This is story is the result of I finally not been able to resist and decided to try my hand writing a fic of my own.
Which mean that this is a story that I do most for fun, with the add fact that English is not my native language(is Portuguese), so I hope that the one who read this go easy on me in regards in my grammar.
Ps: If somehow a ended up posting more chapters of this in the future, they probably will be about a thousand words shorter than this one, as this chapter I had write as a special case
15 Years later.
Inside a room with the window's dim light, one would see someone sleeping serenely one a bed.
Knock! Knock!
"Lucas wake up, the breakfast is ready" said a Woman voice by the door.
That's until someone come to the door to wake him up.
"Innng… Yes mother, I'm going" said the one on the bed.
The one on the bed got up, rubbed his eyes with one hand while walked to the bathroom, brushed his teeth's and then looked on the mirror.
The face on the mirror was that of a handsome young man, he was tall light skin with of tan, blue piercing eyes, and what he would call, white hair of the protagonist rival.
This is fifteen years old Monkey D. Lucas, someone who had reincarnated from in One Piece World from Earth.
"Here we go again" murmured Lucas after finishing changing clothes.
Lucas looked at himself in the mirror; he was now wearing dark blue pants with black shoes, a black blazer with the sleeves raised and the front open, and a white shirt underneath.
"Ha"
We gave himself a thumbs up then got downstairs.
"Good Morning Mother"
"Good Morning Dear"
Going downstairs Lucas walked to the kitchen where he find his mother, finishing setting the breakfast.
A warm smile spread through Lucas face after seeing his mother.
Her name was Branca, a still young woman only having thirty four, she wore a pink dress with white apron, having skin tone close to that of Lucas with just a little bit more of tan than him, soft blue eyes, flowing white hair and a hearth warming smile on her face.
At first when Lucas reincarnated in this world, he suffered when trying to accept is new reality, but because of this is woman, is mother, that he was capable of achieving just that. Like a real mother, she had a sixth like sense regarding her son, and every time in the past when Lucas became sad when remembering his last life, she would sense that, and would do anything to make him happy.
There was even a time where she had gone out, in the rain, just to buy Lucas favorite cookie, and she had done that without complaining.
That plus every other time that she had done something to make him happy, made Lucas come to accept his new life with everything that he had.
"Dear, after you have finished eating, I would need you to make a delivery for me" said his mom while arranging a basket.
"Is that Old Will's pie?" asked Lucas.
"Old Will's pie" his mother answered.
His mother had a little bakery shop in the town, and many people in the town are faithful clients of her, and Old Will is one of them. Old Will own the most know bar in the town near the pier, and every week he would order a pie made by Lucas mother.
"Got it"
"One more thing"
Lucas was already by the door when he heard is mother calling he stopped and looked back.
"You grandpa Garp sent me a letter, he just finished a mission near here, and since is close he decided to pay a visit to us" said his mother from the kitchen.
'grandpa Garp…'
…
Mokey D. Garp.
That was the name of Lucas grandpa. he find out that a few weeks after arriving in this world, and how to not take notice when your grandpa is the marine hero, father of the leader of the revolutionary army Monkey D. Dragon, and also grandpa to the future protagonist of the series that gave this world its fame, Monkey D. Luffy.
This is also the way that he finally realized that he was in One Piece World, at first Lucas could not understand the language of this world, plus that he was a baby and could not go out of his house by himself, made that Lucas stayed unaware of what world he as in for a long time, and was just after he had learned the language (thing that was more easy that he thought), that he was really able to understand what was going around him.
It turn out that Lucas father was son of Garp.
Lucas father name was Luciano and was a marine just like Garp, a pretty good one in fact being able to achieve vice-admiral rank.
After a time sailing through the sea, he ended up finding Lucas mother Branca and fall in love with her, who in turn also fell in love with him. And as anyone would expect after a time together Branca ended up pregnant.
But Just a few months after Branca became pregnant, his father who as still acting as a Vice-Admiral ended up In a trap set up by two of the yonko Kaido commanders, and although he put a pretty good fight, fighting 2v1 in a trap killing one of the commander's while letting the other one in the death doorstep, his still ended up dying.
His grandpa Garp became enraged with his son death, and if nor for the Fleet-Admiral Sengoku holding him up he sure would have gone in a one man massacre against Kaido's subordinates, even his uncle Dragon revolutionary army started to hinder Kaido business in the underworld.
His mother, who has devastated at the time, decided to decline Garp offer to live with him and returned back to her home in Dragon Island where she would raise her and Luciano son alone, although Garp would still come visit from time to time.
"Okay mom"
Lucas and his mother home is outside of the town, but thanks to the fact that the town is not big it only took a couple minutes to get to the pier Old Will bar was.
The bar had a very simple design with a big window at the front, many chairs and tables inside, a balcony at the back with a large shelf with various drinks behind.
"Oh Lucas, how are you going?"
Even before he arrived at the balcony the sound of the Old Will greeting him could already be heard.
Old Will had the appearance of your normal neighbor old man, grizzled beard with a bald head hearing a red chess shirt with a white cloth on his shoulder.
"Hi Old Will" Lucas walked to the balcony "How are the businesses?"
"You know the usual. We usually don't receive many visitors, so it's hard to see new faces around here" He looked at the basket in Lucas hands, pointing out he said "This is my pie?"
"It is" he raised the basket and put it on the balcony "You sure love this huh?"
"You don't know the half of it" Old Will put his hand in the basket taking out a slice of pie "Sniff I had gone to many restaurants across the Grand Line, but your mother pie is still the best in my opinion"
"Haha I'm pretty certain about this, I eat her food every day after all" Said Lucas taking a seat at the balcony.
"I know" he took a bite of the pie "And I envy you because it"
"You sure do"
…
"What is this?" after talking a few minutes with Old Will, Lucas noticed a newspaper on the balcony behind Old Will, with a headline that caught his attention.
"This?, Is this morning paper " Old Will took the newspaper and gave to Lucas "They are still talking about the reverie. Nothing of new"
The headline talked about last year, reverie of 1516 where the world government discussed about the dangers of the most wanted criminal of the world, leader of the revolutionary army Monkey D. Dragon.
'Where are already on the year 1517, which means there only five years until the cannon ... ' After looking through the headline, Lucas took a small notebook from his pocket and started to write about the things that he remembered about the cannon.
One of thing that Lucas come to find out while in this world, is that while most of memories from his last life are intact, the memories that he had related to the world of One piece started to vanish from his mind.
At first nothing had happened, but as the time had go on he started to notice that it became harder to recall certain things about the timeline of One Piece. Important things related to big arcs he still could remember, but some small things started to want to vanish from his mind 'is like the world doesn't want me to have this type of hack'
The memories about the cannon is probably the biggest trump card that any reincarnated could have, losing it would made his future chances in this crazy world diminish a lot.
So in order to preserve at least some of his memories Lucas started to write a journal with all the things that he could remember.
"Things will soon start to move… "Lucas whispered after finishing writing.
"You said something?" asked Old Will who was finishing a customer order.
"Just writing in my journal"
"Practicing codes again?" asked Old Will after taking a peek at the journal "Yeah you know what they say, practice leads to perfection" answered Lucas
It goes without saying that things would go bad really fast if anyone ended up reading the things that he had written in this journal, so to prevent this Lucas wrote everything about the One Piece cannon on his old life native language, Portuguese.
And when some people asked what he was writing, Lucas only said that he had found one of his dad notes about an old secret code, and he was training so that he could perhaps use in the future, and most people bought the lie.
'Although I have a nagging feeling that mother had not bought the lie…' silently thought Lucas.
"Huhuhu You quite good with this code. You're going to become a pretty good marine of your other skills are good as this one" said Old Will with a good nature laugh.
'Marine huh...' thought Lucas.
Lucas had thought a lot about what he was going to down in the future since he arrived in this world. His Last life was somehow bland, it was not a bad life, but it also was not an exciting life, it was normal life.
But now it would be different.
He was in the world of One Piece, in the middle of age of the pirates. If there is a place to live a life of adventure it was this.
So because of this he decided to be a marine, simply because he thought it would be the best choice to him.
In the cannon the marines are many times portrait as the villain which is expected as the main cast that we follow is a group of pirates, but Lucas don't thought that they are as bad they appear to be.
Sure there are some bad guys in the marine, but pirates also are not the wronged that some thought, they had their reputation for a reason, Luffy and his crew are only few exceptions.
'Besides, my father was a Vice-Admiral and my grandpa is a Vice-Admiral' thought Lucas 'so at least my chances are bigger in the marines'
The only problem with Lucas plans is that every time that he thought of going out of the island a unwilling feeling hit him.
Lucas can't quite explain the feeling, but if had to say it would be like he had something really important to do in the island.
"If only I knew what this things is…"
Thud
Suddenly the door of the bar was open in an abrupt manner, and from outside a group of not so kind looking individuals came.
"Boss give us some beer!"
"I want sake"
"Do you have any food?!"
"I want Meat!"
A group of pirates from various sizes come at the bar screaming many different orders to the bar owner Old Will, which in turn prompt himself to serve them "Coming out!"
Lucas who was sitting at the balcony only silently watched the various pirates sitting at tables across the bar talking a laughing loudly as they do so. Most of the pirates had a pretty common looks, the type that you probably would see in a crowd and forget just after, with only one being an exception.
He sat in the biggest table alongside three other pirates, wearing a black suit with a purple tie and having blond curls that would made goldilocks jealous the man surely stood among everyone at the bar.
'That guys must be the captain' Thought Lucas.
If there is one thing that you would learn watching/reading One Piece, is that people here have unusual tastes when it came to cloths, thing that Lucas had come to confirm after living here. And while the goldilocks man is not that unusual in appearance, being among the thug looking pirates wearing that is certainly is.
'Well, he sure still one of the most normal looking pirates in this world' Thought Lucas while preparing to leave "I'm leaving old man"
"Thanks for the delivery" said Old Will while preparing a tray with beers to one of the tables.
Lucas took the now empty basket and started to walk at the exit direction, none of the pirates paid him any attention, as they immersed themselves at drinks and food.
While walking Lucas took a sideway glance at the pirate captain table, where the goldilocks captain talked in a more contained manner with the other three pirates, an on top of the table Lucas could see what appeared to be a compass that was always pointing at one same direction that as not north
'A eternal pose?' thought Lucas quietly without stopping walking at the exit direction was he didn't want to draw attention to him.
Unfortunately not everything goes as one wanted.
…
Crack
"What that fuck old man?"
The sound of glass cracking could be heard all across the bar followed by a pirate angry scream.
Looking fast one would be able to see that apparently the bar owner Old Will had trip making the tray with beers fall in the ground near one of the pirates, the beer splashed at the pirates pants, which swiftly stood up while cursing at the Old Will.
"Hahaha Look at B3!"
"Hey B3, did you have an 'accident'?"
"I'm sorry for the accident…huh the beer will be at the house count!" fear was evident on Old Will voice was he looked at the pirate.
"This isn't enough old man!" said the pirate B3 while walking at the old Will direction, a malicious smile was present on his face "You know, that was my favorite pants"
While all the pirates laughed at the situation, the one sitting alongside the captain asked "It's okay to let this happened captain?"
"I don't mind" the captain then looked at the eternal pose at the table, a brief greed glance crossing his eyes "As long he made it swiftly. I don't want to stay here more than necessary.
"Alright captain"
…
While everyone watching B3 and Old Will something unexpected happened.
Swoosh
"AAhhhh!"
Something that looked like wooden basket come flying and hit the pirate B3 at the head, the pirate screamed at pain at the basket before a voice come at him.
"Let the old man go"
Looking at the voice direction, all the pirates saw a white haired young man standing at bar door while glaring at B3 with sharp blue eyes.
"Huh looks like someone want to be a hero" scoffed B3.
"I will say it again" Lucas walked forward "Let the Old man go"
"Lucas, don't need to do this-"
"Shut up old man!"
Old will wanted to stop Lucas, but the pirate B3 screamed at him prompting him to stop.
"I wanted to toy with the old man to vent some frustration" B3 started to walk at Lucas direction "But a wanna be hero like you sure is best choice"
"I not blame you in wanting to vent some frustration" said Lucas that was now close to the captain table "I too would have a lot of frustration if I had a donkey face like you"
"You little!"
The pirate angry at Lucas insult didn't waste another second, he sprinting at Lucas direction, fist lifted ready to deliver a blow at Lucas direction. The pirate explosive momentum even broke the tile at the floor.
Lucas in the other hand didn't made any move as he stood there, and only when the pirate got near him did he move.
Glint
It a brief glint at his eyes Lucas took a step to the side letting the pirate fly by him, hitting and breaking the captain table that was behind Lucas.
BOOM
"…"
"…"
"…"
Silent reigned at the bar as the pirate looked stunned at the scene in front of them, and even the captain goldilocks didn't reacted.
Looking at the table pieces at the floor, one would be able to see the little fragment of what once was an eternal pose.
"You… You… YOU INSOLENT LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!"
After a few seconds of silence the captain goldilocks finally reacted to what happened.
"Cap-Captain I..I can explain" B3 who as now being glared by goldilocks said in fear "It was that-hat young man fault!"
Goldilocks looked at the Lucas direction, only to see that the white haired young man had already vanished from where he was.
"FIND HIM NOW!"
"YES!"
"Look where I got myself into" Lucas said to himself.
Not long after fleeing from the bar Lucas saw the pirates chasing after him close behind, thing that burned his plan of escaping back to his house. So with the pirates hot at his tail he fled across the entire town until ending up in the middle of the forest of the island.
"Where he is?!"
"When must find him!"
"Hurry up!"
Hearing he pirates coming after him Lucas made himself run even faster.
Jumping over rocks a sliding under tree branches, he was able to avoid the pirates for a time, he was about to find a place to hide from the pirates something unexpected happened.
"Wha-"
Without noticing Lucas had ran near a slope and after stumbling on a rock lost his balance, ending up falling down the slope.
….
"Uh my back hurts"
Lucas rose from the ground holding his back while grumbling in pain, but was he turned he ended up seeing something that made he forget about the pain "What is this?"
In the bottom of the slope where Lucas had fall the entrance of a cave could be seen, the strange thing that about it was that around the entrance many carving could be seen.
"Since when something like this was been down here?" the moment Lucas saw the carvings something inside him changed, it's was like the cave was calling him.
"Hey I think he had come this this was"
"He must find him"
But just was Lucas was lost in his thoughts, the voice of the pirates came from up the slope "Tch this guys are a pain" making a clicking sound with his mouth, Lucas looked back at the cave "The is only one way to go".
And with wide strides Lucas entered the cave.
The inside of the cave as even more surprising that he thought, carvings even more elaborated that the ones in the entrance adorned the cave walls, most of them depicting dragons "Could be… that this is the dragon nest?"
Throb
Throb
Throb
Suddenly Lucas started to feel his heart beat with more intensity, the call that he had felt before came back with more intensity.
Walking a few more meters Lucas came to find himself in a big oval room, and in the center of the room a small altar made of stone could be seen.
"Is this what I think it is?" Lucas fallowed the throb of his heart winch in turn made in walk to the stone altar, and was he to that Lucas come to see something that he had not thought that he would see so soon in this world.
A fruit that resemble a black orange with white/blue wave designs at his skin lied there an top of the altar, some might not know what this fruit is, but at first glance Lucas could tell what this fruit was
"Devil Fruit"
Devil fruits are mystical fruits found throughout the world that, when consumed, provide the eater a special ability, depending on the type and variation of the fruit itself.
"A Devil fruit… "Lucas picked the fruit in his hands "It's you that had called me?"
Lucas stood there looking at fruit at his hand, many thoughts came to his mind, the old 'do it or not' type of thought. He is very clear of the benefits that a devil fruit could bring, but also knew the drawback too.
"The pirates are hot on my tail" though Lucas "And the calling is stronger than before"
"I think I'm going to eat it"
…
Steeling himself Lucas took a big bite at the devil fruit, swallowing half of the fruit in a single bite.
"Huh. It really taste horrible"
Zap!Zap!
Before Lucas could realize white/blue lightning started to appear around him, his body started to grow becoming more than two meters tall and still growing, powerful black scales started to appear around his body, his hands and feet became claws, a sharp tail appeared behind him and a pair of big bat like wings on his back, is face changed to that of a carnivore that looked like a dinosaur with sharp teeth, and eyes like that of cats.
The lightning around his body became more bright and intense, and after finish is transformation he looked at the entrance direction, opened his mouth, and then…
"RRROOOOOOARR!"
Thanks for reading!