Here I'm again, sorry guys for the wait but I was kinda out of ideas for this chapter, but here is now, the biggest chapter I had written to date. It's honestly a really fun chapter to write, so hope everyone like it
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.
Sorry for any grammar errors
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June 1517 - Unknown Desert Island, Grand Line
As the sun rose in the horizon his warm light chased away the earlier coldness that lingered from the night, the morning wind blew through the tree branches bringing a calm and refreshing feeling as it passed through the forest and hill until finding its way to a lonely figure sleeping beside a rock, the figure of a white haired young man.
The figure was of course Monkey D. Lucas, the person left behind alone in this island by his grandpa Garp.
After passing a good part of the night pondering about his future Lucas fell asleep beside the rock, but as the sun rose in the horizon so he rose from his sleep. Sitting up he raised his arms and stretched them, he opened his mouth letting out a low draconic roar instead of a yawn surprising him a lot "That's new"
Rising to his feet he gazed at his humble camp before going to the woods behind the hill to pick some fruits for breakfast, a few minutes later while walking back he heard a faint sound of running water, following the sound he stumbled into a small hidden creek behind a tree
"Almost missed it, looks like I can put enhanced hearing to my list of powers" said him smiling.
Walking to the creek Lucas splashed a handful of water in his face, and then gulped down another three before going back to his camp. Later after wolfing down the equivalent of a mountain in fruits he walked down the hill to the green space before it and stood at its center.
"For more that I want to go to the depths of the forest to fight some of the big animals there I need first get a better hand of my powers. The earlier clash against the pirates may have seemed impressive but it was more the dragon instincts doing things than me, I was just going along with it" He stretched a bit "Let's begin with what I know"
Closing his eyes and calming himself Lucas started to call upon his powers.
For those who hadn't eaten a devil fruit this is a very hard to understand feeling, the power that suddenly appears inside you after eating one these things is something really mystical. It was if an organ that you always had but never felt or knew about it decided to finally make his presence known, an organ that you can feel and interact with it.
Reaching that organ Lucas started to feel a type of heat spread through his body seemingly from nowhere, nothing he had felt before came close to this feeling in his body, a feeling of power. Looking from outside small sparks of blue energy started to appear around his body before bursting into lightning.
"I will never get tired of this feeling..."
Opening his eyes he looked at the lightning coiling around him, glowing with energy as if showcasing its power to the world.
This scene of the lightning around him is something that he would never forget in his life. The feeling of power around him so intoxicating that it took a lot of willpower to no just start running around breaking things
"Calm down Lucas… don't start running like an idiot, this is something Luffy would do"
Closing his eyes again Lucas now used his will to dispel the lightning around him, the energy around him started to diminish before vanishing completely in a few seconds.
The absence of lightning around him felt strange for some reason. Then still with his eyes closed he tapped again at his power and called the lightning again.
Zap! Zap! Zap!
Calling and dispelling.
For about four hours Lucas repeated this same process over and over again nonstop.
Sometimes he would try to call the lightning in a lower intensity making it look like a thin blue layer of energy around his body, others he would go in the other direction and try to raise the intensity of the lightning. Those times the lightning would burst all around his body making him look like a beacon.
"Hmm… this could be actually quite handy when out in the sea amidst a storm".
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Only when the sun arrived in the middle of the sky at noon did the white haired young man stopped his training.
"Sigh calling and dispelling is not hard" he sighed again as he started to walk to his hidden creek "Controlling the intensity, on the other hand, is a bit tricky".
Entering the woods behind the hill he jumped over a giant exposed root before resuming his walk.
"To control the intensity I need to think about it in a more focused way, to use my will to tell the lightning the output that it should have, which was more hard to do get at first than I initially thought" brushing a nearby tree branch aside he smirked "But I will eventually get the hang of it"
Arriving at the hidden creek Lucas splashed a few hands of water in his face and gulped down another few before walking away to gather a few fruits for a midday lunch, returning to his camp with another bunch of fruits he sat by the rock and started to eat.
"Thankfully this island that grandpa left me is full of fruits all over it, I wonder if this was intentional or just an accident…" he munched an orange before looking at leftovers beside him "Now that I think about it, my hunger had grown a lot since my arrival in this world hasn't it?… could this be a side effect of being a Monkey D. ?"
Things in the world of One Piece can get a little exaggerated at some points, the amount of food a person could eat is one of them, his family was a very good example of that.
Luffy for one could easily eat until his belly literally turned round thanks to his rubber body, and his grandpa Garp was not far behind as even though he didn't have a rubber body he would never miss a chance to eat. He didn't know about his uncle Dragon, but from what his mother told him his father Luciano when alive could eat just as much as his grandpa Garp.
"Well, It's not that bad of a trait so I really don't care much"
Saying that he finished eating his fruits, rested for a few minutes before walking down back to the green space near the hill. Walking to a spot with some scattered rocks he raised his right hand
Tapping into his powers he called his lightning forward again, this time whoever he used his will to call the lightning at his raised right hand.
The feeling was just like the earlier one around his body but in a focal way, he could feel his hand trembling in excitement at the power gathered around it, almost if it could not wait to unleash that energy at something.
Zap!
The lightning zapped from his hands at the rock in a literal flash, cracking the human size rock instantly. The straight line coursed by the lightning was still hot from the lingering heat from his attack, only a few seconds later did it return to normal.
Just like that the rock was not more.
"Wow…"
Lucas looked at the shattered rock before him in wonder, the fact that he already had technically destroyed an entire ship with his lightning didn't diminished the awe that he was feeling. Be the thunder crack or the lightning flash everything as awesome, more so considering he was the one doing it.
"Let's do it again"
Zap!
Zap!
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An hour later of Lucas repeating the same process over and over again he stopped with the simple zaps and decided to try something different.
Preparing himself he brought his hands close to one another and started to gather lightning in them, the blue energy surged in an intense but more concentrated way between his hands, the willpower necessary this time was a lot more than before, he could feel the lightning wanting to burst from his hand before he completed his preparations
"Focus… Focus… "
Four minutes later when the lightning started to appeal unstable he moved!
Thrusting both his hands forward he launched the lightning at another nearby rock.
This time his target was a rock about three times the size of a normal human, the lightning launched this time was about four to five times thicker than his previous ones.
An web crack start to spread through the rock from the point of impact in a very strange manner before bursting.
Boom!
With a loud thunder rumble, the rock was destroyed, but different from the previous ones not completely.
"Huh.. huh…. "
Lucas gasped for air with his hands in his knees for balance after his concentrate attack, sweat dripping from his forehead as he stared straight ahead at the rock "That… that was way more hard than I thought, a moment there I thought that the lightning would burst at my face"
The last attack was way stronger than the previous ones and should have completely destroyed the rock just like previous ones, but it had not, showing that Lucas's control of this attack still needed work.
"Anyway that was my first try" getting his bearing back Lucas started to look for another rock the size of that one to try it again "I will keep trying until I drop!"
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My days of training alone on this island in God knows what part of the Grand Line went by without too much trouble.
I would wake with the sun then grab some fruits to eat, after that I would go back to my training and only stop when my body would not move anymore, which I gonna say is something I never thought would be doing.
My second and third training days followed a very similar flow to my first one, after breakfast I would start with about two hours of calling and dispelling my lightning, simple stuff just for a warming up.
After that I would start the real training, like trying to use my head to come up with new ways of lightning release apart from the usual hand raised single shot forward.
That focused lightning I pulled in the first day still tricked me for a time, is hard to really describe the feeling of trying to hold pure energy in one place without letting it burst into your face, it was like… like trying to hold together two repelling magnets close to each other.
I know it was a bad example, but what I can do?
Luckily for me the devil fruit powers are just like any other skill you normally would have, the more you practice with it the better you would get. As that old phrase would say 'practice makes perfect', so I eventually got the hang of that, which means that fewer rocks would survive my passing.
Not forgetting the biggest strength of a Zoan user I also started to put my dragon muscles to work after finishing training with lightning.
Now to make things very clear let me say that I'm a complete layman when it comes to physical training, the only type of physical exercise I did in my entire life was walking, which means I have absolutely no fucking idea what is the correct way of doing this.
The result was I standing there for a few minutes looking around awkwardly, not knowing how to start, just after a while did I walked over to another of my stone friends and tried to get him up.
I'm not too sure what is the exact weight of the rock that I'm lifting, but if I to guess would probably be about a ton and a half.
Now if I was doing this back on Earth where the world record of weightlifting was less than half a ton I would be jumping around in joy, but I was not on Earth, my new home is a world where the boundary's the human body had is set a "little" higher. Lifting a weight of more than a ton may still see amazing to the normal folk, but those with real power won't find that amazing
Oh well, that's just warming up anyway
From time to time during my training I would also change into a hybrid to also train in that form, after all the main purpose of my devil fruit is to turn myself into a dragon. My first transformation was done in a rush of adrenaline so I didn't get to really feel the changes on my body, but now that I'm alone on this island I got to do just that, and boy I will be damned if I say is not a good feeling!
One would assume that the process of turning into a humanoid dragon would feel painful or strange, but the fact is that's not, you only really need a thought and the power of the zoan would do it's magic, just a few seconds later I already was the Dragonoid that is my hybrid form, the tail and pair of wings acting fluidly like if I was born with these three extra arms.
Around my fourth training day after I got better control of my lightning, I decided to try mold my lightning in different shapes that It's usual bolt form.
Cupping my hand I tried to use my will to mold the lightning in a sphere form, a thing that was both hard and easy at the same time.
The now very familiar sparks of blue energy started to appear from between my hands, the lightning then started to flow in a different way from my focused stunt from earlier, following my will the lightning formed into the shape of blue glowing energy sphere.
To be honest, it looked really beautiful.
Zap!
Hurling my lightning Rasengan forward at a giant tree in front of me I saw the sphere hit the trunk right in the middle, the impact made a gaping spherical hole in the tree which fell to the ground just a moment later.
Eating, training, writing in my journal and sleeping. That's how my days on the island passed, and honestly, I almost had not felt the days passing during this time.
At first the trepidation of being alone here in this island made me nervous, after all, I was just a normal guy my entire life, even after I was born in this world that didn't change, only now after being dumped in this island by my grandpa did I really start to feel different from before.
The idea of what type of strong foes I may fight in the future with my gains from this training really excites me.
Was this a part of me that I never knew or just my Monkey D. blood acting? Was this what those battle-hungry characters would feel?
If it is I may soon call myself battle addicted, and I didn't even have had a single fight yet!
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Unknown Desert Island, Grand Line
After twelve training days alone on the island Lucas decided to try his hand with one of the wild animals inside the forest.
"Twelve days on this island and I hadn't seen a single wild animal, this is strange" the white-haired young man gulped a little as he faced the depths of the forest behind his hill "I doubt grandpa will be happy when he returns and hear that I didn't fight a single wild animal by myself"
Going from his small hidden creek Lucas walked deep into the forest while feeling mixed waves of nervousness and excitement, with his heightened senses he walked with his attention focused on sensing the presence of some wild animal hiding in the forest.
After a few minutes walking in silence Lucas ended up find himself in a more open area at the side of the stream of water.
in this part of the forest the leaves almost blocked all the sunlight, only a few beams of light would pass the treetops making the place have a dim light that would make anyone there feel a little nervous.
'A footprint…' While remembering himself of his powers to dispel some his nervousness Lucas walked to a footprint near the water, and while not a master hunter he still could tell from the paw shape of it that it was left there by some type of big cat 'Looking at the size of this, I can only imagine the size of the guy who left it'
Crack
Like a needle falling in the middle of a quiet room during a terror movie, the sound of a branch breaking made Lucas almost jump out of his skin.
'Where?!'
Thought the white haired young man as he frantically looked around, his enhanced sense kicked in high gear as he tried to find the source of the sound in the silent forest 'Focus Lucas… Focus…'
WHOOSSHH!
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Suddenly he felt a chill like no other he had ever felt his life, his dragon instincts kicked in hard and he rolled to the side to dodge whatever was trying to lung at him from behind, he succeeded, but not completely.
"Ughh!" G
Moaned Lucas in pain as he felt something sharp graze his left leg, clearly he didn't dodge fast enough.
Turning back Lucas saw his attacker, a being with a giant body with orange fur and black stripes, big paws with sharp claws, a face with long fangs and a pair of piercing yellow eyes that practically glowed.
A Tiger
"That's one big kitty"
Murmured Lucas has gazed at the majestic being before him, what else could he say? Tigers on Earth being the biggest wild cats were already really big, that was known fact, but the tiger before him clearly took this title a little too far, Lucas literally had to lift his head to look into the eyes of the forest king before him.
Silence
The tension at in the air became tick as the two tried to get a feel on the other in silence, a few sparks coiled around Lucas while the tiger's claws grazed the ground at his feet, cat yellow eyes gazed into draconic grey eyes in a silent standoff of wills.
At some point a small leaf silently fell from a tree and touched Lucas's neck from behind making his will waiver for a moment, and his opponent, of course, would not let that chance pass.
ROAR!
The tiger dashed at Lucas in a speed that clearly should not be possible for a creature that big, his sharps fangs glistened with a cold light as he advanced at Lucas's direction, the white-haired young man quickly took a hold of himself after his mishap and also attacked.
Thrusting his right hand forward in a way already engraved in his mind he launched an [Lightning] at the dashing tiger, but the big cat instinct proved just as sharp as his dragon ones. Jumping to the side the tiger dodged the [Lightning] and took the chance to lung at the young man
"Dammit!"
Using his enhanced reflexes Lucas rolled forward and passed bellow the giant lunging tiger, dodging the front paws and mouth but failing to dodge the next move of the tiger.
POW
In another show of speed the tiger used his hinder legs and smashed Lucas sending him fly backward.
Thud
"ARGH!"
Cried Lucas in pain as his back hit the tree in an impact that made him feel the metal taste of blood in his mouth.
He would be lying if he said he was someone used to pain because he was not, what he was feeling now was by far the sharpest pain he ever felt, the tiger packed a mean punch and if not for his body been enhanced by the dragon fruit he would feel more than just a sharp pain
'I need to get used to this'
Raising his head Lucas saw the tiger almost atop of him which as not good, the tiger brought his pawn down at Lucas who seeing the attack decided to use one of the tiger moves and jumped to the side and dodged the attack, but ended up still receive a scratch.
[Lightning Dragon fist]
Focusing his lightning at his fist Lucas punched the tiger at the shoulder. Now normally a young man punching a tiger would only tickle the animal a bit, luckily Lucas was not a normal young man and his punch was not a normal one.
ROAR!
The tiger roared at the acute pain from the lightning powered punch of the white-haired young man, the tiger was thrown to the side showcasing that the draconic strength of Lucas was really no joke.
Getting back at his feet the tiger looked at Lucas has he reevaluated the human strength, the strange light similar to that of the angry heavens hurt more than he had expected.
ROAR!
The tiger roared angrily as he gazed at Lucas.
"Haha what's wrong kitty? Something stung you?" said Lucas smirking at the tiger.
The tiger didn't take lightly the provocation and dashed at Lucas again, learning from his previous mistake Lucas jumped backward while preparing another attack, raising his hand he hurled another [Lightning] like a spear at the tiger. The lightning grazed the tiger at the head and made him tumble a little, but in he didn't seem to be very affected and dashed again at Lucas's direction.
Lucas now in the ground took hold of the chance showed by the tiger tumbling and used another skill.
After days of training his [Lightning Cannon] formed from between his hands after just a few seconds. Throwing his hands forward the attackzipped in a straight line and hit the feet of the tiger causing a flash alongside a cloud of dust that engulfed the tiger.
"Huff... Huff…"
While gasping for air the eyes of the white-haired young man didn't leave the cloud of dust as he waited to see what happened to the tiger. He started to prepare another [Lightning Cannon] for good measure when he felt something coming at him from the side
"?!"
Turning his head he saw the tiger lunging at him with his mouth open from a nearby bush
'He used the cloud of dust as a cover and then his speed to make a detour and sneak attack me when my guard was down!'
Quickly thought Lucas after seeing the tiger action, at that moment he honestly wanted to compliment the tiger for this move but he didn't have the time as said tiger was already atop of him!
'I will need to tank this one!'
With the tiger already atop of him Lucas was not be able to dodge, raising his arm to shield his head he hurriedly called his inner dragon out and braced himself for the attack.
ROOAARR!
CLANG!
He felt the mouth of the tiger closing on his raised arm but it was not what he expected, the searing pain didn't came, he only heard a sound of hitting metal from above him. Opening his eyes Lucas saw the tiger up close with his giant mouth around his raised arm, stunned Lucas looked at his arm and saw that it had now turned into his dragon form.
'How is this possible? ...'
Lucas looked stunned at his arm completely covered in black scales and his hand that had turned into a dragon claw, he didn't knew if it was possible to only turn a part of his body at a time, a very welcoming surprise.
Looking at the eyes of the tiger he saw the animal's surprise at the current development, seeing this Lucas smirked and lifted his arm and the tiger along with it "What's wrong kitty? Don't like the taste of my dragon scales?!"
Lucas, of course, would not lose this chance go.
Not leaving the tiger a moment to react he raised his other arm which was also transformed and with a Loud dragon roar he gave a very strong uppercut at the tiger's jaw sending the king of the jungle flying upwards in a show of pure primal strength.
RoooOOOaaRR!
The tiger roared in pain as he was hurled into the air by the young man's punch.
'This really isn't a normal human' thought the tiger 'This… This is a beast just like me, but disguised in the form of a human!
"Roar!"
Giving in to his inner dragon Lucas roared and jumped after the flying tiger, his right claw raised in a full power [Lightning Dragon fist] at the side of the tiger.
The blow landed perfectly at the tiger's body and for a moment the two foes stopped at the middle of air as the blow connected and sent the crying tiger flying like a bullet, only stopping when it hit a giant tree at the side of the battlefield with a loud bang.
"Cough! Agh… Cough…"
After landing in a not so graceful way Lucas spat the blob of blood that was in his mouth.
Raising his head he looked at the fallen tiger figure a sense of pride came to him as the realization that he defeated that giant of a beast alone finally registered in his mind.
Laughing through the pain Lucas saw the chest of the tiger still raising meaning he was still alive, the idea of finishing the already defeated tiger came to his mind for a moment, but that line of thought left a bad taste In his mouth worse than the blood he was already tasting.
"Winning this one is already enough for me… "
Gasping a little more for breath Lucas prepared to leave the area, walking he looked back and saw the still opened eyes of the tiger gazing at his departing figure. Lucas couldn't say what the forest king was feeling, but he was sure it was something complex, after all, he probably had never lost a fight in his life.
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The White-haired young was almost leaving when he saw something that made him stop on his track.
He saw that the tree hit by the tiger cracked and start to give in.
That giant in form of a tree would fall atop the fallen tiger bellow it. The tiger also seemed to notice that as he struggled to move from out the way of the tree in a desperate manner, but his majestic strength left him after the fight, no matter how he struggled his body didn't move out of the way. He already started to feel the taste of death.
But the tiger forgot he was not alone there.
[Lightning Cannon]!
When the tree was almost atop of him something unexpected happened, a beam of familiar blue light zipped above him from somewhere and hit the falling tree, blowing it way from where he was.
Confused the tiger looked where the light of the angry heavens came and saw the white haired human that had defeated him just a few moments earlier with his hands raised in his direction. Was he that saved his life? But why?
Looking at the tiger's eyes Lucas guessed what probably be was thinking, with a smile he said.
"This is your home, I invaded and you attacked me, I can't hold a grudge against that" Walking way Lucas shouted to tiger without turning back "Besides you gave me a really good first fight, maybe we could do a repeat later"
The tiger stood there in silence as he watched the back of the white-haired young man disappear at the forest, respect was evident in his eyes as he gazed at the young man.
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"I'm dead!"
Returning to his camp Lucas fell dead at the side of his bead (aka. Giant rock), there was not a single muscle on his body that didn't hurt at that moment, but even if his body was bad his mind couldn't be in better shape.
"That's was a real fight, I couldn't have imagined that fighting was so exciting, no wonder so many people liked to fight so much. It's actually really fun, even considering the fact It fucking hurts-ouch"
Grumbling a little in pain Lucas gazed at that now darkening sky and using what strength he had left he took his journal from the side of the rock and started to write down what happened with him that day, finishing with a small drawn of the tiger at the end of the entry.
"I wonder when grandpa will come back… "
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So yeah that's the chapter, our MC training with his recently acquired powers with a fight against a giant tiger in the end. Honestly, I don't think I'm good with fighting scenes, so I would like to ask what your guys thought of it. Before anyone asks the tiger will appear again, and will need a name, the next chapter will have the next part of our dear Lucas training as his grandpa Garp will be returning.
So yeah leaver your comments if you feel like it, constructive critics are welcomed.
Trivia:
This is NOT an SI, the MC Lucas is based on me, has the same name as me, but he is not me. At the max you could say this is a half SI, his name could mean both 'bright' or 'shining' which fit well with his powers and look. The MC father Luciano's name has a very similar meaning as his name can mean 'light' or 'illumination' The MC mother Branca is based on Mirajane Strauss from Fairy Tail and her name literally means 'white' in Portuguese.