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"Luffy if I survive this I'm going to kill you"
The currently conscious young man was named Leviathan. Although he wasn't always known as such. He had a life before the one he currently lived.
He wasn't the only one, he and eight of his closest friends had been caught in an accident. It had ultimately lead to the groups demise. Each appeared in a white void the only color coming from nine separate pillars of light. It was completely silent, everyone became anxious hoping for something to just happen. They were terrified, when finally a voice began to whisper.
"It wasn't your time…I'm sorry…allow me to make things right." The voice echoed in a melancholy tone. Each light slowly faded out, and with each light another member seemed to lose consciousness and disappear.
The group had bonded together through their shared interest in media. The most shared interest however was anime, specifically one that they all extremely enjoyed.
One Piece, and so, whatever had spoken to them in the void of the afterlife had sent them forth into the world they all loved. Each was reincarnated as a new person at different times within the worlds history. Each grew up hoping to one day see the spectacle of Monkey D. Luffy's adventure, one they could sadly no longer clearly remember. One of them however got to see it from nearly the very beginning.
"Levi, what are you doing?" A soft voice said from a wooden doorway. Levi, a young boy with raven hair that had never been cut in his short life, stared at a baby bundled up in its crib with the same raven black hair. The boy turned to the person in the door and almost began to speak when the baby began to fuss and cry. The adult in the room quickly came to the crib and began to take care of the fussing baby.
"I was just visiting my new brother, I didn't mean to make him cry." Levi said looking at his feet. The siblings caretaker smiled and assured him he didn't cause to cry.
This boy was Monkey D. Leviathan and the baby was Monkey D. Luffy. The two grew up together under the watchful eyes of Makino, Levi would constantly try to lessen the trouble and chaos brought on Foosha village by his baby brother.
Several years passed as Luffy and Leviathan grew, on a normal day the two brothers were heading back to makinos bar to eat.
"Luffy I told you to come get me before you tried to get food, I'm hungry too ya know?" Leviathan said to his currently six year old brother, Levi had just recently turned ten.
"But Levi I was hungry and I couldn't find you." Luffy tried to defend himself
"Did you even look for me?"
"Yes" Luffy whispered while looking anywhere but his older brothers face.
"You're a horrible liar Luffy."
The two brothers were sitting at Makinos bar eating lunch when a loud crash broke Leviathans concentration, while Luffy just ate more rapidly and began to run away with his plate. But, sadly, he wasn't fast enough to get away from the man that had caused the destruction.
"Bwahahaha, here's one of my grandsons now where's the older one?" The boys grandfather, Garp, had bust through the wall, again.
"Got you!" Levi jumped and tried to latch onto Garps arm that was currently carrying Luffy. Tried being the operative word, Garp easily punched the boy out of the air with a 'fist of love' before he had even gotten to shoulder height.
"You'll have to try harder than that brat." Garp chuckles at the "attack" and turned his attention to the squirming boy currently in his arms. "Now Luffy, you have training to do." Garp tied several balloons around Luffy's waist and let him float into the air.
"Didn't you do that last time you visited gramps?" Levi asked while walking out from the rubble picking out pieces of debris from his still uncut hair.
"Your memory needs work brat, I threw him in the air last time." Garp said matter-a-factly.
"Oh, so what's my training this time?"
Garp smiled "you're going to chop down a tree."
"That sounds to easy, you ok gramps?"
"You'll be doing it with your bare hands." The two bust out with the same laugh.
It was now about a month after Luffy's seventh birthday. The two boys were once again eating at makinos bar while the mayor of the village sat in the corner drinking. All was relatively peaceful, until a villager burst into the bar.
"Pirates have docked at the shore!" The man screamed out the villagers jumped into a frenzy running outside.
Makino turned to the two boys "Levi look after Luffy." Levi, who still had bandages over the left side of his face from Garps last training session, nodded and put Luffy in a headlock.
"I won't let him go anywhere" Levi stated while saluting with his free hand. Not even a second had passed after Makino rushed out the door when Luffy tried to jump off his barstool. Levi followed not letting his brother get the better of him. Levi had a lot more bulk compared to the stick that was his brother, Luffy couldn't escape from Levi through force after several minutes so he turned to his second best option.
"Please, I wanna see the pirates, I know you want to Levi." Luffy begged trying to give Levi a look that would let him out of the hold.
Although Luffy's kicked puppy act use to work on Leviathan he'd grown a resistance to it. Levi only loosened his hold because he was tired, no other reason. Due to the looser grip Luffy just barely squeezed out of the hold and ran toward the door, but he wasn't looking where he was going and slammed into a pair of legs.
Leviathan and Luffy looked up at the owner of the limbs and both noticed two things immediately: the color red and a straw hat.
Back in the present, the two young men were crammed into a large barrel. They'd stopped spinning, mostly, and were now slowly floating across the surface of the ocean. Luffy was compressed nearly into a ball due to the larger stature of Leviathan while Levi was bent almost in half.
'I'm really glad gramps' training made me both flexible and able to withstand a lot of pain' Levi thought. He had just started to close his eyes when a thunk was heard from the barrel end by Levi's feet.
"This things really heavy it's gotta be filled with something valuable." A distant voice yelled "help me pull it up!" The barrel was slowly lifted from the sea and onto a deck. Three men could be heard panting nearby.
Then a series of explosions rocked the boat causing the barrel to roll, fall down some stairs and then hit a wall finally stopping.
'Gonna be sick' Levi in the barrel thought while trying his hardest not to do exactly that.
A few minutes later someone came into the room "Woah that's a huge barrel, there has to be something in it." A slightly nazzely voice said. The barrel very slowly began to move again.
"Well if it isn't our favorite coward, trying to hide in here and duck out on all the action again" another new voice spoke.
Leviathan could barely pay attention, it didn't help the barrel was flipped on its head and he was now upside down. "Luffy wake your rubber ass…" Leviathan began to press against the wood and push out, making the wood groan and bend. But Luffy seemed to take his brothers advice, he immediately woke up and broke through the barrels top yelling
"I!SLEPT!SO!GREAT!" Luffy screamed fists stretched to the sky, the barrel fell to pieces around him and he was left standing on his brothers chest.
Levi threw Luffy off his chest and rose to his feet, towering above everyone in the room. His hair was wild and dropped down to the middle of his back in waves, his short black beard surrounded his snarling mouth, a long thin scar framed the left side of his face he radiated an aura of terror. The two men who weren't knocked out took one look at the massive man, grabbed their unconscious ally, and ran away screaming in fear.
"I'm starving got any food." Luffy directed at the pink haired boy cowering in the room.
"You two gotta run, when they come back they'll have their buddy's and they will kill you guys on the spot." The pink haired boy panicked.
"We don't care, that and when Luffy here gets hungry he has a one track mind." Levi yawned, the two marched through some doors trying to be held back by the bespectacled boy.
When They soon found a food storage Luffy began to drool "it's a gold mine, hey Levi this box has apples in it." The straw hat wearing teen threw a large ripe apple at the oldest one in the room.
Luffy began gorging himself on apples as the pink hair boy stared at them. "Hey my names Coby, your Luffy and Levi right?" Coby questioned.
"Yup I'm Monkey D. Leviathan and this is Monkey D. Luffy." The older man said biting his apple in half.
"So are we on a pirate ship or what?"
"No it's a passenger ship being raided by pirates under lady Alvida."
"Got any spare boats aboard?" Levi asked
"I think a few."
"Good cause ours got sucked into a whirlpool." Luffy said continuing to eat.
"What, no one could have survived that." Coby stated as if fact.
Leviathan hummed sceptically, he crossed his legs, closed his eyes and began to think. 'So here we are, our first adventure, I should've steered us away from that whirlpool but…' Levi cracked his eye open and looked at Coby and Luffy talking 'I couldn't leave Coby here.'
"Right Levi?" Luffy asked.
"Wasn't paying attention what are we talking about?"
"Cobys a dumb coward." Luffy responded.
"Well so far the coward thing seems accurate, why is he dumb?" Levi uncrossed his legs.
"He doesn't want to leave the pirate crew he's been stuck on cause he's scared." Luffy laughed
"Yup sounds pretty dumb, bwahaha" Levi laughed.
"Your both right, if I had the courage I could be like you two, I could live out my dreams." Coby paused thoughtfully "Hey why did you two go out to sea?"
Luffy smiled "well I'm gonna be king of the pirates." These words stunned Coby.
"Are you serious, but that would mean you two are pirates too."
"Yup." Levi gave a smile befitting the D in his name.
"What about your crew?"
"Just me and Levi for now but I'm working on it." Luffy saw that Coby was frozen and waved at the pink haired boy in front of his face, Levi stood next to the two kneeling Members in the room.
"King of the pirates is a title given to one who obtains everything this world has to offer, your talking about seeking the great treasure of wealth, fame, and power, the treasure that you seek is the one piece!" Coby ranted
'Title drop' Leviathan smiled.
"Yea" Luffy confirmed as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Coby continued "Yea? That's it, pirates from all over the world are looking for that treasure ya know."
"Yea, So?" Luffy asked.
"No way it's impossible impossible impossible, there's no way anyone like you could ever reach the pinnacle of this great pirate age there's just too many out there meaner and-" Coby got cut off by a blow to the head, but neither listener had visibly moved to hit him. "Ow what hit me?"
"I did, you don't talk down on people's dreams." Levi said glaring at Coby.
"Oh well I'm used to that stuff."
"It's not if I can. I'm doing this cause I want to. I decided long ago I'm going to be king of the pirates, if I have to die fighting for that, then I die."
"Not if I have anything to say about it, come on Luffy let's get us a boat." Levi said, the two began to walk out of the room.
Coby looked at the ground "I guess I never thought about it like that, if I put my mind to it if I'm prepared to die for it could I do something like that."
"Like what?" the brothers asked together.
"Do you think I could ever join the marines." The two pirates quirked a brow in confusion "Catching bad guys is the only thing I've ever wanted to do. It's been my dream forever. Do you think I can do it?"
"How should we know" Luffy said
"Then I'm going to do it, I'm not gonna get stuck here as a cabin boy, I'm gonna escape and turn right back around and catch Alvida myself." At that moment the roof caved in and debris covered Coby.
"Who's that, that's going to catch me Coby. and you think these morons will help you" a barely feminine voice said through the dust. "Well!? Answer me!" An extremely fat woman appeared from the dust growling in anger, while Coby cowered in a corner.
Swords pierced through the wall behind Luffy and Levi. The woman looked up and noticed the confused stares of the two young men.
"My guess is neither of you are Zoro the pirate hunter."
"Zoro?"
"He sounds cool."
"COBY, who is the most beautiful of all on these seas?"
"I believe Boa Hancock holds that title." Levi cut in. Everyone stared at the tall man in the room.
The teen next to him spoke up "Hey Coby Who's the fat lady?" Everyone but himself and Levi's jaws dropped. All of the pirates under Alvida began to quiver in fear.
Multiple tick marks appeared on Alvidas face "YOOOUU RUNT" she tried to smash Luffy with her iron club but both he and Levi quickly dodged. Luffy went to grab Coby, while Leviathan jumped through the hole.
As Levi landed several pirates jumped at him, he swiped behind him toward the pirates, an invisible force smashed into the pirates throwing them into the ocean. Luffy jumped from the hole and dropped Coby on his feet, he took care of two pirates trying to attack him with one punch each. With those pirates taken care of Luffy smiled. A pirate jumped from the sail but was knocked out of the air by seemingly nothing.
"It isn't fair to attack from behind, but I guess we are pirates." Levi chuckled. A mass of pirates appeared behind Luffy and began chasing him. But they suddenly stopped as if they hit a wall. As the pirates recovered and looked around confused Luffy grabbed a mast of the ship and continued running making his arm stretch incredibly far.
"Gotcha." Luffy turned his head and smiled "gum gum rocket!" Luffy launched himself into the crowd shoulder bashing the mass of pirates.
"Luffy, w-what are you?" Coby asked.
"Oh, imma rubber man." Luffy answered while stretching his cheek to prove his statement.
"Your made of rubber?" Coby repeated shocked he then noticed Alvida standing behind him. Coby scuttled behind Luffy who was joined amidst the unconscious bodies of the enemy pirates by Leviathan.
"So you've eaten of the devil fruits." Alvida said evenly
"Yea I ate the gum gum one." Luffy confirmed.
"I'd heard they existed but I'd seen no evidence of them until today. Your more skilled than a common deck swabber are you a bounty hunter?"
"No imma pirate."
"Alone?"
"Scuse you?" Levi interrupted.
"Today it's just us but I'll find my crew tomorrow or next week or something."
"Ha, tell me if we're both pirates and not under the same flag that makes us enemies, right?"
"Luffy lets go." Coby warned while Luffy turned to look at the coward, Levi continued to glare at Alvida who was beginning to get annoyed at the man. A look of realization came over Coby.
"Go ahead tell me." Alvida taunted the younger two.
"Your the most ugliest thing on the sea!" Coby yelled at Alvida staring her in the eye. Luffy held his stomach in laughter while Levi belted out a laugh with his fists planted at the hip.
A livid look came over Alvida "what did you say." Luffy continued to laugh while Levi stopped.
"I'm leaving and I'm going to join the marines and I'm going to spend the rest of my life beating up dirty pirates like you." Cobys voice was filled with determination "nobody's gonna stop me. I'm gonna catch your lousy ass first."
Alvida brought her club back and readied to swing at a terrified Coby. But as the swing got to above her head Leviathan punched forward sending a shockwave from his fist that hit the head of the club shattering it to pieces.
"Well said." Luffy spoke smiling putting himself between Coby and Alvida. He threw his arm so far back it stretched to double the length of the two ships "Gum Gum Pistol" his fist returned and slammed into Alvida sending her flying off into the horizon.
Levi glared at the remaining pirates "Hey, you all get us and Coby boats right now." The pirates stood slack jawed at the display of power "did I stutter!"
Luffy laughed again "you sound like gramps."
"I take that as a compliment." Levi said his chest puffed out. The joyous occasion was short lived when cannonballs landed around the ships.
"It's the marines" Coby said.
"Thank you captain obvious, let's go Luffy." Levi put his brother in a headlock and jumped into a small boat followed by Coby, it fell to the waters below. It landed next to another small boat whose sole occupant looked over and for a brief moment made eye contact with the straw hat wearing pirate.
"We actually managed to get away." Coby said after an hour at sea.
"What fun" Luffy laughed again while Levi lay in almost the entire length of the boat napping.
"So Luffy, If you're looking for the one piece, you must be headed for the Grand Line right?" Coby questioned the rubber pirate.
"The pirate graveyard" Levi nodded off.
"That's why we need an extra strong crew, you were talking about some Zoro guy?" Luffy questioned as Levi went to sleep.
Somewhere within sailing distance of the three, a man was tied to a cross in the middle of a sun scorched courtyard. He looked up and forward hearing something on the wind.
Yohohoho, yoho-ho-ho
Yohohoho, yoho-ho-ho
Yohohoho, yoho-ho-ho
Yohohoho, yoho-ho-ho