Grand Line Automobile Chronicles—A One Piece Fanfic!
A/N: Hello to the fans of One Piece, it's actually my first time writing a multiple-chapter story and I'm proud I did that. The 2008 Summer Olympics in China have ended, and after that...I'm going make more stories with great ideas from my imagination and inspirations. Well, it's time to open up the first chapter of the fic! But first...
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the characters from One Piece, and the graphic novel/show itself. The manga is made by Eiichiro Oda, and the T.V. series is by Toei Animation and Funimation Entertainment.
Chapter One: The Intro
The car.
Also known as the automobile, this commonly used transportation was invented by a German man named Karl Benz. The first gas-powered automobile was created in 1885 and since then this kind of transportation improved heavily and currently, there are hundreds of millions of cars being sold to a person interested. In 1914, Henry Ford expanded the interests of cars by producing a lot of them and pretty soon they sold pretty well by the 1920s, when the mostly famous Ford Model T came out of the production line in the early 19th century. By the 1940s to the 1950s, four-wheeled cars were becoming more and more different than usual. Car bodies were changing, as these body frames we know right now were created in the post-World War II era.
The automobiles were now available worldwide in the 1950s, and cars became more and more faster by the time the '50s ended. Luxury cars were created, and so were limousines as well. In the 1960s to the '70s, there was the existence of muscle cars and pony cars. The Ford Mustang, the Chevy Camaro, the Dodge Challenger, and the Pontiac Firebird were the popular muscle/pony cars ever made. In that time frame, sports utility vehicles and minivans were also created from their concepts.
However, there were concerns over the fuels the cars were using. There were fuel shortages in the 1970s, such as the fuel crisis in the year of 1973. After that, cars were more fuel efficient through the 1980s. At that decade, popular sports cars were produced and some fit the New Wave era as it is since they were popular among the youth population. Safety standards inside these cars improved rapidly, after the invention of the car.
However, that is not the main point. Question is what if real-world vehicles were, by magic, suddenly found their way in a new fictional world? Specifically, what if these cars found their way into the universe of One Piece, landing on the grounds of the New World...and on the islands of the Grand Line? Captain Monkey D. Luffy, of the Straw Hats, and his crew will discover these kinds of transportation...and possibly use the cars into finding the greatly hidden treasure of all, the ONE PIECE! He might become the next Pirate King...and become a stunt driver!