I consider myself a selfish person. I never use too, but those naive thoughts left my mind when I became an adult and started making my own choices and found out that I can be a real ass. Because of this karma has decided to devote a lot of its attention on my activities and deliver harsh punishment on me. At least that's what i would like to believe. I told a bartender this once, he called me a superstitious idiot so and I punched him in the face - seconds later I'm sitting in an alley after a bouncer hammers a tooth out of my face with his meaty fist.
Ya see? Karma... and me being an idiot. So I was a little drunk-but I had a legit reason! It was a real crap day so I think I deserved a few drinks after falling overboard with a decent chunk of beli's worth of Alabasta silk and getting an earful from the Captain. Yeah, that was a really real crap day and the other reason I'm in a certain complicated situation at the moment.
I'm going to dumb down the explanation of my slow spiral into this madness so I can cut straight to the meat of the story.
I had a mother who had a husband that went to sea a lot as a sailor, she rarely saw him and began to hate him for his absence. Me on the other hand, being the child I was, idolized him like a deity. one-day he never came back and when I turned into a teenager I wanted to join a crew and search for him, mom wouldn't have it. The fight was inevitable; it was long, it was violent, it got me kicked out of the house. Angry, I acted out of impulse I jumped on to the first ship that was looking for a crew.
The sailor's life was harder than I expected and not nearly as fun as thought, I learned that the hard way. Probably didn't help that I practically threw my self out-of-the-way to mouth off at my Captain at every turn. Earned a few laughs from the crew sure, but the Captain started to loath me. A few years later of work shipments with them, the silk incident was the last straw and I got tossed off ship at the next island.
Asshole Captain didn't even pay me for my services this year.
On a unknown island with little to no beli and homeless, I was at a loss at what to do.
After a week of self loathing and pity over my actions to my mother and employer I finally got over myself and tried to find a job but couldn't get one. No one would take me, the closest I could get were odd jobs every other day and that wasn't enough to actually get me anywhere.
But I had a plan, it was a small one but I found it brilliant none the less and I grew excited at the concepts after seeing a certain piece of equipment in the window of a pawn shop. If I could save enough money on the side I could buy it and start my own buisness; make a name for myself, earn my own cash, be my own boss!
So I shifted what little savings I kept for buying an apartment to fund my little dream. Sure, I had to live in an alley for a few more months but I had finally did it, and it was still in the pawn shop on sale!
I gathered all my savings, ready to begin with the foundations of my dream!
Then it all went south...
Two thugs, two pirates ran into my alley to hide. Possibly from their own crew for betrayal from what I gathered but that's not important. What's important is that they were panicking about the treasure they stole, that they would be skinned alive when they were found.
They had a Devil Fruit
They had seen me
They apparently came up with a brilliant plan to hide it, to shove it down my throat and quickly cut it out when they were in the clear with their mates. Thinking they had time before the fruit was lost and would change me forever.
They were wrong, the result was instant.
I felt like my innards were on fire, it hurt so much that I barely noticed their crew showed up and the two quickly blamed the theft of the fruit on me. The Captain walked up to my withering, pain filled form with thoughts of murder burning in his eyes.
"You think you can steal from me," he gripped my throat with one meaty hand, lifting his blade to meet my throat. "Where is my fruit, where is my key to power you pathetic whelp!?"
The pain slowly disintegrated and strength surged into my limbs. I stood taller, felt my arms ripple with muscle and my teeth grow sharp as I growled at the lice infested Captain and his crew. This power felt amazing as I continued to change before their very eyes.
The mans eyes widened, "You ate it." What surprise he had at this development vanished in his rage, "You took my chance to become great, I'll kill you!"
The were was a yell from back, a shot was been fired.
The Marines had arrived.
And all hell broke loose.
A volley of lead cascaded into the alley. The Captains hand slipped as a bullet dug into his shoulder, the blade slicing into my skin as I bled freely from the wound.
My world went black.
I woke up, possibly days later, with stitches in my throat, unable to talk, change back to normal, and on a pirate ship in the middle of nowhere on the open ocean.
What have I done this time karma?
"Where did you find him," A certain curly eyebrowed man asked as he continued to skillfully chop away at the carrots in front of him before moving toward the potatoes, "and why was his throat cut open?"
"I don't know Sanji, me and Robin found him like that when we left the book store." The little reindeer, Chopper, answered as he glanced at the chef practically wailing, "There was this big fight these guys had with the Marines and when it cleared we saw him laying there, we couldn't just leave him!"
Sanji glanced up from the counter away from his cutting board, "You know he can't stay here, I don't wanna be mean or anything but I would feel more comfortable if we dropped him off at the next island we reach."
Chopper grew panicked, "But we can't just drop him off, he still needs someone to keep an eye on him! What if he starts bleeding with no one to help him!?"
"Garrrmoarrra-rrrrrr-rrrrr!"
"DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL YOU SHIT HEAD!" Sangi screeched as he slammed his foot in the back of their Captains skull. "Honestly, how many times do I have'ta tell ya! You'll spray spit over Nami-Swans and Robin-Chwans food!"
Luffy, even though he slammed head first into the oak table, sprung back up unaffected, food now shoved down his gullet from the blow, "I say we keep him!"
Robin gave a chuckle at the rubber mans antics while Nami only shook her head in exasperation, "Why, Luffy? What possible reason would we keep him here with us?"
Luffy opened his mouth to respond before it quickly closed again as he began to think...which soon lead to whining, " But Naaaaammmmiiiiiiiii!"
Lifting a delicate hand to her head to keep back a growing headache she decided to nip this in the bud before she got a migraine, "Okay Luffy, if you can think of one good reason to keep him with us I'll consider it."
Luffy, and unsurprisingly Chopper, cheered in unison as they hugged and luffy began springing around the room with Chopper in his clutches.
"It's gotta be a good reason so don't get excited!" Nami yelled as she tried to bring order to the table. "He can stay till he's better but afterwords, if you can't give me a good reason, he's off at the next island!"
Chopper leaned towards Luffy's ear, "Chopper, you can't help him!"
Ussop gave a glance to the open door to the deck as he continued to munch away at his meal, "I don't know, it would be a lot of responsibility to watch him, even if it's until he gets better." He continued to stare outside which gained the attention of the others occupying the table.
Outside, sitting on the deck in the evening sun, was a little wiener dog covered in brown and white spotted fur with stitching surrounding his throat staring at the residing crew members with confused and scared eyes.
