Me: Oi kora, I'm back with chapter 3 of this story. *cries tears of joy* I thank you guys for the reviews T.T really, that set my will on fire. Sorry for late update but I am only allowed to get on my pc on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and sometimes Wednesday. Now then meet the First Mate and a good fight (I hope).

The catty First Mate
Somewhere in the sea

In the prime of the morning a small boat was floating on the ocean. No sight of life was seen, except for the person in it.

"Sooo booooored ~" Drake whined to particularly no one but himself. "I wish something exciting would happen." You should never wish for bad thing, as they might happen. Just as he said it the water rose. Drake blinked at the water and suddenly saw a sea king coming out from it. The sea king had the appearance of an oversized green eel. The beast look at Drake and suddenly remembered why he came to the surface, he was hungry and the person in the ship looked like a perfect meal. The eel swam to Drake with a look that could make a sailor shit his pants.

Drake just stared at the eel when he suddenly got a grin on his face. The grin only widened by the fact he saw the eel swam over the him as it wanted to eat him. Drake just had one thought playing in his mind: "What a fool, HE will be MY food." Drake stood up just in front of the eel, which make it wonder and stop for a second. The eel then smirked (well at least like a eel does) and opened its mouth planning to swallow his prey. Not knowing what his prey was really planning. Drake smirked seeing the open mouth of the eel. He then grope his sword, pulled it out and waited for the eel to come.

The moment the mouth of the eel covers Drake's right arm, he thrusts the sword in his right arm forward and in the mouth of the eel, killing it on instant. The eel first got shocked by the thrust, and bit in Drake's arm before his eyes turned white. As Drake pulled the sword out of the eel blood gushed out of said beast. He then looks at his arm, grabs the tooth stuck in it and pulls it out, not without some blood coming out the wound. It seemed the tooth almost pierced through Drake his bone but the thrust made the bit weaken.

Drake ripped a part of his clothes to stop his bleeding, but a bit to late as he already lost almost half a liter of blood. After reeling part of the eel in his boat, Drake cut the eel in pieces and throws the rest of the body back in the water.

Drake takes the pieces of meat and put them beneath deck in the fridge, that he by some chance got in it. He came back up deck and saw a small island. He took a map and saw that the island was named "Tree Island". Drake just shrugged at the name, put the map back and worked on the sails to prepare for docking.

Tree Island: shore

As Drake docked in the shore he looked around and saw a pirate ship. The flag had the form of a pig with a leaf on it. Shrugging at the flag, Drake tied the sails and set foot on shore. He then wandered to the village.

As he entered the village he saw people looking at him, they gave him looks he didn't like. The girls had a blush on his face while the boys got an annoyed and jealous look on theirs after seeing the reaction of the girls. He sighed and kept walking until he saw a bar and decided to enter, but was interrupted by a girl of around sixteen years.

"E-e-ehm, h-h-hello, s-sir. Are you new, I haven't seen y-you around her." The girl stuttered, while looking at the bar in the corner of her eye.

"Yeah, I just got here this morning." Drake answered. "And now you are going to answer one of my questions."

He stated as he bend over to her grope her chin and pulled it two inches from his face. As reaction the girl blushed as red as a tomato and nodded. The actions haven't been unseen by the others as the girls had a look on their face they would kill the girl any second now, same with the boys, only their looks are directed to Drake.

"Y-y-yeah?" The girl asked, trying her best to ignore the stares.

"Why are you trying to keep me out that bar?" He asked, his face almost made a 180, as it first had a smile on it but now had a serious look on it.

Her eyes widened. "W-w-what are you-?" She started but was interrupted as a man came flying out the bar.

The man crashed into one of the barrels and broke it in his fall. Suddenly a man came out who resembled. The man's face that was covered with a mask of straw. The man was fat, had a black pants with a belt on it, carrying two guns and was wearing a captain cape. He had a black coat that poorly enough did not cover his body.

"Kuhahaha. If you are a demon as they say you are then I am the demon emperor. Kuhahahaha, my mother is more fearsome that you." The man laughed, but stopped the moment he saw the girl that was talking to Drake. The man got a perverted grin on his face.

"Hello little girl, come over here and lets have some fun." He demanded as he already reached for the girl.

Said girl raised her arms to protect her and waited for the man to pull at her. When she opened her eyes she was surprised seeing what happened in front of her.

The moment the man stopped laughing the boy he threw out the bar woke up and saw what the man was planning to do to the girl, which was the person he loved. He wanted to dash to her aid but the gray boy did saw he didn't expect.

Drake reacted immediately as he saw the intention of the man. He moved in front of the girl and grope the man's wrist, hard. The man winced as he felt something penetrated through his flesh, something sharp. To prove his point the man's wrist started bleeding, but the man had no to little time to comprehend what was happening as suddenly the boy's grip tightened and suddenly his hand got cut off. The man looked at it for a second… two seconds… three… four… He grope his wrist, looked at it with horror and screamed like a little child. This probably caught the attention of his crew as they dashed outside and saw their captain rolling on the floor holding his hand, or where should be his hand but instead there was blood coming out his arm at an alarm rated speed.

"Get him, no KILL him!" The captain ordered them.

As on command all the pirates turned over to Drake only to see him away, carrying the girl bridal style and ignoring them. This set the pirates on fire and they dashed over to Drake.

"Here, protect her will you." Drake said to the boy and handed the girl to him.

"Huh, what? Are you insane, you can't win by yourself, I'll help you." The boy stated.

"I need to give some payback, attacking me when I haven't eaten in a week. I'll show them who's boss."

The boy said as he stood up. Now that Drake had a chance to look at the boy he had to admit the boy looked strong. The boy had blue hair that was so long it covered his back. The boy also had blue eyes and was 6.02ft tall. Looking at his sleeveless shirt he saw that the boy had some muscles.

"Fine." Drake said, impressed by the boy's attitude. "Name." He said.

"Huh" The boy looked at him with a confused look.

"I'm asking for your name." Drake repeated.

"Oh, name is Raven. Eighteen years old. You?" Raven asked

"Leopard D. Drake. Seventeen years old. Now then," Drake started as he looked to his opponents and a grin wishing for blood came on his face. "let's go wild."

Raven was shocked seeing the face of Drake. But was even more shocked at the speed of Drake that he used to dash over to his opponents. The speed even startled the pirates. But Raven wasn't planning on staying behind and joined Drake with a bit slower speed.

Drake drew his sword and started slashing the pirates with ease, much to his disappointment. He was hoping they were more of a challenge. Instead of killing them, he decided they weren't worth it so he cut them with the blunt of his sword. He suddenly felt a presence him and wanted to perform a kick to the guy, only to see the guy send flying by a punch of Raven, who made a 'don't-hug-up-all-the-fun' face. Drake looked at him and let a small laugh escape his mouth.

"Sorry, sorry I didn't want to upset you, but they were so weak I thought you didn't want to join." He assured Raven.

"I don't care. They humiliated me so I will be the one to defeat them. Am I clear." He demanded with a voice that startled some of the fallen pirates who then decided to stay unconscious.

"Maamaa~ take it easy, I don't really care anyway, so be my guest." Drake said not at least a bit intimidated by Raven.

"Heh, it doesn't matter anymore, they are weak, so let's just capture them and hand them to the marine base." Raven shrugged.

"Sure, why not." Drake said, using a rope he got somewhere and tied the pirates up.

At the Marine base (after giving Raven a good meal)

"Thanks for capturing these pirates." A young girl bowed to the boys.

"Ma~ it's alright, so don't worry about it." Drake waved his hand dismissing the thank you and walked away of the building, to the forest with the money on the man's head. He still couldn't believe the man had a bounty of 2.500.000 Beli's seeing the fact the man was really a weakling.

"So," Raven told him, pulling Drake out his thoughts. "what was it you wanted to talk me about?" He asked.

"Ah yeah, almost forgot. You see I plan on becoming a pirate and I would like to know if you would like to join my crew." Drake stated.

Raven didn't expect this, and it was very noticeable due to the fact he stop in his track and had a surprised look on his face.

"And why would I join you?" He asked Drake.

"Who said you were allowed?" Drake taunted him. "First off I don't need a weakling, and second I want you know your specialty."

"Oh, so you think I'm stupid, don't you?" Raven said with a bit of annoyance in his voice.

"How can I know if your weak or strong. I mean I hardly saw you fight, so how we settle that right here and now?" Drake said with a smirk. "If I win you will join my crew."

"And if you lose?" Raven said with a grin as he readied his stance.

"I don't know, you can think up something when you beat me." Drake said with a confident smile. "Now, shall we begin?"

Not waiting for an answer Drake dashes over to Raven and delivers a kick to the gut of Raven. He uses the momentum of the kick to kick himself back to create some distance between the two.

"Ugh" Taken of guard Raven is sent flying into a tree. He then stood up and spit a small bit of blood out.

"Been a while since a send flying in a fair fight." He stated. Then he dashes with much greater speed than with the pirates punching Drake with his right hand only to quickly stop his attack and use his left.

Hitting Drake dead on the face send said boy flying. He didn't want to let Drake recover from the punch and dashed after him. To Raven's surprise Drake flipped in the air and land on the ground on his fours.

"Yeah same here, shame it didn't hurt." Drake grinned before dashing over to Raven and attempting to punch him in the face. Raven wanted to perform a counter, but didn't realize the speed of Drake's punch, resulting both hitting each other at the same time. They kept standing ignoring the punches.

"Seems like you are a bit of fun after all." Drake told Raven.

"Well, never thought you would keep standing after -" Raven started but was soon halted by a kick in the stomach. Looking down he saw that Drake's knee was planted in his own stomach. "Ugh, why you -" He was soon interrupted by a punch in the face sending him flying a good fifteen feet, creating a lot of dust.

"Hmm, seems like I overestimated you." Drake sighed, a hint of boredom in his voice. "I guess I'll leave you here as I see no further reason to keep fighting. Even if I win I won't let you join." He sighed again, and started to turn back to the village when he heard Rave chuckle. "Huh?"

"Overestimated you say?" Raven asked in his chuckle. "Well then, I guess it's time to show you WHY I am the strongest on this island?"

Drake turned his head to the place where he punched Raven only to see nothing but darkness. "!" Before Drake could do anything he was pushed into the ground, head first, creating a crater in the ground. But he didn't stay in it for long, as something pulled his shirt and threw him into a nearby tree but instead of just slamming into it he kept flying and only stopped at the third.

*CRASH* *CRASH* *CRASH*

Drake then came back, bruises and cuts over his body and looked at the place Raven should be, only to see anything but a human.

The thing he saw was a hybrid of a tiger and human. The creature was twice as big as a normal human and three times as wide. It had an orange fur with black stripes, the same for his tail that was swiping around. The creature stood on his back legs only the paws and nails touching the ground (like Lucci). But the surprised thing was that his clothes weren't torn apart.

Drake casually walked back, his eyes darkened with the shadow of his hair. He then stopped five meters away from the creature before lifting his head, eyes still covered. "So, you have a devil fruit, huh? Raven." He simply asked.

The creature grinned. "Yeah. That's right." Raven stated. "I ate the Neko Neko no Mi: Model Tiger. There is nothing I can't…" He started but soon stopped when he heard a chuckle. He looked down seeing Drake with a smile on his face that didn't suit him at all. "What is so funny, huh Drake?" He growled.

"It's just funny. To see another devil fruit user so early in my adventure. I'm sure you'll be a good First Mate. Seeing the fact you may stop me from going berserk." Drake stated with a grin on his face. This caused Raven to twitch. "What, you think you'll be able to defe -" He started but soon something came clear to him. "Wait… another? You don't mean -" But Drake interrupted "Oh yes I do. I ate one as well." His smirk turned dark and send a shiver up Raven's spine.

Raven felt something run up his body. He looked down but saw nothing but he knew it wasn't a normal thing. He knows this because the thing that stabbed him was not a knife, a sword or some other weapon. He knew the differences as he was cut by all of them at least once. When the object was pulled out and Raven started coughing blood. He looked down to see Drake but couldn't see him. Suddenly he felt a kick in his gut that made him spit even more blood and he was send flying through four trees that were standing one meter from each other.

*CRASH* *CRASH* *CRASH* *CRASH*

"Ugh, what was that kick? It felt as if I was hit by a 50kg hammer of steel." Raven thought to himself. He wanted to look for Drake only to see the boy's smiling face in front of his before Raven was kicked again in the gut, his head going a bit to the front. Soon followed after that Raven two hands grab his face before he was send into the air and slammed in the ground.

"I thought a tiger was more of a challenge, and I really -" Drake was interrupted when a tail grope his leg and pulled it, making Drake lose his balance. Then he saw a fist coming his way and was send flying into the ground again. Before he could realize what happened, Drake felt something pull his leg and he was slang in the air before being slammed in the ground himself. He then saw a claw coming to his left but by rolling to the right he only got him cut in the side of his body. Drake then immediately stood up holding the place where the claw cut him.

"You got some dangerous claws there." Drake said. "I've decided, you'll join my crew."

"Join? Hahahah, why would I join? With this fruit I won't be your crewmember, but you will be mine." Raven laughed. The laughing soon stopped as Raven say Drake smirking. "Oi, what's so funny?" He asked.

"Funny? The fact that you think you'll be able to defeat me when I do use my ability as well." Drake said as he was smiling. "Maybe, we should make use of this."

The moment he said this Drake let go of his left side and to the shock of Raven the bleeding stopped. Drake then made a runner stance, putting his hands on the ground and his extended his left leg. Drake then took off, and before Raven could do anything, he doubled over as Drake's elbow planted itself in his gut. He was sent flying but before he could reach a tree Drake ran after him, jumped above him and kicked Raven into the ground.

"Ugh." Was everything Raven could utter as he spit out blood. But he couldn't recover as he felt a fist hitting his head punching his head to the ground creating a crater. Drake then jump backwards, while spinning and was waiting to see whether Raven would get up again.

"Oh come on. I could barely use my powers." Drake complained, only to be answered by a grunt and the sight of a head being pulled out the ground followed by a rock flying his way. Drake just punched the rock, breaking it apart only to meet a sudden kick to the face. But instead of flying away a claw grabbed his head, shove it in the ground and started running, Drake's head still in the ground before getting thrown away and creating a cloud of dust.

"Huf, huf. That should do it." Raven stated, while trying to get his breath in between the words. "He was truly a pain in the ass." He wanted to walk away only to be interrupted by a laugh that made Moria's sound as a cute puppy whine.

"Kishishishishi, Kishishishishi." Came out the dust. "You truly are fit to be my First Mate. And I shall pay you back for that beating to SHOW you MY devil fruit, instead of using it while hiding."

Before Raven could think of what the boy meant he suddenly felt four sharp knives in his gut. Looking down he saw the knuckles of Drake in his gut but that didn't make his eyes widen. No, what did was the fact that the BONES presenting the knuckles where sticking OUT. The blow wasn't meant to send Raven flying, so they both just looked at each other.

"What…are…you?" Raven asked between breaths.

Drake brought his fist out the Raven's gut and suddenly the bones of his fingers came out, looking as if it were a claw.

"Me? Oh, nothing special." He started with a sadistic grin. "Just your average man with the ability of the Hone Hone no Mi." Before the information got through with Raven, Drake's fingers/claws slashed him, making his vision become blurry, before it turned black and he passed out.

Two hours later (in the local hospital)

Raven just came back to the world of the conscious. He looked around and wanted to stand up but winced. He looked at his body seeing it bandaged pretty much. He then looked at his right seeing Drake on a chair, body covered with bandages, not as much as himself but still. As he saw the boy sleeping, he just couldn't how such a peace looking boy could have the eyes of a sadistic person.

"Oh," he heard and looked at Drake. "seems like your awake huh." Drake said while he gave him a cheerful grin.

"Yeah, sure am." Raven answered him. "Guess I lost the fight." He gave a small smile, at one side frustrated that he lost but at the other side happy as it seems he won't have to follow a heartless captain as he feared.

"You sure did." Drake stated, ticking Raven a bit off, but that soon died down as he continued. "It was a fight with honor, and it was one hell of a fight. I mean, we destroyed half of the forest and I even needed half of the time my fruit." He said with an even bigger smile.

Raven first grinned at the statement but then something struck in the head of Raven. "Wait a second. I hardly remember you using your devil fruit. Only at the end if I recall."

"Ah, yeah, I haven't really explained my fruit have I?" Drake simply said. "You see, my fruit gives me the ability to alter my bones structure the way I want it." Surprising Raven. If he saw Raven's surprised expression he was good at hidden it. " Examples are extending and, or sharpening my bones as you saw with my fingers and knuckles." He continued. "I can also harden my bones so they are as hard as metal of strengthen them in a way that may increase my speed as you saw with my sudden speed burst. But I guess that's enough information for now right, don't want you to run away from me, now don't I?" He laughed the last part.

Raven was stunned by the information he further received. But then he smiled. "Don't worry 'bout it, captain. I don't feel like betraying YOU at all. I don't even want to know what you do with traitors."

"Nothing really, as I will thrust my crew with my life." This surprised Raven even more than he already was, looking at a person that would even thrust his life to people that would maybe even kill him from behind. "So, I guess we'll set out now won't we?" Drake asked pulling Raven out his thoughts.

"Yeah, guess we should. Just let me go home to grab some of my stuff."

"Sure thing, by the way do you use a sword?"

"I can fight with one if that is what you want to know. But I ain't a master at it." Raven answered.

"Hmm, I see. Well I'll explain my question on the boat I'm going to purchase. I mean with the man's bounty I am sure I'll be able to get a new ship that is at least better than the dingy I have now, oh and some food too. Well, see me at the dock over three hours okay? First Mate." Drake smiled as he said the last part as he left the hospital, leaving Raven alone.

"Pirate huh. Never thought I would really become one. But I guess it's a good way to pay my dad back." Raven said as he got out of bed and walked outside.

Three hours passed

Raven, without any bandages, was waiting for his new captain at the docks. "Hmm, where did that guy go?" He said as he searched around for a sign of his captain.

"Hey, Raven over here!" A familiar voice came. He then walked to the source of the voice and saw a boat, too small to be a boat, but too big to be called a dingy. "Damn cap'n, that's a neat ship you got there." Raven whistled, as he thought he would meet a small dingy. "Yeah, I know." He answered his First Mate. "I was looking at the seize of it first, don't want a ship too big for two to handle right? Anyway, that aside, you ready to set sail?" Drake asked.

Raven stood there for a moment, his eyes closed. He opened then with fire lit in it. "Hell yeah I am, Captain" He grinned at his captain.

"Shishishi, well then," Drake said as he jumped on the ship. "Let's set sail." He smiled. Soon followed by Raven, who lowered the sails Drake went to the rear and set sail, only God knows where, and God plans to screw with them a bit.

Me: Oke this is the end of chapter three, clearly the biggest I ever had. Sorry if the fight looked a bit one-sided and even maybe too long but I just wanted to keep Drake's fruit a secret for a bit longer. Anyway I hope you guys like it. And review, review, review or Drake will be standing at your bed ready to castrate you.

Main Crew:

Captain – Drake

First Mate – Raven

Navigator – Taken by abbylee95

Sniper – Taken

Shipwright – Taken

Cook – Taken by Lobombre

Doctor – Taken

Musician – Taken by Nevets09

Swordsman – Taken

Archeologist – Taken