"The Outcasts"
(c) Mei Evelyn
A One Piece Fanfiction
One Piece (c) Eiichiro Oda
Summary: Their existences might bring huge impact for the world to come, so they were cast out. Loneliness, rage, chained, hurt./ A story where the D brothers found an injured girl after a storm. While Ace was sure the girl was mute, Luffy was determine to get the girl to smile. Shocking event unfolded, dark past rolled in, new bond was formed, headache ensued. /
Ch. 1: The Storm (Prolog)
The storm was raging, bringing in winds and rain and the scent of sea salt into a rather small island in East Blue. People who lived in the city were asleep soundly in their own bed, being able to comfortably ignore the mad storm outside their mighty mansion. The Royal Palace of Goa Kingdom was in peaceful state, contrast with the rumbling sound of heavy rain, soldiers in shift were scattering around the castle, standing tall with weapons on them. The city was asleep, deep in slumber of the night, simply waiting for the next calm morning to greet their vanity.
Not quite so in a certain mountain bandits' hut far within the forest of Mt. Colubo. Bandits were running around, busy pestering some holes in wall that graciously gave them winds and water of the rain, littering their stuff around the house. The wooden hut seemed like it would be blasted away in no time. But well, let's say a strong will from a certain orange-haired woman had the hut stay on earth. I will not explain how that was possible, because the author had no idea.
"Dogra! Magra! Fix the damages on my room!"
"But Okashira, we are fixing the roof now! It will be flying any seconds!"
"Huh? What's that excuse! Leave that! My room's in danger more than the roof!"
"Eeeehh?"
"What're you doing? Get to it now!"
"Ye-yes, Okashira!"
"Hey, you! What are you doing on the floor?"
"I'm picking up our stuff, Okashira. They are littering the floor."
"Stop doing that, you stupid head! Go fix the roof instead!"
"Yes, Ma'am!"
"You! Yes, you! Why are you standing still like an idiot, huh?"
"I-i-i'm af-raid of s-s-storm, Okas-s-shira."
"The hell! You're bandit, moron! Bandits don't get scared of storm! Do something, shit!"
"Eek! Okashira is s-scary!"
"All bandits have to get up to your feet! No doing dothing, brats! We're gonna keep the house safe!"
"Okashira is not doing anything useful though."
"Shut up, asshole! I'm instructing you now! Quit complaining and do my words!"
"Yes, Ma'am!"
A thick mark was seen on Dadan's bandaged forehead, sweats on her scalp as result of yelling the whole time. The bandits were helpless without her that was for sure. She had to stand as their leader in hard times like this. She was breathing heavily, gasping for air to fill her burning lungs despite the cold storm.
"Dadan! Dadan! I'm scared! We're gonna die!"
Dadan looked down at her feet. There was Luffy, hugging her leg for his life, crying in despair with hoarse voice due to being crying along with the rain. Oh, she had forgotten the kid, since it was hectic with the fool bandits, she actually ignored the seven (soon to be eight) year old boy.
"Luffy! Stop crying, dammit! What a crybaby!"
It was Ace shouting from near the loose door, effectively shutting Luffy's wailing. He was currently holding onto the door in case of it would be blown away by the strong wind. Hell, he would make sure he won against the wind. Childish pride set aside, the fact that a tiny hole was enough damage for the night, so no need a blaring front house to complete their suffering.
Luffy was biting his bottom lip as to hold in his cry, his entire body was quivering from the icy sharp feeling the storm had on him. But it was not long before he was dripping more tears with scream filled with pure dread.
"Hwaaa! Huaa! Hicc!" he hiccupped. Second thick mark was forming in Dadan's head. She gritted her teeth to contain herself from blurting out some foul words. If it wasn't because Luffy being Garp's grandson, she would had thrown the handful boy into the jungle.
However, the boy seemed to be crying louder than ever, and she had gotten enough.
Thud! Her fist unconsciously hit Luffy's head, hard enough to produce sound from the receiving end, a bump was forming its way on his small head.
"That's hurt, damn you old hag! Why'd you do that?!"
"You are being loud, Luffy! Shut up or I'll kick you out! And don't call me that, brat!"
"Damn you old bandit! Fight me!"
Thud! Thud! Two fists found their way to create new bumps on Luffy's head as Dadan along with Ace yelled with sharp shark-like teeth, "Shut up, Luffy!"
"Aww! Hurts! You jerk! Meanie!" the voice sounded displeased while protecting his head with his small hands, despite having the bump already planted on him.
Dadan and Ace were standing beside of Luffy, still catching their breath from the messy situation they were in. The door was currently occupied by two bandits who were trying to patch the door as to strengthen its poor condition.
Tonight was one of the worst storms ever hit the Dawn Island. The whole island was covered by strong spinning winds, taking away what was not strong enough to stay on ground. The signs of storm were being left on every corner and surface.
The impression the storm left were different from each place. The city where most nobles and the King stayed was in complete indifference to the storm, because even though the city was fillled with signs of it, as long as there would be people whom they could order to clean the city to spark, for them it was no big deal at all.
The Foosha villagers were quite in worry, especially the Mayor, who was responsible for the safety of the small village. Fortunately the simple buildings were rooted strong enough to stand although not so firm against the blasting winds. Most likely the villagers would be shocked by the next morning when they found out the buildings were a bit aslant than the evening before.
The Gray Terminal however was in huge disaster. Garbage and dust were flying everywhere, no patched-house could stay on earth long enough, metal stuff were scratching people with its sharp edge, and Gray Terminal was just turned from messy disorder into pure disaster. It was worse with the inhabitants. They were trying to hold onto something, everything, in order to keep their feet on earth, but failed miserably. Any flying stuff would hit and slam and scratch their skin to bleed, loosing their grip and seizing their hope as result. Many had fallen, and few that still fighting was already dimmed of hope.
In one lonely yet noisy hut in the forest, well, I take it you can grasp the situation just fine.
The storm was gone by the morning, sweeping away all dusts even in every smallest corner and crack. The sunlight was glinting against water drops above leaves and soil, making the impression of crystal spark of it. The light was bright and clear, like the hell they were in the night before just made a way for the coming heaven. But this was no heaven, no, this was still part of Goa Kingdom, the plant-covered area, the only peaceful place next to Foosha village, where the purest of nature stayed.
"Ace! Wait for me! Oi, Ace!"
Luffy was chasing after Ace, light grin on his round face. They were going to catch some food since they were all passed out after defending the Dadan's country all night. Their energy was completely spent. The explainable reasons of Ace being the one who went to hunt were because: 1) it was always unofficial duty of Ace to hunt for food; 2) Ace had some amount of energy left compared to the stupor bandits; 3) Ace wouldn't let a single storm to overcome him; so he just took the responsible to leave, ignoring the unspoken relief from Dadan's eyes, because hell, the whole gang wouldn't be able to lift a single finger, not until they could fill their stomach first. And Luffy, being Luffy, followed Ace into the forest, eating some fruits in the way to refill his energy, not that he lost much of it the night before, since he did nothing but cry.
Ace kept on walking, knowing fully well that Luffy would just follow like he always did, and since he was not hurrying so Luffy would not lose him in case he stopped by to pick some fruits. He walked for few minutes until he realized that the small footsteps that supposed to echo into his ear was not there for the longest time. He turned around and found no Luffy behind.
"That stupid kid. Where did he go again?" he wondered out loud, annoyed to say the least. He decided to walk back to his track, thinking that Luffy might still be somewhere in the path. When he caught sight of his little brother, he snapped, "Oi, Luffy! What are you doing? I'll leave you behind!"
But Luffy didn't even turn his head. In fact, he was facing the dense of trees next to the forest path, his face strict with sweats, looking quite shock to whatever he was seeing there. When Ace approached him, he simply hit the back of Luffy's head with his pipe, receiving an "ack" sound from the boy.
"What's your problem, Ace?!" he yelled, sending a futile attempt of glare to his brother.
"I said I'm gonna leave you behind. Didn't you hear me at all?" Ace encountered.
Luffy's face was quickly turned sad, "No way, Ace! Don't leave me alone. Please..."
Ace regretted his words immediately, and fast to confirm, "I'm not gonna leave you, 'kay. Like I can leave someone as a crybaby like you behind. Stop looking at me like that!"
Smile of relief was shown on Luffy as he said, "Okay!" and his smile was quickly turned into a bigger grin that would split anyone's face but Luffy. Ace only let a small smile grace his lips as an immediate response of Luffy's smile he was secretly fond of.
"So, why were you staying here instead of following me?" Ace questioned.
Luffy's face snapped into realization, like he just rang a bell for something forgotten, which the case was. "Right, Ace! There, I saw something, or someone, on the ground, but I'm not sure," he explained while pointing to the direction he stared at before.
Ace turned his head to look for the right angle to see the thing Luffy pointed at. When he saw it, his blood ran cold.
Hello, everyone! Hajimemashite!
This is my very first attempt to publish a fanfiction. I've written this one for six chapters so far, but I will upload the next chapter if anyone is interested with this story. Tell me if it's fine or stuff, because I don't know how people see my story if there's no one to tell me their thought.
Just to make it clear, THIS STORY CONTAINS ORIGINAL CHARACTER, the one that will be A MAIN CHARACTER. Well, aside from Luffy that is. But I assure you, if you just wait for the story to unfold, you may or may not like it, it's up to you really. So let me now what you think.
Oh, and I'm deeply apologize beforehand, since I'm not a native speaker, and I'm still learning English, if you find any grammar mistakes or error or such. I'll give my best.
One last thing, if anyone wants to see the next part, please wait for another two weeks. I've decided that one week is way too fast for me (being in last year and stuff) and let you wait for more than two weeks feels like a cruel thing of me. That is if anyone interested by the way.
That's all for starter.
Dadah, fellas~! (If you recognize the word, then you are likely to know my nationality)
11/20/2015
02/13/2016 (edited)
-Mei Evelyn