Wealth, Fame, and Power, those are the three words.
Gold Roger the King of the Pirates was executed before he died he left his dying wishes.
"You want my treasure you can have it, I left everything exactly at that place now you'll just have to find it."
Those were his final words as Pirates set sail through the seas to find the great treasure called the One Piece but some will never make out alive, they can die trying but they will never reach the One Piece in the grand line.
Unknown Island somewhere in the East blue.
In uncharted Island was a wasteland surrounded by sand and grass around some dead trees In the middle was a flat land covered by orange sand there was a wooden cross with a little girl.
The little girl's shoulders were nailed to the cross and bleeding. Her hands were tied up with rope to the left and right side, she wore old rags clothes, like a prison outfit and her hair was blonde but it was short shoulder and ponytail.
She tried to struggle to free but the nails in her shoulders gave her more pain.
"Ow! damn nails when I get out of here I'm going to make my 'commander and chief' pay for what he did"
She swears vengeance on the one that put her on the cross in the first place before she realized the sun was burning her skin with so much hotness that drop sweats came down on her forehead trying to make her pass out.
She tried to stay awake by shaking her head not to pass out but it ain't working.
'When I get out of here... I'm going to make those Marines pay... them and they're stupid... Comm...ander.'
As the girl starts to lose consciousness slowly as the heat of the sun makes her blood boil. She closes her eyes to end this heat of suffering.
"Hey there!" a mysterious teenage male voice appears
The girl opens her eyes slowly and saw a teenage boy with a straw hat on his head
The girl lifted up an eyebrow. 'What the? how did he get past the defenses?'
"Who are you?" The girls spoke.
"My name is Monkey D Luffy and I'm going to become king of the Pirates."
The girl blinked a couple of times until she giggled and burst out a laugh at him. "Hahahaha! you?! the Pirate King?! don't make me laugh!" she continues laughing at him.
Luffy tilted his head "huh? What are you talking about? I'm being serious"
The girl stops laughing as she looks at Luffy "how serious? and how are you going to become King of the Pirates? you need to go to the Grand line and find the great treasure called the One Piece"
"That's why I am going to the Grand line" Luffy smiled "and I am going to become King of the Pirates once I find it."
"You know going to the Grand Line. Is a suicide mission and a fool's errand you're not going to make it out alive you know" the girl replied with a warning.
"Maybe" Luffy ignores half of a girl's warning and didn't care if he lives or dies "by the way, how did you get here? and why are you nailed to a cross?"
"Treason I betrayed the Marines and my own personnel Duty" the girl explained
"She said Duty" Luffy laughed at that word. "But still why did you betray them in the first place?"
"That's...complicated" the girl wasn't sure if she trusts him. "But now it's not the time for an explanation I need your help to get me out of these stupid nails that are hanging on my shoulders and they're starting to hurt me like hell."
"Okay"
The girl lifts up an eyebrow again 'that's it? he didn't even say no?'
Luffy grabs the nail on her left shoulder "once I pull it out you know it's going to hurt right?"
"I don't really care if it's going to hurt just pull it out"
"Okay, your choice" Luffy begins to pull the nail out of her left shoulder
The girl grinned her teeth in pain. The nail was a little hard to remove but Luffy managed to remove it as the girl's blood dropped down to the sand.
The little girl almost screamed in pain but she didn't. She was grateful the nail was out of her left shoulder.
"Okay one down one to go" Luffy throws the nail away and moves on to the other one. as he grabbed the other nail from the right of her shoulder but it came out easy without her screaming in pain "that's odd? It must have loosened up a bit when you're moving around your shoulder" before Luffy throws the other nail away.
"Thank you, can you help me out of these ropes?"
"Okay"
Luffy grabs onto the ropes on her left and right hands before he ripped them off of her as she got off the cross.
The little girl feels freedom but she collapses, however, Luffy caught her for almost hitting the ground.
"Wow, you must be hungry" before Luffy set the girl down gently.
"No duh I've been kept out here for the past 3 days without no food or water" her stomach agreed with her with a growl.
"Here" Luffy gave her an apple as she took it and began eating the Apple quickly "wow calm down or-"
"(Cough, cough!)" the girl coughs out some of the Apple pieces that got caught from her throat.
"Or else you'll cough if you eat like that" Luffy finishes the sentence but she just ignores him and continues to eat the apple.
After she was finishing the apple. She needs one thing to take care of. Getting her weapon and equipment back before leaving this island.
"By the way, what's your name?" Luffy spoke first.
The girl quickly got out her personal thoughts as she turned to him. "Oh right sorry, my name is Tanya V. Degurechaff, but please call me Tanya."
"it's nice to meet you and do you want to join my crew?" Luffy offers her
Tanya stays silent for a moment and why would a straw hat boy ask a little girl to join his crew? is he crazy or stupid or both? but come to think of it, she used to be a Marine but not anymore. But a pirate that's tempting as long as there is no betrayal.
"I'll think about it, but first I need a little favor," Tanya says.
"I can work with that and what kind of favor?" Luffy asks
"You'll see," Tanya smiled. She can't wait to taste the sweet power of revenge on the Marines.
Somewhere on the island.
At a nearby campsite, we see a Marine camp that was heavily guarded with Marine soldiers. Their ship was next to the shore near them
Their Commander steps out from his big tent.
The Marines salute to him when they see him.
"At ease men," the Marine Commander said, "Sergeant, is the Prototype secured?"
"Yes sir, we're about to deliver to HQ tomorrow morning" the Marine reported.
"Good and give me some new updates when we're going to move at the time," the Marine Commander said before he looked at the sky.
"Yes sir" the Marine saluted before he goes back to his position
"Sir!" The other Marine came up to the commander "sorry to interrupt you but we have bad news!"
the Marine Commander sighs in annoyance. 'Can this day possibly be worse than bad news or something?'
"What's the bad news?"
"The Prisoner has escaped!" he reported
"What?!" the Marine Commander gets angry, 'I told the others to lock her in the cell! But no, they didn't listen, fools.'
"Well, find her and catch her search every inch on this island if you have to!"
"Yes, sir!" The soldier saluted.
"How far is it?" Luffy asked as he follows Tanya behind
"Not that far," Tanya said while walking.
Both of them left the crucifixion area. After Tanya got free, she told Luffy that her prototype weapon, the one that she made by herself, got stolen by the Marines after her betrayal. It was like a treasure to her and it's a good thing Luffy said yes instead of no.
Tanya sees the Marine campsite not far from her as she stops walking. "Okay we're here we should be careful Luffy" however she didn't hear him talk back.
"Luffy?" she looked at Luffy and noticed that he's missing. "What? where did he go!?" Tanya looked around for Luffy but found him. He was running towards the Marine campsite "that idiot! he should have been doing it with stealth!" Tanya runs after him before she feels that her shoulders were all done healing 'it's about time, they are done healing.'
The Marine looked in front of him, a crazy man coming towards the campsite, then the Marine saw a fist coming towards his face.
"What the-" the Marine was cut off by the fist, it hit his whole nose and face before he flew towards the camp and destroyed the Marine Commander's tent.
"What the heck was that?!" The Marine Commander doesn't know if the camp was under attack or not.
"I don't know but we have an intruder" the Marine points at Luffy who is coming towards the camp.
Luffy jumps higher "Gum Gum pistol" his arm begins to stretch as his rubber fist hits another Marine but this time his stomach.
Tanya saw Luffy's arm stretch out before she finally made it to the campsite 'a devil fruit?! Does this Straw Hat boy have any more particular powers inside him?!' Tanya witnessed the devil fruit before but never ate one. She knows that she'll lose her ability to swim but that's not the chance that she's going to take.
Luffy drops down the middle of the Marine campsite "Gum gum Gatling" his two arms begin to stretch out as he punches all the Marines from the front and back knocking them unconscious with one hit except for their Commander who wasn't hit.
"Hold it right there!" Tanya catch up to Luffy by walking next to him before she picks up a pistol from one of the unconscious marines "sorry Luffy but he's mine and he's going to start talking where is my treasure at" she looked at the Marine Commander "Commander Harris"
"Major Degurechaff" Commander Harris grinds his teeth. "You traitor, you have some nerve coming back here after you escaped from your little 'cage' what do you want?"
"I want my prototype weapon back if you don't tell me where it is" she pointed the gun at him "or I'll kill you while you stand on your own two feet."
"Fine, you want it? take it. it's useless to us anyway I don't know how to use it, it's in my tent well, what's left of it" Commander Harris replied.
"Thank you" Tanya then shot Commander Harris in the head, killing him before his whole body slowly fell down to the ground.
"Why did you kill him? we could have let him go or tie him up," Luffy asked.
"True but if we let him go or tie him up. He'll call reinforcements. We can't take that chance," Tanya replied, "besides I saw him kill two civilians sometime ago."
Luffy stays silent for a minute "well, I hope you know what you're doing."
Tanya nodded "I do, stay right here for a moment this won't take long" as she went through inside Commander Harris's destroyed tent. She spotted a rifle case, she opened it and it was her prototype weapon.
"Hello my sweet bolt action rifle, it's been a while." Tanya took out her rifle, examined it, making sure it wasn't damaged or anything. "Still have five shots, I wondered where he put my ammo and sea prism stone bullets?" she found her sea prism stone bullets and regular bullets inside the case "bingo"
After she was done grabbing her rifle she took off her ragged prison clothes and wore a gray battle uniform with gloves and boots. before she got outside "alright all done" Tanya sees Luffy stuffing his mouth with food that he found, she can't help it to feel the hunger inside her stomach desires food as a piece of saliva escapes her mouth.
"Hey let me have some!" Tanya drops her weapon before she joins Luffy to eat the food
After they were done eating the food and drinking some water.
Luffy led Tanya to his lifeboat and showed her how he got past the defenses and how did he find her.
Before they get out of the island. Tanya asks Luffy a question: "Hey, Luffy how did you do that? I know about the devil fruit but what's the name yours?"
"I ate the gum gum fruit and became a rubber man," Luffy explained.
'So that's how,' Tanya thought to herself as she continues "and Luffy? There's something I may say to you"
"Yeah?"
Tanya smiled "I would like to become a member of your crew."
"Really!?" Luffy's eyes begin to sparkle like stars.
Tanya nodded. "Yep and I have nowhere else to go so I might as well travel with you"
"Sweet! and one last thing can I ask you something?" Luffy says
"What?"
"Your shoulders, they're all healed up how come?" Luffy asks.
"When I joined the Marines a science experiment has gone wrong and kind of mess up my whole my body then I discovered I have a healing factor inside me" Tanya explained
"Awesome! I wish I had that" Luffy says with jealousy.
"Tell me about it" Tanya climbs in the Lifeboat.
Luffy pushes it into the sea as he hops in and sets sail.
"So who are we going to recruit?" Tanya asked.
"Don't know, maybe we should get a musician and navigator," Luffy said, "by the way, do you know how to navigate?"
"Nope," Tanya responded. "But a little not too much though."
"Oh well"
As the two pirates sail off the coast of the Island from a far distance unknown to them a mysterious girl is watching the Lifeboat leaving.
"You may have escaped Tanya but I will find you."
to be continued.
