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Wow. Just ... I'm wordless. Never thought anyone would actually like or read or review this fic. And that, I dunno... Should I be happy or the other way around? Meh... That's no the point here. *sweatdrops*
The point is thanks a lot for all the favs and follows! And not forgetting the reviews! Well, here is the next chappie you've all been waiting for! - and sorry for the long wait too. *throws candies in the air virtually*
Oh, sorry for those new favers and followers and reviewers... I usually PM my reader who followed or faved this fic or anything else me-related. But I'm actually kinda busy lately... So, I'm taking the opportunity being here to thank ya all! All of you are great! :D
Disclaimer: I'm glad I don't own One Piece. I can't make it as great as it is! Oda-sensei! Arigatou!
Waves crash upon rocks while it dances happily. The rustles of the wind whistles a melody that suits their dance and everything looked awfully fine. The sun was up above your head and the clouds just continued on moving and seagulls flew around across the wide blue oceans.
As everyone were having a storytelling session on the Isle of Woman, scattered around the world, the Straw Hat Pirates of the current time were all rushing to get to their captain.
x.x
Zoro, the current time's Zoro was panting while standing, gripping hard on his three swords. He stood among all of the humandrills he'd defeated. Red blood dripped down his chin and flowed down from his green hair. He glared at the blurry figure in front of him.
The figure stepped closer to him, in which made him intimidated due to the unbelievable menacing aura he could sense from that mysterious person. Gritting his precious white sword, he prepared himself in case the figure attacked him.
He can't be slowed down. He needs to get to Luffy. He needs to be with that stupid captain of theirs. After all of the dead or alive experiences their dear captain experienced alone without them, he needs to get to him. Ace maybe can comfort him alone but still, they are nakamas! Nakamas are there whenever you need them! But they weren't there when Luffy needed them the most!
'Luffy', Zoro muttered with a tear slipping from the corner of his right eye. He then collapsed after taking another step towards his unknown future self.
The still concious Zoro blinked feeling slightly panic. "Wow. I'm so strong that I can make my own past-self faint just by my aura?" he muttered childishly still wearing his neutral facial expression. He didn't remember passing out, wait, blame me.
The elder Zoro took his past self into his arms and brought him to the castle where the current greatest swordsman was supposed to be at - enjoying his wine.
x.x
The short-haired Nami had stopped in her steps. Haredas was muttering some stuffs which she didn't quite bother to know. She is currently too focused on the sight of the woman in front of her. A pretty woman whom looked similar to herself, orange-haired just that the other woman was longer, and that woman had bigger bumps too.
"Who are you?" Nami hissed to the woman, feeling slightly intimidated of her presence.
Her future self just smiled in reply.
x.x
Usopp was crying beside the rock where Hercules was sitting on. The now round sniper was sobbing for a reason that could only be understood by him and his comrades. All that he could think by the time was his captain, Luffy's well-being.
Just as Hercules was about to ask a question to the crying young man, he jumped off from the rock and stood in front of Usopp protectively. Usopp looked up and wiped away his tears before looking at what was in front of the only human on the crazily impossible island.
"Relax, lads... And you, young lad, stay calm. Our captain is fine," uttered the newcomer. He had a similar long-nose to Sogeking and was holding a sling-shot similar to Usopp's. Usopp stood up hearing the mention of 'our captain'.
"Who're you!?"
x.x
Sanji stood still in front of the so-called queen of this Kamabakka Kingdom. He frowned at the giant-faced man in front of him.
"Tell me of Luffy!" he demanded. The okama didn't seem like wanting to tell the stranger about his partner's son's well-being, but this man looked like he was telling the truth. Then again, looks can fool.
"He's fine, nothing to worry about," a voice uttered clearly. His appearance behind Sanji immediately made Ivankov jumped out of surprise.
"You have a twin!?" the okama queen shrieked.
"They're soo cute~!" exclaimed the other okamas. Inazuma just stayed silent watching the whole scene in amusement.
Sanji turned around quickly, curious of this 'twin'. As he turned around, he was surprised to see a handsome man having the exact same looks of him, wearing a similar black suit only with a thicker goatee and with grown moustache and beard. That 'twin' of his grinned at him while smoking a cigar.
"Who're you!?" Sanji was ready to kick that man when his unknown future self backed down and raised his hands showing no intention of fighting.
"Whoa there. Relax. I'll tell you the shitty adventure that caused us all travel into this shitty time."
x.x
Chopper blinked a few times not believing his vision. For a moment he thought he was dreaming. A few minutes ago, he'd read about Straw Hat Luffy freeing Portgas D. Ace of the Whitebeard Pirates from execution. And now, he's seeing himself only with a slight different attire and height.
His future-self grinned friendly to him.
"Hi Chopper!"
x.x
Robin just stared calmly at the woman in front of her and the blond revolutionary. Robin had a calm expression while the one assigned to welcome her into Revolutionary had a shocked look. Of course Robin was shocked too at first but in Grand Line, you should expect the unexpected. Especially in the New World.
"I was right indeed. You sure can accept my presence here immediately," the unknown woman uttered with a warm smile.
Robin replied the smile. "Well, may I know who you are? And how did you know about our captain's well-beings?"
Her future-self smiled wider. "Sure. But can anyone bring me some warmer clothes to wear?"
x.x
Franky just sat there staring at the bigger version of himself.
"You're me?" he asked with a disbelieving look. He then grabbed the bottle of cola before drinking it. The cyborgs decided to stay silent for an unknow reason.
"In fact, I'm your future-self," with that said, Franky spit out the cola in his mouth out of shock. From the future? Like seriously? Is this a joke in this future land? He was heading out to his captain until this man came out of nowhere stopping him. And now, that man is claiming that he's from the future.
"I know it's hard to believe, but trust me on this one thing. Your Luffy is fine."
x.x
Brook looked around the skeletal body structures of the other skeleton. He then stopped before looking at this 'reflection'.
"Yoho. So you're saying that my captain is safe? And how do you know that?" unsheathing the sword in his cane, Brook prepared himself in a fighting stance. The other self of his just chuckled.
"Yohohoho... I do look good like that. However, Brook-san. Yoho. Let's start with me introducing myself," bowing like a gentleman, the future Brook was immediately interrupted by a group of man - in which Brook still can remember who they are - took them away, away from the ... .
"Ah. I'll explain once we get to Teena Guuna. "
Then, two fart gas came out from two person of the same person came out polluting the air.
Oh. And I know that some of you don't read the author's notes at all but I beg you to read this chapter till the very end of it. Sorry for destroying your mood of reading and distracting the story flow.
So, those were the last Straw Hat(s) to meet. And thus, begin day one. The day of explanations and stuffs.
Everyone eyed the - now short - red-haired man in wonder. Some frowned, not being able to receive so much information on this day. Right now, everyone on the Isle of Woman are sharing the feelings saying that this day feels longer than the moments they had at Marineford.
Luffy (s) sat near a rock, next to each other with Ace beside the younger Luffy.
Ace still couldn't accept the presence of two Luffy. First, it creeps him out, secondly, it is hard to decide to be nicer to his Luffy of this time or his Luffy of the future. He glanced at his two brothers who seemed casual about everything. Heck that made everyone wonder why are they like that.
Well, it's not a big surprise to Rayleigh, of course. He'd seen his own captain acting more badass than this Luffy(s). But to Marco, he wondered, even Ace is not as badass as the two. Hmm... He just stared at the three D inheritors along with the other commanders.
But, the poeple there hadn't seen the future Luffy's acts. Luffy of the future grinned normally - which is unnormal for us - and never stopped grinning at his idol for life. His past-self blinked at him in amusement and had a wider grin on his face. Ace, he just stared. Then...
"Oh! I almost forgot!" the elder Luffy exclaimed. Everyone around looked at him. Hancock who was daydreaming all the while turned to look at him but then faints yet again seeing two handsome man that she adores.
"What is it?" the man beside him asked with a straight expression.
Luffy grinned at his past-self and his brother. Ace and Luffy blinked at the same time.
"Sabo's alive!"
Ace and Luffy blinked at this future pirate king wondering what he wanted to tell them. Silence encountered.
"Sabo's alive!"
"Huh?" the two D brothers hummed. First their facial expression were blurr until after a few seconds, Luffy burst into tears. Ace widened his eyes in disbelief and almost teared right there. Haruta eyed the second division commander with a thoughtful look, wondering what the two words the self-proclaimed pirate king actually meant to them two.
Law, who was still there, waiting for something he himself wasn't quite sure about just stared dumbfoundedly. His face wasn't as bored as it usually is. He couldn't help but to feel curious about this side-story of the whole world. Or is it?
Whitebeard just watched carefully over his sons especially the raven one of his.
"Captain!" shrieked one of Law's subordinates from the submarine. Everyone turned their attention towards the guy in white suit. Law frowned at the distraction before standing up straight and faced his crew member.
"What is it!?" he shouted back. The subordinate of his came running towards him and panted when he arrived in front of the surgeon of death.
"Captain! Captain... We got the latest new about Caesar! Captain... ," still panting heavily, the poor crew member of Law stepped a few steps back from his captain as the unbelievably scary aura immensed from him. He stuttered a few words which wasn't understandable to everyone.
The future Luffy had his eyes covered under his hair and the brim of his straw hat.
"I know. You will be the pirate king, Staw Hat Luffy."
Gritting silently no one noticed the sudden change in future Luffy's behaviour.
"What is it?" the surgeon asked silently. Shanks was paying his attention towards this and waited the right time to tell them all about the story he had in mind.
Law's subordinate was shaking, fearing the news won't be upsetting his captain much. Well, unluckily for him...
"C- it's about Caesar!" he cleared his throat after repeating the fact. His captain just stared.
"Yes, I know. What about him?"
"We've overheard the Den Den Mushi you stole from one of Doffy's subordinates calling Doffy about something emerge-"
"I get it! Just get it straight to the point!" Law scolded. A droplet of sweat dripped down his left cheek, visible to everyonne around.
Breathing in, "Caesar's been kidnapped by Blackbeard!"
Everyone just stared dumbfoundedly except for a few persons.
"WHATT!?" eyes widened in shock, Law and Bepo and Luffy - of the future - shouted in disbelief.
Luffy quickly recovered from it and stared hard on the ground. Everyone may call him an idiot, but he knows what this situation means. "That bastard Teach," Luffy hissed, gritting his teeth and balling his fists out of anger. The two men beside him gulped nervously at the sudden immense of aura coming out from him.
Law gritted hard his teeth. He glared at the thin air, which looked like he was glaring at his poor subordinate. Bepo was sweating out of fear at their captain's unnormal behaviour. "Captain?" the cute furball asked nervously.
"What about you stay here in the Grand Line with us, Law?" suggested the unnormally normal voice. Whitebeard had heard this voice before. So did Rayleigh and Newgate. Shanks thought that he heard it too but wasn't sure. If you're wondering what it is, this voice is oftenly used when the intial D. holders are trying to control themselves from anger.
"What do you mean?" the surgeon asked back.
The two stared at each other with the uncomfortable silence around them all.
A/N: This chapter was supposed to be longer and that damn Teach was supposed to make an appearance in this chapter but heck! I have bad luck with internet today! *cries* But things just make it better. Yep. Which means, the next chapter is supposed to be more tensing. First, I really wanna apologize for this very short chapter. Compared to the first chapter. *shudders* How the heck did I managed to write it out? *shrugs*
Anyways, I'm having a debate with my inner-self to either put in some OCs which ae the cause to why all of this happened. If I can put them in, I promise you, they'll just appear in flashbacks, mentioned a few times, deceased, and only appears as a cameo appearance, huh, I don't know what cameo means, but what I mean is they appear eg. in chapter four, reappears in chapter ten. Something like that. But if you don't want to see any OCs at all then it's okay. Guess I'll have to get my brain work harder.
If you don't want to see any OCs, then it's okay. I'll figure something else.
If you're fine with OCs as long as they're not the spotlight characters, then I'll try my best to give you all the (probably) best fic. Though, nothing will be able to be compared to TheVictor's fic. He was an awesome dude... *sighs*
Anyways, this is to prove how thankful I am that this fic actually got responses. *cheers*
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I know... I should've just continued on with the fic rather than wasting the time to write my gratitude to ya all... But honestly, thanks a lot! Also, I really need some careful thinking before starting the next chapter. Everything's already planned out alright, just that, I need to reconsider it all, who knows, you guys don't like it. Besides my principle as an author/artist is to make everyone happy and enjoy my works! So, see ya all!
As a reward to your patience to actually read this lengthy author's note of mine, read down here.
Of course. Not all pirates are nice. Same goes to the people with an initial D. in their names. Most D. carriers are so nice and kind and so many more positive unwordable words but not all.
Monkey D. Garp becomes a marine to bring justice to all at the seas.
Monkey D. Dragon forms and leads the revolutionary to bring justice to the entire world.
Gol D. Roger became a pirate to sail the seas and does whatever he can - due to his freedom - to bring justice also, trying to help the message from the Void Century.
Jaguar D. Saul became a marine believeing he is following the path of justice. Later, resigning from the marines believing in moral justice and tries to defend those in need and innocent lives.
Portgas D. Ace became a pirate believing that as a child of the late pirate king, he can never become a marine. Another reason is that to show the whole world that he exists and to give hope to those who think their existence are despised by the world will always have another way to prove themselves.
And our favourite D. carrier.
Monkey D. Luffy. He became a pirate to fulfil his promise with Shanks. That was the main reason for him to set sail, yet, he had rescued and freed many lives from unjustified situations. Need not to mention who they are because we all know who.
However, there's one D. carrier who isn't similar at all to the D. carriers mentioned above.
His name is Marshall D. Teach.
The one who caused the great war in history at marineford. The one who killed the strongest man left from Roger's era and stole his devil fruit.
That was what happened in future Luffy's time zone. Even with the massive destruction and the massive effect of his doings, Teach still couldn't reach Raftel sooner than the younger D. carrier. He still wasn't stronger than Luffy who he assumed he would've been able to kill the latter with ease using his devil fruit powers. However, the weak rubber actually can defeat darkness.
I don't know how. You'll need to read more in the future. Anyways. Going back to this umm, side-story, ...
When the Straw Hat Pirates finally reached Raftel, they discovered a hidden story and a hidden truth that were supposed to be told to the entire world. A story that shouldn't be forbidden. A truth that shouldn't be kept a secret.
The story of a knight in a rusty armor. He was not a villain, neither a hero. A person of trustworthy and knows who to trust and who to keep his faith on. A very wise person under a very hyped persona.
At his first fight with the first enemy, he lost due to the lack of faith by people around the world. Due to that, the world restarts and he is resurrected to try and defeat the enemy once again. By the second time, he succeeds, and the story will be told in the future. The first enemy is dead but his death brings up another enemy. Stronger enemy, as an extra note.
Because of that, the first knight's mission of life is passed down his family members.
His son gained trusts and faiths from people around the world in which will help his own son whom will be the second knight after his grandfather.
And that second knight is Monkey D. Luffy with the second enemy, Marshall D. Teach who was waiting to finally find the rarest dark-type devil fruit; Yami Yami no Mi.
After being entitled as the Pirate King and discovering the truths along with his crew, the five leaders of the World Government panicked of what will happen next. Teach is angered because the chance of him ruling the whole world is slim to none.
I don't know why Gorosei is panicking. Read further into this fic. Thank you.
And because of anger, Teach sent back the Straw Hat Pirates, along with his crew and himself to the past. With intention of starting a war bigger than the war at marineford, Teach emerges himself with himself from the past, so did his crew members.
Eventhough Edward Newgate and Portgas D. Ace didn't die in the time zone Teach sent future Luffy and the rest to, is that enough to ensure the side of the knight will win?
With two Luffy (s), I bet my money and meat that they (knight side) will surely win!
A/N: I don't know anything else. But this is an official prologue. ... I guess.