Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Marines?
Chapter 1
Our story begins in Yoke Town, our hero is a smart but odd boy named Nanashi M. Lion. Nanashi was a boy who loved adventure. He spent much of his time at the library reading newspapers on the pirates that were his heroes. Yoke Town was a small agricultural community in the West Blue where nothing exciting ever happened. Nanashi's parents wanted him to become a farmer like them but Nanashi wanted to become a pirate. He sometimes practiced swordsmanship in a nearby forest, but one day his parents found his wooden sword and swordsmanship books and said. Nanashi M. Lion you will become a farmer like us and not some cutthroat pirate!" with that they took away his books and wooden sword. Nanashi was furious and that night gathered his things and ran away. That night he slept on the tree on the top of the hill overlooking the village. He awoke the next morning and decided to check on the village to see how they were doing without him. He snuck into a bush and saw the mayor talking to a group of marines. "We spent all our money last month. Can't we just give you some I owe you slips?" "The tax you pay is for protection, but it's also a bribe. You know, each month I always look for at least one town that can't pay. That way we can destroy it. My men and me haven't had a good fight in a while. We need to, to keep our skills sharp." "Please, isn't there a peaceful way to settle this?" "Of course, but we aren't doing it!" "I won't let you destroy what we have worked so hard to create!" "You don't have a choice fool! Men on my mark fire…NOW!" Nanashi ran for his life as fast as his legs could take him. He grabbed his things from on top of the hill and looked back. He cried as he saw his home destroyed. He then continued running. As he ran over the next hill he saw their camp. He snuck in. since they were off destroying his village the camp was empty except for a few guards, but he easily snuck past them. He reached a large tent and went in. it was the captain's personal quarters. A chest in the corner had caught his eye. He opened it. Inside was nothing but a fruit. He was about to leave but his stomach growled so he ate it. He heard the captain returning so he dashed under the tent's wall and ran up a nearby tree. He listened quietly. All of a sudden the captain started screaming. His men ran to the tent to see what was going on. He ran out saying. "It's gone! The Devil Fruit is gone! That fruit was supposed to be the prize for this year's Marines Tournament! If the Higher Ups find out about this I'm dead meat!" "What should we do sir?" "Spread out and search!" "Sir, yes sir!" Nanashi ran for his life. He ran into a meadow. He spotted a carriage. Just before the Marines spotted him he dashed into it. He stayed in there for three days. He got off when it stopped. He was at the Marine base on the other side of the island. He wandered around. He found his way to the jail. The jail was filled with pirates and civilians. He remembered the wrongs that the marines had committed and let them all go. He walked out as they all dashed away. A man ran up to him and demanded to know what was going on. Nanashi looked at the man and instantly recognized him as the leader of the marines that destroyed his village. He was filled with rage and it was then that his Devil Fruit power activated. Nanashi had the ability to do a multitude of things with his hair including speeding its growth, ungrowing it, increasing its density thus making it very hard, and controlling it. His hair shot out like an explosion, destroying the entire base in the process. The incident earned him a whopping 120 Million-Berry bounty. Nanashi noticed one lifeboat had survived the attack and so with nowhere else to go, he got in and sailed away.