If there is one sin that condemns me that sin is sloth, seriously.

Sorry for the wait guys, but I'm really lazy sometimes but be know that I'm not dead and this fic is not dropped (yet). The only thing is that it won't have a fixed released date for new chapters, so yeah... my bad.

DISCLAIMER: I don't know if I should do this or not but whatever, I don't own anything here apart from my OC's.

May have grammar errors

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"Did you get everything?"

The soft wind blew and the sun with his warm light was high, the azure of the sky matched that of the sea in a mirror-like scene worthy of the word breathtaking, the clearest and beautiful day to date that year.

To the people in Dragon Island that had experienced the pirate event the day prior that was a sign of good luck and prosperity, a day of happiness you could say.

But to Branca that day was not a happy one, because that was the day that her father-in-law Garp was going to depart, and with him her most precious person, her son Lucas, is going away too.

The mother and son duo were standing at the pier, behind them the giant marine ship already fully prepared to sail was just waiting for the new soon to be marine Lucas give his final departing words to his mother.

"Yes mother, everything that I need is right here" said Lucas as he lifted a somehow big suitcase with his left hand, a thing that he did with ease thanks to his new-found draconic strength.

"Everything?" asked his mother raising an eyebrow.

"Everything"

"Toothbrush?"

"Yes"

"Toothpaste?"

"Yes"

"Soap?"

"Yes"

"A clean change of clothes?"

"Yep"

"Including the new pair of underwear I bought?"

"Especially those" answered a half-smiling Lucas.

"Good" smiling Branca caressed her son cheeks "You are growing up, already leaving home out to explore the sea… just like Luciano did in your age"

'Mother…'

Seeing the sad look on his mother eyes at the mention of his father made Lucas feel a pang of guilt inside of him, she already lost one loved one to the sea and the life of a marine, and here as him going to the sea to be a marine just as his father did.

While she was happy for him she was worried too, the fear of never seeing a loved person was something he understood very well, making his heart warm but also even more guilty at the same time.

"Mother!"

Dropping the suitcase in a flash Lucas embraced his mother in a tight and heartfelt hug that overwhelmed the white-haired woman, Branca was stunned for a second before returning the hug with the boundless love that only a mother could have as she smiled at her son.

The hug lasted two minutes where no word had been said as they are not needed at that moment, the feelings shared at that hug already said many things.

Whistle

Branca stood there at the pier alone as she watched the ship depart from the island, her son appeared at the side of the ship as he gazed at her with a warm smile "I will write letters!" shouted the young man as the ship vanished from view.

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Knock! Knock!

"Huh?"

Lucas that was daydreaming inside one of the rooms of the ship woke up after hearing someone knock at the door, the room that his grandpa gave him was what one would expect from the marines, relatively small without much decoration but clean and cozy enough.

Opening the door Lucas came to face with a serious-looking man, a marine coat draped over a beige suit with a matching hat on his head which shadowed his eyes and a grey hilt katana in his left hip. The man was the right-hand man of his grandpa Garp, name Bogard.

"Hi Mr. Bogard" greeted Lucas with a small smile, he had met the man early on in life so he is already used to this perpetual scowl.

Bogard looked at the white-haired young man and said in his usual tone.

"Vice-Admiral Garp was sent me to get you"

"Ok"

Closing the door of the room Lucas followed the serious man through the ship, passing many busy marines in the process.

It had already been three days since they had departed from his home in Dragon Island, this is the longest time that Lucas had spent inside a ship, and the marine ship is certainly not a normal one.

Bigger than what he had imagined back on his last life the ship was really just like a floating fortress from his perspective, marines of all types walked back and forth inside the ship as they carry their duties, and they would salute Bogard as they passed by him

A novel scene for a normal person like him.

"So, what is like being my grandpa's right-hand man?" asked Lucas as they walk past a saluting marine.

"Working with vice-admiral Garp is one of the best decisions I possibly ever made, he is a real leader model that I think that many should follow, his way of doing things may sound eccentric but they are straightforward and is not hindered by other people opinions … although I think that he needs to revise his habit of dropping his paperwork on me all the time" said Bogard with a small smile in the end that looked more like a smirk.

"Hahaha Knowing my grandpa that most likely is not gonna happen"

His grandpa Garp and paperwork really don't work well, Lucas could remember a time when he was little where his mother asked his grandpa to help sort some papers from the bakery, only to him sleep with the still young Lucas on top of him just a minute after 'That was one good nap'

Just as he thought that the two arrived on the deck where his grandpa Garp was waiting by the side of the mainmast, his big smile on his face as always.

"Oi Lucas, come here"

"Thanks for the talk Mr. Bogard, I will meet my grandpa now" said Lucas to the serious man who returned a nod before going back inside, probably returning to a pile of paperwork "Hi Grandpa"

"Good to see you up already, come take a sit" His grandpa was wearing his usual vice-admiral clothes, nothing really special as he gestured to the seat next to him "So how does feel to be so far from home? Away from your mother?"

"Well the first night was a little weird, but I'm getting used to it" answered Lucas as he sat on his grandpa's side.

This is the most away from Dragon Island that he got in this life, this let him excited and nervous at the same time after all this is his first time doing something like this be on this life on the previous one.

"But I still miss mom, although I'm certain of what I want is still not easy to let go of this feeling"

"You should not get too worried about this as what you feel is something very normal, in fact, I would say that you already dealing WAY better than some of the recruits we get" Garp smirked at the memory of the recruits crying even after months away from home "Whe're only a few minutes away from arriving in our goal, so I will explain a few things for you"

Lucas nodded

"The minimal age to enter the marine is sixteen, so you with fifteen will need to wait at least one year before joining" explained Garp with his arms crossed "Of course I would not be bothered by this detail and would have let you join as you are right now, My grandson finally said that he wants to be a marine I would let NOTHING delay this glorious moment!... but considering your new-found gift I think is better for you to wait one year before joining"

"Yes" Lucas nodded while smiling at his grandpa's antics.

He had really nothing to say about his grandpa's one-year training idea, getting used to his powers was something in his mind since the moment he had gotten them.

"Yeah, I don't really have that much of a grasp of my powers right now, that day I just… followed the my instincts I guess"

"The Lightning Dragon fruit… a mythical-zoan, those are really hard to come by I only personally know one person who had one of those, all who had eaten this type of fruit had turned in some heavyweights in their own right" said Garp with a serious expression before launching a boisterous laugh "Bwahaha I'm proud knowing that you ate one of those, another great marine will appear on my family!"

"Haha I'm happy for you grandpa, I can just think that you will be even happier when Luffy joined us as a marine" said Lucas with a smirk on his face as he saw his grandpa turn from happy into angry in a flash, almost like magic.

Although he had never met his rubber head cousin he had already heard of him from his mother and grandpa, which is really a novel feeling considering that Luffy is such a key person for this world.

Hearing how he stubbornly want to be a pirate is really amusing, more amusing is his grandpa's reaction to that. Lucas better than anyone know that is easier to go back to his old world than convince Luffy of being a marine, but is just so funny that he can't help but pretend that is possible just to see his grandpa reaction

"HAAAAAAA That thick-headed Luffy is still caught up with that silly idea of becoming a pirate. I knew that guy was a bad influence, DAMN YOU RED-HEAD! If one day I got my hands on you I will-"

At that point Garp started cursing Shanks like there is no tomorrow, only stopping ten minutes later when Lucas called him back to reality as believed that the red haired had been 'praised' enough.

"Cough So grandpa, back on the topic about my powers. What kind of training you have in mind for me?" asked Lucas after calming down his grandpa from his fury reverie.

"Oh that is quite simple actually" Said Garp with his usual smile, making one forget that he was cursing someone just a few seconds before "Mythical-zoan really are like two or more powers for the price of one, which means that you need to get used to two powers at the same time instead of one"

"That is simple?" Lucas raised an eyebrow at that "That wouldn't mean I need double the effort to get the hang of my powers?"

"You would be right if you didn't have me!" Garp only smiled at his grandson as he patted his chest "My training technique will ensure that you master your powers, even if you had more powers that would not be a problem for me!"

"Really?"

Lucas gave his grandpa a skeptical look as a strange uneasy feeling came to him for some reason. That feeling became stronger after a buff marine came to his grandpa saying:

"Sir we have arrived in our destination"

"Yosh!"

Without giving his grandson a second to question it Garp grabbed the white-haired young man by the shoulder before dragging him around, his iron grip was something impossible to escape even for someone with draconic strength like Lucas.

"There is no better training to kids like you that passing some time alone in the wild!"

"HUH?!"

Dazed for a second Lucas looked to the side finally seeing the island that they had arrived.

From where he was on the ship the island didn't seem to be big, roughly the same size was his home Dragon Island, with tall green trees and distant roars of ferocious animals there was no mistaken this was a desert island!

A few seconds passed and the dots connected inside Lucas's head making him realize what his grandpa was about to do with him

"G-Grandpa lets talk about this a litt-"

Whhoosh!

Before he could even realize Lucas felt his body being hurled through the air like a bullet, time seemed to slow down as he flew above the water and watched dazed the smiling face of his grandpa that was still in a throwing pose

Whistle

Time returned to normal as he fell in a bush at the island's shore.

Still a little dazed Lucas poked his head out the bush only to see his grandpa Garp waving at him from the ship while shouting

"I need to go back to the base, drop some pirates and to talk with Sengoku about your condition. But don't worry! I will be back in a week or two, until there try to get used to your powers"

"BWAHAHAHAHA!"

Garp fell in another of his boisterous laughs as the ship slowly sailed from the island until eventually vanishing on the horizon, leaving a dazed Lucas behind to fend for himself in the desert island.

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Lucas stood dazed there on the shore of the island a good ten minutes after his grandpa's ship vanished from his view, after recovering from that he shook his head and said smiling

"Should I be surprised? He did the same thing with Luffy, there's no reason why he would not the same with me. Hahaha In fact, it make even more sense to do this with me considering the type of fruit that I had eaten. But man, he got me good"

Turning back Lucas faced the forest, the soft wind passed through him as he listened to the distant roars that came from the depths of the island. Anxiety and excitement mixed at that moment making the dragon inside him tremble in expectation.

Lifting his right hand Lucas tapped into his powers making his hand be coated in blue lightning.

"Time to grind a little"

Dispelling the lightning Lucas walked into the forest, with no one living on the island the forest was left untouched for a very long time making it even more dense than normal, luckily Lucas had lived on an island with his own somehow untouched forest making him already used to walk thought one.

"Good time are those of hiding-and-seek inside the woods near the mayor's house"

Seeing a lush apple at the top of a tree made his empty stomach growled a little, without taking his eyes from the apple Lucas jumped from where he was and grabbed the apple from the tree.

A jump of more than five meters as done by him with the same ease as one would walk down a stair step,

Looking at the height that he had jumped Lucas smirked "Impressive, but still far from enough"

Giving the apple a bite Lucas started to jump back and forth around the forest, honestly looking like a shadow as he tried to make bigger jumps each time, excitement rushing through him as the wind smashed at his face

"I wonder if this is what the ninjas in Naruto would feel when traveling through the trees"

Landing in a nearby rock Lucas forced even more strength in his legs and then jumped high into the air, passing through the treetops he gazed at a tall hill near an open shore "A good place to make a base"

Falling back down Lucas made his way to the hill, thankfully it wasn't too far so he arrived in less than a minute.

The hill was around the height of the trees and had a green open space that led to the sandy shore in the front and the dense forest in the back.

"And being so near the shore probably means that not many big animals will come here" Lucas walked to a nearby giant rock as he gazed around "Well this will be the place 'looked at the sunset' is getting late, better I start to set camp"

With some wood that he grabbed from the forest and with a lightning spark Lucas made a campfire near the giant rock atop the hill.

While sitting near the fire with his back to the rock he munched a few fruits before grabbing his trusted notebook from his pocket "Grandpa left me here with only my clothes, luckily I prefer to have you with me all the time"

A few minutes passed as he wrote about his day in his journal, making a small draw of him being throw by his grandpa in the end before closing

"Sigh What a day, honestly this feels so surreal, being here and all is something that I had never imagined that would happen to me. *looking at the fire* Grandpa is right, before doing anything I need to at least get the basics of my powers"

"Living in a world where you know the future is really something different, I think people in this situation would normally either try to prevent bad things from happening or try to make sure that everything goes as the cannon said it would"

Lucas lifted his head to look at the clear night sky.

"I know that I'm not some type of destined savior so I will not try to prevent all bad things from happening, but I'm also not stupid to think that everything will stay the same. If I had learned something from flashpoint is that even the smallest ripples can make a lot of changes, the simple fact that I exist in this world right now had already changed many things that I don't know"

Lucas shook his head "Sigh I like to think that I'm just someone pitied by God who then decided to give me a second chance, this is my chance to live a fulfilling life. I will become a marine, explore the world, and avenge my father. I'm soft-hearted so If I had the power to change things for the better I will do that, if not, Well… at least I would have the clarity of mind that I had tried"

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Whistle

The wind blew and the fire cracked.

The sky in the world of One Piece was worlds apart from that of Earth, very clean and beautiful as the many stars in the sky shined in an entrancing way.

The white haired young man gazed at the stars as he pondered about his future, unknowingly making his blues eyes flash with lightning and turn into the eyes of a dragon.

They glowed with power in the same entrancing way that the stars above did.

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So yeah, our MC had departed from his home in Dragon Island, finally embarking on his real journey in this world. Garp and his way of training is something I think everyone had seen in the cannon, I thought that would be a funny scene to recreate with Lucas. The monologue, in the end, was also something that I really wished to bring at some point, this is his second and for all, we know last chance in life, so he gotta make the most of it.

Like he said while he will try to change things for the better if possible but that will not be his main concern, is mains concern is simply to live this life to the best of his ability, becoming a marine hero like his grandpa and father being something on the top of his list, he will not refrain himself from doing things just to preserve the cannon, thing that is already impossible considering he is there.

Thanks for reading! Comment if you feel like it.