Lia's POV:

We're now sixteen, almost seventeen. Having my first period was annoying. There was no pain, thanks to our skill. But a discomfort was noticeable and I also had mood swings. Lara does not have them, her [Calm Mind] prevents them from happening.

The most annoying thing was the blood and the need to better clean your privates. Mother was ecstatic to be able to tell us all about our body and what happens to us. Lara thinks it was one of her wishes as a mother.

We went along and listened, yet there was nothing new for us. Lara already knew how to handle the period and I learned from her. Getting hypersensitive nipples during our breasts growth was nice. Again [Insensitivity to Pain] prevented any pains and only left some discomfort. That was when we did not play with them.

Yes, that's right! My dry run ended four years ago! We're having sex since I got physically aroused by seeing Lara naked. And what a naked body she has. She has a firm ass, a little and puffy pink pussy that she keeps bald, and cute B-sized breasts. Her body is slim and sporty. Her long hair and bright green eyes in combination with the now twenty centimetre long ears are a perfect match for her beautiful face.

Our eyes stayed somewhat larger than normal and bright green. I especially like her nose. It's on the smaller side and kinda like a button gives her a touch of a cute child. The lips are a healthy red and of average thickness. Her pouting does look cute and is devastation to my mental defence, but if angered they turn into thin white lines. The only 'blemish' she has are some freckles on her rosy cheeks. They are cute in my opinion.

Of course, anything she has I have as well. The only difference in our appearance is that I tend to have a good dozen braids, while she wears a wide and long ponytail.

We also learned how to change our gender. We look as unimpressive as our father when we are male. A girlish boy. And the length of our dick is also only 15 or so centimetre. At least we know how to partially transform after a few tries. The body of Dexter was way more impressing than what we have now.

As for our strength, well, it kinda sky rocketed once we hit puberty. Lara is still unable to beat father in a straight sword fight and can barely win with her Devil Fruit power. She is able to use force blades for a few metres and can cut through metal without her power, yet father is still stronger. Still, we never showed him our skill with the Rokushiki.

He, however, showed us Haki. We tried to let it seem as if we were fast in learning, but I don't know how well we managed that act. I do know that father was impressed.

Lara's vibration can freeze or instant boil water now and her quakes are dangerous for the houses on the island. Her vibrating sword can cut through anything, even my diamonds. She tested it once with a normal sword from her inventory. The downside was that it broke down from the fast vibrations. She has to make a sword specifically for fighting with her power.

My diamonds, that was something when I showed them our parents. They were happy for me to have such an easy income but also worried that I will be in danger if people find out.

Theoretically, it should be possible for me and Lara to make other gems. We just have to find the right minerals, temperature and pressure. The first can be bought, the second supplied by Lara and the last by me. We had no success so far.

Anyway, I can now create high compressed air fields that can be used as bombs when released or increase gravity to such heights that wood gets crunched. The effect on an animal was a loud splat. Only a mess of blood, flesh, and bones remained after a full powered pressure attack. My pebbles became a deadly force as well. Piercing through rocks and wood with little trouble.

But that's not all, I am experimenting with increasing the psychological pressure people have when they do something. If I succeed I can break their minds by increasing the pressure to succeed in anything they do. I had no success so far, but am sure that I will be able to do it once I have trained enough. The will to do something is the most important thing with one's own Devil Fruit.

There is surely more to our Devil Fruits we haven't tried yet, but those will most likely be the only ones we have access to until we reach the New World. By now I think we are far too strong for anything normal in the first half of the Grand Line. Only a bad match might be a problem for us.

Lara thinks otherwise, she has the opinion that we are not allowed to become arrogant and think ourselves above others. A lucky shot or hit can still harm us, is her reason. I don't know if I agree.

And the argument of our water weakness is and will stay true. We are not even able to bath fully submerged or we might drown. At least sea stone won't be a problem. I plan to have some sea stone pebbles as a weapon against Devil Fruit user.

Anything is fine on the family front. Larn is now almost seven and will go to school with other children in the village. Father relented to my and Lara's arguments that he will not have someone to play with like we did and that the villagers showed their trustworthiness.

He still does not like humans, but can live with them. He spends most of his time now training Larn with the sword. He does not neglect Lara's training, but it was clear that he liked it more to train his son than his daughter.

They both also know by now that we plan to leave the island when we are seventeen. Neither Lara nor I know the exact date of Luffy's departure but it doesn't matter. We should be his age and that is enough, as long as we start sometime during early summer.

“Hey Lia?”, asked Lara suddenly. We were in our bed, she with her head between my legs.

“Yes?”, I asked downwards and rubbed her ears softly. Our ears are a big erogenous zone for us. She especially likes it when I nibble on them.

“Let's first get to Loguetown, I still need to forge my sword and we need a ship that can bring us to Conomi Island”, she said and gave me a vibrating lick after that.

“Hmm, yes let's do that”, I agreed dreamily and pressed her head against my sex. Lara has excellent skills with her tongue and the vibration makes the whole thing only better.

Later that day we were sitting together for dinner. Like it was common by now I had prepared the food. “Lia and I decided to leave Numuro with the next merchant ship. We want to travel the world”, said Lara suddenly between her bites.

Larn looked up from his own food, stars in his eyes. He always found his big sisters cool with what they could do. “Travel the world? You mean like pirates?”, he asked excitedly. Strangely enough, there were only four types of people who travel the world. Marines, pirates, bounty hunter and merchants. The branch of adventurers and dreamers were put together with pirates.

“I don't want you to become pirates”, said mother concerned.

“There is not much we can do. The Sun Pirates symbol on our back makes it impossible for us to become marines, it has to be either bounty hunter or pirate. I think we will gather a crew and sail the world while doing what we want to. Just because the World Government will label us as pirates does not mean that we have to pillage and burn our way through the Grand Line”, argued Lara.

Mother looked as if she wanted to argue, but didn't find a counter. Our household had no love for the World Government and there were, in fact, some pirates that were liked by our parents. The Whitebeard Pirates were one such group. Their home island is protected by them.

“Still, you will be hunted all your life. Once you get a bounty it is over and I know that you two will get a bounty. Lara, you are too stubborn to follow what some marine orders you to do and Lia will follow you like she always does”, continued mother.

“Let them be Luna. Both of them are old enough to decide for themselves and certainly strong enough to have no problems in the first half of the Grand Line. It will let them mature and wouldn't it be nice to say that your children were responsible for sinking some marine ships?”, cut father in. He was way more open to the idea of us becoming pirates. After increasing our training heavily.

“But!... Fine, no one is on my side”, grumbled mother in defeat. She looked at our little brother.

“At least I have you Larn”, she said with a smile.

“I want to become a pirate like my big sisters!”, he proclaimed loudly. Mother looked crestfallen but then bonked him over the head and rebuked him for shouting such things.

“And do you two already have an idea for your crew's name?”, asked father highly amused.

“Don't know, maybe Bonny Ears?”, laughed Lara. She liked her new ears a lot. I found the name to be stupid. It has to be something awe inspiring, maybe something from one of our last life?

“Why not Kage Pirates? It means shadow or shade and I would prefer to be like a shadow. It also aligns with the ship I want to have. A fast one that can jump at you at any time and escape without notice”, I suggested. It sounds cool and is a reminder of what we once were.

“Sounds good enough for me. Who's gonna be captain?”, agreed Lara.

“You can do that, I'm gonna be your cook”, I dismissed the offer as our leader.

“But I'll be the first mate”, I added. No one is gonna be above me but Lara.

“The next ship comes in two weeks, did you prepare your things?”, asked father seriously. We both nodded and then continued to eat. Larn tried to convince mother to let him come with us and failed miserably. It was the perfect opportunity for Lara to steal some chicken from Larn's plate.

So a normal dinner at the house of Lonore.

Two weeks later we were in the village, both Lara and I wore a simple summer dress. The clothes we want to wear are inside Lara's inventory and we want to change into them when we have our own ship. We both had a duffel bag with our things and Lara also had her sword strapped on her back. I had my pouch with hardened stones on my hip.

“And eat enough and remember to wash your ears, the whole of them”, reminded mother with teary eyes. She was clinging to Lara like a koala baby and did not look to let go anytime soon.

“We know mom, we will eat enough, Lia will make sure it is healthy. I will make sure that we both take baths and we won't seek out trouble”, said Lara with a fond smile. She really liked this childhood, almost as much as her first one, she once said that to me.

“And keep on training, only someone in training will stay strong”, reminded father from next to me. He had a hand on my shoulder and tried to look strong. His crying eyes betrayed the rest of his posture.

“And remember that I will become part of your crew once I am old enough”, shouted Larn. He was hugging my stomach and looked up at me with pleading eyes.

“Only if you are strong enough”, I presupposed. He nodded eagerly and then hugged Lara.

“Here is some money, I know that you can sell your diamonds but it's always good to have some Berry”, said father once Larn was away. He gave me a bundle of money and the leaned closer.

“Don't let Lara spend all the money on chicken”.

“Hahaha, sure. I'll try”, I assured with a nod but was not sure how I will manage such a thing. Lara only buys food with her money. She seldom needs something else. What little she bought was mostly for me. She once said that she is content with having me, food and music.

The last thing was one of her most recent skills with her Devil Fruit, she is manipulating the vibration in the air to create sounds and with a lot of practise music. So far it was only electro or techno sounds. Simple things.

“We have to go mom”, said Lara for the fifth time now. Mother broke the hug from my sister, slash lover, slash captain and decided to hug me. Now I was on the receiving end of her orders with the only difference that I am to make sure that Lara does not only eat chicken, that she does not sleep all day, that she does not lose herself in making music and that I am to keep her out of trouble.

Jeez, mother thinks highly of me if she is of the opinion that I could even do two things from this list. “And don't let her convince you that it would be the best to stay in bed all day”. That is definitely a quirk of Lara I won't stop. Our cuddle time is important!

“Luna, they really have to go”, reminded father now. He gently pulled mother away from me and they watched how we boarded the ship. We waved a little in our departure and then went under the deck. The trip back to Loguetown normally takes a few weeks, with my ability to increase the wind pressure on the sail it will be a lot shorter. I would also be able to decrease the resistant pressure of the water against the ship, but that would be too obvious.

“PIRATES!”. Who the fuck wakes me at such a time?

“Lara?”, I asked grumpily. She stirred a bit from her hugging position but did not wake up.

“Great”, I grumbled and stood up to get dressed. Pirates, as weak as they are in East Blue were still dangerous for most people.

Lara didn't want to let go and I had to pry her Haki enhanced arms off by applying pressure on them. I swear it took me enough strength to level a house. I quickly pulled some pants up and a t-shirt over my head before grabbing my pebble pouch and walking on deck. The few 'trained' men were awaiting the boarding with suppressed fear.

The pirate ship has had two masts and a small array of cannons on deck. It wasn't really big, yet not as tiny as the Flying Lamb of the Straw Hats. Would such a ship not be better for us to sail to Loguetown?