It had been a day since Luffy and his crew set off from Cocoyashi and everyone were doing their own thing. Gin was keeping an eye out for enemy ships, Johnny and Yosaku were dueling each other, Zoro was taking a nap, Usopp was making his special tobasco star, Nami was arguing with a News Coo about the price of the newspaper, Nojiko was tending to the tangerine trees planted above the cabin, and Luffy was being himself as he tried to get a tangerine, only for Sanji to kick him away right into Usopp, who was splashed in the eyes with his tobasco star.

"Can't I have one?" Luffy asked as Usopp cried out in pain.

"NO!" Sanji shouted as he stood between Luffy and the trees. "These are Nami's and Nojiko's tangerine orchard. I won't let anyone lay a finger on them!" he shouted before his eyes turned into hearts and he looked back and forth between both of them. "Nami! Nojiko! Can you see how well I'm protecting your trees?!"

"Yes Sanji. We can see." Nojiko said as Nami smiled.

"Thank you Sanji. Keep up the good work." Nami called, making Sanji hold his chest as he fell over in happiness.

"Ahh, to be praised by you two is nothing short of utter joy." he said.

'He's whipped.' thought the other crew members.

"Eh, I'm happy." Luffy said before he grinned.

"The world today is a turbulent place." Nami said as she flipped a page in her newspaper. When she did, a small piece of paper fluttered out, getting Luffy's attention. He, Nami, and Usopp watched it flutter to the ground before yelling out.

"NO WAY!" Luffy yelled with a huge grin.

()()()()

Back at Marine Headquaters, elite officers were gathering in a small room to discuss the affairs of East Blue by Lieutenant Commander Brannew.

"aboveBuggy the Clown. Bounty: 15,000,000 berries. Foul-Play Krieg. Bounty: 17,000,000 berries. Saw-Tooth Arlong. Bounty: 20,000,000 berries. All three, which are above the average 3,000,000 bounty for East Blue, were all defeated by the same man. The same one which also caused a major commotion on Dawn Island, in the Kingdom of Goa. Reports say that he achieved all this without taking a single scratch. Therefore, his bounty shall be a new record for East Blue: 48,000,000 berries.

()()()()

"Check it out guys! We're wanted criminals!" Luffy shouted out as he held up his wanted poster. Usopp looked at it as Luffy laughed.

"Wanted: Dead or Alive. 48...48,000,000 berries?!" Usopp shouted in surprise.

"This is so awesome!" Luffy shouted out.

"How can you think that's awesome?!" Nami yelled. "Now we'll be hunted by the Marines and bounty hunters."

"She's right about that big bro." Johnny said. "If we hadn't of met you, we'd probably take a crack at turning your head in ourselves." he said as Yosaku nodded.

"48,000,000." Gin said in an impressed tone.

"Well, no turning back now." Nojiko said as she went back to tending to the trees.

"How are you so calm?" Nami asked, ready to lose her mind.

"What's everyone yelling about?" Zoro asked as he was woken up from his nap. He was shown the reason as Johnny and Yosaku showed him Luffy's wanted poster. "Oh is that all?" he said.

"Check it out. I'm here too!" Usopp shouted out, looking giddy that people around the world would see him.

"What?!" Sanji said as he looked at it. "Where?"

"Right there." Usopp said as he pointed to the back of his head in the poster.

"It's only the back of your head." Sanji said as he pouted on the deck.

"Don't worry brother cook. Just cause enough trouble and you'll eventually get your own." Yosaku said. Sanji cheered up before he started dancing around with Johnny, Yosaku, and Usopp.

"Alright everyone! Let's go the Grand Line!"

"AYE!" they shouted. "LET'S GO TO THE GRAND LINE!" they sang as Nami put her hand to her forehead as she felt a headache coming. She tried to drown out their antics with the paper as she sat back down to read, only for her eye to catch something truly strange.

"Luffy?" she asked, getting his attention.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"What's the 'Goa Incident'?" she asked. Luffy stared at her as the others stopped dancing and looked as well.

"The what now?" Usopp asked.

"We've heard of that." Yosaku said. "But only rumors."

"What's Goa?" Nojiko asked.

"The Kingdom of Goa." Johnny said. "It's located on Dawn Island, and is said to be the most beautiful of all the places in East Blue."

"Sounds boring." Gin said before he looked back out to sea.

"Okay." Sanji said before going for another cigarette. "But what's this 'Goa Incident' that you're talking about Nami?"

"And why are you asking Luffy?" Zoro asked.

"Because according to the paper, the World Government is now saying that Luffy's the cause of it." she said as she read on. "It says that a mysterious man with a straw hat invaded the Kingdom of Goa one year ago." she said before the next part caused her to go wide-eyed before she looked at Luffy. "You attacked the Royal family?!"

"No. Just scared them." Luffy said.

"Why would you do something like that big bro?" Yosaku asked.

"I had my reasons." Luffy said.

"It doesn't sound like something you'd do." Zoro said as he was now looking at Luffy.

"Come on Captain." Nojiko said. "Why?" Luffy stood still as the wind blew around them before he sighed and sat down on the deck.

"I wanted them to know...that they weren't untouchable." he said in a low voice. "If you really want to know, I'll tell you." He left out some details, but told them about what the nobles did and why. All of them were so wrapped up in the story, they didn't notice a marine ship pull up next to them.

"It's you again!" screamed a voice. They all looked to see Fullbody on a marine ship rant about how he was going to capture them. He stopped when they looked at him, making his blood run cold. Each of them were glaring at him, clearly not wanting to deal with him after hearing what happened to Luffy.

"Piss off!" they all said in a low voice, which was enough for Fullbody and all the marines on board to sail away as quickly as possible.

"Still, I can't believe that they'd do something like that." Nojiko said.

"But now that they did, I wanna know what you did to them." Gin asked. Everyone was staring, also interested in what happened as well.

"Like I said. I scared them." Luffy said with a satisfied grin as he told them all what happened a year ago.

()()()()

Luffy, 16, was running away from some guards in Town Center with his cheeks stretched out and stuffed with food.

"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE THIEF!" one of the guards yelled before they started shooting at him. Luffy merely smiled before running through an alley. He stretched up to the roof just before the guards came. "Hey, where'd he go?"

"Find him! That little bastard's gonna eat everything in this city until there's nothing left!" another guard yelled before they all went off to look for Luffy. Luffy, who was watching from the roof, merely chewed his food before swallowing and grinning. Whenever he wasn't training with Garp, he'd sneak into the kingdom and steal food from a few restaurants before hiding again. Even though Garp would kick his ass for doing so, it was worth it to see all those nobles and snobs frustrated at him. While on the roof, he saw another restaurant off in the distance.

"One more, then back to the forest." Luffy said before he rocketed off towards the place. He landed on the roof of the building next to it and was about to jump through a window, but stopped when he noticed that it was closed. "That's weird." he said before he looked down and saw a horse drawn cart taking food toward High Town.

"To think that the king asked my restaurant to supply them with food." came a voice. Luffy looked down to see what looked like the owner of the restaurant smiling in glee. "Guess that straw hat wearing thief got to the other restaurants first. Still, thanks to him I was chosen to help cater the feast tonight." he said before walking back in and closing up shop.

"A feast huh?" Luffy said to himself before looking at the castle. "I know where I'm going tonight."

()()()()

Luffy snuck past all the security, and used his haki on those who saw him before they could alert anyone else, before making it to the grand hall. He was hanging off one of the chandeliers as he was looking at all the nobles, the royals, but more importantly, the food.

"Jackpot!" he whispered to himself as some drool ran down his lip. He was about to jump down and devour everything within reach, but was stopped when the king tapped his wine glass with his spoon.

"Your attention everyone." he said, stopping everyone as they looked to him. He smiled as he raised his glass. "As you all know, this feast is to celebrate the anniversary of our good fortune." he said, which caused everyone else to raise their glasses as well. "It was six years ago when a Celestial Dragon blessed us with his presence, despite the slight offense on his arrival due to that strange little nobody that sailed out to sea when they arrived." he finished in a bored tone.

'Sabo.' Luffy thought as he watched them all have the same bored expression, as if his life meant nothing. Luffy glared at them all before he noticed a certain noble amongst the people in at the massive table. He squinted his eyes to confirm his suspicions. 'That's Sabo's old man.'

"Still, all went well." the King continued. "Especially since they found no other flaw in our kingdom." he said. A young man next to him chuckled a bit, gaining everyones attention. "Is something amusing son?"

"Just thinking about those stupid pirates who 'started' the fire years ago." he said in a cocky tone. "Thanks to them, all that trash was burned away." Everyone slowly began to laugh at that as they all raised their glasses again.

"To our Kingdom!" the king said.

"To the Kingdom!" everyone said as they all tipped their glasses up to drink. Sabo's father had his eyes closed as he drink, but opened them just in time to see someone fall down in front of him.

Luffy had jumped from the chandelier and landed with a crash in front of Sabo's father, startling everyone there as they all jumped back in shock. Luffy stayed in a horse stance before slowly rising to his feet.

"What is the meaning of this?!" shouted the King. "Who are you?! Guards! Guards!" Luffy ignored this as he slowly looked up at Sabo's father. When he saw Luffy, he turned a little blue.

"I...impossible." he stuttered. "You can't be alive! You should be dead!" Luffy said nothing as he glared at him.

"Stop right there!" shouted a guard as they all surrounded Luffy. "This is the Grand Royal Hall of-" he said before all the guards fell down, foaming at the mouth. Everyone was stunned as Luffy still glared at the man, who was too paraylzed with fear to move.

"W-Who are you?!" the King asked, trying to hide his fear. Luffy kept his hat down as he looked at the King.

"A survivor of the Terminal Fire." Luffy said in a calm voice. "I heard every word you bastards said." Now a lot of them were turning blue with fear.

"E-e-e-even if that's t-t-true," one of them stuttered, clearly terrified. "N-no one will believe a-a-a nobody like y-you."

"As I am now, no." Luffy said before he showed the a smirk from under his hat. "But one day, the world will know what you all did." he said before he jumped off the table, stretched his hands out, grabbed as much food as he could, and calmly walked out of the castle like he owned the place. "Bye." he said as he ate the food and beat down every guard in his path, leaving all of the royals and nobles to wallow in fear, and bodily fluids in some cases.

()()()()

"How'd you go so long without getting a bounty before now?!" Usopp shrieked.

"They never saw my face." Luffy answered. Half the crew was staring at him in disbelief, the other with grins.

"If you ask me, they got off too easy." Zoro said.

"I agree." Gin said.

"By the way," Nami said. "Who's Sabo?" Luffy explained who Sabo was.

"YOUR BROTHER?!" they all shouted.

"Yeah. He ran away from his parents because they didn't care about him if he couldn't marry someone in the royal family." Luffy said.

"After all that you've told us, it's now hard to believe that a noble can have a heart." Sanji said.

"And those Celestial Dragon's killed him?!" Usopp yelled.

"They said they did, but they also said that a body was never recovered." Luffy said, keeping the fact that Sabo was alive to himself. "So I'm not declaring him dead yet. Anyway Nami, where are we heading to?" he asked. Nami quickly looked over some maps before finding their next destination.

"A place called Louge Town." she said. "They also call it 'the town of the beginning and end' since the last Pirate King Gold Roger was both born and executed there."

"The beginning and the end huh?" Luffy said as he grinned. "Let's go see it. The town that bore Gold Roger."

A/N: Sorry if the Goa Incident didn't impress you all. I wanted to get their snobby attitude and disregard for life down. What do you all think?