It is a special day in East Blue, on the island Shells Town, the Marines have started a special program for young boys and girls who wish to be the strongest of the Marines.
"The last name on the list is... Traversed Sora!" the officer called out confused with the name he had just read.
"It's Traverse D. Sora! ... Sir" shouted back a boy among the lineup of people.
"Alright, moving on, all those who have been called please step forward." said the officer as he began stepping down making way for someone else to stand up in front of the now small group of people.
Eight recruits have made it into this special section of the marines while 20 or so others have been rejected.
"I am Rear Admiral Travis, the man responsible for your recruit. As of now the eight of you have now been granted the rank of petty officer. From now on all eight of you have the opportunity to rise in rank, so work hard and you will be rewarded!" the admiral had stepped down, apparently finished with his speech.
The officer who had been calling the names of the recruits stepped back up to finish the ceremony. "Those who have been recruited can now enter the camp to their respective sections. Those who were not selected... Should try again in a few weeks time." the officer stepped down, everyone done with their speeches, the recruitment meeting was over.
"What? When did they talk about sections?" Sora asked himself; "probably when I wasn't paying attention...great!" he began laughing at himself.
He had been watching the two marine ships that had docked into the marine dock, wondering which one he would end up on.
Everyone had gone, he stood by himself right next to the dock were the eight new recruits were accepted. With marines guarding the dock, exploring the ships was out of the question, during the day anyways.
Without anything else to satisfy his curiosity Sora decided to head back to the marine building, where he should already be at according to the look of things.
"Might as well explore a bit before I get scolded for not paying attention when I was supposed to... Hahaha!" said Sora as he walked pass two marines as he entered the marine building.
"Hey! Where are you heading? You are supposed to head to your bunk!" shouted one of the marines Sora had just passed.
"And that would be...where exactly?" asked Sora, forgetting to add sir to honor the higher marine talking to him. Sora had realized this mistake and began to laugh, "I'm guessing it is not that way?" he said while pointing towards the closed off courtyard.
With anger and aggravation in his voice the marine officer said "Causing problems on the first day are we rookie?"
Immediately Sora responded without a moment's pause "No sir! I would not dare to cause any problems with you..." the two marines looked furious, and looked as if they were about to do something to Sora.
Quickly Sora gave a stern face towards the two marines at the front door, and began looking over their shoulders, behind them, as if someone "important" was there.
The two officers turned around quickly as to see who was waiting behind them, quickly because they were supposed to be watching the outside not the in. And to their surprise there was no one there, and again they turned to see Sora, who was nowhere to be seen.
Finally out of the two marines' eyesight, Sora laughed and continued through the courtyard he was not supposed to be in, there was only two directions for him to go in, forward entering another part of the building, or back the way he came.
"Mannn, right when I got outside again I gotta go back in..." said Sora as he approached the door in front of him, "and behind door number one is..." he said while opening the door.
To his surprise Sora found himself at the end of a long hallway. To his right were a door and the end of the hallway, and to his left a seemingly endless hallway.
Looking towards the left "that's probably where I am supposed to be," Sora said to himself as he turned to the left. "I wonder if there's a girls dormit..." Sora stopped short, he heard something from the room behind him "I probably shouldn't...but... Why not hahaha" he laughed to himself as he walked towards the sound.
After doubling back to the door, he found that the door was open a crack, "Perfect!" he thought to himself. He crept up as close to the door as he could, he wanted to hear everything, hoping that it is something worthwhile.
Sora recognized the two voices coming from the office, one was definitely the officer that had called and messed up his last name. "Travis do you really think it's a good idea to pair two Devil Fruit users together?" said the officer with some frustration in his voice.
"Ripper, this is the best we can do for the time being. Commodore Summers requested the two of them, besides putting that Sora with Summers little sister will definitely be an interesting combination..." Rear Admiral Travis seemed to be finished talking. "But sir, that Sora is nothing but trouble..." Ripper said in hopes of changing the Rear Admirals mind.
"Two Devil Fruit Users! And it's a girl!" Sora said out loud by accident. "What was that?" said one of the people from the office.
"I'm Out!" Sora thought to himself, he immediately began to run down the hallway as fast as he could, so he would not get caught and put in more trouble than he already might be.
Without realizing he made it into the mess hall, the mess halls balcony to the lower level was getting closer as Sora ran faster and faster. "At this point it's too late to slow down, and I'd rather not get seen...hopefully nobody notices too much..." Sora said to himself as the area around him had become very windy.
Sora jumped to the balcony, as I'd time stopped, he saw the lower level filled with marines, young and old. "Great" he thought and as time began to flow normally he launched himself into the air.
"High-wind Burst!" shouted Sora as he sped up in mid air, to the point where he became one with the wind, flying over the mess halls lower level. As he was reaching the balcony on the other side of the mess hall, he realized that he caused a huge up wind in the cafeteria below him.
"This Devil Fruit always comes in handy; I am the God of Wind! hahaha!" sora laughed loudly, to the marines below it went unheard due to all the wind Sora had conjured up to take the jump.
His two feet touched down on the balcony on the opposite side of the mess hall, he hopped off the balcony to get out of sight, and continued on his way. There to his surprise was a sign on the way pointing down the hall that read "new recruit dorms"