A/N. Ok thanks for reading, and before I get started I would like to get the facts involving Luffy's Devil Fruit out of the way. Oh, and I epically failed my deadline. Still got three stories to update, but I did pretty good. Anyways, the explanation as several reviewers asked about it. So now it is time for "Facts on Luffy's Devil Fruits!".
Also there is a link for the transformations appearence when Luffy is older on my bio.
Facts on Luffy's Devil Fruit!
Ok so as you know from the last chapter, Luffy's Devil Fruit is a Mythical Zoan. If I remember correctly I described it as a flaming white bird that was actually freezing cold. This was derived from that really cheesy term that I'm sure you all know: I'm so hot I'm cool. Of course in Luffy's case, she's so hot she's absolute zero (science people should recognize this term).
Anyways, cheesy puns and scientific terms aside, Luffy's DF is contradictery to say the least. Whatever her fire touches, freezes, quite solidly to the point where not even Bakainu and his lava could melt it. In fact, if Luffy wanted too, she could freeze the man solid and leave him like that for a century and a half, he still wouldn't thaw out. In other words, Luffy's flames burn so hot, they freeze you.
Appearence wise, it is quite similar if not a near exact copy of Marco's Phoenix form, to the point where you could confuse it for an albino phoenix. It is in simpler terms, Marco's Tori Tori no Mi: Phoenix Model's polar opposite. If you were to compare the two, while Marco might be lukewarm, when compared to Luffy, he is scalding hot in his transformation.
Luffy is not a phoenix, or some type of Phoenix hybrid, and no, she is not a snowbird, or like articuno, though I think I mixed attributes from that particular pokemon with Marco's phoenix, you all who guessed that, were not entirely wrong though. I currently have no name what bird Luffy transforms into. Anyways, I think you got the jist of it with this explanation, if not please tell me, and I will try to explain it more thoroughly.
There is a link for a good visual of what the bird looks like in my bio. Check it out!
So I hoped that answered all the questions concerning Luffy's Devil Fruit. Now time for Review Replies!
To Naomi-nami-16: Yep, welcome Marco, to the joys of big brotherhood. You have got one of the more difficult assignments. Then again when you can handle six hundred or so men at the same time, this may be a cakewalk. (talking to Marco aforementioned sentence.) Of course, Luffy uses him as a pillow. It's just not a female luffy fanfic without Marco being used as a pillow. And yes, it is appearently not good for your health to do so. Anyways, thanks for the review and enjoy!
To TheBlackSeaReaper: Shanks will appear in this chapter, and will show up some time later. Whitebeard and Ace will make a small cameo of sorts this chapter, hopefully, and will officially appear later, the next chapter maybe. The Whitebeard Pirates play an important part in this fanfic actually. Anyways, thanks for the review and enjoy!
To IndigoButterfly: Will appear along with Whitebeard later on. Thanks for the review and enjoy!
To Vampire Revan: Hey Tsunade-baa-chan! Shishishishi! That wasn't nice, and how did you not get burned by him? Thanks for the review, and your question should be answered in the above section. Enjoy!
To Alexsasha: Hey! Thanks and that should be answered in the above section.
To weirn018: Thanks and glad you like it! Hope you enjoy the rest!
To Rell: Check my bio for a link! The picture is kinda crappy, but it's the first time I've drawn a bird that was on fire so...anyways, yeah, I thought that was something Marco might do. Thanks for the review and enjoy!
To Son of Whitebeard: Sorry, but it's not following Luffy's Childhood in canon. But yeah, I can see where you would get that type of feeling. Sabo is alive, but Luffy and Marco won't meet them until they both run into Whitebeard, either the next chapter or one after this. Dadan is mentioned at some point, along with the other bandits by Ace and Sabo, but that is it, no appearences until a lot later. As for Bluejam. Heck no am I bringing that idiot into my fanfiction, he's part of the reason Sabo's dead! Thanks for the review and enjoy!
To Aoi Usa: Thanks, and I'm not sure if I want to know what your guess is...Anyways, enjoy! And the devil fruit is just another link between the two.
To Kenshin El: Thanks, if you haven't seen it, there is a link for the zoan transformation on my bio. If you have, then again, thanks. The quality of the picture is crappy, I had to use my stupid phone to take the picture because the thing I usually use is acting up. Anyways, thanks for the review and enjoy!
Ok! So now that that delightful tidbit is out of the way, time for summary and disclaimer!
Episode Summary: This has a lot of time skips, just important flashes through the several years before Marco and Luffy meet Whitebeard, Ace, and Sabo.
Note: When you see the 1 year later thing, that means it's one year later from when Marco first arrived, so it's 6 months after Marco arrived, 1 year after Marco arrived, 2 years after Marco arrived, and so on and so on.
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece!
Episode 2: Flashes through the years!
6 months later-
Marco had not expected to stay as long as he had. Another thing he had not expected, was his new found attachment to Luffy, the six year old girl who had saved him when he had gotten shot by a Marine. she was also the only other Devil Fruit user he knew with a similar if not almost identical ability to his. To say it was the only reason he stayed though, would be a lie. And Marco knew it.
He was sure that even without the Devil Fruit, and even if she had not saved him, he would still have the same attachment to her he had now. She was like a sister to him, one he wouldn't replace for the world, no matter how many faults she had.
It had been established quite easily in the town no less, that Marco was Luffy's adoptive big brother, and not a single child messed with either for fear of the wrath from the other. It was never a pretty result, and the two were not very nice to those who picked on them.
Luffy felt the same, in fact, she was the one to establish that little fact quite clearly. Not even month living under the same roof, and Luffy had already started to address him as Nii-kun, Nii-chan, Marco-nii, etc.. And not once had he ever objected, if fact, he had discovered quite quickly that he liked it when Luffy referred to him like that, and so in turn, he referred to Luffy as his youger sibling.
So it came as no surprise that when Garp, the ever idiotic oaf, who thinks that love is repeatedly giving your grandchild a concussion, hit Luffy one fair day when she was on one of her tangents about becoming the next Pirate King. Marco near lost it on the man.
The end result was a shocked Garp with scratch marks all over his personage, and a slightly bruised Marco standing defiantly infront of him, a scared timid Luffy hidden behind him and his protective arms. Quote unquote, and Makino would never let the man live this down, stating it as "ritous retribution for all the abuse he had put his poor granddaughter through.", Marco said,
"If you lay another finger on my little sister, I'm gonna gut you like a rotten fish." He hadn't even flinched when he said it. Just gave a deadly glare that could kill in Garp's general direction, and then escorted Luffy to the back of the Bar to get her newest bruise looked at and treated.
1 year later-
It had become official, Marco was here to stay, as long as Garp didn't try anything with Luffy. The first sign that the man was up to something, and Marco was taking Luffy and leaving this island forever. He'd visit of course, after all, it would be rude to not fly in and say hi to Makino, and the others every once in awhile. They had done nothing wrong, so it would be wrong to punish her for that crazy vice-admirals stupidity.
Makino was going to be furious though. Marco and Luffy had overheard some rambunctious sailors talking about a ritual of sorts that bound you forever as brothers (or sisters) regardless of whether you were actually blood related or not.
And so Marco and Luffy had performed it themselves, for blood related they may not have been, but in every other sense of the two familial roles, Marco was Luffy's big brother, and Luffy's was his little sister. They'd made a promise that no matter what they would always be there for each other as family. And they both meant every word of it.
Makino was still mad when she found out, after discovering one of her bottles of alcohol missing, that Marco and Luffy had used it to perform said ritual. And then took it a step further with some strange blood ritual involving a knife and mixing each others blood together. The interesting thing was that both were similar blood types, which meant that neither had to worry about their bodies rejecting the foreign blood. Makino was even more mad after finding that out, and though Marco was fine, Luffy's DF hadn't gifted with the same regenerative abilities that his had. And so, Luffy wound up having another scar on her right arm, shockingly similar in shape, to the one on Marco's left arm, though both were caused by different weapons, Marco's a result of a well placed bullet, and Luffy's of a clean cut knife. They were also both in the same exact location.
Luffy said it was just one more familial tye for the two, and that it made them even more family then before. Makino just nodded and played along, better then having Luffy go on another one of her tangents.
Marco's wound never had healed, which was strange as Makino and a local doctor had made sure that all of whatever that bullet was made out of had been removed from the wound. But Marco just couldn't heal that scar, and so it stayed. Besides, it wasn't giving the boy any trouble, so why bother with it.
Makino had made it a birthday present that year to rewrite both of the young childrens' birth certificates so that it specifically said that the two were brother and sister. Marco and Luffy couldn't have been happier.
2 years later-
Marco had been curious, insistently curious, on how Luffy had gotten ahold of a Devil Fruit. It had bugged him slightly, as unless Luffy wasn't born and raised in East Blue like he had originally thought, then it should've been next to impossible for her to have eaten one. So it had become convenient for him, when one day, a pirate ship, one appearently familiar to Luffy, docked at Fuschia Village, causing Luffy to drag him, yet again, to the docks to meet the crew personally.
Red-Haired Shanks. He was feared, famous, and powerful. And to his knowledge, Marco had never heard of any news about him ever having set sail in the East Blue, or at least this far into it. But appearently he had, and made good to keep it secret. And it turned out, he was the reason Luffy had eaten the Devil Fruit. Or rather, his carelessness, and the forgotten fact that Luffy would eat anything that she could get her hands on, as not even the best locks in the world could keep food away from her. Which was appearently how she'd eaten it. Any food within Luffy's reach that was left ungaurded, after all, was forfeit to Luffy's stomach. Luckily Marco had put a cap on that, being the one who told her when enough food was enough food, which usually ranged between two or three servings before he systimatically slapped her hand and told her no more or she would get sick. She listened, much to the pirate crew's shock.
Appearently Luffy's eating habits could be controlled, you just had to be Marco to do it successfully. Then came the interesting stories of their time spent with Luffy, most of which consisting of Luffy's impecable eyesight and capacity for observation, especially out on sea. Luffy could see farther then the best sharpshooters in the world. Marco had the same, if not better capacity for observation as Luffy, Luffy's was just different, as her's was more keyed into the sea and it's features, and a persons' behavioral patterns. Marco's was keyed into a person's body language and things involving the sky and his immediate surroundings. What's more, the two worked well together when it came to prediction and observation. Whatever Luffy missed, Marco picked up on, and vice versa.
So it came as no surprise, when one day some drunken idiot decided to try and pick a fight with Shanks, obviously not a local and lacking quite a bit of his common sense, if he had any to begin with. Luffy and Marco had called out which direction he would attack from, and what type of attack he would use. The shocker was that neither were using Haki at all, and mearly predicting off of the ever changing body language of the man, making many a Kenbonshoku Haki user look like an amateur at best. Lord knew how much the latent ability would grow if this particular skill was ever added on later.
They'd be near impossible to hit, if not an excercise in wasting energy and tiring yourself out quickly. And Shanks slightly feared fighting the two when they got older, as it would not be a very fun fight.
And then came the time when they had to part, as the Marines had figured out that the Yonko was staying in the East Blue, and not wanting to see the island sink to the bottom of the ocean, inhabitants and all, left, keeping the island forever out of the Marines eyes, as they changed course in near five seconds to persue the man and his crew.
Marco had decided quite easily, that Shanks was a respectable man, if not a bit on the careless and forgetfull side. He learned from his mistakes though, and protected his friends. So Marco made no objection to Luffy's decision to become a pirate, as she had been encouraged by the man to follow her dreams the first time they had met. As long as it wasn't from some sort of bad influence, or just plain defiance toward Garp, Marco would fully support Luffy's dreams.
3 years later-
Marco had just turned 12 a week ago, and today was Luffy's ninth birthday, a time of happiness and celebration for the two and some other close friends. Or should have been anyway. He had warned the man, Marco was sure he had made it quite clear that if Garp tried with Luffy, he'd take her and leave the island. Appearently, he hadn't been clear enough.
Oh the day had started out fine. Perfectly well, Luffy was ecstatic about her birthday, and Marco was just plain happy, that his little sister was happy.
But then Garp showed up, and ruined everything.
They were waiting for Makino in the bar, amongst several people, all who wished Luffy a happy birthday as they passed by or entered. Luffy thanked them, as Marco had taught her to, since regardless of whether she was going to be a pirate or not, she needed some manners, at least some knowledge of how to greet people properly when they deserved it, and when to say thank you, please, and you're welcome.
Makino had come out finally, and not five seconds afterwards, Garp came in spouting nonsense with his spectacular and horribly rude entrance, entering through the blasted wall and creating a huge mess for poor Makino. Luffy paled, as no matter if Marco was there to protect her from her crazed grandfather or not, the man still scared her.
Then he approached, having spotted Luffy. He only spared Marco a glance, before snatching Luffy out of her seat and then babbling on about what he called "the best birthday present every!". He was going to take Luffy away, to where he wouldn't say, though he mentioned something about Marineford, and how she would be trained there to be an admiral in the marines. To say Marco was pissed, was a very bad understatement.
The boy had warned the man to not pull anything like this. He had completely disregarded, right in front of Marco no less. What was worse, was the fact that he never listened. Always in a rush and insistent on forcing his tyranical views on Luffy, and appearently two other kids that Garp had taken in and then unceremoniously dumped on some poor mountain bandit on the island. Marco would not have his little sister, forced into something she did wanted no part in.
And so without any hesitation on his own part, Marco attacked Garp, though a low and dirty trick even in his own views, from behind. He got Garp's arm first, the one that was holding Luffy, and then then went for the large man's back. Just to stall the man.
He had apologized to Makino, as said woman through a bag of money at the boy, who caught it with deft hands, and then proceded to get in Garp's way further by insisting that she see his injuries. It ahd been all the time Marco needed to grab Luffy and leave the island. Too much in a rush to stop and say goodbye to anyone.
But that was fine, as they all knew that Marco would take on all of Marineford if it meant that Luffy was happy, and Luffy would do the same for him.
6 years later-
It had been six years since Marco had met Luffy, five since Marco and Luffy had made it official that the two were siblings, with even further help from Makino. Four years since Marco had met the man that had saved his little sisters life, and 3 years since they had runaway from her crazed grandfather. Luffy was now 12 and Marco was 15. And in the amount of time since then, the two had established themselves as near impossible to find for Garp. They had all but vanished in the amount of time since they had last confronted each other.
Marco had allowed for Luffy to, with much reluctance and lack of ability to resist Luffy's "Super Mega Puppy Dog Face", which would make even the most strong-willed, hardened, and cold marine melt into putty; dye some of her hair blonde, to match Marco's. So now her hair was a mixture of blonde and jet-black hair. Marco was just happy that she was happy with the change, as then she said that nobody could doubt that they were siblings now. Which was true, as afterwards nobody had questioned their relationship to each other no matter where they went, the most common question now being why they were where they were, and where were their parents. The common answer was for Marco to tell them, in less polite terms, to go away, and for Luffy to flip each and every one of them off, followed by a sound kick to get the point across that they didn't want you near them.
And so for quite some time, they lived relatively unimpeded in their travels from island to island, that is until they finally reached the Grand Line. The two had decided to become pirates, with enough of a feel for travel and the Grand Line, that they managed to establish themselves as a very dangerous crew. With only two members, they had already become quite feared amongst pirates in the first half of the Grand Line, known as Paradise. The Twin Phoenix Pirates.
They were also known for not being easily caught. And were infamous for their "drop-ins". They had no ship, no need for one, and so went about battle as such. They would spot an enemy ship, and then literally drop-in on them, wiping out a good majority of the ships crew in a short amount of time, and then left, just as quickly as they had arrived, and without much trouble.
Their last little attack, had been on Luffy's twelfth birthday, the day before they had decided that they had done enough playing about in Paradise, and decided to fly into New World. They were a lot more cautious once they had reached said half of the Grand Line.
They probably should have known better though, despite all their caution, to lay a foot on a Yonko's territory, wearing your pirate flag in brazen daylight on your clothes, for everybody to see. Especially when you wound up causign qutie a bit of chaos by picking a fight with another crew that was apart of said Yonko's alliance.
Really it wasn't that bright an idea, but then again, they hadn't been the one to start the fight, and they hadn't known they were in a Yonko's territory until just before they left, when the sore losers had declared, having been beaten quite thoroughly by the two youngsters, that they would pay for messing around with one of Whitebeard's allies, in his own territory.
That had all happened that same year, not even two months in New World, and already made themselves possible targets for a Yonko's revenge. Then again, they hadn't even heard of Whitebeard until that moment in time, having spent a good majority of boths time traveling about and spending little time on any islands what so ever, they had little information on the higher ranked pirates, like the Yonkos. They'd only known that Shanks was one of them.
They were even more cautious after that incident, never staying on a particular island too long, after all, supposedly, Whitebeard was even stronger then Shanks. They had no desire, though the temptation was there, to fight a Yonko. At least, not yet.
Somewhere else in the New World-
A large man sat in his throne like chair, eyeing a newspaper that had recently been printed, concerning the newest bunch of rookie pirates, the Twin Phoenix Pirates. Not a lot was known about them, but from what little information those who made the newspapers could gather, was that they both had Devil Fruits, what kind were unknown, and that they attacked in a way that left little to no chance of fighting back, normally.
Appearently, one of his allies had taken on the two while they were in his territory. With no knowledge of it appearently, but still, the allies had admitted to starting the fight, but had gravely underestimated the twos fighting capabilities. Appearently the rumors were true, there were only two members in the crew, a young boy, and an even younger girl, though whether they were planning on gathering more was still unknown. The shocker, was their ages. It had been well informed, and backed-up by repeated claims, that the two pirates that made this particular crew up, were young. But Whitebeard doubted anybody had expected them to be as young as 15 and 12. In other words, they were still very much children, but children trained well-enough to cause massive damage to enemy pirates.
An they were impossible to hit in a battle. They were constantly predicting your moves, and no matter how much you tried to mix it up, make it so they couldn't predict it, they still managed to efficiently evade any and all attacks. They hadn't used their supposed Devil Fruits either, not until they both took off in a succesful attempt at escaping the island before unwanted help showed up. But that escape had given them at least a glimpse into what they were truly dealing with when it came to Devil Fruits.
Two Zoan class Devil Fruit users, and not just any normal Zoan, no, they were dealing with powerful Mythical Zoan class Devil Fruits users. Both were fire based, or seemed to be, and the shapes attributed to the name of their Pirate crews.
They had attracted Whitebeard's interest though, and this of course, caught the attention of his Second Division Commander, Portgaz D. "Fire Fist" Ace, and his brother "The Bloody Gentleman" Sabo.
"You want them to join us don't you?" Sabo had asked, a calm, knowing look on his face. Ace grinned michievously as he responded to that for the man they considered a father,
"Why of course he would! I would too! Those two sound like fun, and powerful! They'd be great additions. If not, we could always make them allies." Sabo shook his head as he chuckled at his brohter's predictable behavior. They weren't much older then the eldest in the Twin Phoenixes. But they were just as deadly as any of the other, older men of the Whitebeard Pirates.
One thing was for sure though, if they did manage to find and meet with this powerful duo, it would be interesting to say the least.
A/N. Oh my God! That must be my longest chapter yet! Thanks for reading, and hope you guys liked it, please review! And see ya!
Oh and sorry if they seem kinda OOC in this, my hands were just typing what my brain came up with.
Marco & Luffy: Bye!
