Chapter 1: The Rise of the Sun Pirates

Fish-Man Island: Grand Line (Underwater)

Fish-Man Island. The home of the fish-men and merfolk.

The Island is an underwater island which dwells 10,000 meters below sea level in a giant hole that goes under the Red Line at the bottom of a deep trench. The island resides in a giant double-layered bubble floating above the sea floor, seemingly filled with about half water and reef and half air. Ryugu Palace rests in a smaller bubble on top of the main island's bubble. It is illuminated by the Sunlight Tree Eve. It serves as an underwater gateway to the New World for those who do not wish to cross over the Red Line above. Because it is underwater, the only way for a conventional ship to get there is to be coated with a special resin found in the Sabaody Archipelago, and all ships entering the island must undergo a customs inspection.

However, because it is the only way for any ship to enter the New World, for if people went through Mary Geoise they would have to leave their ship behind, Fish-Man Island was often visited by pirates passing through and the Marines chasing after them. When the Great Age of Piracy began, this problem escalated to extreme proportions. With this, many fish-men and merfolk were constantly kidnapped and sold off as slaves. However, when Whitebeard became close friends with King Neptune and declared the island as his territory at some point in time, the problem was solved as attacking the island and its citizens would incur Whitebeard's wrath. As a result, the island was directly protected and a stable peace was achieved.

It was sometimes later, King Neptune's wife, Queen Otohime tried her best to gain support for the migration of Fish-Man Island to the surface world, and made many speeches in hopes of getting petition Despite her efforts and popularity, she gained very little support, as the relationship between the species were strained. All of fish-men and merfolk had been looked down and oppressed by the racism of humans from the surface world. Human slavers would comes to Fish-man Island to abducted fishmen to be sold on the slave market, through they mostly abducted mermaid as their beauty attracts a higher price.

Only two hundred years ago did the World Government begin to bridge the gap by making an alliance with fish-man Island to remove the problems between the two sides. Still, many humans continued to see fish-men as freaks or in the case around Sabaody Archipelago, slaves for the World Nobles. Such bad relations between the races would influence certain sects of fish-men, these fish-men would even go so far as to return to the humans what had been done to them.

Then one day, something happened that shocked all of Fish-man Island, as well as the entire world.

Fisher Tiger, the Adventurer, has decaled war on the Celestial Dragons.

Tiger committed a taboo against the world by climbing up the cliffs of the Red Line with his bare hands to Mary Geoise and attacked the holy land to free the slaves from the World Nobles. Tiger did not discriminate against the humans and freed slaves of all races there. In response, the World Government has decaled Tiger a public enemy, issuing a high price, 230,000,000 berries, an impressive act, considering it was his first bounty.

With the Fish-Man slaves he freed, Tiger changed the shameful hoof mark branded on himself and them (which signified slavery) into a symbol of a sun. He also took them in as part of his pirate crew, creating the Sun Pirates. Soon, more and more fish-men and merfolk, a majority from Fish-Man District, begins to joined the Sun Pirates. Some of them were well-known names through Fish-man Island.

The first was Jinbe a whale shark fish-man. He was once a member of the Neptune Army until he resign to joined the Sun Pirates, due of begin sworn brother to Fisher Tiger. Next was Arlong, a pirate capatin and known human-hater speciesist. Other known names were Hatchan, a octopus fish-man who is a highly skilled swordsman and a master of the Rokutoryu and Marco, a fellow fishmen who made a infamous reputation of selling other fish-men and merfolk to slavery.

"How does it feels to be in the company of pirate scums?" Arlong mocked Jinbe .

Jinbe ignored Arlong, while trying to stay calm. While Jinbe and Arlong grew up together in an orphanage in the Fish-Man District, Jinbe chooses the career of becoming a member of the Neptune Army, while Arlong became a pirate. Jinbe often showed hostility towards Arlong when he was harassing the Fish-Man Island citizens, calling him scum and even trash, indicating that Jinbe frowned upon Arlong's distasteful attitude.

"It's us against the world," Tiger addressed the crew. "There is no turning back once you earn this mark of the Sun Pirates! Are you all willing to follow me, even into the heart of hell!?"

"That's a silly question Big Brother Tiger!" Arlong responded. "We'll follow you no matter where you take us!"

"Yeah Boss!" Hatchan shouted in agreement. "We're with you, all the way!"

"Then It's better we get started," Tiger begins before he turn his head direction, shouting "Naruto! Bring in the Iron!"

The moment the one called Naruto enters the scene, all the fishmen and mermen from the Fish-Man District, most Arlong and his crew, were completely shocked. The reason they are shocked because Naruto was not a fish-man or merman. He was a human.

"You got to be kidding me?" Arlong reacted out loud in a outraged tone.

"A HUMAN!" Macro of the Marco Pirates' cried out in shock.

"Yeah boss it's a human all right!" Gyaro agreed with Marco.

"A human child, here on this ship!" Tansui added, in shocked disbelief.

"Who are you?" Chew demanded, while stun to sees a human on the ship.

"Well since you asked!" the spikey blonde youth with the foxlike whiskers greets with big smile. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I will be serving Cabin boy of the Sun Pirates!"

"WHAT!" all the fishmen and mermen from the Fish-Man District cried out in shock, saved for the Fish-Man former slaves from Mary Geoise.

"Big Brother Tiger," Kuroobi begins to complained bitterly. "Why did you brought this human on aboard this ship!"

"Well since you asked," Tiger begins to explained. "Naruto volunteer to joined our crew. He's willing to served as Cabin boy!"

"Are you kidding me!" Arlong reacted in disbelief. "He's weakling which makes him a dead weight to our crew!"

"I wouldn't underestimated Naruto if I were you Arlong," warned Aladine. He was a goatsbeard brotula merman, originally a Ryugu Kingdom soldier before he was capture by slavers and sold to the World Nobles to be a slaves. After Fisher Tiger free him, he joined him, became a pirate and doctor of the Sun Pirates.

"Why that's?" Hatchan asked Aladine, confused.

"Naruto is more than just a normal former slave," Aladine begins to explained. "Despite begin young, he has some strong fighting experiences, due of gladiator death-matches the Celestial dragons would forced him to take part for their twisted entrainment. I seen him fight many times, undefeated in one hundred death matches."

"So what?" Chew sneered. "No matter how good of a fighter he is, he can't keep up to us when we're swimming in the waters."

"True," Tiger agreed. "But he has devil fruit power to served as his advantage."

"Devil fruit?" Arlong repeated.

"Yeah," Naruto says as he begin shows his powers. Soon, his whole body was surrounded by energy armor, glowing in a strong red aura.

"This is the power of the Yoroi Yoroi No Mi," Naruto introduced his powers. "Whenever I uses my power, it created a super invulnerable shields that makes me virtually unstoppable and invincible. My impenetrable armor that enabled me to withstand any impact, and survive in any kind of aggressive environment. "

Walking towards Alrong after powering down, Naruto hand out a handshake, saying with smile, As a member of the Sun Pirates I welcome you. And I promised you, that I will uses my powers to assist and help my fellow crewmates with the best of my ability."

"Get away from me you dirty human!" Arlong snapped, slapping Naruto's hand away. "The last thing I want is you touching me!"

"Come now, Arlong," Aladine rebuke the sawshark fish-man. "He's just trying to be friends with you! That's all!"

"He's a human!" Arlong says in pure disgusts. "He don't belong here Big Brother Tiger."

"Enough Arlong," Tiger ordered. "Naruto could have gone with the rest of the human slaves if he wanted. But instead he chooses to joined this crew in his on free will like you and the rest."

"But Big Brother Tiger-" Arlong tries to protested.

"No buts! And it's Capatin from now on, as long a you're on this ship!" Tiger snapped. "So whatever you all like it or not, you're going to have get use of having Naruto around. Understood?"

Some of the new members of the Sun Pirates were utterly dumbstruck and speechless of what Tiger has says, allowing a human to be a member of their crew, yet they accepted his demanded, uneasily. Smiling a big smile, Jinbe asked in sarcasms "So Arlong...how does it feels to be sailing side by side with a human?"

"Shut up!" Arlong snapped angrily.

Devil Fruit

Yoroi Yoroi No Mi (Armor Armor Fruit): The Yoroi Yoroi No Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit the gives the user the ability to generated an energy armor around the user's body, making the user a Armor Human. It was eaten by Naruto Uzumaki, who was force-fed it by a World Noble.