AN Lucia doesn't do much in way changing the plot in this chapter. But don't worry, it's just this chapter. I have a lot of fun planned the next chapter.

Chapter 3: Enter the Monkey D. Twins

However before we see the members of the Zodiac arriving in the Dimension… it should shown the events that led to Bill showing up for nearly a week in that Dimension.

It was a normal day in Foosha village, on Dawn Island. A 7-year-old girl with long black hair put into high pigtails and wearing a bright pink scarf was looking for someone.

That was Monkey D. Lucia, the reincarnation of Mabel. In this world it was more common (but not always) for the family name to be first and the given name last.

She was looking for her twin brother Monkey D. Luffy, a pirate crew that had been coming the village had once again docked.

And Luffy wanted to join the crew.

And he had a "Brilliant" plan to join.

"Where is he?" she asked.

That was when she heard a scream from the dock.

"Oh I should have checked the dock." She mumbled to herself.

Not to long later she was in a local tavern as the pirate crew drank and Luffy was pout that his plan didn't work.

Said plan was to stab himself in the face to prove how brave he was.

Her brother wasn't too bright.

Later the two twins were at the local tavern with the pirates, who were having a laugh at Luffy's experience and his attempts to constantly join the crew.

"Boop!" said Lucia poking the bandage on Luffy's face.

"Ow! Lucia!" said Luffy.

"Sorry Bro-Bro… but couldn't you come up with a plan that doesn't involve hurting yourself… or hurting yourself too badly… like my idea with the crab?" asked Lucia.

"She's got a point anchor." Laughed the captain of the crew, who was a tan man with bright red hair and three scars over his eyes and wore a rather old straw hat, named Shanks.

Luffy pouted.

"Oh come on! Don't be that way." Said Shanks, "Here have some juice."

"Thanks!" said Luffy.

"Ha! Pirates don't drink juice!" mocked Shanks.

His crew all started laughing.

"You drank Lucia Juice." Pointed out Lucia.

Much like her past life, she had a home energy drink/juice that she named after herself. IT had slightly different ingredients (for example it couldn't have plastic dinosaurs).

Shanks shuddered at the mention of Lucia Juice. He had a sip once to humor the girl. The next thing he knew he had become one with the universe! Seeing beyond the cosmos, the birth of stars! Experiencing other galaxies being formed! Creation itself!

Then he woke up naked in the woods with his crew looking for him.

Needless to say he didn't want to do it again .

"That not juice Lucia." Said Shanks.

"It's made with juice." Said Lucia drinking Lucia Juice.

He didn't notice Luffy get into a small treasure chest that he brought in with him.

That was when the door was kicked in and in walked in a group of mountain bandits.

Their leader walked in and looked at the Pirate Crew.

"So I guess they'll serve anyone here." Muttered the leader.

He walked over to the bar and eyed the bartender who as a very nice women that often looked after Luffy and Lucia named Maikino.

"I'll have some Sake." Said he said.

"I'm sorry. But it's all gone." Said Makino.

"Then what they drinking?" demanded the leader of the bandits.

"Oh sorry, we took the last of it." Said Shanks, "But you can have the last bottle. It's unopened."

That was when the bandit leader his sword to smash the bottle.

"I'm a wanted man." Said the bandit showing off his wanted poster showing his name was Higuma, "I have an 8 million berry bounty. I've killed 56 people." He bragged showing off his wanted poster.

However Shanks paid no attention to this.

"Oh I'm sorry about this Makino." Said Shanks, "Let me get you a rag."

"No really it's okay." Said Makino.

Both of them ignore starry eyed look that Lucia was giving them.

However the Leader broke everything on the bar, while Luffy watched in shock… while eating a strange purple fruit.

"If you like clearing so much you clean up the rest of the mess." Said Higuma.

The bandits left. Of course complaining.

"Shanks are you okay?" asked Lucia.

"Don't worry, Luce." Said Shanks, "Some of it went in my mouth."

He and crew started laughing, however.

"You think that's funny! He make you look like wimps!" yelled Luffy, ""Sure they looked really tough and they outnumbered you. But what kind of man doesn't fight like that!"

"Luffy it's just a little booze." Said Shanks.

Luffy began to storm out but Shanks grabbed his arm.

"Luffy wait!" called out Shanks.

However everyone was shocked when his arm stretched.

The crew began tot freak out, the checked the chest that Luffy stole from.

And one of the member, a rather fat man named Lucky Roux showed Luffy a picture of the fruit he ate.

"Did you eat this fruit?" asked Lucky Roux.

"Yeah, I did… but it didn't taste good." Said Luffy.

"Why did you eat it?" asked Lucia with a sweat drop.

"I was hungry." Answered Luffy.

"Luffy! Listen!" yelled Shanks grabbing his shoulder, "That was a Devil Fruit. By eating that you were given the power to stretch! However you will never be able to swim! EVER!"

"What!" cried Luffy in shock.

Thankfully Luffy got over the whole never going to be able to swim thing rather quickly. And actually liked being able to stretch like rubber.

Sometime later the twins were hanging out in the tavern .

"They've been gone for a while. Do you miss them?" asked Makino.

"No." muttered Luffy, "They weren't men…"

"Really?" asked Lucia, "Why do guys have to fight all the time?"

It should be pointed out that Lucia was now wearing her hair in braided pig tails and she was wearing a red scarf.

Every day she wore her hair in different styled pig tails and a different scarf she knitted.

"What does that mean?" asked Luffy.

"I think it's cool he didn't fight." Said Lucia, "Because a lot of the time it's stupid to fight."

"But you like fighting." Pouted Luffy.

"I do, when it's not stupid." Said Lucia.

"What's that supposed to mean!" yelled Luffy.

"If he started random fights then it's stupid." Said Lucia.

"But you saw how that bandit was!" yelled Luffy.

"The fight still would have been stupid." Said Lucia, "All he di we spill booze on him."

Luffy continued to pout.

However that was when a certain bandit gang entered the tavern.

And of course Luffy ended up attacking them after they entered.

They took him outside to beat him.

"Stop this now!" yelled Lucia.

"Oh look another brat." Said Higuma.

Two of the bandits grabbed her.

"Lucia!" cried Luffy.

However Higuma continued to beat him up. Discovering Luffy's rubber body.

Lucia watched in horror as the bandit leader continued to beat up her brother.

That was when the mayor of the town showed up to beg for Luffy's life.

No really, he got on his knees to beg.

"I don't know what Luffy did, but please forgive him!" said the mayor, "I'll give you money."

"Finally someone who knows how the world works." Said Higuma, "But it's too late, what he's don is too late. He's attacked me and called me names."

"You started it you mountain monkey!" yelled Luffy.

"That's it, I'm killing him now." Said Higuma.

"Luffy!" cried Lucia.

"I was wondering why no one greeted us at the dock." Said Shanks suddenly appearing.

"Shanks!" cheered Lucia.

"So it's you pirates. Still on cleaning duties." Said Higuma.

He aw that Shanks was coming closer.

"I don't know what you want but don't' come in any closer." Said Higuma.

Shank still did.

However that was when one o the bandits walked over and placed a gun to Shanks' head.

"Did you hear/ Don't come closer or I'll blow your head off." Said the bandit.

"You know you're risking your life by doing that." Said Shanks.

That bandit was confused.

"It's not safe to point guns." Said Shanks.

That was when one of the pirates, a really fat pirate by the name of Lucky Roux shot the bandit in the head.

The bandits ere shocked. To the extent that the ones holding Lucia dropped her. While she was shocked about seeing the death she knew she had to run, and ran towards Shanks' crew were a few of the members protected the girl.

The bandits were shocked by this… despite being well bandits.

"Listen up!" yelled Shanks glaring harshly at the bandits, "You can throw food at me, you can spill your drinks on me, you can even spit on me. I'll just laugh it off. But no one, absolutely no one can hurt any of my friends."

Luffy wasn't sure how to react, however Lucia was wiping away any tears.

"You pirates just float around your ships and you think you can stand up to mountain bandits. Nice speech really imitating speech, kill them!" yelled Higuma.

The bandits went to attack the pirate crew, however Shanks' first mate a man by the name of Ben Beckman took them out very easily, using his gun like a club.

"Oh wow!" said Luffy.

"So cool!" said Lucia with her eyes sparkling.

"What were saying about pirates again?" asked Ben.

"But he started it." Said Higuma.

"Don't you have a price on your head?" asked Shanks.

That was when Higuma panicked and used a smoke bomb, when the smoke cleared both he and Luffy were gone.

"Luffy!" cried Lucia who began to cry again.

Shanks ran off to find them getting an idea of what a mountain bandit would do to throw them off.

"It's going to be fine." Said a member named Yasopp, who wore a headband with his name on it as if to say "I'm important to the story so remember me" (he was important to the story and people should remember him).

"But what if he kills him!" cried Lucia.

"It's okay Luce, it's going to be fine…" he said patting her head, "Captain is going make sure nothing happens to him."

"Are you sure! I can't be alone with Grandpa!" cried Lucia, "He'll go through with his plans!"

"It's going to be fine." Said Yasopp, "You won't have to do that he's planning."

The good news was that Shanks got to Luffy before anything could top happen to him.

The bad news while Luffy was fine, Shanks lost his arm.

Higuma tossed Luffy into the sea while the local Sea King (a type of sea monster) showed up, it ate Higuma and was going to eat Luffy but Shanks got him out the way… at the cost of said arm.

After recovering from the incident, it was time to leave.

Luffy also realized that he wasn't strong enough to be a pirate yet.

"So you won't be coming back?" asked Luffy.

"We've been using this port a base of operations for a long time, maybe too long." Said Shanks.

"We're going to miss you!" said Lucia wearing a dark blue scarf and low pigtails, "Though I don't think Luffy will admit he will miss you!"

"Hey! OF course I'm going to miss you!" yelled Luffy as Lucia stuck her tongue out, "I've also decided to become a pirate on my own."

"It would do you any good since you're too little." Tasked Shanks, "there's no way you can become a pirate!"

"I'll show you!" yelled Luffy, "I'm going to form my own crew and their going to better than yours! And I'll get the biggest treasure imaginable! And I'm going to become the pirate king!"

"So you're going to better than us?" asked Shanks.

That was when he placed his hat on Luffy's face.

"Do me a favor, keep that hat safe or me." Said Shanks, "That hat means a lot to me. Give it back to me once you come a great pirate."

Luffy nodded.

"Keep an eye your twin! He needs all the help he can get." Said Shanks to Lucia.

"Of course!" said Lucia.

And so the pirate crew sailed away… however this was only the thing that jumpstarted the series of events.

As soon enough they're grandfather Garp, a famous marine hear about what happened.

He dragged Luffy by the cheek and carried Lucia by the waist to a new location on the island.

"Come on grandpa! I'm going to be the pirate king!" yelled Luffy.

"No way! This is why I shouldn't have left you two there." Said Garp.

"I'm not going to do what you want me to OD either!" yelled Lucia wearing a yellow scarf and pigtail with little stars tied into them.

"Come on being a marine's wife would be an honor!" said Garp.

"I want to marry for love! Not because their a marine!" said Lucia.

"Of course you can marry for love! As long as he's a marine!" said Garp.

That was when they arrived at their destination.

He knocked on the door as the twins looked around as their grandpa talked to a bandit woman by the name of Dadan.

As the tow looked around someone spat in Luffy's face.

They looked at saw a 10 year old boy glaring at them sitting atop a dead buffalo.

"That's Ace, he's older than from now on you're going to living together." Said Garp, "You three better get along."

The twins glared at Ace who glared back.

Later during dinner the twins ate.

"I hate bandits." Said Luffy.

"Shut up brat!" yelled Dadan she was about to do a speech when Lucia bluntly asked, "You're not going to toss us into the sea are you to kill us?"

She stared at the little girl.

"wait… what?" asked Dadan.

"Did that happen to you?" asked one of other bandits.

"No… but to Luffy that's why he hates bandits." Said Lucia.

"Lucia!" yelled Luffy.

"What?" asked Lucia, "We're going to be living here she should know."

Dadan sighed, of course he would have to deal with a kid that was nearly murdered by a bandit.

"I'm still hungry! I want that meat!" yelled Luffy.

"That's the buffalo that Ace caught! We get our share then the rest goes on the dinner table!" scored Dadan, "Starting tomorrow you two are going to do chores!"

She began to list off chores.

That was when Lucia began to cry.

"What! You can't do all those chores!" demanded Dadan.

"No… it's that… I thought since you were bandit lady you would disagree with grandpa!" cried Lucia, "But you want me to a marine's wife too! Isn't it! That's why you're giving me all those chores!"

"What." Said Dadan staring at Lucia.

"He's always saying I have to grow up to be a Marine's wife! But I don't want to marry a marine! I don't' want to be a house wife!" she cried.

Dadan sighed wondering just what Garp's granddaughter kept telling her.

"Fine! You don't' have to do chores!" she yelled .

"Yay!" she cheered suddenly giving the V is for Victory sign.

It was now clear she was faking it to get out of chores.

"Why that…" thought Dadan.

Then she began to explain something else.

"You two will each get a bowl of rice and a glass of water." She said, "You two will have to supply the rest."

"Okay!" said Luffy like the list of chores was nothing.

"Seriously!" yelled Dadan.

She was expecting both kids to cry, not one to fake cry with a sob story (which she would later learn was true) and one to be completely okay with everything.

"The jungle has all sorts of things I can eat." Said Luffy like was nothing.

"Just don't make me eat earthworms again." Said Lucia, "I'm okay with everything else."

"Don't worry… it will be fine." Laughed Luffy.

That was when Ace left. Luffy decided to follow no longer being mad remember what Shanks said.

That was when Luffy got up to follow.

"Luffy." Sighed Lucia.

She clearly didn't want to hang out with Ace like Luffy did. So she took out. Out her knitting stuff from her pockets and started to knit a scarf deciding to wait until her brother came back.

Dadan was dealing with the insanity of raising Garp's twin grand children.

The night Luffy didn't return. The next day Lucia who was wearing a sky blue scarf with two look blue tied into her pigtails glared at Ace.

"You jerk!" she yelled suddenly punching him hard.

"What that for!" yelled Ace.

She punched him again in the fact then dragged him away.

They were at a large gorge.

"Apologize now!" yelled Lucia.

"Apologize to who?" asked Ace.

"You know who!" yelled Lucia glaring at the older boy.

"I'm sorry who ever is I'm supposed to be apologizing to!" yelled Ace sarcastically.

"That's okay!" he heard Luffy call out.

Ace began to sweat.

The day before Luffy followed him so he knocked down a tree to crush him, which didn't work, so he knocked Luffy off a bridge.

That morning Lucia looked for her bother not really worried because she knew it wasn't much to get her brother down but just to make sure nothing too bad happened to him.

"You're lucky that Grandpa tosses him in gorges and ravines all the time." Said Lucia glaring at Ace, "Luffy made me promise not to go into them after I injured my ankle last time from rescuing him."

"What." Said Ace not sure hot to respond.

"Is that all you have to say!" she yelled out and punched him again in the face, this time making his nose bleed.

"I'll come back later! Okay Luffy!" she yelled.

"Okay!" called out Luffy.

She once again glared at Ace and left in a huff.

Ace was just confused, but left Luffy there anyways.

None of them knew what the future was for them or just the bond that was going to form… but right now… Ace was annoyed, Lucia was angry and Luffy was just obvious.

Next Time: Luffy counties to try to befriend Ace, however what will happen when Luffy finds out what Ace is up with his friend? And what problems will arise form it? Find out next time!