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Chapter 2

It has been a few days after Luffy set sail to start his life as a pirate. Currently we find him lying back in his small skiff enjoying the calm weather. He looks completely unconcerned despite the fact that he is currently heading straight towards a gigantic whirlpool!

"Heh, who would've thought I would get into such a huge disaster?! How careless of me!" Luffy stated with a large, slightly idiotic smile on his face, "I could transform into something that could swim or fly, but I honestly don't think that swimming would help me in this situation, and I have no idea where the nearest island is, so flying's out!" He said while bopping his fist into his other hand in an 'Ah-ha' moment. He was so caught up in his musings that he didn't even noticed that he was already being sucked into the whirlpool.

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On a remote island we see a ship docked near land. What is strange is that the ship has a swan-head mast and is decorated in more hearts than a Valentine's Day card. On top of the ship flew a Jolly Roger, also decorated in hearts. This was a pirate ship, owned by the feared "Iron-Mace" Alvida, the self-proclaimed most beautiful in all the seas. The woman herself looked like the byproduct of an inbred redneck relationship with morbid obesity running in the family. The grotesque woman was also wearing cowgirl-style clothing and had a huge spiked iron mace strung casually over her shoulder. This abomination to self-respecting women everywhere was currently checking her ship for dust and, unsatisfied with the results, brutally beat the man in charge of cleaning over the head with her mace.

"Coby! What's the most beautiful thing in all the seas?" the sea cow called out.

"W…w…why you of course Lady Alvida," stammered a small, glasses wearing boy with pink hair. It was quiet obvious that the boy was expected to lie through his teeth to the woman when asked this question out of fear for his life. This fact was cemented when the hag started to kick the small boy while reminding him how she hated dirty things and that the only reason he was alive was because she valued his navigation skills. After she was done with the beating, Alvida ordered Coby to clean the ship. "O…of course Lady Alvida, I'm on my way!" Coby said nervously.

Later we find Coby rolling a large wine barrel to the storehouses for the "Iron-Mace" pirates. The other crewmen there decided to drink the contents, confident that Alvida wouldn't know, and after not-so-subtly threatening Coby not to tell anyone, proceeded to pry the barrel open. Suddenly, the top of the barrel burst open and out popped Luffy like a Jack-in-the-box, much to the shock of Coby and the "Iron-Mace" pirates.

"Ah, what a nice nap that was! Looks like I'm saved, I seriously thought I was going to die too!" exclaimed the straw hat wearing boy before he started to laugh like he didn't have a care in the world. He then took notice of his slack-jawed audience. "Hm? Who are you?" Luffy asked.

"WHO THE HECK ARE YOU?!" came the incredulous reply from the other pirates. One of them further elaborated, "Why would someone come out of a wine barrel?!"

Suddenly, an iron mace came spinning through the room (I'll give you 3 guesses on who threw it, the first 2 don't count) with a yell of, "STOP SLACKING OFF!" ringing through the building. The store house was immediately flattened to reveal the knocked-out forms of the pirates, with Luffy (barrel and all) went rolling into the jungle, with Coby following close behind. After Alvida showed up the pirates quickly jumped to the wrong conclusion thinking that Luffy was a bounty hunter after Alvida's head that Coby brought. Meanwhile, Coby had finally caught up to the straw hat boy and asked if he was alright. After assuring the pink haired boy that he was fine they gave brief introductions to each other. Luffy then asked Coby if he had a boat, seeing as his was lost in a whirlpool. The glasses wearing cabin boy then showed Luffy one of the most pathetic excuses for a boat that has ever graced God's green Earth. What made it even sadder was the fact that Coby had spent the last 2 years working on the piece of rubbish in order to escape Alvida's fat grip. Coby then explained how he wanted to be free of Alvida after she took him prisoner one day as he was fishing, and he's been too scared to try and leave since.

Luffy, being the happy-go-lucky kind of guy he is tried to cheer him up by saying, "You're pretty stupid and useless. You also seem kind of wimpy, I don't like you." Hey, that's Luffy for you, what'd you expect? Coby asked the pirate king in the making why he was sailing to which he boldly pronounced, "I want to become the Pirate King!"

Coby then started spouting how crazy, impossible, and suicidal that dream was and was promptly punched in the forehead by Luffy. Luffy said, "I'm not afraid of dying. Because it's my dream, and I wouldn't mind dying for it. Besides, I think I can do it, although it'll be pretty tough."

Inspired by the older boy's declaration, a now crying Coby asked, "Will I be…able to accomplish my dream…if I'm willing to die?" Coby said with increasing determination, "Will I be…able to become a marine? Luffy! I know it will mean becoming enemies, but joining the marines and catching bad guys has always been my dream! Do you think I could do it?!" "I wouldn't know," came Luffy's honest answer. "I have to at least try!" declared Coby, "I'd rather die trying to escape from here and join the marines, than spend the rest of my life as a cabin boy! And then I'll be able to arrest people like Alvida!"

Suddenly, Alvida appeared crushing Coby's boat with her iron mace saying, "Who did you say you were going to arrest Coby!? Did you honestly think that you could escape from me?!" She then turned to look at Luffy, "Is that who you hired to capture me? He sure doesn't look like Roronoa Zoro! Anyway, before you die I want to ask you, what is the most beautiful thing in the sea, Coby?!"

Before the glasses wearing boy could answer Luffy decided to open his big mouth and ask, "Hey Coby, who's the fat lady?" Much to the shock and horror of the surrounding pirates.

"Luffy! Quick, say 'Lady Alvida is the most…" Coby then thought of the life-changing commitment he made not three minutes ago and, gathering his courage, shouted out, "THE UGLIEST, FATTEST HAG ON THE ENTIRE PLANET!" To which Luffy laughed and the other pirates looked like they were about to have a stroke.

"NOW YOU BOTH CAN DIE!" screamed Alvida as she swung her iron mace on the two boys. However, to the complete shock of all those present, Luffy calmly walked forward and caught the mace with his bare hand like it weighed nothing at all. "WHAT?! Impossible!" Alvida cried in shock.

"Sorry, but this things too light to hurt me," said Luffy as his body started to shift. Before the stunned pirates' eyes, Luffy shifted into his Chimera form, which was a good deal taller than it was when he was a kid, standing at nearly eight feet tall and it now had two bat-like wings jutting from the shoulder blades.

"W…WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU!?" exclaimed a shocked Alvida as she hurriedly tried to back away from the hulking monster in front of her. It was too late as Luffy reared back his large, scaled fist and shouted, "Chimera Pistol!" and smashing his fist into the pirate captain's face, sending the sea cow flying back unconscious into her surrounding crew.

Luffy smiled showing the crew a mouth full of razor sharp teeth in his lion like head and said in a more growling voice, "Prepare a boat for Coby! He wants to join the marines, so stay out of his way!"

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"You actually ate the Chimera Fruit? That's amazing!" said Coby as he and Luffy set sail on a small skiff, courtesy of the "Iron-Mace" Pirates. After getting over his initial shock, Coby started to bombard Luffy with questions from his powers to what he plans to do in order to become the pirate king. To the pink haired boy's surprise, he found that their current destination was to recruit the famous pirate hunter Roronoa Zoro from the next town where Coby plans to sign up for the marines. Coby started rapidly telling Luffy why that would be a bad idea, but Luffy just simply laughed it off as they sailed into the horizon.

AN: Here we are on another exciting chapter of "Chimera Luffy"! I'm actually surprised on how popular this is becoming, and I hope that you all continue to enjoy! Now I need my readers' help, could you please tell me what animals you would like to see Luffy turn into and for which opponent? I only used his Chimera form against Alvida to show some of the changes he had over the years and I thought it'd be a waste of thinking to come up with an elaborate fight scene for a third rate villain like Alvida. You'll notice that I didn't change much from canon, because honestly I'm trying to keep as close to canon as possible so I don't suffer from writer's block like so many other, more original, authors do. For those of you wondering, Luffy was able to stop Alvida's attack because he channeled his strength to his arms and reinforced it by starting the transformation in them first, making him about as strong as when he uses Gear 2 in canon. Again, please review and feel free to post your ideas for this fic because, like I said last chapter, I'm not much of a writer so new ideas would be appreciated. Also, if anyone feels like adopting this fic please let me know and I'll give you my full blessing and wish you luck. Till next chapter everyone!