This is the first real chapter and we meet the main character. And I still need oc's for all the crew except the First Mate. Anyway, enjoy.

Chapter 1: Bright Day. A New Adventure Begins.

The sun was high in the sky over the waters of the South Blue, with many seagulls flying over the calm waters while Sea Kings moved around underneath the surface. As the calm waters moved around with out trouble, a merchant ship sailed through the waters as they were on a journey to get to their destination to sell their goods.

"Keep the sails up, the wind is fine." the captain of the ship yelled out to his men as he looked up at the mast and watched his men salute to him as they tightened the ropes, but they ship jolted as they all staggered a little as the captain yelled, "What we hit?"

"Not sure sir." of the hands yelled back as he ran over to the right side of the ship and looked down, gasping instantly as he looked at it for a few moments before he turned back to the captain and yelled, "Sir, you should see this." The captain quickly made his way to the side of the ship and looked down, seeing a small dingy just floating in the middle of the ocean and what looked like a barrel of something along with what seamed to be a tarp.

"Lower a rope and get it up here, might have some one in need of help." he said to the hand, who nodded and agreed as they all began to work on getting a rope and then they lowered the hand who had spotted it down to secure the dingy. He stepped on the seat when he reached the boat and lean down to tire the rope to it, but the tarp began to move and captain, seeing it, called out, "Boy, get up here." The hand looked up confused until he saw the tarp move and he nearly jumped out of the boat when the tarp was thrown away from what ever was under it.

"'YAWN' Man, that was a great nap." a young man said as he sat up from the floor of the dingy and rubbed his eyes much to the shocked stares he got from all of the merchants. He had bright, spikey red hair, green eyes, a slightly muscular build, and was wearing a red t-shirt, blue jeans, and boots. As the young man finally had his eyes wide open and it was then that he sat the man in his boat. "Hey, who are you and why are you on my ship?" he asked as he looked at the man with a curies face.

"Me, what are you doing taking a nap under that tarp in the middle of the ocean?" the hand asked him as the kid looked at him a little longer before turning to look at the tarp he had thrown off of himself earlier.

"Where the hell did this come from?" he asked as he picked it up and looked at it.

"WOW, WHAT AN IDIOT!" the whole ship yelled out at once as the captain was stuck staring at the kid for a few seconds before cleaning his throat.

"Say kid." he said as he looked down to the young man, who looked back up to him and so he continued, "What's your name and do you need any help?"

"My Name?" the kid asked before smiling and standing up on the dingy as he finished what he was saying, "I'm Knight D. Raven and ummmm, yeah." He said as he sat back down on the boat and began to give them a funny look as they all began to get worried.

"What's the matter?" the hand asked as he leaned over and tried to see if he could do anything for the young kid.

"I'm starving, you know where there's good food?" he asked as the crew were all shocked as they looked at him for a few moments while the captain rubbed his temples in frustration.

"There's an island just ten minutes that way." he said as Raven turned to were he was pointing and smiled as he saw the island the man was speaking of.

"Thank a lot." Raven asked as he waved at the captain and half heartedly waved back at him while the hand was pulled back up from the dingy, and then Raven took out a pair of ores and began to row towards the island as the merchants when on their way.

After ten minutes of rowing, Raven tired his boat to the dock and began to walk into the small village with a big smile on his face. He walked on and looked at all the goods the sellers were selling, and others were buying stuff. Raven continued down the main street smiling as he looked for a place to get some food, and it was then that he saw a tavern that said sold food too.

"Oh, goody." he yelled with a smile on his face as he ran over to the tavern and walked right in, seeing that it was mostly empty except for a few drinking at a table and a figure drinking at the bar. He smiled as he walked over to one of the vacant tables and sat down as a wrench walked over to him.

"What can I get you?" she asked him with a sweet smile on her face as he looked at her and smiled back to her with a wider smile then before.

"Meat, a lot of it please." he said smiling at her as she looked at him shocked for a few moment before she wrote down his order.

"I'll get it to the cook right away." she said as she walked out of the room and headed back into the kitchen to deliver the order. As she did, he sat at the table with a smile on his face as a little kid looked at him from around the front door and grinned as he slowly walked towards the relaxing Raven. He was all smiles as he walked over to him and gently brushed against him.

"Whoops, sorry mister." the kid said as he walked on from Raven, who waved the kid off while the kid turned back to look at Raven, but this time he had a grin on his face as he slipped out of sight and chuckled slightly. "Sucker, now let's see what he has on..." the kid started as he opened the bag he took from Raven and then cut himself off when he found it was nearly empty.

"What have you done?" a voice asked from behind him and he yelled out of shock, tossing the bag up. Which was caught from the wrench who was looking down at him with a cowl on her face as she said, "Why did you steal from that man."

"You know why I did it, he raised it now to 20,000,000.00" he said with a sad tone as the woman looked at him as her face turned soft and she knelt down in front of him.

"Don't worry, you'll see her soon." she said smiling as she put her hand on his shoulder and continued to talk calmly to him, "But stealing it wrong, you need to do what's right and give it back."

"Yeah alright." he said with a frown as she got up and took his hand as they went back to Raven, who was still sitting at the table waiting for his mean. The boy looked up at him for a few seconds before taking a deep breath and said, "Mister, I'm sorry."

"About what?" Raven asked as he looked at the kid confused as he wasn't sure what the was apologizing for.

"I-I took this." he said as he reached behind him and showed Raven his bag of money, who gasped and looked at his pocket only to quickly finding it was gone. The kid closed his eyes and waited for the scalding he was about to get as he pleaded, "Don't be mad Mister, please don't be mad."

"Whoa, nice work." Raven said out of no where and the kid opened his eyes as he looked at Raven, who was smiling and offering a piece of gold, "Here, you must have worked hard in practicing that." The two were shocked as the kid reached for it and took the piece as the woman was just staring at him.

"W-why did you give me this?" the kid asked as Raven put the bag on the table as he Raven looked straight a head.

"Only a real man will do anything he believes in and try until he's that good at it." Raven said as he turned back to the kid and looked at him with a smile on his face before he added, "And that's why you get a reward for all your hard work."

"A man?" he repeated what Raven said as he looked at the coin in his hand and closed his eyes as he let out a loud sigh. Suddenly, a loud scream could be heard from outside and breaking of things.

"Oh, no. Their back." the woman said in a scared tone as the kid closed opened his eyes, and glared at the door before putting the money back on the table and ran out of the building, much to the woman's dismay.

Outside the residents were running or hiding as a band of ten men were knocking stands over, and laughing as the leader walked in front of them. He was really tall, and round with then arms and legs as he had brown eyes, bald, and a thick beard on his face as he was wearing a black long sleeve shirt, brown overalls, and black boots with a large sword on his back.

"You know what boys?" he asked his men with a grin on his face and they asked him what, and so he answered, "I'm tired of having no money in my pockets and wanted to get me some right now." They all cheered and continued to break things when the kid ran out.

"Hey Ilk, you fat bastard." the yelled at the top of his lungs and the band of men stopped as the leader, Ilk, slowly turned around to look at the kid.

"What did you just say to me, brat?" he asked as he slowly began to walk towards the kid, who was shaking and looked up at the towering man in front of him.

"Y-you heard me. B-Bastard." he yelled out as he looked up at him with sweat running down his face and clinched his fists as he said, "I-I'm a man a-and I won't pay to a-allow me to go home." This statement made Ilk and his men look at him for a few seconds before they began to laugh.

"Your a man? Yeah right." Ilk said as he pulled his long leg back and kicked the kid hard, sending him skidding a few feet while also knocking the wind out of him. "A man knows his place and it's here." Ilk walked over to the kid and pressed his boot to his neck, choking him as he laughed out loud while mocking the kid, "What a man, you know what kid? I'll take you home and show your mommy what a really man is right in front of..." Ilk was suddenly cut off by Raven kicking his foot from under him and tossing him to the side.

"What the hell?" one of his men asked in shock as they watched Raven kneel down and pick the kid up before carrying him to the woman in the tavern.

"Take care of him while I handle these guy would ya?" he asked her and she blinked at him for a few seconds before nodding, and taking the kid as Raven turned back to face the group of stunned men before him.

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Ilk asked him as he stood up and looked at him with a glare in his eyes as his men began to smile as their leader was back on his feet as he continued, "I am Ilk, leader of these men and the ruler of this island."

"I don't care." Raven said as he continued to look down at the ground for a few seconds before looking back up at them as he continued, "You disrespected that kid and called his manhood into question." Ilk just looked at him and laughed as did his men.

"You think that kids a man, your just a fool like him." he said as he looked at his men, who began to draw their weapons and armed themselves as they waited for their cue by him, "Teach him a lesson." They all yelled out loud as they ran towards him with their swords and daggers out ready to go. Raven looked at them as they charged him and her cracked his knuckles before pulling his right arm back.

"Basic Impact." he said before throwing a punch, punching one of the men square in the face and then he pulled his left fist back as he punched another. This shocked the others as he stood up straight and looked over at them, as two tried to swing their swords at him. He ducked under them and then throws his fists up into their jaw, sending them flying and then did a back kick into the stomach of a third man. This all knocked them out and left only four remaining, who were all scared and looked at him with fear in their eyes.

"Oh, come on boys." Ilk said as he drew his sword and smirked as he looked at Raven as he continued to say, "Let me take care of this myself."

"That's fine with me." Raven said as he lifted his right hand up to his mouth and bit his thumb, causing himself to bleed and then a crimson like covered his right arm as he looked right at Ilk as he said, "I'm not playing anymore." This enraged Ilk as he lifted his sword above his head and charged at Raven.

"I'll kill you, you little bas..." Ilk stopped in mid sentence as Raven simply ran over to him and punched him right in the gut.

"Crimson Impact." Raven said before Ilk was thrown back into a stand and crashed into it as Ilk's men looked at the knock out They then looked at Raven, who was standing over him and then turned to look at them before saying, "Leave this island and never return." They all gulped and grabbed their fallen men, dragging them away along with their boss. Raven just watched them leave as did the rest of the town and the woman walked out to watch them leave as she looked at Raven, who turned to look at her as he asked, "I'm starving, when will my meal be finished?" This made the woman stare at him in shock as she smiled and ushered him back into the tavern as the town cheered.

TBC.

That is it for this chapter, I hope you enjoyed it and I still need oc's if you want to have one in the story.