The heart of the manticor (One Piece ff)

2. The daughter of a Yonko?!

Marco POV:

"Who is your father?" Pops asks more clearly. He already seems to suspect something. "What does this knowledge bring you?" the red-haired woman calmly asks. "If you tell us that, at least we know who we're messing with if something happens to you." Pops replies just as calmly. I looked at the girl and she just smiles. "You only mess with the Lion Pirates. We are not under the protection of an yonko. I don't want that. It could be that my dad gets slightly angry, but that's half as bad." she still says with a smile on her lips. "He turns Whitebeard's neck around Tiana!" Kyle tells her. "He won't. As long as I survive, nothing happens. At most, he gets a little bit angry." she says calmly again. Her smile is also gone.

"God damn it! Now say who your father is!" I shout to her. This woman upsets me! She sighs slightly annoyed. "Shanks is my biological father." she says with a calmness, as if she's talking about the weather. She does not once turn her gaze away from the skeleton. Immediately you can hear how some people sharply draw in the air or how others open and close their mouths as if they were a fish on land.

The second crew, these weird skeleton pirates, are suddenly corpses pale. I don't think they expected the statement either. But who expects the daughter of an yonko to suddenly stand in front of you?! And then there's the damn daughter of the red Shanks?!?!

It has become completely quiet. No one dares to say anything. All eyes are on the daughter of the red Shanks. He really chops off our heads when something happens to her. Or maybe not?

Great and what now?!

"Shanks? Y-You mean THE Shanks? Akagami Shanks? The captain of the Redhair Pirates?" asks Thatch again for safety. He seems to be the first to find his voice again.

"Is there another Shanks?" asks this Tiana now irritated. This woman drives me up the wall!

"Hey. You joke figure of a captain. I recommend you to call your skeletons back or I will destroy them. Furthermore, I recommend that you look at all the pirate flags and memorize them so that you know who you are messing with. This is my last warning. Remove your skeletons yourself or I'll do it for you!" says the redhead now a little more irritable. It can also get sour amazing. But this younger captain has nothing better to do than laugh. "No one can kill my skeletons." he says arrogantly. The woman sighs and looks briefly at her captain. He nods to her. She then pulls her leg out of the handle of the skeleton with a jerk. She moves her arms a little and thus loosens the knot shortly afterwards the rope falls to the ground. Next time we have to use chains instead of ropes!

"A little piece of information for everyone present." says the little one calmly. She has the attention of everyone. "I ate a devil's fruit. Type Zoan, but the mystical variety. Similar to the phoenix, but I can't regenerate myself. At least not so quickly as he can. I won't tell you what it is. But I'll give you an advice so you don't break off and can't say I didn't warn you. I have the opportunity to fire spikes. On these spikes is a deadly and above all rare poison. If you don't want to die in the shortest possible time, then I recommend you not to touch my spikes." she informs us all now. "What? Are you a porcupine?" asks this James amused. She raises an eyebrow and a tail forms on her lower back or rather just above her bottom. It looks like the tail of a scorpion, but the ending is different. It is nearly flat and completely full of spikes. The armor is also red, just like her hair. Who or what is it?!

With a simple movement of this tail, some of these spikes shoot into the air and come down purposefully. 2 spikes pierce this standing skeleton and the others go into the ground in a circle around the Lion pirates. In the air, the spikes have become much larger. Easily 1 meter long and about 20 to 30 centimeters wide. I don't want to be hit by those.

These strange skeletons make miserable noises. It almost sounds like screams. You can also see how the obvious skeleton slowly collapses and disintegrates into dust. In the places where the other stings have landed, holes as big as a person are now emblazoned. The ends of the sting even look out.

"What are you?" asks Izo cautiously. "A lot of people say I'm a monster. No idea. It is your decision whether I am also a monster in your eyes or not. I see myself as a person with a devil's power. But since only a few know what my devil power is, I have 2 wanted posters. One on 'Akagami Tiana' and one with the mystical name of my devil fruit." says the red-haired cooly. She probably doesn't like to be called a monster. Slowly the tail disappears and she looks normal again.

"Can we go now whitebeard? We are already behind in our schedule." says this damn woman now. How dare she be so disrespectful to Pops?! "I have a better idea. You join my crew and become my daughter." pops replies. Immediately you hear protests from the divisions and even some commanders do not agree with him. I am one of them. The red-haired one also looks irritated.

"No thanks. I stay with the Lion Pirates. They are my family apart from the Redhead Pirates. I don't need another family. Especially not when you only see me as a monster or a weapon." she says calmly, releasing the shackles of her crew. "And besides... I am not accepted by you. That's why I'm not going to join you. You as Whitebeard pirates have my basic respect. But you have to earn my real respect. Especially the bird brain." she adds. "I'm not a bird brain!" I say very angrily.

"How about taking in the Lion Pirates?" says Pops. "Pops?! We don't need them in the crew! A woman in the crew only causes problems!" I try to bring pops to his senses. "Marco." he says calmly. I close my mouth immediately. "I really appreciate your opinion, but I have already made my decision! I want this woman in my crew, in my family!" Pops adds. He's serious and I can't stop him.

"Thank you for the offer Whitebeard. We appreciate this very much, but we as a complete crew also reject your offer. We are our own family and would rather sail like this for a while. In a few years you are welcome to ask us again. Maybe our answer will be different." Kyle says calmly and bows. The other Lion pirates also bow respectfully and make their way to the port.

Suddenly, the redhead woman stops next to a few people from the 2nd Division. Slowly she turns her head to Marshall D. Teach and fixes him with her blood-red eyes. "What sweetie? Do you like what you see?" he asks directly with a dirty grin. The woman contorts her face in disgust. "No. You disgust me to be exact. I just wanted to know what the man looked like who could hurt my father. But apart from your vein for betrayal and ambush, there's nothing special about you." she says. Immediately it is completely silent again. Teach looks at her bitterly evil.

Suddenly she starts grinning and turns fully towards Teach. Before she stood sideways to him, now she is standing right in front of him. The members of her crew suddenly distance themselves from her.

What's going on? Why does she accuse one of our brothers of treason?! Does she have a fucking death wish or something?!!