Chapter 50: Best buddy !

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A five days later or so, when they reached Marineford, when Edam disembark he was greeted with a rather good surprise.

In front of him stood a tall middle age man of about twenty-thirty years old. he wore a black suit, a marine's hat on his head as well as a vice-admiral cape showing his great statue in the Navy. His face was rather brutish and fierce but more than that there was a sense of righteousness.

Along with the man, a boy of about the same age as Edam was standing beside him smiling happily.

The boy wore a purple colored shirt with the drawing of a wolf, along with a simple brown pants and two sandals.

However what was striking when seeing those two guys was that...

They looked 70% like Zephyr...!

Their hairs were clearly just like Zephyr being purple in color and that was even more the case for the man, if someone were to look at a picture of Z in his early years they would see that their faces would totally merge.

The boy was however a little different...

His hair color were just like the man beside him, a deep purple color but, unlike the man the end of his hairs had some tint of blue looking really exotic, his face was not like the man, his face was not brutish but rather handsome and refreshing to look at.

However the most striking point on him was that he had...

A tail... ?!

Yes a tail...! But unlike Edam's tail his was hairier and seemed heavier somehow...

It was currently fluttering gently in the air being nor slow nor fast. His tail was white with a tint of purplish-blue at the end.

"Eh Za-...Zaz...and Uncle Zaph...?" Edam headed rapidly to this Zaz as he asked surprise by their presence here.

Those two person were in fact the son and grandson of Zephyr, namely, Zaphyr and Zaward commonly referred to as Zaz by Edam who nicknamed him like that when they were smaller.

"It's been so long, haha..." Edam laughed out loud.

"Yo Edam...I too am going to this Training Camp..." Zaz replied with a smirk as he approched Edam while both of them clapped their hands like they were used to.

"...Haha that's great, I won't be alone then..." Edam had a great smile when he heard the news.

Zaz was his childhood friend and his bestfriend as they were together since they were babies literally, almost playing and growing in the same garden till they had to part way to go with, his parents for Zaz and his grandpa for Edam.

"Hello Edam..." And the Uncle Zaph replied too with a faint smile.

"Are you two here to see Grandpa Z ?" Edam inquired curiously looking at Zaphyr.

"Yes, we heard that you were coming back today so...we thought about coming to see you...it's a day off today so we thought why not...." Zaph replied calmly.

Edam nodded at this as Zaz then spoke suddenly as he recalled something.

"Oh right Edam, what are you gonna do ? The camp has already started a week ago..." Zaz asked Edam.

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"Is it serious if we are late for this ?" Edam thought about it having totally forgot this minor detail as his expression slowly began to change to an unsightly one.

"Uh yeah... a bit, the instructors have already put you into what they called their red list..." Zaz said worried for him.

"...Is that so..." Edam smiled wrily scratching his head.

"Hey who is it ?" Zaz asked looking at the person beside Edam as it suddenly strucked the latter who then react.

"Ah right, sorry I forgot, here is big sis Stella, because she lost her memories she will stay with me and grandpa. Big sis here is my best buddy Zaz and his Dad, Uncle Zaph..." Edam waved his two hands left to right from her to them.

Stella gave a faint smile and a simple "Hello..." while the father and son replied "Hi."

Concerning her they decided with her consent obviously that she would lived with them the time her memories come back to her. Of course during this time they would still try to search for this lover of her or anyone related to her, but... it would a bit hard with just the name Stella.

Crying at the top of every roofs that she was there, was a no can do, what if some celestial dragons were to heard of this and by chance came to remember her right ? So no can do...

They could only do this slowly and discretely

With her in this state how could they let her go just like that right ? So Edam and Garp offered to stay with them for a time, and if she didn't like it she could just go live on her own...somewhere... but this thought didn't really pleased Edam...and Garp neither...and Z too.

Letting someone who has lost its memory all alone wasn't a good idea they thought.

Although she had a devil fruit and could maybe defend herself, it just didn't feel right.

Zephyr then arrived with a faint smile as Zaphyr and Zaward greeted him.

"Hello Father." Zaph greet him and gave him a hug while...

"Hi grandpa...!" Zaz shouted cheerfully as his head was then assaulted on the spot by Zephyr's hand who was ruffling his head.

"Haha... how are you little wolf ?"

"Hehe fine." Zaz smiled.

And then a discussion went on while Garp was still back there talking to his subordinates about some report or so.

Anyway after that, Garp, Zephyr and Zaph were gone to Sengoku's office as Garp had somethings to talked to him about.

Meanwhile, Edam led Zaz and Stella to his home while the two friends caught up the few years when they were away from each other.

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After having reach the house, Stella was gone to put her luggage in her room while the two boys were talking in the living room.

As for how the hell could she have a luggage...simple, Edam bought her one, although against her wish but he didn't care...

She would live with them for seemingly a long time now so... yeah a luggage and some clothes were the minimum to buy...

What Stella didn't know was that Garp during those few days made a special call, and had "request" or more like ordered some peoples to build another room for her in his home as there were only two rooms for him and Edam.

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The two kept discussing for a long time now.

"...so you're saying that your race lived on top of a massive, millennium-old elephant named Zunesha that roams the new world, a elephant even bigger than Sea-Kings...?" Edam looked at Zaz sceptically clearly doubting him a lot.

"And you really think that I will believe you..."

"It's true, I'm not lying, I swear on my limited editions of mighty junior that I'm not lying..." Zaz made a grand gesture to prove his words.

He and Edam discovered the thruth in comics at about the same time, in fact he was the one who initiated Edam at reading comics.

"Hum...alright I believe you..." Edam said and laughed out.

"Oh right, how is the training camp ?" Edam asked curiously.

"Oh well, it's a bit..." Zaz struggled to answer and then said. "...well, it's weird...?"

Edam "Eh ? How so...?"

Zaz tried to sound mysterious and said. "Well...you will see tomorrow..."

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