Author's Note: Yes, you read that correctly. A One Piece and Hetalia crossover. This fic takes place in the One Piece universe, sometime between Fishman Island and Punk Hazard. Do not fear, my anti-yaoi friends (if any) there will not be any romance that goes further than friendships. But on the other hand, I will try to keep this as interesting as possible for everyone. I got this idea a long time ago, but haven't really fleshed out the story until now. I am really excited for this story! I've made several in-depth characters to play as the 'bad guy' roles, and made a sensible plot. Now we just have to see if my patience with my own writing style hold out.

Just a warning (since I am well aware of how different these two shows are) If I get ANY negative comments, they will be ignored. If you do not like either show, then please don't read it. Critiques, however, are always welcome and encouraged. I know my writing style isn't the best, so critiques are very much appreciated. If I make a mistake, please don't be afraid to point it out :) I know I am very prone to making mistakes, especially in writing. Other than that, I hope you enjoy!

Prologue

The warm rays of the sun shone down on the New World this glorious morning. It was one of the rare, peaceful days here on these deadly seas. Arthur found himself lost in thought as he gazed out quietly over the water painted beautiful warm colors by the rising sun. This place was certainly not home; it never was and never will be no matter how long he stayed. A gentle breeze blew, ruffling his flag perched on top the mast. The sea gulls swayed daintily in the wind from the air above his ship. Arthur breathed a heavy sigh through his nostrils.

"Hey Captain! What're you up to this fine morning?" A familiar voice called out, forcing Arthur from his trance. He glanced over at his first mate, a young man with strawberry blonde hair and a bright smile to match. His vibrant blue eyes glittered from behind his glasses as he approached his captain. Arthur felt himself smile.

"Not much," he stated in reply. "Just watching the waves while they're calm."

Another breeze blew between the two. This time, it was strong enough to make Arthur's red captain coat flap gently like the flag. His blonde hair brushed gently over his face, grazing lightly at the prominent eye patch over his right eye. With his good eye, he watched his friend. Guilt throbbed in his heart. His smile was so big, and so bright that not even the sun could compare. But Arthur knew all of it was a lie, merely a mask. He knew Alfred was hurting underneath it all. He knew that he wanted to go home more than anything else.

"Say, Al…" said Arthur in a low, heavy tone. At his name, the boy glanced over curiously. "How long has it been now? Two years… Three?"

Alfred's eyes sparkled in the mental pain as he let out a small, half-assed laugh. "Something like that… time really does fly doesn't it?" he sighed.

"And I still haven't found a way back… how pathetic…" Arthur grimaced.

"Don't say that!" Alfred bit back. "We'll find our way home eventually, I know it!"

"Home… yes. Home is our goal. But when we've done all we can already, what else can we do? We might just spend our entire life trying to find that answer. We are mortal in this world after all," Arthur sighed.

"If we made it here, then we have to be able to go back!" Alfred wailed. Arthur knew this much was true, but finding the way home was proving to be more difficult said than done.

It's funny how a simple fight with this bastard landed them in this dreadful place. This world was so full of hatred and greed, though truthfully it wasn't very different from their own. The only thing that separated the two was the superhuman people who occupied this one, those who flew under a jolly roger in search of the great treasure of this world known as the one piece, and the government idiots who tried to run it. They're all crazy, the lot of them.

"Come on," Alfred urged with a gentle nudge. "I wanna hear you say it."

"Say what?" Arthur snorted.

"Tell me we'll go home! If the captain says we will, then I know we'll be able to do it!" Alfred boasted childishly.

Arthur couldn't help but to smile in this situation. "Alright. I'm promise the two of us will return home… together like we always have," he laughed.

Alfred's smile stretched from ear to ear. "Good!"

"Captain!" shouted one of Arthur's crew members from the opposite side of the ship. Arthur whipped his gaze around at the desperateness in his voice as he saw him running around from the bow. "Captain, we have trouble!" he shouted again. Arthur did not know the name of this man, much less anything about him. For all he knew he was someone who decided to sail under his flag. From past experience, Arthur knew a pirate was a pirate no matter which world he existed in, and a pirate cares only about money, not the captain they follow.

"Spit it out sailor. What do you see?" Arthur barked in his direction. The man stopped to catch his breath, panting furiously with his hands on his knees. When he finally looked up again, his eyes were filled his panic. "It's the marines, sir!" he wailed wearily. Arthur felt his blood run cold. "Well why didn't you bloody say so five minutes ago?!" he cursed as he stormed off toward the bow. Alfred was quick to follow.

"It would seem you're pretty famous on these waters!" Alfred teased. However, Arthur saw nothing funny in this situation. "Idiot! If I'm famous then we'll be hunted," he retorted as the two came up on the bow of the ship. Sure enough, there was a marine ship no less than 20 yards away. There was no running from this battle.

"It's so good to see you again… Captain Arthur of the Kirkland Pirates!" a mysterious, nasally man shouted from the marine vessel. Arthur had seen this face before from a previous quarrel, but the marine had been so weak and disgraceful that Arthur had forgotten his name completely. This encounter certainly won't be any different.

"Marine scum… how lovely of you to pay us a visit. But may I ask what a weak marine such as you is doing on this half of the Grand Line?" Arthur challenged.

"Oh, Like you have room to talk!" the Marine Captain roared. "A pirate with a bounty of Ninety Million won't get far in the New World!"

Alfred gazed at Arthur in awe. "Ninety Million?" he breathed. He had never heard of a pirate with a first time bounty so high.

"Tch, what do you want, scum," Arthur scoffed.

The Marine ignored the title given to him and laughed. "Well, seeing as you are a wanted pirate," he began. Arthur narrowed his eyes unhappily. "I'm here to take you and your crew to prison for piracy, obviously."

"It would seem you still haven't learned your lesson," Arthur grumbled lowly.

Things were silent and tense for a few long moments. Marines exchanged unsure glances between each other. "Are the rumors about him really true?" one whispered to another. "I heard he ate a devil fruit and can still swim, he's a monster!" another wailed. "Really? I've never heard of such a thing…"

"All of you shut up!" the captain shouted. All the marines jolted at the anger in his voice. "Do you realize how pathetic you sound?! Catching him will be easy! Just sail the ship over there and grab him!" the captain ordered. The marines snapped to attention and saluted. "Sir!" they barked in unison. However, their little bit of courage was shot down when a ball of fire crashed into the side of their vessel, creating a fairly large hole and rocking the ship so fiercely that some of the men tumbled to the ground. The Marine Captain growled in annoyance as he glared at Arthur. "You! You'll pay for this!" he shouted.

Arthur had a cocky smirk stretched across his face with his palm outstretched toward the ship. "It would seem the last time I beat you senseless wasn't enough," he chuckled. Arthur's fist burst into flames as a ball of fire gathered at his palms once more. "Here… have another!" he shouted. The ball of fire flew across the waters and hit the marine ship again. Alfred put on a lopsided smile. "Nice one!" he complimented. Arthur turned away, losing interest in this fight already. "That bastard has no clue what he's dealing with," he retorted. The desperate cries of the marines echoed like sea gulls from across the waters as they tried to save their burning ship.

"Fire the cannon!"

Arthur's heart skipped a beat as the familiar sound of the explosion rang in his ear. He spun around for a counter attack, but only milliseconds too late. The large cannon ball pierced the deck of the ship directly in front of him, knocking Alfred back a good couple yards and creating a massive hole on the deck. Alfred scrambled to sit up only to find an empty hole where his beloved captain stood only a few brief seconds ago. "Arthur!" he cried out.

The captain'ss maniacal laugh echoed above the noise. Alfred cast a cold, blood-thirsty glare in his direction. "Bastard!" he screeched.

"Now, now… that was too easy," the marine teased. Alfred leapt to his feet, whipping out his shot gun and taking aim at the vessel. However, he did not fire right away. The captain glared at the weapon with a disappointed smirk on his lips. "Go on, shoot me. But don't whine when I give you a bounty," he warned.

"Like I give a shit," Alfred grimaced. "I'm a pirate! You think I care?!" He fired the bullet, but it merely whizzed past the marine's head. However, Alfred never dropped his stance once.

After the initial shock wore off, the captain growled in annoyance. "What a pitiful shot. You call yourself a sniper?" he sneered. Alfred put on a cocky grin. "Who said I was aiming for you?" There was a thick moment of silence. Suddenly, the water below the ship bubbled a bit, and Alfred's grin snapped to a small scowl. The captain looked displeased with this whole situation. His gaze switched oddly between the bubbling water and the boy on the deck before him.

"Well… it would seem he has eaten one of the devil fruits. No matter, he'll be dead soon-"

A Sudden burst erupted from the waves as a massive pillar of water rose to meet the level of the deck. And on top of that pillar was Arthur. Alfred lowered his gun a tad with a prideful laugh. "It was merely a distraction," he stated. Alfred had known from the beginning that Arthur was going to do this. A simple cannon ball wasn't enough to take out his captain. He's been with him far too long to know that much.

"If you think you can kill me that easily, then you have another thing coming you twit!" Arthur murmured darkly. The captain went into a sudden panic. "No, you should have drowned! What the hell kind of person are you?!" he screeched. Arthur leapt onto the deck and crossed his arms in front of his chest as a circle of light appeared below him. "You'll never understand me," he stated before a massive pillar of light shone down on the vessel, completely tearing it to pieces and sending everyone into the ocean in a ball of fire and debris. Arthur quickly kicked the air, using a technique he'd learned recently, leaping off thin air back to his ship. As he landed, Alfred was by his side with an arm extended. Arthur proceeded with a high-five and a smirk.

"Nice work as always. He never saw you coming!" Alfred praised.

Arthur brushed this sopping wet hair behind his ear. "That idiot has no clue on how to fight properly. What a fool," he grumbled in response. Arthur glanced around at the empty deck. "Where were all the men?" he asked. Alfred sighed heavily with a scratch to the back of his head. "Who knows… probably scared to death below deck," he retorted. Arthur clicked his tongue on the back of his teeth. "Pathetic lot…" he grumbled.

"So what are we gonna do about this hole?" Alfred asked as he toyed with a loose plank of wood with his foot. "We'll get her fixed at the next town. A place called Guzen I believe," Arthur replied.

Alfred wore his bright smile again as he glanced ahead into the vast sea. "Guzen, huh?" he said airily. It almost sounded as if he hadn't meant to say that aloud.

"What is it?" Arthur scoffed.

Alfred snapped his attention back to his friend briefly. "Oh, I don't know. I just have a good feeling about this place, you know?" he sighed.

"I feel like we might actually get our answers."

A little Fun Fact... The title 'A Pirate's Quarter' was taken from this phrase I saw on a 'talk like a pirate' site. The phrase was "Show no Quarter," which literally means to show no mercy. So in this context, A pirate's Quarter means a Pirate's Mercy, which refers to the mercy that Luffy and the gang always show to those they consider friends, and what little mercy they show to any who stand in their way. I hope this makes light of the title a little bit :')

Oh yea, and I will probably be posting pictures of some of the characters I'll be introducing later on my DeviantArt Account (Torra001) Since I made them up myself. Just thought I'd give you all a better glimpse of them in case I stink at explaining them. (I already have Arthur's wanted poster up there somewhere lol.)

Thanks for reading! :D