Chapter 260 - Thriller Bark 07!

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Third Person POV

Thriller Bark, First Half of Grandline.

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Luffy returned to the castle, or what was left of it, rummaging through the debris until he found the safe using his haki. "Well, that wasn't hard," he commented upon locating it.

His gaze shifted back to his crew, who were accompanied, but specifically to one person who could handle this mess. "Hey, Hugo, can you clear this path for us?" he asked.

"Yes, captain." Hugo responded, placing his hand on the ground as the area immediately began to open up, creating a staircase downwards, using his Earth power.

"Let's go!" Luffy exclaimed as the path to the gold was cleared, and before he could move, Nami was so quick that even Luffy couldn't react as she entered the room filled with Moria's gold.

The place was still intact even after all the explosion that had occurred. Luffy approached with the others and saw Nami jump onto the gold, screaming, "Gold! It's all mine!" She exclaimed, her eyes seeing dollar signs.

"She never changes," Nojiko commented from behind, while Luffy just smiled.

He saw this and realized that he could reward his crew. "Well, take whatever you want," he announced.

He hadn't given anything to the crew for a long time. Some accepted while others didn't care much for the gold. Those members who accepted quickly started picking what they were interested in. Luffy looked at the girl with crossed arms, floating with her ghosts. "Don't you want the gold? You can take it," he suggested.

"Why are you giving this to me?" she asked, a bit surprised, although at this moment considered stolen, after all, this gold belonged to her crew, or former crew, she still didn't know.

"Maybe you're part of my fleet now, so it's my duty to take care of you," he said, with no malice, just stating the truth. However, Perona seemed to misunderstand as she blushed, yelling at him.

"Don't say that kind of thing out of the blue!" she exclaimed in embarrassment.

Luffy scratched his nose, looking like Garp. "Alright, goodbye," he turned back to focus on the crew as he left Perona aside, and the girl seemed to become even more infuriated.

"You can't leave a woman like that after saying those things," she shouted.

Luffy didn't seem to care, as he watched his crew enjoying themselves in that vault. Chopper had filled himself with gold looking like a rapper. Usopp also looked like another gangster. Uta had also put on various gold necklaces, rings, and bracelets. "Hey, Luffy, look at me, look, am I pretty?" she approached Luffy, making a seductive face.

"You look beautiful," Luffy said, and without anyone seeing, he slapped her buttocks, making the girl jump, looking at him and at his hand for a moment before she said in a tone, 'Don't do that here.' She went back to the group here.

"If Shanks saw me doing this, he'd probably kill me," Luffy murmured, yet also not stopping from watching that beautiful ass going back to get more gold, wanting to have fun with her tonight. Luffy made a mental note about it.

Meanwhile, the crew continued grabbing the gold, with Nami being the most ambitious of the group, as always, until her sister tried to set some limit, but the girl was still unbeatable. After everyone grabbed some gold or anything else that interested them, Luffy approached and placed his hand on the ground while all the gold began to disappear, entering the system, after all, he needed more money, although it was little, after all, no more than 400 million in gold was left.

"Well, let's go back," Luffy said, already sensing through the haki a crowd forming outside. When they returned, Perona approached him.

"There are a lot of people wanting to talk to you," she commented and Luffy nodded.

Luffy nodded and saw that she didn't run away, after all, she had nowhere to go, even though she hadn't accepted Luffy's logic. All the people on the island had recovered their shadows and wanted to talk to the man who defeated Moria, but everyone still looked at Luffy with a lot of caution, still remembering the monster he had become in the middle of the island.

'She's here...' Luffy looked at Bigmon's daughter, Lola, in front of the group, she was as in the story, quite large and not very beautiful, while she looked at him like all of them.

"Who are these people?" Kuina asked, as she and many others hadn't seen anything on the island except zombies.

"They were like me, they lost their shadows to Moria and have been hiding here unable to leave," Brook clarified.

"I see... Maybe they've come to thank us..." Chopper suggested.

"Maybe they came to ask for food?" Reiju commented.

"Maybe they need medical help?" Lami said.

"They might come to give us a reward!" Nami said cheerfully.

As they speculated on what the people had come for, Luffy continued to look at the group without saying anything, contemplating what he could do for them.

"Excuse me," the silence was broken by Lola herself.

"Yes?" Luffy looked at her as she held his gaze for a moment before speaking again.

"Will you marry me?" she asked.

"..." Bepo

"..." Zoro

"..." Nojiko

"Au?" Chouchou

"..." Reiju

"..." Vivi

"..." Shirahoshi

"..." Frank

"Sha?" Megalo

"..." Nami

"..." Chopper

"..." Hugo

"..." Hachi

"Fu fu fu." Nico Robin

"..." Brook

"..." Yamato

"..." Usopp

"..." Karoo

"..." Alvida

"..." Kuina

"..." Greg

"..." Lami

"..." Baby 5

"..." Laboon

"..." Perona

"..." Luffy

The place seemed to go mute. The entire crew was shocked and stunned, as no one, not even a single word could be produced. After all, who asks that to someone after such a situation?

"Master, should I kill this woman?" Baby-5 asked, breaking the silence for the first time.

The place remained in deadly silence until finally, Luffy decided to respond. "No," he simply replied. After all, Lola was not the type of woman he liked.

Then, the group behind Lola began to shout: "Rejection number 4850!" seeming to celebrate the fact that she had been rejected so many times.

"4850?!" Usopp seemed shocked.

"It seems she is quite persistent," Alvida commented, as she might have been in the same situation, if she hadn't met Luffy and he hadn't punched her with his fist and made her eat his fruit.

"Well, anyway," Lola continued speaking undeterred by the rejection, "you fought against Moria, didn't you? In the end, you defeated him, we owe you our thanks," she said.

"Well, that was just a consequence, but what will you do now?" Luffy asked.

Lola looked at her group before turning back to Luffy. "Well, no one knows yet," she commented.

"Then I have a proposal, how about joining my fleet?" Luffy invited.

"Luffy has been inviting a lot of people to the fleet lately," Vivi commented, as the captain's secretary, she had to record all his actions.

"Do you want me to join your fleet?" Lola asked, and Luffy nodded.

"So is this a marriage proposal?" she exclaimed, hopeful, leaving everyone stunned once more. But Luffy denied. "No," he simply said, while everyone shouted "4851 rejections!"

"Haha. You guys are funny..." Luffy had to admit, laughing a little at that.

"Well, anyway, I am giving you a chance to grow stronger. If you don't want it, that's okay, but if you want to fight and get strong, I'm giving you a chance to join under my flag," Luffy said, as he turned back to look at the crew.

"Well, let's stay one more day waiting for their response. Meanwhile, let's have our usual feast," he said as he took his ship out of his pocket and threw it in front of the destroyed castle, while Zoro and Hugo would gather the food and loot.

Soon, they began to enjoy themselves as usual, and many members of Lola's group joined and soon the entire island was celebrating in the middle of the Florian Triangle. Lola continued to insist on asking Luffy to marry her, but he refused 10 times, while he paid attention to Uta and Brook singing.

Until the next day, Luffy was a bit surprised to see that everyone had decided to join the fleet, after all, they had nowhere else to go and preferred to trust the savior who had rescued them from Moria's clutches.

Luffy nodded with satisfaction and turned his attention to Bepo. "Bepo, can you take them to Skypiea? Later you can meet us in the Sabaody Archipelago with the vivre cards," Luffy said, as they would go to the Call Me Belt first, he wanted to see Hancock and his future children and pick up Enel.

"But Captain..." Bepo was

 a little scared by the idea of going alone, but Luffy had a plan. He quickly took something out of his pocket and placed it on Bepo's head.

"Alright, now you're ready," Luffy commented. Now Bepo had a Black Power afro, and gained a new confidence, while some women looked at it as if they were a bunch of idiots with Luffy and his illogical things.

"Yes captain!! Nothing can stop me!" Bepo exclaimed, punching the air.

"Well," Luffy began, turning his gaze to the members, especially the animals. "Soon we'll face the biggest challenge we've ever had at sea. It won't be easy to say this, but not all of you can participate in what's coming." Luffy started, capturing everyone's attention with that statement and what their captain meant by it.

"I would like some of you to not participate in this, after all it will be very dangerous," Luffy continued, "Laboon, Karoo, Greg, Megalo, Brook, and Franky. I would like you to go to Skypeia, as we are going to enter a war with the navy bigger than what happened at Enies Lobby, I want you to stay safe and train." He said.

The animals were surprised by this and a bit shaken, seeing that they would be separated. "It won't be permanent, just a few weeks. We'll be back to Skypeia soon," Luffy assured them, as they began to nod. After all, it was better not to risk their own lives.

Luffy and his crew then began to prepare to leave. Meanwhile, Luffy left various papers for the crew that would be separating, like documents he bought at the store for Franky about Vegapunk.

They would begin to get stronger after the war ended, as they had joined the group only a short time ago.

Suddenly, a part of Thriller Bark began to lift with the power of Bepo and with the cracks Luffy created in his fight, the crew found itself divided; a small group would stay in a safe place with the new members of the fleet and another part would be going to the Red Mountain.

Luffy had given Sunny Go to Bepo to use later and then took the Black Pearl and began to sail out of the Florian Triangle.

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Raccoon here: I'm thinking about keeping Uta out of the war too, after all, I don't think she would feel good in that chaos.

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