There will be OOCness and time differences

Chapter 3. Training

Luffy already new that it would be a long way until they found an island but he didn't expect it to last past a week, so he decided to do something drastic… hard training. He informed his crew, plus the monkey named Donlu, of the schedule ahead. They were to do it all day everyday for one day was push-ups then the next day sit-ups. For the day after that there was endurance training with skills training ( sword hand-to-hand) it was limited to this because there were no weights. Void and Donlu picked those ones up quick because there genes, especially Donlu's because his strength strength fruit skills, naturally made them stronger. The rest of the days were spent trying to get better at their devil fruit powers with some meditation and geppou training.

It was a week into this training when it was discovered that there devil fruit powers are trickier than thought. The crewmates thought this when Luffy thought of a theory of his void powers in fact only bending space around so with that thought focused on the space between him and Zoro's sword (even with three years he never actually paid attention to his powers). What happened next was the sword went flying towards him. He then put a void hole in front of him when he then put the sword back where it was.

Usually once things like this was found out people tended to try to get to their next level, but the straw hats decided they should master their first level extensively first. Within the next month the Straw Hats became stronger and began to understand their powers better. Zoro figured out why his powers never took a shape… it was because he didn't understand the way weapons were made. Right when they were about to run out of provisions they hit land. They got out quickly and immediately looked around finding out the city was desolate.

They shrugged before they started wandering around the city searching for people, a weight shop, or a library. They ended walking down a street where a lady was surrounded by sixteen men. The straw hats glanced at each other and rushed the men each taking down four men with ease. The orange haired girl whistled and said," My name is Nami and would you be interested in being my bodyguards."

Luffy and co. shook their heads with Luffy asking why those men wanted her. She responded nonchalantly saying she stole a map from their captain. Luffy nodded asking if she was a navigator, Nami answered yes. Nodding some more he asked if she wanted to join his crew. Just as she was about nod yes the word crew struck her mind and she rudely said no.

Luffy shrugged walking away followed by Void, Zoro, and Donlu. Almost when they were out of earshot Nami yelled for them to stop. Quickly running up to Luffy she said that if he defeated Buggy the clown and his crew that were holding up the island she would consider joining his crew. To this all of the Straw Hats nodded racing towards the circus tent in the middle of the city.

When they got there they saw the pirates partying. Grinning eager to see how their training paid off they rushed the camp. All the pirates were caught off guard and quickly dispatched. Coming outside to see why the party stopped, Buggy was shocked when he saw all of his pirates on the floor moaning in pain. That shock quickly became anger when he saw only four beings standing over his crew.

Screaming, he rushed them and Donlu came forward sword at the ready. Once the primate was sure Buggy was within his long arm range he swung. Buggy was neatly bisected and fell to the ground. Seeing this, his crew couldn't help but laugh raucously.

Donlu stared in confusion as to why his crew would laugh at the death of their captain. Unseen by the great ape Buggy's body floated in the air and stabbed him in the stomach. Looking on in shock Zoro became angered and unsheathed his own swords. Buggy just laughed and exclaimed," You fool do you really think you can slice me I can't be sliced!"

Switching his swords in an odd position Zoro rushed Buggy. Buggy let him come believing that he could do no damage. Instead of slicing Zoro stabbed actually damaging Buggy. Buggy and the Buggy Pirates couldn't believe it he was hurt by a sword.

Zoro made sure that Buggy wouldn't die and slowly pulled his swords out causing excruciating pain. When the swords were out Buggy fell in a puddle of his own blood still unbelieving of what just happened. It was here Nami showed up sure the Straw Hats were defeated and going to say she brought her crew to their death to join his crew and steal some more from him, and boy was she shocked when she was him and his crew soundly defeated. Then the villagers and the mayor came out cheering.

Already out of her stupor Nami slunk into the Buggy Pirates tent and picked up the obscenely large and heavy gold bags and when she was about to sneak out was confronted by Luffy. He was standing in front of her with his arms crossed smiling. Nami sighed and grudgingly conceded to the request of joining the Straw Hat Pirates. Nami brought Buggy's treasure out to see how much it was and at the top of one bag was a small jewel encrusted chest and on the other bag's top was a cage with two weird colored raccoons. They were colored striped red and blue, one was male and the other was female, and while they were the same color where on one raccoon a stripe is red the other is blue.

Nami found it sick to keep the animals in a cage and bag so she let them out. They were immediately on the defensive but once they figured out she was trying to get them out they stopped. Once they were out they climbed to her shoulders. She thought it was cute and scratched them under their chin.

They leaned into it and she closed the treasure bags and saw Donlu being carted away. She then saw the other being led somewhere. Nami followed and saw that they were led to a food place. Of course she slipped in without notice.

They spent an hour in there straight eating and then afterwards were sent to a library then to an inn. Through that time they tricked Nami into eating the devil fruit inside Buggy's chest and found out the raccoons, named Chin (male) and Moku (female), controlled sound. The next day they went to a weight shop and got all types of heavy weights and training devices. The town didn't have a shipwright so the crew was a little disappointed. They spent a week of relaxation and reading before they started their previous training regimen, but factored in the weights, studying things for help on powers, and Nami's discovered power of blending in and they were set.

Once again there training left them exhausted but worth. They left the following day paying for their books and training utensils. So with their odd way of training for a month and a week of relaxation they left to another island. During the time it took for them to get to the next island

Luffy, Void, Zoro, and Donlu took their powers to the next level. For Luffy he bended space around so things moved on the own like bended the space under a fallen object pushing it in the air. Void's was hybrids of animals like mixing a bull and falcon. Zoro's was mixing the metals and jewels together, though it took some time to get it right so there were only strengths, like diamonds and titanium. Donlu always thought his power was to increase strength but what it actually did was boost muscle capacity, and all he ever really needed was extra arm strength so he never thought different, he was able to boost his speed, intelligence allowing him to talk, and more, he was gaining some attributes from being around Zoro.

Nami focused on being able to switch her camouflage instantly often asking the others for help. Chin and Moku mostly practiced silencing things and sometimes increasing the volume of things, they also developed a slight infatuation with money for being with Nami to long, and were trying to find something else they could do with sound. Finally during a week of relaxation they hit another island.