a.n. I plan on changing the character of luffy a little bit in this fic as I've found in cannon I don't feel he acts the way a captain fully should. I also plan on giving him a different devil fruit.
Foosha Village east blue
In the middle of Foosha village sat Party's bar and it is here that a group of visitors to dawn Island sat partying and having a good time. These visitors were a notorious pirate crew, the red hair pirates.
"Hey Shanks I wanna go with with you when leave, I wanna be a pirate too" said a very excited 6 year old to a red haired man from his place next to Shanks at the bar.
"Hahaha as if you could ever be a pirate Luffy" Shanks said.
"And why not!" Luffy screamed back.
"Listen Luffy," Luffy looked over to see Lucky roo and incredible rotund pirate move up next to him before he added." You may be a good swimmer and all that, but that doesn't mean you'll make a good pirate," he finished with a teasing grin.
"But I'm not just a good swimmer I'm an awesome fighter too, my punches are as strong as pistols!" He exclaimed as he held his fist out for everyone to see.
"Are they now?" asked Shanks with a bored look on his face.
"What's that supposed to mean!" Luffy shouted as he jumped onto his seat in righteous anger. His anger causing various pirates in the bar as well as Lucky Roo to chuckle and laugh at his antics.
"He means you're still a kid, kid," said a highly amused Lucky Roo.
"They're not wrong you know, I've got boys older than you," piped up Yassop. At hearing this steam practically jumped out of Luffy's ears as a tick mark appeared on his forehead.
"I'm not a kid I'm a grown up!" Luffy screamed at the top of his voice however this only seemed to amuse the gathered pirates even more.
"Here sit down and drink some juice," said Shanks as he pushed a glass of juice along the bar towards Luffy whose eyes lit up upon seeing the juice.
"Wow thanks, Shanks," he said as he started gulping the juice. However as he started drinking the juice Shanks burst out into hysterical laughter and started banging the counter of the bar.
"Hahaha I don't know any pirates that drink juice!" Shanks managed to get out while still laughing.
"That's a dirty trick and you know it!" Luffy screamed at Shanks his previous anger returning in an instant. This anger however only served to fuel the laughter of pirates even more. "Stop laughing! That was a cheap shot!"
"Luffy, the captain is just worried about you. The life of a pirate is dangerous after all, especially where we're going." Benn Beckman, the first mate of the red hair pirates, calmly said.
"Nuh-huh, Shanks just likes making fun of me" gritted out Luffy. After saying this both he and Benn looked over at Shanks who was still giggling like a child over the prank he had just pulled.
"It may be a bit of both" replied Benn while sweatdropping. Amidst all this the owner of thr bar a young a beautiful woman called Makino just looked with a warm smile on her face at the way Luffy and the red hair pirates were bonding.
This good mood however was immediately snuffed out as the doors to the bar were kicked off the hinges and came crashing into the bar. "Excuse us," said the leader of a new group of individuals with a sneer on his face. As he made his way towards the bar where Makino stood Luffy got a good look at him and his men and he saw that the leader was a tall man easily six and half feet tall with dark skin, long black hair, a goatee with an x shaped scar over his right eye. His men meanwhile looked rather average some even looking a bit weedy. "So this is what passes for pirates around here, what a joke," he said as when he stopped in front of the bar.
"Hello gentlemen, how can I help you today," asked Makino trying not to show any of the nervousness that she was currently feeling.
"The name's Higuma. Me and my men are mountain bandits but we're not here to cause trouble and tear this place apart today, all we want is some sake." The leader cast a quick look over his men before adding "ten barrels should do it."
"Oh I'm sorry we're fresh out of sake right now" Makino said. At hearing that there was going to be no fighting Luffy lost interest in the mountain bandits and began looking around the bar for something to do when he spotted a chest that Shanks and his crew had brought with them. Desperate to know what treasure Shanks had brought he quickly opened the chest to see before his face morphed into a look of pure confusion. Within the treasure chest sat a strange fruit it looked very similar to a pear but was blue and had some kind of strange swirl design all over it.
Luffy's mind immediately went back to how Shanks and his crew had laughed at him and thought that the perfect revenge would be to eat their weird fruit. Quickly grabbing the fruit he took a bite out of it only to recoil in disgust as it was the worst thing he had ever tasted in his life. It seemed to taste like a combination of seaweed, mud and strangley enough cough medicine. However if there was one thing Makino had taught him, well besides to say thank you when she gave him meat, it was to never waste food. So with this in mind he quickly finished the fruit as he did so he caught the end of the conversation between the mountain bandit and Shanks.
"Since you enjoy cleaning so much why don't you clean this up too" Higuma said as he swiped his sabre across the counter of the bar and knocking its contents all over Shanks before exiting the bar.
By the time the bandits had left the bar Luffy's anger had reached boiling point and he he screamed at the top of his voice "what the hell was that."
"Calm down Luffy it's just some sake, it's nothing to get worked up over" Shanks responded in a calm and soothing tone. This however had no effect on Luffy's anger, if anything it upset him even more.
"What! He totally embarrassed you. So what if he had more men than you, so what if the had swords you should've stuck up for yourself." Luffy paused for a moment before adding "You're not a real man and you're not a real pirate either." After saying this Luffy jumped down from the stool he had been stood on and made to leave the bar.
Shanks adopted a pained expression at hearing this from the young boy that had, until just a few short minutes ago idolised him. "Luffy wait," Shanks said as he moved to put his had on Luffys shoulder only to suddly recoil as he received a large electrical shock. Comprehension suddenly dawned on Shanks as he turned to look at the chest he had foolishly brought with him into the bar, only to find it empty. "Luffy did you eat the fruit that was in that chest?"
At hearing this question from their captian every pirate in the bar stopped whatever they were doing or saying to look at Luffy. "So what if I did?" Luffy angrily responded.
"You fool!" Sanks shouted, despite the fact that he was now shouting it was obvious it was not out anger but more like panic. Sensing this Luffy began to get scared thinking that the fruit may have been poisonous.
Noticing Luffy's growing fear Shanks took a deep breath and ran a hand through his shoulder length red hair to calm himself before continuing. "Luffy that was a devil fruit, one of the cursed fruits of the sea. Eating one gives you great power but will forever rob you of the ability to swim."
Upon hearing this Luffy began to tear up and Shanks, wanting to put Luffy at ease added "don't worry, we'll work out what devil fruit it was that you ate, I'm sure I've got a book about devil fruits lying about cabin somewhere."
"Whatever fruit it is its gotta have something to do with electricity or lightning," added Benn.
"Benn" Shanks said.
That one word was all it too for his first mate to know what it was his captain wanted. "On it boss" was the brief reply before Benn left to return to the ship. He returned several minutes later and handed Shanks a small, battered leather bound bound book that Shanks quickly flipped through mumbling to himself as he did so.
"No, no that's not it, not this one either. Maybe, yes I think this one is it. Luffy think carefully was this the fruit that you ate."
Luffy looked at the book and seeing the same strange pear fruit with the strange markings he nodded and replied "yeah that was it."
Shanks let out a long sigh "Luffy that was the rumble rumble fruit. It's an extremely powerful devil fruit that has now turned you into a lightning man, your body is now made from lightning."
There was a brief pause before Luffy shouted out with his sparkling like two stars "that's so cool!"
