My thanks go to lalla, because it is only through her that I continue to write, thank you !!! Also for your nice comment ...

It goes on and on

* We drive across the lake, across the lake or "Shit, the ocean is big !!!" * (3)

"Princess Vivi, there is a pirate in front of the main gate who wants to speak to you. He looks dangerous, I wouldn't go to him."
Vivi looked seriously at the guard.
"Did he give you a name?" She asked. The guard seemed to think for a moment.
"Yes, he did. Something to do with a wildcat. Mmh, what's the same name. Jaguar T. Age, I think."
The princess looked at him perplexed.
"Also claimed that he knew her and that they would recognize him by name."
Vivi shook her head, no, she had never seen a guy like that before.
Suddenly she heard an uproar in the anteroom of the throne room.
"Hey, stop, who allowed you to come in here."
"Just be quiet, I've been waiting half an hour for me to be let in, damn it, and if you don't want me to burn the place down here, please let me see the princess."Vivi jumped from the throne, she recognized the voice immediately.
As soon as she stood in front of the door, it was opened from the other side.
"Ace, it really is you," she exclaimed happily.
The two guards looked puzzled.
"Hey Vivi, why did it take so long?" Ace asked with a grin.
"Um, we had a few problems with your name, unfortunately I was given the wrong name, so I didn't know who was in front of my door." She spoke the last part very loudly and not without turning her head in the direction of the security guard who didn't get Ace's name right.
The guard disappeared with bowed head and kept mumbling, "It was a wild cat, I'm sure of that."
"Puma D. Ace, what's driving you here?", Vivi asked when the two were finally alone, "Don't tell me that something happened to your brother."
"No, don't worry, nothing happened to him, so not that I know of. But it's about him," said Ace, sat down on a chair, put his legs on the small table and adjusted his hat.Damn it, it was warm in this country.
"What about Luffy?" Vivi wanted to know.
“I need to know where he went after he beat Sir Crocodile.” Ace suddenly got very serious.
"Why do you want to sail after him?"
"Yes, how long has it been since he left and in which direction did he sail?"
"About four days. And I think they wanted to Gloria Island, so south. Nami said that they wanted to make the next stop there, I don't know how long they stayed there, but Nami sent me mail from there, that was two days ago. "
“Well, that's pretty much all, thank you.” Ace got up again.
"What, you want to go again?" Vivi asked disappointed, but Ace just nodded.
"I have to hurry if I want to catch up with them."
"But why do you have to go to them at all?" Vivi asked sadly.
"I have a message for my little brother, but that's not all. There's one more little thing the two of us need to sort out."He grinned, pulled his hat lower over his face and waved goodbye briefly. With quick steps he was already out of the room and stepped down a large staircase.
"Wait a second," Vivi called. She was at the top of the stairs.
Ace turned and looked up, but couldn't quite make out Vivi because she was standing in the sun.
"Give my regards to everyone and tell Nami to keep sending mail. And give her that." She was holding a strange object in her hands. Ace went back up the stairs and took the item. It was a pigeon.
“Tell her to send the mail here so I can write back to her.” Vivi smiled, but Ace saw, despite the sun on her back, that tears were running down her cheeks.
"I do, you can rely on it." With these words he hugged Vivi and hugged her. Then he left the palace with the dove on his shoulder and walked towards the sea.

Ace had imagined it to be different somehow.He made it to Gloria Island in a day, but no one seemed to remember his brother's crew. He then also asked whether any ships, not necessarily pirate ships, had arrived in the last few days, you could never know with Luffy, but everyone he asked answered with a "May be, but also not, who knows" .
Ace went crazy, he was running out of time and his brother could be who knows where.
"It's hard to believe, how can you please forget Luffy and his gang. Somebody here must have noticed that a boy with a straw hat, a girl with orange hair, a guy with a meter nose, a blond cook always dressed in black , a man with three swords and a moose went ashore. I can't believe it, you can't miss the troop. "Ace's hands caught fire, he was so angry. The people standing around took two steps back, startled. An old man answered."I saw one of them. The blonde, who was always dressed in black. I made soup for him." All eyes turned to the old man.
"Who said that?" Asked Ace, with a trace of hope.
All hands were now also on the old man.
Ace approached the man.
"I think we have a lot to talk about," he said, pushing the man out of the crowd.

Ace learned that his brother's crew had left Gloria Island three days ago and headed south.
"Well, I'll be on my way then." Ace got back on his vehicle and left the island.
Hopefully I'll catch up with him, and hopefully they'll stay on course, for once, he thought.

Captain Molar was furious. How could this girl have escaped from this ship when she couldn't swim? And how could she escape her room with two guards standing in front of it?
Molar paced up and down nervously.He was holding a wanted poster in his hand. Thea's face looked at him. Where was that damn girl?
Molar kicked the wall, screaming, then left the room and stepped out onto the railing, where a couple of his men were startled.
Smiling, he walked towards a cage that stood next to one of the ship's masts. Two ravens crouched in it and looked at Molar with black eyes.
Molar opened the cage door and the two ravens obediently flew onto his shoulder. He held out the wanted poster to them, the ravens stared at the picture of the girl, cocked their head and then looked at Molar. When he nodded, the ravens pushed themselves off his shoulder and flew away. Finally, Molar could no longer see the ravens, turned to his men and said: "Men, sharpen your weapons, we'll get our cook back soon."
The men laughed. Only one didn't laugh.
"What's going on, Smutje, offended because you won't be able to cook anymore?"The boy nodded. "It's not fair, I can certainly cook as well as this woman."
Molar's eyes flashed.
"Did you just call my beloved Thea wife?"
The boy looked around nervously. "I didn't mean it that way."
Molar approached the cook.
"No, definitely not," said Molar and put his hand on the cook's shoulder. Small ice crystals formed on the shoulder. The cook looked pleadingly at his captain, but he just smiled. Seconds later the cook was completely frozen. With a well-aimed blow, Molar smashed his former smutje into a thousand pieces. Then he looked into the horrified faces of his crew.
"Let this be a lesson to you. And let me know when the ravens return."
With these words he disappeared back into his cabin.

Ace sailed across the sea. In between a wooden plank had come towards him. Ace hadn't seen anyone else, his brother or any other ship."Shit, why does the sea have to be so damn big," Ace cursed. Then he stared at his compass, found he was off course and quickly maneuvered back.

Less than two miles further Usop sat in the lookout, looking for a ship, the whole crew had already prepared for Molar.
Thea stared hard at the sky.
"What are you looking for in heaven?" Asked Sanji.
“That!” She pointed to two black birds that were now circling over the ship.
"These are Molar's messengers, they found me."
"Usopp, shoot them down, no just shoot one. Molar should know he's expected," Luffy shouted.
Usopp nodded, took his slingshot out of his pocket and aimed.
With a thud, one of the two ravens hit Zorro's feet. The other raven flew away screeching wildly.
"Now it won't be long before Molar shows up here." Thea's look was fearful.
"Don't worry, the boys have already done all kinds of guys," said Nami and smiled encouragingly.I know, Thea thought, and watched the raven disappear into the distance.

And Ace wanted to jump for joy when he saw his little brother's ship in the distance. He made sure that the pigeon was still on his shoulder, found that it had clung to his shirt with all its strength, and added a tooth.
Usopp didn't know whether to hope that Molar would be a long time coming or whether to come as soon as possible so that it would be over soon.
Luffy longed for a new opponent and in any case couldn't wait.
Sanji kept glancing at Thea, hoping that Molar wasn't too strong and that they could protect the girl.
Zorro saw Sanji's gaze out of the corner of his eye and thought again about Nami's words, but still couldn't figure it out. Zorro was just a hopeless case.
Nami resolved not to be entirely indifferent to this fight.
Chopper rummaged in his suitcase, he took three small, blue balls out of it and put them in his pocket.And Thea was scared, it was so bad now that she forgot to tell the boys about Molar's devil powers.

End of the third part, "We're going over the lake, over the lake - or" Shit, the sea is big! "

Oh, you see, it's going to be exciting. And I tell you, it won't go out without injuries, even if I don't like to. Oh and lalla, I'm sorry that you have to wait for the fourth part ... :-)