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Third Person POV
Skypiea.
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In the East Blue, an island shook as two figures dashed toward each other, clashing and releasing a wave of haki all around as each tried to best the other in this confrontation. The island rocked until one of them lost, being thrown backward as his body dragged dirt and trees before colliding with a mountain in the middle of the place. Luffy sighed as his body was buried among all that rubble.
''I'm not at grandpa's level yet...'' Luffy murmured internally as he felt himself struck by future sight the next second.
"Luffy... don't go soft, you brat!!!" Garp appeared at that moment, digging through the earth behind Luffy and emerging in front of him.
Luffy immediately tried to retaliate, but in the next moment, he was struck again, his body digging even deeper into the ground, while from the outside view, the entire mountain began to crumble.
Luffy fell into a huge underground cavern, as he got back on his feet, his fists immediately layered more haki before he dodged Garp's next move entering the underground cavern trying to hit him. He moved in a counter a moment later as Garp, without time to react to this move from Luffy, crossed his arms in defense and was sent backward with his grandson's punch, breaking several walls as he continued advancing through the underground caverns. Luffy did not stay still and this time advanced against his grandfather as the latter was already prepared for him in the next moment, and both began to fight amid those natural underground constructions beneath the island.
The whole place trembled as more and more shocks between Grandfather and Grandson's hakis hit each other, and they kept descending further as a lake of lava appeared in the middle of the fight due to their deep descent, each trying to outdo the other. Even though Luffy was slightly less effective than his grandfather, he did not back down as he continued to strike against him.
The explosions continued the entire time as Luffy and Garp kept going through the lava below sea level, the entire island trembling as animals began to flee, and once again, one side of the earth burst open on the surface as Luffy and Garp emerged fighting each other. Hours continued while they again returned to the island's underground, causing it to shake more than ever, and neither of them noticed as not just hours passed, but days continued with both solely focused on the fight.
Ships passed nearby, but no one dared approach with the explosions being heard from a distance, even the sea becoming choppy with it, deterring any curious onlookers from taking a risk.
Luffy and Garp spent 7 days fighting each other until they finally decided to stop after exhaustion. Luffy stood in front of the fire, his arm broken and his face covered in marks with bruised eyes.
Garp stood close to him while maintaining his face with one of the eyes bruised as well, he did not come out unscathed, although he managed to fare better than Luffy.
"You really have become strong, kid... but you still have a lot to learn! Buahahahahaha!" Garp began to laugh.
Luffy just stayed silent, not disagreeing with his grandfather. "It's true..." He then spoke as soon as his grandfather stopped laughing, "But that doesn't mean I won't surpass you in the future. So wait for me, Grandpa. I'm going to beat you." He broke into a smile.
"I'll be waiting for that." Garp also smiled as they spent another night on that uninhabited island, apart from the animals, to recover their energies from the start of the fight over the last 7 days, and they went to sleep.
"I did this for you..." Garp approached Luffy the next morning with a sheet.
"This?" Luffy murmured, surprised as he took the sheet with observations from his grandfather about his strengths and weaknesses, where he needed to develop, and where he needed to train even more to overcome his combat deficiencies.
"I know the King of Darkness is teaching Lucy, as you told me, but I'd like you to have my approval, after all, you are still my grandson..." Garp said, returning to a melancholic tone.
"Thank you... I guess..." Luffy murmured awkwardly.
"I'm trying to make sure you don't die... you have powerful eyes on you now... so protect Lucy and my future granddaughters!" He immediately demanded.
"I'm heading to Loguetown then... thanks, Grandpa..." Luffy murmured in the end before hugging Garp in the middle of the almost entirely destroyed island.
"Take care, Luffy..." Garp commented.
"Will you stay in Goa?" Luffy asked.
"Yes, I have one more week off before I go back to the navy. You're lucky I'm on vacation, otherwise you'd be heading to Impel Down..." Garp said with a cocky smile.
"You talk as if you could really catch me..." Luffy mocked.
"You..." Garp ended up not finishing his sentence.
With things now calmer, the animals began to emerge from their hiding spots. Trying to see if those two were gone, a monkey and a lioness approached the beach and were surprised to find both the two monsters that had been destroying the island until a few hours ago, standing in front of each other while sleeping upright.
Both animals looked at each other, lost, as they started to leave so as not to wake them, returning to their hiding spot hoping the two would leave the island.
Luffy and Garp continued to nap, possibly due to exhaustion from fighting for 7 consecutive days, the sun raced across the entire sky as it disappeared in the east and with the moon, the same thing happened. It was only the next day that one of them finally woke up.
A snore bubble escaped from Garp's nose as he woke up, he looked a bit lost wondering where he was until he saw Luffy in front of him sleeping with traces of bruises from their fight while the bubble in his nose grew and shrunk with each breath.
Garp got extremely angry with his grandson, sleeping in front of him without knowing how long he had been there. "Luffy, you damn fool!! You shouldn't sleep in front of others!!" He immediately yelled before turning his fist into haki and striking his grandson, causing a huge explosion in the middle of the beach.
In the end, Luffy began to say goodbye to his grandfather as soon as he had recovered from that rage attack from Garp. "Goodbye Grandpa!" Luffy spoke before jumping into the air while Garp would go in a different direction, returning to Goa and his grandson, to Loguetown.
It had been two weeks since he and the others had left Skypiea. Luffy took advantage of this time with the people from the Boa Kingdom, but hidden from the rest of the world, he trained with his grandfather to perfect his King's Haki coating and further improve his other Haki.
Perhaps this was the only training he would have in his grandfather's life, so he took advantage of it to have a very serious fight that lasted the last 7 days and now, with everything ready, he followed to see someone he hadn't seen for a long time, who had settled in Loguetown after they said goodbye at Baratie.
Landing discreetly in Loguetown, he went to a large mansion. "They really got a lot..." Luffy commented before going to the door while the mansion guards who patrolled the place, didn't see him and he knocked.
A woman opened the door wearing a maid's outfit. "Who are you?" The woman looked at Luffy suspiciously as he still had his two bruised eyes and a bump on his head from his grandfather's last punch.
"I'm here to see Kyrti." He spoke, opening a small smile to the woman.
"Mr. Kyrti?" She murmured a bit lost thinking he was some kind of beggar.
"Who is there?" A stern voice came from the middle of the place as a middle-aged man in a suit approached. "Hm?" He finally saw Luffy in front of his maid.
"Monkey D. Luffy!! It's a pleasure to see you again!! Let him in immediately!!" The man exclaimed with an excited smile.
"Hello Kyrti! How are you?" Luffy asked entering the place.
"Monkey D. Luffy... the Monkey D. Luffy?!" The maid murmured until she opened her eyes and fainted the next moment, but Luffy greeted his old acquaintance ignoring the fallen woman.
"Come to my office!" Kyrti said, and Luffy followed him.
"you finally māstan naejot visit īlva, skorkydoso issi ra? skori īlē isse bisa lentor, ao dōrī māstan naejot ūndegon īlva!" Marta approached them as she spoke.
"Hello, Marta." Luffy greeted, though he still didn't understand anything she was saying.
Luffy entered the man's office as they began to talk among themselves, recounting his story of starting again from scratch as a small merchant and becoming the main candidate for mayor of the city in less than a year here.
Luffy was surprised to learn that the man had pledged loyalty to him. His wife spoke as well, but Luffy still didn't understand anything she was saying.
"If you want that..." Luffy came to a conclusion. "Then I want you to start these projects... Loguetown will enter the alliance among my territories, where trade has increased a lot and we are militarizing all the countries so they can have their own forces and be summoned in the future." He spoke as he handed over his projects.
Kyrti took them and read before nodding. "That will certainly be an honor, we will expand the business even further!" He said.
"Kesi pyghagon bona damn government isse se future. Nyke kostagon daor umbagon." Marta also said.
"..." Luffy just looked at her not understanding and turned back to the man nodding. "Yes, then I'm counting on you." He said.
He stayed a few days at the location while talking with the couple, before starting to leave at this moment; he had called all his companions, informing them that it was time for them to return.
It took a few more days for Nami, Nojiko, Kuina, and Usopp to return. The two sisters were quite surprised after seeing their old village transformed into a large kingdom, being hailed as queens.
Usopp also came, as surprised as the other two, for he discovered that he became king of Syrup and married Kaya in these last two. Kuina stayed with her father enjoying more time than the last time they met, having a final father-daughter moment.
With all the companions back, they began to return to Skypiea, meeting the rest of the members at the start of the Grand Line and heading to the place in the sky, where they would finally start their year of training.
Meanwhile, in the New World on a deserted island, a group was gathering, with the man who was the leader looking at them with seriousness.
"We may have lost our chance at Marineford, but we can still continue our plan... so we will start our conquest of the New World and take down Whitebeard!!" Teach exclaimed to his companions as his body transformed into darkness with his power manifesting.
Elsewhere.
"That brat... He really gave me a strong punch... but I will make him pay for what he did in the war and I will bring my daughter back, taking her from that damn man!" Kaido exclaimed furiously about Luffy.
In another territory.
"That damn man!! I will kill him, I swear!!!" Big Mom exclaimed amidst the destruction; she had gone mad after the attack of the meteors and stayed that way for two weeks until her children managed to calm her down.
Cracker had already returned with the Germa 66, but he had a vacant look with the realization of what the Straw Hats had done to them, capable of launching an attack of that magnitude in the middle of the territory, and his brothers were not happy with him, after all, he had provoked something like this.
Shanks elsewhere just sighed looking at the sky, and in the middle of the sea in the last territory of the Yonkou, a small boat navigated to another giant ship, the blond in the small boat smiled as he approached Moby Dick after seeing that the Whitebeard pirates did not attack him, waiting to see who it was.
"Finally, we are going to meet again... Ace..." Sabo commented eagerly for their reunion.
Already miles away, at a high altitude, four elderly men suddenly felt something at that moment. "This?!"
"Im-Sama has awakened!" the four elders exclaimed as they went to see the being who ruled the world.
End of this volume, post-credits scene.
The destruction was everywhere, thousands of bodies lying on the ground, in this scene of chaos and cruelty, another crowd was gathered, there were more than 10,000 people looking at a ship stopped with a man wearing his straw hat on his head.
"We finally managed to get where we wanted," Luffy said to everyone effortlessly, looking at all his fleet companions who fought by his side in this war.
They finally managed to establish their position in the New World, and he wanted to redeclare to the world his crew after reading a specific Poneglyph on their journey so far.
"From now on, we will no longer be known as the Straw Hat Pirates," Luffy said, as he took his hat and placed it on Lucy's head, who had been by his side the entire time.
"Luffy...? Your hat?" She asked, bewildered.
Luffy just smiled at Lucy. "It's yours now." He declared, finally passing on the hat of Joygirl, something that should have been hers a long time ago, but Luffy knew that Shanks had passed it to him to pass it to her when the time came.
He turned to the crowd, ignoring his still dazed sister and continued speaking as his red haki manifested for tens of kilometers, reaching even the World Government ships in the middle of the sea just watching the battle from afar. "From now on, we will be known as the Dawn Pirates Crew, the Ds!" He said as his voice reached everyone within the range of his haki.
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