Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece, but I do own Caylee, Julia, and Eva.
SO far so good. I hope.
Flashback (Arlong's POV):
Growing up without a family can really jack up a person. No matter how successful they or their family use to be.
My family was always surrounding me with things, spoiling me to no end. I didn't complain though, I liked the attention. Unfortunately, it made me grow up to be a very disresponsible child. And selfish, I might add.
That all changed one day though when my whole family was having a reunion. It was at this fancy hotel that served those snail things on a plate, nasty!
So anyway, I was talking with one of my cousins when two strange guys came waltzing in, both of their faces cover by ski masks. They said something about 'revenge' and pulled out some big machine guns.
My mom, who was standing right behind me, pushed me under the table before I heard the guns go off.
The two guys who were shooting were laughing like maniacs kept shooting. I could see my family's various bodies fall to the ground, with blood spilling out of them.
That's basically all I remember. I don't remember if my parents ever said their last words to me or not; It doesn't matter now. All that mattered was that I was now alone in the world. Nobody was going to be there to give me what I want, I would have to get it myself.
I use to live out on the streets until some guys in gray suits found me. They took me to these place where there were a bunch of other kids. The owners of that place told me that the others were like me, lost and without a home.
They were nothing like me. Nobody's like me, no matter how many similar things we've gone through. The way I see it, you and another could go through the same incident, but we would both have different reactions and results.
Never the same.
No adult wanted to adopt me. I've been at this place for so many years, I swear, I'm catching up to those two old people. I never bothered to even learn their names, as soon as I am old enough to fend for my own, they're going to kick me out. I've heard them talk about it when they thought I wasn't around.
That year that I feared the most finally came. I can't really remember how old I was, but I do remember. That old lady came into the room I stayed in with a bag of random goodies. She told me that no one was going to adopt me and to just leave.
I didn't need a hint. Grabbing the bag of goodies, I left without a single word. Onto the streets where the gangs roamed.
One of them had the nerve to come up to me and challenge to take away my things in the bag.
Being as possessive as I am, I didn't let them take any kind of advantage towards me at all. What did they think, that just because I looked younger than them that I would just step aside and let them do anything to me? Yeah right, no me.
After I beat them all up, they asked me if I would like to join in on the gang. Possibly even become their leader.
I took the offer up right away, finally having a place to belong in this world. They even trained me a little more; eat a little more; and lift weights.
But they also got me into drugs, all different kinds of it. I didn't want to at first, the memory of my mother telling me how drugs could really hurt my body was what kept me back. But after I tried them and felt so good, I was hooked.
I was soon the most feared gang leader in all the city. Not one school or college didn't know of my name. Aaron. That's it. I was just known as Aaron, the gang I ran didn't have a name, it made all of those weaklings fear us even more.
I did have rules for this gang. They weren't allowed to attack innocent bystanders at any cost, no matter what. Even if the bystander caught them stealing and decided to call the police, it would be their own fault for even getting seen in the first place.
Apparantly, one night some of my members decided to go up against my rule. They attacked some guy who was just walking by for no reason. So what did I have to do? I had to go in there and save that guy's butt. And beat up my own gang, I never thought I would ever do that in a million years.
I regretted it at first cause that boy wouldn't leave me alone! Geez, I didn't know somebody could be so annoying.
He even went as far as to invite me to his home. Wanting him to just leave me alone, I went. The welcome I got was very surprising. His mother was very…understanding of everything that I went through. She didn't shun me like every other person did, she was actually accepting.
I guess that's when I became friends with that kid, Harvey. He was like a little brother who needed protection.
Most of the time, I thought I was taking care of him; I failed to realize that he was taking care of me too. The way he would look at me when I pulled out another bag of drugs hurt my heart so much, that I just couldn't do it anymore.
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"Hey Aaron, how come you let your hair grow like that?" This has got to be the third time in a week he's asked me that. I can't answer him truthfully because I don't even know.
"Didn't I tell you the last time you asked?"
"Nope."
"I don't know why I grow my hair. I guess it just looks cooler."
"Cooler, huh? Why worry about being cool or not? It's just a stupid title."
"I take it you don't care of what the other kids at school think about you?"
"No, because I might never see them again. So let them say all the things they want of me, good or bad. I don't care." That hit me really hard. It made me begin to wonder, am I going to really stay with my gang forever?
I never thought much about my future, just the present.
"Hey Aaron, do you have a girlfriend?"
"Do you?"
"No, all the girls at my school are ditzies, they care about nothing but their looks. Conceited."
"Harsh. Well, There were some girls who wanted me to be their man, or at least have a quickie. I don't want that. I don't want to be with a girl for just five minutes and then never see her again; I don't want a girl who only wants me for my position as a gang leader, being used sucks."
I want a girl who is herself, who doesn't try to be something she knows she can never be. A real girl.
"Don't I know it?" Harvey and I shared in a laughter.
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Today, Harvey seemed to be alittle worried or sad about something; especially after I said I wasn't going to his house.
I couldn't. I had gotten this rival gang invitation to a brawl; I wasn't about to turn that away.
While waiting for the other gang, I started to reflect more on my life. After this, I had decided that I'm leaving the gang. I don't care if they jump me because of it, but I'm gonna do it. For Harvey.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." Some guy in a lab coat now stood in front of me. He had brown hair that hung in front of his eyes, and a goatee. Weird.
"Where's your gang?" One of my members yelled out.
"I am my own gang." I saw him reach into his pocket for something. It looked like a little ball of some sort. "But I need your leader." He threw the ball onto the ground, some smoke shooting out of it.
"Run, go!" I yelled out at my gang while covering my mouth from the strange smoke. I heard a lot of footsteps going frantic and screaming, it's the first time I've realized that my team screams like girls.
The smoke had snuck its way into my lungs somehow, because I suddenly started to feel very out of it. The ground was shaking left to right, and the man seemed to suddenly have twin brothers.
"Another perfect specimen." The man said while walking closer to me. My world went black.
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"Is he still alive?" I felt somebody poking at my head, and that person happened to be a girl. I could tell by the sound of her voice.
"Leave the guy alone. Probably got knocked out by that really powerful gas stuff." A guys' voice spoke this time.
"Makes him an idiot too." Did another guy call me an idiot? I wasn't going to take that. Using all my strength, I opened my eyes and pushed myself off the cold ground.
"Who you calling an idiot?" I asked to the two guys and the girl.
"You. If you had run, maybe you wouldn't have been captured likes us."
End of Flashback
That's how I first met Choo, Kuroobi, and Eva. At first, I thought Eva was a very beautiful girl. The more I talked to her, the more I realized that we could only view each other as friends.
As for Choo and Kuroobi, they were just annoying people that somehow became my friends and my band mates.
Hachi, my little brother, I wanted to protect him. But I couldn't. That freakin doctor guy is going to pray dearly for hurting not only Hachi and my band, but Nami.
Nami, oh she's so beautiful. Not just another pretty face. From everything that I just witnessed, I saw that she has determination. She and her sister don't just wait for somebody to come save them, they can do it all on their own.
So why do I find that strangely attractive? Wouldn't I want to be the one to save the girl?
REGULAR POV
"I'm going to find dad if it's the last thing that I do." Nami opened a door to her right, a bunch of snakes were slithering around in the room. One of them, a King Cobra, spotted her and darted for the door.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" She screamed as she slammed the door, just in time before the snake actually got to her. "Saving my sisters may actually be the last thing I ever do."
She decided to try another door, behind the one she choose were spiders this time. And they were way faster than the snake. One of them actually managed to get out.
Unlucky for her, it was the Black Widow spider.
"Good spider, nice spider. You wouldn't hurt me, would you?"
"If we tell it to, it will."
"Who said that?"
"The big pervert." Nami turned her head towards Boris, his eyes glaring at her.
"The spider wouldn't listen to you. It would probably bite you because you're the one who trapped it." On cue, the spider turned towards Boris and….yeah, I don't know what spider do…..it ran it's way to him.
Boris, in response, turned and started to run down the hall, the spider right on him.
"That was too close for comfort."
"For a skinny looking girl, you sure are heavy." Chris set Caylee down onto the operation table, his tools not too far away from him.
'The last time I experimented on a girl was when Eva was first here.' He thought to himself. 'Oh wait, I never actually got an experiment done with her. Those stupid boys stopped me. But not this time.'
Chris stepped out of his 'lab' to go check on his other guest, Caylee waking up in the process.
"Good, he still doesn't know that the stuff he put in me doesn't work." She got up from the table (he forgot to strap her in) and shut the door. She not only pushed the lock on the door knob, but she also pushed a table full of chemicals that threatened to tip over in front of it.
"Safe for now." She looked around the room a little more. "You would think that this is where Frankenstein was born. I got to tell Julia about this, she loves scary movie settings; where as I, hate them."
There was a computer at the far right corner of the room, and it was on.
"Coolio." Caylee said as she took a seat in front of the computer. She moved the mouse around and clicked on a file that was had the title 'Victims'.
When the file opened, Caylee saw six different pictures, one of them was hers. But the others, she didn't recognize.
"Who are these people?"
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