Chapter 0: Prologue
Luffy was the first to wake, "Where am I?", he looked down at Zoro, Sanji and Chopper sprawled over the ground in front of him, he then started to shake them, "Hey guys, wake up, wake up, wake up!".
Chopper was the first to start stirring from his slumber.
"Luff, Luffy, where are we and where is everybody else?" he said while wiping his eyes and turning his head. Luffy looked down at his crewmate and shrugged.
"Hell if I know, Sanji and Zoro are over there, but they are still asleep, but this place is pretty weird isn't it?".
Chopper nodded his head, "Besides us talking, and the faint snores of our unconscious crewmates, I can't really hear anything else".
"Well, what do you expect, this is the void, nothing exists here except for the souls of the damned", both Luffy and Chopper turned to see a shimmering cloak behind them.
"Ummmm, whooo saiddd thattt?", Chopper said while shaking and cowering, Luffy then looked down at Chopper and then back at the cloak, "It's obvious isn't it Chopper, it's a mystery cloak that can talk".
The hood of the cloak turned as if it were facing Luffy, "Since I know how intelligent you are, I'm just going to ignore that whole mystery cloak thing". The hood of the cloak then positioned itself to 'look' at the still unconscious forms of Zoro and Sanji, "Far out, I just want to get this over and done with, will you two wake up already!".
Two rocks fell out of the sky directly onto Zoro and Sanji's heads and their reactions were exactly what everybody was expecting, "What the hell?, where am I?, where are my swords?, why are you here Curlybrow?", Zoro said while immediately jumping up from his place on the floor.
Sanji turned to him with a murderous glare, "Hell if I know Mosshead, why did I have to woken up by a rock being dropped on my head, and where are the ladies?". The rocks that were dropped on them flew past them back to a shadowy figure.
They both turned to eye the cloak, "Who the hell are you!?". The cloak did what could be surmised as a sigh before speaking, "Okay, now that you are all awake I can tell you all everything". The four straw pirates turned fully to face the cloak, "Tell us everything about what?".
The cloak didn't really move in response to the question but it did start to talk again, "Okay, how can I put this lightly…".
"You see, ummm, well here's the thing, your world died, nearly everybody you probably know has died and there probably is nothing left for any of you". The four young (people, men, creatures) could only look at the cloak in disbelief, "What did you say?!", Luffy shouted.
"Your world is gone, kaput, destroyed, no longer in existence, and you four, for some reason were picked to be saved", the cloak looked at them with what they could imagine was some sort of angst or cynicism.
Chopper could only stand and cry, "What, our world, it can't be gone, you gotta be joking, right?", the cloak looked down at the reindeer and the hood started to shake from side to side, "Even though I hate this job, I am sorry for your loss young one".
As Chopper let loose a stream of tears nullifying his ability to speak Luffy was the next to speak up about the revelation, "Our world is gone, everybody we know is gone, why, just why?" he said while starting to scream into his hands.
"Well you see, there are an unlimited amount of dimensions and it appeared that your dimension had reached its, well I have no other way to put this, but it reached its expiry date, the same thing happens everywhere, every second, one dimension is destroyed, one is created, the cycle repeats over and over again, or that's at least what information I got in the pamphlet".
Sanji walked up to the cloak next, "So you're telling me everything is gone from our world, what's the point then anymore, and what do you mean by pamphlet?". The cloak looked down, "Well you see, I kinda was cursed to stay here for all eternity, and I've been here so long I can't remember the reason why so don't ask, but apparently eight people were chosen from your world by the guy who runs everything".
Zoro also walked up to the cloak, "So you're telling me a god is behind this?", the cloak remained looking down, "Not exactly… a God per say, more so the guy who's in charge of making sure everything runs well, he might have a boss, and that might be a god, but I don't know." Zoro looked down at the cloak, and for some reason he could tell it was telling the truth.
By this time both Chopper and Luffy had become emotional wrecks, they were crying constantly, trying to smash the floor and screaming. Both Zoro and Sanji looked back at what apparently remained of their crewmates and then back at the cloak, "What did you mean by pamphlet, and who are the other four people from our world", they both said in unison.
The cloak looked up, and the light surrounding it changed from a deep dark black to a kinda grey colour, "Okay, here's the thing, the guy who runs everything he always saves eight individuals from other worlds and then organises for them to be transported to another world to live out the rest of their days, I think he sees it as mercy or something", both Sanji and Zoro stared at the cloak while their crewmates sobbed in the fetal position in the background.
The cloak could tell it had something to piss them off, "Here's the thing, the guy who organises everything, he's not in charge of when a universe ends, his job is to simply keep them organised and watched, and he can't help but feel bad every time a universe ends, so he tries to make sure at least a little bit of said universe lives a bit longer".
A cigarette and a lighter suddenly appeared in Sanji's hands, and this caused the still semi-functioning members of the Straw hats to jump.
Sanji looked at both the lighter and the cigarettes, "These are both my personal items, where did they come from?", the cloak just shrugged, "I'm guessing you were starting to get stressed and the guy quickly made them appear to keep you somewhat calm". Zoro looked at the cloak, "So what, he knows we're here, what's he going to do with us?".
The cloak's hood turned to fully face Zoro, "Here's the thing, the guy wants to send you guys to another world to maybe still achieve something with your lives, he's just in the middle of reorganizing a reality so that all of you can integrate into it".
Sanji lit a cigarette, took a puff of it and then exhaled, "What if we didn't want to save, what if we wanted to die alongside our crewmates, I'm not trying to say this in a morbid way, but are we still able to die?". The light surrounding the cloak changed to a lighter grey, "You can all still die if you want, but you've all been given another chance at life, even those over four people that I don't know who they are and again, before you ask they're being managed by a different person, I don't know who that person is nor do I care".
The sobs behind them got quieter and the three individuals turned to see both Chopper and Luffy hugging each other with blank looks in their eyes, Sanji chose to walk over to them while Zoro continued the conversation with the sentient piece of fabric. "What about them, does your boss-guy have a plan to deal with them breaking down?".
"Yes, and no, they will both be fine eventually, and judging by how much time we've got left I'd say they will probably be fine before you guys leave this place, but for the time being at least, you might want to let them just get everything out of their systems". Zoro raised an eyebrow at the cloak before turning to see Sanji shaking the doctor and the captain of their crew to no response.
Zoro turned to face the cloak again, "Okay, fine, I'm fine with living I've still got some of my nakama left and the pervert-chef, but that aside, what dimension will we be sent to 'live out our lives'. The cloak's hood looked up (and surprisingly didn't fall down) as it spoke, "You will be sent to world where a place known as Remnant is located, it is a world of advancement, people with extraordinary gifts and abilities, and creatures of darkness".
Before the cloak could continue, Zoro had turned around to face his crew mates who were all uncomfortably silent and sitting on their knees just looking up at the sky, "Hey, what with you guys now, Ero-chef you were going to check on them, what happened?". Zoro then turned back to face the cloak, "What's wrong with them?!".
The cloak put a sleeve up to its hood, "Well you see, this is how the boss guy gets people to deal with whatever it is that's troubling them when he pulls them out of their dying dimension". The sleeve then 'pointed' towards Zoro's three crewmates, "Currently they are being allowed to say all their final goodbyes and condolences to all those that they loved and lost, on a spiritual level, I would say it is like saying everything you've ever wanted to say to someone and hearing their every response, it's much more complicated than that but I seriously cannot explain it, though it does beg the question, why isn't it happening to you?".
Zoro turned to face his his crewmates, "It's not that I've come to terms with losing people I cared about in such a relaxed manner, its just that I don't need to say anything to anyone that I've lost, I know what they would say to me, and I know what I would say to them".The cloak then floated to stand next to him, "So you aren't heartless, you just don't want to make the situation much worse than it already is, am I correct in saying this?".
"Probably, all I know is that I've still got some people to care about and due to the fact I know I couldn't control what happened in my world, I'll be damned if I let anything happen to them in the world we're going to". He then turned to the cloak, "So is there a chance that this world we're going to next, is gonna end up like ours?".
"Not at all, you'll all be dead by either old age or injury before that happens, so please don't have the thought that you could all die at any moment hanging over your heads while you are in your new world", The cloak said while having its sleeves behind its hood, "Furthermore, I will need to prepare you all to be able to handle yourselves in this new world, so when your crewmates are done saying their goodbyes, just shout out for me, I don't really care what you say, you could say cloak or cloak-guy or whatever, but when they are all conscious and stable call out for me and I will come back and start the preparation process, also as a sidenote none of you will have to eat or drink while you are here, so you won't have to worry about dying from thirst or starvation".
Zoro then sighed, "So I'm guessing, due to the fact I'm not gonna be out of it like the rest of them, I will have to find some way to entertain myself while I wait for the others to wake up?". The cloak nodded, which caused Zoro to hang his head, "This just sucks, you know that right?", the cloak just shrugged, "Can't be helped, sorry, well I've gotta go and get all the stuff from the other guy, so I wish you good luck with everything and see you soon". The cloak the immediately disappeared, to which Zoro just sighed and decided to have a nap.
(One week later), (more or less)
Chopper was the last to wake, ("Even though people are gone from my life, they will never be truly gone, I will never forget anyone, I'm grateful that I still have some of my friends"), Zoro (who was meditating at the time) turned to face his friend, "So you're finally awake, got everything out of your system now?". Chopper turned to his friend and nodded, "Even though some of our friends are gone, they wouldn't want us to live our lives holding onto them, we can still remember them, but it would be offensive if we were to regret our second chance at living life".
Chopper then quickly started to turn his head to the right and left of himself, "Where are Luffy and Sanji?", Zoro shrugged "they both awoke within like a day of each other, Luffy was the first to wake up and after having a good couple of screams he ran off into the void and then a day later the chef woke up, started to fight with me, screamed about losing his ladies ("even though they were never really his") and then he ran off into the void as well looking for Luffy".
Chopper then looked up at the infinite void above them, "So what do we do now?, also even though I was kinda unconscious I could hear that black shadowy thing talk to you about us being sent to another world". Zoro stood up and stretched, "Well, if I'm to guess a lot of crap is probably going to be dropped on us when the shadowy-guy gets back, and I think it would be better if all of you heard everything from him, because that was like a week ago and I've kinda forgotten some of the stuff he told me".
Chopper could only look up at his companion, "So when will he get back?", Zoro blinked a couple of times and then shouted, "Crap, I was meant to call out for him once all of you woke up!, well better late then never then". Zoro then took a large breath and screamed, "Hey Cloak-guy, everybody's awake!". Both Chopper and Zoro looked upon the endless area surrounding them, and within a couple of seconds of Zoro's shout, shadows started to emerge from the ground, "Well that took a bit of time, the longest someone had been unconscious before you guys was a day, I mean seriously, the process is not impacted by time, it just depends on how much people have to deal with".
Zoro could only look at the cloak with annoyance while Chopper looked at it with a bit of fear, "Umm, excuse me, cloak-person, so I know the details about how we got here and apparently I spent a week unconsciously speaking with all those that I care about, but would you be able to tell me about this world we are going to". The cloak looked down at him and then up as if it was looking for more people, "I will, but first I need the rest of your friends to be here", and within an instant both Luffy and Sanji fell onto the ground, "What the hell, what happened", they both said in unison.
The cloak looked at the both of them as they brushed themselves off and stood up, "Here's the thing, I'm guessing you all know that your world was destroyed", they all nodded, "and you four along with four other people were saved to be sent to another world", they all nodded again, "So now that you are all here, I will explain in detail how you will all be integrated into this new world you are going to, but quickly, where were you two" the cloak said while holding its sleeves up at Luffy and Sanji.
Luffy spoke up first, "Even after dealing with that emotional stuff which took me two days, I still had to let off a bit more steam, so I ran far away from the other guys, and just started hitting the ground with everything I had, and that was what I was doing, also I figured out I didn't really need to sleep, eat or drink, so I just let loose for what felt like forever".
Sanji spoke next, "Well, after I woke up, I fought Mosshead, and then screamed for a bit, and then after Mosshead told me that our captain had run off I ran off after him leaving Chopper to be looked after by the swordsman, but I couldn't find him because apparently haki doesn't work in this place, so I ended up getting lost".
"Well for one, thanks for smashing up my place, and two why did you follow the swordsman's directions, according to his info he has no sense of direction, you screwed yourself over there". Both Sanji and Luffy looked at him sheepishly and the both of them said in unison, "Crap". The cloak then shrugged, "Well that was in the past, now it's cleared up, lets continue the conversation", "Hold up, quick question before we continue", Zoro said holding his hand up, "Why did you constantly change colour when I was talking to you a week ago?", "Boredom", it said nonchalantly.
"Now is there anymore questions, or am I free to continue?", the four people in front of him shook their heads, "Okay, so here's the thing, I am not going to explain multiverse theory, and I'm not going to explain how worlds are destroyed and created, because none of you will probably get that". The four guys looked at him with confusing looks, "And that answers that, but anyway, let's begin with the basics", The four people sat down in front of him.
"You four along with four others, will be transported to a world known as Remnant, where at least to my knowledge you four will be enrolled in a school that trains people to become hunters and huntresses of dark creatures know as Grimm". "And these hunters and huntresses train to utilise specific weapons that are efficient at killing these Grimm creatures, and here's the thing each of you will be given the knowledge to be able to effectively use a weapon that suits you so that you aren't exactly screwed when you get there".
Zoro then spoke up, "I have my weapons, I do not need anything else", the cloak looked down at him, "He and I knew that you would say that Roronoa, so instead we've modified your weapons a little bit". Three sword hilts then fell out of the sky and onto Zoro's lap, although the hilts looked similar one had two tsuba's, Zoro grabbed the two regular hilts, "I know these two, they're for Shusui and Wado Ichimonji, but what about this one?", he held up the double tsuba, Red, Brown and Purple sword hilt, "And also where are the blades?".
The cloak crossed its sleeves behind its back, "Well, you see, in the world you are going to, they're weapons are more variable and versatile, and they're designed to be able to be compact, so if you wouldn't mind, try squeezing the hilts of those two sword you mentioned". Zoro looked up at him, put the the double tsuba hilt on the ground, and then he stood up and grasped his two sword handles, 'Pop', the two blades suddenly sprang out of their hilts, "Cool" both Luffy and Chopper said with stars in their eyes. Although he was impressed by what his swords could do Zoro noticed something was off about his swords, "What is with the blunt edges of my swords".
The shadow scoffed, "Probably should have mentioned this sooner, in the world you are going to, they have a power source sort of thing that adds elemental energy to nearly everything, it is known as Dust and they use it to nearly power everything, and in regards to not just your weapons Roronoa, but all of the weapons you people will get, they have been or already are modified to work in conjunction with said dust so that you will be more capable of killing these Grimm creatures".
Zoro then looked a bit more closely at the hilts of his swords, "They're glowing, I'm guessing that's where I put this power source?", the cloak nodded, "Depending on where you squeeze on the blades they will have a different kind of dust in them, you will all be taught exactly how to use your weapons to their fullest extent but I still need to explain a few things, also in regards to that weird hilt you have, try putting it in your mouth and biting down hard".
Zoro squeezed the handles of his swords making the blades disappear and then he put their hilts on the ground so that he could pick up the weird hilt, "Okay", he then put it in his mouth and bit down hard and two blades popped out of each end. Both Chopper and Luffy's eyes became even bigger stars and even Sanji smirked a little, the cloak spoke "That hilt contains two blades, one I think you can guess as the Sandai Kitetsu, but the other is for that sword your captain obtained in Wano, the Nidai Kitetsu".
Zoro looked at him and bit down on the sword hilt retracting the blades and then he removed it from his mouth, "So you combined two cursed swords into a double ended blade, that must've been a handful", the cloak looked at him and let its head fall, "Even though we brought you here, it appeared that those swords refused to be separated from the people that conquered their curses and as such when they followed you here, the other guy took them and made that thing."
The cloak then looked at Luffy, "He actually thought about giving you the Nidai Kitetsu, but upon further investigation into your skills, he opted to just make a double blade for your friend", Luffy nodded in acceptance before the cloak turned to face Zoro, "Quickly before I forget those two swords only appear to react to what you want, so although we can put dust in them, they will only activate the different elemental effects depending on your thoughts".
Zoro looked at his upgraded weapons, "Cool!", then Luffy put his hand up, "What about our weapons?", he said motioning to himself as well as Sanji and Chopper. The cloak looked at them and instantly a couple items fell out of the sky to land right in front of them, "A pipe?, Some boots?, Glove-things?" Luffy, Sanji and Chopper said respectively.
The cloak looked at what felt like all three of them, "Once again, I will remind you that you all will be trained individually to be able to use these tools, Dust and enhance your skills, but I will tell you the basics of your weapons". The cloak's sleeve first pointed to Luffy's red and black pipe, "Monkey Business, is its name, it is a pipe as I think you could guess, there are three holes on the handle so that you can have a combination of to three different kinds of dusts, and due to the versatility of your Devil Fruit, I think you could become a dangerous threat".
The cloak's sleeve then pointed to Sanji's boots, "The Devil's twins, they are boots that when you apply pressure to the sole spikes will eject out of the bottom of them, and on the back of the boots are cartridge holders for holding your Dust allowing for you add different effects to your kicks, also when you apply pressure to the heel, metal will shift out of the boots and cover your shins".
Then the cloak's sleeve finally pointed at Chopper, "Those aren't exactly gloves per say, they're made out of shifting material that relies on your devil fruit, because your devil fruit alters the size of your clothing these gloves will alternate with you, if you were to put them on your hooves as you are now, they would act as a second skin".
"They would mostly stay on your hooves or hands depending on the form you choose, But if you were to shift to Horn point, the gloves would shift positions on your body to cover your horns instead, due to an oversight you will have to change into a point that has human hands so you can insert Dust into the knuckles, sorry about that".
Chopper looked up at him impressed, "So you've managed to make an adaptable pair of clothing for all my forms, what about Monster though?", "You'll have to figure that one out on your own, sorry". Chopper just shrugged, "Okay, fine, also what are their names?", "Sakura Dawn" the cloak answered.
While everybody was getting accustomed to their new weapons, Luffy decided to speak up, "So when are we going to this new world?", "Umm, here's the thing…, you know I might as well do it now", 'Click', suddenly three of the four members started to glow and change in shape, "Sorry about this, but in order for this to work I will also have to de-age you all to the age of seventeen".
The light died down and Chopper looked up at the younger forms of his friends (who's clothes were a bit big for), "Well that was sudden, you could have warned us" he said turning to the cloak, "It would've taken more time and honestly, even though I technically have all the time in the world, II just didn't want to deal with anymore crap".
Luffy, Zoro and Sanji looked down at their bodies, "What the hell!?", they then all turned towards the cloak, "Yeah Chopper's right, you could've warned us" Sanji said, "I don't think this young a body could take the crap I could when I was twenty-one, are you sure we have to be younger for this to work?", the hood of the cloak nodded, "Yes, because the place in remnant you will all be situated at is known as Beacon Academy, and the age of first years is seventeen, and before you say we could've lied about your ages, that would've caused a whole other variety of problems".
Zoro then started to eye the cloak, "You realise how much we will have to train to regain the strength we had before you de-aged us!", "You will have enough time, also by the way you three aren't exactly seventeen, your all about sixteen and a half, oh that reminds me", 'Click', Chopper shone with a bright light for a brief second and when that light died he was the tiniest bit shorter than he already was.
"I forgot about having to slightly de-age you, young reindeer, sorry about that, anyway now that I've done that, it's time for all of you to train". The four in front of him looked speechless until Luffy spoke up, "Couldn't you have just aged us a bit more so we're the right age?". The cloak 'looked' at him with what could be interpreted as a sarcastic expression, "I could've, but here's the thing, all of you will need six months to be prepared for everything, you will all be taught various things to help you manage in this new world".
Sanji just stared at him with a doubtful expression, "So what we're meant to learn a ton of crap for a world we literally know nothing about within six months, and also judging by how you said train, I'm guessing you're gonna make us all learn some new skills, am I right?".The cloak slightly nodded, "Although you will all be taught many skills to manage in this new world, I will not be the one teaching you, instead the other guy has organized four teachers, who have the entire knowledge of everything about Remnant as well as having the skillsets to teach each of you certain skills and also help to develop the ones you already have".
"So when are we going to meet them?", Luffy said with a slight sense of intrigue, and as he did the smoke around the cloak changed to a light blue, "You will all meet them now, and in six months you will all reunite in remnant, and also this will be the last time I will see any of you, so I wish you all the best of luck, you are quite an interesting bunch. The sleeve of the cloak waved before each of the Straw-hat fell into individual holes that appeared beneath them, each of them screamed in unison as they fell, before they had all gone their own ways and couldn't hear the others.
"Congrats on doing something right with your life", the cloak looked up to where the noise was coming, "You're an ass, I just wanted to be left alone, but no you had to put me in charge of clean-up duty, seriously don't you have anybody else even a bit more qualified", a booming voice replied, "Ehh, the others I picked already were quite a handful and I didn't want to make more problems for myself", the cloak simply 'sighed', "Fine, I don't care, I just hope they do okay in their new world".
(With Luffy)
"Wahhhhhhhhh, where am I going, is that a light?", after doing a couple more turns in his hole Luffy landed out in the middle of a grassy plain, after brushing himself off he looked around, "Okay, so someone's meant to be here to train me, I wonder who it could be?". "LUFFY!", Luffy shuddered as he turned to see the approaching form of his grandpa, "Grandpa, your alive?", Garp stopped just before running straight into his grandson.
"Actually Luffy, I am not your grandfather, I simply take the form of the most dangerous thing in your life", Luffy looked at him for a couple of seconds before banging his fist into his hand, "So you're my mystery grandpa?", (A/N for each of the teachers I'm just going to use the names of the characters they look like), Garp looked down at Luffy, "Sure whatever floats your boat kid".
"So have you got your weapon on you?" Garp asked Luffy, to which he just nodded, "Okay good, now I know that you don't do well with the whole thinking department, but guess what, for the next six months you're gonna have so much crap thrown at you, you'd better get over that problem, do you understand?", Luffy nodded sheepishly "Yeahhh, sureee, Grandpaaa" and within an instant of Luffy finishing his sentence his head was smashed into the ground, "This is gonna be six months of hell for you kid, hahahaha". Upon hearing his mystery grandpa's words all Luffy could do was shudder, "Crap".
(With Chopper)
Chopper hit his head hard as he came falling out of his hole, "Gah, ahh, my head, that really hurt", he then turned around to see he was in a room filled with snow, "So this is where I will be trained, I wonder if the snow means anything", and just as he finished talking a door slid open revealing a giant man covered in fur and with a giant snout, "Hello young Chopper, I think you can already guess that I will be your mentor".
Chopper nodded, "Yeah I could guess that, but who are you?", the figure parted the fur on its face to reveal something that shocked Chopper, "You.. You.. are me?", the figure then sighed, "Technically I am you if you consumed too many rumble balls, I represent the danger that you feel towards certain aspects of life, and due to that the form I was given is just a mutated form of yourself, and since I don't want to deal with that whole Chopper, Chopper thing just call me Cho, okay". Chopper looked at his mutated self and shuddered ("So this is what my fear does to me, it's fear that inhibits me"), Chopper then nodded, "Okay, sure Cho".
Cho then motioned Chopper to come to the door that was still open, "Come with me, we need to talk before the training starts", Chopper quickly ran to the door and started walking down a long metal hallway with Cho, "So what did we need to talk about?". Cho looked down at the young reindeer, "Even though I represent what you view as dangerous, I also have other parts to my personality".
Chopper nodded, "Yeah I know, the cloak guy said that each of the would have all the knowledge about this place called Remnant", Cho scoffed, "Well that's part of it, but each of us have also been given the knowledge to teach each of you certain skills that others held in your world". Chopper stayed silent as his alternate-self continued to talk, "Your captain's teacher has basically just been given all the knowledge that his grandfather had as well, but it will be up to your captain which parts he learns, because not everything that Monkey D. Garp knew would be suitable for his grandson".
As they continued down the hallway Cho continued his explanation, "And as for me, I have been given the knowledge of Dr Vegapunk, and as I said before, it's up to you what you learn from me". Chopper looked down as he started to talk, "So I can learn something of the things Vegapunk knew, while also preparing myself and learning to use my weapon", Cho looked down at Chopper and nodded, "Yes", Chopper then looked back up, "Okay, so when do we start?".
And just as soon as Chopper asked they reached a door, to which Cho opened, "We start now", the room was gigantic, it held various blueprints, books and a large amount of chemicals, "Good luck everybody else" Chopper thought as he entered the room.
(With Sanji)
"Where the hell am I" Sanji said as he trekked throughout the jungle, eventually though he reached a large clearing, "I might as well stop here and gain my bearings" he said not knowing he was being watched by certain moustached man. "So what you think you can just rest here, ya little eggplant!", Sanji turned to see Zeff jumping out of the bush straight towards him and he reacted by jumping over the barrelling form of his father, "What the hell are you doing here ya old geezer".
Zeff stopped himself in mid-air and allowed himself to fall to the ground, "I'm gonna give you one guess", Sanji looked at him for a brief second before muttering, "I guess you're the one who's going to train me". Zeff looked at him, "Well at least you could get that", Sanji then asked, "If you're here to train me why are we in a jungle?", Zeff simply laughed, "It's not a jungle, it's a room in a castle, you just didn't walk far enough to find one of the walls and the roof is designed to look like the outside".
Sanji then lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, "Okay then, we're in a castle, and you're here to train me, so when do we start, person who I know is not Zeff", Zeff then looked at him and scoffed, "Well you're not ignorant I'll give you that, apparently in your in your mind you Zeff as dangerous but familiar and thus that was the form I was given". Sanji then exhaled a bit of smoke, "I can sense something else about you, what is it?".
Zeff sat down in front of Sanji and motioned for him to do the same, "Each of the mentors contain other people's skills from your world as well as the person who we are made to look like and in your case I also have the skills of Charlotte Katakuri, and also it's up to you what you learn from that part of me, but it is a necessity that you learn everything about Remnant so you actually do okay there, is that understood?", Sanji nodded "Okay then, but you still haven't answered my question, when do we start?".
Zeff simply stood up disappeared and threw a kick directly into Sanji's gut, "We start now", to which Sanji disappeared and tried to kick Zeff in the head but he had already disappeared, "Bring it on, you old geezer, I've got six months, and I'm not going to waste one second".
(With Zoro)
Even though he didn't understand this Dust thing, Zoro knew he was going to have to learn soon, as numerous flying slashes kept coming from numerous places surrounding him. "Where are you, why can't I sense you?", a voice answered smoothly "Simple, I am you but I am every swordsman from your world, but at the same time I am one" Zoro then sent a whirlwind of slashes towards the roof above him which caused an individual to appear directly in front of him.
Mihawk started to slowly clap, "I'll give you credit where it's due, even though your in a younger body, you pushed yourself to bring me out", Zoro just looked at the man who he was supposed to beat to claim the title of the world's greatest swordsman, "You're not Mihawk are you?", Mihawk then proceeded to lean against a rock that suddenly appeared, "Good job figuring that out, what gave it away?".
Zoro just looked at him panting (his sixteen year old body was not designed to be able to execute attacks that he could easily do at the age of twenty-one), "Too many voices around, one kinda sounds like Mihawk but its distorted. Mihawk smirked, "Observation is a useful tool, and to answer your question I am Mihawk, but I also have the knowledge Rob Lucci, and I'm pretty sure there are some skills that Lucci has that I think you would be interested in obtaining, am I right?".
Zoro sat down, "I just need to get stronger, but I need to learn about this dust thing, and I need to be prepared for this academy thing, the remainder of my crew are also being taught by three of you mentor's and even though I hate Curly-Brow, we all need to be at the same level, otherwise what was the point in even taking this second chance at life".
Mihawk smiled "Good answer, and due to the state your body is in right now, I would have to say we will start with the information part otherwise you might not be conscious for a couple of days." Zoro dragged himself to his feet and started shuffling towards Mihawk, "No problem, I got six months, I'm gonna do everything that I can to get the most out of it".
(Exactly six months later), (give or take a couple of days)
Luffy, Chopper, Zoro and Sanji suddenly appeared in a room, "Okay where am I now", Luffy said, "Oh, hey guys, how's it going, you look like you all got stronger", Chopper pulled himself up, "It's good to see you again Luffy, how'd the six months go?", Luffy shuddered and smiled "Learnt a lot, stronger, but wish I was stronger".
"Me too captain, me too", Zoro and Sanji said in unison as they both stood up, "Oh hey it's you" Sanji said with an annoyed expression towards the swordsman to which Zoro replied, "Well, I wasn't going anywhere pervert", "You wanna say that again One-eye". Before their fight could continue Zoro was distracted by Chopper pulling his leg, "What is it?", Chopper looked up at his friend "How come you've got your eye scar, I thought it was removed when you de-aged?". Zoro then took a breath, "Crap happened, although I can see out the eye this time, I'm used to not being able to see out of it anyway so I just keep it closed", Chopper then smiled, "I'm just glad you didn't lose it this time", Zoro then patted Chopper, "No need to worry".
"There's a door there, lets just see where we are now?", Sanji said while walking over towards the door and opening it, a bright light entered the room and when their eyes adjusted, everybody could see they were on some kind of ship. "Cool were in the sky, this must be one of those airship things I read about", Luffy said as bounced out of the room straight towards the window looking over the city below him, "Cool".
Yang had just finished wiping the puke off her shoes when a strange guy bounced past her and splatted on the window next to her, "Hey you okay, your body just bounced against the window, I'm pretty sure I saw you flatten". Luffy peeled himself off the window and faced the girl who had asked him something about hitting the window, "Luffy, wait up" Zoro said as he, Sanji and Chopper ran up to meet there captain, "Calm down, we're not even at that Beacon place yet and your already causing a ruckus" Sanji said before turning to face Yang.
And upon immediately seeing her he went crazy, "Hello my lady, It is a pleasure to meet you, my name is Sanji may I ask what yours is?", Yang could only stare at the guy who had come out of nowhere was apparently hitting on her, "I'm Yang, nice to meet you Sanji, can I ask you one question?", Sanji immediately replied "Anything my angel" 'Smash', and Sanji was smashed into the ground. "Don't ever do that again" Yang said before turning to see the other's, "Is he with you?", Chopper nodded, Zoro reluctantly shrugged and Luffy smiled, "Yep, he's my friend and I'm Luffy nice to meet ya".
Yang could only stare at the boy who's friend she had smashed into the ground, "Aren't you annoyed that I hurt your friend", Luffy chuckled "He's always doing that, we've all learnt to ignore it". Yang blinked a couple of times at the guy's bluntness before continuing, "So you said something about Beacon, are you guys going there?". "Yep, we're going there to become hunters if that's the right term", Yang looked down at the reindeer and was going to speak before Ruby showed up and immediately pushed past her and picked up Chopper, "He's so cute, look at how small he is, did you say something about going to Beacon, you look to small and young to be going there, I mean I'm going and I'm only fifteen, but you look much younger than that".
Although he had gotten over his compliment problem (didn't want to get in trouble for saying bastard all the time) Chopper didn't like being picked up like a doll and he shifted to Heavy point, "I'm Chopper, I'm older than you and that's quite rude to just pick up somebody like that out of nowhere!" he yelled, to which Yang appeared in front of Ruby, "You're a Faunus aren't you?". Although he wasn't a faunus, Chopper knew it was simpler to say he was a faunus that was mutated by a semblance then to explain his actual situation, "Yes, I am, does that matter", Yang looked up at him, "Here's the thing I would've punched you for scaring my sister, but I'm not gonna hold this against you, because it is mostly Ruby's fault", then then eyed her sister, "and she needs to learn to respect boundaries".
Yang then looked behind the Chopper, "Hey wasn't there another guy with you, I think he had a topknot or something", both Chopper and Luffy looked behind themselves (Sanji was still in the floor of the airship murmuring) and a look of shock appeared on their faces, "Crap, we've lost him, he could literally be anywhere". Before they could do anything else they were interrupted by a "hey" from ruby, "Yeah, what is it?" Luffy said while Chopper got to work removing Sanji from the floor, "I think I found your crewmate" she said as she looked out the window.
Luffy walked up alongside Ruby and upon looking out the window, he saw where Zoro was, "He's on the wing, how did he get there, seriously we looked away for one second". Ruby started to chuckle, "So he has a habit of doing this?", Chopper in Heavy Point with a semi-conscious Sanji walked up alongside them, "Yeah, he has no sense of direction, I mean he even gets lost going straight, and now he's somehow got to a place that he shouldn't have been able to access". Yang then joined them looking out the window at the swordsman who was holding onto the wing for dear life, "Should we get them to stop?".
The three Strawhats shrugged (Sanji from Chopper's shoulder), "Ehh, it doesn't really matter, Marimo will probably get ticked anyway if we admit he somehow got lost, so the safer option would probably just to leave him out there" Sanji said indifferently, both Yang and Ruby stared at Sanji with worried expressions "You don't care what happens to your friend, he could get hurt hanging out there, I mean we've still got a couple of minutes till we get to beacon, what if he falls off?. The three just shrugged again, "He'll be fine", they all said simultaneously.
Both Yang and Ruby turned to look back out the window at the young man that was being pushed against by the wind as he held onto the wing, they looked back at the Straw Hats and then back out the window and they both let their shoulders droop, "Well if you say it's fine, we'll leave you to it" Yang said exasperated, "Maybe we see you guys again while we're at beacon" Ruby said with joy, and then the two sisters walked off.
Luffy glanced towards Sanji and Chopper and they glanced back down at him, "This is going to be exciting, I wonder if we'll meet them again?", Luffy exclaimed, "Probably I mean we still have to deal with that whole initiation thing, so there's a high chance we'll at least catch a glimpse of them there", Chopper stated. "I can't wait to meet those lovely ladies again" Sanji said in a still slightly delirious state. Then all three of them looked out the window at their struggling friend and they all sighed, "But nothing's probably going to go as planned is it?" they all said simultaneously.
A/N: Sup, I had an idea and I decided to write it, I honestly didn't expect to write this much for the first chapter but I just kept writing and writing and well here's the end result, also in regards to aura and semblances, that will be answered in the next chapter.
If there's anything I should work on in regards to how I've written this, please let me know so any future chapters I write for this will probably be better than the first one.
And that's all, peace out.