Chapter 1: King's Rock Island and the King of the Wild!

Sailing across the cold waters of the South Blue, I let out a sigh as I brush my hand through my long black hair, my cold ice blue eyes gazing out across the ocean, "Blast it…I need a better ship….at least I've got food." I state to myself as I throw a glance at the corpses of a few super sharks that had attacked my raft to try eating me. I killed them, of course, but my raft is now damaged. Turning around, my eyes narrow at the sight of something on the horizon. Reaching over, I grab my makeshift oars and turn my flimsy raft towards it and start rowing that way. As my raft moves slowly, the wind picks up and catches the leafy sail I put together, blowing my raft quickly towards the island, which rapidly gets larger.…a bit too quickly it appears, as the water slowly covers the raft. I quickly climb up the post, standing on the top of my raft's sail. The wind, thankfully, blows me quicker towards the island that I had spotted, and my raft quickly goes underwater in the port, and I stand on top of my raft, stepping off the crow's nest spot on top in stride onto the port dock as my raft completely submerges, staring up at the absolutely massive mountain in the center of the island, with a thick forest surrounding the base, and an absolutely bustling port town, packed with plenty of people, and lots of exotic animals in the area, including some super sparrows and other gigantic birds that live on the giant mountain in the center of the island.

As I gaze around the island, the clearing of a throat gets my attention, and I turn to glance at a young man, smartly dressed, staring at the spot where my boat had sank,

"Ummm…it's 15 beri's to dock here…." The unfortunate young page states dumbly, as I shrug my shoulders, before moving around him, "Then it's a good thing I'm not docking, am I? Can't dock without a ship." I reply as I stride away, only for the now panicked page to grab my arm, "But you can't come in without paying the fee! I'll lose my pension!"

Letting out an angered snarl, I grab the page and glare darkly into his face, "Would you rather lose your pension…or your life?" The boy pales drastically as he rapidly shakes his head. "Good boy…" I purr darkly as I let the brat go and start making my way into town. Before I head off into town, I notice a massive ship docking at the far end of the ship, before at least 25 very well armed men and women leave the ship and head into town.

"Hmmm…not marines…and they wouldn't dock if they were pirates….well-armed too…they must be…"

"Bounty hunters, ma'am. The mayor's been sending out for bounty hunters, mercenaries, and pirate hunters for the past three months. The best bounty hunters from across the four blues are here for the mayor's job."

Blinking, I turn and look at the man that spoke, who was a taller male, with ripped pants and a dirty white shirt. I raise an eyebrow, "The mayor's job? He's the one that hired all these goons?"

The man, noting my confusion, nods, "The Mayor's been inviting them here. Rumors state that his daughter wants them to find her fiancé. If you plan to stay in town, you'll need to watch out for the spoiled little bitch." He states before turning and walking off to the next dock.

As I watch the homeless man walk off, I turn around with a smirk lifting up the corner of my face, "Interesting….I might as well go find out what all the fuss is." I state before walking into town, following the group of bounty hunters that were laughably easy to notice in the crowds, to the mayor's house.

As the hunters knock at the gate, and are allowed inside, I walk past the gate and around the corner, before reaching my hand out once I was out of sight of the guards at the gate, and pressing my fingertip against the stone, using my Destroy destroy powers to Shatter the wall into pieces, before walking through the cracks and sneaking outside the manor, following the hunters huge party from the windows on the first floor. They are lead to a huge ballroom, which is filled with at least 70 other hunters, a variety of both men and women, each one with weapons of some kind. From the outside windows, I slump down on the ground, listening through the open windows as I hear all the chatter disappear, and the butler of the house announces the master of the house, a man named Duke Declan, and his daughter, Declan Madeline. The Duke himself was a thin but built figure, with a handsome face and sharp cheekbones, wearing a fancy dark blue suit and a Italian type mustache and a black haired ponytail that reached his ribs. He exuded an aura of nobility and authority that a lesser willed female would easily fall for. His daughter Madeline, on the other hand, was a teenage girl of about 16 years old, with golden blonde hair down to her already well developed butt and a figure that showed she would be a beauty in the future, with crystal clear blue eyes and a massive for her age chest. She radiated spoiled attitude and an expectation to receive what she wants.

Declan begins by thanking all the hunters that showed up, before a deep voice bellows, "Get to the job already!"

Flustered by the demand, obviously not expecting the rude shout, the noble stammers before reclaiming his calm nature, "Very well. The job is for the successful return of my son in law, my daughter Madeline's fiancé. He has fled his responsibilities as her contracted husband-to-be and ran away to the top of the mountain. My son in law, Stone Gareth, has spread countless traps throughout the forest and mountain, each one very deadly, as well as the giant animals that live on the mountain. Everyone I have sent after him so far has perished before reaching the mining tunnels that go up the mountain. Your reward for his successful return, ALIVE, is 35 million beris!"

At the mention of such a massive reward, unheard of in the blue seas, causes the entire room to shake as the filled room of hunters roar in acceptance, before I hear a bunch of footsteps as the pathetic wannabe's, the cannon fodder, all let the reward go to their heads and run off to their deaths. I quickly sneak back to the crack in the wall and slip back onto the streets, before grinning widely, as I realize, that a reward that big could easily buy me a new ship so I can continue my journey.

With that, I turn around and head straight for the forest, my long black hair and ripped up bloodstained dress catching the eyes of the leader of a certain group as he watched in the shadows of the buildings as I stride into the forest with purpose.

As I get deeper into the forest, spots of old blood coloring the ground and grass showing spots where hunters have died as I continue inside. As I get closer to the mountain, I begin to hear screams of agony and pain, before I turn around a tree to see a large group of hunters trying to rush through a bunch of metal scythes that were slicing through the air in the middle of a single stone pathway, only wide enough for one person at a time, that laid between the mountain tunnel entrance and the forest, and were the only way across the huge chasm that dropped into the ocean. Super Sparrows would sweep in and snatch up some of the men that lived on the island as well, making the trip more dangerous than just the scythe trap.

"Hmm…as far as traps go, that one is really good." I state as I watch a man try to time his run, only to let out a scream as he gets chopped in half by the swinging blades, and another man who waited his turn screaming as he gets snatched up by a Sparrow and carted into the sky. Sighing as I glance at the panicking hunters who realize they were out of their depth, some of them running back to town screaming, I scoff,

"I'll show you how it's done, boys."

As I make my way through the hunters and striding across the pathway towards the swinging blades, which tumble down towards me, as the hunters yell out before the blades impact my body…and crumble into pieces. Grateful that being a destroying human makes me indestructible to almost anything except for death itself, I continue walking, only to stop as a wingbeat starts. I stop and throw a deadly glare at the Super Sparrows, terrifying the giant birds who feel my aura wash over their instincts. Making it through untouched, I throw a smirk over my shoulder at the hunters still left and make my way inside the mountain. The hunters, emboldened by my success and the destruction of one of the traps, rush the entrance like the fools they were.

-Inside the mountain-

I notice as I walk inside, that there are countless pathways that lead up the mountain. The anxious hunters that survived the Sparrow rush, desperate for their prize, rush inside and up plenty of passages. I make to go as well, only for an older man with scars across his face to materialize in front of me, and I raise an eyebrow at him as my gaze rakes over him. He was the typical bounty hunter, three deep scars across his face, with dark black eyes across his tanned skin, a pair of hand axes slung across his shoulders and at least four pistols on his belt, with shoulder length black hair and a cold grin on his crooked lips, a particularly deep scar splitting the upper lip as his black eyes run lustily down my own body, causing me to shiver before he speaks in a dark, shadowy whisper like voice.

"That was pretty good, girlie, but leave this job to the professionals and go back to making babies where you women belong." Before he cackles and disappears before I could strike at him with my powers, while the other hunters from their group follow him into the mountain.

Shaking with rage at his sexist comment, my eyes flash blood red with my anger before I swallow and calm my anger, lest I blow up the mountain and the prize with it.

-At the top of the mountain-

"Finally, I made it!" I breathe out, panting for breath as I stand in front of a cave at the top of the island, having made it through the countless traps that dotted the inside of the mountain, as well as the giant birds who nest in the mountain caves, to make it to the top cave, which is about 50 feet in diameter with the cave in the middle, with the tunnels from the various pathways up the mountain coming out onto a 10-15 foot circular path around the edge of the mountain, as I recall all the traps I had to get through.

There were a bunch of rope traps…

[Flashback 1]

"Ahhh! Damn ropes!" I shout as I dangle from ropes tipped with knives that had shot out from holes in the walls and wrapped me up, my huge breasts bouncing as I struggle in the tight grip before simply using my powers to shred the ropes up and drop onto the floor with a thud, "Damn traps…" I grumble out, before heading onwards.

[End Flashback 1]

As well as pitfalls….

[Flashback 2]

"Aiiyee! I'm falliiing!" I shriek as I barely hold onto the edge of a pitfall trap with my fingertips, glancing down to a spike pit before pulling myself up and over onto safe ground, "Pitfall traps….why are there pitfall traps IN A DAMN MOUNTAIN?!" I yell out.

[End Flashback 2]

Then we have all the poison dart traps…

[Flashback 3]

Clickclickclickclick!

I blink in confusion at the rapid clicking sounds, before a rain of darts suddenly starts shooting out of teeny tiny holes in the walls! Throwing myself forward, I land on my stomach with an 'oomph!' as the darts shoot through the air, piercing the walls with an acrid hissing sound as acid eats away at the walls, "oh are you KIDDING ME?! ACID DARTS TOO!?" I scream out before the acid starts eating across the ground towards me! "Ahhh! Damn this blasted pla-a-a-a-y-ce!" I scream as I quickly get to my feet and race away, ignoring more clicking sounds in hopes that I get out of there.

[End Flashback 3]

And of course, you can't have a mountain full of traps without the classic rolling ball of death.

[Flashback 4]

Click!

I freeze the instant I hear a click, hoping that it wasn't another set of darts, only to hear a rumbling sound that is slowly getting louder…

"That doesn't sound good…" I state before suddenly a massive stone sphere, big enough to cover the entire corridor but small enough to fit without stopping, suddenly appears from further down the tunnel ahead of me!

"Oh COME ON!" I let out an aggravated scream as I turn to run, before blinking, "Wait. Why am I running? I can destroy this whole island, why am I running from a boulder?" I state before I turn around and hold my hand out towards the sphere, using my destroy destroy powers, focusing on the crushing aspect of destruction rather than my preferred explosions so that the rolling ball of death would crumble into pieces in front of me.

"How cliché…."

[End Flashback 4]

Not to mention all the giant birds that made nests in the caves near the top of the mountain.

[Flashback 5]

I walk into a small cave, expecting a chance to rest after the acid trap, and I flop down onto the ground, only to land on something soft…looking down, I am lying in the center of a straw made nest with large eggs in it. "A nest….?"

Hearing a large screech, I glance towards the entrance and sigh as a giant eagle lands in the caveway, before I flick my fingers and blow the bird away in an explosion.

"This is my bed now…" and I fall back down to rest for a bit.

[End Flashback 5]

Moving forward, I peer into the cave, "Gareth? Are you in here?" before blinking as a knife flies out of the darkness and shatters against my chest, causing me to raise my eyebrows as more knives shatter against my devil fruit empowered body. All of a sudden a deep rumbling growl echoes out from the cave, "So you're a devil fruit user too…" before a massive man emerges from the cave. He is tall for a nineteen year old, easily about 7 feet tall, with short shoulder length blonde hair, and tanned Caucasian skin with dark forest green eyes and built for strength, with impressively sized rippling muscles on a lean frame. As he stalks forward, the teenager scowls at me before he suddenly turns into a massive gold colored lion just under the size of a house, before he then lets out a roar right into my face!

I am unimpressed, raising an eyebrow before raising my hand and flicking the lion in the forehead.

"Ouch!" Gareth bellows as he reflexively switches to half human half animal form, about 12 feet tall and halfway between his human form and animal form as he stumbles back from the pain, before freezing in shock, "You hurt me…?" He seems astonished as I raise my eyebrow at him, "How could you harm me?! I ate the Cat Cat Fruit, Nemean Lion! I CAN'T be harmed!"

Taking in the information, I grin what would be feared as my famous, D smirk as I come up with a new idea, "I'm Walker D. Ashley. I can hurt you because I ate the Destroy Destroy Fruit. The only power stronger than pure destruction is death itself so of course I can hurt you. And I originally came here to capture you…but now I want you to join my pirate crew."

Gareth was now staring at me open-mouthed.

"You…came all the way up here, through all the traps that I set up for the reward, but now you want me on your crew?"

I nod quickly, "Yeah. Based on how badly the mayor wants you to be captured, you'd never get your freedom if you stayed here, not to mention if he was willing to spend so much money to get you brought to him instead of just picking some new guy to replace you. Besides, your devil fruit is a mythical zoan, which is rarer than even logia according to my knowledge. I will help you get away from this place, and you join my crew." I extend my hand to him, "You'll be free to do whatever you want, and I'll have an indestructible shield to go with my Destroy Destroy Fruit's offensive strength." He sighs, "You make an enticing point….alright, I know I won't be free if I stay here…I'll go with you, Captain."

I grin widely at him before taking his massive hand in mine, "You'll be my first mate then. We will take the world by storm!"

Gareth grins at my declaration but before he can open his mouth to say anything, streams of shadows suddenly pour out of the cave and wrap around Gareth, holding him against the wall! I leap up, as my attention is taken by the rapid movement as the scarred man from before materializes out of the shadows, his hunter gang coming out from the various exits to surround us.

"Chehehehe…how lucky a hunt we have today, boys! A mythical zoan…and a beautiful devil fruit wielder as well! Truly the goddess of the hunt smiles upon Shadow Hunter Chase today!"

I clench my fists angrily as I see the sexist bastard from before somehow tying up my new friend, and I yell out, "Hey scarface! Let go of my crewmate!"

Causing the group of hunters to gasp and fall silent, before the man turns to glare at me, "What did you call me, bitch?!" He snarls as wisps of dark shadows form around him into pointy spears before shooting forward at me! I quickly lean backwards, my hands on the ground before backflipping out of the way, then I lunge forward, dodging the spears of shadows and close the distance, before punching him in the face….only for my fist to pass through his face and smack into the cavern wall, which shatters on impact, along with the entire mountain top as well. The blast blew the small Hunter family goons off the mountain top, leaving an entirely flat top of the mountain with only myself, Gareth, who was now free since the shadows which were anchoring him to the wall now had nothing to support them, who was staring at me and where the mountain had been in equal parts awe and a bit of fear, and Chase, who is now staring at me in sheer terror.

"What kind of monster are you?!" He screams out as I turn an angry glare at him from the dust floating in the air where I had hit, my rage turning my eyes red with my power, "I'm Walker D. Ashley…." I state as I step forward, causing the man to step backwards fearfully, before shooting out of the dust towards Chase. The bounty hunter simply crosses his arms with a smirk, obviously expecting me to pass through him again, only for my fist to make contact and send him flying across the flat expanse to land near the edge. I stalk towards him slowly, while the bounty hunter shouts,

"Impossible! How can you hit me, with my Shadow Shadow Fruit?! I can't be hit by physical attacks!"

I let out a snort as I close the distance,

"Tell me…" I begin as I stalk closer to the terrified bounty hunter, who's arrogance was gone without his intangibility, "How can you become shadows…if there is nothing to cast them near you?" I state, causing the hunter's eyes to widen as I smirk, "The mountain…" Chase realizes before I nod, "Too bad you won't be around enough to make use of that discovery!"

I roar as I rush him, the terrified bounty hunter draws his sword from his back and a pistol from his belt and fires at me as I charge him, the bullets tearing into my ratted shirt before bouncing off of my skin, and he swings his sword erratically at me as terror grips him, before his sword shatters on impact with my body, causing him to go bug eyed, "No way!" he screams out before my fist slams into his stomach, and another huge explosion detonates on contact, which sends a burnt hunter flying off into the sunset.

Crossing my arms under my huge chest as I straighten up, I let out a huff before turning to Gareth, who is now watching me warily, "W-what kind of power is that?"

I sigh as I glance out towards the sunset, "I told you…I have the power of Destruction. I can destroy the entire world if I want to…"

Gareth nods slowly, before standing up, "You said I was your shield… I will accept that role. I will shield you and our crew should you use too much power."

I blink before thinking it over, "Very well. My allies and crewmates are protected, but those that are against us….They will be destroyed!"

-Next Dawn-

After grabbing everything that we will need, I turn around and leave the cave, glancing down the mountain and shrug, "How will we get down the mountain from here?"

Gareth grins, before grabbing me and putting me on his back before turning into his full lion form, and JUMPING OFF THE EDGE OF THE MOUNTAIN!

I let out a scream as he lands on the mountain before running down the mountain, down to the chasm at the bottom before leaping and landing in the forest. I'm sitting on his back, clutching my hand to my chest, panting for breath as he rumbles a chuckle, before I slap the back of his head and leap off of him. Brushing down my dirty and ripped up bloodstained old dress, I grin and head towards town, Gareth following me, returning to his full human form.

As we enter the town, I decide to stop at a clothing store and steal some new clothes and sewing equipment so I could put together a new outfit, causing Gareth to laugh, "Just like a pirate…" causing me to smirk at him before we head towards the shipyard and the massive battleship belonging to the bounty hunters. As we board the empty ship, Gareth takes his long naginata, and cuts through the ties and easily muscles the sails down as I grab the helm and steer us out of the bay. As we sail out of the bay, I turn as a group of shouting reaches my ears. On the shore is the spoiled little brat pointing at the half man half lion form of Gareth, easily visible at his huge size, as I flick my fingers and ignite explosions across every house on the shoreline, causing mass panic and smoke to exude across the sky. Cackling at the chaos I caused, we sail away, heading to the next island with our stolen battleship.

End of Chapter 1