A/N: I don't own One Piece. I do own Anya
-Marine Headquarters. Situation Room, two hours ago.-.
In this room, some of the top-ranking marines gather here to discuss the world's 'evil'. They sit, talk, and groan about each accomplishment of the pirates they have sworn to eliminate. They take their pictures, find out more information about them, and place an appropriate bounty on them. As of right now, a meeting is progress.
Two rows of marine officials sat across from each other. There was no table, they sat on pillows while individual refreshments were placed in front of them. At the end of the room, standing in front of board with notes, papers and bounties on the wall, was a man with tan skin and green curly hair. He had a pair of black sunglasses. His name is Brandnew, one of the known Commanders in the World Government.
"This girl." He placed a picture of Anya on the wall. It looked to be taken recently at Loguetown. It seemed she was staring away from the camera with a bored expression. "Her name is Monkey D. Anya. Reports have it that she is the twin sister of Monkey D. Luffy. It has been decided to give her the appropriate bounty. For her first time it might seem a bit much, plus they are both from the East Blue. Unfortunately, we can't let it go that she faced and defeated 'Crimson Claw' Devlin and IS related to 'Strawhat' Luffy. That in itself means we capture both of them. Not one without the other. BOTH! Not at the same time, but having two people with the same bloodline running around is trouble to the world.
"Twins huh? Double the danger"
"Troublesome, a pair of interlopers. So just the both of them?"
"Correct." The commanded glanced at everyone around the room. "They are not a big problem now, and the boy is obviously looking for One Piece, meaning his sister is also looking for it. However, we might just let the Grand Line kill them. Of course, we can't gamble on that too and must be vigilante. Teenagers or not, we treat them like we treat any other pirate. Capture or Termination in the name of Justice."
Anya's p.o.v.
Our jolly roger was painted on the front of the whale by Luffy. It looked like a 6-year-old drew it. He fails at painting and art so much it hurts. Ah, I shouldn't dis him about his lack of talent in art. I can't sculpt clay. I tried making an animal, but it was deformed and made me sad.
"That's a bad painting." I said
"Don't admire that." Usopp groaned as he was fixing the mast. "Help me out here."
"I am! I'm not like a certain sleeping someone." I stared at the sleeping Zoro, serious what is this guy? Oh and I'm not a shipwright too. Hmm, if you put Usopp and I together you get half a shipwright… heh heh.
"THAT'S A SIGN OF OUR PROMISE!" Luffy exclaimed to Laboon "DON'T BASH YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE MOUNTAIN OR ELSE IT WILL COME OFF! WE'LL COME BACK! UNDERSTAND!"
"BWOOOH!" I think that's a yes.
"Why is your brother an idiot?" Usopp's tone told me he was less happy and more frustrated.
"It runs… in the family. Grandpa is the same way."
"Do you think your parents were like that?"
"Father or mother. I don't know, all I know is that he does these things to get a point across. We grew up with Bandits."
"That is strange, why would your grandpa allow it? What does he do?"
"I don't know, he's an idiot." I lied; I don't want to reveal too much. "I think he was blackmailing them or something. As for what he does, he's an important person. I'll tell you at some point."
Usopp stopped hammering and looked up the mast. "Almost done, want to take a break."
"YES! I hate this. We need a shipwright." We got up and departed the ship.
"And a doctor." He added.
"Also a mascot."
"Why a mascot?" He raised his eyebrow with confusion and curiosity. "What's the point?
I placed both hands on my cheeks and started imagining a cute little fuzzy animal. I swayed my hips while thinking about it. "Because it will be cuuuuute."
"Okay, you're scaring me." Usopp took a few steps away from me.
I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard loud piercing scream. Instanlty, I pulled out my spear. "That was Nami." I rushed on ahead.
"HEY WAIT!"
I jumped forward and looked around. Nami was just standing there looking distressed. "Where is the danger?"
Luffy appeared from my right. "What's with the noise Nami?"
Sanji then appeared, spinning around like a lovesick bug, as he carried plates of food. "What's wrong my dear? If it's a meal then I have finished it."
"Good," Usopp climbed up. "I can eat and take a break.'
She shoved the compass in our faces. I looked down curiously and let out gasp. Now I understand what was wrong. The compass kept spinning and spinning and spinning. What's up with that?
"That's strange." Sanji stared at it thoughtfully. "What's causing that?"
"It's broken." Luffy shrugged.
"If it's broken, we won't know where to go!" groaned Usopp.
"We should wing it?" I wondered.
"We're not going to wing it." Nami sighed. "We're going to think about what to do and fix this thing."
"Hmm… you come here without knowing the dangers." Crocus looked sternly at us as if we're idiots. We probably are if he thinks we're unprepared "I am slightly amazed. Tell me, did you come here just to throw your lives away."
"So I guess winging is out of the answer?"
He glared at me for a few moments, prompting me to smile innocently at him.
Usopp leaned in. "Don't piss him off."
He shook his head in disappointment. "I have said that common sense has no place on this ocean. The compass still works."
The navigator was looking more unhappy, "Is there… a magnetic field?"
He explained to us about a geomagnetic anomaly across the Grand Line. This was due to many islands here being rich with various minerals. The currents and winds are hard to predict, that kind of stuff. Nami should understand how dangerous that is. Hey, something is messing with the climate and nature to cause it be super dangerous, that's bad. Storms becoming more hectic and no way of predicting what will happen? Huh. Heh, who says adventuring is easy?
"If you venture out into this ocean without knowing anything, you will die. With no way to tell which direction is which, it will be impossible to travel on the Grand Line."
Nami rubbed the back of her head sheepishly. "I… had no idea."
"WHAT! ISN'T THAT REALLY REALLY BAD! ARE WE GOING TO BE FINE?" Usopp gasped and shouted.
"NAMI-SAN IS SO ADORABLE WHEN SHE DOESN'T KNOW!"
"Now you learned something," I chuckled. "We're going to be 40% fine."
"ALL THREE OF YOU BE QUIET!"
I winced when she yelled. "What did I do?"
Old man Crocus seemed to have more to say. "To navigate through the Grand Line you WILL need a Log pose
I gasped. "A Log Pose? I've seen one before."
"You have what is it?" Nami questioned
"Master has one. It's special compass doohickey that records magnetic fields."
"That is correct. It straps on to your wrist and has sphere on top of it. Inside is something similar to a compass."
"So it's a weird looking compass like this?" Luffy picked up a log pose. Hmm, where did he get that?
"Yes… without it you will be lost on the Grand Line, it quite hard to obtain one outside of the Grand Line."
Nami got up. "Interesting, excuse me for a second."
She then walked over and punched my brother… why?
"WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE ONE?" There's one thing about Nami, she's too high strung.
The captain rubbed the back of his head. "Those two weirdoes from before left it at our ship by accident."
"Mr. and Mrs. 9." I wondered.
"Miss Wednesday wasn't married to that moron." Sanji snorted. "What beautiful angel."
"You would complement someone with dark intentions." Although there was something off about the blue haired lady. I can't put my finger on it, but I felt I have seen her somewhere before. Weird, I don't remember encountering her presence before.
"There are no markings or anything on the Log Pose." She said as she stared at it.
Crocus told us that all the islands on Grand Line have magnetic fields surrounding them and told us we will have to wait on an island while to record the magnetic field interactions. From here we have to record 1 out of 7 magnetic fields that will lead us to different islands. He also said that no matter which island we are on. They will all converge to the last island of the grand line.
"Raftel." Crocus spoke with authority in his voice. This sounds important. "It is the final stop on the Grand Line. The only ones who confirmed its existence in history is the crew of the Pirate King. It is an island of legends."
Raftel… I never heard of it. How does this man know about it when nobody knows the actual location of the mysterious One Piece. Could he have traveled with Roger. Nahh… , but he did say he was a ship doctor. No, the Government said they killed everybody associated with Roger... or did they?
Usopp face was radiating with excitement. "Does that mean One Piece is located on that island?"
"Who knows." I narrowed my eyes. He's hiding something. I don't know what it is, but he obvious has more knowledge than we think.
"Enough thinking." My brother smirked. "We can see for ourselves once we're there." He said as he consumed a bone. Bone? I looked down at the meat, but it was… gone? HUH?
"LUFFY-NII! WHY DID YOU EAT IT ALL?"
"YOU ATE THIS ALL BY YOURSELF?" Sanji shouted.
"HE EVEN ATE THE BONES!" Our marksman gaped at the empty plate.
Sanji snarled at my brother. "You rubber crap captain," He kicked my brother in the face as punishment for eating all of our food. "THAT WAS FOR NAMI AND YOUR SISTER TO ENJOY!"
CRACK!
That… doesn't sound good. It seems the power from Sanji's kick sent him Nami's way, but it missed her and hit the sphere on the Log Pose. It broke into pieces. Sad miserable pieces. She stared at it calmly for a few seconds, then she slowly began shaking with fury. Her dark glare was sent at the blonde chef who too stupid and oblivious to her.
"COOL YOUR HEADS YOU TWO IDIOTS!"
There they go, both Luffy and Sanji felt the wrath of Nami as she tossed them into the water.
I hit my head on table, ignoring Usopp's cries about the broken Log Pose. I should be worried about Luffy, but Sanji is with him. I should be mad at Sanji, but Luffy needs more restraint when it comes to food. I guess growing up with bandits was a bit negative.
"Relax kids, I have another one." Crocus smiled; he likes us. "It's thanks for the help with Laboon."
"Thank you, you're a real lifesaver old man." I winked at him.
"Yeah, thank you." Nami giggled.
Crocus stared at the both of us and shrugged. "You two are too young."
I rolled my eyes. "Uh huh, we weren't thinking about anything. What are you thinking about?"
"Anya, are you that perverted?" Nami sent a sly grin my way. I narrowed my eyes and Usopp tried to cover his laugh. Embarrassed, I buried my head in my arms. Mental Note, dye her hair neon green.
Later, Luffy and Sanji came back with those two whale hunting weirdoes. They wanted us to drop them off at Whiskey Peak… now where have I heard of that before? Doesn't matter, why the hell should we bring these two with us? They'll cause trouble for, but my brother, in his infinite wisdom, decided to bring them along. Geez. I am keeping an eye on these two. The Log Pose we got from Crocus is now pointing at the next destination.
-On board Vice Admiral's Garp's ship—
Coby glanced at the two pieces of paper in his hand. The two pieces of paper were wanted posters of two pirates that came up recently. One of them was a wanted poster of Luffy and the other was Anya. He looked between the two of them and looked up from his bed. Helmeppo was snoring next to him after his long ordeal today. The boy was taken by his father, 'Axe-Hand' Morgan, in order to escape from captivity safely. After that he decided to retire for the day, but the two of them agreed to beg Garp to train them later.
Coby shook his head and glanced at both posters. "Can't believe you have a sister. Well… I guess I'll have to capture you both or something. Keep on sailing to your goal Luffy."
Meanwhile Garp was looking at the wanted poster in his private quarters.
"Decided to join your brother? I thought you were raised better than that." He laughed. "Well, maybe I can still get the both of you to understand someday."
-The Merry Go, ship of the Strawhat pirates—
After sailing for a while, it started snowing. I think the temperature dropped suddenly too. I put my purple jacket I got from Loguetown. I picked this one out since it had a picture of adorable puppy on the back. When I came back out snow covered the deck. I ignored how it happened so fast and grabbed a shovel to clean up the deck. Cabin girl, chore girl, whatever. It's my duty to clean up. I noticed Zoro was still sleeping. IS HE STILL FOR REAL? Damn you. I heard someone was with me. Sanji was right behind me shoveling.
"I hope you don't mind me helping. Nami wanted the deck cleaned."
"Eh, no problem. I was thinking of getting someone to help."
He chuckled. "Never fear, your handsome helper is here."
"You know that was a bit corny."
"Corny, perhaps. It works."
I rolled my eyes and chuckled. He's growing on me. The two of us shoveled while my brother and Usopp played in the snow. Seeing those two play reminded me of my time back then. Back when it when it was simplier.
-10 Years ago, Goa Kingdom, winter wonderland landscape-
Snow has covered the land. Two children were scanning their surroundings for danger as they trekked through the landscape while inside a forest. One was kid with messy black hair, covered in a winter coat. The other was a blonde kid with a top hat. They heard twig snapped, resulting the blonde boy to throw a snowball in that direction.
"Chill Sabo, don't let those brats intimidate you." The black-haired boy placed a hand on his brother's shoulder. "You know them, they'll do something sneaky and then try to get us."
"Yeah, yeah," He snorted. "Ace, you know putting the both of them together is a bad idea."
"Yep, but where's the fun in that? When we become pirates this will become a good training for the unknown."
"Just like your meatloaf you tried to make."
The black-haired boy pounded him on the head. "Watch it, Luffy and Anya liked it."
"Luffy will eat anything, Anya was suffocating."
Unknown to them, a mass of black and purple appeared from out of the snow behind them. Then it submerged back in.
"Okay back to business, we find them, get them, and we win."
"YAAAAHHH!" Two blurs, black and purple, leapt on the snow and tried to bum rush the boys. Said boys caught them and slammed them both on the snow. The two blurs were Luffy and Anya. Ace laughed as he pinned down the black haired boy. "You don't yell when you do a sneak attack."
Sabo chuckled as he sat on the purple haired child. "It also works to disorient opponents"
"No." muttered Anya. "Now get off me."
"No way squirt."
The group heard a growl coming from the behind them. A large ferocious bear stalked toward them in mood for grub. He saw the children as land fish or something that would probably look very scrumptious to him. At any rate, he wanted to eat the kids. Ace pulled out his metal pipe he kept with him.
"Whoever knocks this guy don't first is the winner."
The bear was out cold with a huge knot on his head as the child were far away and bickering over who knocked the bear out. Anya and Ace came at the beast at the same time, but neither knew who was the victor. They continued until they heard someone.
"What are you kids up too?"
The group looked up and found a woman with short pink hair and red eyes. There were a few wrinkles on her face. She wore a long brown overcoat and carried a spear in her left hand. The spear had a green polearm with blue spiral, the blade was pink in color and had a Kanji for Life on it. This was Kazama Sakura, otherwise known as the Bloody Cherry Blossom of Bounty hunters.
"IT'S THE OLD HAG!" shouted Luffy. For that rude comment he was slammed face first into the ground.
"LEARN YOUR MANNERS YOU BRAT!" She growled and glanced at the group. "Who took out that bear?"
"Ace or Anya, we have no idea."
"It was Violet over here, but only after you guys smacked it around. She got the last hit and it was already disoriented from the brutal assault you guys did. So she won."
Anya jumped up and down while laughing and cheering, she also got struck in the head by the woman.
"Enough, it's time for a little training. Garp told me to check up on all of you. It is time for each of you to begin a little spar." She smirked as she slammed her spear in the snow. "So…" She cracked her knuckles. "Who's up?"
The four children looked between themselves, not knowing if they should push the other forward.
"Times up! ACE! Give me you all."
"Wha!"
-Back to present-
She kicked our butts, then took us back to Dadan's camp to nurse us back to full help. She wanted us to be strong and didn't care what path we were on. As long as we didn't die like weaklings.
My thoughts were interrupted when Nami ran and warned us we were going in the wrong direction. Really? Without us knowing? So this is the terror of the Grand Line. We managed to turn the ship back on its course, but more trouble emerged. Damn it, a wind storm, raging waves. All of us, even the two stowaways, pitched in to help get our ship from sinking and survive this windstorm.
The good news was that the storm died down, the bad news was the storm took us to an island. Luffy went off the ship to check it out while the rest of us were dead tired. I worked up the energy to get up and walk to the side of the ship. Hmm?
The island itself still look a bit the same as the one we spent the night at, this one had something that I couldn't place my finger on. Those trees are shaped like pretzel knots…
I jumped off deck just as Zoro woke up from his deep slumber. The sword lover slept through everything! That outbreak could've woken up a hibernated bear. Nope, not him, not Roronoa. If people knew him well enough and not listen to rumors, then they would've known he is an idiot. He is handsome … and that chest… NO! NO! FOCUS!
I ran down the path to follow my brother. If he was having some adventure, then I'm not going to be left behind! Along the path I came across a log cabin and Luffy-nii sitting on the chair looking at some book. Shouldn't this island be deserted? The shape of the cabin looks like it hasn't been taken care of for a long time. There was a huge hole in the roof, first clue
I walked up and sat beside him. "What's that?"
"A journal." He closed it and tossed it. I caught it before it fell. "
"Why did you do that? It could be something important."
"It's nothing exciting in it." He sighed and got up. "This cabin is empty, there's no food or anything. This dates back to a long time ago."
"Really?" I stood up. "I didn't know you were this observant."
"On the first page, there's a date. Too many years ago and the guy ends up being a skeleton. The rest of the journal was just depressing."
"… I'm checking inside."
"Suit yourself," He put his hands on the back of his head and sat on the porch. "There wasn't anything cool in there."
"Hmm, you're not going back?"
"A brother always has to watch out for his sister. If you like Zoro he needs my permission to date you."
"Who says I have feelings for him?" I said and walked inside.
"You don't? Bummer." I thought he would've said good. It doesn't matter what he thinks.
Inside, the building, I noticed one thing wrong here. It was filthy. It was garbage. There was a skeleton on the floor wearing pants. Obviously, the previous owner is dead and nothing but bones. It would be pretty nifty if it woke up and said 'BOO', but skeletons don't reanimate. Unless there is a devil fruit that has that power… nah. I doubt there is a fruit that brings you back to life. HA HA! I moved some stuff around and went from room to room, with little progress of finding anything. There was no treasure, no hidden door, nothing. This guy lived alone for years. I opened a random page of the journal and read.
A year had passed and already I feel myself on the edge of insanity. I am slowly losing the memories of my childhood. I can barely remember my friends and having loads of fun at Shabody Park. I barely remember my travels anymore. It's scary. I still have my skin, but soon I won't be alive. There is nothing edible and I am tired of fish. I think I am coming down with mercury poison or something. I miss my youth, I miss my life.
I flipped through it some more and stopped at a page
My mother always sat me down and told me how much she loved me. She always told me I can do anything I can set my mind on. My dad always took me sailing and told me many wondrous things about the ocean. I miss them, they, my wife, my children. I left her alone while I'm living life alone. My Log Pose is broken, I have no way of traveling to find my family. I'm going to live and continue remembering all the wonderful memories. Every day, I will think of a different memory and pretend I am there.
How sad. I turned the page.
I thought I saw my sister on the island. I did, I went and talked to her. It was so wonderful, we laughed about our jokes and conversed about everything that was going on in the world. My father stopped by and we too shared good times. I think I am going insane, what is reality and what is fiction? Am I just a figment of someone else mind? HA HA!
Okay… I flipped to a random page.
There's something that has occurred to me, why is there a blank in history? Why is there certain point in history where we are not allowed to learn about? Something fishy is going on. Hmmm fish, I think it's time I go and find Betty's fishy friends and feed on them. Yessss….
I raised my eyebrow. Weird, very, very weird. I decided to spoil the end flipped to the end.
I am sick and dying, I don't have enough energy to write. If anyone is reading this, I hid something below the cabin. Take it, it's yours, perhaps it will have some use to you. It's useless to me. Casey James is done.
"Casey James… he's no one famous."
"Anya?"
"AARRRRGH!"
I punched whoever the hell it was through the wall. I gasped and looked outside and realized it was Luffy. Damn it. He shook his head and glared. "What the hell? Why did you get so jumpy?"
He then walked back inside the cabin and turned to me. "Did that book make you feel weird?"
"See that?" I pointed at the skeleton. "I thought it would come to life and kill me."
He grinned "Would be pretty cool if it came to life."
I chuckled. "Yeah, totally."
We're alike in certain ways, it's all the little moments that make you realize you are far closer to your loved ones than you think. I tapped my foot on the wooden boards of the cabin. They are getting old, good enough for a kick. I jumped up, spun myself in the air and brought my foot down. With a mighty kick, I destroyed the floor. My brother looked at me oddly. "What was that for? This house is already beat up."
"The journal said there was something below. Probably treasure."
"REALLY! AWESOME!"
I raised my foot and brought down on the floor, creating a hole in the rotted wooded floor. I dove in and crawled around until I found some kind of wooden box. I think its mahogany or something. Nice looking. Suddenly I saw a spider crawl across my arm, I gasped and shot up at sonic speed while tearing through the floor, I ignored the pain while prancing around the room like a little girl. I can fight dangerous battles against jerks, but I have a bad case of Arachnophobia. Spiders scare the hell out of me.
"GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!"
"What's wrong?"
I jumped on his shoulders and glanced around the room like a scared cat. "A spider!"
"Where?" Luffy looked around, "I don't see it, it's gone now."
I got off him while clutching the box. I pouted my lips and turned away from him. ",mmm."
"Seriously, spiders aren't that scary."
"Damn right they are!" I yelled back at him. I calmed myself down and directed my attention to the box in my hand. I opened it up, expecting some glorious artifact or clues to the Dragoon order. My excitement died. All there seemed to be was a picture of a family of four. This must be Casey's family before he got stranded on this island somehow.
"It's a picture of a family."
"Oh, I guess there is nothing of value here."
"I guess not."
I closed the box and placed it and the journal on the skeleton lying on the floor. Would be cool if it came to life and tell us tales of you youth, but that's a dream that won't come true. I walked toward my brother and put my arm around his. "
"His treasure is his family. His journal indicated about how much he missed them. I remembered those four years where I missed you and Ace. I promised myself that if I see you again, I will never leave. Nothing is more important than that."
"Nope, not even One Piece."
"Hmm, didn't think you would compare One Piece to family."
"It's all about the adventure and living free." He grinned. "My adventure is your adventure. We're sticking together. We'll blow past anyone who tries to keep us apart."
I laughed and lightly punched his shoulder. The two of us left the cabin. Casey, perhaps you missed out on important things in life, but you remembered the last thing before you died. Family. The crew is my new family.
Later on, we were back on the ship and picked up where we left off. We sailed away while enjoying the storm free sky. We continued on until we spotted something in the distance. It was an island, an island that looked filled with life as opposed to nothing. The first leg of journey has ended, we are now moving closer.
-Fuushia Village—
"Did you see? Anya is with Luffy now. They're pirates."
"Ha, ha! This bounty is high, not as high as him, but for the East Blue, it's pretty high."
"Two wanted criminals from our village. LET'S CELEBRATE! HIP HIP!"
"KNOCK IT OFF!"
"AAHHH MAYOR!"
The elderly man, grumbled as he sat down glared at the wanted poster. "Just what the hell is this girl thinking? She just had to join her brother in piracy." He placed at the paper on the table
A girl with long green, Makino, walked up and picked up the poster. "At least they're together. Luffy missed them both when she and Ace left."
"Together, yes, but not in the setting I tolerate for them." He grumbled as he stared at the wanted poster.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
'Lavender Lancer' Monkey D. Anya
19,000,000 belli.
Welcome to 2012. The world won't end unless I say it ends. Everything is fine folks.