Hello everyone and welcome to Chapter 2 of "Reborn- Return of the King"! This chapter will include short drabbles from Luffy's adventure with the Red Hair Pirates! Next chapter will be the start (well restart) of Luffy's journey! And for some reason I always forget to put the desclaimer (like last chapter) so please don't kill me.
One Piece is owned by Eiichiro Oda
Luffy was beaming.
He was sailing with his idol and childhood hero while munching on a piece of meat. Basically he was having the time of his life.
And he would have the adventure of a second lifetime.
DRABBLE 1:
"Pick a weapon" Said the first mate of the Red Hair Pirates, Benn Beckman
They were at a Weapon's Shop at Paradise, because Shanks had insisted that Luffy would use a weapon, since he now couldn't just increase his strength. Luffy accepted as long as it wasn't a sword, since Zoro was the one that was going to be the World's Greatest Sworsdman.
The shop had an old man at the counter, while the room was filled with various types of weapons. One of which caught his eye.
It was a warhammer, a GIGANTIC one at that, probably 6 feet tall. It had a carved wooden handle with black flames and a huge rectangular shaped block of steel.
Luffy, impressed by the badassery of the weapon, immediately wanted it, even though it was nearly the most expensive item on the store.
"This kid is going to waste a pretty large amount of our treasure from now on" Though Benn while facepalming and sighing at the same time.
DRABBLE 2:
Training with Rayleigh was hard.
Training with Shanks however was even harder.
Not just because of the physical training, oh no. Shanks forced Luffy to train EVERYTHING, which included aiming lessons from Yasopp, studying with Benn and training with his weapon that Shanks considered a Birthday gift even though his birthday was still 1 month away, with the captain himself. According to Shanks the reason Luffy was so naive was because of living with mountain bandits with no connections to the outer world, but Luffy liked to blame it solely on his previous devil fruit power, claiming that he was smart.
No one bought that.
DRABBLE 3:
When Luffy found it he was 9 years old.
He was in a Autumn Island in Paradise when he saw it lying on the ground hidden by some fallen leaves.
It was a light purple fruit that looked like it had raindrops on the side with swirls on them. Luffy quickly went to the library of the ship to look for the devil druit encyclopedia and when he recognized the fruit he gasped and dropped the book. Thinking he maybe had read it wrong or confused it with some other fruit Luffy went on to look again, and after 3 times he finally accepted it.
That fruit was the Yami Yami no Mi, also known as the Dark Dark Fruit.
Suddenly memories were going through Luffy's brain, and they weren't pleasant.
"Sky island does exist."
"PEOPLE'S DREAMS NEVER END!"
"Get dragged into darkness, STRAWHAT!"
"ZEHAHAHAHAHAHA"
"Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook, Jinbe, I won't let what happened to you become a thing again in this world. Even if I have to eat this." Thought a determined Luffy, who then proceeded to eat the fruit.
DRABBLE 4:
It was a lot easier to control than it was with the Gomu gomu no Mi.
Since he didn't need to apply multiple laws of physics on the usage of his devil fruit, Luffy had already controlled it in 1 year.
However controlling it and using it to it's full potential were 2 different things.
So that's why Luffy was now searching about darkness, which was frustating since it was an abstract concept. Luffy had a few theories that were later proved correct such as being able to see clearly in the dark and becoming intangible while being in a complete dark place, which would only become useful when he reached Thriller Bark.
Luffy slammed his head on the table. This was going to be annoying.
DRABBLE 5:
Luffy was thrilled.
He just had his first real battle in a long time against some random group of pirates of the South Blue, which was precisely where the Red Hair pirates were stationed in.
Their captain, a man with a bounty of 25 million berri, thought he was the bomb and proceeded to try to beat some respect to a kid with a strawhat that was randomly walking. Since Luffy wanted to train more with his weapon (which he named "Smasher") he proceeded to fight him.
The captain got his ass handed over to him, which lead to attract the attention of bypassers. Not wanting to cause more of a scene Luffy fled the area and returned to the ship while showing the brightest grin anyone had ever seen.
DRABBLE 6:
"What the hell?" Asked a very confused Luffy
"SURPRISE!" Yelled the rest of the crew.
It was Luffy's twelth birthday, and the crew decided to throw a surprise party over it.
"But why? Normally you wouldn't make a surprise party like this?" Said a very confused Luffy.
"Well that was because you were a kid, but now you're a teenager, which means you can drink!" Said one of the crewmembers.
"I just turned 12." Thought Luffy with a sweatdrop on his head.
"Now DRINK!"
"Fine whatever." Said Luffy and then he started to drink.
Next morning
It was a splendid sight to see. The crewmembers of a Yonko, who were supposed to be terrifying, were now lying on the floor sleeping. Luffy then proceeded to take a picture so that he could use it as blackmail to threaten Shanks of sending it to Makino.
As he was stepping towards the kitchen Luffy hear a bird calling. Looking up he saw that it was the News Coo. He payed for the newspaper and when he picked it up a paper dropped out. Looking with more attention he realized what the paper was.
"YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Awoken from the outburst, the crewmembers started to wake up, wondering who was the bastard that was making all the noise. When they noticed a sparkling Luffy holding a piece of paper they asked him what had happened. Luffy then proceeded to show them the paper and their jaws dropped.
The paper was the bounty of "Strawhat" Luffy, who had Luffy grinning to the camera while waving. He also had darkness coming off of him, looking like a fool but still dangerous. And he also had a reward of…
"80 MILLION BERRIES!?"
While they knew Logias tended to have larger bounties and that was probably why Luffy had a bounty at 12 years old, 80 million berries was still huge for a starting bounty. Well he did have what was considered the strongest Logia devil fruit but still.
However this needed to be celebrated so they started to drink again, even though they had already an hangover.
In Foosha Village
Lucy was happy. Not only her brother was ok he also had a bounty. A pretty huge one.
"Look Makino! Doesn't Luffy look badass?" Asked Lucy.
"Yeah he does." Answered Makino while giggling.
"But I'm more bad ass right?" Said a 15 years old Ace.
"Nope." Said both girls without hesitating, leaving a depressed Ace on the floor.
DRABBLE 7:
Garp's yearly visits were something that he NEVER looked forward to. The man would take Luffy for a week and unleashed hell on him on some random island, saying that Shanks was too soft on him. It didn't help having a Devil Fruit that absorved pain, so Garp had said that he needed to build a high endurance to it, increasing the intensity of the one sided beatings that he classified as training.
Which is why a beaten up Luffy was laying on the ground while Garp was laughing at him.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHA YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE BETTER LUFFY!" Said Garp.
"Shut up" Thought Luffy.
"So I've heard that your bounty went up. They must be crazy thinking you're worth 160 million berries." Said Garp trying to piss off his grandson, in which he suceeded.
"I'LL SHOW YOU THEN!" Roared Luffy, while getting up.
"THAT'S THE SPIRIT!" Roared Garp, preparing his fist of love.
"ARRRRRGGHHHHHHHH" Roared both at the same time with their Haki coated fists colliding, creating a shockwave.
Back at the ship the crewmembers were awing at the display, while Shanks was looking at the island with a sweatdrop.
"They really are family those two."
DRABBLE 8:
Luffy was on the verge of killing him.
They had met with the Whitebeards since news of Ace joining them were starting to spread around. It was all going well until Luffy saw him.
Marshall D. Teach.
Luffy knew he had to keep calm for his plan to work, but it was taking all of his willpower to not go next to him and rip his head off. Especially when he started laughing.
Shanks knew of this and so he formulated a plan where Luffy would ask Ace for a spar, to then activate his powers. He had to warn Whitebeard himself though so that he could order his crew to keep their Observation Haki activated.
After it Luffy would proceed the day as normal as it could be, but always with Shanks. Then when he went to bed Shanks and Whitebeard's first commander Marco, or as Luffy liked to call him, Pineapple Head, would wait with their auras repressed to not set any alarms and sneak attack Teach, who then would be brought to justice in front of Shanks and Whitebeard (and probably Ace since Luffy's his younger brother).
Luffy decided to start the plan, signaling to Lucky Roo who then signaled to Yasopp who then signaled to Benn who then signaled to Shanks and finally signaling to Luffy. Why was it needed all of this signaling no one knew.
"Hey Ace, let's fight!"
Sometime later
Luffy could feel him entering his room, his murdering intent was high, and he could already hear his laugh. That was until a sword was pressed against his neck, making him look at a pissed off Shanks. And that was the moment that Teach knew, he fucked up.
Now Teach was in a room with Whitebeard, Shanks, Benn, Marco, a very pissed off Ace and Luffy.
"You tried to kill a sworn sibling of one of your comrades all for a devil fruit. Any family of my sons is considered my family as well, which means you treid to kill a family member. What do you have to say for yourself?" Said Whitebeard with a touch of Haki on his words to make them more menacing.
"That fruits is the strongest of them all! It's wasted on an idiot like that kid over there." Said Blackbeard.
"That "idiot" is going to be the next Pirate King, so you better shut the fuck up before I'll kill you!" Exclaimed Ace. Luffy was stunned hearing this, he had never heard Ace say that since he thought that Ace wanted Whitebeard to be the Pirate King.
"Yeah right, like him could be the Pi- "
"Pick your words very carefully Teach." Said Shanks "I don't take kindly people insulting my student."
Luffy couldn't hide the pride and the hapiness he had while hearing these words. It just warmed his heart.
"Well Teach, since you were going to break the iron rule I'll have no choice but executing you. The way of the execution however will be decided by the brat over there" Said Whitebeard.
Everyone looked at Luffy who previously glared at Whitebeard for calling him a brat, but now was in deep thought. Suddenly he started grinning and exclamed loudly.
"I have an idea!"
Outside at the deck of the Moby Dick
"Any last words Teach?" Said Ace, who volunteered to be the one to execute Teach.
"Fuck you." Said Teach while smiling.
"Hmm, suit yourself." Said Ace. He then proceeded to shove a Devil Fruit in Teach's mouth and pushed him into the ocean.
"Interesting method Luffy, how the hell did you came up with this idea?" Said Ace.
"Well it just came upon my head." Said Luffy while rubbing the back of his head. The truth was this was how Luffy finished off Blackbeard on their fight.
"A fiting end for a greedy man." Said Shanks while looking at the ocean. "Well now that is over let's go to sleep. It's past you bedtime Anchor!" Teased Shanks.
"Damn you!" Said a pissed off Luffy while the rest of them laughed.
DRABBLE 9:
Sabaody Archipelago.
The place where Luffy had experience one of the worst things in his life. Now he was there, but it was to meet a certain man.
"So you're the one that Shanks chose huh?" Said Silvers Rayleigh, with amusement on his voice.
Luffy nodded "Yeah. I'm going to become Pirate King!" he said excitedly.
"So you want to conquer Roger's seas?" Rayleigh said.
Luffy was silent for a while, like the rest of the room waiting for Luffy's answer.
"I don't want to conquer anything. It's just the Pirate King is the one with the most freedom of the seas!" Said Luffy. Rayleigh had a look of shock that changed to a look of recognition to then a look of pride.
"Then you better be Pirate King kid."
DRABBLE 10:
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!" Shrieked Luffy.
"It's the first edition of the Grand Line magazine. It contains information about the Grand Line, and it also has a part for men and women." Said Shanks.
"Well I can see that! I'm just wondering what is THIS!" Said a VERY pissed off Luffy while showing a article of him in the girls section
The topic was "The most HOT guys sailing the Grand Line" and one of the candidates was Luffy himself. Luffy's new bounty picture was there, which showed a smirking Luffy with his strawhat on his head, and another picture that was taken without Luffy knowing, which was Luffy with his strawhat around his neck, black shorts and a open red vest (Enies Lobby outfit but the vest is opened).
"I've never heard of this magazine on my previous life why the hell is it being released!" Said Luffy.
"Maybe it's just yearly and you just missed it, since you total spent a year sailing, with a two year break in between." Tried to invent Shanks.
Luffy narrowed his eyes at Shanks and said "Whatever, at least I'm here while you're not, which means you're too old and ugly."
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY YOU BRAT!" Said an enraged Shanks.
"I'm also wondering if they had permition to do this since I'm only 16." Said Luffy while running away from Shanks. "I just hope no one from my crew saw this" Thought Luffy.
"Tch why I am wasting time running to catch a brat who was reading the girls section." Exclaimed Shanks, which made their crewmembers laugh.
"They put Mihawk instead of you." Said Luffy.
"They WHAT!" Screamed Shanks while taking off the magazine and started searching it.
"Well look who's reading the girls section now!" Said Luffy with a mischievous glint in his eye.
That made the crew erupt in laughter at a now embarassed captain who suddenly started shaking with rage.
"I'm so going to kill you Luffy!"
FINAL:
There it was, Luffy's hometown, Foosha village. It has been 10 years since he lasted saw it and he was only going to be there for a week before departing again. Luffy saw Lucy again, who had grown into a fine young woman, with long black hair that reached her waist, an hourglass figure, a red tank top and blue shorts, and she was shorter than Luffy, because of her Devil Fruit powers. After teasing Luffy about his article that had been hanged at Party's Bar and partying for the week it was time to start sailing again.
"Got everything Luffy?" Asked a fisherman of the village.
"Yeah I have everything on the boat that Shanks lent me." Said Luffy. He was now 6'1 tall (186 cm for the rest of the world), had his New World atire, in which it consisted on a open cardigan, yellow sash, blue shorts and his strawhat. He also was more muscled than before and he was slightly stronger than his previous life after the 2 years of training (stronger than basic Luffy but weaker than Gear Second Luffy). His "Smasher" was in his "Dark Realm", as he liked to call it, for convenience. He also was capable of using Soru and Geppo proficciently and Rankyaku he could use but it wasn't perfected yet. The others he didn't care.
"Now let's set sail Lucy!"
"Hai!"
However this wasn't going to be a calm start, for the sea king whose name was Lord of the Coast appeared, trying to scare the inhabitants of the boat.
Trying.
"Let's hit him together sis!" Said Luffy while preparing his legs.
"Of course bro!" Said Lucy while preparing her fist.
Luffy then started to use Geppo to get close to the sea king, while Lucy prepared to stretch arm, and so, with the power of siblings combined, they punched it right in the face knocking him out.
"GOMU GOMU NO SIBLING CANNON!"
Luffy then proceeded to ask Lucy "Did Makino give you the box?"
"Yeah she did, there was a book there about something called Haki who I couldn't be bothered to read so I asked Makino to read it and a notebook involving my devil fruit. But why did you had it?" Said Lucy
"No biggie, now did you learn the stuff from it?" Asked luffy.
"Yeah I unlocked and mastered Armament while I just unlocked Observation. I mastered your so-called Gear Second and Gear Third, but Gear fourth is really hard." Said a pouting Lucy.
"No wonder your aura increased so much Lucy you're really strong! But don't worry, you'll master it in no time." Said a grinning Luffy.
"Yeah your right, now let's go!" Said a beaming Lucy.
And so Luffy's adventure begins. Again.
And that's it, it took me a day to finish this chapter since I had to think what to put in the Shank's trip, since I had already decided that it was going to be a drabble for every year of Luffy's life. The epiteth of Luffy was something that I initially wanted to change, but after 5 minutes of thinking so that the best result would be "Nightmare" I decided to just be Strawhat again. As you can see I've decided to give Luffy a weapon since he now can't just pump blood to increase his speed, blow air into his bones or muscles because he isn't a Paramecia anymore. Why a warhammer? Because why not (I also had the idea from PrimordialVortex's story CRUSH). Also please review this story, it helps me get motivated to write more and it also helps with directions for the story. See you next chapter!