To A New Age
"Nom nom nom nom!!! Mm!!! These rice crackers are delicious!! Who cooked these!?" Garp asked while he was munching on some rice crackers. Luffy was sitting beside him eating a large plate full of rice, curry and meat.
"Sanji did." Luffy replied while having food in his mouth. He pointed at Sanji so Garp knew who he was talking about.
"Ah! Thank you for making these delicious rice crackers!!" Garp thanked him while grinning broadly. Sanji grinned back and gave Garp a thumbs up.
" You're welcome, Vice Admiral Garp. " He replied. Garp waved his hand repeatedly.
" No need for the formalities. Just address me as Garp." Garp corrected. Sanji nodded.
"Got it, Garp-san." Sanji grinned at him, making Garp palm his face and start grumbling to himself.
"Vice Admiral Garp! Sorry for interrupting but here's today's newspaper!" Koby ran over and handed Garp the newspaper in his hand. He and the other Marines were having lunch outside of the house they were in.
" Ah, thanks Koby! " Garp mumbled while grabbing the newspaper. Koby saluted Garp before running out of the house to continue having lunch with Smoker and Tashigi.
It was silent again, everyone was feeling excited as they all saw Garp reading the newspaper with a large smirk on his face. Sometimes the Vice Admiral would even suddenly laugh out loud reading the contents of the newspaper.
"The newspaper is about you guys." Garp revealed after he was done reading the newspaper. He gave it to Nami who read it. Nami widened her eyes as she read the headline of the newspaper.
"A Force To Be Reckoned With! The Straw Hats Achieved The Impossible! Enies Lobby Now Lie In Ruins!" Nami read the headline with widened eyes. Luffy's grinned as wide as he possibly could. Zoro smirked while he continued drinking his sake.
Nami continued reading the contents of the newspaper. The contents were all about them. The newspaper wrote about them like they were heroes and that the Vice Admirals that tried to halt their momentum were the villains of the story.
It wrote about how they declared war on the World Government and that they were the reason Enies Lobby is in ruins.
Luffy was enjoying the publicity and so was everyone. He understood Morgans more and more now.
This person isn't afraid of incurring the World Government's wrath upon himself, as seen where he publicized the Vice Admirals' defeat and wrote them down like they were some heroes freeing the world from the tyranny of the World Government.
As seen in the newspaper, letting his personal biases influence his news stories.
"He must respect us or something. He's actually exaggerating our accomplishments here." Nami muttered while reading through the newspaper with reading glasses on.
Morgans also incorporates some false information and fabrications into his articles to enhance reader engagement.
Luffy liked it, he wanted as much attention on him and his crew as possible. He wanted the World to know that they will be the one who turns the World upside down.
"The guy's unscrupulous and fearless, Nami-swan. He's the epitome of what a journalist should be. " Sanji commented with a smirk on his face.
"You got that right, Sanji. Hey look, our new bounties!!" Nami squealed in delight as she grabbed a handful of wanted posters that were stuffed in the middle of the newspaper.
"Nice!! Shishishishishi!!" Luffy grabbed his wanted poster while the rest grabbed theirs. Garp was watching this with amusement drawn on his face. He never saw someone so excited for their bounties before, much less a group of them.
Luffy looked at his wanted poster. The picture was different. He had a crazed and menacing grin on instead of a happy one.
'WANTED
Dead
Monkey D. Luffy
650,000,000 Belly'
Luffy grinned proudly and showed it to everyone. Zoro smirked at his captain's new wanted poster. He then looked at his wanted poster. It was a picture of his face that had a small menacing smirk on it. It also showed his three identical gold earrings on his left earlobe and her black bandana tied around her head.
'WANTED
Dead or Alive
Roronoa Zoro
431,000,000 Belly'
"Heh, what about yours, shitty cook? Still at number third?" Zoro teased Sanji who gave him the middle finger as a response.
Sanji's picture on his wanted poster had him holding a cigarette while blowing out smoke. How they got this picture was a mystery.
'WANTED
Only Alive
Vinsmoke Sanji
330,000,000 Belly'
"Shit." Sanji cursed to himself while staring at his birth name. Vinsmoke was a name she hated the most. She then smirked to herself, things were about to get wild when they get to the New World.
"How in the hell did they find out we were sisters?" Nami wondered while she and Nojiko were holding up a wanted poster together.
"But we look sexy though, don't we sis?" Nojiko muttered with an amused smirk on her face. They share a wanted poster like Dorry and Brogy do.
'WANTED
Dead or Alive
Nami and Nojiko
180 million Belly for each sister.'
"Hey, Luffy. When are we gonna stop at an island and train again? We need to increase our strength since more people are going to target us now." Usopp asked Luffy while reading his wanted poster.
'WANTED
Dead or Alive
Usopp
225,000,000 Belly'
"Yes. With our increased bounties, we need to increase our strength too so that we can prove that we're worthy of these numbers. " Kaya agreed with Usopp's suggestion.
'WANTED
Dead or Alive
Kaya
160,000,000 Belly'
"I need to get stronger fast. But why do I still look cute in this?! I wanna look scary like you guys damnit!!" Chopper whined and pouted while staring at his wanted poster, making everyone laugh.
'WANTED
Dead or Alive
Tony Tony Chopper
3,000,000 Belly'
"I think you look great in this, Chopper." Robin complimented him with a gentle smile on her face, making Chopper smile and dance silly.
'WANTED
Dead or Alive
Nico Robin
237,000,000 Belly'
She nodded then looked at Luffy who was busy eating to his heart's content.
"But I agree with Kaya and Usopp, Luffy. We need to train. We have earned the ire of the Marines and the World Government after all. We should be prepared for it. " Robin told Luffy who nodded and started humming.
"Nami, add up the numbers please! I gotta do some thinking for a while!! It's very important!" Luffy ordered Nami who giggled before starting to calculate their bounties combined. It took a minute, but when she was done calculating, she almost fainted at the numbers in front of her.
"We, the Straw Hat Pirates have the combined bounty of...wow... 2,396,000,000 Belly." Nami muttered. Zoro whistled.
" We really need to train to get stronger. With such a high bounty, the Marines are gonna send the big leagues coming at us now." Zoro grumbled. Garp yawned.
" What's this about training to get stronger?!" Garp asked them, making them freeze. They had been so engrossed in their increased bounties, they had completely forgotten that the Vice Admiral was there with them.
"Ahaha... It's nothing Vice Admiral Garp...We were just excited about our future adventures...." Usopp lied nervously. Garp laughed.
"Bwahahahahaha!!! No no! I definitely heard about you all wanting to train just now." Garp stood up, gathering everyone's attention. Garp looked around like he was looking for spies spying on them.
"Ya know, me and my men are on a one week break right now. We don't report back to the headquarters about what we're doing so.... " Garp leaned closer to them and grinned broadly at them all.
"Do you guys wanna get trained by Garp the Fist in secret?"
"WHAAAAT?!!!!"
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And that was how the Straw Hats started getting trained by Vice Admiral Garp. Training starts tomorrow and Luffy just got news that Franky and Iceburg would be building them a new ship.
Luffy and Usopp went to meet the shipwright duo. They offered some of their suggestions on how they wanted the ship to look like.
Iceburg and Franky assured them that they will create the strongest and prettiest ship in the world.
With that, the two pirates smiled, went back and started partying with the crew. They were partying near a swimming pool, so Luffy got the luxury to see Nami and Nojiko in two piece swimsuits.
But he left the party for a while to talk with Koby, Smoker and Tashigi. "If you hadn't jumped out of that barrel on that day, I would probably still be taking care of chores in Alvida's ship and sucking up to her." Koby muttered. Luffy laughed, remembering the time when he first met Koby.
" Yeah! I remember! You were on Alvida's ship! Your reason to be on her ship was hilarious!" Luffy laughed while clutching his stomach.
"Hey, Straw Hat." Smoker called Luffy who looked at him.
"Let's meet at the New World someday. It's the sea where people who will begin the next generation gather. When we do meet again, I will capture you and bring you to justice!!" Smoker promised seriously. Koby stood up.
" One day, I'll become a Marine Admiral!! And I'll capture you before you even try to become the Pirate King!!! " Koby declared. Luffy raised a brow at him while smiling warmly at him. Koby slumped down.
" Sorry about that, I got carried away again. I just felt a little bit confident when I finally got to meet you again and—
"Koby!! You'll fight me right?! Then you gotta be one of course!! The next time we meet, we'll be much stronger!" Luffy shouted at him.
" Then we'll train even harder!! Right guys?!" Koby smiled and looked at Smoker and Tashigi who smirked and nodded back.
" Ho? Are you still a crybaby, Koby?" Zoro asked him with a smirk on her face. Koby gasped as he touched his face. Indeed, tears were falling down his cheeks.
"Roronoa....." Tashigi narrowed her eyes at him. Zoro looked at her.
"If you wanna achieve your goal to remove all Meito from the hands of those who would use them for their own selfish ambitions, then you better train up, Tashigi!! Because we're gonna be waiting for you!! " Zoro pointed at his three katanas and Luffy who grinned as he grabbed his sheathed cutlass and raised it in front of her.
Tashigi nodded back seriously. "Got it! You better get ready for what's to come then, Roronoa Zoro." Tashigi promised, making Zoro smirk at her. Zoro then took out five sake bottles out of nowhere and threw four of them at Luffy, Koby, Smoker and Tashigi. Each of them had one in their hand.
Luffy opened it and raised it high in the air. He had a grin on his face. "Even though you guys are Marines, I like you guys a lot! You guys are big dreamers and hard workers, just like us pirates!" He grinned at all of them, they all had smiles on their faces.
" So let's do a toast as a promise to achieve our dreams together!!! Even though we are far away from each other and will be enemies when we meet again, this toast will serve as a reminder of the promise we kept!!!! TO A NEW AGE!!!!! "
" TO A NEW AGE!!!!"
*KLANG!!!!!*
To be continued....
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