This is my first One Piece fanfic. I hope you like it. I do not own One Piece or its characters.
Chapter 1: Off with a Bang
At the start of a brand new school year, the incoming freshmen walk towards their headed destination, the gymnasium, for the freshmen orientation. Although there are several who tend to skip such formalities and prefer a nap over a boring long winded speech.
"Captain! What are you doing? The orientation is starting." Sachi asked his friend who seemed to have preferred sleeping on their friend, Bepo.
"Don't worry, it's all just formalities. It's not like we're the only ones skipping." Trafalgar Law calmly commented while leaning against his furry companion.
"But Captain..."
"Even if we're caught, it's not against the rules to skip the orientation. So quit complaining and just stay quiet."
"Yes, Captain~" Sachi gleefully squealed in admiration of his captain.
"You're not quiet."
Meanwhile during the freshmen orientation, two members of Law's crew attended the orientation in place of their absent captain. Near the end of the principal's long winded speech, the new students were at amiss at what their principal had just announced at the end of his speech.
"I knew something was off with this school..." Jean Bart mutters to himself.
"C-Captain isn't going to like this." Penguin wonders how is he going to break the news to his captain.
Once the orientation ended, most of the incoming freshmen were desperate to see what class they were in hoping to be together with their friends.
"Yosh, we're all together!" Shouted a black haired boy wearing a straw hat.
"That's good." Nico Robin, one of Monkey D. Luffy's friends, commented.
"To be in the same room as Nami-swan and Robin-chwan is a dream come true." The love struck cook, Sanji, leaped into the air dancing around at his good fortune.
"Shut up, you Ero Cook." But soon came to an end by his hated enemy, Roronoa Zoro.
"What was that, Moss Head!"
Nearly every student within the area had became engrossed in the fight between the clash of kicks and swords. While the two fought each other, an orange haired girl, Nami, was practically eying like a hungry wolf at all the money she got from all the bets on who would win.
In the meantime, Sachi headed over to the bulletin board to see where he and his friends would be hopefully in the same class as their captain. Much to his delight, Lady Luck had smiled upon them when he saw all their names together. He ran in glee to break the good news to his stoic captain.
"Captain! Captain!"
Upon their arrival, they found only an empty classroom devoid of any life aside from themselves.
"Captain, we're the first ones here." Sachi pointed out.
"Hey Captain, we can see that fight from here." Bepo says while waving Law's nodachi.
"Dang, those two are still at it." Sachi thought that they would have stopped a long time ago since their reason for fighting wasn't that big of a deal.
"What are the teachers' doing?" Penguin wonders if anyone bothered calling the teachers probably not since most of them were placing bets on who would win.
"Is it me or does that woman's eyes look like beri signs?"
"Who cares, she's a beauty!"
"I know right!" Penguin's fellow woman loving companion, Sachi, agreed with him.
Jean Bart only sweat drops at his two companion's attraction to women.
"Who do you will win?" Bepo asks still holding onto Law's nodachi.
"1000 beri on the swordsman."
"1500 beri on the blond."
"I would hold onto my money if I were you."
"Why's that Captain?"
"Who are those guys in the naval uniforms?"
"Marines..." Penguin's question was answered by Law.
"Marines? What would marines be doing in a school?"
"Not those marines. The Marines here are a committee of students whose sole purpose to watch over the students and ensure their tranquil school life here. They work directly under the school's orders."
"Basically they're disciplinary students."
"So they're just your average student."
"Students with the power to expel other students." Law humored his friends.
"What!"
"At least the higher ups do..."
That gave Bepo, Penguin, and Sachi a relief knowing that not all of them had that kind of power.
"Fools. Like just anybody can have that kind of authority..." Jean Bart stated not knowing why they thought all of the marines had the authority to expel students. It was only natural to give that kind of power to those who were qualified to wield such power.
"Hey, don't get all cocky! You're still the new guy remember."
"So how do you know that? That kind of information wasn't in the student handbook. Not even the orientation mentioned it." And once again Bepo fails to order Jean Bart.
"Only a fool would enroll into a school without knowing something as simple as that."
"Captain~" Penguin and Sachi scream in awe of Law like fanboys.
"They're gone." Bepo doesn't see neither Sanji nor Zoro at the same place they were at. In fact, the white bear didn't see hair nor hide of several other distinct students when he saw that there were less people around.
"Not surprising, probably got taken in by those Marines."
Before Bepo could remind Jean Bart to be mindful of his older colleague, they were interrupted by the presence of a redheaded man with three other guys with him all of which had strange appearances.
"Well, well... What do we have here. Trafalgar Law, captain of the Hearts Gang from North Blue Middle School." The Heart members had not expected to see Eustass Kid, known as Captain Kid of the Kid Gang from South Blue Middle School. Although they only know him based on the rumors about him, they knew that he was not someone who would simply let things pass by smoothly. His infamous violent acts towards innocent civilians has made him a frightening person to be wary of. He shows no mercy towards his opponents as he once crucified a whole gang he deemed to weak to allow to exist. Said gang was said to have been sent to the hospital crying for their mothers. "I heard some rumors about you and they weren't good."
Gang leader or not, Law was not someone to meet a stranger without giving them a proper greeting.
!
"Captain!" Sachi could not believe that he just saw his leader give the notorious Captain Kid the finger. Although he and the Heart crew weren't the only ones surprised by Law's rude greeting, Kid's nakama were also caught off guard by it. They knew Kid's actions had a subsequent provocation to them so it wouldn't be uncommon for them to retaliate in some kind of form, but not once had they seen someone react that way. Either he was really confident in his fighting ability or was really stupid like Monkey D. Luffy who is known for his crazy actions that border line stupid and reckless. Judging from the Heart Captain's demeanor, they doubt it was the latter
"And neither are your manners."
The tension in the room was so thick that neither side could even utter a single sound. Killer, Kid's right hand man, was worried about his captain's response to Law's greeting as he knows more than anyone how violent his captain can be angered or not.
"Trafalgar-"
"We're free!" Screamed a straw hatted boy coming down from the ceiling along with eight other individuals.
"We're going to die!" Yelled three of them: a long nosed man, an orange haired woman, and a reindeer(?). The orange haired woman and long nosed man were hugging onto each other screaming for dear life as they fell. The reindeer was frantically moving around in panic.
The Heart and Kid gang did not know where to begin to say when they saw eight people and an animal falling down from the ceiling. People and animals do not come raining down on the sky especially not indoors.
Law was the first one to act to the sudden arrival of their new guests.
"Room." A circular sphere begin to expand throughout the classroom. The Kid gang were wondering what the circle is while the Heart Gang already knew about their captain's power. A majority of the Straw Hats were curious as to what the circle was except for three of them who were too scared to notice the circle believing that their lives were at an end.
"Shambles." As Law moves his hand, the flying Straw Hats were switched with desks.
"Aaaahhhhh!" Nami and Usopp slightly opened their eyes a little to find out why they weren't dead yet. They were relieved to see that they were on solid ground in one piece and not splattered on the floor.
"We're alive!" The three scaredy cats cried in joy thanking their lucky stars.
"Luffy, you idiot! Are you trying to kill us!" Sanji kicked Luffy on the top of his head, not pleased with his captain's idea of getting away from the marines, hoping it would knock some sense into the reckless guy's head.
"Oh, hey Trafalguy! You got some strange power wanna be my nakama." Luffy ignores Sanji's pissed attitude in favor of the man who just saved them.
"Luffy, that's no way to thank our savior!" Usopp chops Luffy straight in the head. Every time they come across someone strange, their captain always asks to recruit them.
And once again, they were interrupted but this time by a group of marines who forced their entry through the other door of the classroom.
"Freeze! By order of the marines, you're all under arrest." The leader of the group called out. All of them were armed with guns. And outside, there were marines stationed with cannons and mortars.
In Grand Line Gakuen, it wasn't uncommon for the students to wield weapons as long as no one killed anybody. In fact, the Marines are given permission to use weapons uphold the peace of the school. Fights among students were common despite the opposition of it on campus as long as the Marines or staff did not catch it, a part of the student population would fight to their hearts content. Various rumors like rumors of underground fights or missing students began spreading among the student body, but rumors are rumors. Without any concrete evidence, there was nothing the Marines could do to prove if the rumors were true or not.
"Gya! We're gonna die!" Chopper, Nami, and Usopp scream as a cannon ball from outside is heading towards them.
Gomu gomu no fusen!" Using devil fruit power, Luffy expands his body like a hot air balloon sending it back at the marines outside.
"Here I was just trying to have a simple conversation. Again and again all these annoying interferences..."
"Hey Kid." It was too late to stop him now that he knew how near impossible it was to stop his captain.
"Just piss me off." Now there was no turning back.
Sensing something off, Zoro managed to catch his three swords before they flew off in the direction of Kid, just as the weapons of the Marines did. Zoro wasn't the only one who sensed something off as Brook and Law tightened their grips on their swords. Franky fought back the strange pull on him drawing him towards Kid.
"What's going on?"
"Our weapons!"
"Even the mortars!" From outside, the cannons and mortars came crashing through the windows started attaching themselves around Kid's left arm forming a giant arm made from the marine's artillery which he used to send the marines around him flying.
"Since they're acting like we're their accomplices might as well have a little fun." Sachi didn't like that look on his captain's face knowing him things aren't going to turn out pretty.
"Room." Law creates another circle around the parameter but this one was bigger than the last one as it extended all the way to the outside with some marines caught in it who had no idea what the circle was.
"Shambles." Without any hesitation, Law cut the marines down with his nodachi and rearranged them in weird forms. One man has four arms while another had his body replaced with a desk and brooms for arms while his arms were now his legs. Another man had his head stuck on another marine's body with a random marine head attached to it and no arms. One marine officer had his head stuck on someone's arm. It was complete chaos for the marines.
"Although I don't want to stick around too long before an admiral shows up." With that said, Law and his crew departed through the group of disembodied marines who were preoccupied with their body parts attached to one another to stop them.
"An admiral?! Luffy, if what he says is true then we must leave immediately." Nico Robin, the mature and most intelligent one of the group, knew how dangerous an admiral was.
"Eh, why?" Luffy on the other hand didn't even notice how dangerous their current situation was.
"Listen Luffy if anyone is caught by an admiral regardless of their innocence or not are immediately expelled from this school without a second thought even if you happened to witness a fight or you're a victim of a bullying you will be expelled if caught by an admiral." Robin's warning bought the whole Straw Hat crew's hair to their ends. They had just started the school year and they were already in danger of being expelled.
Without a moment's delay, they had evacuated the vicinity after the Heart and Kid Gang had already left.
Due to the after effects of the fight between the marines and the three gang leaders, the classroom and along with several other classrooms nearby and part of the schoolyard were left in ruin. Since there weren't many unoccupied classrooms available, classes were pulled off until the classrooms were fixed.
"Yahoo! No classes!"
"You idiot!" Nami slaps her boisterous captain in the head knowing that now was not the time to be celebrating as they narrowly managed to avoid expulsion.
"Oh that right! Hey Trafalguy, wanna join my crew!"
Luffy's crew didn't know if their captain was blind to the people and bear whom they took for as his crew standing behind Law.
But there one thing they found strange between their captain's interaction with the Heart gang leader.
"Luffy, you know him?" Robin asked her straw hatted captain.
"Yeah, a year ago he saved my life."
"I only did that on a whim." Law stated not wanting the straw hat to feel any kind of debt to him.
"Shishishi, yeah even so you helped me out last year with a lot of stuff."
Law couldn't tell if he was being idiotic or naive but he knew that the straw hat boy was genuinely grateful to the Heart gang leader.
"What is this, Captain! You never told us that!" Bepo clings onto Law asking for an explanation. Not once did their captain mention saving the straw hat gang leader. What on earth happened last year?
Last summer, Luffy went on a camping trip with his two older brothers Ace and Sabo. During their hike, Luffy got hungry.
"I want meat."
"Wait a bit longer, Luffy. We just ate a while ago!" Sabo reasoned even with all the extra food they packed for Ace and Luffy's bottomless stomach it still wouldn't be enough if they had to feed Luffy every time he got hungry. Sabo doubt they would even last one night if that happened. Thankfully they were in a forest so in case it does happen they have another food source as long as Luffy didn't eat all the animals.
Luffy was saddened by his older brother's words he thought at least he would give him some food. In the midst of his childish depression, Luffy spotted a new source of food to satisfy his rumbling stomach.
"Meat!" Luffy chases after the bear whom is fleeing from the crazed straw hatted boy. He didn't like the look on the crazed madman behind him.
"Waaaaahhhhh! Captain save me!" The poor white bear cried out for his captain to save him from the fiendish beast behind him. All he wanted was to find that cute female bear he saw not this rampaging monster.
The fear that his dreaded predator drawing near brought the white bear to a cold sweat. As he slowly peers over his shoulder, he no longer sees the madman behind him. He thanked his lucky stars as he headed back to his captain for comfort.
Meanwhile, a certain straw hat boy looked around for some food ignoring the fact that he fell over a cliff 300 feet from his current position.
"Sanji, I'm hungry... Oh right, Sanji's not here." He just remembered that his cook was not with him.
Now what was he going to do for food. No food. No meat. No Sanji to cook him food. Only that mushroom over there.
Mushroom!
"Food!"
No sign of his missing nakama who was gone for quite some time. Maybe he ate some random mushroom and ended up dying.
!
What was this? It seems that Law stumbled upon some strange creature buried under a marsh. It was hard tell what it was. The only thing that could help him assess the situation was that deadly mushroom near the marsh. Strangely enough it appeared to have been eaten.
It can't be that... That was his missing companion. Hey, he actually did eat it!
Seeing how waiting around would do him no good, he decided to save the guy before the mushroom's poison killed him, but he thought his furry companion knew better than to eat random mushrooms after all he was a bear he should be able to at least identify the safe ones. Another strange thing was that he was a lot lighter than he thought. A bear would normally weigh a lot more than that. No point in worrying about that right now. He'll ask him later after he saves him.
After Law had given his patient a bath, it was no wonder he thought his furry friend had lost some weight. It seems that he picked some kid around the same age as him. It looked like he was starting to come together.
"Meat!"
Now that was new. Most people don't generally shout out food after experiencing a near death experience. It was no surprised that the boy was looking around. Who wouldn't. Especially when you're in some unknown place with a complete stranger.
"Do you have any meat?" Luffy asks.
Was that was that all he had on his mind?
"He's a good guy. He gave me meat!"
"You mean he saved you from a poisonous mushroom." Nami corrected her idiot of a captain.
"Leave it to Luffy to eat a poisonous mushroom." Zoro wasn't surprised to hear about his captain's near death experience since this was Luffy they were talking about.
"I knew he would do it one day." Like his fellow comrades, Usopp knew the day Luffy dies is either from starvation or food poisoning.
"Not surprising considering this is the same guy who wolves down a ton of food without even knowing what he's eating." Of all of the meals Sanji made for his straw hat captain, each one of them disappeared in a matter of seconds, correction an instant.
Inside one of the dorms, three students; a man in a steampunk styled outfit, a large man with propeller like hair, and a woman in a velvet French maid outfit carrying several large weapons; are speaking about the recent incident that had became the talk of the school.
"Really it's the start of the school year and those brats are already making a mess!" Disgusted with how much trouble this year's first years are causing, Gladius's top hat bursts due to his anger.
"I couldn't agree anymore." The large man, Buffalo, agreed while ignoring his companion's outburst.
"According to those Marines, it was done by only three first years." Baby 5 pointed out.
"The Marines really are losing their edge if they sent a troop of soldiers only to be defeated by three mere children." Gladius sighed at how pathetic the Marines were becoming if they lost to three freshmen.
"But I heard that out of that platoon of marines dozens of them received such horrible injuries that they were put under surveillance until they figured a way to put them back together. Too bad no one allowed to see them. Wanted to see the damage myself." Buffalo was curious as to how bad those marines ended up.
"I'm actually glad they quarantined those filthy Marines should be hidden far from the Young Master's view."
"Speaking of the Young Master, he was acting strange when he heard of the incident."
"That's nothing new. Baby 5, you know how much the Young Master loves blood and fights." They knew more than anyone how much blood their Young Master liked to see.
"That's right, Baby 5. There's nothing to worry about." Buffalo seconds Gladius's statement.
"I suppose so..." Still, there was something about that was bothering Baby 5.
In another room, a blonde haired man in a pink feathery coat just watched the video before him on his den den mushi.
"Gomu gomu no fusen!"
"Gyaaaa!"
"Repel."
"Get the injured to safety."
"Someone call for backup!"
"Room. Shambles."
Watching the recent incident that dealt a large blow to the Marine's reputation, the man just smiled at the chaos.
"Whose leg is this?"
"Hey that's my arm."
"Get off my body."
"Like I can."
"You called Doffy." Seated on diamond like chair, the new visitor greeted his boss.
"I have a little mission for you."
"No way, Doffy. I'm not possibly even worthy of it."
"Oh but you are."
"Impossible. Someone like me possibly can't."
"Then I guess I'll have to assign this to-"
"Hearing your unbiased opinion, it must be true. I'll definitely fulfill your wish. So who do you want dead!"
"Not dead but something else..."
He had no clue what his boss was going to order if it wasn't that then what else could he want. His boss practically had money, women, followers, and entertainment. What else could he have possibly wanted? Soon the answer to his question was answered the moment he saw a familiar face projected from the den den mushi. He quickly understood the meaning behind his boss's summon as he watched a certain Heart Gang Leader in the arms of a crying bear.