4 Chapter 04

Chapter 04

"I found you, brat." A voice called out, and Luffy looked up and from the sky he saw a giant man descending.

Luffy quickly jumped back with his rubber body and the man landed in front of him, blowing dust and breaking the ground. Creating a crater on the gournd.

"Come on, Gramps!" Luffy shouted, picking himself up, and dusting off his clothes. "I just washed up!"

Garp grinned, "Look what I got for you, brat." And the giant of a man tossed a large thing at Luffy, who barely escaped, as it stuck into the ground. It was a weapon wrapped in dirty white cloth. "Check it out and see if it's to your liking."

He needed no more explanation, he took away the covering and a silver metal pole came into view, and the blade attached to it was around three to four feet.

A single-edged blade. The design was so that the blade looked like coming out of a golden dragon's mouth and it even had golden engravings on it.

It was a Naginata. (A type of Japanese spear. Whitebeard uses one as well.)

But that wasn't the part that made his jaw drop nope. It was the fact that this was an antic Musume piece, the cloth had it written on it.

This thing was a freaking great-grade sword.

The cloth had a small description on it.

Name: Unknown

Description: Being one of the 21 great-grade swords, its durability is unparalleled. The weapon was crafted in the lost lands of samurai. And was used by a pirate before the golden age of piracy.]

There were other information, but they were smudged out for him to read.

No, freaking way. Who the heck would gift a fifteen-year-old that kind of weapon? But he wasn't complaining.

Luffy grinned grabbing the weapon that was a bit large for his size, —meh he will grow into it— and lifted it. Or at least tried to, that thing was freaking heavy.

"Bahahahaha…. The weapon is yours if you can lift it." Garp laughed seeing his grandson's struggle. "Believe me Luffy, you aren't strong enough yet… Bahahahaha."

What was this? A screenplay of Thor? Of course, the old man wouldn't just give it to Luffy.

Luffy finally gave up, trying to lift it. He snapped his head towards the laughing old man, "Why can't I lift it?!" He could lift a boulder four times his size, so what's wrong with him?

"Bahahhahaha, cause you ain't strong enough."

"Why you… gomu gomu no… pistol." The rubber boy punched with his stretched arm, only to get deflected by a wave of hand.

"Bahahahaha… no wonder you are weak," Garp said, really getting on Luffy's nerves. "I will teach you to wield that blade if you join the Marines."

"Yeah… then you can take that back and shove it up Sengoku's ass!" Luffy said pointing at the weapon.

Garp shut his laugh then looked at his weapon, then his grandson. Before he cried out another laugh. "Baahahaha… I'm enjoying this more than I should."

"You are really a crook you know that." He grumbled.

"Don't worry, you will grow into it…. Bahahaha."

"Fight me you old gezzer."

"Old gezzer?!"

And the fight ensured, or like it always was, a one-way betting ensured. He was improving he could feel it, but it was nowhere near the old man's strength. 'Freaking monster!' he grumbled. It also motivated him to push himself further in training.

And then the old geezer left, saying something about not having enough time to check into the nearest Marine base.

Luffy picked his broken self up, looking at the weapon. He grabbed the cold silver metal pole, "I am going to make you mine, one day. And that's a promise."

With that, he left the weapon there. He was sure other than Garp, no one else would be able to wield it. And it's not like he had an inventory to store the dang thing.

Man having a cheat would have been awesome now.

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The next day, Garp came back from nowhere. He might have been in Goa Kingdom's marine base or on his personal ship, Luffy didn't know.

But he did come by and wanted to drag Luffy to some unconventional method of training. But Luffy wasn't having any of that, he wanted to do something else.

"Come brat, let's get you some training done. You need some muscles on those bones if you want to be a marine just like your amazing grandpa." Garp said, only getting an annoyed look from the boy.

And that peaked Garp's curiosity, the boy usually went head first and spoke his mind. So he asked.

"Why the look?"

"You know you are a lier, old man."

"Eh? What do you mean brat?" Asked Garp peaking his nose. 'Is it about his weapon?'

"This!" Luffy pulled out a paper from his pants which had a picture of a man wearing a green cloak and a red tattoo painted on his left side. Not just any paper it was a bounty poster of the 'Revolutionary Dragon.'

Garp's eyes almost came out of his socket when saw that. And Luffy wondered how that was even possible, but he put that thought in the back burner in his mind. Anime Logic and all.

Garp quickly snatched the bounty poster away. How the heck did the brat find a poster of him?

"What the… Gramps! Give it back" Luffy shouted childishly, grabbing the marine's attention, but the old man was still in a daze. Heh, take that old man. "Why didn't you tell me my father was a great pirate?!"

"Huh!" Garp blinked, he looked at the poster then at his grandson, "Your father ain't a pirate."

"Lier!" Luffy said, taking out another copy of the same bounty poster from somewhere, "See, he even has a bounty. There's so many zeros, its even bigger than Ace's. It's kinda amazing… hey, by the way, who had a greater bounty my pops or his? I mean I didn't know he was a pirate and all." He said.

"Wait, what?" Garp then looked at his grandson, before figuring out the kid didn't know about the stuff. With a heavy sigh, he placed his hand on his grandkid's shoulder, "He isn't a pirate. He's… he's something even worse. He's a revolutionary. The head of the revolutionary in fact."

"So he's strong! Is he dangerous?" Luffy asked.

Garp nodded.

"Even more than Shanks."

Garp nodded again, in some ways he was. But then he looked at Luffy, who had stars in his eyes.

Oh! This was bad. Garp thought, "Don't you ever think about it…"

"That's so cool!" Luffy shouted, with stars in his eyes.

Garp of course boinked him in the head with a 'fist of love'. "That's not good brat. That's worse than being a pirate." He said, "And how did you know that this was your old man?"

Luffy shook his head, avoiding the signs of a concussion, he answered, "I didn't. I just searched my stash of bounty poster and found it. I didn't know who he was." Luffy said, looking at Garp, "But judging from your reaction. He's my dad isn't he."

Garp scoffed. Why did I have to fall for the oldest trick in the book. And lately, he was showing signs of intelligence. He just hoped that Luffy wouldn't be following in his father's footsteps. I'm getting too old for this shit!