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One Piece: The Lottery Lottery Fruit!
Who in their right mind would gamble their power devil fruit power based on a lottery? Monkey D. Luffy did. It is said that crazy people have crazy luck. You have the Paramecia, the Zoan, the Logia, and the Mythical Zoan. Enter the long forgotten devil fruit. The Deity Deity Fruit : Model Xxxxxxx
Chapter 3 : The Cloud Gathering Sword of Heaven
"Neh, Zoro. Why don't you want to learn Tekkai? It's dead useful for defense."
Luffy was sailing with Zoro after they left Shell Town. Zoro refused to learn Tekkai, saying it was useless for him. Of course, Luffy got defensive over his abilities.
"You can even block cannonballs with it!"
Zoro smacked Luffy on the head with the sheath of his Katana. "As a swordsman, I need to be able to move at any given moment. Standing there and steeling your muscles isn't going to do much good. It would be better if I can use Soru instead. I definitely need the speed advantage."
Luffy rubbed his chin and pondered. "Well... I guess I can teach you Soru first. You're going to have to wait until we reach land though. In return, can you teach me some One Sword Style Techniques?" Zoro was perplexed, Luffy wasn't carrying around a sword, maybe he just wanted to learn how to use one?
"You have a sword?"
Luffy only gave him a mysterious smile. "Not yet, but soon."
(A Few Days Later)
"Oh Kami, I'm so hungry." Both of them were sprawled on the dinghy while Luffy moaned about his stomach eating him up. They had ran out of provisions after several days of aimless drifting. They looked up at the the bird flying overhead and wondered how they could eat it. "Hey Zoro, If you throw me up high enough, I can snag that bird and we can eat it!"
Under normal circumstances, that in itself was a crazy Idea but Zoro was hungry. Couldn't hurt to try right?
Zoro put his hands together and secured Luffy's foot. "Ready? 3... 2... 1... HEAVE!" With a great burst of energy, Zoro flung Luffy straight up in the air and then stared in disbelief.
The bird was the one eating Luffy!
The humongous seagull was flying away and Zoro wasted no time rowing after it. Three stragglers in the water latched onto his oars making his rowing slow until the bird flew out of sight. The three strangers pulled out daggers and ordered him to stop the boat. Zoro took extra care not to hurt their arms while he beat them until they were black and blue. Those three fools made him lose sight of Luffy, Now they were going to row until they got to land.
"So why were the three of you drifting in the middle of nowhere?"
The three pirates looked embarrassed. "Well, we just got back from robbing a merchant boat when we came across this young lady. She was quite a looker! At first she pretended to be starving and then took our boat and treasure, next thing we knew a storm came and our ship fell apart!"
Zoro mused for a moment. This girl was able to predict the weather, her navigations skills must be top class. She sounded tricky but would be a good addition to the crew. He'd have to find Luffy and ask him if he wanted this Nami girl to join. Fixing a serious glare at the three, he ordered them to put some back to their rowing. The three started rowing at a breakneck rate and Zoro could see a town coming into sight.
To those who seek the ocean of paradise, they must first find their way there. Which is why Nami refused to let go of the Map she just stole from Buggy the Clown. His henchmen were chasing her down map and they were gaining on her. She needed a miracle, something to distract them while she ran away. There was a resounding boom and something dropped in between her and her attackers.
Luffy tried to pry his head loose from the bird mouth with no avail. The Straw Hat was stuck to the beak and he didn't want the bird to fly off with his hat. The only warning Luffy got was the sound of cannon fire and the sound of a projectile whistling through the air. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a cannonball zooming towards him. He cursed and steeled his muscles.
Tekkai!
The impact and following explosion obliterated the bird that was carrying him, and blasted him to earth with bone crunching impact. Luffy struggled to his knees and coughed in pain. He had only managed to activate a partial Tekkai due to the suddenness of the attack. He hacked and spit out blood onto his hands. The cannonball was stronger than most and the force of the explosion did some internal damage which he was feeling at the moment.
Who the fuck shot a cannon at him?
Nami blinked at the slightly smoking figure at the center of the crater. maybe this was a sign from heaven that he was here to save her. "Oh boss! You're finally here! I've been waiting for you to come save me. I'll leave everything to you." With those parting words, Nami took off. Luffy was still a little bit confused by what the girl said. She wasn't part of his crew so why was she calling him Boss? Maybe she wanted to join his crew?
Three hulking shadows loomed over him. "Boss Eh?"
Luffy in turn glared back, someone had just shot a cannon at him and he was pissed. Since these three idiots volunteered to be punching bags, he wasn't going to complain. He knocked them out with one hit each but he didn't stop there, he punched them until their teeth fell out and they started coughing out blood. He gave them each a savage kick to the ribs before his rage subsided. He always had a bad habit of leaving his opponents on deaths door. It was partially due to his rage and his belief that killing was the last resort. Beating them half to death was the next best option, they tend to leave you alone once the fear has been beaten into them.
"Wow that was really brutal." The orange hair girl was back and had observed his fight from the safety of one of the nearby roofs.
Luffy sighed and adjusted his hat. "Well they were asking for it. I was just shot by a cannon so I wasn't feeling the best of moods. Who are you anyway?"
"Me? I'm Nami. I steal treasures from pirates. Say, do you want to join up with me? We can make a lot of money together." Luffy ripped away the remainder of his charred vest, "Sorry, not interested."
Nami's eyes lit up, "Say are those for sale?"
Luffy scowled, "No they're not. Now shoo."
"C'mon! Let me take a look at them, I haven't seen anything like it before"
Nami sighed. "Fine, I won't ask you to sell it anymore. So you got separated from the rest of your crew? How many people are there?"
Luffy nodded, "Only one." he glanced around, "Say, is this your house?"
"Nope, It's a random house from one of the villagers, they're living in a shelter outside of town because of the pirate Buggy."
Luffy picked his nose. "Hmm is he that scary? This pirate called Nami?"
"I'm Nami and the Pirate's Buggy! Don't switch the names around!" she shouted at him. He only laughed in reply, "Haha, so you're the thief Nami and you steal from these empty houses. Okay."
She slammed her hand on the desk again. "I only steal from pirates!" She pulled out a map. "I'm going to steal One hundred Million Berries and buy a certain village back. With the map of the Grand Line, I can steal from even richer pirates!"
"By any chance do you know how to navigate?"
Nami look affronted. "Of course! I'm actually the best navigator in East Blue!" Luffy whooped and cheered with a banzai pose, "That's great! We're also on the way to the Grand Line too!"
"Really?"
"Yeah, why don't you join as the Navigator of our pirate crew?" Luffy asked with a sincere smile.
"What?" Nami looked angry and shocked. "Forget it, I'm not working for a pirate." She spat the word out with vehemence that even Luffy was taken back.
"Oh..." He was silent for several seconds. "So you're going to join my crew then?" Nami karate chopped him on the head. "I just said that I wasn't joining! Unless..." "Unless what?" Luffy prompted. "Well if you come with me to see Buggy then I'll consider it." Luffy sprang to his feet. "Okay. Where's this Pirate Nami?"
Nami started strangling Luffy with the rope she just brought out. "I'M NAMI AND THE PIRATE IS BUGGY!"
"You should light the cannon Nami. It's okay."
It wasn't okay. How can she kill someone in cold blood? He said he was a pirate but he didn't look or act the part. She knew she had to steal 100 Million Berries to buy back Cocoyashi Village. She couldn't back out now. With Buggy's treasure, she would only need Seven million berries more.
"Your hands are shaking. You lack the resolve to risk your life for you goals and dreams. You have to realize that in order to succeed, you have to do some things in life that you are not proud of but the deciding factor is, can you do it? "
Hiding her tears she lit the cannon that was loaded with a buggy ball. It was a specialized cannon ball that was strong enough to destroy a small town. Nami looked at Luffy, engraving the final moments of his life to memory. After she bought the town back, she'll pray to his dead spirit everyday. But oddly enough the young man was smiling. He leaned back, dropping his hat behind him.
He smiled at her. "I like your resolve. Never stepping back for your dreams. You're definitely going to join my crew." Nami couldn't believe how relaxed Luffy was even in the face of death. "Oi Luffy. Are you going to be fine in there?" Everyone turned to the source of the noise.
It was the Santōryū user, the nefarious Pirate Hunter Zoro. Luffy's crew mate is the Pirate Hunter? How did he convince him to join?
"Step down Zoro, I'm fine. Let me show you how useful Tekkai can be." He looked at the Cannon and steeled his resolve and muscles as the Buggy ball closed the distance.
Tekkai Utsugi!
Instead of applying a normal tekkai, Luffy was using the Tekkai as a counter. This was a higher level move used entirely as a counter instead, where the purpose isn't to absorb damage from the attack, but to transfer the shock of the attack back to the attacker. In this case, he would redirect the shock and the explosion of the Buggy ball. The timing would have to be very precise but Luffy had enough training with his Yata no Kagami to get the timing down.
There was a horrific explosion as pieces of the iron cage exploded into shrapnel. Nami gasped at the sight of the explosion, no human could have survived that.
Zoro unsheathed his swords. "Orders captain?"
The smoke started to clear. The silhouette of a tall lean boy reaching down for his strawhat silenced most of Buggy's crew. The young man just took one of the infamous Buggy balls at point blank range and survived! Luffy propped his hat back in place, the cold look on his face determined. "Just take care of the lackeys. I got something to settle with Buggy."
He turned to Nami and smiled. "Don't sweat over the Cannonball thing. I'm fine."
Nami collapsed to her knees. Who was this guy?
Buggy unsheathed his daggers. "I don't care about you Strawhat brat. I want to kill the Pirate Hunter Zoro, If I kill him, I will get even more famous!" Zoro got into a battle stance, holding one of his sheathed swords. "This is a challenge to me Luffy and I will take it." Luffy frowned but crossed his arms. "I'll give you thirty seconds. Then it's my turn."
Zoro grinned savagely. "Watch closely Luffy, this is one of the moves that I'm working on, you'll learn this too."
Ittō-Ryū Iai: Shishi Sonson! (One Sword Style Draw and Resheath Technique: Lion's Song)
The Lion's song was a quick draw technique, a one hit kill. It's was still in the early stage of experimentation. But Zoro had developed it enough to work on most opponents. The slash would run from hip to shoulder and leave the opponent down.
Luffy narrowed his eyes. "Zoro. Buggy's a devil fruit user. Remember in the future, expect anything to happen when it comes to fighting a DF user."
Zoro's eye widened. There was no blood from the wound! He spun around in time just to get a dagger to the side of his sides. There was a ... floating hand?
Buggy laughed at the shocked expression on their faces. "It's no use Pirate hunter! The battle is over! I ate the Bara Bara no mi (The Section Section Fruit!) I'm the sectioned man! Luffy stood in front of Zoro, "Your thirty seconds are over. It's my turn now."
Luffy glared at Buggy. "HEY YOU BIG NOSE. THAT WAS A CHEAP ATTACK!"
Buggy snapped and shot his arm at Luffy. "DIE YOU BRAT! NO ONE DISSES THE NOSE!" Luffy caught the blade between his teeth and bit it. To their surprise, even Zoro's, the blade snapped into pieces.
Luffy flexed his wrist, adjusting the shield core from the back of his hand to his palm. He pressed his right hand against the glass core and focused. Much to Nami and Zoro's disbelief, The glass portion of the shield seem to ripple like water before his fingers actually sank into the blue core, followed by the rest of his hand.
From the view point of Buggy and his crew, the brat reached INTO his own hand!
Luffy smiled darkly. "For Devil Fruit users such as yourself, this is the perfect weapon to use." He pulled out from the core of his shield, a short sword. It was a most curious sword, having no guard and only three notches long from the handle. The entire sword was one piece of grayish blue metal.
"This is the Cloud Gathering Sword of Heaven."
Buggy laughed at him, "Swords don't work on me and that short sword of yours can't even be called a proper sword!"
Luffy sighed, "It's not in it's final form yet. This is the Ten Notch Sword, I only unlocked Three Notches, I'm still lacking in my training but this should be enough to defeat you." Luffy put the sword to his side and got into a familiar stance.
Ittō-Ryū Iai...
"No way, He' couldn't have learned it so quickly." Zoro said.
Shishi Sonson! (One Sword Style Draw and Resheath Technique: Lion's Song)
It was a pale imitation of what the true technique could have done but it served it's purpose. The attack ran from hip to shoulder as a shallow cut due to the shortness of the blade but there was one big difference compared to Zoro's. Buggy was on the ground bleeding from the wound and screaming in pain.
It had been over twenty years since he received a cut of some sort. Somehow the brat had negated his devil fruit powers!. Buggy screamed to his men, "Get me out of here! NOW!" The rest of the crew obeyed without question, someone had cut their captain who had the Devil Fruit ability to be immune to cuts, they were not going to stay and test the blade themselves.
Luffy let them flee, they were of no threat to him and Zoro was injured.
Zoro looked at the blade that Luffy was holding, it was emanating a odd sword sort of presence to his senses. He didn't know where Luffy got the sword from but it was no ordinary sword. He staggered over, "Can I take a look at it?"
Luffy seemed to hesitate but finally gave in. "It probably won't like you but give it a try." Zoro gripped the handle of the sword and immediately fell to his knees. There was and odd pressure forcing itself on him, making him want to fall into the darkness to escape the onslaught of overbearing dominance." This sword could not be tamed.
He flung the short sword aside and gasped, shaking on all four. Just by holding the sword was almost enough to make him lose consciousness. Luffy picked it up and shoved it back into the blue core on his palm where it disappeared. "Wow not bad, Most people would not have been able to even hold it for more than a second."
Zoro struggled to his feet. "Why can you use the sword like that? It... it's alive or something. What was with that pressure?" Luffy held up his hand where the Blue core resided, "It's one of the weapons my Devil fruit gave me." The black Obsidan core slid out mechanically forming a full octagonal shield.
"The Yata no Kagami and the Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi."
"But I saw you swim before. I thought Devil fruit users couldn't swim."
Luffy shrugged. "I don't know why myself. I ate the Lottery Lottery fruit and got a random fruit ability. Hell, I don't even know what fruit it was I got!" Zoro nodded to Nami, "Who is she?"
Luffy grinned. "That's Nami, Our navigator."
Nami karate chopped his head. "I never said I was joining you crew! I said we would work together!" Luffy pouted, "But you shot a cannon at me!" Nami smacked him again, "Yeah that was before I realized that you were a freak and Cannons didn't affect you!"
Nami ran to the back of the tavern and came back with two big sacks of gold and treasures. "Score! Now I have the map of the Grand Line and Ten Million Berries!"
Luffy laughed and threw up his arms, "We have our Navigator and the Map! Let's head off to the Grand Line!"
"Hey you guys..." It was the villagers who were driven out by Buggy. "What happened here?"
Luffy grinned. "I beat up Buggy and he ran away!"
The villagers cheered and word spread quickly. Luffy celebrated with them and they parted on good terms with the town. Later when the Marines came to investigate, they were surprised to find out someone had beaten Buggy. The one who did it?
StrawHat Luffy.
Omake
The Lottery Lottery Fruit : Kagu Kagu no mi Part 3
"HEY YOU BIG NOSE! THAT WAS A CHEAPSHOT!"
Buggy screamed in rage, "NO ONE DISSES THE NOSE!" He shot his arm at Luffy with a dagger, ready to skewer the impudent youth.
The dagger shot through Luffy's forehead, leaving a hole in the middle of his head which reformed with blue smoke.
"Ah scary. A sectioned man, what a monster!"
Nami screamed at him. "Well you're a gas man!"
Luffy focused on his hand.
Vacuum Palm!
It was a technique that creates a vacuum in his palm by concentrating air with 5% oxygen content there. By forcing his opponents to breathe in the 5% oxygen gas, It would force the victim to be instantly knocked out, going into a comatose state.
Blackout palm!
He grabbed Buggy's face and Buggy fell to the ground unnaturally. It was like he lost consciousness on his feet and collapsed to the floor in a boneless heap.
Don't mess with the Sniff Sniff man, STRAWHAT LUFFY! I WILL BE THE PIRATE KING!
*Fart*
...
"I'm hungry, that was my stomach."
*Bloooop*
"Yeah I farted, Sorry guys."
Nami was running away with Luffy chasing her, trying to convince her to join the crew.
One Nakama down, Navigator?
Maybe...
Sneak Preview :
"Whats going on?" It was the butler who had his hair slicked back and rimless glasses on his face. "Just who are all these ruffians ojou-sama?"
"Klahadore!"
"Leave the premise at once you pirates, you too trash of the seas, are you going to follow your father's footsteps and become a murderer?" The butler mocked."
USSOOOPPPPP PUUUNNCH! "Shut the hell up you bastard butler, my father is a brave warrior of the Sea!"
The strength training paid off, the force of the punch had shattered Klahadore's lens, pushing sharp shards of broke glass into the right eye. Kaya gasped. "LEAVE NOW USOPP! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!"
Usopp looked pleadingly at Kaya but she pointed him to the exit, tears streaming from her eyes. Silently, he left. Luffy patted Usopp on the back, "You did the right thing and defended your honor. I'm sure she'll understand." Usopp tighten his bandanna and forced a smile, "Yeah, I'm sure she would."
SBS Corner
AND START!
Colin: Will he get the other 2 treasures? The Kusanagi and the Magatama?
ES: Well, the Cloud Gathering Sword, Ten- Notch Sword, Kusanagi all are pretty much the same blade but to prevent Naruto like misconception of how the blade actually looks, I'll call it the Ten Notch Sword of Cloud Gathering Sword.
Procella: Will Boa Hancock be intro'd early?
ES: Do you want her to be intro'd early?
Negi: Is Luffy's power limited to only one deity item?
ES: No, It's not but it is limited to one Diety in case you haven't figured out which one it is. Deity Deity fruit: Model Xxxxxxx
LordPage1692: Will there be other Deity Deity fruit users, like say OC's of some sort?
ES: I will not be introducing any OC but if I do, they will be from another anime/manga so you can understand their physical description. Also, the Deity Deity fruit is a Lost fruit.
EDIT: FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO SEE WHAT THE YATA NO KAGAMI LOOKS LIKE, I MADE A PHOTOSHOP CREATION OF IT FOR YOU!
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A/N: Okay! That's it for this chapter's SBS! For those participants who were not chosen, do not fret! Just try again!
Also if you don't understand something, post that in the SBS also. Chances are, other people would have the same question!
So whose excited about this new Usopp?
Expect a radical divergence from the original storyline next chapter!
Viking out~
