I got idea's for a few of the Devil Fruits from 'One Piece: Ship of Fools Wiki', they are not exactly the same but I got the idea's from changing the details of some that caught my eye. It is a good sight, and I recommend taking a look at it :)

Also sorry this chapter is a little short, there was only so much I could put into it. That was actually the main reason I stopped the last chapter when I did, so there would be a little more for this one. The next chapter will be the start of the normal timeline for One Piece, though I may need to watch a few episodes just to remind myself of a few things.

Hope you like the chapter :)

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Disclaimer: I own nothing:(

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Chapter 8-Plans

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Dark Armageddon was one of Luffy's more powerful and…destructive moves. It was done by creating a second Dark World that wasn't stable, and acted like a black hole sucking up everything including things nailed down along with what they were nailed down to. The more it pulled in, the stronger and more unstable it became. Eventually it would collapse on itself, crushing everything and anyone that was unfortunate enough to be suck in and leaving nothing behind.

Unfortunately it was also a move he had not been able to practice much, mostly because of how destructive it was. This meant that the moment he let it go and float into the sky above them, Luffy lost all control over the black hole he had crated.

While the members of the Order of the Sea watched in horror as the hole continued to get larger and pull in heavier things, Luffy opened a Dark Gate large enough to suck up his brother, Law and himself. By the time the insane cult members had regained enough focus to look away from the quickly growing hole there was nothing for them to find.

Visible streams of dust and dirt had started to float into the air like the tentacles of a giant monster, the wind generated by the black hole pulling at their robes and hair. As it got more power the water around them also started to be pulled in, dancing between the dirt streams only to disappear too. By this point the pull was strong enough to rip the guns out of the cultists' hands, several reaching out in an attempt to grab them before they were too high.

Those were the first ones to follow the guns in being sucked up, the few remaining being those smart enough to grab onto something on the ground. But even then, those who only hand grass instead of rocks to hold onto were ripped into the air screaming.

Then the black hole started to look shaky around the edges.

A few seconds after this started happening the pull suddenly tripled in power, pulling almost all of the men and women that had been able to get a strong enough hold on something into the air as it stopped growing. After that it seemed to start getting smaller, the pull somehow sucking the edges of the hole itself in.

Right before it disappeared altogether the few things that had yet to be pulled in just floated in the air, the laws of gravity forgotten for a moment before they returned and everything came crashing back down. This also resulted in the deaths of two more men when they hit the ground, followed by a woman who was crushed by the falling debris.

In the end the whole thing had only lasted five minutes, which Sabo had once timed as the limit for the attack. Everything on the small island had been levelled including the entrance to the Vault, and all but one of the men and women had been killed.

The one remaining was none other than Sarah, who was on her hands and knees panting with wide eyes and horror written on her face as she looked around at the scene. The smug smirk was gone, her confidence having been suck up with her screaming brothers and sisters.

Seconds after the attack ended a Dark Gate opened in the same spot as the last, and the four teens slowly started to raise out of it head first. Ace, Sabo and Law were panting heavily and shivering after spending so long in the Darkness. Luffy was standing with his arms crossed and glaring down at the woman that shot his brother with a grin on her face.

When she finally noticed that she was no longer alone, Sarah spun around and tried to crawl away.

"D-demon!"

Luffy's glare didn't falter for a moment as he started walking towards her, his arms falling to his sides and his gun appearing in his right hands in a swirl of darkness. He slowly started lifting it, aiming at the girls head and matching her crawling step for step. Darkness started swirling around the gun and condensing into a bullet inside the barrel, darkness floating out of the open skull mouth.

He was about to pull the trigger when a hand grabbed his wrist in a strong grip, slowly moving it so the gun was pointed at the ground instead.

Turning to glare at whoever dared interrupt him, Luffy saw the same old blond man that had been with Sabo and distracted Gabriel while they got away. He looked worn and his left arm was hanging loosely at his side as blood dripped from it onto the ground, but his face was set in stone and he met Luffy's glare without flinching.

"Enough…you have done enough. It is not her day to die, not today. Her story is not yet at its end, no matter how much I want to let you end it now."

"She shot Sabo!"

"I know, and she will go on to do many more things but I am telling you that she cannot die today. It was no coincidence that she was the only one not to die from that attack. Some things are fixed, and you will be meeting her again later in your story…"

For a moment the two starred at each other in silence, and it looked like Luffy would ignore the man and shoot the still cowering girl. But just as the tension in the air was getting thick enough to cut with a knife, Luffy looked away and his arm fell limp as the gun disappeared back into Darkness.

Slowly letting go of his wrist and stepping back, Arthur gave a small nod before turning his attention to Sarah. He moved to crouch next to her, resting a hand on her shoulder almost gently as he spoke.

"Remember this day girl, remember what happened and remember that it happened because of what you did. Remember the lives lost because of that single bullet fire from your gun…repent for your sin. If you can do that, there is hope for you. It is not too late…"

The last part was said in barely more than a whisper that Luffy only just heard, and a moment later the old man flicked her on the temple and knocked her out.

Turning to face the four teens as Sarah fell back, Arthur let out a sigh and shook his head tiredly.

"You four look like shit…"

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They were forced to steal the fishing boat that 'Fishy' had brought them to the island on, Luffy storing there still damaged ship in his Dark World. They had met very little opposition after Luffy's display of power, though mostly it was because almost all of the people on the island hand been sucked up and crushed by the black hole he had created.

The few that they did come across were quickly dealt with by Arthur, who would knock them out before they even trued a corner and saw them. He seemed to know exactly where they would appear and where they would be looking so he could sneak under there guard.

Law had started tending to Sabo's wound the moment they were on the boat, removing the bullet and bandaging his shoulder. Apparently it would take a few days to heal because of the Sea Stone, but he would still heal faster than a normal person. Law had then started on Arthur's arm, ignoring the man's half-hearted protests.

Ace had sat on the deck away from everyone, a deep scowl on his face.

Luffy had moved to watch Arthur as he stirred the ship, explaining who he was and his Devil Fruit. It wasn't until several hours later, the island long out of sight that the old man turned to look at him.

"We need to talk, get your brother and that Law boy. I don't want to keep repeating myself."

Giving a nod Luffy quickly brought the others, none of which looked overly happy to have been called and wanting to go to sleep.

"You can stop with the glaring brats, you'll need the energy to glare at me when you hear what I have to say."

That got the four's attention.

"Sabo and Ace need to leave in two years to train and get stronger on their own-"

The words had hardly left his mouth before Ace had stepped forward and grabbed Arthur by his worn out shirt, only to have his hands slapped away and a moment later he was sitting on his arse.

"Don't get cocky brat, you're a hundred years too soon to even try against me. There are people you and the blonde need to meet, connections to make and training to suffer through. Listen to the guy that can see the future, it's not like you will never see him again. Two years to train together and then three apart for you two to explore the Grand Line before meeting back up with Luffy and Law."

"Why"

This time it was Sabo who spoke, a lot calmer than the others though still glaring at him.

"Fixed points of Fate need to be met, I have already changed so much that I am walking on a tightrope to keep everything together. There are people you must meet, and after you do the two of you can meet up with Luffy in the Grand Line. It will also make you all stronger, better preparing you for the road ahead."

"What happens if we don't meet one of these fixed points, what will happen?"

"I have no idea, I have never been stupid enough to find out. Fixed Points must happen, it is simple as that. It's the one certain truth I have always known since I first ate my Fruit, and I fear the price. The more things I change about a person's life the more I must ensure that others stay the same, all three of you have things you need to do."

At this point Law stepped forward with a frown.

"What about me?"

Arthur looked Law up and down for a moment before shaking his head.

"I never met you before today, so I never had the chance to add anything to your life. You are an echo of the changes I made to theirs, a change that happened without me directly doing it. You changed your own Fate when you saw their wanted posters and decided to seek them out instead of forming your own crew, and because of that your life is your own. You can choose to stay with Luffy and train before setting out with him, or go off and return to the Fate that would have been yours had you met him later down your road."

Giving a small nod, Law moved back to lean against the wall and listen quietly.

By now the three brothers had calmed down enough to stop glaring and think over what they were being told. None of them were overly happy to find out that the man before them had been manipulating their lives, but at the same time if what he said about how he changed it was true they couldn't help but be a little grateful.

Letting out a sigh and rubbing a hand over his face, Sabo moved to stand between his brothers.

"Alright tell us what you can, when we need to leave, where we need to go and when we can meet back up."

"Alright, but first there is something you have that I need."

"What?"

"The Merge-Merge Fruit, it's too powerful for you guys to have along with your own and the others I sent your way. I plan on hiding it somewhere no one will find it, at least not for a long time."

Thinking it over for a moment Sabo gave Luffy a small nod and the straw hat wearing teen held out his hand, the Fruit falling out of a Dark Gate that formed above it. However instead of giving it straight to Arthur, Ace took it and narrowed his eyes at the older man.

"Why send it to us if you were just going to take it anyway? Why not have it come straight to you?"

"Because I couldn't freckles, while I can see my own Fate I can't directly effect it. I sent it to you boys because I knew I could trust you enough to give it to me, which I still do by the way."

Frowning slightly Ace handed to the fruit over and almost as soon as it was in his hand it disappeared into the folds of his ragged clothes.

"Good boy."

"Is there any way you could have said that without making it sound like I'm a fucking dog!"

"…no…it can't be done."

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When they finally arrived at Giants Jungle Luffy brought out there ship again and the five moved to it while he put the fishing boat in his Dark World along with their old one. While it wouldn't be sailing until they had it fixed, there was more room on it then the little boat.

After Ace and Law went to get them something to eat the five sat around a table and started ironing out the details, mostly where Ace and Sabo needed to go. Arthur refused to give them details about who they needed to meet, saying that it might affect the outcome and go against a Fixed Point.

While they were talking (aka arguing), Luffy busied himself by flipping through the Devil Fruit Encyclopaedia with their newly acquired Fruits on the table in front of him. All thoughts of not trusting Law had disappeared when he came back to save them at Hollow Peak, so he didn't need to try and hide them from him.

The first one he looked for was the brown mango with white spots, which he found in the Logia section surprisingly. The Gravel-Gravel Fruit, which turned the user into…well Gravel. That one sounded fun, maybe when they had their own crew someone would eat it and then there would be four Logia.

After that was a bunch of white grapes with a red stalk, this time a Paramecia. The Spark-Spark Fruit was an odd one, which gave the user the ability to bring things like statues and the like to life. The book called it 'the spark of life'.

The next was a pink and oddly flat melon, with white swirls making look like it had a face. It was another Paramecia called the Mask-Mask Fruit. The user is able to change their body depending on the mask they are wearing, so if they wore a mask of an animal then they would turn into that animal.

The forth was a purple apple with a red arrows pointing up, and a green stem. A Paramecia called the Boost-Boost Fruit, that gave the user the ability to boost not only their own body, but also others and even objects for a short amount of time. There was also a note that said it could be used to give Devil Fruit powers a boost to.

The last was a black and grey stripped banana. Zoan class Lemur fruit.

It was an interesting group of fruits to add to the others they had collected already, minus the one Arthur had taken.

After returning them into hi Dark World Luffy tuned back into the conversation just in time for Arthur to turn to him with a serious expression on his face.

"Luffy I need to talk to you about what happened when you ran into Gabriel, about what he did and how he was able to touch you despite being a Logia."

"Ok."

"He was using something called Haki, a set of abilities that use a person's willpower. There are three forms of it, two of which all people can use with training but the last is very rare. The first is called Observation Haki, and allows you to 'hear' the voices of everything around you. It can even be used to predict a person's actions in a fight, giving you an edge. The second is called Armament Haki, that turn a person's skin into armour. It is also able to effect a Logia Devil Fruit user as if they were made of flesh and blood, which was how Gabriel was able to hurt you."

All but Law who had heard about Haki before, were paying careful attention to Arthur as he said this with slightly wide eyes. Until that moment they thought that only Sea Stone and other Logia would be able to hurt them. Sabo had actually started writing down everything the only man was say now to, so he could look it over later if needed.

"The last form of Haki is very rare, only 1 person in 1,000,000 have it, and even then most never even realised it. It is called Conqueror's Haki, and when used right is very dangerous. If a person has it, they are able to force there willpower on those around them and knock out those with a weaker will then their own. It can be used to stop an entire army when mastered…and you Luffy, have it."

The sound of Sabo's pencil stopped instantly as all eyes widened and jaws hit the table, Ace, Sabo and Law looking in shock between Luffy and Arthur. After getting over his own shock Luffy's face went very serious, his eyes hard and hands clenched into fists.

"Can you teach me how to use it?"

For a moment Arthur simple stared at him with a blank expression on his face, his eyes meeting Luffy's without wavering even slightly. Only for them to drop to the table and a defeated sigh to leave his lips, his shoulders slumping slightly.

"I wish I could help you, but while I can give you direction on Observation and Armament Haki I do not have Conqueror's Haki myself. Only a person with Conqueror's Haki can tell you how to use it, and even then they would be limited. Only you can teach yourself how through trial and error, it is not something that can simple be taught."

This only brought a frown to Luff's face, but after a moment he gave a small nod.

After a few minutes of silence Law noticed something odd with what Arthur said, and decided to speak.

"You said you could give us 'direction' on how to use the other two forms of Haki, not teach them…?"

Sending the surgeon a small smile for catching that, Arthur gave a small nod.

"That's right, I'm not staying. There are other things that I need to do, other people I need to see. I will give you all the tools you need to become strong, but I will not hold your hands. The best way to get stronger is by working at it yourselves after all."

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Arthur stayed with them at Giants Jungle for a week before taking the stolen fishing boat and leaving. He had started to teach them the first two forms of Haki by then, along with making sure Sabo and Ace new what they needed to do when they left in two years. He still refused to tell them any details about what would happen, but would grin every time they asked and laugh as if hearing a great joke.

Law decided that he would stay with Luffy, mostly because he doubted the idiot could survive on his own. He had seen more than enough to know that Luffy was powerful, but that didn't mean he wouldn't do something really stupid and need someone to pull him out of the fire.

They had already agreed that Luffy would keep the Devil Fruit's they had collected in his Dark World until they had a crew, though even then they would not tell anyone about them until they could be trusted. It was the safest place to keep them.

Sabo had been very happy when Ace and Luffy showed them the Sea Stone weapons they had stolen from the Order of the Sea, and had kept a few to experiment with. He had several ideas on what they could use the stone for, and now that Law was around he had someone to bounce ideas off of who would actually understand what he was talking about.

Luffy had also taken to trying to force his Conqueror's Haki onto the animals of the island, with limited success. He was getting better at it, but would need a lot of work. Arthur had warned him it may take years before he could use it effectively, and even then he would still need to master it.

Ace for the most part had been very…subdued, since he was knocked out by Gabriel's Conqueror's Haki. He had not taken the defeat well, and was pushing himself in his training more than ever. He had even volunteered to let Luffy use his Conqueror's Haki on him, wanting to try and get used to it so that he would not be knocked out by such a thing again.

Luffy had of course refused, he couldn't even think about forcing his will onto his brother's or even Law. While Ace had not been happy about it though he had understood, and did not ask again.

Law had started doing something he should have done a long time ago, and started working on his stamina. He had made it a habit to wonder the island for days at a time, fighting the animals and forcing himself to the point of exhaustion. He would spar with the three brothers until he could no longer move and was using his Devil Fruit powers for everyday things to get a better understanding of them.

The four also made plans for the future.

They had agreed that they would all meet on the other side of the Grand Line and that Sabo and Ace would be waiting for them when they crossed it, and that Luffy and Law would send them a message when they were getting close.

But until then they would train and explore the Four Blues together.

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Hope you like the chapter, again sorry it was a little short.

Arthur will not be seen again for a long time now, but he will be mentioned ) after all he has been around for a long time, and Luffy, Ace and Sabo are not the first people he had helped.

I also think people will be surprised by the first extra person that will be joining Luffy and Law, because I don't think many people have done it before.

Also I am not sure what to call the crew. I was thinking of keeping it Straw-Hat Pirates, but want to hear other people's ideas. Also I will be changing other people's nicknames on the wanted posters when they get them, just a head up.

I may put up a poll for the Crew's name later, but want to hear any other ideas for what it could be called before doing it.

I added the list below of the Fruits they now have.

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Devil Fruit list

1. Zoan Primate class, Chimpanzee.

2. Paramecia class, Giant-Giant Fruit. Allowed the user to grow parts of their body to giant sizes.

3. Paramecia class, Pass-Pass Fruit. Gives the user the ability to see and pass through solid objects, such as walls.

4. Paramecia class, Swift-Swift Fruit. Makes the owner faster than the eye can follow.

5. Paramecia class, Plant-Plant Fruit, Gives the user the ability to control plants.

6. Logia Class, Gravel-Gravel Fruit.

7. Paramecia class, Spark-Spark Fruit. Gives the user the ability to bring things like statues and the like to life. The book called it 'the spark of life'.

8. Paramecia Class, Mask-Mask Fruit. The user is able to change their body depending on the mask they are wearing, so if they wore a mask of an animal then they would turn into that animal.

9. Paramecia Class, Boost-Boost Fruit. Gives the user the ability to boost not only their own body, but also others and even things for a short amount of time. There was also a note that said it could be used to give Devil Fruit powers a boost to.

10. Zoan Class, Lemur Fruit.