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It took a week for the three old men to fly over to the Sky Islands, the whole way through the old men caught some newspapers and managed to find out that the World Government simply hid the incident at Impel Down.
It was what they had expected to happen anyways... Francisco's existence needed to be kept a secret from the world, as was Rocks and God Valley in general.
After all, they had gone through a lot of trouble to erase it. So that was just about within expectations for all three of them.
What came as a bit of a surprise was the fact that the World Government decided to silently raise Enel's bounty to 4 Billion Berry.
It wasn't hyped up or anything, they had decided to just pin some random attacks of marine bases on him and call it a day.
Enel didn't really find it all that odd. The world government was finally acknowledging that Enel posed a huge threat to their influence, albeit silently.
Well, they tried to do it silently, but Morgan made the news blow up. Creating more and more articles that proclaimed Enel as the 5th Emperor of the Sea.
Enel wanted to laugh at that, as he remembered Morgan always being a bit of an unknown quantity to the World Government.
He was also relatively strong, but his influence was actually what mattered the most. The World Government couldn't exactly assassinate him easily.
The Big Bird also likely had enough blackmail on them to cause some 'momentary annoyance' at the very least.
Regardless, Garp laughed a bit when seeing Enel's bounty. He hadn't gotten to see Enel's poster before letting himself get captured.
Francisco himself was rather surprised to hear about such a large bounty being put on what was technically a Newby.
"You must've really pissed them off!" That was what he said exactly after Garp read out a few headlines about Enel's new bounty and 'atrocious' crimes.
Still, Enel's shock was only amplified when learning that he was still a Rookie when compared to good old Francisco...
The old pirate's bounty had been at a solid 6.2 Billion Berry. Having one of the highest bounties ever given to any pirate ever.
His Captain, Rocks D. Xebec, wasn't any less impressive. Standing tall at around 6.5 Billion Berry, the actual highest bounty to be given to a pirate.
Gol D. Roger may have pissed on the World Government's parade the most though when starting the Golden Age of piracy right at his execution.
His bounty would've surely soared to new heights had he managed to do so under different circumstances... But there was no use to place a bounty on a dead man.
Francisco told both Garp and Enel quite a few tales about his adventures in the Rocks pirates.
Garp also joined in wherever he could, as he knew quite a few of the tales, as some of them included him and Sengoku hunting the Rocks Pirates down.
The two old men had clearly once been enemies, now they were just two people past their primes reminiscing about the days that they had been at each other's neck while laughing about it.
Enel found their dynamic quite endearing. He also found out that Francisco was older than Garp, 10 years older to be precise, being around 87 currently.
So he was rather close to Enel's age, well at least when one put both of his lifetimes together.
The three of them reached the Sky Island swiftly, Enel landing his white boat near his cabin, the old man hopped off and Enel turned the boat back into a staff.
"I need to get my hands on some gold..." Enel said as he scratched the back of his head.
"Hmm... Gold is quite expensive, might take you a while to scrounge up the money." Francisco said as he rubbed his chin.
"Bah, you can always steal it! You're a pirate now anyway, who cares?" Garp said as he picked his nose with his pinkie.
The three old men then heard the cabin door open, Bonney came out looking at them with an odd gaze.
"What's this now... A nursery for old men?" The 'young' pirate said as she swiped her pink hair backwards.
"Wait... Is that..." Her eyes quickly widened as she recognized Garp, quickly taking a step back and gulping.
"W-what is the marine hero doing here?!" She asked as Enel simply sighed.
"Damn... I guess news reaches this place rather slowly..." Garp said as he narrowed his eyes.
"He's taken a small vacation, he'll be hanging out around Skypea for a while." Enel ended up explaining the situation at best he could.
He wasn't about to go into detail with Bonney, she was far from close enough to him in order for him to tell her much.
"Yeah... A vacation. Say, Enel, why is a pirate from the 'Worst Generation' in your home?" Garp asked as he tilted his head.
He wasn't about to try and apprehend Bonney, as his situation wasn't exactly like before. He wasn't one to go after a Rookie in the first place.
"About that... This here is Bonney, she's got a special ability that the World Government really wants to get their hands on. You can guess the rest from there..."
Enel smiled a bit as he spoke, wondering if Aokijij had even reported about their negotiations and whether the World Government had any idea that Bonney was with him.
After all, as long as Aokiji ordered them to, the people on his ship would've kept silent about the situation.
"Gihahihahihahi! I guess we now know why the World Goverment seems to really hate you!" Francisco laughed a bit as he spoke.
Enel had basically taken every opportunity to get in the way of their plans and ruin as much of them as he could.
"I guess I have been butting head with them from the shadows for quite some time... I have quite a few plans, and every single one of them somewhat affects the World Government negatively."
Enel said as he scratched the back of his head with a bead of sweat on his brow. Trying to ignore Garp's intense gaze when he mentioned his 'plans'.
"Figures... You brat! Your schemes better not harm the marines, or I will not hesitate to beat you up!" Garp said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Don't worry about it! The only one that was explicitly going to affect the marines was the one at Marineford... I've made plenty of friends there and I don't feel like harming any of them."
Garp simply nodded when hearing Enel's words, smiling a bit as he thought more and more about Enel's proposal from earlier.
"Enel, I won't be joining your band of misfits... But, as long as it's something I can do, I'll help you. I already owe you quite a lot..." Garp said as he stroked his small beard.
Bonney's eyes widened when hearing that.
'The Marine Hero is agreeing to work with an Emperor?!' The situation was extremely unusual to her, she found it difficult to even comprehend.
"Gihahihahihahi~ I told you he'd come around eventually!"Francisco laughed once more as he turned his head in Enel's direction with a smile.
'And who's this old guy...' Bonney looked at him for a few seconds, trying to see if she could remember him. But even if she had seen Francisco's poster back in the day, she had no chance of recognizing him as he was now.
The trio also made no effort to inform her, instead, Enel got to explain to them, what their duties will be while they lived on Sky Island.
"Basically, you will both be tasked with training the people of Sky Island, this isn't a pirate crew, just a country separate from the World Government," Enel said as Garp seemed to be contemplating his answer for a bit.
In the end, he just nodded, much like Francisco did.
"I already gave them the manuals for the 6 powers. This is more so that they can defend themselves if something happens and I am unable to help them."
Garp wanted to protest the fact that Enel had imparted the Rokushiki to the Sky People, but he stopped himself when hearing the second part.
In the first place, the 6 powers were abilities that the marines used to protect others. He could accept them being taught to others for protection.
"Garp, you would be tasked with sometimes training the recruits. Your mastery over the 6 powers is way above my own, so you are the best fit for this."
Garp merely nodded, immediately thinking of starting to use the training regime he had used on his two most recent students...
Koby and Helmeppo, Garp somewhat missed them, but he couldn't exactly return to them yet.
"Francisco... I heard that your speciality was swordsmanship, right?" Enel asked as he tilted his head.
"Of course! I used to be the strongest swordsman on these seas! I get you, I'll pick a few disciples and teach them a bit of Swordsmanship.
I'll also teach Haki to a few people if I deem them prepared enough."
Francisco didn't need to hear any more than that, having already planned out everything on the way there.
He knew that an old man like him was only useful in so many ways, as he was now, he wouldn't be all that useful in a battle, as he wasn't anywhere near as fast as he used to be.
He tired out too easily as well, so the second Enel recruited him he knew that he'd have to teach a few younglings how to fight.
"Great... Well then, you two will be living in the city, I'll make arrangements with Gan Fall, the current leader of Skypea. I'll make sure your homes have a nice view of the sunset." Enel smiled a bit as Francisco laughed when hearing about the view.
"I can't wait to feel the sun on my skin in the morning after a full night of rest... I've not felt a bed in a very long time." The old man said as his bad seemed to creak like a rusty door-hinge.
The three old men laughed a bit at each other, while Bonney looked at them with some sweat on her brow.
A man named Francisco, one that was also once the strongest swordsman in the world.
Not all that many people fit that description... In fact, only one did.
The first mate of the infamous Rocks Pirates. She had heard about them, they had been active while she was still in hiding from the World Government.
She ended up excusing herself and heading back to her cabin, as the trio simply continued laughing and started heading for the city.
Bonney sat on the bed and looked at the ceiling with quite a bit of wonder...
'How did he manage to attract this many legendary figures to him?!'
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Hope you liked the chapter, again, sorry for the delay. Today was a really bad day, can't say much, more of a family issue.
Also, on the matter of Bounties. I'm not ranking Roger higher than Rocks. I'm assuming his bounty would've been raised a lot had he not turned himself in, but as things stand, that wasn't the case.
The feats of Francisco will be explained more at a later date, this bounty wasn't unwarranted, as he was arguably the second strongest person in the world at the time(right behind Rocks himself).
If u want to support me look up VeganMaster on Patre_on, you'd also get 10 chapters in advance (or 5 depending on tier)
__________ POV Narration__________
It took a week for the three old men to fly over to the Sky Islands, the whole way through the old men caught some newspapers and managed to find out that the World Government simply hid the incident at Impel Down.
It was what they had expected to happen anyways... Francisco's existence needed to be kept a secret from the world, as was Rocks and God Valley in general.
After all, they had gone through a lot of trouble to erase it. So that was just about within expectations for all three of them.
What came as a bit of a surprise was the fact that the World Government decided to silently raise Enel's bounty to 4 Billion Berry.
It wasn't hyped up or anything, they had decided to just pin some random attacks of marine bases on him and call it a day.
Enel didn't really find it all that odd. The world government was finally acknowledging that Enel posed a huge threat to their influence, albeit silently.
Well, they tried to do it silently, but Morgan made the news blow up. Creating more and more articles that proclaimed Enel as the 5th Emperor of the Sea.
Enel wanted to laugh at that, as he remembered Morgan always being a bit of an unknown quantity to the World Government.
He was also relatively strong, but his influence was actually what mattered the most. The World Government couldn't exactly assassinate him easily.
The Big Bird also likely had enough blackmail on them to cause some 'momentary annoyance' at the very least.
Regardless, Garp laughed a bit when seeing Enel's bounty. He hadn't gotten to see Enel's poster before letting himself get captured.
Francisco himself was rather surprised to hear about such a large bounty being put on what was technically a Newby.
"You must've really pissed them off!" That was what he said exactly after Garp read out a few headlines about Enel's new bounty and 'atrocious' crimes.
Still, Enel's shock was only amplified when learning that he was still a Rookie when compared to good old Francisco...
The old pirate's bounty had been at a solid 6.2 Billion Berry. Having one of the highest bounties ever given to any pirate ever.
His Captain, Rocks D. Xebec, wasn't any less impressive. Standing tall at around 6.5 Billion Berry, the actual highest bounty to be given to a pirate.
Gol D. Roger may have pissed on the World Government's parade the most though when starting the Golden Age of piracy right at his execution.
His bounty would've surely soared to new heights had he managed to do so under different circumstances... But there was no use to place a bounty on a dead man.
Francisco told both Garp and Enel quite a few tales about his adventures in the Rocks pirates.
Garp also joined in wherever he could, as he knew quite a few of the tales, as some of them included him and Sengoku hunting the Rocks Pirates down.
The two old men had clearly once been enemies, now they were just two people past their primes reminiscing about the days that they had been at each other's neck while laughing about it.
Enel found their dynamic quite endearing. He also found out that Francisco was older than Garp, 10 years older to be precise, being around 87 currently.
So he was rather close to Enel's age, well at least when one put both of his lifetimes together.
The three of them reached the Sky Island swiftly, Enel landing his white boat near his cabin, the old man hopped off and Enel turned the boat back into a staff.
"I need to get my hands on some gold..." Enel said as he scratched the back of his head.
"Hmm... Gold is quite expensive, might take you a while to scrounge up the money." Francisco said as he rubbed his chin.
"Bah, you can always steal it! You're a pirate now anyway, who cares?" Garp said as he picked his nose with his pinkie.
The three old men then heard the cabin door open, Bonney came out looking at them with an odd gaze.
"What's this now... A nursery for old men?" The 'young' pirate said as she swiped her pink hair backwards.
"Wait... Is that..." Her eyes quickly widened as she recognized Garp, quickly taking a step back and gulping.
"W-what is the marine hero doing here?!" She asked as Enel simply sighed.
"Damn... I guess news reaches this place rather slowly..." Garp said as he narrowed his eyes.
"He's taken a small vacation, he'll be hanging out around Skypea for a while." Enel ended up explaining the situation at best he could.
He wasn't about to go into detail with Bonney, she was far from close enough to him in order for him to tell her much.
"Yeah... A vacation. Say, Enel, why is a pirate from the 'Worst Generation' in your home?" Garp asked as he tilted his head.
He wasn't about to try and apprehend Bonney, as his situation wasn't exactly like before. He wasn't one to go after a Rookie in the first place.
"About that... This here is Bonney, she's got a special ability that the World Government really wants to get their hands on. You can guess the rest from there..."
Enel smiled a bit as he spoke, wondering if Aokijij had even reported about their negotiations and whether the World Government had any idea that Bonney was with him.
After all, as long as Aokiji ordered them to, the people on his ship would've kept silent about the situation.
"Gihahihahihahi! I guess we now know why the World Goverment seems to really hate you!" Francisco laughed a bit as he spoke.
Enel had basically taken every opportunity to get in the way of their plans and ruin as much of them as he could.
"I guess I have been butting head with them from the shadows for quite some time... I have quite a few plans, and every single one of them somewhat affects the World Government negatively."
Enel said as he scratched the back of his head with a bead of sweat on his brow. Trying to ignore Garp's intense gaze when he mentioned his 'plans'.
"Figures... You brat! Your schemes better not harm the marines, or I will not hesitate to beat you up!" Garp said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Don't worry about it! The only one that was explicitly going to affect the marines was the one at Marineford... I've made plenty of friends there and I don't feel like harming any of them."
Garp simply nodded when hearing Enel's words, smiling a bit as he thought more and more about Enel's proposal from earlier.
"Enel, I won't be joining your band of misfits... But, as long as it's something I can do, I'll help you. I already owe you quite a lot..." Garp said as he stroked his small beard.
Bonney's eyes widened when hearing that.
'The Marine Hero is agreeing to work with an Emperor?!' The situation was extremely unusual to her, she found it difficult to even comprehend.
"Gihahihahihahi~ I told you he'd come around eventually!"Francisco laughed once more as he turned his head in Enel's direction with a smile.
'And who's this old guy...' Bonney looked at him for a few seconds, trying to see if she could remember him. But even if she had seen Francisco's poster back in the day, she had no chance of recognizing him as he was now.
The trio also made no effort to inform her, instead, Enel got to explain to them, what their duties will be while they lived on Sky Island.
"Basically, you will both be tasked with training the people of Sky Island, this isn't a pirate crew, just a country separate from the World Government," Enel said as Garp seemed to be contemplating his answer for a bit.
In the end, he just nodded, much like Francisco did.
"I already gave them the manuals for the 6 powers. This is more so that they can defend themselves if something happens and I am unable to help them."
Garp wanted to protest the fact that Enel had imparted the Rokushiki to the Sky People, but he stopped himself when hearing the second part.
In the first place, the 6 powers were abilities that the marines used to protect others. He could accept them being taught to others for protection.
"Garp, you would be tasked with sometimes training the recruits. Your mastery over the 6 powers is way above my own, so you are the best fit for this."
Garp merely nodded, immediately thinking of starting to use the training regime he had used on his two most recent students...
Koby and Helmeppo, Garp somewhat missed them, but he couldn't exactly return to them yet.
"Francisco... I heard that your speciality was swordsmanship, right?" Enel asked as he tilted his head.
"Of course! I used to be the strongest swordsman on these seas! I get you, I'll pick a few disciples and teach them a bit of Swordsmanship.
I'll also teach Haki to a few people if I deem them prepared enough."
Francisco didn't need to hear any more than that, having already planned out everything on the way there.
He knew that an old man like him was only useful in so many ways, as he was now, he wouldn't be all that useful in a battle, as he wasn't anywhere near as fast as he used to be.
He tired out too easily as well, so the second Enel recruited him he knew that he'd have to teach a few younglings how to fight.
"Great... Well then, you two will be living in the city, I'll make arrangements with Gan Fall, the current leader of Skypea. I'll make sure your homes have a nice view of the sunset." Enel smiled a bit as Francisco laughed when hearing about the view.
"I can't wait to feel the sun on my skin in the morning after a full night of rest... I've not felt a bed in a very long time." The old man said as his bad seemed to creak like a rusty door-hinge.
The three old men laughed a bit at each other, while Bonney looked at them with some sweat on her brow.
A man named Francisco, one that was also once the strongest swordsman in the world.
Not all that many people fit that description... In fact, only one did.
The first mate of the infamous Rocks Pirates. She had heard about them, they had been active while she was still in hiding from the World Government.
She ended up excusing herself and heading back to her cabin, as the trio simply continued laughing and started heading for the city.
Bonney sat on the bed and looked at the ceiling with quite a bit of wonder...
'How did he manage to attract this many legendary figures to him?!'
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Hope you liked the chapter, again, sorry for the delay. Today was a really bad day, can't say much, more of a family issue.
Also, on the matter of Bounties. I'm not ranking Roger higher than Rocks. I'm assuming his bounty would've been raised a lot had he not turned himself in, but as things stand, that wasn't the case.
The feats of Francisco will be explained more at a later date, this bounty wasn't unwarranted, as he was arguably the second strongest person in the world at the time(right behind Rocks himself).
If u want to support me look up VeganMaster on Patre_on, you'd also get 10 chapters in advance (or 5 depending on tier)
