2 Chapter 02

Chapter 2

A few weeks later after Ace's first bounty, Luffy was in Makino's bar drinking a lemonade, when the bar's door was kicked open.

And for some reason, Luffy felt fear… a shiver ran down his spine as he gulped down the food, that he was chewing. And with hesitance, he looked over his shoulder, already sweating. In these past weeks he had fought bears and some pretty wild beasts, but this time he was genuinely feeling fear, along with some fondness? How did that work?

It wasn't previous, Luffy's emotions or anything like that, it was basic instincts. 

"Where's ACE?!" A middle-aged man called out. Said man also had the build of a giant.

The man was at least nine feet tall and had huge muscles. Even though Luffy knew it, it just felt weird seeing giant people. Speaking off, this world also kind of didn't look real. Well, it did in a way. 

Everything was more vivid, animated and realistically artistic, if that was a word. In some ways, it had it's own charm.

Anyway, the thing was the person who smashed the door open wasn't a giant. No, it was his grandpa.

Seeing the man, Luffy felt a plethora of emotions. He had gone over most of Luffy's memories in the past few weeks, so even though he never met Garp, he already knew enough about him. And honestly, he respected the guy.

He didn't get previous Luffy's emotions or sentiments, so he also had to act carefully, and maybe a bit childlike (or Luffylike?) in front of him. He didn't want to be found out by a sudden change in personality. But then again, even his previous personality wasn't much different from Luffy's so yeah. It seems he didn't need to act too hard.

Still, seeing Garp so large and tall, built like a giant... It also made him jealous, a weird feeling to have. But that was given, after coming to this world he had lost all of his muscles that he had crafted over years of hard work. Losing them gains is quite the hard ball to swallow.

But if he could look like that when he's older, then that's worth it. But looking at his so-called grandpa's legs… he was definitely not going to skip leg days.

"Hey, G-Grandpa!" Luffy said as remembering the memories of head bonking. Those were honestly painful. The bashing on the head was almost lethal and Luffy genuinely didn't want to experience them. "A-Ace isn't here."

The man narrowed his eyes looking at Luffy, "And where might he be brat?"

"Who knows? Big World!" He started sweating, and that wasn't from knowing that this man could go toe-toe with the pirate king. It was from those so-called ' fists of Love' that he didn't want to experience.

But… *Boink*

And he felt just that, "OW! You stinking Gramps that hurts!" Luffy shouted, grabbing his head. Fuck this… this old man hits like a truck.

Why was I suffering again? Oh, yeah, cause one of my so-called brothers started his pirate journey. Well, fuck him. But then again, if he found out that Sabo was a revolutionary, he might drag him to Marineford and start his early career as a Marine.

And then came another, *Boink*

"Ouch! What was that for?"

"You weren't paying attention Luffy!" Garp said, "Why did that brat go off to be a pirate? And here I was trying to train you guys to be marines."

"I won't be a marine…" Luffy quickly grabbed his mouth acting as if he never said that.

"What's that?" Garp asked, "You said something?"

Luffy hastily shook his head.

Garp nodded at that before taking a sit on the bar, "Makino give me some Lunch. And Luffy you want something?"

"Um… meat?" Luffy tilted his head, and Garp nodded, still scowling, and irritated.

"Of course, you would want that." The man scoffed. "Meat for two."

Well, at least he was going to get something else to eat, rather than a beating.

.

Luffy was seen lying in a clearing inside the forest, around him were at least hundreds of human-sized monkeys knocked out. Some were around him, while some were on the trees. Heck, there was even a pyramid of knocked-out monkeys, one top of each other. 

"So you are still using your pipe." Garp said, not far from him, picking his nose, "I thought you were not going to use that anymore."

Luffy supported himself with his long pipe as stood up, still huffing and puffing. "Low diff... *ahem... I mean, my devil fruit isn't anything special. So I have to be creative." He said in between his breaths.

Of course, he knew how special his fruit powers were. But he didn't need to market it around. 

Garp raised an eyebrow, "Huh, and here I thought the monkey family's intellect skipped a generation."

"Wha…?"

"Nothing," Garp then stood up, "I am leaving today, you better not go out of the Island on your own. I don't need you repeating what Ace did."

"I won't," Luffy said, "I still have three years." He blurted out… his Luffy instincts would get him killed.

Garp gave a frustrated scowl, but before he could say something Luffy spoke, "Gramps who's my father?" Okay, this was the only way he knew to throw the man off.

Garp was taken aback by the question, "Where did that come from?"

"Well… you know how Ace is the… you know who's son. So I wanted to know my dad was?" Luffy asked, "Is he dead?" the boy looked a bit scared. 'Acting isn't my strong suit, but I hope it convinces the old man.'

"No," Garp said, already rubbing his head. He sighed when he saw Luffy feeling relieved at the news.

"Then where is he? Can I meet him? Is he a marine? Is he strong? What's his Devil Fruit? Does he poop?!" 

"Shut it, Brat!" Garp said, massaging his forehead. "Way too many questions."

Luffy shut up.

"I can only say his name." Garp said, and Luffy nodded "But don't say it to anyone." He said the last part with a serious expression.

Luffy slowly nodded. 'Yeah, like I want to have a buster call on my ass. Well not right now at least, fighting a few vice admirals kind of would-be cool.'

"His name is Dragon."

"He is a dragon?" Luffy shouted, overreacting, then comically pointed at Garp, "You did it with a dragon? That's disgusting and awesome at the same time."

Garp spat blood, before punching the lights out of Luffy. But was it worth it? Definitely, it was worth it.

"Why you… His name is Dragon. Monkey D. Dragon. He's not a dragon" Garp said with a tick mark on his forehead, "And I am not even going to ask how you know about 'Birds and bees' stuff. Stupid brats growing up too fast." And he left, his irritation back on his face.

Luffy smiled cheekily, spitting out dirt before standing up, oh boy that hurt. But it was worth it, throwing the old man off was quite fun. "Wait, Gramps. Don't leave me behind."

Luffy then followed Garp who grumpily sped up.

After the day was over, a Marine ship with the head of a dog came to pick the Vice-admiral up. Luffy unlike other times stayed, "Oi, Gramps."

"What is it now?" Garp asked.

"When are you going to get back?"

Garp frowned at the question, maybe not having Ace changed his grandkid, "After six months. On your birthday." He said, not irritated this time, just curious, "Why, brat?"

"Um…" Luffy said, before opening and closing his mouth. How should he say it. 'Not gonna lie, it is a bit embarrassing.'

"Just say it, brat!" Garp grumbled. 

"Can you bring me one of those weapons that's like a stick but not a stick? And has a blade on the top of it." Luffy said, in one breath. Yeah, asking something just felt a bit weird, and embarrassing. It kind of feels like I'm taking advantage of him. Which I am… I'm going to get used to this stuff.

Garp grinned this time, "You want a spear?" rubbing his chin. "Or a naginata?"

"Uh, I don't know… whichever you can get. Has to have a good enough to last till I get as old as you." He didn't have a preference, he wanted a pointed weapon just in case he wasn't able to learn the rokushiki in these three years. Also, he was in a fantasy world, calling out names and doing sword slashes would be anyone's wet dream.

But rather than getting an answer, he got hit in the head. "Ow! What was that for?"

"Who are you saying 'old' brat?"

Luffy gave him a deadpan look, the old man had gone senile, it was official... and got another hit.

"I will see what I can do…" the old man muttered as he started walking off. A small smile on his lips.

"Yeah! I want the best!" Luffy said ignoring the winching pain in his head.

Garp smirked a bit thinking things over, "Yeah. I will get you one." He had one in mind, it was the first time Luffy actually wanted something from him and so he needed to show off a bit. Maybe that would put some interest in Marines in the boy.