M:This is my third fanfic I've written but my first for One Piece. I have an idea of how the things will work out and since it kept me up at night I decided to go ahead and write it. I hope you all will give it a chance.

Disclaimer: I don't own one piece

Prologue

Tell me do you believe in reincarnation after death? Of living a new life and being reborn into another living being. Is it chosen for us that we will be reborn? By fate, our former life or lives, of how we lived them? Or is it decided by some all powerful deity that they want to mess with our lives and let us be reborn anew in a new place. A mere plaything for their amusement or for their own plans.

Or perhaps of dying and then miraculously get sent to a world that only exists in books, a story created by another human. To live there and restart your life, becoming someone else.

Yet we get no say in these things. We are merely powerless helpless beings, without any power or any strength to match them.

All powerful gods indeed, while we mortals can do nothing but follow their will if they ever deem to show themselves to us. Indeed if I had the choice. I would never want to have been chosen to be the one that they showed themselves to after my death.

"Where...am I?" A voice asked, seeming to originate from a small bluish white orb, in a painfully white room, which held four giant thrones all carved white, and made from some sort of stone."What's going on? What is this place?"

"Greetings mortal. Such questions will be soon answered." A deep masculine voice spoke and where there once were empty thrones, were now filled with beings far more exceedingly beautiful than humanly possible. They were giant in stature as well, and from them the small bluish orb could sense power radiating from them was unknown, and as for how the small bluish orb could see them without any eyes was also unknown.

"Seems we have picked quite an unfortunate one this time." A smooth, rather feminine voice spoke this time. "Was it wise to pick this one?"

"What does it matter which one we pick. So long as it all turns out interesting eh?" This time the voice that spoke was rather rough, and spoke in a tone that promised nothing good. The female one then responded, "Well I suppose that is true. So long as it proves interesting then it really won't matter who it is." The female then proceeded to laugh,

The females laugh was then cut off by the first male voice that spoke. "Silence, we need to begin this whole meeting before anything. It would go along faster without any unneeded comments."

All through that time the bluish white orb and the other being that had appeared had remained silent, each for their own different reasons. The bluish white orb not wanting to anger any of them, and for the fact that it was confused, very confused. Even though it could see their features it couldn't quite seem to be able to describe or remember any of them even though it was looking at them right now. The other being just didn't want to be bothered with talking and was radiating a rather bored aura.

The first male then proceeded to speak once more, "Now mortal. It is very clear that you are confused as have many been before you. Simply put, you are dead and now are a soul. And no, regardless of your gender in your former life your soul holds none but you do get reincarnated mostly as the gender that matches your sould the most." He added the last things dismissively, as if being asked so many times before.

The soul didn't speak, not wanting to aggravate this being. "Well, it's good that you are being rather quiet, makes things so much easier. Anyways, since you are now a soul we have decided to choose you from the many out there who are waiting to get reincarnated again. Again, no one does not simply reincarnate soon after death, it takes years perhaps even a century or so to do so. Ah, now where was I?"

"You were saying that we decided to choose it out of the many from being reincarnated." The second male spoke, seemingly amused. The female and the other occupant seemingly bored and the soul being angry at being referred to as an it but again didn't speak. Not wanting to anger them at all, less the soul would become crushed or destroyed.'Still, I am not an it! But er...I don't really have a gender at this moment...now what exactly was I in my former life?. I thi-" The soul's thoughts were interrupted.

"Oh, yes. Quite right you are. As I was saying you've been chosen and will now be given a second chance at living so soon in where we see fit. It won't be reincarnation, there'd be no fun in waiting for you to grow up until you've reached a certain age. Instead, you will appear where we see fit, and and how we see fit."

At that the soul started getting a sense of dread. "Thankfully for you, we are all quiet in a generous mood, so you shall be given some gifts so to speak. You should be grateful, not many of the chosen have received them." The soul didn't know whether it should be thankful or running away, not that it could run anyways.

The female then spoke. "I shall start then. My gift for the human will be something simple, a rather beautiful appearance. Not too beautiful of course, that would ruin a lot of things. It's such a pity the thing was not gifted with beauty when it was living." At that comment the soul felt insulted, in her opinion she had rather average and nice looking features, being too pretty and beautiful only cost problems. And the soul had finally remembered what it's gender had been when it was living.

Then it was the second male who spoke. "Hm...well this particular one always craved freedom, and a certain place has caught my attention. This…. 'One Piece' world does have quite a lot of it, with all those pirates roaming around. It shall be interesting to see how this weakling will deal with it there. There are a lot of strong mortals there after all." He then proceeded to laugh. "That shall be my gift, she will have her second life there, and well...where she will end up that'll be such a surprise." The last part was said in a sadistic tone.

The first male was the next one to speak. "Very well. My gift will be the gift or remembrance, and a few things from it's former life. Not that they will do much good for it but it should keep it from making life too boring for it."

Finally it was time for the last being to speak. And when the being spoke it was rather raspy and hard to distinguish whether it was male or female, although she was inclining towards male. "My gift will be a set of powers, one that world hasn't seen. The power to transform into..other characters not of that world. Of course it will have limitations, it shall have the same weakness as Devil Fruits, from what I've gathered the weakness is unmoving water and some sort of stone. The transformations will be limited to what the thing remembers of those characters. Also the amount it will be able to last with transformations and what powers and abilities it can use will depend on it's strength. One last thing, the transformations can only be human, or at least one with a humanoid shape, so no animals..but I suppose if a creature like a dragon that can become human might be possible.." Those last words were spoken softly.

"You know that is quite a powerful gift given to it." The second male spoke and seemed to be frowning angrily.

"Do not be foolish, if it was always weak there'd be no fun with this. It shall make things interesting, and...the mortal wasn't that good with memorising much." The last being spoke dryly, in his raspy voice.

The soul during all this time was confused and lost as to what they were actually speaking about. She had a feeling of doom though, and knew that none of this was good and that she was quiet unlucky.

Once more, the first male spoke. "This shall all make sense when you are alive once more mortal. You are now our toy, your life and actions shall be our source of amusement. Of course this is nothing more than a game, if you survive till you reach 30 well...then we shall leave you be but your powers will go, unless we are feeling generous by that time then you might have something less powerful but useful nonetheless. Now then be off." The first male spoke and waved its hand in a regal fashion. In an instant the soul was gone, no flashing lights, or dispersing mist, it was just...gone.

"Hm...do you suppose we should have stated that we can make certain events happen to her if things get to boring for our taste?" The female asked.

"Oh no, that'd be no fun my dear sister. After all, the thing already has enough cheats as it is. This game needs to be fun, not boring, after all….what's a good game without struggle." The second male said in a rather dark tone that promised mischief.

M: And done, hope that was interesting to read for all of you.