Chapter 1: I just want internet
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Truth be told she had never really expected to live a long life.
She wasn't suicidal or anything like that, she just came from a military family, her parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents had all served, in her dad side of the family at least one family member had being in the military, so obviously she always wanted to join the army, and soldiers didn't really live long lives.
But then her brother died and despite her family disappointment, she went to med school and as soon as she could she joined doctors without borders.
So when she died only a couple of months later, she wasn't really that surprised, she was fucking annoyed.
Seven fucking years of med school?! All those tears and blood just to die not even a year after getting her degree?!
Fucking shit.
Still, she just accepted it, she wished that she was able to help more people and wondered if her older brother was proud of her.
She hope he was.
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She had always been Catholic, she believed in a God, that was love and fairness, but she wasn't sure about hell and heaven, she thought that there had to be something else after death, but this…
This was not what she was expecting.
“Are you sure you don't remember anything?” Asked the doctor, or at least that's what he said he was, she wasn't that sure since the guy looked more like a healer from a game than an actual doctor.
She did in fact remember several things, like dying not too long ago.
And the fact that this was not in fact her body, because last time she checked she was blonde, and why the fuck was her body so thin?
Still— she shook her head because she was sure that she didn't remember what he was asking.
“The fever that you had must have been really bad to cause you amnesia” The doctor from the plague era said and she did remember waking up with a killer hangover. “I'll give you a prescription” for fucking amnesia?
She just nodded and decided to sleep for a week or until life made sense again.
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Unfortunately she wasn't able to sleep for that long, because she was not alone in this house.
She in fact had a son.
A child that refers to her as mom, with and she is not kidding, green hair.
Actually, natural green hair.
So as the responsible adult she was she made lunch for her son and started to gather as much information as she could from the boy.
Her name — or the name of the person who's body apparently she took — was Tera, she was a housewife in a little island who just recently lost her husband due to pirates — actually freaking pirates — and because of her grief had contracted some illness that had left her bedridden for a couple of weeks, until she had a sudden recovery.
She had read mangas, books and even some fanfic about this type of situation, she just well assumed it was just fiction, not something that actually happened to people.
Maybe she didn't die, maybe she was just in a coma and all this was just some kind of weird dream.
“Mom?” Asked Zoro, her son, who had looked worried when she first woke up and she didn't know who he was, the same Zoro that despite not being older than eight had been taking care of her after already losing his dad not too long ago.
Dream or not, she had a duty with him.
“I'm fine honey” She answered, petting his hair softly.
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Tera wanted to break things and scream.
After years of hard work and killing herself studying, of declaring dead her social life to concentrate on her studies, the best job she could get was as a waitress
It wasn't a bad job, but she studied hard god damnit! This island sucked, Tera wasn't one to complain, but this place didn't have some of the basic necessities someone from her generation needed, like skin care routine, phones, and internet.
There was no fucking internet.
How was she supposed to live without her dose of social media and fanfiction?!
Savages.
All this was wrong, so Tera decided to do the only sensible thing here.
Sell everything and get the fuck out.
This world was big if what she learned was right, and she had hope, she had faith that in some place in this godforsaken world there had to be internet.
Besides, leaving this place was probably the safest choice for everyone, if one more old lady tried to introduce their dumb son to her, she was committing arson, what she was going to burn down was yet to be determined but something was burning down.
See? She was thinking about the bigger good.
“Are we going to return?” Asked Zoro when they were in the ship and Tera for a second considered that taking Zoro away from everything he knew may not have been her biggest parenting choice but then she shrugged, she moved a lot as a child too, and she turned out awesome, so he would probably be fine.
Probably.
“Never” She said and Zoro just nodded, not giving a fuck, ha, maybe parenting wasn't that hard after all.
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Tera had been warned about the pirates, but she thought that she would cross that bridge when she got there, maybe in the far future, she never expected to be in her second day in the sea.
Maybe God had a personal Vendetta against her.
Anyway, Tera remained calm with her son in her arms while the pirates talked — Why did the pirates look like they were taken from a circus? All pirates looked like that? — Zoro didn't appear to be scared so everything was good until the pirate that looked like a clown was thrown right into the sea by the lion — was it even safe to have a wild animal in a ship? — and his crew started to panic.
There was no way a pirate didn't know how to swim, right?
The pirates panicked more and Tera sighed.
“Wait here love” Tera said to her son and jumped into the water.
Sometimes she hated the fact that doctors were supposed to help people.
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“What kind of pirate doesn't know how to swim?” She asked glaring at the clown she just saved — who's nose was naturally red and big as a clown, because in this world why the fuck wouldn't that be a thing? —
“I know how to swim!”
“The water in your lungs begs to differ” She said crossing her arms. “And you? Why didn't you jump after him?! He could have drowned!” She screamed at the rest of the pirates that looked like scolded kids.
“That's because I ate a devil fruit! I'm the great Captain Buggy!” the Clown said and Tera blinked when he saw the guy hands detached themselves from his body and fly in the air.
What in the actual fuck.
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“What do you mean you don't have a doctor?” Asked Tera when she stopped checking Buggy's limbs for scientific curiosity obvious and not because she thought it was cool what he could do, she was a serious doctor please.
“We don't” Shrugged Buggy.
“You spent months in the sea, away from hospital and civilization, what do you do when you get injured or someone gets sick?” Tera asked and the pirates looked at each other dumbfounded and then made a movement as if throwing someone overboard and holy shit— “You can't do that! Just get a doctor!” she screamed at them.
“Doctor aren't easy to find” Buggy justified himself and the rest nodded, which was a lie, Tera had been here long enough to now that all you needed to be considered a doctor was saying that you were a doctor — which was a scary thought, really —
“I'm a doctor, you find me, it's not that hard, just look for one!” She scolded them and the pirates shared a look and then looked at their captain.
And oh.
She may have talked a little too much there.
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Becoming a pirate was not that bad even if it was against her own will.
You'll see, when you grow up in a military family, you learned a lot of stuff, like throwing a punch, camping, how to shoot a reindeer between the eyes, pretty normal stuff, but somewhere between there, there was the most important lesson you could ever give any child.
You don't take shit from anyone.
Did the boy in preschool pull your hair? Kick him in the balls.
Did your cousin make fun of you for liking cute things? Break their noses.
Did a guy not take a no for an answer? Make sure he can't ever continue his perverted bloodline.
So dealing with pirates wasn't all that hard, really.
It actually worked in her favor since pirates traveled a lot and she was on a mission to find the biggest treasure of all.
Internet.
See? Everything was working out just fine.
“What do you mean you lost my child?” Asked Tera slowly and Buggy started to sweat.
Zoro for some reason had taken a liking to Buggy and usually followed the pirate around, which was cute and since Buggy wasn't really that bad, Tera allowed this, so when Buggy said he was going into town to look around she had trusted in Buggy to keep an eye on Zoro.
“I just stopped watching him for a second and when I looked up he was gone!” Buggy tried to explain himself but Tera did what any parent would do.
“Listen to me” She said, manhandling the clown and actually lifting him off the ground a little. “If something happens to my child I'm going to skin you alive, piece for piece and keep you alive for as long as I possibly can and use your skin as a new flag for the ship, do you understand me?” Tera said in a serious and dark voice and Buggy nodded as fast as he could. “Find. My. Son.” She ordered and everyone on board ran to the island to look for the missing child.
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Zoro liked Buggy, he was funny always making funny faces when his mom was scolding him, and if you praise him a little he looked really happy, so when Zoro wasn't with his mom learning new things — Zoro truly believe that she was the smartest person in the world, she knew so many things! She even knew how to throw someone in the air, as she demonstrated several times when someone in the crew was being specially annoying — Zoro was following Buggy around.
Unfortunately Buggy had gotten lost while Zoro looked at another child in the street.
Since Zoro spent most of his time with his mom he didn't get to see many children his age, and someone on the crew mentioned that it was supposed to be important for children to be around more children, he didn't really understand why, but his mom had agreed so Zoro considered that maybe getting another child in the crew wasn't such a bad idea.
So when he left with Buggy, he may have been looking for someone to join them.
Well, Buggy was an adult so he could probably find his way back to the ship while Zoro got a child for their crew, so his mom was happy.
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“Zoro love, kidnapping children it's not legal” Tera commented when finally, her beloved child, the light of her life came back to the ship — those idiots pirates couldn't find him, because they were useless like that, and Tera was so going to shape them into respetable soldiers… or pirates, no more Miss sunshine — with three children.
“But I didn't kidnap them, I told them they could join our crew and they accepted, I used my words like you taught me” Her darling son said and Tera was so proud of her baby.
“Why did you invite them?” She asked curious, Zoro had never looked like if he cared about being the only child aboard but he may be feeling lonel—
“You said that it was important for me to be around children my age” Zoro answered and oh.
It was her fault.
Suddenly all the pirates looked at her, Buggy included and Tera smiled at them sweetly and they quickly looked the other way.
“Well, would you boys like some snacks?” She asked in a polite tone and the boys looked at each other and then at Zoro who nodded and the three nodded back.
Tera wasn't going to lie, that was cute as hell and she may be considering this whole kidnapping thing.
Chapter 2: How to get money without selling your body (only your pride)
Notes:
Tera: All I attract is broken people
Tera: God, if I'm a mechanic just tell me.
Buggy: some people want to throw dirt at my name.
Buggy: Some wanna moan it.
Buggy: That's life.
Buggy: *giving Tera an official summon* are you free tomorrow?
Tera: No, I'm expensive everyday.
Zoro: what is wrong with you?
Ace: You mean today or in general?.
Zoro: I would like to apologize...
Zoro: to absolutely no one, get fucked
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
True to be told Ace did not completely trust this pirates, Zoro had seen… simple enough with his invitation and of course Luffy had jumped at the opportunity to be a pirate, but Sabo and Him were still skeptical, but since Luffy wouldn't shut up they decided to go to the ship — which they had to found because Zoro was shit at giving directions —
The ship and the crew made Ace think about a circus, until Zoro introduced them to his mom.
Ace believe that people like her only existed in fairy tails, she was pretty as a princess and treated them kindly, like Makimo, but she also made sure to check them because apparently she was a doctor and by the end Ace, Luffy and Sabo were happily eating cookies while Tera spoke to who apparently was the captain.
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“We can't keep them” Said Buggy, because well, they already had a child on board, adding three more would only be a problem.
“They live with bandits in a jungle” Repeated Tera as if that was the only thing that matter and well, it didn't sound ideal but—
“I grew up with pirates and turned out great, they can manage” Buggy said and Tera's eyes lit up, why would she— oh no. “I didn't mean it like that—
“Having children is really distracting, you are right, without them here, I'll have plenty of time to think about how you lost my only child” Tera commented and Buggy quickly forgot why it was a bad idea to add more children to their crew.
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“What are you doing?” Asked Ace when he woke up and mother and son weren't there, he of course panicked for a second and went to look for them, finding them making some… weird movements.
“Tai chi” Said Tera while moving slowly. “It's a form of martial arts” She explained. Tera's new body was not nearly as strong as her old body, so she tried to train and regain some muscle any way she could and she had to admit this world was kind of awesome, gain strength here was easier and she didn't get all big and full with muscle, the other day she broke a wall after throwing Buggy in the air.
“Really?” Asked Ace, interested.
“Yeah, wanna join?” Tera offered and the boy paused but then nodded, well teaching some self defense couldn't be that bad.
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An hour later Buggy found half of his crew doing some type of slow martial art and he decided that it was too early to care for a possible mutiny in the future.
Right now he needs his coffee.
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Tera always had money and Buggy of course wondered where she get the money since she didn't longer let them steal from others — They are innocent people, I'm a doctor I'm not letting you hurt innocent people, steal from other pirates Buggy if you feel like stealing, but don't be too loud, Zoro, Ace, Luffy and Sabo are studying— so one day when they reached a new island Buggy decided to follow Tera into town after the kids went to bed.
He followed Tera to a bar that he really thought was the kind of place that someone like Tera would never dare to set a foot inside, but there she was drinking and smiling.
Acting strangely sweet and Buggy knew there was something fishy there, Tera was sweet, with the kids, and her patients, but with dirty annoying pirates? Buggy had watched in first line how Tera threw a guy at the sea because he talked too loud in the morning — Buggy didn't complain there, really, not one had business being that loud so early —
And then when Buggy was about to leave Tera started to play cards and Buggy knew.
He fucking knew.
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Tera smiled when she left that dirty bar with a new bag of cash and other things, she would get new books with this money, and maybe another first aid kit. God knew that Buggy couldn't care less about her implements.
“So this is how you get money” Buggy said and Tera shrugged, she had noticed the clown following her but didn't care, it wasn't like it was some secret. “Why can you scam people but I can't steal?”
“I'm not scamming people, I won this fair and square” She defended herself walking back to the ship.
“You told them you had never played cards before” Buggy said with a deadpan expression being fully aware that Tera knew damn well how to play cards — after she took almost all his money in her first night with the crew —
“Did I? Can't remember from all the alcohol”
“You drank like two beers, I have saw you drink a whole bottle of vodka like water”
“It was sake actually” She corrected him. “But if you are that jealous of my wealth, here” She said, taking some berrys and putting them on his clothes. “Buy you something nice”
“That's not the point!” Buggy exclaimed blushing but still kept the money. “We need money”
“You have a circus, and a number, just sell tickets it's not that hard”
“Not that hard?! Creating and putting on a show is extremely hard! Not anyone can do it! To have people paying to see you, is not something just anyone can do!”
“So… you don't think you can do it?”
“Of course I can! I'm the great captain Buggy! People love me and they would pay for having the honor of seeing me!” He said proudly and confidently, he would show her. “You'll see!”
“Sure” Tera shrugged and Buggy felt even more motivated.
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“I thought we were pirates” commented Sabo while Tera brushed his hair. Sabo had never liked his hair, but Tera loved taking care of their hair — even Buggy wasn't spared and had to sit still while Tera did his hair at least once a week — so he let her and he had to admit that his hair had never looked better than under the doctor's care.
“I'm a doctor” Commented Tera, giving him a kiss on his forehead when she finished and he blushed a little, still not completely used to the woman's affection.
“Can I be a clown like Buggy?” Luffy took Sabo’s seat to let Tera do his hair too.
“Sure, love, whatever you want” Tera said and Luffy moved his feet excitedly.
“Then, I want to learn to throw fire” Said Ace who was already done playing swords with Zoro despite the fact that Zoro kicked his ass every time, in Ace's defense Zoro could kick anyone ass when he had a sword.
“That can be a little dangerous, but we'll see what we can do” Answered Tera and then she looked at Sabo. “What would you like to do, Sabo?” She asked and Sabo blushed again not used to having adults asking for his opinión.
“I think I would like to throw daggers” He admitted and Tera nodded.
“Zoro, love?” Tera asked and Zoro paused.
“I want to do whatever you want to do” Zoro answered.
“Momma's boy” teased him Ace but Zoro just hit him with his wooden sword sending him to the floor.
“We'll see them” She smiled and the boys nodded excited.
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“The first day would be free for the kids” Buggy said, showing Tera his business plan. “that way the kids that come would tell their friends who would want to come too and we'll have more audience ready for the next day” He said and Tera read the next part of his plan and she had to blink.
When she dared Buggy to put on a show she hadn't really expected for him to take things this serious, but maybe this was good, Buggy had a point they were running out of money, and they had a crew and four children to feed — and Luffy ate for a small army— they needed money and this… this looked like a really good plan.
“My captain is the best” She said kissing his cheek and the Clown blushed immediately and started to talk about how great he was.
She would have teased him about how he cute he looked right now, but she decided to let him have this moment.
For now.
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Until now the circus had worked, people like it but Buggy knew that there was something missing.
Every show needed an anchor, something that made people hooked with just one look and that no other show had, and sure he was the great Buggy, but not everyone liked clowns, and if they wanted to make it big in the grand line — Tera said she wanted to go there despite Buggy's protests, but Buggy for safety reasons had learned better than to go against her, besides every pirate that respect himself had to go there eventually and Buggy just decided to speed up his plans — they needed something else.
Something that made people stop and take a better look, that drew people in.
“Look Tera! Zoro and I did this for you!” Luffy said excitedly, showing a flower crown that he happily gave to the woman.
“Oh dear it's beautiful” She said with a soft smile.
“Ace and I brought you this flowers too” Sabo Said and Tera took the flowers after placing the flower crown on her head.
“How do I look?”
“So pretty!”
“Like a princess!” The kids complimented the woman with excitement and Buggy looked at Tera.
Beautiful Tera, that made people look twice when they walked around town.
Buggy blinked and felt inspired.
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“I'm a doctor, not a clown” Tera said when he told her about his idea.
“I know, but you can do other things” Buggy said and Tera raised an eyebrow.
And Buggy would have given up if it weren't for the fact that he knew that Tera was an overachiever that more than anything hated to lose.
“Oh… so you don't think you are good enough for the circus, that's fine, not everyone has what it requires” Buggy said, sighing. “it's fine if you don't think you are good enough” He murmured and Tera glared at him.
For her part Tera couldn't believe that Buggy was trying to gaslight her, please, she invented it! There was now way that was working on her.
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“How did I let him convince me of this…” Murmured Tera while walking in the tight rope, damn her and her need to prove men wrong.
In her past life she had wanted to join the military and for that she had trained her whole life, Tai Chi, for patient, Judo, for strength, Aikido, and other types of martial arts just to be skilled enough that the fact that she was a woman in a mainly men dominated career wouldn't be such an issue.
So she has good reflexes and other useful skills, still
Those were skills she used to defend herself and others, not to play clown in a circus.
She was a freaking doctor for fuck sake.
And yet here she was and Tera once again hated this world.
Fuck her, really.
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“You are Roger's kid?” Asked Buggy when he overheard the kids talking.
“What… what if I'm?” Ace asked carefully and Buggy gave him a better look.
Of course Buggy had saw the similarities but he had convinced himself that he was seeing things — The same way he pretend not to know who's hat Luffy was wearing — that it couldn't be, and yet here the children were speaking about it, and he knew then well enough to know that they weren't making things up.
“I knew him” Buggy admitted and Ace blinked.
“You… you did?” The boy asked in a small voice, as if he was afraid to know the real answer, but there was also hope there, had no one talked to him about his father before?
How did he even end up with bandits? Raleigh wouldn't be happy to know that the only son — biological at least — of his best friend was raised by strangers.
“Yeah, he was a moron” He said without hesitation but before Ace could said something else he added something else. “But he was also the greatest captain someone could ask” Buggy said and before the kids could ask more questions he left.
Fuck.
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“I don't want to talk about that” Buggy said when he could feel Tera sitting next to him. He knew that sooner or later the kids would rat him out.
“Talk? I brought this” She said showing a bottle of her favorite sake and Buggy raised an eyebrow, she wasn't one to share, but he wasn't about to complain.
“Great” He said taking the opportunity to get drunk.
“Want to go to a club and get absolutely wasted?”
“Don't you have a kid?”
“Someone else can watch them for the night” Tera shrugged and Buggy looked at the bottle.
“Let's go” He said, taking the bottle and drinking at least half of it in just one go.
It fucking burn and it felt awesome.
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Someone was taking their clothes off on the stage and Buggy was too drunk to know if they were a woman or a man, but he didn't really care and just threw some bills with Tera next to him cheering and doing the same as him.
The music was too damn loud and the place reeked of cheap booze and sweat, besides other more disgusting things and Buggy would usually hate a place like this.
But screaming and laughing with Tera he couldn't remember the last time he had this much fun.
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Somehow they had managed to reach the ship in one piece — which was a wonder for Buggy since he had to search for his hand for half an hour in the last bar — and they were just laying side by side looking at the last stars as slowly the night was fading and the morning was getting closer.
“I had a brother once” Tera said, not looking at him but at the stars. “He was… annoying, better than me in absolutely everything I did, the perfect golden boy that my parents loved so much and yet, he was my favorite person in the world, I loved him so fucking much” She said and Buggy remembered a certain redhead.
Love and jealousy could be a dangerous combination, if not treated carefully and Buggy had never been known for being a careful person.
“He died doing some hero shit, and every day I wonder if he is proud of me” Tera admitted. “I hate him for dying and leaving me alone and yet I still want for him to be proud of me” She added and Buggy had once thought that Shanks would be the only person to truly understand him, in his pain and grief but he hadn't, not really.
And yet, here was a woman that he barely knew that bullied him daily and said words he had felt trapped inside his chest for years.
“Yeah, I get that” Buggy said and he knew he didn't have to elaborate, because Tera was smart and she probably already piece everything together.
“Assholes, how dare they die on us like that? Selfish bastards” She said and Buggy laughed but nodded.
“Assholes” He agreed with a smile making Tera giggle and pull closer to him.
And Buggy could feel her warmth against him, and he just stayed there closing his eyes and smiling, feeling lighter than ever.
Yeah, this was a really good night.
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Buggy knew that Ace and the other children had questions — well not Zoro, Zoro was a master of minding his own business — so after his hangover stopped slowly killing him he decided to speak with the kids.
“If Roger was the king of pirates” Commented Tera. “Does that make Ace pirate royalty? The prince of pirates?” She added and that took the kids attention away before they could ask too many questions.
Tera and Buggy just drank their coffee while watching their kids discuss the possiblity of pirates royalty.
Just another normal morning in the Buggy's pirates crew.
Notes:
Guess who just finished what was supposed to be short one shot about Tera/Katakuri with Katakuri as the biological dad of Zoro, this bitch, would you be interested on reading that soon or should I wait for this fic to end?
Anyway, thanks for reading! Don't forget to comment
Chapter 3: Are you ready to watch me be legendary? And Custody issues
Summary:
Garp and Tera play cards to decide who gets the custody of the kids, like any responsable adult.
Notes:
Notes: Thanks for all the comment! And I decided to wait to finish this fic before I uploaded the new one! That gives me more time to keep writing, I decided to create a series with Tera/Katakuri as Zoro's parent, because I also want to add some chapters about how this change the cannon and Zoro himself, how does long hair Marine Zoro sounds? I was also thinking about making Ace the love interest for Zoro and Mihawk is his aunt wine, who loves to gossip with Tera.
Until now I have written Katakuri and Tera love story that is the beginning, a one shot about Tera's pregnancy and Zoro's birth, and I was thinking about making an extra with the red movie since I didn't like that Uta died, and I'm like fuck canon, if it doesn't give me joy, I'll change it, besides I was waiting for the whole song for someone besides Uta to sing, like fighting fight with fight, but Nooo, how dare they denied me that? Everyone knows that the way to defeat a music demon is with a beautiful love song, that's like basic.
I was also thinking about Saving Corazon because well, I do love him, and if you have another suggestion let me know!
Thanks for reading and the comments!
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Mihawk was bored, he had been for quite some time, not even Shanks could entertain him now that he had lost his arm, so he spent a few months in his castle alone until he decided to see what the grand line had to offer.
He was just buying some fruit when suddenly there was a big commotion, people were clapping and cheering and there was music, Mihawk decided that he had nothing better to do so he went to see what all the fuss was about.
Clowns.
Apparently there was a circus in town and a few of the members were advertising and giving some free tickets.
“Are you a vampire?” Someone asked and Mihawk looked back to see four small children dressed as clowns looking back at him.
“Luffy, there's now way he is a vampire”
“Yeah, vampires can't be in the sunlight” another kid with green hair said. “He is a swordsman”
“That's cool!” Cheered the first kid. “You can come to our show, here” the kid handed him a ticket and Mihawk took it.
“Hey! Buggy is leaving, hurry up!” The older of the four kids said herding the boys.
“Bye mister vampire!” The first kid said.
Mihawk blinked and looked at the ticket in his hand.
Circus weren't really his thing but— It would be a waste to just throw away the ticket since it was a gift.
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The circus had a full house and Mihawk had to admit that it looked very professional and well done, he also learned that this circus presented a special type of show, more close to a play than a normal circus.
The master of ceremony was a small blonde boy who narrated the story of a clown who fell in love with the moon goddess who every night had a concert for her people.
“I'm the light, every night in your world, are you ready to watch me be legendary? Cause I'm… Ultraluminary” A sweet voice called and suddenly all the lights were pointing at the most beautiful woman Mihawk had ever seen.
She had long black hair that fell through her shoulder like a cascade, bright silver eyes, fair skin and perfect lips painted in silver. She was wearing a dark blue dress with silver stars on it and she was singing and dancing and what appeared to be the air but Mihawk realized it was a tightrope.
Despite the fact that a fall from such a high place could be life threatening, she danced and moved with confidence like she was meant to walk in the sky among the stars.
It was mesmerizing and Mihawk forgot about everything else.
It wasn't until the show was over and the moon goddess was in the arms of the clown that Mihawk realized that he hadn't stop staring the whole time — did he even blink? —
What the fuck.
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It had to be some type of devil fruit ability, something that drew people in, or at least that's what Mihawk told himself when he saw himself in the same seat in the circus for the fourth time in a row.
At least he had managed to pick on the story this time, it was a simple love story, with someone stealing the moon for themselves and the little friends of the moon — The children that had given him the tickets — searching for someone brave enough to go on a quest to return the moon to her right place.
Of course since this was a circus the man for the job was a clown, who fought with lions and other stuff to get to the moon. The clown had then the opportunity to keep the moon for himself but in the end he decided to let her go, wishing for her happiness beyond everything else.
It was a cute story, he gave them that, although if Mihawk was the one in the clown's place… he was sure that he wouldn't have given the moon back.
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It was the fifth night and Mihawk promised to himself that this would be the last night, but when he was thinking about this he noticed that one of the cords that was supposed to stay in place to keep the tightrope in place broke and that little detail made the moon lose her balance.
He was jumping before his body had time to react.
The first thing that passed through his mind was that she was light and that she smelled like something floral and sweet.
And then she was singing in his arms and the people were cheering, probably thinking this was part of the show too since the little master of ceremony was making something up to keep up the charade.
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“I can't believe you almost let me fall!” Screamed Tera throwing a lamp to Buggy who ducked under the table.
“I wanted to make it look real! You said it was fine!” Buggy defended herself.
“I thought it was going to be a piece of utility falling close to me, not me doing the falling!” She said throwing a book this time.
“It worked, didn't it?” He asked, leaving his hiding place and Tera just glared at him. “Besides I would have caught you, I was ready just in case”
“You fucking owe me”
“It was your plan to begin with— “Buggy swallowed when Tera glared at him again. “Fine” he shrugged and Tera finally looked happy, even when they were in this mess because of her.
After a couple of weeks in the grand line, Tera had come to the conclusion that if they wanted to survive against marines and other pirates they needed more muscle, sure under Tera's guidance the crew had improved a lot but still, they had four children to protect and a show that made things a little more difficult.
So when Tera spotted Mihawk freaking Hawkeye in their show, she had an idea.
The guy wasn't only a warlord but the greatest swordsman in the world, people just didn't mess with him.
So Tera decided — against Buggy's pleas that it was madness — to recruit him.
Of course they couldn't just take him, a man like that wouldn't just accept some nobody's pirates offer like that.
And Buggy who had noticed the way that the man looked at Tera since night one had come with a plan.
Still, true to be told neither really believed it would work.
“I can't believe he just agreed to join in exchange to be able to see the show” Commented Buggy still wary about the situation.
“He is bored” Said Tera, just resting on the sofa.
“Bored?”
“He achieved everything he could possibly want and now he has nothing to do” Tera shrugged. “He is looking for new excitement” She said remembering all too well when she first became a doctor and she didn't feel different, it felt empty somehow so she joined doctors without borders to have a purpose again, to have something that keep her going and motivated.
“So, he didn't join because he has a crush on you?”
“Everyone has a crush on me” Tera teased him and Buggy just rolled his eyes. “Hey! Don't look at me like that, I'm the star of your show you are supposed to keep me happy”
“I buy you very expensive coffee and sake, what else could you possibly want?”
“Aw, you do care” She teased and Buggy decided he was too sober for this.
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“I'm no better than a man” Commented Tera while watching Mihawk play with the kids — or well, The kids were playing around Mihawk and the warlord made sure they didn't die while on his watch — and fuck, a man with only a black swimsuit and a ridiculous big hat, shouldn't look that good!
Tera hated this world, really.
“He does have nice abs” Added Buggy next to her both in their beach chairs with matching sunglasses.
They shared a look and clicked their wine glasses while enjoying the view.
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Garp left his grandchildren with DaDan in the east blue, so you could imagine his surprise when DaDan called him to tell him that the boys had apparently joined some pirate crew and now they were sailing in the freaking grand line.
And sure Garp had always believed that those brats would find their way to the grand line but they were kids now! They were a hundred years too early! And not only that but to join some pirates?! He had been training them to be good marines and those brats thought he was just going to let them run wild and do whatever they wanted? Like hell he will!
Even if it was the last thing he did, Garp was going to track down those brats and drag them to hell himself, maybe that would put some sense in their thick skulls.
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Ace had a bad feeling when he realized that on this island there were more marine than normal.
He knew that since Hawkeye had joined them they didn't have to worry about marines — not that they ever had to, Tera was extremely good at playing the Marines and convincing them of letting them go — but his gut was telling him that there was something off.
“Zoro, Luffy, Sabo, it's time to go” He said herding his little brothers back to the circus and the three looked unhappy at that.
“Oh, but Tera said we could eat ice cream!” Complained Luffy.
“We can eat later, we have to leave no— He tried to say when he felt something and managed to duck with his brothers on time.
“Here you are brats!” The old geezer said and Ace blood ran cold, fuck.
“Grandpa!” Screamed Luffy and Ace cursed at their luck.
Maybe they could make a run for it?
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One, two, three, four, last time he checked Garp only had two grandchildren but the other two looked ready to fight him if he came closer to his brats, oh, that could be interesting.
“You idiot brats!”He said trying to grab Luffy but soon he was met with a sword and oh, the green hair kid was really fast.
“Don't touch Luffy” The kid said glaring at him.
“Zoro don't!” Ace screamed trying to shield the boy behind him. “We are not going back! Go back to hell old geezer!”
“You insolent brat!” Garp screamed this time grabbing Ace and trying to punch him in the head when he felt a hand going for his neck and he managed to give a step back before he was grabbed.
He blinked for a second, the little stunt almost caught him by surprise.
“Mom!” The little green hair kid screamed and the person, the woman put the children behind him and hugged Ace against her chest wait—
She didn't go for his neck, she distracted him to get to Ace.
Oh, what an interesting woman.
Garp laughed and she looked ready to kill him when Ace struggled from her grasp.
“Tera, don't fight him! He is… our Grandpa” Said Ace and the woman looked at the children and then back at him.
“Are you hurt?” She asked the kids and they shook their heads. “Good, Mister…?”
“Garp” He said and the woman nodded
“A cup of tea?” She offered and he laughed.
Really, what an interesting woman.
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Buggy was sweating bullets, Garp the hero was drinking tea with them and apparently the children — well at least Ace and Luffy — were the only ones who had the common sense to be anxious.
“I'm keeping them with me” Commented Tera and the marine laughed.
“They are my grandchildren”
“They are my children” Tera said, shrugging.
“And what if I decided to just take them?”
“If you lay a hand on my children I'll kill you” Tera said as if she was talking about the weather and Buggy's soul almost left his body, but to his surprise the marine just laughed.
“You don't want to become a marine?” Garp asked and Tera just shrugged.
“I'm a doctor”
“Thought you were a pirate” Garp commented and then looked at Mihawk who was next to Tera drinking tea. “ Didn't take you to be one for joining a circus”
“I was bored” Mihawk answered easily.
“Still, I have been training those boys to be marines, not pirates”
“They can be what they want” Tera answered. “Right now they are children and they need to be protected”
“You are too soft on them—
“And you are an asshole” Cursed him Tera and even Mihawk raised an eyebrow since Tera wasn't one to say bad words in front of the children.
To everyone's surprise Garp just laughed again as if she had told the best joke ever.
“I like you” Garp said with a smile. “But I can't just leave my grandchildren with anyone, let's fight if you win, I'll leave the children to you—
“No”
“What do you mean no?”
“No”
“Then I'll take the kids—
“You are Garp the hero, there's no way I'm winning in a fight against you, it's rigged” Tera explained and well, that was fair. “I propose something more fair”
“What do you have in mind?” He asked but Buggy already knew what Tera was going to offer.
“A card game” She said with a smile and Buggy felt kind of bad for Garp now.
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“Was it really necessary to take his dog hat too?” Asked Buggy after Tera cleaned the table with Garp and the woman shrugged.
“He threw Luffy into the jungle, alone” She said vindictively and Oh well, maybe Garp should be happy that was all Tera took from him.
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“Were you really going to kill him if he tried to take us?” Asked Ace after Tera put them to bed.
“I would have asked Miha to do it, he would have probably enjoyed the fight” Shrugged Tera and Ace could see that. “but I would have fight him myself if I had to, no one touch my children and gets away with it” She said with a smirk and Ace believe her.
“Goodnight Mom” Ace said for the first time and Tera just kissed him on the forehead.
“Good night sweetie”
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Buggy opened the door of the study where Tera usually gave lessons to the children and saw on the board the logo of the Marines in a big red circle with an x in the middle.
The children looked at him and Tera looked at him.
The Clown looked back at them.
Buggy very slowly closed the door and decided to pretend he didn't see anything.
Notes:
Tera: What do you think Mihawk will do for a distraction?
Buggy: They’ll probably, like, make a noise or throw a rock. That’s what I would do.
*Building explodes and several car alarms go off*
Buggy: ... or they could do that.Tera: Mihawk and I were crossing the street, and this dude drove by and honked at us
Buggy: *Sighing* What did Mihawk do?
Tera: They chased him to the next red light, then reached into his window and...
Mihawk : Who wants a steering wheel?Tera: In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
Mihawk : Wasn't Buggy with you?
Buggy: In my defense, I was also left unsupervised..
Note: Ace, Sabo and Luffy write letters to Dadan and Makino, it started like an assignment but they liked to do it, so they kept going, that's why Dadan knew where they were.
Did Mihawk really joined because he was bored? Yes, he totally did.
And Ace is the older brother, because I think he is good taking care of people, Sabo is the soft brother, Zoro is the quiet brother that when is left alone can be found napping or setting things on fire, and Luffy is the youngest more outgoing brother who can befriend anyone.
Chapter 4: You can always girl boss your way out of any problem
Notes:
I may have developed a crush on Boa Hancock, don't judge me she is cute and hot and I'm weak for that, so there may be more Tera/Boa in my future fics... Why, I don't know it's hot.
Thanks for the all the comments and the kudos I really appreciate it and hope you like it.
Oh and depending on my mood with have like one or two more chapters (it's already written I just have to decide if I want to cut it on two chapters or just one last long chapter)
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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“No way” Buggy said when a girl asked for a job at the circus.
And sure they usually they didn't mind taking in people who was willing to work for a roof over their head and food, but those people didn't have a bounty bigger than him — buggy felt kind of cheated at the fact that despite the fact he was on the grand line his bounty was the same, even Tera had a bounty now and she wasn't even a pirate! She was a doctor! —
The girl asking for a job was no other than Nico Robin, someone who the world called the demon child that had a bounty on her head since the age of six years old! Six! She was bound to be troubles.
“Sure, you can join” Tera said shrugging and Buggy felt himself had a heart attack.
Was it too late to find a new crew and start over?
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Mihawk had to admit that Nico Robin was a good addition to the crew, despite her youth, she was very skillful with her devil fruit and could use her ability in very useful ways, besides she liked the same books he did and they often shared coffee while they talked about the books.
Besides she was a good influence on the kids, acting as some sort of older sister, helping Tera with their classes.
And she always found a way to sneak a limb, usually a hand behind the clown and scare the shit out of him, which was funny — not that he would ever admit that out loud — so, he didn't mind her having her around.
Well, maybe not all the time.
Mihawk opened the door and left Tera's room only to be met with blue eyes that stared at him.
Mihawk stared back at her.
They stood there staring at each other for a while.
“Goodnight” He said after a moment, he was an adult, and so was Tera, there was nothing o be ashamed here.
Absolutely nothing.
“Goodnight for you indeed” She said with a smirk and Mihawk decided that it was a good moment to go back to his room.
And he would pretend he did not hear Nico Robin chuckling behind him, but did made a mental note to tell Tera to not scratch so hard next time.
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“Why is Mihawk avoiding Robin?” Asked Buggy watching the girl give a knowing look at the swordsman and Mihawk almost crashing against a wall.
“She caught him leaving my room the other night” Tera said amused and Buggy almost laughed.
The greatest swordsman in the world was embarrassed because he was caught red handed by a teenager.
“Told him he should stay” Buggy said with a smirk and Tera smiled at him, both enjoying Mihawk's misery.
Maybe having Nico Robin around wasn't that bad.
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“I have never seen someone beat Tera in a card game before” Commented Buggy amazed when Robin won.
It was a very strange game, with the cards having quotes that you had to complete and the ones with the most… morbid sense of humor won.
“What do you say the game was called?” Asked while Mihawk started the new round.
“Cards against human kind” Tera explained. “We should play uno later”
“I'm not playing that wicked game with you again!”
“Oh come on Buggy, I'll let you win this time”
“You always say that and I end up with my hands full with cards!” The clown expressed and the girl just smiled innocently.
“Maybe you can at least beat Robin, since you know the game better than her” Offered Tera and the clown seem to think this.
Robin just smiled and took the new cards.
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“She has to be cheating” Murmured Buggy after Tera won and Robin took second place with Mihawk close behind in third place. “I hate all of you”
“This game is really fun” Commented Robin, looking at the cards. “Have you thought about selling it?” She asked and suddenly Buggy and Tera stopped arguing about the game.
They both shared a look
“Ah” they said at the same time and Robin thought it was fun how they sometimes looked in perfect sync with each other.
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When Tera started to make different games from her world she just thought of things she missed and that the boys may like, she never really stopped to think about it too much.
And now that she was seeing all the money she was making with the games she thought that Robin was a godsend.
True to be told she only picked her because Buggy looked scared of her and she thought it would be fun.
“you are my favorite child this week” Tera said, hearing the boys complaining about it but she just hugged her daughter tightly.
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Shanks crew heard about some really good circus that was going to visit an island nearby, he wasn't one to visit the circus — since they made him kind of nostalgic — but his crew was excited because the star of the circus was supposed to be some moon goddess — or princess? — and sure that sounded like something he didn't want to miss so they sailed as soon as they could.
Unfortunately when they reached the island the circus was close so they would have to wait for the next day, in the meantime they found a bar packed with people so they decided to just blend in.
Shanks was just drinking some beer with Beck when he saw a stunning woman in a black dress — a really tight and short dress with lace — get on top of a table and start to dance in the rhythm of a song that was too loud for him to hear properly.
But the woman dancing, well, she was gorgeous, long black hair, fair skin and a tiny waist.
Shanks was mesmerized just watching her sway her hips when he decided to approach her, but when he was about to go talk to her the bartender put a hand on his shoulder.
“I wouldn't do that if I was you” The old man said and he raised an eyebrow. “That girl may be dancing for everyone to see, but she has the best guard dog someone could ask for” He pointed with a look at a far corner of the bar and Shanks blinked when he looked at a very familiar hat.
It was Mihawk!
What was he doing here? Did he come here to spar? Oh wait—
“Guard dog?” He asked and realized that Mihawk's eyes were definitely all over the dancing girl, and there was something there… desire? Amusement? …. Fondness?
There were emotions there that Shanks had only got to see glimpses here and there over the years.
He swallowed and took a sip from his beer.
“Yeah, he keeps the girl and the clown safe” The bartender added and Shanks paused.
The clown?
Just in that moment he heard cheering and he looked up at the girl just in time to see that someone else was dancing with the girl—
Was that Buggy?
What the fuck.
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Mihawk could feel Shanks eyes on him, it was an… unexpected encounter, but he assumed that in the grand line everything could happen.
Still, he didn't really acknowledge his presence, despite the fact that Tera always complained about her work in the circus, and how she was not an spectacle, she certainly loved the attention the same way Buggy did, they both loved having people wanting them, they eyes glued to every moment every breath they took, so every time they went to a bar they put on a little show, they always said it was the alcohol but Mihawk had yet to see Tera get completely wasted and Buggy could certainly take his alcohol.
But Mihawk didn't complain because, well, he liked it too, he enjoyed knowing that despite the fact that everyone in this bar wanted them, they were both going to leave this place with him.
So Mihawk just took his wine glass and as always enjoyed the show.
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“He is not that hot” Commented Tera when Buggy told him that his ex was here — He didn't call him his ex, but for the way Buggy talked about him, he may as well be —
“I know you are lying, but thanks” Said Buggy while they both went back to Mihawk fully knowing that Shanks was walking to them.
“Not lying, redheads are not my type” She shrugged.
“I thought your type was older and hot” Raised an eyebrow Buggy while they sat next to Mihawk.
“My type is older and pathetic” She shrugged when she got two glares.
“So, Shanks is definitely your type” Commented Mihawk and Tera and Buggy shared a look and both laughed while the swordsman smirked.
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Luffy was over the moon with Shanks visit and Buggy was having the time of his life.
“Why is Buggy so happy?” Asked Ace while Tera patches him up, she would have to talk with Mihawk about letting swords alone near excited children.
“Because he has bragging rights” Answered Tera.
“Bragging rights?” He questioned and Tera looked at Ace, and decided that he was old enough to know this.
“When people meet each other after a break up, one of them is always going to win, whether it was because they are more successful or had better luck, the winner gets bragging rights”
“But Shanks in an Emperor and Buggy is… well Buggy” commented Sabo.
“Yes, but, Buggy has something that wins against that easily"
“What thing?” They asked and Tera pointed at Mihawk who was by Buggy's side while talking to Shanks and then she pointed at herself.
“Hot partners, top anything else” She explained and both boys nodded seriously.
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Boa Hancock was the most beautiful woman in the world, so of course when she heard rumors about a woman that could match her beauty she decided to take a look and made the rumors die down.
But she wasn't expecting well—
Tera.
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“Should we do something about that?” Asked Buggy when he saw Boa Hancock, the most beautiful in the world and a warlord acting as some shy maiden giving at least a hundred red roses to Tera.
“She is mostly harmless” Shrugged Mihawk because sure, Boa was dangerous in her own right, but right now Mihawk doubted that she was a danger to anyone really.
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“So, I have a fan club now” Commented Tera while eating dinner.
“You have a what now?” asked Buggy and Tera shrugged.
“Boa opened it for me, said it will be a honor for her”
“What did you do to her?” The clown asked and Tera shrugged.
“I was just nice to her” Tera said and just shrugged, she just treated her like any other girl — Which translated into Tera sweetly flirting with her, and making her feel as the most important person in the world. But in Tera's defense, it was a family thing, everyone on her family had game, they even had to change her grandpa to a different asylum because the ladies kept getting into fights because of him —
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Buggy looked at the kids.
“Guys, we talked about this before, kidnapping is not cool” Tera said scolding the kids when they show up with a little girl with pink hair.
“But she was with a creep” Ace defended themselves and Tera paused.
“Creepy guy?” Tera asked and looked at the girl.
“Moria-sama is not creepy, he picked me up and said that I could have all the cute things I wanted if I just did whatever he wanted” The girl said and Tera blinked.
“Boys, where did you say you found her?”
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“I'm borrowing Yoru” Tera said taking the sword and Mihawk gave the woman a look — it wasn't the first time she held it, since Tera did one threatened him to throw it to the ocean that time he went too far with Zoro's training and almost cut his chest — but Tera looked…
Determined in a way that Mihawk knew that someone was going to suffer.
“Do you need help?” He just asked and the doctor paused but then shrugged.
“Watch the kids while I'm gone, I'm taking Robin with me” She added and he nodded.
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“What did you give him?” Asked Robin, watching how the warlord twitched in the ground after Tera injected him with something.
“I may have been experimenting a little with devil fruits and seastone” Shrugged Tera and oh, that explained the blood samples she asked every couple of weeks.
“So, what is supposed to happen?”
“Ain't sure, it is the first time I tried it on humans” She answered looking at the man and Robin wondered if they should take notes for future references.
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“I think we should take Perona’s height” Commented Tera looking at the wall that had the heights of the boys written next to their names.
“She will like that” Robin nodded since she had watched the girl look at the wall a couple of times before.
“What about you?” Tera asked and Robin blinked. “I know that you are older, but a person can grow until they are 21 years old, so you may still grow a little bit” The doctor explained and sure, that was a possibility but that wall was— well—
For Tera's children.
And sure, Tera referred to her as one of her children sometimes, but still, Robin was just staying here because with Mihawk's protection she didn't have to look over her shoulder all the time, but it was a matter of time before eventually she would have to runway again — after all, who could want a demon child? Someone's whose existence was cursed —
“You know you can stay if you want, right?” Asked Tera when Robin went quiet for too long. “Look, I don't know your situation, and I won't ask you about it but” Tera paused and sighed. “We will protect you, if someone wants to hurt you, we will protect you”
“Why… why would you do that?” She asked, feeling her mouth dry and Tera just laughed.
“I don't really need a reason” Tera shrugged. “After all, protecting the people you love, it's the most natural thing in the world” She said as if it was that easy.
The fact that Tera — and the children, and Buggy, and Mihawk and the Crew — cared about her was that simple, despite who Nico Robin was, of the things she could do, the things she had done.
But, maybe, just maybe, it was that easy.
A friend had once told her that she would eventually find people like that.
That wanted her.
“I will like to add my height” She said after a moment and Tera grinned.
“Good, I'll tell the others”
Notes:
Tera: Could you be anymore annoying?
Buggy: Yes..
Buggy: I hope you have an explanation for this.
Sabo: We have three, actually!
Zoro: Pick your favorite.Buggy: We need a plan to beat them.
Zoro: Okay, listen up. First, we fill their shoes with wet cat food.
Buggy:
Zoro: Judge me all you want, I get results.Tera: I hate when people ask me, 'What did you do today?' Buddy listen, I woke up at noon and then it was five p.m., okay? I don't KNOW!
Chapter 5: Barbie Pirate and Barbie Doctor
Summary:
Rosi and Law show up and Mihawk, Buggy and Tera are completely fine with that fine piece of marine ass.
Notes:
Guess who is a about to create more tags with Tera? This bitch, I'm about to create the Tera/Katakuri tag and the Tera/Boa Hancock, why? Because if I have to suffer with this crack ships that I created in my head, so do you, if you wanna blame someone blame the person who wrote a fic with Zoro as Mihawk and Tera biological child, their fault, not mine.
And there's only one more chapter left, thanks everyone for reading!
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Corazon knows that this is hard for Law, that everytime they had to runaway from a new hospital, he loses a little bit more of the hope that he still has left and Corazon, he doesn't know what to do, he tries to cheer him up but nothing that he does seem to really work and then—
There's a circus in town, and Corazon thinks that maybe this would cheer up Law, he knows they are running out of time, but he wants to give Law some good memories so he buys two tickets and drags Law to the show.
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“Watch me Dance! Dance the night away! My heart could be burning but you won't see it on my face! Watch me dance! Dance the night away! I still keep the party running, not one hair out of place” The moon princess — or was goddess? Corazon wasn't really paying attention in the beginning — sang with a sweet voice full of emotion, she smiles and shines despite how the song talks about a broken heart and Corazon can't take his eyes off her.
Sure, the woman is absolutely beautiful, but there is something more, it's the way that she truly embodies the moon, bright but soft, steady and firm, and Corazon looks at Law who appears to enjoy the show just as much as he does and he smiles, this was truly a good idea.
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Zoro likes to spend time with his siblings, once he thought that other kids were annoying and he didn't need anyone else — Just his mom, he can't even remember his Dad, but his mom who loves him fiercely has always being there — but, Luffy, Ace and Sabo, grew on him, Buggy and his crew too, they are family, and everyone else who came after, they are family too, but sometimes they are too loud and Zoro needs a moment to himself.
He usually goes with his mom or with Robin when he needs just a moment, but they are busy so he decided to take a moment alone, maybe he can find Mihawk, he is a good choice too, but he is always with the public so Zoro moves through the crowd of people who just finished watching the show and are trying to leave when someone bumps into him and he is about to fall when a hand grabs him and he he is being pressed against someone else.
Zoro blinks and finds golden eyes looking back at him, they aren't like Mihawk's eyes, they are… more soft and pretty.
“Are you okay?” The boy who grabbed him asks and Zoro blinks, coming back to his senses.
What was that?
And why did he think his eyes are pretty?
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Tera is just taking all the stuff from her hair when her door is opened with force and she blinks.
“Mom! Law is dying! You have to help him!” Her darling son says like is a matter of life and death — which for his words apparently it is — and Tera raises an eyebrow.
Especially when she realizes that her beloved son is dragging by the hand another small child and wait—
Who is Law?
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So Law turns up to be a kid with really good luck or bad Luck depending on how you see it.
He is sick, like terminal sick, so that's the back luck, and the good luck? He should have died ages ago but somehow this boy has been avoiding death, which turns him into a walking miracle true to be told.
“I can give you some things for the symptoms, but nothing long term” She explained. Tera doesn't sugar coat it because Law was smart, like Robin type of smart — are all children in this world that smart? Because Sabo and Ace are really smart too despite the fact that no one bothered to teach them before, Zoro was really smart too when he tried and Luffy… well he has… Luffy has a great personality — and after she agreed to treat him he explained his disease better than any book could do it.
“There's truly nothing you can do?” Asked the tall man that had introduced himself as Corazon, who apparently is Law's caretaker.
Tera pause for a moment.
“If I cure you, what would you do after?” Tera asked Law and the boy was taken by surprise by the question.
“What's the point of answering that? You can't cure me”
“Indulge me” She answered.
“I… I don't know” he confesses and yeah that checks out, why plan for a future that you knew you can't have? Tera sighs.
“Stay here, in the circus and think about an answers, when you have one, I'll help you out—
“But—
“I'll give you something for the symptoms, so that would buy you some time” She said, already standing up and making a mental note of everything that could help him now.
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“You can cure him” It's not a question, it's an affirmation and Tera doesn't bother to lie to Robin.
“Yeah” She nods, looking at Law playing with Zoro, well, they are talking about swords but for Zoro that counts as playing.
“But you don't know if you should '' Added Robin and Tera once again nodded.
Tera knows that as a doctor, she should do her best to help anyone who needs it, but— Her kind brother died in the hands of really bad people, and Law is already a pirate and has so much hatred in his eyes. What if Tera saves his life and he becomes a monster? The life of the people he kills would be on her hands too.
Robin looks at Tera and then at Law.
They aren't that different, Robin knows what happened in Flevance, what the world government did, it wasn't all that different from what they do to her hometown so in a way she understands Law's pain.
Robin was too busy trying to survive to fully hate the world government, she was just a little girl runaway, trying her best to keep the work of the people she loved to honor their memory, but Law, he didn't have a purpose to keep him going only hatred.
That could be dangerous, so she understands why Tera is hesitating in helping him, but Robin knows something that Tera doesn't.
“He will be okay” Robin says confidently, people like them, they just need something else to keep them going, Robin found a purpose and a family and she thinks that Law has already found at least one of them.
“If you say so” Tera sighs, but both know that despite Tera's inner struggle she was going to help Law since the beginning, still, Robin is kind enough to not mention it.
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“If I save Law, you have to leave the marines” Tera said and Corazon dropped his cigarette and his coat caught on fire, Lucky for him Tera dropped her glass of water on him stopping the fire.
“I'm not—
“I know a marine when I see one” Tera said with a type of certainty that Corazon knew that he couldn't refuse.
Well, shit.
Still—
“I have a mission—
“You have a child” Corrected him Tera. “That needs a family, a home, and you can't give him that if you die in a undercover mission or if you are working in a ship miles away from him, because last time I checked marines ship don't have daycares” She reasoned and fuck— she has a point.
Even if he could take Law with him, Law would never go with him, not willingly after what the world government and the marine took from him.
And what are his other choices? Leaving him with Doffy again? Dropping him with some stranger?
“Maybe you could—
“I can take him, but he won't stay, he already chose his family and you need to do the same” Tera answered and Corazon blinked.
“You think Law sees me as—
“Yes” Nodded the woman and Corazon felt like crying but held back the tears.
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Law was just reading a book when Tera dragged him with her.
He thought that she might want to run some more tests, or something like that, but they were in church lighting candles.
What the fuck.
“When I was your age I wanted to be a marine” She commented while sitting next to him and that picked his interest.
Somehow he had trouble seeing the woman taking orders from some stuck up marine.
“What made you change your mind?” He asked curious.
“My brother”
“He didn't want you to be a marine?”
“He wanted for me to be happy, no matter what I chose to do” She answered with a little smile. “But then he went and bled out to death, my kind and stupid brother, died, because no one knew how to help him” Tera admitted and Law held his breath for a second.
He… he understood that, a little, it wasn't fair, people like his parents and Tera's brother, that helped people didn't deserve to have their life cut short by some son of a bitch—
“So I became a doctor, to honor his memory” She added and Law paused.
“To honor his memory?”
“He was the kindest person I knew, always helping people, I thought he would be proud of me if I became someone who could help others” She said and Law thought about his parents.
It hurt— a lot, to think about them and especially of what they may think about him now, after everything he had done— they would be ashamed— They would be so sad to see what he had become —
“I'm not going to give you some speech about how hating the world is bad, and that you have to be the better person or some bullshit like that, fuck that” Tera said and Law blinked. “But, think about what you want, not what you think you are supposed to want or what you should want”
Law truly hated the world, well, the world government to be more honest and the marines too, but— he was so tired of hating, of being angry.
He just wanted— He just—
He just wanted to have a place where to belong again, a home.
“I want to live, and I want to be a pirate and I want to see the world and kick as many marines asses as I can and I want to be fucking happy, and give the world government the middle finger” Law said before he could stop himself and Tera smiled.
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“Can I light some candles for my family?” Law asked and Tera gave him the box with the matches. “Does … does it ever stop hurting?”
“No really, in my experience it always hurt, but, it becomes a good type of hurt, because you loved them” Tera answered and it shouldn't mean anything, but Law knew exactly what she was talking about.
The pain kept them alive in their memory.
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“I'm surprised that you haven't offered them to join the crew” Commented Buggy while stroking Tera's hair. “Corazon is definitely your type”
“He is not the only one” She commented and Buggy frowned. “Zoro may share my… taste in men” She explained and Buggy looked at her confused until he remembered Zoro following Law around like a little duck and oh—
Older and pathetic.
Law was definitely older than Zoro and Pathetic… well he was kind of awkward and was literally dying, so that may put him in the pathetic category.
“Oh, Mihawk is definitely going to kill him” He murmured since it was not secret that Zoro was Mihawk's favorite — although Perona and Robin were a close second —
“Exactly, I don't want to save his life just to have Mihawk killing him later” Tera sighed and Buggy laughed a little.
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“So, you had this all the time?” Asked Corazon when Tera showed them the ope Ope no mi fruit.
“Some pirates tried to attack us before we found you guys, Mihawk took them out and Buggy may have taken some of their things” Explained Tera.
“Why haven't you eaten it? This fruit is like every Doctor and surgeon wet dream” Said Law and Tera shrugged.
“I'm already an awesome doctor and I like to be able to swim, someone has to fish Buggy out of the water” Answered Tera and well— fair. “Anyway, you can eat it and problem solved”
“But I'm not a doctor—
“You are good enough, and I'll help you” Tera said and Law looked at the fruit and then at Corazon.
“You are genius Law, there's no one better for the job than you!” He said with his thumbs up and Law looked at the fruit.
This was it.
He was going to live.
His hands trembled a little but he managed to get the fruit to his mouth and between tears he bite the fruit and—
“Ugh, this tastes awful!”
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“So we are definitely tapping that, right?” Asked Tera while enjoying a nice wine glass next to Buggy and Mihawk watching Corazon play with the kids — or more like the children bullying Corazon, but hey, they were having fun! —
“We?” Asked Mihawk raising an eyebrow a little amused.
“Yes, we are a package deal” Said Tera with a smile. “Well, at least Buggy and me are”
“I'm her emotional support clown” Explained Buggy and Mihawk thought that in a way that made sense.
“fair enough” Nodded Mihawk and then gave Corazon a look, he wasn't bad looking and he had big hands — well everything about him was big, or at least that's what the swordsman hoped — he could work with that.
“How should we lure him?”
“Lure him? What are we, some pervert offering candies in a ban?”
“Seduce him?”
“Have you seen us? Please, we are anyone's wet dream” Said Tera confident. “I mean I'm beautiful, Miha is hot, and you are cute, we have all”
“Hey! Why I'm cute? I'm sexy too”
“Sure you are”
“Hey!”
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Corazon opened the door, he just needed some air, he probably couldn't go back to his room since he would wake up Law, but he could take some night breeze.
But in the moment he looked at the hallway he found bright blue eyes looking back at him.
Robin was holding a book and a cup of coffee and stared at him.
Corazon stared back at her.
They stared at each other for a couple of seconds that for the ex marine felt like years and he slowly went back inside and closed the door.
Robin could hear Tera's and Buggy's laugh inside the room from her spot outside of Tera's room and she smirked.
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“What's wrong with Mom and Miha?” Asked Zoro and Law looked at the adults walking funny while Buggy and Corazon did their best to offer comfort but almost got their heads chewed off.
Last night Corazon hadn't spent the night in their room and when he came back in the morning he had a dazed expression and looked absolutely ravaged.
Law didn't have to be a genius to know what happened, but— Zoro was still too young to know.
“They probably just fell while sparring” He said and the gray eyes of the boy gave him a long look and Law almost blushed, most people didn't see it because of the hair color and the different skin color too, but Zoro was a little copy of Tera and Law had no doubt that one day he would be just as beautiful as his mom.
“If you say so” Zoro said, not all convinced but deciding to take his word.
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“Is that a polar bear?” Asked Buggy after they got a postal from Corazon and Law.
Apparently they had adopted some kids along the way but right now the Clown's attention was in the polar bear.
“According to Law his name is Bepo” Said Zoro and Buggy and Tera shared a look.
Well, apparently they lost in the who picked the most weird children department.
Notes:
Corazon : Dude, we can get mythical animals! Maybe I’ll get a penguin!
Zoro: Penguins are real.
Corazon : That’s the spirit, Zoro! They’re real to me too!
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Tera: Wait you like me? For my personality?
Buggy: I know, I was surprised too.
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Buggy: I am an expert at identifying birds.
Law : Okay, what about those ones flying over there?
Buggy: Yeah, they're all birds..
Corazon : My knee just cracked so loudly that I half expect it to glow in the dark tonight..
Chapter 6: Lover boy and Killer Queen forever
Notes:
Thank you all so much for all the love I got with this! To be honest I didn't expect to get all this support and reads, since not a lot people know about Tera and I don't have a big canon ship, but I'm so happy that you all liked it, so thank you!
By the way tomorrow I will upload the first chapter of my new fic with Tera/Katakuri and Zoro as their biological son, since I wrote more than I planned it's going to be a series until now I have written three parts but I promise it's good!
Hope I can see you there!
Thanks for all the support and don't forget to comment!
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
“Can I see your panties?” Asked the talking skeleton and Tera thought that she had never been sexually harassed by a living talking skeleton before and what the hell was her life becoming?
“You deal with this one” She said to Buggy going back to the ship with Miha.
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Brook had to admit that he was quite happy, the Buggy pirates were really a fun and lovely crew, with their circus and all the children running around.
He had been alone for so long that he had believed that it was his destiny to stay alone for all eternity and yet here he was, playing the violin and being part of a crew and a show once again that was bringing joy to many, how wonderful!
“Say the word, your wish is my command, oh love, oh lover boy, what are you doing tonight oh boy! Written my letter, feel much better” Sang Tera while doing Perona's hair and Brook almost had a heart attack, if he had a heart that was!
Still— he knew that song!
“Tera!” He screamed startling the woman a little. “Can I know how do you know that song?”
“That song— oh, it was my brother's favorite song” She answered shrugging and Brook jaw dropped. “He used to sing it all the time so he kind of— are you okay?”
“Lover boy!” Brook screamed and Tera looked at him as if he was crazy and then he remembered his captains words. “Your favorite song is killer Queen!” He said quickly and Tera looked shocked and paused.
“How… how do you know that?” Asked Tera in a low voice sounding quite taken aback and confused but Brook could only stare at her, could it be that after all this years his captain had been right?
Shit.
He tried to remember his captain words and what he had told him before they parted ways, what he had asked him to do—
“Brook?” the doctor asked again and oh, right, well he may have some explaining to do.
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For Brook his old captain had always been a little odd, with songs that he hadn't heard before that more often than not had reference to things he didn't know but— he saw those things as his Captain little quirks, so he never put much thought into it.
Until his captain was dying and told him about how this was not his first encounter with death, and that his only regret was that he wasn't able to wait for his little sister, because Yorki was sure that if he somehow ended up in this crazy world, one day his little sister would find her way here too.
“you are saying that…” Murmured Tera after Brook told him the story about a captain that sounded so much like someone she knew— that she loved.
“I don't know how, or what brought you two here but I think you are the little sister he was waiting for” He said, because it all matched, Tera's songs and the way that she seem to know things that only his old friend and Captain could understand.
Tera swallowed and Brook didn't know if he had done the right thing, maybe Tera had hoped to find her brother in this world the same way Yorkie had hoped, and he had taken the hope away. What a cruel destiny for the two siblings to be in the same place after so much loss, but in different times so they could not meet despite their wishes.
It was heartbreaking and oh—
“I have something for you” He said opening his skull searching inside his head. “The reason why he told me all this, was because he wanted me to give you something, he was sure that one day you'll be here and he wanted to share this with you” He finally took a leather journey and handed it to the woman.
Tera looked at the journal and when she opened the journal there was no more doubt— that language— that handwriting.
“Thank you” She said touching the paper pages.
“ I will give you a moment alone” Brook said giving her some space to process everything and if he saw some tears on her eyes he didn't comment about it.
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“From a lover boy to a killer Queen” Tera read the first words of the journal and she remembered her brothers soft voice and his laugh while saying that Lover boy was way better than Killer Queen.
Tera remembered his bright smile and the way he seem to lit up every room he was with that smile and his laugh so full with joy and happiness.
And Tera held the journal tightly against her chest while she used one of her hands to cover her mouth kneeling in the floor crying, she cried like she hadn't cried since she first found out that he died.
She hadn't shed a tear since then, not when her family shunned her for not joining the military or when she died.
Not even when she found herself in a new world having lost everything she ever had, her body, her name, everything.
For the first time Tera allowed herself a moment of weakness and she cried and sobbed like the wreak she felt she was.
And that's how the children found her, she tried to stop crying and pretend she was fine but the words wouldn't leave her lips and before she knew it she was being hugged by all her children, who were trying to calm her down but weren't sure about how to do it properly.
Luffy and Perona started to cry too, and Ace and Sabo did their best to calm them down but they were almost in tears too, panicking about not knowing what to do and Zoro went to pick Miha and Buggy with Robin hoping they would know what to do.
And then Buggy was crying too and Mihawk looked about to go in a rampage while Robin and Zoro tried to cheer her up with awkward words and fuck—
Tera couldn't take it anymore and she started to laugh, because her family was trying to help her and doing a poor job at that, and it was so chaotic and funny and—
She might have lost something, but she had gained so much more and she wouldn't have it any other way.
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“The journal was about his life here, about how free and happy he was here” Said Tera one day and Brook nodded. “He also talked about you a lot and a whale?”
“Laboon” Brook smiled remembering the little whale, excited to see it again, they had advanced so much into the grand line that it was a matter of time.
“Thank you for being his friend until the end” She said with a soft smile.
“There's nothing to be thankful for, he was my best friend and an excellent Captain” Brook said and Tera nodded.
“I think I know why he wanted me to have his journal” She said looking at the sea. “To be honest sometimes this place feels… unreal, like a dream, and the thought of finding a way back has crossed my mind, but”
“But?”
“I don't want to find away back anymore, and I think that's why he wanted for me to read his journey, so I would know that it was okay to move on and be happy here, the same way he was” She answered and Brook thought that in a way it made sense.
Yorki didn't talk often about his family but he talked about his sister sometimes, about how much he loved her and how proud he was about her, so of course he would want for her to find her happiness without anything holding her back.
“Would you mind telling my stories about him?” Tera questioned shyly and Brook felt something warm inside his chest.
“Well! Of course! Let me tell you about the time he started at a party in a marine cell with the help of the commander's daughter!” He said excitedly and Tera listened to him with a smile.
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“And remember” Tera said to Zoro, but she was also looking at Robin and Luffy. “Mommy will drop kick anyone who touches you” She said confidently “and Father and Dad are going to bail Mommy out of jail” She said pointing at Mihawk and Buggy who nodded.
“Oh please Mom, we are going to be fine” Zoro said with a little smile. “Besides Brook and Robin are coming with us, so we have two adults with us unlike Ace and Sabo”
“That reminds me, I have to go kick Whitebeard's ass” She commented and Zoro grinned fully knowing that his mom was capable of going against an emperor to protect them.
“You promised Ace you wouldn't” Reminded her Mihawk.
“Then Dragon's, he hasn't given me any weekly reports like I made him promise” She complained.
“I told you he wouldn't be able, it's not like the revolutionary army can just make random calls to update you in Sabo’s life”
“You are just being mean” Sighed Tera looking wronged and Zoro just smiled, he would really miss them, but it was their time to find their own path without their parents there, besides... He read really hoping to catch up with Law without his big brothers around — They could be so embarrassing glaring at Law the whole time, not even Father was that bad! — . “You are all a bunch of traitors” she complained but still gave them a smile.
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“Look!” Tera said excitedly, holding Luffy's bounty poster in her hand. “My child is a wanted criminal! I'm so proud!” She said happily and Buggy could only stare at the wanted poster.
He had thought that by dropping them in the east blue they would go unnoticed for longer but maybe that was just wishful thinking on his part.
“I have to brag to Garp—
“He probably already knows” Commented Mihawk and Tera gave him a smirk.
“Did I say brag? I wanted to sit gloat” She said very proudly and Buggy felt kind of bad for Garp but then he was a marine so he had it coming.
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“So, what do you want to do now?” Asked Buggy while Tera laid between him and Mihawk and she looked at the night sky.
“You know, finding the one piece sounds kind of fun” She said with a smirk and Buggy raised an eyebrow.
“You want to be the pirate King?”
“More like Queen”
“I was just thinking in getting to visit the grand line again but this time doing it in the not child friendly way” Tera grinned and Buggy blinked and then laughed.
The three shared a look and they knew where to go now.
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Extra:
“Ace?” Asked Tera who stopped throwing money when the stripper got closer and he looked awfully familiar.
“Mom?” He asked and blinked when he could see his Father and Dad next to his mom in the first row.
The four shared a look and Tera was the first to react.
“You are not grounded until you are forty if you don't tell your siblings” She said and Ace nodded slowly, taking some money from the floor and quickly leaving the stage.
Notes:
Ace: You’re giving me a sticker?
Tera: Not just a sticker. That is a sticker of a kitty saying “me-wow!”
Ace: I’m not a preschooler.
Tera: Fine, I’ll take it back-
Ace: I earned this, back off!.
Mihawk: Can I go to the pool?
Buggy: Sure, we’ll go as soon as I’m free.
Mihawk: No, can I go by myself?
Buggy: You don’t want to go with me?
Mihawk: You just go around challenging random people to cannonball contests.
Buggy: It’s the only way to establish dominance..
Tera: I left instructions for everyone while I'm gone.
Buggy: Mine just says "Buggy no."
Tera: I want you to apply it to every possible situation..
Thanks for all the support and everything pretty much follows the canon here except obviously for Ace's death since there's no way that Tera is letting anyone touch her child! And Law and Rosinante still went to take Doffy down with the help of the Strawhat.
Cross guild was created, and Crocodile and Tera get along just fine, because they both love money and bully Buggy.
Perona like to travel on her own but when she gets bored she go bother her brothers and stay with her parents for a while — She and Robin are Mihawk princesses and not one would ever be good enough for them —
If you have another question don't hesitate to ask!
Thank you for reading!
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