Another encounter with a Yonko

Half a day later after that ridiculous banquet with shanks and his crew we were currently looking at our wanted posters and inquiringly looking at the ship appearing from the fog behind us with Skull san unexpectedly and for the first time since we started our journey lost his cool he was constantly using a binoculars he borrowed from Mihar san and he kept cleaning it then use it then cleaned it for like three times .

What is wrong Skull ? .

Yeah what are you doing exactly Skull san is there something wrong with that ship .

Skull said was panic apparent in his voice : The Big Mom Pirates' Jolly Roger is a skull with thick lips and wearing a pirate tricorne based on their captain Big Mom appearance, the design was on a fluffy background with several candy canes crossed behind it in place of normal crossbones , and a tree is seen coming out of the cane on the bottom right no doubt about it it's one of the vessels of Big Mom pirates group .

The Sea area around us was beginning to become foggy all of a sudden not sure if it was the doing of someone on the enemy side or just another natural change of the whether in the New World but Skull san words draw all of our attention towards the enemy ships yes there were a few more ships appearing from the fog all aiming at us luckily there were another big shadow of an island near our location but we weren't moving but the island was getting closer .

Skull : Wallace san change our direction immediately we really don't need to agitate another Yonko pirates crew especially one as notorious as this one cover your faces all of you luckily there is no trace for their main ship or that will have signaled our inevitable doom .

I opened my clairvoyance and enhance it and found out that the nearing island was actually ~gulp~ a massive ship with a singing smiley face in the front of it i was going to tell Skull san of what i saw but i guess there is no need the ship singing sounds were loud enough now to be heard by all the crew ~ship shiiip ship shiiiiip shhhiiiiiipppp~ .

What is going on here Ryuu with me .

Fire Column .

Breath of the giants .

Yes we were trying to see what are up against more clearly my clairvoyance can't be shared with the rest of the crew so i acted with Ace immediately as we tried to remove the fog him with evaporating it with his flames and me with blowing it up in my 40 meters giant like transformation i was now above the ship and felt i'm now closer to the sun and its heat was already troubling me i took a deep breath and started to blow away the fog with all my lungs and this plan actually worked well as we were able to tell that we are currently surrounded by Big Mom pirates fleet from the back and in the front was the big singing ship from before .

I shrinked back to my normal size and only saw Skull san running around the deck yelling : The Queen Mama Chanter , The Queen Mama Chanter like crazy .

Ducky Bree and Deuce stopped him in his tracks and fixed him on the ground just kidding actually they told Kotatsu to sit on him and Banshee was slapping him to force him out of his shock we weren't even able to understand what he was saying .

What is exactly The Queen Mama Chanter he keep yapping about anyone, Ryuu ? .

I shrugged my shoulders and told him what i think, Skull san began to act like that after he heard that singing ship maybe that's the ship name ~slap~ that familiar hand it was Wallace san .

Wallace : we guessed as much oh by Neptune you kid sometimes act like some kind of a genius and another times like a complete idiot .

Excuse me i was just thinking a loud , you didn't have to hit me for it .

I have .

The whole scene turned to something chaotic we are surrounded and one of the crew lost his sanity yet i was bickering with Wallace san and the rest of the crew was laughing as if we aren't in a grave danger at all .

It's her flagship , The Queen Mama Chanter was the Yonko Big Mom Flagship and since it was waiting for us here that means the ship captain was currently here as well , said the more calm and composed Skull shocking the entire crew except for Ace , i was still shocked but for another reason all together i kept looking on the huge ship with clairvoyance someone on that ship felt me spying on them and even from that distance i was able to tell he was looking in my direction but the reason i went snooping around the ship in the first place was looking for the machinery responsible for enabling the ship to sing and smile and here was the weird part there wasn't any .

That was the reason for my shock the ship was an enormous ship , It has a prevalent confectionery theme of different kinds of sweets food and some ingredients , it had a frosting over its railings, ice cream cones at the top of its masts, candy canes and wafers on the sides of the main deck, and a large candle-lit, double-layered cake directly behind its figurehead, The figurehead which was laughing and singing was a clown-shaped one , wearing a tricorne hat and a crown , The aftcastle was shaped like a flan , other parts of the ship appear to be acting strangely too, as i can swear that i saw a few doors closing and opening as if they were clapping for the ship the ship also had numerous cannons mounted on its side .

The ship looked more mouthwatering than intimidating and i'm no ship expert but i believe that most of the ships don't act like that , as for the possibility of a Yonko being present on that ship if anything i was actually more excited to meet another Yonko two Yonkos in the span of a day we only short of the arrival of Whitebeard and we can say that we claimed the pirates king title .

Ace looked at me and i looked back at him and we both saw the same determination in each other eyes i nod at him and smiled no words were needed both of us were aware of how dangerous was the next fight going to be but that excited us even more our very first official skirmish against a Yonko but really why was the flagship of the Big Mom waiting for us here how did she know that we were here in the first place .

What happened to you guys are you losing your fighting spirit already if she didn't come to us we would have gone to her eventually after we defeat Whitebeard that was our target from the the start right, riiggghht ?

The crew : Right .

Skull who was still under Kotatsu : Right, i just lost my cool there could you move now Kota i'm being crushed down here we all went to the expecting to die someday haha .

The crew : Kotatsu .

Skull : i swear on my skull mask i'm okey .

Don't worry you guys i told you before i can fight anyone under the strength of an admiral , i said and they only stare at me in silence and then yelled at me : here strength is even stronger than an a navy admiral how do you think she became a Yonko in the first place , and i saw Wallace san already began raising his hand so i raised my hands up in a surrendering manner and told him that i was just trying to lighten the mood .

~Boom~ cannonball just exploded next to our ship but no other shot was fired weird, was this something akin to a warning shot or are they toying with us or something !!? .

~Clang~ To the spades pirates you are being invited to attend the queen of Totto Land and the Yonko and also the captain of the Big Mom pirates Big Mom's tea party and your captain Portgas D Ace and his brother and your crewmate Ryuu D Solar wedding party follow us now we will accompany you there or you can choose to disagree and you and your ship will be sanked immediately choose wisely you have 5 minutes to give us your answer , perorin .

What ? .

What ?.

The whole craw : whaaaaaaat ? .

What ?!! really ??? what is even going on Ace say something .

Oh , you who on the microphone snail are you still there ?! .

Do you wish to give your answer already , perorin ? .

No, i wanted to ask about who are we going to marry to , we never proposed to anyone from Big Mom family .

Oh, my mother already choose two beautiful bride for you two and my mother already decided that your wedding ceremony will be in three days during our mom's tea party , perorin .

And who are we talking to now ? .

I'm Charlotte Perospero the eldest child of the Big Mom Family and an officer of the Big Mom Pirates, i also serve as Totto Land's Minister of Candy , perorin .

Oh, nice to meet you Perospero , but you see form your words we are already destined to marry into The Big Mom family just because she said so but i will have you know that me and my brother don't want such a marriage .

You only have 4 more minutes , perorin .

Why our marriage is even a concern for The Yonko Big Mom .

I guess no harm in telling you this When you marry into our family your crew will join the Big Mom fleet and be our allies and more importantly you and your brother will join the Big Mom pirates officially as officers .

Skull do you know something about this .

Skull nodded and began saying : Big Mom tends to make an alliances all over the New World to strengthen her position and those alliances she make always need something to strengthen that alliance too so Big Mom occasionally do this by marrying her daughters into the house of thos allies of hers and since you two bounties are already this high you both caught her eyes .

But what exactly is this Tea Party of hers .

Skull : a Tea Party is a periodic event held by the Big Mom Charlotte Linlin and the Big Mom Pirates Big Mom would send invitations to people who interest her to attend her tea parties, many of whom are powerful figures of the underworld , however, it is common knowledge to everyone in the New World that Big Mom's "invitation" to her tea parties is an invitation in name only, and that it is, in fact, an absolute summon order that, if declined, would result the invitee to be choked with regret , its reputation is infamously stated that even demons from hell will attend the party when invited by Big Mom and i guess we are enlisted as guests of honers .

This quite selfish right but why would people still go to her Tea Party as if they were forced to can't they just decline here invitation .

Skull : it's quite selfish but that one of the common quality in most of the Yonkos and to clear your confusion actually they are really being forced to attend as if they decline or showing any sign of refusal to attend The Tea Party would result in the invitee being sent a box containing the head of someone they personally know, even if that person was someone of notable strength or in another part of the sea beyond the Calm Belts and Red Line she have her hands stretching all over the seas and even the land as this was a demonstration on how far reaching the crew's power this was something related to the Big Mom pirates prestige as they are known to be the most notorious Pirates Family , her tyranny shows clearly to those that gets invited to her Tea Parties as no excuses of any kind are being accepted, and even when the invitee had already been sent a traumatizing "Gift", this doesn't mean that Big Mom will refrain from sending any more invitations to them for future tea parties .

Wow all this for not attending a Tea Party but Skull san really likes to gather information .

Skull but isn't her daughters having any say on who they want to marry ? .

Skull : most of their family have one motto mama is always right and mama orders are absolute , so who would dare to oppose her .

Wallace san can you navigate us through this predicament ? .

Wallace : Do what you need and leave the navigation to me .

So Ryuu i'm turning their proposition down do you have any complaints after all her daughter might really be a beauty and you are such a lady killer , Ace said to me with a teasing smile on his face but i wasn't going to let this comment slide .

If i remembered correctly who was saying he was an old man yesterday maybe you would want to marry Big Mom herself since you two are old and such .

The crew laughed at both of our remarks with Skull saying : don't Ace she only use her husbands to breed then she threw them away like garbage and in some cases she even asked for them to be killed .

The whole audience quietened down and i asked how many children and husbands does she actually have ? .

Skull : 43 husbands and approximately over 60 children .

We all gasped at the numbers .

Skull : but this isn't the only interesting part the children of hers shapes and features are different and versatile as not all of them are one hundred percent humans some are from the Longleg tribe and some like Ganryu

from the longarm tribe some are not even humans at all and some are hybrid between humans and Fishmen like and she even married a merman .

How was she able to do it ? .

Do what ? .

Becoming a Yonko cough cough while she was having all those children , i was coughing embarrassingly at my thoughts .

Skull : no clue .

Time is up give us your answer are you coming with us or are we sinking you guys here , perorin .

Can't you at least tell us the name of our brides ? .

Portgas D Ace Mama decided that you will marry Charlotte Galette the the 18th daughter and 42nd child of Big Mom , pero , pero .

Her name sounds good what about my brother bride i can't help but worry about him .

Ryuu D Solar he will marry the 14th child and one of Mama sweet commanders Charlotte Smoothie , perorin .

How old are they exactly ? .

For the first time another voice came from the other side angrily shouting why are you asking so many questions if you come back with us you will know , calm down Oven there is no problem in their asking this kind of question kukukuku .

Answering your question my sister Galette will be 26 this year , as for my sister Smoothie she is 30 years old , perorin .

I will have you know that my brother is just 13 years old and can't possibly marry your esteemed sister at such a young age right ? .

Since mother said he will marry Smoothie then he will marry Smoothie , another third voice different from the other two said .

There were five guys on that big ship The Queen Mother Chanter the three guys who are speaking and two guys sat there composed from the beginning with one of them still staring at my direction still .

Your answer ? .

Oh we refuse and choose the third choice ? .

What third choice ? .

We are neither marrying or sinking today we are going to Force our way through .

We will see about that to all the ships attack those reckless brats , perorin .

The shipa behind us changed their position and began firing at us Ace pointed his fingers towards the incoming cannonballs and they exploded before they were even able to come near us but this didn't stop them from shooting more we are stuck in the middle after all the front that weird singing ship and the back a big number of enemy ships so even our ability to evade was handicapped not to mention we still didn't know who are those other 4men and how strong they are .

Where are our cannonballs stored Wallace san ?

Down stairs but they are very far from our target range what are you going to do .

They want to drawn us let's see how they react when the same happens to them .

I increased my strength to 30 and was currently holding a cannonball in my hand i increased its size by 10 and throw it at the enemy ships at the back .

Even when it's so big it didn't lose its speed as it went crashing towards two ships and sanked both of them from the impact and a third ship from its explosion and i wasn't done yet i was shooting enlarged cannonballs with my bare hands and wrecking havoc on the enemy ships some reached their destination and some exploded before they reach their target after all it was a massive target .

I was still using my clairvoyance on the big ship so i saw the guy that noticed me before issuing an order for the other ships to retreat and to surround the area in a circle .

You guys should retreat and surround this area in a circle to close all their chances of escaping , said a gruff voice i can tell that it carried a lot of strength and authority as all the ships do as they were ordered .

A man jumped towards us from the big ship saying that he will take us all by himself he stood on our ship deck and the heat on the ship began to increase the moment he landed on our ship appearantly he was also a devil fruit user .

You alone will take us all on let me test that .

Oven , Retreat Immediately .