ships that had their attempt at capturing the Straw-Hats thwarted there were two Captains with angry expressions.
"Hina is very mad! Hina wants to know why Garp didn't take out Straw Hat Luffy! Hina wants to break something!" Shouted Captain Hina furiously as she stomped around breaking things as her crew backed away nervously.
Smoker and Tashigi groaned as the female Captain went on a tirade. Smoker was also wondering why Garp didn't….wait. Garp, as is Vice-Admiral Monkey D. Garp! As in, an obvious relative of Monkey D. Luffy.
"What the hell is this ridiculous family!" Yelled Smoker to the sky above him. Tashigi next to him jumped in surprise at her Captain's spontaneous screaming. Looking at the enormous ice wall in front of them she shook her head, capturing Straw-Hat just got a lot harder.
Oblivious of the Marines behind them and their struggles the Straw Hats restarted their party as they followed the log to the next island. Hours later everyone was settled in their desired places on the ship as everything calmed down when they left the territory around the Alabasta Kingdom.
"I wonder what the next island will be." Wondered Ussop, he hoped it was a nice quiet village that only wanted to have fun. He felt he was owed one after the last few all having dangerous pirates wanting to kill them.
Nami walked to the rest of the crew with a strange look on her face. "Well, apparently the log wants us to go up." She said while showing the others the log-pose that was pointing straight up. Though she was an expert navigator, she didn't know how to sail upwards.
"Wow that sounds awesome! Lets go!" Ordered Luffy pointing toward the sky. The Captain paused for a moment then turned back to Nami, "How do we do that?"
His answer was a fist to the face that shattered his skull on impact. "If I knew that I wouldn't have bothered everyone with the log in the first place." Shouted Nami.
Shadows began popping up around them causing the crew to look up. "A ship is falling from the sky!" Shouted Ussop who was looking up with his binoculars.
Luffy narrowed his eyes and repeated his actions from Alabasta, jumping to the side of the ship he shot his arms forward and activated his devil fruit. The area around them dropped in temperature and Luffy directed the cold toward the water next to the ship. Ice covered him and thick frost rolled off of his body as he built power for the technique.
"Ice Floor!" Luffy cried as he froze the very ocean for hundreds of meters to make a spot for the ship to land.
Not a second after the ice was made did the ship land causing a huge explosion that cracked all of the ice. After everything settled down from the crash Luffy refroze the cracked ice to make it more solid.
Not wasting a second more Luffy jumped out onto the ice and started running towards the wreckage. 'This fruit is awesome! I don't have to worry about water since I can freeze it!' He cheered into his mind.
"Luffy wait up! Sanji make sure I don't fall!" Called Nami as she tried to keep up while running on the ice with Sanji right behind her making sure she didn't fall with a love struck look on his face.
Zoro tossed down the anchor and jumped over to the ice to make his way to the fallen ship with the others right behind him.
The crew looked through the wreckage.
"I found some gold!" Shouted Chopped.
"Some swords over here!" Called Ussop.
"Oh wow! I found an old hat!" Cheered Luffy.
The rest of the crew went through the broken ship until Robin held up a map. "I found something over here!"
The crew gathered around Robin as she showed them the map. "I think this is a map of a sky island called Skypiea."
Luffy rubbed his chin in confusion. "So there really is an island in the sky, how's that work? Does it sit on the clouds?" He wondered trying to wrap his head around the idea of a sky island.
"Good question, even more important is how we get up there." Added Ussop.
Robin looked over the map with an analytical eye, from what she could tell it was very old. The biggest question raised from this map was the shape of the land, if she was right it seemed like a skull or a piece of one at least.
"Hey someones coming!" Called Zoro pointing to a large ship almost to the edge of the ice. The ran back to their ship to protect it from whoever was coming. They quickly grabbed all the treasure they could and hurried to the Going Merry.
The incoming pirate ship was large and the front had a monkey design and the crew seemed pretty rowdy. The Captain of the ship was a monkey looking man who was gazing out onto the ice with confusion.
"Hey! You pirates! This wasn't always ice right! This is new right!" He yelled out trying to figure out what was happening.
"Yeah! I froze the ocean to look through the ship over there!" Called Luffy, he would have said more but Usopp and Zoro clapped his mouth shut. His muffled protest went unheard while the monkey man responded.
"I see! You got one of those devil fruits huh? Find anything nice?" The monkey man asked curiously.
Zoro was tossed back by Luffy as he answered the monkey man. "We got a map of a sky island! Do you know how to get to the island cloud place?"
None of the crew shut Luffy up when he asked that as they were curious themselves. Nami and Robin being the most interested in the actual way to get there focused on the monkey man.
The monkey man scratched his chin in thought. "Can't say that I do, but I know someone who might be able to help you back in Jaya."
Alright lets stop it right there.
Now we got chapter two down and were off to Jaya which means Cricket and Bellamy and Blackbeard and all that awesome fun happy time!
Luffy got some family time with everyone's favorite Marine vice admiral over the age of sixty.
New bounties. I explained it in the chapter but being a logia and taking down crocodile made Luffy more notorious. Ace's bounty is higher because he's stronger than canon here and he's a commander on a Yonko crew. Look at Jack or Cracker, lowest rank commander on a Kaido and Big Mom's crews respectively and both had immensely high bounties. Jack at a billion and Cracker at eight hundred million something. 750 seemed fair for Ace.
I really like writing Garp he's pretty awesome.
I'm not the best at naming attacks so Ice Wall and Ice Floor are two of Luffy's new attacks there pretty self explanatory (also Luffy doesn't strike me as the type to use word play in his attacks). Floor freezes everything in all directions on ground level, like water and what not. Ice wall freezes the ground then builds a large wall of hyper thick ice that can stop cannons.
I'm not sure of all the capabilities of the Chilly Chilly fruit, all I know is that Aokiji was able to fight Akainu one on one nonstop for ten freaking days so it can likely counter magma meaning the temperatures can probably go to absolute zero. I'll play around with it.
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