Hello everyone! I'm Masked Pan and this, this is my first attempt at a fanfiction. Well, I say first but I originally had this posted on Quizilla after becoming influenced by two of my favorite authors on there. I'll admit, this was written in 2nd Person but, apparently, they frown upon it here when you use that style so I had to convert it to 3rd Person. Anyways, I hope that you all enjoy!

Disclaimer: One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda. Mac and any other OCs belong to me.

Deep out at sea, away from prying eyes, docked a pirate ship at an uncharted island. The ship was gaudy, pink and decorated with hearts. On deck, a finger slid across the railing, lifting to reveal a faint speck of dust. "Why is there dust on my ship?" The unintimidating features of the ship were more than made up for by the person who sailed it.

"A-A thousand pardons, Lady Alvida! I-I thought I'd cleaned every inch of this ship! I'll clean everything all over again! Please-!" Cried a man, shaking as he tried to save himself from the fate that awaited him.

"'Please' what…?"The woman—Lady Alvida—asked darkly, turning to look at the groveling man.

"Please, not the iron mace! I-I don't wanna die!" His pleas fell on deaf ears as a large and spikey club came down upon him, sending the man crumbling to the floor either dead or unconscious.

"Koby! WHO is the FAIREST throughout ALL the SEAS?" The woman demanded, iron mace in hand as she turned to a very wimpy looking kid.

"Heh-heh—Ahem! Why, you are Lady Alvida! No one compares to you!" The kid replied, sweating nervously.

"Correct! Which is why I will not tolerate anything that is dirty! The ship I sail must be as clean and beautiful as I am. Understand? Remember Koby, were it not for your vast knowledge of the sea, I would feed you to the sharks! So don't push your luck!"

"Y-yes… That's very kind of you." Koby choked out, visibly shaking under the intense gaze of his captain.

"Other than that, you're worthless! Now shine my shoes!" The woman growled, kicking her heel into Koby's head. The boy flinched harshly, "Y-yes Lady Alvida! Right away!" then set his rag to her shoes.

"I don't want to see even one speck of dust on this ship!" Alvida yelled to her all man crew.

"Y-yes, Ma'am!"

Now, Lady Alvida, for the way she acts is far from what one person might thing. She was an ugly, hideously obese woman with an attitude to match. She had small, beady eyes that were lost on her huge face and unruly black hair tucked underneath a small cowboy hat. The kerchief tied around her neck did nothing to hide her double chin and the sash around her round waist, if unraveled, would span the entire ship from bow to stern. Her captain's coat barely fit and the buttons on her on her pants looked like they would pop off any second. The only thing that seemed to remotely fit her was the checkered shirt she wore, but even that looked like it was reaching its limits.

"That's enough! You're pathetic!" The woman shouted, kicking Koby away. The boy only chuckled, hiding his obvious pain as he mumbled a 'sorry' to her.

"If you've got time to apologize, then you've got time to clean the bathroom!"

"Heh-heh… Right away, Lady Alvida.." Koby said, ignoring the blood dripping out of his nose. "Right away…" The boy whimpered again, failing to fight back the tears that streamed down his face as he walked off to perform his chores.

Later that day, far down the beach and away from the cruel woman he'd been forced to call 'captain', Koby began to clear his head and take a moment to steel his courage again. He hated where he was at in his life. He hated being forced to play cabin boy for this pirate woman and her crew of men. Ever since that fateful day, he had been walked all over and beaten like a dog. Heck, dogs probably had it better than him. He didn't care, he often found himself wishing to be a dog, or a bird, even a fish. Something that would let him get as far away from 'Iron Mace' Alvida as he possibly could. But, thankfully, he had spent his imprisoned years working on something that would hopefully bring about his escape. If only he had the nerve to do it…

Lost in his thoughts, Koby didn't notice the object that sat in front of him until he practically tripped over it. "WAAAH!" The pink-haired boy landed on the ground face first, groaning as he sat up and spat out a mouthful of sand. Readjusting his thick glasses, the boy turned to the culprit of his face plant. "What? A barrel?" A large barrel sat on its side in the sand, apparently having just washed up on shore. Standing up, Koby curiously approached the barrel, trying to pull it up on its end but found that he couldn't. "Wow, it's heavy! Huh, I wonder what's in it. Maybe wine or…" Suddenly, an idea hatched in his head. "M-Maybe if I bring it to Alvida's store house, I'll get some extra rations tonight!" It was a very longshot, but Koby did anything to try and at least get on his master's good side so she wouldn't punish him as severely.

Eagerly, the boy did everything his could to pick up the barrel but in the end, he came to terms with his weak legs and marshmallow arms and settled for rolling in down to the store house instead. As he got closer, his heart sank lower and lower as he played out every possible thing that could go wrong. What if no one notices? What if the people on duty took the credit? What if Alvida assumes he stole the barrel only to bring it back and look like he was doing something good! She would certainly kill him! The boy gulped, wondering if he should abandon all hope but before he could decide, the door to the store house slammed open and out stepped one of Alvida's crew members.

"What's that, Koby? Did a barrel of grog wash up on the beach?"

"Y-Yeah, and it's not empty! I wasn't sure what to do with it…" He quietly hoped that maybe, just maybe, he'll can just leave the barrel there and slink off, abandoning all hope to have any extra food. From inside the building, he could hear two other pirates chuckling to themselves.

"Well, I know what to do with it. Let's drink it all up!" A man with longer hair grinned mischievously.

"But if the Captain finds out, she'll have out heads!" The pirate who had opened the door for Koby said.

"She'll never find out!" A more plump man assured, grinning along with his buddy. Through their banter, the three men failed to notice the faint thumping of boots hitting the floor as their fourth and final person on duty approached from the very back.

"How about you guys stop goofing off and get back to work."

"Mac!" The three men and Koby immediately turned to look at the young woman dubbed Mac, standing there with a barrel almost bigger than her on shoulder. Placing the barrel down, she glared at the men through amber eyes. "We got a lot of stuff to take count of before we report back and it'd go so much faster if you three would quit playing around."

Mac was a bit of a colorful character, and hard to miss what with her short purple hair that fanned around her head, although there was a much longer chunk that braided right over her right temple and was reached mid-torso, and sharp auburn eyes. The most distinguishable characteristic on her was the jagged navy blue stripe that stretched across her right cheek and curved over the bridge of her nose with five black dots lined up underneath her left eye. She wore a loose fitting, three-quarter sleeved red and white striped shirt and tan cargo pants, held up with a black belt that had a large brass buckle. The brass matched the studs on the knuckles of her short leather gloves that stopped right at her wrists and the brass on the toes of her black knee-length lace up boots that her pants tucked into. But, probably the most bizarre thing she wore was the multitude of bandages that seemed to wrap over her entire body, covering both her arms entirely and most of her neck and continued on below her pants.

"Hey! How about you shut up?" The pirate with longer hair scowled. "We don't have to listen to some little brat!"

"Yeah! You're lucky the Captain even let you come with us! Any other girl, she would have been tossed to the sharks!" The three chuckled at the thought.

Glare deepening, Mac huffed. "If you idiots remember, Alvida put ME in charge of YOU."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever, short-shit." The pirates just waved her off, ignoring her completely. Mac pursed her lips, grumbling something about blowing them up then retreating to the back. It was true that she was young and that she was short. Heck, how old were she? 16? 17? And she barely stood taller than two barrels stacked on top of each other but that didn't mean she was one to be brushed off. Grumbling again, Mac began counting Alvida's stock of fancy wine but kept an open ear to the people in the front.

"Forget her; we three can have all the grog to ourselves. And just Koby, Mac and the three of us will know about it." The plump pirate said. "And if Mac tattles, well, we can take her out and teach her a lesson." He laughed maliciously, knowing you were within hearing distance. It took all her will-power not to turn around and give him a taste of her right hook.

"I guess you're right…"

"And you won't say a word either, right Koby?" The fat man glowered, raising his hand in a threatening manner. Koby whimpered, waving his hands in front of him as the man forcefully took the barrel and stood it in front of him.

"Right! I won't say a word! Heh-heh-heh…" Mac felt sorry for the kid, hearing him pleading faintly for the pirate to not hit him. Deciding to join the party, she gave up on taking stock of the woman's wine and moved to stand out of the way of the men but closest to Koby. She couldn't help but notice the kid had shuffled a little closer to her, as if for protection. She couldn't blame him since she was the only one that didn't kick him around but she wasn't that fond of him either. His lack of spine annoyed her to no end.

"Alright! Let's see what's in this barrel!" The fat pirate readied his fist, pulling it back then swinging it down with tremendous force. What happened next… Well… She weren't quite sure what happened but it was interesting.

Just as the pirate's fist was about to make contact, the top of the barrel exploded on its own and out burst a… boy in a straw hat? "That was a great nap!" The boy yawned loudly. Everyone's reactions were different; Koby, being the closest, was knocked back on his butt. The three man were confused and shocked, shouting "What the hell!". Mac was equally confused, automatically getting down in a fighting stance.

"Hmm… Looks like I survived somehow." The boy said, surveying his barrel. "I got so dizzy, I thought I was gonna die!" He laughed heartily, failing to notice anyone's presence. It wasn't until Mac cleared her throat, staring at the boy. "Huh! Who're you guys?"

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!" The men yelled back angrily. "What were you doing in there!" Before the boy could answer, there was a swooshing of air and that was all the warning she got.

"BACK TO WORK YOU LAZY ASSES!" A giant mace came flying through the air and destroyed the entire building! Mac gave a shout of fright, the store house imploding and sending everybody and everything sprawling to the ground in a mess of shattered wood and broken supplies. She didn't even realize what happened until the captain herself, Alvida, was standing over the group in all her fat glory. "You lazy asses! Who's the fairest throughout all of the seas?"

"Lady Alvida! You are of course!" Was the automatic reply of the three crewmen. Mac just barely managed to sit up before she was being tugged up by the collar of her loose shirt. "And YOU! I put you in charge and you DARE to DEFY ME!"

"Lady Alvida, I don't—" She were immediately cut off as the woman got in her face, jerking her around like she was a rag doll. "Don't play dumb with me! I could hear you talking all the way from the ship! Now which one of you had such a 'great nap'?"

Finally, the lightbulb in one of the pirate's heads went off. "Uh… Captain! We have an intruder!

"Yeah!" The second on added. "That good for nothing Koby brought some strange guy here!"

"What! Could he be a bounty hunter after the price on my head? Koby! You traitorous little shit!" Alvida shook her around as if she were Koby herself.

"But the only bounty hunter bold enough to come here…"

"That's ridiculous! The Marines have him locked up."

"But if he's as clever as they say, he might've escaped!" The woman smirked, pausing in her throttling on Mac. "And they say that the infamous Roronoa Zolo is that clever!"

"So… What do we do?" The pirates asked, looking to their large captain.

"Simple. We find Koby, we find Roronoa Zolo. If I can get him to join my crew, I'll be unstoppable! If he refuses and I kill him, I'll be known as the most feared and most beautiful pirate in all land and sea." The woman looked down at Mac's limp form in her hand, her eyes swirling as she admired the bright flashing stars that surrounded her head. "Mac, you disgusting bitch!" At the call of her name, Mac snapped to attention, looking at Alvida as she hoisted her higher in the air. "Get your ass in gear and go find that little snake! AND DON'T SCREW UP!" With that, she flung her through the air and deep into the forest.

"I'm really getting tired of being thrown around today..." The young woman grumbled, landing hard on a branch and practically knocking the wind out of her.