The Baby Adventures
“Bye, Gramps!” Luffy called out as he waved from the pier right in front of Garp who simply looked down at him before turning to Atlantis.
“Goodbye, my precious granddaughter! I’ll be back soon!” He exclaimed as he crouched to grab Atlantis into a hug causing her to shriek.
“Group hug!” Luffy laughed as he jumped on top of the both of them, causing Garp to grumble and shrug Luffy off. Immediately Luffy turned his frown to Garp before he began pulling his hair, “Let go of my wife, Gramps!”
“Okay okay,” Garp spoke as he pulled away from them both and stared Luffy down. “I will be back for you two little future marines.”
They both waved the man goodbye as he boarded while simultaneously making scrunched faces in response to his words. ‘Future Marines? As is plural, I understand Luffy, but now me too?’
Garp continued to wave the entire time the marine ship began setting sail, Luffy and Atlantis simply stood side by side watching the ship sail into the distance. Once out of sight Luffy scrunched his eyes while leaning forward, “Is he really gone this time?”
“Yeah? I think so.” Atlantis side-eyed the boy with a confused expression before the boy shot up towards the docked ships.
“Fishy!” Luffy jumped towards one of the fishermen that were setting some supplies down in his boat.
The man turned to glance at them with a smile as he jumped into his boat and leaned stood still to watch them, “Oh! Is this the famous Mrs.Monkey?”
“This is Coco, we got married yesterday!” Luffy proudly nodded his head and pulled Atlantis to stand beside them as she took in the boat.
“My name is Atlantis.”
“Coco.”
With a sigh Atlantis turned to stare at the man who looked on them with mirth shining brightly in his eyes and a smile forcing itself across his face, “Is that so? You already act like a married couple even though you are only engaged.”
“Huh?!” Luffy shouted as he stared the man down. “What do you mean by engaged? We got married yesterday.”
“Luffy,” the man shook his head while holding up his hand to stop the boy from pouncing on him. “You have to be older to marry someone, but you can be engaged. One day in the future you can have a big feast to celebrate being married, but for now, it's only on paper.”
“Oh,” Luffy waved the man away with a laugh as he grabbed Altantis’ hand to hold up in the air. “I don’t need no stupid piece of paper.”
The man sighed as he bent down before lifting a fishing pole that seemed broken in multiple spots with tape holding it together. “Are you fishing today?”
“Um,” Luffy glanced around to stare at the water and then turned his attention back to Atlantis who tilted her head in wait to see Luffy’s choice. “Nah, I wanna play with Coco.”
Then Luffy suddenly took off pulling Atlantis behind him by the hand towards the beachside attached to the docks. Coco almost trips in surprise from the sudden movement before catching her feet under herself and propelling herself forward. “Ah! Luffy, wait a second.”
“See ya Luffy. It was to meet you, Atlantis.” A voice yelled after the two children. Atlantis wanted to turn back to shout out towards the kind man but was unable to catch her breath nor turn her attention elsewhere in fear of falling so she simply waved a hand over her shoulder.
Abruptly, Luffy stopped on the beach and dropped to the sand to roll around on the ground while giggling.
“What are you doing,” Atlantis released a giggle as she looked down at the boy.
“I wanna sleep with the fishes.”
Atlantis shook her head fondly at the childish little boy and his insane ideas before turning her attention to the beach around them, stumbling forward she bent down to pick up a broken seashell with wide eyes. Sitting forward she began she dig around in the sand searching for more of the shells when a small opening caught her eye.
“Luffy, do you see that cave?”
Immediately Luffy jumped up to see a hole in a part of the hill that rose way above the water, with eyes filled with wonder he shot up and forward to stare at it beside her.
“Woah! That’s so cool, Coco. How do we get over there though?” Luffy scratched the back of his head in thought as Atlantis looked around the cave.
“There,” She pointed out a small trail that led to the mouth of the cave.
With glee, Luffy sprinted off towards the trail with Altantis following after with her hands cupped over her collection of seashells. Once they reached the ledge they found it wide enough for the both of them side by side, but just in case they walked behind each other with Luffy going first.
Once in the cave, they found a narrow entrance the size of a door, a One Piece door around ten feet tall not her type of normal door, that led into a wider area of the cave. It looked very beautiful inside, and Altantis had the suspicion that this had once been a home or treehouse of sorts due to the window like rocks that allowed someone to see out covered in vines to hide it from view. Atlantis moved the vines out of the way to look down upon the docks in surprise, it was a perfect view.
“Coco!” Luffy called as he ran around the room, “it has more rooms.”
“More?” Atlantis called surprised before taking in the sight of more vines obscuring door-sized areas. “Woah.”
Moving together they found multiple rooms that must be someone’s home once before, but the layers of dust and overgrown vines suggested that whoever had made this place hadn’t been here in years. It must have taken a long time, especially to hollow the cave out and make chairs, tables, and other objects that were essentially a piece of the cave. The other floors must have been insane to create, the one underneath the first floor would have been much easier even though it is just one room it was still cool, but the stairs leading up to another area with a high ceiling and many appliances. The upstairs was essentially a home on its own and the two floors below it seemed to just be large areas for more room.
It was amazing.
“This can be our super-secret house,” Luffy commented as he nodded his head at the entrance. “It will be our, and no one else’s.”
“Okay,” Atlantis wiped the smile off her face at the serious face that had taken over Luffy’s face to match his. “Ours.”