Note: Oda once said that if Akainu became a protagonist he'd find One Piece in a year. That answer is the inspiration for this fic.


The pirates stared at the strange boy that had found himself within the sake barrel. He was intimidatingly tall, with a nasty scowl on his face and a beige cap that covered his eyes. They were frozen in fear of the mysterious invader.

"Who the hell are you guys?" He asked gruffly, in a casual tone that shocked them out of their stupor

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?" The three pirates responded back with righteous anger.

"HOW DID A BIG GUY LIKE YOU EVEN FIT IN THERE?" One pirate with a striped cap questioned further at the bored looking young man.

Before he answered a massive club tore into the cabin they were in, sending the barreled boy away.


"A-Are you alright?" The barrel boy got up, dusting away the saw dust and splinters covering his bulky frame that was covered by an unbuttoned red jacket.

"Who the hell are you?" He asked once more, with a threatening impatience.

"I-I'm Coby! I'm a caretaker for 'Iron Bludgeon' Alvida's crew." Coby was visibly nervous as he noticed the guy's shadow covering him entirely.

"Nice to meet you Coby-kun. I'm Sakazuki. Do you have a boat to spare?" Coby sweat dropped at how he suddenly changed the direction of this conversation.

"No?"

"Shame, then I suppose I'm just wasting my time here." Coby took some time to register the fleeting figure of Sakazuki.

"W-WAIT! W-WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" He yelled after him frantically.

He stopped, acknowledging his question as if it was the most idiotic thing he had ever heard.

"I'm finding a boat so I can become the Pirate King." Coby's jaw dropped at that answer.

"WHAT!?" He screamed in a pitch that could shatter glass.

"I want to find One Piece and become the Pirate King." The tall youth reiterated, seemingly oblivious to Coby's dumbfounded expression.

"W-Why?" Sakazuki tilted his head sideways.

"It's my absolute ambition, one that only death can deter me from." Coby's eyes widened at how confident and resolute he was.

"T-That's awesome." He said starstruck.

"Why are you crying?" He said with diastase as he noticed the tears welling comically in Coby's eyes.

"I-I have an ambition too! T-To become a marine!" He shouted back.

"Why are you shouting? I'm right next to you. Also that mean's I'd have to kill you if you get in the away of my ambition." The scowling youth didn't seem impressed by his resolve.

"I-I understand Sakazuki-san, b-but it's my ambition still!" He slobbered over his arm, wiping away the snot and mucus over his face.

Sakazuki frowned in disgust.

"Then become one you idiot." Coby's eyes widened in fear.

"B-But Alvida…" A great big fist smashed his head into the ground.

"If some weakling makes you question your ambition than let me kill you right here right now and end your misery." Coby trembled as he got back to his feet, his glasses shattered and blood running down his nose. He was taken back by how brutal Sakazuki-san was, but he was right in a way.

"I-I can do it! I can become a marine!" All the fear he had evaporated as his bloodshot eyes stared into Sakazuki.

"OH YOU CAN?" A sudden bellow caught them off-guard as a rotund woman destroyed Sakazuki's ramshackle boat.

Sakazuki mildly stared at her while Coby shook in fear.

Alvida and her pirates all grinned audaciously as they had the two surrounded. The pirates from earlier were licking their lips in anticipation for their beat down.

"Who's the ugly fatso?" He asked Coby, much to the horror of the surrounding pirates. Alvida scowled, her eyes hidden by the brim of her hat.

Coby panicked.

"Sakazuki-san repeat after me! She is- "He stopped midway as he remembered Sakazuki's words about ambition.

'No! It's time to follow your ambitions!' He told himself.

"The ugliest bitch!" He held into Sakazuki's arm. The scowling man grinned at the insult.

"YOU BRAT!" Coby grabbed his face in mind numbing fear as the iron bludgeon came down aiming for his head.

'Too late to regret now!' Repeated itself in Coby's head.

"BOTH OF YOU NEED TO DIE!"

He was pushed back as the club embedded itself into Sakazuki's head.

Everyone stared in astonishment as the club disappeared and melted. Alvida jumped back, yelling madly at her burning hands.

Standing there stoically was Sakazuki, the top of his head gone, dripping magma falling into the ground and melting everything it touched.

"That won't work on me." He said with no emotion, as Alvida and her crew turned snow pale.

"I'm a magma man." His mutilated head reformed, searing hot lava filling the empty space; as it cooled it left behind a perfectly intact face.

"Y-You're a monster!" Alvida croaked out, completely out of her mind afraid.

"Magu…" The surrounding temperature increased tremendously as Sakazuki enveloped his arm in scorching molten rock.

"Magu no…" Several of Alvida's crewmembers fled immediately in a maddened rout. Avida was already ahead all of them for fear was an effective propellant for even the fattest of people.

"PISTOL" Sakazuki pulled back his arm, then punched.

A great explosive wave crashed into them, annihilating everything in its path.

Coby stood there, the flames of fiery destruction dancing on his glasses, his jaws unhinged as he witnessed the apocalypse.


"A-Are they alive?" Coby nervously asked as he rowed them both away from the burning island.

"Who knows? Who cares?" Coby felt a chill in his spine at how callous Sakazuki answered back.

"T-That was cruel Sakazuki-san…" Sakazuki stared at him, Coby instantly regretted saying those words.

"You wanted to leave them right? Isn't this want you wanted?" Coby looked down on the boat floor.

"Not like that…" Sakazuki slapped the top of his head.

"Are you an idiot? This is what the life of a marine is going to be like. You need to get used to this." He berated the pink haired boy for his naivety.

"Is this what it'll be like on the Grand Line too?" Sakazuki nodded silently.

"This is why I need a strong crew, thankfully the place we're headed to has someone I think might be willing to join." Coby nodded quietly.

"Roronoa Zoro?" Sakazuki just nodded.

Coby oared on silently.

They said the Pirate Hunter was a monster.

Looking at Sakazuki, he couldn't help but think.

It took a monster to find other monsters.