Chapter 1 New Start
The sun rose on the horizon sending a beam of sunlight into a lone window, hitting the face of a 17-year-old girl by the name Isabella.
She scrunched up her face and turned, trying to get away from the sunlight.
The sun rose higher, sending more light into the room. She sighed knowing that it was time to get up.
She got out of her bed and went to the window. She sighed again.
"Another day, Another dollar,"
She turned from the window and headed towards the the hallway, Isabella opened the door across from the bed laid her twin sister, Ayame. She went and sat on her bed.
"Aya, wake up," she said shaking her on the shoulder.
Ayame made an irritated noise and rolled away from her sister.
"Come on Aya, you do this every day. Wake up," she said shaking her harder.
Ayame opens her eyes a little but she closed them again.
"Isabella, leave me alone," Ayame demanded.
"No, you need to get up. You already knew we had to work today. I don't know why you stayed up so late. If you don't get your ass up now I will pour water on you," Isabella promised.
Ayame groaned loudly. She got out of bed and headed towards the , Ayame stopped right in front of the door not moving an inch.
A confused expression formed on Isabella's face.
"Ayame, what's wrong?"
Ayame turned around and faced Isabella with a blank look on her face.
Suddenly, Ayame hit Isabella on the arm and nearly broke the door trying to escape.
"That damn girl," Isabella said rubbing her arm.
Timeskip
Isabella and Ayame were walking side by side down the street.
"Why exactly did you hit me?" Isabella asked.
"Because you woke me up," Ayame said like it was obvious.
"Aya, that's not a good enough reason," Isabella said slightly irritated.
"It is when you tired," Ayame said looking at Isabella sideways.
Isabella just shakes her head, not even caring anymore.
While walking, some of the towns people backed away from them. Others gave them dirty looks.
"Aya, don't pay attention to them," she whispered.
"How can I not? They look at us like we're demons even though we've done nothing to them. They think we killed our parents. How can two 8-year-olds do that?" Ayame asked rhetorically.
" I don't know Aya, but I do know that we have to ignore them until-"
"Until when Issy? When we die? We will never get a chance to leave this island," Ayame said unlocking the door to the bar they just arrived at.
"You never know, every day is a mystery," Isabella retorted.
On the ocean
A small dingy was moving on the ocean with two occupants. One with green hair the other wearing a straw hat.
"I'm starving," Strawhat complained.
"When the hell are we gonna reach land?" the green haired man questioned.
"Who knows. We're just going with wind and waves, after all… I wonder if we'll reach land. Nah, I'm sure we will, sometime," Strawhat said.
"Isn't it kind of weird that someone trying to be King of the Pirates doesn't even have any navigational skills?!" the green haired man questioned.
"It's not weird. I just drifted aren't you a bounty hunter of high seas?" he asked back.
" I have no memory of ever even calling myself a bounty hunter. I set onto the sea in search of a certain man….but then couldn't get back to my village. I had no choice, so I just went after pirate ships to earn a living," he answered.
"Oh, so you're lost," Straw hat concluded.
"Don't put it like that!" the green haired man complained.
He lifted his foot and slammed it down onto the boat swayed hard nearly tipping over. It sent the straw hat on straw hat's head to go flying.
They both looked up in surprise.
"Shanks," Strawhat said.
The hat started floating away slowly. They both got up and went after it. The green haired man caught it.
Strawhat spaced out holding the hat in his hands.
"Oie, you're going to lose it again if you keep spacing out. Isn't it important?" the green haired man asked.
" you, Zoro!" Strawhat said.
"Man, I'm hungry," Zoro proclaimed.
He looked off into the distance and noticed something.
"Is that an island?" he questioned.
Something flew past his face. He turned around seeing that it was the other man's arm.
"Luffy wa-"
They were sent flying towards the island. They landed near a dock, frightening everyone who was present.
"Let's see if we can find some meat," Luffy said getting out of the boat.
Zoro just shooked his head.
At the bar
The bar has been opened for a while now and only a few people were there. Ayame looked around and shook her head.
"Why are we the only two people that work here?" Ayame asked irritated.
"Because reasons I don't know," Isabella answered.
"I swear they don't pay us enough to do this crap," she said irritated.
"Well if someone didn't drink the alcohol we're supposed to sell maybe we would have more money," Isabella retorted.
"Pfft. Whatever. They were paying the same crappy amount we're getting now," she said.
"Actually, they were paying us a bit more when you weren't drinking their alcohol," Isabella said wiping the counter.
Ayame just shrugged and grabbed a bottle of cheap sake and threw it back. Isabella facepalmed.
The door to the bar was burst open.
"Two weird men are causing trouble at the farmers market. We're going to call the Marine's to deal with them," a man said.
As soon as he was done he left.
Isabella narrowed her eyes.
"I don't see why they can't deal with small things like this by themselves," she said.
"This is one of the reasons why there's a Navy base here," Ayame said agreeing with her.
The door to the bar was opened again. Two men walked in one with green hair and the other with a straw hat on.
"Hi welcome to the Rising Sun bar, what would you like?" Isabella said going into hostess mode.
"Do you have any meat?" the straw hat man asked drooling.
"Yes we do, let me go cook it for you," she said leaving.
His eyes brightened and he smiled really wide.
"How about you? What would you like," Ayame asked.
"Give me a bottle of sake," the green haired man said.
" I'm going to be honest with you, the sake here really isn't that good but it's the only thing we have here," she explained.
"It doesn't matter," he said.
Ayame grabbed a cup off the shelf and placed it on the counter. She grabbed a bottle of sake and began poring. Before a single drop could even touch the glass the door was burst open. It was the Marines.
The noise drew Isabella from the back.
"Huh," the straw hat man made a noise while looking at the Marines.
"I guess they found out we're pirates," he said nonchalantly.
"Nani?!" everyone yelled.
One of the marines, which seemed to be the captain, regained his composure.
"You two will be taken in immediately," he said.
Suddenly he was hit with a bottle and covered in alcohol.
"Excuse me but can you leave our customers alone?" Ayame asked annoyed.
A marine close to Ayame went to attack her. A hand shot out and grabbed his arm. He locked eyes with narrowed purple ones.
"Don't you dare touch my sister," Isabella demanded.
Luffy and Zoro looked at them in interest.
Isabella let go of his arm and went to go stand near Ayame.
"Because of your attack on two marine officers, you two are under arrest," a man, who seemed to be the leader, said.
"Oh please, like you would be able to touch us," Ayame said getting into a fighting stance. Isabella did so as well.
The twins were about to attack when all the marines suddenly fell to the floor. They turned to the right and saw that the two man had knocked them all out.
The green haired man had two swords out and the straw hat man was holding his right arm. He had a bright smile on his face.
"Join my crew," he said.
The twins eyes widened.
"N-nani?!" they said simultaneously
"Join my crew,' he repeated.
The looked at each other then back at the man.
"Y-yeah sure," Isabella answered.
"Great. Zoro we got two new crewmates," he said smiling.
Zoro nodded.
"We better go before more marines come," Isabella said.
"All right let's go," the two men started to walk away.
"Matte," Ayame called.
"We need to get some stuff from our house first," Isabella explained.
"We'll be at the docks," Luffy said.
Zoro and Luffy left the bar.
Ayame grabbed Isabella by the hand and took off running towards the shack they call a house.
"I can't believe we're going to finally be leaving here," Ayame said opening the door.
"I can't believe we're going to be pirates," Isabella said.
"What should I bring?" Ayame asked overwhelmed.
"Some clothes, shoes, and your weapon," Isabella said handing her a backpack.
Ayame nodded and went to her room.
Time Skip
The twins were running to the dock with backpacks on their backs. They saw no sign of either of them.
Isabella's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
'Where did they go?' Isabella thought.
"I wonder if they got lost?" Ayame questioned.
Isabella scanned the area again.
"Umm Issy, What's that?" Ayame asked pointing towards the water.
An object, going at an alarming speed, was heading towards them.
"I don't know Aya," Isabella answered.
"Well we better figure it out," Ayame said looking frightened as it came closer to them.
The object was close enough to them that they could identify it.
" Is that a hand?!" they said simultaneously.
The hand was right in front of them. It clasped onto Isabella's arm. Her eyes immediately widened. .
She turned to Ayame in surprise. Ayame immediately latched onto Isabella's other arm.
Suddenly the were pulled straight towards the ocean.
"AHHHHhhhhh," they screamed flying past people and boats. Then over the open sea.
"What the hell is happening?!" Ayame screamed.
"I have no idea but don't let go of me Ayame!" Isabella screamed back.
"I wasn't planning on it, sis!" Ayame screamed holding onto Isabella harder.
A dingy came closer and closer into view until they slammed into someone. Well.. Isabella did.
When they got closer to the dingy Ayame started to lose her grip and went flying into Zoro's lap.
"What the hell are you?!" they screamed simultaneously.
"I'm a rubber man," he said pulling on his cheek and making it stretch.
"That's pretty cool," Isabella said with a smile.
Luffy smiled cheekily.
"Can you do anything like that?" Ayame asked Zoro.
"I don't have any devil fruit powers," he replied.
"Devil f-,"
"We didn't introduce ourselves," Isabella said stunned.
"Oh, you didn't," Luffy said with a smile.
"Do you guys always have people you don't know join your crew?" Ayame asked Zoro.
"I haven't known him that long so I'm not sure, but I have a feeling he does," he said.
"So he's your only crewmate?" Ayame asked.
Zoro raised an eyebrow.
"He's the Captain," he replied.
"Nani?!" Ayame yelled.
She looked between Zoro and Luffy and just shook her head.
Isabella rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Anyway, I'm Isabella and this is my twin sister Ayame," Isabella said.
"Twin?" Zoro first looked at Ayame then Isabella.
"You don't look alike," he said.
"We're fraternal twins," Isabella said.
Isabella had caramel skin with vibrant purple hair and eyes. While Ayame was a few shades lighter than her and had blue hair and eyes.
"I'm Monkey D. Luffy," Luffy said gaining their attention.
"I'm going to be King of the Pirates," he proclaimed.
"I'm Roronoa Zoro. I'm going to be the greatest swordsman," Zoro said.
"Well you two have some interesting dreams," Ayame said.
"Yosh. What about you two?" Luffy asked.
Isabella and Ayame caught eyes for moment.
"I guess you can say we already completed our dream," Isabella explained.
"How so?" Zoro asked, interested.
"We al-"
" Let me tell them," Ayame said cutting Isabella off.
Isabella just shrugged her shoulders.
"The townspeople always treated us badly. So we always hoped we would be able to leave there and today we accomplished that," Ayame said.
Silence fell over the dingy.
"Grr," a growl sounded from on the dingy.
Luffy clutched his stomach.
"I'm so hungry," he said.
"Crap, I knew I forgot to pack something," Isabella said.
"Grr," another growl sounded next to Isabella.
Ayame was clutching her stomach as well.
"I really wish I ate breakfast," Ayame complained.
"Is that a bird?" Luffy questioned looking at that sky.
"Where, where," Ayame said frantically.
"Maybe we can catch it and cook it,"
"Gum-Gum no Rocket," Luffy said as he shot himself towards the bird.
"I see..," Zoro said as he left.
"Where is this bird gonna go and how are we gonna cook it on this dingy?"Isabella asked raising an eyebrow.
"Isabella, don't question the man getting food," Ayame said with stars in her eyes.
"Ugh," Luffy made a sound.
"Ahhhh! Help," Luffy screamed as he was carried away by the bird.
"Moron! What the hell are you doing?!" Zoro said grabbing the oars, rowing as fast as he can, trying to keep up with Luffy.
They haven't been moving for too long when they heard someone yell.
"Hey! Stop!You There!Stop!"
"Shipwrecked people at a time like this?!" Zoro questioned rhetorically.
"I can't stop! Jump in on your own!" He yelled.
Zoro was going super fast but they somehow manage to make it on the dingy.
Once on the boat, they drew their weapons.
"Hey stop the boat. We're members of Buggy the Clown-sama's crew!This boat is ours now" one of them explained.
"Huh?!" Zoro said giving them a deadly look.
Zoro beat the absolute crap out of them. They ended up rowing the dingy in the end.
"We had no idea you were the famous Pirate Hunter Zoro-san!" one of them said laughing.
"Wait, so you're a pirate hunter that became a pirate?" Ayame asked.
"Umhmm," he said in agreement.
"So the hunter is now that hunted?" She asked.
Zoro scoffed.
"As if anyone can catch me," he said.
Ayame gave him an interesting look.
Isabella raised an eyebrow. She looked from Zoro to Ayame.
Time Skip
They finally made it to the island where the men brought them.
As they landed, in the distance, an explosion went off.
"What's that explosion?" Zoro asked.
"One of Buggy-sama's beloved Buggy Ball!" one of the men said.
"Buggy Balls?!" Zoro questioned.
"That sounds so wrong," Ayame said.
"Yes, Aya, it does," Isabella said agreeing.
They began to make their way to where the explosion might have come from.
As they made it to the scene of the explosion they saw a man about to light a cannon, that is pointed at Luffy, get hit in the head by an orange haired woman.
"Talk about girl power," Isabella whispered.
Luffy started to shout. Apparently the canon still got lit.
"Keep your ridicule to a minimum, girl! Kill her flashily!" a man that looked like a clown said.
Five men jumped towards the woman. She went to attack with her staff but they jumped over it. She used her staff to block their weapons. She jumped out of the way and ran towards the canon. She grabbed onto the lite end of the canon and began to scream in pain. She held onto it until the light went out.
"Behind you!" Luffy yelled.
"Die flashily!" the men said lunging towards her.
"Hey now.. How many of you are taking on one girl at once?" Zoro questioned holding back the men with his sword's sheath.
Isabella and Ayame made their way over to the girl.
"Hey, are you okay?" Ayame asked.
"You hurt your hands really bad," Isabella said.
"Zoro! Isabella!Ayame!" Luffy yelled ecstatic.
"Hi, Captain," Ayame said.
"Hi, Luffy," Isabella said.
"You hurt?" Zoro asked.
The orange haired woman made a noise.
"Are you hurt?" he repeated after not receiving a response.
"N-no, I'm fine," the girl said.
"Whew, what a relief," Luffy said.
"Let me see your hands," Isabella demanded.
"I sa-"
"Let me see them," she said again.
The girl gave Isabella her hands. Isabella surveyed her hands.
"You don't have any serious burns but you should put something on your hands. Unfortunately, I don't have anything," Isabela said a bit upset.
Ayame gasped.
"Isabella, what are you doing?" Ayame asked in shock.
Isabella turned from her sister and looked at the hands she was holding. Surrounding her hands was a purple glow. They seemed to be healing the girl's hands.
"I have no idea how I'm doing this," she said.
"I always knew we healed fast but I never thought we could heal people," Ayame said.
"Me neither,"
Isabella released her hands once they were healed.
"Arigato," she said.
"Your welcome,"
"How'd you find us? Hurry and get me outta here!" Luffy said apparently not knowing what just transpired not too far from him.
"What do you keep playing around for? First some bird runs off with you, and now you're inside a cage?" Zoro rambled.
"It's pretty interesting actually," Luffy said.
"He does have a point, it is interesting," Isabella agreed.
Zoro began his stride towards the cage but stop when someone called him.
"So you're Zoro? What do you want? Are you here to take my head or something?" a man that looked like a clown said.
"Nope. Not interested. I gave up pirate-hunting.," he explained.
"Why would anyone want to capture a clown?" Ayame whispered.
Isabella elbowed her in the side.
"What? I'm serious," she whispered again.
"I'm interested, though. Killing you would increase my name," Buggy said.
Isabella and Ayame caught eyes and nodded. Ayame began to play with the bracelet on her wrist.
"I wouldn't try it. You'll die," Zoro retorted.
"Oh? That so?" Buggy said as he began to spin small swords in his hands.
"Guess words aren't enough for you…."
Buggy's men began to cheer him on.
"Aya, you help Zoro if need be. I'll try to set Luffy free," Isabella whispered.
Ayame nodded.
Isabella began to slowly reverse towards the cage Luffy was in without being seen.
Both Zoro and Buggy prepared to fight. Nobody really paid attention to Isabella.
Buggy ran towards Zoro, laughing hysterically.
"Die flashily," he said jumping towards Zoro.
'What is up with this crew and doing things 'flashily'?' Ayame thought.
Zoro thrust forward and cut Buggy into pieces. Everyone got quiet.
'Where's the blood?' Ayame thought.
'Something isn't right' Isabella thought as she continued to make her way to the cage.
Zoro sheathed his swords as Buggy fell to the ground.
"He had no resistance to him at all….," Zoro said.
"Whoa! He's weak," Luffy said drawing the attention to him and Isabella who finally made it to the cage.
"No way…" the orange haired woman said in disbelief.
Laughter could be heard from behind them. Buggy's men were laughing at something.
The Strawhats were looking around confused.
"What's with them?" Luffy asked.
"They know something we don't apparently," Ayame said damn near ripping her bracelet off her wrist.
"H-huh? Their captain's been killed… But they're laughing," the woman said confused.
"Hey! What's so damn funny?!" Zoro said angrily.
He suddenly gasped in pain. A sword was lodged in his side. He began to shake then he fell to his knees.
"Zoro!" Luffy screamed.
Ayame ripped her bracelet off her wrist. She held the broken thing in her hands. The bracelet began to transform. It turned into a sheathed sword. Her eyes were narrowed.
"What's that arm?" the woman questioned.
"What… the hell?!" Zoro said confused.
The sword in his side was pulled out. He turned to stare at the severed arm that had stabbed him.
"The Bare-Bare no mi.. That's the name of the Devil Fruit I ate! I'm a chop-chop person who can't be cut!" Buggy explained as he laughed mockingly.
Isabella's hands curled into a fist. Her eyes just as narrowed as her sisters.
"His body reattached itself! I thought the Devil Fruits were only a rumor!" Nami exclaimed.
"A chop-chop guy?! You mean he's a monster?!" Luffy said bewildered.
"Luffy you're made of rubber," Isabella said pointedly.
"So?" he asked.
Isabella facepalmed.
"I didn't hit vital points but that's a pretty serious wound! I win!" Buggy said arrogantly.
Buggy's men began to cheer again.
"I'll show you who won," Ayame thought.
Ayame placed her sword on her hip. She took off her backpack and moved some stuff around until she found what she was looking for.
Buggy was still receiving cheers from his men when he was hit in the face with a bottle.
"I don't think you should celebrate so soon," she said.
Buggy grits his teeth.
"That one hurt a bit…" Zoro said from the ground.
Buggy smirked. He loomed over Zoro with his swords in hand.
"Stabbing him from behind is unfair, Big Nose!" Luffy yelled upset.
It got deadly silent. Buggy's men looked completely stunned.
"I don't know why y'all look so surprised, it's true," Isabella said standing next to Luffy.
"Who's got a big nose?!" Buggy said launching one of his hands at Luffy
"Luffy!" Zoro yelled.
"Buggy! I will kick your ass!" Luffy said with a sword in his mouth which he proceeded to break.
Buggy and his men started laughing.
" Kick my ass? You're a real riot! All five of you are gonna die here, you know! How could I have my ass kicked in this situation?!" Buggy said then started laughing mockingly.
Isabella moved from the cage Luffy was in stopped beside Ayame.
"Oh? Are you two going to do something?" he asked mockingly.
Luffy started laughing like a maniac.
"I refuse to die! Run!Zoro! Isabella! Ayame!" he yelled.
"Nani?!" Zoro questioned.
"Wait! They came here to save you! What're you gonna do?!" Nami asked.
"If you really think we're going to leave without you, you have some faith in us," Isabella said.
"We didn't come here just to leave you behind in the end," Ayame said clutching the handle of her sword.
Luffy stared into Zoro's eyes conveying a plan.
Zoro smiled. "Understood,"
He glanced at Isabella and Ayame. They nodded in agreement.
"Impudent fool! As if I'd let you escape!" Buggy said attacking Zoro.
Zoro 'sliced' Buggy's stomach then jumped through him as he separated.
"Fool! Your Santoryu has no effect on-"
Zoro wasn't paying attention to him. He just kept running towards the cannon.
"Hey! Listen when people are talking!" Buggy complained.
Zoro went to the canon and began to flip it over. After a bit of struggling, he finally turned it over. Nami, Isabella, and Ayame ran behind the cannon towards Luffy.
Zoro fell to his knees yet again.
"Oh crap! The cannon's pointed this way," Buggy exclaimed.
"Hey! Light it!" Zoro said.
"Eh?!" Nami said.
"I don't know where the matches are," Ayame said annoyed.
"Wait,wait ,wait ! There's still a Special Buggy Ball in there," Buggy explained.
Nami had the matches and proceeded to lit the cannon.
"You lit it! Wait !No! Stop! Stop!" Buggy said frantically.
The cannon fired.