บท 544: The Charlotte Family

As Alex awoke the next morning he found himself entangled in a massive mess of limbs, which made him fondly recall the events of the last few 'days'.

After killing Doflamingo and sending his head to the World Government, Alex went to go and deal with the relatively massive crews of the Big Mom and Beasts pirates, with a somewhat surprising end result.

When he had gone to see the Big Mom pirates, Alex was surprised to see Big Mom herself, real name being Charlotte Lin Lin, incredibly skinny due to not having been able to eat while she was locked up.

Instead of fighting or resisting, she had only begged for food while her crew, composed almost entirely of her son's and daughters, similarly begged him to save her.

And while he had been tempted to just let her waste away, Alex relented and gave her a little bit of Mikan and Haruna's food. The result was Big Mom nearly flooding the room with tears of joy.

After that Alex had been about to repeat his actions of the previous two groups by recruiting the women into the combat maids, and sending the men along with Big Mom into one of the realms of Oblivion. But when she realized what he was going to do, Big Mom offered him another idea.

If Alex wanted women, then he was more than welcome to her as well if she got more good food.

The mere idea of that suggestion made Alex gag a little, as Big Mom was the very image of anything BUT attractive. Naturally Big Mom took offense to Alex's reaction, and told him how she had been a great beauty when she was younger(though she thought she still was).

Soon after Alex used Regenration magic on her out of curiosity and returned Big Mom to her prime, making her look like a completely different person than she had a moment before. Even her own children didn't recognize her aside from the eldest amongst them.

Originally she had been an morbidly obese old woman, with matted pink hair while standing at nearly thirty feet tall. Now however, she stood only slightly taller than Alex, with an incredibly slim figure, fair features, and her hair had turned into glossy waves that cascaded down her back.

After that a deal was struck between Alex and Big Mom, namely that every one of her thirty six daughter's would join his combat maids, while she and her son's would resume pirating, but on his behalf. And Alex accepted once they were all branded with his slave marks, which would keep them from rebelling.

After that he went to go and deal with the Beasts pirates, led by Kaido with the former Shogun of Wano, Orochi.

In their case Alex repeated his earlier actions since Kaido had more than deserved death for what he did to Wano, basically enslaving the entire nation to build weapons while simultaneously starving and poisoning them. Even now, Anne was leading the restoration efforts on his behalf on Wano to remove the pollution and restore the land while providing treatment to the people.

The worst thing they did though was feed the defective artificial Devil Fruits to the people, Smiles. They had gotten their name from the fact that the defects made the eaters only smile and laugh, no matter how miserable they were.

And because of them, men, women and children were all only able smile and laugh whenever their loved ones died, or were even executed, being unable to properly mourn them.

Alex wasted no time extracting the Devil Fruits from the men of the Beasts pirates, while applying his slave brand to the women. The sole exception was was a young man by the name of Page One, who was an officer and younger brother of another officer named Ulti, who became one of his maids.

Unlike the Devil Fruits Alex had collected earlier though, all of those used by the Beasts Pirates were the transformation type Zoan Devil Fruits, which was how they got the name of course. And while the vast majority were standard animals known throughout several world's, mammals, birds and reptiles, there were also several of the rare prehistoric Devil Fruits.

And from Kaido himself, Alex collected the mythical Zoan fruit, Uo Uo no Mi: model Seiryu, which allowed the eater to turn into the mythical azure dragon. Then there was the other mythical Zoan fruit, the Hebi Hebi no Mi: model Yamata no Orochi, which had been eaten by the shogun Orochi and allowed him to become the eight headed dragon.

Most of these fruits he'd probably make available to the people of Asora, as Alex couldn't imagine his wives eating several of them. But with the mythical and ancient Zoans, he'd probably find someone who'd eat them.

And so in the end, Kaido was sent along with his crew and Orochi into the Badlands where Alex had sent Teach and his crew earlier. There they'd be 'taken care of' by the numerous Daedra that called the Badlands home, before their souls would be warped and twisted in Daedra as well.

But that was a process that would take centuries, by which time they would more than likely forget all about their past years as pirates.

And once that was all done, Alex returned to Asora with the entirety of Thriller Bark and all of those who were on it, after sending Big Mom's sons back to Toto land.

A 'night' later, and here Alex was, in the space-time orb and surrounded by all of the new women he'd 'recruited' the day before.

"Mamamama! You really don't know what 'self restraint' means, do you!" Big Mom, Lin Lin, laughed boisterously as the only other person who was conscious alongside Alex.

"What is this 'self restraint' you speak of? Is it edible? Or is something I can stick my dick in?"Alex asked eagerly, making her laugh some more.

He had to admit, Alex liked this younger version of Lin Lin much better than before. Not only was she easier on the eyes, but her attitude was completely different as well.

Rising, the duo then made their way to the bathroom connected to Alex bedroom to wash up for the day. As Alex sat at one of the wash stations though, Lin Lin readily crouched before him and took his cock into her mouth.

"Someone's hungry." He commented wryly, but she didn't respond as Lin lin instead seemingly tried to suck the life out of him through his cock.

Apparently she had grown someone addicted to the taste of his cum, stating it was the best thing she'd ever tasted. Aside from Mikan and Haruna's cooking of course.

But if they wanted to take things further then they both had to be careful, as Lin Lin was quite literally built different. The first time Alex had fucked her was back at Thriller Bark, and they had nearly sank the ship while making the entire castle crumble around them.

...

"Humph! I can't believe mama would do this!"

"I know! This is totally unlike her!"

Two young girls stated back and forth, the two youngest amongst their large family, Charlotte Pudding and Flampé.

They were currently within the kitchens of the villa inside the so-called space-time orb, along with most of their sisters after their mama had given them all to the Dragon Emperor. Though both Pudding and Flampé were still too young for him to 'claim', despite their mother's insistence otherwise, at fourteen and thirteen respectively.

As a promising prospective chocolatier, Pudding was put in charge of producing the chocolate sweets for the Dragon Emperor and his family, while Flampé was her assistant. Though her skills still fell far short of those who already worked in the kitchens, due to the skills they'd bought through the Chatroom shop.

"But don't worry Flampé, everything will go back to normal soon!" Pudding suddenly declared to her younger sister.

"You mean big brother Katakuri is going to beat up that pathetic 'Dragon Emperor'?!" Flampé asked expectantly, her eyes shining as she thought of the amazing big brother that she adored.

"Maybe.... But just in case I prepared this!" Pudding declared as she revealed a massive chocolate cake.

"There's enough poison in a single bite of this cake to even give mama indigestion for an entire week! I'm sure there's more than enough for that stupid Dragon Emperor!" She declared haughtily with an evil smirk, with even the third eye in the middle of her forehead narrowing in excitement for when that bastard sampled her cake.

And the sooner the better as she looked around, and so desperately wanted to escape this weirdness to get back to Toto Land.

After all, for the some reason the standard uniform for all of the girls working in the kitchen was to wear an apron, and NOTHING ELSE!

Everywhere Pudding and Flampé looked it was naked butts as these women shamelessly flaunted their bodies, with some even wearing aprons that allowed their breasts to hang freely out of it. Even her own sisters were participating in the strange attire!

As she thought that, the two sisters watched as their elder sister and one of the four Sweet Commanders, Charlotte Smoothie, walked by wearing nothing but an apron. Even worse was that Smoothie was a fifteen foot member of the long leg tribe, so the apron did NOTHING to hide her unmentionables.

Smoothie wasn't the only one acting out of place though, as EVERY one of their older sisters were not only acting uncharacteristically, but several of them had even drastically altered their appearances like their mother had. And now all of them were strutting around almost in the nude like the other girls and Smoothie.

"Kya~!"

A cry suddenly rang out, making everyone turn towards the girl that made it, one of the so-called Pandora, but there was nothing there.

"Ahn~!"

"Hyan~!"

"Nooo~!"

One after another several woman cried out in surprise and pleasure from nothing, before it was one of the head chefs turn, Mikan.

"What are you doing Alex?" Mikan asked as a pair of invisible hands groped her breasts.

"You're no fun Mikan." Alex said with a pout as he became visible before all of them. Though, he still massaged Mikan's breasts and pulled her close so her bare backside was rubbing up against his front.

"Mmn... Maybe I oughta prove you wrong then." She said in a sensual tone with a smirk to match.

"Oh? Please do~." Alex smirked back as his groping became much more vigorous, while one of his hands began creeping down his backside.

"I don't think so." A voice said as someone grabbed Alex by his ear.

"Sexual harassment is not permitted at this time." Kalifa stated firmly, to which Alex cocked a brow at her.

"Really? Are you serious right now?" He asked incredulously.

"Of course." She stated seriously while adjusting her glasses.

"And the moment's over. Another time then~." Mikan purred as she slipped out of Alex's grasp, and sashayed away with her bare butt moving alluringly.

"The little vixen..." Alex groaned, mentally promising to repay the cocktease later. As for Kalifa....

"Here! This is for you!" Pudding declared suddenly, interrupting Alex's thoughts as she readily presented a large chocolate cake to him.

"Oh! That looks delicious Pudding!" Lin Lin declared as she suddenly appeared, and salivated as she eyed the cake hungrily.

"Sorry, but this is mine!" Alex declared as he opened his mouth much wider than humanly possible, thanks to his rubber body, and scarfed the entire cake down in a single bite.

"""!!!"""

Needless to say everyone was stunned by both the display and gluttony Alex showed, while Lin Lin was torn between anger that Alex hogged all the delicious cake, and envy that he was able to open his mouth so wide to take such huge bites.

"Delicious!" Alex exclaimed once he swallowed all of the cake, before smacking his lips in contemplation as he added, "try not to go so heavy on the poison next time Pudding. It takes away from the flavor."

"""!!!"""

Every eye turned towards her three in alarm when they heard that, while Pudding herself turned deathly pale from learning Alex knew of, and survived, her attempt to kill him.

Immediately her mind started running numerous horrible things Alex would probably do to her for trying to kill him, starting with something like the roulette wheel her mother used for anyone who dared to try and leave her crew.

"W-what are you going to do to me?" Pudding asked with a shaky voice, to which Alex smirked evilly.

"Let's see...." He drawled on as if he were thinking about it.

"How about...nothing!"

"Huh???"

Pudding couldn't help the stupid sounding voice that leaked out at Alex's answer, as it had been the last thing she'd been expecting from him.

"Well yeah! I mean, all you did was try to kill me. It's not like it was anything major." Alex explained as if it were obvious, making Pudding, as well as several of her sisters, wonder if his head was screwed on right.

The only one not confused was Lin Lin, who nodded in agreement as she said to herself, "true... After a while any attempts on your life just seem like any other day..."

Alex nodded in agreement with her before suddenly adopting a serious expression as he looked at Pudding.

"However, while I may shrug off an attempt on MY life..." He began while stalking closer to her menacingly, making Pudding shiver in fear even as her feet refused to move.

"I'll have to get VERY cruel and unusual on anyone idiotic enough to target my wives or children. Understand Pudding? Flampé?"

With every word Alex spoke an increasingly unbearable pressure radiated from his body, making him glow with a golden-green aura that scared the hell out of every member of the Charlotte family present, including even Lin Lin and especially the two girls it was being directed at.

And by the time he had finished speaking, both Pudding and Flampé had collapsed, the latter out of the very air, and yellow puddles formed under them as she slowly nodded in understanding.

"Good then~!" Alex said cheerily as the pressure he'd been emitting vanished instantly, and the two girls were able to release the breath they hadn't realized they'd been holding.

"Now Kalifa, please take the two of them to get cleaned up." Alex said to his assistant.

"And why should I be the one to do that?" She asked distastefully.

"Aren't you the one who literally has soap powers?" Alex asked her, pointing out how she'd eaten the Awa Awa no Mi, making her a soap woman who could clean ANYTHING.

And while Kalifa had been quite pleased with her powers at first, that was before she entered Alex's employ and his wives began trying to aggressively recruit her into his combat maids.

Now she was definitely less than pleased with his request, even as she collected both Pudding and Flampé before taking them to the baths to be cleaned up. Alex meanwhile vanished the mess on the floor with a quick wave of his hand, before departing the space-time orb with Lin Lin at his side.

"So now what?" She asked as they entered the manor, then Alex transferred them both to Water Seven, where her son's were waiting after the party they'd all had the night before.

"Now, I'll return you and your sons to Toto Land. From there you can prepare your forces before sailing on to the holy land, Mary Geoise." Alex stated, surprising her.

"You mean you're really going to go through with it? Attacking the Celestial Dragons?" She asked him.

"Of course." He said with a firmness that surprised her, before a massive grin spread across her face.

"Sounds like fun. I haven't messed with the Celstial Dragons since the God's Valley incident thirty-five years ago!" She declared with enthusiasm.

"God's Valley incident?" Alex asked curiously.

"Yeah. It was back when I was still a member of the Rocks crew, along with brat Kaido and Whitebeard. The Celestial Dragons were having their human culling competition, where they round up thousands of humans and slaughter them for sport to see who gets the most points. But we crashed the place, and I stole the grand prize of the Uo Uo no Mi before giving it to the brat. MAMAMAMAMAMA!"

With Lin Lin desolving into laughter from the memory, Alex led her down the streets of Water 7 as they headed for the villa where she children had stayed the night. But even as they walked, they both couldn't help but to acknowledge just how different the city looked.

The night before they had all had a blast drinking and partying, with Luffy and his crew being the life of the party while the entire Charlotte family and even the workers of Galley La joined in. And thanks to a bet Alex had made with the drunk Pauly, he ended up using his magic to raise the entire city up out of the water.

Unlike other islands in this world, Water 7 was more like a city that had been built in the middle of the ocean. This was due to the island they had originally called home sinking slowly under the sea, and they had been constantly building on top of it ever since.

So, Alex ended up using magic to make the entire island rise up out of the sea, before using Creation magic to solidify the island foundation to keep it from sinking again. Now Water 7 was more than tens times larger than it had been before, and it was perfectly restored to its pristine condition thanks to Regeneration magic.

So naturally there was quite a bit of hustle and bustle as Alex and Lin Lin walked the streets, so much so that no one even bother paying attention to either of them as they hurried.

Eventually the duo parted as Lin Lin reached the villa where her son's were staying, and Alex gave her a scroll that would return all of them to Toto Land. Of course, she also had a magic key that Alex gave her so that she could return to Asora at any time, and would only allow her through so her son's couldn't follow.

Alex didn't stick around to talk to them though, seeing as all of her son's and EX-husbands weren't too thrilled with him.

Instead he made his way to the Straw Hats, where he found Luffy lounging around with Zoro and Chopper.

"Hey! Monkey guy! You got any more of that good food?!" Luffy demanded immediately, making Alex shake his head wryly before stating,

"No. But it's time for you guys to start training."

As he said that, Alex waved his hand and a new space-time orb that he'd prepared the night before appeared, making the three of them look at it curiously.

""Ooooo...."" Luffy and Chopper exclaimed in awe of the sphere, neither one knowing what it was.

Instead, Chopper looked around confusedly before asking, "um... Where are Nami, Robin and Sanji? Aren't they going to train with us?"

Alex shook his head as he explained, "Nami and Robin are going to stay with me while everyone is training. Don't worry, they'll be training as well, just in a different location. And as for Sanji.....well let's just say I made up a 'special' training program for him. But, I do have a couple things for you guys."

As he said that, Alex materialized a katana that he had stored away from Thriller Bark, and tossed it to Zoro.

"Here Zoro, this is a special katana that was once used by a legendary samurai of Wano. Keep it as a back up, or switch it out for one of the ones using now. Whichever works for you."

As he said that, Zoro was absentmindedly admiring the katana, which was made with a special black metal that felt heavier in his hands than normal,.

"Thank you." The swordsman said respectfully, seemingly deciding Alex wasn't a bad person.

"And here YOU go Chopper." Alex said, before tossing the little reindeer a backpack.

"Huh? But I already have a backpack?" Chopper said as he pointed out his own.

"True, but that one is special in that the inside has been expanded with magic, so you store a lot more things in there. Plus it's already got numerous stores of alchemical ingredients that were prepared by one of my wives, and Empress, Anne. Plus there also numerous books in there about different medical practices, and the use of every one of those materials."

With every word Alex spoke Chopper's eyes got progressively brighter, until both were practically gleaming in excitement to try out all kinds of new recipes and medicines.

"Woah! What did you get me?!" Luffy demanded when he saw the present both Zoro and Chopper got.

"Put your hand on this orb next to me. Your present is inside." Alex stated, to which Luffy readily complied before getting sucked in.

"You two as well. Time flows differently in there, so you can get plenty of training in before Franky finishes your new ship. Go in and take a look, I'll send Yamato in as soon as she shows up." Alex said to Chopper and Zoro, who both readily did as he instructed, and disappeared as well.

With them inside, and Yamato still a few minutes away from him, Alex then spread his senses to locate the last of the Straw Hats on Water 7. And with a wave of his hand, Alex made him appear out of thin air right in front of him.

"W-what's going on!?!" Usopp, 'former' sniper of the Straw Hat Pirates demanded as he looked around nervously, before focusing on Alex.

"Ah! You're that dragon guy!" He declared dramatically and fearfully. Even if he was a Straw Hat, Usopp was a complete coward.

"Boo." Alex said while taking a step towards him, making Usopp jump in fright before falling back into the space-time orb after Luffy and the others.

He then placed a seal on it to prevent anyone from leaving the Space-time orb for the next hour, which should give Usopp plenty of time to apologize and make up with his former captain.

A minute later Yamato appeared, prepared to help train Luffy and the others in the use of Haki.

"Hey Alex." She said in greetings.

"Hey Yamato. I sent everyone else inside already to check it out. But just to warn you, I sent Usopp in as well. So there might be some drama."

"Right..." She said in a non-committal manner, while also avoiding Alex's gaze.

"There's something else as well." Alex said as an evil grin formed on his face.

"!!!"

The next thing Yamato knew Alex was right in front of her, towering over her as she was pinned to the wall.

Wait...

Was he always this tall?

Yamato couldn't help but wonder such even as her heart began to flutter.

No!

It wasn't!

She was a man, just like Kozuki Oden!

That was what she kept trying to tell herself, until Alex suddenly held something out to her.

"Here. This is for you." He said while offering her a key.

"A key...?" She asked confusedly.

"Of course. It'll open a door directly into my home, Misty Manor."

"!!!"

"W-why are you giving me this!?" She asked with a higher pitched voice than usual.

"???"

"Why not?" Alex asked as if he were confused this time. "Why wouldn't I give it to one of my future wives?"

"!!!"

Yamato had no idea how she was supposed to respond to that, and even less so when Alex suddenly stole her lips in a brief, and tame, kiss.

Separating from her, Alex stepped back and walked towards one of the hundreds of canals spiderwebbed throughout Water 7.

"I've got some things to do, but I'll see you later Yamato."

Saying that, Alex's features warped suddenly as he turned into a shark and dove into the water. He then shot away through the canals and out into the open sea, leaving behind a VERY confused Yamato.

'I think this is the first time I've actually used this transformation...' Alex thought to himself as he darted through the water, having turned himself into a Wereshark with the divinity over lycanthropy that he'd acquired from Hircine. Similar to how he'd turn himself into a vampire whenever he felt like it.

And when he thought about it, Alex realized he could use this form to spend some quality time with Myuu and Remia when they went on one of their swims in the oceans of Asora. He was sure they'd love that just as much as Artemis had when he'd joined her on her last hunt, or when he went running with Aela and the other werewolves.

As for why he was using this form to travel instead of flying, Alex just thought it'd be a nice change of phase from the usual. It was especially nice since this world was mostly covered in water anyways.

The only downside was the incomprehensible number of sea kings that lived in these waters, and constantly tried to make a meal of him when he accidentally got too close. Eventually Alex just started radiating Conquerers Haki to knock them all out as he passed since they started getting annoying to deal with, which also caused the crews of several ships that he'd passed to pass out as well.

It also helped when he returned to his original size from the ten foot tall form he'd used with Yamato earlier, which was a result of him using Spirit Control similar to when Lala used it to shrink down. Just in reverse.

Alex was pretty sure he'd end up using that ability quite a bit in this world, especially when he eventually went to the land of the Giants, Elbaf.

But for now he just focused on his next destination, the isle of women, Amazon Lily.

He was going there to meet up with Hancock for the first time since arriving in this world. And Alex was sure it was going to be an...interesting meeting.

Ever since the day that he'd sent Hancock stuff to remove the brands from her and her sisters backs, as well as several items to use to prevent any marines from attacking their island, he hadn't heard from her. But it was understandable considering she despised men down to her very core.

Even earlier that day, when Alex sent her a message that he was going to make his way there, she had either completely ignored him or refused to respond. Not that he could blame her though, as Alex embodied nearly everything that the Amazon's despised in men.

So he continued swimming through the oceans, and dealing with the sea kings as he made his way to much fantasized island. And soon Alex entered a sea that the instincts of his current form alerted him to right away.

There was no current, as the ocean itself around him had turned completely still. And if he had gone to the surface, then Alex knew there wouldn't be a single breeze to be found, no matter how desperate any ship unfortunate enough to find themselves here wished.

He was in the Calm Belt.

While most people feared the Grand Line and the New World as the most dangerous seas in the world, Alex felt that the Calm Belt was far more deserving of the title.

Not only were there no currents or wind to be found, which was already a death sentence for all sail powered vessels, but this particular stretch of sea was also a favorite breeding ground for truly monstrous sea kings, the smallest of which were still capable of swallowing small vessels whole.

But, it was also the home of his current target, Amazon Lily.

So, Alex continued undaunted through the seas, except now he began actively slaughtering any sea kings that tried messing with him since he didn't want to accidentally ensnare Amazon Lily in his Conquerers Haki.

He particularly liked using the teeth in this form to tear them apart, which soon made it where none of the sea kings would mess with him.

Eventually Alex finally found his quarry as he arrived at the shores of Amazon Lily, where he shot up out of the water while returning to his base form. Then, before heading inland, Alex removed the seals he had placed on his Peerless Beauty ability since he knew it might help when dealing with Hancock a bit.

He also didn't bother redressing after his earlier transformation destroyed his shorts. It was sure to be quite the distraction for the Amazon's though, as hardly any of them had ever even seen a man before, let alone one who was completely naked.

So, being the very image of beauty and completely naked, Alex turned his attention inland from the shore to see the island for the first time.

Amazon Lily was a tropical summer island that was filled with any number of dangerous beasts, which the inhabitants were protected from since their city resided within the mountain in the middle of the island. The same mountain that was topped with numerous stone arches and massive carvings of vicious serpents, and had the word Kuja carved into it for anyone to see.

Curiously though, Alex could hear drums in the distance.

*DUM DUT DA DA🎶!*

"Well that sounds familiar..." He commented, recognizing the beat as being similar as when he turned into Nika.

The question was were they actually trying to copy him, or was it just a coincidence?

It was probably just a coincidence.

Thinking so, Alex casually strolled through the jungle until he reached the entrance to the city, which he waltz by without a care until he beheld the city itself for the first time.

Ancient Chinese architecture surrounded him as Alex looked around, as well as a few thousand incredibly beautiful women.

That alone was enough to surprise Alex, as he recalled from the anime that several of the women of Amazon Lily were comically ugly or fat. Instead he was surrounded by beautiful and slim women everywhere he looked, all dressed 'savagely' in furs of the animals they'd hunted.

Every single woman was also accompanied by a snake that would double as a bow when they entered combat. A snake that was currently draped around their bodies in various ways even as they all focused on him.

But what also surprised him was that he wasn't greeted by a shower of arrows or blades like he'd expected.

Instead, confetti rained down upon him as several hundred women banged drums in the same rhythm as the drums of liberation, and wide eyes followed his every move. A few in wariness, while almost every other set of eyes followed him in awe, focusing on his beauty and dangling junk.

There wasn't a sense of lewdness about the gazes though, only curiosity since men were like an alien species to those who hadn't had the privilege to sail with Hancock.

And speaking of the Pirate Empress, she stood directly across from Alex with her sisters standing behind on either side, both of them similarly being significantly more beautiful than their anime counterparts, though they were still incredibly tall.

Hancock meanwhile was so beautiful compared to her anime counterpart, that if Alex wasn't banging equally beautiful women on the daily he'd have been completely mesmerized by her appearance.

And then, with a wave of her hand the drums and cheers went silent as everyone awaited her decree.

"Amazon Lily welcomes the Dragon Emperor!" Hancock declared as she spread her arms wide, her every action like that of a regal and proud ruler. Except for her face being bright red as she avoided looking directly at Alex out of embarrassment.