Hendrick came to the world of One Piece after some shocking turn of events in his own world, including the appearance of the outlaw Kendashi and the real Kisano. He was taken with Kendashi into a government building to be charged, but two other outlaws, Zamiko the Demon and Bunny 'Glare' Shimaliton, escaped which lead to many things. When Hendrick came conscious thanks to Kendashi and his horn of strangeness that appeared on his forehead, the whole group came to a small rowboat accompanied by a toddler. Hendrick, Kendashi, Bunny, Zamiko, Sano, Lili, and the strange toddler sunk down into the water as Hendrick passed out again.
They went to what they called their home, the Wandering Academy of Talent, Education, and Research, also known as WATER. The majority of the students think of each other as a big family.
Hendrick slowly opened his eyes, looking up towards a brown ceiling. He tried to sit up, but his back stung when he tried. At least it didn't hurt as much as before.
"Ay," some strange noise said beside him, but he couldn't turn his head to see who or what it was. "Et et," it did again as a plate was moved onto his stomach. On the plate was six onigiri, all with a different color. He heard the door open, some soft stepping leaving the room, and then the door closing behind it.
"What the hell was that," Hendrick mumbled. He looked at the onigiri with a strange expression, never seeing onigiri in person before. He picked up the one that was slightly red and took a nibble. It had a slight hint of cherry in it, so he took a bite out of it, looking at the other colors: orange, yellow, blue, and two purples, one of the purple was darker than the other. He sat up to take a closer look at the onigiri, but he took a moment to realize that his back didn't stab him when he did so. He again looked at the onigiri, taking another bite out of it. Finishing the rest of the red one and taking the plate with the other onigiri, he stood up and left the room to find out more about what's going on and where he was.
There was a long hallway with lots of doors, but it was silent and no one was in site. Everything looked really nice and smooth, especially the floor. He slowly walked down the hall and found a staircase going down, finding himself looking down another hallway, but it was wider this time, and it didn't have so many door, either. One of the far doors opened with an older man walking out of it; he was quite tall and had white hair, wearing a nice blue suit and bubble tie with an opened very dark blue jacket that reached his ankles.
"Hello, Hendrick. Good to see you up and going," he noted with a smile. "Care to join me for a while? I have come tea heated up," he added with his eyes closed and motioning him into the room. Hendrick slowly walked over and into the open room. The older man closed the door and walked around the desk in middle of the room to his chair. "Have a seat," he held his hand out to the chairs in front of the desk for Hendrick to sit as he himself sat down. Hendrick sat down with his plate of onigiri.
"Who are you?" The older man pulled out a file from his desk.
"I apologize," he first said. "I am the President of this academy, Mr. Shimaliton." Hendrick almost dropped the onigiri.
"Is Bunny your grandson?"
"Oh? You've met him already?" He turned around to pick up a cup of tea. "Tea?"
"Sure," Hendrick said, reaching out and taking one of the cups.
"Is there anyone else that you already know?"
"I met Kendashi and two, but I don't' know their names."
"Was one of them really into dresses and the other really annoying?"
"The others thought one of them was really annoying, but yea, the girl was wearing a white dress and a small black hat."
"Yup, those misbehaved ones are Sano and Lili. Sano is a researcher for the Academy, but he always leaves the premises without my permission. Lili is trying to get educated in performance and style, and she continues to leave as well to find more fabrics and styles."
"Why did I need to know that? I didn't really want to know anything about them," Hendrick sighed. "They're too much to even stand next to."
"I'm with you there. Of everyone that thinks they can do what they want, and there are dozens that do, those two are the most bothersome with the exception of one other."
"I… don't really care, sir," Hendrick put bluntly. "Where am I?" Mr. Shimaliton looked over at him with his eyes as he leaned back in his chair.
"You are on the underwater Academy called WATER, Wandering Academy of Talent, Education, and Research. As the name implies, this Academy moves all around the ocean, never staying in one place. We have people from all around the world here in the Academy, and they have brilliant minds, talents, and guts, which is what we like to see here. We have a special team that I allow to go out to the islands above to find the people about to be executed, about to be murdered, about to be experimented on, and any other horrible thing, even those that have no home. Even those with nowhere to go have something wonderful about them," he chuckled. "Sano was one of the homeless ones, kicked out from his parents' home for being himself and wanting to learn instead of work."
"What kind of classes and teachers are here?"
"There's as many classes as you can imagine. There are small classes, large classes. Individual classes, group classes. Labs, text books. Exercise, work. Name it, we have it. The teachers are usually graduates."
"Why do you want to bring people here so much? For using their skills?" Mr. Shimaliton leaned forward and put his hands on the desk lightly.
"We bring the hopeless people of the world above here to learn and have a life again. This place is a home to those that don't have one. I grew up with no home until I made my own. Later I was kicked off the island with just a boat, and I decided to make a ship for my own home. With so many conflicts going on at that time, I was in danger, and ended up at the Sabaody Archipelago where they helped me start working on an underwater ship. After fifty years, this is where I have gotten. This is my home, and this is a home for everyone here. Please don't disrespect that."
"I won't," Hendrick noted to himself.
"Good." He pushed himself away from the desk and stood up. "Let's go take a tour of the Academy. I want you to enroll here."
"Why would I enroll here?"
"You don't have a home," he pointed out. "You also don't belong in this world. You know nothing about this world with nowhere to go. It would be best for you to stay here until you adapt."
"How did you know?"
"Kendashi told me." Hendrick stood up.
"Alright, it's better than my world," he admitted. "And like you just said, I have nothing to do, so what the hell," Hendrick shrugged. Mr. Shimaliton grinned as he went to the door and opened it, letting Hendrick walk out first. When he walked out, however, it wasn't the same hallway that he was in before. Instead, they were now entering a huge, open room. This room was the entrance to the Academy, the fancy stairs at the other end of the room, more of the shiny floors and walls, fancy and stylish rugs and mats, and more and more and more awesome things.
"This is the main hall where we do our stand-offs, battles, tournaments, and, well, basically everything." They walked towards the stairs, going through the door under the set of stairs going to the left. In it was the kitchen, where little light brown cubs wandered around. "Posaku, are you still here," Mr. Shimaliton called out, and clattering pans was heard. The cubs began to freak out, too, running around before huddling together to the counter. Soon after, very slowly, another guy walked over very slowly in black pants and shoes, a light black and purple striped shirt, and his purple eyes matched his figuratively black hair with purple tips.
"Y-…yes, s-sir?" He slouched ever so slowly.
"I would like you to meet Hendrick, possibly a new student to the Academy. I'm showing him around, and I wanted to introduce the two of you to each other." He turned to Hendrick. "Hendrick, this is Posaku, the Academy cook and teacher."
Hendrick's first thought was "How can he be a teacher if he's so freaking shy? He won't even look at me."
"Posaku, why don't you introduce your cubs and what they are for?" Posaku hesitated as he desperately looked at Mr. Shimaliton, but he couldn't refuse him, so he answered.
"Umm… there are my cubs…" he took a moment to think. "W-we all… umm… have our own… s-set o-of… m-mini-ions… that w-we… care f-for…" he couldn't stop stumbling over himself, slouching some more, wishing he didn't have to speak anymore.
"Well done, Posaku," the President clapped. "You're getting better at this!" He gave him a big grin, and Posaku, extremely embarrassed, turned to hide his face with his hands as if he was about to cry. Mr. Shimaliton turned to Hendrick. "This is the most he's said to anyone other than me. I've been trying to help him talk some more and be more social, but we've been going at this for thirteen years now, and he is now twenty three."
Hendrick had a shocked expression, asking himself "T-twenty three?! For thirteen years, he's been like this?!"
"So yes, everyone has an opportunity to have minions if they so wish so. Posaku has these twelve cubs, who help him cook and show up in his place, Sano has minions, but I'll let you figure out what they are, and Kendashi is an example that doesn't really have any minions." He paused before coming up with an idea. "Posaku, why don't you make him one of your smoothies?" Posaku snapped around to look at him with a huge grin on his face. It… it is really creepy and demon-like.
He then disappeared. Five seconds sharp, he stood there again with a tall glass in his hand with a bright pink and blue shake, whipped cream, and a gummy bear on top. The cubs clapped.
"Never gets old," Mr. Shimaliton clapped, too. "If we had a bit more time, I would have Posaku explain why he chose what he chose, but I think we should go to the next room for Posaku's safety." He took the smoothie and gave it to Hendrick. As soon as the glass left his hand, he slouched again, turning around in embarrassment as he went back to cleaning.
Mr. Shimaliton opened the door, and they were in another hallway instead of the main hall.
"These are the boys' dorms."
"I am seriously frustrated with this." Mr. Shimaliton shot him a confused look. "What is with the doors leading to somewhere completely different than where we were originally?" He laughed.
"Don't worry about it. You will figure it out someday, just like everyone else."
"No one knows why this happens?"
"Nope. Only me."
"Alright," he said as if he was going to be the first to figure out why.
"I'm kidding. Everyone knows why it happens." Hendrick rolls his eyes. "Alright, the only other big place you really need to know about is the dining hall." He reached for one of the doors closest to him and opened it, when suddenly a plate flies through the door and breaks against the wall. Gasps were heard from the other side as Mr. Shimaliton stood in the doorway after the plate flew by. Hendrick looked inside to see a huge crowd of people with food all over them and some people holding others by the collar of their shirt.
Mr. Shimaliton walked into the room, and they all stepped back with their heads lowered in guilt. Kendashi was at the corner table, minding his own business as if nothing was happening. When Mr. Shimaliton was in the center of the room, he spoke.
"You… do… realize what will happen if he finds out you're wasting the food…," he said with the most serious and worried tone Hendrick ever heard anyone say. Everyone jumped like crazy at this, and they ran everywhere, wiping everything, organizing the plates, cleaning up that plate that broke plus the other broken ones. Just as everyone sat down, Posaku peeked through the door after the sudden change from loud to silent. Seeing nothing bad happening, he closed the door. No one dared to look over to the door to see if he had peeked through. "I would like to know what happened here. This is extremely incompetent of you all. I will never allow anything to ever effect Posaku as long as I live, and you know this." He really emphasized 'extremely'. Hendrick walked through the door and closed the door behind him, but no one noticed. There was silence. "We are supposed to be a family." More silence. "So. What got this all started?" More silence. Hendrick didn't see anyone other than Kendashi in the room that he knew. He also noticed that everyone was wearing some kind of long jacket that reached to their ankles, all with different designs and colors, zipped and unzipped, buttoned and unbuttoned.
"I started this," someone stood up. Mr. Shimaliton didn't seem fazed. Everyone looked at this guy very annoyingly as he smiled while speaking up. "My minion clung onto me without me knowing, and no sooner did she start causing chaos, throwing things at everyone to get everyone mad at each other." A few people began to mumble, wanting to beat him to a pulp.
"Sarichno, you really need to stop doing this. I will have you contain your minions in my office every meal for a month again." Mr. Shimaliton turned and walked towards Hendrick. "I know he's doing this on purpose, but I don't want to show how cruel I can be when they mess with Posaku's food. Why don't you stay here until dinner is over, and get to know some more members of the family?" He smiled, opening a door. Once it closed, everyone went back to eating, and Hendrick was left to himself until, of all people, the troublemaker finds his way to Hendrick.
"Hey, man," he held out his hand. "What's your name?"
"Hendrick." He slowly shook reached out to shake his hand.
"Aw, don't be like that! We're all family here, we're not going to cause harm to anyone for cruel intent! Go grab some grub and come on over." Sarichno went back to his table of three. Sighing with nothing else to really do anyway, he went to get some food. When he reached the counter, the cubs got up on the stools so they could see over the counter. They gave him a questioned expression as to what food he wanted, and he pointed out what he wanted (though he didn't even know any of these strange foods) with the cubs putting it all on a plate. Posaku peeked around the corner very slowly for a second before hiding again. Hendrick went to the almost empty table in regret.
"So, where are you from, brother?" Sarichno nudged him with his elbow.
"I'm from elsewhere." The other three laughed.
"Yes, that is true. I really doubt anyone used to be from the deep ocean. Where did you live before?"
"Elsewhere. You don't need to know where I came from."
"Well, we sort of do need to since we're one big family now."
"I don't need to tell you anything." He looked at Hendrick with a disappointed look.
"What's your name?"
"Hendrick."
"Well Hendrick," he paused. "This would have gone so much smoother than it needed to." He pointed his finger at Hendrick, but another hand appeared out of nowhere, clasping the finger. "Look who finally decided to join us: the silent Kendashi."
"You don't need to worry about me, Kendashi, I'm fine." Kendashi gave Hendrick a glare.
"He was going to kill you. Anyone that means ill will to anyone must be stopped. Even if they are family." Sarichno laughed.
"You say the funniest things when you actually talk. Me, kill him? That's absurd." He flicked his hand sarcastically.
"You've killed your family, and you killed here. The only reason why you are here is because of your tactics and the sympathy of Mr. Shimaliton." Laughter was heard.
"Please, they were absurd people making the stupidest mistakes and caused problems everywhere—" Kendashi punched him so he didn't say another word, holding back on the punch.
"Everyone makes mistakes. One mistake doesn't mean death is the consequence!" At this point, everyone had their attention towards the two of them.
"Oh really?" Sarichno grinned, and Kendashi grew slightly, back to his appearance back when Hendrick first met him. Everyone backed up to the walls except for those that left the hall in fear of what was going to happen. Spiders began to peel through the ceiling all around the two of them. "Why don't you go ahead and kill me then so nothing else happens around here?" Kendashi pulled at his arm and swung him above his head and back to the ground, but Sarichno landed on his feet instead of being smashed. Hendrick was against the wall and was about to leave the dining hall to find Mr. Shimaliton, but he was right next to him.
"Sir?! Why aren't you stopping this?!" He didn't say anything for a moment.
"For one, this always happens. Kendashi never loses to him, even though Sarichno is very talented. Second, everything will be okay." Hendrick threw his hands in the air. A few larger spiders the size of feet came through the ceiling as the smaller ones formed a copy of Sarichno.
Kendashi threw a punch at the real Sarichno, but the spider clone collided with the impact instead, followed by a counter punch to the face. With the counter punch, Kendashi looked to get even bigger. He disappeared behind the real Sarichno, but the larger spiders fell from the ceiling at the same time with web barriers instantly as he tried to punch him again.
"Kendashi, you're not going to defeat me by throwing punches," he taunted. "Use more of the Rokushiki, will you?" Hendrick turned to Mr. Shimaliton.
"What's Rokushiku?"
"It is a special skill that takes years of training to master even one or two of them. Kendashi likes to use Soru, which is why he keeps disappearing. There is also Tekkai that hardens the muscles, Geppo that allows you to walk in the sky, Shigan is a finger pistol, Rankyaku is a special kick, and Kami-e is a way of dodging like paper. It's okay if you don't understand right away."
"I have no idea what you just said," Hendrick rolled his eyes. Some spiders flew at Hendrick, and he jumped. "Get them off! Get them off! Get them off!" The spiders got off on their own, going back to the now second of two spider clones.
However, now Kendashi had a set of black feathered wings on his back, as well as his horn on his forehead. As it was clearer to everyone, everyone left the room. Everyone knew that it was getting too serious, and they would be in danger if they stayed. There was maybe fifty that stayed to watch for their own amusement.
The ground shook every time Kendashi took a step. The walls continued to shake from how tense he was. Dust and sand was falling from the ceiling. This was nothing compared to the government headquarters on the island; Kendashi was holding way back.
"Since when was he this strong?! He wasn't this strong before!" Hendrick tried to balance himself while asking the President, who stood as if nothing was happening.
"This legendary strength is his power that he has promised to never use outside this Academy. If he did ever use it, it could destroy cities."
"Why?! How?!"
"Devil Fruit," was all he responded with.
"And what the hell is that supposed to be?!"
"It is a fruit that gives you a single ability, but at the cost of losing the ability to swim. If you go into water, you will drown." Hendrick flung his hands around.
"So what is this freaking ability?!"
"You wouldn't understand if I told you because you know nothing about this world."
"Just tell me!" Hendrick grabbed his sleeve, which surprised the President. All he did was give an interesting grin.
"Of the three types of Devil Fruit, Logia which is the most powerful, Zoan, and Paramecia. Elemental, Animal, and Others, respectfully. Kendashi ate a Zoan-based fruit, but it's a special fruit that is equal with Logia-based fruits. He ate a Mythical Zoan-based fruit, the Ali-Ali Fruit, the magical Black Alicorn." Even though Hendrick didn't fully understand the concept, he feared what was happening just by seeing this.
The spiders clung onto Sarichno and turned a dark green. Everything shook even more, everything was falling apart, even more so as Kendashi completely changed into this Black Alicorn. However, before anything else happened, music was heard. Hendrick looked to the far door of the dining hall to find a gorgeous woman with blonde hair sitting down on a chair with a full harp standing in front of her. Even a few measures of music stopped the movement of Kendashi and the spiders. As the girl got their attention, she played on. As it did, Kendashi slowly walked on all four, still as the Alicorn, and knelt down with his head on her lap. (Song is at the bottom of my profile)
By the time the music stopped, the spiders left and Kendashi was back to his normal self. Everything was still. Everyone quietly left except Mr. Shimaliton and Hendrick.
"Who is she," he asked in awe of her being able to stop everything.
"Out of everyone in the Academy, she is the most respected," he said quietly. "Even more respected than me. She is so loving, so caring, so beautiful, and so wonderful. She had lost everything in her life before Kendashi found her." This woman started to slowly run her fingers through Kendashi's hair with a smile.
"Okay, before you say any more, I want to know how they know each other."
"Sure," he sighed.
Three years ago when she was seventeen years old, her island was destroyed. Everyone she cared about and loved was on that island. It was also an island that was treating her because she was dying, and she still is. They were trying to cure her. But now, she sat very weakly against the sandy shores of the island. What was left of the island that wasn't scorched by fire, along with a wooden beam.
Even though she was very weak, she was small enough that this wooden beam wouldn't flip her around, and so she got on it and let the water take her.
When she woke up after having fell asleep, she found herself on an island of trees, and nothing but trees. In front of her was a black horse with a horn and wings that stood in front of her. As she got up, this magical creature began to freak out, stomping around and causing the water on the shore to jump around. However, because of this, she stopped breathing. She was so horrified, her body couldn't stand the shaking.
She heard a whisper in her ear, telling her to sing a song. She didn't know why she was telling herself to sing, but she did, not knowing what to sing. At the sound of the first note, the Alicorn stepped back, but came to a stop, watching her. She kept singing this melody she made up, which later became the song she just sang. The alicorn had become an eighteen year old guy that always silently sat next to her, waiting for more.
No one ever knew that this girl ever had a talent to quiet the most magical of creatures with just her voice. Ever since then, the boy with the Ali-Ali Fruit followed her everywhere she went. A few months later, they found their way to the Academy.
"Do you have any idea how corny and stupid that sounds? What kind of world is this? Magical creatures? A voice that can calm any creature? Please." Mr. Shimaliton only looked at him.
"You saw what just happened, didn't you? Do you not see that she is very weak looking?" Silence. "Welcome to our world of the impossible." He opened the door behind him and disappeared.
Hendrick slid to the ground slowly, unable to comprehend what this world can do.