The Knights of D

This is one of if not my favorite chapter so please review and let me know what you think. I'm more inclined to write

"Welcome to the Knights of D my son," said Dragon in a proud voice.

"Thank you father, I am happy to be here and I would serve you till death," replied Luffy.

"Well said my son," said Dragon in his proud voice.

"But still it's hard to believe that this scrawny kid is actually one of us, never mind that he is Lord Dragon's son," said Hannibal.

"Do not underestimate him, he is Lord Dragon's son after all. He carries the blood of the strongest through his veins," Elektra said

"Even before he awakened the will of D, he has performed some incredible feats like taking down a warlord Crocodile quickly," Juri said

"Crocodile was a weakling, trash like him isn't worthy of joining the revolutionary army and fighting for our great cause. Defeating him is a simple affair. Anyone who can use haki can do it." Hannibal countered.

"But he invaded all three of the world government strongholds and even declared war on the world government to save Nico Robin, the Light of the Revolution" said Monroe.

"She was only given that name to gain her trust. Her sole purpose for being the light of the revolution was to make it easy to form an alliance with Luffy since he was so determined to become Pirate King and stay with his crew, making him join the army would have been impossible." Replied Sabo.

"The Ohara incident and her ability to read the poneglyphs was simply used to make it all the more convincing for her to join. Anyone who has awakened the will of D can read the poneglyphs since it is the language of our ancestors, so naturally we can all read it. Lord Dragon who is the strongest D alive along with Pirate King Gol D Roger can read it best. And Luffy who recently awakened it could also read it. Nico Robin was not needed for that reason. Simply to make it easier get Luffy on his side," Sabo continued.

"But since Luffy came to us willingly, asking her to join was completely unnecessary. Of course we would have rescued her anyway since we are revolutionaries and she was a slave and Tequila Wolf to build a bridge for the World Nobles," Elektra finished

"I still find it hard to believe Robin was with you father," said Luffy genuially surprised.

"That was quite something. In fact she would have made a fine addition to the army given her background. She obviously cannot join the Knights of D, but she would fit perfectly into the army masses. But she was hard to locate so we couldn't find her. We would have taken her in had we known," said Dragon

"I glad to know that there are people out there that would have helped her, I wished she met you guys sooner. She suffered a lot." Said Luffy.

"The revolutionary army is about freedom. And she was denied it for a long time. The same thing with your navigator Cat Burgler Nami. Had we known what was going on in East Blue we would have went and helped. It would also increase our influence into the East Blue for despite it being the weakest sea of all, it produces some of the greatest people in the world. Yourself, myself, your crewmembers and Gol Roger are prime examples. It would be a strategic move to rescue it had we known," answered Dragon

"But I don't like the idea of you guys talking about using Robin for anything. Even if you rescued her and wanted to get to me," said Luffy in a serious tone.

"Well I still find it hard to believe he's one of us," said Hannibal.

"Again he is a D, and lord Dragon's son. Besides after he awakened the Will of D, to help him harness it, it was required he fight each of us and his father. You cannot deny how quickly he mastered it and how strong he is," Kanka answered Hannibal.

"Hmm. I see. You certainly have a good point. Despite not winning all the battles he certainly gave a truly magnificent fight worthy of his name," Hannibal said having to agree with what Kanka said.

"The feats that he has achieved in the past as a pirate, the fact that he is a D and Dragon's on to boot, his great strength a charisma, he certainly is worthy to be one of us," Jupiter said.

"He may have all that, but there is one more," countered Sanbi.

"What?" asked Jupiter

"Commitment to Lord Dragon's cause. It is one of the most important aspects of the revolutionary army and especially for a Knight of D. You have to be completely devoted to him and Luffy-kun tends to be a bit rash and acts of his own judging by his past," Sanbi said wisely.

"We all have that issue. But in the end we still are Lord Dragon's greatest followers," Jupiter countered.

"Everyone listen," shouted Luffy.

"I may have only been a revolutionary for a short time but I am completely devoted to him. He took me in when I left the crew. And unlike the crew he forgives me for my faults. Despite all that, he trained me and taught me to harness the power of D. And I hate the world government. They killed Ace, they killed my mother, tried to kill my crew, made Hancock suffer as a slave, made Bon-chan suffer in Impel Down, did nothing to help the fishmen and mermen of Fishman Island get along with humans. I hate them and would do anything to see them burn in hell," said Luffy in a passionate voice.

"Luffy," Sanbi couldn't help but say.

"Of course you're a fishman too. So naturally that part would affect you," Scorpius said.

"Luffy would not betray us. He may act on his own but he is completely loyal to us. His speech and his past along with his resolve proves it," said Dragon as a matter of fact.

Shooting his hand up in the air he shouted.

"Monkey D Luffy! Knight of D!," shouted Dragon with his hand in the air.

All the remaining Knights of D followed suite and shot their hands up in the air. This was concluded with Luffy shooting his hand up. The Knights of D led by Monkey D Dragon, the greatest of revolutionary army and the group that would bring the world government too their knees.

A few hours later Dragon was walking in the corridors when a large individual stood in front of him.

"Quite the character isn't he," said the stranger.

"Indeed he is Teach," said Dragon.

Blackbeard of the four emperors wasn't dressed in his usual pirate clothes but instead in Knight of D attire. Marshall D Teach also known as Blackbeard is the final member of the Knights of D.

"Zehahahaha I met him in Mock Town and it was easy to tell he was something. And when I saw his wanted poster, it made sense, he was your son after all," said BlackBeard.

"Well it was a good thing you didn't capture him at Mock Town or else things would have gotten complicated. I'm glad I got to you to stop you from pursuing him any further," said Dragon matter of fact.

"Well even if he was your son, he was not with the army so I didn't think you would mind," said BlackBeard.

"There is no cause to be upset. It is understandable. In the end, no harm came to him besides you have done well in helping in my master plan to bring about the end of the world government and those who oppose me," said Dragon.

"It is something. I mean first you approach me and ask me to join your army in exchange for training me in awakening the Will of D. Then you give me the darkness darkness fruit. So what I had to do was somehow hand over Ace to the World Government which would prompt them to go to war with WhiteBeard. The resulting battle would significantly weaken the world government regardless of weather they won or not. That would make it easier for the revolutionary army to crush them in the future." Explained BlackBeard on Dragon's plan.

"You would have me kill both Ace and Whitebeard should either survive the war. Of course Ace didn't survive so that wasn't necessary but Whitebeard sure did."

"Ace is the son of my mortal enemy, the man I admire and hate the most Gol D Roger. Since Ace is that man's son, he would never join me. In fact, just like his father he would soon oppose me. And I'm positive he would awaken the Will of D with time. He needed to be taken out. And Whitebeard had to be taken out for you to be an emperor." Dragon continued where Blackbeard left off.

"And then as an emperor I would seize all of Whitebeard's territory and make it our territory. It would make it easier for the Knights of D to move. Of course the rest of the army even the commanders cannot take advantage of this since they all think they are my territory when in reality, they are yours. I got Whitebeard's devil fruit as an added bonus. It helped because it made the world think I killed him for his devil fruit, not to expand the influence of the revolutionary army.," said BlackBeard.

"But it was really tough. I mean I had to fool everyone into thinking that I wanted to be Pirate King. Not to mention they all think I killed Thatch to get his devil fruit, when in reality I already ate the devil fruit I wanted. I decided to give the fruit to one of my nakama. And I had to tell Ace that I was pursuing his little brother for the Warlord title. It wasn't necessary but it certainly made sure Ace would fight," continued BlackBeard

"Though being a Warlord was a nice bonus. It made getting into Impel Down and recruiting new crewmembers a lot easier. As well as sneaking into Marineford. Things just seemed to be going my way completely, exactly as I wanted." Finshed Blackbeard.

"Everything seems to work in our favor, even the unexpected," said Dragon.

"Now that my son is here I have everything I need to conquer the World Government and make the D the rulers of the world the way it should be." Said Dragon.

"The world government has only two admiral class fighters, fleet admiral Akainu and Kizaru along with the seven warlords. That means nine enemies in total. We on the other hand have twelve fighters, each capable of battling Admiral or Emperor class enemies. If somehow the world government formed an alliance with the three remaining Emporeros no matter, they would have twelve fighters against our thirteen, we still have the advantage. But we would still possess the greater power. Then there is myself. My power is on par with, no greater than Rogers. We may have been equally powerful back then, but that was twenty years ago. I am much stronger than back then. I alone can kill them all. Finally there is our trump card, the ancient weapon Uranus. The colossal Super Sea King that obeys only me." Said Dragon.

"No matter how you look at it, we win. We would trample the World Government and anyone who gets in our way," continued Dragon.

"Nothing would stop us," finished Dragon.

Quite a lot revealed huh. I really enjoyed this particular chapter. My favorite actually Anyway some notes.

The knight of D attire consists of the typical revolutionary's clothes with green cloaks similar to Dragons.

Also a note on devil fruits. I believe they don't affect clothes. Remember when Luffy turns small when he goes Gear Third, his clothes shrinks to match. If stretch, his clothes would stretch to match. If a zoan Knight of D transforms, the clothes wouldn't be destroyed.

All the new guys are Knights of D so they all are D's.

About Robin. Dragon only called her the Light of the Revolution to make her feel as if she was important to them when she wasn't. It made it easier to trust Dragon. The true goal was so that when Dragon would ever approach Luffy for an alliance, Robin would spread a good word and influence Luffy to do so. Dragon knew Luffy was too committed to his crew and becoming Pirate King to join the army but an alliance should be fine. However since Luffy joined on his on, asking Robin to come was a complete waste of time.

About Dragon's plan. Well it was a long term plan similar to Aizen and Tobi. Basically Dragon found Teach (who was already part of Whitebeard's crew) and offered to train him and give him the dark dark fruit in exchange for becoming a Yonko and helping the army.

The fruit Thatch got was in this fic an unknown one. He just said it was the dark dark fruit to fool everyone. He already ate the fruit. He only killed him so that Ace would pursue him knowing Ace's code. The fruit was given to a random member of the Blackbeard Pirates.

When Luffy and Teach met in Mock Town, Teach was truly after Luffy. Since Luffy wasn't part of the army, he didn't think Dragon would mind. However after Luffy escaped from him to Skypia, Dragon intercepted him and ordered him not to go after Luffy.

During his battle with Ace, he only said he was going after Luffy to make sure Ace stays on his tail.

Dragon wanted Ace gone because Ace is Roger's son. Roger and Dragon have history which would be revealed in due time. Since Ace is Roger's son, Ace would never join him, in fact he would oppose him so Dragon wanted to get rid of him at once. He could have done it easily but Ace was under Whitebeard's protection. And despite Dragon being much stronger than Whitebeard, he still does not want to challenge Whitebeard directly.

Handing Ace to the World Government achieves three things. First it makes it easier to kill Ace with the whole war going on. Both Dragon and Teach know that Whitebeard would go to war with the world government to save his sons. Secondly the war with the Whitebeard Pirates would weaken the world government and the Whitebeard Pirates to the point where Teach could kill Whitebeard himself and Ace should he escape as well as allow Teach to steal Whitebeard's powers. It wasn't exactly guaranteed that Teach would become and emperor but he has two devil fruits, knows Whitebeard's territory and killed an emperor so Dragon was confident he would become one. Finally it would significantly weaken the world government so the revolutionary army could take over in due time. It made the seas more chaotic thus forcing the world government to spend more resources on it on a long term.

Finally Luffy does not know about BlackBeard being a revolutionary. Dragon kept that secret which is why he was absent when the rest of the Knights of D were present

Next is a profile of each of the Knights of D giving a description of them. You don't have to check it out to enjoy the fic but you'll enjoy more if you do.

Please review for I am more inclined to continue. There always appreciated