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Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece that all belongs to Eiichiro Oda and others that work with One Piece! Honoka is fully my creation as well as her island, her parents, the marines and Maika-san

Chapter 1: Dreadful Memories

"Mama! Mama!" a young girl's voice erupted out of nowhere. "What is it sweetheart?" an older lady responded.

Where is this place? I could see mountains to the north and green plains to the south. I saw a house on the coast next to (or should I say on) the beach. A little girl was running towards her mother with a bad full of seashells. She was probably scuba diving since she was soaking wet.

"Look Mama! Look at all these pretty shells I found!" The girl shouted while smiling happily. "Yes! They really are gorgeous Honoka!" The mother replied grabbing the shells and admiring them with her daughter.

Oh I get it! This is me when I was a bit younger. Yes I remember this. My mother told me to go show my father the shells so I ran over to his laboratory. I showed him the shells and he asked me to make him something special for Father's Day made from those shells. He said he'd cherish it forever, so I agreed. A little while later my mother came rushing in shouting that the city was on fire and that the Marines were the cause of it.

My father told me to hide in a corner with my mother that he'd be right back. After a while my mother decided she'd go check on him so she also left saying she'd be back. I stayed there waiting but no one came back. Then I heard my mother screaming from the house. I stood up and saw my father rushing towards me. He grabbed a syringe and looked carefully into my eyes.

"Honoka, I need you to live on. You brought your mother and me so much happiness." He injected a strange blue liquid into me which really hurt. "I'm giving you a power you must never talk about nor use for bad purposes. It contains properties like a Devil Fruit's powers but takes away the weaknesses of not being able to swim." He stared at me with pained eyes I'd never seen before. "Alright then! I need you to run Honoka! Run as fast as you can and get on a boat. Sail away from this island and never ever look back understand?" I shook my head in devastation. Of course I didn't understand. I was an 8 year old child scrared out of her wits and Papa was saying too many complicated things. I couldn't understand anything.

"Papa! I won't leave you and Mama! No! I won't! I -"

"Sweetheart you have to go now! We'll see each other again you'll see!"

"Will we really Papa? You promise?"

"Yes! I promise now go -"

That's when people broke in and grabbed Papa and I. They brought us to the house and I saw Mama on her knees crying. There was a man behind her holding her hands behind her back and a gun to her head. They dropped Papa on his knees in front of a large man with a funny hat. The other men call him Captain Winger. The man dragging me around dropped me near Mama.

"Why are you doing this? You people are Marines. You're supposed to help us not cause us more misery." Papa shouted. The men laughed at Papa's words and the Captain walked up to him. He kicked Papa in the head and then grabbed him by the hair.

"I want my serum! You were able to create a Devil Fruit power with no weaknesses. I want that power. Don't you think it matches a Captain such as myself? So in exchange for that power I'll let your family live, how about it?" He looked over at Mama and me and then back at Papa.

"Alright, but the serum is back at the laboratory. We'll have to go there." Papa answered. "Ok then, we'll go there!" the Captain replied back. This man was an old ugly man. He looked about 6.1 in height and most likely over 200 lbs in weight. He had an annoying screechy laugh that brought chills up my spine. He also had a horrible scar that looked like burn marks all over the right side of his face. This man had an unforgettable face.

We walked over to the laboratory and my father pretended to search for a serum that was already in me. The men eventually caught on that he had no serum so they were ordered to kill us all. My mother was shot in the head and had no time to hug me goodbye. My father covered for me and was slashed right through the chest down to the stomach as I ran away. All I kept thinking about was Papa's words: I need you to run Honoka! Run as fast as you can and get on a boat. Sail away from this island and never ever look back, understand? and so I did exactly that. I ran and I paddled my boat out of there. I couldn't hold myself back so I ended up looking back. I saw my village massacred with fire everywhere. I could hear screaming voices, but most of all I noticed that the island was actually sinking into the deep black hole of an ocean.

I finally woke up to shackles and a horrible stench in the air. That's right. I had forgotten I was captured by some smugglers that took innocent helpless children for child slavery. My memories were floating back thanks to the dream. A year had passed since that time yet not much had changed.

The guards came by to take the other children and me away; probably to an auction. That's when a huge noise sounded and I saw two men standing there with shiny swords in hand. One man had a fancy hat with white stuffing (or so it looked) on it. He had a purple cloak and a huge cross-like sword. The other man had three swords, an open dark green coat and a red sash at his waist. I was mesmerized by them that by the time I noticed, they were taking all the kids out of there. The one with the three swords grabbed me by the waist and put me down out of the truck to my freedom.

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