Okay a few things, I don't own One Piece, and have only read the 4kids dub of the manga (I know I suck T_T) but because of all the fanfics and other things I think I can make it sound closer to the 2nd English dub, which is probably the closest the US could get to the original. Don't complain if you don't like it, I didn't make you read it, you clicked on it yourself.

It all started when Brook saw an island while he was looking out on the crow's nest. "LAND HO!" yelled the musician.

"So what's this island like, Nami?" Chopper asked, looking at the patch of green on the sea's horizon.

"According to the map it's called Xero, it's a pirate inhabited island so we shouldn't worry about the world government." Nami said with a smile. "Hundreds of stores of every kind, the people know they're safe because if they got hurt the pirates couldn't buy anything."

"But pirates don't mind fighting eachother on pirate islands, there's only a few of them left because of the god damn navy." Zoro said bitterly.

"You mean we get to fight?" Luffy said happily.

"Evidently so." Robin replied.

"LETS GO!" Luffy yelled.

"It's not as easy as that!" Brook said. "I've been there once, if you want to fight on that island you have to be in the arena."

"The arena? What's an arena?" Chopper asked.

"It's a condensed space in which people do certain things, usually fighting." Robin replied.

"In this case the arena is a large building with two areas, a large seating area overlooking an even larger fighting area." Brook said happily.

"Lets go! Lets go! Lets go!" Luffy said loudly.

"The sooner we get there the sooner Luffy shuts up." Sanji said, running to the helm of the ship.

"He's just getting us there faster so he can flirt with any girl he can set his eye on." Zoro stated, lying down. "Tell me when we get there, I fight better when I've had my full 18 hours of sleep."

"Lazy bum." Nami muttered, Zoro wouldn't have heard this anyway seeing as he was already asleep. "We should be there within half an hour, everybody get what they need."

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"Wow! This is great!" Luffy yelled. "Let's go! Let's find the arena!"

"Just follow the blue road kid." Said a man with a creepy smile. "All docks in Xero have a path that leads directly to the arena, the blue road." The man then pointed to a roadway with blue stones all through them.

"Well that's helpful." Zoro said, cracking his knuckles.

"Well the arena is the pride and joy of Xero, it has kept crime levels at rock bottom and provided cheap entertainment since it was created in the days of Gol D. Roger." Said the creepy smile guy. "But that doesn't mean you can't be killed outside the arena, there's a guy here named Spider, he controls the crime around here, if anything ever happens he has a hand in it."

"Thanks, sir." Chopper said, running behind Ussop and Luffy, the others following at a steady pace.

"Please, call me Wasp. I'll see you all later, I'll be betting on you so don't fail me." Wasp said jokingly.

When they got to the arena Luffy caught a huge surprise. "WHAT? WE CAN'T FIGHT?"

"Sorry sir but not yet, the current round just started and the arena is full up. But if you would wait for the next round we could have you reserved." Said the man.

"That'll be fine I guess." Luffy said.

"So exactly what time should we come back?" Nami asked.

"Well there's no telling when the round will end so we'll give you some Location Beacons." The man at the desk said before zooming around the group and before they knew it they all had a red bracelet with a black screen on their hand.

"Huh?" Ussop yelled. "WHAT ARE THESE?"

"Locator beacons, between every match there is a thirty minute wait for the people to get snacks or use the bathroom and so we can clean the arena" The man started. "No matter where you are on the island, that bracelet will beep the second the previous round ends and will show an arrow that points to the arena like an eternal pose does."

"Haha not even you can get lost now Zoro!" Luffy yelled. The rest of the group laughed at the swordsman's lack of direction.

"Well battles usually last about an hour, more if the last two are either really tough or run away from eachother for most of the battle." Said the man. "Feel free to enjoy our city until then. If there're any problems between now and then feel free to talk to me, my name is Komodo."

"Okay! Bye!" Luffy said.

"Wait! I almost forgot! What level do you want?" Komodo asked.

"What?" Luffy asked.

"In the center of the fighting arena there is a pillar with two winding staircases around it called Final Reach, the most popular place for team leaders or the last two to fight. In the dead center of that pillar surrounded by twelve feet of solid stone from the sides and forty feet from the top or the bottom of the pillar is the devil fruit called the safe-safe fruit." The ticket man Komodo started.

"The safe-safe fruit? Sounds lame." Luffy said bored.

"We have found a way to help sustain casualties with its power over the arena. Level one means the first time you get hit is you're out of the fight, good if you want to train your defense, but level ten is a fight to the death. The power of the safe-safe fruit keeps people alive on the basis of the level." Komodo finished.

"Super lame." Luffy commented. "What level guys?"

"Well we don't want to die but we don't want it to be easy either. Eight sounds about right." Zoro said, the man set the level on the registration sheet.

"Okay the red and blue team of the next match have been set, level eight. ten on ten." Komodo said, talking into a snail-o-phone.

"There are nine of us." Franky said, realizing Komodo's mistake.

"I know but the other team has ten so we had to put up one of our other reserves who registered for a level eight to even up the teams." Komodo explained. "I'm sorry but I'm not allowed to tell you whom, but if they don't show up or one of your team doesn't you will be disqualified."

"Woah, that's harsh." Usopp said darkly.

"Hey, rules are rules. Enjoy your stay on the island of Xero, it takes only five minutes for the log pose to reset but that doesn't mean you can't spend as much time as you want or need here." Komodo said happily, the straw hats all went off their separate ways to explore the island.

A/N: first chapter, and more to follow… as soon as I bloody well feel like it.