Disclaimer: One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
New Beginning
Prologue
Monkey D. Luffy had succeeded in becoming the new Pirate King.
Shortly after a last great battle between the marines forces and the Straw Hat Pirates together with their allies he had found the One Piece at Raftel, the last island of the grand line.
At the same time however a event happened that made even the rise of the second Pirate King look unimportant, the fall of the World Government.
Ironically it were two members of the same family, father and son, who were responsible for the two most important changes in the world.
The revolution army led by Monkey D. Dragon made their final move.
In the last years the world government was relying more and more on their pacifista cyborgs. This however turned out to be their final mistake.
The prototype of the pacifista line, Bartholomew Kuma, was secretly a agent for the revolution. With his help the revolutionaries were able to discover all the secrets of the project and so disable the pacifista army.
Dragon was able to simply order them to shut down. Everywhere on the world the pacifista stopped working and decimated the lines of the government troops.
Like they had planned, the revolutionaries used this chance for their attack. In one move their troops were able to take the capital of the World Government Marie Joa.
At the time the revolutionaries were founding a new government, Luffy had continued his way to the One Piece. Here at the end of the grand line he met his enemy Blackbeard again and fought him a last time. The One Piece itself however was destroyed during the fight.
Vice Admiral Smoker meanwhile had followed Luffy and sailed to Raftel himself.
As he and his crew arrived they found Luffy and the others exhausted from the fight.
Smoker, having hunted Luffy for years, now only congratulated him to his victory.
The marines arrested Blackbeard and his crew in the name of the New World Government and then returned them, together with the remains of the One Piece, back to Marine Headquarters.
The Straw-hats on the other hand completed their journey around the world.
Shortly after Raftel they discovered a subterranean ocean that connected all seas in the world with each other, the All Blue. Over this passage they came back to the East Blue.
The Straw-hat pirates were again at the place where their adventures had began.
xxxxxxx
The East Blue, two weeks after the discovery of the One Piece
The Thousand Sunny was slowly sailing over the sea while the crew onboard spent their day in the usual way.
Nami had just finished her last sea charts, that now included the underground sea all blue. With that her precious world map was practically finished.
Their captain, Luffy had been lying for hours now at his usual spot on the Sunny´s lion´s head, not quite knowing what to do with his time, now that he was Pirate King.
"Boring", he complained. "Nothing to do the entire day", he complained.
"Does this really surprise you?" Nami asked him. "You are the Pirate King now. That had always been your great aim. You have reached that and what do you want to do now?"
"I don´t know", Luffy yelled.
"Have you not spend a single thought about what you would do after you became Pirate King?" She wanted to know.
"No, should I have?" He asked sheepishly.
Nami was fuming now.
Sanji, Chopper, Usopp, Robin and Franky were listening in to their conversation.
Zoro was, as so often, lying at the side, sleeping.
"Our great adventure is over Luffy", Robin pointed out. "We have reached the end of the grand line, what else is there left to do?"
"No, I don´t accept that it is over. We will just have to find something new. We start a new adventure."
"So you say we will find something else to do now that we have all fulfilled our dreams", Franky said with a smile.
"Of course we will", Luffy shouted.
"If you say so Luffy", Robin said. That was exactly that she had expected to hear from her captain.
"Now that we are back in the east blue, we should first make a visit to our home islands", Nami pointed out.
"I am curious how the old Jeff is doing", Sanji suggested.
"And I want to see Kaya again", Usopp said.
"Chopper, Franky, Brook and me are not from the east blue", Robin pointed out. "So we have to pass out here."
"So where do we go first?"
"I think Luffy´s home-island is the next", Nami replied, "then Zoro´s, then Usopp´s, the baratie and then kokos. What do you think Luffy?"
"Yeah, lets go back home for a while", he said quietly. "I am curious how Dadan and Makino are doing."
"Good, then it is decided. Hey Zoro, have you heard what we were saying?" She yelled at the sleeping swordsman.
"What is? Can you not leave me alone for awhile?"
"We were saying that we will visit our home-islands, yours and Luffy´s are coming next."
"And because of that you wake me up?"
"We have still something else to do", Franky reminded them. Brook has to see Laboom."
"I have waited 52 years", the skeleton replied. "This can wait another few weeks."
"The dream of one of our crew-members should come first and by the way, we had not been home for a few years now. Some of us will probably want to stay a bit longer."
"We can first go to see the whale and then we turn around to visit the islands", Luffy said.
"When we have to sail twice through the entire east blue", Nami called out.
"Why not? I am already Pirate King, so we have time now."
"Of course captain, if you say so", she answered with a smile. She just realized that Luffy was acting more like his usual self.
"Okay", Zoro said casually. "I planned to go back to my home-island anyway, I have something to do there. But that has time."
"And why had you not mentioned that before?" Nami asked him.
"I thought that was obviously that we would visit anyway when we returned to the east blue and not that I had to point it out for you?"
"What kind of a way is that to talk to a lady?" Sanji asked him angrily.
"Why does she have to ask such stupid questions?" Zoro yelled back.
Right afterwards their usual fight broke out. Luffy only laughed loud, while the rest of the crew only stood there smiling.
It seemed even if they had reached their great goal now, things were still going to be the same.
xxxxxxx
A village in the East Blue, at the same time
The inhabitants of the small village were watching the group of armed men that had arrived a short time earlier.
To them the newcomers made a very strange impression. Some of them were wearing parts of what looked like old uniforms, but often part together with racks. Others had civilian clothes. All of them however were carrying guns and swords or knives on their belts.
The villagers were assembled in a large half circle before the soldiers and were waiting curious what would happen.
The mayor stood in front of the crowd, in opposite to the obvious leader of the armed group.
"Citizens of this town, listen to me", the leader called out.
He was a large, wild looking man with blond hair and a mustache, wearing old white marine trousers and a torn black cape.
"We are members of the revolutionary army", the man announced. "We have freed you from the tyranny of the world government.
To support our cause you have now the opportunity to show your gratitude for what we have done for you. My men are ready to receive your gifts of money, food and other items. You can hand it all over to my assistants here." He gestured to two men standing next to him.
"We are ready to receive your gifts now", he said. At his words his soldiers moved their hands to their guns. It was a obviously studied move but it´s implication was clear.
"We are revolutionaries now?" One of the guys in the background whispered to his neighbor.
"Yes, now that they have won it is really a good idea to be one of them.", the other man answered.
"We don´t need to give you anything", someone in the crowd shouted.
"I see, we still have supporters of the old regime here", the man said with a smile. "We will root this elements out very soon. I will make myself more clear.
You will hand over all the money in your town to us and as many supplies as my men can carry."
"You are not revolutionaries, you are just bandits", the mayor said.
"If you think so", the man replied. He made a gesture and his men pointed their weapons at the people.
"Now hand everything over, please."
xxxxxxx
Marie Joa
The once proud city in the center of the grand line was now only a burned out field of ruins.
Ironically it had been one of the tenryuubito who had started the fire. Not wanting to accept their loss, he rather wanted everything destroyed than leave it to the revolution. Of course that man had been one of the first to die in the flames.
While at the same time Dragon´s men had been storming the city, the most inhabitants had managed to make it out of the burning town alive, that meant slaves and tenryuubito.
Some of the slaves were freed by the attacking revolutionaries and in the most cases joined them, other managed to escape by themselves, freeing other on their way out.
Now squads of rebel soldiers were searching through the rubble, looking for survivors of the ones who had not made it out in time.
On a hill side close to the burned down city at their base camp, Dragon and Harss, one of his sub-commanders, were standing and overseeing the work.
"This was not what I meant when I said we would take Marie Joa", Dragon commented at the sight of the disaster.
"This is not your fault sir. You could not know that somebody would go this far. This was a pure act of spite."
But maybe he should have anticipated something like this, Dragon thought silently. He knew perfectly well what the tenryuubito were capable of.
At the other side of the area one of the search groups was finally able to
"We have someone", a soldier yelled. "They are still alive."
Under the wreckage of a destroyed building, they had found a young woman and a man lying next to her.
Regarding the review about the spelling of a few names in my story. The translation of names and places in mangas like One Piece sometimes varies in different countries.
The name of Sanji´s mentor can be written as red leg Jeff or Zeff. Both translations are valid. In germany he is usually called "Rotfuß-Jeff".
For Nami´s home-village Cocoyasi there are also various versions. The name Kokos was for example the actual translation in germany.
Another example is Zoro´s first name that is sometimes Roronoa or Lorenor.
If someone of you think I should change the names I have used in my story against other versions please tell me this in a review.
