In a small harbor village a pirate ship made it their base. The village is at peace, "Hey, Luka! What are you up to now?"
Luka, a small seven year old girl stood on the railing of the pirate ship wearing a white shirt with an anchor on it and blue shorts. She held a small knife up to her face and determination in her eyes. "I've had it with you guys! Now you'll have to take me seriously! This is how tough I am!" She held the knife closer.
"Ha Ha Ha! Get it over with! Whatever it is…"A man with a straw hat and bright red hair cheered her on.
She nodded her head and plunged the knife under her left eye. Almost immediately tears sprung from her eyes and she yelped loudly as blood ran down from the wound.
"You idiot! What'd you do that for!" The man lunged forward and caught the girl while the rest panicked. He pulled the knife out and narrowed his eyes as hers glowed eerily for a second before disappearing once he threw the bloody knife away. He shrugged it off as a trick of the eyes and passed her off to the doctor before they all headed back to Party's Bar.
"A toast to Luka's…courage…and to our great voyage!" The man laughed loudly as he and his men drank while Luka sat on the stool moodily.
"It didn't hurt a bit!" She crossed her arms and pouted before quickly rubbing away a stray tear.
"Liar! That was a foolish thing to do!" The man yelled at her from his chair although concern shown in his eyes.
"I'm not the least bit afraid of getting hurt! Take me with you on your next voyage! I want to be a pirate too!" She turned to him with sparkling eyes but her smile was dimmed slightly as she caught his eyes.
"You?! A pirate?! Impossible! Luffy, do you know why we call you anchor?" He looked at her with an amused face, but she could see the seriousness in his eyes.
"Because of my shirt?" She pointed at the picture with an innocent look.
"No! It's because you can't swim—you just sink! What good is a pirate who can't swim?" He laughed at the end and his crew joined him, but her eyes narrowed in defiance.
"But if I don't fall overboard, then it doesn't matter if I'm an anchor! And I'm a strong fighter!" She dared him to challenge her, "I've been training! My punch is as powerful as a pistol!" She punched the air in front of her lightly not wanting to accidently damage anything like she did with the trees.
"A pistol, eh? Is that so…" He rested his head on his hand as he looked at Luka in mock seriousness.
She stood on the stool in anger, "Are you doubting me?!" She yelled although she hid the hurt that she felt from his doubt rather well.
"Luffy, would you like something to eat?" Makino, the owner of the bar and the mother figure of Luka, walked in carrying a large barrel.
"Yeah! Just put it on my treasure tab!" Luka smiled brightly at Makino and winced slightly when the two stitches under her eye pulled.
"Treasure tab? Look Girl, don't try to swindle the lady." He turned to Luka with a smile on his face.
"I'm gonna become a pirate, find lots of treasure, and then I'll come back and pay her!" She slammed her small fists onto the table and scowled at him.
"Ha Ha Ha! We'll celebrate together when you return." Makino placed some food in front of Luka with a smile and Luka beamed at her in thanks.
"Shanks?" Luka paused and looked at Shanks, the straw hat man.
"Yeah Kid…?" Shanks glanced over at Luka in question.
"How much longer will you stay at the village?" She looked down at her food to hide the longing expression in her eyes.
"Hmm…Let's see…We've been using this village for about a year…After two or more voyages…we'll leave here for good and go North." He stopped eating and turned fully to her.
"I see…Two or three more trips, eh?" She munched quietly on her food before her eyes lit up and she smiled at Shanks, "I'm gonna learn how to swim by the time you leave!" She smiled more when he didn't immediately shut down her idea.
"That's good kid…Do whatever you want." Shanks turned away from her and went back to eating missing the dejected look Luka held for a moment before being replaced with determination.
The door to the bar slammed open, "Make way for the Scourge Of The Mountains! Hehheh…So you call yourselves pirates, eh? First time I've ever seen Pirates…You look like a sorry lot to me." The bandit stepped in further with his group following close behind. Luka scrunched her nose and turned away from them choosing to ignore the weak ones for now. "We're mountain bandits. Oh, don't wet yourselves. We're not here to bust the place. Just sell us 10 barrels of grog, and we'll injure only the bare minimum."
Makino turned to them and Luka's eyes narrowed as she saw her mother figure shaking slightly, "I'm sorry… We just ran out of Liquor."
"Oh then what are these pirates drinking, water?" He leaned forward more and Luka frowned, "I'm Higuma and I have an 8,ooo,ooo beli bounty on my head!" He stated smugly and Luka bit her lip to keep from laughing.
She ignored them for the rest of the time when her eyes landed on a strange chest and she opened it in curiosity. A weird fruit was tucked inside and her stomach growled in hunger so with a shrug she ate the fruit in one bite. She looked over just in time to narrowly avoid getting cut by Higuma's sword and watched as Shanks just brushed him off as if the bandit was just a small pest. The bandit left with his group and all the pirates burst out laughing while Luka tilted her head and shrugged, "I'm going to tell Gramps that they threatened me when he comes back." She went back to eating while the pirates turned to her.
"Hey Luka you never told us who your dad or granddad is." Shanks tilted his head and looked for an answer.
"Oh my Gramps is Monkey D. Garp and I think he said Dragon was my dad? I don't know and if I was sure I don't think I'm supposed to tell you." She looked over and saw that they were on the ground in shock so without waiting she hopped off her stool and moved to leave. Shanks grabbed her arm and she took three more steps when she noticed her arm wasn't exactly following her. She looked back and her eyes widened when she saw that her arm was stretched out. "Shanks…"
"Luka! Did you eat the fruit that was in this chest?!" He picked her up and looked her straight in the eyes while ignoring the way her nails dug into his arm slightly drawing small beads of blood.
"Yes! I was hungry I didn't know it was important!" She looked down at her hands and pulled them away from Shanks' arms when she saw the blood and shook her head harshly as tears pooled in her eyes.
"Luka that was the Gum-Gum fruit one of the devil Fruit! Luka you can never swim again!" He shook her violently as panic took over him and the crew.
"What?!" The tears spilled over and she felt light headed.
"You idiot!"
Weeks passed by and Luffy got used to the devil fruit although her strength was reduced dramatically by the way she had to keep her arms from stretching when she punched. She walked into the bar and bit back a growl when she saw the mountain bandits making a mess of Makino's bar. "Did you see their faces?! Man if those are pirates they were really weak! Ha Ha Ha I bet they'll die or get caught by the marines soon, how pathetic! Especially their idiot of a captain!" Luka kicked the chair out from under the leader and glared heatedly at them.
Luka bit back a growl of frustration when the leader stepped on her head smashing her face into the dirt. "-nd when we're done with her lets go back to the bar and deal with that Makino chick, eh?" Luka's eyes snapped open and without even thinking she grabbed his ankle and lashed out with her feet managing to hit his other leg. He fell and she grabbed the knife from the man's belt before digging it into his shoulder and laughing. She managed to kill four bandits including the leader when someone pulled her off and she tried to attack him as well.
The knife was gently forced out of her hand, but she reacted to quick and she jabbed the knife deep into the man's arm and severed it. The knife was jerked from her hand and she looked into her capturers eyes, it was Shanks. "I was hoping that I was wrong, but it seems that I wasn't. Luka has a disease or rather a curse called The Devil's Advocate. It makes the person have a great deal of blood lust and when it isn't controlled it can consume the person and turn them into a monster that only desires blood and torture."
Luka gained her sanity back and managed to hear the tail end of Shanks' words, "You think I'm a monster too then?" She gave a small laugh that made Shanks freeze as well as some of his crew, "It's okay if you do I took your arm from you. Everyone else does as well." She looked down sadly and in self regret.
"Luka you're not a monster we just need to help you find a way to control it okay?" Shanks smiled at her and she looked up in shock before a large smile stretched across her face.
Days passed with Shanks helping Luka and they found that if she just layered her happy go lucky attitude over it then she could control it better. The only bad thing was that with the curse she had to see, touch, or smell blood every few days. And she had to hear screams every three to four months or the curse would overwhelm her. Now she stood at the dock and bit back her tears as she watched her surrogate father pack supplies aboard his ship for the last time. "So you're leaving for good this time?" She looked up at Shanks.
"Yeah we've already stayed here to long, are you gonna miss me?" He looked at her with a teasing smile and she stuck out her tongue.
"Nah, I've already decided I'll become a pirate on my own!" She put her hands on her hip proudly.
"Hahaha you?!" He laughed when she pouted again.
"Yeah and I'll have a ship and crew better than yours! And we'll have the biggest hoard of treasure in the world! I'm gonna be King of the pirates!" She said defiantly.
"I see, than hold onto this for me." He shoved his straw hat on her head with a smile, "And promise me that you'll return it when you become a great pirate." He turned on his heel and started yelling out commands as they all waved goodbye to Luka.
Luka stood tall on the small wooden boat with a grin as she held onto her straw hat. She wore a black tank top under a red vest with a red sash and blue shorts. A katana rested on her hips and a dagger was strapped on her thigh. "Look out world here I come! I'm going to become…King of the Pirates!" She laughed and fell onto her back with a smile that quickly faded. "But first how do I get to the next island, oh well I'll think of something." She chuckled and closed her eyes letting sleep consume her.
Two hours later she woke up to her little boat shaking and in the middle of getting swallowed by a whirlpool. "Huh this sucks, not even my first day and I'm going to get sucked in by a whirlpool how boring." She shrugged and spotted an empty barrel off to the side. With a smile she pulled the top open and climbed in, "well at least this increases my chance of surviving." She fell back asleep to the rocking of the ocean waves.
She woke up to voices overhead and smiled brightly letting a spark of eagerness shoot through her eyes. "What a great nap!" She broke through the barrel with her fists and her smile widened when she felt it connect to someone's jaw. "Ah who are you?" She tilted her head and pushed her short black hair away from her face.
"Who the hell are you?!" two of them yelled at her their teeth going sharp and their heads getting bigger.
She stared at them and shrugged before turning to the short pink haired boy, "hey do you know where the food is?" She ignored the two.
"Do you know who we are?! Are you messing with us because we're pirates!" They pulled out their swords and she glanced at them before turning the rest of the way with a smile. They lunged at her and she knocked their swords away with ease making them get stuck in the roof. The two stuttered before running away with their friend being dragged in between.
She shrugged and turned back to the boy, "So food, do you know where it is or not?" She climbed out the barrel and started to leave only for the boy to latch on her arm and try to drag her away.
"It's not safe! Lady Alvida and her crew is here they might kill you!" He yelled at her and she scoffed open a door with a small smile depicting her success.
"I highly doubt that. Anyway who are you?" She sat down in front of a box of fruit and started eating while listening for any sound that would indicate something threatening.
"I'm Koby, I was fishing on a boat that happened to be theirs and they forced me to be the chore boy or they would kill me!" Koby said with conviction and Luka snorted.
"You, I hat people like you. So weak in terms of your dreams and self-will and how lacking you are of strength, pathetic. Anyway my names Monkey D. Luka and I'm going to be king of the pirates." She started mumbling after the first sentence then made her voice loud with the last word. She stood and looked at the door choosing to ignore Koby as the door was smashed open to reveal the ugliest lady that she had ever had the displeasure of seeing.
"Koby! Who is the prettiest in all the seas?!" She yelled and Luka's hand twitched her eyes taking on a slight glow.
Koby stuttered and the two females watched one in satisfaction the other in boredom. "It''s y-yo—No, it's Luka-san! You're just a nasty old hag!" Koby was shaking like a leaf in fear and Luka busted out laughing. Alvida raised her club and brought it down with the intent of killing Koby, but Luka stood in between them and blocked it with her hand.
"I don't think so lady." Luka looked up from under the shadow of her hat with a malicious smile and pulled out her sword, "I like Koby so I'm gonna help him. You just happen to be in my way all the same I think it's time for you to go bye bye." She smirked and lashed out with her foot sending Alvida to the deck. She left Koby down below and pointed at Alvida with her sword, "As I said I like Koby he's funny so I won't torture you instead I'll do this." She put her sword up and pulled back her hand before swinging it forward with tremendous power, "Gum-Gum Pistol!" She punched Alvida and sent her flying and the enemy pirates watched in fear as her arms slowly went back to its normal length. "Now get us a boat!" The pirates were quick to follow her command and she smirked in triumph only for it to disappear and be replaced by a pure smile. "Ah Kody!" She smiled at him.
"It's Koby, anyway we're sailing to an island with a marine base. I heard they were keeping a demon there!" Koby had looked back out into the sea and missed the way Luka's eyes darkened in anger before fading like it was never there.
"Really?! That's so cool; maybe if it's a good guy he can join my crew!" She laughed at Koby's face.
"He's locked up because he's not a good guy! Roronoa Zoro, a bounty hunter that's like a demon, I heard he's never brought in a bounty that was alive." Koby trailed up and Luka looked away with a smile.
She smirked and tilted her head, 'A demon huh, maybe he's strong enough and willing to be placed under the command of a monster.' She looked back at Koby and laughed when she saw him trying, and failing, to pull the sails back in, 'Either way this will be interesting!'
Noctis: After being forced to watch one piece and having to grudgingly admit that it's cool i've written (and still writing) a story for it. I'm into dark things like torture and blood so i think i'll have fun writing this and if i dont eh whatever.
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