Hey guys sorry for the late update (I think)
As you can see from the title, Shanks will be introduced. I made little changes but overall should not make a huge impact in the story. No Devil Fruit yet.
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First Adventure and Shanks
Luffy is now six years old and has been one annoying but lovable brat for everyone on the ship. Ever since he figured out how to run, everyone was annoyed. The main caretakers of Luffy had to especially have an eye on Luffy at all times of the day. In the morning, it was near breakfast where Thatch would wake him up a bit early to feed Luffy breakfast early so that after he ate, the others would get their normal breakfast. At noon if Marco, Mika and Jones weren't busy one of them would be with Luffy. They would play with him and teach him a few things. Mika being the responsible mother, she taught Luffy manners. After months of teaching, Luffy learned how to say "Please" "Thank you" and "You're welcome". That was a major accomplishment for both Luffy and the head doctor. Marco taught Luffy how to help around the ship. Luffy would help mop a part of the deck, help Marco lift papers and organize things. Marco was very happy to see Luffy helping out some of the other commanders with small tasks that would be time consuming for them, but with the help of little Luffy, they would send him off to do those small things. Luffy loved being useful for his family, it always made a smile across his face which in turn would get the division commanders a smile. When Luffy spent time with his uncle, Jones was teaching him how to read and write. Luffy could read small books and write quite a bit. Luffy always loved reading about adventure.
One day on the usual chaotic Moby Dick, the Whitebeard pirates were nearing an island. They needed to restock up on a few things including food because Luffy. Pops had called over Marco, Jones, Thatch and Mika before they got to the island and spoke to them in private for a bit. When they came out of Pop's room, Luffy noticed that all of them had smiles across their faces. Marco calls Luffy over, who comes running to the four. "Would you like to go on an adventure yoi?" Luffy has a massive smile across his face. He was finally going on his first adventure. Excited he starts running around and laughing and yells "I'm going on an adventure!" over and over until Thatch picks him up and says "Be a good boy now, always hold one of our hands and never leave our sights." Luffy nods his head in agreement and Thatch puts him down
As they get ready to go to the island, Whitebeard speaks to his youngest "Finally going on an adventure?" as he smiles. Luffy looks at Pops with a smile and says "Yes. But I promised Thatch I wouldn't leave them." he says with a smile of his own.
As Jones comes to get Luffy from Pops, he made sure that he had his sword with him just in case if anything happened. Jones would always make sure that the Whitebeard pirates had gone back to the ship while he fought enemies. He took over the second division but didn't want the title of commander. He felt that there would be someone more worthy of having the title as second commander. But this time since Luffy was going, he was in extra care mode. So was Marco. Marco was being the mother hen he always ways and would make sure Luffy would not leave his sight.
As the five head out to get their supplies and go on their adventure as Luffy called it, they passed into town soon after and it was a great place. The people were nice and friendly. Whenever Luffy walked by a stranger, he would smile and say "Hi I'm Luffy" with a smile and in turn they would reply with a smile of their own and say their name back. As the group looked through the stores for their supplies, Luffy was running around the stores having fun. The owners and workers of the stores did not seem to mind Luffy running round because he wasn't causing any trouble nor was he breaking or stealing anything.
When the group finished their shopping, they did some shopping for Luffy too. Mika decided to buy clothes for him and she had found Izo in that same store, so the two of them were looking for clothes for Luffy. Thatch had already did his shopping for Luffy when he went to buy food and ingredients. Marco then decided to buy Luffy a small wooden staff, but he didn't show Luffy. He wanted to talk with Pops first about teaching him how to fight. Jones was waiting to buy Luffy food at a restaurant. They group had made plans that when they were completely finished with everything.
After an hour or two, the group had finally been finished with everything. They decided to have lunch before Luffy would start to complain about being hungry. Since this was Luffy's first time coming to a restaurant, they would allow him to eat as much as he wanted to. They entered an empty restaurant that did not have much business. Nice enough for a pirate group to peacefully eat without attracting unwanted attention.
While the group had been eating their food (of course Luffy finished first), a man with a straw hat and red hair entered along with his group of what were seen as pirates. Marco and Thatch had tensed up because they recognized that it was Red Hair Shanks who had entered the restaurant. Jones however didn't give two shits. He was drinking his cup of sake and didn't bother to look at his former student and crew mate. But no one noticed that Luffy was running towards Shanks. When they had finally realized that Luffy was not on the table they could hear "Hey you tomato head! Stop scaring my family!" Shanks' crew all start to laugh like crazy and Jones himself was in tears of laughter. Marco looks at Jones who is still laughing and says "If Shanks touches him, I'll kill him right here." Jones agrees but he tells them that he has to use the restroom.
Shanks looks at the kid who had just called him a tomato head. He looks at his eyes and sees no fear in them. He had a strong aura to him. He could tell this kid was special. "And just who is your family may I ask." Luffy turns around and he points to Marco, Thatch and Mika. Luffy could not find his uncle and he starts wondering where he went. "Whitebeard pirates! Just what is a kid like you doing with them."
"They are my family. I've been on their ship since I was born." Shanks looks at the kid and knows that he is telling the truth. "Don't even try fighting Pops or Marco, they are stronger than you." Luffy blurts out causing Shanks to raise an eyebrow
"Stronger than me huh. I'll show you strength" as he pulls out his sword to show off to Luffy causing the Whitebeard pirates to run towards Luffy. And at that second Davy comes back from using the restroom and he sees the commotion. As he walks to Shanks, he picks up another mug of Sake and grabs Shanks by the shirt and throws him down. "DO NOT EVEN TOUCH MY NEPHEW!" Shanks is now pissed at what just happened. He gets up to find out who did that and he sees Davy D. Jones. Shanks now might have shit his pants and is scared. "Oh shit" was the only thing that came out of Shanks and he tells his men to shut up from laughing. Benn however is face palming why is my captain a dumbass.
"Davy-san! Is that really you?"
"Yes you brat. Now Luffy, did he hurt you?"
"No. But I think you hurt him." Davy looks at his nephew and laughs
"Oh no. I'm not hurt. Your uncle can't hurt me." which causes Jones to give Shanks a death stare making Shanks terrified.
"Men stand down. Don't fight." says Shanks causing confusion among his crew mates. "Stand down? We never even stood up!" causing everyone to laugh including Luffy and the Whitebeard pirates.
"I like these guys" says Luffy which causes Shanks crew to smile. "Hey Ma, can we sit with them please?" Luffy asks while doing his puppy eyes which no one could say no to except Mika who also had another set of puppy eyes herself. Marco however could not say no. At least Davy was here, so Shanks wouldn't do anything stupid. "Fine yoi. Hey waiter, mind if we combine tables?" which the waiter says by all means.
"So what's your name?"
"Luffy, where are your manners?" says Mika who gives a stern but kind look to Luffy
"Oh yea, sorry. I'm Luffy, who are you?" he says innocently while looking back at Mika who rolls her eyes slightly and sighs.
"Shanks. Nice to meet you Luffy."
As the two talk about adventures and being pirates, Luffy talks about how great his family is which makes the caretakers to really appreciate the words from Luffy. They smile and start to get along with Shanks and his crew. And within an hour or so, everyone seems to be enjoying the time. All were talking and eating and the older people were drinking sake while Luffy was drinking juice. Shanks was giving Luffy his full attention when talking to him which caused Shanks to relax. Shanks had no intention of hurting Luffy and he did apologize many times to them when he pulled out his sword. Of course they had accepted it because Luffy was happy. As long as Luffy was happy, no one seemed to care about much.
As time went by, Shanks decided to ask Luffy one thing which made everyone end their conversations to listen to the answer "What is your dream Luffy?"
Luffy takes his time to think before he answers. "I wish to keep everyone I love safe. Pops, Marco, Mi, Thatchy and Dee and everyone else I like. I want to be the strongest to protect them." Everyone smiles at Luffy and Marco really wanted to ask Pops about training Luffy.
As the night comes, the group decides to head back to the ship. They say their goodbyes to Shanks and his crew and as they all leave Shanks says "I'll see you soon Luffy!" "I'll be waiting Shanks." The caretakers all thought of the same thing Luffy can make friends with anyone and everyone.
As they get on the Moby Dick, everyone asks Luffy how his first adventure was while Pops quickly speaks to the caretakers if everything went well. Everything went great and Whitebeard was content, then Marco asked about starting to train Luffy and he agreed. Luffy needed to know how to fight soon.
As Luffy finished his story about his first adventure, he was getting sleepy. The caretakers took Luffy to his own room and placed him on his bed and he asked if they could stay with him. They agreed because well it was Luffy, so like usual Mika and Luffy slept on the bed, Marco slept on the floor right by the bed, Thatch took a corner and slept there while Jones was leaning on the door like normal. As they all say goodnight to each other, within minutes they all went to sleep.
Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. The spacing might be a bit off this chapter, but other than that I hope it was okay.
Also I'M OPEN TO DF IDEAS. Leaning towards Zoan and/or Logia but open to all. I'll pick the best ones
As of right now I have asked a few friends that read/watch OP and a few people have gave input on what Luffy's devil fruit is gonna be. So as of right now I am stumped on a Grim Reaper type Zoan, and a friend came up with this idea because its one of my favorite card/monster from Yu Gi Oh: The Winged Dragon of Ra (or how about a mix of the two XP)
