A/N: Hiya, everyone! This story has been swimming in my head for quite some time now. I finally decided to type it up. Don't be shy, let me know what'cha guys think! :)
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece. I only own my O.C. (I'll be sure to draw up a reference picture soon and post it on my profile like I did with my Naruto stories.) :D
Enjoy! (or not, hopefully you guys do enjoy though. lol.)
EDIT: Fixed some typos I saw. XD
Chapter One: Watching The Show
"Ah… Shit, that Haki." A young woman groaned as she grabbed her head in pain. She lightly bit her bottom lip that was pierced on both sides as her long dark purple hair falling over her shoulders and her bangs, which went straight across one side to the other, started to cover her closed eyes as she leaned forward a little. One could now see her ears where she had three piercings on the right ear and two on her left.
Her pale yellow, quarter-sleeve shirt wrinkle a little as it started to overlap her tight black jeans with a matching pale yellow belt. She uncrossed her legs, letting both her feet in dark grey, knee-high boots touch the floor. Her light grey beanie with a pale yellow target symbol on the left side slid a little down the back of her head, but still stayed on.
This was all happening so suddenly.
She only came here to the Human Auction House because of the rumors of a Mermaid being captured. She was curious of what the mermaid looked like. She hadn't expected to see any of the Supernovas, let alone five of them. And then there was the old man.
She looked up at the stage; at the man standing next to the Mermaid's fishbowl with a giant behind him.
The 'Dark King,' Slivers Rayleigh. There was no doubt about it. Her eyes, that were a lighter shade of purple than her hair, were locked on him.
She glanced around at the chaos in the Auction House. The guards were all unconscious because they couldn't withstand the Dark King's powerful Haki. The three Tenryuubito were knocked out mostly by the Strawhat crew. 'All of this… For a Mermaid..?' She thought. She watched as the old man took the explosive collar off of the Mermaid with his bare hands. Rayleigh started walking over to the Fishman on the ground near Luffy, the Captain of the Strawhat Pirates. 'I can't believe this…' Rayleigh started talking to everyone else that was still conscious.
"… And if you took that blast without any trouble, I guess you're not amateurs either."
Someone behind me quietly said, "…Ahh, Damn. I nearly lost consciousness for a moment there…"
She wanted to turn her head around to see which of the other pirates said that when she heard a deep, husky voice.
"To think we'd run into a man like him… in a place like this." She didn't recognize the voice, but the next one to speak… oh; she knew that voice from anywhere.
"…'Dark King' Silvers Rayleigh…! Ain't no mistaking him... What's a legend like him doing here?" The voice came from the man none other than Eustass "Captain" Kidd, Captain of the Kidd Pirates.
That must mean the crew behind here was the Heart Pirates who's Captain was, the Surgeon of Death, Trafalgar Law. Luffy, Luffy's first mate Zoro, Kidd, Kidd's first mate Killer, Law… all five of them were the supernovas present.
"Here on this island, I just go by 'Coating Engineer Ray-san'…" Rayleigh said. She tuned the rest of the talk out after that; she got the idea of what he was trying to say.
'There's no way out of this now. Everyone here is guilty by association…' she thought as she started to here the Marines yelling outside. She picked up a plain looking black book that was sitting next to her and took a pencil out of her pocket. No one seemed to be paying much attention to her movements. All of them caught up in their conversation about the Marines. A small amused smile graced her lips.
"We'll take out the guys hanging around the front, so don't you worry your little selves." She heard Kidd say.
Oh, yes. Things were about to get more interesting.
She turned her head to the right; just enough to see out of the corner of her eye that Luffy and the man sitting behind her look at Kidd. She didn't really get to see what Law's features were. 'They must've taken that as an insult.' She laughed to herself.
All three Captains headed out the front doors. Her attention went back to Rayleigh and she noticed that he was looking straight at her. She held a calm, laid-back expression but her eyes held a hint of shock. Why pay any attention? It wasn't like her bounty was that high compared to the Supernovas, ah… but she did hold up to his Haki.
She offered him a small smile. She wasn't going to say anything; she had no need to. Then her attention went to the Auction House doors. She could sense the chaos about to start. She stood up just as the others still inside started talking about heading out the doors. She quietly made her way to the door just as the Marines started to fire off cannon balls at the three guys standing outside. She stood there, leaning against the door frame.
She carefully opened her book to the first blank page with her pencil ready, just in case. She then watched the next events unfold.
Each one showed their powerful abilities. "Figures, all of them are fruit users." She muttered. Luffy with his infamous Gumo Gumo no Mi, Kidd with his magnetic-like ability and Law's strange one. She didn't really know what to call his power.
He seemed to posses the ability of separating and spatially displacing anything and everything inside a spherical territory of light blue aura. And then he was capable of attaching the separated parts into any manner he deemed fit.
Needless to say, his ability caught her attention the most.
His attire got a little of her attention as well. He was of average height with black tribal-style tattoos on his arms and back of his hands and on his left hand, the letters D, E, A, T, H were tattooed on the back of each finger; from what she could tell. She still couldn't get a good look at his facial features but could see a pair of small, golden hoop earrings on each ear. She could tell that he had black hair underneath a Northern-style fur hat, which was white with brown spots on the bottom and along the rim.
He was wearing a black-sleeved, yellow hoodie with what appeared to be his Jolly Roger on the front of his chest. His sleeves were rolled up just slightly below his elbows. Law was also sporting a pair of light blue jeans with odd markings heavily around his knees and ankles, similar to the ones on his hat but darker in color. A pair of dark, pointer shoes completed his look.
What got her attention from his look was his hat. It meant that he was from North Blue; the same area where she was from.
She tore herself away from the man known as the Surgeon of Death and looked at the damage all three of them did. She closed her book and held it to her right side while sliding the pencil behind her left ear. It seemed that they wouldn't need her. Not now, anyways. These Marines didn't stand a chance against these Supernovas.
She took a step away from the door frame and proceeded to casually lean against the outside wall. She didn't want to get in the way of the others that were now running out of the Auction House. She heard Rayleigh laughing.
"You guys sure took care of that!" He continued to laugh as the three guys before him exchanged in small talk. No one seemed to care that the Marines started yelling again; they didn't even have a tactical plan anymore. Kidd was saying something to Luffy. She stared at Luffy as the next words from his mouth surprised her.
"Hmm, but… I'm the one who's gonna find One Piece!"
This declaration seemed to have caught Kidd a little off guard as he stared at Luffy. She knew then that Killer sprang into action by blocking a fairly large battle axe, with his scythe-like weapon attached to his armband, from hitting his Captain. Killer quickly finished off the Marine with little effort at all.
'You want to find One Piece too? Though, I'm pretty sure our reasons for finding it are completely different, eh Mr. Strawhat?' She mused at the thought of her finding One Piece; completely ignoring the first part of what Kidd was saying.
"But from here on out, those without the guts to say that won't survive!" He declared, looking straight ahead of himself. "Let's meet up in the 'New World.'"
A silent agreement was made by the three Captains. And it seemed it was then they all decided they were done here.
"Bepo!" She heard Law say as he turned away from the Marines.
"Aye, Aye, Captain!" A polar bear in an orange boiler suit yelled as he quickly jumped into action, landing a hard flying kick to the Marine after his Captain. The bear seemed to be a master of martial arts.
She watched as Law to the opportunity to free the pirate that used to be known as Jean Bart. She listened as they exchanged words; Law wanted Bart to join his crew. Who, but a fool, would say no to a proposition like that? Jean Bart was no fool, he gladly accepted this. It was better than staying as a slave.
It was then that she decided she should start heading out. Just a she went to take a step away from the wall she was leaning on; she felt someone's eyes on her. 'Just who could be…' She glanced around, her eyes landing on him.
"Oh…" She breathed out. Her right hand clenched tighter around her book and her left hand snatched the pencil from behind her ear. Quickly flipping her book open to a page with a detailed drawing of a rather large black raven; she proceeded in getting her left hand in position.
If he had wanted to try anything, he was too late. Her left hand touched the drawing and when she whispered the word,
"Animate."
The raven soared out of the page and into the air. It looked almost as real as an actual raven but its sheer size and shading was the difference. It swooped down next to the woman just as she went to hop on its back. She flew into the air, dodging the bullets the Marines tried firing at her as she made her escape and her presence known.
"Commodore! There was another one of them here! The Animator was with them!" A Marine yelled as he tried firing again at the retreating form of the woman and the creation she brought to life.