A/N: Okay I don't own One Piece, I know I forgot to say it before but I didn't own it then either.

I would also like to apologize for the late update but I lost the chapters I had written before when my computer got screwed up and then I had exams so… yeah.

Oh and just so you know all characters submitted will appear so don't worry if they're not added for a while, they'll be there and 'Hook hand' Harry's bounty has been raised it was now 70 million beri at the time of the flashback

Another change is the 'three assassins' outfits, I think they're boring plus I don't really remember them so just forget them because I won't be using the same ones.

It was a sunny day on the calm seas of the south blue as the two young pirates sprawled out on their own sides of the boat, which there was just enough space to do even with the bags Zenythe insisted on bringing. They had been letting the boat drift under the control of the wind for just under a fortnight now. Both pirates were beyond bored at the moment and had resorted to every and anything they could think of to pass the time including seeing who could hold their breath for longer under the water; Kinzoku achieving 3 minutes and 38 seconds and Zenythe achieving 3 minutes and 36 seconds. They also attempted to swim alongside the boat but both had quickly become bored of the tiresome rhythmic motions.

They were just about to take out the paddles and row as fast as they could when they saw the island they had been waiting for since the last island. Pastoria Island was finally in view.

"Ok guys I think we have a free day today so you might as well go train while I go check in with the boss." Stated a cheery Eriot after having thrown both of his friends out of bed and into a pile in the middle of the room.

"I really can't be bothered" was the muffled reply from underneath Arashi.

"Well if you don't you'll be as weak and pathetic as ever" smirked Arashi to the half-asleep giant underneath him before getting up to get ready for the oncoming day. "To be honest I don't know how either of you are so calm, this is a big day, the beginning of an era. The era of… what's the name again?" The boy asked Eriot.

"No idea but that's not important right now. Just get ready we have as much time as we need." Eriot said before shrugging his black jacket on over his black shirt with rolled up sleeves and red scarf. He then walked away; his trench coat billowing around him revealing more of his black trousers and shoes before closing the door behind him.

Arashi, while still watching the door blankly muttered, "Well get a move on then you lazy bum" before turning to see Raion in a deep sleep. In response to this a vein began to pulse in his head before he made a quick run up to kick Raion's leg but was met with air when Raion raised his legs, causing Raion to fall backwards and fall unconscious as Raion climbed back into his bed with a smile on his face.

Kinzoku and Zenythe had finally made it to the island and had already tied up their small boat. Once again Zenythe had insisted on carrying all of their possessions not trusting people to not go through and find their valuables, however this time Kinzoku carried her bat herself using a strap on her back.

The two pirates stood for a while their hair blowing in the wind as they enjoyed the wind in their faces carrying the smells of a village, something they'd missed over the past 2 weeks though still enjoying the hint of the salty sea the wind carried.

After a few moments Kinzoku broke the silence by turning to her first mate and saying, "You know, we really haven't done much since becoming pirates other than getting in to random fights. Don't you think it's about time we got a new crew member?"

Zenythe took a second to think before replying, "Yeah we probably should. I had actually hoped we'd meet someone on the last island but we got distracted. We should probably split up and try to find a…" Zenythe's words came to a quick stop when he realised that Kinzoku had already left. "I guess I'll be getting supplies then. Seriously would it kill the girl to be the responsible one every once in a while," Zenythe murmured as he went to look for a place to stock up on food.

"So big man what's up? Have you got a job for us or what?" Eriot asked, causing the man behind the desk to glare at him until he rephrased it, "I mean sir do you have any jobs you need fulfilling?" The man sitting at the desk looked similar to Eriot with the same dark coloured hair and similar expressions on their faces; both had the intense look of a man who would kill without a second thought. The man had the same trench coat as Eriot's as well, however his was left open revealing a well-toned but extremely scarred torso. His hair, unlike that of the boy in front of him was short and his face was free of stubble. Most noticeable however was the hook that lay relaxed on the desk as a symbol of his battle hardened life.

"That's better. But no, you're free to do what you want unless I here of something I need attending to later." Said the man as his black eyes scrutinised his subordinate who he had been looking after for years. 'Hook hand' Harry as he had been known in a previous life sat behind his desk contemplating his life after dismissing the boy who was just one of the many people under his employ. He sat thinking of that time 10 years ago when he had taken in Eriot and therefore Raion who would always be part of the package. Then Arashi had come into the picture and it was three little runts he had to run after and teach manners to. Still it could have been worse, he could have had girls.

Kinzoku strolled through the town with her hands behind her head, whistling while staring at everyone she passed wondering if any of them would be worthy of her crew. "Hmm I still haven't thought of a name for my crew yet or who I wasn't to join me first. Should I try and fill up positions first and look for a chef and doctor, or should I just focus on making my crew as powerful as possible." Kinzoku murmured as she walked passed a bar. "Maybe I should have just stayed and listened to what Zenythe had to say. WHAT, A BAR!" Kinzoku screamed causing everyone to turn and stare at her causing Kinzoku to slowly walk into the bar with a sheepish grin. "Sorry about that" she muttered before side stepping into the bar.

Inside the bar there was a large collection of large muscly men who stared at the loud silver haired girl who probably weighed less than half of the weight of the smallest man in the room. She strolled down the clear area leading up to the bar, sending death glares at anyone she caught looking at her too long. When she reached the barman, who was a large burley fellow she leaned over the bar - which seemed less cool than it did in her head as she had to stand on the foot rest of the stool to do so – and ordered the man to, "get me the strongest stuff you've got." Causing an uproar in the bar which was soon filled with the sounds of laughter and tears. "WHAT! Have you guys got a problem 'cause if you do I'll be happy to taken on the lot of you!" Kinzoku shouted at the people in the bar and leaving them quiet.

"A little lady such as yourself shouldn't go around picking fights like that." Came a deep voice from the corner of the room which was soon joined by the squeaking sound of a chair being moved and a hulking mass moving forward to the girl who now wore a smirk.

"Come on then I'll take you then I'll take out the rest of these punks." Kinzoku threatened moving her hand to the bat strapped to her back.

"Chor-ha-ha-ha-ha-chor-ha-ha. Don't worry I will be the only one you will test your strength against. 'BEAR CLAW' HERRIC STRONGFIST CAPTAIN OF THE BEAR FIST PIRATES NEVER LOSES!" The apparent pirate bellowed before pushing through his large crew to get to the girl who had dared challenge him.

"Come on you lazy bum! Eriot will have already seen the boss by now we have to at least make it seem like we have done SOMETHING for the last couple of hours. COME ON!" Arashi said as he attempted to drag his large companion out of bed.

"Ten more minutes" Raion muttered before falling back asleep.

An hour later Arashi and Raion walked through the streets of the town to their usual spot; the area outside where Arashi's father's forge used to lie and near the bar where they got drinks after sparring. They were walking in silence - Arashi being too annoyed at the amount of trouble it was to wake Raion up to bother talking to him – when they heard someone shout something that sounded like, "WHAT, A BAR!"

"What the hell was that?" Arashi said as he began to walk towards the source of the sound, only to stop when Raion pulled him back.

"It's not our problem if some chipmunk on helium is running around shouting things. Let's just spar quickly and be done with it." Raion told Arashi as he began to drag him over to their usual spot.

"That'll be 20,000 beri thank you." The beaming shop assistant said holding out her hand to receive the currency from the tall customer. Zenythe groaned while paying her before taking the recently bought meat and other fare from the counter before turning from the purple haired girl without a word. As he left, his afro brushed against the top of the door frame and as the door closed behind him he could hear the disgruntled woman muttering to herself about how people were only ever bothered about what they wanted and how no one was ever willing to exchange pleasantries anymore.

Zenythe had an awkward smile on his face as he walked away from the shop, "Hmm well I guess I could've been a bit friendlier. Oh well no point crying over spilt milk." Zenythe said as his lips pulled into a sheepish grin. "What to do now, what to do? I could wait by the boat but she's probably going to get herself into some kind of trouble."

"WHAT, A BAR!" Zenythe heard someone shout.

"Sounds like Kinzoku." The boy muttered as he began moving faster towards the source of the noise faster. Zenythe began to extend the reach of his senses looking and listening out for any sound of his captain.

"That man needs to calm down. It's like he's got some stick up his ass or something." Eriot muttered as he left Hook hands office. As he passed the multitude of guards sitting outside the boss' door Eriot reached his hands past his neck and rested them on the back of his head before kicking open the door and leaving his boss' main headquarters. After escaping from the cloud of smoke that followed him out of the door Eriot began to whistle as he strolled through the town.

"Hmm what should I do now? I guess I have a few beri to spare, I could go buy myself a snack." Quickly deciding the quickest route he made his way through the street at a slow pace, deciding to enjoy the walk and time away from his constantly bickering annoying friends. As he walked he watched the people he walked passed. Eventually he walked passed a group of girls who he managed to somehow gain the attention of. He sent a cocky smile and wink in the direction of the girls causing them to smile and wave him over.

The boy was suddenly interrupted in his corny attempts at flirting as a large blur brushed passed him, almost knocking him over. Eriot only just managed to keep his balance by doing a weird pose to spread the weight. By the time he looked up his assailant was gone cursing him to mutter a stream of profanities but he stopped remembering the girls, however as he looked up with a smile once again on his face he saw the distant shapes of the girls as they walked off. Though they were far away he could still here their laughter and see them mimicking his pose, causing him to continue his journey in a depressed silence.

"Finally," the boy said as he got to the sandwich stand, "Hey Lloyd can I have the usual?"

"One sandwich coming up." The man said with a smile.

Eriot smiled in response and said, "Thanks" while watching as Lloyd made his snack.

"Here, that's 200 beri Eriot." When Lloyd picked up the sandwich and turned to hand it to the boy he already had the coins out and quickly put the money in his hand before beginning to devour his meal.

"WHAT, A BAR!" Someone shouted, interrupting Eriot's meal and causing him to begin to choke on it. Seeing what was happening Lloyd rushed to his loyal customer's side and began to smack him in the back attempting to dislodge the food from his throat. The man eventually succeeded reopening Eriot's airways but in the process Eriot lost his sandwich causing an angry glare to appear on his face.

"Someone's going to pay for that, and it's not going to be me." Eriot said as he ran to the source of the sound.

After seeing this angry display Lloyd simply stood there shell-shocked before muttering, "But he already paid…"

Arashi's heirloom, Kazeshini swung through the air in front of Raion who just about leaned back enough to dodge it. "Well done Raion, you can dodge a blade but you can't counter attack can you? I mean you haven't given me any reason to believe you can." Arashi stood a few feet from Raion who backed away after dodging. They stood in a large area free of obstruction, the only way into the area was through a small alleyway and the boundaries of the area were the walls of buildings surrounding it. Arashi's father's forge and home used to stand where Arashi and Raion stood now but the only evidence of this was the scorch marks surrounding the area and the small bits of rubble that came from the top of the buildings foundation.

"Well you want to see some attacks? Then I'll show you." Raion suddenly brought his left fist back leapt in the air and smashed it into the ground in front of Arashi, creating a large pile of rubble. Arashi had however jumped a safe distance from the attack before being pelted by some of the pebbles created by Raion's earlier attacks.

"Pathetic you call this an attack? Sure the punch was good but throwing rocks? That's just pathetic." As Arashi said this he kept his sheathe on guard in front of him and sliced through all of the pebbles with this blade.

"Hehe you know all this up close and personal fighting isn't my style." Raion said as he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

Arashi snorted in response before continuing, "That's not true, well it's not always true anyway. How about you unleash the beast and we go all out?" As he said this the boy brought both his blade and large scabbard to his sides in a ready position as he crouched and moved towards his opponent/ friend.

It was then Raion's turn to snort as he said, "How about not?" Arashi quickly charged his younger but much larger companion, aiming for an uppercut to the jaw using his sheathe. Once again Raion dodged the attack but before Arashi could draw the blunt weapon back in Raion jumped over his head with the scabbard in his hand using the momentum of the swing to then pull Arashi over his shoulder using the scabbard as a lever and fling him into the floor a few feet away.

"You wanted me to 'unleash the beast' and that's what you're going to get, congratulations, here's your prize." Raion said gesturing to his left fist. Raion then made his way to his friend before bending down and putting a firm grip on his right arm and twisting it behind Arashi's back and slamming him face down into the earth.

"So you thought you'd beat me huh? Fool I am the most powerful and one day I will prove it to the world by destroying the World Government, the Shichibukai and the Yonkou as well as any punk who gets in my way." The small girl on the table shouted with a big grin.

The large man who was Herric Strongfist of the bear fist pirates sat on his chair with an upset expression on his face before brightening up and saying, "Well done little lady you truly are a worthy opponent."

15 minutes earlier. "So you want to fight huh?" Kinzoku said as the large man approached her. "Hurry up so I can take out the rest of these punks before I fall asleep."

"Chor-ha-ha-ha-ha what do you take us for? We are more civil than that. There is no need for violence, we shall settle this in a civilized fashion." The man said as he sat at the table closest to Kinzoku. "We shall… ARM WRESTLE!"

"Chor-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Herric laughed as he downed another large bottle of sake.

"Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Kinzoku laughed as she downed a much larger bottle of sake. The crowd soon joined the captain and new friend in laughter over nothing in particular.

"I still can't believe that there is so much muscle in one so small." One of the large pirates said as he poked the young captain's arm.

"I still can't believe that there is so little muscle in one so big." Kinzoku said poking the pirate in the stomach, her finger going through to the knuckle. This caused the drunken pirates - including Kinzoku and the man who was being poked though he had a blush spreading through his cheeks and he turned away from his nakama and friend - to begin to laugh even harder.

SMASH! The door made a deafening sound silencing the happy customers as it was slammed open. "YOU! One of you did it didn't you? This is the loudest place within a block, one of you must have caused me to drop my sandwich, and you're going to pay."

CLASH! Zenythe caught the sound of fighting and immediately ran in the direction hoping to find his captain but at the same time hoping she hasn't got in another fight. As he ran he paid little attention to anything other than the direction he was running in and the direction the fight was in. As he ran out of instinct alone he was able to dodge the people he almost ran into in the last minute but just as he dodged one person he was running straight into another. He was a young man probably about his age and the hit knocked him far out of the way but Zenythe was too focussed to see what happened but he did hear a stream of profanities fall from the humiliated party's mouth.

The wind pushed and pulled at Zenythe's head turning his perfectly circular afro into a much more streamlined cloud shape as it billowed from his head. His bag, which bounced wildly when he started now stood at a perfect right angle to his back due to the speed of his running. The speed of his run caused him to be at the area of the fighting in a much quicker time than expected due to the maze like layout of the town. What he saw when looking in to the alleyway shocked him so much, for a few seconds he completely forgot about Kinzoku.

Arashi had managed to wrestle his way out of Raion's grip and now stood a few metres from Raion with his back to the alleyway. He - annoyed at Raion- decided to stop holding back so much and was about to unleash one of his more powerful attacks on his annoying friend when he saw that Raion was staring at something over his shoulder. "What are you looking at?" Arashi asked but was met with silence. "Seriously if you think you can trick me into looking away so you can sucker punch me it's not going to work." Arashi said – annoyed at what he believed to be a cowardly and stupid trick. In response to this Raion just frowned as he continued to stare over his smaller companion's shoulder.

In response Arashi was getting really annoyed. Steam was pouring from his ears just as he was about to attack Raion but before he could he was interrupted by a calm voice, "He's not trying to trick you."

In front of Zenythe stood two people a gap of a metre or so between them. They looked as if they'd been fighting; their breathing was heavier than normal and you could see from the way that they were standing that they were on edge. One of the people, the one who stood closest to him had his back in his direction. The young man appeared around Zenythe's height and maybe just a bit slimmer. He had black hair that fell halfway down his neck forming a black spike and was spiked up on the top of his head. He had black trousers on and white leather trainers. He also wore a grey rope over his top which usually held his katana. His top stuck out the most though being bright white and high-collared as well as having extremely long sleeves that had a large red rim on the ends that caused his hands and the handle of his blade and where he held his scabbard to disappear inside the dark abyss which was his sleeves.

Zenythe's attention turned to the larger companion just as the smaller of the two asked, "What are you looking at?" The boy/ man was looking right at him now ruining Zenythe's chance to leave unnoticed and find Kinzoku. The boy - as Zenythe decided he was - stood well over both other boys in the area at over 7ft. He had an unruly messy mane of brown hair that that also consisted of a thick beard and moustache that hid the mouth. The reason Zenythe knew he was still a boy was the large innocent eyes that though suspicious didn't hold the experience of a man you'd guess him to be. As well as his large height he had large muscular shoulders as well as arms that were equally muscular and large but were also covered in hair. The boy's muscle was shown off by the tight orange t-shirt with a poke ball on the front that narrowed to an unbelievable extent at the waist. He had tight form fitting green trousers on that could almost pass as tights tucked into his black boots which were thin and were more for covering the feet than anything else.

The taller boy frowned as his shorter companion said, "Seriously if you think you can trick me into looking away so you can sucker punch me it's not going to work."

Just as the smaller man was beginning to get annoyed Zenythe decided it was time to reveal himself to the oblivious boy as he said, "He's not trying to trick you."

This caused the boy to spin his head round revealing his shiny fringe that fell over the left side of his face and the red feather in his pierced ear as well as the initially calm face that soon turned into one of shock as he saw Zenythe.

As he turned Arashi saw the silent observer standing behind him. He was just about taller than Arashi, not including the afro and was shorter than Raion even considering the afro and allowing him to stand on tip-toes. He had quite dark skin and dark eyes that were piercing Arashi's own. He stood there in a black and grey chequered hoody over a black t-shirt. He also wore dark jeans over black heavy duty army boots. His large afro framed his face as he stared at Arashi with a slight crooked smile. In response the shocked Arashi muttered, "Zenythe" Causing the young fighter's slight smile to grow into a full blown crooked smirk.

A/N: Okay how did you like that chapter? Hopefully it was okay.

Just thought I'd comment on earlier, Hook Hand Harry isn't being sexist he just finds it easier to treat the boys as his children as he doesn't know how to relate to girls as daughters.

Characters in the chapter:

Kinzoku

Zenythe

Eriot

Arashi

Raion

Herric Strongfist

Hook Hand Harry