My First real project, I hope you like it. Any feedback on what I'm doing wrong or right would be greatly appreciated.

Chapter 1:

The first thing I heard when I woke up was the sound of waves. 'What the hell?' I thought, 'since when was there an ocean in my room? Wait, why the hell am I on a beach? I live inland!' I started to panic and hyperventilate and run in circles and... 'Stop! I need to calm down and think this through. All right,' I began, 'I'm on a beach, and the closest beach to my house is a five-hour drive away. So I'm nowhere near my house. I have no food or drinkable water, and no money either. I also appear to be lower to the ground, and based on my reflection at least ten years younger- What the Hell!'

Obviously, I started to panic again. 'Okay, possible reasons for my new age go: One, my entire life was a dream and I'm really still a little kid. Two, this is a dream and I'm still asleep in my bed. Three, I'm magic. Option one sucks, option two is dangerous to assume, so I'm going with option three. Cool, I always wanted to be magic.'

With my newfound awareness of my magic status, I began to look around for any sign of people. Out in the distance I spotted an old sailing ship, so I started off in that direction. Sure enough, maybe five minutes away I happened on a town. A very old town by the looks of it. There weren't any cars and all of the buildings were old fashioned and rustic. Still, it was pretty enough, and I was sure I could find a way home.

There seemed to be a commotion near the water, but I ignored it and walked in to the nearest building, which apparently was a bar, though it was rather empty. I'm like ninety-percent certain I'm not supposed to be in here, regardless of which of my ages you go by. Still, I walked up to the women tending the bar, who looked very familiar for some reason, and asked, "Excuse me, but where am I?" She looked up from whatever it was she was doing, before realizing the voice had come from further down and finally finding me. She smiled and answered, " You're in Foosha Village, but where is your family, you're far to young to be off by yourself."

What a nice person, being all concerned like that. "My family is back home, which is why I'm trying to figure out where I am, so I can know where home is," I stated, "I've never heard of Foosha Village before, where exactly is it." "It's in East Blue, but where are you from, to not even know that, what is your home? What's it called? I may have an idea of where it is."

I didn't hear that last part. East Blue. That's One Piece. The reason she's familiar is because she's… I don't remember her name, but she's from the first chapter. The bar owner from the place Shanks goes to, where Luffy is. Luffy's home town. Fuck. I can't deny the evidence. This place is the same as in the manga. I'm in One Piece. Suddenly option two seems far more likely.

Before I could say anything I heard voices approaching. A man with red hair, Shanks was rushing a small kid with a bandage on his face in, laughing the whole way. 'No time to be shocked now', I thought, 'I can decide what to do later, for now it's performance time.' "Get us some sake Makino," he said, "Lets drink and celebrate, to our greatness, and to Luffy's craziness." Then he noticed me. "Kyahahaha, who's this though? I don't remember seeing him before."

Makino answered him; "He seems to be lost, though he hasn't said anything about himself yet." Shanks looked back to me. "Really?" he said, "Well then kid, where you from? And what's your name anyways?" "My names Jason Willson, and I'm from America," I replied, "And I'm not a kid, I'm eighteen years old." This set Shanks and his crew laughing again. "There's no way your over ten kid, don't tell such ridiculous lies. Still, I've never heard of America before, where is it?" "I don't know where on the map it would be," I answered truthfully, "But I at least know its not in East Blue." Also true. America isn't anywhere in this world. I decided not to tell them the truth though, no point in making them think I'm crazy, especially if they think I' also a liar. "Why is his face injured," I said, pointing at Luffy. Anything to get the attention away from me. Immediately Shanks and his crew went back into full party mode. "The idiot here cut himself with a knife," Shanks laughed.

I decided to play the innocent child act for now, might yield some good results with these people. "Wow," I said as I cocked my head to the side, "you must be really clumsy." Luffy got all aggravated and excited over this, "No," he claimed, "I did it on purpose, to prove how brave I am!" How stupid, I thought, what does stabbing yourself prove? I guess it proves that he has nerves of steel and no common sense though. "It looks like it really hurt." I decided to go with a safe response. "It didn't hurt at all," was his response but it was obvious he had been holding back tears this entire time.

From there thing devolved into party stuff with Shanks mocking Luffy's ability to swim, or rather the lack thereof. "If you can't swim," I said, knowing it wouldn't matter by the time everyone was done partying by the looks of the fruit Luffy was eyeing, "I can teach you how. I'm a decent swimmer." "That'd be great," Luffy said, "Then Shanks will have no choice to let me become a pirate with him!" Shanks laughed at that, "Good luck, with the way you sink you'll never be able to swim!" A little cruel, but it seemed to me Shanks was trying to steer the conversation away without making promises he can't keep or crushing Luffy's dream and the party continued.

Soon enough, the bandits came and started strutting around like big stuff. I almost laughed when their leader started bragging about his eight million-berri bounty. I figured it would just piss them off, and with my current size that would be bad. Watching Shanks let the bandit picked on him, I mulled over the lesson Luffy didn't quite get. 'Shanks is strong, incredibly so. It would be easy for him to destroy this guy, but he doesn't because he is strong. Moreover, the guy has no idea who he's dealing with. Sure he's an asshole, but he doesn't deserve death or a beating for being stupid, and he hasn't hurt anyone. Yet.' A commotion around Luffy broke me from my thoughts.

"That's the gum-gum fruit!" Shanks was yelling, "It's one of the fruits of the devil and one of the rarest treasures in the sea!" It's good to see they finally realized that Luffy was made of rubber. And that I didn't stop that from happening. Luffy needs that power specifically to deal with Eneru. I zoned out until it looked like Luffy was about to leave. "Wait," I said, "let me come with you." "Hold up," came a voice behind me. Shanks looked really serious. "What are we going to do with you? We can't leave a kid on his own." I cast about my head for a good explanation. "Well," I began, "I shouldn't really go anywhere until I know where my home is, so I figured I'd look at a map and see if I can find it, but first I wanted to play with Luffy because he's my first friend my age." Shanks sighed, "We'll look at our maps, you go have fun." Sympathy card, works every time.

I walked outside with Luffy, and he looked at me. "What are we going to play?" he asked. "Pirates of course," was my response, "I'll be the Mighty Captain Jason and you'll be Brave Captain Luffy and we'll have a fierce showdown!" Luffy looked really excited about that. "All right, lets go!" he threw a rather weak punch that I deflected easily with a high block due to my experience with karate, then counter punched him in the stomach. My fist, however, just seemed to bounce harmlessly off him. We both looked at this for a moment, before Luffy smiled and I grew pale. 'I might have made a miscalculation here,' I thought. Before Luffy could throw another punch I launched myself into a tackle, but Luffy jumped out of the way and punched me in the side. 'Ouch, I definitely made a mistake.'

The rest of the fight didn't go any better for me, and in the end I had to surrender. "Ow," I complained, "I need to find a way to actually get you, or else I'm gonna lose all our next fights too." Luffy gave me an odd look; "You still want to fight again after that?" "Of course," I responded, sounding much more confidant than I felt, "were friends so we definitely hafta play together again!" Luffy gave a wide smile, and I knew I just secured a spot on his ship, as long as I wasn't useless by then. After all, the only place I'll even have a chance of finding my way home or a clue as to how I got here or why I'm younger is the Grand Line.

Later Shanks came by to tell me he couldn't find America, though I knew that would happen. He promised to look for it, but I also knew he wouldn't find it.


It was only a few weeks later when the bandits barged into the bar and started being stupid again. Then their leader started badmouthing Shanks and Luffy got pissed. Before I could stop him he confronted the bandit leader over this and made him angry as well. When he finally hit Luffy I took just a moment to figure out how he was actually hurting Luffy before throwing myself into the fray.

Then I got beaten. Badly. On the plus side I was somewhat used to being hit thanks to my spars with Luffy, but this was so much worse. By the time the village elder stepped in to ask the bandits to stop, I figured I had at least one broken rib. Than Shanks showed up and defeated the bandits, except their leader who escaped with Luffy.

I watched powerlessly as Shanks chased after him, knowing what would happen, but unable to find the strength to even say anything. While some of Shank's crew was treating me, I thought to myself. 'I'm weak. I couldn't stop Luffy from starting the fight, I couldn't stop the bandits from hurting him, and I couldn't stop Shanks from losing his arm.'


A few months after that Garp showed up to take Luffy away. I had healed up by than, as my injuries weren't as bad as I thought they were. Only fracture, no breaks. I was lucky. I couldn't find anything to say until Garp did his fist of love thing. Then inspiration struck me. "How did you hit him? Anytime I try when were playing, my fist just bounces off." "Bwahahaha," Garp laughed, "It's the Fist of Love! That's how I can hit him. It's Love!" "That makes no sense," I pressed, "Love can't defy laws of nature there must be something your doing!"

Now for the hard part. "Can you teach me?" Garp just laughed again, "No this is far to advanced for someone your age. Besides, Luffy and I are leaving soon." "I'll come with you," I said, "I don't have a home or a family so that won't be a problem, and I'll work real hard. Besides," I thought back to what had happened with the bandits and was mildly surprised to find the tears that formed weren't fake, "Luffy's my only friend, and I couldn't help him before when I needed to. I don't ever want to be that weak again!" Garp looked at me for a long moment before nodding. "I'll train you and take you with us, but I don't want to here any complaints or I'm taking you right back here!"


Ten years later, Luffy set sail on a small boat with only one friend.