Family Tales

Title: Family Tales
Rating: T
Fandom: One Piece
Summary: [Alternate Tales AU] Thinking that Luffy needs a Marine role model, Garp kidnaps his nephews and ditches them on Dawn Island.

Crocodile—34 years old
Alligator and Corazon—27 years old
Law—14 years old
Luffy—7 years old
Shanks—27 years old

"Luffy spit it out!" Shanks shook the seven year old upside down.

Luffy's neck stretched and his head hit the floor. "What's happening!?"

"You idiot you just ate the Gomu-Gomu no mi!" Shanks shouted. "It's a Devil Fruit! Now you'll never be able to swim!"

"WHAT!?" Luffy exclaimed.

"You dumbass!" Shanks scolded.

"Technically it is your fault, Shanks," Alligator defended. "You left it on the counter in an opened chest. It's a fruit and anyone without knowledge of Devil Fruits would mistake it for a normal one. Luffy, apparently your body is rubber now,"

Luffy's expression went from shock to upset as he turned to Shanks, seemingly forgetting about the sudden new change. "You should've fought back! If you just laugh it up, you're not a man!"

"It's just a bottle of sake," Shanks told him. "Some things are not worth getting worked up about,"

"But he insulted you!" Luffy argued.

"Not engaging in fights isn't a sign of cowardice," Shanks claimed. "Besides, there wasn't really any harm done except for the mess,"

XXX

Alligator was taking a nap. He had been giving Luffy lessons about Devil Fruits. Most of the info went in through one ear and out the other since Luffy found them to be boring. Shanks had gone sailing and was going to return that afternoon, so Luffy decided to hang at Party's Bar. Everything was fine until Higuma showed up again and Luffy demanded him to apologize to Shanks. Recognizing the boy as the one who was present earlier, he kidnapped him. Makino attempted to fight back but she wasn't any match for the bandit.

"Alligator!" Makino called, throwing the door to the shared house open.

Alligator yawned from the couch, sitting up and rubbing his eyes. "Makino? What's up?"

"Luffy's been kidnapped by the bandits!"

By the time they reached where Luffy and the bandits were, there was smoke clearing up. Alligator noticed Shanks and his crew were there. Shanks was panicking. "Oh no! We got careless! They took Luffy! What should we do!?"

"Captain don't panic!" Lucky Roo said. "Let's split up and find them!"

"What do you mean they took Luffy!?" Alligator demanded, grabbing Shanks by his shirt. "I know you're strong enough to easily defeat them all! Why did you just let them take my nephew!?"

"Relax, Al," Shanks said, his tone turning serious. "You know I won't let anything happen to him. Luffy needs to understand just how dangerous the life of a pirate is. I won't let him get killed. Trust me,"

Alligator released his hold. "Fine. I trust you,"

XXX

Alligator's eyes widened as Shanks and Luffy made it to shore. His eyes were focused on the blood coming from where Shanks' arm was supposed to be. Luffy was taken by Makino as the Red Haired Pirates' doctor worked to stop the bleeding.

"Your arm…" Alligator whispered. "Why?"

"It's just an arm, Alligator," Shanks laughed it off.

"I know that you're strong enough to have easily defeated that Sea King!" Alligator yelled. "So why did you let it take your arm!?"

"I bet it on the creation of a new age," Shanks said. "I know that Luffy is going to be a great pirate one day,"

XXX

They had all expected Flevance to be empty, deserted of life. They had expected to see the ruins of the buildings and skeletons lying around. But that wasn't what they had saw. The buildings and the remains of the citizens have been removed. There were people in hazmat suits carrying pick-axes while others were pushing wheelbarrows full of amber lead.

"Even after everyone was killed…" Law whispered. "The World Government bastards are still mining for amber lead! Everyone I knew died here! The World Government doesn't care for people's lives! They only care for profits!"

"I need to inform Sengoku-san about this!" Corazon looked down to his adoptive son. "Law—"

"I'LL KILL THEM ALL!" Law shouted, drawing the attention of the workers.

"Hey! Who the hell are you guys!?" They demanded.

"ROOM!" Law formed a small dome that barely encompassed the nearby group of workers. "SHAMBLES!" He reappeared in front of them and drew a small sword, cutting the people around him.

"Crocodile we have to stop him!" Corazon said. One of the men hit Law with the pick axe, which caused Corazon to go into rage. "Leave him alone!"

Crocodile waited a few minutes before he easily took out the men. He watched as Corazon scooped Law into his arms, trying to soothe the child. For the next couple minutes, Crocodile smoked a cigar, waiting for the two to regain their composure.

The rest of the miners tried to fight back too but once they realized that they were no match, they all fled. Law came to the spot where his family hospital used to be. Crocodile blew all of the tents that had been set up away. Law fell to his knees, tears streaming as he sobbed loudly. "Mother…Father…Lami…I'm back…" He let out a wail of sadness. "I'm sorry I couldn't save you guys!"

There was a moment of silent from the two adults. Law's sob echoed through the now empty island. When Law had managed to stop crying, they began to make wooden gravestone crosses. Law carved the names of everyone he could remember into the crosses. There were several blank crosses for those that Law didn't know the names of. The entire former town was filled with graves.

XXX

They stopped by Swallow Island on the way back to restock. Law was hesitant at first, still recalling the events from the previous year. Eventually he decided to explore town on his own. He stopped in front of an old swords shop. His current sword was already old and he would need a new weapon.

As he entered the shop he was greeted by an old man. "Hello there young man," The old man began to suggest some types of swords for the teenager.

But the fourteen year old ignored him. A voice was drawing him to a certain part of the shop. There were no understandable words, but it was pulling Law toward it, as if it were a siren. His body moved on his own towards the location. The voice wasn't a beautiful song of a mermaid, it was the bloodthirsty cries of a killer.

Law stopped in front of a nodachi. The hilt was a light purple color and a fluffy guard rested between it and the blade. The sheath was black decorated with a row of white crosses on either side, a red string coiled near the guard. Its voice was now roaring in Law's ears. Law only understood one thing out of everything the sword was saying.

"Kikoku,"

The old man stared at Law. "You can hear her voice?"

"Kikoku is a male sword spirit," Law corrected. "He was calling to me,"

The old man opened the case and motioned for Law to pick Kikoku up. "Kikoku is a cursed sword,"

As soon as Law's hand wrapped around the sword's hilt, the words became clearer and more understandable.

"I cAn FeEl YoUr ThIrSt FoR rEvEnGe! LeT mE hElP yOu. In ExChAnGe YoU mUsT sAtE mY bLoOdThIrSt!"

Law wanted to defeat Doflamingo. No, he didn't want to just defeat him. He wanted to kill him! If it wasn't for Garp, Doflamingo would've killed Cora-san! He wasn't going to let Doflamingo have another chance to kill Cora-san!

I plan on having Law meet Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo in the next chapter.

I've also started to work on an original story, Learning How to Dad While Saving the World. I published the first chapter of it on Wattpad if anyone is interested in reading it.
Wattpad DOT com SLASH 571859073-learning-how-to-dad-while-saving-the-world-chapter

Kaito Luminous: Baby 5 and Buffalo told Doflamingo that they overheard the Marines taking in a boy so Doflamingo undid his birdcage.
CelinaB: You're welcome. Thanks for reading.
kyle77776: Sorry, but I prefer Luffy having the Gum-Gum Fruit.