Chapter 2: Pirates' Tale Part 1
Nami's memory was up.
At Cocoyashi Village.
She was stealing a book about maps. "You need something Nami?" The elder shopkeeper asked.
"N-no...I'm fine," She lied as she hid the book in her shirt.
"Ahem..." There stood Genzo, the village chief, who picked the girl up by her shirt and took her home.
Bellemere
Former Marine
Adopted Mother of Nami and Nojiko
"Sis, did you steal again?" Child Nojiko asked. "Well, if it was me, I wouldn't get caught."
Bonk Bonk
"Ow that hurt!"
"C'mon..."
"No stealing!" Bellemere lectured.
"She's a tough woman!" Wakaba laughed.
"No joke, she's quite hot too!" Macao added with a pervy smile.
Bonk Bonk
"Don't be gross!" Nami barked with shark teeth.
Later that day, the rain started to pour.
Nami ends up throwing a temper tantrum thinking that her mother would be better off without her, which makes Bellimere angry and hurt so she sent the brat away.
"Talk about dramatic," Gajeel spoke.
Nami didn't say a word, though, she had to admit, she felt really bad for saying those awful things to her mother.
Child Nami then was found by Genzo who explains Bellimere's background, as a former marine, she fought against pirates, then one day after a bloody battle, she heard Nojiko carrying her as a baby. "No matter how hard things got, Bellimere loved you two, flesh and blood or not."
Child Nami is found by Nojiko. "Come on, Nami, our mother is waiting for us!"
"Yeah!"
Lisanna, Elfman, and Mirajane smiled at the two.
Akame couldn't help but feel a fuzzy inside as an image of her own younger sister Kurome. "Kurome..."
"Hahahaha!" A loud maniacal laugh was heard. "Listen up you lowly humans as if now, you all work under the Arlong pirates!"
"That's him!" Natsu growled with a glare.
"Who is that loudmouth?" Romeo asked looking a bit mad himself.
"Arlong..." Jimbei spoke getting most of Fairy Tail to look at him. "Kuroobi...Chew...Hachi...everyone..."
Arlong continued to threaten the villagers, saying that they must pay once per person for a family member.
"Arlong, there's smoke coming from outside the village!" A Fishman pointed out.
Nami was horrified.
Bellemere was cooking in her house, but, she does a surprise attack on Arlong, only to be overpowered herself.
Stomp Stomp Stomp
Bellemere was getting her arms stepped on hard.
Present Nami was trembling in horror.
"That bastard!" Sanji growled in anger.
Lily was disgusted. "Picking on a defenseless human is disgraceful."
Jimbei was horrified at the scene. "No...no..." Hearing about Nami's story was one thing, but, witnessing it was another story.
Aquapad was so disgusted. "That damn geezer."
Jula, Rena, and Angela turned their heads away in disgust.
Thorn was in disbelief. "Arlong...stop...stop..."
"Stop!" Genzo appeared and took the injured woman in his arms.
He began to whisper something in her ear, thinking of a plan.
Child Nami and Nojiko were found by Nako, the doctor of the village, telling the girls to leave the island.
Nami refused but, a reluctant Nojiko went along with the advice, only for them to hear Bellemere confess that she couldn't pay them.
After a touching speech, Nami and Nojiko ran to their mother in tears.
"My girls...don't...cry...I wish I could've given you better things...but, I'll be able to be a mother to you two..."
Wendy, Lucy, and present Nami were on the verge of tears, but, they had to hold them in.
Arlong approached the former marine. "Alright, you will die like a good girl."
"Very well as long as you don't hurt my daughters,"
Genzo took out two pistols and fired rashly at the Saw Fish Fishman, but, Kuroobi slashed him with his manta ray fins.
Arlong took the pistol and shot poor Bellemere in the chest causing her body to drop to the ground.
Makarov was silent at the gruesome sight.
Sanji widened with anger. "That monster..."
Luffy glared while gritting his teeth. "That bastard..."
Usagi didn't say a word, but, his face was showing anger.
Lucy and Wendy were completely horrified at the sad yet disturbing scene. "Oh no..." Both girls knew what was it like to lose a mother.
Nami was eventually taken away by Arlong's former crew member Hachi after he saw her map.
Later, Nami reveals her joining the Arlong Pirates.
"NOOOO!" Nojiko pinned her sister to the ground with an enraged look on her face. "I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU IF YOU JOIN THEM DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND! THEY KILLED BELLEMERE IN FRONT OF US! SHE DIED TO SAVE...I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU, NEVER, YOU'RE NOT MY SISTER!"
Akame, Lisanna, and Mirajane felt saddened at the sight of the two sisters fighting. To Akame, she felt hurt as she imagined herself and Kurome trying to kill each other, but, this was different.
"WHO CARES! WHY WOULD I END UP LIKE BELLEMERE IF IT GETS YOU KILLED, I DON'T WANT TO DIE LIKE THAT!" Nami abruptly declared.
There was a minute of silence until Nojiko continued to question her sister's choice with her enraged face. "How...could...you...Bellemere...GAVE HER LIFE SO THAT YOU AND I COULD ON LIVING TOGETHER!"
"That's enough, Nojiko," Genzo spoke turning away. "Leave us Nami, never set foot in this village again!"
Nami got up and ran off with a hurtful expression.
Leone glanced at the navigator. "Care to explain what that was about?"
Her question was answered when the scene changed to Nami revealing her reasons for joining the Arlong Pirates. "I will come up with the money to buy Cocoyashi Village, once I do, I'll be able to smile again."
"So, that's it," Lisanna said understanding the choice that Nami made.
Mirajane could see why Nami decided of joining the Arlong Pirates, though, she would tell there wasn't any other choice.
Other Fairy Tail wizards understood what risks the young navigator was taking.
Eight years later
Nami meets up with Luffy and his crew joining them, having a great time, and later pushing two former bounty hunters Johnny and Yasoke.
Zoro smiled a bit upon seeing his old friends.
Time passes when Nami returns to her island to visit Arlong and the other Fishmen, seeing a captured Zoro.
"Why did he call you his navigator, you can't expect me to believe you work for this guy?" Past Zoro asked.
Nami crouched down in front of the swordsman. "That's right, everything I did was all an act."
Later, Usopp was captured and taken to Arlong Park after he pulled a rescue stunt.
Nami reveals that she stabs the sniper, Fairy Tail is horrified at the scene, but, they quickly notice the blood they saw was from Nami's hand, though, Usopp fell into the water due to shock.
Arlong and his men were convinced by the trick.
"Man, I still get chills from that day," Usopp thought. "Though, Nami did pull it off, giving me time to escape."
Back at Arlong Park
Later, Nami talks with her sister Nojiko about her savings so far, only she is later confronted by a marine Nezumi.
Erza and Mest glared at the corrupted marine remembering his cruelty.
It got worse when the marine took a pistol and shot Nojiko.
Makarov was disgusted at this, hearing about the navy's corrupted nature was one thing, but, witnessing it was another.
Then, the scene changed with Nami trying to stop the villagers from fighting Arlong and his men, but to no avail, then Luffy finds her stabbing her arm where she had the Arlong tattoo.
"Luffy...help...me." She sobbed.
Luffy declared that he would make Arlong pay and he confronted him at Arlong Park.
Zoro then fought against Hachi, Sanji fought against Kuroobi, and Usopp was chased by Chew.
All three showed their struggles against the Fishmen officers.
"Those guys are tough!" Romeo said.
"Yeah, I never heard of Fishman Karate either," Laki added.
"That Hachi is pretty good with his swordsman skills," Erza said observing Zoro's fight against Hachi. Hearing about his swordsman skills was one thing, witnessing it was another.
In the end, Zoro, Usopp, and Sanji emerged as the victors.
Luffy was shown to be stuck in a block of stone, rather his feet were stuck, and was trapped in the water.
Nojiko and Genzo do what they can to help, then Sanji was able to free the captain.
Luffy saved Zoro from getting killed by Arlong, who recklessly tossed the green-haired swordsman in the air.
"That idiot!" Laxus, Freed, Evergreen, and Bickslow as Genzo and the others screamed comically.
"Yohohohoh! That's Luffy for ya!" Brook laughed in his usual way.
Zoro still felt a bit sore about his idiot captain doing that.
Natsu and Happy were laughing their heads off.
"That's so hilarious!"
"Talk about being tossed into the air!"
Leone couldn't help but laugh hard while holding her stomach. "My, that's so funny!"
Bonk Bonk Bonk
"I think we get the point!" Zoro barked with shark teeth leaving the three with red lumps on their heads.
"Hey, don't hurt a girl you muscle moss head!" Sanji scolded.
"Back the scene," Erza clapped her hands.
Luffy and Arlong begin their fight. Each was throwing fists while Arlong took a bite out of the Straw Hat's arm, but was able to get the Saw Fish Fishman's mouth off of him.
As the fight get intense, Arlong got more serious and took out his saw-like blade.
Erza was intrigued by the weapon. "That's an unusual blade."
Luffy and Arlong went inside the building, then came to a room where Nami draws her maps which there were countless maps.
Luffy attempts to destroy the entire room and maps, but Arlong gets enraged and takes a bite of Luffy's neck.
The sight was disturbing.
"That bastard!" Natsu roared.
Luffy then took hold of Arlong's saw-like nose and bent it causing the Fishman to fall over in pain.
"I will not let a worm like you destroy Arlong Park!" Arlong began to spiral around while opening his jaw.
"Gum-Gum Battle Axe!" Luffy stretched out his leg and slammed his foot right onto Arlong's head causing them both to fall to the first floor.
The building fall collapsed into rubble and broken wood. Luffy emerged from the destroyed building and spoke.
"NAMI! YOU'RE MY FRIEND, I ACCEPT YOU AS OUR SHIP'S NAVIGATOR!"
Everyone cheered, though, their victory was short-lived when Nezumi interrupted and claimed that he would get the credit for taking down Arlong. Despite that Nami punished the marine, though, he still took in the Arlong Pirates.
The next day, Luffy and his crew were ready to continue their journey, with Nami returning to them but, not before pickpocketing the villagers.
"That's quite the story Nami!" Wendy said.
"Yes, after what you told us, it was sad, but, you were able to find true friends, and took that Arlong," Carla added.
Nami smiled. "Yes, I still hope to create a map of the world, with this log pose, I can navigate us safely through the New World."
"Nami-swan, I'll be sure to be by your side!" Sanji swooned.
"Who's next," Makarov asked.
"I-" Luffy began to say.
Chopper raised his hoove-like hand.
Chopper's memory of when he was just a normal reindeer and ended up eating a fruit that was devil fruit that gave him the ability to transform.
He was eventually abandoned by his kind and other sailors hunted him down.
Usagi's eyes were hidden, didn't even say anything.
Chopper escaped the hunters with multiple bullet wounds, then he was found by Dr. Hiriluk.
Seeing the doctor he called his father and friend brought tears to the reindeer's eyes. "Doctor..." He choked.
As time passes, Chopper was learning about medicine and equipment from the doctor.
He then fed him a strange-looking mushroom, then there was Dr. Kureha, who was extremely strict when it came to healthcare. She revealed she knew of his illness and knew someday his time would come and was shocked when Chopper gave Quack(who she nicknames due to his reputation)a poison mushroom.
Chopper goes to find his father.
Boom
"What was that?" Wendy asked quite shaken.
"Look something falling!" Chelsea pointed out.
A burned hat fell in front of Chopper, who was in his small form. "That hat..." Lucy began to say recognizing it.
"Oh no..." Erza said with wide eyes.
"Snort...snort...it...can't...be..." Temukai stuttered in shock.
Just then a maniacal laugh was heard.
"Who's that laughing?" Mest asked.
There stood a short young man with a weird-looking body and jaw. "HE BLEW HIMSELF OFF! WHAT AN IDIOT!"
Chopper became enraged and attempted to attack the tyrant king and his men, only to be stopped by Dalton, who was in his Bull-like form.
This caught Lucy's attention. "A zoan type..."
"Please, stop, if you can't defeat me, you can't possibly defeat them," Dalton spoke as tears fell from his eyes which returned the Reindeer to his sense. "I'm sorry...that...they laughed...at the doctor's death."
"Who is that king that this guy is working for?" Warren asked.
"The king's name is Wapol, he's a tyrant, he kills any doctor that comes to Drum Island," Nami summarized.
"He kills doctors just because they want to help people?" Lucy questioned.
"That's horrible!" Max added in anger.
"That bastard!" Natsu growled.
The scene changed when Luffy and his friends took on Wapol's group and the king himself, thus they manage to defeat the tyrant.
"Vivi!" Sanji swooned as he caught a view of the Alabasta princess.
Chopper is then asked to join the crew, at first, he declines, but then accepts the offer with tears of joy, and all of them celebrate the new crew member.
Wendy, Lucy, and Carla saw Vivi, smiling at the princess.
Time break.
"I see, poor Chopper, sorry about your friend," Wendy said sadly.
"True, your friend was an honorable man, he saw you as a student and a son," Lily agreed with a smile.
Gajeel smirked. "Yeah, kicking the jaw freak Wapol must've felt great."
"Yeah, I admit, Kureha is quite the doctor," Levy said with a smile.
"Agreed, you'll be a good doctor someday," Leone praised patting the reindeer on the head.
Chopper began to do his happy dance. "Praising me like that isn't going to make me happy you jerk!"
"Who is next?" Mest asked.
"I'm up!" Franky raised his hand.
The scene changes when Franky decides where he grew up with Tom and Iceberg during his childhood.
Child Franky and Iceberg were arguing about how they were almost killed by a Sea King.
"Idiot, this isn't the time to be goofing around with your crappy toys!"
"Don't yell at me when you don't have a clue what you're talking about ice for brains!"
"I'm yelling at you because you almost got killed!"
"Yeah, but, someday, I'll be able to kill a Sea King with a battleship someday!"
Tom approaches them. "See you two arguing like always!"
Present Franky saw his mento and was almost on the verge of tears. "T-T-Tom..."
"He's lively guy," Happy spoke interrupting the cyborg's thoughts.
Natsu grinned. "He looks tough too."
Aquapad, Jula, Rena, Angela, and Thorn smiled, remembering the Fishman that built a ship for Gold D. Roger.
Jimbei shared the same reaction.
The scene changes when Tom took his students to his house where they have some dinner.
"So, what number was your ship this time?" Tom asked.
"It was ship number 8, it was great!" Child Franky declared.
His joy was interrupted by Iceberg. "Yeah right, your dumb weapon fall apart when you almost killed us with it!"
"Nobody asked you stupid ice for brains!" Franky snapped while speaking with a food mouth.
"Ice for brains...WELL, YOU'RE FLUNKY!" Iceberg snapped comically.
"Gross..." Lucy said noticing the food was spitting onto Iceberg's face.
"Yeah, every heard, say it don't spray it!?" Carla barked comically.
Franky just laughed. "Oh sorry."
"This isn't funny!" Lucy and Carla yelled comically.
"They're just like Natsu and Gray," Erza thought finding the argument kinda funny.
"Lively kids," Macao laughed as Tom laughed with him.
Later that night, Tom was working on blueprints, Franky has a short chat with the Fishman, then he went to sleep.
The next scene was the navy arresting Tom for building a ship for Gold D Roger, the judge was an elder man and was about to declare Tom's execution until the Fishman shipwright spoke.
"Water 7 is slowly sinking away, however, I can lift their spirits by building a Sea Train, carrying people and supplies between a few islands!" He stated.
Some citizens were skeptical about this.
"How can that be possible?"
"Yeah, train tracks would be wrecked to pieces by Aqua Laguna!"
"Even the tracks don't get destroyed, what about those Sea Kings!?"
"The tracks will just sway like a rope in the water," Tom answered. "Not only that, the tracks will just be a guide to get from place to place."
"Whoa, that's intriguing," Levy commented.
"I also consider installing a mechanism that'll discourage fish from getting near the tracks which will work on Sea King as well," Tom continued. "We'll connect the tracks from Water 7 to Pucci, St. Poplar, San Faldo, and Eneis Lobby, the people travel for work or play, though, it'll take a master shipwright to build it, and this will take ten years."
The judge decided to give Tom those amount of years to build it which made everyone cheer almost everyone.
Franky then throws a temper tantrum about Tom's situation and announces that his position was unfair despite that he and his workers were kicked out by the townsfolk.
Tom, Franky, Iceberg, and Yokozuna begin to work on the Sea Train, it was quite hard work, they built countless trains, and most failed, but, they kept working, days turned to weeks, weeks turned into months, and months became years, but they continued to test out each train they built.
Then ten years later, one day, they successfully built it and named it the Puffing Tom, seeing Kokoro as the driver and waving at her friends.
Leone laughed proudly. "Whoa, that's amazing!"
Romeo was excited. "Wow, I never saw a train like that!"
"So cool!" Troy and Jet excitedly shouted with their eyes popping out.
Akame smiled impressively. "Not bad."
"That's incredible," Chelsea said bewildered but mostly impressed.
Jula, Rena, Angela, and Thorn were in awe, they used to hear about Den's brother making the sea train, but, seeing it as another, despite what they saw was a memory of Franky.
Hearing the train's horn made Tom and his workers jump with joy.
Franky was happy seeing this scene, feeling the success that he and his friends felt on that day.
The scene changed with Franky and Iceberg, now as teenagers were asked by Tom to have a serious talk.
The two were given a blueprint for an ancient weapon. "Why would someone dream of building something like this?"
"Can this thing be built?"
"Yes, these blueprints are something out of a nightmare, a real monster," Tom spoke almost fearfully.
"This is terrifying, but, I shall hide them,"
"Hey Iceberg, let's see if we can build this thing,"
Bonk
"Moron, you realize what this weapon could do to the world!?"
"Yes, but, other than that burn or cut to piece if you must, also, here's someone else that might be a problem," Tom showed a wanted poster of Nico Robin, which made the young black-haired woman gulp a bit.
"Is that you Robin?" Max asked catching a glimpse of her wanted poster.
Robin gave a silent nod.
The next day was the trial, Franky was at the port where the traditional ship was arriving, but, suddenly an explosion was heard.
"What the hell was that?" Gray asked.
"Juvia doesn't like this," Juvia added worriedly.
Cannonballs were being fired at the ship, the judge manages to escape with some bodyguards.
Franky arrives at Scrap Island to find Tom and Iceberg seriously injured.
"What happened to them!?" Lily asked looking shocked.
Iceberg got up and punched Franky in the face. "You dumbass!" He growled weakly.
"This is your fault...that... intelligent agent used your battleships to attack people at the harbor..."
Everyone in Fairy Tail was dumbfounded, some of them at least.
Present Franky growled as he knew was coming.
"I told you this would happen...you never...listen..." Iceberg then placed his hands on Franky's shoulders. "Listen we can create ships that are dangerous, and now we're going to be blamed, the government wants to back Tom into a corner to get those blueprints...after all this, you still think your weapons won't hurt anyone!?"
Franky gritted his teeth as his teenage self was about to break down as his childhood partner continued. "If Tom gets taken away...if he hangs for this..." Tears started to fall from his eyes. "I swear...on my life...I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!"
"AAAAHHHH!" Teenage Franky screamed yet cried in horror.
Everyone was shaken by Iceberg's outburst, though some could understand his words, despite that he was being quite unfair to Franky. "Come, this isn't his fault!" Natsu protested.
As if Tom heard him. "STOP IT!" Iceberg turned to see Tom was waking up, he didn't open his eyes.
"Don't b-blame him, it wasn't his fault,"
Franky went over and crouched down at the Fishman. "Oh no, this one of my harpoons, once it pierces its target you can't pull it out...I'm so sorry."
The three were taken by the judge and there was Spandam, Franky glared at the agent with deep hatred and anger.
The judge began the trial.
"First off, I'll congratulate you on the Sea Train, such magnificent work, Water 7 will flourish, on top of that, the charges were going to be dropped, however, you three attacked the Traditional ship, explain why would you do something like that?"
Teenage Franky stood up. "That's a lie, it wasn't Tom or any of us that attacked the Traditional ship, it was that idiot Spandam!"
Spandam pointed at himself jokily.
The citizens just laughed at the accusation.
Spandam smirked mockingly at the three shipwrights.
"Your name is Cutty Flam, correct, I believe my men caught you three red-handed on one of those traitorous vessels, also, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't those ships built by your company?"
"Such ships that could do something so awful...ARE NO LONGER MY SHIP!" Teenage Franky declared angrily.
Tom broke from handcuffs and punched the boy in the face sending him crashing into a nearby crate.
Fairy Tail was shocked at what the Fishman did.
"What'd you do that for?" Franky demanded sitting up.
"No...longer...your..ships...you...say," Tom said panting slowly. "Don't you ever say that again!"
"He's still standing while still having the harpoon inside him?" Nab questioned.
"He must so strong," Max commented.
Franky sobbed at Tom, saying he wish he'd never built the battleships, though, his mentor didn't like that response, before he spoke he took out the harpoon. "Listen to me, whether the ships you built are neither good nor evil, you mustn't blame your ships, ...NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO TO THE WORLD NEVER DENY THEM, YOU MUST BE PROUD OF WHATEVER SHIP YOU CREATE!"
Everyone was astonished at his declaration.
Makarov could tell the Fishman was a prideful person and is proud of the work he does.
Gildarts could see that too.
"Tom..." Present Franky spoke quietly.
Tom was silent for a moment until he turned around and delivered a punch at Spandam. "Can't you see the pain that you put that boy through!?"
"FIRE!" The agent man commanded.
The navy soldiers fired their rifles which had darts that were injected into his back.
"What are you doing?" Teenage Franky asked completely shocked.
Spandam began to laugh cruelly. "Not so tough are you, serves you right stupid Fishman!"
Laxus and his team were angered at the agent. "That bastard."
"How could he be so cruel?"
"He's a scumbag!"
"Scumbag! Scumbag!"
"He's a despicable man!"
"Listen up men, we're going to take this Fishman and his villainous workers to Enies Lobby!"
The citizens began to trash-talk the Fishman.
"Who would've thought Tom was a dangerous guy!"
"Yeah, what was he thinking?"
"That's because he sold his soul to pirates!"
"He wanted to wait and attack us at the right moment!"
Teenage Franky was angered at that last accusation. "How dare you talk about that, you bastard!"
"You jerks better stop that crap!" Natsu barked like he was about to attack the citizens.
Gray held him back. "Natsu, this is a memory, did you forget that!?"
Erza could understand Natsu's outburst. "These people's words are cruel, but, if only they knew the truth."
Robin was silent but she was angry as well, hearing about Franky's past was one thing, but witnessing it was another.
Leone gritted her teeth. "Bastards..."
Tom stopped teenage Franky and confessed to the judge that he was behind the attack and requested to be pardoned for the crime and be charged with building the ship for Gold D Roger.
The judge warned him if he did that he would be back where he started, but Tom still stood by his request.
Franky pleaded to Tom to rethink what he was doing, but his mentor refused to back down as a smile formed on his face.
"Franky...Iceberg...my dream to help Water 7 came true and will continue...so... goodbye..." Tom dropped to the ground unconscious.
The judge decided to take Tom while sparing Iceberg and Franky.
Coco placed her hands on the two boy's shoulders. "Listen to me, endure this, Tom gave up his life to save yours, Enies Lobby is the government's traditional island, not a single person that's been sent to that dreadful place has ever been seen again."
Alzack and Bisca were angered as they were hugging their daughter Asuka was crying out of sadness.
Franky tried to endure the pain, however, he reached his limit the moment he saw Spandam stepping his foot on his mentor's face cruelly while laughing.
Teenage Franky took a rifle and hit the agent in the face and knocked him out.
The navy took their weapons and fired at the young shipwright, who fled into Scrap Island.
The scene changed to the sea railway.
Franky was on the tracks holding a bazooka.
"What is he doing on the tracks?" Carla asked worriedly.
Her answer was teenage Franky fired the bazooka at the sea train, but, the sea train didn't stop.
"Don't you dare take Tom away!" He declared with rage. "GIVE ME TOM BACK!"
The sea train got closer and closer as the train's whistle got louder and louder.
Franky tried to stop the Sea Train with his bare hands.
"What is he thinking!" Lucy cried in shock.
"Oh no!" Chelsea yelled with wide eyes.
It got worse when Franky was sent flying into the air his body completely mangled up.
The scene went black.
"You see, that's my back story of my work of building battleships and Tom my mentor creating the Sea Train including...those Cipher Pol bastards...Span-something dumb..."'
"Spandam," Robin corrected.
Laxus's team and the others remembered some other Cipher Pol agents they encountered and most were beyond cruel.
"I'm sorry about your friend," Wendy whimpered. "He was truly a good person, he lived how he wanted to and fulfilled his dream of building that Sea Train."
Franky smiled.
Warren had a question. "Though I have a question about that wanted poster of Robin, it looked like that picture was taken of you as a child, why is that?"
Robin decided it was her turn. "My past has connections with Franky or rather his work." She took a few steps and looked at Mest, who acknowledged what she wanted. "Allow me to show you all my home island."
The scene changed to an island known as Ohara where Robin was born and raised on.
Her greedy rude aunt was shown including her mistreatment and the children that bullied her due to her Devil Fruit powers and called her the Demon girl.
Her uncle Oran was a good person to her, seeing defending Robin from Roji.
Mirajane felt sorry for the girl, it reminded her of what she went through when her Take-Over magic was awakened and it frightened the villagers her siblings lived in when they were kids.
Lisanna and Elfman saw their oldest sister's face, knowing that Robin's childhood was similar to their sister, though, they got shooed away as well from strangers.
Chelsea remembered what Ivankov told her during her short time with him. "Robin is known to read ancient writing. The government bastards heard of her knowledge and abilities to read the ancient language, they decided that she needs to be dead or alive, no doubt that if pirates were able to get hold of her they would use her to read the ancient writing to learn on how to use legendary weapons and revive them."
Robin was inside the Tree of Knowledge with other scrollers including the leader Clover.
Levy fantasized about the books she was seeing. "Wow, so many books." An image of Sheele flowed into her head. "Sheele, I wish you were here to see this."
Leone placed her arm on the Solid Script user's head. "You got that girl, Sheele would have her head stuck in a book, she would be reading a lot."
Levy laughed.
Lucy had to admit, she was intrigued by a large number of books. "There must be 100...no, who cares, those books must have some awesome literature and documents."
Present Robin smiled a bit and saw her childhood self.
Clover approached her child self. "Robin, would you like to join us?"
Robin was happy to hear that. "I will, but, I would like to study what happened in the blank century and stranger from the Mysterious World."
"Blank Century?" Lucy questioned.
Natsu had his curiosity. "The stranger from the Mysterious World,"
"What did you say?" The professor looked distressed and fearful at Robin's question. "How did you learn about those two things!?"
He looked down at her with a serious yet intense look on his face. "Robin, how much do you know, did you use your powers to peek at us in the basement."
Child Robin lowered her head as the professor continued. "Anyone that decides to decipher or study the Poneglyphs is a criminal act by the World Government!"
"He is serious?" Levy yelled.
"I see, that's the reason, you study in the basement at night," Her answer confirmed the professor's question. "So, you were spying on us, how much do you know, explain yourself!"
Child Robin was quiet for a moment. "I know it's bad," She looked directly at the professor. "But, even though I asked nicely, you still wouldn't let me join you...that's why I studied so hard."
The professor crouched down and placed his hands on her shoulders. "I know this is hard, you deserve to be a scholar like the rest of us. Regardless if word gets out, all of us will be put to death."
"Put to death!?" Gajeel, Lily, and Levy exclaimed.
"That's horrible, the government would go that far just because some people are learning about history," Erza growled in disgust.
The professor continued. "On top of that, many scholars lost their lives when breaking the law of trying to study or decipher the Poneglyphs, and all of them are not willing to stop, we scholars of Ohara made success so far than others could, but, though, we know there's no turning back," The eyes in the elder got more serious. "I swear on the Tree of Knowledge, if you come close to the basement again, you'll be forbidden from entering or conducting research with us ever again, you understand?"
Robin's childhood self was disappointed, she could feel that pain all over again, so she stormed out of the tree.
"Poor Robin..." Nami spoke.
Sanji growled. "That stubborn old geezer."
Evergreen pushed her glasses back. "Man, talk about a worrywart."
Freed thought otherwise. "He's just concerned about the Scholars including Robin's safety, I understand his fear, but, it's obvious that didn't stop Robin from finding out more about these Poneglyhs."
"Man, talk about being rejected," Bickslow groaned.
"Yeah, Robin, did you feel angry about what that old man said?" Gajeel asked.
Robin didn't look at the nail-face man, but, she did decide to answer. "I wasn't too happy with his decision, I admit that, but regardless, that didn't stop me."
"I have a question, what did you mean by the stranger from a Mysterious World?" Natsu asked.
Robin was silent for a moment. "Not sure, but, I have a theory of who could it be, but, for now, that'll have to wait." The scene changed to a beach during the daytime.
Robin's child self walked quietly on the shore seemingly in thought, until she saw someone washed on the shore.
However, the Cipher Pol agents including Spandam's father arrived on the island of Ohara.
Robin found Clover, the professor, and Archaeologist of the Tree of Knowledge being questioned by Spandam's father, who was holding a transponder snail, and the five elders' voices were heard.
Fairy Tail, the Straw Hats, Minks, Fishmen, and the rest of Fairy Tail listened to Clover speaking with the five elders.
Clover revealed some information about a lost kingdom that the government refuse to let go public, which one of the Elders to give an order.
"Kill them all!"
Fairy Tail, Fishmen, Minks, and Night Raid assassins gasped in horror.
Boom Boom Boom Boom
"Mommy, what is going on?" Asuka asked clinging to her mother.
"It'll be okay dear," Bisca assured comforting her daughter.
Cannonballs were being fired on the island.
Robin was horrified seeing such a hellish nightmare.
"No...no..."
Child Robin calls out to her mother, though, at first, her mother denies her daughter, holding back her tears and sadness.
"Mother, I can read the Poneglyhs!"
Clover and the rest of the scholars including Robin's mother gasped with fearful looks.
Spanda gritted his teeth in anger. "What did that brat say?"
Eventually, Robin and her mother embraced in tears.
Lucy felt like she was going to cry, she would give anything to embrace her mother.
Wendy felt the same way as tears started to fall from her eyes.
Then Saul approached them. "Robin, I was worried about you, I see you reunited with your mother."
"Saul, what in the world are you doing here?"
"I washed up on the shore and your daughter found me, anyway, we don't have time to chat, we need to leave the island right away," Saul answered.
"Hold on, I need to stay here, there's something I want to do," Olvia said with a sad smile.
"Mommy, why are you staying, you can't leave me again!" Child Robin cried almost begging.
Saul eventually picked up Robin in his hands and ran off.
"Robin, you have a gift, hand down the history to others, and...CONTINUE TO LIVE!"
Present Robin was almost on the verge of tears.
Angela felt sorry for the Scholar pirate. "Robin..."
"Saul, we can't leave yet, we must get my mommy!" Child Robin pleaded.
"No, your mother asked me to take you away safely, please, don't cry, your mother is amazing!" Saul stated.
Soon a cannonball was fired directly on Saul's face which he recovered, he put Robin down and began to fight against the Navy ships that were nearby.
He began to lift them with ease.
"Whoa, he's so strong!" Bickslow exclaimed.
"He's got manly strength!" Elfman added with a gaping mouth.
"Anyone that hurts my friends will be my enemy!" Saul declared with rage.
Robin eventually fled to the location of the evacuation ship.
"It's the demon girl!"
"Yeah, she's the monster that's been causing trouble!"
"Isn't she a scholar too!"
"I bet she is, if she comes on board, we'll be in danger!"
"Don't be stupid, she's just a child, someone helps her out!"
"Hold it, don't let that brat on board!" Spandine was speaking through a Transponder snail. "She may be a child, but, she's the daughter of the criminal Nico Oliva!"
Saul heard the situation and attempted to fight them.
Suddenly ice shards were fired directly at Saul's legs.
"My, my, a former Vice-Admiral stopping the Buster call, no good," There stood Aokiji, which made Robin freeze.
Lucy felt a bit scared at the sight of the tall slim man. "He looks scary."
Akame and Leone could sense the intensity in the man's eyes.
Chelsea could see that. "He looks dangerous."
"Aokiji, you need to wake up, this isn't justice, they're just making an example of Ohara, you'll be better than this, just walk away!" Saul pleaded.
Lily couldn't help but respect Saul's sense of honor and justice. "He's a true soldier."
"Even so, this has to be done, you can't deny that those scholars are breaking the law, though, I won't criticize your sense of justice, there are as many right and wrongs in this world," Aokiji spoke.
Akame had to admit there was some truth to what the former Admiral was saying.
"However, if you insist on getting in our way, I won't stand by and do nothing," The Ice Devil Fruit user concluded with a cold tone.
Kaboom
The evacuation ship was blown to bits along with the escaped islanders.
Fairy Tail and everyone else were shocked to see what just happened.
"Crap! What happened!" Leone cursed loudly.
Some of the navy soldiers were wondering the same thing. "What the hell happened!?"
"It was cannon fire from one of our other ships!"
"Vice-Admiral Sakasuki!"
Luffy caught glimpse of the man. "Akainu..."
Saul lifts his fist. "Is this what you call justice, can you take pride in something like this!"
Aokiji jumped back as he landed and froze the back of Saul's feet.
"Saul, I'll help you!" Robin cried as she tried to find something to help her friend.
"No, it's too late, I can barely move my legs," Saul groaned looking worn out. "Please, leave this place, don't look back, you have a gift Robin, Ohara will still live as long as you do, in due time, I'm sure you'll make real friends, so, leave and continue to live!"
Nico Robin fled away in tears of regret and sadness.
Aokiji meets her at the edge of the shore, though, he had a boat and gave it to her. "Leave in this boat, but, don't think this makes me your ally, if you start trouble, I'll come after you."
Robin continued to meet up with different nice people, though, they sold her out or thought of selling her out to the government agents.
Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months, and months became years, she still wasn't able to make the right friends, she would either flee from other groups or betray them.
She then was seen with Crocodile, one of the former warlords.
"I was told that you read Poneglpyhs," He spoke in a deep tone.
Everything went black.
"I see, that was your childhood," Makarov spoke.
"Yes sir, my abilities as an Archaeologist led me down through a lot of betrayals, but, I had a reason, which you'll all see right now,"
The scene takes place in the room that Iceberg was staying at after being shot five times.
Lisanna, Elfman, and Mirajane remembered that the mayor of Water 7 mentioned that to them.
Iceberg reveals that he knows of her past and the Scholars that were killed on Ohara, knowing about her abilities to read the Ponegylphs, though, he wanted to know why she was helping Cipher Pol to find the blueprints for the ancient weapon known as Blueton.
"I always betrayed others because they would sell me out I lost count of the many people that I warmed up to and all of them let me down, but..." The gun she held in her hand began to tremble like she was about to cry. "I eventually found the people that accepted me, no matter, what, they were kind to me."
Nami and Chopper remembered that, though Iceberg told them of Robin's reasons, seeing it was another story.
Everyone in Fairy Tail was touched by Robin's reasons for helping Cipher Pol.
"She was working with them to protect her crew," Wakaba sobbed.
"Such a good-hearted woman!" Macao added with tears of joy.
"Gee, dad," Romeo sweatdropped. "But, still, she's a good person."
"So touching!" Franky sobbed.
"Do you guys have to cry so loud," Nami groaned in annoyance.
"No surprise," Lucy added with a sweatdrop.
The scene changed when Usopp decided to show his argument with Luffy.
"You lost faith in the Merry, now, you want to replace her with another ship!" He sneered.
"It's decided, I stand by it, the Merry is at its limit, whether you like it or not, the ship has to go!" Luffy demanded.
"I don't care what you say, the Going Merry will stay with us no matter what!" Usopp argued. "I won't abandon her when she's hurt!"
"Don't be stupid, she's not a person!" Luffy barked.
"She is to me, she still has the strength to live!" Usopp screamed, his voice becoming even louder. "Stop being selfish and think about your crew!"
Luffy pinned the sniper to the floor. "Don't act like you're the only one torn about this, we all feel the same way!"
Wendy covered her face with her hands at the dramatic display.
"Talk about dramatic," Reed said a hint of sadness in his voice.
The arguing continued as Luffy had enough and was about to point him out the door until Sanji kick the captain into a table.
"This is going way too far, what the hell is wrong with you!" Sanji growled in total anger. "If you don't watch, you're going to say something you can't take back, so calm down!"
Usopp got up and informed he decided to leave the Straw Hats due to his countless failures leaving his crew in despair.
Fairy Tail couldn't help but feel sad.
"Man, that's gotta be rough," Aquapad said shaking his head.
"Usopp..." Rena began to say.
"I know, this scene was hard to watch, but, I was too stubborn to admit that I was wrong, but..." The Sniper began to say. "Well, you'll see..."
The scene changed, and Robin continued with her story as the scene was shown to be the Enies Lobby.
Robin and Franky were being held captive by Spandum, both were in his office.
"It's that Spandork again!" Natsu pointed out.
"It's Spandam!" Lucy and Happy corrected.
Franky laughed his head off. "Spandork, that's a good one!"
Robin giggled.
"I got you both right where I want you!" Spandam cackled manically.
"He's creepier with that mask," Wendy shuddered.
"No kidding, his mask makes my skin crawl," Carla added.
"He's got that since I damaged his face," Franky said proudly.
"By the way, I heard that your friends came to save you," Spandam spoke with a cold smile on his face. "Listen, first off, I'll bleed you away the last of the Ohara, which will lead to the last heir like yourself into ruins!"
Makarov glared at the agent. "Such disgraceful behavior."
"Other than that, Luffy and his crew are on their way, however, to us, they're nothing more than insects..." His cold smile grew wider. "We're already making a prison transporter ship for them, once we capture them they'll be taken to Impel Down where they won't see the light of day again!"
Robin felt the shock come back to her when the disgraceful agent informed her of that. "Hold on that wasn't part of our agreement, in exchange for my cooperating, you would let them go!"
Fairy Tail along with the others had a bad feeling about what was coming.
Spandam looked annoyed. "Lucci, remind her of the exact conditions,"
"The terms of the arrangements, Robin would give herself and her crew would be allowed to leave, only if they leave Water 7,"
"You got to be joking, you're going to break our deal, over some ridiculous technicality?"
Leone gritted her teeth. "That backstabbing sack of crap."
Almost as past, Franky heard. "Such low dirty bags, not a shred of deceit in one of them."
Spandam looked offended at the remark as he placed his foot roughly on Franky's head. "What did you say!" He continued to stomp his foot. "Like the hell, we would show mercy to any pirate filth of crap like you, that includes you too!"
He kicked Robin in the face. "Don't get cocky with me, you're just a low witch and pirate that the navy captures and puts to death!"
Sanji was angered at that. "That bastard!"
"No, Sanji, this is a memory, you can't do anything!" Chopper yelled holding back the cook.
Natsu growled in anger. "That jerk..."
"Juvia doesn't like that Cipher Pol monster," Juvia glared at the scene.
Miyaka couldn't help but be disgusted. "I heard of the Cipher Pol's cruelty, but, this takes the cake."
Fujika realized how much Boa Hancock hated the government. "I can understand more of what Hancock didn't like about the Government."
"Man, talk about bad behavior!" Macao commented.
"He's a bully too!" Wakaba added.
"Such a meanie!" Asuka pouted.
Spandam stopped and grabbed Robin by her hair with a cruel look on his face. "I'll enjoy finding a death perfect for someone like you." He cackled cruelly. "At the least, all of your friends will die alongside you!"
"That monster!" Lucy yelled with disgust.
Erza shared the same feeling. "He's just worse than General Esdeath."
The scene changed, when Franky and Robin were tied up, though, as the riot that Luffy was causing was continuing, Franky rocked himself up to the top floor to get a view of where Luffy was.
"He did he fart the way up?!" Lucy cringed in disgust.
"That was gross," Carla added a little weirded out.
"I wish I can do that!" Natsu laughed.
"Seriously!?" Lucy and Carla exclaimed with their eyes popping.
Robin then makes a statement to Luffy. "I don't want you and the others to save me!" The Straw Hat captain stood silent. "I don't want to be saved, I'd rather die!"
Everyone in Fairy Tail and their friends except for the Straw Hats were puzzled.
Robin begins to explain her days after she escaped Ohara, being sold out by citizens and enemy pirates, then crossing paths with former warlord Crocodile.
"20 years everything I had was taken from me, and many innocent lives were lost, with one push of a button I summoned a terrible demon and it bares its fangs at you, no matter how far we set sail, the darkness I face keeps coming..."
Wendy felt sad for Robin. "Robin..."
"First was Aokiji and now CP9, I dragged my troubles twice again, so, no matter how kind you all may be," A hint of sadness and fear was heard in her tone. "Someday, all of you will force me to betray and throw me away, just like others did, if that's the future I have, I would rather die and save myself the pain!"
Chelsea was shocked. "Robin..."
Aquapad and his friends felt sorry for the woman. "Robin..." They thought.
Usagi could understand her worries. "She must've gone through so much betrayal that she was afraid it would happen again."
Erza understands the woman's worrisome. "She's just like me when I was betrayed during my childhood."
Luffy's past self then had an idea. "Sniper King, fire at the flag."
Sniper King(rather Usopp) aimed and set the Government's flag on fire. "Mission accomplished."
Bisca and Alzack were impressed by Usopp's weapon. "Whoa, what kind of weapon was that?"
"That fire turned into a bird of fire!"
"YOU IDIOTS YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO CHALLENGE THE WORLD AND WIN!" Spanda exclaimed in shock.
"YEAH!? BRING IT OOOOONNNN!" Luffy roared in anger and determination. "ROBIN LISTEN TO ME SAY YOU WANT TO LIVE!"
Robin saw her past self being so touched and moved by Luffy's declaration as tears filled her eyes. "TAKE ME AWAY! I WANT TO LIVE!"
Fairy Tail felt fired up despite what they were seeing was just a memory.
Soon the Straw Hats expect Brook to show their battles against CP9, seeing their abilities and devil fruit powers, but, manage to overcome them.
Witnessing the struggles and Spandam reveals to Robin about his father that was at Ohara.
Usopp manages to reach Robin and takes her away alongside Franky.
Luffy continues to fight against Lucci(in his Leopard form), the fight was intense, and the Straw Hat was struggling hard against the pigeon man and enduring so much damage given to him.
Luffy delivered one final attack that knocks out Lucci completely.
The former ship, Going Merry comes out of nowhere.
"Is that Going Merry?" Lucy asked.
"How did that get there?" Cana added just as confused as well.
Later the crew meets up with Iceberg and some of the Galley-la employees.
They decided to set the Going Merry and watch it burn. "I'm sorry..." A female voice spoke.
"I wanted to carry everyone just a little bit further..." The voice sounded sweet like an angel. "I had so much fun being this crew's pirate flagship."
Brook began to sob. "So, that's Going Merry, such a beautiful voice, like an angel from the heavens."
Mavis has seen the background, she was just as curious about what she was hearing. "Such a voice, like the tone of an innocent little girl."
Franky and Usopp knew who was speaking.
The scene went black.
"So, that's the nature of the World Government..." Makarov spoke. "I can see how cruel they are, I heard of what happened from my children, but, seeing what happened to you Straw Hats, they make me sick, all of them put my children through hell, that's one thing I will never tolerate!"
Gildarts agreed. "Yeah, not only that, they put my baby girl through hell as well!"
"Geez..." Cana groaned a little embarrassed.
"That's rough, being betrayed so many times could make anyone lose hope," Erza said, then a smile formed on her face. "But, at the least, you finally found some friends."
"Yeah, you even had Franky build you a new flagship with Gusto!" Happy cheered.
Franky chuckled proudly. "Yeah!"
Leone wrapped her arm around Robin's neck. "Girl, you deserve better, I'll be sure to give you a massage that'll loosen up those muscles."
Robin smiled. "I'll forward to that."
Akame smiled. "Everyone deserves happiness, glad that Luffy and his friends were able to show you loyalty."
Sanji twirled over to the young assassin. "Akame, such a sweet young lady that understands pain and suffering!"
Bonk
"Stop being a perv!" Lucy barked.
Natsu grinned. "Yeah, we would take those government bastards on any day."
Luffy laughed. "I like your attitude, someone talking my language!"
Tigress and Carla sweatdropped at the two. "They're alike."
"Usopp, what about you, how did you return to the Straw Hats?" Romeo asked.
Usopp cleared his throat. "I realized that I should respect my captain, even though, there was choices that he would have to make, ones that would be hard, but, he's the captain, I was so stubborn, but, I eventually realizes my actions and rejoined my friends."
"Also, I have a question," Alzack raised his hand. "Was your father a pirate too?"
Usopp smirked. "You bet, he's name is Yasopp, a sniper expert like me, back in his days with Gold D Roger, hemet a guy that he dueled, I dream of surprassing my old man someday and to become the true Sniper King!"
Bisca giggled. "I know that you will young man, perhaps, you can show us what other tricks your slingshot can do."
Usopp's smirk grew wider. "You guys are on!"
"Mr. Usopp, will you teach me somethings about sniper skills?" Asuka asked in sweet tone.
Usopp grinned cockly. "You bet kid!"
Miyaka couldn't miss this chance. "I will be happy to learn some new sniper skills too." The long nose man nodded at the former marine sniper.
"It's my turn..." Brook spoke. "I intend to show you all my past, so, prepare yourselves."
Mest then used his magic as memories of Brook were about to be shown.
End of chapter
