Disclaimer—One Piece and all associated characters ect belongs to Eiichiro Oda not me I just enjoy reading/watching it. Spoken dialogue belongs to him if it seems very familiar.

Not Beta'd or edited save spell checker***. Sorry about my spelling and grammar if I missed anything. Feel free to tell me nicely if there is something that needs to be fixed.

Notes in General: This is the start of any wild ideas I come up with. I have a few written at the time of this posting and will add them as I get them up to date with canon and edited as much as I can manage alone.

Why Law? I like Law and he is fun to write and is a surprisingly good choice to do this sort of thing with. If you want to know why I characterized him like I did and all the explanations of his personality and reactions there of read Gnat on my profile.

Notes Specific to this Chapter:

I recently went to the planetarium with my friends and saw a presentation on black holes (BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY… I think it is called if you want to see it)…this story was the result. I already knew much of the information presented but it was a nice refresher. Ironically I didn't think much about the implications of the term Supernova in connection to One Piece until I saw that presentation…after the show… I just started cackling mentally and wrote this. Attribute any inaccuracies to the fact I didn't look anything up for two reasons: one I have no idea just how advanced the astronomy is in canon—I assume they could be fairly advanced considering places like Weatheria and people like Vegapunk exist; two, I didn't feel like looking a lot up for this and having to credit all the people since I would probably go overboard and force myself to do a mla works cited…

***A super special addition: I received a very long and very appreciated review and personal message from Kinjiru (Thank you again if you look back at this!). Inside was a list of helpful grammatical and otherwise nice concise list of errors I made. In response to the kind advice, I have fixed as many as I got suggestions for (I am a scientist first, writer second) and also fixed a few plot points. Mainly Kinjiru pointed out that the author of the astronomy book was breaking off onto tangents and the fact that a Yami Yami user was a bit of stretch. Hopefully the few extra remarks I added in will make it clearer that the user mentioned is NOT Teach and that the tangents were due to the fact that the author self-published and was an arrogant little sod (And if you fork over the cash you can publish whatever you want despite the quality or editing involved).

I am looking into Beta's now so hopefully I will find one who is willing to look over my shoulder and tell me I am breaking rules or being too oblique as usual.

Sitting at his desk, Law opened the large tome he had gotten on that last island. Minty Island had been sadly deprived of any interesting medical books but this one had caught his eye for its scholarly form though the subject matter had made him nearly put it back on the shelf. However, the fact that it looked to be a self-published tome, as evidenced by the cheep leather and messy binding was intriguing. It was only upon finding hand written star charts shoved into the pages that he bought it.

Astrological Bodies and Their Relations by Ardolf Scorger of Asterolii Island.

It was a book entirely about stars and would have normally been of little interest to Law himself past a few minutes glace, that in addition to the rambling tangents the author would go on were off-putting. Plus the prose itself was oozing with an arrogance that he could do without subjecting himself to. However, the well-catalogued sailing that he had found inside and the occasional handwritten annotation in the book had been more than enough reason to buy it, with the pawn shop owner none the wiser to the extras contained inside. These he had given over to his navigator to see if there was any use, but the book itself he had kept to look over out of boredom and curiosity. Knowledge was a useful commodity after all, even if it wasn't readily apparent what for.

Idly, he thumbed through the pages, moderately impressed with the quantity of the illustrations. He paused as a word he had half-read registered consciously, having caught his interest and he flipped back to the entry to see why.

Supernova. Used to define the extraordinarily high-energy celestial event when a star implodes upon the loss of stabilization upon energy condensation past a critical threshold. The extreme density at the star's center caused by the stars own massive size causes this implosion in the most accepted theories. This hyper-dense mass at the stars center contracts upon itself creating what is termed as a black hole…

Law felt a slow amused smirk twist across his lips. He ran his finger along the roughly cut pages turning to the index and finding the page of the second entry.

Black hole. Postulated to be a rip in space-time that exhibits extreme gravity that pulls all matter nearby into the event horizon toward the funnel's center, also termed a singularity. Further information is unknown and much contested. Collision and engulfment of other black holes and galaxies hypothesized but unproven conclusively.

Rumors of the Yami Yami fruit, known to create features with similar characteristics to black holes on a much more contained scale, has seen to have a warping effect on perception of both time and space around it. This has given much possible insight into the larger and less easily observed phenomena.

However, the user of the fruit is able to both take in and release matter, and though gravity has been noted to associated with the fruit, it seems to lack the omni-directional and overwhelming strength of a true black hole. As with all devil fruits there are analogies that can be drawn from their usage. But I urge the reader and most esteemed colleges to remember that these "devil fruits", often twist what we deem as true science in ways impossible in any other situation. A notable example of this I have witnessed first hand was the usage of the so called Zoan-type devil fruits. Most Zoan's are noted to change mass, not just with their initial transformation into animals, but when they transform into their hybrid forms. These forms are also often larger than both human and animal form. And further it is commonly known that many fruits have abilities that are quite…odd. I have heard of an upcoming marine that is able to quite literally WASH people of a portion of their evil. Devil fruits are frankly the bane of us TRUE scientists and therefore though should not be forgotten should not be a basis for true science.

Well that was an interesting little tidbit wasn't it? And considering the newest Yonko running around possibly an invaluable find. Even if it was merely a fragment of information about how the mans abilities might function—even if it was referencing someone long dead by now considering the publishing date on the book. Law hadn't seen Blackbeard fighting at Marineford but had heard of the man's attacks on the other Supernova and some of his post-Shichibukai moments. To have any insight in how the dangerous mans powers worked was very valuable in this new age.

In addition, what an interesting correlation we have here. Law thought steeping his fingers while his elbows rested on the table.

The truly remarkable thing was that any star had the potential to become a supernova. And said supernova held the potential to become a galaxy-eating black hole. Able to twist reality around it and manipulate other stars in its proximity to its whims, lest the hungry giant consume them. He smirk grew into a feral smile when he read that a black hole was thought to be the center of each and every galaxy.

And there are eleven rising stars the Marines have already dubbed Supernova. Law thought as he burst out laughing in a rusty cackle.

He rarely laughed and meant it these days. However, this was a very amusing coincidence that managed to rattle loose some of his mask letting his true emotions to surface.

So what remains to be seen…is who will become black holes with the power to shape the universe around them to their whims and who will fizzle out and be devoured in the other's wakes.

Fingers catching under the red-bound leather, he snapped the cover shut.