February 15, 1507
Sixis Island
Grove 10
The mangrove right now had a small-sized island on it that magically appeared; the only possible explanation about this is that as the mangrove's roots became longer, it somehow hauled the soil somewhere, and it became this small island.
Grove 5 is claimed by the girls. Stussy said that it will become their base of operation. Raeven just okayed the girls; as long as they don't make the island explode, anything they do is okay.
Rogue and Ace claimed Grove 8 as their own small island. Rogue said that she wants a small quiet house, so Raeven just nodded, and with the help of the Ninja Khans, they built a small house for them.
As for Grove 10, this is Raeven's private fishing spot, camping area, and drinking area. The fish in this part of the sea are larger and rarer than in the other fishing spots. As for why it became like that, Raeven didn't know why.
Time passed, and Raeven and Mihawk celebrated their 27th birthday; the sign-in reward this year is very good.
[Congratulations, host; your reward is the Ultimate Cat Tom.]
As soon as Raeven introduced Tom to the family, he was taken by the girls, which made Raeven speechless.
Everyone was shocked by this cat named Tom that their brother got from who knows where. Stussy was surprised when she took Tom to her laboratory; the cat knows how to do things there. He even pulled out a lab coat and safety goggles from his pocket.
He knows how to bake, medicine, carpentry, shipbuilding, anything. They are shocked about this; the cat can even cook. He's a master of everything.
He even knows how to fight, and Ace had a hard time fighting him. Ace was dumbfounded after he was defeated by a cat who uses a rapier.
When Mihawk heard this, he became interested; unfortunately for him, the girls didn't let him take away Tom, so he can only focus on training Ace.
In the end, Tom became the new mascot of the family. Every day he can be seen with the girls, but mostly he is with Stussy and Sugar, and his favorite hangout place is the Treasure Tree Adam near the Dracule Tower and Grove 10, where Sugar mostly plays around while Raeven is fishing.
July 01, 1507
Days passed by, and the island returned to its normal days. After teaching Ace for 6 months, Mihawk left Sixis Island with Ace and Enel to clean up Jaya Island.
The moment they landed there and eliminated every pirate, Morgans captured their photos immediately; the next day they were the headline of the news. Some even said that the Dracule Family was expanding, finally entering the Grand Line. Jaya is known for being a tropical island, while the other part of the island was blasted into the sky by an upstream knock. The island is still medium-sized.
There are two notable places on this island: Mock Town, where the pirates crowd, and South Grave, where you can find the giant insects and the south birds.
4 days after the three cleaned up the pirates on the island, the Kuja Pirates arrived to occupy the island. They quickly renovated the buildings and built a port that has the flag of the Kuja Pirates and the Dracule Family.
Enel returned after cashing in the bounty of the pirates they caught on the island; after dividing it into three, they still got over 75 million each.
A month passed by, and Jaya Island became a trading hub for merchants here at the middle part of the Grand Line. Some pirates tried attacking the island, but the Elites of the Kuja Pirates easily dealt with them.
After seeing everything is fine, Mihawk told Enel and Ace to return to Sixis Island while Mihawk would do some exploring for a while to kill some time.
As the Kuja Pirates occupied the island, half of it became closed off to the public; only the original Mock Town is where everyone can go. As for the part of South Grave, after the Kuja Pirates cleaned it up, they are now staying there; 100 members of the Kuja Pirates currently stay there with another 200 Amazons, who take care of the miscellaneous things on the island.
Shakky visited the island too to set up a branch of her business there. Tritoma, the current empress and captain of the Kuja Pirates, is currently staying on Jaya Island too.
Gloriosa didn't want to set sail anymore, so she is the one who is managing and guarding the Amazon Lily on the calm belt.
After seeing that the attacks and probes the other parties tried to use to shake up the control on the island were useless, the attacks on Jaya Island became less.
After all, when they heard the news that Tritoma is staying on the island, they became afraid; that woman is a powerhouse, and rumors said that her strength is already on par with a marine admiral.
A marine admiral with strength, and she is a mythical Zoan fruit user that can fly too. No one wants to deal with that kind of enemy. Tritoma's current bounty is 700 million beli; it's low despite her strength. It's low because the Kuja Pirates didn't loot or raid innocent civilians and merchants. Right now they only do deliveries, and they collect some protection fee on Jaya Island.
When Ace and Enel returned to Sixis Island, Raeven was already waiting for the two of them. After they rested, Raeven took Ace; his training will be handled by Raeven.
And the first thing Raeven did was to awaken his conqueror's Haki, and after 6 days of constant training, Ace finally managed to awaken it, which made him very happy.
Everyone was happy too, and the others are shocked. The happiest are the girls, Stussy, Monet, Robin, and Sugar. Currently, the Dracule Family has 4 Conqueror's Haki users, and while Ace can't use it yet, at least he had it. On the girls' side, only Hancock had it.
After Ace awakened his conqueror's haki, his training on observation haki started. Raeven trained him. In the morning, Ace will do endurance training, running around the island while carrying a 200-kilogram stone on his back for 20 laps, and in the afternoon, he will train his observation haki with the help of the Ninja Khans.
As Ace's trainer, Raeven is strict with him during training times, especially when it's time to train observation Haki.
"Ace, you should feel it around you, sense the attack, where it's coming from, and where it will head," Raeven patiently told Ace.
"Relax and don't try too hard; you look like a constipated gay. Sense the aura, trust your instincts, and keep focus," he added.
The Ninja Khans started throwing rocks at Ace again while using only 10% of their strength. After 7 days of training, Ace finally adapted to the 10% throwing speed, so Raeven commanded the Ninjas to use 20%; Ace needed 6 days to fully adapt.
October 12, 1507
Ace is currently dodging the attacks from 50 Ninja Khans who are currently using 30% of their strength and speed. After adapting to long-range attacks, Ace is now training to dodge melee attacks.
Punches, kicks, and blunt weapon attacks—Ace even tried to counterattack first, but the number of attackers was too much, and without his devil fruit, the only thing he could do was dodge, block, and sometimes parry the attacks with his training sword.
As the sun set on the island, the training for today was done. Ace lay down on the ground while panting, with a lot of bruises on his body.
"Your progress is good; in just months you finally awakened your basic observation Haki. Sadly, your Armament Haki is not awakened yet because of your body," Raeven said as he sat down to talk to Ace.
"Maybe in 2 years you will finally unlock it," he added.
"Don't worry, Big Brother, I won't let you down," Ace said, full of resolve. He promised himself he wants to become strong to protect his mother, his family, his friends, and the entire Sixis Island.
"Tomorrow for 2 weeks you will stop training; you need to rest. Overtraining will damage your potential," Raeven said, and Ace nodded. Finally he had a break, and he had already unlocked his observation Haki. He couldn't wait to go home and brag about this to her mother.
After resting for a while, Ace left, and he headed back home; Raeven, on the other side, headed to his brewery.
Right now there are 40 small robots that are helping Raeven at the brewery. The robots are in charge of cleaning the fruits, which will be made into booze, loading the barrels and bottles, and placing them inside the storage. These 40 small robots that look like mini Pekkas are all made by Stussy with the control chip she made.
For the power source, they are powered by a chargeable battery that can last them for 2 weeks; then the robots will charge themselves by sunbathing in the sun or by going to a charging dock that Stussy made beside the brewery.
As Raeven is busy checking the progress and the stocks of the brewery, which is already too much because the output of their harvest this year is 500% more than last year, and the booze supply is already too much.
This all happened because of the fertilizer that Raeven made this year, which boosts yield by at least 200%, but he miscalculated; the effect of the fertilizer is much more powerful, and the harvest became too much.
So Raeven called Monet and Robin to get some fruits for their pastry and cakes, and after getting some crates of crops, the amount of surplus is still too much, so Raeven had no choice but to contact Tritoma.
"Are you guys free now? Our harvest this cropping is too much, so why not go here and get some fruits?" he said after Tritoma answered the call.
"Are we going to sell them, Big Brother?" Tritoma asked.
"Your timing is really perfect. I was about to call you so we can buy some seedlings of fruit trees from you. The trees here at Jaya Island are too rare. Our skilled farmers told me that the soil here is good, so I plan to plant some fruit trees here that we can sell," she added.
"Hoh? The quality of soil there is good? I'll head there tomorrow to bring the fruits," Raeven said.
"Okay, Big Brother, have a nice trip," Tritoma said as she ended the call.
Raeven headed out and headed to the top floor of the Dracule Tower, which is the family's meeting room. He summoned all of the members that are currently on the island, and after everyone arrived, he called Mihawk's Den den mushi.
"Everyone, tomorrow I'll set sail to Jaya Island to plant some fruit trees there at the Kuja Pirates' new land. Do any of you want to go with me?" Raeven asked.
"I can't leave the island if you're going to leave Big Brother, and Big Brother Mihawk is not here either, so I'll sit this one out," Enel said.
"I'm busy on my ongoing projects, so I'll pass too," Stussy said. She is in the middle of building something that can help the island.
Robin, Hancock, and Monet can't go either, as they are busy with their training; in the end, Raeven will go there with Sugar and Ace.
The next day, the three of them waved goodbye while using the ship that Saint Jobert Randall gifted to Raeven; the 20 Ninja Khans accompanying them are in charge of sailing and steering the ship.
Raeven looked at the eternal pose of Jaya Island on his hands, and he smiled.
"Let's go; we will sail through the Calm Belt and head straight to Paradise."