Author's Note: I'm trying to start writing longer chapters, so there may be some inconsistency in upload schedule (which is already extremely vague).

Worry not though!

I shall not abandon this story anytime soon, I love this premise far too much.

Most people would jump at the chance to eat a Devil Fruit. Superpowers!, who wouldn't want that!

Me

Don't get me wrong, I would jump at the chance for superpowers, but if given the chance to eat a devil fruit, I would probably refuse. Unless the fruit was something I could use to fly, I didn't have much interest in eating one. It was probably a silly reason, but I enjoyed swimming, and I didn't want to give it up for something I wouldn't need in the real world.

This was not my world

In actuality, I didn't have much of a choice in this matter, the World of Worm was wrought with so much danger that not having powers was basically condemning myself to an early death. I couldn't even attain powers the natural way in this world, not that I would want to. Triggering and Passengers were not something on my list of things to experience.

The decision to eat the Devil Fruit would have been so much easier if I knew exactly which one I was eating, but unfortunately I didn't recognize the design of the fruit from my knowledge of any that were actually shown as fruits in the series instead of simply their consumer.

It was also extremely hard to interpret any possible idea of what fruit this was simply by its design, it appeared to look like an apple of the darkest red, with rising lumps that had one swirl adorning each blob, similar to the Bara Bara no mi, but more numerous. The stem of the fruit had a T-like shape not unlike many of the devil fruits I did know the appearance of. The left stem curled into a swirl while the other seemed to bubble and drip, like that part of the stem was simply melting.

While I could probably speculate on what exactly this fruit was, I was impatient. I was in the world of Worm and I didn't want to stall on eating this fruit longer than I already had. So without any fanfare…

Chomp

I took a bite

A small bite, I wanted to be able to swallow it immediately.

BLEUGH

I swallowed it

"FUUUCK"

I've eaten some terrible tasting food in my life, my previous number one on that list had been some rancid milk I had drank without knowing and regretted immediately after, this topped that.

It topped it by a considerable amount. I couldn't begin to describe the taste of such an awful thing, the only thing I could remotely compare it to would be the most rotten fruit you may have accidentally eaten...but it was lathered in shit.

Spending the next few minutes spitting out any residue from my mouth and simply calming down from the ordeal. I started trying to figure out what power I had gotten, because I better have gotten something good after eating that filth!

After pinching and poking my body I figured it hadn't been something like the Gomu Gomu no mi, that permanently changed the user's body. So I started my next experiment, and arguably the more vague one. I tried to 'feel' my power.

Staring at my right hand I tried to feel for any changes, so I closed my eyes and focused.

One minute went by.

Then five

Finally...

Nothing, I felt no change. My hand felt like it had always been, a hand. Giving up on trying to 'feel' for the power I instead decided that I should just bite the bullet of stupidity and try to manifest the power. It was stupid because I had no idea what would happen, but I was out of options. So I held out my hand toward the ocean, took a glance in either direction to make sure I was alone, and tried to activate my power in some way.

Willing something to happen ended anticlimactically when nothing happened, so I tried focusing on my hand, rather than willing something to happen around me like I had been doing, I tried willing something to happen to me instead.

And something did

First I watched in awe as my hand started to heat up

Then glow red

Then my hand burst into flame

"Oh shit oh shit oh shit"

Frantically grabbing my right forearm with my left hand, I tried to ignore the sensation of intense heat coming from my right fist, it was a phantom sensation, it had to be.

"OK"

Phew!

"OK"

The phantom pain started receding once my brain registered that the heat wasn't in fact hurting me. It was odd, I could still feel the intensity of the heat, knew that it was much higher than anything I should feel comfortable with, and yet I didn't feel any pain or discomfort.

After calming down finally, I started to inspect my now red hot burning fist. Upon looking closer I could see that my hand wasn't simply just glowing with heat, it was bubbling and it seemed to drip. Absent-mindedly I observed smoke and flame billow from my clenched fist.

Then I started laughing.

HAHAHAHA!

"YEEEEES!"

I yelled, pumping my aflame fist into the air in celebration. I had superpowers! And they were GOOD!

It was finally sinking in that I had gotten a super good power, one of the best really. Logia's were good no matter their exact element, in a world without haki there were few things they had to worry about, and having the element of magma lessened those worries even more.

Looking back at it, it should have been quite obvious that the fruit was a logia, both the Mera Mera no mi and the Moku Moku no mi had similarities to both one another and to the fruit I had just consumed, but realizing that I had been lucky enough to acquire the Magu Magu no mi? That would have been something I would still be denying if I hadn't eaten the fruit myself. It was that good of a fruit. I almost couldn't believe it was true.

But it was

And I was glad

With this power I actually had a shot at surviving in this God forsaken world, oh sure it wouldn't make me the strongest superpowered person on the planet, but it would be enough to take on and win against most capes in the world of Worm, hell if I was clever about it, I could take down even Alexandria herself! Superman rip-off herself, how crazy was that!

After calming down from the initial high of my newfound power, I had decided to set up camp inside an abandoned ship that must have washed up on shore years ago. It was a large fishing vessel and it was absolutely covered in rust. After inspecting the ship I found that anything of value and anything resembling something useful had already been taken. There were obvious signs that the ship had been used as shelter before, long forgotten fires and footprints in the sand that had made its way into the hull of the ship.

I had made a camp not in the quarters of the ship, because the wood there had been thoroughly rotted, but inside the hull of the ship itself. I had figured out a way to use my powers as a sort of blowtorch, turning my index finger into magma and simply melting away some of the outer hull to get inside. After some of the melted hull had dripped onto my shirt I had also discovered that along with my clothing, my body was now naturally resistant to heat.

Setting down a camp was an easy process, I moved my canoe into the hull and had made a makeshift bed by digging out an oval ditch in the sand and laying my bag down as a pillow.

Making a campfire was even more simple thanks to my devil fruit abilities, I didn't even need wood. I simply just produced a glob of magma that would heat up every hour or so to keep it at a nice temperature.

I had a few fish that had been brought with me through the rainbow portal, I had been out fishing after all. I fashioned a grill out of some loose fence I had found and cooked and ate grilled fish in my new camp.

I must have woken up quite late into the day because it was already evening by the time I had finished my food and set up my camp.

Deciding that I would set out into the city tomorrow, I needed money and without a job the only feasible way I could see that happening was by stealing it from some criminal or gang member. I hadn't brought my wallet with me to go fishing and I doubt that my card would work in this world.

Sighing as I watched the sunset, I prepared myself for what would likely be a very stressful day tomorrow and went to bed.

Author's Note: My decision on the Magu Magu no mi was not one I hastily thought out. I have seen a huge lack of stories with this type of ability or devil fruit in use, and I think its criminal.

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