This is an idea I had in my mind for awhile and I finally decided to put it on paper. This will be my first real One Piece fanfic, so please be gentle.

As an early note, I will be using mostly the Funimation's attack names and I won't be using japanese terms like nakama in my story. This has to do with the fact that I do not like when people don't translate certain words just because they think it sounds cool or special. Especially words that do have an english translation and isn't part of a character's personality, like Robin using a mix of spanish and french in her attack names. The only person who will be using a japanese term will be Sanji when he is addressing Nami and Robin. In my opinion, there isn't a good substitute word for his nicknames for them in english.

Spoilers: This story takes place after the events of Thriller Bark, but it will have some information from Marineford and Post War events.

Disclaimer: As you may have guess, I don't own One Piece or any of its characters. I will only lay claim to my OCs. With all of that, please enjoy.

As of 1/1/12 this story will be revamp for fix some of the grammar and pacing. I wanted to do this to get this story up to par with Perchance to Dream and to say thanks for the support this fanfic has receive.


Chapter 1: Cannibals?


"Island, there's an island up ahead!" Luffy shouted in excitement.

Nami looked over the side of the ship to observe the island they were approaching. From the distance, it didn't look to be that big and there didn't seem to be any major structures or harbors. "Looks like it could be none inhabitant."

"Knowing our luck, it probably would have been man-eating natives anyway," Zoro said in bored tone as he yawned loudly. He was leaning against the ship's mast and didn't even bother to look at the island.

"Man-eater!" Chopper exclaimed in fear.

"There are some cultures that sees human flesh as a delicacy," Robin remarked as she put down her book. "Cannibalism is also seen as a religious practice in some areas here on the Grand Line."

"REALLY!?" Chopper squealed in even more terror. The little reindeer always had a fear of being eaten. It was a mixture of his inborn animal survival instincts and the fact that two of his crewmates actually attempted to eat him when they first met.

"Don't worry Chopper," Usopp said as he put his hand on his chest. "I, the brave warrior of the sea, shall protect you from any fearsome natives, cannibal or not. Why, I even fought off..."

"Bro, you would be one of the first ones running if you see any natives," Franky pointed out offhandedly, causing Usopp's chest to deflate.

"I wonder if they have any good meat on the island?" Luffy pondered out loud, seemingly unaware of the current conversation.

"How can you even ask that!?" Chopper yelled in horror.

"I agree, human meat taste terrible and isn't healthy at all," Sanji remarked as he blow some smoke.

Robin looked towards the cook. "It sounds like you are speaking from personal experience."

Sanji turned his head away. Even after all these years, he still felt guilty about what happened to that shitty old geezer.

Brook began to laugh. "Well, it's a good thing I have no flesh for anyone to feast on."

"Anyway, looks like we'll reach the island within another hour," Nami said, chosen to ignore the stupid banter. She was lucky that she had already had lunch.

"Alright!" Luffy yelled as he ran towards the kitchen. "Sanji, get a pirate lunch ready!"

"Keep away from my kitchen you rubber bastard!" Sanji yelled before he kicked his captain away from the gallery.

After over an hour had passed, the small pirate ship reached the island without incident. A dense forest covered the island and they could hear the sounds of wildlife in the air. It was obvious a spring island given the warm weather and cool breeze.

"Okay, lets divide into teams," Nami said as she rounded up the crew. "Franky, you will come with me and help survey the island."

Franky nodded his head. "No prob, sis."

"Sanji, you'll go with Robin and gathered food and other supplies we may need," Nami continued down the line

This put Sanji in a very happy mood. "As you wish, Nami-swan. I will protect Robin-chan with my life."

"We're not that lucky," Zoro muttered under his breath.

Nami then looked over the remaining of the crew. "The rest of you idiots, just stay out of trouble until we leave."

Both Usopp and Chopper sighed in relief. They didn't want to step foot off of the ship after the entire cannibal talk. Zoro was equally please with the current arrangement since he could now nap without doing that witch's bidding.

Brook began to laugh. "I see no problem with that request." He could always amuse his remaining crewmates with a song.

"I'm going off exploring," Luffy suddenly exclaimed, ignoring Nami's orders, as he jumped off the Sunny.

"Luffy!" Nami called too late to reached her captain. "I swear...Zoro go after that moron."

"Me!?" Zoro exclaimed just as he was about to settle back to sleep.

"Just keep him out of trouble," Nami ordered. "If there are people on this island, we don't need Luffy causing trouble."

"Do it yourself, witch," Zoro growled in annoyance.

"Don't call Nami-swan a witch you barbarian," Sanji growled as he kicked Zoro in the ribs.

This caught Zoro off-guard, but he immediately stood up to regain his honor. "Try that again, pervert cook."

"Knocked it off you two!" Nami yelled as she punched both of them in the heads. "Zoro, if you don't go, I'll raise your debt again."

Zoro muttered something under his breath. He really needed to pay that devil off. "I look forward to the day you go back to hell."

Nami smiled sweetly. "Thank you, Zoro."

With another cuss under his breath, he jumped off the ship and began to follow after Luffy. Luckily, it wasn't too hard since the careless boy left a nice trail of destruction behind.

Luffy, however, was still way ahead of the swordsman as he looked around the forest. The trees were so tall that it blocked most of the sun; given the entire forest an eerie look. He could see some wildlife such as deer and rabbits eating the nearby grass. They looked tasty and hoped Sanji would catch some for dinner today.

However, the island was kind of dull and Luffy couldn't find anything to keep him amused for long. After walking around for close to thirty minutes something caught his eye as he reached the end of the forest and came into an open valley. To his surprise there were several stone buildings that looked like fairly new construction. It seemed Nami was wrong when she said that the island was none inhabitant.

With his curiosity getting the best of him, he went deeper into the town and began to explore. It didn't take him long to find several people working around the buildings and carrying large wooden boxes. Some were even holding guns. They looked more liked marines than ordinary townspeople, but they lacked the uniform.

"Hi!" Luffy greeted loudly. Everyone stopped as they looked at him.

"Who are you?" one of the people demanded as he pointed his gun at Luffy's head.

Luffy crossed his arms. "I'm Luffy, a pirate."

"Pirate, out here?" one of the people repeated.

"It can't be helped since we're so close to the Red Line," another person said. "It's still bad luck, however, that he found this place."

"What are we do with him?" one of the people asked.

"Even though he isn't part of the government, it's too soon for anyone to learn of our master's plan," the other man said.

"Then we must dispose of him and everyone else with him," another person concluded.

Luffy blinked in confusion. "What..." Before he could ask anything several of the town's people began to shot at him. Even though he was caught by surprise, Luffy was easily able to dodge the bullets. He then quickly charged forward and punched several of his attackers in the face.

One of the townspeople managed to sneak behind Luffy and shot him point blank in the head. His head shot forward and stretched for several inches.

"That won't work," Luffy grinned as he twisted his head towards his attacker. "I'm made of rubber."

"He's a Devil Fruit user!" the man exclaimed in shock.

"Gum Gum Bell!" Luffy yelled as his neck snapped back and slammed into the gunman's face, knocking out several teeth.

This hardly slowed down several other attackers who attempted to charge Luffy, this time using swords and knives since bullets wouldn't work. None of them were a match for Luffy, however, and the battle was over within a few seconds. Luffy looked around at the unconscious townspeople who lay around him in a small circle.

"What just happened?" Luffy asked as he rubbed his head. The closest he could figure, the people were afraid of pirates and therefore attacked him. It made sense since he was by all means supposed to be a villain.

Nonetheless, all this fighting made him hungry and he decided to see if there was a restaurant nearby.


On the other side of the island, Zoro was lost somewhere in the forest. He had lost Luffy's trail hours ago and was currently walking in circles.

"I could have sworn I passed this tree already," Zoro muttered dryly. Everything in the forest looked the same it was really starting to piss him off. It didn't help that everything was dark around here because of the trees. This was all Luffy's fault for getting himself lost.

Before he could fully contemplate his situation, a noise caught his ear. He instinctually unsheathed his sword and pointed it at one of the nearby trees. "Come out, I know you're there."

There was a long paused before someone moved into Zoro's line of sight. To his surprise, the person turned out to be a young woman. She was about average size with long black hair and piecing blue eyes. She was also fairly tall since she was about eye level with Zoro. Despite her height, however, she looked no more than eighteen years old going by her face.

"You have good senses," the girl complemented. "Normally, no one would had noticed me even at this distance."

"Who are you?" Zoro demanded.

"I don't have to answer you," the girl said as she pulled out two long knives. "I don't know what business you have on this island, but now that you have seen me, I can't afford to let you live. Nor can I allow him to get his hands on anther person. It's nothing personal."

Zoro stared at her blankly. "Him?"

"If you made it this far into the Grandline, you and those who travels with you must be fairly competence. If they find you, he can add more powerful warriors to his ranks. I won't allow that," the woman said.

"Lady, I have no idea what you are babbling about," Zoro said as he moved into fighting position. "But if you want to fight, then be prepare to lay down your life."


Luffy was getting more than a little frustrated that he couldn't find a restaurant anywhere in the village. Instead, he kept running into more people who wanted to kill him. "Man, what's up with this town?"

Luffy's head jerked up just in time to see a huge beast about to pounce on him. He barely had time to move out of the way as a catlike creature nearly took his arm. Once he was a safe distance from the beast he turned around to see what had attacked him. A huge lion with whitish-orange fur and a huge mane with piercing golden eyes glared back at him.

"What's a lion doing here?" Luffy asked. It was a little smaller than the one that was on Buggy's crew, but Luffy knew it was far more dangerous. He hadn't felt a beast this powerful since he left home.

"You're rusty, Timber," a man with a long sword said as he approached the duo at a brisk paced. He had dark gray hair and bluish gray eyes with a small beard. "You didn't even scratch him."

The lion growled in responded.

Luffy looked between the two. "Who are you people?"

"That isn't any concert of yours," the swordsman said as he grabbed the sheath of his sword and loosen his blade from it. "You came to this island at the wrong time. Now, you and the others you have brought with you will have to die."

Luffy's eyes narrowed. No one threatened his crew. "Gum Gum..."

Before he could finish the attack, the swordsman was on him and nearly took his head. Luffy evaded the sword slash and he attempted to kick the man. The swordsman, however, was able to easily sidestep the kick. He then thrust his sword into Luffy's midsection, which barely had time to jump back.

"You're very agile," the swordsman noted.

Luffy smiled. "You're not too bad yourself, old man."

"It's ashamed that such talent must be wasted," the swordsman said. "If the master had the time, you would make a worthy vessel."

Luffy titled his head in confusion "Vessel?"

"Well, you have been causing some trouble around here," a voice suddenly said from behind Luffy.

Luffy turned around to see a man with a purple robe casually walking towards him. A hood mostly covered his face, but Luffy could still tell that the man had very pale skin. What really made him stand out, however, was his amber left eye.

Luffy didn't know why, but seeing this man caused his hair to stand out. Something told Luffy that this man was very dangerous despite how fragile he looked.

The lion bowed and the swordsman bowed before the man.

"Master, we can handle this intruder," the swordsman said humbly. "There is no need for you to be involve with this pirate."

"Hey, are you the chief of this village?" Luffy asked, completely ignoring the other man now.

"Don't you dare speak to the master like that!" the swordsman exclaimed.

"There is no need to be angry," the man said calmly. "It is to be expected from a savage pirate."

"Master," the swordsman said in understanding as his master walked passed him to addressed Luffy.

"Yes, I am the leader of this group," the man said nonchalantly. "And you are intruding on my island."

"We didn't come to cause harm," Luffy said, watching the man closely. Something about this man was making him nervous.

"Regardless, I need you to forget everything you have seen here," the man said as his right eye suddenly became visible.

The man's right eye then began to glow a blood red and Luffy could feel his thoughts beginning to fade. It felt like he was being pieced to his very being and his mind felt like it was on fire. Luffy, however, couldn't look away no matter how hard he tried. Soon, he felt his world go black.


The first chapter to any story is always the hardest to write. I am kind of disappointed on how short it was, but I didn't want to reveal too much at the moment. Any feedback will be helpful and please tell me if anyone seemed out of character to you.

Thanks for reading and I should update soon.