Straw Hat: Rise of the Dragon Slayer

Final Tearful Thank You

"Take Care!!"

"Big BRO! TAKE CARE!"

A smile grew on my face despite the sadness I was feeling, the guilt of leaving left my shoulders. I slowly guided my right arm back to myside, and carefully attempted to put the brace back on. I glanced at Franky who was sobbing on the deck waving at his subordinates that he calls friends. "Are you ready?" Luffy asked while sitting inon the railing despite the chaos around us. I nod looking at my captain. "Yeah" He gives me a large smile and giggles looking at me. "That's good! You had me worried for a second! You were such a crybaby!" His statement left me dumbfounded, Nami leaps forward and slaps him. "You dumbass! She's leaving the only place that she knows! This is a whole new world for her! Literally!" She began to lecture him, I drown out Nami and sit down on the deck. Chopper rushed over to me and inspected the brace making sure I put it back on properly.

"That was a dumb thing to do"

"Yeah yeah"

"Don't Yeah yeah me! You-"

BooooOM

The ships rocks violently from left to right making my stomach turn slightly. The sudden attack made everyone topple over. "Crap it's the navy!" Sanji yells out as he looks over the railing to see a warship. I grumble knowing I just got comfortable and stood up. "Grandpa!" Luffy shouts out from the railing. I brace myself incase I needed to help protect the ship. Well try to, I didn't know my current limits quiet yet.

"Hey! Luffy this is your Grandpa!"

I walked over to where Franky stood who seemed just as ready to help as well. We both watched as the warship sailed closer to us. "A lot of stuff has happened. I'm sorry but I'm going to have to send you to a water grave! And your mage to arrest!" Garp's voice rang out as I glanced at Franky with a worried look.

Yeah....Only Alive, I forgot that.

In the corner of my eye I could see Luffy staring frustrated with a hint of anger at his Grandfather. Not a second later I felt the hair on the back of my neck rise. A cannonball was thrown with intense speed, it flew pass me and hit scrap island with a loud explosion. My eyes widen with worry as the smoke clouded my vision.

"Hey Old man!" I shout out, my hands form a fist as I angrily walked to the quarterdeck to look at Garo. "OLD MAN WATCH WHERE YOUR AIMING! YOU ALMOST HIT MY D- CIVILIANS!" Flames spewed out of my mouth as I spat at the vice-admiral with anger. This surprised my crew at my outburst, I could hear Dad and the shipwrights laugh as the smoke cleared. My expression softened seeing Dad and the shipwrights unharmed.

Time caught up and the blood drained from my face, I just called a marine vice-admiral 'old man'.

I quickly spun around and faced my crewmates in alarm, my heart skipped a beat after seeing Garp's menacing face. I let out an uncharacteristic childish scream of horror. "We don't have a choice! We got to get out of here or he'll blow the ship to pieces!" I yelled out, Nami soon followed suit and began to order the crew around. Scrambling down the stairs frantically to start helping the crew. "This is bad!" Franky whipping his head back and forth at the crew. "He's going to throw a whole bunch of them!" He yells out with panic, everyone around started working faster. My jaw tightens as we sail at a slow pace past scrap island.

"What's the hold up!" I looked around confused, Robin sighs softly and walked in my direction. "That's right, while you were gone repairing the buildings we had a talk about Usopp"

I listened carefully to Robin who explained it as quick as possible. My eyes glanced to the shore of island before sighing. "So we're waiting on Usopp then" Luffy looked determined and confident that he would be coming back, I couldn't just stand around so I started helping Chopper untie the rope to the sails to get ready. "Hey! He's here! Usopp's here!" Chopper shouts out with glee, he lets go of his rope and sprints over to the railing. I quickly lean forward to grab the rope before the entire side of the sail is totally loose. I grind my teeth feeling the tension from both the ropes on each arm, one aching more than the other. "Hey! I'm still here!" From a distance you can hear Usopp. My feet started to slide since the wind started to catch the sails.