Chapter 86 - Reunion of a father and son

The fog cleared showing the mountainous island in all its glory. It was dominated by the color green due to its trees. Its height appears to be quite high, with buildings apparent at the topmost of the island where the land turned a bit flat. There was a path apparent for one to take to reach where the buildings were.

Ian's ship docked at the island, and they were with a person standing guard and waiting for them to disembark there.

There was a dock built at the island but it was apparent that it was used rarely.

This person was 197 cm tall with broad shoulders and a well-muscled body with long arms and legs. He was quite handsome with his light golden brown hair and green eyes. His hair was tied in a ponytail while his beard was trimmed nicely as it was apparent he took good care of himself.

The person waited as Ian and his crew had jumped off the ship onto the ground. Then he saw Ian store the ship and step forward looking at him with a smile.

"Ian, do you know that person? Why is he glaring at you?" Elene asked as she saw the person glaring at them.

Stella and the rest gave nods too as they tensed a bit. They didn't know who this was after all.

But Ian just laughed.

"That guy is my father. His name is Geo" He said as he took a few steps forward.

But then suddenly a wave of conquerors Haki came crashing at him. The source: his father.

Ian countered with his own.

His conquerors Haki was the strongest in this world. Ian knew that beforehand. His father had assured him. Ever since that day when he was young and had just awakened it, and ended up knocking the whole island inhabitants unconscious apart from a select few including his father.

And Ian knew that in the original anime that would have belonged to Shanks. But Ian had spent two years trapped in that dark place which had strengthened his mind beyond any mortal could wish for. Of course, he would not be so stupid to use his Haki at its strongest.

So it was with no surprise that when the two Haki waves clashed, the earth surrounding them started fracturing. The weather changed from a sunny one to one of storms and thunder. Then rain started pouring slightly as Ian's father Geo glared at Ian.

"So you remember you have a father?" Geo said as he took a step forward, disappearing instantly.

Only to appear near Ian's head with his kick almost making contact if not for Ian's arm that caught it.

"Of course I do. What are you talking about?" Ian asked puzzled at his old man.

Taking a step back, his father once again attacked from the left side next. But it was caught again. Then Ian tried attacking this time, but his attack was not even a second into the motion before his father vanished, and reappeared at his back giving him a vicious kick.

But Ian's instincts prevented him from taking massive damage, as it had him turn slightly and try to guard. But he was still launched skidding on the ground.

"Oh, so you were able to guard that." Geo was a bit surprised as he saw Ian with his arms still in the guarding position. In fact, he was more surprised with Ian's current powers, as in the pat he never used this much power against him. Maybe his son had reached his strength right now, or he was close to it.

"And what I'm talking about you brat, is you never calling me all this time you were out in the sea" Geo then added.

Making the slightly confused Ian, and his crew to understand what was happening.

Ian started sweating slightly.

"There is a reason actually." Ian tried explaining to his Raging father.

But Geo once again attacked. This time using a bit more power, which ended up opening Ian's guard for his father to deliver a blow straight to his stomach and making him yelp in pain.

"What's this reason you are talking about?" Geo asked.

But as Ian stayed silent gasping from the pain he added.

"Are you going to spit out already?" he threatened.

"Alright. I got it just give me a second." Ian said as he took a deep breath.

Geo set him up on the ground, as the weather finally went back to normal.

Ian then crossed his legs as he thought of what to say.

"Truth be told I kind of forgot. Wait WAIT, there is a reason why I forgot. And it's related to the war between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marines', as you must have already seen from the newspapers." Ian started explaining to his father. And indeed the news coo does reach their island and he stops it regularly to get the world news.

Geo had read about the war events, as well as Ian being involved in it.

He motioned him to continue.

"Can we talk about this later, as you can see my crew is there waiting for me," Ian said as he turned to look bitterly at his friends.

But unlike him, they all had huge smiles on their faces. Clearly they were taking pleasure in his misfortune.

He glared at them with a weird glint in his eyes.

'You dare laugh at me… just you wait I'll make sure he trains you all ten times more worse than before…' Ian thought.

Suddenly Elene and co shuddered as they felt that something wrong was going to happen to them.

His father sighed as he gave a nod. He couldn't stay angry at him all this while so he gave him a hug and helped him up and started walking with him towards his crew, with his hand around Ian's shoulder.

When they reached them Ian started introducing them.

"This is Bert, as you can see he is a mink person. And currently, my best friend" Ian said introducing his friend Bert.

Bert gave a bow with his head.

"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Geo," Bert said.

While Geo slapped him on the shoulder with his right hand.

"I'm glad this brat was able to finally find a friend for himself," Geo said while laughing. Bert smiled as he said.

"I'm glad he became my friend too" In fact, he didn't think he would be able to find a better friend than Ian.

Then Geo turned to look at the girls.

"So which one of you is his girlfriend?" He asked.

"Cough-cough." Ian coughed as he averted his head to the side. He knew his father would ask this.

"Let's talk about that later." Ian tried to avoid talking about that right now, as his crew still didn't know about Robin. And he didn't want to hurt Robin by saying only Elene is his girlfriend.

"This is Elene. Next is Robin. And lastly, Stella" Ian introduced the rest of the girls.

"Nice to meet you." They all greeted him, while he gave them a smile.

Then he motioned them to follow him as he started walking the path to the top where the buildings were.

[A/N: If you want to see Ian, check my P.atreon it's made to be public!]