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Chapter 1: Dark omen and end of happiness
It's been twelve hours since the fleet depart. We find the man that in another would have been an happy-to-go nineteen years old captain with a huge dream sleeping silently in the captain's cabin of the Howling Moon. His flagship leading four other more classic galleon class ships.
The Howling Moon is a galleon type ship that has a crew of approximatively 225 members. It could easily be the ship of 300 crewmembers, but his special weaponry and some space have been made for what his captain call, 'new battle potential' and 'war beasts' took place for those men. It's a sinister looking with black sails, completely white ground, bloody-red masts and an howling wolf head with bloody fangs as a figurehead. It has 40 normal cannons (twenty on each side), 4 mortars (all in front) and 5 special ones (those don't shoot cannonballs) 3 of those are in the figurehead and two are on the back of the ship. The ship's structure is made of Adam wood, the rest is made of normal, fire-water treated wood. The most special places are the bottom of the ship and the lower levels. The bottom is covered of plates made of a strange metal, it's the sturdiest and hardest in all the world and it also produce some kind of sonic waves when it receives an impact, making it a really expensive stuff found only in two or three islands near the territories of Kaido. These places are high activity volcanic island, making exploitation of the metal really hard and difficult. So, it isn't well known and very rare to find in big quantities, another point that made his ship 'The Howling Moon' an unique one.
His special weapons were also very unique. After all the captain of 'The Howling Moon' was the one amongst the Beast Pirate's disasters who took more interest in stolen technologies and adapting them into active weaponry. From destroyed pacifista bodies he made their engineering group, the same that work with Scotch when his cyborg weapons need repairs to adapt pacifista's laserbeam into actual naval weapons. Those four were in the eyes of the figurehead and in the back of the ship and could do severe damage to navy battleship. In the mouth of the figurehead is a canon firing a substance they stole from an abandoned Vegapunk's lab. It was like liquid ice, freezing anything that it touches after the shot, very useful to stop a fleeing ship or if you are pressed.
But the most terrible weapon of the Howling Moon's crew were the war beasts. They were a special very aggressive and bloodthirsty kind of wolf. Renamed 'Bloody wolves' when reaching adulthood, those creatures were becoming bipedal beings. With fangs and claws sturdy and sharp enough to cut through steel, these beasts were some of the most dangerous creature of the world. The war beasts are simply a big pack of bloody wolves that have been tamed by the young disaster and his closest officers in the past. They now wear light steel protection made to no block their movements, making them true living weapons. But for now, to fight on Zo the island on a gigantic elephant's back, those foes weren't needed and so that space was left vacant. But even without them, they were going to fight and wage war upon Zo.
So, now, in an moonless night, we found Luffy thinking calmly, that ridiculous or brave alliance of two rookie. He didn't know how to call them for now, was the subject of his though and particularly the first of the two captains. In another dimension he would have been the youngest of his family, three years younger that is two adoptive brothers Portgas D. Ace AKA FireFist and Outlook Sabo AKA Top Hat, at nineteen and them at 22 years old this years. But in this world, he is the oldest at 24 years old with Ace at 22 and Sabo at 20.
He still can't believe it, his baby-brother was now worth a 500 000 000 berries bounty and was seen as a pirate captain possibly leading the new era. But those two don't even know about him, his full name isn't on his poster and furthermore it's been fourteen years since they were tell and began to believe he died by some stupid East-Blue pirate. So, it's with a little bit of irony and a lot of pity that he apprehends that drawing near encounter on Zo. He, personally, keep a look for his brothers from time to time, but Ace, the only one who ever was near him never recognized him. After all, since he joined Kaido, he saw Ace a few times in battle between Kaido and the now dead Whitebeard. He also followed closely Sabo's accomplishments, his bounty, his crew's bounties and their actions as a pirate with him 'taking on his dead-brother's will'. Personally, Luffy found those events to be the funniest thing since years.
But that doesn't mean he don't care for them. Two years ago, when he was still just called 'Kaido's upstarter' with a 430 million berries bounty he risked everything and may have faced his captain's fury for them. But that's a story for later.
'I still can't believe you've grown so much Sabo. Winning against Joker like that. Impressive for someone like you, you're also very good with your devil fruit. Never though the gum-gum could have been this powerful… But even with allies, you all aren't ready to face us, much less his Excellence. I may have to show you why…' at this thought he expressed a bloodthirsty smile 'It will be so fun! Remembering you why I am the strongest of the three and making you see what I have become. Be ready, cause I always am.' Closing his eyes, Luffy let his mind wander in his memories, remembering before his life turned to 180 degrees
On the island of Zo, Sabo, captain of the Top Hat Pirates woke up crying and shaking. He didn't know why, but his instincts were crying him that something really bad was coming. He returned lied down thoughtful about his last dream 'Why am I so stressed? Why did I dream of big brother? And why now?' before returning to sleep, thinking about his nakama he had to retrieve from 'Big Mom' very soon. Little did he knows his instincts were so right.
-Luffy's past and disappearance (flashback beginning)-
No one could have predicted that Luffy would become one of the New World monsters. He was born twenty-four years ago from a Slavyian mother and Monkey D. Dragon, the future most wanted man in the world and leader of the Revolutionary Army. That same year, Gol D. Roger was executed and his last words began The Great Pirate Era, sending thousands of people on the way of piracy to find the legendary treasure. When his parents began the revolution with their collaborators, forming the RA, they let young Luffy under the care of the Marine Hero Monkey D. Garp 'The Fist', Dragon's father.
So Luffy grew up in Fushia village, his grandpa wasn't here often because of his job as a marine Vice-Admiral, but he received help from others villagers. That is until Dragon began to be seen as the new Worst Man Alive. From that moment, Luffy was hidden with Ace, his new adoptive little brother, even if he was still often in the village, offering more calm to Dadan and her group.
A few years later, Luffy was still an happy boy with Ace and Garp for family. Ace was an angry child who was defiant to almost everyone except his big brother. One day he encountered Red-Haired Shanks as he and his crew were taking vacancy in the East Blue for one year. It's him who put the dream of freedom in piracy in the mind of a 9 years old Luffy. Luffy tried to impress him in many ways, stabbing himself under the left eye to prove his bravery. Beating a group of bandits two days after, before explaining where he was living to a flabbergasted pirate crew and how he learned to fight.
Let's say that Garp wasn't happy when he returned and learned that pirates have been here and Luffy vas exposed to them. So, he made sure that Dadan's bandits were keeping a close eye on the two brats.
Later, Luffy and Ace encountered Sabo, the son of a local noble who lived in the trash of Grey Terminal, fleeing his family who didn't like him. The two rapidly became Sabo's older brothers. Together they lived for future dreams of freedom, training, hunting and robbing foolish people to have a big enough pirate fund. One day, Sabo found and ate the gum-gum fruit, becoming a rubberman. Let's say seeing him train was funny. But everything was about to go bad.
Some unnamed pirates kidnapped Luffy after the three boys tried to rob them. The two younger weren't able to do anything in front of the strong grown men. The only thing left was Shank's straw hat that would be returned to him by a sad Garp a few months later, because "He needs to know the truth." For everyone who knew him, Luffy was dead, Ace was now mourning, sure that it was is fault in a depressive way, sure that his lineage was falsely responsible. Thus, sending him into a quest to find his place in the world. Sabo swore that in Luffy's name he will become the new king of the pirates. Little did they know how wrong they were all.
Opening his eyes, Luffy with an happy smile, Luffy looked by his ship's window with nostalgia at those happy times. Remembering perfectly everything that happened after, he chose to just be satisfied with remembering the happy moments before remembering what happened after.
He remembers being put into a cage, punched and kicked, never enough to let marks, but enough to make him suffer. But even if he suffered, he never cried in front of them. He wouldn't offer them that satisfaction. After that came the sabaody's auction house, all those nobles and the few in their bubbles putting money on the table to buy him like a mere object. He never cried in front of people, so with the idea that he could be an ideal fighter in some gladiator crazy battle, a nobleman from god-knows-where bought him for 400 million berries.
There, they would create a warrior, a bloodthirsty fighter, a war-machine. But little did they know that they were creating a monster and that a strange fruit thrown to him by a prideful and stupid owner would, in the future, make them all tremble in front of him.
N/A Author note: This is it for the second chapter. Next time, we will enter the detailed story of what happened to Luffy which made him become progressively a monster and his past in general. I will try to describe in a good way the changes in personality and physic that will happen to him. I will also try to figure attack names for when he will obtain his fruit. Until next time.