DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ONE PIECE!

CHAPTER 1: ESCAPING FROM THE PIRATES

It was a glorious day for the people living in Fuschia Village. Everyone was having a good time early in the morning, people are chatting here and there while drinking sake. You can call it a normal day and life but there are some people who might not be a regular resident in the village that get mixed in the scene. They are pirates, but not entirely a villain. They are good friends with the citizens in Fuschia Village. Their captain, Monkey D. Garp, is an old man but has a large built of muscles and is very strong. He was known for his "Fist of Love" given not only to his enemies but to his loved ones also. Garp has two young grandsons, Ace and Luffy, who were already on the pirate ship but no involved on any fighting with other pirates. Those three, today, are having a drink on Makino's bar.

"Five bottles of sake please!" Garp ordered.

"Old man, can I have some?" Ace asked.

"You're still young, you fool. Just be contented on your milk."

"Milk?! I'm not a damn baby anymore!"

"Who said milks are only for babies?|

Luffy intervened, "Ace, give me your milk."

"See?" Garp laughed,"Luffy still drinks milk even though he's old now."

Ace growled, "He is just a seven-year old crybaby! Not that old!"

Luffy defended himself, "I'm not a crybaby anymore, Ace! I'm now stronger than you!"

"Tch. You said that already in a million times and those lines always ended up being said by me."

The two continued their bickering while Garp laughed at them. He said, "Those two are really fit to become pirates."

"NO!"

Garp was startled to hear the response from his two grandsons. He faced the two boys and said, "What do you mean 'No'?"

"We're not going to be a pirate because we're going to be marines!" both brothers shouted.

Garp's fist clenched tightly on the sake bottle and crushed it in his own hands, "Shanks' influence is still in your mind? I see."

He stood up, glaring on the D brothers, who cowered slightly, and hit them with his fist on their head. A big lump form on their heads and they were force to kneel on the floor.

"No more Navy nonsense on your mind! You two were born criminals and that's it! You don't fit on the 'justice' side! Get it, Fools?!" Garp growled on the two.

Ace stuck out his tongue on his grandfather but Garp didn't seem to notice as he swig a bottle of sake on his mouth. Luffy was crying in his chair, which annoyed Ace.

"Oi Luffy. Will you stop crying like a girl and let us get out here for a while", Ace grudgingly said.

Luffy stopped crying and gave a force brave look, "I'm not crying! My eyes are only watering!"

"Whatever, c'mon. Before Gramps gave us another blow."

"Uh-huh."

The two brothers sneaked out from the bar while Garp is busy with his sake. They went back on their ship, where they can have a private talk (as the whole crew was on the village). After reaching their own room in the ship, Ace locked the door and opened their cabinet while Luffy jumped on their bed, snuggling on it.

"Ace, is it still in there?" Luffy asked while watching Ace rummaged their clothes.

"Of course. I hid it well from Gramps", Ace smirked.

"How come Grandpa still doesn't manage to find it?" Luffy asked again.

"Because", Ace said in an obvious tone, "Gramps doesn't care about clothes. He only cares about rummaging his dirty magazines. That disgusting old man…."

At last, Ace managed to extract a white coat from a pile of clothes and hand it over to Luffy, who happily get it.

"A marine uniform! It's so big and cool!" Luffy chirped.

"Go on Luffy! Try it!" Ace encouraged him.

Luffy put on the overlarge coat of marines and stared at the mirror with sparks in his eyes.

"Wow! Ace, I look cool!"

"Haha! It really fits you to wear a marine uniform!"

"It's your turn now, Ace! Wear it!"

"Nah, I've already tried that more times you did…"

"Nani?! When is that?!"

"While you're sleeping.."

Luffy pouted. Ace guiltily put an arm on Luffy's shoulder. "Don't worry, when we become marines, we're going to have our own uniforms and we can wear it all day!"

This seemed to cheer Luffy and hand over the coat to Ace.

"Shanks is a great marine. He's a good person too, giving us this marine coat as a remembrance from him", Ace said while examining the coat.

"And this hat too!" Luffy pointed the straw hat in his head, "One day, I'll top him! I'm gonna be the Fleet Admiral!"

"Is that so?" A voice came by on their back.

Luffy and Ace frozed on that very familiar voice. Revealing himself, Garp snatched both the coat and the hat from the two boys, whose body can't move due to shock of being found.

"So?" Garp started rolling his sleeves, "So? Now I know where this stupid hat comes from."

Ace came out in reverie and dawned to him that their grandfather was now holding their prized possessions.

"Give them back, you old piece of crap!" Ace shouted.

"Granpa! That's mine" Luffy wailed.

"You two- -!" Garp punched his two grandsons, sending them out of their room, leaving a big hole on the wall.

"Damned this crappy hat and coat! I must burn this- - -"

"Garp-san!"

Garp's first mate, Smoker, rushed inside and gave his captain a bad news.

"What is it, Smoker?"

"A group of marines are heading this way and- - - what's that on your hand, Garp-san, a marine coat?" Smoker suddenly asked.

"Ah, don't mind this trash!" Garp casually threw the coat and straw hat on the bed, "Now, what's that again?"

"I said that the marines are coming! It seems that the Red-Hair Admiral took the lead with other marines!"

"WHAAAAAT!?" Garp furiously shouted at Smoker.

"WHAAAAAT!?" Other voices were heard in unison. Ace and Luffy entered the room again with lump on their foreheads. But their reactions were not that scared. In fact, they have big smile etched on their faces.

"So Shanks' here!" Luffy happily said.

"Yes! And he's gonna kick Gramps' ass!" Ace pointed at Garp.

A vein popped on Garp's forehead, making the two boys retreat. But suddenly, Garp laughed crazily and spoke on his silly grandsons.

"But he's gonna kick both of your ass too! Don't forget you're part of this ship, of this crew!"

"But Shanks is our friend!" Luffy defended, "He gave us remembrance for our friendship!"

After saying that, Luffy and Ace grabbed both the coat and the hat laid on the bed and run away from the room.

"Smoker! Catch those brats!" Garp ordered.

"Hai, Garp-san!" And he went after them.

"Everyone! Prepare the cannonballs! Be ready for the incoming fight!" Garp bellowed to his crewmates as they return to the ship.

XXX

Meanwhile, the marines are also preparing for their coming encounter with the pirates. Headed by Admiral Shanks, they started to position themselves in case the pirates started to shoot them.

"Admiral Shanks! We're all ready for the battle!"

"Oh? Really? I'm not actually in the mood to fight those pirates. My only intention is to visit someo- - -"

"But the Fist pirates are now coming!"

Shanks suddenly smiled and said, "Fist pirates?! Well, Ace and Luffy must also be there! I wanna party!"

"This is no time for that, Admiral! We need to- - -"

But Shanks already run past the door. Heading towards outside, he doesn't notice that another Navy soldier called out to him, "Admiral Shanks! Fleet Admiral Whitebeard wants a word with you here in Transporter Snail!"

Reaching the top, Shanks called out for another Marine officer.

"Buggy!"

Buggy showed himself, holding a large telescope and said, "What do you need, you bastard!? You're interrupting my work in here!"

"Sorry Buggy", But Shanks is smiling, "I need you to help me on some business."

"Why should I listen to you? Even you're an Admiral, you're still my rival, Shanks!"

"Oh yeah? In that case, I won't request to Whitebeard to increase your work payment", Shanks teasingly said.

"Why didn't you say that before?" Buggy angrily said but in reality, his heart is fluttering, "What's that 'business' anyway?"

"You will know that later", Shanks said.

XXX

"Don't let the marines get near!" Garp shouted.

Everyone is now panicking because and Admiral has come on their way. The people in the village are going now on a much safer place. Smoker is still finding the two boys. Garp orders everyone. It seems that a big chaos will come over the village.

"FIRE!"

Pirates started to shoot the marines but they are outnumbered by three to one. Marines also make their first move, two ships are attacking the pirates but the other one is simply making its way to the pirates.

"Captain! There's a marine ship coming nearer to us!"

"What are you waiting for? Shoot on it!" Garp barked.

But the cannonballs send by the pirates were blocked by other cannonballs from the marines. Before anything more happens between the two ships which was 500 meters away with each other, a figure was sighted floating above the sea, in between the two ships.

"Cease fire!" Both Garp and Shanks shouted.

Garp turned on the floating figure, now recognizing it as a human, and he called out, "What do you want, Rear Admiral Buggy!?"

Buggy, hearing this remark, felt braver to go near the pirate ship.

"Admiral wants to talk with you!" Buggy then threw the Den Den Mushi to Garp, who catched the snail with ease.

"Damn Shanks! I knew it! He give me a dirty job like this", Buggy thoughfully said as he flew back on the Navy ship.

Garp pick up the Den Den Mushi and shouted, "What do you want, Red-Haired brat?!"

"Garp! So nice to talk with you again!" Shanks cheered, "How's my two young friends?"

"Don't talk to me like I'm your friend!" Garp shouted again, "If you're talking about my two foolish grandsons, they're not here! And don't ever try to talk with them again!" He slammed his fist on the ship railings.

Shanks covered his ear to avoid crushing his eardrum. He then realizes how the two boys are doing in this time with this battle. Are they hiding? Are they scared? He let out a sigh and talk to Garp again, "Are those two okay?"

"I dunno! Aren't you listening? They're not in here! Smoker is trying to find them now!"

Shanks did not speak for a while. And then replies, "I'll go get them", and hang up.

Garp was startled, "Why you- - -?! Hey! Answer this! How dare him!" He threw the Den Den Mushi on the ship's floor.

"Everyone! Go follow Smoker and find Ace and Luffy! Bring them here for sure!" Garp ordered.

"Hai! Captain!"

XXX

Ace, what's happening? I'm scared", Luffy tearfully said.

"Looks like Gramps and Shanks are having a fight", Ace suggested.

The two of them are hiding in an old basement in the village. Luffy was wearing both the straw hat and marine coat. Ace is peeking through windows. They are neither near, nor far, from the scene at bay.

"Boys!" Smoker shouted from a distance, "I'm tired of our little hide-and-seek! Where the hell are you!?" and his voice trailed away.

"Phew, I thought he's going to see us here", Ace whispered.

"I don't want to go back! Gramps will destroy this coat and my hat!" Luffy sobbed.

"Shhh! Someone might hear you wailing!"

"There you are!"

Both boys jumped, startled by the voice that is own by none other than Admiral Shanks.

"Shanks!" Luffy cried and hugged Shanks on the waist.

"Why are you two here?"

"Well", Ace explains, "Gramps wants to crushed our dreams to be a marine by destroying these things", he pointed at the hat and the coat, "We don't agree with him so me and Luffy run away."

"Shanks, take us with you!" Luffy cried again at Shanks.

And to Ace's surprise, Shanks smiled and said, "I'm really going to take you". He then gestured on the two, "C'mon."

XXX

Garp still fumes on Shanks' last words "I'll go get them". He stared at the now silent marine ship and into the village. His thought trailed on Ace and Luffy. He wondered what Shanks will do to them. He doesn't want to admit it but he's growing worried.

"Captain?"

Smoker went back on the ship without the two boys, making Garp angrier.

"Where are Ace and Luffy?"

"I'm sorry, but seens that they are not in this area anymore", Smoker carefully said.

.Clank.

The Den Den Mushi's interruption saved Smoker from being hit by Garp. He picked up the snail that he threw earlier on the floor and shouted on it again, "What the hell do you want?!"

"Grandpa! Hello! This is Luffy!"

"NANI?!" Garp shockingly said.

His mouth gape open. He couldn't believe that his grandson's voice is over the other line of marine's Den Den Mushi.

"Oi Gramps! This is Ace!"

Garp's mouth had lowered its tip more to the ground after hearing Ace's voice. His brain couldn't comprehend what's going on in his world, in his grandsons.

"Garp."

Another voice talked through the line that made Garp snapped back, "SHANKS!"

"Well Garp, these boys are going to be in the custody of marines for a while", Shanks said to him.

"Give them back, you bastard!" Garp shouted again on him, "I'm going to shoot the other marine shipes canno- - -"

But the idea was stuck in his throat. He doesn't even know where his grandsons' location among the three ships. He doesn't want to hurt them by getting the wrong target.

"Why aren't you firing now?" Shanks said in a serious tone, "Afraid of hurting your boys? You really got a soft heart."

"Quiet! Who are you to get them?! That's kidnapping!" Garp said.

"We are marines! Forces of the government! We won't let children like Ace and Luffy be criminals when they grow up! It's our job to lessen the evil of this world by honing young people to grow up knowing justice!"

"But they are my grandsons, you fool! They're born from criminals! They will grow up as criminals!"

"It's useless explaining to you this now", Shanks calmly said, "Right now, I've got a suggestion or a deal."

Garp raised his eyebrow and said, "What now, brat?!"

"I'm an admiral and honestly can take you now, but it'll be better if there's lesser blood to be shed. All I want is for you to leave this place, far from the Navy. I will let you off now, in exchange for your grandsons' fate."

"You think I'm fool- - -?!" the other line hanged.

"Oi BAKA! You're really making me angry!" Garp screamed at the Navy ship.

But the three Navy ships are now retreating, leaving the pirates dumbfounded. Garp is still shaking in anger, but did not bother to catch up on those ships.

"One day, I'll go get my grandsons back to me…"

XXX

Shanks is still staring at the pirate ship at a distance and said to himself, "Till we meet again."

~END OF CHAPTER 1~