Birka
It was a breezy day in the South Skypiea district of Birka. A man with a strawhat was casually eating a meal at a local restaurant. Even he had to admit that these were some good food, maybe he'll ask for some recipe to send down to Zeff.
"Does the meal satisfy you Mr Blue Sea?" The waitress asked, it was not often that the sky people get visitors from the blue sea, and when they do, they treat them like absolute divine beings.
"Sure it does, thank you again for the meal." Luffy reached into his pocket and paid for his meal with golden coins, it had become a habit to double the amount of his tab, just something to give back to the community. Luffy got up, thanked the staff once more. The captain made his way outside of the restaurant, met by a crowd of curious Birkan citizens. They all looked at him with admiration and curiosity. Luffy enjoyed the stares but he was really after one thing in his sky island visit.
His goal was located in a monastery where a lone man upheld his practices and upheld his godly self worth.
Luffy made his way to said monastery, it was massive, made with a large amount of gold. To the people of the sky, gold was a common luxury. He noticed that the crowd which had followed him throughout his time in Skypie dispersed once he entered the premise of the monastery.
Luffy stood in the gigantic front door, he seemed like a dwarf when standing next to the entrance way. He knocked three times and then, nothing but silence.
Suddenly the door swung open, a hint of electrical current surging through the door, possibly to mechanize it.
"Human of the Blue sea, what brings you to my sky?" A commanding voice echoed throughout the massive hall. Luffy nodded that the ego of the man was humongous, even a year before destroying his own home land.
"I have come to speak to Enel." Luffy said casually, emphasizing the lack of respect for his name. When Luffy fought the thunder god in his timeline, the egotistical bastard was so full of himself that it was easy to enrage him. This was his approach here, probably going to need to fight Enel then beat him until he joins, simple enough right?
"You dare refer to me by my mortal name?" There was tremor in his voice yet he retained his composure. Enel jumped from the balcony which he had been standing on and landed in front of Luffy. "Tell me Blue sea man, what do you need to speak to me for?" Luffy noted that Enel did not care for his name, by the end of the day, he'll turn that around.
"I came to invite you into my Armada. For you see, I am aiming for the King of all the Blue Seas Pirates, and I know that you will be a great asset in my fighting force." Luffy phased around the room, not looking at Enel as he admired the architecture.
"Yahahaha!" Enel laughed for a good minute, doubling over as his stomach hurts. "I haven't had a good laugh like that in ages." Enel finally stopped laughing and yet the strawhat captain remained unfazed. "You see my reaction blue sea man, that is my answer to your outrageous request." Enel proceeded to deliver a divan(a sitting bed) using crackles of electricity. Luffy noted that Enel was already proficient with his devil fruit, more than likely the eight years since destroying his own home land, the thunder user became really lazy. He found no competition and just messed around, playing with people's lives like some sort of puppeteer. Though Luffy's goal was simple, stop the god complex before he gets out of control.
The perfect time to do this is to catch him before going ballistic and destroying the kingdom of Birka.
Enel laid on his side casually eating a bowl of grapes which floated along with the divan. Luffy noted that Enel's appearance did not have much difference, he still had his four drum accessory pierced over his back, his earlobe were still hanging low, and he still had the same smug look on his face.
"I'm sure we can come to an arrangement, here in the sky your reign is supreme, sure, but don't you want to test your limits? In the Blue sea there are literal people who can shake the world, excrete magma, control darkness, even light with their own hands."
"Hmm? A quake person you say? Magma...darkness...light…." Enel sat up, Luffy finally reached him. "No no, it does not matter, for I know I am supreme."
"Sure you are." In a blink of an eye, Enel left a trail of electricity behind him, swiftly appearing in front of Luffy. They were inches from one another where the godly man was enraged.
"Tell me Blue sea, what color do you bleed?" Enel must have been insulted by Luffy's rhetoric. It was hilarious yet Luffy kept a straight face as Enel launched a hundred volt thunder strike.
But something odd happened, to the godly man at least, as his electrical one shot man killer had absolutely no effect on Luffy.
"Red, but you'll never get any out of me." Luffy had a smile on his face now, having the Birkan in the palm of his hands. Another round of thunder strike, each one having a higher voltage than the last yet Luffy was not affected, the strawhat captain even yawned in boredom, as the over reliant logia was using up all his thunder strike techniques without any effect
"What the hell?" For once, the thunder user was shook.
"You know the quake man….I'm going to war with him...and I'm not planning on losing." The determination was there and Enel noted the man's resolve.
"Tell me your name." Enel finally yielded, for all his years as a self anointed deity, he has never met a man that stood up to his wrath.
"Monkey D. Luffy, future king of pirates." Luffy said it with such ease that Enel smiled. He knew it, he knew that Enel would ask for his name before the end of the day, why? Because he freakin Mugiwara Luffy.
"Luffy...it's got a ring to it, but I'm sorry to say but you shall die here...in the sky." Enel suddenly expanded into a massive blue beast made of pure lightning. Luffy remembered this form and it was annoying. So maybe he should slap some sense into Enel, make him realize that there was no point to resist.
'100,000,000 Volt Amaru!' The technique was impressive but Luffy remembered his Amaru form was bigger, probably twice the size of what he was now.
"If you lose to me Enel, you join me." Luffy inflated his muscle balloon, an air twirled around him momentarily obstructing Enel's view. But once the air cleared, it revealed Luffy, 'Gear Fourth: Bound Man'
In Luffy's mind, he might as well overpower Enel so he would join him. He wondered if it would work?
"I'll never lose to anyone!" Enel's anger brought his massive palm forward which Luffy met with a palm strike. It was a clash between Amaru and Bound man. But rubber beats electricity. So Luffy's palm went through the arm of Amaru, destroying it until his palm connected with Enel forcing him out of his Amaru form.
The god was knocked to the farthest wall of his own temple. The shock in his face was evident.
Luffy returned to his normal form, approaching Enel. As he got to him, he squatted in front of the thunder user, looking at him with the smile which had become so annoying to Enel.
Enel felt a trickle of liquid flow from his mouth, red substance escaped him. He was bleeding?
Luffy just stared at Enel, waiting for his answer. The god thought he was invisible yet Luffy just showed him first hand, with only one palm strike, that this was not the case.
For a good minute Enel pondered the new reality which the strawhat man just brought to him. There was a whole world which challenged his godly abilities. Then Enel slowly got up, wiping the blood which escaped from his mouth.
"Fine Mugiwara…I'll join you."
"It's Captain, by the way where are your people?"
"I'm not going to call you…" Luffy raised his eyebrows as if to ask 'go on then' "...fine Captain...I have disciples but they are all weaklings."
"Call them over, I want to meet them." Luffy now took the divan of Enel's laying on it. What a power move.
"Fine…" Enel gritted between his teeth, he brought his hand into the sky and launched a thunder strike straight up. This was the signal.
At first it was quiet, but it couldn't have been more than two minutes when rumbling outside the building began.
Suddenly four people emerged through the front door, all of which took a bow before even looking at who they were bowing to.
"Ohm, Satori, Shura, and Gedatsu." Enel stated, pointing at each one. Ohm had thick shades and still the bald head which he had before, his blade still over his back. Satori was as plump as a grape, he had multiple balls in his back. Then Shura who wore his goggles and helmet combo. Last was Defatsu who had a funky hair style choice.
"We are here God!" Exclaimed the foursome though Luffy was merely amused.
"Hello, my name is Luffy and I am bringing Enel with me to the blue sea, want to come?" The shock in their faces was amazing. Nobody in all of Skypiea expected their self proclaimed deity to lose to anyone, ever.
"Uh...yes...wherever god goes, we go." Answered Ohm for the group.
"Excellent! But don't call him god, it's weird. Call him commander or something like that." Luffy then got up from the Divan, where Enel plopped down on his seat. "Take a day to gather your things. And bring as much of your dials with you. We sail tomorrow." Luffy then casually walked out of the building.
As he stepped out, he was met with an overwhelming
round of applause, though most notably a pegasus riding man in a knight's armor.
"Thank you." Was all he said but Luffy knew the importance of this man, for he was Gan Fall. A sea of people crowded him forcing him to move on from the elderly warrior. Gan Fall didn't know it yet, but in another life, he was real good friends with the Strawhats. But the current god of skypiea needs to watch out for his people so therefore, Luffy will forego their sure fire friendship..
An eventful day wouldn't be complete with an unexpected surprise.
"Take me with you." A young energetic kid approached Luffy, a massive bazooka over his back and his face was covered by a tribal mask. He rode a wave board and Luffy knew immediately who it was.
"No kid, go home." Luffy responded as he laid on the hammock along his ship. He had borrowed one of Tom's ships to ensure that the knock up stream won't destroy it. He didn't want to have kids for the war, especially where they were going.
"I am not a kid!" Exclaimed the young man, removing his mask and revealing a red bandana over his head.
"Listen kid, where we are going, you don't want to be involved." Luffy took a heavy sigh as he realized the kid was not leaving, he got up from his hammock and looked at the young man, recognizing him by his facial feature...Wyper.
"Come on man, I need to go stronger, and if you were the one to beat the Birkan thunder god, then you must be a powerful blue sea person! I want to be stronger! Plus I can be useful, I can make your dials ten times better than they are now." He drove a hard sale but Luffy could not do it in good conscience.
"Alright kid. Fine, listen...tomorrow at sun down, we depart. Say you goodbyes and meet us here. Don't be later or we are leaving you."
"Yes Captain!" The young Shandian warrior ran back to his village, Luffy didn't say it but they were actually leaving at noon, where the Shandian warrior would learn when it was too late.
Luffy returned to his hammock where he continued his nap, thoughts of his grand scheme circling his mind.
…
Come the next day and Luffy was met with another surprise. A hulking man was waiting on the deck of his ship, his attire was that of a monk. He was of Birkan descent and heard of Luffy's triumph with the thunder god.
"Ah Captain Mugiwara, I wish to join your crew. I have become curious about the blue sea and wish to see all of its wonders with my own eyes." Luffy knew who it was but didn't want to just say people's name without them telling him first.
"Sure you may come, but who are you?" He acted like he didn't know, but he knew it was…
"Urouge, a monk of the Birkan people." The hulking figure stood on both legs, showing how he was towering over Luffy. And yet the gentle giant still had a smile on his face. He remembered that well about Urouge, how he always smiled.
"Welcome aboard Urouge."
Just like that, Luffy came away with Enel, his army, and Urouge. The four disciples of Enel cane with massive backpacks, each holding skypiean dial technology. Those dials would really do wonders for the upcoming war.
As the Strawhats left the white white sea and back to the blue sea, Luffy suddenly sensed a familiar present.
"What the fuck Wyper!" He exclaimed to which the young man jumped out of his hiding. "What the hell are you doing here?" Asked Luffy.
"I got my stuff like you told me and hopped on board. I was excited that's all." To this Luffy dead panned, forgetting to double check before departing.
"Fine but I'm going to pull a Mihawk and dumped you at Zeff's"
"What the hell is a Mihawk?" Asked Enel out loud as he was balancing his golden long pole on the tip of his finger.
"He is the sword god." Answered Urouge. "His expertise reaches even our temples."
Crazy how in a year's time, Enel would have destroyed the entire Birkan population, would Urouge have been there or would he have begun piracy? How time changes.
So Luffy had to stop over the floating restaurant, Baratie, but before that he wanted to check on his people, the original strawhats.
Syrup Village
It was crazy as the young Usopp had become an athletic wonder. The young person had become the protector of the village, whose big mouth can now back up his words with his god like aim. Thanks to Katakuri, Usopp has become an expert of sorts in observation haki. It only took Katakuri one day to train the young man and he ran with it.
"Ah Captain Luffy! What brings you here? Where's the big grumpy?" Of course Usopp was referring to Katakuri.
"Hey Usopp, I see you're doing well. He's not with me today, but hey I got some stuff for you." Luffy noted that Usopp was being tailed by one particular blonde haired young girl. Miss Kaya had developed feelings for the young Usopp, which was great. Luffy dropped a backpack full of all sorts of Skypiean dials.
"Woah these are amazing! What should I do with them?" Usopp was looking through the pile.
"Use them, improve on them, do as you please." Luffy was going to ask Usopp if he wanted to go to Baratie, to train with the others but maybe now is not the right time, not with Usopp finally coming on his own. "Well I'll be off now Usopp, just wanted to stop by and say hello."
"Aww already Captain? Bring me with you Captain!" Flashes of his younger self filled his mind as he remembered being the same young man who begged Shanks to take him along. He shook out of his memory and looked back at the young Usopp.
"Are you sure?" Luffy was contemplating whether he should let him come.
"Yeah! I want to be a great warrior of the sea!"
"And you will be Usopp-san!" Exclaimed Kaya who had been hiding behind a tree. She popped up to invigorate the confidence of Usopp.
"Kaya-chan you really think so?" At a young age, boys are oblivious to obvious signs of affection. So Usopp didn't notice that Kaya was blushing, and stuttering from nervousness.
"Yes..yes you will.."
"Then yes captain I am sure!"
To this Luffy replied with. "Okay Usopp, but I can't take you to the front line yet. I have to first take you to my friend, who will train you until you are ready." Luffy chuckled in his mind at the thought of Zeff as a babysitter to all the children.
"Alright! I'll tell my mom and then I'll meet you in a few Captain!"
And that was how Usopp left his home village to grow into a great warrior of the sea. At first his mother was against it but eventually gave in, understanding that her child is looking for adventure. Kaya on the other hand took Usopp's first...his first kiss by giving him a quick peck on the lips. The young girl then ran as soon as she did so and said goodbye to Usopp. The young man was too shocked to react but Luffy hurried him along.
"Everyone, this is Usopp." Luffy introduced the young man, to which Wyper immediately got close to him, as both were around the same age and they were both the youngest of the group. Enel was still doing his own thing, eating fruits and daydreaming, while the four disciples were doing regular ship duties, per Luffy's orders. Enel was stubborn and didn't do meddling with the weak.
Next stop…
Shimotsuki Village
"HAH!" Zoro had grown taller, the green haired swordsman was currently doing curls with a tree. No joke.
"Well you're still hot blooded as ever." Luffy approached the young man and leaned against another three, one in which was the same tree that they found him on all those months ago.
"Captain!" Zoro dropped his stuff and ran towards Luffy excited to see the Strawhat man. "I knew Hawkeye would change his mind."
"Ah no...I'm not bringing you to the new world yet. But I want you to come with me to a place where you can become better, with people around your age."
"Alright, as long as I can be better." Zoro picked up his three swords, two of which were low grade while one was 'Wado Ichimonji'. He must have inherited it after Kuina's supposed death...oh yeah, Luffy knew, everyone reports to him about everything all the time. He then grabbed a backpack full of his belongings and awaited for the Captain's orders.
"Why do you have all your stuff with you?" Asked Luffy.
"I knew someone would come for me, so I had to be ready." This broke Luffy's heart, as the young man had been waiting for a long time, with his stuff always ready to go.
"Let's go." Luffy ruffled the hair of the young Zoro. And led him toward his ship.
Aboard the ship were the group, with Enel now bored out of his mind, but Usopp and Wyper were the trouble makers. They immediately took interest in Zoro and they invited him to join their little adventure group. It was quite funny really. But Zoro noticed Ohm and his giant sword.
He then asked the disciple, "Do you know how to use that thing?"
"Wanna find out?"
"Hell yeah." And thus Zoro found a sparring partner in the swordsman, Ohm.
The last stop before going to the Baratie…
Orange Town
"Captain!" The orange haired girl immediately saw Luffy and ran to him, giving him a big hug. Luffy was surprised but laughed at the young girl.
"So it is time?"
"Time for what?"
"Well Mr. Arlong told me that one day, I will come and join the Strawhats, so it must be time if you are here." The young girl was clever.
"Well what will your mom say, your sister?"
"I told them about it a long time ago and they told me to follow my dreams. Which is to map the world by the way."
"Is that right, well I'm not taking you to the new world yet. You have to prove yourself first." Nami then approached a broken cement pillar, one of which was left behind by a burned down building. She then focused her palms, generating a powerful strike that would make Arlong proud.
She then unleashed her palm, 'Surface Style: Hundred Palm True Strike'. Her palm barely touched the cement pillar but her strike caused the cement to crumble into thousands of tiny pieces. Impressive.
"Hmmm you need to train more."
"Fine!" So Nami got her things in order and went to tell her family the news.
She then returned to the port where the group was waiting for her. She was introduced to everyone and immediately fit right in, joining Usopp and Wyper in developing new technology with the dials as well as blue sea technology. Someone was bound to discover something new when combining the worlds.
Last Stop…
Baratie
"You mean to tell me… you brought all these kids for me to watch?!" When Zeff said that he would repay Luffy somehow, he didn't imagine he would babysit a bunch of teenagers.
Sanji was floating around Nami as the orange haired teen had caught the attention of the lovestruck young man. Zoro had found the deck of the Baratie to be the perfect place to train. For some reason, Sugar and Baby 5 would watch him train.
Usopp and Wyper immediately found a spot to set up their inventions. They had been tweaking the dials and putting some adjustments to them.
"Yeah thanks a bunch old buddy." Luffy said as he ate a plate full of fine cuisine. The group had stopped for a moment to grab a meal.
"Fine! But we're even after this." Zeff proclaimed.
"Sure sure." Said Luffy in between bites.
And that was the end of that.
Water 7
Luffy's mini trip took him two weeks, in his trip he was able to bring his original crew where he knew where they would be. Wyper was unexpected but welcomed addition regardless.
He managed to recruit Enel, Urouge, Ohm, Satori, Shura, and Gedatsu.
So Luffy transverse the distance from Baratie and returned to Water 7. It was there where he was met with a tight embrace by the empress.
"Hey how did you know I was here?" Luffy said as he gave his woman a kiss.
"A woman always knows." said Hancock, as she gave way for Robin and Viola to say hi to Luffy. They each embraced him and gave him a passionate kiss,
"So this is who you wanted to get so badly huh?" Said Hancock as Enel passed by, looking around the dock. There were many interesting people, he wished to test his limits.
"You, muscle beast, I wish to battle you." Enel called to Dice which the big man accepted without much protest.
The two fought there and then to which Dice ended up fried. Enel's excitement was noticeable as he merely asserted dominance in some of the members before moving on to the next. So many fresh fighters, he was in nirvana.
"You there, octopus, I wish to battle you." And Enel proceeded to defeat Hatchan as well. He was more like slapping people around while he moved on to the next person. His 4 disciples were perfect for hyping him up. It was hilarious.
"Electricity huh?" Now Hancock understood why he brought him along.
"You think we're ready now?" He put his arms around Robin and Viola as he walked his ladies through the streets of Water 7.
"Oh yes we are." Hancock opened the door for Luffy as they arrived at a building. Lucci's entire division was present.
"Captain, welcome back." Said Lucci who got up and took a bow. His group took a bow along with their Captain.
"Hi everyone, what's going on here?" Luffy looked around, as the people were sitting around a wooden chest. It was opened and Luffy found what they were looking at. Three devil fruits were the content of the chest. "How'd you get these?"
Luffy observed the devil fruits and felt their power. If these were what he thought they were, then fate really did smile upon him.
"Believe it or not captain, it washed up ashore and we found it on patrol. What do you want to do with it?"
"Well do you guys want it?" He looked at Lucci's division. Tanaka shook his head as he already had a devil fruit ability. Galdino did the same and so did Brulee. Blueno and Kalifa already had fruit abilities as well. Vergo was unmoving as he did not believe in fruit ability. This left Kaku, Jabra and Lucci.
"Hell yeah!" Jabra grabbed one and took a bite out of it. Kaku was a bit hesitant but he took a bite of another one. This left Lucci with the last remaining fruit.
"Ah what the hell." And Lucci took a bite out of the fruit and the effect was instantaneous.
'You son of a bitch.' Luffy said to time itself, as it was indeed stubborn. Kaku transformed into a giraffe, Jabra transformed into a wolf, and Lucci transformed into a leopard. This time it happened way earlier than it should have and the people who were supposed to receive them, received them. Insane if you asked him. "I feel the power!" Exclaimed Lucci to which the group began to admire his new found power.
"Get used to it guys, I want you all to be a hundred percent once we go to war."
"Aye Captain." said Lucci as he looked at his new form. Combine this with his deadly mastery in Rokushiki, he felt invisible.
So Luffy walked out of the building with his queens, finally able to breath for a moment.
"Hey Lu-chan I'll see you later." Robin gave Luffy a kiss on the lips. "I have to meet with some minks about Poneglyphs."
"I have to go too, I'm training the new recruits, keeping them in top shape." Hancock also gave luffy a kiss, lingering for a moment.
This left Luffy and Viola. "Are you going to try and get away from me also?" Luffy teased to which she shook her head in a cute manner.
"Nope, I actually asked them if I can have you to myself for the rest of today." Said Viola innocently.
"Oh, where would you like to go Princess?"
"Mmm let's grab some ice cream, then we can talk about what's coming after later." Viola winked and led the way, grabbing Luffy by the hand.
He had a lot of work to deal with, especially with the coming war, but for now, he shall enjoy his time with Viola. He placed his arms around her and enjoyed her company, for the two had a wonderful date, along with an intense session afterwards.
A/n: You see what you all do to me? With the overwhelming amount of support and reviews I give you a chapter less than a day after. Look what you did...you monsters?!
Surprised? I was, godddamn 34K views on my story on the month of april, and this month already started with 1k views holly crappppp I LOVE YOU ALL! So still holds that whenever I release the war, it will pop up every two days, I will aim for 12pm PST. As far as when they will be posted well just wait for the next chapter to show and the every two days per chapter will come out.
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