Chance To Start Over Again

Johnny and Yosaku

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece

Last time on Chapter 18...

After an hour of Merry explaining, it finally stopped. Luffy placed his items on the Captain's room, he was quite amused of the shocked and terrified faces of Kaya, Merry, Usopp and the kids when the Sea King went out of the water, soon after that, they left and so the Sea King, Luffy freed the Sea King. Usopp joined and they also placed their items in their respective rooms, which are the female and male's room. Luffy sighed and plopped himself at the chair, the transponder snail close to him. He dials a familiar number, he waits until someone finally answered.

"Hello? This is Marco The Phoenix, what do you want?" Marco's voice was the cold, firm and authoritative kind of voice, Luffy decided to speak up.

"Shishishishi, It's Luffy, I gotta talk to Giant-ossan." Luffy says cheerily as the transponder snail's eyes widened. It was going to be an important conversation after all.

"Luffy? Alright, this has to be some important thing, you wouldn't call us for no reason, especially if your brother is here-yoi." Marco says with a deadpanned tone, Luffy laughs as he hears the deadpanned tone at the end.

"Damn right I won't, it'd blow my secret! Shishishi!" Luffy says as he hears Marco sigh while he laughs again.

"Wait a minute, I'll take the transponder snail to pops-yoi." Marco says while Luffy hears the footsteps later on.

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"Gurarararara! Brat, why did you wanted to call me? Reports I suppose?" Whitebeard says as he laughs, Luffy swears that he hears Whitebeard drinking rum in the middle of a conversation.

"No, just to irritate you." Luffy sarcastically says as he hears Whitebeard and some laughs at the other side. "And I'm not a brat, I'm in the same age as you!" Luffy added as he hears Whitebeard laugh.

"Gurararara!" Whitebeard laughs as the others followed, after a few minutes Whitebeard turned serious "Enough about that, what do you want to know?" Whitebeard says with a serious tone and expression.

"First, did Thatch got a hold of the Yami-Yami no mi now?" Luffy asks with the same tone and expression as Whitebeard, he would have called Thatch 'Thatchy' if it wasn't an important conversation right now.

"No, not yet. Thatch is on a mission right now though." Whitebeard responds as Luffy took the information on his mind, a tense atmosphere came for a minute.

"Is Ace a commander now?" Luffy asks, excitement completely obvious in his tone. He hears Whitebeard and the others laugh again, the tense atmosphere was gone.

"Yes he is, but he isn't here. We left him and told him he can't join, he's sulking in the corner somewhere right now." Marco answers while Luffy laughs from the answer.

"He'll probably annoy and ask us what was it that he wasn't able to know." Luffy hears Izo say as the others laughed and he hears says some commanders say things in agreement.

"I see..." Luffy says quietly as he remembers an important question "How's Teach doing?" He asks quietly, but everyone heard it. The tense atmosphere was back once again.

"... He's not doing anything that's making us wary of him, for now." Whitebeard says as Luffy nods in acknowledgment.

"That's all I need, for now. my Nakama might ask me what I'm doing right now, I can't let them getting suspicious of me. Bye Giant-ossan, everyone!" Luffy said cheerily as the others said their goodbyes. Luffy placed the handset back to its rightful place, he stood up and stretched as he exercises for a little.