All characters belong to Eiichiro Oda except for our OC's

The Story might contain violence and more. You've been warned!

Chapter 1

Loud. That was the first thought that was buzzing in the young girl's head, when she entered the cafeteria with her three best and only friends. Of course they were treated like usual: Students were mocking them behind their backs, pushing them out of their way and stole their chairs when they wanted to sit down. Mino sighed in boredom.

"I should really beat the living daylights out of them sometime. It pisses me off that they are pulling the same kind of shit every day." Gabriella, the redhead who got addressed as Elli by her friends, complained.

She angrily stabbed her food which has spoiled her appetite already. How she hated peas and mashed potatoes. If it was up to Elli, she would travel back in time and beat up the person who brought peas and potatoes into the world.

"They could at least try something else. A bit originality and creativity wouldn't hurt these airheads." Mino interjected without any emotion for which the blonde in their group hit the girl on the back of her head.

"Don't give these idiots any ideas! I'd love nothing better than to kick them in the ass. If I have to go to the barber one more time because of them, they will be in for a nasty surprise. I'm done with this short hair." Suri announced and all three of them knew that she was serious.

"But the short hair looks good on you, Suri." The brown-haired girl said and munched her Onigiri happily which an indignant Suri smacked right out of her hand then. "Don't compliment me, girl! I look like a boy and even strangers see me like one."

"But boys don't have big breasts." And just like this, Suri and Lila got into a heated discussion while the black-haired languidly picked at her food and another conversation in the vicinity of her table caught her attention.

"Come on! Tell me how your date with Monet went!" A certain curious and euphoric guy, who wore a hat, nagged.

Rumor has it that he has red hair but he never took off his hat in front of somebody. Neither in school, nor in classes or even at home.

"Penguin's right! Why don't you tell us how great her curves, her butt and her breasts are? I am so jealous." Law, a certain brown-haired, who was constantly wearing his sunglasses, envied. He, just like Penguin, never took it off. But that didn't concern the teachers, nor the students. Instead, it made Shachi mysterious and interesting at the same time. At least for the majority of the girls at school, our 4 girls being the exception.

Mino observed how the boys took their usual seats out of the corner of her eyes.

"It went like it always does.", said Law evenly, which didn't impress his two best friends. Both talked insistently to him and wanted to pry more information out of him but the boy remained steadfast. "So loud and persistend.", he sighed annoyed.

"Mino!" Mino didn't even realize, that Elli was talking with her. "I was lost in thoughts, sorry."

A "Tcht" left Ellis mouth before she told Mino the news again. "I couldn't believe who moved in next to us. And all of you won't be able to either. That bastard Eustass lives next to me. I have no idea how I can have a quiet night, when this man slut is living right next to me! So I have planned his death, and now I have perfected it. I am doing it like this –" Elli explained very detailed how she can make Kid's murder seem like an accident. That, among other things, included a forest, boars and a nail gun. Sure, you could kill someone with these. But to make it look like an accident? Improbable in Mino's opinion. Again has she caught herself how she stared at him and his guys. "You are looking there again." Suri indicated.

Annoyed, Mino sighed. "I want to understand what is so great about these guys. Sure, they are popular and the girls seem to be smart enough to understand that they will reach the same popularity when they are together with those guys. But there has to be more than power behind that. Look, Penguin and Shachi are textbook examples of perverts. They are exactly the kind of boys, from them parents warn their children. And the girls are still crazy about them. And I don't even want to start about Trafalgar Law. I can think of only one word that will describe him completely: Cold. That boy is a block of ice, that no one can melt. Not even a desert with temperatures of 40°C."

Suri and Lila giggled a bit, whereat a grin started to form on Elli's lips. "You hit that nail square on the head." Suri said, and looked over to the boys, disgusted. "But I am still wondering what is so special about them. What difference is there to the other students? Students like us?" Mino asked.

"Probably because we aren't good in school and still believe in true love. If you look at the other girls it is no surprise why we are ranking at the complete bottom. They run around as if they walk the streets. The payment from their john is probably between their tiny breasts, which come across to be bigger because of their piles of push-up bras."

Ellie had to laugh at Lila's words. "That money is nothing. With the tons of makeup in their faces, they don't have to save anything for Botox." Mino joined in. Suri put her arm around Mino's shoulders. "Now you are back in reality, Mino."

"Move your asses." It became silent in the cafeteria as a group of three girls stood up and wanted to shoo the four girls away from the table. "Bonny, we shouldn't lower ourselves to their level. These losers aren't worth it." Monet pointed out to the rose-haired girl, who chewed on a slice of pizza. "I am not stooping to their level. I'm just putting them back in their place. And it definitely is not here, so move." Mino calmly finished her food and put her fork to the side before she turned to face the three girls. She examined the girls from top to bottom until she turned her back on them again. "We shouldn't forget these fake designer clothes." Mino said and engaged her three friends in their initial conversation again.

"Right. And then the kind of girls that are sewing dresses out of their grandmother's drapes. Ugly patterns that scare of every boy and demand hard work." Suri taunted and looked over her shoulder. Bonny trembled with rage and was ready to charge at the girls and beat them to a pulp when Law called the three girls and invited them to sit at his table. The three girls immediately dedicated their attention towards their idols and flirted with them. Mino looked towards the table. Her gaze directly met Law's. Mino showed absolutely no emotion, she merely nodded in thanks.

''They seem to be the only humans in this room." Lila said and pulled Mino out of her thoughts, "You are constantly asking why these guys are so in demand. Maybe the reason for that is, that they are the only reasonable people in this room." Mino looked really annoyed by this but risked a last glimpse to the guys. Law was sitting there with folded arms and closed eyes while he was listening to Monet. Provided that he truly was listening. "He didn't do it because of us, though. We all know that he savors his peace like no other and a fight would have disturbed that."

"Sounds logical. This klutz is the type for that." Ellie said.

Shortly after that, the bell that announced the beginning of class, rang. Just like every other student, the four brought away their dirty dishes and walked to their classes. Suri and Mino had biology with Hogback while Elli and Lila needed to survive history with Smoker. And just Suri and Mino got a problem that spoiled their day. Mister Hogback entered the room in a bad mood. He banged a stack of papers onto the table and then turned to his class. "I am disappointed! Not even once in my whole career as a teacher did I have to return such a bad test! That was a disaster and you, Mino Venom, are the worst among all!" The teacher stomped to her table and nearly hit the test in her face. Mino kept a straight face and just looked at her teacher. Her classmates, however, giggled degradingly. "I really cannot understand anymore how you have managed to get into high-school. Your competence is as small as a pea. You will stay after class. We need to have a serious talk." Mino just sighed and leaned back.

Suri who was next to her laid her hand on top of Mino's shoulder and smiled soothingly. However, Hogback interrupted them. "And now you, Suri! You'll soon be laughing out of the other side of your face, because your grade is just as bad as hers! Did you ever hear anything about learning?!"

"I did but I can't understand things in the way you are explaining them. And then I write it down how I understand it. You should rather work on the way you're teaching, than to blame your students." Suri defended herself. Mino, however, kept silent und calmly read through her test and his comments. She would bring a bad grade home again but there was no one waiting for her. Mino didn't have a family anymore, except for her sister who was almost never at home because of her job as a stewardess. Merely her friends would have been able to help her but they were no aces in school either. A sigh left Mino's mouth. With a blank mind she stared at the ceiling and waited for the lesson to end.