The twelfth supernova: Leah

Chapter 43

"Hey Lu, long time no see." She told Luffy.

"Leah!" Shouted as he jumped towards her and gave her a big hug. "It's good to see you again!"

Leah laughed as her and Luffy's crew just stared at them confused. The two hugged for a few seconds more before separating. They turned towards their respective crews.

"This is my brother/sister Luffy/Leah!" They introduced.

"You have a brother/sister?" Their crews shouted in surprise.

"Yep, I'm Leah, thank you for looking after him, I know he can be a handful." Leah said gratefully, bowing to Luffy's crew.

"We know." Luffy's crew said with their heads down and sweat dropped.

"Um." Hon said pointing towards the mermaid in the tank still wearing a slave collar around her neck. "Should we do something to help your mermaid friend."

Luffy turned towards his mermaid friend. "Franky is getting the keys." He spoke.

"Okay." Leah said uncensored. "Who's Franky?"

Before anyone could answer the wall behind the mermaid burst open revealing a bearded man in glasses and a bearded giant. "I told you there was a ruckus." The bearded man said casually.

He walked forward next to the tank. "Thanks everyone, thanks to you I was able to get the money I came here for, now I guess it's back to the gambling house and blow it all away."

"You got yourself in this mess for a bit of money, you are one messed up old man." The giant told him.

"Yeah, and I was going to rob whoever bought me to." The bearded man said before laughing. "Now that I think about it, the plan was stupid who would want to buy an old man as a slave."

The old man continued to laugh loudly. The octopus fishman and Gail instantly recognized the man. "Rayleigh!" They both shouted.

"Hatchi! Gail!" He exclaimed taking the two in and noticing that Hatchi was on the ground in pain as Chapper was attending to him. "What happened?"

Hatchi tried to stand, but the pain made it impossible. Chapper put his hand on his shoulder to encourage him to lay down. Rayleigh then turned towards the mermaid in the tank looking serious. "I see, you were doing what you thought was right, you all must be the people that were helping him out."

Rayleigh pulled out a small pocketknife before slicing the top of the tank off. "Camie!" The starfish shouted in worry.

Camie was unharmed and the tank was now open for Rayleigh to grab the slave collar around the mermaid's neck. It started ticking, making the straw hats and much of Leah's crew tense. The old man closed his eyes in concentration as he took the collar off and threw it before it exploded.

Everyone in the theater just stared at Rayleigh stunned. "It can't be." Kid muttered.

"That's ..." Law tried speaking.

Rayleigh then looked at Luffy. "I was hopping to meet you, that straw hat of yours really fits a fearless man like you."

He then turned to Leah. "And I see that you have decided to follow your father, I was wondering when you would set out on your own."

Leah widened her eyes at what he said as an image of a sickly woman in her bed. She then saw her father telling her of his vice-captain Silvers Rayliegh the Dark King."

"You're my dad's old vice-captain." Leah said in a quite surprise.

Rayliegh was about to speak when a booming voice yelled from outside. "Monkey D Luffy, you and your conspirators are to come out with your hands up and surrender."

"Oh, come one we weren't even involved." Law said.

Leah looked towards the exit. "Maybe we should have left when all the rich people left."

Her crew sweat dropped. Rayleigh laughed quietly at her. "I'm afraid that I can't help you, can't let the World Government know that I have been living a quiet life in their back door."

"Tch." Kid scoffed. "I don't need a senior citizen's help, now all of you stay back as I take out the trash."

"Don't tell me what to do." Law said agitated following him to the door.

"Let me handle them!" Luffy shouted following them.

"That goes for you to." Law told straw hat.

As the three made their way to the exit, Leah decided to thake a seat on one of the seats in the theater. Everyone looked at her waiting to see what she would do. Leah looked around the theater and shrugged.

"If they need help, I will help, but I think they got it." She told everyone.

To be continued...

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