***Author's Note: I do not own One Piece, Oda does, I do own the characters I made up in this story (ex: Ivy, Cecily (Shadow), and any other made up characters throughout this story that I might create). Also, please do not copy this story and claim it as your own***

Chapt. 1: The Dream, The Tattoo, and Body Changes

"I have heard your cries young one" called out, a voice filled with years of wisdom from living so many years.

"Who are…" a second voice questioned, this voice was no doubt a young person's.

"I have seen how much you care about people and your strong feelings towards injustice." interrupted the old voice, "If you truly wish to save people from the injustice in the world, then I'll grant you strength to protect and save those dear to you, however with great power comes a heavy cost."

"What is the cost?" came, the second voice

"In order to wield this power, you need to guard it with your life and make sure it never falls into the wrong hands." commanded, the old voice, "Now hold out your ankle"

"It's just a bracelet…I thought there would be pain…OWWWW!" screamed the young voice while holding her hip.

As the darkness slowly fades the young voice can hear the old voice laughing…

Ivy Miller bolted upright in her bed for a second before pushing off her aqua-blue covers, stretching her arms before walking on the wood floors heading towards her bathroom.

What a strange dream. It felt so real thought Ivy, while walking into her bathroom taking off her pj's: a black tank top with Ace from One Piece on it and silver cotton shorts that had designs of Ace's flames on it.

I was so upset that Ace died Ivy glumly thought as she walked out of the shower.

She was halfway to her bedroom door when she noticed two things: the first she felt a sharp pain coming from her hip and second she noticed she had a bracelet that looked strangely similar to the one from her dream on her ankle with a charm in the shape of a tan stretched out arm with a hint of red on the sides of the charm (almost as if it was part of a shirt or something) hanging from the silver chain. She rushed to the bathroom mirror and screamed.

When did I get a tattoo? Ivy thought confused as she looked at her in the mirror attempting to take deep breaths in order to calm herself down.

Staring back at Ivy Miller was a short girl (4ft. 8inches) with bright-red, curly hair that went down to the middle of her back and green eyes. But that was not what made the young girl shout, what made her scream was on her light tan skin was a tattoo with the words RUBBER on her hip in black ink.

Hopefully, mom won't notice Ivy hoped while getting ready for school.

Fortunately, either Ivy's mom did not notice or choose not to ask when Ivy came down for breakfast this morning.

Ivy chose to wear black skinny jeans, black t-shirt with Ace's orange cowboy hat on it, and black combat boots.

"Bye mom, I love you." Ivy called, as she was rushing towards the door carrying her mint green backpack that had buttons with her favorite anime along the straps and all over the front.

Ivy loved watching anime and her favorite anime was One Piece. Her mom was worried about her because she always talked about the different anime she watched and Ivy got so attached to the characters she was left heartbroken if something sad happened to them.

"Hey, Cece!" waved Ivy, to a tall girl with black hair that was in a pixie-cut.

Cecily Thompson was Ivy's best friend. Cecily had a nose ring and she was wearing a black t-shirt that had a black rose design and black skinny jeans with silver zippers everywhere.

"Hey, Vines." smirked, Cecily as she walked towards her best friend.

"What did I tell you about calling me that?" Ivy pouted

"What did I tell you about calling me Cece?" countered Cecily with a smile

"Anyways, did you watch last night's episode of…" Ivy began, but stopped when she saw Cecily looking at her ankle and her hip. "Umm… Cecily is everything ok?"

"Where did you get that bracelet and that tattoo?" questioned, Cecily with a weird look.

"I had a strange dream last night and when I woke up they were on my body." Ivy recalled, while rummaging through her locker finding her books for her Algebra class. "Well, I'm off to the pit of hell. I'll see you at lunch."

"Yeah." answered Cecily with a worried look at her best friend.

A dark shadow came into the room where the Elder was.

"Shadow, I thought you might come to me." Elder's voice echoed off the stone walls.

"Then you know why I came." Shadow assumed

"Yes, I do." agreed, Elder

"Then why now!" fumed, Shadow, "You know we were supposed to wait until "it" was ready!"

"Yes, however things happened to change our plans earlier than expected." the Elder admitted.

"But "it" is not ready yet!" objected Shadow

"Which is why I'm sending you to make sure "it" is ready." boomed, the Elder, "Now leave, Shadow and I'm trusting you to make sure nothing bad happens understand."

"Yes, you can count on me Elder." Shadow assured the Elder, while leaving to continue the mission.

"Can anyone tell me the answer to the problem A (2) + P (3) = K (6)?" droned, my Algebra teacher.

I hated every type of math with a passion, plus I'm not good at math at all. So when I saw something through our classroom door window I jumped at the chance to leave this torture that mankind so kindly created. Note the sarcasm.

"Miss Miller where do you think you're going!" roared, my Algebra teacher, while I was rushing towards the door.

"Huh, sorry I have to go to the bathroom." I lied, while running out the door missing my teacher hollering for me to get back in the classroom.

Yeah, right I thought, while sprinting around the curb of the hallway, seeing flashes of black retreating behind doors that lead to the second story of the high school. Finally, after running for five minutes the black flashes darted into a door that lead to the school's swimming pool. After catching my breath for a few seconds I push open the door, glancing around the room to find the black flash gone. As I walk to the edge of the pool, I notice nobody else is here, right when I was about to turn around I got pushed from behind and fell into the pool. The last thing I see before darkness overtakes me was Cecily jumping into the pool after me.

"Ivy, its time for you to save the people you hold dear."

Ohh, its you old voice person I thought tiredly

Old voice person?...never mind, listen carefully, your body will be different in this world, so try not to panic. Old voice warned.

This feels nice I thought.

Hey! Are you listening to me…Never mind just be careful said the old voice

I woke up to people yelling, however I was still too tired to open my eyes to see who the voices belonged to.

"Hey, kid! Are you alright!" a man's voice filled with concern

"Get the kid to the doctor!" a second man's voice

"Bring the child inside." a third man's voice: this one was filled with calmness

I must have passed out again because when I woke up I was in a bed and had an IV in my arm. As I looked around I made a guess that I was in the infirmary on a huge boat.

"Hungry?" came the voice of the first man from the doorway.

As the man was walking towards me with a bowl of chicken noodle soup, I knew what pirate ship I was on. Nobody could mistake the bright red hair, and that easy-going smile (don't let that fool you, he can get extremely scary when he needs to be). I was on Red-Hair Shanks's ship. Cue inner happy dance.

"Feeling better?" observed, Shanks with a hilarious disbelief face as he watched me finish the bowl just as he gave it to me.

"I never thought I would meet someone who would be able to compete against Luffy as the fastest eater." chuckled, the second man voice.

Please I'm nowhere near close to Ace and Luffy I thought with a grin.

"You're right about that Ben." laughed, Shanks, "This Kiddo could give him a run for his money."

I glared at that comment, which only made Shanks laugh harder.

"Nobody should be eating that fast, let alone children." came the disapproving voice of the third man's voice.

"Lighten up, Doc." joked Shanks, which earned him a scowl from the Doc.

"Everyone out, while I check on my patient." ordered Doc as he pointed his finger towards the door, not before getting a party pooper from Shanks.

"Sorry about them, I'm Ren and as you can guess I'm the ship's Doc, as they so call me." explained Ren, as he did his examination. "Do you know why you were in the ocean?"

"No, I don't, but I know my name is Ivy Miller." I recalled.

"How's the Kiddo looking Doc?" Shanks asked mockingly

"I'm not a Kiddo! I'm Ivy and I'm 20-years-old!" I yelled, which made both Ren and Shanks look at each other, then Shanks was rolling on the floor laughing with tears running down his face while gasping something along the lines of "even funnier than Luffy"

That's when Ren helped me walk over to the mirror in the bathroom, not before I gave Shanks a nice kick in the shin. I looked in the mirror to see I'm ten-years-old again.

Oh so this is what that Old Voice meant I thought depressed as I saw a short girl with bright red hair cut into a pixie cut wearing a lime green tank top with black shorts that went past my knees and I was wearing black combat boots.

"Where are we sailing to?" I asked curiously

"Well Kiddo, we headed to an island where we will be dropping you off with a kid about your age." claimed, Shanks.

"Oh, so the kid is ten then?" I questioned, which made Shanks spit his sake out.

"WAIT, YOUR TEN YEARS OLD!" screeched, Shanks, "B-but you're so short."

"Yeah, I get that a lot." I deadpanned, while staring out to sea.

Now to figure out what part of the anime I'm in I thought, as I looked at Shanks, I noticed his straw hat was on his head and he still had both of his arms.

Good, that means its either when the mountain bandits come or before Luffy eats the gum gum fruit. I determined.

TO BE CONTINUED…