Five Years Ago.

I had awoken bleary-eyed to an unfamiliar roof above my head.

“Where am I?” I croaked out, my throat dry from dehydration.

“You’re in the outskirts of Loguetown, you were practically dead on that little boat you were on,” An aged male voice told me, “Now that you know, you’ve got five minutes” and he left.

“Dead?... But… oh god! Urk!-” I got up instantly to vomit in a bucket.

I remembered everything.

The blood.

The screams.

The pirates laughing as they raped and murdered all of my friends and family.

Me using my devil fruit powers for the first time to destroy the ship.

Luckily finding the rowboat and getting out of there, trying not to listen to the screams of the pirates and other passengers aboard the cruise ship.

“Mother… Father… Penelope… William... I’ll avenge you. I’ll kill every goddamn pirate I can… so nobody has to suffer again!” I vowed, clenching my fists hard enough to break the skin, “I… will kill all of them. Every single one of those pillaging, raping, murdering pirates!”

‘I’ll use this power of mine to kill them all… and what better way to do that than by joining the marines? I’ll rise up in the ranks… and become an admiral. Admiral Heflin D. Vincent” I thought to myself, as I got up to do my duty as a man. And hunt every one of those bastards that I could. They’ll never take another life on my watch.

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I never noticed the various eyes watching me as I walked out of that room to sign up to the marines.

Present Day.

“Hey! Vice Admiral ‘The Puppeteer’ Heflin! I challenge you to a duel to the death!” A random pirate captain shouted from his ship, pointing his cutlass at me as if he had any right to even lay a finger upon me.

“Alright then, Random Pirate #593, I’ll humour you,” I said, as I got up and used a combination of Geppo and Soru to get to his ship in an instant, standing right behind him.

“Hey! I’m not a random pirate! I am Crusher Mountain! Captain of the Mountain Pirates! I have a bounty of a hundred million- where’d he go!?” The pirate asked confused, as he turned around. Only to get a bayonet to the throat.

He gurgled pitifully as he fell to the ground, dead.

“Now, who else wants to challenge me?” I asked as I cleaned the now bloodied bayonet using a small cloth.

I turned around to see the other pirates shocked and horrified faces and grinned viciously at them.

“Nobody? That’s a shame. You would’ve at least had the mercy of a quick death. MEN! TAKE THESE SORRY SACKS OF SHIT TO IMPEL DOWN!” I commanded my marines.

I then walked back to my quarters.

“You know, I honestly thought to be a marine would have been more interesting, but when you’re as powerful as I am, I guess a few things get a little boring, don’t they… Penelope?” I said with a small, sad smile, as I looked at the small doll that holds the soul of my sister. But none of the memories. Never the memories.

The doll pats me on the head and left to do something with the other golems on the ship.

I took off my left glove and touched the pillow, watching in fascination as it came to life, made a human-like shape, and bowed before me.

“I will never get tired of having my own army at my beck and call,” I said to myself as I put the seastone laced glove back on.

I looked at myself in the mirror to see if there was any blood on my clothes. Thankfully, nothing.

I had covered practically every bit of my body other than my hair, mouth and eyes in a sort of cloth or metal, hell I’m covered mostly in bandages except for my left hand, my long mane of blue hair was still as luxurious as ever, 6 feet long, only four more feet and it’d be touching the floor.

“Damn, I look good,” I said to myself with a cocky grin.

Then, I noticed something in the corner of my eye. A pirates bounty.

I picked it up with my covered hands and examined it.

“Monkey D. Luffy, 100 million beri? Sounds interesting” I said with a grin.

“And what’s this? Roronoa Zoro, that bastard? Huh, looks like the bastards joined Luffy… 60 million. And I thought I could trust that someone as honourable as him wouldn’t join those… monsters!” I said, enraged as I smashed the table into sawdust.

“And if I know anything about pirates, they’re probably at that… festering pit, Jaya… looks like I’ll have to do a bit of… cleaning and maybe meet an old friend on the way” I said with a grin.

“MEN! TO JAYA!” I shouted, knowing they’d hear me.

“SIR YES SIR!” I heard the fearful voices of my minions shout out.

It’s always fun to listen to their fearful voices, makes me feel… strong.

I grinned widely at the thought of the screams of that bastard Zoro.

To think, we used to be best friends.