A/N: Hi guys! This is something I've been thinking about...I wrote up a little prologue/premise. Take a read and let me know if this is something you guys would be interested in reading?

Prologue

Bong Bong Bong Bong! Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong!

The school bell's chime was the pride of the city, if not the entire prefecture. It was not an ordinary school bell. It sang more than it rang. It was a representation of the quality, the class, and the prestige of the elite private school, Mariejois High.

The children of the wealthy and powerful were sent to this school and almost every graduate became a world leader in some way or another. Almost. The one blemish on this otherwise exemplary school was the three Lottery Classes.

Mariejois High was required by law to provide a scholarship class for each year. The Lottery Class consisted of the non-wealthy. They were selected by lottery and not by any entrance exams, as a way for the government to pretend that they were showing some sort of fairness to the ordinary citizens.

Of course, in each Lottery Class, the students did not show the same amount of effort and poise as the other students. In fact, it was widely perceived that the students in the Lottery Classes tainted the school's reputation. They constantly caused trouble both inside and outside of school, most of them would rather talk with their fists than their mouths, some of them were related to people with criminal records, and as a whole they lowered the average test scores of the school. Basically, they were taking away some of Mariejois High's glory and that is why the students of the Lottery Class were commonly referred to as Pirates while the other students, who came from influential families that paid the full tuition, were known as the Nobles.

There were a handful of students within the Lottery Class, who strived to work hard and better their status not just within the school but also in society. They volunteered to help keep the Pirates in line for the school and they formed a group called the Management of Academics and Reputation Indecency for Non-Elites, or the MARINEs for short.

The Lottery Class system was in place five years after Mariejois High was established, which was more than thirty years ago. During its first years of implementation, there was one student in the Lottery Class that became a student of legend. His name was Gol D. Roger and he managed to not only unite the three Lottery Classes but also become the President of the Student Council, winning over the entire student body and earning him the nickname as the "King of Pirates" by his second year.

However, due to unfortunate circumstances, Gol D. Roger was expelled before he could complete his third year. Ruining the briefly good impression that the Nobles had of the Pirates. Since then, the Pirates and the Nobles never came together again and his expulsion led to "the Great Pirate Era", where students of the Lottery Class attempted to follow in his footsteps. However, it had the opposite effect of uniting the school.

As time went on the legend of the "King of Pirates" became warped. The students forgot that Gol D. Roger was able to earn the respect from both student bodies and instead, they only focused on the fact that he was the leader of the Pirates. There developed an intense rivalry within the Lottery Classes, where the Pirates attempted to become the leader of the Lottery Classes by creating factions and fighting their way to the top. Due to the increase of violence within the pirate groups, it made the Nobles want to interact with them less and less.

Now a new school year has begun with a new batch of First Years. The glittering white doors under the impressive marble doorway has opened and Mariejois High awaits the new group of Pirates, Nobles, and MARINEs.

The school bell marks a new day. A new adventure. And maybe, even a new "King of Pirates".

Ikuzo!

A/N: Keep in mind, I fully intend on putting my two OC's in here (Mizu Nana from Steel Heart and Cogan Reia from Green Heart because I also want to create a universe where they exist together). Other character backstories will be made to fit in this AU but it won't be too different from their One Piece story.

So...what do you guys think? XD