Kintin23: HELLO PEOPLES OF THE INTERNET! I'm back with a new story. I have been thinking about this for a while and have been bouncing Ideas off of DetectiveSky612 and finally thought I had it fleshed out enough to start writing.

Unknown P.O.V.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" I scream as I jolt awake. I look around noticing where I am for the first time and realize, I have no idea where I am. The last thing I remember is going to sleep in my bed after cramming for a big science test that was coming up. Stupid intermolecular forces... Anyways, I'm 16 years old and my name is Aston Pendragon. Yes, as in Arthur Pendragon from the legend of king Arthur. I'm not related to him though. My grandfather just REALLY liked the story. Anyways, I should probably start looking around.

I get of the weird, red velvet padded pedestal thing I woke up on and look around. I seem to be at one end of a rather large room, around the size of an assembly hall, maybe even bigger. The first thing I notice are the hundreds of other pedestals similar to the one I woke up on. They are clearly for a different purpose, though, because not only are they higher off the ground, they are also clearly meant for display, where the one I woke up on was more like an altar.

A look at the walls proves that while plain, they are made of high quality marble and trimmed with gold. Interspaced along the walls are marble pillars in a greek style. Where the walls meet the ceiling, all the way around the room are very detailed stained glass windows reflecting in light.

On every single pedestal is what seems to be a fruit, each one differing is size, shape, and colour, but all carrying the same odd swirls in one way, shape, or form. It only takes me a few seconds to realize that these were all devil fruits, but the real question was if they are real. Normally, I would dismiss this possibility outright as absurd, if not for a few reasons.

One. I went to bed in my room, in my locked apartment, on the fifty fifth floor of my apartment building that my parents chose specifically because of their extremely good security. That means that to get me here, someone would have had to break into the building without anyone noticing, get all the way to the fifty fifth floor, break into my apartment without me or my parents waking up, grab me, carry me all the way down fifty five flights of stars (Because the elevator makes enough noise to wake me up. It needs repairs.), and into whatever vehicle they used to transport me here.

Two. Earlier I mentioned very detailed stained glass windows. These windows all depict scenes from One Piece. I once tried to buy stained glass, and from my estimations, just one of these windows would cost over 100,000$. No one would spend that much money for whatever this is supposed to be.

Three. Some of the fruits are shining for no visible reason, and no, it is not bioluminescence. I know it's not bioluminescence because they are glowing in an impossible variety of colours, INCLUDING BLACK. Last I checked, the closest something could get to glowing black, was glowing violet, and that is definitely black.

So, with this information in mind, I decide to go up to one and inspect it. I decided on the one closest to me, which I recognized to be the String-String Fruit that Doflamingo ate.

The moment I touch the fruit, I am assaulted with mental images of Doflamingo himself using the different techniques of his devil fruit. Startled and a little bit unnerved, I quickly let go of the fruit and notice that although I remember what happened, I can't actually remember any of the techniques that were shown to me. I must have to actually eat the fruit to keep the techniques.

So not only do I get my choice of devil fruit, but I also get to learn the techniques and abilities associated with it.

After a while of looking around, I decide that I will eat the Gum-Gum Fruit. While it may be cliche, it is also a very versatile devil fruit.

A minute later I am holding a Purple sphere shaped devil fruit with swirls on the skin for decoration. The moment I take a bite out of it I notice the flavour. It's really bad... Sure, it's not as bad as the show says, but it tastes somewhere in between rotten eggs, and blue cheese, and that is not pleasant. Luckily, I only need to take one bite for the full effect.

The next thing I know, I feel what can best be described as a 'shift' and I am suddenly wearing different clothes. What I am wearing now can best be described as a modern version of Luffy's post-time-skip outfit. While the shorts and yellow sash are the same, the upper body is drastically different. I am wearing a red jacket, shaped just like the ones from attack on titan, sleeves going all the way down to my wrists, but the waist is only at my midsection. It is clearly not meant to be buttoned up. On it, the stitching is done in a way to make it look more complicated than it really is. under the jacket I am wearing a black T-shirt with an emblem on it. The emblem is a dark grey fist, outlined in white, on top of a yellow circle with a red circle around it, and finally an other yellow circle around the red one. It gives the illusion that you are staring at Luffy's straw hat from above.

On my head, I am wearing a simple straw hat with a red ribbon around the base and a thick string so I can wear it on my back when necessary.

On my feet, I am wearing white socks and simple white and red running shoes.

Suddenly noticing a change with the pedestal, I notice that, somehow, a book was placed on it while I was focussing on the change in wardrobe. Picking it up for a better look, I see that it's an unmarked leather-bound book. A quick flip through it proves it to be an encyclopedia on devil fruits. I wonder why it showed up now, though? Wouldn't it have been more useful if I had it before I chose a devil fruit? Still questioning the mystery that is the encyclopedia, I put it away in a pocket on the inside of my jacket to wonder about later.

After taking stock of the changes and putting away the encyclopedia, I decide to test my devil fruit abilities. I need to know if I can actually say "I'm a rubber man" after all.

Deciding to start with something simple, I grab my right index finger with my left hand and, just as I'd hoped, it stretched quite easily.

Now I am excited and decide to skip to the big leagues.

I get into a horse stance (that is what the stance Luffy gets into when preparing for second gear pre-time-skip), place my fist on the floor, and use the knowledge I got from eating the Gum-Gum Fruit to pump my legs.

"SECOND GEAR!" I exclaim

A large blast of steam is released from my skin and my body turns a bright pink. I can feel my blood moving in my body at high speeds.

I decide to try out shave and quickly make 10 steps in place before the ambient noise seems to slow and I am rocketing toward the other side of the hall. When I stop, I get hit by a blast of wind originating from where I came from.

"That was awesome!" I yell, definitely excited now.

Thinking about more techniques to try out, I realize I also have his knowledge of how to use haki. I lift my arm up to get a good look at it and focus on making my arm covered in armament haki.

"Cool!" I say in excitement while staring at my blackened arm.

Suddenly, I;m broken out of my musing by something shining at the other end of the hall than the one I woke up at. Turning to look I see that the entire wall is shining and its getting brighter quickly. As it keeps getting brighter, I am forced to close my eyes. After a few more seconds, the brightness goes back to normal and I open my eyes to see that the entire far wall has turned into a massive, ornate, golden door.

While I'm still reeling from the sudden change the door opens on its own and starts to emit a whirlwind suction force that starts sucking in everything in the room. As devil fruits start flying by, I grab on to a nearby pedestal in a panic, but as the suction gets stronger, I lose my grip and get thrown through the door.

Attempting to grab anything to halt my unexpected movement, I feel myself grab onto a wooden box of some sort before realizing that it isn't attached to anything. Holding onto the box anyways because with it comes a feeling of safety, I notice that I am now falling down, instead of sideways. Turning myself around midair to see where I am falling, it causes me no small amount of fear to find that I am falling from the sky. Being the calm, level headed individual I am, I do not scream like a girl at this revelation. I definitely don't.

After two minutes of *ahem* taking stock of the situation *ahem*, I Notice where I'm headed. I seem to bee falling directly towards an island covered in snow just off of what I assume to be the mainland of wherever 'here' is.

As I get closer I realize I'm headed for a clearing and in the clearing is what seems to be a simple two story wooden cabin.

*BAM*

Then I slam into the door of said cabin before passing out.

Unknown Amount of Time Later

Opening my eyes and preparing for the headache I just know is coming, I sit up and look around where I am.

I am in a simply furnished wooden room that is probably within the cabin I saw while falling.

Suddenly I notice something.

"WHERE"S MY HAT!" I yell out in a panic.

Frantically jumping out of the bed, I quickly start searching the room. This lasts around 3 minutes before I finally turn around and realize that my hat was on the nightstand next to the bed I woke up in. Feeling rather stupid, I walk over to the table and put on my hat, idly wondering why I freaked out about losing it. Maybe I received more than just Luffy's skills when I ate the Gum-Gum Fruit.

*Click-Creak*

Hearing the door open behind me, I turn around to see a muscular man holding a bowl of soup walk through the door. He has scraggly blonde hair, a soul patch, and could probably use a shave for the rest of his face. The clothes he is wearing are also quite unique. On his torso, he has a beige T-shirt with the right sleeve torn off and replaced by a double layered steel shoulder plate. On his right arm is a series of black tattoos that come together to create the illusion of a heart and a brown leather bracer/glove hybrid. He has an orange bandana tied around his left arm and he is also wearing a dark brown leather vest with decorative markings. On his lower body he is wearing a pair of orange cargo shorts.

"So you're finally up, huh? How ya feeling?" He says. His voice sounds familiar.

"Mostly fine, thanks for asking. Sorry for crashing in." I say, jokingly.

"Haha. No problem. Here, I brought you some soup because I thought you might be hungry." He replies while smiling and handing me the soup.

"Thanks." I say before taking a spoonful and blowing on it before eating it. It's really good. I decide I should introduce myself.

"My name is Aston by the way. Aston Pendragon." I say, after finishing the last of the soup.

"Pendragon, huh? Cool name. Nice to meet ya." He says, holding out is hand for me to shake it. "I'm Tai-Yang Xiao Long."

I pause for a second after hearing his name, realizing where I must be. So THAT'S why his voice sounded familiar. I'm a little surprised, but after the whole incident with all those devil fruits, It's not THAT unbelievable. It's going to be pretty hard to stop the events of volume three, but with enough planing, I think it will be doable. I'm actually more excited to be fighting alongside team RWBY.

After grabbing his hand and giving it a shake, though, I realize something. I wasn't the only thing sucked through the big golden door. The devil fruits were too. That means there are devil fruits in Remnant. There are not supposed to be devil fruits in remnant.

So I will now be fighting DOUBLY super powered villains. Great.

Kintin23: And that's chapter one. I have most of the story fleshed out but I will be taking ideas for who gets what devil fruits. Original devil fruits are allowed but canon devil fruits are preferred. Thanks in advance. Peace out.