Hi everyone! This is my first fanfic, so be nice. It starts at the very beginning of the anime and will just be an additional character.
Disclaimer: I do not own One piece.
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hjk – thinking
"Luffy, get inside the barrel." I commanded my captain. "We will be swallowed by the ocean if you do not hurry up." I warned. Luffy turned to me and whined. "But Soara we just got this boat and our adventure has barely even started."
"Do you have any other ideas to how we would survive this?" Luffy looked towards the sky thinking. I looked back towards the ocean and our small sail boat was being pulled further and further towards the whirl pool. "Oh for heavens sake! Get in the barrel please!" I frantically told him while pointing to the barrel.
"If it will get us closer to the One Piece, then okay!" Luffy walked over to the barrel, sent a grin my way, and got in. Looking down into the barrel, I could tell that this would be a tight fit. We didn't have enough time to try to find a more comfortable position and in the end I was sitting across Luffy's lap. Quickly, I closed the top. Then prayed a quick prayer for our safety. Opening my eyes again, I was greeted with a drooling Luffy fast asleep. Shaking my head in amusement, I smiled and also drifted off into slumber.
Bang! My head propelled upwards and connected with Luffy's. "Owwww." I moaned grasping my aching head. I looked back at Luffy who was still fast asleep. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! Cannon fire. BOOM! The barrel rolled down stairs, hit a door and finally came to an unpleasant stop. The way the barrel had stopped had my cheeks blazing. Luffy was positioned on top of my body with his head on my chest. I had the idea to open the barrel, but that plan didn't have much success with Luffy unconsciously pinning my arms in between us. "Hmmmm." Luffy mumbled happily as he nuzzled his head deeper into my chest.
The blush I had now spread across my entire face. I was about to push his head up in uneasiness until I heard light footsteps reach us. "Wow, that's one big barrel. I wonder what's inside it." A child like voice said. We started rolling and flipping again as the kid grunted about the weight of the barrel. I heard loud foot steps approaching over the sound of the rolling barrel.
"Looky here. It's our favorite coward trying to hide in here and duck out on all the action again." The barrel stopped rolling and again Luffy was on top of me.
"No way! I was just trying to haul this big barrel of beer over to you guys!" Luffy smiled and snuggled in even closer.
"Heheheh, why don't you let us lighten the load." Said a gruff sounded man. "Yeah, I was just starting to get thirsty." Another one voiced.
"You can't! Lady Alvida would kill us if she ever found out." The kid shouted. "She won't if you keep your trap shut. Right…Boy?" Foot steps approached the barrel and turned it up right. I was finally able to push Luffy of my chest and decided it was time for him to wake up.
"This suckers heavy. Hold on boys, I'll open her the old fashioned way."
I leaned in close to Luffy's ear with a smile. "Meat" His eyes shot open and he busted out of the barrel, "Yeahhhhhhh! Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, Sllllllleeeeeeeeppppttttt, Greeaaaaaaaaaatttttttt!"
I looked up at Luffy who had just broke the barrel with his out burst. "Huh, who's that?" Luffy said looking the opposite direction from me. "Where's Soara?" He asked, looking everywhere but my direction. "Aheeem." Luffy looked down with a grin and held out his hand. I quickly took it and stood up. I then dusted off my clothes and smiled at Luffy. "You can sleep though anything. Baka." I told him with a nudged. "Gomen Soara." He apologized.
In front of us stood two men shaking with swords hung at their sides. I turned to them with a raised brow. "Who the hell are you?" I asked harshly. Their eyes lit up with disbelief. "Who the hell are you you!" they shouted .back I held up my hands, "No need to be rude." Luffy laughed and walked over to a man laying unconscious on the ground . "Your friend will catch a cold sleeping like that." He told them.
"Your the one who knocked him out!" They shouted. One of the men thrust a sword in front of Luffy's face. "Hold up! Are you messing with us when you know good and well we're pirates?" Ignoring them Luffy walked up to a kid with pink-purple hair. I guessed that he was the one who was rolling our barrel. "I'm hungry, you got any food?" Luffy asked.
"Same here." I informed them. "Who are you guys?" One of the pirates asked us. Luffy turned away from the kid and faced the pirates. "My name's Monkey D. Luffy." He told them grinning. "My name is Cathedral A. Soara." I told them with a smile. The pirates took one more look at us, grabbed their unconscious friend, and fled the room yelling that they would tell the capitain.
"So what just happened?" The kid asked us. I shrugged. "You got me." Luffy replied. After less than a second of thought the kid quickly turned to me. "Quick you got to run lady! If they come back here with their buddies they will kill you on the spot!" He warned.
"Those men are no threat and," "We just want some food." Luffy finished for me.
"How can you two just say that! There are hundreds of them up on deck and they're waiting for the opportunity to kill anything."
"Those men are weak." I informed him. Luffy sniffed at the air like a dog and grabbed my wrist to walk towards a door on the other side of the room. The kid latched onto his other arm and started pulling. We reached the door and I opened the it. Inside was a storeroom full of food. Luffy let go of my arm and jumped down the steps chanting, "Food, food, food, food, food!"
I stepped into the room and zoned out while walking about the room looking for something appetizing."Soara!" I stopped walking and caught the apple thrown at me. "Thank you." I said with a smile before taking a bite into the apple. I walked over by where Luffy was stuffing his face with apples. "Hey, my names Coby. You're Luffy and your Soara. Is that right? That was pretty neat what you did with that barrel back there." The kid us told walking towards us. "These are awesome!" Luffy exclaimed and tossed me another apple.
I set my fruit down on my lap. "So tell me Coby, are we on a pirate ship?" I asked politely.
"No, it's a passenger ship that's being raided by pirates, pirates under the command of Lady Alvida." He replied.
"Oh who cares anyway. What I want to know is, if there are any boats on board." Luffy asked.
"I think there are a few." Coby told him. "Wonderful! Ours got sucked into a whirl pool." I informed him.
" The one from earlier! What! No way. No one could have survived that!" Coby shouted.
"Yeah, I got to say, it was a big surprise" Luffy said with a grin looking back at me. "My plans always work." I informed him smugly. Luffy turned back to the apples shoving another into his mouth. "So are you one of the pirates or one of the passengers?" Luffy asked after he came back up for air. Coby then gave us a lengthy explanation of how he became one of the Alvida pirates. (To long to type. ;))
"You're a moron and a coward. I hate people like you." Luffy concluded with a laugh. I jumped down next to him and hit him upside the head. "Don't be rude." I told him sternly. "Your always rude." He mumbled as he rubbed the lump on his head. "What was that?" I threatened. "Gomen, Gomen." Luffy apologized with his hands up so that I wouldn't hit him again. I sighed and accepted his apology with silence.
Coby looked up with a sad smile. "I wish I could be as free as you guys. What made y'all want to set out to sea?" He asked curiously.
"I'm gonna be king of the pirates." Luffy stated casually. Coby's mouth dropped. "Really!"
"Yup" Luffy said to him. "That would mean that you're a pirate too!"
"Right" Luffy replied. "Your crew?"
"Just Soara so far, but I'm lookin." Coby's mouth dropped even further and he made a weird noise. I waived my hand in front of his face and he came back to life. "The king is a title given to the ones that have everything this world has to offer. You're talking about seeking out the treasure of fame, wealth, and power! The treasure that you seek is the One Piece!" Coby shouted throwing out his hands. "Yeah!" Luffy replied.
"Pirates all over the world are looking for that treasure you know!" He shouted. "Yeah. So?" Luffy replied. "No way! It's impossible, impossible, impossible! There no way anyone like you could reach the pinocle during this great pirate age! There's just too many out there that are meaner and better-" Luffy leaned over and hit Coby on the head. "Oww. Why did you hit me?" he moaned on the ground.
"Cause I felt like it." Luffy repied. "Oh well, I'm used to it. My ship mates smack me around a lot."
"It's not about if I can, I'm doing this because I want to. I decided long ago that I will be king of the pirates. And if I have to die fighting for that, then I die." Luffy gazed into his hat admiringly. I fingered the charm bracelet on my wrist and imagined the faces of the people that gave these charms to me, the ones that told me to follow my dreams.
Coby looked from Luffy to me and asked what my dream is. "I will be the strongest in the world." Coby's mouth fell open again. "But your just a girl!" I gave him a look that shut him up with a gulp. "I may be a girl, but the blood in my veins is makes a gown man shake in fear. I will become the strongest. Even if I have to beat out millions of men ahead of me, I will be the strongest being on the planet." I sighed and looked up at Coby with a smile. "Just follow your dreams kid. Even if they are unrealistic."
Luffy smiled at me then jumped up. "Alright, time to go get me a new boat." Luffy concluded walking back to the door. I walked up next to him. "Sure, they might even just give us one if we ask nice enough." I said smiling at Luffy. "Maybe they're generous people." He said grinning back. Coby stopped us and told us that we inspired him to follow his dream to become a marine and capture Alvida.
I grinned back at Coby then reached out to open the door, but got interrupted with a crash. The ceiling fell in bringing something with it. "Who is that you plan on catching Coby? Do you actually think these twigs are gonna help you?" Came a voice from the cloud of dirt that the crash left behind. "Well, answer me!" It demanded.
I looked back over and saw Coby cowering in a corner. The smoke cleared up and I finally could see what came through the ceiling.I got so distracted by this woman's disregard for health that I didn't even notice the swords almost slice though us. "My guess is that your not Zoro the pirate hunter." She said smirking. Her head turned towards the kid. "Coby! Who is the most beautiful of all on the seas?"
"Hold on, ehh, give me a sec, I know this." Coby said shaking. "Hey Coby, who's the fat lady?" Luffy asked.
"You runt!" The large lady shouted as she swung her club down at where Luffy and I had just stood. We jumped though the air and landed on the deck. Luffy had quickly ran by and grabbed Coby before jumping out after me.
Once on deck pirates attacked us. Luffy and I began fighting. One came jumping at me from behind with a sword raised at my head. I sidestepped him with a grin. "It's not fair to attack from behind you know." I told him as I grabbing his head and threw him into the other pirates knocking them unconscious.
More pirates came from behind and I climbed up the mast as Luffy ran by grabbing onto it to let his arm stretch out. "Got cha." He said. "Gum-gum Rocket!" Luffy flew at them, knocking most of them down. I then jumped down hitting the unsuspecting stragglers unconscious with my metal punches.
Coby came up to the both of us looking shocked. "Wha-what are you guys?" Coby asked. "I manipulate matter." I told him reaching down to touch the wooden deck. My arm turned into wood and I knocked on it with my other hand proving what it was. "Ohh, and I'm a rubber man" Luffy told him pulling his cheek out to show he was rubber.
"So, you two have eaten devil fruits." Alvida said stepping in front of us. "Yeah. I ate the Gum-Gum fruit and Soara ate the Mani-mani fruit."
"Huh, I heard rumors they existed, but I've never seen any evidence of them before today. And I certainly never expected two meet two devil fruit users in this sea. You both are more skilled than the average deck swabber. Are you bounty hunters?" The large women asked.
"Nope, were pirates. We'll find our crew tomorrow or next week or something. I need, I don't know, like ten guys." Luffy told her holding up ten fingers.
"So, if the three of us are all pirates and we are under different flags, that would make us enemies." she said as a threat.
Luffy and I got into fighting positions. "No! You saw how powerful her club is and she's the most-" Coby stopped talking and stared at Luffy and me for a while.
"Go on Coby, tell me." Alvida said. "YOU'RE THE MOST UGLIEST THING ON THE SEA!" Coby shouted at her. "Ain't that the truth" Luffy told him with a chuckle.
"What did you say!" she shouted. Luffy and I laughed hysterically.
Coby stepped up in front of her. "I'm leaving. And I'm gonna go join the marines and spend the rest of my life beating up dirty pirates like you! And I'm gonna do what I want and no one is gonna stop me. And I'm gonna catch your lousy ass first!" He shouted at her with emotional tears running down his face.
"Your dead kid!" Alvida swung her club at a screaming and crying Coby. "Well said." Luffy told him stepping in the way of her club and letting it hit him straight on the head.
"Luffy!" Coby shouted then looked at me to help. I just stopped laughing and pointed at Luffy with a smile still plastered on my face.
"That wont work on me. I'm rubber." I heard Luffy say as I walked off towards Alvida's ship. I stopped for a second and turned back looking at the sky. Alvida had just became air born.
I reached the side of the ship and faced Alivida's. "I need a boat for Coby ready within two minutes because he is going to become a marine." I shouted to the pirates on her deck looking at us scared.
"Yes ma'am!" They all shouted. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! More cannon balls. "Come on guys! Lets go!" the three of us ran to the boat nearest boat and we splashed into the water next to a girl with short orange hair also leaving in a boat.
We where now on our way to find Zoro.
I rewrote most of this Chapter, so the chapters after this may be a bit different. I will soon be editing those chapters soon. If you want to know what Soara looks like and what she wears. I will post it on my page. Now read on readers. :)