chapter 1
Luffy's childhood friends
On Dawn Island deep inside a dangerous forest Monkey D. Garp was hoisting his grandson by his shirt and carried him through and unkempt path.
"Grandpa!" wailed his grandson. "Put me down!"
"Oh stop whining Luffy!" Garp screamed. "We're going to begin your training to make you a strong marine."
"But I don't want to be a marine." He was almost on the verge of tears as he flailed in the air, in a tantrum like fashion. The grandson was small 4 year old boy. He had raven black hair, slightly tanned face, and cute as a button. He was in a white sleeve less shirt and a pair of blue shorts.
"You're too young to know what you want!" Garp screamed even louder. "You'll soon learn that the marines life is the only life."
After 20 more minutes they had finally arrived at their destination: The top of a very dark and deep ravine with the disturbing sounds of howls and growls of wild, bloodthirsty animals. Garp roughly dropped his grandson. He made a small thud sound when he fell. The grandson picked himself off the ground and saw that there were four other people here already. An old man and woman and 2 other kids, a boy and girl, the grandsons age.
"Axel! Carsa! Great to see you two again!" Garp screamed jovially.
"Must you scream Garp." said the old man grumpily. He was big and and muscular, like Garp, and had a dark grey beard and hair. His skin was darker than Garps and he looked very serious and strict. He was in a marines vice-admiral uniform. He was rubbing he was rubbing his his ear. "You'll be the reason for my deafness I swear." At his was a little boy who shared a similar serious expression.
"Still the same grump as always, aren't ya Axel." Garp continued to laugh.
"He certainly is." said the old woman with a small laugh. "But it seems you haven't changed at all Garp."
The old woman, who was name Carsa was a tall slender lady with a slightly wrinkled white face, aging blonde hair, and a kind smile, but for some reason she gave off the same intensity of Garp. She wore a simple purple dress that covered her ankles. Hiding behind her legs was a little girl who had blonde hair and looked very shy.
She gasped when she saw Garp's grandson. "Is this Luffy!?"
"Yup!" said Garp with a big grin. "But I'd imagine he's grown some, since you both have last seen him."
"I'd say!" squealed Carsa. She walked over to where luffy was and knelt down to as close to luffy's eye level as possible. "Hello Luffy."
Luffy was silent.
"Luffy don't be rude say hi back."
"Hello, maim." Luffy said awkwardly. Even though he's spent most of his time with adults rather than other kids his age he still feels uncomfortable talking to one.
"He's shy how adorable." Carsa said as she ruffled Luffy's already messy black hair. "You may not remember me luffy, but I was there when you were first born. Back then you were even smaller than the teddy bear I had as a little girl."
"R-really?" said Luffy shyly.
"Yup! And I have to say you've remained as cute as ever."
Carsa glanced behind her and saw the little girl who was with her looking curiously at Luffy. She was had golden blond hair and blue eyes, she wore a blue t-shirt and a white skirt. She was very cute. "Oh where are our manners we should introduce our grandkids."
"Good idea, Carsa." Said Garp. "They might as well know each other's names if they're going to spend some time together."
"Yeah I suppose that would be alright." Axel said dryly.
Carsa gently grabbed the little girl by the shoulders and dragged her over to face luffy. "Luffy this is my little granddaughter Sona. Say hi Sona."
"Hi" she squeaked shyly.
"Hi" Luffy squeaked back.
"Axel your turn." said Carsa.
"Alright." he replied. He put a hand on the boy who was next to him's shoulder. "Luffy. Sona. This is my grandson Kyosuke. Say hello Kyosuke."
"Hello." He said. Kyosuke was a small boy a few inches taller than Luffy and sona. He had dark black hair and piercing black eyes. He work a sleeveless black shirt and jean shorts. He was cute too.
"Hi." Both Luffy and Sona replied.
"Now that we've had our meet and greet let's get down to business." Garp said.
"Yeah let's begin." said Carsa Excitedly.
"Hm." Axel grunted in agreement.
"Business?" said Luffy. He had a feeling he knew what 'business' meant. "What business?"
"The next stage of your alls marine training of course." Garp said with a grin.
"Oh no." Luffy mutter so quietly that no one heard him. 'Marine training' could only mean one thing: he would die. Of course he was supposed to die when his grandpa left him in some unknown forest to survive on his own. His grandpa always put him through training that would kill anybody else. But he survived, because he was Monkey D. one of the strongest bloodlines in the sea… or so he heard. His grandpa
"Grandpa?"
"Yes Luffy?"
"Can I not do this training?"
With those words Garp grabbed Luffy by the collar and hurled him in the ravine. "No!" He bellowed loudly.
"AAAAAAAAHHHH!" Luffy screaming as he fell back-first into his death. This probably would've been the most surprising thing to happen to Luffy all day, if it wasn't for what he saw next. The boy named Kyosuke did not need to be thrown or pushed he, of his own free will, jumped from the ledge and then Sona hesitantly jumped into the ravine too.
Luffy was young and didn't know a lot of words, so he had no clue how to describe the feeling he has just experienced.
Years later he would learn the word. It was a feeling of being outclassed.
