Wealth, Fame, Power...Gold Roger, the King of the Pirates had obtained this as well as everything else the world had to offer. Before he was executed, his dying world mark the world into a new era!

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! My treasure?! You want it, you can have it! I left everything I have to offer in one place. Go find it!"

These words lured men into the Grand Line in search of dreams greater than they ever dared to imagine. All across the world, people raised their flag as the Golden Age of Pirates began.

Ten years have passed since his execution, one particular crew of pirates are known for their tenacity, will, and determination to achieve their dream; they are the Straw Hats Pirates.

You have heard their story since the beginning of the East Blue…But, have you heard my part of the story? Because what you may hear, can be different from what I'm about to tell you.

Sit tight on your seats, clear your ears, ready your pupils...Cause you're about to hear the story.

From the Straw Hats Beast!


The Man who'll become the King of the Pirates and the Strongest Beast in all of the Sea!


A lone, grand ship sailed peacefully on the sea; passing beneath various sea life and fallen ships that were not strong enough to hold their own on the high seas. Aboard this ship were two sailors bored out of their minds just leaning on the railings. The tanned, robust sailor blankly looked down on the ocean but was shocked to see a lone barrel floating.

"Huh?" He said, staring at the mysterious barrel. The sailor wondered just what was in that barrel; booze, treasure, a person? Nah, the last one was just too weird so it had to be one of the first two.

…Do I even?

Anyway, the robust sailor tried throwing a rope to catch the barrel but missed. He tried again but missed again. He tried again, and as well miss again.

"Three strikes, you're out Jeff!" his fellow sailor friend teases him.

"Wow Jeff, you suck so much!" another one spoke up from the top of the crow's nest. Just then, he felt a shiver down his spine as he looks at an island far away.

As he does that, the sailor finally managed to latch the hook on the floating barrel. "Finally!" the sailor said as he pulled the barrel up, "Hey! Some help here please!" A lanky sailor helps him pull the barrel up.

"Man, this thing is freaking heavy!" The lanky sailor grumbled as they finally managed to. "Hehe must be filled with booze, then! Dibs on the first drink!" He yelled, pats the barrel.

Before they could do anything else, the sailor on the nest spoke up, "P-P-P-Pirates!" he yelled out while pointing at a direction, where a pink pirate ship was.

The other two sailors drop the barrels and went to their position. At the same time, the pirate ship shot their cannonballs, causing a ruckus on the ship and making the barrel roll down the ship interior before stopping inside a kitchen.

After a while, the ruckus calm down for a bit, just then, the door to the kitchen opens and a squeaky voice spoke up, "H-Hello?"

The door completely open, revealing a pink-haired bespectacled young boy that was wearing a blue and white shirt, black sweats with white socks and red slippers adorning his feet."T-there's no one in here, right?" the boy said as he enters inside, he then saw the large barrel. "W-Wow, that's a large barrel…" he says to himself.

Thinking that maybe the pirates are going to be thirsty, the boy began to roll the barrel out of the room, but before he could even get to the door. Three pirates show up, making the boy flinch in fear.

"Hey there Coby!" one of them said. "What you are doing here, you coward? Hiding?"

"N-No! I thought I'd haul this big barrel of alcohol over…" the boy now named Coby stuttered out fearfully. The pirates smiled at seeing the big barrel the brat was rolling.

"Hehehe we'll lighten it for ya!" A fat pirate said.

"I was just feelin' thirsty!" A taller pirate yelled.

"You can't! Alvida will kill us if she finds out!" Coby yelled, fearing just what this Alvida, that we don't know about, would do to them if they took whatever kind of booze or treasure she thought belonged to her.

"That's why we are shutting up about it. If no one says anything, there will be no problem." the pirate said before giving Coby a threatening glance, "Right Coby?"

Y-yes! You're right!" The pink-haired boy whimpered out.

"Thing is pretty heavy!" The rotund pirate said as he moved the barrel upright. "Alright, I'm going to bust this thing wide open!" He said, cracking his knuckles. He readied his fist to break the barrel open and swung it down.

But then, a fist came out of the barrel and sped right at him, knocking him up into the air. All the pirates in the room and Coby screamed in fright at seeing a boy with a straw hat jump out of the barrel.

"Ahhhh! What a great nap!" the boy with the straw hat shout to himself. His eyes then began to wonder inquisitively over his surroundings.

"Huh?" He looked down to see a knocked out pirate on the floor. His eyes then wandered to the two astonished-looking pirates looking right at him. "Who're you guys?" he asked them.

"Who the fuck are you?!" They both screamed at him.

"Your friend will catch a cold if he sleeps there, you know?" the boy says as he hops out of the barrel.

"Who do you think put him there?!" they yell at him before pulling out their swords. "Listen here, we are pirates! And we-"

"Who the fuck is yelling so loud?" said another voice.

The pirates and Coby jump in fear when another figure came out of the barrel. It was another boy, same height as the straw hat kid, he had lion-like short auburn hair. He had light-blue eyes, a gray and black tunic-like top that reached mid-arm with gold outlines, black trousers, and black leather boots. In his neck was a yellow pendant with a lion's paw image on it. The boy had a hand on his head.

"Jeez, I finally stopped moving and I can't even take a rest from it." said the boy as he jumps off.

"Hey kid, I'm hungry, where's the food?" The straw hat boy asked Coby.

The other two pirates were fuming in fury, "Don't you fucking ignore us!" they shout as they raised their sword and made their way into the two strangers.

Coby screamed as he saw that the guys were about to be cut in half. The straw hat boy tilted his head at the pink-haired weird facial expression and turned around to see the pirate swinging his sword at him while the orange boy still had his hand in his forehead as the other pirate swings his sword.

The poor pink-haired boy couldn't look and covered his eyes to avoid the gruesome scene. After a couple of seconds, he looked to see…the two boys were completely fine?!

The two pirates lay on the floor, shock at seeing both of their swords breaking in half and having no effect on the boy with the straw hat and the orange-like lion boy.

"Why did you do that?" The straw hat boy asks them.

"*Sniffffff*…*Haaaaa*…There we go, much better." says the orange-haired. He looks at the two pirates, "Okay, which one of you was talking a lot?"

"W-who are you two?!" One of the pirates asked them.

"Me? I'm Monkey D. Luffy! Nice to meet you!" he slumps his arm on the other boy's shoulder, "And this is Lionel D. Seth!" the auburn boy answer with a "Yo."

With that said, the two pirates pick up their unconscious partner and ran out of the room with fear. Meanwhile, Coby could only look in shock at what had just happened, before he senses returned to him. "Y-You guys have to run! Those guys will be back with their friends to kill you guys!"

"Mmmmmm~! But I'm hungry!" Said the boy named Luffy.

"How can you be so carefree?! There are still a lot more of them up on deck!" Coby shouts at him.

"Can it boy, once Luffy said his hungry, not even his own will can stop him. And I speak from experience." Said the one called Seth.

"Hey, Seth!" Luffy calls the orange-haired boy, "There's a lot of food here!" the straw hat boy said.

Coby realized that Luffy was already in the storage room. Moments later, Seth walked inside, followed by Coby who swallow his spit nervously. "Actually, they might not find us in here." His eyes lowered to see Luffy and Seth checking the various boxes for any food.

"Yes! Food!" the straw hat says like a child.

"Luffy, try to at least leave something for tomorrow," Seth says, picking a box.

"Okay…which should I choose? Hmm…this one?" He opened the box to see a pile of apples inside. "Oh, these look great! It's not meat, but these will do in a pinch!" Luffy yelled as he began stuffing his mouth full of apples.

"U-umm my name is Coby. Your names are Luffy and Seth, right? That was incredible just now. How did you do that?!" Coby began asking just how the two of them had the power to overcome those pirates. Unfortunately, it seemed like neither of them heard him.

"Man, these things are great!" Luffy yelled at Coby before turning back to the box full of apples. "Is this a pirate ship?" He asked.

"No, it's a passenger ship that is being raided by Alvida," Coby said, sighing to himself.

"Do they have boats in here?" Seth asked, eating some apples. "Ours is down below the blue."

"I-I think so…" Coby replied.

"Great! Our ship sink on a whirlpool. Those things are the worst." Luffy mutters while eating.

"Well, maybe you should have seeing where you were rowing, idiot!" Seth shouted.

The pink-haired eyes widened in surprise, "You mean those giant whirlpools?! But no one could survive that!" Coby exclaimed in shock.

"Hahaha boy, was that a real surprise! That whirlpool almost had us, but we beat it, shishishishi!" Luffy laughed, scratching the back of his head in triumphant. Coby sweatdropped at hearing Luffy's odd tale and chalked it up to possible delusions by being starved of food. Seth looks to be used to it as he continued eating his apples. "So are you one of those pirates?" Luffy asked Coby.

The poor boy's head drops as he remembered why he was with pirates, "It was on that fateful day…that day, I got in a boat on the outskirts of town to go fishing…but it turned out the boat was headed for a pirate ship. It's been two years since. In exchange for my life, I've been forced to be a chore boy."

Both boys look at each other before nodding at themselves before saying Coby, "So your dumb and stupid." Those words hit the poor cabin boy right in the heart.

"Brutally honest you two…" Coby said in sadness.

"Dude, you could just escape away." Seth says, with Luffy saying, 'Duh!'

Coby shrieks in fear, "N-No way! No way! No way! Just the thought of Alvida finding me frightens me and makes me weak in the knees-" he was cut by a bump to the head from Luffy. "Ow! Why did you do that?"

"Because you were talking a lot, and you're a wimp!" Straw Hat laughs out.

Seth walks up to Coby, who was standing up and push down the bump on his head back inside his head. "Gotta agree with Luffy, you're wimping out for nothing." he bluntly says.

"Yeah…if I only found the courage to drift the ocean in a barrel. Ahhh~ there's something I want to do, too." he says with sadness before looking at the two boys. "Umm, what compelled you guys to set out onto the sea?" Coby asked them with curiosity.

Luffy beams up at his question, "I want to be the King of the Pirates!"

"..."

"..."

"...WHAT?!"

"Just as he said," Seth continues, "He's going to become the King of the Pirates," he answers like is not a bad thing.

"Those he even knows what that means?!"

"Yep."

"Wait…You guys are pirates?!"

"Yes."

"Your crew?!"

"We started sailing yesterday, so we don't have one yet." Luffy answer that as he looks at Coby and tilted his head when he saw that the boy with an open jaw. "Oi, you still there?"

"I think you broke him Luffy," Seth says, poking the chubby boy's head.

Coby quickly shot up. "King of the Pirates is the title given to the person who obtains everything in the world! That means seeking the great treasure of wealth, fame, and power of the One Piece!"

"Yup, pretty much!" Luffy chuckled.

"What do you mean 'Yup'!? Pirates all over the world are after that treasure!" Coby yelled.

"Me too!" Luffy said back to him.

"No way! No way! No way! No way! No way! There's no way you can stand at the apex of this Great Pirate Era! No way! No way! No chance! No-" he was hit in the head, this time by both Luffy and Seth. "Why was I hit?" he asks them.

"Cause you wouldn't shut up," they answer him.

"Heh….that's okay, I'm used to it," Coby said, remembering the times Alvida hit him.

Luffy grabbed the straw hat that lay on his head and held it firmly. "It's not about whether I can or not. I'm gonna do it because I want to." Luffy took the straw hat off of his head and stared into it. "I've decided to be the King of the Pirates, so if I die fighting for that, then that's fine with me!"

"I'm the same," Seth touch the pendant on his neck, "I have a dream of my own, and doing it can cause my death…But, I'm going to do it, and if I die, then is as far I can go!"

Coby looks in amazed and shocked at the two of them, they aren't afraid to enter a deadly era while young. Is this bravery, or stupidity? Who knows, but one thing is for sure for our little Coby.

"I…never thought about it that way…" he muttered out as he looks at his hands. "To fight for your dreams, even if it means I'll die trying."

"Now, then! My belly's full so I guess I'll go get me a boat! I wonder if they'll give me one if I ask?" asked Luffy.

"Luffy, there's a raid going on. No one will notice or care that a boat is gone." Seth answers him.

Luffy began to ponder his head, "Hmmm, I guess you're right Seth." he then beams out, "Yosh, let's just take a boat!" They began to walk away, the orange-haired was carrying several boxes, but stop when Coby spoke up.

"Do you guys...suppose I can do it, too? If I'm prepared to die for it?" Coby asked them, making the two of them look at him and raised an eyebrow. "Do you think…I could join the navy?"

"The Navy?" Luffy asked.

"So you want to be a marine that captured bad guys?" Seth asked.

Coby shot up and turned back to look at Luffy. "Yes! Catching bad guys is my dream! It's been my dream ever since I was little!" Tears began to well up in his eyes. "Do you think I can do it?!"

"Boi," Seth looks at him with a smirk, "Don't say it, just do it."

"Yeah! Besides, how should we know!" Luffy chuckles.

"Then I'll do it! If I'm going to be a chore boy for the rest of my life, then I'll break out of here and catch Alvida!" Coby shouts with determination, but it went down the drain when the ceiling broke apart and a heavy object falls inside. His heart became cold as a familiar voice spoke up.

"You're going to catch who Coby?" a deep female voice said as the dust clear out, revealing a fat, ugly woman with a mace in hand.

"Aaaaaa!" Coby yell in fear as the thing gives a deadly stare at him before moving at the two boys.

"So these are the bounty hunters you morons mention, neither of them looks like Zoro!" the 'woman' says. She looks back at Coby, "I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself Coby, who's the most beautiful lady of all on these seas?!" Alvida asked the chore boy.

Coby shuddered and whimpered as he looked at the cold, hard glare of the pirate woman. He knew what would happen if he said she wasn't, "O-of course that would be-"

"Lady? That thing is a woman?" Seth asked with confusion.

"I thought it was a walking whale." Luffy powder.

Everyone present drops their jaw into the ground as they stared blankly at the audacity of their words. Alvida was shaking in anger that these two had called her that, so what she's going to do?

"You brats! I'm going to clobber you!" she yells as she raised her mace and sent it down to the floor.

Both Luffy and Seth quickly jumped out of the way and narrowly avoided the club. Luffy landed in front of the cowering Coby and grabbed him and jumped upwards onto the top deck, followed by Seth who was carrying the boxes that contain food.

They came out from the hole Alvida made with her fat ass. "Why you!" a pirate said before he went to attack, followed by his companions.

One of them, swinging their sword at Luffy, but the straw hat boy swiftly took a step back and headbutted him to the ground. Behind him, another pirate raised their sword to swing at him and received a punch in the face by the auburn-haired boy. Seth jumps into Luffy's shoulders as four swords try to cut him at the same time.

"I place them, you hit them!" Seth shouted before jumping off and hit the pirates in the sides. After a few throw punches and dodged attacks, he managed to catch the attention of the pirates as they surround him at the side of the boat.

"Nowhere to run kid!" One of the pirates laughs out.

"Wrong! I got you right where I want you!" Seth shouted as he points to the right side of them. Confused, the pirates turn to the side and their jaw drop.

Luffy had an arm stretch far longer than any other normal arm could while grabbing the mast. Before the pirates could either scream or run, the straw hat boy shout, "Gum-Gum Rocket!" and his body speed towards the pirates, collide with them like bowling pins.

Seth, shockingly, began to spin around like a ball, "Beast Roll!" in a quick moment, he shot out from the floor and began to hit and bounce off all the pirates that were on his way.

"What?!" Alvida screamed as she came off the hole. The rest of the pirates began to slowly back away from the straw hat boy and the lion-like boy, in the hope they wouldn't use their weird powers and the beast attack on them too.

Coby stared in shock and awe at the crazy powers the two of them had just showcased. "Luffy... Seth…what are you guys?" He stuttered out.

"Me? I'm a rubber person!" Luffy said as he stretched the right side of his face.

"And I'm just a wild man with the heart of a lion!" Seth said while showing his canine teeth.

"A rubber person and an animal person? You can't be serious!" Coby said in shock. He then looked down to see a large shadow and scampered behind the two boys as he saw an angry Alvida glaring at them.

"You've eaten the Devil's Fruit, haven't you?" Alvida asked.

"Yeah! The Gum-Gum Fruit!" Luffy replied with a grin.

"No, I just train hard," Seth stated.

"I see…I'd heard the rumors, but I guess they do exist. You two also seem pretty skilled. Are you two bounty hunters?" Alvida asked.

"Nope! Pirates!"

"Pirates?! Only the two of you?! What a laugh?!" Alavida laughs, her henchmen laugh with her. "Do you boys realized who are you up against?!" she points her club at the chubby boy, "Coby, explained to them who am I!"

Coby stared in fear as sweat form on his face, "Y-You're..." he began to say when words from both Luffy and Seth came to his mind.

"I've decided to be the King of the Pirates, so if I die fighting for that, then that's fine with me!"

"I have a dream of my own, and doing it can cause my death….. But I'm going to do it, and if I die, then is as far I can go!"

('Why…why can't I be like them? Why can't I just brave up and be like Luffy and Seth? Why don't I believe in myself?!') Coby gritted his teeth and shout loud, "The ugliest, cragged old hag ever!" He screamed at the top of his lungs.

All of Alvida's crew dropped their jaw at hearing what Coby had just said. As the captain, herself felt anger at what the runt just shout out. Meanwhile, Luffy and Seth barf waterfalls from their mouths before crying in laughter while holding onto each other's shoulders.

"What…did you just say?" Alvida whispered vehemently, twitch marks adorning her face.

"All the injustices I had to face on this damn ship…and all the innocent people that suffered…All because I wasn't brave enough or strong enough to beat anyone of you!" Tears form on Coby's eyes before coming out him, "But no more! I'm not going to accept this anymore! I'm getting out of this ship, I'm going to join the navy! I'm going to become a Marine! And then I'm gonna beat up pirates! Mean, old, ugly pirates like you and stop the injustice all pirates as you have done!"

"Do you even know what you are saying?!" Alvida asked the insane little chore boy.

"I do! I…I'm gonna do what I want to do! And when I do, I'm gonna catch your lousy ass!" Coby screamed out even more.

Luffy laughs even harder than before, tears falling for his eyes. Seth was in the same condition as him.

Alvida had finally heard enough and raised her club to swing it down on the little pipsqueak. "THAT'S IT! YOU'RE DEAD BOY!"

"Gaaaaaaaah!" the chubby boy cry in fear, but he did it. ('No regrets! No regrets! I say what I want to say! I fought for my dream!')

Suddenly, Seth stood in front of Coby, a smirk on his face, "Nice job Coby!" suddenly, his left arm grows some auburn fur and sharp claws. Alvida screamed as she swung her club down on the auburn-haired man, but was shocked to see that he had…caught it with his bare hand?!

"What?!" Alvida yelled, confused as to why this man wasn't dead. Coby laid there shocked as he saw Seth stopping the mace with little trouble.

"Heh! I'm going to be honest here Alvida." Seth crushes the mace into pieces with his left-fur hand. "I can see a beautiful woman inside you, one that I would gladly date." the woman was surprised by her destroyed mace and was blushing at this brat comment.

"Is still no late to accept reality and change your figure…Do that and I might consider going out with you." he winked at her, making her heartbeat. "For the time being!" Seth cocks his furred arm into a fist. "Get out of my sight! Lion Strike!" He yelled, colliding his fist with Alvida's stomach; sending her flying off into the distance which left a sparkle in the sky.

"Gone! Gone! And out!" Luffy shouted with pure joy as the Coby and the rest of the Alvida crew jaw drop to the floor. "Oi, you guys!" Luffy called them.

"Yes?!" They all responded in fright.

"Give Coby a small boat. He's going to join the navy. Keep your mouths shut and let him go!" Luffy said to them as his fists clash with each other. "Or you'll answer us!"

"R-right!" They all responded to him fast.

Coby starred in gratitude at both of the people that had helped him and was about to say something before cannonballs hit the water beside them and rocked the cruise ship, causing the three to wobble in place. The boat came to a stop and they looked up to see three naval ships sailing towards them.

"It's the navy!" Coby yelled.

"Oh, perfect timing! You should go see 'em!" Luffy said to the small boy. "But were pirates, so we are bucking it!" The straw hat boy jumps into a small boat that Seth raid.

"Wait, I just can't join the navy like this!" Coby yelled as he makes his way to them.

Just then, a small ship was lowered into the water, has been used by an orange-haired woman with all of the stolen loot she nabbed. Suddenly, another small ship fell onto the water beside her, rocking her ship. She closed one eye to keep water from splashing into her eye, but kept the left one open and saw a boy with a straw hat, a small pink-haired boy, and an auburn-haired boy on the same boat. She suddenly made eye contact with the auburn-haired young man and kept that same eye contact until another cannonball shot into the water, splashing water upwards. The two ships began sailing in different directions and parted ways, narrowly avoiding the line of sight from the naval ships.


(After minutes of sailing)


The three boys were now far away from the boat. Coby sat up and moved to look behind them. "Looks like we managed to get away…" Coby said, staring behind them for any incoming naval ships.

"Yep, we're far away from them, I can't pick up any smell," Seth said as he slumps his legs to the side of the boat.

"Smell?" Coby asked in confusion.

"Yep!" Luffy sits at the mast of the boat with a childish smile, "Seth is a real lion!"

That info shock the pink-haired boy, "A real lion?!"

"Luffy, I told you already, it wasn't just any lion, it was a Battle Cat!" Seth shouts at his friend.

The straw hat boy bump-fist his hand, "Oh yeah! That's right!"

"A Battle Cat?!" Coby was in more shock, "You mean the mystical and legendary creature that is half-lion, half-dragon!? THAT Battle Cat?!"


Battle Cat: A legendary beast that's half-lion and half-dragon, a bloodthirsty animal that will attack any enemy that attacks him. When they die, their soul roams around the world, looking for a place to start a life. If it wants to, it can merge with a human, giving it all his power.


Seth nod to him, "That one, when I was little, a Battle Cat raised me into the wild, train me into a dangerous predator…But, after three years, it died and then," he extended his left arm as it grows fur and claw, "His soul entered inside me, now we are one."

"Wow," Coby said in amazed.

"I know! That's why I needed him in my crew! The Pirate King needs a badass beast on his crew!" Luffy said with star eyes as he imagines himself as the Pirate King and next to him was Seth in a full Battle Cat form.

"Oy! Your imagination is way off charge!" Seth says with a sweat drop on his head.

"Umm Luffy," Coby asked the straw hat pirate. Luffy turned to the small pink-haired boy. "If you're heading for the One Piece, then that means you're going to the Grand Line, right?"

"Yeah," Luffy replied.

"That place is referred to as a pirate graveyard, you know," Coby said to the straw hat pirate.

"Yeah. That's why I need a strong crew." Luffy said before putting a thinking pose, "Oi, Coby, what about that pirate hunter guy? What's he liked? Uhh…Zolo?"

Coby stared confusingly at Luffy. "You mean Roronoa Zoro? I heard he's being held prisoner at a naval base."

Luffy groaned, "Aw, so he's a weakling?"

Coby ran right up to Luffy. "Nothing like that! He's as terrifying as a demon!" Coby yelled before realizing something, "Why are you asking?"

Luffy chuckled. "Thought I might have him join my crew if he's a good guy!"

Coby stared slack-jawed over at Luffy. "You're being reckless again!"

"C'mon, he might be a good guy!" Luffy argued.

"He's been caught because he's a bad guy! No! No way! No way! Absolutely-" Seth claps his hand on the chubby boy's mouth.

"Give it up Coby, once Luffy says who he wants in his crew, he is going to pester you until you say yes. Believe me, I suffer the same fate." Seth says, still remembering all the ruckus Luffy gave him until he finally said yes.

"Shishishishishi!" Luffy laughs as he looks at the ocean. "Now! Onward to our next adventure!"

And with that said, the trio sails off to the town where the bounty hunter known as Roronoa Zoro was being held.