Disclaimer: I own nothing related to One Piece save for the plot line of this story
::: As The Wind Blows :::
::: Chapter 1 :::
A One Piece fanfic where Luffy ate another kind of devil fruit, and so he sets out to the seas with a different attitude, a new look and a blade at his side.
The winds blows as it pleases, it doesn't stop for any man or obstacle, and if angered it will blow away any and all in its path. But like the oceans, the wind can be conquered, it's just that no-one knows how to. One day, a man will conquer the oceans and the wind, and this is the story of that man.
Coby rolled the barrel he was carting to the cargo hold of a passenger ship. The short, pink haired boy wiped his forehead after setting his cargo down. He soon heard the loud chattering between a couple of pirates that were heading his way, and when he turned around he saw that they were at the door way.
"What's this you've brought in here, Coby?" one of the men asked.
Coby was scared of the pirates before him and so his response was filled with his stuttering, "I think it's some sake."
The men then cheered amongst themselves and started to motioned toward opened the barrel for a drink, when Coby started to fret about what the captain would think. The boy's panicking was quickly put out of the men's minds arguing the if the captain never found out about the sake, then they wouldn't get into any trouble. When the men went to open the barrel, the top exploded open and a teenager with messy black hair, a scar under his left eye and a straw hat on his head appeared in the wake of the barrel's explosion.
"WAAAAH, I SLEPT GREAT." The boy cried out loudly with his arms out stretched still from breaking out of his earlier imprisonment.
The pirates and Coby who were still startled by the sudden explosion of a barrel and appearance of a person, started to gather their bearing to ask questions, "Oi, who the hell are you!"
The question managed to get the boys attention and he turned his black eyes to the group, "I'm Luffy, so have you guy's got any meat around here?" The boy, now known as Luffy, climbed out of the barrel, he the patted down his clothes that consisted of a red button-up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, some loose black pants that were tucked into a pair of dark ash-grey cuffed boots, that reached to just below his knees. At his hip was a sheathed cutlass with a decorative hand-guard being three bars that came from the front, the middle and in-between those two and the three black bars then joined together three quarters of the way down the handle and the blade, in its sheath, reached a length of three feet and a width of two inches, while the handle was a good five inches long.
Luffy's blunt response caught the group flat footed once, and they struggled to continue questioning the boy, "What the hell is wrong with you? Are you messing with us, even knowing that we're vicious pirates!" the three pirates exclaimed in perfect synchronisation.
Luffy blinked before bursting in laughter, "That was great, are you guy's a comedy group? Speaking of which I still want some meat." At this point, Luffy had started to ignore the pirates and spoke directly to Coby, "Hey do you know where I can find some meat."
"Quit ignoring us!" The three pirate synchronised their response once more, only for Luffy to completely ignore them still. Irked and disgruntled by the blatant disrespect, the pirates drew their swords and attempted to attack the teen. Luffy turned around as they approached, and with a swift movement he drew his cutlass and cut through all three of the pirates blades, and rested his blade on his shoulder before looking at the three pirates, now wide eyed and thoroughly terrified, "What is your problem?"
After Luffy had asked this, all three pirates ran away screaming. Coby immediately asked what had just happened only to get a apathetic dismissal from Luffy and at this point, Coby started panicking once more, about how if the pirate returned with their friends they would kill Luffy, which was once again dismissed by the person on question. The pink haried cabin boy then latched onto the teen in an attempt to stop his movement but to no avail as Luffy set off to follow the scent of food he had picked up, dragging the body latched to his arm along with him.
Eventually the two reached a room filled with food, which resulted in a very excited Luffy, who had started eating from a crate of apples. Luffy asked what kind of ship they were currently on and whether they had any boats, in part because his earlier boat had gotten caught in a large whirlpool that was not too far from the passenger ship. Eventually Coby shared how he had become the cabin boy to Alvida's crew, resulting in Luffy out-right saying that his idiocy and cowardice were traits of people he hated.
"You're right, if I had the courage to sail out in a barrel and be rid of these guys I would. I mean, I have a dream, you know." Coby spoke with dejection clear in his voice before perking up again, "So why did you set out to sea, Luffy?"
"That's easy, I'm gonna be 'King of the Pirates'." As LUffy said this, Coby's jaw dropped comically to the ground.
"The 'King of the Pirates'? That would mean you are going after the One Piece, right." Luffy confirmed the rhetorical question with a nod, "No way, that's impossible, some like you can't do it, there are meaner, bigger and stronger people out there, it's impossible, impossible, imposs…"
BONK
"Ow, why did you hit me?" Coby was crouched on the ground, nursing the spot that luffy had struck.
"You were pissing me off, I'm not doing this because I know I can succeed. I'm doing this because I want to, I made a promise a while back to become king of the pirates and some now I'm sailing to do just that, and if I die fighting for my dream, then I won't have any regrets." Luffy took the straw hat off his head while he spoke, looking into it while remembering his promise and why he was sailing. "But first things first, I still need a boat, I wonder if they'll just give me one if I ask nice enough".
Luffy had started to walk away but Coby turned to him and cried out, "It's always been my dream to be a marine and catch bad guys. Do you think I could do it, Luffy?"
"What are you asking me for? I don't know." Luffy smirked at the pink haired cabin boy.
"I'm going to do it and when I join the marine I'll right round and catch that mean old Alvida."
Just as Coby finished speaking, the roof started to crack and then completely fell down into the room, while miraculously, everything that fell down, missed to two boys inside the room completely.
"Who is it you plan on catching, Coby? And you really think this punk is going to help you?" A woman's husky voice broke through the dust that was still settling from the roof collapse.
Coby had started to shiver uncontrollably when he heard the voice, and only worsened the dust completely settled. The person started in the wake of the dust was grossly overweight, she had pink chequered shirt under a blue decorated captains coat. The woman had a white cowboy hat on her head, a purple sash around her waist holding a single flintlock pistol, below that she wore white shorts with a pair of red shoes with pointed toes. Her hair was long black and curly, her face bore a number of noticeable freckles on her cheeks and she wore only red lipstick by way of make-up, and over her shoulder she hefted an over-sized spiked club.
Alvida looked up and directly at Luffy, "From the look of you I'm guessing you're not the pirate hunter Zoro." ALvida then turned her attention to Coby once more, "Coby, tell me. Who is the most beautiful of all on these seas."
Coby squawked when Alvida turned her attentions towards him and started stammering toward the usual response, only to stop slack-jawed with the question that Luffy then asked him, "Oi Coby, who's this fat lady."
The pirates under Alvida started to panic and Alvida herself snapped swinging her club down in an attempt to hit the straw hat wearing teen. Luffy leapt out of the way and landed in front of Coby, picking the boy up and jumping out through the hole in the roof that Alvida had made during her earlier entrance to the room.
Outside, the two were confronted by the Alvida pirates. One attempted to make a horizontal slash at Luffy who in turn, drew his own sword, blocking the attack and proceeded to backhand the pirate into unconsciousness. Luffy then spun around and kicked another pirate who had ran at the teen screaming with his sword held up for and downward slash. A group of four pirates then tried to cut the straw hat clad teen only for said teen to jump high into the air, avoid the attack completely.
Coby watched the short exchange with wide eyes and cried out a warning to Luffy when he saw that someone had jumped from one of the higher decks and was falling down just above Luffy. Moving out of the way just in time, Luffy then kicked the pirate in the back of the head and consequently into the pirates that had tried to attack him earlier, talking about how it was 'unfair to sneak up on people'. Hearing growls from behind him, Luffy turned to see an even larger group than before glaring at him, and then started running away from the group crying out that it was 'even more unfair to gang up on a guy'.
Eventually, Luffy stopped some way in front of the group and jumped a small way into the air. When he reached the apex of his jump, the group of pirates had reached him. Luffy smirked and cocked his right leg back before shouting, "Soaring Kick", the kick crashed into the pirate at the front of the group and the force of the kick caused him to fly straight through the group behind him, knocking them out in the process. Seeing the results, Luffy grinned before bringing his hands to the victory sign, "Strike"
Alvida had managed to climb out of the whole in time to see her crew get taken down by a single person and was left slack-jawed when she saw the result of Luffy's last attack. Coby then ran up to Luffy and started questioning him about it, before noticing that Alvida was standing behind him. After Coby scampered behind Luffy, Alvida spoke up, "I take you've eaten of one of the devil fruits?"
"Yup, but how did you guess?" Luffy was confused and didn't think he was obvious in his use of his devil fruit powers.
"It's because no man can kick that hard without the help of devil fruit powers." Alvida said confidently, "And before now I had only heard rumours of their existence. You are a lot more skilled that the average sailor, are you perhaps a bounty hunter?"
"Nope, I'm a pirate." Luffy was blunt with his answer and did so without hesitation.
"A pirate, by yourself in these waters?" Alvida condescendingly asked.
"Well today it's just me but I'll find my crew tomorrow or next week, or some time. And I'll have like ten guys, yeah ten"
Alvida laughed, "okay, then tell me. If the both of us are pirates and you aren't under my flag that we would be enemies, no?"
At the this point Coby started trying to convince Luffy to escape, only to be questioned why, "You saw how strong her club is, and of all the evil, villainous pirates in the seas, she's the most…" Coby's sentence trailed as he remembered what Luffy had said earlier in the food store room.
"Yes Coby, tell him." Alvida sneered
"you're the most ugliest thing on the seas!" Coby finished the sentence in a complete f=different manner to how he had meant to. After Coby had spoken, time seemed to have stopped with the pirates jaws hanging and Luffy laughing boisterously. The statement also ended up resulting in Alvida snapping again, and in response she tried to bring her club down on both Luffy and Coby.
"Well said, but I'll take it from here." Luffy pushed Coby well out of Alvida's range and stood still, until the club came crashing down on his head. Alvida smirked when she saw the bady crushed under her club, but the soon vanished along with the body. Looking up she then saw Luffy, almost hovering in front of her with a massive grin on his face.
"You're way to slow with that club, and what where you swinging at anyways?" Luffy's grin seemed to widen before he spoke once more, "Now I'm going to have to ask you to fly away, 'Soaring Kick'." Luffy's kick connected with Alvida's face, and like with the pirate earlier, the force sent her flying away far enough that she disappeared in the distance.
After Alvida had flown off, Luffy turned to the Pirates left of her crew and ordered, "Hey, you guys. Coby's going to leave and join the marines so don't get in his way; oh and give him a boat too." The pirates were too afraid to argue since the teen had just sent their captain flying with a kick, so they immediately conceded to the demands. Moments later, both ships were rocked by cannon balls landing in the sea nearby. Looking to see who had fired, Luffy noticed three marine ships in the distance, "Hey, speak of the devil, why don't you go over there and ask to join? Well I'm a pirate so I'm outta here."
Coby then cried out that he would be arrested ike any other pirate if he did and followed Luffy onto a small dinghy with a sail. The two of the loosened the ropes tying the boat to the side of the ship and let it fall to the water below. When the boat landed, the splash, ended up hitting another small that was nearby it's only occupant, a girl, scream in surprise. Luffy heard the scream and turned to see who had made it and when he saw the girl in her boat, gave her a wink and grin, causing a slight blush to form on her face. After the silent interaction between the two, Luffy and Coby both started to sail away from the marine and into open waters.
After they managed to escape, Coby wondered on how they had actually done so while Luffy lay down on the mast with his hat over his eyes, "Well that was rather fun."
"So Luffy, if you're after the One Piece, then you must be headed for the Grand line, Right?" When Luffy gve his acknowledgment and assent to the question, Coby continued, "You know, all the people I've heard from say that place is also known as the pirate graveyard."
"Yep, which is why I need and extra strong crew. You guys mentioned someone named Zoro, what's he like?" Luffy asked lifting his hat to look at Coby.
"Well, the last I heard, he was being held prisoner at a marine base not far from here."
"Oh, so he's weak, huh?"
Luffy's offhand dismissal of Zoro's prowess caused Coby to start up, "No way, you've got it all wrong he's as strong as a demon and three times as bad…" Coby's voice trailed off as he thought about Luffy's reasons, "So why are you asking about him anyway?"
Luffy grinned as he answered, "Well I figure if he's good enough I'll ask him to be a part of my crew." A comment which caused Coby to start panicking with his usual down play of Luffy's capabilities.
:::Author's Notes:::
I wont be doing Luffy's past with Shanks since it will pretty much be the same as in the Manga/Anime and if you don't know what i'm talking about then you should be shot.
Also since I dont want people asking me what Devil Fruit he ate i will tell you here in Bold Letters: LUFFY ATE THE KAZE KAZE NO MI (THE WIND FRUIT, LOGIA TYPE.)
Techinque description:
'Soaring Kick'
Luffy coats his leg with a compressed layer of wind effectively making it harder
and also uses the wind to speed his kick to blindingly fast speeds.
another fact is that Luffy tends to jump before performing this move, another
reason it is the 'Soaring Kick' because Luffy seems to hover before attacking and the
victim is sent soaring through the air afterwards.