"Wait...Aden!?" everyone besides Lucci and Chopper shouted in surprise.
"Sup?" was all Aden said.
"Who is that?" Chopper asked Nami in confusion.
"He's Luffy's older brother. He left the crew before you joined." she explained simply.
"Why would he do that? He's Luffy's brother right?" Chopper was confused.
"Well..." Nami began, but got interrupted by Luffy.
"He left, because we were relying on him too much. He is much stronger than we are." Luffy said with a grin, happy to see his brother again.
"~Even more so now, actually.~" said a voice from behind them, as they turned to look bhind them, only to see nothing, Luffy's straw hat flew off his head, and landed in Aden's hand, who still standing at the door put the hat on.
"Hey! That's my hat!" Luffy shouted angrily, but made no real move to take it back. The smile on his face gave away the fact be didn't mind at all.
"Hey there, little brother." said Aden with fondness in his tone.
"Nice to see you again, big bro." said Luffy with a widening smile.
"...Don't you dare...." Aden said, already knowing what will happen.
Luffy just laughed and jumped at his brother, wrapping his arms around him in a quick bro hug.
"*sigh* Yes yes. I'm happy to see you too. Now let go of me. You know i don't like this." Aden said, his tone not really annoyed.
"Yeah you say that. But if you really hated it that much, i'd just go right through you." Luffy giggled.
"...Guilty."
"Say. You guys are new." Aden said, looking around. At that moment Luffy stretched his hand to snatch his hat back from his brother.
"My name is Chopper. Luffy offered me to join as a doctor." Chopper introduced himself, as he saw the newcomer being good natured.
"Well it's nice to meet you, Doctor Chopper. I must say i've never seen a talking reindeer before." Aden said offering a handshake.
"IM NOT A RACO....hey you actually got it right..I'm sorry about that." Chopper responded, scratching his head shaking Aden's hand.
" And who might you be, my brooding fellow." Aden asked, turning towards Lucci.
"Someone who can kill you, if you mock me. " Lucci responded. Even remembering hearing about who this man was, he didn't think it was all true. And he didn't like being mocked.
"Hah. No." Aden simply said, amused.
"I am going to..." Lucci began to nearly transform, only to be stopped by an offered hand to shake.
"Lucci stop! He doesn't mean anything by it. He just likes to watch people lose composure." explained Luffy, not wanting to see anyone get hurt.
"Spoilsport...Sorry about that. I just like to provoke people. Nothing personal about it. Friends?" Aden said still holding his hand out.
"Careful acquaintances." Lucci shook his hand after a bit of thought.
"Good enough for now, i guess." Aden said with a small smile.
"Oi, Aden! The bastard cook keeps calling me mosshead! I blame you, you airheaded windchime!" Zoro suddenly shouted, no longer containing his frustration. Even though he was a bit happy to see Aden again.
"Really? Well i tip my hat to you, chef." Aden spoke and actually tipped the straw hat he once again stole from Luffy.
"What? Hey! Stop that!" Luffy got angry and took his hat back.
"Anyone who keeps a joke running after i'm gone is a friend to have, in my book. Great job, Third."
"Third?....Sanji....Oh god..." Sanji realized what Aden did, which caused him to facepalm, and Zoro to burst out laughing.
"Ohhh what's wrong? Don't like your new nickname, Mister Three?" Zoro took the chance to mock Sanji, finally getting more ammo to fire back.
"Hey, you keep dishing it out, you best be ready to eat it as well." Aden kept speaking.
"Yes indeed. Revenge is a dish best served cold, as you well know." Zoro kept it going, realizing what Aden was doing. Meanwhile the others were starting to see what was unfolding and began to snicker. Even Lucci had a small smirk on his face.
"Hey Sanji, how many meals a day do you think is the best amount?" Aden asked the cook, which greatly threw Sanji off, so he answered the question.
"..Well.. It would be three... Oh my god, can you stop?!"
"Okay okay. The jokes are getting a bit overdone anyway." Aden relented.
"Hahahahahha!" the others no longer to able to keep a straight face burst out laughing.
A small snicker of amusement was heard from near a window, but nobody really paid mind to it.
"So what has been going on with you lot?" Aden asked as he sat down at a table.
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After a couple hours of listening to their story, the sun was high in the sky, when suddenly a loud uproar came from outside.
Roght then, the wall near the entrance wqs blown apart by a punch from someone.
This individual was large, dressed in a marine suit and coat marking him as a vice-admiral. He head a dog-head hat on his head and a grey beard on his face.
The moment two brother saw him, their hearts began to race.
"This won't end well..." said Aden shaking his head as be stood up, facing the new doorway, already knowing what will happen now.
"I am Vice-Admiral Garp, and you're all under arrest." now identified Garp said as he looked around the room, and locked his eyes kn Luffy. "Luffy, you brat! How dare you become a pirate!" the marine shouted and punched Luffy, making him fly backwards and slam into a wall.
"G...G... Grandpa!" Luffy shouted with a huge bump forming on his head.
"Grandpa!?"
"Oh hey. Aden, you're also here?" Garp said as if he just noticed Aden standing in the room.
"The same goes for you, young man! You killed a lot of marines with that ice stunt of yours!" Garp shouted as he lunched a punch at Aden.
Aden, barely reacting even with his Haki, managed to dodge, flowing with the air pressure caused by Garp's fist, forcing his body to flow around it, so he was unharmed. But he still had to focus for that to work, and he barely managed to force his body into a 'Flow-State' as he called it. As he reformed on the other side of the room, he breathed a sigh of relief, seemingly unaware of what he just did. It wasn't that he actively dodged, but instead used the air flow around the punch to get, carried away, so to speak. Similar to what he did against Smoker.
"Did the brat just escape unharmed!? There was Haki in that punch, so how did a Logia manage to evade it? That seemed like Observation. Damn you kid, you're growing too fast....I am so proud!" Garp had an internal monologue, at the beginning being angry, but filled with pride and smiling internally at the end.
Aden, meanwhile, was in a thought of his own.
"That was... Surprisingly easy to dodge. I mean sure, he was holding back like crazy, but... Still not gonna fight him, that's for bloody sure." Aden thought to himself as he straightened his coat.
"BWAHAHAHAHA! Still quick on your feet, eh? Almost like the wind carries you. HAHAHA!" Garp laughed as he joked while licking his nose with his left pinky.
"Did he just...?" Sanji's eyebrows shot up in surprise.
"Yes...yes he did..." Nami agreed.
"So that's where Luffy and Aden got it from." Usopp realized.
As they got to talking, even though they were supposed to be enemies, somehow they ended up outside. How that came to be, Aden had no idea, as he was not really paying attention. Instead he was focused inward, on the growing buzzing in his body. He noticed it after the lightning strike that knocked him down.
"It's like my body is energized. And after the strike, the lightning manipulation became rather easy for me. While as before, whenever i tried, i just couldn't do it. ... Hang on. Air is the easiest for me, followed by fire and heat, then cold and now lightning? Come on Aden think! What does that mean?" Aden thought long and hard, sitting at a table in some shade a bit out the way of the chaos, while on the outside, a fight happened, involving two familiar faces.
"Luffy-san, Aden, Zoro. Nice to see you again." a pink-haired, tall individual, currently pinned down by Luffy, said.
"Coby? Coby! Wow, you've gotten strong." Luffy said happily as he got off Coby, allowing him to stand.
"Roronoa, mind putting the swords away" the blond man with sunglasses and wielding kukri blades spoke nervously.
"Helmeppo?" Zoro asked in confusion.
As everyone was talking, with Aden occassionaly joining, while watching Garp fix the broken wall, Aden had an breakthrough.
"I seem to be able to control elements i've been exposed to, by somehow absorbing them. The air is all around me and i breath it, so it would make sense why it's the main element. This needs testing." Aden thought to himself. Looking at the lit candle on the table, he extended his hand towards it. Focusing on the heat of the candle, and trying to will it to come to him, he felt a shift in the flame. Shortly after that small pulse of, what felt like a connection, the flame on the candle extended towards his hand, and disappeared within his skin. He barely felt any heat from it happening.
In Aden's mind, it was as if a firework went off. He felt the shift in his entire body. Feeling himself grow warmer, he extended his right index finger and attempted to draw on the new feeling. In front of his eyes, his finger first turned red, and shortly after burst into flame.
Panicked, Aden quickly let go of the feeling, causing his finger to turn back to normal and him to look around, hoping nobody saw that.
"So i was right... I can absorb different elements to utilize them. Would need a source of them around to be useful... But now that i think about it, i can just create a small amount of the element i need using the air, and absorb it to switch. Maybe . Either way, that...is way too strange, even for a Devil Fruit. But i feel there is a limit, now that i felt the shift. I have air as a base that is always there, i can feel it, then fire, then cold or ice and lightning. I can feel i only have one...'slot'..for lack of a better word, left before i 'complete the set', so to speak. I'll have to be careful about this. No matter what, i can use air anytime though. Even now after absorbing the flame i can feel the same control of air, but my fire has improved. That means i can always use air at the same level i always do, plus an extra element i absorb for better effective use of it, and possibly replicating that element's Logia equivalent. Alway just air plus one extra though. Also i'm fairly sure i cannot use conceptual elements either. Like gravity for example. Sure i could simulate a similar effect by increasing air pressure in an area, but that is for later. Either way, i will habe to test the limits of this. Like how many times i can switch. It seems to operate on my stamina in all cases, just like my air or other Logia. So that means i may only need a spark to cause a storm. So many questions, so few answers. Furthermore..." while Aden was musing about his power and how to use it, around him the situation was about to boil. Apparently, Franky showed up at some point, telling the crew he made them a ship, only to realize there was a bunch of marines around the place. That forced all of the crew to run, besides Aden. Aden flew away, barely escaping Garp's reaching hand.
"Curses! Welp. I tried." Garp said halfheartedly, and promptly fell asleep on his feet.
Once they got to the beach near Franky House, the crew was stunned at their new ship. Somehow, along the way Luffy thought the best idea to make Franky join his crew, was to steal his speedo. That did not work, because Franky really didn't care.
So, the options limited and the marines on their tail, Nami used her staff to create a small thunder cloud near Franky's... Well you know.
Seeing that he tried to run, but before he could, his jewels got zapped by a steady and continuous electric charge. He froze up and crumbled to the ground in pain, begging for her to stop, and promising to join. Just in time, as the marines caught up just as they set sail.
(Hello. Im back, for a while at least. The job did not pan out. I couldn't physically handle it, seeing as a beached whale is more athletic than me. But hey, means more chapters.
I am hoping this one is accaptable, i am trying to gauge your reactions to Aden's powers. So if you have ideas, or complaints, please let me know. I'd rather write something you enjoy.
Thank you. Omega out.)