Chapter 14: Shanks' Return

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Italic and underline means that you're talking in your mind

Italic and Bold means sound effects

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It's Saturday, and you've been sitting at the edge of the cliff for about 30 minutes, until Ace walked up to you.

"(Y/n)? I was calling you many times but you didn't respond. Are you okay?"

"Ah, yeah, I forgot to tell you guys this but I'll be leaving some time this week."

Huh?

"WHAT?!!? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US?!"

Luffy jumped in, he was hiding behind a tree trying to scare you.

"I guess the thought never occurred to me.. oops..?"

"(Y/n) how long will you be gone?!"

You chuckled,

"I'll see you at sea, Luffy and Ace."

Ace and Luffy made sure to make the most of it since you were leaving soon, you hunted for food, robbed the nobles sometimes, dine and dashes, etc.

You had lots of fun, but when you're having fun, time goes by fast.

It's already Thursday, and you can see a ship in the horizon, it was definitely Shanks' ship, but he wasn't heading towards you, he was heading towards the abandoned part of the island.

I mean, he's a Yonko, he doesn't want to be seen in the East Blue.

Although, news could've gone out that he wasn't in the New World anymore.

The ship that's heading towards you looks small though, Shanks most likely isn't on that ship.

He has many islands to take care of in the New World, and if he were to leave, then Kaido or Big Mom would take over his territory.

The Jolly Roger was getting blown by the wind, waving.

Luffy and Ace were asleep, since it's around 1 in the morning.

You wrote a note down because you didn't want to wake them up.

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Someone got off the ship and you immediately saw who it was.

"Benn! I'm surprised that Shanks sent you here!"

"Ah, (Y/n) it's nice to see you again. It's been a while."

"Yeah, how's everyone been?"

"Pretty good.. although Shanks got a bad habit of drinking now, including the crew. They party every day."

"I'm guessing that you're the one who watched over them right?"

He nodded.

"Well, I'll be in the ship soon, and I won't be drinking anytime soon! Even if I'm old enough to."

"Let's get going then, we don't want to keep the crew waiting for too long."

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•around 6 hours later, when Ace and Luffy woke up•

"Luffy... Luffy!"

"Eh? What's wrong Ace?"

"(Y/n)'s gone! Do you think she left already?! We didn't even get to say goodbye!"

"WHAT?! But I wanted to say bye to her!"

"I..I found a note she left earlier, she made us separate ones."

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Dear Ace,

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