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Akainu glared at the latest arrival who had the Celestial Dragon's throat in his hand. He looked at the barely conscious Orion who was on his knees behind a giant bear like man in a long brown robe holding a bible in his hand. He clenched his fists as he considered attacking but the sound of Dragon's voice woke him up.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, I have a den den mushi recording us right now. If you were to attack Orion, I'll snap this man's neck and the world will know that you, an Admiral of the navy, tasked with the protection of a Celestial Dragon sacrificed his life to attempt to kill a pirate. And let's not forget that the man you have to get passed to even get close to Orion is Bartholomew Kuma, even if you are stronger than him, it's not by much!"

Akainu glared at Orion, before turning to look at Shaya and Roman.

"You really do have the luck of the gods on your side, but it won't last forever! The moment you step foot in the New World, I'll hunt you down myself!"

As he said that he walked towards the docks and found a random ship to board before turning to look at Dragon.

Knowing what he wanted, Dragon tossed the injured body of the noble to him. Akainu caught the body and prepared to sail off.

Seeing him sail off in a ship that clearly didn't belong to him, a large odd looking man with an purple afro which was barely covered by a large hooded dark robe, looked at him and teased.

"A Navy Admiral committing an act of thievery… Where's the justice in that lava-boy?"

The injured Admiral looked icily at the large odd looking man and snorted before sailing off, not forgetting to take one last look at Orion!

Seeing him leave, Shaya and Roman stumbled over to Orion who had only just lost consciousness. After doing a once over and confirming that none of his injuries were fatal, Shaya let out a sigh of relief, until she heard Roman collapse.

She knew that he was running on fumes only to make sure that Ori was ok. She looked at her unconscious brothers and shook her head with a helpless smile.

Neither Dragon nor his men said anything, just watched from their ship. After making sure both were okay Shaya finally turned to the man in a green robe stood on the deck of the ship.

"Uncle Dragon…"

Before she could say much, Dragon cut her off.

"I'm sorry for letting you suffer for so long. I thought you'd died that night…"

Shaya looked down as she remembered the day her parents died, and she was captured. Then she looked at Ori and Roman with a genuine smile as she said.

"Everything worked out for the best in the end!"

Seeing her smile so sincerely Dragon felt as though a weight had been lifted off his shoulders.

[Kernel, are you watching? Your daughter's found happiness even after the tragedy.]

He looked at his niece and said gently.

"Unfortunately I can't stay for long, but before I go, I have some information your Captain and his brother might be interested in…

Not all of the Joyous Pirates died that day!"

When she heard that, she looked at him in complete and utter shock!

[He knows about Ori and Roman's identity? More importantly, what does he mean their not dead? Why would Mihawk lie?!]

Knowing what was going through her head Dragon said.

"Kernel and Marcus were quite close, in fact Kernel was lucky enough to spend a bit of time on their ship after being saved by them when he was younger. They were the reason Kernel went on to found the revolutionaries. As his little brother I met and got to know them fairly well.

As for how I know they're not dead, well let's just say my intelligence network's more extensive than Mihawk's!"

After recovering from her state of shock, Shaya asked.

"Who exactly survived?!"

Dragon explained slowly.

"I can't say for sure about others, but at the very least I know Marcus' alive. They can't afford to kill him, not yet anyway!"

"What do you mean by that? If he's alive, where's he being held? What about the others? Wha…"

Dragon raised his hands gesturing for her to stop talking.

"Telling you any more would be pointless, as the way you are right now, you're too weak to change anything! As for who else is alive, I don't know, but Rayleigh, Shanks and Isaac would know more!"

Shaya looked at her uncle with a confused expression plastered to her face.

"Isaac?!"

Dragon nodded as he explained.

"He's the President of the Adventurer Federation!"

Shaya had heard of the Adventurer Federation or the Federation as it's more commonly known as. On paper they're one of the most powerful organisation in the world, only 2nd to the world government. Only on paper as although they have a lot of truly monstrous figures on their books, because of their freedom, they're not a very unified organisation to the point where they even have registered guilds.

To become an "Adventurer" one must pass a series of tests and upon completion you become a fully-fledged adventurer with access to jobs given to the federation by other parties, upon completion you will be rewarded handsomely with a small commission being retained by the federation.

They take on almost any job as long as it's with in the confines of the law as they pride themselves on being law abiding citizens. The only people they don't accept are those with bounties, no matter how small it is.

The head of the federation has always been a mysterious figure, with only the senior executives of the organisation knowing exactly who it is.

Shaya didn't question how this uncle of hers knew who the Federation President was as she knew that the Revolutionaries had access to information that others can only dream of. But she looked at him with a pondering frown as she asked.

"As the President of an organisation that doesn't accept members with bounties how can we see him?!"

Dragon smiled mysteriously as he replied.

"Isaac had a pretty unique relationship with Orion's grandfather! If he knew that Orion even existed, I'm sure he'd be the first to want to see him.

Plus I listed 3 names of people with the information you want. Isaac would definitely have the most information regarding what happened to the Joyous Pirates, but Rayleigh and Shanks can still tell you more than I can, plus they definitely won't care about your bounties."

Dragon was just about to leave when he took her aside and said seriously.

"Ooh and I'm not sure how you got your hand on one of the 3 Yin-Yang fruits in existence which allowed you to eat the Time Fruit, but don't use that fruit in front of others or the World Government won't hesitate to hunt you down with a force you can't even imagine.

Not only them, other powerful factions won't hesitate to hunt you down including high ranking adventurers!"

Shaya was shocked.

"How did you kn…"

"I know that it was last known to be in Mira's possession, so you being a member of her son's crew, it's not too hard to guess that you took it. Especially as I was watching the fight with you and Akainu and I'd recognise Temporal fluctuations anywhere…"

As he said that he let out an emotional sigh before continuing.

"Sakazuki has no idea what Temporal fluctuation's look like so he won't be able to guess that you had eaten the Time Fruit from that battle as there are a few nerve agents that do the same thing as that arrow you used on him, but just because he won't realise doesn't mean others won't. You must be more careful.

Until you awaken the Time Fruit and are able to hide the fluctuations, don't use it in the presence of others do you understand?!"

Seeing the seriousness of his face, Shaya didn't doubt his warning and nodded.

Seeing her accept his warning, Dragon let out a little smile as he rubbed her head and said.

"I'm happy you've found a place in this world where you feel genuinely happy! And I'm sure your parents would be so proud if they could see you now! I'll see you around in the future, take care until then."

Shaya nodded with a smile before she remembered.

"Are you not going to say anything to Luffy?"

Dragon looked in the direction Luffy was and said.

"It's not time for us to meet yet."

As he said that he turned and walked off with his men.