Another cold…..wet……..hungry day at see. Two weeks. It's been two fricken' weeks since I was kicked out of town. Another little misunderstanding.

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"KEY! YOU BETTER RUN!" yelled an angry mob. I was sprinting, at top speed-with a newly developed scar across my eye.

"I didn't do it!!! I was framed!!" I screamed, making it to the docks. I skidded to a halt, inches from the water. That was the day…….they all had it convinced that I was the one who destroyed the mayor's house. How can I do something like that!? I'm only one fifteen year-old! I whipped around. "Okay. Let's see if we can all come to an agreement…..heh…."

"That was the last straw, Key! It was all fine with yer' little sword thing and almost taking people's heads off. Along with blowing other places up. But the mayor!?" Growled the town's black smith. He had a large iron hammer. I liked to call it 'the hammer of all mighty death'.

"Why do you always blame me!?"

"'Cause! Yer' a trouble maker just like yer' father and yer' brother! You saw where that got them!"

I flinched. That hit a nerve. I glanced down to the swords that my brother had crafted. The two were connected by a chain. My dad had left before I was born. My -half-brother had worked as a sword crafter and a swordsman. He was dead. Along with mom. The only way I actually knew about my dad was because of my mom showing me pictures.

The blacksmith swung his hammer, I jumped over it and landed on- what I thought -was another part of the dock. Was I wrong. I soon found myself floating away from the dock. "How can you do this to a minor!?" I yelled.

"Quite easily!"

Curse my fright of swimming. Curse my fright of the ocean. Curse the town people.

I drifted in the little raft for about a week. Then the storm hit. Taking it out and leaving me with a 2-by-4 to float.

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Thus, how I got here. With my wet, red hair-which was in a braid-, blue bandana, two swords and tired black, soaked black jeans and a black t-shirt. "Urk……..I think I'm going to puke……" I drifted up and down on the waves. Wait….a ship! It can't be! It was! A ship! I attempted a yell, nothing happened. My vision was going in and out, the ship faded slowly and I was gone. Left to sink to the bottom of the sea. Damn……

Last thing I was…something coming towards me. All I saw after darkness…..light.

I jolted forward and coughed up lot of water, soon laying back down. For the first time in a week, I was on something firm. Wow.

"Hey! She's alive!"

I blinked slightly to see some guy in a straw hat right in my face. Woah……to close for comfort. "Where the hell did you get that hat!?" I snapped, wide eyed, grabbing it from his head.

"HEY! My hat! Give it back!" he yelled, trying to grab it. I held it just out of reach to examine it.
"Who did you steal this from!?" I snapped, in anger. "This hat belongs to Shanks!" I sniffed a little.

There was a pause and the hat was soon grabbed from my hands and placed back on the boys head. "Here's a tip! Do not touch the hat!"

I stared in silence and crossed my arms. "You stole that hat. It doesn't belong to you."

"I did not steal it!!!! Monkey D. Luffy does not steal."

I jumped to my feet and went to grab my sword. When I couldn't find it, I had a moment "My swords!?!?!" I glanced around, frantically. There was a man with pastel green hair, a man with black,curly hair and a freakishly pointy nose, and a man with blonde hair and a cigarette. Awkward.

"Don't worry. Your swords are below deck. They are fine." Said the man with green hair.

I sighed in relief. My sigh was followed by my stomach growling. There was a silence-which I broke with a howl of laughter. "Ha! Do you guys think that you could spare some food and a bit of booze?"

"Aren't you under aged?" Asked the guy with the pointy nose.

I shrugged. "Never stopped me before."

There was another silence.

"Please!?" I begged.

"Who are you anyways?" asked Luffy, poking me.

"I'm Key, daughter of Red haired Shanks." I replied, confidently.

"Isn't that the guy your looking for?" asked the guy with the pointy nose.

"You….You…..NO! Shanks does NOT have a kid!" Yelled Luffy.

"Well I guess you're wrong. Okay…now….curly brow….You look like a chef…….do you have anything good on this ship?" I turned to the guy with the blonde hair.

"We all have names you know." he growled.

"Yeah, yet I don't know them." I stated.

"Luffy,Sanji, Usop and Zolo." Said the guy with the green hair, pointing to each of them as he said the name.

"Nice to meet you." I said.

Luffy was staring at me, like he couldn't get over the fact of who I was. "Okay….You have the same hair as Shanks…..at least the top part…….."

"Okay. Well it's time to do some jolly rading of your food storage!" I walked-more or less skipped- to the door way that led to the lower portion of the ship. No one stopped me. I must have went into four different rooms before actually finding my swords and quickly grabbed them. Someone was sleeping in the other bed. I stiffened when they moved- I then noticed that it was a girl and tip-toed out of the room.

"Hey! Are you stealing from me!?" The girl then snapped as the door opened.

"N-no….." I stuttered, turning around.

"I think you are!' Snapped the girl, jumping up and grabbing a staff.

"No! I'm not lying!" I said, backing away as she approached me. When the girl sped up, I dashed away and up the stairs, tripping.

"Give me back what you stole!"
"I didn't steal anything!" I put my swords up in defence and her staff got stuck in the chain. "Alleh-oop." I said, and flipped her into Sanji and the staff close-lined Zolo.

I could feel glares from all directions boring into my skin. "I'm not making friends fast….." I mumbled, trying to crack a smile.

"I say we throw her off! She'll do nothing but cause us trouble!" Growled the girl.

"Cause you trouble!? YOU'RE the one who came at ME with that staff!" I retorted, putting my swords away. A small flyer then came down from the sky and Zolo snatched it.

"Yeah. You're no trouble at all." He said, and waved it slightly "According to this you destroyed a village."

"WHA!???!!!!!?" I went wide eyed and my jaw dropped.

"2 million beli!" Continued Zolo. "Wow. They even put the whole story on it."
I grabbed the flyer and began to look at the column at the bottom.

'An entire village was wiped out by this girl. We are told that she is the daughter of Shanks and a menace to society.'
I laughed slightly. "Well, that's a lie if I ever saw one....I did not destroy that village."

The flyer went to everyone to see it. Not a great picture though. All I was doing was holding my swords.

"HEY! Let's turn her in! She's worth some good money!" Exclaimed the girl, grabbing my arm.

"No! I didn't do anything!" The story of my life, "I swear! It was the blacksmith….He hates me! Always has!"

"Nami, stop." Stated Luffy "She is joining our crew."

There was a stunned silence.
"Me?" I pointed to myself, and cocked an eyebrow. Luffy nodded.

"Sounds great! Drinks all around!" I exclaimed, jumping up.

"We have no booze on this ship……we're all too young." Said Ussop.

"Oh….well that sucks."

"Hey! There's an island." Stated Sanji, pointing off the bow of the ship.
"We must be getting close to the grand line." Said Nami "That's the hometown of Gold Roger, also known as 'the island of beginnings and ends'."

"Gold roger!?" I exclaimed, excited. "Holy crap!"

Sanji and Nami rolled their eyes.

We were soon at port-Luffy and I were the first off.

"I'm going to the execution site." He stated, and walked off.

"I'm going to get a drink!" I exclaimed. "Then, going to go look around the weapon stores." I went off into the town-with about 5,000 beli. Waterproof wallets are helpful. I looked around some stores. I was never really into clothes but a hat caught my eye. Big shocker. It was a straw hat-and it was cheap! I bought it in a heart beat and put it on. "Jeeze……I look just like dad." I said, looking in a window.

After a few moments, I found a bar and went into it. A bunch of drunks were in there. They had no resistance to the effects of beer. "Hey! Tender! May I have a pint, please?" I asked.

"Long time since I heard that word." Laughed the tender, sliding me my booze. I caught it and chugged it down.

"Ah! That's some good booze." I sighed.
"Hey. Are you even old enough to be in here?"
"Of course!" I lied, "Why shouldn't I be? Another one please."
I chugged this one down to and paid the tender. My picture was up, so was Luffy's. I quickly left. I walked around for a while, not finding any good stores. I sat down on the sidewalk. "Okay…….50 beli for the hat……30 for the booze……and worth every penny……Now what…."

"Hey. What are you doing just sitting there?" I looked up to see Zolo, " You might as well come with me. I'm going to find Luffy."
I nodded and got to my feet. He walked, I followed. "Hey, can I check out your swords?"

"No."

I grimaced. "Fine."

We soon met up with Usopp, Nami, and Sanji.

"hey….where's Luffy?" Asked Nami, raising an eyebrow.

"He said that he was going to the execution stake." Replied Zolo.

"Holy shit!" I yelled pointing to the stake to see Luffy.

Everyone stared in shock.

"I'm getting through there!" I stated, shoving through the crowd of people. "'scuse me. Pardon me. Comin' through."

"And now I would like to begin the execution infr-"

"Hey! Big nose!" I cut off the clown guy's sentence as I finally made it through the crowd. "I'll have to ask you to let my friend there go."

Everyone stared at me.

"Um……………" Was my only reaction.