Hello everyone and welcome to "Reborn: Return of the King"! Like the new image? Don't care! This chapter marks the meeting of Coby! I'll try to do a East Blue Arc per chapter, note it'll be shorter (my method of reading is also really fast since I basically skip the unimportant stuff in dialogue.). I also have a warning to make, which is I'm going to be on vacation starting tomorrow until the 14, and I'll be unable to write during that period which means no chapter. On a side note it's my birthday! (First of July) so hooray for me! Anyhow let's start the chapter already!
One Piece is owned by Eiichiro Oda
On a small boat in the waters of the East Blue there were two human beings, a girl and a boy. These people may look normal but they were about to change the world.
"Why are you looking at that compass and that map Luffy?" Asked the girl, while she was laying besides the railing with her hands behind her head.
"It's called navigation Lucy, and now be quiet I'm trying to sense nearby presences." Said the boy, who was looking intensely at the map while trying to figure it out what island did he meet Coby. While Luffy could now navigate on his own he still wasn't Nami which means he could just avoid natural disasters, like the whirlpool that he confronted on his previous life.
"Meanie" Said Lucy while pouting. Luffy sighed, was this how his nakama felt like when he started acting like a child? If so then it was no wonder he would always get beaten up.
Luffy then sensed various presences and when he looked at the map he grinned. He had just reached the island where he had met Coby for the first time.
The darkness human proceeded to dock the boat on the other side of the island, so that they wouldn't go noticed and get sunk. He may be strong enough for the New World, but he still was a hammer in the water just like his sister and he didn't want them to get freaked out by watching him performing Geppo, so he decided to make the sneaky approach.
After walking they got to a beach where Alvida's ship was docked. There was also two houses built along with a flag of the Alvida Pirates. Luffy then saw a young Coby getting kicked off of the ship. Even though he was a marine he was still Luffy's friend, so he deciced to show himself.
"How about you leave the kid alone?" Said the strawhat man while what looked like his sister popped up next to him, grinning.
"Who the hell are you?" Said one of the pirates. Luffy ignored him and started walking towards them, but was stopped by a hand on his shoulder.
"Let me handle this Luffy. Besides I need to show my brother how strong I've become." Said Lucy while winking at him. Luffy shrugged and proceeded to walk into the storage building to catch something to eat. The pirates were going to stop him from going there, when they got punched in the face by the girl.
"Your opponent is me!" Said the girl. The pirates started to laugh at her, because no one in their right state of mind would believe that a little girl could defeat them. That all changed when Lucy proceed to attack "GOMU GOMU NO WHIP!", which knocked out all of the pirates making Alvida shake with rage.
Meanwhile at the storage room
Luffy was now eating. Since he was a darkness human he literally was a black hole, which means he needed to eat. A lot. But Luffy had the company of Coby who was now pale and sweating in fear.
"Why did you leave your sister alone out there? It's Avida-sama that she's facing, she's going to get killed!" Exclaimed the pink haired boy. Luffy started laughing and said.
"Don't worry, she's really strong, probably could defeat every pirate on the East Blue, now what is a wimp like you doing on a pirate ship?" Luffy didn't feel like insulting his old friend but he had to bring the inner determination of Coby out so that he could become the strong marine from before. Coby started crying comically tears while telling his story of how two years ago he was going to be on a fishing trip when he accidentally walked on a pirate ship. Luffy started laughing since while the situation was something you would expect from Zoro, it still was pretty dumb to accidentaly walk on a pirate ship.
"So you're an idiot? Why haven't you tried to escape?" Asked the black haired man.
"No way! Alvida would kill me!" Cried Coby.
"Oh so your an idiot and a coward. I hate people like you!" Exclaimed Luffy while using a joyful voice. Coby then proceeded to ask.
"Luffy-san, why are you and your sister sailing?"
"Oh I want to be Pirate King, and Lucy wants to be the strongest woman in the world!" Said the man. Coby blinked and then yelled "EHHHHHHHH?!"
"What?" Asked Luffy
"You can't be Pirate King it's impossible! Staying at the top of the Pirate Era is impossible, being stronger than one of the yonkou it's impossible! Impossible! Impossible! Impo- "Coby didn't say anything else because Luffy smacked him in the back of his head.
"It doesn't matter if it's impossible or not! Me and Lucy decided to follow our dreams, and we don't care if we die from it." Luffy said with a determined gaze that just looked badass. Coby shocked by the words that Luffy said, proceeded to ask him.
"Then could I do it? Could I become what I most dream for? Could I become a marine?"
"You can become anything you want Coby, as long as you work hard for it!" Said the man with the strawhat. Coby then stood up and in the most determined voice he yelled.
"I'LL DO IT! I'LL TRAIN HARD AND THEN I'LL BECOME A MARINE ADMIRAL!"
"That's the spirit now let's step outside, Lucy probably finished her fight already." Said Luffy while moving towards the door. When they stepped outsider they saw all of the pirates on the floor, Lucy sitting on the railing while swinging her legs and with no sign of Alvida. Lucy then dropped off the railing and ran to her brother "I already beat them 10 minutes ago while you were chatting up this kid. I also sended the fat whale flying somewhere." Now that Coby could see more clearly he saw how beautiful Lucy was and started blushing. She noticed it and asked "Who is he? Is he sick?"
"I-I-I'm C-Cob-by." Sttutered the small boy. Luffy got a sudden feeling of protectiveness for some reason but he ignored it. "He's a kid that wants to become a marine, so we'll just drop him off on the nearest marine base."
"Oh ok, then hold on to me!" said Lucy while stretching her arms to the flag. Luffy and Coby proceeded to grab on to her, but with one glare from Luffy Coby got the warning of being careful where we would touch. Suddenly Lucy released the tension and they went flying to the other side of the island, crashing on to the sand. Lucy was laughing out loud, Coby had his face on the dirt and Luffy was cleaning his shorts.
"Next time we'll use my method of transportation, got it Lucy?" Said the man. Lucy grunted and mumbled "killjoy" while heading towards the ship. Coby after cleaning himself up started to review what he had just saw.
"DID YOUR ARMS JUST STRETCH?"
"Oh yeah they did I ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi, which made me a rubber woman!" Said Lucy while stretching her cheek to abnormal distances. Coby nearly fainted hearing this so Luffy decided to not tell him about his powers.
Sometime later
As the boat was sailing the sea Lucy proceeded to ask Coby " Hey when I was about to hit that fat hippo she mentioned a guy named Zoro, do you know him?"
"Yeah he's known as the Pirate Hunter but now he's kept captive at the marine base in Shells Town, why do you ask?" Answered Coby.
"No reason, Luffy what do you think?" Said the girl while grinning at Luffy. Luffy also grinned and said
"If he's strong I'll invite him to my crew!".
"You can't be serious he's known as a demon he'll just slaughter you!" Said the small boy who now was waving his arms trying to make his point reach Luffy, but he failed.
SMACK!
"Ow what was that for!" Cried Coby.
"You were being annoying" Responded Luffy.
SMACK!
"OW! WHAT THE HELL LUCY!" Said the pissed off Luffy while glaring at his sister.
"You didn't need to hit him! It's okay Coby he won't hit you anymore." Said Lucy while hugging Coby, who was now red as a tomato. However when he looked at Luffy he saw a devilish aura that screamed "let go of my sister or else" which Coby complied to.
"Let's just move on." Said Luffy while looking at the horizon. "Zoro, I'm coming for you and this time I'm going to make sure you'll become the world's greatest sworsdman."
And that's the chapter! Sorry for being so short but I wanted Zoro's arc to be in a separated chapter, so that's why we only have Coby in here! Now as you may have noticed I've been writing just Luffy's POV, so I was wondering if in future fights you wanted me to write all of them or just Luffy's? Leave your opinion on the reviews! Also a guest asked about using the Gura Gura no Mi on Smasher, while that would've been cool to see I don't want Luffy to be an exact copy of canon Blackbeard, so I'll just stick to one devil fruit. Any how this has been PortugueseRonaldo and see you when I'll end my vacation! Bye!