Wealth Fame and Power these are the three words.
Gold Roger the King of the Pirates was executed before he died he left his dying wishes.
"You want my treasure you can have it I left everything exactly at that place now you just have to find it"
those were his final words as Pirates set sail through the seas to find the great treasure called the one piece but some will never make out alive, they can die trying but they will never reach the one piece in the grand line.
unknown Island somewhere in the East blue.
in uncharted Island was wasteland surrounded by sand and grass around some dead trees in the middle was a flat land covered by orange sand there was a wooden cross with a little girl.
the little girl was nailed into the cross with her shoulders bleeding her hands were tied up with rope to the left side and right side, she wears old rags clothes, like a prison outfit and her hair, was blonde but it was short shoulder and ponytail.
she tried to struggle to free but the nails in her shoulders give her more pain.
"ow! damn nails when I get out of here I'm going to make my 'commander and chief' pay for what he did"
she swears vengeance on the one that put her on the cross in the first place before she realized the sun was burning her skin so hot that she sweat in her forehead trying to make her pass out.
she tried to stay awake by shaking her head not to pass out but it ain't working.
"when I get out of here... I'm going to make those Marines pay... them and their stupid... Commander"
the girl starts to lose consciousness slowly as the heat makes boil her blood she closed her eyes to end this heat of suffering.
"Hey there!" a mysterious teenage male voice appears
the girl opens her eyes slowly and saw a teenager boy with a straw hat on his head
the girl lift up an eyebrow "what the? how did he get past the defenses?"
"who are you?"
"my name is Monkey D Luffy and I'm going to become king of the Pirates"
the girl blink a couple of times before she busts out a laugh "hahahaha! you?! the pirate king?! don't make me laugh!" she continues laughing at him.
Luffy tilt his head "huh? what are you talking about? I'm being serious"
the girl stops laughing before looking at Luffy "how serious? and how are you going to become King of the Pirates? you need to go to the Grand line and find the great treasure call the one piece"
"that's why I am going to the Grand line" Luffy smiled "and I am going to become king of the Pirates"
"you know going to the Grand line it's a suicide mission and a fool's errand you're not going to make it out alive you know" the girl replied with a warning
"Maybe" Luffy ignore half of a girl's warning and didn't care if he lives or dies "by the way how did you get here? and why are you nailed to a cross?"
"treason I betrayed the Marines and my own personnel Duty" the girl explained
"she said Duty" Luffy almost to laugh at that "but still why did you betray them in the first place?"
"that's...complicated" the girl wasn't sure if she trusts him "but now it's not the time for an explanation I need your help to get me out of these stupid nails that are hanging on my shoulders and they're starting to hurt me like hell"
"okay"
the girl lifts up an eyebrow again "that's it? he didn't even say no?"
Luffy grabs the nail on her left shoulder " once I pull it out you know it's going to hurt right?"
"I don't really care if it's going to hurt just pull it out"
"Okay, your choice" Luffy begins to pull the nail out of her left shoulder as the girl grinds her teeth in pain. the nail was a little hard to remove but Luffy managed to remove it as the girl's blood drop down to the sand.
the little girl almost screams pain but she didn't she was glad the nail was out of her left shoulder.
"okay one down one to go" Luffy throw the nail away and move on to the other one. as he grabbed the other nail from the right of her shoulder but it came out easy without her screaming in pain "that's odd? It must have loosened up a bit when you're moving around your shoulder" before Luffy throws the other nail away.
"thank you, can you help me out of these ropes?"
"okay"
Luffy grabs onto the ropes on her left and right hand before he ripped them off of her as she got off the cross.
the little girl feels freedom but she collapses however Luffy caught her for almost hitting the ground.
"wow you must be hungry" before Luffy set the girl down
"no duh I've been kept out here for the past 3 days without no food or water" her stomach agreed with her with a growl.
"here" Luffy gave her an apple she took it and eat the Apple quickly "calm down or-"
"(cough cough)" the girl coughs out some of the Apple from her mouth.
"or else you'll cough if you eat like that" Luffy finish the sentence but she just ignores him and continues to eat the apple.
xx
after she was finished she has one thing to take care of like getting her weapon and equipment back before leaving this island.
"by the way what's your name?" Luffy spoke first
the girl quickly got out her personal thoughts "oh right sorry, my name is Tanya V. Degurechaff, but please call me Tanya"
"it's nice to meet you and do you want to join my crew?" Luffy offers her
Tanya stays silent for a moment and why would a straw hat boy ask a little girl to join his crew? is he crazy or stupid or both? but come to think of it she used to be a Marine but not anymore.
"I'll think about it but first I need a little favor," Tanya says
"I can work with that and what kind of favor?" Luffy asks
"you'll see" Tanya smiled she can't wait to taste the sweet power of Revenge on the Marines.
xx
somewhere at a nearby campsite
we see the Marine camp that was heavily guarded with Marine soldiers their ship was next to the shore near them
as their Commander step out from his big tent.
the Marines salute to him when they see him.
"At ease men," the Marine Commander said, "Sergeant is the Prototype secured?"
"yes sir, we're about to deliver to HQ tomorrow morning" the Marine reported
"good and give me some new updates when we're going to move at the time" the Marine Commander said before he looked at the sky.
"yes sir" the Marine saluted before he goes back to his position
"Sir!" the other Marine came up to the commander "sorry to interrupt you but we have bad news!"
the Marine Commander sighs "can this day gets possibly be worse than bad news or something?"
"what's the bad news?"
"The Prisoner has escaped!" he reports
"what?!" the Marine Commander gets angry, "I told the others to lock her in the cell! but no they didn't listen"
"well find her and catch her search every inch on this island if you have to!"
"yes, sir!"
xx
"how far is it?" Luffy follows Tanya
"not that far," Tanya said while walking
both of them left the crucifixion area. after Tanya got free, she told Luffy that her prototype weapon the one that she made by herself got stolen by the Marines before her betrayal. it was like a treasure to her and it's a good thing Luffy said yes.
Tanya sees the Marine campsite not far from her as she stops walking "okay we're here we should be careful Luffy" however she didn't hear him talk back.
"Luffy?" she looked at Luffy and noticed that he's missing "what? where did he go!?" Tanya tries to look for Luffy but found him. he was running towards the Marine campsite "that idiot! he should have been doing it with stealth!" Tanya runs after him before she feels that her shoulders were all done healing "it's about time they are was done healing"
xx
the Marine look in front of him a crazy man coming towards the campsite then the Marine saw a fist coming towards his face.
"what the-" the Marine was cut off by the fist, it hit his whole nose and face before he fly towards the camp and destroys the Marine Commander's tent.
"what the heck was that?!" the Marine Commander doesn't know if the camp was under attack or not.
"I don't know but we have incoming" the Marine points at Luffy was coming towards the camp.
Luffy jumps higher "gum gum pistol" suddenly his arm begin to stretch as rubber as his fist a hit the another Marine but this time his stomach.
Tanya saw Luffy's arm stretch his out before she finally made it at the campsite "a devil fruit?! does this Straw Hat boy has any more particular powers inside him?!" Tanya witnessed the devil fruit before but never ate one she knows that she'll lose her ability to swim but that's not the chance that she's going to take.
Luffy drops down the middle of the Marine campsite "gum gum Gatling" his two arms begins to stretch out as he punches all the Marines from the front and back knocking them unconscious with one hit except for their Commander who wasn't hit.
"hold it right there!" Tanya catch up to Luffy by walking next to him before she picks up a pistol from one of the unconscious marines "sorry Luffy but he's mine and he's going to start talking where is my treasure at" she looked at the Marine Commander "Commander Harris"
"Major Degurechaff" Commander Harris grind his teeth "you traitor you have some nerve coming back here after you escaped from your little 'cage' what do you want?"
"I want my prototype weapon back if you don't tell me where it is" she pointed the gun at him "or I'll kill you while you stand on your two feet"
"fine you want it? take it. it's useless to us anyway I don't know how to use it's in my tent well what's left of it" Commander Harris replied
"thank you" Tanya shot Commander Harris in the head by killing him before his whole body slowly fell down to the ground.
"why did you kill him for? we could have let him go or tie him up," Luffy asked
"true but if we let him go or tie him up he'll calling reinforcements we can't take that chance" Tanya replied "besides I saw him killed two civilians sometime ago"
Luffy stay silent for a minute "well I hope you know what you're doing"
Tanya nodded "yep stay right here for a moment this won't take long" as she went inside of Commander Harris' destroy tent inside she spotted a rifle case, she opens it and it was her prototype weapon.
"Hello my sweet bolt action rifle it's been a while" Tanya took out her rifle and examines it "still have five shots, I wondered where did he put my ammo and sea prism stone bullets?" she found her sea prism stone bullets and regular bullets inside the case "bingo"
xx
after she was done grabbing her rifle she took off her ragged prison clothes and wears a gray battle uniform with gloves and boots. before she got outside "alright all done" Tanya sees Luffy stuffing his mouth with food that he found, she can't help it to feel the hunger inside her.
"hey let me have some!" Tanya drops her weapon before she joins Luffy to eat.
xx
after they were done eating the food and drinking some water Luffy lead Tanya to his Lifeboat and showing how did he get past the defenses how did he find Tanya.
before they get out of the island Tanya need to ask Luffy some questions.
"Hey, Luffy how did you do that? I know about the devil fruit but what's the name yours?" Tanya asked
"I ate the gum gum fruit and became a rubber man" Luffy explained
"so that's how" Tanya thought to herself " and Luffy?"
"yeah?"
Tanya smiled "I would like to become one of your crew members"
"really!?" Luffy's eyes begin to sparkle like a star
Tanya nodded "yep and I have nowhere else to go so I might as well travel with you"
"sweet! and one last thing" Luffy asked
"what?"
"your shoulders were in pain and stab but they're all healed up how come?" Luffy asks
"when I join the Marines a science experiment has gone wrong and kind of mess up my whole my body then I discovered I have a healing factor inside me" Tanya explained
"awesome! I wish I had that" Luffy got a little disappointment about the healing factor.
"tell me about it" Tanya gets in the Lifeboat as Luffy push it into the sea before he hops into it the sail took the wind so they can travel what other Island they see or visit.
"so who are we're going to recruit?" Tanya asked
"don't know maybe we should get a musician and navigator," Luffy said, "by the way do you know how to navigate?"
"nope" Tanya shank her head "but a little bit not too much though"
"oh well"
as the two pirates sail off the coast of the Island from a far distance unknown to them a mysterious girl was watching the Lifeboat leaving.
"you may have escaped Tanya but I will find you"
to be continued