I Don't Own One Piece
Artemis and the War Bird Pirates belong to me
It was a peaceful day on the Grand Line. Clear blue skies, smoothed sea and a cool breeze. A beautiful day. Too bad the War Birds weren't having a good day.
The entire ship was shaken by the rumbling in Artemis's stomach. She was laying on her stomach, a bit of drool running down her face "so hungry." she moaned Hera was sleeping curled up beside her
"Well I don't see how when you ate the last of the food, Artemis" Yoko said, sitting beside her with a map in front causing the captain to moan slightly
"We need food" Killian said laying on his back, Blake was sitting beside the railing with head down
"We need a cook. Someone to ration the food and keep a certain captain from eating too much" Yoko said scolding Artemis
"Hmm. Yoko did you found any islands?" Artemis said whining a bit
"Well looking at your stepmother's map looks like we're approaching in between two islands. The island on the left is farther way, the right island is closer we should head there and restock. Axel!" Yoko yelled up to the First Mate, who was up in the Crow Nest "look to your right! You see a island?!"
Axel looking through his monocular turned to his right "yeah I see it!"
"Good! Lets go!" Yoko said she ran to the helm, turning the wheel, changing the direction of the Onyx Falcon "we should be there shortly"
Artemis tiredly threw herself on top of the railing of the ship, looking back at the island far away when her keen eyesight caught something, a surge of electricity. "Whoa!" she somehow found the energy to stand up "what was that?!" she took a deep breath "I.. smell.. food!" her eyes sparkle, smiling big. She than summoned her wings and flew at incredibly high speed that made Kizaru look slow in comparison.
"ARTEMIS!" Yoko yelled, running to the railing
"Whoa! Cool!" Killian said finding the energy to go the railing
"Where is she going?"
"She must've saw something on the other island" Blake said
"But what?-" Yoko said before sighing "Axel" turning to the First Mate
"Let her go" Axel said smiling
"What?!"
"Look Artemis can take care of herself, we know that. We'll restock and go after her to that island. No need to worry, besides Hera hasn't even went after her so she's not even worried"
"But-"
"Trust our captain, Yoko" Blake said. Yoko looked at the others who smiled
"..ok" Yoko said "I just hope she's stays out of trouble"
"I know I saw lightning appear somewhere" Artemis said, she sniffed "maybe I should follow the smell of cooked delicious meat!"
Artemis used her powers to warp at the destination. What she saw made her jaw drop and mouth water "STEW AND ROAST MEAT!"
The meat was from a ox, one that looked as large as the animals back on Amazon Lily, she saw the horns on the ground that looked it reached her height. It was cooking over the fire, along with a saucepan simmering over another fire with white yellow liquid with orange carrots and green broccoli bits inside and a pot spoon hanging over. She sensed that the cook was nowhere around, but she didn't care. All that mattered was the food in front of her.
The giant ox was picked clean in a matter of seconds, Artemis slurped some more of the stew "ah! Delicious!" she patted her somehow still slim stomach
"Glad you enjoyed it"
Artemis turned toward the voice. The owner was a beautiful young woman, looked a bit older than Artemis maybe about the same age as Yoko. She had short black hair with three locks being blue and there was a tuft of hair tied up on both sides of her forehead and piercing light blue eyes. Her skin was pale and looked as soft as velvet as hers. She was wearing a black sleeveless crop top hoodie, black pants with blue and white stripes on the sides and black boots. Her breasts were a bit smaller than Artemis and Yoko's, but nice and perky.
Appearance aside, Artemis could tell she had strong will and is very powerful. A will has strong as most of the War Bird, Rapture Pirates and maybe even herself. Artemis also noticed how strong the girl's body was, not overly muscular, but she was well toned and slim.
"Oh that was food. Sorry about that" Artemis laughed as she scratched the back of her head "I was really hungry" what caught Artemis's wasn't just the other fried giant ox, the girl had in her left hand, but the girl's right hand was sparking with blue electricity
"Look don't worry about it. Lucky I found another to cook up"
"Hey your hand!" Artemis pointed to the girl's hand as she walked over to her preparing to cook "I've seen that before when I was on my ship!"
"Hmm?" than the girl looked at her hand "oh that's the power for my Spark-Spark Fruit."
"Spark-Spark Fruit?" Artemis tilting her head to the side
"It allows me to control and discharge lightning from my hands or other parts of my body. I can even control and absorb the lightning from storms too. And also channel the energy into bursts of super-speed too"
"Whoa! Cool! But wait lightning? That sounds like that so called "God" my dad, stepmoms and uncles told me and my siblings about when they were in Skypiea years ago."
"Think that's a different Devil Fruit Artemis" as the young girl walked over to the young captain, placing the ox meat over the fire
"Huh? Wait how do you know my name?"
"How could I not know one of the most famous pirates in the world. You stand next to your brother Adonis as the strongest children of the Pirate King. You took on Edward Weevil by yourself and that ugly bastard isn't a pushover. Two of your crew mates took on a former Yonko Commander. Your First Mate snuck into a marine base and took on CP-0 agents"
"Oh well yeah. That's me and my crew"
"I definitely can't forget that you, your brother and his crew took on the Navy's strongest most ultimate form of military attack. Though I never thought they would unleash a tactic like that for a small crew. Than again they were led by Akainu that son of a bitch"
Artemis could sense the girl's hostile and bitterness "you talk as if you were a member of the marines"
"I was. Made it up to Commodore before I left, they called me the Lightning Lass" she used her Devil Fruit power to spark up a fire a bit more "oh you know. I never introduced myself, the names Zora"
"Zora huh? Kinda sounds like my Uncle Zoro's name, but replace the o with a instead. That's cool" the girls giggled "so why you leave the marines?"
"I couldn't live up or follow their Absolute Justice. It was when Akainu was Fleet Admiral and the marines were more corrupted than they are now. I still remember when he killed a marine because he questioned him about his orders, than I saw other marines like Onigumo and Doberman follow his influence. I couldn't take it, so I left and I knew I could never go back even with Smoker in charge" Artemis looked at Zora and nodded slowly "the marines are in good hands with him in charge"
Zora started cooking up another batch of stew, stirring it, Artemis tried to get a taste of it only to get her zapped by Zora "Uh-uh its not ready princess"
"Hmm. Kinda reminds me of what my uncle would do to my dad and little half brother. While he'll do it to my half brother, my dad he'll kick him in the face. So even though you left, any regrets?"
"Not yet. Well besides Smoker I did make six people who I cared for and were honest and loyal. Hina, Coby, Helmeppo, Tashigi, Kodachi and Carter. Though Tashigi would lecture me and scold me for my hair style" she pointed that the three blue locks in her hair
"That's Aunt Tashigi for you" Artemis laughed "she scolds me like her kids too whether it comes to fighting or eating or teaching me to be a proper lady or warrior. So were you and Kodachi good friends?"
"Oh yeah" Zora poured Artemis a bowl of stew and handed it to her "we were good friends, sometimes we would train and race each other her using her advanced Moon Walk technique and me with my Devil Fruit and Soru technique, but I had the most wins. For Carter.." she looked away smiling, Artemis slurped the bowl she could sense Zora's feelings flare inside "he's a good marine. I'll just leave it at that. But I can never get over what the marines did, I can't go back, I want to be around people I can trust, I call more of those people my friends and see more of the world"
Artemis slammed her bowl on the ground without even cracking it, getting Zora's attention
"Ok! I've made my decision! You're joining my crew!" Artemis yelled confusing Zora "you're a great cook. You're nice! And you have a pretty awesome Devil Fruit ability! Me and my crew, we never abandoned our friends! We travel the world everyday!... So. What do you say?!" Zora looked at Artemis for a moment, smiled, but before she could open her mouth. Her and Artemis both sensed something or someone
"Now that we restocked lets head across the other of the sea to the island, where our captain is" Yoko said giving the crew orders as the Onyx Falcon sailed to the island across
"I wonder why she just soared off the ship like that" Killian said "to that other island"
"Whatever reason I just hope she stays out of trouble"
"That might be a problem" Yoko and Killian looked and walked up to Axel and Blake standing in front of the ship
"Why do you say that Blake?" Yoko asked her swordsman
"Well its not really gonna be a problem for Artemis to handle, but"
"Look" Axel said finishing what Blake was gonna say, looking forward in the direction of the island, they saw two marines docked "two marine battleships there" Yoko's eyes widen "Artemis can handle them"
Yoko looked at the men on the ship seeing how calm they were even Hera who was still sleeping "I don't see how you can be so calm most of the time"
"Well we knew you had to be here Luster Princess"
Artemis and Zora looked back to see Vice Admirals Doberman, Onigumo and their marine forces. Doberman had streaks of gray hairs and wrinkles to match, but regardless of age he was still dangerous. And still had a strong sense of Absolute Justice like Onigumo and Akainu. He wasn't too thrilled about Smoker being Fleet Admiral just as Onigumo.
"Hey its Spider Arms and Scarface" Artemis carefree said with a smile, which annoyed the Vice Admirals
"Such insolence" Onigumo growled
"Hmm?" Doberman looked and saw Zora, "who is she? A new crew member of Artemis's?"
"Huh Vice Admiral Doberman" a marine getting the Vice Admiral's attention "I believe that's Zora the former marine"
"The Lightning Lass"
"Oh I remember she was in the same ranking as Smoker's son"
"Huh I'm surprised you remember me" Zora said standing up "after all you two tend to shot or kill your own or just leave them for dead when wounded"
Onigumo spat his cigarette "if those who can't stand or fight for Absolute Justice are worthless and unworthy of being marines"
"Shouldn't even call themselves marines just like you" Doberman said. Zora glared at them, her hand crackling with electricity
"And if you're with the Luster Princess" Onigumo said "that only proves our point. Its her we want, get in our way and you're a enemy"
Zora's eyes were covered by her, Artemis smiled "hey Spider Arms. I heard that my older brother kicked your ass at Fishman Island and before that" Onigumo eye twitched as he gritted his teeth "and I'm pretty much stronger than him, you think you take me? Now if you had Tashigi, Coby or Smoker with you.. than I might be scared a little" she summoned her sword "I probably won't need my powers to beat you guys"
Zora put her hand in front of Artemis "let me take these two" Artemis looked at her "its personal" looking into her eyes, Artemis saw and felt the passion
Artemis stood back where she was, nodded "ok"
"Enough of this! Men surround them!" Doberman ordered the marine officers as they circled around the girl pointing guns at them
"But let me take care of these guys for you" Artemis activated her Conquering Haki knocking the marines surrounding them "now you only have these two to deal with" Zora smiled, nodded and approach the Vice Admirals
"So you stand with her?"
"Seems so" Zora said
"You made your choice" Doberman unsheathed his sword "now suffer the consequences"
"Filthy pirate!" Onigumo activated his powers, now pointing eight swords at Zora
Electricity started surround Zora's body and it looked like the blue locks in her hair started to glow too. "Shave!" she moved at high speed getting directly behind Doberman, in slow motion he looked behind to see her. She channeling electricity into her fist
"Berzerker Punch!" Zora threw her electric fist at Doberman, he cloaked his arm and sword in armament haki blocking the attack, pushing him back as he groaned shocked, skidding away.
Zora back flipped in time to avoid Onigumo's backward slash from his eight swords. Getting on her feet, using her observation haki and Devil Fruit to dodge all of Onigumo's lighting fast slashes as Zora herself was moving lighting fast making her a lighting blur. Artemis watched in amazement.
When Zora saw the chance she leaped over Onigumo while dodging his slashes, she landed behind him. Onigumo turned to her, attempting to slash her, she ducked down dodging than planted a stunning uppercut to Onigumo's jaw "Berzerker Barrage!" she followed up with a lighting fast barrage of fists and kicks, each blow shot out a surge of electricity.
Seeing the lighting appearing from the island
"What the hell? Lightning? Why is there so much lightning there?!" Yoko answered
"Whoa" Killian looked in awe
"Its not coming from Artemis" Blake sensed "its coming from someone else. Doesn't look like Artemis is fighting them"
"She's not fighting at all" Axel sensed "the other person is fighting. Whoever she is she's good"
"And strong"
Zora continued her assaulted on Onigumo until she landed on her feet and delivered a powerful stunning elbow to his chest, shooting out a average amount of electricity, the force of the blow send Onigumo crashing into trees and boulders, he landed on his back on the ground. Artemis whistle
"Awesome" Artemis said
But before Zora could enjoy her victory, both her and Artemis looked to see Doberman standing
"Its a shame. Such talent you could've be a great marine of Absolute Justice instead you decided to worse it and become a pirate"
"Your "Justice" just wasn't for me"
Doberman charged at Zora, slashing at her. Zora just simply dodged at high speed, she back flipped on top of her hands "Henry Gyro!" spinning in high speed, her legs channeling electricity. Doberman used his sword to block the rapid spin kicks, the last kick send him skidding back. Zora flipped back on her feet.
Doberman jumped in the air, sword over his head as he came down he attempted to thrust the sword downward onto Zora.
"Shave!" she jumped in the air in high speed, avoiding Doberman. Artemis and Doberman looked up at her, she channeling electricity into her hand. The channel of electricity caught the War Birds attention from a distant "now try this! Berzerker Cannon!" she projects a bolt of lightning from her hand, making a destructive explosion.
"What the hell?!" Yoko said in panic
"Whoa that was wicked!" Killian said in amazement "think Artemis is alright?"
"Yeah she is" Axel said
Zora landed on the ground, the land was pretty scorched and Doberman was crispy, unconscious and fell back
"Wait Artemis are you-" she looked around
"Yeah I'm fine"
The smoke cleared, Zora saw Artemis behind a barrier completely unharmed
"Oh I forgot you have a overpowered Devil Fruit of your own"
Artemis smiled widely "So how did it feel?"
"Honestly.. it felt fun I admit" Zora smiled "would this be what it feels like to be a pirate?"
"Mhm" Artemis said "wait! So that means you'll join my crew?!" her eyes sparkled
"Sure. As long as there's nothing else you want from me"
"You're a awesome fighter, cook with a cool Devil Fruit. The only other thing I ask from you is.." she held out her hand "your friendship"
Zora stared Artemis's hand, than looked her showing her famous Monkey D. smile. Zora smiled taking the young captain's hand
"You got yourself a cook. Captain"
"ALRIGHT! We got a cook finally!" Artemis jumped up in enjoy "you're gonna love everyone and they're love you! Oh you know that coming with us, not only will be dealing with marines, but other pirates especially the remnants of the Big Mom Pirates, Beasts Pirates and Blackbeard Pirates who are after us and my family"
"Shouldn't be surprised at all" they smiled
As the two women were walking to shore, they were collecting food, Artemis sliced giant boars and Zora electrocuted giant oxen. Artemis was carrying vegetables and fruits with her wings, while she and Zora dragged the meat. The Onyx Falcon had dropped anchor, the four pirates were about to disembark to look for their captain, but she walked out of the forest before the group could jump onto the railing
"Artemis!"
"Hey guys! I got us some food!"
"That's the understatement. Since we already restocked on the other island, anymore and we'll have enough food for years even with a glutton like you" their swordsman chuckled a bit, Artemis grinned
"Hey babe who's the girl?" Axel noticed
"Huh? Oh right. She's our new cook!"
Axel, Yoko, Blake and Killian were surprised by the news
The new cook bowed "nice to meet you all. My name is Zora" she raised her head, and gave a mature and beautiful smile "I hope we get along"
"Wow we have a cook!" Killian said "Cool!"
"So I take you were the one the lightning was coming from" Axel asked
"Oh yeah she's a Devil Fruit user!"
"So we have another Fruit user with us" Yoko said
"She ate the Spark-Spark Fruit. We have one hell of a new crew mate" Zora giggled from Artemis complement "so you guys gonna help with the food or what?"
After the news, the War Bird Pirates helped their captain and cook bring the food aboard the ship. Afterwards the crew set sail, the rest of the crew got to know Zora knowing she was a former marine turn pirate just like Red Flag X-Drake. After the introductions, Zora decided to cook the crew a huge feast.
After the feast, which Artemis seriously enjoyed, the sun set
Artemis had found some herbs on the island for Killian. He had been working on making them into medicine ever dinner ended
Yoko had volunteered to show Zora around the ship and where she'll be sleeping in the quarters with her and Artemis.
Zora was in the kitchen, cleaning the dishes. Zora was really fond of the crews antics, she taken by Axel and Blake's handsomeness and maybe have suggested of adding more men to the crew who weren't taken or too young like Killian. "I think I'm gonna like it here" she smiled.
Artemis was standing by the railing, smiling at the sunset. Hera slithered over to her, Artemis saw her and rubbed her head
"You're in a good mood"
Artemis looked to see her boyfriend and First Mate walking towards her. "well I should be. I got a ton of food and a new crew mate" Artemis smiled back into the sea "the crews getting close to full. Now all I need is a musician and helmsman just like Adonis"
Axel chuckled a bit, he wrapped his arm around Artemis "Helmsman I understand, but a musician"
"Of course! Pirates need music in their life!" she leaned her head on Axel's shoulder
"Whatever you say babe" he kissed her forehead "you know I'll agree with you. There's another reason why you're happy too"
"Yeah in a few weeks my new baby half brother is gonna be born" Artemis smiled sweetly "I can't wait to see him"
Here's the new One Shot chapter. The War Bird Pirates finally found a cook, yeah Zora will appear in my other story The Princess of the Pirate King too. Probably the same way too. I did take some inspiration from my friend Devlin Dracul's fanfic Life in Pirate King Luffy's Era, he knows hopefully he updates it soon too. Tell me what you guys think