"C'mooon!"

"How many times do I have to tell you? No!"

Rem was still trying to convince Fang to join his crew. They had arrived at the town of Porta a few moments ago. Fang was able to find clothes in what appeared to be the dressing room, albeit very archaic. It was a suit blue, striped suit with many patches sewn into it, along with a dull green tie that was left hanging loose, seeing as he couldn't put it on himself. His pants were blue and had a belt holding it up.

Fang jumped from the ship's deck and onto the port, his half-sword still in his hand. "Thanks for the ride, but I've no intentions of becoming a pirate." He said, leaving a very depressed looking Rem back on the ship. But Rem spoke up once again. "I'll get you to join my crew if it's the last I do!" Rem said, his voice having a greater sense of determination.

"Yeah, I'm sure you will." Fang scoffed at Rem.

Fang soon left both of them behind him, eager to find a bar despite having all of his money lost from his last training session.

"Did you hear about Maria?" A random passerby in the town spoke to his friend. Fang stopped walking for a moment, he was admittedly guilty of gossiping himself.

"Yeah, she's so cool! But I still can'y believe she's actually from an alternate world!" Fang seemed particularly confused at this. From another world? He began questioning if these two people were insane, their skin was even a tad bit gray!

"Yeah, who knew that a pirate could be so interesting! Y'know she's even said that..." The passerby began whispering to his friend. "She's the daughter of Monkey D. Luffy." Fang couldn't help but snicker as he heard this, the pair were obviously just two gullible idiots.

Fang soon found a bar and swung its entrance door open. No one seemed to notice him as a group of pirates was already having a party in there. But once he was inside he saw something very strange. It was a woman...with cat ears? She was wearing the typical pirate get up and had long black hair. She had a blade in it's sheathe, which was strapped onto her waist. And she also had a straw-hat, similar to the one the pirate king himself wore, only it had a pink ribbon instead of a red one.

Fang couldn't help but feel strange as he sat down on one of the booths. The bartender struck up a conversation with him, and lo and behold, it was about Maria. "I see you've taken an interest in our Maria, huh?"

"Not really." Fang replied, clearly disliking where the conversation was heading. The bartender had the same, dull-looking skin as the others. "Get me a bottle of rum, it's been ages since I've had a drink."

"Nonsense! Nonsense! I'm sure it can wait!" The bartender waved his hand dismissively. "I'm not running out of rum any time soon."

Fang consented angrily. "Fine! Anything to get my rum."

"Very good, very good. Now where to begin..." The man put his fingers to his chin as if in deep thought. Fang sighed and rolled his eyes, having the feeling that he wouldn't be getting his drink any time soon. "Oh yes! Oh yes!" The bartender exclaimed suddenly. "First off, she is from an alternate dimension, one much better than ours!" Fang raised a brow at at this. "I assure you, it's true! Not only that, but she's the daughter of the pirate king, Monkey D. Luffy and has a bounty of 500,000,000."

"Riiight," Fang said, unconvinced. "And what's a pirate with a bounty that high doing here, then?"

"Why, helping the masses, of course!"

"Old man, I don't think your brain's working all right. She's obviously just a fraud." A silence had suddenly befell the bar, all of the customers began glaring at Fang as if he had just committed a grave error.

"What the hell'd you say about our captain, bastard?" A fishman spoke up. It appeared to be part-swordfish, given his long and sharp nose. All he had on was a unbuttoned coat and brown shorts.

"I said she's a fraud." Fang replied coldly.

"SHIN." A voice spoke up, it was the pirate captain 'Monkey D. Maria' herself. "Now, now, Goliath there's no need to start a fight. Besides, he's handicapped, the fight obviously wouldn't be fair." She spoke condescendingly, as if Fang was nothing more than an insect to her. She held up a poster of her. It said 'WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE MONKEY D. MARIA 500,000,000'.

"SHIN." Maria began again. "See? I've got a bounty of 500,000,000 beli. Do you really think you can hold a candlelight to me?" She said smugly.

"It's obviously fake. You seem more like a pompous bitch than a fearsome pirate." The hatred in the glares intensified, even Maria was furious.

A gunshot was fired, it just barely missed Fang. The bartender ducked on the floor, more and more guns were appearing in the hands of the pirates, even the regular civilians looked eager to fight. "Kill him." Maria said shortly. Fang stormed out the bar, a barrage of bullets being shot from behind him.

Fang ran away from the bar as more and more people emerged out of it, each either spreading the news about the recent incident, or chasing after Fang. "Fang!" Both Rem and JoJo were outside near the bar. "Goddammit, you again!" Fang said as he ran past the pair.

Rem chased after him, while JoJo was left a considerable distance behind them because of his lack of speed. "Fang!" Rem called out once more, he seemed to be smiling very happily. "What'd you do to piss those guys off? Did you decide to become a pirate after all."

"Hell no!" Fang said vehemently. "I pissed off some pirate captain, Monkey D. Maria." Rem himself skeptically raised an eyebrow at this. "She's like a damned god to these dumb-asses!"

They both reached the dock, JoJo was also able to reach it, but was out of breath from trying to keep up with their speed.

"Y'know..." Rem began with a malevolent look in his eyes. "I could help out, IF you decide to join my crew."

"You piece of crap! No means—"

"There he is!" The angry mob had finally reached them. "He insulted our Maria, we can't let him get away with that!" Several cries of agreement came from the crowd.

A bead of sweat fell from Fang's forehead, Rem looked particularly smug. "Fine! If we make it out of this alive, I'll join your damn crew."

"Okay!" Rem said, his smile completely unrelenting. "I've got a plan to get them off your tail."

"What is it?" Fang inquired.

Rem began doing what he did best, yell. "OI! MARIA! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? I'LL KICK THE CRAP OUT OF YOU!"

The crowd looked even more pugnacious than before! Several of the people in the crowd demanded for Rem's head on a plate. But they were quickly stopped by a "SHIN." Three figures could be seen walking through the crowd. In the middle of the group was Maria, to the left of her was the fishman Goliath, and to the right was a short man riding on a large, gray wolf.

"So you're gonna beat the crap out of me, eh?" Maria said, a strange smile on her face. "Are you that bastard's captain?"

"Yup." Rem replied shortly, studying Maria as if she was some sort of alien.

"I trust that you understand that your crew mate has to die for insulting our captain, correct?" The fishman stated in a stern fashion.

"Shut the hell up, bastard." Fang said, looking eager to slice Goliath's head off.

"Oh, would you look at that! I think I might've found a new beast to tame! Tell me, what kind of wolf are you? There's never been one I couldn't train!" The pirate riding the wolf giddily said to JoJo, who shifted his eyes uncomfortably.

"Kick their asses, Maria!"

"Don't let them get away with what they did!"

"Goliath! Stab the guy with one arm so hard that he'll wish he was never born!"

Maria smiled as she got cheered on by the crowd.

"Well now, shall we begin?"

I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. I just got my first OC submission, which I'll likely use after the next arc. I've already got plans for how to integrate her into the story. :)

Also, I recommend you check out "A Pirates Life For Me" by MOM3NTAI. It's really good so far, plus the story and characters are great so far, making it totally worth the read!