Zoro was floating in the tub with his captain, neither of them knowing how to navigate the oceans they were in. The wind picked up and caused the strange boy's straw hat to lift up and fly away, only for the black hair boy to scramble after it. Zoro caught it with ease before it got to far, but asked upon it's return to the owner, "What's so special about this hat?"
"It's my treasure! I goes back to...
Seven years earlier...
The Bar was filled with pirates as young Monkey D. Luffy watched with great interest. A red haired man was making fun of Luffy by saying, "You're a little short to be a grown up yet kid, so you might want to enjoy it while you can."
"I got a kid his age, still running around..." said the man that Luffy had learnt was named Yasopp, one of the red haired man's crew. The red haired man was named Shanks and was the captain of these pirates, wearing a straw hat with a red band.
They were interupted by a man running in the bar by kicking the door down shouting, "Give me all of the sake you have, give it to me now!"
The female bartender by the name of Makino said to him, "All of the sake is with the Captain and his crew."
"If you want a bottle, then you can have it." said Shanks as he handed a bottle to the man, only to have the newcomer smash it.
"I'm a wanted man with eight million beli on my head, I don't have time for any of your games." said the man as he stormed out of the bar in a hurry, causing the pirates to laugh.
"Why didn't you fight him, Shanks?" asked the young Luffy as he looked at the captain.
"Not worth the time to fight unless you have to." replied Shanks as he returned to the party.
Luffy decided to get back at Shanks for being a coward and headed to the box the pirates were protecting. He snuck up on it and was not seen by anyone as he took the box before openning it, before someone out of the young black haired boy's sight shouted, "What are you doing?"
Luffy jumped as the box closed and launched into the air, before the box was caught by Shanks. Luffy had only just seen a purple, swirly fruit inside before he lost it. Yet Shanks went to Luffy and looked him in the eye, "This is the Gomu Gomu fruit, which has the power to make you a rubber man if you eat it. Yet it also robs you of the ability to swim forever. We were just trying to decide if we would keep it or sell it for profit, and whom would eat it if we kept it. I don't think it would be a good idea for you to eat it right now. Better to eat regular fruit to get big and strong."
Luffy listened to this as Shanks moved the box to inside his coat.
Later that night...
Luffy was looking at the stars and making a wish, 'I wish I was strong enough to be a pirate right now, to kick the butt of anyone who comes between my dream. I wish for the strength to make my dream come true, to be king of the pirates and protect my friends."
The young ten year old was watching the stars shooting down, when he saw one landing close to the Earth before a huge explosion occurred in the distance. The wide eyed boy figured that if seeing a shooting star granted you a wish, catching one would be even better. He rushed to the site of the landing, noticing the trees uprooted and a gash on the earth. He walked into the up turned earth to find the shooting star, which looked like a metal sphere. As he tried to approach and touch the star, it opened up and revealed some kind of band like a bracelet. Which then jumped at the right hand which was still hovering over the metal star and stuck itself upon his wrist.
Luffy over reacted instantly by trying to get it off by biting and yanking it, only for nothing to happen... until he pressed a button. This caused the round face of the bracelet to rise and twist from an hourglass shape into a diamond with some kind of monster's shadow on it.
Luffy over reacted instantly by trying to get it off by biting and yanking it, only for nothing to happen... until he pressed a button. This caused the round face of the bracelet to rise and twist from an hourglass shape into a diamond with some kind of monster's shadow on it. He pressed down on the face and there was a flash of green light, then Luffy felt a sudden change in the temperture as he felt cold.
Back on the boat...
"That's how I discovered my new forms, starting with Mr. Flame. Didn't know where the thing had come from at first, but I learnt all about it during the adventures after it." said Luffy as he looked at the object on his wrist.
"But that doesn't explain the straw hat..." said Zoro as he wanted to hear that part of the story.
"It happened like this..."
Back into the past...
Luffy had just lucked out at discovering the time out feature of the object, and had only managed to make some small fires before sucking the flames back into his body as instinct. He was walking home to figure out what to do next, when he spotted the man who had barged into the bar as well as some other tough men. The alien boy was about to change his direction when he found himself surrounded, with men on either side of him.
He was about to use the new device to get himself out of the mess when he was lifted by the arm it was on. The man smirked as he looked at Luffy, "Look what we have here boys... looks like a squirt with some kind of new jewelry on his arm. Why don't you just handed it over?"
While Luffy and the bandit's attention were distracted, the bartender Makino was watching and began to run in silence to get help. At this time, Luffy was trying to tell the bandits the bracelet would not come off him. They refused to believe him... until they started to lose knives and other blades trying to cut the object off. Finally the bandit leader took a moment to think before saying, "This thing must be valuable to stay on the wrist like this, but I wonder if it would stay on the wrist of the arm it was one was cut off? It might just pop off then, right boys?"
Luffy was nervious at the thought of losing his arm and his cool new tool, but a voice stopped everyone as it came out of nowhere. It said, "Stopping what you are doing might be the best option for the lot of you. Try to make the smart choice..."
The bandits regrouped themselves as Shanks and his crew came into view. A bandit pointed a gun so it was aim between the eyes of the captain before saying, "Don't move or you'll be getting a new breathing hole."
The second the last word exited the mouth of the gun bandit, he feel down to the ground as a bang exploded in the air. Lucky Roux had claimed another victum with his sharpshooting skills, while at the same time still eating a giant rack of meat. Shanks just smiled with a deadly edge to it as everyone of the bandits gasped and said, "We're pirates, facing danger is a career requirement. I still say stopping what you are doing is the best plan. Are you listening this time?"
The bandits didn't listen as they charged Shanks, only to run into Ben Beckham who was Shank's first mate. With a long rifle at the ready, he prepared to... club the bandits with the iron rod. They entire charge of men were taken down in seconds. Higuma the bandit leader took this moment to drop a smoke bomb andrun for his boat, while grabbing Luffy. As he reached the boat, he chucked the you boy into the water.
Luffy seemed to react on his gut feelings as he trigger the transformation with the watch, and then flash green. Higuma laugh as the boy seemed to sink under the waves, not noticing the gain sea beast arriving behind him... at least not until he was swallowed alive by the monster. The Monster then turned and went after it's next target, Shanks who had dived after the lost Luffy. The beast was about it bite Shanks, when it started to scream!
From below the water came a humanoid sea monster with sharp teeth and a dangling light from it's forehead. Black, green and greyish blue were the most common colours on the beast. Shanks was shocked a little when it asked in a deep voice, "Are you alright, Captain Shanks? It's me, Luffy! Also sea beasts taste like raw meat, kinda beefy and fishy at the same time. Maybe some chicken in it as well."
"Okay, you're either Luffy gotten into some kind of weird adventure... or Lucky Roux. Only the two of them would think about what kind of meat that Sea Beasts taste like. I'm guessing there is a great story about this. Do you need help, Luffy?" asked Shank as he watched the fishman attack the beast, making bites out of it and scratching the heck out of it. The beast started to turn from the free lunch and move to the open ocean, where there is less pain in the butts... flukes, neck, face, back...
(Posted Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:40)
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