Chapter 1:Of dragons and rubber men

(daydream)

windmill village a very peaceful town, that is until a bunch of screams come from a nearby pub, inside two boys have just stabbed themselves below the eye with a knife, one under the right and the other under the left and the screaming came from the bar patrons "luffy, drake what the fuck do you think your doing" said a red haired man with claw marks on his face "we are showing you that we are tough enough to be in your crew" said a boy with white spiked hair, black eyes (like luffys) and wearing a red shirt with the kanji for dragon on the front and a pair of black shorts now identified as monkey d. drake "yeah we want to be big time pirates like you shanks" said the second boy this one had black hair that was flat, black eyes, wearing white shirt with an anchor while saying anchor and blue shorts now known as monkey d. luffy "you two are the biggest bakas I have ever known but I commend you for trying to show your toughness, now go get those fixed up" said the one called shanks. the next couple of hours they try to convince him to take them with on their next adventure but are sidetracked by apple juice, as the pirates are laughing a bunch of bandits come in and wreck the place after they leave they don't notice that the boys have taken two fruits from the chest on the bar, shanks turns to see them both eating fast "he he stuffing it down luffy, drake?" "that's right" said drake, shanks gets a good look at what they are eating and pales "what are you eating?" luffy and drake both swallow at this moment shanks gets up walking towards luffy and drake "that box … did you eat the things in that box?" he grabs luffy while one of the other pirates grabs drake and hold them upside down shaking them "spit it out, spit it out now, all of it" he yells while still shaking, then some thing happened and luffy stretched all the way to the floor and drake shot some electric out of his mouth which shocked everyone in the pub "what was that?" asked drake with wide eyes, shanks was livid "what you ate was the gum gum fruit while your brother ate the beast beast fruit type dragon element lightning, they are also known as devil fruits, after eating them you become a rubber man while he becomes a dragon man, now you both wont be able to swim" he said with anger in his voice.

Another few days later shows luffy and drake getting the snot beat out of them by the same bandits that shamed shanks, the mayor comes and try's to diffuse the situation but the bandit leader will have non of it as he draws his sword and points it at the two boys "I wondered why no one was in the bar, if it isn't the bandit from before," everyone looked to see shanks and his crew standing behind the mayor "shanks" yelled both boys happy to see him "pirate, your still here?, are you cleaning the whole village?", "luffy, isn't your punch as strong as a pistol?" as more words are given the bandits and pirates start fighting as the bandit leader throws a smoke bomb disappearing with the boys, out in the middle of the ocean the bandit has luffy and drake by the feet spouting nonsense, as he drops them into the ocean a giant sea king rises from the water and devours the bandit but then sets its sight on the boys who are helpless in the ocean, as it attacks they are saved by shanks, the sea king comes around for another attack but stops at the stare that shanks was giving it making it cower in fear, as it swims away both boys are crying as shanks holds them trying to talk to them "hey, don't cry, your men" drake looks up at him still crying while luffy has his face in his shirt and says "but, shanks … your arm" shanks looks at luffy with care in his eyes "it isn't worth much, its just one arm im glad your safe" neither of the boys could hold back any longer and let the world know.

The next day shanks and his crew are getting ready to head out but this time they are not returning "leaving, right?" asked luffy who stood next to drake "we've stayed here for a long time, but its time to leave will you miss us?" drake answers this time with "yeah, we'll miss you, we wont ask you to take us with you this time, we decided to do it by ourselves... to become pirates" shanks turns around sticking his tongue out saying "either way, I wouldn't have taken you with me, like you two could become pirates" luffy and drake get tough looks on their faces as luffy says "we will, we will gather our own crew that-ll beat yours, and find the worlds greatest treasure, no matter what, I will become the pirate king" he yells the last part while drake yells "and I will be the greatest martial artist in the world" shanks looks at luffy and drake saying "oh, your going to beat us...then...ill let you take car of this hat, its very important to me take good care of it" he then looks to drake and says "don't think I forgot about you, I want you to have this, it is one of the rare enchanted swords, there are seven in the entire world use it well" drake and luffy are speechless as they watch shanks and his crew board and sail away into the ocean.

(end daydream)

I feel some one grab my shoulder and I look around to see luffy with the straw hat sitting on his head, nowadays he has taken to wearing a red vest and blue jean shorts and sandals, I on the other hand have decided to wear a black shirt with a red duster (like dantes) with the kanji for demon on it, a pair of black shorts and sandals, he smiles at me with that big goofy grin of his "so what do you think of our new crew mate" I look over to see zoro sitting on the floor of the boat with three swords, the swordsman looks like he could care less but I saw what he did at the marine base and I know that he is trustworthy, so I just look at my brother and say "i think he will make a fine addition to the crew" just then luffys stomach growls "ugh im hungry" just then he spots a bird in the air "FOOOOOOOOD" he then uses a gum gum rocket and fly's up to the bird, only to get caught by said bird "HELLLLLLLLLLP" I hear his scream "zoro we have to save him get one of the oars quick" so we row after him to try and save his idiotic ass.