I do not Own One Piece

Spoken Words: Hello

Inner Thoughts: ouch

(Other characters Actions): (The lad had grabbed a knife)

Places and POV: The Rust Bucket: POV No Beard James

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? POV Cornelius Hedge

I'm writing this memoir in the hopes that some day I may pass my stories on to the generations after me, I'm not sure where my travels will take me or if I'll ever see this memoir exchange hands, but I want people to remember Cob and the Stock-Man Pirates.

There are few small islands in the south blue that can say they have been prosperous for over one-hundred years and never once had a pirate attack. My home, The Harp String Isles is one of them, known for its peacefulness and (mostly) abandoned marine base. The main reason we stay so calm is due to our strong currents, and the fact that the Marines still make rounds to the islands every once and awhile, which usually keeps most non-native folks away from our humble ports. My name is Cornelius Hedge, or Cob by those who know me well, I'm the son of the islands only farmers who worked the island land and reaped it's harvests. I'm currently writing this at the age of nineteen, I'm a little thin, have short black hair, and my height is a modest five feet and nine inches.

When my folks were alive they showed me all of the wonders of nurturing, growing, and the way life cycles from birth to death, to rebirth. They were great people who shared almost all of their harvest with others, and barely ever complained about their position in life, however, one day they both never woke up from their sleep, and I was alone. I'm not exactly sure why, my folks passed on that night, the doctor and morgue both believed it was of their older age, as they were fairly old when they gave birth to me. I moved on fairly fast, I buried my parents under their honeymoon tree, and began to work the lands once again. Luckily the villagers were kind enough to help me out the first few years after my parents passage, soon enough I began to get better harvest's for the village, and tinker around with some the old machinery my family had, I guess that when I first started my hobby of learning mechanics.

It was around one month ago that my life changed though, and perhaps for the better, then again... Well here's how it most likely went.

Near The Harp Islands: POV No Beard James

"Hey Dr. Deal we're in luck its an island", (the portly, masked doctor, jumps for joy), "oh thank Poseidon James I thought we would never find land again with your navigation", "Ah come on", I say, "it wasn't that bad, now you know the drill". (the doctor nods and heads down stairs), "oh and don't let Stitch know, we don't need any incidents now" ( the doctor waves his hand) "yeah, yeah". I yell out my favorite words, "It's time to run ashore".

Harp Islands Town Hall: POV Mayor

"Ms. Hamilton have you heard the news?" "Apparently Crocodile was brought in by the marines, I'm glad we don't have to worry about crazy people like him." (The mayor turns to his left, and notices Ms. Hamilton just starring off into space), Ms. Hamilton whats wrong? (she just points her finger towards the shore). "A pirate ship?! Damn, we need to warn the town!"

Harp Islands: POV No Beard James

Humph, just as I thought everyone's locked in their houses, then again most are intimidated by giant bald people achacha. "No need to worry people I'm only here to buy some food, perhaps at a discounted price for my hard efforts getting here" (the mayor slowly peeks out the window). "Hey you look like a pretty knowledgeable man where can I find some food (the mayor nervous for his village slowly points towards the farm fields), achacha, thanks friend".

Harp Islands: POV Mayor

"We have to get the navy here and quick, get the snail phone." (Ms. Hamilton, all of sudden starts jumping for joy) "No need Mayor its a marine captain." "What really", I say? I wonder how he got here so fast, no matter we have to get rid of those pirates!

Harp Islands: POV Dr. Deal

I'm surprised they were this easily convinced, well its a good change. "Good afternoon, I saw there was a pirate ship while making my rounds near here, do you need some assistance?" ( the mayor immediately begs for me to take care of the pirate) and of course I accept to "capture" him. I hurry and make my way over to my captain before the townspeople might question why they haven't seen another ship.

Harp Island Farm Field: POV Cob

Ow my aching back, I really hate it when my tiller breaks. (Is that someone in the distance, man he's huge). "Hey there, are you here to look at this years harvest", (the man smiles and replies with a firm and hearty yes). It was little odd for a merchant to come so soon in the harvest, but never the less I showed him my different assorted crops and the quality in which they were grown, and he seemed to be quite pleased. (He then said something I didn't expect, I want all of it.) "Really? That''s amazing, let me get everything ready for barter".

Harp Island Farm House: No Beard James

"Well, this is a great harvest you have here, how much for all?" I know this lad isn't about to be swindled, I can see he's got some brains at-least compared to some others I know of The lad tells me 5,000 Belli. "Hmm, your crop is fine, but I know many harvests around the world have been doing well, I think your over selling" While most pirates take what they want I like to make some sport of it, sometimes there's deals that can only be made through creating some trust. 3,000 lad, and not a cent higher, I'm no fool, I know what these are worth even with their good quality, (the lad smirks, I think I may have found one of those deals).

Harp Islands Farm House: POV Cob

I knew this deal was going south as soon as the merchant figured out my plan, I knew I had to pull out my trump. I pull open the floor boards and grab a very special item. "This fruit has been in my family for over two generations and I bet you might be interested in getting it as a bundle with my crops, only 7,000 Belli for all". Of course I wasn't really planning on giving him the rare preserved fruit I owned, but I felt like I needed the money and the chance to sell my whole crop overwhelmed my senses, but I knew I was in deep when the merchant started to laugh.

Harp Island Farm House: No Beard James

"Well lad, I think the time is right to tell you that my final offer is I get everything for free, and you and your town get to live in peace." The lad knows he's in deep, but I know he'll be the one to finally get me a devil fruit.

I knew I had to hurry, things always seem to go wrong last minute and I didn't want to risk Stitch getting off the ship, dang my stubby legs I knew I should have did more exercise. I was nearly exhausted by the time I reached the farm door, but I managed to open it.

Harp Islands Farm House: POV No Beard James

"I'm glad your smart Lad, thanks for the fruit and crops, I changed my mind we do have some belli, I guess I can spare a thousand, it should be enough to keep you alive til the next harvest, achacha,

Harp Islands Farm House: POV Cob

I was so mad at myself, I had been fooled, all because of my peaceful life, not only did I lose my harvest, but I lost my folks devil fruit) What? Someones at the door, have they come to help me? (all of a sudden many things happened at once, the fake merchant was knocked over, and the fruit he had was knocked into my mouth, I tried not to swallow, but it was too late. Ack that tasted disgusting, it must have been rotted, why were these things so poular.

Harp Islands Farm House: POV No Beard James

All of a sudden my life's dream was crushed, my path to a devil fruit gone, I saw Dr. Deal slumped on the ground and the lad to my front. First I grabbed my sea-stone cuffs, I was lucky the kid didn't react fast, I caught him in the cuffs before he could move, and then I took Dr. Deal and gave him a can of Justice for crushing my dream.

Aboard The Rust Bucket: POV Cob

This next part is a little blurry, no one really remembers what happened, I was weak from the shackles, Dr. Deal was having severe trauma, and James was enraged, what I do know is that I remember the screams from the village.

Harp Islands Farm House: POV No Beard James

"Dr. Deal hurry, up and get off your butt, I'll finish beating you later, grab the harvest and I'll get the kid! We'll sell him back to the town after we get back to the boat. I think stitch got impatient". It doesn't surprise me that Dr. Deal is already back up, and half way across the field, he can move fast when he needs to.

Harp Islands Village Outskirts: POV Dr. Deal

Dammit, First I make James mad and now Stitch is loose, I may be a pirate but, I won't let these people die, I don't care how many times I shred my muscles I will get their in time, looks like its time to put my repair and renew fruit to use.

Harp Islands Village: POV Dr. Deal

I see stitch, and luckily he hasn't killed anyone yet, Stitch get back into the ship. He knows I mean business, but I know he doesn't care, when your abilities rely on new parts every week to stay together, and you've been in a ship for three your bound to get antsy. "Doctor", Stitch replies, "why did you leave me on board"? "You know I need parts". "And you'll get them" I retort, "when I can find someone who died naturally, you may have been on board longer then me, but that doesn't give you the right to do act without orders". I know its too late to stop his madness, luckily everyone is locked inside, wait the mayor, "Mayor get back in your house it's not safe".

Harp Islands Village: POV Mayor

"I'm not listening to you pirate scum, I know now your a pirate, you in league with these maniacs! I'm ordering you to leave now, Ms. Hamilton has already called the navy"...(the mayor stops mid sentence, he can't feel his arm anymore) "What is wrong with my body"? I look to my right my arm is gone. My vision is fading, I don't want to die.

Harp Islands Village: POV Dr. Deal

"No", I shout, but it's too late, Stitch managed to tear off the mayors arm, and I needed to restrain him fast. I quickly positioned my fingers into a gun shape and used my fruit to renew my blood cells in my finger joint, forcing my finger to swell and then quickly I inserted my finger into the small hole in my mask and bit off the nail around my finger. I pulled it out and started to use my regeneration technique to rapidly grow my nail, and push it out of my finger using the pressure from my renewing blood vessels. During this time I notice stitch get ready to strike, luckily this battle was already over, with most of Stitch's body parts only partially usable, I was able to take them off by aiming at the stitching in which they were sown onto his body with, severing them with my nail gun. In a manner of seconds I had stitch restrained, I ran to the unconscious mayor, and started to patch him up, I knew I didn't have the resources to do anything with his decapitated arm, but at-least I could stop the bleeding and infection.

Harp Islands Village: POV No Beard James

I was pleasantly surprised to see the carnage limited to one arm, but intuition told me we needed to head out fast I decided the most reasonable choice would be to drop the kid and leave with our loot. "Dr. Deal to hurry up and grab Stitches head we have to go", and I started running to the ship, with something snagged on my leg, it was only by the time we were far away from the islands that I noticed that the lad attached to my leg. "Looks like I have another mouth to feed, hopefully this one doesn't bite".

Aboard ?: POV Cob

When I awoke I was tied to a post, my body ached, and my vision was blurry. I had been taken from my home, from my life, and now I was in the middle of an tremendous ocean with madmen, I wanted to cry, I wanted to run, but mostly I wanted revenge, and something about the way my body was feeling told me that I could obtain it.

Authors Note

Powers:

No Beard James: Massive strength and large pockets.

Dr. Deal: Has the ability to regrow cells at an extreme level, he can still die from organ loss, drowning, vaporization, etc.

Stitches: The Franken Fruit: He can change parts at will, but rots with time and usage of his techniques.

Cob: Just ate a devil fruit, but has yet to use its power.

I hope the first chapter wasn't too bad, and I would really appreciate criticism in order to polish up this chapter and the next ones if you want to follow along. If you like what you see give me ideas for characters to meet.

Next chapter will be focused on fleshing out each character some more, and hopefully a much more detailed and extravagant fight scene as well.