I present you one of the latest stories, The Herculean Pirate and His Guardians!

Most characters might be OOC but I'm trying my best.

Contains: Slightly crossover and op character

Warning: Very OP-OC

Enjoy the first chapter of HPHG.

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece or anything mentioned in this story.


Chapter 1: A Boy And Tree


The rowdy shouts can be hear throughout the forest and a black-haired woman can been seen running across the field in barefoot, appearing to be a poor villager from looking at her dirty and patched clothes. Her black eyes dart at the shadow of the woods before she look down into her arms, meeting the black doe eyes of her baby boy as he cried out. "Shh, Akeno, it's okay, it's okay, momma's here." The woman rocked her baby with a whisper as she kept ran away from the shouts and she nearly trip over as soon as she hear a gunshot from the distance.


Somewhere else, the same gunshot attracts the attention of a mysterious creature and it decides to follow the direction of the gunshot out of curiously.


The woman leap over the exposed tree's root, weaving through the branches as she shield her son from harm and she can hear some voices as they get closer to her. "There she is!" The first voice shouted.

"Get her!" The second voice roared and she sprints away from the voices.


The creature halt its walk as soon as it see a female human, running across the field near the creature and its head tilt out of confusion before it hear another gunshot. Its eyes widened in shock as the human fall down with a bleeding shoulder and it can hear a wail from a tiny human in the woman's arms.

"It's okay, Akeno, momma got you." The woman said painful, she refuse to drop her baby. "I won't let them harm my baby boy."

"Finally get you, bitch!" The woman turned her head around to face an overweight pirate with ten pirates as he looked down to her with a deadly glare, "Do you have any idea what you took from us?!"

"I-I-I-I'm sorry for steal this fruit." The woman sweated with some fatigue, "But I need something to feed my baby…I can't afford to buy any foods because I'm too po…"

"…You did what?!" The fat pirate roared out of rage, "YOU BITCH! WE SPEND FIVE YEARS LOOKING FOR THIS DEVIL FRUIT AND YOU SAID YOU FEED IT TO A DAMN BABY?!"

"D-Devil fruit?" The woman said confusingly, she don't know why they were making a big deal about a fruit.

"GIVE US THE BABY!" The fat pirate roared angrily.

"W-What?" The woman covered her wailing baby from them, "No, I'm not going to give you my baby! He's all I got!"

"Cap, let me kill them both." The skinny pirate called out, "The devil fruit will reborn somewhere near here." The woman widened her eyes in horror.

"No…" The fat pirate scowled, "We're going to make her suffer." He aimed his pistol at the baby, "The baby must die." He pulled the trigger.

"No!" The woman shield her son at last minute and the bullet flew into her back. The baby wailed out loudly as his mother cried out in agony before she whisper to him shakily, "I-I-It's okay…Momma told you that she won't let them hurt yo…"

"Get out of the way!" The fat pirate kicked her away but she refuse to release her baby and some pirates just watch on with cruel grins, unawake that they just anger the creature. The captain shot her again in nonvital spots two times and he fires the third bullet, which hit her left lung.

"I…"

"Hmm, is it just me or did you hear something?" The short pirate cupped his ear confusingly.

"I don't hear anything else than this loud bitch." The tall pirate replied and one of the pirates notice something odd in the distance as his eyes slowly widened.

"I-I-It's okay, A-A-A-Akeno…" The woman coughed out some bloods as she kept shielding him from the angry captain's gunfires.

"Am…"

"H-H-Hey, the trees are moving!" The dirty pirate pointed at something with a shaking index finger.

"That gotta be rum speaking…" The skinny pirate laughed, turning his head to the direction and he widened his eyes at the sight. A great monster charge out of the shadow as it raises its wooden arms up in air with a roar, catching everyone's attentions.

"GROOT!"

The treelike creature smashes its massive arms down on two pirates and they squash under the fists with a sickening crunch. "I AM GROOT!" The monster batted a skinny pirate away with its right arm and his back break against the tree's trunk, killing him immediately.

"K-K-Kill this thing!" The captain screamed out in terror as he shot at the creature and the remaining pirates attempted to kill the creature but it was useless because…

"I-I-It's healing!" The short pirate screamed as the holes on the creature's chest slowly shrinking until it disappear, "M-Mons…" The creature impale the pirate with its claws before it tear him in half. The creature lift his left arm up as the thorny vines form on it and with a large swing, it slash three pirates as they bleed out to death from deep cuts. The other three pirates tried to run away from the monster but the creature was on them like a predator and they crash under its enlarging foot, died immediately. The monster slowly turns to the captain with deep anger within its eyes.

"S-S-Stay away!" The captain cried out before he trip over the exposed root and he glance at the dying woman with her baby. He made a stupid move by aiming his pistol at them, "Stay back or they'll di…"

"I AM GROOT!" The creature smashed its foot on the captain's head, squashing it in process. The creature turn to the woman and she pull the baby deeper into her arms, scared for his safety. "I am Groot?" The creature kneels down to her and the woman notice that it wasn't going to kill them as it look at her with a sad expression. She takes a good look at the creature, it was some kind of living humanoid tree with some vines around its limbs and several branches can be seen coming out of the back of its head. It seems to be a male but she can be wrong.

"D-D-Did you kill them to save us?" The woman asked.

"I am Groot." The creature nod and the woman seem to understand the creature, Groot.

"…Thank you…" The woman smiled tiredly, "But I'm afraid that I won't make it."

"I am Groot…" Groot whispered sadly before he looks at the baby in her arms as Akeno sniff at him with a coo, "I am Groot?"

"Oh, look, he's not scared of you because he know you're a good person…" The woman laughed tiredly, "My brave little boy…G-Groot…Can I ask you to do something for me?"

"I am Groot." The living tree nodded.

"T-T-There isn't anyone to watch after Akeno…" The woman hugged her baby, "Because you see, I'm an orphan and his father is a pirate, he left to protect us from his enemies…" She looked up to Groot, "Will you look…after my boy…and raise him well?"

"…I am Groot." Groot nodded again.

"Thank…you…" The woman smiled before she looks down to her son and she gives him a kiss on his forehead. "Akeno…Momma's sorry that…she can't be there…to see you grow up…Momma want you to know that…Momma love you…" She took a last breath and died with a smile, knowing that her son will be in safe hands. The baby release a deafening wail as if he know something was wrong.

"I am Groot." Groot gently picks the baby up away from the body, trying to calm the wailing baby down but he knows that the baby won't stop crying over the loss of his mother. "I am Groot." The living tree whispered as if he was making a vow, staring at the baby.


Ten years later, the villagers stare at the odd sight with widened eyes as the figure step off a small ship and the figure was carrying a ten-year old boy on its shoulders. No one would believe them if they told someone that they just saw a living tree walk around with a boy like a father does with his child. "I am Groot." Groot looked around with a smile, he wears a black cloak that covers his body and the reason why he wears it was because it's a gift from Akeno, the boy that he currently carry on his shoulders.

"Pa, I want to see the execution place!" A boy peeked over Groot's head with a grin, he has a shoulder-length straight black hair and he wears a red t-shirt with shorts. "Can we, can we?"

"I am Groot." Groot glanced up at his adopted son.

"Aw, but it's Loguetown." Akeno pouted childish, "I don't want to eat anything, I'm not hungry!" As soon as he said it, his stomach roars loudly.

"…I am Groot." The living tree pointed at the nearby food place.

"No, execution place first!" The boy whined with a sniffle as he tightened his hold on Groot's branches, creating a crack within the branches.

"I am Groot!" Groot immediately raced toward the execution location as he tried to calm the boy down, "I am Groot!"


"Wow!" A teenager stand on the top of the execution stand with a wide grin as he look over the place, "So this is what the greatest pirate saw before he died here!" He can hear someone shouting at him to get down and he look down at the shouting man.

"Look, look!" Akeno pointed at the teenager on the stand, "Can I go up there?"

"I am Groot." Groot shook his head.

"But he's up there!" The boy pointed again with a pout and the living tree was about to say something but he notice that a woman just attacked a man with a large mace.

"I am Groot?" The living tree walked over to check up on the injured man as the woman talk up to the teenager and before he knows it, a fountain explodes.

"The broken piece of the fountain is going to hit that beautiful lady!" Someone cried out as the said piece flew toward the woman but it slips around her as if it was like a magic and it fly toward someone else. "That stone just slide down her body and it's going to hit that boy on someone's shoulders! Watch out!" The same person cried out and Akeno turn his head with a confusing blink before the large stone hit his head, causing the villagers to cry out in horror but to their shock, the stone break apart as it leave a small bump on his forehead.

"…" Akeno stared off into the space with widened eyes and he start to sniffle slightly.

"I-I-I am Groot!" Groot quickly put him down, fussing over the sniffling boy but the boy just walk over toward the largest stone with a sniffle. "I am Groot! I am Groot!" The living tree raced to Akeno's side with raised hands as if he was begging him not to do something.

"W-W-Who did it…" Akeno sniffled with tear-stained eyes and Groot was about to calm him down again but the boy overheard the lady talking to someone else.

"Sorry!" A man with red nose smirked, "But don't you worry because your smooth skin can't have any scars anymore. Lady Albida."

"Lady Albida, where is she?" The teenager looked around before the lady point at herself, talking boring things before a man with red nose throw his cloak off to reveal himself to the teenager. "Oh! So it's you, Buggy." The teenager called out.

"Stop insulting me, Luffy! You still have your foul mouth!" The man, known as Buggy, shouted but Akeno don't care anything about what they were talking because there is something that he know…"

"So it's them?" Akeno placed his hands on the large stone with an angry sniffle.

"I AM GROOT!" Groot screamed out with waving arms, finally catching their attention.

"What the…" Buggy blinked at the screaming living tree, "I-I-Is that a tree…"

"GO DIE!" Akeno suddenly lift the largest stone over his head as if it weighs like a feather to him and he hurl it at them.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" Buggy screamed with bugged-out eyes and his crew scatters away from the hurling stone.

"SUGOI!" Luffy cried out with starry eyes before someone force him into the stocking, "Eh?!"

"Long time no see, rubberman!" A man sat on him, "How is Roronoa Zoro?"

"Very good, Kabaji…" Buggy glanced at the stand as he dodged another hurling stones, "I will execute you in front of these pe…"

"DIE, DIE!" The clown-like pirate look up to see the boy with huge stone and he jumps out of the way as the boy smashes the rock down on the ground, causing an earthquake. The earthquake unexpectedly brings the execution stand down with a crash and Luffy stand up without any harm as he checked his straw hat to see if it gets any scratch from the fall.

"I am Groot." The living tree raced up to Luffy as if he was making an apology.

"…SUGOI!" Luffy stared at Groot with starry eyes, "A walking talking tree!"

"SOMEONE STOP THIS CRAZY KID!" Buggy cried out.

"I am Groot!" Groot chased his son as the boy tried to attack the clown, "I am Groot!"

"I-I-I'm not throwing tantrum, damn it!" Akeno threw the stone down at his feet with a wail.

"I am Groot?" Groot pointed at him with narrowed eyes as if he was telling him to watch his language.

"I don't say a bad word!" The sniffling boy crossed his arms childishly.

"I am Groot." The living tree placed his hands on his hip.

"No time-out!" Akeno pointed at his father, "You can't do that!"

"I am Groot."

"Can't!"

"I am Groot."

"Can't!"

"I am Groot."

"Can't!"

"Hey, you two!" Luffy suddenly appeared at their side with a grin, "Join my crew! You can be the cabin boy and you can be our plant!"

"I am Groot?" Groot turned his head to Luffy confusingly.

"I don't want to be a cabin boy, I want to be pirate!" Akeno frowned at the teenager.

"That's what my crew is!" Luffy grinned, "I'm a pirate, you can join us!"

"What the hell is going on here?" Luffy turned his head to see a green-haired swordsman with a blonde man in suit, a long-nosed teenager and an orange-haired woman. They stare at the destroyed area, "What did you do?"

"I don't do anything, it was him." Luffy pointed at Akeno and they stare at the little boy.

"…LIKE HELL I BELIEVE YOU!" The orange-haired girl punched Luffy's head.

"Ow, it's true!" The strawhat captain duck behind Akeno, "He did it, tell them!"

"…No, I don't." Akeno lied poorly with shifty eyes.

"I am Groot." Groot stared down at his son.

"A LIVING TREE!" The long-haired teenager cried out with bugged-out eyes.

"And guess what?" Luffy grinned at them, "They're gonna be in our crew! A cabin boy and a plant!"

"I said I don't want to be a cabin boy, I want to be a pirate!" Akeno stomped his foot, breaking the ground under his foot.

"HEY, YOU BASTARD!" Buggy shouted out, "Have you forget…"

"SHUT UP AND GO DIE, FUCKER!" Akeno punched Buggy right in his groin, blowing him away up into the sky and he disappear with a twinkle. Slowly, everyone turn to Akeno with widened eyes and Buggy's crew slowly back away from them with Albina.

"I am Groot!" Groot covered his mouth with a gasp before he scold his son, "I am Groot."

"No, anything but that!" The boy wailed at his father, "I'm sorry! Not that!"

"…Luffy, we have to get out of here." The orange-haired girl shook her head clearly as soon as she remember something important, "The storm is coming and we have to get out of here before it's too late."

"Alright, let's get out of here!" Luffy suddenly picked Akeno up, "Come on, guys!"

"Hey, put me down!" Akeno kicked his legs up in air.

"I am Groot!" Groot chased them.

"PUT THE BOY DOWN!" The orange-haired girl chased them with her crewmates.


Smoker stare at the ruined area with a twitching eyebrow, the strawhats are going to pay for it and he will chase them to the end of the world.


And that end the first chapter of HPHG! Love it? Hate it?

We have met Akeno, a ten years old boy with superstrength and tough body. Like I said in the top AN, he's very op because of the Devil Fruit that was fed to him when he was a baby and it grant him a superhuman ability. Warning: He will become like One-Punch man in the near future but for now, he's weak against Logia for obvious reason.

That's right, it's Groot from Marvel! He's a mixed between the movie and comic, his body is based off the movie with some of characteristics from comic…To make him fit in the universe, he is not an alien but a tree that somehow consumes an unknown devil fruit that turn him into Groot. Akeno is the only person that understands him and they have a father-son relationship.

How will it turn out for the strawhat crew? How can they handle a young superhuman who can't hold himself together and a living tree? What will happen next? Let's find out in the next chapter!

Anyway, I think that's all I can say for now. Thank you for your time to read it.

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