It was a strange picture for anybody who knew even the slightest about this two.

Luffy, the new Pirate King and Vice Admiral Smoker were sitting side by side on board of the Thousand Sunny and talking with each other like old friends.

And in some sense they were.

Like Luffy´s grandfather Garp and the first Pirate King Roger, this two had a long standing rivalry that was however coupled with a certain respect for each other.

Unlike their two predecessors however their relationship was meant to end up in a completely different way, since none of them would be executed.

Now with the fall of the World Government Luffy was not longer considered a wanted criminal and the hunt between this two was over.

It was pure irony that Smoker and Tashigi were now sitting with a group of people who they would have arrested only two days ago and talking with them as if it was a usual thing.

"And Straw Hat, what will you do next now?" Smoker asked him.

"Well,…" Luffy wanted to answer, but Nami fell him in the word.

"We will continue on our course right to the end of the New World," she told them.

"After Raftael?" Tashigi asked in surprise. "This is the last island of the Grand Line."

"Exactly," Nami replied, "it is the last island and now we hope to find the actual end of the ocean. And with that the access to the other seas." She smiled.

"Access, to the other seas?" Smoker asked confused.

"All-Blue," Sanji said in a serious tone.

Only a second later he complete changed his tune and was now fawning over the navigator.

"Oh Nami, you are so ingenious."

The two Marines only shook their heads about his behavior, being used to a lot from the Straw Hats.

"Remember the entrance of the Grand Line, Reverse Mountain?" Nami asked them. "Streams of all four blues were crossing there and flowing into the Grand Line. I am convinced here, at the end of it, had to be something similar, a place where the water of all oceans in the world is flowing together."

"And that would be the All-Blue?"

"Yes."

"I see you are not settling down, even if you are the Pirate King now," Smoker commented.

"You can count on that," Luffy yelled.

"We want to set sails very soon," Nami told them, "If there is nothing else?"

"Well, you still owe me a fight Zoro," Tashigi said forcefully, "but I see you are in no condition for it right now," she said one moment later, after realizing again in what state Zoro was.

"You have noticed," he replied sarcastically.

He was taking a look at her.

She was a bit different since they ha arrive in the New World, she was wearing a marine cloak instead of her old clothes, her hair was longer and in a different style, less than Kuina.

Maybe it would work and besides, if the "greatest swordsman in the world" could not even control his own fears, what was he worth?

"The next time we meet we will fight," Tashigi told him.

"Later then," Zoro answered.

"Later," she said.

xxx

The Thousand Sunny was ready to depart.

In a short distance was lying the Marine ship that would leave this island soon too. They had already brought the destroyed rests of the final porneyglyph or of the One Piece as it was called, on board. Like Robin had told them, despite it´s destroyed state it was still an infinitive precious treasure of history.

When they came back to Marine HQ they would deliver it to the new world government, together with Teach and his crew.

The truth about the history would soon be made public, like the truth about Ohara.

"We have finally found One Piece," Nami announced. "Now we will go to find the All-Blue and fulfill Sanji´s dream. If I am right, we will be able to return from there directly to the East Blue

and then you will see Laboom again," she told Brook.

"And then you will know every sea in the world Nami," Sanji said to her.

"Yes and the Sunny will have sailed on all of them," Franky yelled.

"Me Robin and Usopp have already fulfilled our dreams on the way here," Zoro stated.

"Exactly and now it is our turn," Sanji sneered at him, "do you get that ego-swordsman."

"If you say so dish-washer," Zoro answered.

At this point they were nearly ready to start another fight, before they suddenly both broke out into laughter.

"We will see us Straw Hat," Smoker said as the pirate captain had jumped on board.

"Yes, we will," Luffy replied. "There is only one last thing I wanted to do," he told the assembled group of pirates and Marines.

He climbed of the lion´s head in front of the Thousand Sunny, then he turned first to his crew, then in the direction of the beach.

"I am the Pirate King," he screamed at the empty island, his own crew and the Marines alike.

The end

This story was written as an idea how I would imagine the final of One Piece to be.

Canon had already overcome a few of my theories. Aokiji leaving the marines for example was something I couldn´t have foreseen.

The "All-Blue", for this story, is an underground ocean that is located at the end of the grand line and connects it with the four other seas. It would be located directly below the Red Line at the same height and the opposite side to Reverse Mountain and works as the counterpart to it.

The Straw Hats will find it and return from there directly to the East Blue. But this will not be written because I have decided to end the story here.

The sequel to this story is "New Beginning".