AN: Pyrohub!? Nani!

Yes, this is a new story, and yes I've stopped writing my other ones. I had GCSEs and completely forgot what I was aiming for when I wrote them. Anyway, this is my first One Piece fanfic and the pairing is undecided but the characters and twists are all planned out for the whole of East Blue. Warning that there will be new crew members and some won't join. Also, the villains will be much stronger than canon.

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece

Our story begins in a quiet little village where there lay in the harbour a large ship with a sign of death, a black flag. The flag dances in the wind as a skull painted on it watched over the peaceful ocean. Peering over it with power.

"Hey, Luffy! Get down from there you idiot."

The shouting of the red-haired man broke the calm and set order of the village. The man's eye was scarred but he had an air of invincibility, the air of a mighty king.

"Hmph! After this, you'll HAVE to take me seriously!" Declared a young boy of seven years with black as night hair, coal eyes and short stature. He wore a white t-shirt, with the 'Anchor' logo stitched at the front and sleeves, coupled with black shorts. He was holding onto a knife and he was shaking but there was steel in his eyes that kept him strong.

"What's Anchor up too now?"

The crew watched with mirth and affection like that of a parent as the seven-year-old stabbed himself with gusto.

"HUUHH!"

"AHH!"

The red-haired man broke into a sprint, disappearing and appearing in an instant as he grabbed onto the boy and began rushing towards a bar to get the idiot medical attention, "The hell where you thinking IDIOT!"

-Time Skip-

"A toast!" Slurred a lug of a man body unstable in his drunkenness, "to Luffy's great and inspiring courage!"

"And to my greatness!" Shouted a man with dark skin and frizzy hair.

"Don't you mean 'our'!" Screamed the rest of the crew with sharklike teeth that defied common knowledge, but Frizzy just laughed nonchalantly not taking back his statement in any way or form.

"It's best not to compare yourself to me or you'll get discouraged."

These actions would later be credited for leading to a mini-brawl between the pirates.

"Are you okay Luffy?" Asked a kind and shapely woman.

"Of course! For a future Pirate King like me, scratches like that don't mean a thing. I'll probably gain a really cool name like Scar-Eye Luffy."

"You?! Pirate King! Forget Pirate King if you're still crying right now from a scratch!" The red-haired man's laughter was mirrored by Makino's giggling. The others would be laughing as well if they weren't having a well-reasoned argument that could only be discussed using fists

"Shut up Shanks!" An angry glint in Luffys teary eyes, "my punches are as strong as any pistol. Take me on a trip to the sea with you and I'll have a bounty worth millions in a day before you know it."

With a condescending look, Shanks mumbled, "A pistol eh..."

"Don't doubt me!"

"Luffy, " said Makino with a mother's smile, " you're much too young to be a Pirate. When you're older I'll make sure Shanks takes you with him."

"If he can swim by then that is, " Sniggered Shanks as he remembered the boy's successful attempt to drown himself.

"Shut up Shanks! It's not my fault if you're a bad teacher." Whined the boy as he stormed away from the giggling pair.

He would have gone to mess around with Roo if he wasn't passed out on the floor.

"Luffy, the Cap'n is doing what's best, for you and the crew," said Beckman, the red-haired pirate's first mate, "the sea ain't no place for a kid no matter how strong. The things pirates do aren't all fun and drinking."

"I can handle all that and more!" Shouted Luffy indignantly, "I'm a real man! Real men don't back away from a challenge."

"Idiots don't know when to back down Luffy, " said Beckman with a sombre look, "real men only fight to the very end for their precious things."

"A real man never stops in the face of any challenge even when something precious isn't on the line!"

"A real man doesn't do everything for glory."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"They're more important things than being the strongest, the richest or the most feared or being a real man."

"Nothing's more important!"

"Luffy~!" Makino said with a smile unknowingly interrupting them, "would you like to come back to Big Sis?"

"No!" Luffy said fighting his want to go back to the pair, "I like Beckman better."

He was about to turn back to his intellectual conversation of shouting at someone until they agreed with him when he saw Makino's shock. Hitting her while she was disoriented he stuck out his tongue and turned away.

This elicited several grins to form as Makino's face became shadowed, Luffy was about to get chewed down.

Sensing a storm Shanks said with haste, "I guess we'll have to keep the meat to ourselves."

At this Luffy did a swift 180° and joined the two of them in a blur, an obnoxious xi grin on his face as if he had forgotten all about their previous teasing.

After a nice meal, Luffy asked suddenly, "How long are you going to be staying."

"How long eh?" It wasn't hard to notice the sad look in his eye as he looked at Makino but said woman kept the same steel in her eyes as she did on that day she said she would never hold him down.

Of course, this whole interaction went way over Luffy's head, "Probably one more trip before we leave for good."

"One more tr-" but before Luffy could finish the door to the bar flew off its hinge after a swift kick to it.

"Make way for the man with an eight million Beri. Higuma the 'Scourge of the Mountains.'"

In walked a man with black hair, brown eyes and a sword attached to his waist. At his heels were a group of smirking men.

"Pirates eh? No wonder there was a stench, " the bearded man's words caused his entourage to burst into cackles, "no matter. Oi! Meat sacs, " he said looking at Makino, "give us ten barrels of rum and a taste of you or we wreck the place."

Silence fell at an instant.

None of the usually rowdy Pirates had a thing to say, they just looked away and hoped the bandit's deaths were as painless as they deserved.

Not that painless.

"Luffy, " said Shanks in an even tone, "go play around somewhere else for a bit."

"No need to get scared scum I'll only cripple you the kid can watch." He laughed off the tense atmosphere but his hand was tightly gripping his blade.

"Hm? Why?" he had gotten that a fight was about to happen and he couldn't understand why they weren't going to let him see what happens.

"It's best to listen Luffy, " Makino could never condone violence but she understood what Shanks was about to do wasn't an act of arrogance but rather, it was retribution for the comment.

That didn't mean she wasn't going to give him a stern talking to tonight.

When Luffy heard Makino speak he knew he didn't have a choice but that didn't stop him from grumbling.

As he walked away he noticed a treasure chest, sitting away from the group, that he saw Lucky Roo put an exotic looking apple in and leave there when he went to get more booze and meat.

Seeing that he was still hungry due to his ability to be a bottomless pit and the group of adults weren't looking at him anymore, he decided to steal the chest and continued onwards.

As he walked into a different room he never noticed Shanks draw his blade, but he did hear "Gruesome Death: Organ Failure."

As Luffy walked away from the main room into the storage all he could think of was, 'What's an organ?'

He sat down on a box and took out the fruit.

The fruit was bitter and chewy as he chomped on it more and more he noticed that it began to taste acidic. The same acidic taste he got when he had chewed up rubber bands.

"Luffy! You can come in now!" shouted Beckman.

This was five minutes after he had left and he was beginning to get bored of waiting but he wouldn't risk getting caught peeping.

When Luffy came in he noticed a distinct lack of bandits, but most shocking of all he didn't see a single drop of blood that indicated a cool fight.

"That's the Captain for you, " he heard one of the pirates mumble, "no chance for screaming at all."

"It's frightening how strong he is."

"A real monster."

"Who's a monster!" Gritted out Shanks

"Eek!" the pirates faking fear and lightening the mood.

"Oi Shanks! Why didn't you let me see the fight?"

"It wasn't a good one anyway so stop whining, " his tone was mellowed and disappointed but not at the lack of a challenge but at the acts, he had committed, senseless violence wasn't his form of entertainment.

"How come there's no blood, I thought you used a blade."

"I'm just that good, anyway let's forget that and drink till we're content."

The crew just shouted in agreement.

"Ah! I forgot to mention but we're all out of beer."

The crew just cried in despair.

"By the way Shanks!" The boy got a "hm." in response, "That exotic fruit that you got was a complete waste of money."

The crew just gasped and gaped in extreme shock.

Grabbing and shaking him violently Shanks said, "Are you an idiot! Do you have a brain! Or are you incapable of thinking!"

This angered Luffy, "What the hell! It was just a stupid rancid fruit!"

"It was a Devil Fruit Luffy. A fruit that gives extraordinary powers at the expense of the ability to swim," Said Beckman calmly.

"And it was worth one hundred million Beri you little thief!" Screamed Shanks with sharklike teeth as Luffy's head slowly swung, at an impossible angle, back and forth.

—Time Skip—

"So this will be the last time I see you, " It was posed as a question but it was obviously a factual statement.

"Yep. We've stayed still for far too long, " Looking tentatively at the child he carried on, "You sad."

"Of course, " he said not looking forward, "but I won't be begging to go on your ship."

"Really."

"Yep!"

"That's a pleasant surprise."

"Why you ask."

"I never di-"

"Because I'm going to have a ship and crew that are much better than the ones you have!" His promise was heard all over the village, "I'm going to be King of the Pirates!"

Everyone smiled at the proclamation not noticing that in their hearts for a split second they felt he could do it.

"Pirate Kings don't cry idiot, " Shanks said as he took off his hat, it was time the next generation had some fun in Paradise and beyond, "You know what this means to me right. You know my old Captain gave this to me right. So you better give it to me when you're King. Understand."

Only sparing a glance at Makino, Shanks walked away from Luffy a grin on his face as the boy did his best to keep in his tears but they just kept on flowing.

"The kids gonna make something of himself."

"Of course he will Beck, Kings always excel."

And with that, the "Red-Haired" pirates left Foosha Village.

—Time Skip—

"I'm a Rubber-Man so why does this hurt!" Luffy shouted out in frustration as he tried to escape from his captor with feeble strikes.

"I should never have left you in that village, now look at you spouting nonsense, " Garp's grip was firm but gentle. He liked a few Pirates, one including Red-Hair himself, and was not disgusted by the thought of his grandson becoming a pirate but if Luffy was going to be as safe as he promised his son he would be he needed to be a Marine.

If the Five Elders felt Dragons son was a threat he'd be dead almost immediately.

"It's not nonsense Old Man! I'm going to be the Pirate King, the freest of the pirates." Unknowingly Luffy had triggered a trip down memory lane.

When they got to a little hut in the deep of the forest after much whining and struggling Garp banged on the door almost eager to get rid of the little headache.

AN: How is it? I hope it's good. Anyway, I won't be doing the Post-War Arc because it will be a thousand words of redundancy. The next chapter will introduce the second emperor. See you there.