The first Pirate King, Gol D. Roger, and then the second Pirate King, Monkey D. Luffy. Both were icons and Legends for everything that stood as piracy in the world. They were the elements of every pirate's dream, fulfilled their own dreams and got what every man would want in the world: fame, money and wealth.
But most importantly, nakama.
And as the execution of the second Pirate King re-newed the age of piracy, more and more people keep travelling to find the wished One Piece. And now, 10 years later, in a more evolved world, people still set sail to reach their goals, and fulfill their dreams.
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"Damn it, where are my maps?" was the question raised by a boy with dark browns eyes, messy dark-brown hair, a black headband going across his forehead with a picture of a white skull getting its left eye socket crossed by an arrow, blue cargo shorts, a short sleeved, orange jacket that was unbuttoned, showing his chest and abs, and sandals. "Do these guys think these maps can be re-done in seconds?"
He opened the door of his small room, and just outside, on the deck of the ship, was a group of pirates, having fun, chunking down bottles, after bottles, after bottles of rum. Three of those pirates were playing violins, while singing the Bink's Sake song. Someone then tapped him on the shoulder, and as the boy turned around, he was greeted with a strong jab to the face.
"Hey Jin, what makes ya think ya can't party wit' us?" said the grinning figure of a middle-aged man, with a gray beard that went down to his belly. He was a bit bald, with little hair on the sides of his head, an eye patch on his right eye, whilst his left had a scar across it. He had bloodshot pupils, and his long grin exposed his golden teeth. He also wore a dark blue shirt, a silk, white belt and red pants, with black boots. "As Captain of this ship, I feel outraged if I ain't seein' one of my men having no fun!"
"But Capt. Graybeard, I was only looking for my maps!"
"You mean this here?" One of the pirates shouted from the back, as he was seen wiping his face with a piece of paper. Jin then got a tick mark on his forehead, as he went into comical anger.
"YOU BAKA, THAT'S THE MAP WE NEED TO GET TO THE RED LINE! HOW THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO EVEN GET OUT OF THE SOUTH BLUE NOW??" it was then followed by Jin's hands getting encased with water. "Mizu Mizu no PISTOL!!!", as he sent a combo of two punches to his pirate comrade, nailing him with two fist-shaped, watery projectiles, sending him crashing against the ship's mast, nearly knocking it over. He then picked the piece of paper up, and sighed as he noticed it had multiple rum stains all over it.
"Well, how is it? Can ya still use it?" Capt. Graybeard asked.
"Nope, it's too dirty, I can't read the details! I guess I'll go back to…" Although our friend Jin didn't get to finish his sentence, as noticed his captain's evil smirk.
"What did I tell ya a few seconds ago…?" an evil, shady figure rose right in front of Jin, scaring the living wits out of him. Moments later, Jin was intoxicated to the brim, parts of his body now encased in water, boiling and bubbling, steam coming out of those same spots, while Captain Graybeard laughed hysterically at the scene before him.
However, nobody noticed two other missing pirates, sitting on the figurehead of the ship, away from all the rowdiness. One of them was an overweight, bald man, wearing a short sleeved, green-striped shirt, with white pants that seem to be ripped and thus, only went down to his knees, exposing his hairy, and ironically, skinny legs. He wore brown shoes, and had dark eyes. On his left side was his supposed comrade, a tall, skinny man with brown, dirty hair, brown eyes, blue-striped shirt, black pants and brown shoes. He also wore a blue bandana, hiding part of his hair, only showing a few groups of strands here and there. This last man smirked.
"So Ed, can you tell me anything about that kid?" the tall man asked, earning him a a nodding glance.
"Damn right, that's the kid that the captain hired to work for him as the ship's navigator… or so I've heard… Seems like he was here way before us!" the man named Ed answered, noticibly carrying a brittish accent. "I also heard around that he's a Devil Fruit user. He ate the Mizu Mizu no Mi, which is a Logia type that gives him complete control over water! But don't worry Kane, he won't stop us from going ahead with our plans!" followed then by the usual evil laughter which, surprisingly, no one heard.
The Way of the Kaizoku
Prologue
Mutiny, A New Start for the Water Boy
"AAARGH, RED OCTOPUS!!!" one of the pirates screamed, a red, octopus-like creature rose from the seas. "Damn, that has to be at least 65 ft. tall! Shame these red octopuses don't have much to eat from!" said the ship's cook, as he looked up. "STOP THINKING ABOUT COOKING FOR A MINUTE!!" the other pirates yelled, in comical anger.
Jin quickly opened the door of his room, and as he looked up to the gigantic monster before him, his grin got bigger. "Finally, an occasion to fight, and I WAS getting a bit fat on the sides!"
As he said that last sentence, he jumped high in the air, landing on the ship's gaff and threw his fists back. "Mizu Mizu no Pistol!" A combo of two punches was thrown to the red octopus, crashing down on it, pushing it a few feet away from the ship. "I guess that at that distance, it won't disturb the ship's sailing stability! And now, Mizu Mizu no…" Jin got himself in some sort of diving position, throwing his hands straight forward, and rising his fingers.
"… TORPEDO!!" he then dove in an horizontal position, water surrounding his body, making him look like a blue comet, and he hit the octopus, passed through it and came on the other side, piercing the monster. The pirates back at the ship looked at the scene, mouths gape wide, watching the octopus, now dead, sink into the sea.
"That was so cool! Did you see what he did? That's badass, alright!" those were examples of the many comments that the pirates used to evaluate the scene that had just depicted before them. "Hey, where is Jin, anyway?" Captain Graybeard asked, and when they all looked closely, they sighed, as they saw Jin falling into the ocean in a comical way, struggling not to drown.
"I knew that it was too cool to be true!" Captain Graybeard sighed once again, looking at Ed and Kane. "You two, go in there and get Jin back!"
Ed and Kane looked at each other, and grins spread across their faces, as they nodded and dived into the water, returning moments later with Jin, now unconscious.
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The days had gone as usual, and the more days that passed, the more monsters they were forced to fight against. And as this day rose, everyone began waking up. Though the morning didn't go as peaceful as usual, due to a certain attack by the Giant Dog Fish, a gigantic fish that resembled a dog; a species of fish natural from the South Blue.
In the end, it gave the whole crew food for about 3 days, thanks to Jin, who in the right time gave that creature a show of his Mizu Mizu no Pistol attack. At lunch, everybody is eating as rowdily as possible, stealing each other's meals and getting themselves wasted with rum, as Jin just rolled his eyes, sitting next to the captain.
"And then some wonder why the rum's always gone…" Jin thought to himself, even snickering a bit to himself.
"So boy, how much time d'you think that little battle with the Dog-Fish took us?" Captain Graybeard asked casually, in which Jin didn't even bother to look at, lazily inclining his chair.
"About a few minutes, though it could of taken a lot more if it hadn't been for me!" Jin said, smirking, only to earn him a jab from his captain, knocking him off his chair.
"DON'T BE SO COCKY, BRAT!" Captain Graybeard said, laughing to himself, as Jin smiled and stood once again to his feet. The captain then turned his head and some considerable miles ahead he could see land. "Hey Jin, is that our next stop?"
Jin took a quick glance, and nodded. "Yep, that's it, alright! Our final stop before heading towards the Red Line!"
"Not likely…" a voice said, as Jin looked behind him and, in the blink of an eye, got kicked in the head, crashing against the door to his room, which stood next to the deck. As he got up, he saw who they were.
"Ed? Kane? What the hell's wrong with you two?" Jin said, as he stood up, a trickle of blood now falling his mouth.
"We're taking this ship, and stopping you and that bloody captain from giving us a one way trip to hell!" Ed said, as all the pirates that once happily drank and ate were now rising from their sits, and smiling evilly at Jin and Captain Graybeard.
"Trip to Hell? I thought this was what you wanted, to sail the Grand Line and find the One Piece!" Captain Graybeard said, now looking mighty confused, but that earned him the same kick that Jin received, crashing against the ship's mast.
"WHAT WE WANTED? PLEASE, YOU MORON, LIKE YOU WOULD EVER FIND IT WITHOUT TAKING AWAY OUR LIVES! WE ONLY CAME HERE TO GET YOUR SHIP!" Kane said, as he grabbed a few ropes, and looked at the other pirates. "C'mon you lazy slugs, tie that lame excuse for a captain and make him walk the plank… the old fashioned way!" he added those final words with a psychotic smile plastered to his face, as the others did as instructed, picking Graybeard up. Though their actions didn't go any further, as…
"MIZU MIZU NO CHAIN!!!" yelled Jin, as his right leg extended in a watery substance and had now the shape of a chain, batting the pirates away from his captain, sending them all crashing against the rails. "Get your dirty hands off the Captain!"
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the Water Boy, here to play the good guy's role! Listen kid, it's useless, just look up!" Kane said, pointing upwards. Jin looked slowly up, and his eyes opened wide in shock, as above him stood something that most Devil Fruit users feared the most: a Seasalt net.
"T-T-That's a Seasalt net! Why'd you keep something like that with you?" Jin said, and then he saw a pirate up on the mast, cutting the ropes that hung the net in place. The net then fell down, and when Jin was about to move away, he noticed Kane placing his hand on his pants. "And prepare yourself, cause…"Kane then got a remote control from his pants' pocket, and pressed the red button, as Jin then felt an electric shock surge through, a current flowing through his body could even be visible to the naked eye. Jin then stood on one knee, preventing himself from falling down. A bit of smoke started coming from his clothes, as the net then fell violently down on him. Ed then stepped forward.
"In case you're wondering how you got shocked like that, I'll be glad to explain it! You see, a few days back, when you fought against that Red Octopus…"
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"You two, go in there and get Jin back!" Captain Graybeard said, as Ed and Kane dove underwater, and swam around until they saw Jin's body sinking deeper and deeper into the water. A few seconds later, they managed to get a hold of him. Ed then smiled to Kane, as he placed a microchip on Jin's left ankle, the chip implanting itself on Jin's skin.
They then swam to the surface as fast as they could, their breaths running short. They then emerged in the surface, as their fellow pirates cheered back on board, and Graybeard smiled to them.
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"Damn it, I should've gone in there to get Jin back, not you two scumbags!" Graybeard said, angrily, but Ed and Kane could only laugh.
"You didn't have much choice, old fool! If you did that, you would've spared all of this trouble, as we would've had just run away with this ship!" Kane said, in between laughs.
Jin kept struggling to remove the net from him, though second by second, his powers were weakening due to the awful effect that Seasalt had on Devil Fruit users. When they noticed Jin was starting to find ways to remove the net, a bullet hit a spot on the floor that stood mere inches away from his feet.
"Make no move, or else you'll find soon that the net isn't the only thing that's made of Seasalt! Even the bullets we have are made of Seasalt, so one hit and you can say goodbye!" Kane said, as he used his index finger to spin his gun around by the trigger zone. Jin just sighed, as he rose his hands up, in defeat. He had to find another way to save the captain and himself, though for now a strategic retreat was needed.
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Captain Graybeard was now walking on the plank, taking slow steps. The clouds were now gathering and getting darker and darker by the second, and a few thunders could be heard from afar. Jin was how chained with Seasalt shackles, being grabbed by the shoulders by Ed. Jin tried to struggle, but then he saw Graybeard turning around, and shooting him a smile, which shocked Jin to the very core of his being.
"He-He's smiling, even though he's walking on the plank… He isn't afraid to die… Is he mad, or too brave?!?"
"Heh, I guess I'm dead, ain't I?" he said, smiling as one of the pirates then bumped him with the edge of his falchion, taking off his balance. As Graybeard was now ready to fall, Jin closed his eyes and concentrated to his fullest, as his hands had now taken the form of blades, slipping through the chains. "Mizu Mizu no Sword, SLASH!!" Rapidly, he sliced the necks of the nearest pirates, and kicked Ed square in the jaw, while using his left elbow to hit Kane in his crotch, as he dropped to the ground in agony.
"Argh, son of a…"
Jin ran as quick as he could, reaching his hand out for Graybeard's. "C'MON, GIVE ME YOUR HAND!" Graybeard saw him and tried extending his hand out. As Jin was now inches away from catching his captain, a thunder suddenly hit the ship, destroying parts of it, such as mast, bridge, deck, gaff and setting the other places on fire. Dozens of whirlpools then suddenly formed around the ship and came crashing down on it, destroying the ship and sending everyone down to the sea. Jin was now struggling to swim, but the violent currents came crashing down on him.
"CAPTAIN, WHERE ARE YOU? CAPTAIN!!!" Jin yelled, as the last thing he saw was his captain getting carried away by the whirlpools.
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Jin slowly opened his eyes, and noticed he was lying in a room. He looked at this surroundings, his vision still blurry.
"Was it… was it all a dream? Am I still in the ship? What…" Jin heard a door opening, and looked to his right side, where he saw a figure reaching to him.
"Hey, are you alright? Those are quite the bruises you got there!" the voice was distorted, and Jin didn't get his lights on for long, as he went unconscious once again, losing the little awareness of his surroundings.
!TO BE CONTINUED!
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