This story will take a different route from here on. Rest assured it takes place in the past and will explain the questions you have I hope. Even if it feels like it will ever get there, be patient. I'm not one hundred percent sure of how it's going to be written. I don't have time to spend years thinking of how a story is going to go. But all you need to know is this is a One Piece story for a One Piece fanfiction. Please review because if you don't after all the work it took to make this second chapter I will be very upset.

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Monkey D. Luffy's bounty was now over two billion beli for doing crimes he has not committed. He was still the same idiot captain, the boy who ate the Gum Gum Fruit by accident, the boy who no one expected would be a hero, and friend of the Straw Hat Pirates. He inspired many people - not to be pirates - but to be good people and work together to help restore their village.

Those ideals are what fueled another young boy. Ten years after the crew accomplished their dreams they stuck together and found two young new crewmates. Both were only seven years old, too young to fight but not too young to train. Their names were Alfie and Odaga.

He and Odaga were just ordinary street orphans almost killed by bears but saved by pirates. The pirates weren't Luffy and his crew, but the Silver Pirates. They were pirates with no special powers or high bounties. However, they had big hearts. They saved them and helped them get to an island the Straw Hats were visiting.

The island was called Kohl, and was known for its famous cabbage. It was an island Alfie remembered with distaste. Ever since he was born, he never liked cabbages. He liked other green vegetables, but cabbages he had weird fear and dislike of them he couldn't explain to anyone. Even hearing the word "cabbage" would make him shrill.

Anyway, it was at Kohl that Alfie and Odaga finally met the Straw Hats. Impressed by Alfie's strength and understanding that the two had nowhere else to go, Luffy approved of them as their new pirate apprentices and took them off the Silver Pirates' hands.

For ten years, Alfie and Odaga trained under the Straw Hats. And when the time felt right, the two decided to go off to start their own pirate crew. The crew, after they announced their intentions, had sent them off with a farewell party and a ship of their own.

Their ship wasn't like the Thousand Sunny or the Going Merry. It was a galleon with a figurehead of a gargoyle with a long pointed horn. The crow's nest was built by Franky himself to be lowered and raised itself so Alfie, Odaga and every other crewmate could go up and see the sea from above. The last thing the ship had was explosive barrels in the back. By pushing those barrels in the water and setting them on fire they would destroy any ship that was following them faster than the crew could abandon it.

After the Straw Hats wished them luck, the two set off, excited for the adventures that awaited them.

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It was another gorgeous day at sea, the water sparkling in the sunlight as Alfie stood at the wheel.

While Alfie steered, Odaga slept in the hull. While Odaga slept a lot like Roronoa Zoro, he was very different from him. Zoro trained and slept, but Odaga just slept and tried not to do any work. He tried his best not to work because he didn't have any future. He trained, he hated it, he tried escaping and failed, he felt like his leg bones would break during the training, and now that Sanji wasn't here he was going to sleep his life away. Odaga disliked this entire journey they were having. He had no dreams and was extremely lazy, sleeping most of the way, but he came because Alfie was going on this journey.

It was a few of the reasons Alfie was the captain. The rest being that Alfie was smarter, more determined, and more trained than Odaga. Every time he and Odaga had a fight he was the one who would win. There wasn't a question as to why he won...everyone who saw them fight could see Alfie take Odaga down like he was still a seven year old child. He didn't even need a sword to beat him.

Alfie finally found a place to drop his anchor. When he looked up, Alfie saw a blue light in the sky. It looked like a beacon. When Alfie saw that sign he knew land was coming up. Alfie wasn't going to step on land until he knew Odaga was awake. He climbed down to the hull. It was empty with cobwebs in the ceiling because they didn't feel the need to clean up. In that ship was two hammocks joined together. One was empty while the other had Odaga sleeping like a raccoon and snoring like a grandfather.

Alfie shook Odaga. Thanks to his photographic memory, Alfie could say with ease that this would be the eight hundred and thirty fifth time he tried to shake him awake from his slumber. But, it was to no avail. It was difficult to wake Odaga once he was dreaming.

So, Alfie resorted to Plan B. He cleared his throat.

"Oh, my friend

Where have you gone?

Couldn't you have stuck around

For at least one more song?"

"Stop it and I'll get up!" Odaga shouted after finally waking up.

A small smirk spread on Alfie's face. He knew Odaga couldn't stay asleep at the sound of his voice.

Alfie gave Odaga a tiny drumstick of meat as breakfast. Odaga took it and tore into it.

"Do you want to hear what happened while you were sleeping?" Alfie asked with that same smirk on his face.

"Don't care," Odaga replied, "Eating."

"Okay, then I bet you don't want to hear about the island I found where you can have all the fruit you want and possibly find animals we can capture and eat."

Odaga was listening now.

"What's in it for me?" He might be rude, lazy, and an outright pain in Alfie's ass, but Alfie knew he could get him to do whatever. So long as there was something good enough in it for him.

"Well for one thing, you always hate being on this ship. So it's a good chance to stretch your legs and get some fresh air," said Alfie, "For another thing...we can always go cliff diving. You love feeling cold water. Imagine how it will feel diving off the edge of an island into the sea…"

Odaga liked the sound of cliff diving. It would be like when they were students of Black Leg Sanji and Roronoa Zoro. Odaga ran up the stairs to the deck. Odaga jumped on the crow's nest as it came down and went up to see the island. He could see a black spot that looked like a town, he could see mountains, but the best part was the seagulls flying over his head. This looked like it would be a cool island.

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After the two pirates reached the island, they began to explore its environment. It was a basic island, with all kinds of tropical fruit trees. There were even monkeys, parrots, and other birds using them as their homes, and other animals running around the jungle.

As they moved deeper into the forest, they spotted smoke on the other side of the island. They decided to head toward it, thinking it was coming from a town, which would most likely have a tavern.

As the pirates got closer and closer to the smoke, they didn't find a town, but a beached marine ship. It looked like it had been in battle with large, flaming sawblades. However, upon closer inspection, the smoke didn't come from the vessel. It was coming from the camp fire next to it, surrounded by twenty men.

"I wonder what they been through," Alfie muttered as the two hid in a large bush.

"Don't know and don't care," Odaga said as he watched them cook a large shark over the open flame, "Just want a taste of that."

"Well, we'll see," he said as he watch a well-built, shirtless man carrying another shark over his shoulder. It looked like the shark had a broken jaw.

"Sorry it took a while, Captain Haytham," the man said as he drop the fish to the sand, "This one still had some fight in it."

"It's alright, Jon," replied the dark hair, blue suit marine captain. He wore his jacket draped over his shoulders, and had a saber at his side.

"So, I take it we found their ship?" Jon asked as he joined the other marines in feasting on the shark.

"Pretty much," he answered as he watched his crew finish off the meal. Then he glanced at one of them, who seemed to have a questionable look on his face.

"I'm just wondering..." he began as he stood up, "Why don't we just take the ship and leave the isla..." He was cut off by a bullet to the chest. He fell backwards to the ground. Dead.

"I'm going to say this once," Haytham said, after blowing the smoke off his revolver, "As long as there are pirates near me, we will bring them down to ultimate justice."

"I agree," Jon said in between bites, not caring that one of his crewmates just passed on in front of him.

"And I will used my Juuken Niten Ryuu to do it," the captain said with a smirk, after he put away his gun, "Now, hurry up and eat, before the scouts come back to tell us where they are."

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Odaga and Alfie stared at the dead man, then turned their heads to watch as the men ate. Not long afterward, the scouts returned, running as fast as they could. They looked terrified, like they'd just seen a nightmare or something worse.

"I-It's him!" one shouted in panic, "Captain Haytham, it's him!"

Captain Haytham looked up.
"Huh?"

The scouts reached the captain and stopped their panicked flight, leaning on their knees with their hands and panting heavily. "It... It's... him...!" one of them gasped out.

"Who?" Haytham demanded.

"P... Pirate captain... The one... You... You've been looking for..."

Haytham panicked. He wasn't expecting the captain to arrive this soon. He ordered his men to get close because the man they were after was too strong for them to face alone.

Out of the bushes stepped the pirate. He was the skinniest pirate they ever saw. He had a big scar on his torso and a stitched scar on his left cheek. He was wearing a straw hat, covering his black hair.

They were facing...Monkey D. Luffy.

"Excuse me." The marine's quivered when he talked to them. "Do you guys know where I can find a boat?"

"N-No!" stammered one subordinate. Then he yelled more bravely, "Not that we'd give you one if we knew, wanted man!"

Haytham stared at Luffy in shock. 'How did I not know he was here?' he wondered silently.

The marines weren't the only ones seeing Luffy. Alfie and Odaga saw Luffy on the hills. Alfie wanted to run down there and hug Luffy, but the marines were aiming their weapons at him.

Luffy didn't move or blink. He just stared at the marines. One marine was so nervous he accidentally fell on the ground. After he fell Luffy started laughing.

"What's so funny?!" Haytham shouted.

"He fell down!" Luffy laughed merrily. Haytham glared at him.

All the marines gritted their teeth in anger and fear, tightening their grips on their weapons and waiting for their captain's orders.

"This is obviously not Monkey D. Luffy, the pirate who makes the marines quiver. He's another imposter. I will take care of him myself."

Haytham pulled his saber out. He moved it a little waiting for an action...a small action from the imposter, maybe even a plea to not hurt him.

He got nothing from this pirate. He slashed his sword towards the Luffy imposter.

Luffy dodged quickly and frowned at Haytham. "What'd you do that for?" he asked, though there was no fear in his voice.

Haytham slashed his sword at Luffy repeatedly. Luffy dodged it with laid back reflexes. The next thing Luffy did was take Haytham's sword and hold it over his head, stretching his arm further up to keep it out of reach. Haytham tried grabbing his saber but it was too high for him. Haytham changed from grabbing the saber to punch Luffy, but he quickly dodged him.

Luffy sighed. "Come on, guy, all I want is a boat." Much to Haytham's surprise, instead of attacking with the stolen saber, Luffy tossed it aside.

"You're not getting a boat," Jon said stepping in the way of his captain. He had his pistol aimed at Luffy's chest. "The only thing you'll be getting is a shot to the chest by me or getting hanged in Marineford if you don't come with us quietly."

"Why would I go there?" Luffy laughed. "This place is much more fun!"

Jon, angry, pulled the trigger of his gun, only to have the bullet bounce back off of Luffy and hit a tree near him.

"What...?" he gasped in shock.

"That won't work on me!" Luffy exclaimed merrily, still laughing.

Haytham didn't know what to do. His saber didn't work and Jon's pistol didn't work. He was afraid if he sent his entire team at Straw Hat Luffy he would just use his powers to knock them all out cold. Haytham put his hand on his chin to think. It was a good thing for him Strawhat Luffy didn't do anything but laugh.

Haytham had two ideas. He could make Jon shoot a tree branch down to crush Luffy or he could surround Luffy and attack him from different sides. Haytham looked and thought really hard until he saw two people he recognized immediately.

"More pirates!"

"Oi, Luffy! Stop wandering off on your own!" one pirate yelled angrily.

"B-Black Leg Sanji!" one Marine screamed in fear.

"I'm not Black Leg Sanji, you idiots!" Odaga yelled. "My name is Odaga!"

"And my name is Alfie," the other pirate said. "We really like this island so we were thinking of cliff diving. Which way should we go to find a perfect place to dive?"

Odaga didn't know they were talking about the real Black Leg Sanji and the rest of Luffy's crew. Because of Odaga the marines knew where they were. Haytham decided to use this information to their advantage.

"Men, forget about Straw Hat Luffy. We're going after those other two pirates and taking them back to Impel Down for better gear and more men."

The marines rushed forward to attack on their captain's orders. Alfie ran downhill to fight them. To the marines, he was just a young pirate ready to throw his life away, but the Straw Hat Pirates cheered for him as he ran. He grabbed his sword handle and unsheathed his epee. He swung his sword into the marine's. The marine's stopped. At first it looked like nothing happened, and then their swords were cut in half and their shirts and caps ripped away like paper.

Terrified of his swordsmanship, the marines ran away. Below, Jon was pointing his pistol at Alfie.

"Die, pirate!"

"Alfie, watch out!"

Odaga made the far jump down the hill.

The sight of Odaga falling towards him made Jon freeze in shock and he stared at Odaga with wide eyes. Odaga landed in front of him without so much as a scratch. He kicked the gun out of Jon's hand. He thought doing so would make Jon run in fear, but instead he punched Odaga hard enough to cause a nosebleed. He was stronger than he appeared.

The Straw Hat pirates didn't like seeing him get hurt and wanted to rush in and help, but surprisingly, Luffy held them back.

"They'll be fine," he said with a grin.

Jon hit Odaga repeatedly with his strong fists. Odaga blocked the way Sanji taught him to fight. He raised his right foot blocking and countering when he kicked Jon's face. He followed it with a roundhouse from his left foot.

Jon was hurt but he didn't go down.

Meanwhile, Haytham ordered other men to go after Alfie and anyone else they could get.

Jon and Odaga were fighting fist against knee. Jon was having a hard time hurting his guy. It wasn't just because his feet were strong. Odaga knew where to block with his leg.

Sanji watched in pride as Odaga fought with his legs.

"You have legs but so do I."

Jon jumped and kicked his legs at Odaga. Odaga used his own legs to block and Jon tried to punch him in the thyroid. Odaga ducked his head but was kicked in the face by Jon. Jon then smirked triumphantly.

Meanwhile, Alfie was on the run from the rest of the marines. Haytham and Jon were still in the back so it was just their subordinates chasing him. They had new swords to fight with. Alfie ran as fast as he could, trying to decide what to do.