Neb: I do not own One Piece and thank you for the reviews. I shall respond... now.
Dark D Phoenix, thank you for your kind words, here is the next chapter. ^-^
Strawhatted Demigod Shinobi, I too am happy this is the less depressing time of One Piece. Hell, this is before Luffy got his hat, so Sabo and Ace are still around. ;)
4fireking, I prefer having the crew interact with eachother when I write. I just love their chemistry, like when Nami punches Brook, or when Chopper gets books with Robin. The others I kind of fit in to the parts, so I understand your confusion. Glad you are pleased with my work anyway, this was your request after all. :)
"Time has changed, do you know why," a woman spoke up.
"Your other half," another man responded.
"Yes, my other half, you see, when eating the Tic Toc fruit, you get the best weapon of all... time," the woman explained. "The consequences is if you use too much of it you'll weaken yourself down and you'll split into two. One who will feed on the constant paradoxes and the other who feeds off of balance. I need you to go back in time and fix the balance."
"It involves my son, so I will," the man responded. He had long black hair and markings on his face. His skin was tanned and he wore a brown cloak.
"What's changed has changed, what you need to do is get the straw hat crew together despite there new member and their captains weakness."
"Some of them are teenagers right now and Franky is an adult, they'll laugh at the fact that a pipsqueak is in charge."
"They will follow his will, for it is the same as your, the will of D. Isn't that right Monkey D. Dragon."
The man grinned through his hood, his signature grin as he walked towards the woman.
"I'll be sure not to let Luffy down or you down, I promise," Dragon grinned.
"I promise from a D. means a lot to me," she smiled.
"By the way, who is this Paradox guy," he asked.
"Someone who doesn't want Luffy to be King," she responded.
"Does he have a name or something," he pressed.
"I can't," she replied.
"Please, I need to know everything about my enemy," Dragon responded.
She sighed and mouthed the name to him. His eyes widened with fear before she stopped time. She removed his devil fruit from his body and replaced it with a gem. She moved her lips to his ear that was frozen in time. "He'll be sending people to kill Luffy early, he'll be sending enemies that Luffy originally beat. You must use this gem that contains the power of the sea, land, and sky to protect Luffy and influence his Nakama to bump into him. Some are in the Grand Line, others are in other blues, but make sure they get there, Brook and Chopper will be no good at this time period, after all, Brook hasn't returned to his body yet and Chopper is too young. As I said it will be a tough challenge to get them together again.
"Back, back, back."
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"So, who are you anyways," Luffy asked with a grin on his face.
"We lived on the same Island for how long now and you don't know me," the boy growled.
"shesheshe," Luffy laughed.
"Ryu S. Katsu," the boy responded annoyed. He appeared to be two years older than Luffy, had silver hair, freckles, and glasses.
"Hey Luffy, maybe that guy can be a part of your first crew," one of Shanks Crew members laughed.
Stars appeared in Luffy's eyes at the Idea of that. "Join my crew," Luffy yelled.
"No, if I joined a crew it wouldn't be a pirate crew," the boy yelled. "I can't believe I ate a devil fruit, I'm a fisherman's son, I'm suppose to swim," the boy cried.
"Please join my crew, I need your help with sailing the seas to be like Shanks," Luffy yelled.
"Haha, no one can replace me," Shanks laughed as he stumbled around drunk.
"If you can't even take on bandits, then I highly doubt that," Luffy yelled.
Shanks grinned and grabbed his eyelid and pulled it down while sticking his tong out. Luffy growled at him as he started dancing around while holding his facial expression.
"Shanks I'm cutting you off," said the bartender.
"What," Shanks yelled. "Come on, I'm not that drunk." Shanks crew laughed at him for that statement.
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"So that's why you need to go there and finish off the boy," the Paradox man grinned.
"That boy dares stand in my way, said a very fat woman, I'll crust him!"
"Alvida, calm down, I need to collect you some worthy allies first," the Paradox man laughed.
"Bring them to me and we will combine our forces and wipe out that boy and his Island."
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"This place, where am I," Dragon wondered. He saw a girl with orange hair crying on the ground. She was covered in wounds and had a tattoo of the fishman pirates on her arm.
"Excuse me little girl, what's the matter," he asked.
"I-I can't say," she cried.
"Hmmm, ah yes, your Nami," he remembered.
"Y-you know me," she gawked.
"Never met, but I've heard about you, I've got quite the story to tell you," he grinned.