Sons of Beasts Part 2

A Bad Dream and Helpful Reassurances

By dinner time, everyone had heard of the newspaper's contents. Each and every pirate had the same questions. And the same feeling of excitement. What was going to happen next? Wouldn't bother them, they were already all wanted men. They were pirates, and though they had friends outside of the crew, they couldn't really give a shit about what was going on with the government.

Many of them also wanted to confront someone other than the brothers about their abilities. And how they had used them to threaten others. Surely Whitebeard wouldn't approve of that. However, Ace was right. If they went to talk to pops about it, they'd also be confessing why Ace had trapped someone in a ring of fire. And all of the pirates who got caught and spoke directly with pops came out not looking so good, but didn't tell anyone what went on.

Luffy's head suddenly snapped up and he got up to a standing position.

"What's wrong?" Ace asked in surprise. Luffy's tail flicked.

I hear something coming from outside. Whatever it was was loud. The ship rocked a little bit, causing food to fall on the ground off the ends of the long tables. Then, it seemed like Whitebeard noticed something was wrong, and Luffy sprinted after him as he hurried outside. It was still light out, not dark yet.

The rest of the crew hurriedly went outside to look at the area Luffy was staring at. Ace! It sounds like a big wave.

"Luffy says a big wave is coming," Ace said nervously. No one else could see or hear it. Whitebeard grew very pale. He'd caused some, so he knew what a tsunami was and how huge they could be. Even their ship was dwarfed compared to some tsunami's the captain had created with his devil fruit.

"It's a tsunami. We can't stop something like that," Whitebeard said in a defeated face. What a stupid way to do. Even if he tried slamming a quake into it, it'd be too close by the time he could reach it with his powers.

"Luffy!" Ace shouted. The dragon pushed others away as he stood against the back railing. Ace was next to him, breathing heavily. Could Luffy stop it? The dragon leapt off of the ship and headed straight for the wave, going as fast as he could.

Others shouted in surprise as Luffy flew straight into the wave. "What?!" Marco cried out. Did the dragon just kill himself? Surely, it would drown if flying into it. The crew began to scream and run around like chickens with their heads cut off in panic.

Then, there was a massive cracking noise. It was terribly loud, and the commanders just watched with wide eyes as the ocean was covered in ice, the wave frozen, towering above them. The ice grew thicker and thicker as it flowed. The water was jagged while it froze.

Ace was the first to sigh out in relief. The others just looked shocked, the hundreds of pirates looking at the frozen wave. Then they saw Luffy come flying from behind the wave, seeming completely fine, like he hadn't plunged straight into a tsunami. He quickly landed next to Ace, who hugged him tightly.

"Good job, little brother," he said with a laugh.

It was even bigger than freezing around Mary Geious. It shouldn't move again, I froze it out really far back. There were some more little waves. It's just gonna float around now. Like an iceberg.

The pirate started cheering. They were alive! "Luffy says it shouldn't move again since he froze it a while behind. Some other waves are frozen behind it. It's just gonna float around now, like an iceberg," Ace repeated for his brother.

I would have gotten hurt if I didn't harden myself.

"Luffy, how are you alive?" Thatch asked in bewilderment. "Crashing into that would have hurt, and then you must've thrown around inside of it."