One piece: A New Age

One piece: A New Age

Black Beanie Pirates

Chapter 3: Accident prone Dr Zuffy reporting!

"Taon!" Sharuda looks around for him "Hey where are you?!" Sharuda couldn't see him anywhere he stopped pursuit of him. "Taon, I acknowledge your strength!" Sharuda shouts then he looks down at his wounded arm which has already started to heal. "Hey, what are you?" said a mysterious voice Sharuda didn't bother turning to face him he knew it was Taon's voice, "It's… a gift." A brief moment of silence, "And also a curse." Taon smirked as he was leaning against the huge tower just behind Sharuda. "Devil Fruit?" he asked Sharuda, "Yeah" Curious as to what power Sharuda has Taon quickly asks "What type?" "Zoan type" Taon nodded.

"What exactly do you want with me?" Taon briskly asks; Moments later Sharuda turns to him, "To join my pirate crew." Taon had a shocked but confused reaction, "What makes you think I'd join your crew?" Sharuda gives Taon a serious stare. "You want to become strong don't you? I'm heading to the Grand Line." Taon shocked but angered by this, "Ha-ha I'm already strong; I don't need you to help me get strong." Sharuda turned and walked away from Taon. "I didn't just mean physical strength, you have until we leave to decide whether you're my Nakama." Sharuda left in the distance with Aniki following after. "Hey Taon, if you want a big adventure to happen, my brother here sure will make it big." The two brothers leave Taon's sight Taon waits in his spot quietly thinking, "Hmm" Taon smiles.

"Right then how do we get into this building then?" Sharuda looks up it to find an opening. "Why are you so interested in scaling that thing for anyways?" Aniki says as Sharuda attempts to climb the smooth faced rock, making a little way up it but suddenly falling and sliding back down. "Isn't it obvious?" He looks towards Aniki before attempting again, "Because the view from up top would be amazing!" Aniki laughed at his answer, "Well that's my captain, and I figured it would be something like that." Aniki walks over and attempts to hoist Sharuda up. "Oh thanks Aniki," Sharuda reaches upwards and grabs on to the bottom edge of the windowsill.

"I got it," Sharuda exclaimed as he moved himself upwards and tries to push the window open. "Damn it locked out," Sharuda thought for a moment Aniki looks up towards him covering his eyes from the blazing sun above them. "Oh that's right I have a key!" Sharuda's light bulb clicked on to something, "A key? When or where did you find one?" Sharuda puts his fist through the window smashing the glass. "Oh okay and that's really a key is it Sharuda?" Aniki noted his sarcasm as Sharuda climbed in and looked out of it, "Hey Give me your hand I'll hoist you up!" Aniki nodded as he held up his hand and Sharuda reached too, suddenly alarms went off inside the building. "Oh crap," a full row of mercenaries gathered around where Aniki is.

"Hey get away from there!" one of the Mercenaries exclaimed to Aniki as he looked up towards Sharuda. "You go; I'll catch you up, I needed a warm up." Sharuda nodded and left Aniki as he started wrestling the Mercenaries down. Sharuda looks around the place the ceilings were quite high up, but there were still plenty of floors to get to the top.

Sharuda's ears perked up as he heard a few footsteps running towards him, "He came in through here?!" one of them shouts as they reached the room Sharuda was in. Sharuda hid inside the room in a wardrobe, he closed his eyes and listened in. "Damn is he a pirate?" all Sharuda could hear was shuffling around. "I believe so, he has 30 million Belli as the townspeople has already announced." An angry sigh was issued and the person walks towards the door.

"We have to tell Master Kaiser, move the girl up to his floor we can take this pirate out before he puts any stupid ideas in her head!" 4-5 people all at once said "AYE!" and they all moved away. Sharuda crawled out of the wardrobe and closed the door, "A girl huh?"

Inside the tower were ring like hallways with lots of rooms around the outside of the corridor ring and going round there were stairs leading up to the next floor on the inner circle. The first floor looked as though it was sleeping quarters for lower class mercenaries; Sharuda managed to avoid being seen and gets to the second floor up the windy stairs.

This floor looked like it was made to accommodate various types of weapons anything from swords to guns, but not a very high quality though. "Why is there so many mercenaries and bounty hunters in one island, there contractor must be pretty rich and in need of a lot of men." Sharuda thought too himself evading yet another group of Merc's on there way down the second set of stairs.

"These guys must be protecting something." Security was getting tighter the more he progressed upwards he got to floor 9 which was right near the roof. The three floors below him were just full of traps standard trigger ones but tricky too the ordinary person; but Sharuda wasn't ordinary.

The ninth floor looks more like an infirmary or maybe even a laboratory, vials of potions and all sorts were all over the lab, Sharuda had no idea what they were for as he scanned the room for clues to the next floor as there is no indication of that as the structure of the rooms had changed. He wandered through the labs realising that nobody was there, no lab technician or nobody. "Did they evacuate when the alarms were going off?" Sharuda can barely hear the alarm anymore as it was at least 4 floors down where the alarms were actually placed. "They're too over confident with security heh." All of a sudden large footsteps were heard and the sound of clattering metal was rushing towards him.

"uh-oh gotta hide." Sharuda ran into the first door he saw which looked like a broom closet and slammed it behind him leaning against the door. "Few that was close." Sharuda looks forwards and sees a mess on the floor of lab equipment, like someone was having a barbeque. "what's all this mess then?" All of a sudden somebody jumps out and starts shuffeling the things around. "I-I'm so sorry I'll have it ready soon, please don't burn me again, I promise I'm gonna do it!" A girl was frantically rushing around sorting the equipment out. "Hey I'm not who you think I am." She stopped and looks up; Sharuda sees one of her eyes was white as though she was blind in it, the other eye was a dark brown colour.

"IN HERE!" Sharuda turns towards the door as he heard footsteps run towards it. "Oh crap!" Sharuda thought, he looks above the door there was a small shelf and within quick succession he was on it above the door. The door swung open and two to three soldiers burst in; they looked towards the nervous looking girl. "Oh it's just you, make that damn medicine already woman!?" the girl lifted her arm up and shouts "AYE right away." The guards turn around and walk out slamming the door, in doing so the shelf fell and Sharuda crashed to the floor.

"Ouch." Sharuda said quietly as he heard the footsteps fading away. "Are you okay mister?" He stood and brushed himself off and walked towards the girl. "Yeah I'm fine, what about you? What are you doing?" Sharuda walks into the light of the window and the girl can see him clearly. "H-hey you're that pirate I saw running around." She suddenly looked shocked is if forgetting something she started shuffling around again. "I'm just making some medicine for my master as has… a cold." Sharuda sits down in front of the pile which was relatively tidy now. "All that trouble and shouting over a cold?" Sharuda asks her. "Well you see well... umm I'm just used to it I guess." She did a nervous laugh and smiled.

"You don't want to be here do you?" She looked shocked at him for a second and stopped what she was doing and went to the window. "You were sent by him weren't you?" Sharuda looked confused, "Sent by whom? What you on about?" She looked towards him. "Then you have to get out of here! He is ruthless he wouldn't want me talking to you." Sharuda was feeling a bit dazed, "Who wouldn't want m-" A metal chain like sound rushed towards Sharuda's location and two claws tore through the door behind him and buried itself inside both of Sharuda's shoulders.

"ARRGH!" Sharuda shouts as he falls to one knee, "Oh no!" the girl looked terrified and hid in the corner. The chains connected to the hooks suddenly tightened and Sharuda was forced backwards through the door. He went through the science lab and upwards to the floor above crashing though the wall. The momentum didn't stop as the person holding the chain span him round the circular room before finally letting go and Sharuda face planted the stone wall around the room.

"Trying to interfere with my projects are you?" Says the man who was around the same height as Sharuda; only more obese and a stupid looking beard which came an inch away from his face. His nose looked like it had been broken a few times as it clung to his face like a crushed vegetable. His hooks retracted from Sharuda's body and he wound them back into his sleeves.

"Men throw him out like the rest of the bodies, I'm sure the bounty hunters would enjoy a bounty like him." The guy turns around and walks towards the large window overlooking the island. "It's a pity, how can someone with such a high bounty die so quickly, he evaded all my traps amazing but alas his lucks ran out." The soldiers go to drag Sharuda away but as they lift him from the floor, his two feet land firmly on the ground. "Thanks for helping me up." Sharuda said to the Mercs that were holding both his arms, the guy is stunned as two people are launched across the room and slammed into the wall next to him.

"I got to admit kid; you do have a lot of guts coming up here." Sharuda brushes himself off and tries to wipe the blood away from his shoulders, it would take a lot of time to heal is it was stuck quite far in. "I was just taking a walk." The guy twitched but he didn't let it get to him.

"There's one question I wanna ask." Says Sharuda as he straightens himself out. "Well I'm wondering why you have that girl slaving over you?" the guy snapped and swung at him with a chain claw from Sharuda's right; this time he was prepared for it, he successfully dodged it and started to run towards him. "Oh no you don't" the claw comes back to the guy at a frighteningly fast pace and launched both of them directly at Sharuda; they both fly past Sharuda as he narrowly escapes them.

The speed of which the chains were flying at were so fast wind pressure pushed Sharuda down so he couldn't move forwards, so he ran round in a circular direction around the guy. "It's like you don't even know me!" the guy mentions as the claws come from both sides, Sharuda leans back and a claw caught his left cheek cutting it slightly.

Sharuda falls on the floor on his back rubbing his face the chains were still spinning above his head, the guy retracts them and goes for a vertical swipe. This time Sharuda couldn't move as the force held him down and he got claws straight in the back which smashes him into the floor creating a dust cloud.

As it clears Sharuda stands with the claws in his back. "Heh I really don't know you." He says mocking him. Enraged by this he lifts Sharuda up and starts slamming him around all over the place. "It's Kaiser! Don't you forget it!?"

Meanwhile on ground level there lay the bodies of at least fifty knocked out Bounty hunters and Aniki stood in the middle fists still clenched breathing heavily; as he is bleeding a little from the arms. Loosening up a bit he forms a fighting stance again to anyone who was left. "Anyone else?" those who were still conscious took caution to this and fled, "Heh, what a bunch of wimps." Aniki turns round to yet another person stood there he readies to fight but withdraws as it was Taon.

"You decided yet?" Aniki asks him, Taon stood there for a second his clothes had changed he now had A head band flicking his red hair up, a long sleeveless jacket with a pattern down the lining of it, standard looking trousers with a long cloth of material the same as his jacket down the right leg.

"You know, I've always wanted to be unique my own type of person, but the image of my father had been cast upon me as he is popular. When my mother died and my father left, all I had was hatred for him, seeking revenge I became a pirate hoping he'd notice me. I want to become one of the strongest pirates of the sea, and to do that I need to be recognised under a name."

"Don't tell me this, tell the captain." Aniki points upwards, as they both look up rubble smashes out of the side of the building and starts falling towards them. "Brother!" Aniki looks towards Taon. "Hey I think my brother needs a hand, I'll throw you up and you get me up." Taon acknowledges and Aniki offers him a boost.

"Here we go!" Aniki launches Taon up a few floors and Taon went through a window. "Just a second Aniki," Aniki wandered around for a bit and then a knife came crashing down with a chain attached next to Aniki. "Climb up!" Aniki starts to make his way up with Taon.

Sharuda managed to stop himself and grab the chains, with all his strength Sharuda pulls Kaiser towards him and plants a punch into his face, you could hear the cracking of cheek bones and the shockwave caused a fissure which cracked along the stone walls.

After being launched into the wall, Sharuda managed to recover slightly but all was not finished. Kaiser got back up with a deathly angry look on his face. "How dare you hit me!" Kaiser pulled out of his coat more hooks. "Now know true pain!" He swung wildly at Sharuda but it was easily dodged as his attacks got more predictable because he was furious.

"Oh come on, give me a little challenge." Sharuda mocked him, the attacks got faster and Kaiser's face went mad with anger. "You little punk try this!" Kaiser fires them directly towards him, Sharuda successfully dodges. "Too easy." The hooks go into the wall and come back through in a different direction, which in turn cuts Sharuda's sides up a little bit.

Now wrapped up in chains Sharuda can't move. "I didn't thing id have to use all my strength to beat you, Not so cocky now are ya?" Sharuda kept struggling to free himself but to no avail. "That was your full strength what a weakling, no wonder you have so many mercenaries." The chains constrict Sharuda making it so he can't breathe.

"I have mercenaries because I have the money to pay for mercenaries!" Sharuda gets thrown so hard at the floor he goes through it and crashes through the lab and back into the room where the girl is now quivering. Sharuda wasn't moving, the chains went back to Kaiser, as the blood soaked Sharuda lay there she crawled over to him looking over him with her eyes. Although she could only see him with one eye; she put her hand out to try and shake him to wake him up.

As her skin touched his a reaction happened the girl sprang back; looking mortified and images smashed through her head, violent images, roaring, slicing, screaming. Her blind eye bled as she twitched in her place. Sharuda woke up suddenly and looked towards the girl. "Hey you alright?" he asked while shaking her, she couldn't move. "Y-you are…." She said while Sharuda picked her up and placed her on the bed to rest. "Hey you, my name is Sharuda what's yours?" She could barely speak; she managed to mutter "its Z-Zuffy..." She then passed out.

Sharuda walked back up to where Kaiser was, "You better not have disturbed the bitch she has to work!" the chain came straight towards Sharuda but he caught it and looked very angry. "WORK ON WHAT?!" Sharuda pulled Kaiser towards him this time he grabbed his throat and squeezed it, Kaiser struggled a bit. "What is she working on?!" Kaiser struggled to breathe "Hang on I'll tell you." He said with the last of his breath.

Sharuda dropped him as Kaiser slammed to the floor two hooks went downwards and wrapped Sharuda up again. "What an idiot?!" He laughed "Falling for the same trick again." He squeezed Sharuda tightly so he couldn't move. "Alright before you die I might as well tell you." Kaiser sits down in front of Sharuda.

"Right then it starts off with her parents, they were top notch Doctors migrated from the Drum kingdom to the west blue." Sharuda looked stunned, "Where is the Drum kingdom?" He asks while still maintaining a good balance of breathing. "The Drum kingdom is in the Grand line, you idiot" Sharuda's eyes light up, "The stories of Luffy Strawhat was there to save the kingdom."

He couldn't stop smiling when he heard. "Yes, yes the Drum kingdom is doing well for itself now that the king was defeated." He stood up and walked towards the smashed window.

"Anyway years ago they decided to go on a voyage with the girl who was 7 years old, on there way they discovered a medicine that could strengthen the physical strength of men."

"So you kidnapped the little girl in order for you to get the medicine from them? But they didn't give it up." Kaiser turned towards him with a sadistic grin on his face. "No actually, I killed them." Sharuda was left speechless his eyes open wide. "I didn't mean to kill them, those idiot bounty hunters said they put up a fight and they had to kill them."

"So I ordered them to be captured and instead they got killed, I thought my cause was lost until I found this girl hiding, she somehow knew her parents medicine." Sharuda's eyes started to burn with anger. "I've been keeping her here ever since."

All of a sudden two figures burst through the window close to Kaiser; it was Aniki and Taon. "Sharuda!" Shouts Aniki as he attempts to rush towards him. "Hey this isn't some hotel! Ruslan, Yakov." Kaiser shouts and two men sprang up from nowhere and smacked both Aniki and Teon to the ground.

Ruslan was huge His upper arms looked like cannons a pure muscle man he had tanned skin and gold bracelets, Aniki looks up at the big guy as he brings himself to his feet. "Hey you big guy, you made a bad move doing a cheep shot like that to me!" Aniki jumped up and pulled the big guy into a head lock and hit him in the face.

The dust cloud parted around Taon, he was already in the braced position holding the guy with his long knife an inch away from his face. "Oh that was a c-c-close one, I'm sure I had you." Teon smirked, "With a slow attack like that? Never," Yakov tall but way to skinny he had the goofiest hairstyle of the lot like a windmill on his head he also had a rat like face and a big beard.

As the two were locked in fighting Kaiser carried on. "So you see that girl, now makes medicine more me to feed to these two and me." Sharuda lifts his head up. "So you killed the girls parents and took her against her will, forced her for over a decade too slave over you and create the medicine for your gain?" Sharuda looked at him with a deathly stare. "Yep that's pretty much it," Sharuda gritted his teeth.

"What about her dreams and her freedom?" Even though Zuffy was downstairs she could hear every word Sharuda said, she started to weep uncontrollably on the bed she'd just regained consciousness on. What Zuffy had been longing for, for so long all she wanted was to be free, to be her own person. She didn't let it show until one stranger who had only met her for a few seconds had shown her his own freedom.

"She doesn't deserve freedom or dreams." Sharuda eyes now burned with rage, "ANIKIIIIIIIII!" Sharuda shouted at the top of his lungs. Aniki knocked back his opponent and turned around to look at him. "FORGIVE ME!" Aniki waited a second and looked at Sharuda's face, he nodded before turning back around and punched a few right jabs into Ruslan's Stomach.

Sharuda's eyes light up, the colour was heightened they glowed a bright blue, his body started to converge and the chains started to feel strained and pressured. "What's Happening?" Kaiser exclaimed as he lost control over Sharuda's body.

A very sharp roaring sound bellowed from Sharuda's Direction….