This is a sort of... 'Sorry, don't hurt me' for giving a bunch of Anti-Sopa rants on all of my stories and getting your hopes up.
This chapter goes in chronological order.
Also, does anybody have a clue on how to get the line-breakers to work? I've resorted to using kanjis, and while it's somewhat pretty, I think I like the normal line breakers better.
I don't own One Piece
Shanks sighed as he contemplated his strategies. He had tried approaching the young 'ghost girl' as his crew had dubbed her. He got several knives thrown at him for the effort. Most people were quite afraid of threatening a Yonko. Obviously she was not.
The odd Haki-shielding abilities were annoying, too. They just made Shanks all the more determined to get her and make her tell him her secrets. Because that was pretty damn cool.
The animals in the forest kept being annoying and attempting to attack him. And by the time he was done with them, the girl was gone.
Another thing he quickly realized was that the girl constantly regenerated herself, which was also pretty cool.
All in all, Shanks chalked it up to a devil fruit. Where ghost girl had got it from, was anyone's guess.
He was snapped out of his thoughts when he subconsciously noticed an unfamiliar presence. He quickly whipped around to look at the ghost girl, who had frozen in her tracks, staring at him in fear. She took a step back, fear painting her face.
"Who the hell are you, and why the hell are you following me?" She asked quietly.
Shanks blinked before squatting down. That was a mistake, because she took another step back.
"I'm Shanks." He held out his hand. Ghost girl stared at it for a bit, uncomprehending. "Do you want to be my friend?" Shanks asked.
"Friend? What's that?" She frowned, the picture of innocence. Shanks found it hard to believe she was the same person who threw deadly objects at him regularly.
"It's someone who..." How do you explain what a friend is?
"Someone who you would do anything for." Shanks decided on.
"Isn't that family?" She asked in confusion.
"No, they aren't related to you-"
"Bullshit! You don't need to be related to be a family!" She suddenly yelled out, before quickly calming down.
"Well, some friends are pretty much a family. They're called nakama." Shanks amended. "Other friends are just as important, though."
At the mention of family, Ghost girl touched her arm softly.
"What's your name?" Shanks asked. As cool of a name 'Ghost Girl' was, he doubted she would like be addressed like that.
"Luffia. Monkey D. Luffia."
As soon as she said 'Monkey' Shanks's jaw dropped in surprise.
"Monkey... As in Monkey D. Garp?!"
"He's my grandfather." She shifted weight from one foot to another, bowing her head so her bangs shadowed her eyes. Finally, Shanks burst out laughing.
"Well, you've got an interesting family!"
"You don't know the half of it..." She mumbled, and if Shanks didn't have super senses, he wouldn't have heard it. He'd question her later.
"Do you wanna go back to the Party's Bar with me, and meet the rest of the crew?" He asked.
"Crew? You're a pirate?" She gasped out, but she definitely wasn't afraid.
"Yup!"
"I wanna be a pirate!"
"Why? Isn't your grandfather a marine?"
"Yeah, he always throws me off a cliff every time I say that... and pirate have the most freedom, that's why!" Luffy proclaimed.
"Well, Luffia-"
"Luffy."
"Luffy, you're an interesting child."
He had no idea what he was about to get into.
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13 years later
It had happened so quickly. He had been laughing along with them, and then, the next moment, he was dead. None of the Haki users even had the time to react.
Standing behind the Straw Hats was the man who had just murdered their cyborg shipwright. The shipwright of the King of Pirates. Well, Queen. Let's not get technical.
They all looked at him with murder in their eyes, while the innocent doctor kept crying asking Franky to 'live dammit, you can't be dead you bastard'.
Franky had been killed with a simple blast of light from an admiral. Such a simple, ordinary death. And that was the worst of all. Franky was flamboyant, flashy, quirky, talented, extraordinary, unique. He deserved a heroes death, one that people would remember forever, maybe a sacrifice to save the world or something. But no. He was shot in the back by an Admiral, simple as that.
Despite the fact that the Straw-Hats took the life of that Admiral in return for their precious shipwright's, the hollow spot in all of the crew's hearts would never be replaced. The entire crew found it hard to stay alive, and the only reason they did so was for each other. If one of them dared commit suicide, the others would never forgive them for that.
The only consolation was that Franky had achieved his dream, and the Straw Hats were determined to keep the Sunny alive to keep part of Franky with them, forever. But the Straw Hats were never the same. Each of them had dealt with pain and suffering through death, but that was different.
Zoro remembered the girl who would never achieve her dream because of her gender, the hero who died in a completely ordinary way, and how painful that was.
Nami remembered how her mother, her savior, her light, how she was extinguished with a simple shot, and how terrible that was.
Usopp remembered his mother, the one who believed in him, and how she was defeated by a simple sickness.
Sanji remembered the pain of seeing his entire adopted family die on that ship, and that he could do nothing about it.
Robin remembered watching Ohara burn while feeling despair at the fact that her enemy was to large to defeat, in this case, death.
Brook remembered his old crew, and how they all eventually died, leaving only him, and feared that that would happen again.
Luffy remembered a kind red-haired captain, who taught her how to open her heart again, and wished, for a brief second, that she had remained emotionless, and wouldn't have to deal with this terrible pain.
If only they knew what was in store for them.
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A few months later
With the pain of Franky still fresh in their minds, disaster struck again. This time, it was with the man Luffy had saved, the second division commander, Ace. The fleet admiral, Akainu, had decided to finish the job when Sengoku hadn't. He decided that the Pirate Queen and the son of the Pirate King were too dangerous to have contact with each other. So, on one of the many times that the two crews met up, he went after them personally.
He sent a magma covered fist hurtling towards the Queen, thinking she was the bigger threat. Suddenly, the fire pirate shoved her out of the way, taking the blow for her. Immediately, the Whitebeard Pirates were upon him, and Whitebeard himself finished him off, not without a little difficulty, as the man was getting on in age.
"I... I... guess this is a repayment for what you've done for me.. Luffy... I just want to say... to you all... that I found myself a family, just like you asked... and even though I have the blood of a demon in my veins... Thank you! For loving me!" Ace gasped out with his dying breaths, and as the magma that had punctured his gut began to eat away at the rest of his body, he collapsed completely in Luffy's arms, while she attempted to hold back tears.
"Baka... not you too..." She whispered into his corpse, hating everything about him at the moment. The way that they never got to get close as kids, the way that he still didn't think he deserved to live, the way that his damn smile was still on his face.
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A few days later
After Ace's untimely death, fate dealt a double blow to the Straw-Hats. The former Yonko, Kaido, wanting revenge for his defeat, and Akainu, who couldn't stand the pirate scum, killed both the cook and first mate of the Straw-Hats. They fought bravely, beating hordes of enemies, but they accumulated too many bullet wounds, and finally, were stabbed through, in the gut, by the fleet admiral himself. They died back to back.
Soon after, Akainu died from the wounds Sanji gave him, and Kaido had fallen to Zoro's deadly swords. But the Mugiwaras, who had been forced apart by a large wave to the Sunny, courtesy of the two themselves, had felt no justice in death. Luffy herself had attempted to fly to them, only to realize that the time she had spent flying over the world had taken a larger toll on her wings then she had originally thought. She had irreparably taken away her ability to fly.
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A month later
Usopp had always been a coward. Slowly taking a breath, he lifted his arms and leaned backwards, feeling the wind on his back before feeling the perfectly preserved railing under his feet give way to nothingness. A simple second before impact, less then that, the feeling of water swirl underneath him, and then there was nothing.
While he was a coward in death, he embraced it like a true hero.
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A few weeks later
Robin had betrayed, double crossed, assassinated, and killed everyone in matter of time. Only now did she understand how it was to have a family. And now, the family was falling, one by one. She decided, that it would be much better to end it, quickly and simply. She only wished it wouldn't hurt the others. However, she couldn't keep living like this. Her dream had been achieved, and she wanted only to keep living with her family. In life or in death, it made no difference.
Slowly, she took the pill and waited as the effects began to take place.
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One day later
Chopper was a miracle doctor, capable of curing anybody. However, as the crew fell into a downwards spiral, he chose not to cure anymore, staying in his medical bay and crying, his childish innocence completely shattered. Finally, the rest of the crew, along with Luffy, gave him permission to die in peace. He chose to go out the way his father figure had as well, taking a preserved Amidake mushroom, and taking with him an entire fleet of Marines.
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Three days later
Everyone was dying, one by one. The powerful crew, the Mugiwara no Kaizoku, the ones to reach the end of the Grand Line, were broken beyond belief. The crew famed for doing the impossible.
One of such impossibilities was the skeleton. A living skeleton, who could not bear to watch his beloved family die before him. So, with Luffy's consent, he put on a sea-stone bracelet. Luffy had smiled bitter-sweetly, and told him to wait for her, as she still had something to do in the world of the living. And so, Brook finally rejoined the world he had a brief taste of over half a century ago, dying next to his old friend, Laboon.
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One month later
Her map was complete. She could finally rest in peace. Giving it to the last person on the crew besides her, Luffy, she bid her farewell, and rejoined East Blue, and Cocoyashi village. She died protecting her beloved tangerine farms when the remaining Admirals came to kill her. She went willingly, dying happily, and with the knowledge that her treasures were safe.
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A few days later
Every 'D' committed some sort of suicide, Whitebeard reflected. There was his cherished son, Ace, who had taken a fatal blow for a girl who could have been his sister in another time. His longtime friend, Gol D. Roger, had given himself up to the Marines, as he was dying anyways. Rouge had sacrificed her life to give birth to Ace. Rose had DID, eventually letting her other side take complete control, and end her life. His former son, Blackbeard, when faced with a humiliating defeat, had opted to kill himself rather then admit it. Jaguar D. Saul, a friend of a crew member of his unofficial daughter, had known what he was doing when he was destroying those ships, leading to his death.
And now, his unofficial daughter was about to help her father achieve his own dream, by playing the devil's music.
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At Baltigo
"The system is hooked up, sir." A revolutionary reported to the famous Dragon.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" He asked his only daughter.
"I'm the only one who can." She smiled.
"But the song was meant for two people, a boy and a girl. It'll kill you if you do it alone." He reasoned to her.
"There isn't another child of Polaris alive, and I'm the only one who can do this. And as you said, it'll ensure your victory. I'm willing to do this, and I want to. I don't have a reason to live anymore."
"Very well then."
Slowly, she brought up the Den Den Mushi, which was currently connected to every other Mushi in the world.
"The era of dreams lives on for as long as you still have dreams. I have hidden the One Piece where nobody alive but I have ever been. I dare you all to find it. Challenge the world, let nothing stand in your way, and dare to dream. ONE PIECE IS OUT THERE! FIND IT!"
A message the entire world received. A message that would mark a new era of dreams. The first act of this new era? The revolution that would overthrow the corrupt government of old.
Slowly, she began playing the music on the old flute that her mother had given to her. Each note was broadcasted across the world, letting everyone hear the strangely familiar tune.
Slowly, drops of blood ran down her back, cutting into the tattoo of a dragon on her back. The tattoo meant to mask the image of the brand Doflamingo had burnt on her. The music notes wrapping around her ankle, playing in an infinite loop, mirrored the song she kept playing.
Sabo, having heard the music, rushed to where he knew she would be. Outside, in the windy, barren planes. He attempted to bang open the doors leading outside, however, they were made to resist even his super strength. Slowly, Dragon came to him and placed a hand on his shoulder rather awkwardly. He was never good at emotion.
"She chose this." He clarified to the poor young man.
"Why?" He asked, tears dripping down her face.
Dragon couldn't answer that. Only she could tell him why.
As the song progressed, blood began flowing outwards more. Each drop of blood was drunk in greedily by the ground. Slowly, tentative buds came out of the ground, quickly thickening and strengthening as the twined around her ankles, finally obscuring the tattoo of the music. Luffy ignored this in favor of constantly playing her song, smiling serenely. Her blood was treated as a strange for of water to the tree that contained the soul of the devil.
Sabo had broke down crying as the girl who he treated as a sister was sacrificing herself for the sake of the Revolution.
The vines had reached her waist as she continued playing, reaching the final stretch of the song. In a burst of strength, the tree grew over her, molding to her form. The final note echoed across the entire world as Luffy's insides were completely atomized. Her smile was the last thing anyone ever saw of her.
Finally, Dragon opened the door with his key, letting the two outside. He turned to Sabo, who was crying his eyes out at the loss of his sister.
"Come. We have a Revolution to lead."
The final note had set off several attacks against many Marine bases. Many admirals had been killed, Luffy and Law had gotten rid of a good half of the Shichibukai by themselves, many of the others didn't want to fight them anyways and they didn't have to worry about any of the Yonko besides Big Mom. Shanks and Whitebeard were fine with what they were doing, if only through the connection to the late Pirate Queen. Kaido had been killed, and the Yonko who took his place, Trafalgar Law, would never oppose them, because of his adopted sister's sacrifice. Several Admirals were also gone, which drastically decreased the Marine's firepower.
Luffy had just ensured the Revolutions success, and Dragon was going to make sure that the sacrifice was not in vain. She'd probably claw her way out of hell and punch him in the face if he did, anyways.
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At Raftel
Lying on one of it's shores was an amazing ship with a lion (or was it a sunflower?) figurehead. If one dared to step on board and explore it, they'd find a myriad of priceless things. Four swords, three of which belonged to the greatest swordsman in the world, the fourth being that of the former greatest. Another would be a recipe book of all the dishes the cook of the Straw Hat Pirates made with creatures from All Blue, which lay in the kitchen.
A map plotting the course that the famous Straw-Hats had taken through the Grand Line, as well as a map of the world, the very first in the world. The great arsenal of weapons that used to belong to the greatest sniper in the world.
In the medical bay lay a comprehensive guide to curing every single type of illness in he world, and many drug recipes that would be unable to be found anywhere else.
If one decided to go to the library, they would find millions of books, as well as the translated versions of every single poneglyph, including the Rio poneglyph. There were also stories about the devil's soul tree, and the lyrics written down. A history of Polaris Island was also put there. There were several Tone Dials down there as well, one of which played the song called 'Binks Sake' if pressed.
In short, it was the treasures of the Mugiwara no Kaizoku, all placed on the ship that would see eternity before dying, at the end of the world.
宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝宝
So that is my story.
A story of an island of music, burned down by a dragon of the skies.
Of a mother, cursed to have two faces.
Of a kindly captain, who inspired a dream to take place.
Of two brothers, one who joined the revolution against his own kind, and the other who found a family on the seas.
Of a flamingo who chained me down, only to have the locks broken by a brother.
Of years spent with a father and boy I never knew before.
Of finding others, just like me.
Of reuniting with the boy with a hot temper and a cold heart, only to find that his family had warmed it.
Of achieving dreams, but sailing on to find new adventures.
Of death, suicide, and depression, but it was all right in the end.
Of leaving a legacy, and another era to be followed.
Of a lifelong dream of abolishing the dragons who burned down my home, to come true in the end.
And finally, of love, adventure, and happiness.
Boom! DONE! That was hard to write. I hope I didn't rush on the deaths, but I wanted to capture a downwards spiral for the crew, and everything taking place all at once. If you're wondering where the straw hat is, it's in Luffy's room at the Revolutionary base. Sabo will take it, and inspire another person to become King/Queen, and thereby complete the cycle. Cue OC story (Seriously, there are WAY TO MANY of those!)
If you like, the next chapter is the entire thing, put into order. Skip to Arc 4 if you don't want to read that, but I would recommend it, seeing as you guys were so confused during the entirety of this arc. If you guys like the style, I might do Arc 5 out of order like this as well!
See you later!
~Nivena