A Marine's Decay!
A/N:
Hey Guys! How's it going? I know that it's being hard, since I'm working on two fics right now, but I'm starting a third. This had been on my mind for months, and I had to start it, or I wouldn't feel accomplished.
This story starts one year before Shanks gave Luffy his Straw-hat! (Don't be picky about the timeline, I'll try my best to make it make sense.
Just an overview of this Fanfiction:
This fanfiction is based on the story of a Kid whose wish was to protect the lives at any cost, one who joins the marines to become the strongest Freedom fighter. But once he finds out the corruption behind the marines, what will happen?
Chapter 1 – A little boy that fought for justice!
It was cold. It was freezing; it was that the child could think about as he was roaming in the cold, with just his t-shirt and his shorts. He honestly didn't even think of bringing warmer clothes, even though it was winter.
The island he was born, Uln Chain, was the biggest island in the Vex Archipelago, situated at North Blue. And although it was a winter island, one where the cold was always present, it was, today, especially cold. Since it was winter.
All he could think about was how he had been too weak. Those other kids were just some punks, all saying that they'd like to be great pirates when they grew up. He could understand the sentiment of adventure. It was something that he always wanted to have as well. Nothing could compare to the adventures that one could explore in the vast sea, that had not been completely charted.
Rumor was that the only one that had ever sailed the whole world, Gol. D. Roger , had never told anyone the secret of the seas, nor had he shared how to cross the Grand Line, the biggest and most dangerous ocean in the vast World he lived in.
He was short, around 1.35m (4.5ft), and looked no older than 8 years old. The black haired kid was wearing a green t-shirt, and a pair of blue jeans with black sneakers.
'WHY?' Thought the kid in despair.
(A Few weeks ago)
It was morning, and as soon as he got out of the bed he got dressed and ran outside, to go watch the weekly ceremony made by the marines, as some of them would march outside, in the form of a parade, one that the adults would take their kids to watch.
When the adults were forming two lines, to allow the marines to use the space between them as a corridor, the kid started running towards one of the lines, as he wanted to be at the first line, to watch the parade, religiously, as he would, every week.
Suddenly, two big doors opened from the small Marine base for that archipelago. a large group of marines, armed came out running, stopping midway, looking sideways, and pretending as they were using their guns, as if it was play to entertain the kids.
As the other marines started coming out by rankings, the group of marines that had originally come out, went back inside, as they were going to join their ranks, to start the parade.
The first to come out was a man wearing a coat with 'JUSTICE' Written in Kanji its back was the highest ranking marine officer in the base.
"Look Kids! It's The Ensign!" Shouted some of the adults, pointing at the muscular man, who wore the aforementioned coat.
It was the Ensign Noboru. Most marines said he distinguished himself for his great power in close quarters combat.
He was followed by his second in command, the Warrant officer Katsuo, a tall man, the kid could swear he almost 2meters tall (6.7ft), the tallest man of the group.
The kid looked in awe, as the other officers with their medals coming out, followed by the petty officers, and then the seamen (Lowest ranking officers), and the recruits.
As all the marines thanked the people that were present, they headed back for the base, as some of them stayed behind and headed for their boats after they bowed down to the present civilians.
Although a big archipelago, it was very far from the other north blue islands, so it was considered a very remote area of said ocean. Being also a very good area for pirates to scavenge every time they were low on supplies.
That day was no different. Every day, pirates showed up, and were sent away by the marines. The kid always liked to watch it.
Today, they captured a pirate captain, as everyone was celebrating the capture of the captain that was worth 3.000.000 Beli.
"Haru! Don't get close to them!" Shouted a woman that was watching from a far.
"Don't worry mom, I just want to see the marines taking him close in person!" Said the kid running towards the group of marines that had chained the man.
As Haru got close, he saw the marine Ensign Noboru walking first, followed by the warrant officer Katsuo as he was carrying the pirate captain they had captured.
Haru was running a few meters away from them on their side, watching everything they did with awe.
The marines were all warning him to get back, and so he did, as he fell back a few steps, but kept running, to watch all the action first hand.
All the marines were walking towards the base situated next to the island's port, for easy access to the other islands of the archipelago.
Suddenly, the marine base exploded from nowhere, with marine corpses everywhere.
From behind the smoke a group of caravels could be seen, all with the well-known standard jolly roger on their flags.
"PIRATES!" Shouted some of the marines amidst all the panic, getting their equipment before counter attacking the ships headed for them.
Yet, before they could, the pirate ships destroyed their tanks, and the marines were dropping like flies.
The pirate ships quickly docked, allowing for a big group of pirates to start running and attack everyone.
Haru looked to where the Marine Ensign Noboru was, to look for some help, but saw him locked in combat with multiple pirates.
The same was happening with katsuo. Although the marines outnumbered the pirates, most of the marines had no experience in combat. Even the highest ranking marine officer in the base was having trouble with the average thug.
Suddenly, the pirates all surrounded the marines, as they fell one by one.
The other pirates started pillaging indiscriminately, taking all valuables and even some women along the way.
As they were starting to make their escape, Haru started following them, much to the remaining villager's despair.
"HARU! DON'T GO!" Shouted one of the villagers.
Haru reached the entrance for their ships before the pirates did, as he was determined to stand in their way.
One of the pirates quickly kicked haru in the stomach, throwing him to the ground, as they passed through him carrying both women and valuables.
Haru got up, screaming of pain, before punching one of the pirates right in nuts.
The other pirates, sick of the kid, surrounded him before they started to kick him around.
Finally, Haru got enough of it, and he stood up, ready to fight once again.
"STOP IT!" He shouted with all the force he had in himself.
Suddenly, all the invading pirates fell on the ground, groaning of pain, as the kid kept screaming.
Haru then started looking around, and saw all the pirates groaning of pain and cursing while lying on the ground.
He quickly looked towards the marines, to see if it was one of them that had bravely fought them all at once.
But it was the opposite. Every adult was staring at the kid in surprise, very little people realizing what really went down.
Suddenly, one of the elders from the town came close to Haru, before placing his hands on Haru's head.
"You were a hero today." Said the old man.
(End Flashback.)
If he had been a hero, why were those other kids after him? Haru was being pursued by some kids who called themselves pirates, and Haru didn't understand why.
Yet, when he heard those words echo on his mind, he stopped. Seeing the other kids still following him.
The other kids were all almost teenagers. They were all older than 10 years old, and they had their fun picking on Haru, for trying to achieve his dream of becoming the most powerful marine in history!
The kids quickly surrounded him.
"I've been training day and night! I've learned the techniques that the strongest marines know! Don't even try!" Shouted Haru.
The other kids laughed at him, seeing him talk nonsense. And although Haru had been training incessantly, he knew that those techniques he was training would take years of training before being anywhere close to being usable.
One of the kids ran up to him with a kid sized baseball bat.
"TEKKAI!" Shouted Haru before the baseball hit him in the face.
As soon as the bat hit him, Haru took a few steps back, screaming in pain, as the baseball hat had broken.
'This technique is still too weak for me to use it.' Thought Haru.
Suddenly, a group of marines arrived.
Seemingly, they had been following the kids since they had left the town after Haru.
They quickly grabbed the kids, as one of them went to check Haru's state.
He was seemingly fine, but he had started coughing blood.
"Kid, hold on, we're taking you to town!" Said the marine that grabbed the kid on his back.
As soon as they arrived into town, he was taken to the general hospital, as he was both wounded and freezing, as he had been in the cold for hours on end.
He was quickly taken to a group of doctors, who after taking a look at him; let him be in the hospital's bed.
"It's nothing serious, you just need rest, some hot meals, and you'll be fine. No big deal." Said the doctor to the somewhat drowsy kid.
The kid fell asleep on the hospital's bed.
(The next day)
The kid woke up, got up, and quickly got dressed as he ran out of the hospital room and left the hospital running, in his normal t-shirt and shorts he uses.
He ran the whole town until he found the library.
He stopped and went in, looking for the martial arts section.
He saw a big group of books, which he threw inside his bag before running up to the counter.
"How much for these books?" Asked Haru.
"Kid, this is a library, not a book shop, you can't take them" Said the man behind the counter.
He quickly threw the books inside the bag before he ran outside towards his house.
"HEY KID! GIVE BACK THOSE BOOKS!" Shouted the man.
"Sorry! I'll give them back sometime after I become a powerful marine! I Promise!" Said the kid as he ran towards the Snowy mountains, where his house was.
A/N:
So, what did you think of the first chapter? I'm going to keep writing these chapters, and I'll probably try to write one more chapter today! (No Promises though xD)
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Next Chapter: 9 Years later, The application for the marines! See you next time!
