Third Person's POV;
Grand Line, Shipstand Island:
The island was busy with work. Shipyards were building different kinds of vessels and constant hammering rung through the whole island. Every shipyard was busy working, everyone but an old small one.
The owner, Yarn Gregorsen, or more commonly known as Old Man Yarn, has taken the day off and decided to visit his favourite restaurant to celebrate. The reason was found within the new batch of bounty posters.
With a proud grin, Old Man Yarn sat down on his favourite chair on the counter and greeted the waitress behind. “Hello Mary, I'd like to have the grilled pork with roasted potatoes and a flask of your better sake, please.”
Mary, a woman in her mid-thirties, gave the order through to the kitchen and prepared the ordered drink, before setting it down in front of Yarn. “Nice to see you out of your house for once Yarn. You seem to be in a great mood, did something happen?”
Yarn took a sip from his sake and put a piece of paper down on the counter, it was a bounty poster and showed Noa. He was standing in front of an unfinished ship. His body was a lot muscular than what he has been before going to the sea, yet it wasn't overly so. He just looked extremely fit. His short blond hair was spiky and he had a bright grin on his face. On each side of his hip was a deadly looking war hammer, alongside a tool belt.
The poster read ' Noa Franklin, The Hammer' a bounty of 30 million was placed right under the name. “Indeed something happened. Noa got himself his first bounty. I think he was part of the Enies Lobby raid. He is a member of the Kage Pirates crew and both Slicer Lara and True Shot Lia were seen there. There was also someone masked with the same weapons present.
But that's not why I'm so proud, can you see the wood of the ship he is standing in front of?”
The waitress took a closer look at the bounty and nodded once. While she was no shipwright, she knew that some woods are harder to work with than other kinds. “That's little Noa? He looks good, definitely better than most people here on Shipstand.”
“Yeah yeah, his looks aren't important. What is is that he is working with Adam Tree. That's some really rare type of wood and working with it is hard. That he can do that shows his progress as a true shipwright!” Boasted Yarn before taking another sip of his drink.
A nearby worker for one of the shipyards has had heard him and looked up in interest. Adam Wood was known to every shipwright that had at least some skill. Even if it was for most only some holy grail of wood.
Yarn's stay became a long night filled with bragging about his student and more than one flask of hard alcohol.
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East Blue, Konomi Island;
Dr Nako opened the door to the police station, he was carrying a bottle of sake. It was Wednesday, which meant drinking with Genzo. Dr Nako would supply the alcohol, while Genzo would make the food.
He has just opened the door when he stopped mid-step. The long wall of the police station was covered in two extremely large pictures.
One showed Nami in a sexy suggestive position, clad only in a bikini.
The other showed Nojiko, she wore a very, very form fitting red summer dress. She was smiling brightly and had a tiny woman in a princess dress on her shoulder.
“What's that?” Asked Dr Nako out loud. He knew that Genzo was home and would have heard him. And sure enough, Genzo came out of the kitchen, grinning like a loon.
He walked up to the covered wall and pointed proudly at Nami's picture. “Nami got her first bounty, her nickname is Cat Burglar and she has a bounty of 16 million Berry,” he then pointed at Nojiko's picture with an equally wide grin, “and Nojiko has one too. She is called Rapid Fire with a bounty of 25 million. Both of my girls have grown up so much.”
“Yeah, and the fact that they are both young pretty women has nothing to do with you having two such gigantic pictures?” Asked Dr Nako drily. There was no accusation in his tone, however. He was a man as well and wouldn't look away from such two beauties if they crossed his path.
Genzo on the other side spluttered denials, but he couldn't fool the old doc. Genzo was proud of his two almost daughters. And Dr Nako would definitely not pressure him to take them off. Nami looked really good in a bikini after all.
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Grand Line, Dressrosa, Tontatta village;
A group of tiny Tontatta was standing around and on top of a bounty poster. It showed one of their own. A picture of Fiara was prominent on the poster. She was standing in the middle of a burning street. Her flamethrower was spying flames into a house and her four robotic arms were each holding a dead Marine. A happy smile graced Fiara's face.
“Look look, that is Fiara! She is alive and looks happy.” Shouted one of the female Tontattas.
“I'm glad that she lives. She said she would go and seek help, but then we never heard of her again. I already feared the worst,” spoke the Tontatta Chief Gancho. He was an old man with sunglasses and a long beard.
“Do you think that means she will be with us soon? Maybe she has found the help we need and they are on their way to us,” questioned one of the younger Tontatta. The others went quiet, silently wishing that this would be the case, but none wanted to raise hope when there was no evidence.
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“I'm just glad that she is alive and well. It says that she is named Hell Fire. She also has a bounty of 28 million. She must have become really strong to be this important.” Said another, trying to switch the topic into better waters.
The rest nodded and continued to speak about the picture of her, some wondering about the strange mechanical arms. Another few were happily pointing out that they seem to be strong if they can beat four Marines at once.
They celebrated Fiara's rise into the hall of wanted pirates and held a party in her name. A lot of them hoping that soon she would visit and help them with the evil Doflamingo.
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Grand Line, Hidden Marine Base;
Dr Vegapunk was holding two bounty posters in his right hand and a coffee in his left. “Hehehe, seems like the little tyke and Mengele have met each other. There is no mistake who this tiny girl is, I would recognise my work everywhere. Glad to see that she is using them. And her bounty isn't too shabby as well.
Mengele as well, his rise to 75 million isn't much but a sign of him getting stronger. His aggressive depart from our project pushed us back, but he never was one for the job we are doing. Too little room in his moral compass. At least he hasn't given up his work if Fiara's little arms are what I think they are. Hope I'll see more of them from now on. Better keep an eye on the Kage Pirates, maybe they are good enough for a test run? Would give me the chance to see the difference in Fiara's lasers in comparison to Project Pacifista's.
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East Blue, Numuro Island;
Luna was humming while climbing the stairs of her home. A basket of freshly dried clothes was in her arms and the smell of sun and air clung to them. She loved that smell.
She reached the door of her son's room and knocked before opening it. Inside was his son Larn and two of his friends from the village school.
They looked at her and Larn quickly got a sour expression. She was intruding into his play time. “Don't mind me, I just put those away and be gone again,” she chirped happily and walked over to the dresser. They ignored her and started to continue with what they have done a moment ago.
“Look isn't that one of your sisters?”, asked one of the two boys. It took some time, but they got used to their long ears. That the Lonore family was living here now for such a long time helped a lot. Leo is still sceptical about humans but agrees that those on Numuro were at least friendly to them.
Luna perked up at that and looked over to the three children. They had a stack of papers thrown around them. Larn must have gotten his hands on a stack of new bounty posters, he was always looking for new ones of his big sisters.
“Let me see!” Shouted Larn excitedly before grabbing the bounty poster in his friend's hands. “That's Lara, look mom, Lara has a new bounty. The picture is the same, but they have increased her bounty up to 450 million. She has the highest bounty of all new pirates.” He was waving the picture widely and had a large toothy grin.
Her youngest son was really adoring his two elder sisters. They were cool in his eyes and his goal was to become just like them. For that, he was training with his father each day and got pretty good with a sword for someone so young. Even if he wasn't as good as Lara was at his age, still her two girls were on a class of their own. They were always more perceptive and intelligent than other children.
His second friend has shuffled through the stack of papers and found a new one about Lia, the picture hasn't changed as well. “Here, your other sister, True Shot, got a rise as well. She now has a bounty of 300 million. Didn't the last newspaper say something about their involvement in a raid on a Marine base. What was it called again?”
“Enies Lobby, it's one of their biggest bases in the Grand Line and heavily protected. It shows how strong Lia and Lara are. They are really cool. Once I am big enough I will go and become a member of their crew!” Explained Larn proudly. He was keeping up to date with the happenings of the world, always in hope of hearing news about his two sisters. There was a copy of each of their posters in his room, as well as pictures of them. He also had each newspaper that mentioned them. He really loved his older sisters. It filled Luna's heart with worry about his future.
She didn't like his wish one bit but would relent, like she did with her two baby daughters. If only he would not want to become a pirate. Why not a pirate hunter, then he would only have to worry about pirates and not the World Government as well.
Larn does not have the sign of the World Nobles, nor the Sun Pirate sign, on his back, his future wasn't hindered by them. Only his race could become troublesome and that was less likely in the Grand Line to be a problem.
“Is that so? I'm just glad that they are both safe and not hurt,” she said in return to her son. She smiled fondly at him and ruffled his hair. Larn was already inspecting the bounty poster of Lia and Lara, as well as searching for those of her crew.
He already had one from their doctor, their pet and two of their swordsmen. There seems to be a new one for Jonny and Yosaku. They were sharing the same picture, standing side by side. One with a massive brutal looking sword, the other with a midnight black beautiful katana.
He said he wanted to know who his future comrades were. Luna was just glad that her two loners of girls were having friends besides each other. And she had to acknowledge that Josef Mengele, Jonny and now this Noa Franklin were looking quite nice. Even if their ears were way too short.
Oh, she knew of her daughter's preferences into each other. She had known it for quite a time now. It wasn't hard to hear their moans with ears such as hers. An embarrassing part of their race they have to live with.
It was something that gave her husband quite a headache. But it wasn't harmful to them and both were happy. It was sad that she wouldn't become a grandmother from their side, but at least she had Larn left. Hopefully he would like girls.
“Say Larn, are there any pretty girls you like?”, she suddenly asked. For a moment having forgotten that Larn was still seven.
“Ew, mom! Girls are not pretty, they are icky,” protested Larn loudly. Luna sighed fondly and ruffled his hair again before walking out of the room. At least he wasn't saying that he found boys pretty.
Back down in the living room, she sat down on her husband's lap, who was reading the news. “Lia and Lara have gotten a new bounty, they have raised Enies Lobby to the ground. I was never prouder of them,” told Leo her the moment she was comfortable on him.
Luna nodded with a sigh and kissed his right ear softly. “I know, Larn has gotten his hands on their newest bounty. 450 million and 300 million, they are now pretty big names. I just fear that that will attract trouble they can't handle.”
Leo looked her lovingly into the eyes and kissed her nose before replying. “You worry too much. Both of our daughters are strong. I don't think I could defeat them now and they will only grow stronger. They were too strong for Paradise when they started their journey. And they have friends now. One of them is even a Tontatta.”
“But have you seen their swordsman Yosaku? He looks way too muscular for the true beauty of swordsmanship. I bet there is only raw strength in his style, no speed and grace. At least his sword looks good for someone like him.” He laughed loudly. Luna wasn't good with a sword, never has been a fighter. She was more of an artist and seeker of beauty in pictures she was drawing or sculptures of hers. She could, however, see none of that beauty in Yosaku, he looked grotesque and ugly with all these muscles. Nothing like her slim and handsome husband.
She wiggled a little in his lap and noticed with appreciation that he was still reacting to her, even after twenty years of being married. Even after what happened to her under the hands of the World Government. She was lucky that her race gave her a position of a status symbol and that damaging the goods wasn't good for her worth. She has seen what kind of wounds some of her fellow human slaves have received.
Leo chuckled again and suddenly stood up, holding her bridal style. “I think we should take a dip in the lake, just the two of us.” She looked up at him and smiled, knowing what he wanted to do, and agreeing wholeheartedly.
Maybe there was a chance for another child. Long-ear Humans have a hard time getting children, having Lia, Lara and Larn was a miracle for them. Normally one child every ten to fifteen years was normal, even with constant 'training'.
A moment later Leo has shouted up to Larn that he and Luna would be out and then sprinted out of the house, still carrying Luna in his arms and a wide grin on his face.