One Piece: Unreal Adventure

The next day, Luffy glared at the newspaper. He glared at the damn paper so hard, that any moment now the thing would catch fire.

"Who the fuck wrote this…"

"Language!" Makino called out from the kitchen as she giggled.

Luffy bit his bottom lip, he was angry. No scratch that he was furious. He didn't want to be seen in the newspaper this way.

On his side, the monkey was rolling on the floor laughing.

"This is no laughing matter…" Luffy grumbled. "Now grandpa might actually send me to Bootcamp. Shitty news agency!" Luffy actually forgot the collect the fifty million bounties so he thought that today he would go and collect it, but now he had no want to do that.

"Language!" Makino said playfully as she came out of the kitchen with food.

"You know this is all your fault." Luffy pointed at Makino. "If you didn't send me to buy the chocolates, nothing like this would have happened."

Makino's grin just broadened. "Now, don't go all angry on me… you are the new hero of Dawn island."

Luffy practically groaned. "Do you know how bad this is…"

Makino just rolled her eyes, "It's not that bad…"

But then the transponder snail started ringing.

"Okay, but it can't get any worse."

Luffy gave Makino a stink eye. As he received the phone call. "Moshi Moshi, the future king of pirates speaking…"

"The future king of pirates my ass… when did you become the new hero of Dawn Island." It wasn't Shanks… no it was Ace.

""Language!"" Came from both sides, one from Makino, while the other was from Shanks.

"They framed me I tell you!…" Luffy grumbled, but then he blinked. "Ace! How did you end up with Shanks?" It's been almost two years since he heard his voice.

"Well, the boy came to thank me for caring for his little brother." Came Shank's reply from the other side. "Anyway, continue…"

"So you became a hero huh? Good for you." Ace said, trying to hold back his laugh. "At least one us is following grandpa's footsteps. hahaha…'

"Oh, shut up." Luffy grumbled, "they didn't even get my name right…"

Ace was laughing his ass off from the other side, "Monkey D. Mario! I don't know why, but that sounds even lamer than Luffy…"

"Hey, I like my name!" Luffy complained.

The newspaper had one headline.

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The new Hero of Dawn Island.

With a picture of Luffy standing over the defeated pirate while Sterry was still alive.

Presumed to be the grandson of the Marine Hero.

Monkey D. Mario.

Are we seeing the dawn of a new hero?!

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"Well, don't worry, Mr. Mario. You can entrust your dreams to me, I can take your place as the next Pirate King just fine." Ace said.

"I hate you."

"Love you too lil bro…" Ace grinned from the other side. "But you have to know, your name is kinda making huge waves in the grandline… I'm pretty sure most of Gramp's old enemies will searching for a Mario. Anyway, it's good that we can talk like this… oh yeah, note down our ship's transponder snail number…"

After a quick note. They spent some talking about other stuff.

"Well, I'll go for whitebeard. I want to see just how strong my father's old rival was…" Ace said. And the rubber boy picked up no malice when saying something about his father, that was quite the improvement. "I want to test my sword against thaman… Oh, Shanks wants to speak to you as well. Let us meet in the grandline then… be safe lil bro."

Luffy sighed, "you too." he didn't ask anything about the sword usage of Ace. In his new bounty —a few months ago— one could see Ace standing atop of a cliff with a wild grin and a red blade resting over his shoulder.

It seems Haki wasn't the only thing he picked up from Rayleigh.

"Well, Luffy… I didn't know you would place yourself as a hero…" Shanks mused.

"Not you too, Shanks." Luffy groaned, the boy heard Ace and a few other snicker.

Shanks just laughed, "Don't worry you can still keep the straw hat if you want to be a marine."

"You guys are the worst." Luffy could hear Shanks, Ace, and the others laughing from the other side. "Just so you know… I still plan to become a pirate… not just for the title of the pirate King… and I am also aiming for the title of the strongest man alive."

Shanks chuckled, "A hefty goal Mario… but anyway, it's good that you are even naming yourself even before starting your journey, I can't wait when you start the real one."

"Yeah, the pirate was still all things considered a 50 million berry bounty holder… that's quite the achievement." Ace's voice came a bit muffled.

"That is impressive." Shanks agreed. "Anyway, thanks for taking care of Makino… she tells me you help out a lot. So yeah, thanks."

"Wait, how do you know Makino?" Ace asked Shanks.

"Well, why wouldn't I know my wife?"

"Understandable…" Ace said, "Wait, Makino-san is your wife…"

"A bit late to party no?" Luffy mused.

"That's unexpected…" Ace said, "but Luffy did tell me that you used to visit the village a lot… huh. I wouldn't even be surprised if you told me that you were a part of my father's former crew…" the boy laughed.

"Because he is…" Luffy answered. Another dose of shock later, Luffy asked for the devil fruit encyclopedia and some questions about Haki.

Both Ace and Shanks were surprised that Luffy had unlocked one of the Hakis even before starting his journey. But they didn't hesitate to give some pointers to him. Haki, swordsmen-ship and even some good areas to check out in the east blue. Luffy was sure to note them down.

And after everything was over, Shanks spoke to Makino for a while before ending the call.

The was not too bad after all.