One Piece: Errant Justice
(So, I've been wanting to do this for a while now, I had this idea kicking around in my head and I thought I'd finally write it, those of you who saw the update for Bonds of Silver probably picked up on my subtle hint...but anyway, this'll be a little different, because unlike BoS, This'll be a story with all Original Characters! I won't be doing an SYOC for this one (Mostly because I'm starting to feel I'm not that good at handling other peoples characters...) and this'll also be different from most OP stories because it won't be about Pirates...It'll be about the MARINES! Hope you guys enjoy what I have in store for this story!)
One night on a small island in the West Blue, a young boy was running down the abandoned roads, clutching several bags close to him, he ducked into an alleyway and pressed himself against the wall of a building, trying to catch his breath "Are they still after me?!"
His question was answered by the thundering sound of footsteps as a group of pirates stormed through the town, waving around their swords and yelling for the kid to come out, they noises soon died out "Phew...guess I lost them..." the boy dropped one of the bags on the ground, causing a jangling noise, he took a moment to make sure no one heard it, but the only thing near him was a solitary bird flying overhead.
He slowly undid the knot on the bag and opened it, revealing the riches held within, gold coins, jewelry, and gems "This'll definitely be enough to help!" he looked around one last time, but the streets were asleep once more "Gotta get back!"
The boy stuck to the alleyways, keeping close to the walls in case the pirates came back, but they seemingly lost the trail, the boy eventually found his way to a run down church, he snuck around to the right side of the building and found a hole in the wall, squeezing himself through and nearly losing the bags in the process.
Quietly creeping through the halls, he tried to find a place to hide his loot, he made his way to the prayer hall of the church and walked to the pulpit "Perfect! No one would look for it here!" he found a loose floorboard under the pulpit and began to pry it off "Grrr! Come on!"
Before the board came off, a figure appeared in the doorway, unbeknownst to the little boy, it began moving towards him and reached out to him...
"Quince, what are you doing up so late?" A young woman dressed in standard nun attire asked him, grabbing his shoulder and startling him "Why are you out of bed?"
"O-Oh, Mother...I was...uh..." Quince stuttered, trying to think of a convincing lie, he noticed that the Mother was eyeing the bags, Quince pushed one of the bags behind him, hoping she would question them "I, uh, thought I heard someone sneaking around...I wanted to check it out..."
"Really now? Why didn't you tell me? Or one of the Sisters?" The Mother questioned, placing her hands on her hips as she looked at Quince, a slight look of distrust in her eyes "What are you hiding behind your back?" she kept trying to grab one of the bags, but Quince kept pulling it away from her "Quince! Let me see what you're hiding!"
"I can't! We need this!" Quince yelled, continuing to pull it away from her, The Mother soon grabbed the bag and began pulling it, but Quince was able to keep a good grip on it "Pleeease! I can't let you see this yet!" the bag soon gave way and split in half, sending the treasure raining everywhere "Oh no!" Quince scrambled around the floor, trying to pick up as much of the loot as he could.
The Mother was left in a stunned silence, watching as the treasure hit the floor, she finally found her voice as she turned back to Quince "Where did you...get this?" she questioned, approaching Quince "Don't tell me you stole this!?"
This time, Quince was the one left silent, staring down at the objects in his arms, his silence was the only answer the mother needed, grabbing him by the ear, causing him to drop the treasure "We're giving this back immediately! Who did you steal this from?!"
"But Mother Delilah, we can't give it back!" Quince argued, looking up at the Mother "We need this to repair the church!" he wrenched himself out of her grasp and scooped up the loot "If we give it back, we'll have to get rid of our home!"
"That's fine! We don't need to turn to thievery to solve our problems!" Mother Delilah responded, crossing her arms "Stealing from people will only lead to more problems!" as they argued, they were cut off by a pounding on the door, the mother gestured for Quince to be quiet as she approached the door "I'll be right there! Hold on a moment!" she called out.
She made sure Quince was hidden before opening the door, on the other side was a man with disheveled white hair, she didn't recognize him, but could tell he wasn't a good man "How can I help you at this hour, sir?"
"Well, Mother, I'm hopin' you could help, some of our treasure has gone missin'" The man said, flashing a cocky smile and leaning against the door "One of my boys said he saw some brat that might be the culprit sneak in here, mind if we look around?"
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you in, there are children sleeping here" Delilah said, trying to close the door, but the man wouldn't let her, pushing against the door "Please, there's no one here, try looking somewhere else!"
"You sure? Why not let us in, if you're so sure?" He asked, continuing to push against the door, finally managing to push his way in and knock the mother to the floor, causing her to cry out "Well well, it ain't like a Mother to lie..." the man laughed, seeing the remaining treasure still spread across the floor.
"We'll give it all back, please, leave us alone!" The mother said, pushing herself off the ground as the man sifted through the treasure "You have what you want, please leave..."
"Well, there's one more thing we need..." The man said, still smiling, but this smile unnerved Delilah "Where's the little brat who stole from us?" he questioned, bearing down on the mother "If you give 'em up without a fuss, we'll leave you alone."
This sent chills through Delilah's body, she quickly looked around to make sure Quince was still hidden, seeing that he was hidden behind one of the pews "He hasn't returned...even if he was here, I couldn't give him to you..."
"I see..." The man muttered, he quickly reached out and grabbed Delilah by the throat "How about I use you as collateral then? Just until he reveals himself? Cahahahaha!" he began dragging Delilah out of the church, keeping a tight grip as she struggled to escape.
While this went on, Quince simply watched, unable to move "Mother Delilah...why...why can't I move?!" once he was alone, he shook off his fear and quickly grabbed as much of the treasure as he could "I've gotta make this right!" once he had the treasure, he ran out of the church, retracing his steps to the pirates base.
Their base was on the coast of the island, it used to be a port town that this crew had commandeered, driving away the previous inhabitants and rebuking any sort of retaliation, they had set up high wooden, walls around it, leaving open a small port for their ships.
The sun had begun to rise as Quince walked up to the front gates of the town, winded from the trip "Hey...I brought the treasure..." he said to the two guards stationed out front "You guys can have it back..." the guards looked at each other, laughing as they picked up the two bags.
"Thanks, punk" One of the guards said, opening the bag and examining the loot "The hell are you still doing here?" he asked, waving off Quince "Go away!"
"W-What?! I'm not going anywhere! Give Mother Delilah back!" Quince yelled, glaring at the two pirates "That jerk said he just wanted the treasure back!" The two pirates were quiet, looking at each other, and then back to Quince, before bursting out laughing once again "Why are you laughing?!"
"That woman's gonna fetch a pretty penny!" The other guard said, approaching Quince and kicking him away "And now we got our treasure back too! Ain't no way we're turning down this profit!" Quince tumbled on the ground, finally coming to a stop as he kicked up dust "Now get the hell outta here!"
"No..." Quince whimpered, tears welling up in his eyes as he stood once more, shaking as he did "I won't leave until I get her back!" The guards approached him and prepared to beat him down, Quince closed his eyes and braced himself...suddenly, he heard the beating of wings and felt a rush of air.
The guards cried out and Quince opened his eyes, he was surprised to see a large bird perched on top of one of the guards, pinning him to the ground, it seemed like a kite with a cigarette closed in it's beak "Looks like I made it in time, sorry it took so long, kid..." The bird spoke, surprising Quince.
The bird seemed to be wearing clothes, with a purple waistcoat over a white long-sleeved dress shirt and a long white coat, one the back of which was the kanji for 80, and strapped to its hip was a saber "Who...who are you...?"
"Someone who should've made a move a long time ago..." The bird answered, blowing smoke from his beak "You should find some cover, this'll get pretty crazy" the other guard recovered from his initial shock and drew his sword.
"Go to hell!" he shouted, leaping into the air and bringing his sword down onto the bird, but as soon as it came into contact with the bird, the blade simply shattered "Wh-What?! What happened!?"
"Tekkai!" (Iron Body) The bird said, hardening his body, he then whipped around to the other guard and leaped into the air "Shigan: Joretsu!" (Finger Pistol: Pecking Order) he then began to rapidly peck at the man, riddling him with blows and knocking him unconscious, he then turned back to the guard he was perched on, taking a small amount of joy from the look of fear on his face and hit him the same move he used against his ally, knocking him out as well.
The bird climbed off of the unconscious man and to Quince's surprise, began changing, suddenly becoming a human, he was a tall blue-haired man, wearing the same clothes as the bird, but this time he also had on black slacks and boots, his face was clean shaven and he had a kind look in his gray eyes.
Quince came out of his hiding spot and ran up to the man "Thank you!...but, uh, who are you?" he asked as the man eyed the small fort in front of them "Wait...white coat...are you a marine?!"
"Yep, Master Chief Petty Officer Aiden Newport, at your service" the Marine introduced, saluting Quince "I should have come here sooner, these guys have been here for quite a while...sorry we didn't do anything before..."
Quince looked at the ground, slightly angry at first, upset that the Marines had waited for so long to do anything, but he shook off those feelings and looked up at Aiden with a look of determination burning in his eyes "Forget that! I need your help to save Mother Delilah!"
Aiden was slightly shocked by the boy's drive, he couldn't help but admire his determination, he smirked and turned back to the fort "Alright then, do me a favor and head to the Marine Base on the other side of town and ask for Captain Windham, he'll help you out" Quince nodded and immediately ran off, leaving Aiden alone "Tell him I'll clear the way..." he then walked up to the gate and heard sounds on the other side.
"There was a commotion on the other side of the gate, let's check it out!" A voice on the inside said, Aiden looked up at the top of the walls and shifted into his hybrid form, becoming a Kite-Man, he launched into the air and drew his saber, when he flew to the top of the walls, he began diving towards the enemies.
"Hiko Ken: Tako Yaki!" (Flying Blade: Kite Branding!) Aiden yelled, bringing his sword in front of him as he descending, cutting his way through the crowd, effectively incapacitating the whole crew, before he could figure out his next move, a giant white spear shot towards him and nearly skewered him "Whoa! What was that?!"
He looked down and saw a white haired man glaring up at him, a look of intense anger on his face "Who do you think you are!? You think you can run around our turf without any consequences!?" Aiden then noticed that the man's nails began growing and they suddenly shot towards them, causing Aiden to dive out of the way.
"Seems the reports were right, A crew led by a Devil Fruit user had taken up residency here..." Aiden said to himself "What type are you? Paramecia?" he asked, diving out of the way as another spear flew towards him.
"I ate the Calc-Calc Fruit and became a Calcium Man!" The captain replied, shooting more nails towards Aiden "I am 'Great Fang' Bowen!" he the created a giant claw and jumped towards Aiden as he got close "Die!" he swung his arm down and Aiden managed to roll to the side and dodge, he flew towards Bowen and clothes-lined him in mid-air.
"I'll be taking you down!" Aiden taunted, flying towards the ground, but before he could finish the fight, he felt something pierce his shoulder, he looked down and saw that Bowen had used his devil fruit to grow his teeth into fangs and bit into Aiden's shoulder, he nearly dropped Bowen, but kept his resolve and continued diving "Tekkai: Meteor!" his body hardened once again, trapping Bowen's fangs in the wound and slamming him into the ground, knocking him out.
"Phew...guess you were all talk..." Aiden said, turning back into his human form "...Now, where would he be keeping the prisoners?" he then began searching through the town, finding nothing "This is taking too long..." he took a moment to focus all of his senses and activated his Observation Haki, picking up on several people "There we go!"
He went towards the signatures and found a locked door, he kicked it open and saw several bound people in the room, screaming in surprise when Aiden showed up "Don't worry everyone! I'm here to help" he then went around and cut the people free "Everyone head towards town, you'll should find a squad of Marines on the road, they'll keep you safe."
The people nodded and headed out, all except one woman, who Aiden assumed was Mother Delilah "I take it that Quince asked for you to help?" she asked, smiling warmly, when Aiden nodded, she giggled "Of course, he could never let the bad guys get away with anything..."
"Let's get you home" Aiden said, offering his hand "Your little hero should be back by now..." Delilah took his hand and the two of them left the fort, when they finally reached the church, the captives had run into the Marines.
"Master Chief Newport..." A voice called, Aiden looked over to the voice and saluted, it was an older man with brown hair, he was dressed in a white suit and had a Marine coat, he had a rugged face with a scar on his right cheek, this was Captain Task Windham, head of the 80th Marine branch in the West Blue "I assume your responsible for this?"
"Yep, this little kid asked me to help him free some people that these pirates took captive" He recounted, smiling proudly, though he didn't see the look of slight annoyance on Captain Task's face "I did a pretty good job, if I do say so myse-"Aiden was suddenly cut off as Task punched him, knocking him to the ground.
"Sigh...you've been told time and time again, Aiden, you can't just leave the base and attack pirates" Task said, calming down once again "As punishment..." he then looked at the church and saw how rundown it was "...You will have to repair this church, while we apprehend the prisoners."
"A-Aye...aye...captain..." Aiden muttered into the ground, weakly saluting, Task then turned towards the rest of his squad, calling them to attention.
"Men! Half of you will remain here and assist Master Chief Newport with repairs, the other half will come with me to make arrests!" He ordered, leading half of the soldiers away as Aiden recovered from the hit.
"Master Chief Newport! We'll pick up supplies from the town!" One of the soldiers said, saluting Aiden as they left, Aiden brushed himself off and turned to Mother Delilah.
"Well...I guess he's happy..." Aiden said, rubbing the back of his head "Do you have any tools we can borrow?" Mother Delilah laughed and gestured for Aiden to follow her, she lead him to a shed next to the church, with a toolbox sitting on a work bench, Aiden examined the tools and nodded.
"These should work, just gotta wait for the others to get back with the materials..." He said, heading back to the front of the church, waiting for the other marines to return, when they did, they all wasted no time starting repairs...
THE END!
A.N: Alright!, First chapter of Errant Justice done! And I don't know if it's just me, but it feels like the first chapter/prologue is always the most awkward one to write...but I hope you enjoy!