One Piece
Ok so I decided to scrap my old one piece story and start from the basics I hope that you guys enjoy this one much more.
Derick, Yucatan
"Is anyone else hungry?" I asked leaning against the your bus seat.
Alistair rolled his eyes and tried opening the locked window. I looked around at the others on the bus. Anna was leaning against the window headphones in her ears seemingly asleep. Mike was writing down something in his notebook. Andrew was playing a game on his phone and Kevyn was lounging around and asking the tour guide questions.
"Doesn't anyone have something to eat?" I asked.
"You should have eaten back at the hotel. Got it!" Al said as he popped the window open and a rush of somewhat cooler air swept into the overheated bus.
We were in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico on a field trip from our high school. We were on our way to seeing some Mayan ruins but the bus was way to hot.
"But I'm still hungry!" I complained to Al.
"Shut up and enjoy the cool air." He said stretching in the seat.
"Just to let you all know, we will be arriving at the ruins in a few minutes." The tour guide said from the front of the bus.
Everyone acknowledged him and he sat back down and ground his teeth as Kevyn started asking him questions again.
We disembarked the bus and the guide led us into the pyramid. It was cool and I managed to catch one of the iguanas that were laying on the steps.
"Hey guys look I have a lizard." I said holding up the three foot long reptile.
"Hey lizards are edible. Eat that." Al said with a smirk.
"I couldn't eat this. It's a living thing." I said horrified.
"So were those three hamburgers you ate last night." Anna said.
I put the iguana down and it scurried around to another edge of the pyramid. I ran up the steps to catch up with the others and I met them just before they entered the interior.
"Now I have to ask you all not to touch anything within the temple. We try to preserve these ruins." The guide said.
He led us into the dark temple with a lantern and we followed looking at the walls as we went.
"Hey guys look at this one. It looks like the iguana god!" I laughed pointing at a blue green lizard drawing above stick figure people.
They laughed and Kevyn patted me on the back which caused me to lose my balance and tumble into the wall which gave way pretty easily.
I fell through into dark room and I sat up quickly.
"Hey get me some light in here!" I said.
The guide shined his lantern through the hole and Andrew tossed me a flashlight. I turned it on and looked around at the walls.
"Hey these pictures look different!" I said.
The pictures on these walls all showed cannons, ships and guns. I swear that one of the ships had a Jolly Roger.
"These look way different than the wall art everywhere else in the temple." The guide said as he led the others into the new room.
"They kind of look strange don't they? I mean look at some of the people in here. There's no way a person could have a mustache like this back then." Mike said pointing to a guy on an executioners platform.
The guy had a big mustache that slanted down at first then looped back after almost a foot from his face.
"Can I trust all of you not to damage this room while I report this?" The guide asked.
"Yeah. I wanna look at these." Kevyn said.
He left almost sprinting towards the exit and the five of us walked around the room looking at the pictures.
"Hey guys I found some writing!" Andrew said waving us over.
He was in front of a picture of an island with the words "Raftel" and "One Piece" around it.
"Hey there's another picture back here." I said dusting off another island picture.
This one had a handprint above it so I placed my hand against it and a bright light appeared. The island picture glowed and then everything turned black.
Derick, Jalica, New World
I woke up to bright warm sun on my face. I opened my eyes and saw palm trees waving in a light breeze. I sat up and looked around. Kevyn, Anna, Andrew, Mike and Alistair were all laying on the ground near me.
"Hey guys! Wake up!" I yelled shaking my head to try and wake up.
No one moved but I could see that they were breathing so I lay back down as I remembered what happened.
I put my hand on a rock and then we all passed out. That was all I remembered about how we got here.
I looked around and saw temple peaking over the trees and some smoke coming from somewhere else but that was it.
"Ugh... What happened?" Al said as he woke up.
"I'll tell you once I know. You okay?" I asked.
"Yeah. Kind of thirsty but otherwise I'm fine." He said.
"I'm gonna go look at that temple and figure out where we are." I said getting to my feet.
"Fine but be back soon or we're coming after you." He said.
"Sure." I said walking towards the temple.
It wasn't that far so it only took me about five minutes to get there. I immediately noticed that it wasn't the same temple from Mexico. This one had green and blue paint and it was a bit shorter.
I walked up to the top and looked out to see what I could see.
The smoke I had seen earlier was rising from a small village next to the ocean. Wait, ocean? I looked again and sure enough it was the ocean. In fact the ocean was in every direction.
"So we aren't in Mexico anymore." I said looking out over the island.
"Well I should probably get back." I said to myself as I walked down the steps and back to the others.
Everyone was awake now and they were sitting in a small circle.
"So you know where we are?" Al asked.
"Kind of. We aren't in Mexico. We're on an island somewhere. There's a village over there and we need to go check it out." I said.
"Why?" Andrew asked.
"Because someone is bound to know where we are. Now let's go." I told him as I started walking.
They all got up and followed me in the direction of the village and we arrived in about half an hour. It was a good sized little town. There was a market street with houses behind little stalls and a bunch of docks at the one end of town.
"You bunch there! Stop." Someone yelled at us.
A man came up wearing a Hawaiian shirt and shorts.
"Are you lot pirates?" He asked.
"No. Can you tell us where we are?" I asked.
"You're on Jalica, mon. Home of the Jalica swordfish." He said.
"Okay... Can we get something to eat?" I asked.
"Sure mon. Near the end of the street there is old man Jens. He takes all kinds of money and sells food." The man said.
"Okay thanks." I said as he walked back to his own stall.
We followed his directions and found the old mans stall at the end of town. He had plenty of strange fruits that's for sure. I saw a bunch I had never heard of before but the one that caught my eye was a red banana with a strange pattern on it.
"Hello. How much for the fruit?" I asked pointing.
"100 cent or 50 Beri's. But it's free if you eat it right here and now." The old man said.
"Awesome." I said as he handed it to me.
I peeled it and after one bite I found that it tasted horrible. I finished it but noticed him looking at me like I was completely insane.
A minute later I felt sick and doubled over. I coughed a few times and coughed up a glob of white glowing liquid. I kept coughing up the liquid when I noticed that it burned a hole into the ground.
"Old man! What was that!?" Al demanded.
"That was a devil fruit! You'd have to be crazy or stupid to eat one!" He yelled.
"What's a devil fruit? I've never heard of it!" Al yelled back.
"How can you not have heard of them?! Where are you from?!" The old man asked seriously.
"We're From the United States!" Kevyn said.
"What? You're from there? Oh I thought I was never going to meet anyone like me!" The old man said happily.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I'm from California. Let me guess you got here after finding a secret room in a Mayan temple?" The old man asked.
"Yeah. How did you know?" Anna asked suspiciously as Andrew and Mike helped me to my feet.
"The same thing happened to me. Out of curiosity, what year is it?" He asked.
"2012. Why?" Alistair asked.
"I was sent here twenty years ago in this world's time. But I was sent here in 1967." He said.
"Ok enough chit chat. What's this fruit doing that's causing me to cough up napalm?" I asked.
"Umm... Come inside we need to talk." He said leading us into his small house.
Once we were inside he sat us down in a circle and looked at us.
"Here is what I know of this place. It is a separate world from the one we know. Most of the world is ocean with a scattering of islands that are surrounded by two lines known as calm belts. The middle of these is known as the grand line..." He said.
He told us about the pirate era, the grand line, Gol D. Roger, Whitebeard. He told us everything he could except about the devil fruits.
"All right here's what I know about devil fruits. They take away your ability to swim but they also give you very strange powers." He said.
He told us about the classes, Zoan Logia and Paramecia.
"So what about the one I ate?" I asked as I rubbed my teeth which hurt really bad.
"Well let's think about this. You're coughing up liquid fire, your teeth have become razor sharp and now your eyes are changing." He said.
"What do you mean about my teeth and eyes?" I asked.
"Um Derick? He's right. Your Teeth are like razors and you have slits for pupils." Al said looking at my face.
"So what? What does it mean?!" I asked.
"At a guess I would have to say that you ate the Dragon-Dragon Zoan type fruit." The old man said.
"Dragon? Are you saying that I'm going to turn into a monster?" I asked scared.
"No! You can control most of the aspects of change. But some things like your eyes and teeth are permanent." He said.
"So what do we do? Sit on this island and wait to die?" I asked trying to ignore this startling revelation.
"I did that because I had no other option. You on the other hand could become pirates or join the navy." He said.
"I vote pirates!" I said.
"Why?" Anna asked.
"Because the Navy sound like incompetent jerks who take credit for things they didn't do." I said.
"That's true. I vote pirates to." Al and Kevyn said as they both raised their hands.
"Well who's going to keep you three out of trouble? I vote pirates." Anna said.
"Well. If you're going to be pirates then you're going to need to be strong." The old man said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"The people of this world are monsters when it comes to power. The Straw hat pirates I told you about? Their cook can kick a battleship out of the water." The old guy said digging through a box in the corner.
"A ship? He can kick it?" Al asked.
"Yes. And the captain can take down fifty thousand opponents in an instant if you believe the paper that Shanks sends us." He said pulling out a sword.
"Have any of you ever used a sword before?" He asked holding the blade.
"I took some Kendo lessons. Never really got into it though." Kevyn said.
"Here take this sword and draw it." The old guy said.
Kevyn drew the sword and I thought I saw a grin as he saw the blade. The blade was back with a silver edge.
"This is Shodai Kitetsu. One of the ten greatest swords in this world. It's also cursed." The old man said.
"Cursed?" Mike asked looking at the blade.
"If the sword does not like its master then they will die a painful horrible death. If you haven't been hurt yet then it may like you." He said.
"How did you get this?" Kevyn asked.
"It was in an unmanned lifeboat that was stained with blood." The old man said.
"I'll keep it. Curse or no it would be a shame to throw away a perfectly good sword." Kevyn said.
"Good. I have a regular sword as well and I have learned to defend myself from pirate raids well enough I could teach you a small bit of sword play." He said.
"What about the rest of us?" Anna asked.
"You'll have to train yourselves. I'm sure that the villagers would be more than willing to help you." He said.
"Fine..." She said.
"For now I think it's time to turn in." The old man said looking outside to where the sun was setting.