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Wealth. Fame. Power. There once was a man who achieved all these treasures and more. He was known as Gol D. Roger, and he was the King of the Pirates. But like all kings, his time eventually came to an end.

Yet as he stood on the scaffolding for his execution, he only gave a smile and a challenge to the world.

"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I own in one place. Now you just have to find it! Seek the treasure of the Grand Line, One Piece! The treasure I once claimed can be yours, if you desire to succeed me as King of the Pirates!"

And so it was that a curtain opened on a new era; The Golden Age of Piracy. Pirates of all kinds set sail for the Grand Line, each eager to lay claim to One Piece and gain Roger's title. Yet as the years dragged on, no one could find or even reach One Piece, and many started to doubt that it was even real. It seemed the Age of Dreams had reached its end.

But there were still those who knew the One Piece was real. Those who sailed with Gol D. Roger and saw the One Piece with their own eyes. And that legacy would be passed down to four young individuals.

As for their stories? Well, let's delve into them, shall we?

-OP-

The first of these four was a lad by the name of Monkey D. Luffy. Born and raised in Fuusha Village, Luffy was a simple-minded boy with a big heart and even bigger dreams. He was the grandson of the legendary Marine Vice-Admiral, Monkey D. Garp and despite his grandfather's insistence he follow in his footsteps, Luffy wanted to be one thing and one thing only; a Pirate.

Also beside Luffy was his sister, Monkey D. Bamia. While her brother was loud, boisterous, and confident, Bamia was quiet, reserved, and level-headed. The two were like Yin and Yang yet they were an inseparable duo. Bamia was loyal to her brother and when the need arose, she could be just as fierce as he was. Wherever one went, the other was sure to follow.

However, what neither of the siblings realized was that destiny had something in mind for both of them...and it would all start one fateful day.

-OP-

"SHANKS!"

A small 6-year-old boy with short unruly black hair happily jumped into the chest of the Captain of the Red Hair Pirates as he descended the gangplank of his ship and stepped onto the docks of Fuusha Village.

"Whoa, Luffy!" Shanks laughed, catching the boy and ruffling his hair. "We weren't even gone that long!"

"It's been weeks!" Luffy argued, looking up at the man with a huge smile.

"Is Uta with you?" Asked a gentle voice coming from a girl the same age as Luffy with similar black hair that was much more silky and smooth and pale skin.

"Right here, Bamia." A small girl, the same age as the two siblings, trotted down the gangplank. She had semi-pale skin, bright purple eyes, and two-toned hair split perfectly down the middle, red on the right side, and white on the left side. Her hair was tied up in the back, two loops (almost like rabbit ears) behind her head, while twin tails dropped down the sides, each tail ending with a loop of its own. She wore a yellow dress that stopped at her knees, brown boots on her feet, and she had headphones over her ears.

"Uta!" Luffy beamed as he and Bamia pulled Uta, Shanks' daughter, into a hug, the girl smiling and hugging them back.

"Let's head to Makino's place, we'll tell you about our latest voyage while we party!" Shanks laughed, leading the two kids, along with his entire crew, into the small town and towards the local pub.

It was a merry old time had by all but there was something on Luffy's mind that he desperately wanted to ask Shanks.

"Take me on your next voyage, Shanks!"

"Sorry, kid. I don't think you'd make a good pirate."

"Why not? I'm a good swimmer." Luffy pouted as Shanks just laughed.

"It takes more than swimming to make it as a pirate, Luffy," Lucky Roux said between bites of his roast ham.

"Well, I'm a good fighter too! My punches are like pistols!" Luffy argued. "And Bamia is really good at fighting too!"

"Luffy..." Bamia sighed.

"Seriously, Luffy, at least wait until you're a few years older. You're as old as my own son right now, there's no way you're cut out for the sea." Yassop said.

"Hey, Uta, how have you been with that magical fruit?" Bamia asked Uta, who was drinking some fruit juice.

"Oh, you mean my [Sing-Sing Fruit]? I've been making some progress with it. When I sing, I've been able to make all sorts of things happen, it's like I can make the world dance and sing with me."

"Yeah, it's definitely something!" Lucky Roux laughed jovially. "She even can make those little lines on a musical score that you put the notes on and use them as weapons."

"I wish I had my own Devil Fruit..." Luffy pouted.

"If you had your own Devil Fruit you'd lose your swimming ability." Shanks pointed out.

Then, Uta widened her eyes as she remembered something.

"Oh, that's right. I wanted to show you something, Bamia!"

"What is it?"

"This is the treasure chest Shanks found me in when I was a baby," Uta said, presenting said chest to Bamia. "Right now, inside it is a treasure that'll be worth a fortune! Behold!"

Uta opened the chest and revealed a strange-looking fruit that was shaped like a teardrop and was turquoise in color with swirls decorating it. The stem was green and resembled an eye.

"What is that?"

"It might look like it at a glance, but it's much more than that! It's a Devil Fruit! I've heard it sells for a really high price!"

Bamia's belly started to rumble, making her look down at it. If there was one thing she and Luffy had in common, it was an insurmountable appetite.

"Huh? You haven't eaten yet, have you?" Uta guessed.

Bamia shook her head. "To tell you the truth? No."

Suddenly, someone kicked the door of the bar off its hinges. Everyone turned to see a group of thuggish-looking people standing in the doorway.

"Excuse us." The apparent leader said nonchalantly. Shanks just kept on enjoying his food, completely ignoring the guy. "So these are pirates. They look pretty dumb if you ask me."

"Can I get you anything, gentlemen?" Makino asked as the leader sat down right next to Shanks.

"We're mountain bandits. The name's Higuma the Bear. Don't worry, we're not here to tear up your bar. Just sell us ten barrels of booze and we'll be on our merry way."

"I'm sorry, sir. We just ran out of alcohol."

Higuma narrowed his eyes. "Well, that's strange. Then what are all these pirates drinking?"

"That's the reason the place is out of booze," Uta quipped, causing her adoptive father to snort into his food as Higuma's eye twitched in irritation.

"She's right, sir. They're actually just finishing off the last of our stock." Makino said.

"You have bad timing. Sorry to say, we wound up drinking the place dry. Plenty of juice and fruit soda though, if you're still thirsty." Shanks added as he handed Higuma an unopened bottle. "And if you really want some hooch, this bottle hasn't been opened yet."

Higuma instead swung his fist to smash the bottle, getting the alcohol all over Shanks's straw hat. Shanks's crew all merely sighed, knowing the guy was poking a hornet's nest.

"You shouldn't insult me like that, I'm Higuma the Bear. I have an eight million berri bounty on my head. One bottle ain't even enough for a bedtime drink." Higuma snarled in a threatening tone.

Shanks took a deep breath. "Now look what you've done. The floor's all wet. Sorry about that, Miss Makino. You have a rag or something we can clean this up with?"

He started picking up the remains of the bottle. Higuma waited until Makino had left the bar to get a rag, then drew his sword and swung it at the bar, shattering the plates full of food and spreading them everywhere.

"Seems you like to clean up messes. Maybe something like this will be more fulfilling for you." He sheathed his sword once more. "Anyway, this place ain't worth our time if there's no booze here. Let's go, men. Later, wimps!"

Luffy was seething the entire time, but both Bamia and Uta were completely nonchalant about the whole thing as Makino went to help clean Shanks off.

"Are you alright, Captain?"

"Yeah, don't worry, I'll be fine."

"Honestly, what a bunch of idiots." Uta huffed. "I may not be a pirate, but I've spent enough time with Shanks and his crew to know that they're not wimps at all! They're the greatest band of pirates I have ever known! That creep had no right to say that stuff about him."

Shanks gave his daughter a thankful smile as the rest of his crew just burst out laughing.

"He got you good there, boss!" Yasopp said.

"Why are you all laughing!? That was so uncool! Why didn't you fight them!?" Luffy demanded in frustration. "You can't yourselves men or pirates if you just laugh something like that off, no matter how strong the other guy is!"

"Luffy, you've got it all wrong. That guy wasn't even worth a passing notice." Lucky Roux said, patting the boy on the head. "Shanks has a bounty a thousand times what that guy said he was worth. It was clear he was just trying to goad the captain into a fight."

What nobody noticed was that Bamia, not wanting to be bothered by the sound of her grumbling stomach anymore, had snuck out the Devil Fruit from Uta's treasure chest and taken a bite out of it.

"It's really bitter..." She commented in her head.

Luffy had also noticed that there was another fruit in the treasure chest, it resembled a Yubari King and was colored purple with spirals all over it. Still feeling miffed about what happened to Shanks, Luffy took the fruit and bit into it. He then instantly regretted it, because it tasted completely awful. But he was still annoyed, so he kept eating it.

It was at that moment Uta noticed Luffy and Bamia eating the two fruits and her eyes widened in shock as she freaked out.

"Where did you guys get those?!"

Shanks heard that and quickly hurried over. "Ah, crap! Luffy, Bamia, what have you done!?"

He started shaking Luffy, and to Luffy's shock, his head seemed to tip over like it was made of rubber, falling to the floor as his neck stretched out. His head then snapped back into position, leaving Luffy stunned.

Bamia then felt a cool taste in her mouth and exhaled, releasing a strange mist from her mouth. She looked confused at it and waved her hand to dissipate it, confused at what she just did.

"Shanks...what were those two Devil Fruits?!" Makino asked worriedly.

"Bamia ate the [Mist-Mist Fruit], which Uta had managed to steal a while back and was planning on selling. As for Luffy, he ate the [Gum-Gum Fruit]!"

"How bizarre..." Bamia noted as she breathed out the mist again, holding it as a sphere in her hands before letting it go.

"Don't you two realize what you've done?!" Shanks snapped. "Eating any kind of Devil Fruit takes away your ability to swim for the rest of your life!"

"HUH?! THAT CAN'T BEEEEEEE!" Luffy exclaimed.

"YOU IDIOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!" Shanks added in frustration.

-OP-

Elsewhere in Fuusha Village, a spunky tomboyish girl of six years old with short brown hair was happily running through the forest. Despite the dangers some of the wild animals who made their home in the forest were, the girl was fearless and loved the thrill of adventure above all else.

Her name was Rainha D. Sonson. She was actually a close friend of Luffy and Bamia but right now, she was on a little adventure of her own. Several monkeys were swinging through the trees above her, making her smile as she looked up at them.

"Hey, wait for me!"

Laughing, the girl skillfully jumped up the trees and began swinging with the monkeys like she was one of them. After some time swinging around, she happily sat down on one tree and kicked back.

"I wonder how Luffy and Bamia are doing. I think Shanks and his crew are visiting today."

A few more monkeys were lounging around the tree, just slacking and enjoying themselves. As Sonson enjoyed the forest's tranquility, she suddenly noticed something out of the ordinary.

Just up above her, higher in the tree, was an odd-looking peach. It was much larger than normal peaches, was colored a bright solid gold, and had weird swirl markings all over it.

"Huh, fancy-looking fruit!"

Jumping up, she pulled the peach down and landed swiftly back on the branch. Curiously inspecting the fruit, she shrugged her shoulders, never turning down a free snack before biting into the flesh, only to cringe at the bitter taste.

"Yuck!" She retched before looking at the fruit. "Sheesh, you sure look better than you taste...Oh well."

Not wanting to waste food, Sonson ate the rest of the fruit before picking her teeth and spitting out the seed. However, it was at that moment she felt something weird now connected to her backside and looked around to try and find the source.

"What's going on..." She pondered, scratching the side of her head with her...tail? "Wait, tail?"

Sonson looked back and noticed a long, prehensile monkey tail, not too dissimilar to the one that her monkey friends had, attached to her. Understandably, she screamed in shock as she stood up and spun around. This led to an amusing spectacle, for the watching monkeys anyway, of the girl chasing her tail.

After several moments of this, Sonson finally calmed down and thought about what had just happened. She ate a weird peach and now he had a tail, which actually looked pretty cute now that she thought more about it. Somehow, she also had the distinct knowledge that it would always be there from now on.

"I gotta show Luffy and Bamia!" She cheered as she made her way through the forest at speeds even faster than ever before.

-OP-

The next day, Luffy had gone to try and confront Higuma in order to force him to apologize for insulting Shanks and his crew. Bamia had tailed after her brother, not wanting him to get hurt, followed closely by both Makino and the town's mayor, Woop Slap. The bandits had returned and were laughing about Shanks and his crew, still thinking them wimps just because Shanks didn't retaliate for getting covered in booze. Luffy had then demanded they apologize for the insult.

"You should watch your mouth, boy. No one who's ever made me mad has lived to tell the tale." Higuma warned.

"Leave my brother alone," Bamia said in a calm, detached tone that unnerved Higuma slightly.

"What's with the robot voice, girl? Speak like a damn human being!"

"Don't bully them!" Uta snapped, having arrived as well.

Higuma scoffed. "Seems we have a naive little brat who doesn't know her place in the world."

"Says the guy who doesn't know the world beyond this tiny little island!" Uta countered. "I've seen the world, and it's way bigger than some eight million Berri nobody like you!"

Higuma growled in anger. He started to motion for his men, only to notice who was behind Uta. It was Shanks and his crew.

"I was wondering why the bar was empty. Looks like those mountain bandits from before returned." Shanks said.

"You pirates are still here? You been scrubbing this whole village clean the entire time?" Higuma asked.

"Just checking up on a friend. Hey, Luffy, I thought you said your punches were as strong as pistols."

"Look buddy," Higuma said as Shanks approached. "I believe I made the difference between us clear before. So leave now before you get hurt."

Shanks said nothing as he continued walking toward Higuma, who had one of his bandits aim their gun at him.

"Wimps like you should know their place!" the bandit taunted.

Shanks didn't bat an eye. "Now that you've drawn your pistol, it's time to put your life on the line."

"What the hell are you talking about?" the bandit demanded.

"Weapons aren't drawn to threaten people," Shanks explained calmly. "The second you draw one..."

The bandit was blasted in the head by Lucky Roux firing his own pistol, killing him instantly as blood splattered everywhere.

"...You either kill or be killed."

"You... You bastards!" Another bandit called out. "That's fighting dirty!"

"You talk like we're saints or something," Shanks' First Mate, Benn Beckman, pointed out. "Who did you think you were dealing with, honestly?"

"Let me remind you of something; You're looking at pirates. Not some chump sailors." Shanks said.

"You just shut up! You've got nothing to do with this in the first place!" One bandit called out.

"Now that's where you're wrong because there's something very important you should know. You can pour drinks on me, you can throw garbage at me, you can even spit in my face and I'll just laugh and forget all about it." Shanks' gaze then turned angry. "But good reason or not...NOBODY HURTS THOSE I CONSIDER FRIENDS."

Higuma just laughed. "Is that so? Men, kill these idiot wimps!"

The bandits all charged, only to get slammed by Beckman's rifle, one of the dropped blades landing right near a shocked Higuma's foot.

"You've never even set foot off this island before now, so you have no basis by which to call us idiots or wimps," Beckman said. "Let me spell it out for you. The Red-Haired Pirates are among the top four strongest pirate crews in the entire world. Our captain alone has a bounty in the billions. If you want to kill us, you'll need a warship at the very least."

"W-Wait a minute! That brat attacked us first!" Higuma said, referring to Luffy.

"Yeah, but you're stronger than him, just like I'm stronger than you, but I didn't retaliate when you insulted and attacked me." Shanks pointed out. "What you're doing only makes you a bully with nothing but time on his hands. Plus, you already mentioned that you're a wanted man. Even pirates can cash in on bounties under the right circumstances, and eight million should be enough to get us through to the next island at the very least."

Higuma freaked out and tossed a smoke bomb to escape, surprising everyone.

"Hey! What are you doing?!"

When the smoke cleared, Shanks' eyes widened in horror when he saw Uta had vanished.

"UTA!" Luffy cried, Bamia's own eyes widening in shock.

"Luffy, Bamia! You won't believe what happened!" Sonson shouted as she came over, only to see the distressed looks on their faces. "Wait, what's wrong?"

"It's Uta, she's been taken!"

-OP-

Higuma had taken a boat out to the open ocean. He had some ropes which he had used to tie up Uta.

"Let me go, you big jerk!"

"Shut up, you'll make the perfect hostage! Once I get rid of that bastard, I'll make my way back and make that stupid friend of yours pay for making me mad!"

He started to cackle until he heard something breach the water behind him. He turned around and was shocked to see a giant Sea King, the Lord of the Coast, now staring at him.

"W-What the hell?! N-No! Stay away!"

The sea dragon opened its jaw and chomped down on Higuma's boat, causing Uta to fly off as it caught the bandit leader in its jaws and began biting down on him, crushing his body as he screamed in agony. After a few more bites, Higuma spat up gushes of blood that splattered his face before the Lord of the Coast crunched down on him, reducing his corpse to mulch as it swallowed before looking at Uta and lunging for her next, seeing as she was a sitting duck in the water.

Fortunately, who should appear in the nick of time but Shanks, who was now holding onto his daughter in his own boat. Momentarily surprised, the beast charged once more, only for Shanks to give it a deathly glare, his eyes developing white irises around his pupils.

"GET. LOST."

A suffocating pressure emitted from Shanks as the Lord of the Coast recoiled in fear before turning and swimming as far away as possible. Uta hugged her father, shaking in fear before feeling something wet on her hand and backing away to see it was blood.

Looking at Shanks, Uta's eyes widened in horror when she saw that Shanks, in the process of rescuing her from the Lord of the Coast, had lost his left arm to the beast. The poor girl burst into tears as she once more hugged her father, who hugged her back.

"It's only an arm, sweetie. I'm just glad that you're okay."

-OP-

Needless to say, Luffy was horrified when Shanks came back with a missing arm, blaming himself for antagonizing Higuma and causing all these events to happen in the first place.

"I owe you one, Luffy. Makino told me how you were fighting for us."

"But your arm...!"

"It's only an arm, Luffy. Just as long as those I care about are safe, that's all that matters to me." He patted the crying Luffy's head with his remaining hand. "Hey now, a real man doesn't shed tears unless he's lost something truly precious to him."

Makino and the other Red-Haired Pirates watched with smiles on their faces before Sonson excitedly came over.

"Whoa! You're Shanks?! I've heard all about you!"

"And who's this spunky little monkey?" He asked with a chuckle.

"This is Sonson! She's me and Bamia's best friend!" Luffy explained, wiping his tears away.

"I thought I was your best friend." Uta pouted.

"You are." Bamia clarified with a tiny smile.

"Uh...what's with the tail?" Limejuice, one of Shanks' Senior Officers, asked.

Sonson remembered her tail and grinned playfully.

"I ate a weird golden peach."

Shanks looked surprised. "She ate a Devil Fruit too? And from the looks of it, it's a Zoan."

"A peach..." Lucky Roux took out an encyclopedia made by Dr. Vegapunk that listed all the known Devil Fruits in the world and flipped through the pages before finding what he was looking for. "Did it look like this?"

"Yeah!" Sonson smiled. "What's the big deal?"

"Do you have any idea just how important that fruit is?! And you just came across it by chance!" Beckman snapped. "That's a Mythical Zoan, one of the most powerful categories of Zoan Devil Fruits!"

"EHHH?! REALLY?!" Luffy and Sonson exclaimed in surprise.

"Yup, that's the [Monkey-Monkey Fruit: Model Sun Wukong]!" Lucky Roux explained. "All Mythical Zoans are derived from creatures and beings from legends and myths and Sun Wukong is one of the most famous myths!"

"Whoa, he sounds cool!" Sonson said.

Shanks chuckled. "Something tells me that the powers that be had a hand in you finding that fruit, kid. From what Luffy's told me, you are a bit like a monkey yourself."

Sonson just gave a playful grin in response as Yassop came over with a book and handed it to Sonson.

"Here, it's 'Journey to the West' and it details the adventures of Sun Wukong and his friends." The Sniper of the Red-Haired Pirates explained. "Read that, and you might be able to get a better idea of what you can do now."

"Ugh...reading." Sonson groaned.

-OP-

The next day, Shanks and his crew loaded up their ship, the Red Force, to set off. Luffy, Bamia, and Sonson were there to see them off.

"We'll miss you, guys," Bamia said as she gave Uta a hug.

"I'll miss you guys too!"

After all that had happened yesterday, Luffy realized that he really wasn't ready to head off to sea as a pirate just yet. Instead, he would be dedicating themselves to training along with Bamia and Sonson especially since the three now had to learn how to control their new Devil Fruit powers.

"I'm going to make a mighty crew! One even bigger and stronger than yours!" Luffy told Shanks.

"And I'll be part of it," Bamia said. "And we'll find the greatest treasures in the world."

"Heh! If we're forming a crew, then I get to be Captain!" Sonson smirked.

"No way, I'm gonna be Captain!" Luffy argued.

Shanks and Uta laughed as Luffy and Sonson began tussling with each other while Bamia rolled her eyes. After pulling them apart, Luffy puffed his chest out proudly.

"Shishishishi! I promise, when I'm older, I'll set sail with Bamia and Sonson and become King of the Pirates!"

Shanks then looked at Luffy as if he were seeing his old captain and surrogate father, Gol D. Roger.

"Well then, let's make it a promise." He smiled as he took off his straw hat and placed it on Luffy's head.

"This hat once belonged to my old captain. Now I'll leave it with you, so take good care of it. I'll be waiting for that day when you do find One Piece."

Luffy was shocked to tears by this act. The Red Force sailed off as the whole island waved goodbye, Luffy, Bamia, and Sonson included.

Knightmare Lord A/N:

Yup, we're starting something new; A ONE PIECE STORY! And yes, knowing our track record, there will be crossovers added to it but that won't be until later.

A key difference is that we're adding a sister and best friend for Luffy. Monkey D. Bamia is based on Fu Hou Hou/Feng Bao Bao from Hitori no Shita: The Outcast. As for Rainha D. Sonson, she's pretty much based on SonSon from Marvel vs Capcom 2. You could say she's an Expy of her.

Credit for Bamia and Sonson's Devil Fruits, the Mist-Mist Fruit, and Monkey-Monkey Fruit: Model Sun Wukong, goes to Kairomaru, creator of The Logia Brothers.

Now, I know the beginning said that there will be four certain young individuals and you may think we already have three...but no, Bamia won't count, even though she will be a main character. No, Luffy and Sonson are the first two, we'll see the other two special individuals later in the story.

Now I turn the mic over to Mrotrax. Anything you'd like to say, old pal?

Mrotrax A/N:

Nothing on my end this time, aside from...HOLY MOLY THIS MAY BE THE BEST OPENING CHAPTER OF A ONE PIECE STORY I'VE SEEN IN SOMETIME!

I may be biased, but it's true!

This story is admittedly being written with us knowing a lot more than we did at the start of One Piece, but I do hope you readers enjoy what you see and st