General Warnings : First about the language English isn't my main language, french is. Second I don't have a beta if anyone is silling you can always send me an MP.

Disclaimer : I don't own anything and certainly don't earn any money by doing this. I wouldn't mind owning Oda sama's brain just to know how One piece will end.

Summary : What if the box containing the Gomu Gomu no mi was locked and Luff couldn't eat it? Watch how a non-rubberman Luffy lives his adventures. AU! Extended crew

Different fruit Luffy...

Story Warnings : About Luffy he will be a little bit smarter, and the devil fruit he will get is set in stone, as well as when he will eat it.

there will be no pairings of any kind as i can't write any kind of romance to save my life and I think that Luffy is asexual anyway.

As Luffy's mother isn't revealed yet in the manga I will go by the theory which state she may have been Gol D Roger's sister, it will play a role much later in the story.

That's it the boring things are said You can now enjoy the first chapter of How a locked box changes things!


Chapter 1 : Monkey D Luffy

"speaking"

'thinking'

technique

Flashback


Dawn Island Fuschia Village


Our story starts with a seven years old boy named Monkey D Luffy currently eating some meat in a place called the Party Bar, next to him was a red haired man called Shanks, captain of the red hair pirates.

"Seriously Anchor what were you thinking?" asked the red haired man.

"I wouldn't have to do this if you had let me join you every time I asked!" grumbled Luffy as he ate his steak.

"Bwahahahaha I would never let a kid join us especially when that kid can not swim isn't that right boys! Bwahahahahahaha" laughed the pirate captain.

"Yeah Right!" answered the crew laughing and drinking merrily.

The party the pirates launched to celebrate Luffy's crazy stunt wasn't halfway done when Luffy asked his role model how long were they going to stay on this island. Luffy, who when his grandfather wasn't there wich was most of the time, was all alone therefore having Shanks and his crew here allowed him to have friends.

"It 's been almost a year since we made this town into our base so we will leave after two or three more trips." replied the captain making the boy sigh as he tought about his friend leaving.

After this serious moments the pirate and the boy started to tease one another to lighten the heavy atmosphere Luffy's question installed.

They partied some more and as Luffy was looking around for some dessert, the doors were opened distracting every body but the hungry boy. In fact as he searched for more food he remained oblivious to everything around him. He even went to the kitchen in order to find food completely missing the bandits that entered the bar.

When he re entered the main room he was surprised to see Shanks sitting on the ground drenched.

"What happened Shanks? Did you pour the drink on yourself?" asked a bewildered Luffy.

"Something like that..." replied the pirate captain not wanting to explain how he got wet like that with alcohol as he took a broom to clean the broken bottle from the ground.


Weeks later same place.


The pirates crew left soon after for an expedition in the nearby sea. Luffy returned to his solitary lifestyle only talking to the adults in his village. As his grandfather was still away he ate every meal at Makino's Party Bar. He was eating one of this meal when the doors were opened quite violently.

"Ah those filthy pirates aren't here anymore? Great!" exclaimed the bandits leader called Higuma.

"Who are you?" rudely asked Luffy pissed that his friends were insulted.

"Me I am the leader of this bunch of bandits, so you should well remember not to piss me off shrimp, now scram before I lose my patience." replied the bandits boss.

Who then proceded to order some booze for his men, but Luffy being who he is things went quite ugly...


Fushia Village townhouse.


"Mayor! Mayor it's awfull Luffy was captured by bandits!" cried an horrified akino as she rushed to Woodslap the mayor of Fushia.

"What! That boy I swear he is looking for trouble just like that grandfather of his." grumbled the mayor "Come Makino let's gather the villagers maybe we can do something about this."


Sometimes later


The villagers of Fushia were rassembled before the bandits as Luffy was held beneath their leader's foot.

"Would you mind letting the lad go? I don't know what he did to you but he is only seven." asked the mayor as he arrived with Makino.

"Letting that freak go? I don't think so first he disrespect me then he dared to knock one of my men out that is unforgivable!" roared Higuma as he stepped even harder on the poor Luffy.

"Let me go you stupid bandit!" yelled Luffy from beneath Higuma's foot.

"Well I wondered why no one was at the port to welcome us but now I see." said Shanks from behing Makino.

"You!? Shanks!" yelled both Higuma and Luffy.

"Now my dear bandit let my friend go?" asked Shanks to the bandits' leader.

"No I don't think so." replied the bandit.

The bandits started to unsheath their weapons as they advanced on the pirate captain, one stupid bandit even pointed his gun at Shanks' head.

"Are you going to use that?" asked the targeted man.

"Uh?!"

"I am trying to say that the gun pointed at your head isn't for show." calmly replied the captain and sure enough a deafening bang sounded as the bandit fell dead from a headshot from a fat pirate with a meat stick between his teeth.

"What it's unfair!" shouted the bandits as they watched one of them fall.

"Unfair we are pirates not saints." grumbled the first mate a tall pirate armed with a gun.

"How dare you?! Attack!" yelled the leader.

"Let me They are funny." said Benn Beckmann as he used his gun as a bat to soundly defeat all the bandits.

"Wha..." could only say the former leader as all his men fell to the lone pirate.

Luffy could only watch with star in his eyes as he saw the ease with wich the pirate defeated the bandits.

"Now what will you do bandit? I may let you belittle me but I won't let you hurt my friend!" said Shanks.

"Dammit!" yelled the bandit as he threw a smokebomb on the floor.

"What? Luffy!" yelled the pirates and the villagers as they were blinded by the smoke.

The bandit tried to use the smoke to flee with Luffy however the young boy wasn't going to let a stupid bandit take him to Oda knows where. He decided to puch the bandit's leg with his punch that is as strong as a pistol.

The pirates and the villagers heard a big CRACK and a yell of pain, they immediately thought the worst.

'Luffy are you alright, dammit we can't see a thing with this smoke!' thought everyone.

Then the smoke finally dispersed revealing Luffy and Higuma with the latter lying on the ground holding his clearly broken leg screaming in pain.

"Luffy… What did you do?" asked Yassop the sniper of the red haired pirate crew voicing out loud what everyone was thinking.

"I punched that stupid idiot bandit in the leg!" answered the boy looking quite proud of his action before turning to face Shanks "I told you my punch was as strong as a pistol!"

"…That you did…" murmured the pirate captain as he was still trying to grasp what Luffy really did because no seven year old boy could ever break a grown up man's leg.

"So now you will let me join you right?"

"No way! You are still too young and you cannot swim."

"Aw No fair!" replied Luffy pouting.

"Bwahahaha!" laughed the captain as the villagers seeing that the action was over dispersed.


Weeks Later Fushia town's docks


The pirates were loading their ship with supplies as it was finally the time for them to leave.

"Are you really leaving Shanks?" asked Luffy doing his best not to cry.

"Yes it is finally time, we stayed in this town for more than a year already…Are you going to cry Anchor?" said Shanks to the boy.

"Grr you'll see even if I don't know how to swim I will be a great pirate! I will be the pirate king! So you'll have to stop calling me anchor!" roared the angry boy to his role model.

"Is that so…" softly said the captain as he seemed lost in his memories, he then seemed to reach a decision as he took his straw hat off and planted it on a surprised Luffy's head.

"Shanks…"

"I am entrusting you with this hat, It is my treasure so keep it safe, You will return it to me when you will be the greatest pirate that ever set sail…" said Shanks as he and his crew got on their ship to sail away.

With this act a promise was made between two men, a promise that they will meet again later on an equal footing and more importantly a young boy's dream was set.


Ten years later Fushia docks


Ten years passed since Shanks gave Luffy his hat. Since then Luffy, now 17, trained hard to grow strong, he now stood at 5'7'', he wore a red vest, blue shorts, and sandals add to that his trusty straw hat and a steel pipe that was worn across his back.

He stood next to a boat that was gifted by the villagers, who were standing nearby to say goodbye to the boy they saw grow into this fine young man.

"Luffy! Reconsider you don't know what it will do to the town's fame to have a pirate born here." said the mayor Woodslap.

"No way Old man I will be the Pirate King! Now Bye Every One I am off to a great adventure!" said Luffy as he started to row leaving Dawn Island.

He barely made one mile than a huge roar was heard and a great beast rose from the sea.

"Oh that's you Lord of the Coast?" said Luffy as he recognized the great sea beast.

ROOOAAAAR

"No I won't let you eat me take that: Ai no Panchi!" said Luffy as he jumped and punched the sea snake in the face with all his might knocking it out with one hit.


Somewhere on the grand line


An old man wearing a white suit and a dog cap stilled as if hit by lightning.

'I feel proud… One of my grandsons must be using what I taught them!' thought the old man before falling asleep.


Back with Luffy


After defeating the Lord of the Coast Luffy kept sailing not knowing where to go as he didn't know anything about navigation.

'That's it If I survive this one I really need to find a navigator or I will get lost at sea and that won't do for the future pirate king' thought the boy as he watched his small rowing boat get dragged by the whirlpool that sprang from nowhere.

'What to do…What to do I can't swim…. But that doesn't matter even if I could swim I would die drowning as no one can survive in a whirlpool…. I got it' thought the teenager as he looked for anything that might help him survive this challenge.

With no time to spare the young man jumped into a barrel and hoped to survive.


An island without a name somewhere on East Blue.


A pirate ship was anchored near this island and the crew was using it as a base of sort, their flag was unlike the standard flag as the skull was drawn on his side and there was a heart inside it. A young pink haired boy was rolling a familiar barrel to a storing house as the crew was partying after a successful boarding of a merchant ship.

As the young boy entered the storage area he saw three pirates that were lazing around inside it.

"Kobby?! What the hell are you doing here?" asked pirate A without yelling for fear that their captain would hear him.

"Ha… Hum I found this barre on the beac and I thought th at it should go there." stuttered the frightened Kobby.

"Is that so… humf that thing is heavy must be full of booze." Said pirate B as he took the barrel from Kobby to place it near other barrels.

"Booze hu maybe we should drink it all." proposed pirate C to his two crewmates.

"Are you mad what if captain Alvida learn about that we would die!" objected pirate B.

"Calm down the only way the captain would learn of it, would be because of Kobby here as we are the only one to know about the barrel, so as long as he doesn't say a thing everything will be alright.

"Isn't that right Kobby?" threatened pirate C

"What barrel?" asked the terrified pink haired boy as he feared for his very life.

The three pirates convinced that their ''friend'' would be quiet prepared to open the barrel with a hatchet that was nearby. As they were going to open it, the barrel opened by itself from the inside surprising the four witnesses.

"Ah What a great nap!" yelled the young man stretching now that he was freed from the barrel.

"What the…!?" yelled the four witnesses as soon as their jaws were in working order as they hit the ground violently due to the men surprise.

"Hi do you guys have anything to eat?" asked Luffy to the four men.

"What the hell were you doing inside that barrel? Where is the booze? Answer me dam it!" yelled pirate B.

Suddenly a mace broke through the ceiling and crashed before the three pirates, during this confusion Luffy grabbed Kobby and went away from there.

"Who the hell was sleeping on the job!?" roared the pirate captain furious that one of her man wasn't doing anything but sleeping.

"It wasn't us captain… It was a strange man that Kobby brought, he was sleeping in a barrel over there." begged the terrified pirate as he pointed to the broken barrel.

"I see could it be the infamous bounty hunter… Bring him to me boys and tell me again who the most beautiful creature on all the seas is?" asked the captain after getting her mace from the ground where it crashed earlier.

"You are Alvida-sama!" yelled the crew before going to do what the captain asked.


In the forest with Luffy and Kobby.


Kobby used the time he had with Luffy to explain his misfortune with Alvida, how he got caught and was forced to be the cabin boy during two years.

"Why don't you run away?" asked a curious Luffy.

"Because I am too scared…"said Kobby looking down in shame.

They kept walking as Kobby led Luffy to his self-made escape boat, as soon as they arrived near the … boat Luffy couldn't help but freeze in shock.

"I hope you didn't think you could go far with that coffin?" asked the hopeful pirate captain as he gazed at the boat that looked like a death trap.

Kobby had the decency to blush and look down in shame "It wouldn't have mattered as I was and am too scared to leave. But that reminds me Luffy-san what were you doing in that barrel?"

"Sleeping, I sailed away from my home island today to become the pirate king!" said the teenager with conviction.

"Pirate king! But that would mean finding the one piece if It even exist?! It's impossible!" yelled a bewildered pink haired boy before he was sent to the ground "Why did you punch me?"

"Felt like it. Hear me Kobby nothing is impossible so I will become the pirate king!"

"Nothing is impossible huh… So that means I could leave and become a navy soldier." Softly said Kobby as he regained some kind of hope.

"A navy soldier huh sure why not but I don't think they let cowards in." explained Luffy

"I don't care I will become a navy soldier and I will catch pirate like Alvida!" yelled Kobby with confidence for once.

"KOOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBYYYYYYYYYY! What is this crap about catching me uh, and who is the most beautiful woman in the world?" asked a roaring Alvida.

"It's nothing Lady Alvida of course you are the most beautiful woman in the world." Said Kobby as he kneeled before the large woman and her mace.

"So that's the intruder… he doesn't looks like Roronoa Zoro" said Alvida as she looked at Luffy.

"Say Kobby… Who is that fat cow," asked the straw hat wearing teenager as he pointed at the fat cow.

Everyone jaws met the ground as they looked at the oblivious young man. A pulsing point could be seen on Alvida's forehead as she seemed to boil in rage.

"Kobby explain to this kid who am I before I smash his face in with my iron mace." roared Alvida having finally reached her limit.

"Luffy-san, what were you thinking Alvida is the….fattest cow in the whole wide world!" yelled Kobby causing Luffy to laugh and Alvida to roar.

Alvida tried to smash Kobby with her mace, but Luffy managed to catch the target and push him away, causing the mace to hit the sand not harming anyone.

"You…" grumbled the fat lady getting angrier.

She tried to hit Luffy but the straw hat wearing teen was to fast and Alvida not having the best stamina got tired pretty quickly.

"Are you done?" asked Luffy as he got in his combat ready stance.

"Because here I come Ai no Panchi!" yelled the teen as he punched Alvida in the jaw sending the tall woman flying back until she hit a tree and feel down unconscious.

'He… Took down the captain in one hit without using his weapon?! Is he some kind of monster?' thought the frightened crew as they witnessed their captain's easy defeat.

"You there get a boat ready for Kobby he is leaving to join the navys." said the victor pointing a random pirate.

"Yes sir!" said the frightened pirate.


A few minutes later by the sea, Luffy and Kobby stood near the small boat provided by Alvida's crew.


"Luffy-san what will you do now?" asked the future navy soldier.

"This Zoro guy, who is he?" asked the curious teen.

"That guy… he is a pirate hunter but he is as nasty as the pirate always leaving dead bodies or piece of theme to collect the bounty… Last I have heard of him he captured by the navy in a town not far from here." explained the young boy.

"Great let's go there! You will be able to join the navy and I will be getting my first nakama." said the excited teen.

"What!" yelled Kobby as they sailed to Shell Town where Zoro was said to be awaiting his execution.


Later Shell town docks


"You are a good navigator Kobby, you managed to sail where we wanted to go. I woudn't have managed it" said Luffy

"You know Luffy you should learn a bit about navigation or at least get a good navigator in your crew otherwise you will have trouble later" replied Kobby warning the future pirate of the danger of the sea.

"Maybe but first lets go eat!"

The two boys went into the town to look for a restaurant. They found one called the Food Foo, after eating together it looked like they would go their separate ways as one wanted to be the pirate king and the other one wanted to be a navy soldier.

"Looks like this is it Kobby I hope you will manage to get into the navy and become a great officer" said Luffy to his comrade who was nearly moved to tears.

"Thank you Luffy, I hope that you will become a great pirate even if then I will have to arrest you." replied Kobby.

"By the way you said that Zoro was pirsoner inside the navy base?" asked the straw hat wearing teen.

The two male were surprised that every one in the restaurant freaked out as Luffy spoke.

"I think that you shouldn't speak his name." whispered the glasses wearing boy as he watched the other customers.

"I read that the captain Morgan was in charge of the navy soldiers in this town." as Kobby said that the customers reaction was even worse than before confusing the poor boy.

Luffy and Kobby left the restaurant together and headed to the navy base, one to join the other to look for his first Nakama.

"I wonder why they reacted like that to the captain's name, I get that they are afraid of Zoro, who if he ever escape he could take revenge by killing them all, but the navy captain..." grumbled Kobby as he wondered the villagers' behavior.

Luffy choose to keep silent as they approached the base.

The two boys stood before the base's gate, Kobby looked in awe of the very representation of the navy's power.

"So you will be going now or later?" asked Luffy.

"I don't think I am ready..." grumbled Kobby "What are you doing?"

"I want to see this so called demon." replied the teen as he climbed on the wall protecting the base.

"Ah there he is let's go Kobby." said the straw hat wearing teen as he spotted what could only be a prisonner in the yard.

Luffy dragged the unwilling boy closer to where his future nakama was. After they both climbed the wall to see into the base, Kobby let go in fright having recognised Zoro due to his particular attire with a green haramaki and his black bandana.

Because of the noise Zoro spotted the two of them looking at him over the wall.

"Hey you two how about you come down here and set me free? it's been days since I was struck here as if I am some kind of scarecrow." said Zoro.

"Don't do it Luffy you don't know what he could do." whispered Kobby looking terrified of the tied up man.

Just as Luffy was going to jump into the base, a ladder was put just beside them shocking the three males. A little girl climbed the ladder showing the two boys next to her that they should be quiet, she jumped down into the yard and approached the tied up man.

"What are you doing here kid?" asked the prisonner.

"Here I made some rice ball, ou must be hungry." said the young girl as she showed rice balls to the starving man.

"Go away kid I am not hungry!" lied the man, however before the young gir could say or do anything a mean voice was heard.

"Zoro that is not the way to speak to a little girl, I am going to speak with her parents about it."

"Who is that?" asked Luffy to his neigbour on the wall.

"Must be a navy officer..." guessed Kobby.

"Tchh That dumbass of a daddy's boy." grumbled Zoro.

"Dumbass me did I hear you say that? I am the son of captain Morgan." boasted the badly dressed blond man.

Even Luffy who wasn't a fashion victim could tell that a purple and pink suit doesn't go well with blond hair, and that bowl haircut is gross.

Hermep, for that was his name, approached the little girl and stole one of the riceball "Those riceball looks delicious"

"Don't touch that!" cried the little girl.

"Bwa Disgusting! you should pt salt in those not sugar!" cried Hermep before slapping the riceballs on the ground and if that wasn't enough he stepped on them.

This move angered Luffy and puzzled Kobby who couldn't tink why someone that was apparently a navy or at least someone allied to them could act that way.

"Meany I made them with my heart." sobbed the small girl.

"You know : what you did was forbidden it's written here : don't feed the prisonners and it's signed captain Morgan. That's my dad by the way, you are lucky you are just a kid or you would have been killed. You throw her over the wall!" said Hermep ordering one of the navy that was next to him.

"But sir I..." said the navy

"Do I have to tell my father that his soldiers are disobeying his son? No well throw her over the wall!" yelled Hermep.

Reluctantly the navy soldier obeyed the order he was given and threw the girl over the wall, luckily Luffy managed to catch the girl before she hit the ground.

"You are looking well, better than I expected." observed the jackass.

"Yeah I will stay here until the month is over, as promised." replied the prisonner.

"We will see..." grumbled Hermep as he left "I don't think you will manage it but if you are still alive after one month, we will release you as promised."

After Hermep and the navys left, Luffy jumped over the wall to speak with Zoro leaving the girl with Kobby who was still shocked.

"You are still here? You should go home." said Zoro looking curiously at Luffy.

"I am looking for Nakama to join my pirate crew."

"You didn't have anything better to?" replied the tied up man showing his distate of the profession.

"It was the thing I wanted most..."

"So what you will then offer to untie me but only if I join you?" asked Zoro.

"For now I on't ask you anything, rumors say you are a bad boy." replied the straw hat wearing teen.

"A bad boy... uh well I don't have time to play pirate anyway but don't worry I don't intend to die here." stated the swordman.

"What strenght of mind...I would starve to death before the end of the first week..."

"You see we don't play in the same court. So go ask some body else to be your crewmate. Bt before you go can you give me the riceballs that are over there?" asked the prisonner.

"Those? You will eat that?"

"Yeah gimme" said Zoro opening his mouth as he was tied up and couldn't use his own hands and therefore had to be fed.

"Tell that girl, that they were delicious." said Zoro as Luffy left him where he was to find out how he got there.


Back in the town


Luffy found Kobby and Rika the little girl that tried to feed Zoro near the main street.

"He really ate everything?" asked Rika.

"Yeah but how come he is trapped there?" asked Luffy

"It's because Hermep used to have a pet wolf, that walked free in the town, when he tried to eat me Zoro killed him. So because Hermep was angry ad threatened to unleash his father's men on the town, Zoro surrendered to spare the town." explained Rika.

"I see so he is a good guy then!"

"I wondered because while he is violent bounty hunting isn't a crime so he couldn't have been arrested because of that." said Kobby as he realised how corrupt some navys could be.

The three of them suddenly heard Hermep's voice coming from the town's main street.

"You don't bow your head low enough! I'll tell my dad" yelled Hermep as he walked down the street looking over the villagers.

When the three of them entered the main street from the side, they saw almost all of the villagers bowing before Hermep always escorted by two navys. As if that behavior wasn't enough the son of Morgan was bragging about how they were going to execute Zoro regardless of the deal they had, something that Luffy couldn't allow.

"What about that deal you had with him?" asked Luffy

"Bah It was just a joke, I can't believe someone like Zoro could fall for something like that!" smugly said Hermep as if he managed to do something really great.

Before anyone could act Luffy was on Hermep and gave him a good trashing via punches in the head. After Kobby managed to pull Luffy off his victim, the victim screamed in rage as he left for the base.

"How dare you! I am captain Morgan's beloved son! I will have you killed and all of you as well since you did nothing to protect me!"

After Hermep left with his two bodyguards, the villagers dispersed and Rika's mother came to retrieve her, and lectured her about going to see Zoro.

"I made my choice, Zoro will become my nakama!" said Luffy with resolve as he too left for the base.


Navy base's yard


Luffy stood facing the tied up Zoro wondering if his choice was good, but in the end he decided to go for it.

"You are still here? I told you I wanted nothing to do with piracy." stated the tied up man.

"I heard you are a quite good swordsman?" asked the straw hat wearing teen

"Let just say that if I wasn't tied up here I could handle myself quite well." Replied Zoro wondering what the hell this guy wanted with him.

"Great you will be my Nakama!" stated Luffy.

"Hey I already told you no why the hell can't you understand the word no!, besides it is my life I do what I want with my life, And I Don't Want To Be A Damm Pirate!" said the prisoner starting to get angry as the teen in front of him completely ignored anything he had to say.

"Where is your sword," asked the future pirate captain to his future crewmate.

"Huh that doofus took it from me, it is my treasure." grumbled Zoro

"So if I get it back, you'll join my crew great!"

"Hey I didn't say that, that's blackmail" said Zoro to Luffy's retreating back.

'Don't think you can enter the base like that.' thought the prisoner as he watched the teen leave in direction of the bases'gates.

While Luffy was looking for the gates, all the navys were on the roof trying to lift Morgan's huge and ugly statue.

Luffy found himself before the gates.

'Hey where are the guards….? Let's try to knock' thought the teen as he looked at the doors.

They seemed to be quite solid so Luffy decided to use his full strength. Unfortunately for the navys while the doors looked like they weir made of steel therefore quite sturdy, they were actually made of wood and painted to look like steel, this was because captain Morgan used all of the taxes money to build his statue and when the gate broke a while ago they could only afford to replace them with doors made of wood. They thought that this sea being East Blue, the weakest of them all, no one was strong enough to break the gate and even if such a man existed no one was crazy enough to break into a navy base. Unfortunately for them Luffy was both strong enough and crazy enough. In a way Luffy was quite lucky as the navys were busy and therefore didn't guard the entrance or anything like that, they didn't even heard their base's gate being destroyed.

Luffy looked all over the base and couldn't find Zoro's sword, therefore he decided to look for

Hermep instead as he was the one that took the sword so he would know where it is. Luffy's luck struck again as he literally ran into Hermep at a corner.

"What the…You!" yelled Hermep as he looked at the one that dared to run into him.

Luffy grabbed Hermep by his collar and lifted him from the ground. He also got ready to punch the daylight out of him.

"Where did you put Zoro's sword?" darkly asked the straw hat wearing teen.

"In my room, it's just further down the corridor! Please don't hit me" begged Hermep who after being hit by Luffy several times and by his father not long ago didn't want to be punched again so soon.

Luffy took the shaking boy with him just to be sure he didn't lie, as he saw Hermep's room he wondered how could he have missed it, as it was the only room painted pink with frills and other girly things.

The future captain found not one but three swords inside Hermep's room, they weren't hidden or anything, he could shake his head at the boy's idiocy and cowardice as said boy was unconscious with bubbles coming from his mouth, he seemed to have collapsed in fright.

While Luffy was looking for the swords Kobby reached Zoro and started to untie him makind said prisoner wonder what the hell was going on.

"Hey kid what the hell are you doing?"

"The navys aren't going to wait, they are going to execute you in three days for no reason. When

Luffy-san heard this he went mad and hit Hermep before coming here." yelled Kobby as he couldn't untie the prisoner because the knots were too tight and he didn't have any kind of blade on him.

"WHAT! He really did that…" roared Zoro flabbergasted that people could act like that.

'Dammit I can't die yet, I have to fulfill my promise first' thought Zoro as he watched Kobby starting to cry in frustration.

Suddenly a shot touched Kobby in the shoulder sending him away from Zoro who still wasn't freed and soldier started to come into the yard lead by Morgan himself who looked quite furious that his orders weren't obeyed.

"Stay where you are you will be executed for disobeying captain Morgan's orders" said the soldiers as they took aim.

"You are quite ballsy I give you that but my orders are absolute, I am justice I am the law!" stated the navy captain.

'Shit!' thought Zoro as he saw his death coming.


With Luffy


The straw hat wearing teen was watching all this from the window in Hermep's room with a frown on his face. He knew he had to get down there quickly but the normal way was to slow, with a sigh he took the three swords in one hand and the his steel pipe like staff in the other, he took some step back from the window to have some space and jumped from the window of the room.

If Luffy was a normal 17 years old the fall would have killed him but he was trained from a very young age by his grand-father in several ways some of them quite insane so a fall from that high didn't bother him much.

His aim was spot on and his timing perfect as he landed right in front of Zoro just as the navy were about to shoot. If anything they shot earlier than what they intended to do because they were startled by Luffy's arrival. In an alternate universe where Luffy had eaten the Gomu Gomu no mi he would have let the bullets hit him to send them back, here he used his staff to deflect the bullets.

"What the hell?!" yelled the navy soldiers as their shoots were deflected.

"How did you do that?!" asked a bewildered Zoro.

"Shishishishi Practice lots of Practice." said Luffy "Now which one is your sword? I didn't know so I took them all."

"You did well, I used all three in a style I created myself."

"So will you accept my offer and fight alongside me or will you die here," asked Luffy to the grinning man in front of him.

"The choice is easy I don't intend to die here so I guess I will have to be… a pirate!" stated a grinning Zoro seeing this as a way to keep living, to keep his promise.

Luffy used one of the swords to cut Zoro's bounds freeing the man for the first time in days. Just in time as the soldier finally snapped out of their shocked states and figured that since guns weren't able to do the job then swords was the way to go.

So the soldiers rushed at Luffy and Zoro to kill them both, however Zoro having been freed recently and despite not having eaten and drunk anything in days stopped all of the soldiers easily catching all their blades with his three, with one sword in each hands and one in the mouth, the man was able to fight and hold back at least ten soldiers at the same time.

"The first guy that moves will be cut in pieces" said Zoro despite the sword that was in his mouth.

The soldiers looked like they were going to pee in their pants.

"I said I will be a pirate in your crew, now that I am fighting the navy it's not like I have any other choice. But be warned that I have one goal: I will be the best swordsman in the world no matter what people think everyone will know and fear me. Be warned that if you do anything that threatens my ambition you will regret it, is that clear?" stated the swordsman

"The best swordsman in the world, I expected no less from you, after all to be part in the pirate king's crew you need to be at least that." replied the grinning captain.

"Well said."

"Zoro get down!" said Luffy as he swung his staff like a baseball bat.

Luffy swung his staff over the ducking Zoro to strike all the soldiers that were held back by the swordsman.

"Nicely done." stated the swordsmaw impressed.

"Shishishi thanks."

"They are too strong" stated one of the soldiers.

"We can't defeat them." stated another one.

All this made the navy captain angry. His men disobeyed him whose orders were absolute, so the man did the only thing he could think about.

"Men those that were cowards pick a gun and kill yourself! That's an order! Execution!" ordered the monster in human skin.

"Yes sir!" said the soldiers: each and every one of them now had a gun in hand pointed at their own head.

"What the… he lost It." stated Zoro.

"I won't let you do it!" roared Luffy who charged at the navy captain to fight with him.

The teen tried to punch the bigger man but It was blocked by the latter axe that was fused with his arm in place of his hand.

"Fight with me if you are a man." challenged the angry teen.

"You cheeky brat, how dare you challenge me when you don't have any grade. You will regret your insolence!" replied the captain as he discarded his captain's coat to fight better.

"You will see how Morgan the butcher fights!" roared Morgan as he ran to Luffy.

The straw hat wearing teen calmly jumped over Morgan's attack, the attack was able to cut the wall. Luffy replied by punching the captain in the jaw unbalancing him, he then struck both his feet in

Morgan's stomach sending him on the ground.

Some of the men tried to attack Luffy seeing their commanding officer on the ground, the teen used his staff to fight them trusting his new crewmate to strike anyone that dared attack him from the back. In fact just as Luffy dealt with the soldier Morgan tried to slice him in half but he was promptly defeated by Zoro.

"The captain is down…." whispered one of the soldiers as if he couldn't believe such a thing.

"YEESSS YEPPEEE WE ARE FREE! The tyrant is down" cheered all the soldiers jumping in the air.

"I knew there weren't bad guys, it was because of captain Morgan they acted that way." Sighed Kobby relieved that the entire navy wasn't as corrupted as Morgan.

Suddenly Zoro collapsed all the fighting he did in the last few minutes were too much especially as he didn't eat or drank anything in the last few days, his energy was gone.


Later Rika's home


"It's good to have a full stomach!" sighed Zoro as he finished the meal nicely offered by Rika's mom in thanks.

"You wouldn't have survived for the full month.' stated Luffy to his new crewmate.

"Tchh"

"Thanks for the meal, it was really good." Thanked Kobby as the thwo others were busy glaring at one another.

"It's nothing, you saved us it's the least I could do." said Rika's mother.

"So what's next captain?" asked Zoro.

"We will need a map to Grand Line, and maybe a navigator before going there." stated Luffy as he pondered where they would go next.

"Make sense. If you want the one piece Grand Line is the next step."

"So you will really go there? Are you mad, you need a much bigger crew and a good ship and many other things! You are my friend despite the short time we spent together I don't want you to die because you were careless" yelled Kobby shocked at Luffy's careless behavior.

"You should be more worried about yourself, don't under estimate the navy's background check." stated Zoro softly hitting Kobby in the forehead with the pommel of his sword.

"Sorry to bother you during your meal but I have to ask: Are you pirates?" asked the officer in charge Riker.

"Yeah but I didn't hoist the colors yet." stated Luffy.

"I see then I am asking you to leave the town now, despite what you did to save us from the former captain Morgan, you are still pirates and I have to act as a navy officer. However I won't report you to the headquarters in thanks for what you did." stated Riker despite the villagers' protests.

"We were leaving anyway."

Luffy and Zoro left the house leaving Kobby inside as the boy wanted to become a navy.

"Wait isn't he with you?" asked Riker.

"Him you want to know where I found him?" asked Luffy causing Kobby to go angry.

Kobby rushed at Luffy and started to punch him over and over with the latter letting things happen without defending himself. The pirate captain did that to make Kobby attack him, to show the navy they clearly weren't allied.

After the navy soldiers pulled Kobby from Luffy, the two pirates slipped away to join Zoro's boat to sail away. Before they were out of sight they saw Kobby thanking them for what they did, he did that by saluting them something that was strictly forbidden by the navy's code. He was soon joined by every navy soldiers of the base.

"This isn't something you see every day." stated Zoro.

"Shishishishishi" laughed Luffy as they sailed away from Shell Town.

End


What will happen to the two of them during their trip, will they make it to the next Island or will they be lost at sea? Find ou t next time in : the thief, the clown and the sharpshooter.


The crew :

Captain : Monkey D Luffy

First Mate : Roronoa Zoro


Techniques :

Ai no Panshi : Fist of Love Garp's simplest move wich he taught his grandson.