I'll Cheer You On!
Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to One Piece. If I ever did, I promise to improve the animation quality for it. This anime is all owned by Eiichiro Oda. All references that would be presented here are all owned by their respected creators.
The author notes: I'm a novice writer so do expect some mistakes from reading it. I made this and was inspired by other comedic types of style writing in other stories. From this, I decided to make my own.
Chapter 1: Burst into Action and I'll Cheer You On!
The Blue Sea is a vast, vast world filled with mystery and history. Mystery in how the world truly works with the culture of unique species such as the fish men and their life underwater to the giants of Elbaf with their sheer size and power. And the oh so famous devil fruits and their supernatural properties that vary in types that sacrifice their capabilities to swim in our blue seas for their power. Power in which can change the world to they will if they have the potential to do so. One of the four Yonko, Edward Newgate or Whitebeard and his Gura Gura no Mi to create earthquakes so fierce that they're said to be able to destroy the world if he so chooses. Portgas D. Ace and his Mera Mera no Mi to conjure flames within his body to incinerate hordes of ships with his famous "Fire Fist".
History of generations and generations of the constant battles of Marines that service The World Government in ensuring justice and law for the people and bring said justice to their natural enemies, pirates. Outlawed people who go against such laws for their own ambitions and laying waste to all who block their path. Men such as Waluigi I MEAN Gold D Roger, the now titled King of The Pirates, who found the legendary treasure that holds gold beyond riches that can make peasants into Kings to fame and power that ranked you to the top of the world. Such rebellious acts must be put down, and that's what they did. The Pirate King was "captured" and executed in Logue Town, his hometown, leaving a message that spread to millions of listeners that watched his fate.
"You want my treasure? You can have it! My fortune is yours for the taking… but you'll have to find it first. I left everything I own in one place!" Giving the watches a wide final smile.
And thus, the One Piece is announced for the birth of the New Pirate Era where many become said outlaws to find such treasure. But the Marines will bring justice to those who rebel against the World Government, such as the Revolutionaries. They desire to change for the seek of the people to be free from the shackles of the World Government. A government filled with a void of history that they do not ever want to reveal to the public, as the marines as their military and the Cipher Pol's espionage will make sure not a word is heard. Because if one gets a little nosy, death will be brought to those in that island. No one comes out alive with such knowledge and their existence will be permanently erased from history. That way no evidence of them can be shared so all is forgotten to bring peace back to its rightful. Quiet. Place.
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INTRODUCTION WITH FAMILIAR TRUMPET SOUNDTRACK!
Speaking of a quiet place, we begin our story on an island at East Blue (known as the weakest of the four seas). The island's name is Critter Island, an island which is a home to massive carnivorous creatures. The people in this island all lived in the jungles as the whole island itself is an entire jungle. They all used the huge tree's wide roots that reside in the jungle as foundations for their homes and build inside the trees as essentially advance tree houses. These trees were the perfect hiding spot from the beasts that lived with them while a great defence with their natural thick wood. But sometimes hiding is not an option, so the whole village swarm the beasts one by one and hunt these creatures with sheer numbers. Many lives were lost but the beasts were harvested for the hungry and weapons and tools for them, their sacrifices were not in vain.
One of these villagers residing in Thick Oak Village is a young man (more like a boy but let's not ruin his self-esteem). Orange sharp eyes with a dull brown long sleeve tunic with a black belt to fasten the waist to secure it, wearing light ragged trousers that possess a pale lime colour. The most interesting thing that stands out about him is his mohawk which has a natural dark orange colour as the mohawk reaches the back of his head with the front dripping a bit at the right. The man's name is Hakai.
And yes, he has no last name because A, he has no memory of any biological parents, so he doesn't know his last name. B, he wasn't really adopted but more like living on the island with everyone else, so no one gave him a surname, to begin with. And C, he believes having no last name makes you more mysterious and therefore cool, as he believes. But his the only one who thinks that really.
But he poses no threat and is welcomed by the village from birth with knowing essentially everyone in the community. Although they do mock his choice of a hairstyle, a topic that he is very sensitive to and will lash in anger for it. But he knows it's only just teasing, leading to a grumpy Hakai.
We see him just casually on top of one of the many thick branches near the centre of the village where he lives peacefully on his own. Sure, his not much of a "hardcore monster hunter" as he phrases it (much to the bewilderment of the villagers) but more like a typical farmer to survive and get by things. I mean, what else is they to do besides planting crops, getting food from said crops, hunting the beasts that live here and relaxing on branches like some blonde shinobi who has a fetish over ramen? It appears his eating a pile of fruits to pass the time.
The village elder, Tsubasa, is sort of a guardian of Hakai when he was but an infant (big head with stubby limbs) and later a stepmother to keep him company. But while the elderly woman took responsibly in counselling the entire small village and nurturing a child, it was more of a necessity than through love and care since it's not her kid to begin with. But that doesn't mean she's neglecting it or anything, far from it.
"You know, I actually never see much of this island besides the village. I mean, most of the place is beast territory so I doubt we adventure far without coming back with a lack of a spine. In fact, how the hell did we manage to survive here in the first place? You think our people would be like "Oh fuck that's a giant bear, better fuck off somewhere else to live then" instead of "Oh fuck that's a giant bear, let's kill it!"." He said, staring above the leaves to gaze at the clear blue sky while eating some lychee and spitting the seed out, "Moreover, why I am talking to myself!"
'It's because we need to know your character.' A whisper is heard.
"Thanks, a voice in my head that I'm just completely going to accept that I have and will not further question to save my sanity." He said with a smile.
"Don't you have any friends to talk to?" A new voice is heard, this one being calm and smooth but raspy from age.
"No, not really. I mean, do you see any angsty teens to listen to their exaggerated issues and discuss the stupid question of the meaning of life here?" He asked, looking over the branch to see the visitor.
"Good to see you're in high spirits Hakai." She said as she shakes her head in his odd antics.
"You're not bad yourself Elder Tsubasa," Hakai said
"I see your hair is still unkempt?" She said with a teasing smirk.
From this comment, Hakai eye twitched in anger, "I see the old hag of a midget still has some teeth left." He remarked with a growl.
"Why don't you say that to my "midget face" instead of on a branch like a hairless monkey?" She said back, her own face scrunched into frustration.
"How about you use those stubs you call legs and try to climb up here then?"
"I would if I wouldn't have to see your ass you call a face in its horrifying detail."
"Since you don't have a husband yet, why not use that cane of yours as a makeshift dildo for your dried sex life."
"At least this cane of mine is bigger than your worm."
"My dick is big enough to be a buffet for these bitches."
"Then I feel sorry for the animals here."
"You should polish that cave of yours, I think some crabs might be buried in your sand."
"Hakai. When I was in my prime, men would always gaze and admire my youthful beauty." Elder Tsubasa said, hovering a hand over her short old body to emphasise.
"I think you must have forgotten they were probably blind to foresee your wriggled ass. God, it must have felt like an ant hill in there." Hakai said, shivering in the thought.
"The reason why you can't seem to get some is that, unlike the rest of the men here, you lack any muscle to boot. You're literally, the embodiment of a beta male." She laughed a bit at the thought.
"Seems you still got some fire in those dull eyes of yours." He pointed at her, "What do you want anyway?"
"Well besides trying to boost your confidence to give yourself some thicker skin," She huffed her chest and laughs as Hakai climbed down from the tree and did a strong fist bump to a parry of slaps.
He slaps her hand, she slaps him in return and then a high five to finish it off. They always do that and Elder Tsubasa is the only few one who Hakai talks to casually and freely in their banter. His stomach growled a bit, leaving him to clutch his stomach over the sudden feeling.
"Ah, that lychee must have been rotten…" He quietly said to himself when he soon remembers the awful aftertaste it left.
"But seriously though what are you here for besides a quick visit?" Hakai questioned with a raised brow, putting his hands on his hips.
"I'm just coming here to warn you and the other villagers about recent events happening around the jungle lately." She said, her expression slowly becoming intense, "There have been reports of fresh claws marks and massive footprints of a beast nearby. It's even bigger than any of the usual ones we used to hunt down."
"Well, what's so bad about that? We always try to face of creatures that make an elephant look like an insect. What makes this so different?" Seeing no reason for the concerning woman.
For the reason why Critter Island is habituated to animals that are larger than the regular counterparts elsewhere is quite interesting. All the beasts resigning here didn't belong in the blue sea, rather from the sky. Legend has it that the origin of the island once lived above the clouds where no man can reach, and the people and animals are of a different kind. But a single section of the island was soon crumbled off from the edge and soared to the East Blue. Because of the unnatural events, it was not officially drawn yet on maps which made it difficult to find without a bit of luck and allowed the animals on the island to soon adapt to their new surroundings.
While all the beasts that lived in the sky have bodies acting similarly to balloons to allow them to float, giving them a larger surface area to help balance out their weight. Once they now lived in the blue sea, they slowly evolved to obtain a heavier build to help them remain on the ground. With this, they retain their large surface area and weight to a regular animal. All the animals soon adapted this trait to help survive against the other bigger beasts by growing larger to fight back on equal footing. It soon got to the point that even the insects in this island grew to the size of humans for some. Which is great for us since that means more food for us to live off.
I know from a person living in the East Blue would think that doesn't make any sense of the word. But I learned this from our Elder who has a lot of history behind and lived with her for my entire life, so I trusted her enough. Anybody else would think I just fucking smoked a joint up my ass to see if I can quickly get high enough doing it.
Elder Tsubasa once told us that our great long-lost ancestors born of wings lived with regular humans in harmony in the island, but because of this island remaining in the sea for so long that our wings slowly became shorter and smaller for our newer generations (since they slowly have no use when in the land and crossbreeding). But some of us wear wing like clothing as a tradition to them from our roots, hence why our chief wears a load of feathers. I was born without those wings myself while everyone else has flat small wings. But I didn't care about my birth defect since all of us can't even fly with them, not even glide which sucks.
"What's so bad about it is that we found several corpses of various beasts. Every single one of them all has the same claw marks on them, which means that a single creature killed them all. Luckily it wasn't around when we collected them for storage." Tsubasa said with a heavy sweatdrop.
"Even weirder is its traits. It has the paws of a feline…but the talons of a bird of some sort as it front legs. It even left some strange feathers that black stripes on them."
"So, what? A gryphon?"
Soon she grimaced in slight fear, "Precisely. Those descriptions are uncanny to the mystical beast that resign in this island. At first, I thought it just some mistake on behalf of the lack of information from the animal but it's true from what we got."
Hakai, however, seems wary of such a thing and expresses his disbelief, "You sure Elder it's not just your old age getting to you? How can such a legend be here out of nowhere?!"
"I don't know, and I don't care at this point Hakai. All I know is that there's a wild animal that's going rampant if we don't stop it. It's killing everything it sees and quite easily from the body count, so we better hunt it down before it starts to hunt the village." To which she turns and walks away back to the village.
"You're coming?" She asked
"Uh y-yeah" He reluctantly nods and runs to catch up with her since he might as well help any way he can.
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TO THE FUCKING MAIN VILLAGE!
With the two now arriving at Thick Oak Village, we soon see the entire hunting team (mostly every adult villager) gathered around the centre. The rest are the children held and hidden within their build in homes of trees with their parents that didn't participate in the hunt for the children's safety. Once they got in their line of sight, they waited for the two to come closer for the guidance of the Elder Tsubasa.
With the Chief now on the stage, she takes a breather to evaluate a plan in her head. Opening her eyes to view the entire adult hunters with Hakai at the far side since he needs to go into hiding where the others are.
"What's your commands Elder?" One of the adults asked.
"You wanted all of us to gather to the centre."
"Is there a horde coming to our village or something?"
"Pirates?"
"Funeral?"
"No, no none of that." She disregarded their guesses, "I called you all on an upcoming threat that awaits us deep in our island."
Soon a collection of gasps can be heard through the whole group as it's rare for the whole village to protect the village. Most of the beast are killed since many hunters go around the island to prevent it from going close to the village.
"I need all of your strengths together to fight this threat. It has easily killed off a few of our beasts and is still active. Be wary that this creature is like a beast, unlike anything we have seen so far. I want you all to kill it as quickly as possible before it discovers the village."
"Well, what is it Elder Tsubasa?"
"I'm pretty sure most of us can take care of a few beasts over the times living here."
"A gryphon." Was all she said.
…
"EH?! A G-GRIFFIN?" The entire village collectively said in shock but soon terror.
"You mean the legendary Griffin?!"
"The one with the body of a lion and the head of an eagle?!"
"The so-called "King of All Creatures"?!"
"Considered guardians of Gods for their treasures?!"
"YES, THAT GRIFFIN!" She shouted over the crowd in frustration, causing the commotion to quiet down.
"Although these are depicted in legend from these beasts, they're not immortal. They're just like any other beast that lives here, they carry flesh and blood. And these claims are just legends, not facts. We don't know the things far from our island and its mysterious of this island. This beast is like any other beast, only stronger and bigger than what we're used to seeing." She stated, causing the rest to slightly calm down over her logic.
"Y-yeah she's right."
"Elder Tsubasa is always right, that's why she's the Chief of Critter Island."
"I bet it can't even fly with supporting such a heavy build."
"You people are so overdramatic I swear…" She quietly to herself with a sweat drop.
"So, with that in mind, I have a plan. Our first task is to find the beast beforehand, that way it'll be distracted to attack us instead of wondering to here. Then we try to move it away far enough to not endanger our people. Afterwards, we gang up on the animal to overwhelm it through sheer numbers. We'll surround from the ground to the top of trees, so it couldn't hit many us at once. With the back row of archers to hit it's sensitive weak points, mainly the eyes and nose. If the thing can fly, shoot its wings before attacking just in case. Everyone got that?" To which, they all nodded recapping the plan in their heads.
"Okay good. You'll all be split into several groups to cover more ground to find the beast. And remember, it has the front legs of a bird and the back of a feline with wings. Once you find it, call in the others using the Den Den Mushi." She finished, holding one of her own.
"RIGHT!" The whole group said before separating into their own groups.
"Don't forget to have everyone there and don't engage it when you find it!" She shouted when the teams left deeper in the jungle of the island.
Soon enough, I arrived next to Elder Tsubasa which lead to her confusion.
"Hakai, what are you doing? Shouldn't you go into hiding as well?" She said as she prepares to help the rest of the hunters.
"Well, I was thinking that until I slowly start to realise something…" I said.
"That you been single for the last 17 years?" She said in a joking manner.
"Moving that aside." I said as I clutched my teeth over the fact, "I was thinking of helping the hunters in finding the beast on the island, maybe even help take part in fighting it?" Suggesting it.
"…Hakai." She said after a long pause." How dumb are you?"
"What day is it?" I answered back to my own question.
"Friday."
"Then suicidal dumb is what we're talking here," I said with a nervous smile.
"Hakai, you and I both know that you rarely hunt in the first place. You're just an ordinary farmer, plus you're not strong enough to frequently do it like the rest of the adults."
"And that's why I want to help. I don't want to live my life as single virgin pussy, I need to one day protect this village or even take charge one day. I might not be as muscular as the others, but I have other skills that might help."
"You're only going to get yourself killed, immediately. This is one of the few times you hunted an animal, this is something that you must stay back from. I know how you're feeling, being left out when you should take part. But this isn't something you can do right now."
"But I lived here my entire life Elder Tsubasa! You and everyone welcomed and took care of me when you first found me! And this is how I'm going to pay you?! By doing nothing?!" I shouted in frustration but also desperation over being shot down by the orders of my stepmother.
We soon held an intense staring contest, a prolong at that. While the Elder held her ground with a stern expression but thinks over my suggestion. I also held that expression but with some sweat in hoping this won't be me fucking up.
But thankfully (to the whatever deity watching my ass), she backed away with a heavy sigh. She turns around and walked away to gather her weapons in her shelter. I tried to walk towards her to get her confirm her answer when she suddenly tossed a Den Den Mushi.
"If you find it. tell us. Don't attack it and for the love of you know who, don't let it catch you. We'll do the hunting while you scout it. That's all you can do." She said before turning back.
"G-got it!" I said excitedly as I run away with a wave goodbye into my treehouse.
Once Tsubasa was sure he was fully gone with a return small wave, she got into her shelter. She opened her cabinet to get some freshly made arrows and a polished bow of smooth wood. Grabbing a quiver to help collect all of the arrows, she looked around her home. Looking closely, there are a few photographs of a young Hakai running with a stick as each photo shows him in different ages.
"God Feza. Why can't you take care of him instead of me? I'm not good with kids. And now one of them might die if I let him be to his devices." She sighs in despair, finally staring at the last photo of her home. It was her a photo when she was a bit younger with a baby Hakai and a man with similar clothes laughing with the infant. Next to it was a vision dial, with several scratches on it showing that it was used quite a lot.
Putting the quiver over her shoulders and securing it, she soon leaves the shelter as the bright light shines in the covers, "But you're not here to carry my problems. I kept him after all." Smirking a bit before leaving.
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Mission Task: Find a Gryphon that Might Kill Us All.
"Okay, so I just realised I have absolutely no idea how to find the gryphon in the first place," I said tiredly with slumped shoulders.
I soon realise my own predicament of hoping to find it but no such luck. You think discovering a huge distinctive animal in a small jungle island is easy, but maybe I'm being impatient with my mission. Besides, Elder Tsubasa said I'm just a scout so maybe this is a good thing that I didn't find it.
'Don't give up, you can do this. You just got to keep going without stopping.' A whisper is heard from me.
I chose to just listen but overall, ignore it as just a voice in my head or something. But oddly enough, that voice did put me in a better mood for some reason. With that, I continue searching my area at a quicker pace with no stopping.
Elsewhere, one of the teams of hunters scoured they area in circles to cover each other's backs to prevent any sneak attacks if the creature where you pounce on them. Each of them wielded their own specialised weapon of choice to hopefully make it difficult for the beast to attack them with their own styles.
"Alright, keep your eyes open for anything that moves. I don't care what it is, attack it without hesitation."
"But what if that will attract it to our location if sudden sounds are made?" One of them turned back to reply.
"Then we'll just quickly hide before it arrives. By the looks of things, it's probably far from us so the distance is enough to give us time to hide and call the others." Another answered for the second one.
But as they try to focus, something dropped from the sky. The object seemed to land roughly from the hard thud it made in the solid ground with a bit of blood. This alerted them to all pivot in response like a deer in the headlights. Their cautious was soon gone after realising no animal was going to pounce on them so they choose to investigate the dropped object.
Upon closer inspection it as they leaned down, it appears to be a bird bleeding. The avian appeared alive but only a little from the slight twitching of its talons moving back and forth. What's more worrying though is the huge gash in the shape of claw marks on it that are painted crimson. Its eyes are blank white from shock with the lack of sound coming out to signal the severe pain.
Taking pity on the bird (which is the size of a turkey), the group closed their eyes in a silent prayer before taking out a carved knife and stabbed it. After the quick death, they start to wander around to find any clues on what exactly happened to the bird.
"From how deep the cut was with the mark, it possessed some sharp claws. These claw marks suggest it's from a bird of some kind." One of said overlooking the now dead creature by holding it closer to inspect.
"But claws those huge can't come from a simple raptor, probably from the pantherine family. Not much have these distinct marks and bigger enough to cause this much damage." Another pointed out.
"But something like this is very unlikely in how they couldn't react fast enough to get a direct hit."
"Because the damn thing flew to killed it!" One shouted which made the rest go on high alert upon realising their mistake.
"That gryphon is nearby!"
"Since the bird just landed a few moments ago, I wouldn't think it had a long journey when it got hit."
"Same, it's definitely near." Looking left and right for any sudden movements within the jungle, to which they grab their Den Den Mushi, "All hunter units! We found the gryphon and it's close to our area! "
"Where are you right now?" Elder Tsubasa said
"We're at-"But was soon cut short from another response next to him.
"Look up to the sky!" Shouting while pointing to the sky.
Obeying from the distress of the voice, they all directed their heads towards the sky. What they now saw was a massive shadow blocking the sunlight as it soon dived with its raised front talons. Swiping down it accelerated speed backed up, the group were airstrike without warning.
All that was heard was a loud cry of help and panic. In addition, followed up were screams of pure agony as a splash of blood painted the scenery. Other creatures that were there fled in response to the sign of danger.
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CLICHE LOUD SCREAMING TO SIGNAL DANGER AND SAVE ANIMATION BY PANNING OUT!
Out of instinct, I widen my eyes in a slight tension of something as I look at my surroundings. The sound was faint but was clearly there. Seeing nothing off, I shrugged as I just kept walking at a modern pace seeing no danger yet to.
'Keep going…quickly. The beasts are agility when they're hunting. You can make it in time, keep going.' Said the same voice again, only a bit louder that it's a soft tone.
At first to Hakai, this voice is just an imagination, now it's starting to creep him out how it's directing at him. But what's even odder is that the voice is slowly becoming louder the more it talks to him as he can't help but listen to it. Without thinking, Hakai starts to get into a steady pace to a jog into a full sprint. The sudden action caused him to pause but the voice again spoke to him.
'Don't stop! They need you! Just a few more minutes, you can do this! I believe in you!' Once again, the voice provoked.
Hearing this, he shakes his head and just continues his sprint without any intention to stop for some reason. Running this much can take a toll on your stamina but can provide you to get to close distances in a short amount of time. He should be taking a breather from the pounding heart desperately transferring oxygen on the bastard, but he feels the excitement as chooses to ignore it altogether.
"I don't know why the hell I'm listening to these voices in my head. Elder Tsubasa is right about my lack of company but fucking hell this sprinting is pumping me up! I feel like doing a God damn marathon with this stamina on me,wooooo!" Said Hakai, seeming to follow the faint sounds of screaming coming in closer, with the smell of blood invading his nostrils.
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Meanwhile
"Elder Tsubasa! We must hurry and find the others!" One group of hunters called through the Den Den Mushi, the snail expressing dire attention with a cold sweat.
"I have the rest of the men with me, you all heard the faint screams and the flocking of birds. Just go straight ahead of us and don't provoke the damn thing unless hate having limbs!" She shouted over as the groups behind her call to the aid in the pursuit.
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Back with our main shithead
With the jungle around him now looking like women's early moon cycle, we find Hakai using the stains as pathways to the direct source. The shorter the distance, the harsher and awful area seems to be. Now he's worried about that if the voice made him more driven to just continue without any distractions.
'Forget about the smell and blood! That's only going to waste more precious time, you're almost there, don't stop now.'
Hearing this, Hakai decided to just use all his remaining stamina to fasten his current running speed. The adrenaline is starting to pump him up to ignore any warnings his body demands to recover as he begins to see blurs around him except his front view where even more blood is presented to him (wonderful). To add in the gore, there's a mass of dead animals surrounding him which explains the extra paint job on the jungle.
'I guess it killed more than we excepted.' I thought over.
But as he stops his running and nearly crashed into a tree to use as cover, his entire body is drained from exhaustion. Slowly, he realises how much running he did and was rather impressed with himself that he made such a short distance in a matter of minutes. Never had he known to be quite the runner. But, that thought aside, he looks over the thick tree to see any possible threats. Sweat clearly over him.
What he saw, was rather surprising and extremely weird.
Within his line of sight, there was a dove, a rather large one at that. Its size was no laughing matter as it matches with other notorious beasts in this island from sheer mass alone. By Hakai's estimates, it can serve up to about…50 dinners for each villager's home alone. Now I know that's a strange way to determine an animal's mass but considering living with a bunch of hunters, they can get you to think like them a bit.
The dove was rather exotic design-wise with the way its feathers display similar aesthetic style of a tiger. Dull orange with prominent black stripes laced around it from the head to the very thighs, as some dirty white is shown to represent the bottom stomach area. The eyes it possesses resemblances ones of the animal, only with the pupil more enlarge that all birds have with an even larger eye. It appears to be twitching its head idly with the causal chirp. Overall, it's a just a large orange bird doing what birds do in a regular basis.
That is until I looked down on what it is stepping on with its heavy talons.
Underneath them, however, were the other hunters that happen to call for finding the gryphon until it was cut off with the sound of flapping wings. Some of them are bleeding with minor bruises from cuts, while one is severely injured with a massive flesh wound on his back exposing the inside. Thankfully the blood covers most of the insides so I couldn't look at them, with it slightly discolouring in to show the wound is clumped with the blood. The men seem to be knocked unconscious from shock since they appear to be a lack of movement on their part.
Luckily or unluckily, the pressure from the bird's weight seems to help any further blood loss by pressing onto them.
"Okay, I got to call Elder Tsubasa about this," I said quietly before I hear some rustling.
As I look over my shoulder, a dragonfly flew above us leaving a pile of leaves behind. Keep in mind this thing was the size of a house cat, as it casually flees away with its speed and unaware of the slaughterhouse. This insect soon alerted the dove when it twitched its neck the moment it took off and took immediate action.
And by action, it just did a fucking metamorphosis. Its beak soon grew sharp molars to then a develop stretched snout. The wings of it were forcefully pulled outwards as it soon grew forearms with claws of fur. Letting out a feral roar, it leapt towards the four-winged critter and swiped it clean off its course.
The bloody thing was sent straight into a liquid mess right next to where I'm hiding. It was still alive, twitching its multitude of legs as the life of it was taken away with a simple wave of a clawed paw.
Once the dragonfly was gone of its sight, it shifted back its previous from a large dove. Landing down softly using its wings as it pecks the ground.
Now during the transformation, it looked stupid. Like tremendously stupid. Imagine a mountain size tiger wearing a bird costume because the buyer thought it would "looked cute" but just made it looked miserable when it couldn't fit. But when said stupid looking bird cat just killed an insect the moment it made the rustling with one simple wave, it should probably be wary.
'Okay, so the feathered feline has very keen senses. And kills any on sight. That explains all the dead animals in the island recently.' I thought as the creature calmly chirps.
Getting out my Den Den Mushi in hesitation well seeing if the strange beast would react. Seeing it just stretching its neck, I just focus on the snail on my palm to help Tsubasa and the rest found my location easily.
'Don't call them.'
"What?" I questioned the voice.
'They don't know that it can detect sudden sounds. Calling them will alert it to attack us. Don't call them.' The voice said worriedly.
"But I have to call them," I said a bit too loudly that the dove stopped looking at its wing and looks over my cover in curiosity with its head tilted. Hearing nothing after I gripped my mouth at my stupidity, it thought nothing and chirped.
"But I have to call them. Otherwise, these people are going to slowly die out here when I'm the only thing that can save them. Tsubasa and her group might take a bit longer getting here. I don't even think they can kill it without manger casualties." I whispered.
'That's why you're going to fight it.' It said.
"…I'm sorry…what?"
'Waiting for something to happen to is hopeless when the time to act is now! So, go and beat down that birdbrain! You can do it! I believe in you 100%, you're the strongest person I know.' The voice said clearly as sweat soon pours from my forehead.
'ARE YOU CRAZY?! I can't fight that beast, not even run from it! You saw what it did to the dragonfly and monster hunters. Imagine that clawing me. I'll surely die with one swipe! Elder Tsubasa assigned me to be a scout for her. I know I wanted to take part and fight, but I overly underestimated the situation. This is can potentially kill everyone on this island! The corpses of animals were clear proof of its power.' I screamed in my head as I start stressing over out south this hunt went.
'THAT'S WHY YOU NEED TO FIGHT IT! You know that everyone will get slaughter when that dove notices them the moment they step foot. You're the only one who can save them all if you decide to take it on. You'll win for sure because I have absolute faith in and you should as well. You lived with hunters remember?'
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'You're right.' All the build up stress slowly going away like a gust of wind. 'I have to do this. If I somehow defeat it. A chance that I'll make it out alive. Everyone won't get hurt over my chose of backing away. No more deaths. No more blood.'
Suddenly, a small smiling figure appears on my back as it soon climbs over to look at me. The thing seems to be ethereal of a bright light with a lack of features on it face. The only it has is just a wide permanent smile with blank hollow eyes of black. The head appears to be large over its lanky body, almost skeletal with a clear rib cage showing.
'YOU DID IT! You finally activated your true power and listened to me!' The voice (now with a body) said as clear as day than ever before.
Okay, I was joking about smoking a joint in my ass, but I'm starting to rethink that might have happened at one point. Never to drugs kids, that shit can mess you up big time in the long run.
'What the hell are you talking about?!' I thought in worry as the thing starts jumping on my shoulder like a manic.
'I was trying to contact you, but the signal was weak. But then you started listening and began talking back which give me an easier entrance to talk to you clearly. Soon enough, I was awakened to help you Hakai!' It started to do a little wavy dance over this.
'What are you? Am I high after all?' Trying to not believe that the joint joke was the conclusion.
'I don't have a name, but I know what I am! I'm your devil fruit, the CHEER CHEER NO MI! You found me when you ate that lychee a while ago.'
'So, it wasn't rotten? It just tasted like shit?'
'This devil fruit will cheer you on until the ends of time. So, go out there a be the hero of this village! You have the drive to do so! That's the power of my cheering!'
After my pep talk, I just stood straight up with no course of fear running my veins. Only determination. Taking a wide step over my tree cover as I just run closer to the dove who twisted its neck to my sudden approach.
"Alright, Garfield! I hope you eat enough today. BECAUSE YOUR ASS IS GOING TO FEED OUR PEOPLE!" I screamed out as I stood my stand staring dead straight at that blank-eyed pussycat.
Hello!
This is my first attempt at a One Piece fanfiction, hope you like it! Also, this is to freshen up new ideas I had in mind while during my break to help keep my mind active.
Be sure to review or PM me and make comments on it to help improve and further develop it more smoothly. This "original" devil fruit was mostly inspired by the stand Hey Ya! from Steel Ball Run and it was only briefly shown a few times due to its lack of capability besides cheering. So I wanted to create a devil fruit that utilises such a unique but simple ability. This story is still improving and the comedy may be faulty at times.
Any feedback is appreciated and feel free to message any questions or concerns.
But be sure to look forward to our next adventure that our dumb suicidal character will follow.
This is ItsJustHarry signing out