Hey there, everyone! This is the first chapter of my first story ever! I'm so excited and I would appreciate any and all reviews! On a side note, there's one thing to keep in mind. In this story, Devil Fruit Powers can be passed onto kids, like a gene...More like a recessive gene to be exact.

By the way, this is the revised version of the story. The chapters will mostly be the same but with much better grammar and perhaps some new stuff here and there. Before I continue, Caout's name is pronounced as "Kowt". So, just say the word "cow" and add a "t" sound at the end. In case you were curious.

Disclaimer: I do not and will not own the epicness that is Oda's One Piece.

It was a beautiful day. There was no doubt about that. The sun was shining, there were only a couple of clouds in the sky and it was warm. Just another peaceful day on the Grand Line. Out on the calm seas, a certain ship with a lion head was sailing along. Anyone who saw this ship, which flew a Jolly Roger, would assume it was just another bunch of pirates. But a close look at the flag with the straw hat and one will realize that one is looking at the ship of a legendary crew.

It was that crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, who had done the impossible…They found the One Piece. Their teenage captain became the Pirate King and the crew became infamous…

Now, what was such a famous crew doing in the Grand Line? Shouldn't they be in the New World with all the other top pirates? Well, sure but they had some precious cargo onboard that they didn't want to lose in those rough waters…

A baby girl with downy green hair was fighting with a blonde baby boy over the Straw Hats' adorable Doctor Chopper.

"Kuina…Tamaki…" Chopper groaned, "Please let go of my antlers…"

"Oh, c'mon, Chopper," an amused voice said, "This is too cute!"

Chopper looked over and saw Kuina's mom, Ayrel, and Tamaki's mom, Robin, laughing over their children's quarrel. While they each hung onto Chopper with one hand, Kuina and Tamaki began hitting each other with their free hands. Ayrel and Robin silently agreed that those two were their fathers' kids alright…

Ayrel looked over at her son, Sky, who was Kuina's fraternal twin. He was sitting on a chair, giggling as Brook, Usopp and Franky made weird faces.

"Look at me, Sky!" Usopp said as he stretched his face as far as he could.

"No, look here!" Franky said as he struck some poses, "I'M SUPER!"

"Yohohohoho!" Brook laughed, "No, I am the funniest. I'm the life of the party after all. Although, I'm not alive…Yohohohohohoho!"

No one had the heart to tell them that Sky would laugh at virtually anything, whether it was funny or not.

"Hey, stupid ero-cook! What the hell is your kid doing to mine?"

"What are you talking about, damn Marimo! Your daughter is the one hurting my son!"

Ayrel and Robin watched their husbands grab their respective kid, saving Chopper from being pulled apart. One would think that Zoro and Sanji would have quit fighting after all they've been through. But boys will be boys…

"Now, now, you two," Robin said, "You boys are setting a bad example for your kids."

"Whatever you say, Robin-chwaaan!" Sanji exclaimed, causing Tamaki to giggle.

"Stupid, Curly-brow…" Zoro muttered as Kuina gave Tamaki what Ayrel loved to call the "evil baby glare".

"WAHHHHHHHH!"

The piercing cry startled the crew momentarily. They gave each other knowing looks. Only one kid had lungs like that…

"There, there, sweetie," the crew's red-haired navigator whispered as she sat in the shade of her beloved tangerine trees, "It's okay…"

In her arms was a black haired baby girl, crying her eyes out. A gust of wind had snatched the baby's favorite toy.

"Please stop crying," Nami pleaded to no avail, "Oh, I wish Ace was here…Your uncle can always make you smile, huh?"

"What and I can't?"

Nami looked up to see her straw hat wearing husband walking over, holding something behind his back.

"Hey, Caout!" Luffy said, catching the baby's attention, "Look what Daddy has!"

Luffy pulled out a red cowboy hat from behind his back, earning the squeals of little Caout. Caout stretched her arms out and grabbed the hat before they snapped back into place….Like father, like daughter…

"That's my girl!" Luffy laughed, "In a few years, I'll teach you the Gum-Gum Pistol!"

That little comment earned Luffy a smack across the head from Nami, who didn't want her daughter to become a fighter. But Luffy, as always, said that it was only natural for the Pirate King's daughter to be a fighter.

"She has to be really strong, Nami!" Luffy insisted, "She's the Pirate Princess after all!"

"Dumbass! Don't you ever call our daughter by such a title ever again!" Nami screeched, "You will not teach Caout any of your weird rubber attacks. She will never fight, got that?"

Luffy pouted at his wife, stating that there was no point for Caout to have been born with rubber powers if she could never use them. Caout decided to show her parents that she was ever the daddy's girl by grabbing her cheeks and stretching and twisting her face. Much to Nami's dismay, it looked like Caout enjoyed her powers too much.

"Well, well, well," a cloaked man said into a small Den-Den Mushi, "You were right, Master. The Pirate King's brat has his powers."

Unbeknownst to the Straw Hat crew, the mysterious man was watching their ship from the shadows of some nearby rocks.

"Hey, Master," the man said, "Why are we only after that girl? Why can't we grab those other kids too? They may prove useful…"

"Idiot!" a deep voice yelled from the other side of the Den-Den Mushi, "The rest of those brats have yet to show any ability, right? We're not going to waste resources a bunch of brats that may or may not have powerful abilities! Right now, that monkey's daughter is the only one who has shown her power."

"Yeah…And who knows, if those other kids have powers, they may not show up until they're much older. By then, there'd be no point in grabbing them…"

Night fell on the Thousand Sunny. The crew was deep asleep. In fact, the only one who was awake at that moment was Brook, who was on lookout duty. He sat at his post, looking out at the peaceful ocean. There hadn't been any trouble for their ship in a long time, so they had become used to this newfound peace.

"Yohohoho!" Brook laughed quietly so as not to wake his nakama, "It is so quiet tonight….Too quiet. My heart is pounding from the anxiety…Though, I don't have a heart. Yohohoho!"

"Why don't I break that silence?"

Brook turned quickly to confront the owner of the mysterious voice, only to be dealt a punishing blow that sent him crashing to the deck below. As Brook started to get up, he heard a click and felt something press tightly on his bony arms. Whatever it was, it was making him feel woozy…

"I love cuffs, don't you? Especially cuffs made from sea stone."

Brook raised his head and saw a man with long, pale yellow hair and coal black eyes. Brook stood up and looked at his wrists. He was indeed wearing cuffs, and the way he felt was proof that there was sea stone inside them.

"Brook! We heard a crash!"

Brook and the mysterious man turned to see the other Straw Hats run onto the deck. They all glared at the man in the black cloak, getting ready to fight him.

"Who are you?" Luffy asked roughly.

"The name's Reo…I was sent here to get a certain something."

"Whatever it is," Zoro growled, "You ain't getting it…"

"Well, this won't do," Reo said, looking around, "Ten of you against one of me…Why don't I even the odds a little?"

The Straw Hats could only stare as the man opened his cloak. A bunch of black blobs jumped out and fell to the ground. The blobs then started to morph into shapes, demonic shapes. A group of fifteen to twenty demons stood in front of Reo.

"Ohh, now the odds are in my favor…Oh well!" Reo said smugly.

The Straw Hats charged, as did the demons. It was a brutal fight…A hopeless fight…At least, for the Straw Hats it was…

No matter what they did, whether it be slicing them, pulling them apart or punching the hell out of them, those demons just didn't die. They just regenerated each and every time. Plus, it didn't help that the Devil Fruit users of the crew had been rendered powerless thanks to sea stone cuffs that Reo had somehow placed on them while they were focused on the demons…

"Wha-What are these things?" Ayrel panted. If only she could get the damn cuffs off, then she would electrocute the demons into oblivion.

"Who knows…?" Sanji gasped, "But where did that cloaked asshole run off to?"

The Straw Hats looked around. They had been so preoccupied with the demons, they had lost track of the man who summoned them in the first place. Suddenly, the door to the lower decks slammed open. The cloaked man stepped through, holding a bundle in his arm.

"Well, my work here is done…" Reo said, snapping his fingers. The demons disintegrated, leaving the Straw Hats feeling tired and confused.

"What the hell did you take, you weird cloak bastard?" Luffy panted, glaring at Reo.

"What?" Reo said, chuckling, "You don't even recognize something that belongs to you, Mister Pirate King?"

Luffy looked down at the bundle for a moment…And his heart stopped. His eyes grew wide and he couldn't breathe. It couldn't be...

But it was…The cries that suddenly came from the bundle were all the proof…The Straw Hats froze in their tracks…

"…Caout…?" Nami whispered.

"Let her go…" Luffy growled, struggling to walk over to Reo, "Let her go…let her go…LET HER GO!"

"No can do, Pirate King," Reo said, jumping up onto the edge of the ship, "I must make my leave…Good-bye!"

Luffy ran at him but Reo jumped off the ship. Luffy looked over the side but, to his utter astonishment, the man was gone. There had been no splash, so he didn't fall in the waters…He was just…gone.

Like the demons, the sea stone cuffs disappeared. But no one noticed. They were in shock. It was quiet…Deathly quiet…The noise was then broken by a sound no human being should ever have to hear.

The sound of a heartbroken mother…

"CAOUT!" Nami wailed as she collapsed on the deck. Ayrel and Robin ran over to her and put their arms around her. But they said nothing. Nothing could be said…

"She's gone…" Luffy muttered to no one in particular.

The men of the crew looked at their captain, who was still staring at the water. The world had vanished around Luffy. He was the Pirate King, the best pirate in the world. So he was supposed to be really strong, right? He was supposed to be able to protect his nakama…his wife…his daughter…But he hadn't protected Caout. That man had taken her easily…Too easily…He had failed. Caout was gone…He didn't save her…He didn't save her…He didn't-

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Whoo! First Chapter! Not too long or too good but it will hopefully get better! Now, there are a couple of things I need to address. Ayrel is a character all my own. Her full name is Silverra D. Ayrel and she is Luffy's distant, distant cousin. She's known Luffy since she was ten. She's two years older than him. Ayrel has the powers of the Biri-Biri no Mi, which I translated into the Spark-Spark Fruit, which gives her power over electricity (not lightning, electricity, even though there's probably no difference). She used to be a Marine Captain but switched over thanks to Luffy...it's a very complicated story. She has dark brown hair in a boyish style and dark brown eyes. She fell in love with Zoro.

Another note is in this story, Ace is still around. He was the only survivor of his crew from the Marineford incident. He has a huge scar on his back where his tattoo was. Luffy offered to take him in. As of this chapter, Ace had yet to reach a decision about that so he is solo traveling until he reaches a decision.

Please, please, please review!