Straw Hat Wyvern
Waking up on a deserted island with no idea how I got there is one thing, but finding a Devil Fruit and getting my ass turned into a bloody Wyvern was a step to far. Aw well, at least this world's gonna be fun!
So, I probably shouldn't be starting another story right now, but I can't resist. I've started watching One Piece again and I'd forgotten how much fun the series is, so writing this is likely to be just as fun. While not a full on crossover, I am going to be using some stuff from Pokemon for my main character and a few others. Enjoy!
Chapter 1
"Urh," I groaned as consciousness slowly returned, "What happened?"
I slowly pushed myself up, spitting sand out of my mouth. I paused. Sand? That can't be right. Last thing I remembered was going to bed in my flat in Manchester, so why in the world was a waking up on a damn beach. I sat up and looked around, rubbing my head that was aching for some reason. As previously mentioned, I was on a beach that I was pretty sure couldn't exist in the UK, not with sand that white, water that blue and a sun that hot. Of course, the jungle that bordered the beach was also a bloody good clue.
"Right, where the fuck am I?" I said, "And, more importantly, how did I get here?"
As expected, the answers weren't forthcoming. I got to my feet to take stock. As expected, I was still wearing the shorts and white t-shirt, which might be a good thing considering how hot it was out. I shook out my neck length black hair, scowling at the feel of sand mattered in it. There was a reason I hated going to the beach after all. Once my hair was combed out of my face, I turned to the jungle.
"Right, I guess the first job is to see if I can find any civilisation," I said, right before my stomach gave a loud rumble, "Correction, I need to find something to eat."
Just one problem. I had no idea what was safe to eat around here and I also had no idea how to survive in a place like this. That meant it would probably be smartest to see about finding a town or something. With that in mind, I set off down the beach since chances are I'd find something eventually.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me," I said five hours later as I stared at the me shaped divot on the sand.
Apparently I had managed to walk the entire way around the island, which meant not only was the place absolutely tiny, but unless there was a town inland, I didn't think there was anyone living here. I sighed and turned inland. No choice if I wanted to find something I could recognise to eat or fresh water.
"So hungry," I groaned as I pushed my way through the undergrowth.
It had been 12 hours since I had found myself on the island and I was quickly beginning to realise that there was no one else here. Fortunately, it didn't seem like there was any animals big enough to be a threat either, but predators were the least of my worries when I hadn't see any fruit I recognised or even stumbled on a fresh water source. I needed to find something soon or I was in serious trouble, especially with the baking sun beating down on me.
I pushed another furn out of my way, only for my foot to catch on a root and sent me tumbling down a hill to land with a splash in a pool of...WATER!
I came up with a gasp and immediately started guzzling down the refreshingly cool liquid until my thirst was quenched, before I sat back with a gasp to take in my surroundings. The pool was crystal clear and surprisingly cold considering the heat of the sun, but it was also well shaded by the trees that surrounded it and the large rock formation that sat above it from which a small waterfall fell into the pool. I was distracted from enjoying my surroundings when my stomach gave a very loud rumble and informed me that, although my thirst was quenched, I still needed food. I groaned and got to my feet, intending to see if I could find some fruit trees close to the pond, when something bumped against my leg. I looked down and saw that it was a fruit that looked a lot like a big, red apple. In a truly stupendous example of idiocy, I grabbed the fruit and took a big bite. I was half way through it before I noticed the nasty taste. I froze and pulled the fruit away from my mouth, taking a closer look at it. I felt the blood drain from my face as I noticed that the skin had a swirl pattern on it and that it was actually half red, half white and a rather unpleasant realisation took root in my mind.
"A nasty tasting fruit with swirls on the skin?" I muttered, "Oh hell, please don't tell me…"
Before I could finish the thought, I felt a tingling feeling in my hand. I looked down and saw that my fingers had stretched out and sharpened into blood red claws.
"OK, that was unexpected," I said, before I doubled over as my entire body started tingling and shifting.
It didn't hurt, but it was far from the most comfortable sensation. I felt my body expand as my arms slowly shifted, growing skin between them as they stretched out into leathery wings and my ears migrated to the top of my head and expanded to a rather large size. Finally, a tail tore itself from my behind and the transformation stopped, leaving me panting in the shallow pool.
"Oh yeah, I'd say that confirms it," I groaned, "That was a Devil Fruit. How the hell did I end up in the One Piece world and...how the fuck did I turn into a Noivern?!"
I had just caught sight of my reflection in the pool and, sure enough, I had indeed turned into the Sound Wave Pokemon.
"OK, so apparently I woke up on an island in the One Piece world and found a Zoan Type Devil Fruit that turned me into a Pokemon?" I said incredulously, "Thats...completely insane. Now how to I turn back?"
As soon as I asked that, my body immediately shrank back down to my human form, my newly torn up clothes just barely hanging on.
"Great, stupid fruit," I grumbled, absently noticing that my fringe had gained a red streak the same colour and shape as my brand new Wyvern form's nose, "Well, I guess now I don't need to worry about food once I figure out my abilities. Plus, I can fly!"
As it turned out, learning to use the abilities gained from the Devil Fruit was surprisingly easy. Sure, I had to learn how to move in my alternate forms and I didn't have a built in fighting style or anything, but learning to fire off sonic attacks that could blast solid rock to dust was easy. I even managed to figure out a way to use those vibrations to catch me some protein from the small animals that called the island home, although I did accidentally blow a couple up before I mastered that trick.
During my time on that little island, I also considered what the hell I was going to do. I briefly toyed with the idea of trying to get home, but quickly tossed it. I had no idea how I even got here, so I had even less of an idea as to how to get home. So, that left me with one of two options. Option one, I get the hell of this island and try to live a semi normal life or, option two I get the hell of this island and do what most people who wind up in my situation do, join the Straw Hats. Just one problem, I have no idea how to get of the island. Sure I can fly, but I can't fly forever and its not like I can just land in the middle of the sea. I couldn't swim for peanuts even before I ate the Devil Fruit.
I sighed as I shifted on my perch, my tail waving lazily to keep me balanced as I stared out to sea. I had made a cave high up on the mountain that dominated the centre of the island my home, both because it kept any of the little pests running around down on the forest floor from making a mess of my home, and because it provided an excellent view for miles, especially with the incredible vision afforded by my full Wyvern form. I was looking at something that had caught my attention pretty early on in my so far two month long stay. At first I thought it was a cloud bank, but it hadn't moved in the entire time I'd been here. Now, my brain told me that meant it was probably another landmass and, if it was within my sightline, I could probably make it. However, I admit I was scared. If I was wrong and it was some crazy as weather phenomenon that was natural to this crazy world, I'd be stuck out in the middle of nowhere with nowhere to go.
Still, that decision had been taken out of my hands since my hunting of the island's wildlife meant that I was starting to run out of food. Hense, why I was stood up the top of the mountain with my belly full and a satchel of non perishable food I'd made out of vines and the remains of my shirt, ready to start my journey while desperately hoping I wouldn't end up as fish food.
"Well, here we go," I mumbled.
I spread my wings and threw myself off my perch, angling my wings to catch the breeze and swooping away from the place I'd called home for the past two months. I circled the island a couple of times, mostly to gain a bit of extra height with the thermals rising from the island, but also to take one last look at the place. That done, I tilted my wings and flew in the direction of the dark shadow.
An hour of flying later and, to my relief, the shadow resolved itself into a landmass rather than just a cloud formation. I grinned and flapped my wings, speeding up my flight in my eagerness to get to the island, especially when I caught sight of smoke coming from what had to be a village.
It took another hour to reach the island at the speed I was going, by which time I was absolutely exhausted and staggering in the air. As soon as I was over the beach, I started descending. Unfortunately, it looked like in my excitement, I'd pushed myself a little too much and my wings chose that moment to give up the ghost, dropping me out of the sky to land head first in a grove of trees that was conveniently placed beneath me with a loud crash. My last conscious action was to morph back to human form. You know, to keep whoevers orchard this was from killing me thinking I was a monster.
"Urrg, did anyone get the number of the truck that hit me?" I groaned as consciousness returned.
My arms felt like they were on fire and it felt like I'd been run over by a truck.
"Ah, so you're awake," said a voice from nearby.
I opened my eyes and found myself staring up at something I hadn't seen in two months. An actual ceiling, rather than the stone ceiling of my cave. Since my body was hurting so much, I just moved my eyes as I looked around. The room was mid sized and sparsely decorated while still being functional as a doctors surgery. The Doctor himself was sat beside my bed, an elderly man with grey hair, a grey mustache and goatee. He was wearing a bandanna with a red cross, and sunglasses, as well as a striped light green and dark green shirt under a doctors coat with a red cross on the side on the right arm.
"Whats your name kid?" he asked.
"Marcus," I said, "Where am I?"
"You're in Cocoyasi village on the Conomi Island chain," he said, "I'm Dr. Nako. Do you mind if I ask where you came from? Nojiko found you in her tangerine orchard but it looked like you fell from the sky."
"Hehe, not entirely wrong," I said, before I winced as by body twinged from my laughter, "Ow."
"Whats that supposed to mean?" asked Nako.
"Lets just say I have some rather unusual abilities and leave it at that," I said, "So whats the prognosis doc?"
The doctor eyed me for a moment, before he let out a sigh.
"Fine, keep your secrets," he said, "But whatever power you have can't be very good for you. Your arms have multiple stress fractures, your muscles were badly damaged and you seem to be suffering from malnutrition."
"Urg, guess thats what I get for pushing myself to the limit after spending two months eating nothing but rodents," I muttered.
Nako gave me an odd look, before he huffed.
"Fine, whatever," he said, getting to his feet, "Your injuries are healing well and very quickly at that, but you do need to eat to fully recover."
"Fair enough," I said as my stomach rumbled, "Er, you wouldn't happen to have any fruit, would you?"
"Fruit? Why fruit?"
"I...have no idea," I said, "I just feel an odd craving for fruit is all."
Must be my Devil Fruit powers acting up.
"You are a very strange young man Marcus," said Nako, "But fine."
"You don't know the half of it," I muttered as Nako left the room.
Now alone, I turned my gaze back to the ceiling. Cocoyasi Village eh? In that case, I'd better make sure I was as strong as I could possibly be, just in the Straw Hats hadn't come through yet. I wasn't sure which would be better. If they hadn't come through, then that meant I had a good chance of making a good impression on Luffy and joining the crew. On the other hand, I wasn't sure if I could actually stand up to Arlong and his goons, even with my Zoan powers.
On the flip side, if they had come through, this would be a good place to settle down, but I wouldn't be able to join up with the Straw Hats. Eh, I'd deal with it when I found out where in the timeline I was. Decision made, I settled in to recover.
A couple of days later, Nako gave me a clean bill of health.
"So, what will you do now?" he asked as I slipped on my tattered clothes.
"I have no idea," I said, "I literally only have these clothes and thats it. I don't suppose you know anywhere I can find a job until I can get on my feet?"
"Hmm, Nojiko is usually willing to take on help at her farm and the tavern's always looking for a few more helping hands," said Nako, looking thoughtful, "And...well, if you can fight and you have a death wish, you could try and take down Arlong for his bounty."
Welp, that handles the question of where in the timeline I was. Sort of.
"Nah, no interest in bounty hunting," I said, "Least of all the man...er...fishman with the highest bounty in the East Blue."
"A wise course of action my friend," said Nako, patting me on the shoulder.
"I'm not an idiot," I said, "Thanks for the help doc. See ya around."
I left Nako's house and made my way down the streets of the town, ignoring the odd looks my tattered clothes got me.
"Hey, your that guy I found in my orchard," said a voice behind me.
I stopped and turned to see a young woman with short, light blue hair and a heavily tattooed right arm. She was wearing a beige sleeveless shirt, blue trousers and purple sandals.
"I guess so," I said, "Well, unless you've had other people drop in on you like I did. So I'm guessing that your Nojiko?"
"Thats right," said the tangerine farmer.
"Well in that case, I owe you for saving my neck," I said, "My names Marcus, its nice to meet you."
"Likewise," said Nojiko, "So, what do you plan to do? Judging from your clothes, you don't have much."
"I don't," I said, "In fact, I literally just have the clothes on my back. The old Doctor said that you might be interested in taking me on as an assistant until I can get on my feet."
"He did did he?" she asked, eyeing me up and down, "Well, OK. I could use a helping hand. But first, I think we should get you some new clothes."
I blinked and nodded slowly.
"O...K, but I don't have any money."
"Don't worry, you can pay me back with your work," said Nojiko, "Come on."
I followed her down the street and into a clothes shop.
"So what do you think?" asked Nojiko as I stared at my new outfit in the mirror.
I had to wonder if it was a coincidence, Nojiko had actually seen my Zoan form or if someone upstairs had been guiding my new bosses hand because the outfit I wore was exactly the same colours as a Noivern. I was wearing a black jacket with a teal inline, sleeves that were purple on the top and black on the bottom with red lines at the cuffs, as well as a white fur collar. My trousers and shoes were black, with the shoes having red tips to the toes and the trousers being teal on the inside of my legs. Under my jacket, I wore a dusky purple shirt the same colour as my sleeves.
"Their perfect," I said with a grin, "Thanks a lot."
"Oh don't thank me yet, I intend to make you work to pay me back," said Nojiko with a grin that made me fear for my life.
Far away from Cocoyashi village, a pair of red and green eyes opened in a dark room.
"So, another one of has been found," said the owner in a soft yet powerful voice.
"Oh?" asked a female voice, a pair of pink eyes turning to face the owner of the green eyes, "Does that mean we're getting a new crew member?"
"Perhaps," said a deep voice that belonged to a pair of blue eyes, "But he may be a weakling. Do you really want one of those tarnishing our name?"
"Heh, you mean like you?" said a sultry, female voice as a grin appeared below a pair of purple eyes.
"Why you..!"
"Enough you three," said the first voice, making the other three shut up, "Daniel has a point. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and I will not have our success be destroyed because our new brother is weak."
"Your orders, captain?" asked Pink Eyes.
"Send Koneko to keep an eye on him for now," said the apparent captain, "When we have a better idea of his strength, I'll decide who best to send to recruit him."
"Are you sure thats wise?" asked Blue Eyes, "Koneko isn't exactly known for keeping on task. She'll probably end up making friends with the brat."
"Thats the plan," said the Captain, "If she makes friends with the new kid, we could use that to get him to join us."
The room rocked, causing the curtains that kept it in shadow to flap and allow in a few fingers of light that fell on the back of the captain's coat, revealing the symbol emblazoned there. A golden, cross-like wheel under a skull.
And thats the end of that. I'm going to be including my own group of pirates that will serve as antagonists for a later arc I have in mind. And then probably switch to being potential allies in the future as is standard for One Piece.
Marcus is literally a Noivern, right down to the moves he can learn. Basically, in his full animal form, he can use any move Noivern can use, once he's strong enough. As of right now, he's about level 18 and can use a few abilities from the HM/TM list.
Hope you enjoyed it enough to leave me a review!