Intro (because It's awesome)

Wealth,

Fame,

Power.

One man had acquired all the worldly things: The Pirate King: GOL D ROGER.

His final words before he was executed, sent all people of the world out to sea.

"My treasure? If you want it, you can have it! Go find it! I left it all there! Somewhere in the Grand Line."

Men everywhere head toward the Grand Line to chase their dreams.

The world has unquestionably entered the Great Age of Pirates!

(I highly recommend listening to the Intro song now and watching the opening song)

Previously on One Piece:

"Hey, guys!" Zoro says suddenly and Coby screeches.

"You're an eyesore. Get lost!" He says and looks at them with clearly tired eyes.

Mikasa pushes herself off the wall with her feet while she uses fire on her feet to give herself a small boost and catches the girl.

"It was all Helmeppo's fault. He's Captain Morgan's son," Rika starts to explain.

"I've made my decision, Mikasa! I'm going to make Zoro my Nakama!" Luffy says and Mikasa nods at him..

Zoro slashes through him and Luffy punches him in the face.

Morgan stands there for a second before his eyes rolled back into his head and he fell on the ground with a loud crash.

An eleven/twelve-year-old Mikasa runs through a forest. Luffy! Where are you?! She thinks worried sick.

She trips and falls on her knees.

Mikasa tries to catch her breath as she looks up.

She sees how a bandit holds on Luffy. The Bandit is on top of a small ship in the sea.

He throws the seven-year-old Luffy into the sea.

"No!" She yells and runs towards him.

But she stops realizing that she can't swim cause of her Devil fruit.

No...No...No! Stupid Devil Fruit! I can't swim! I can't help him! She thinks panicking as she watches Luffy struggling in the sea.

Suddenly a big Sea Monster charges right towards Luffy.

Mikasa's eyes widens and tears threaten to fall from her eyes.

"No...Please, don't! No! LUFFY!" She yells and stretches her hand towards him.

The Sea Monster bites almost in slow-motion and suddenly blood drips into the sea.

"LUFFY!" Mikasa opens her eyes and sits up. She looks around while panting heavily.

She looks to her side and sees Luffy sleeping next to her peacefully and alive.

"Thank god," She mumbles and let out a relieved breath.

She then notices Zoro looking at her concerned.

"Are you okay?" He asks her.

"Y-Yeah, just a...a bad dream," She says smiling.

"Don't worry, shorty. Your bad dreams can't hurt you," Zoro teases her.

"Shut up, Marimo!" She hisses at him blushing and looks at the sea.

"Zoro?" Mikasa asks after a few seconds of silence.

"Hm?" He looks at her.

"You know that Devil fruit users can't swim, right?"

"Yes," He answers.

"If my brother and I even fall into the sea...would you...would you please save him first?" Mikasa looks at him.

"What?!" Zoro looks at her confused and concerned at the same time.

"It's just...argh, forget it! I'm just being overprotective again," Mikasa says and looks away.

"He's the only thing I have...he's my little brother, it's my responsibillity to keep him safe and alive."She tells him.

"Now it's not only your responsibility," Zoro says and crossed his arms.

"As long as your brother keeps his word I'll be there for you both. As you first official crewmate and the right hand...or in this case the left hand of the Captain it's my duty to protect my Captain and Nakama,"

"Heh, Thank you, little brother," Mikasa says smiling at him.

"Little brother?" Zuko asks blushing.

"Yeah, everyone who joins this crew will be my sibling," She says chuckling.

"I see...Well, don't worry. Our Captain will be fine, big sis," Zoro grins back.

"Who would have thought that the dangerous Roronoa Zoro is such a softy," Mikasa says smirking teasingly.

"Shut it!" He snaps at her blushing as she laughs at him.

[Next Morning]

"I´m Hungry..."Luffy whines as he leans over the edge of the boat.

"How long is it gonna takes us to reach land?" Zoro asks.

"Who knows. That's up to the wind and the sea. We may never get , I´m sure we will, eventually," Luffy answers.

Mikasa rolls her eyes at him.

"I think we should arrive at an Island soon. If I´m correct Orange Town should be in the near," She says as she stares out to the sea.

"Hold on! Isn't a little strange- Planning to be the Pirate King without knowing the first thing about navigation? So, shorty is our Navigatos?" Zoro says confused.

"Nah.., I think we should search for a real Navigator instead. I can tell when we're about to arrive at an Island and which Island it is but I can't really tell which way we should sail," Mikasa tells him slightly amused.

"What about you? Aren't you a great bounty hunter of the sea?" Luffy asks Zoro.

"I don't recall ever saying I was a bounty hunter. I went out to sea in search of a certain man and couldn't find the way back to my village. I had no choice but to earn a living by chasing pirates," Zoro explains as he stares at the sky.

"Oh, so you're just a lost, marimo," Mikasa teases him and chuckles.

"Shut up! Don't call me marimo!" Zoro yells and slams the boat.

In progress, Luffy's yellow hat slowly flies off up to the mast.

Both Mikasa and Luffy stares at it.

"Shanks...," Luffy mumbles.

"This straw hat has seen me through many battles. It's very important to me," Says the Shanks as he throws the Hat and catches it.

"I can't just give it to you, Luffy."

Zoro catches it and hands it over to Luffy.

Mikasa stares of into the Ocean with an unreadble face.

[Flashback]

Pirates were drinking, eating and laughing at a tavern in Foosha Village.

This weren´t just some Pirates, this Pirates were members of the Red Hair Pirates and their Captain the red-haired Shanks.

Shanks sat at the bar with the yellow strawhat on his head. Next to him sat a seven-years old Luffy.

"Come on! Take me with you on your next adventure, Shanks! I wanna be a pirate too" Luffy said excitedly.

"You'd never make it as a pirate!" Shanks laughed at him

"Why not?" Luffy asked.

"Luffy, I know you're a good swimmer, but it takes more than that to be a pirate!" Yasopp told him.

"I can fight, too! My punch is like a pistol!" Luffy said.

"Is that so?" Shanks said unimpressed as he ate.

"Don't make fun of me!" Luffy yelled at him.

"It sounds like Luffy can't wait to grow up," Lucky Roux said

"Yeah, he's about the same age as my kid," Yasoop said.

"I'm not a kid! I'm a man!" Luffy exclaimed angry.

"Hey, don't get so worked up. Here! Have some juice," Shanks said and gave him a glass of juice.

"Thanks!" Luffy said happily and drinks his juice.

"See? Still a kid!"Shanks said laughing and slapping the counter.

"That was dirty, Shanks!STOP LAUGHING!" Luffy yelled and the other Pirates laughed.

Next to both them sat an eleven-year old Mikasa. She sat there quietly with an emotionless face and ate. Her hands were slightly burned but she didn't even flinched.

A young woman with green hair named Makino looked at her with a sad look as she cleaned the glasses.

"No fair! Stinky Shanks!" Luffy yelled.

Suddenly the door to the tavern was kicked in and a group of men came inside. There were a large number of them, all of them dressed mostly alike with smug smirks and their suspicios-looking faces.

The Pirates feels silent, looking up, curious to see what these men were going to do.

Mikasa tensed up but doesn't turn to look at them.

"Excuse us," The leader of the group said, before marching in.

Mikasa looked up at Makino who stopeed cleaning the glass and became also tense but clearly not as tensed as Mikasa.

"Oh, so these are the lot who call themselves pirates. They look like a bunch of idiots to me," The unknown man said, stepping on the door and leaving a boot-shaped print in it.

The pirate crew didn't say anything as they kept a close watch on the bandits, still waiting to see what they would do. The group approached the bar.

"Welcome. What can I do for you?" Makino asked as she walked forward to greet them. Mikasa noticed the hint of uneasiness in her tone and looked up only to see Makino stand in front of the Bandit leader with a forced smile.

"We're bandits," the mand smirked at her.

"Don't 're not here to destroy your simply like to buy then barrels of sake,"

"I'm sorry, but we're out of beer at the moment," Makino answered him politely.

"Oh? That's interesting. So, are you telling me that these pirates are drinking water?" The Bandit asked her.

"They just happened to buy the last of our sake," Makino answered.

Mikasa looked coldly at the Bandit and at Shanks who keept eating peacfully.

Shanks finally looked up at them.

"I feel guilty. We drank the place dry. Sorry. You can have this if you like," Shanks said and held up the bottle.

The Bandit's eyes suddenly darkened, before he shattered the bottle, the drink splashing all over the Shankd and the bar.

Mikasa heared Makino and Luffy gasp while the bandits all laughed at the sight of it.

She clenched her fists and teeth.

Shanks head was down with the hat shading his eyes so she couldn't see his face

"I´m a wanted man-I'm worth 8,000,000 Berri. One bottle isn't even enough for a bedtime drink. Don't insult me," The Bandit said.

It was quiet for a brief moment before Shanks looked up.

"The floor's all wet. Sorry about that, Makino-san,"He said.

Do you have a rag?" Shanks asked as he started picking up the shards of glass.

"I'll take care of it," Makino said and went to get a rag.

The Bandit took out his sword and slashed it along the bar, cutting a groove into the wood and sending everything on it crashing to the floor to make even a bigger mess.

"Well, if you enjoying, cleaning, "he sneered at Shanks, who was now leaned up against the bar, now soaked in sake. "Now there's more to clean." He put the sword back and said," No point wasting our time here while there's no sake. Let's go men!" he then called to his men and with that, the band of bandits turned and filed out the tavern-all of them roaring with laugther.

"Later, cowards," the leader called over his shoulder with a sneer as he left.

Shanks and his crew broke out into loud, energetic laughter.

"They really got you!" Yasoop yelled laughing. "That's funny!"

"You look pretty dumb on the florr there, Captain!" Lucky Roo laughed as well as Shanks keep laughing loud.

"WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?!"Luffy then yelled and caused everyone to look over at him."THAT WASN'T COOL!" he went on angrily.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU FIGHT BACK? NO MATTER HOW MANY THERE ARE OR HOW STRONG THEY LOOK, IF YOU DON'T FIGHT BACK THEN YOU'RE NOT A MAN! NOW I SEE I WAS WRONG ABOUT YOU GUYS!"

"These bandits are scum, Luffy! They aren't worth it!" Mikasa said coldly.

"Ah! Mikasa...your hands!"Luffy exclaimed.

Mikasa looked at her hands and noticed that they were on fire.

She quickly put her hands into her pocket and walked out of the tavern.

Outside she put her hands into a barrel of water and sighed.

Time Skip

"Luffy!" Mikasa jumped as he heared Makino yell.

She ran towards where she heard the voice.

Mikasa saw Makino and the Mayor.

She stood next to them and saw how the bandit from a few days before had his foot on a beaten Luffy.

"Hey you!" Mikasa said in a low and calm voice.

Everyone looked at her.

"Get away from my brother!" She said as she walked closer and she felt how she slowly began to burn.

"Your brother ey? I'm sorry..I can't... You see...this little brat," the bandit kicked Luffy harder."He mad me angry. I cannot let a kid this weak insult me in front of my own men and get away with it."

"You started it!" Luffy yelled defiantly." You mountain ape!"

Two of the Bandits men stood infront of Mikasa blocking her way.

She didn't pay attention to them but only glared at their leader.

The mens eyes widens as they saw Mikasa getting surrouned by fire and the deadly look in her eyes.

"Fine," the bandit, stomping harder on Luffy one more time before he drew his sword, now looking annoyed," I've decided that I'm not gonna sell you. I'll kill you instead."

"Are you death and brain dead at the same time?" Mikasa asked.

She grabbed the blade and moved it away from Luffy."Get. . !"

The bandit leader looked terrified at Mikasa.

She stood there with her hand bleeding while grabbing the blade with all her strength, she herself is surrounded by fire, her skin starts to get burned and her eyes were deadly.

The bandit moved away from her as he noticed that the blade began to melt under Mikasas hand.

"Mika..." Luffy mumbled.

"I was wondering why the bar was empty on such a fine day," a casual voice said from behind them. Mikasa saw Shanks and his crew standing behind Making and the Mayor.

"So this is why," Shanks finished, looking at them all.

"Captain Shanks!" Makino called out relief.

Mikasa also looked slightly relieved.

Shanks grinned brightly as he came forward. "If it isn't the bandtis from the other day," he said before turning his teasing grin on Luffy,"What's the matter, Luffy? I thought you said that you have a punch like a pistol?"

"Shut up!" Luffy snarled at him.

"Pirate," the leader said smuglly," Why are you still here? I suggest you leave and continue cleaning if you don't want to get hurt."

"Bold to say for someone who is afraid of an eleven year old child. I think you need a new pair of pants," Mikasa says glaring at the bandit.

However, Shanks instead began to slowly walk forward towards them.

The bandit leader pointed his sword (with Mikasa's blood on it) at him,"I don't know why you're here, but leave before we kill you."

But Shanks kept walking towards them. Suddenly, another one of the bandits said with a cocky grin," Didn't you just hear what he said?" he raised a gun and pointed it straight at Shanks's head."Don't take another step or I'll blow your brains out."

He cocked the gun, and the other bandits laughed. Shanks did stop here, but he didn't look worried. He was still smiling as if this was all his idea.

"Since you drew your pistol I assume that you´re willing to use it?" Shanks asked casually.

"Huh?" the bandit asked stupidly. "What are you talking about?"

"I mean are you willing to risk your life?"Shanks asked calmly pointing to the gun in his face, "These aren't toys to scare people with after all, you know?"

Mikasa looked back at Luffy and helped him to stand up. She looked up when she heard a gunshot.

She looked up, the bandit with the gun was on the ground while Lucky Roo was now standing ther with the smoking gun-still eating a slab of meat on his knife. Everyone was staring at him in shock a surprise.

"You killed him!" a bandit yelled.

"That was fighting dirty!" another cried out.

"Dirty?" Benn Beckman said."Who did you think were dealing with here? We never claimed to be Saints."

"We're pirates," Shanks proclaimed proudly.

"Shut up!" the bandit leader yelled, "This is none of your business!"

The good-natured look on Shank's face melt off and was replaced with great anger.

"Listen up, bandits," he said in a warning tone."You can spill food on me. You pour drinks on me. Hell, you can even spit at me,. I'll just laugh it off."

His face grew furious as he said,"But...no matter what the reasons...I WON'T FORGIVE THOSE WHO HURT MY FRIENDS! Now for the last time, let the lad go!"

But the leader of the bandits laughed horribly as he asked, "Won't forgive mm you say? You bunch of pirate who float around the sea want to challenge bandits?! What a joke! Kill them all men!"

And like that, the bandits all raised their weapons and charged ahead.

"I'll handle this," Benn said coming forward."I'm more than enough for them."

Shanks just smiled at him as his friend strode forward, pulling out the rifle he had tucked in the sash at his waist, stance relaxed and casual. When the first bandit came at him, he pulled out hid cigarette and used it to stab him in the face. The bandit was donw before the cigarette was. He then raised his rifle up as a weapon and in no time at all, the bandits were all lying face-down in the dirt.

"Don't flatter yourself, bandits," he told them, pointing the rifle at them as he lit another cigarette, "If you want to fight us, you better bring a warship with you."

Mikasa looked at the leader.

He wasn't acting so cool anymore. In fact, he grew pale and was now backing away,"Ah! The kid's the one who started this!"

"Pah! Coward!" Mikasa said.

Shanks smirked."Aren't you a wanted man?" he tauned him.

The bandit threw something down on the ground and it exploded in a giant cloud of smoke.

"Come on brat!" the bandit's voice rang out along with Luffy's protests.

"Mikasa!" Luffy exclaimed.

As soon as the smoke cleared the Bandit and Luffy were gone.

Mikasa had a sword stuck in her side as she was holding on it.

"Mikasa!" Everyone exclaimed but Mikasa ignored them.

She pushed away Makino and the Mayor, pulled the sword out her wound and ran after Luffy.

"Luffy!" She yelled.

Mikasa ran through the forest. Luffy! Where are you?! She thinks worried sick.

She tripped and fell on her kness.

Mikasa tried to catch her breath as she held her bleeding side.

She looked up and saw how the bandit was on a boat with Luffy.

Mikasa's eyes widen as the bandit kicked Luffy into the sea.

"No! Luffy!" She yelled and ran towards him.

But she stopped before the sea remembering that she can't swim cause of her Devil fruit.

Stupid Devil fruit! She thought as she watched Luffy struggling in the sea.

Mikasa almost didn't notice that the bandit was eaten by a big Sea King until the Sea King was right behind Luffy.

"No...Please, don't! LUFFY!" She yelled as tears threaten to fell from her eyes.

The Sea Monster closed its mouth and suddenly blood dripped into the sea.

Mikasa closed her eyes and opened again.

She sighed as she saw Shanks holding Luffy in his...arm.

She stood up and as soon as they were back on land she basically tackled Luffy into a bone breaking hug.

"Mika!" Luffy exclaimed shocked but hugged her back.

Mikasa cried into his shoulder.

She looked up to Shanks with tears rolling down her cheeks."...Thank you...," She said quietly

Shanks simply smiled at her.

"Mika! You're bleeding!" Luffy exclaimed horrified as he saw Mikasa side.

Mikas ruffled his hair and did something she has never done before...she smiled...she smiled at him with an soft and warm smile.

And then everything became black.

Time Skip.

The Red-Haired pirates were loading up crates of food and barrels of sake onto the ship.

Luffy, Shanks and Mikasa are standin there, watching them work-with Shanks now having his missing arm covered up with a black cloak.

"So, you're leaving for good this time?" Luffy asked as Makino, the Mayor and the other townsfolk came to say goodbye

"Yep," Shanks said brightly, tilting the straw hat back so that he could see the waves better."It's been a nice extended vacation, but we've stayed long enough. It's about time that we move on," He looked at him and asked,"Sad to see us go?"

"Yeah...,"Luffy confessed, but he kept smiling."But I made up my mind. I'm not going to ask you to take me with you. I decided that I'm gonna become a pirate all on my own."

"Not really all on your own...since I'm coming with you," Mikasa said grinning at him.

Shanks then stuck his tongue out at them and teased,"Heh, I wouldn't take you even if you begged me! You don't have what it takes to be a pirate!"

Mikasa rolled her eyes.

Luffy blinked before his eyes narrowed in anger and he yelled out,"YES I DO!"

All of the other pirates on the dock turned to watch Luffy.

"One day I'll have a stronger crew than yours! And then I'll find the world's greatest treasure! You hear me? Someday I'm gonna be the KING OF THE PIRATES!"

Mikasa smiled at him.

Shanks smiled as of he was taking this as a challenge."Oh?" he teased.

"So, you're going to get a crew that's better than all of us? Well then," and slowly, he reached up to the straw hat and took it off, and he placed it on top of Luffy's hat."This hat is my gift to you."

Luffy stood still as a statue as Shanks said to him quietly,"This hat is an important treasure to me, so you have to promise me that you'll return it in good condition." Shanks pulled away."And only after you become a great 'll be our promise,Luffy."

"And you Mikasa...take care of him," Shank said.

"Heh, of course. There's no way we both can be separated," Mikasa said smirking.

Luffy took the hat in his hands as he watched the Shanks board the ship.

Makino came up behind them and stood with them, smiling as kindly as ever as ske looked up to the crew and waved goodbye.

"Raise anchor!" Shanks yelled."And set the sail!"

"Aye!" the rest of the crew yelled before they looked back and waved goodbye to everyone.

After the ship disappeared over the horizon, Mikasa looked at Luffy as he put the hat back firmly on his head, and rub the tears away.

I promise I'll protect you no matter what Mikasa thought as she put her hand over her wound. No matter what's the cost. I'll make sure you achive you dream. Even if I die saving you.

[Flashback end]

Mikasa put her hand on where the scar is and sighs.

"Oi! If you keep spacing out, you're gonna drop it again. It's important to you, right?" Zoro asks Luffy.

"Yeah. Thank you, Zoro."Luffy says.

"I'm hungry!" Zoro complains.

"Not you too" Mikasa rolls her eyes annoyed.

Luffy looks up and sees a bird.

"A bird,huh?"Mikasa says as she looks at it.

"Let's eat the bird," Luffy exclaims.

"How?" Zoro asks.

"Definetly not!" Mikasa tells Luffy.

"Leave it to me!" Luffy tells Zoro completely ignoring Mikasa.

"Gomu Gomo No..." Luffy stretches his arms and grabs onto the mast.

"Luffy! Don't you dare!" Mikasa yells and holds on to his shirt.

"Rocket!" Luffy and Mikasa fly up towards the bird.

"Luffy!" Mikasa exclaims.

Suddenly Luffy's head stucks inside the birds mouth.

"HELP ME!" Luffy yells.

"BAKA!" Mikasa yells as she holds onto him.

Suddenly someone shoots the bird and they both fell down.

"That was sure an interesting experience," Luffy laughs.

Mikasa punches him on top of his head, "Baka! This was an idiotic experience. Don't you ever do that again!"

She looks around and sees a bunch of pirates to the right and the little fox from Civilian Ship.

"Hi, little fox," She says grinning.