42 Rocks! (1/2)
Jack chuckled sadly as he looked at the star filled sky, his deep drawn sigh echoed in a lonely crescendo as it rose into the sky. The clouds shunted around as they covered the glare of the sun.
”You know, creeping up on people is never a good thing old man.” Jack muttered as he slowly rose to look at his adoptive father, who stood over him with a contemplative look on his face. He handed to him a bottle of sake before sitting down on a stump of wood, in front of him.
”Hah, brat. I want to leave here…” Ragner muttered as he motioned to the island around him. ”I want to go back into the open ocean, and bring my grandson back here, train him the same way we did to lore…” He said as he looked around bitterly.
”Dad you know Roger, he wouldn't want that…. And what is to stop those bastards at Cipher from blowing up your ass with Tartarous and Uranus? Nope it's too risky. Even you wouldn't be able to survive the full power blasts from the both of them at the same time. Trust Roger. The brat is under the wing of that Garp brat, he is pretty strong even by my standards! As I am now he could match me blow to blow!”Jack replied, laying down his reasoning clearly.
”But what's to stop that brat from turning the poor boy over to the Celestial Dragons! HE CAN'T BE TRUSTED!!” he said, roaring the last part.
”Old man, take a deep breath and THINK! You think that the guy who teamed up with Roger to fight the Rocks brat… what was he called, Rocks D Jabber..? no It was Rocks D Xebec! Ya it was that guy! Old man, you know more than me of bonds forged over the battle field. Heck, most of your bonds were forged at the end of the END WAR. ”
Jack took a deep swig of the numbing alcohol before, chuckling to himself depressed. ”Still can't believe that the guy I am talking to is an old relic, back in the glory days of the World Government hah?”
”Well look who we have here! Jack and the old man, drinking their heads to the high heavens!” a jovial voice interrupted the two reminiscing men.
”Raegar!” Ragner called as he smiled dispersedly. ”Sit down. Tell me, how was the Library?” he asked smiling, some life creeping back into the dull tone of his voice.
”It was AWESOME!!” Raegar said, a deep fanboying tone in his voice. Instantly the suave scholarly air that he had portrayed was lost, what replaced it was a dull hue of what Lore would have called -The Otaku Aura.
”Tell me, little Rae, should this old man go get your little nephew from the hands of that nobody Garp?” Ragner began effectively roping the middle man into the conversation.
”Also, have you heard, the brats you knew are emperors now. hah the crew that you joined basically contributed to all the Emperors of the New world!” Ragner Guffawed. ”And look at you, hugging old manuscripts and stuff!! You put your devil fruit to shame!!” He continued pulling him into a different conversation.
”Besides, who said I have to be an official pirate to train my devil fruit. I'll have you know I have already awakened the damn thing and can go toe to toe with Jack!”
”Hey don't trash the disabled person!” Jack responded before chuckling and sighing. ”How are you doing brat, your old man is worried for you…”
( A day ago with Terrick )
”SO, dear Terrick, you are telling me..” Alferdo began as he took dizzyingly deep breaths. ”That a trio of no-name pirates, forced you, the dark Hand of Rubeck into parading through the streets in these embarrassing clothes.?” He continued as he glared up at the comparatively colossal Terrick.