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Previously on 'One Piece: A Different Path':
"And what exactly is your dream, that you would go so far as to risk your own life?" Coby gulped nervously as he waited for an answer and continued to stare at Lucy, he really wanted to know what it was but he was also a bit scared of her answer. Said girl looked up slowly and gave a playful yet serious smirk before answering.
"To be The Queen of the Pirates!" Was her unashamed and honest answer.
Chapter 3: How Did She Do That?
Coby looked at her like she was out of her mind and yelled.
"WHAT ARE YOU INSANE? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?" Lucy gave him a wierd look before saying in a slightly mocking voice.
"Well duh. Of course I know what it means. Queen of the Pirates means Queen of the Pirates, what else could it mean?" She had an amused look on her face by the time she'd finished speaking and Coby was speechless for all of five seconds before rambling on and on about.
"Wait a second. If you want to be The Pirate Queen, then that must mean you're a pirate and that your going after the greatest treasure in the world! The One Piece! But you can't do that! It's said that nearly every pirate to sail the seas is after that treasure and it can only be found in the Grandline, the most dangerous and unforgiving sea of them all! There's no way that you can do that, you'll be killed for sure!"
By the time Coby had finished his little speech, Lucy was no longer amused and was instead a bit insulted at having been looked down on, yet at the same time she understood why he would think the way he did as she knew that most of what he'd said was true she'd grown up there after all but that didn't mean that she'd let him get away with calling her weak.
So not wasting any time she slapped him on the back of the head, though not too hard as she just wanted to get her point across. As soon as she hit him he looked at her in disbelief and asked more like whined.
"OW! Why'd you hit me?" Lucy only gave him a blank stare and said in a slightly pleased voice. "Cause I wanted to." At her response, Coby just looked down and in a somewhat dejected tone of voice.
"Oh well, it's not like it's a first for me. The crew usually smacks me around for fun all the time so I'm used to it." Lucy looked at his slumped form and said in a soft voice with a small smile on her face.
"Listen Coby, it's not about if I can, it's because I want to that I'm following this path. I made a promise to the man who gave me this hat that I'd set out on my own, gather a great crew and become Queen of the Pirates! And that's a promise that I intend to keep even if it takes the rest of my life."
Coby looked really surprised at the fond smile that had graced her lips and the nostalgic tone in her voice while talking about her promise to some unknown man. Feeling slightly encouraged by her honest words, he asked in a very timid voice.
"Do you think that I could do it to? It's always been my dream to become a great marine and catch bad guys!" While speaking, the look of uncertainty on his face changed into one that screamed his hopefulness. Lucy's face changed into one of slight confusion and asked.
"How should I know?" It seemed that Coby wasn't really paying attention because at that moment he stood up and declared.
"Alright, I'm going to do it! I'll join the marines and then I'll catch Alvida-" He didn't get to finish as at that very same moment, the ceiling crashed down right in front of them and a massive shadow inside the dust could be seen moving around. Then a loud and obnoxious voice the shadow yelled out.
"Coby! Who was it that you said you were going to catch?" The voice sounded female but Lucy couldn't be sure, that is until the dust finally cleared and she confirmed that the voice was indeed female but still very deep and masculine. Coby who recognised the voice instantly, started shaking and didn't answer as he was to scared too and just stared at her in wide-eyed fear.
Turning her attention to Lucy and ignoring Coby for the time being she asked.
"I'm guessing that you're not The Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro, so who are you?"
Lucy thought about who this Zoro person she spoke about was since she was positive that she'd never heard of them before and decided to ask Coby about it when all of this was all over and done with. When she finally answered it was is a board voice.
"I'm a pirate." The older woman looked slighty surprised at her response but disregarded it. Then said in a somewhat skeptical voice.
"You, a pirate? Well if you're a pirate and I'm a pirate under different flags then that would make us enemies right?" She looked at Lucy's rather small build up and down and snorted when she replied with a "Yep." Shaking her head, she turned back to a still silent Coby before asking.
"Coby! Who is the most beautiful woman on the seas?" Hearing his name, his head jerked up and was just about to answer in his normal way of 'That would be you of course, Lady Alvida." But didn't get the chance as Lucy opened her mouth and asked out loud.
"Hey Coby, who's the hag?" While jabbing a thumb in the older woman's direction. Both Coby and Alvida looked at her with wide-eyes and dropped jaws both in shock before Alvida's face darkened and a few little tic marks appeared all over her face and growling slightly!
Coby was just about to tell Lucy to shut her mouth but when he looked at her grinning face he remembered what she'd said. 'I promised the man who gave me this hat that I'd become a great pirate! And I don't mind dying as long as I'm fighting for my dream.' Now he understood what she'd meant when she said it. So with a determined look in his eyes he yelled out.
"The most beautiful women on the seas certainly isn't you, it's Lucy because she's way more beautiful than you'll ever be! And I refuse to be your cabin boy anymore instead I'm going to join the marines and I'm going to catch your sorry ass first!" He was breathing deep by the time he had finished and felt pretty good about himself.
Especially when he saw Lucy rolling around on the ground laughing hysterically. But that changed when he looked back at Alvida as she was quite literally steaming mad! Her face darkened even more and the tic marks on her face grew in size and doubled in number. Her left eyebrow was twitching viciously and she was reaching for her giant iron club while yelling.
"YOU LITTLE BRAT!" And as she swung her giant iron club up in the air ready to bash his brains out of his skull, Coby looked on in horror as she started to swing her club back down and thought. 'I finally did it, I finally fought for my dream!"
But right before the club made contact with his head, Lucy grabbed him by the arm and pulled him out of the way just in time for the club to crash into the boards right by their feet. He looked up at her with wide eyes and noticed that she was still smiling really big in amusement before she looked at him and said.
"That was great Coby, you did a really good job fighting for your dream! Now let's get out of here." With that said, she pulled him closer and jumped up and through the hole in the ceiling made by Alvida before with Coby in tow. As soon as they landed on the deck, numerous pirates began surrounding them from all sides.
Lucy pushed Coby behind her slightly before taking on the pirates. She dodged every hit with such ease that it made it look like she was dancing around them. When she started to get board of that she turned around and held up her hand that was now holding a gun that was made out of water and said. "Water Pistol!"
As soon as she said it, high pressurized bullets made of water started hitting every one of the pirates in the head knocking them out on contact. Then in her other hand another gun appeared and she pointed it behind her and said.
"attacking from behind isn't very fair." Before shooting her second gun and without even turning around she knew that she'd hit her target. Refocusing completely back in front of her she noticed all the conscious pirates charging towards her and said in a slightly whiney voice.
"And ganging up on a girl is even more unfair!" But if you were paying attention, you could tell that she was amused. Thinking that it was time to stop playing around and get a little serious, she let her guns drip away, transformed into her half dragon form, raised one clawed hand and moved her now scaled arm back slightly before flinging it forward.
What happened next was a mystery to both Coby and Alvida because a second after she'd finished moving, all the pirates were swept up and away by a wave, knocking them out before they even hit the ground, that came out of no where. Coby looked at her with wide eyes once again and asked.
"Lucy, what are you?" She turned to face him with another smirk on her lips and said.
"I don't know exactly which one, but I ate a mythical zoan type devil fruit that lets me turn into a dragon that can control water." She didn't even try to hide it.
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