One piece: A New Age

Black Beanie Pirates

Chapter one: Pirate brothers at sea

The rain lashes against the boat from all directions as it is thrown about by the cruel sea left and right, waves reaching heights of 12ft. This tiny little fishing boat or what appears to be one was making its way through such harsh conditions, but the only thing that kept this together was the giant smile and sheer determination that the two men had with them.

"Sharuda..! Get away from there you know you can't swim and I can't keep this boat the right way up if I'm out there saving your ass!" The 6'2ft tall young man turned on top of the figure head shaped like a retarded unicorn.

"I won't fall off; Me and the sea are as one." Sharuda says with enthusiasm, up until a rouge wave knocks him off the Figurehead. "Sharuda..! Where the hell are you?!" The other guy was a bit smaller than Sharuda about 5'8ft moves off the steering wheel and over to the figure head where as he see Sharuda hanging on for dear life, still with a great big smile on his face.

"What the hell are you doing?!" The guy exclaims. "But Aniki… I was simply enjoying th…" another wave rises up and submerges him underwater, he takes a large breath upon surfacing. "Uhh I'm just enjoying the view, brother." Aniki reaches out and Sharuda reacts to grab it, half submerged by the following wave he was pulled out and back on board.

"You really should be more careful, the sea is treacherous and you will become one with it if your not" Sharuda gave an acknowledgement by nodding and smiling. The sun started to burst through the clouds and the waves became calm again. "Hey Aniki you did some nice steering." Aniki smiled like an idiot. "Yeah I learned it while I was there." Sharuda nodded. "Well I bet you're worth every Belli, I still can't believe you got a bounty before I did." Sharuda explained to him. "What you expect you had me escape that god awful Navy base!" He shouted and Sharuda in a dramatic tone. "Well what would you expect to do you had joined them." Aniki looked down at the floor, almost looking angry at himself for a moment.

"Well you're a part of my crew now, can't go back on your word now you got ten million Belli on your head." Sharuda exclaims as Aniki climbed up to his feet and gave Sharuda a hand getting up too. "Few thanks that storm is finally clearing up it seems." They look into the glistening sunlight shielding there eyes from the brightness. "It appears so; oh hey look I can see the next island!" They stood up Sharuda being the taller of the two was a well balanced guy he has a strong muscle structure but not enough for him to appear anymore skinnier than he already is, his clothes consisted of some flat trainers, a pair of thin black ripped shorts trying to cover the top half of his long legs, a distinctive black vest with white stripes going vertically down his left and right side. Always having a smile on his face his optimism shines brightly though his big shadowy appearance, his eyes are crystal blue representing his innocence and calm nature. His hair was a nice silver colour; although it was silver it didn't appear to make him look older, the most distinctive feature was his black Beanie hat with a skull positioned on the left side it covered his head and the top of his eyes, His hair still flows down underneath it though, This hat much like Straw Hat Luffy also has a past.

As For Aniki he was just a little smaller but his appearance has a lot more muscle to his body a strong figure. He stood upright in an orderly manner; he wore standard marine uniform as they have just escaped from a Marine base, his hair was blonde on the right side and black on the left, showing that he has two personality ones his care free side the other is the serious side, Where as Sharuda doesn't have a serious side showing, there pretty much identical in everyway and except for a few differences you can still tell them both apart though.

"Well I hope they got a nice place to eat I'm starving." Sharuda said holding his stomach. The ship slowly veers towards the island the wind calmly blew them onto the sand on the outskirts of the island. Aniki sorted a few things out on the ship while Sharuda leapt from the boat to investigate this new island. Sharuda takes a few steps and breaths in the fresh new air coming from it. There is a forest covering the land, unsure of what is inside Sharuda wanders off into it.

The place is deserted nobody on the beach, no animals, no nothing. All is silent; Aniki manages to catch up to Sharuda after at least a 10 minute walk. "Hey don't run off and leave me behind!" He says as he walks by the side of him. "Hush… Quiet a second….." they stopped and waited. "You hear that?" Sharuda mentions quietly to Aniki. "No." Aniki looks around, but sees nothing but trees. "Exactly there's nothing here, what could have happened? What is on this island?" A rumbling of the ground was heard shaking so vigorously their bones were shaking. "Oh dear what have we done now?" Said Sharuda who was moving around trying to find the source of the rumbling, but it just kept getting louder and louder like it was something big coming closer and closer.

The noise reached a certain point and then just stopped. "Uhoh I think something bad is gonna happen." Sharuda looks towards Aniki "Your damn right." All of a sudden the floor just gave way making them fall into what appears to be a big dome and they are really high up. "Whaaaat?!" they fall into a big pool of red liquid; they struggle around and eventually find the surface leading Aniki to get out of the pool he then grabs Sharuda and pulls him out.

"This isn't an island it's some sort of errrrm." Sharuda says looking around "Green house." Aniki finish's while looking at a big row of vegetables. "Hey you kids get out of my home!" This old man comes out he is bent forward and hobbles towards them, this ghastly old man looks about a hundred years old. "Oh sorry there old man, we thought this was an island with people on it." The old man then whacked Sharuda and Aniki with his cane on the head. "Ow what was that…?" Aniki's sentence was interrupted "You numbskulls you almost ruined my fertiliser!" The old man looking grumpy as ever, moved away from them and started to tend to the absolutely huge pieces of fruit.

"Woh! I've never seen fruit this big before how do you make them so big?!" Sharuda says with enthusiasm and a rumbling stomach, the man turns to him and smiles.

"Well I haven't had much company on this island for a while, how about I treat you to some food?" Sharuda's eyes lit up. "Oh hell yes! I would love too!" Aniki has a suspicious look about him but decides to follow.

They get to a small house where upon arrival the old man pulled out a big melon from the draw he then attempts to find something to cut it with. "Oh darn it where are all the knives gone in this house?" he moved about the draws still in search. "Here let me help." Sharuda says politely as he punches the melon is then falls into three big separate chunks. "Wow young man so strong, that melon has the density of a rock." Sharuda smiles, the old man places the pieces on the table in which they all eat.

"This tastes different to normal fruit." Sharuda says to the old man, the old man nods at him. "Yeah it's probably the fertiliser; it usually adds something to the taste since it goes into the moisture of the fruit." Says Aniki to Sharuda and looks to the old man. "That's correct my lad I had searched the seas for the ultimate fertiliser to use for the plants, and now that I have it my business can be a success!" Sharuda was intrigued by this. "Oh does that mean you searched the grand line?" The old man looks down towards the floor and sighs. "No I didn't get as far as the grand line, it's so treacherous as just one man, I failed and ended up coming back here and finding the perfect ingredients." Aniki laughs "Wait you sailed all over this ocean to realise it was where you started?" The man stands up and walks towards the door at the back.

"Yes would you like to see the ingredients?" Sharuda jumped out of the chair and onto the table. "Yes! Yes please! Come on Aniki we might learn something" Aniki gets up and they walk down into this sort of refinery work liquid is going through all the piles and filtered through for the plants to feed on daily.

"Yeah I built all this with a crew, sadly they left when we got back." Aniki the raised an eyebrow and turns to Sharuda. "Hey watch out for this guy something isn't right, he says he travelled alone and just then he said he was with a crew." He whispered, Sharuda nodded in acknowledgement to him and they walked through some big doors into a freezer type room.

"Oh yuck that's disgusting… Fish!?" Sharuda said the moment he walked in, as they can see a lot of fish strung up by hooks. "Yeah its weird isn't it? Who'd have thought that this Scutorry fish actually holds a chemical which is the sweetest taste in the world? And when I extract it the results are amazing." "Wow I never knew that but if people knew then they probably wouldn't eat it." Sharuda mentioned to him. "Exactly! But there is also another ingredient that is the ultimate secret." Aniki raises his eyebrow yet again. "Hey Sharuda Why would he want to show us his ingredients? He knows we are pirates and that we could steal his ingredients for our own gain." Sharuda watches the old man walk into the room without saying a word.

"Come on let's follow him, but be careful" Says Sharuda as he heads towards the steel door. He accepted and walked in with him, the room was all dark inside not a spot of light around. "Keep an eye out." Says Aniki, The doors then slam behind them clicking as they lock, Lights beamed on and it was a big empty chamber with some mechanism on the other side filtering yet more ingredients into the Fertiliser.

"What is this place?" Sharuda says to Aniki, looking around the old man was nowhere to be seen. "You fell right for it."

"What are you talking about?" Aniki shouts in the general direction of the voice. Laughter is heard briefly before cutting to silence. Sharuda walks on ahead further into the room. "Show yourself old man I'm warning you!" another snigger is heard after it. "You really want to know?" the voice appears behind them they turn around and the man is just behind Aniki, before Aniki could react the guys arm changed and trapped him in what appears to be a glass case. "Aniki!!" Sharuda shouts wildly, a strange drilling sound is heard and a blade starts spinning above his head. "His arm changed?" Aniki thought and looked towards Sharuda. "Sharuda get me out of here!" he shouted.

In quick response Sharuda charged towards his trapped brother. "What are you?" the old man disguise comes off and shows a more sinister looking young man underneath. "You should know." Sharuda looked shocked as if remembering something. "You ate a devil fruit?!" the blade slowly drops towards Aniki; Sharuda is but 10 ft away from him charging with a right hook locked in place ready to smash the glass.

"Oh no you don't." says the man as Sharuda's fist is but an inch away, suddenly the glass changes and a giant blade comes out and cuts Sharuda's hand, he quickly falls back on his attack and flips backwards to avoid the blades reach. Sharuda looks down at his hand which is cut quite deeply but was withdrawn quick enough not to lose it.

He clenches it to make sure it still works then looks back towards the guy. "Okay, who are you anyway?" says Sharuda as blood trickles down his leg. "I'm surprised you don't know me, the names Nikolai Chevak." Sharuda's eyes widened, he then looks at Aniki realising that the blade is halfway down and the enclosed air space has knocked him out cold.

"Okay that does it! I don't care who you are! Hurt my brother and you're going down!" Sharuda charges yet again from the front much faster than before, he gritted his teeth and braces for another attack. "You're certainly confident aren't you; care to back that statement up? Oh I see your attacking again in the same place; it won't help you, you know." Sharuda's just about to punch and the blade appears yet again, Sharuda quickly redirects his attack towards Nikolai's face. With a crunching blow to the face directly especially while he is off guard was echoed throughout the chamber, Nikolai got hurled at least 20ft across the hall, which released Aniki from his cage.

"Come on wake up there's a fight!" Aniki's eyes beamed open and then his eyes turned serious, Sharuda held his hand out and lifted Aniki to his feet. "You okay bro?" Sharuda says to him, "Yeah I'm good, who is this freak show?" Sharuda looks at Aniki as Nikolai rises up to his feet. "It's Nikolai the Mixer." Aniki's eyes widened in shook. "This is the guy that's butchered thousands of people and kept getting away from the marines, his bounty is at 17 million Belli."

"Oh so you know me? That's good; your shook must be fear!" He cackles widely and looks towards the two guys; they both start to shake, "Sharuda?" Aniki whispers "Yeah?" There heads look up towards Nikolai. "Let's take on our first high bounty!" They have huge smiles on there faces, overcome with excitement. "I can't wait to kick this guy's ass!" They look back at each other and nod; they then rushed broke away from each other and engaged Nikolai from two different sides.

Aniki's high roundhouse kick was blocked by yet another spinning blade, which made him redirect the attack to a less vital spot, as for Sharuda a left and right hook combo was also blocked by spinning blades. Knocked back again Sharuda and Aniki haven't backed down they continue to attack from different angles but met the same fate as a blade is there to meet them at all times. Aniki's Marine cloths have taken a good battering and a little torn with blood dripping down his legs making them weaken slowing his movements, Sharuda's right and left arm are soaked in blood and his left leg is limp and weakened.

"Oh this guy is tougher than I thought, I hope the people in the grand line are as strong as this eh brother?" Sharuda smiles and says to Aniki. "Oh there much stronger than this, I've heard some can even control elements." Aniki gloats and they generally feel the rush of battle.

'What is with these guys? There crazy they have no fear in dying' Nikolai thought as fear starts to cover his face, he quickly shook it off and went back to being serious. "Okay I've had enough you both die now!" Nikolai manages to get two cages on Sharuda and Aniki so quick they couldn't react in there damaged state. "Haha now you have to sit there and watch your self slowly get mixed into my fertiliser." Sharuda and Aniki look up towards the saw blade coming down upon there head. "Oh this is perfect I've so wanted to hear you scream!" Nikolai gloats to the two trapped pirates, he watches them closely and they don't appear to be moving. "What are you doing? Your about to die why aren't you screaming?"

The blade is but a mere inch away from Sharuda's head, he looks up towards the blade. "Your time is up Nikolai!" Sharuda shouts as he thrusts his hands upwards and grabs the blades and stops it dead. He looked stunned "What?!" Nikolai screams as the blood soaked hands of the pirate that just caught the spinning blade, which had been carving other people into fine liquid and chopping even solid gold coins in there pockets up too.

Sharuda looks up at his hands which were almost cut to the bone, "Haha that's gonna sting in the morning." Nikolai frustrated by his calm nature attempts to spin the blade again but to no avail, Sharuda grips the blade harder and tenses his

muscles, he angled himself inside his prison to make the direct spin of the blade move in the opposite direction as hard as he could. This caused confusion within the inner workings of Nikolai's body, "What the hell are you doing?" he shouted but got no answer. The blades rotation caused a mini typhoon within the cage which Sharuda redirected the force with his body to a single point, which blew the glass open and he was fired out of it sliding along the floor.

Aniki was in the same situation as the blade over Sharuda's stopped the blade over Aniki's also stopped, he punched four different sides or the glass cage cracking them all and then a roundhouse kick cleared the bottom half straight off. Now both freed and with a disorientated enemy in there path it doesn't look very good for Nikolai.

"Let's go Aniki!" Sharuda shouts as they both charge in towards him and with two massive bone crunching right-handed uppercuts, Nikolai hit the ceiling and came crashing through the top of the island and back down at a smashing pace onto the floor just in front of them.

"Heh I expected a guy with 17 million Belli on there name to be a little more skilled than that." Sharuda says as he turns around to walk away, Aniki continues to look at the guy for a brief moment. "Well you can't expect them all to be strong; this guy only had it because he carved up one of the head government guys." He then also turns round and walks towards where they came in. "Don't underestimate me!!" Nikolai gets up and launches a surprise attack at them.

"You're done for! Blend Blend Bikesaw!" his body shaped itself into a giant circular blade which dug into the ground to propel himself like a Motorbike, a few blades on the front which could carve a hole in steel was now a few feet away from Sharuda on a direct collision course. Sharuda pulled his arms in front of himself in a quick attempt to be shielded.

"No use! You're dead!" Nikolai Screams at him, "Noooo Sharuda!" Aniki Reaches out but was too far off. Then suddenly a loud bang was heard followed by a loud whistling sound, something came crashing through the roof at relentless speed and struck Nikolai as he was just mere milliseconds away from forcefully taking Sharuda's limbs away from him. Nikolai's body flew at least 15 meters and landed in the fertiliser that he had created, with the devils fruit powers taken away in water and making him a dead weight he sank to the bottom.

"What the hell was that?!" Aniki Exclaims while looking at the hole in the ceiling. "Shit that was close, where did that cannon ball come from?" Sharuda brushed himself off and wiped the blood off his arm. "That was a cannon ball?!" Sharuda nods, "Then we better start moving I think I know who they are." Sharuda and Aniki run back through the cellars of fish as more cannonballs came crashing down behind them destroying nearly everything in the place.

They got back to where they came in and looked up at the way they entered. "How do we get back up there?" Aniki says but merely a few seconds after another cannon ball crashes through and hits a support beam, making a pile of rubble which goes up to the ceiling. "How about that then? Haha," Sharuda starts running up it to reach the top. "Why are you so lucky?" Aniki laughs as he starts to climb, Sharuda reaches the top and sees at least three main Marine ships hovering around and shooting holes in the island.

"I don't think they know it's us, they might be looking for Nikolai." Sharuda says as he gives Aniki a hand in getting up the top. "Let's keep it a low profile then." Sharuda and Aniki turn around to head to there ship but then notice a whole line of marines standing behind them at firing position.

"Which one of you is Nikolai?!" A marine shouts, Sharuda and Aniki looks towards each other nervously, Aniki is about to open his mouth when Sharuda interrupts. "I am!" Aniki looks at him shocked; Sharuda winks at him, he then turns back to look at the marines. "Help He's gonna chop me up, I don't wanna die!" The marines aim at Sharuda directly. "Right let him go! We have you in our sight don't make us shoot." Sharuda kicks Aniki forward, he stumbled and falls to the floor. Aniki then crawls up to the marines and stands up behind them about to walk off.

"Thank you so much Sir." Aniki says, the marines acknowledge him and aim back at Sharuda. "Any last words before you die Nikolai?" Sharuda laughs wildly "Nope!" he exclaims with a big smile on his face.

"But I do…." Aniki whispers to a marine on the far side, the marine looks up at him and then sees a clothes-line from Aniki's right arm smash into his face, this impact knocked the marines off target and they all fire and miss Sharuda. "Thanks Aniki." Sharuda lunges forward at a fast pace and plants a kick to the nearest marine sending him into a tree, he then finishes up with a double bicycle kick to a line of marines knocking the weapons from them, Aniki then rushes in and throws two to three of them into a pile. One remains shivering and backing up to a tree, Sharuda catches eye on the marine and walks up to him.

"W-what are you people? I didn't know Nikolai had an accomplice." Sharuda sits down in front of him and smiles. "I'm not Nikolai, I'm Sharuda and this is Aniki." The marine looks shocked at the two. "You're the two that escaped the marine base!" Aniki smirks, "Yeah, oh and if your looking for that Nikolai guy don't worry we took care of him, although he is drowning right now." Sharuda says to the guy. "What you mean you beat Nikolai the Mixer?!" Sharuda nods in agreement then stands up again.

"Well see you around!" Sharuda waves at him and they both run back towards there ship. "Right now we have to get around these ship, they are still firing on the island let's slip by them." Aniki says to Sharuda as they are preparing the ship to leave.

"Right Aniki full sail, Head west towards the nearest city!" Aniki hoists the sail and off they go, the boat veers around the island and using the sound of the gunfire they cover there exit and sail right by them, As the island starts to sink the ship was already out of sight.

They can relax now on the warm day that it was, birds started to fly overhead and the clouds resembled many different shapes all floating across the blue sky, the water was clear as you can see fish swimming a few feet under the surface, Sharuda looks down at his hands which was almost carved up as he grabbed the spinning blade, "It looks like it is still working." Aniki mentions as Sharuda's hands appear to be fully healed which is unusual considering they were ready to fall off. "Yes brother it doesn't stop working." Aniki bandages up one of his wounds from his legs. "So how much longer till we reach the next city?" Sharuda asks. "Judging by the map I say two days tops." Sharuda nods "I wonder what awaits us next?"

Meanwhile the marine reports in on the marine ship, "What? That Exiled Aniki and his brother managed to beat Nikolai the Mixer!" The marine bows "Yes sir!" he looks up at the marine general who was silhouetted but we was big and he had strong arms and hands big enough to grab a horse. "Seems I underestimated those two, Get me the phone I want a bounty on these guys heads before they cause a stir."