Dividing the fruits and planning the future

After calming down we all sat around the dinner table. Each one of us had a different devil fruit in front of us and we were looking them up on our two devil fruit catalogs.

”Found yours yet?” Asked Jackie, turning to me.

”N” Was all I was able to get out of my mouth when Noah started yelling.

”I found mine! And you wont believe it’s a logia.”

Shit. We don’t need that kind of attention. We should get rid of it fast. It’s even canon. But I don’t know if it’s this exact one. Still we shouldn’t play around with the butterfly effect. Should sell it as soon as possible.

”Aaand it’s the mud one… THE least cool one” He said casting a sad look at the wierdly green fruit of immesurable power.

”Does anyone want to become a mud man” ”or woman” ”… or a mud woman.” I said releasing a sigh at Skys interruption. ”No one?” I asked and looked from the nonchalant Jackie to the un interested Sky and the sad Noah.

”If no one wants it then I am relieved, cause I don’t want it either, I want to sell it. No matter what, some random brats from the Garbage dunes with logia powers makes waves anywhere, and not the pleasant little disturbing the calm sea like good waves. I mean the lack of waves and the receding shoreline of an incoming massive tsunami kind of waves. Luckily we can get rid of it at some auction house or going to a marine base, they would love any logia fruits for their troops. I support the auction house since then we don’t have to be worried about us being tracked by the marines, though I suggest we sell it at grand line cause there will be more potential buyers there.”

”What do you mean grand line? Are you going to leave?” Asked Sky as she has a habit of noticing the meaning hidden between the lines.

”Not just me, all of us. Four kids find four devil fruits. Whats to say they don’t find more? We are in danger as soon as any one of us eats any one of these fruits. Unless we go to the marines and climb the ranks fast there we don’t have good enough protection. And the marines aren’t actually that good of a choice. Just look they haven’t even captured Gol. D. Roger yet and he and Garp the fist have clashed multiple times already.”

”Actually I heard they managed to capture Gold Roger.” Said Jackie.

”””What!?!””” We asked in unison. So IT will start soon. We need to hurry if we want to out run it to an extent. I still want to atleast interact with Luffy and his crew. Also I want to see Rogers execution. It's just hard to get to East-Blue from our own West-Blue. Maybe these devil fruits can help us cross the red line, or we can go to the grand line and cross the calm belt, like the marines, but I can’t remember how they did it, Its been so long since I watched One Piece and I can’t even re watch it to refresh my memory.

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”Yeah,” continued Jackie getting excited ”They have captured the pirate king and they will execute him in three months, in his home town, Loguetown, the town of beginnings at East-Blue. I wish I could go see it.” He said yearning clear in his eyes. I agree It would be epic to see his execution, I am glad he shares my views so often. Well, he is my best friend after all.

”Maybe we can, we never know, after all we have three devil fruits still here.” I said and grinned while pulling Sky’s and Noah’s catalog from them and started looking for mine again.

After some time I found mine and called the others ”Found mine” I simply said that and they came to me, Noah almost fell to the ground when his sister sprinted to my side.

”It is a paramecia and it allows the user to generate and manipulate clouds. Scale: small.”

”Cool isn’t it” I asked the others who just shrugged and went to their seats. Pshh. They were just spoilt by the logia. ”You guys don’t want it then?” I asked. ”Isn’t it better to wait and see if the other fruits are better?” Asked Jackie, clearly not into the kumo kumo no mi. ”Suit yourselves” I replied a bit sulkily as my fruit is awesome, they just don’t see it yet.

I don’t want to become a pirate. That’s just an impossibility. Nor do I want to become the lapdog of Gorosei and the world government. I just want to adventure and see this world and its sights. Make some friends and battle some enemies. Just like luffy and the gang. My old self tried to help other people and died a miserable death. I will adventure this world and help those who I deem need help. Maybe that kid who got beat before my eyes was a rasist and deserved it… Or maybe he was the one who got those thugs into jail in the first place. I don’t know. Nor do I honestly care at this point. I’ve decided since none of us have good impressions of the marines and the world government, yet all of the people in this room right now have a heart too good to be pirates, we’ll just become adventurers. I know that there are pirates like the straw hats who don’t kill and are people with good hearts. But the title of a pirate doesn’t sit well with me. If that occupation doesn’t exist well make it a reality. We might be the only ones but it doesn’t matter. We’ll sail the seas like marines, unhindered and help people, make merry like pirates and adventure to the paradise, new world, calm belt, raftel, mariejois, the moon and marineford, I want to see them all. And I want to be surrounded by my family while there. Much like Whitebeard and his crew. Much like luffy and the straw hats. Much like Gol D. Roger. That means they have to be strong. I need to be strong enough to protect them. And them strong enough to protect me and themselves. We need to train hard if we want to become a powerhouse in the coming era. We need to train our devil fruits, haki, generally get our strenght up, and if we are lucky we can recruit Nina back from the marines and she can train us in the six skills of the marines. We have a chef Sky, shipwright Noah, I and Jackie have no current roles other than our incoming combat potential. I can be the captain or maybe we can find someone worthy to lead our voyage.

A sudden ”Got mine” woke me up from my dreams.

”Which one, what powers, is it good, is it cool?” Noah rapid fired questions to her sister, waiting impatiently.

”An ancient zoan: Neko Neko no mi. Model sabertoothe tiger” Wow. That cat annhialated another species. Species.

”We should keep it.” I said. ”Even though it’s almsot rarer than a Logia, it has power to back it up. We can pretend like it is a normal Zoan, not an ancient one. We can sell it if it becomes a burden of we don’t eat it.” Though it would be a shame to lose an ancient Zoan cause no one wanted it.

I released a sigh at Noah’s piercing eyes ”… and it’s cool.”

”Yes! It’s cool, Jo said it so it must be true.” Noah celebrated.

”I found mine too,” said Jackie. ”It’s a Paramecia that makes your body stretch. Called gomu gomu no mi.”

Another sigh escapes my mouth.

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