The man who had achieved it all, the current ruler of the seas, Gold Roger, kneeled on the execution stand above the crowd of hundreds. They all clamored and called to him, but the Vice Admiral was speaking above them. His pitch black feathers glistened through the sunbeams protruding through the clouds above. He was a harpy, and although his outer feathers were black, his inner feathers and hair were a greyish white. "For your crimes on the high seas, you have been sentenced to death Gold Roger!" His voice was deep, loud, and full of pride, yet all Roger did in response was laugh.
"King of Pirates! Where is your treasure!?" A pirate in the crowd finally called out above the crowd. With his cry, more pirates worked up the courage to ask, some demand, even a dozen threats were made to the man on death's row. This made Roger laugh even louder, and his next string of words changed this world forever.
"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered in one place. You just gotta go find it!" He lets out a gasp, as those were his last words before two executioners stabbed him through with blades. But nobody stayed to mourn, they all rushed to their ships. They were gonna go find the Pirate King's treasure, later labled as the One Piece, before anyone else. They were gonna be the next king or queen. Once news got around, the age of peace maintained for years by the world government crumbled, as the Great Pirate Era had begun.
The Cleoma family, founded a few years after the original 12 families; the Celestial Dragons who founded this new world and the World Government, lived and ruled the nation of Cleomoria. Even early in their rule, they were profound sword masters, most capable of insane moves after simply picking up a sword. The family is extremely proud of these skills, and even those married in are trained up to the Cleoma level. But of course, every other generation or so, there's those who are born who want nothing to do with the blade.
19 years after Rogers execution, in the middle of the night on the kingdoms dock, some ruckus was occuring. A young lady, her hair long and charcoal grey with highlights shifting to red and eyes so pink they nearly glowed in the dark, was readying one of the one-man fishing boats with bags of her stuff. Suddenly, the sounds of the metalic clanging of the knights began to approach her. "Aw crap- Gotta go!" she said to herself as she began to row away. A knight reached the dock and called out to her. "Lady Harmony! You must return! It's dangerous out there at night!" She responded by sticking out her tongue at them. He was about to get on a boat himself, but another knight stopped him. "Sir wait! Somebody spotted a ship out there!" The man looked out to the coast. The cloudy sky and lack of light made it hard to see even the princess. "Shhhhit... Get to the king! We must inform him!"
Harmony kept on going, unaware of the dangers. "I'm not waiting here just to be some dinky princess! I'm gonna see the world! I'm gonna-" Due to the dark, she too was blind to the massive ship that casually just threw a net onto her little boat and hoisted the whole thing onto the deck. The pirate lit up a lantern, which barely burned. He poked at the net, asking out loud, "Who be up so late at night around here eh?" In the captains quarters, a rabbit mink and a Spaniard stood behind the cap. They both looked miserable here, and the Mink spoke up first. "Captain Blackmail... we are approaching Cleomoria." He responded with a smirk. "Alright boys~ Let's go get ourselves a princess!"
The Captain let out a laugh as he came onto the deck, a big smile on his face, the Mink and Spaniard behind him. "Prepare yourself Cleomoria! Blackmail has come for your princess! With her, getting the king to join our crew will be effortless." He noticed the crew member with the boat that he pulled up. "Oh! Captain! I found someone trying to flee before we even got here." He pulled the net back, and it revealed a fat knuckle sandwich that flung said pirate right into the mast. Harmony stepped out, hands up ready to throw down. "Come on- I can take every one of you!" She hopped around confidently. Blackmail just turned to the mink. "Well we got her- Minx uh, I guess just turn around." He seemed disappointed.
Harmony dashed over to the downed pirate and yoinked his sword, immediately challenging the captain. "Actually, Julio, you turn us around. Minx, take care of her." Julio said something under his breath in spanish before getting to the wheel. Minx pulled out two daggers, putting himself between Blackmail and the princess. His glare was in itself intimidating, but either because of her iron will, or more likely, her ego, she didn't seem fazed. She dashed towards him, taunting him. "You know I'm a Cleoma right?" She flipped forward, using the motion to slice the pirate in half, but...
He spun the daggers at an extremely quick speed, and met her attack head on. "Scissorblade!" Harmony's blade got cut clean through, and the princess' confidence was completely shattered. Blackmail called out, "Puupi, take her to the brig." A rather fat but tall dude with a bowl cut that covered his eyes just showed up behind Harmony. Before she could react, he had grabbed her and they were in some stoney cage. She looked around in confusion before the door closing snapped her into attention. "Hey! Get back here! I'm not done yet!"