Alrighty, this is the author speaking from far into the future, specifically on February 7th, 2020. I have some good bit of news for those who read my stories, if you're interested and saw that the story updated, this is what I added and look at the bottom of the story for more information.

Disclaimer: Don't own One Piece.

Donquixote Prince

The years following the Reverie were rather interesting. First and foremost, Luffy and Sabo explained to Pudding and Ace about Vivi. Both were interested in the girl, although Ace, as usual, tried to downplay his interest. Of course, in the letters to Vivi they only vaguely mentioned Pudding due to the fact that as a daughter of a Yonko it'd be suspicious if a princess was receiving correspondence from her. Ace, Luffy, and Sabo could do it as child and wards of a Shichibukai. Of course, that wasn't to say that Vivi didn't know of Pudding, as she did very well, but it was hard to garner that from the letters.

Another thing that had happened, later in the year directly after the Reverie, was that Pudding wanted to join Luffy on his journey to become Pirate King. Of course, Linlin was hesitant about it, partially because of her increased negative emotions due to her Gigantism G. However, thankfully Law had created a temporary solution to that with a medicine that Big Mom was supposed to take every morning. This medicine would decrease her negative emotions and increase her rationality, which helped a lot. This allowed for Big Mom to agree to the agreement. It was also around that time that it also allowed Linlin agree to another one of her daughters' requests.

Charlotte Lola was originally going to be married away to the Prince of the Giants, a marriage alliance that would allow Big Mom to become Pirate King. However, Lola wanted to find her own husband, someone who was worthy of her love. The first thing that helped Linlin accept this was the fact that she, like many others, saw the passion and potential that Luffy had to change the world and become Pirate King. It allowed her to step aside from her dream and pass it on to Luffy. She even had told him that when he returned to the New World after leaving to come see her and if he managed to beat her in a fight, she would grant him one of the keys to accessing Raftel. The second thing that helped was the medicine that Law had given her. It allowed her to think rationally and think for the happiness of her daughter. So, Lola set off on her own to go find her own husband and maybe even explore the world. She did this with a gift that Big Mom almost never granted to her children, a piece of her Vivre Card.

Big Mom's Vivre Card was an extremely, extremely powerful one at that. This was due to the effect of her Devil Fruit, the Soru Soru no Mi. Because a Vivre Card was tied to a person's soul, Linlin's Devil Fruit strengthened it massively. It was because of this that she almost never gave a piece to anyone. Because, with it, one could incapacitate the Homies, objects imbedded with pieces of souls, and that was a huge hole in the defenses of her kingdom. However, Linlin was trusting her daughter with it, knowing that she wouldn't let it out of her sights.

Over the years, Dragon continued to occasionally visit Dressrosa, of course undercover in various disguises. One of the times Dragon hilariously had came as a woman due to a temporary version of Ivankov's Emporio Hormones that was applicable without Ivankov's assistance. The event seemed to fluster Dragon as he didn't like being in that form as it messed up his balance, making him trip a lot. Thankfully, at least for Dragon, as said earlier it was only temporary and he reverted back to normal once he got into the safety of the Palace.

One of the things that the trio noticed, was that Dragon and Doffy seemed to be getting closer each time the man visited. The other Donquixote Pirates were noticing this as well to the point that Rosinante would occasionally tease Doffy about him getting awfully friendly with Luffy's biological father, leading to the man to blush.

Of course, Luffy had been getting closer to his biological dad as well, whenever the man wasn't training Sabo who he'd had designated as his successor of his fighting style. Some kids would be resentful of the fact that their father had chosen someone else but Luffy didn't mind. Especially considering that the Dragon Claw Fist style was very trying hand to hand style that required a lot of concentration to even master. Luffy's style involved ranged attacks with his bow and a super speed fighting style that he had received instructions on from Admiral Kizaru who surprisingly kept in touch. While the Ryusoken would be much stronger enhanced by Luffy's super speed, Luffy would be liable to snap a bone in his fingers in half if he landed the attack wrong due to the speed. Kizaru had written Luffy many stories of broken bones when he was training with his Devil Fruit as while the man was a Logia, Logias were not immune to self-inflicted damage. In fact, Luffy had experienced many of said broken bones during his own training with the speed. However, Luffy was a bit luckier in the sense that as a side effect of his Devil Fruit he had relatively fast healing. It still hurt really bad though.

Other than Dragon visiting, the years were rather uneventful. Sure, Luffy, Ace, and Sabo all participated in the various colosseums, winning a lot of them, building a reputation among the citizens as the Triumphant Trio. Though, when Luffy was fourteen, Doffy had acquired a Devil Fruit that Ace had really wanted, the Mera Mera no Mi, or the Flame Flame Fruit, a Fire Logia Fruit. It was when he presented it to Ace in front of Sabo and Luffy that the man told them something.

"I want to try an experiment." Doffy said, the red fruit sitting on a cushion on the desk in his office in the palace.

The three of them tilted their heads at the man, Sabo speaking up.

"An experiment?" He asked.

Doffy nodded, leaning back in his chair, one leg positioned over the other.

"I want to see if it's possible to give two people the same devil fruit power." Doffy said.

The trio was rather shocked at that as they all had studied Devil Fruits, as it was kind of obligatory when your family traded in them.

"But the books say that only one person can ever have a Devil Fruit power." Ace piped up.

"True, but they've never done what I have in mind, mostly because of greed. I want you two to split the fruit in half and take a bite at the same time." Doffy said.

That… was rather simple, was the thought of all three boys. They could understand partially why greed would be a factor in why nobody has ever done this. People would be too afraid that the other person would get the power instead of them. However, neither of the two boys who were going to eat the fruit cared about that. So, they shrugged and Sabo picked up the fruit. With a knife that he carried on his person for survival purposes, you would not believe how often other people get trapped in rope, he sliced the fruit in half. He then handed one to Ace. On the count of three, the both of them took a bite… and then spat out what was in their mouth, gagging at the taste. Doffy and Luffy were trying to hide their laughter at that, having gone through the same thing. At first, the two boys didn't think it worked, until Doflamingo pointed out that both of their hair was on fire.

The next eventful thing happened a couple months after Luffy turned fifteen. It was an average morning, Luffy, Ace, and Sabo were sitting around, doing their own things when suddenly the entire palace was in a panic. The three boys got up and raced to Doffy's room where the man was barking out orders to everyone, a red Den Den Mushi clearly having just been used on his desk. The three recognized it as the Emergency Line that Doflamingo had for anyone who was in need of help immediately.

"What's going on Papa?" Luffy asked, concerned.

Doflamingo turned to the three, stress clear on his face.

"Whitebeard contacted us a bit ago for emergency help. Apparently one of his members attacked and betrayed his Commander, Thatch. They're asking for me to go pick the man up immediately and bring him to Law to help save the man's life." Doflamingo said.

Ace's and the other boys' eyes narrowed at that. They all disliked traitors, especially pirate crew traitors. You just didn't betray your crew, they were supposed to be like family to you. As Doffy was walking out the door though, he turned back and sighed.

"Whitebeard also had a request for you three." Doflamingo said.

That got the three's attention. It must have been due to the attention that the three had gotten from their various trips and jobs for the Donquixote Pirates. Sure, their fame was only really in the New World but that just meant they got the attention of stronger pirates.

"He requests that you three take down the traitor, Marshall D. Teach, before he becomes a problem. Normally he would have his own crew do it but they're still recovering." Doffy said.

"Why us though?" Sabo asked.

While they had gotten that fame, it wouldn't be enough for a Yonko like Edward Newgate to request their help. Doffy's eyes resting on Luffy cemented that belief.

"It's because of Luffy's devil fruit. The man had attacked the Commander for the Devil Fruit he had, the Yami Yami no Mi. It is one of the few fruits that Luffy's has a clear advantage over." Doffy said.

Now they understood why they were chosen. The Yami Yami no Mi made the one who ate it into a Darkness Human and was one of the fruits that Luffy would have an instant dislike for due to the side effects of his fruit. As an Avatar of Apollo, a god of light, Luffy would have an advantage over the man. Of course, Sabo wanted to ask why they'd think the man would have any handle over his Devil Fruit power right away but then figured they were just expecting the worst case scenario.

"So, where is the guy?" Luffy asked.

Doffy reached into a pouch that he kept on him and handed a map of the New World over. The map had an island marked with an x on it which indicated where Teach had gone. The three nodded before heading off to their room to pack. Whilst they were packing, Luffy slipped something into his pocket that he had a gut feeling they might need before they set off.

Doffy had allowed them to take the main ship for the Donquixote Pirates. Thankfully enough the ship was easy to navigate with only three people. It took them about a day to get to the island and when they did they were in horror at what they found. The entire island was wasted, trees ripped off out of the ground, buildings in ruins, and the town a practical ghost town. In the middle of the village was a rather big man with a red bandana and a black beard. The man seemed to be eating a cherry pie and sitting at the fountain in the center as the three approached him.

"Zehahaha! So this is who the old man sends after me? Three brats?" Teach said with a laugh as he finished the pie before turning.

However, when his eyes landed on Luffy they narrowed into a glare. It seemed that the effect of Luffy's Mythical Zoan was rather instant if that was anything to go by.

"I don't know why but I don't like the look of you kid." He said.

The three however didn't say anything but readied their weapons. Ace had his fists ready, all aflame, Sabo had his fingers spaced out and ready in his Ryusoken, and Luffy was already in his Avatar form, bow held aloft. The man simply laughed before he gestured with his fist, veritable puddles of darkness spawning all around them. That prompted Ace and Sabo to charge at the man, Ace throwing a fist of fire at the man and Sabo swinging his clawed hand at the man.

However, their attacks didn't do anything. As soon as Ace's fire fist hit the man the flames were snuffed out and when Sabo's clawed hand, coated with Busoshoku Haki landed the man just simply grunted but showed no discernable damage.

"Zehahaha! Your Devil Fruit has no use against me! With the Yami Yami no Mi I can negate any Devil Fruit! The same goes for your physical attacks! I can simply absorb the damage!" Blackbeard laughed as the two jumped back.

The man once again gestured and suddenly two of the puddles of darkness thrummed with energy. Immediately after that Sabo and Ace were pulled towards them. Instinctively, Luffy let loose two arrows of light at the puddles. As soon as the arrows hit them, there was a flash and the puddles were gone. Teach's glare on Luffy intensified after that.

"Light? So maybe the old man wasn't becoming senile. That however just means you have to be first to go." Teach said before gesturing again.

Suddenly thousands of bullets of darkness materialized in the air and launched themselves at Luffy. Luffy switched into his lightspeed and zipped past them. However, it seemed that the man had anticipated this as he summoned a puddle of darkness at Luffy's feet, causing him to trip and get slammed by three of the bullets. Though, Luffy wasn't the only one to get hit because when he tripped it was at the exact same time he let lose a laser of light at Teach. Both were now on the ground, hurt. Luffy had painful bruises in three different spots while Teach had a third degree burn all down his right arm. Ace and Sabo took this opening to attack but it seemed that the man hadn't been a member of a Yonko's crew for nothing. Teach instantly reached out with his hand and blobs of darkness latched onto the two and slammed them into one of the walls of the ruined buildings. This had the added effect of crumbling the building and sending them flying even further.

Now it was just Luffy and Teach in the plaza of the town. Luffy gestured with his hand and bullets of light appeared in the sky and he quickly launched them at Teach. The man quickly gestured with his hand too, summoning bullets of darkness and launched them at the light bullets to cancel them out while at the same time sending some after Luffy. This forced him to get up and run to dodge the bullets. This process continued for a while, each other dodging the others' bullets. However, it seemed that Teach had more stamina than Luffy because he was starting to get tired. Teach used this to trip Luffy up, landing more shadow bullets on Luffy and knocking him to the floor. Seconds later, Teach turned and gestured, causing blobs to catch Ace and Sabo as the two tried a sneak attack before slamming them into the ground and pinning them there. The man then laughed before walking up to Luffy.

"Zehahaha! Sorry kiddo but you lost." Teach laughed as he rose his hand.

Luffy quickly reached into his pocket and uncorked the bottle he had brought and threw it at the man, a ginormous flash of light illuminating the plaza. Teach looked confused before he laughed again.

"Zehaha! A flashbang? What was the use of that?" Teach said.

Suddenly a voice that Teach didn't recognize spoke.

"Ararara, what a scary laugh you have." The voice spoke.

Teach quickly spun to catch two things, one a glimpse of a man in a yellow pinstripe suit and a heavy and lightspeed fast punch to the face that sent him flying. Teach tumbled into a ruined wall before crashing into it and right into the wall behind him. When he got up he got a full look at the man who had punched him. The man, as he had seen earlier, was wearing a yellow pinstripe suit but also was very tall and wearing a marine justice coat on his shoulders. On top of that the man had black hair and a very thin beard and wore amber tinted sunglasses.

"A Marine? How the hell did you summon a Marine?!" Teach yelled, not believing his luck.

"Oh? I should probably introduce myself, it'd be rather rude not to. I am Admiral Kizaru of the Marine Forces. It's nice to have the honor of defeating you." Kizaru said, bowing.

Of course, Kizaru didn't give the man anytime to respond as he dashed forward at lightspeed and landed a drop kick onto Teach's skull, sending him slamming into the ground. The man tried to flare blobs and puddles of darkness around Kizaru but the Admiral simply just shrugged his shoulders and emanated a flash of light from his body. This instantly wiped out all of the darkness, allowing Kizaru to follow up by grabbing Teach and flinging him at lightspeed into the fountain. Seeing that his target was dazed, Kizaru pulled a pair of seastone handcuffs out of one of his pockets and cuffed Teach. By then, Ace, Sabo, and Luffy had recovered and approached the man.

"Arara, Luffy-kun you need to stop getting into trouble like this." Kizaru said in a joking tone.

Luffy let out a laugh in relief as it was finally over. Kizaru positioned himself so he was sitting on the defeated Teach.

"So, what drove you three to fight this scary man?" Kizaru asked.

"He's a former Whitebeard crewmember. He attacked a fellow crewmate and the Yonko requested us to take him out." Ace said.

Kizaru narrowed his eyes at the man underneath him before they returned back to him smiling.

"Ara, then there's no need to worry, while we Marines hate pirates, we hate traitors even more. This guy'll get a nice and cozy cell in Impel Down." Kizaru said.

The trio nodded, although Luffy spoke up.

"Be warned though, the guy can negate Devil Fruit powers by touching people." Luffy said.

Kizaru rose a brow in interest at that before nodding. He soon got up and grabbed a hold of the man.

"Alright, I should get going, please don't get in anymore trouble Luffy-kun." Kizaru said before he flashed away.

From there the trio left and made their way back to Dressrosa. It was there that they met the man that was the closest to One Piece. Doflamingo was there as was Law. Law, seeing their condition, rushed over to look at their wounds.

"I see you're back, did you take care of him?" Whitebeard asked in a soft tone.

"Eh, not exactly. I had to call in a favor." Luffy said.

That caught Whitebeard's attention as well as Doffy's.

"What was this favor son?" Doffy asked.

"Shifufufu, well, I used the bottle that Admiral Kizaru gave me." Luffy said, laughing nervously.

The pineapple haired man that Luffy just noticed by Whitebeard's side seemed to quickly understand what Luffy meant, a compliment to his intelligence.

"So… Teach is on his way to Impel Down now, yoi. Couldn't have happened to a better deserving man, yoi." The man said.

Seeing the trio's confusion, Whitebeard laughed.

"Gurarara! This is my First Division Commander, Marco the Phoenix. He's my navigator and strategist." Whitebeard said.

They nodded at that before they were surprised by what Whitebeard said next.

"For helping out with this I would like to make you my honorary sons." Whitebeard said, shocking the three.

That was a rare opportunity, especially since becoming Whitebeard's son was the equivalent of being considered part of his crew. The three gladly accepted, although Ace seemed more fervent about than the others. A week after that, Whitebeard and crew left, promising to keep in touch.

Ace's interest in being Whitebeard's son would later show when the boy constantly exchanged mail with them. It had gotten to the point that Ace had started calling Whitebeard Oyaji and Pops. Ace would explain that it was because he had felt a certain connection with their crew. And while he would have loved to join them, he was dedicated to Luffy already.

About a few months before Luffy was going to turn seventeen and set off, Ace and Sabo finally admitted to Luffy that they liked him romantically. Luffy by this point already had somewhat of an inkling to that and gladly accepted. The three agreed to keep their relationship to simple kisses and cuddles until they all were ready to move further than that.

When Luffy did turn seventeen, it was a large celebration involving the Big Mom Pirates, the Whitebeard Pirates, and surprisingly the Red Hair Pirates. Thankfully though the party was kept on the downlow because otherwise the Marines would be having an aneurism at three of the Yonko together. When the day was nearing its end, Ace, Luffy, Sabo, and Pudding all set sail on a ship that was gifted to them by Rosinante. The ship had Seastone coating on the bottom that would allow them to cross the Calm Belt. Of course, Luffy only planned on using this to cross over into East Blue without having to take the long way. The three set off, making their way to Dawn Island where they would briefly meet up with Sarie before heading onto the path to Reverse Mountain.

SO! It's been ages since I touched this fanfic or any of my other ones. Most of this is due to a severe lack of motivation to write for it. On top of that, my life has kinda changed a fair bit as I'm now engaged to a wonderful man and he's living with me and I've been working on fixing my feet so I can actually work as the bones in my feet are arranged such a way that it gives me severe flat feet to where I can't stand/walk for long without being in agonizing pain. BUT, that long ass time since I've updated has given me ideas for my stories, such as that, I'll be redoing first and foremost, Donquixote Prince. Maybe after a few chapters or so I'll move into remaking my Harry Potter/One Piece reincarnation story. As that one needs severe reworking. I won't necessarily promise anything BUT I'll be trying my best to update when I can. I don't want a repeat of last time where i burned myself out so bad that I didn't even want to attempt writing anything. SO! Look forward to the remake of this story, as I do need to fix quite a few things, especially since when I wrote this, they were still in Whole Cake Island in the manga. AS for my other stories, like for example, To Save a Brother's Life, etc etc, those will be worked on if and when i have the time or energy to do so. Harry Cora Mills however, the sad thing is, the reason i stopped working on that one was because I fell out of the OUAT fandom around that time. I dunno how exactly that one will go but... we'll see. Hope you guys will enjoy what I put out, see ya then!