Off To The New World

The next day following our gigantic celebration, we wasted no time setting sail to Sabaody Archipelgo. We needed to get to the New World and consolidate power there. After all, what pirate crew would we be if we didn't have territories under our protection. Also, the protection money they would send us would serve as our upkeep as we travelled the turbulent seas of the New World. The journey didn't take long as we always kept moving even at night. The helmsmen would take turns steering while the others took a break. Speaking of which, we had some more pirates join us on our journey to Sabaody Archipelgo. 

Whenever we would make a stop to gather some more supplies, more and more pirates would come to Whitebeard; asking him whether they could join our pirate crew. Of course, Whitebeard never said no and was always happy to welcome his new children with open arms. It almost seemed that his long dream of having a family was coming closer and closer as time passed. Soon, the fourships that we owned ended up getting full with pirates. It made things easier with maintainance when we had the other three ships full.

Soon, we ended up in the shores of the Archipelgo. The island remained infested with criminal activity. However, it seemed that the news of our arrival had shaken the criminals; as we didn't experience any trouble there. I decided to take another walk when Stussy grabbed my hand and dragged me towards the nearest clothing store she could find. Before I could ask why she stated that she wanted my opinion on some clothes. The relationship between Stussy and I bloomed quite terrificly as we sailed together, because of Pop's orders Stussy had no choice than to stick with me. She, however, didn't seem mad about the arrangement, whenever I was doing a little bit of training on the ship she would bring a towel when I was finished. When I was roaming around the ships;making sure everything was running smoothly among the four ships, she would follow me and fill me up with all the gossip that's been happening within the ships. It wasn't as if I couldn't get any gossip from within the ship myself, but I did appreciate her company; so I had purposefully ignored the happenings within the ship. 

We were filling up with supplies when Whitebeard had someone call me over to him. Stussy followed me as we approached the Moby Dick, the name of Whitebeard's ship. I met Whitebeard where he usually stayed for the most part. Sitting on a big red chair that was near the main mast of the ship. He stared at me with a smiling face as I approached him. He let out a hearty chuckle before we exchanged pleasentries. I would often spend different days within different ships just to make sure that there wasn't any problems aboard. Whitebeard often chided me for doing that, but I didn't want to take chances with any of the four ships. 

Naturally, there were people in charge of the three other ships, but it was vital that someone always presides over all four of them to ensure maximum efficiency; or that's what I believed in anyway. Besides, it wasn't like the people in charge: namely Atmos, Blenheim and Rakuyo didn't appreciate my presence their. I would often have little to say if anything, I was just taking a look in the ship and ensuring everything was running well. 

When we had finished exchanging pleasentries, Whitebeard's peaceful smile faded as he took on a serious demeanor before saying, "We will have a lot of territory to claim if we want to establish our authority in the New World, this means that I will have you doing performing some missions alone; or with a group to ensure there is stability within the territory. The other children are too young or powerless to take this on. Are you willing to?" He had a point. Whitebeard, although powerful wasn't omnipresent. It would have been easy for him to solve problems one after the other, but trouble would set in if these problems were simultaneous.

I decided to accept his proposal, I needed to make a name for myself in the seas anyway. In order to send a message out there that messing with us doesn't warrant just his wrath, but mine as well. Also, it would have been a good oppurtunity to explore the world on my own. Seeing that I accepted, Pop's smiled as he brought out a map showing the new world. He pointed at an Island a few days away from Totto Island and said, "When I traveled around the New World, I often stop by this island. The people are kind to me, I would like them to be under my protection. Go over there and see if they are having trouble, and help them if they are. That way we can incentivise them to be under our flag."

I looked at the island on the map. the island was considerably larger than the other normal islands and below it was the islands name: Paralough Island. I looked up at Pops only to see him holding a transponder snail with yellow skin and a black shell. He pushed it into my hands before saying, "This will be your transponder snail, when you arrive at the island. Let me know, I'll give you my den den mushi when we reach the New World. Thus, the expedition had been set: the day after we arrived in the New World I would travel to Paralough Island and claim our territory there. Stussy would be joining my expedition. I thought about using a ship to sail there, but I quickly rejected the thought as I knew using a ship would take longer than I would've wanted. 

We had finally finished resupplying and coating for all the ships when we promptly began our voyage underwater. This time we didn't stop at Fishman Island as it had closed its borders after the God Valley incident. Instead, we reached a little distance from them before rising up and surfacing in the New World. We sailed rather quickly past the island that would be known as Punk Hazard after a whole day of sailing; and finally, it was time for me to make my first expidition.