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Luffy looked out over the horizon of his home village, Foosha. He has seen it many times over the past 17 years but now he felt like he has really seen it for the first time. He supposes that it is because this would also be the last time, at least for a while considering he has been planning on leaving for adventure. He has been planning to leave for 10 years now to be exact, ever since Shanks showed up in his village and changed his life forever. Luffy couldn't help but feel nostalgic thinking about how he got his straw hat from Shanks. Of course, it wasn't the only thing he inherited from the red-haired pirate. Luffy has always had a huge sense of adventure welling up inside of him. It was Shanks that gave it form, shaped it into the dream he now has today, to be the Pirate King.

Luffy has spent the last ten years training for this moment, mainly out of choice, somewhat out of some rather unfortunate moments his grandfather put him through. He wasn't complaining though, as he got to meet some rather amazing people along the way. The first being his older brother Ace. They weren't full-blood brothers, but they shared a bond that couldn't be broken, nonetheless. Ace had left a couple of years earlier to start his own crew. Luffy couldn't help but feel a rivalry with Ace, He wanted to be the one to be Pirate King, but he was happy knowing his older brother was out there living his dreams too.

The next was Sabo, also a sworn brother of Luffy and Ace. Sabo was a noble, well an ex-noble. He didn't really care for his life there so he would often sneak out into the wild to play with Ace and Luffy. His family was less welcoming of his new pastime, however. They regularly sent bounty hunters or other hired mercenaries out to find him. They almost succeeded on a couple of occasions as well had it not been for the intervention of Luffy and Ace. Things were great between the three for a while before Sabo had to go back to the nobles in order to protect his new brothers. Even if it was an underhanded trick, it still worked wonders for the nobles to threaten his new brothers' life. So, in order to protect them, Sabo returned to a hellish life with his brother Sterry and his awful parents. After a while, Sabo made a break for it out to sea only to run into The World Nobles ship, which he was immediately shot down and killed. The World Nobles tended to do only what they wanted and if someone stood up to them, well it didn't end well. Ace and Luffy were witnesses to this event and it forever changed them. They decided to move on from this and grow stronger so they would never have to lose anyone again. The World Nobles ship arriving wasn't all negative for the duo though. It did bring with it a new individual whom they would consider both a friend and sworn brother.

Adrian figured he wasn't much cut out for the high and mighty noble life. He pushed that thought out of his mind and sighed as he contemplated if he should go play with the other young teenagers his age. He was 13, so he was too old to play with the younger noble kids but absolutely despised the older kids. It wasn't just that they didn't want to play, it was their attitudes that he hated. The way they treated their slaves, talked about their slaves, talked about what they did to their slaves, what they made their slaves do to them, is what made Adrian feel the most disgusted. As such Adrian spent most of his childhood inside, reading and reading and reading. Eventually, he exhausted all the books in his family's library. His parents didn't really pay him much attention since he was the third born son and as such wasn't able to be their successor. That lovely right went to his oldest brother, Saint Charloss. Charloss didn't really pay much attention to his younger brother either, not since he got big enough to protect himself from his older brother's bullying, choosing to occupy his time with slaves, and hunting for new slaves. That suited Adrian just fine, he preferred the quiet company of his books.

In fact, thanks to all his free time, Adrian had a lot of different hobbies. He did have to be grateful for the wealth being a Celestial Dragon brought with it. He enjoyed cross fit and strength training exercises that he learned from the marine vice admirals that would visit, they were too scared to teach him any of the fighting styles for fear of his parents finding out, however they did instill in him some love for archery since that was a beloved sport in the holy land. Because of this, he was in a rather good shape for his age, and good with a bow, the best actually, at least out of the people who would perform in the yearly events. He owned multiple gold medals, which seemed to be the only pride he brought to his father. The strength training and exercises came in handy too, considering much of the older kids looked down on him for not owning a slave. By Adrian's age, most of them had 5 slaves, but Adrian decided that just wasn't for him, in fact, he spent a great deal of time speaking and befriending the slaves, often bringing them food, to the chagrin of his dad. He also loved talking to the nobles who visited from outside of the Holy Land where he lived, Mary Geoise. He even got to watch as the kings from around the world came to the Levely every 4 years. He tried his best to try and imagine what their countries would look like based on their image.

Adrian finally decided to do his daily workouts before walking around the Domain of the Gods to see what new information about the outside world he could find. He already had a great understanding of it from all the books he read but he wanted to be able to eventually see the world himself. After he finished his workouts and showered and put on clean clothes, he checked himself out in his mirror to make sure he looked presentable so his neighbor wouldn't throw things at him again for not looking like a proper noble. He had short brown hair that he kept styled in a neatly-parted-to-one-side haircut. He had dark brown eyes and strong facial features for his age. He had a strong jawline and cheekbones. The only blemish, though he wouldn't consider it one, was the small scar he has on his upper right lip, that goes from just above the upper lip, down to right below the bottom lip in almost a straight line. He got it from protecting one of the slaves from a particularly vicious noble, luckily, he didn't get into much trouble considering the offending noble was trying to mess with someone else's "property".

As he walked down the streets, he couldn't help but overhear that Saint Mjosgard has recently returned from Fishman Island. This intrigued Adrian, mostly because Mjosgard was the first world noble to go to Fishman Island since Fisher Tiger broke into Mary Geoise and set free a bunch of slaves. Adrian was just a small child when it happened so he doesn't really remember it and none of the nobles were willing to talk about it to him either because of bad memories of losing their loved ones or slaves, or just because they were told not to talk about it again. Adrian decided that he had to be the first one to talk to Mjosgard since Fishman Island is the only place that he doesn't have a book on. As he arrived at Saint Mjosgard's residence he immediately realized something was off. There were guards outside his door, and even stranger, all his slaves were gone. Adrian didn't get the chance to ask him about it since the guards said he was not to be disturbed right now. He couldn't help but wonder what Mjosgard had seen to make him act so strangely, were the Fishman as scary as they are made out to be? He just decided he would have to find out for himself.

As he was walking back home, he ran into Charloss who was, of course, being carried by his slave.

"Fatass" Adrian mumbled.

"What was thattttttttt" Charloss managed to finally get out. Adrian decided not to push his luck and quickly changed the subject to why Charloss was out of the house.

"Looooking for youuu, actually. Dad wants us back at the manor, apparently, we are leaving". God his voice is annoying Adrian couldn't help but thinking, but leaving? Where were they going, he wondered?

"Where to?" Adrian asked, feeling a little excited that for the first time in his life he will get to leave the Holy Land.

"Apparently Father has business with some backwater kingdom in the East Blue." He said as disinterested as possible. East Blue?! Seriously out of all the places they could go it had to be the most boring one. Adrian couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Although he supposed he should be happy to be going somewhere.

As Adrian and Charloss were bringing their items on board their ship, Adrian couldn't help but look and stare out over the sea for the first time. It is just as beautiful as he imagined it. The sight was soon ruined by his older brother's face. Startled, Adrian jumped back a little.

"What are you Looooking at?" Charloss inquired, he still seemed super disinterested about the idea of going somewhere. Even more so since father told him he can only bring three slaves. So he settled on his favorite Slave that was strong enough to carry him around, his favorite at telling him jokes, and his favorite female slave for well, something that Adrian could only assume would be slightly better than hell itself, or flesh-eating disease. Actually no, he takes that back, he is pretty sure she would prefer both to whatever sick twisted sexual fantasies his brother had. Adrian himself has always been interested in women, but well never was really surrounded by the best options in the Holy Land. He despised pretty much all of the women at home because of their outlook on the world. Because of that, he didn't really develop a very social personality, especially around women. He tended to get very awkward around them. He would usually think of the words to say but his mouth would usually let him down and he would be nothing but a bumbling idiot. Those weren't his fondest memories. He has gotten better over the years and can now actually speak to women pretty nicely, at least to ones he isn't attracted to.

"I was talkingggg to youu." Charloss cut his train of thought off as Adrian began to realize they were beginning to sail.

"Oh, sorry I was daydreaming, I don't know. This is the first time I have gotten to see the ocean, its … well, its beautiful really" Adrian replied.

Charloss sighed.

"It really isn't, in fact, I have never been more bored, and we just left." He moaned.

Adrian just rolled his eyes.

"Then go bother someone else." He replied

"Fine, my slaves have been quiet, I am going to go check upon them," Charloss replied while clapping his hands for his seat to come to him.

After Charloss left, Adrian stared off over the edge of the ship for hours, just taking in the sights of the ocean and some far off islands. Wishing he could be on them instead of this ship where he was barely wanted. Adrian had taken notice of the surrounding naval ships escorting them to East Blue, a journey cut short by them being able to pass through the calm belt with their specially designed ships. There were 5 navy shifts in all. Two behind, two beside and one in front. The Marine ship in front was bigger than others and was weirdly designed, at least to Adrian. It wasn't every day that you saw a Marine ship with a dog's head on the front.

A couple of days had passed, and Adrian was in his quarters eating his dinner. It was late at night and he had brought one of his East Blue books to see if he could read up on some of the islands in the area, specifically the one they were going to. Adrian remembered the name from his father, the Goa Kingdom. He finally found the page he was looking for when he was interrupted by a loud bang on the wall, followed by crying. It was the third consecutive night this has happened; he was really starting to get annoyed being in the room next to Charloss. From the sound of things, Charloss's favorite slave didn't listen to the command he gave her and smacked her into the wall. Oh, how Adrian despised his brother. He heard another smack, followed by a punch, and another couple of smacks and small screams before nothing but silence. Adrian actually started to fear for the girl's life before he started to hear crying, followed by suppressed moans and a light huffing noise that could only be made by a pig-like Charloss. Adrian was used to this by now. How many female slaves did Charloss go through since hitting puberty? He tried to remember but he lost count. They either got pregnant and became useless to him, in which they were murdered. Or they simply just didn't excite him anymore, and they were still murdered.

After about a minute the noises stopped, pointing out that Charloss was probably done and asleep by now. The Female Slave was probably cleaning herself up and trying to get what's left of Charloss out of her. Praying that she isn't pregnant with his baby. Adrian told himself to stay in his room and not get involved but that rarely worked out like that. He soon found himself outside of his room looking for the female slave. He assumed she was in the bathroom cleaning up and tried his best not to seem like a creep while he waited for a female stranger to come out of the restroom. After a while of him finding awkward poses to make that seemed the least creepy, she finally came out and immediately dropped to the floor bowing in front of him.

"Oh, no, no, no, no… Get up!" Adrian insisted whispering to the slave.

"As you wish master." She said coldly.

"Please don't call me that." Adrian's sweatdropped. He went to help her up but stopped when she winced at his motions towards her. He saw clearly the huge bruise over her forehead and the blackened eye as well as the broken nose. He tried his best to calm her as he motioned for her to sit down. She was surprised when Adrian joined her.

"Don't say it…" Adrian started, already knowing what she was going to say. "I don't really hold myself in the same esteem as my family and the rest of my kind." He continued.

The slave sat there silently, not sure whether to believe Adrian or not.

"I know it's probably hard to believe, but I promise you I am not going to hurt you…" Adrian brushed her hair out of her face revealing her bruises. The Slave fidgeted a little, trying to hide that what she is ashamed of. "Please, my lord it is unworthy of me to be seen like this…" she trailed off as she started to cry, partly from the pain and partly from the shame.

"Unworthy to who?" Adrian asked. "To me, you are still beautiful regardless of what your face looks like. No matter the scars on your face that doesn't change the real beauty that radiates from you."

The Slave began to cry, not being able to hold it in anymore.

"Isn't it better being yourself?" Adrian asked as he smiled a genuine smile. The slave smiled and nodded, for the first time in years she felt like she didn't need to be someone she isn't to please a master.

"You are a kind boy, what is your name?" The Slave asked.

"Adrian." He replied. "Yours?"

"E11176." She replied with a chuckle.

"Funny." He said sarcastically before joining her in her snicker.

"Elizabeth" she finally said.

"That's a beautiful name." He replied.

Adrian spent a little while longer talking with Elizabeth before finally heading back into his room. He spent a little while thinking about her. It's a funny thing he thought, I didn't have much trouble talking to her. He had another thought that the reason for that could be that he also looks down on her because she is a slave, not taking her seriously as a human because of her position in life. Adrian pushed that thought out of his mind and went to sleep.

The next morning Adrian was surprised that he wasn't woke up by his brother banging on the door. He got dressed and stumbled out of the room, looking into his brothers' room as he passed but it was empty. Must be on the deck he assumed. As he made his way up to the deck, he immediately noticed the huge man standing in the middle of the ship. He was tall and broad. He wore a three-piece gray suit with a dark blue undershirt and a yellow tie. Over his suit, he wore a marine jacket with the Vice Admiral Rank on the side. He must be the captain of the ship that is escorting us, Adrian thought. He had a gruff-looking face, wrinkled and weathered. He had a scar above his eye that kind of looked like a crescent moon. He had short gray hair and a gray goatee to match. He was talking to Adrian's father and he seemed rather angry about something.

Looking past the marine Adrian noticed Charloss staring off into the distance behind the ship. That's weird, he thought as he made his way over to where his brother is. As he approached, Adrian noticed a plume of smoke in the distance.

"Were we attacked?" He asked as he got to his brother.

Charloss, however, had a rather grim face. "She was unworthy."

Those words stopped Adrian dead in his tracks. She? Unworthy? His mind began to race with horror as he put those words together.

"what do you mean she was unworthy!? WHO?!" Adrian yelled at his brother. Grabbing him by his shirt. This clearly ticked Charloss off as he pushed Adrian off of him.

"DON" T TOUCH ME EVER AGAIN!" he yelled as multiple veins appeared in his head. "SHE WAS MINE TO DO WITH AS I PLEASED, SHE OUTLIVED HER USEFULNESS TO ME THE MOMENT SHE DECIDED TO SHOW THOSE UGLY WOUNDS TO ME!" he bellowed. Adrian raced to the edge of the boat to get a better view. "SINCE HER USEFULNESS WAS OVER, I PUSHED HER OVERBOARD! AND UNFORTUNATELY FOR HER AS SOON AS HER SLAVE COLLAR WAS FAR ENOUGH AWAY FROM OUR SHIP. IT EXPLODED, KILLING HER INSTANTLY WHICH IS TOO GOOD A MERCY FOR HER ANYWAY."

"Elizabeth," Adrian said softly as a tear began to roll down his eye.

"What was that?" Charloss added. "Did you just say her name, why do you know my slaves' name? and are you crying over a slave? What a disgrace! HAHAHAHAHA" Charloss bellowed as the rest of the nobles on the deck started bellowing in laughter with him.

Adrian turned and ran towards the large marine who was standing with his face down and grimacing, clearly, he was not a fan of what just happened either, but his duty kept him in line. That could not be said of Adrian, however. He grabbed the marine by his suit and started yelling at him.

"AREN'T YOU MARINES SUPPOSED TO PROTECT INNOCENT PEOPLE! NOT JUST STAND BY AND LET THEM GET MURDERED BY SHIT PIECES OF TRASH LIKE…" The marine was about to open his mouth when…

BANG

The marine's eyes shot open in surprise. He immediately surveyed the scene before looking down in horror. Adrian still had a ringing in his ears as he turned around. He started to feel a sharp pain in his shoulder, as he reached up to feel it. His hand was meet with blood, as he looked to survey the wound, he concluded that his right shoulder was indeed just shot. "you bastard…" he said as he faded into unconsciousness.

A couple of days had passed before Adrian woke up in the ship's medical room. He was alone, his wound was bandaged, and he was laying on a bed by the window. As he stared out of it, all he could think about was Elizabeth. Her smile, her laugh, he couldn't help but think about how she probably felt alone in the middle of the ocean, not knowing when her collar was going to explode. Is she finally at piece he wondered? He laid there staring out the window for what seemed like hours. The door to the medical room spun open suddenly as his father entered the room. The conversation only lasted a couple of minutes, but it pretty much boiled down to how this was his fault for insulting the next in line, and that next time he should keep that in mind. Another few hours flew by before the door opened again. This time it was the marine.

"Kid, I see you are doing better!" The marine yelled laughing as he sat beside the bed and pulled out some crackers. Once he noticed that Adrian's face didn't lighten, he took a more serious tone.

"My name is Garp, and you were right. We Marines are supposed to be there to protect the innocent. But there is an order to things that not even I can stop."

Adrian gave him a side-eye at this and let him continue.

"You Celestial Dragons run a tight ship on the Marines…"

"DON'T COMPARE ME TO THEM!" Adrian interrupted.

"Hmph, Regardless, it is an act of treason to speak out against them. The only reason your alive is because your one of them." Garp Continued.

"To be honest, I hate the World Nobles, I rejected the position of Admiral numerous times because I refuse to directly serve them." Garp sighed. "I only took this gig guarding them because it gave me an excuse to see my grandson…" Garp bites into one of his cookies before continuing. "But I should have known it would go sideways somehow, it always does."

"I have made up my mind," Adrian said, catching Garp off guard.

"Oh? About what?" he asked intrigued.

"For the longest time, I have wondered if I fit in with the nobles, If I truly am one of them." He raised one of his fists in the air, grabbing at nothing. "But I am not! I am nothing like them, I despise them! I want to bring their whole system down."

Garp laughed. "Don't let them hear you say that kid!" Garp in his laughter patted Adrian on the chest. "OWWWWW"… "SORRRY"

After Garp had left, Adrian had nothing left to think about and just kept his eyes forward. Forward to the future.

Another two days passed before they finally started to arrive at the Goa Kingdom. Adrian was finally healthy enough to be walking around and preferred to be outside as his first real island came into view. He also preferred to keep a rather large distance from his family. As he was looking out over the coast, he couldn't help but notice a small dingy making its way out to sea. He followed it across the ship as he noticed it was getting closer. He managed to make out a small child on board. That's weird, he thought. Why would a small child be sailing out to sea like this? Then Adrian noticed how dangerously close to the Celestial Ship he was getting. He tried to wave him down but to no avail because of the bandages on his arm. He was about to shout when beside him flew a missile, aimed directly at the small boat. It was a direct hit.

Adrian's faced dropped. "He was just a little boy…" he said defeated.

"he was an eyesore, and he dared enter the same path as us gods!" Charloss spat as he walked beside Adrian with his bazooka. "My aim is getting better though!" he said with a smile.

Adrian looked at him with murderous intent.

"What is that look for?" Charloss said as his eye twitched.

"Nothing!" Adrian said quickly looking away.

After a while, they had docked. Adrian made sure he was the first off the boat. He slides past all the Goa Kingdom Nobles that are there to greet them and made for the side of the dock to stay out of view. He looked out where the kids' boat had been and followed it back to the shore where he saw two other small kids currently running his way. And they looked mad. Wait, were those metal pipes they were carrying?

He soon found out the hard way as the smaller raven haired boy met his metal pipe with Adrian's chest, upsetting his wound. The older boy with freckles' pipe met his face, and Adrian was knocked cleanly to the ground as the boys continued toward the rest of the world nobles. The commotion was noticed, and a small panic struck as they just realized a world noble was hit. Charloss calmed the crowd as he said it was just kids and that he would take care of it. No one imagined he would bring the bazooka back out. He took aim at the kids, but before he could fire, he stopped. The Kids were grabbed by the back of their collars and flung backwards by Adrian.

"YOU WILL NOT HURT THESE CHILDREN!" He yelled.

"THEN YOU DIE WITH THEM!" Charloss yelled as he shoots the bazooka at his treasonous brother.

As the shell came closer, Adrian couldn't imagine how this day could get worse. He was really tired of getting shot at.

The shell came closer.

Closer.

Closer…

BOOOOOOMM!

The beach was rocked by the explosion. When the smoke cleared there was nothing left but ash.

"I got them all!" Charloss shouted in joy as he danced before joining his father on the way to Goa Castle.

~ A Few Days Later ~

Adrian woke up in the middle of the woods. He couldn't move, his body was covered in wounds from the explosion. Luckily Charloss's aim was bad enough to hit in front of Adrian, instead of it being a direct hit. He was bandaged hastily but it served its purpose. As he looked around, he noticed he was surrounded by those kids.

"I suppose you guys saved me. Where are the nobles?" he asked.

"Their gone." The older boy with freckles said.

"You have been out for a couple of days! Shishishishi." The younger boy laughed.

"Is that so? Its probably for the best then." Adrian said as he tried to sit up.

"Why?" the older boy said suspiciously.

Adrian had no choice but to explain his life story. After he finished the younger one looked confused and the older one remained silent.

"So, you're not so bad after all! You did save us! Hahaha" the younger one sure has a lot of energy, Adrian thought.

"why turn your back on the nobles?" the older boy asked.

"You know why, you saw why. That boy, I'm sorry…" He couldn't finish before he was cut off.

"We don't need a world nobles' pity!" the older boy roared.

"I am not a world noble! I am going to end their Tyranny! I promise you!" Adrian yelled with all his intent, shutting the older boy up. Who then sighed and scratched his head.

"Well, you are pretty useless if even the nobles cast you out" The Older boy joked.

"SHUT THE HELL UP! YOU WANT TO GET YOUR ASS BEAT!" Adrian yelled with spiky teeth causing the two boys to laugh.

"I'm Ace!" said the older boy as he pointed at the younger one. "And that is Luffy! We are brothers by bond!" The younger boy cut in "Nice to meet you! I am going to be King of the Pirates!" That statement started an argument between the two boys about who would be king of the pirates. Adrian just relaxed and chuckled at their antics.

Over the next few weeks that Adrian was healing from his wounds, He was getting to know Luffy and Ace. Eventually, their infectious personalities infected him as well, as He laughed, cried, and argued with the boys. Once his wounds were fully healed, Adrian immediately made his intentions known that he wanted to stay with the boys to train and set out with them one day. They happily agreed and started their training.

~ 7 Years Later ~

Luffy and Adrian Stood at the coast ready to see Ace off. He decided that he didn't want to wait anymore and wanted to head out to form his own crew. Adrian decided to stay with Luffy and set out with him, because well somebody needed to watch out after his idiot little brother. Aced actually agreed with this and approved of him joining luffy's crew. Since Adrian had no plans to start his own crew, he was content with riding with Luffy because he knew it would eventually lead him to his goal.

After Ace had left, Adrian turned to Luffy and started a bet with him that he could beat him back to the clubhouse. Luffy gladly accepted. Luffy sourly lost.

~ 3 Years Later ~

Luffy stood overlooking his village for the final time. He was deep in thought of the memories he had of the place when he was shoved from behind. He turned around to see his older brother Adrian standing over him. Adrian smiled at him and pointed his finger at the bar and told him…

"Come on! It's almost time for us to leave! But we have to grab supplies for the trip from Makinos Bar!" He said as he raced the younger man into town.

They eventually made it to the bar, as Adrian was the nimbler of the two, he was first, again. They rushed to the counter to have one more meal before they set off. As Adrian looked around the room, he finally spotted Makino as she smiled at him. He made sure to smile back before Luffy noticed. Adrian was always close to Makino just as Luffy was but over the last 3 years he began to get much closer. She actually taught him how to speak to women! Well, that and many other things. He decided not to think about it since he didn't want to excite himself over past memories at the moment. As Makino walked over to get their orders, Adrian made sure to take her in one more time. She was gorgeous, even at a slightly older age. She dressed very modestly but you could tell by the way the dress she wore hugged her thighs that she had some nice features, and oh man did Adrian love the things he saw those features do over the years. Luffy yelling for meat snapped him out of his stare and he ordered some as well. He thought about the last ten years as he ate, how he watched Luffy grow up before his eyes, he couldn't help but feel proud of his 17-year-old little brother. Adrian himself was now 23, he was a few inches taller than Luffy, probably about Aces height. He was not as scrawny looking as his younger brother, sporting more muscle, which he showed off by wearing just a white collared button up shirt with the buttons undone showing off his abs and his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He also wore fitted black pants that Makino bought, and she thought he looked super cute in, as well as plain black shoes to match. His face is just as defined as it was before, with an even stronger jawline and piercing brown eyes. He has added a little bit of scruff to his face, having a full 5'o clock shadow. His hair is little bit longer now, about medium length for a guy he supposes, long enough for him to be able to slick it backward. Makino also likes that, she loves being able to run her hands through his hair, thinking about not being able to feel that again has brought a feeling of depression to Adrian.

In terms of pure physical strength his younger brother had him beat, but Adrian wasn't far behind. While his brother was a fighting genius, Adrian was a tactical one. He knew exactly what angle and distance he needed to take out his target and could immediately tell his foes strengths and weaknesses in order to come up with a plan to defeat them, and he mastered the bow to keep up with his intellect. But he also made a habit of learning the sword, becoming proficient enough with it to beat every dojo master in the Goa Kingdom, though he wouldn't call himself a master swordsmen, considering how low the bar was set for swordsman from the East Blue. He does prefer to use a sword as much as possible though. Just so he doesn't have to go back and pick up his arrows. He learned a little bit of hand to hand combat over the years of sparing together with Luffy as well.

After their meal, they said their goodbyes, with Adrian sneaking a quick kiss of Makino before departing and meeting each other at the harbor where their small dingy awaited. Luffy with his straw hat and Adrian with his bow on his back and his Black colored Bamboo Shirasaya sword on his hip. His sword wasn't named, and it just looked like a bamboo stick when it was concealed, which Adrian used as a Bamboo Staff when he didn't want to seriously hurt his opponent. He got it for free from a shop because it had a defect in the craftsmanship that makes the blade have a red hue when indirect light and no customer wanted to buy it. He decided to name the blade himself even if it didn't have an official one. He decided on naming his blade 'Revenant' based on his and the swords' "return" from the dead.

Adrian and Luffy boarded the dingy and set off on a path for adventure together.

"Oh, I think an old friend wants to say goodbye Luffy!" Adrian said as the Lord of the Coast rose out of the water.

"Fine by me" he said as he reared a punch that sent the monster flying. Adrian just sat back and relaxed, happy that he has found a place where he belongs and getting ready to start a new journey.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Authors Corner –

I love the SBS's that Oda does after each volume and I wanted to do something similar after each chapter! I wanted a space where I could write about some of my thoughts that propelled me to write the things that happened in the current chapter or rants about some frustrating story elements I had to workaround. Who knows, maybe someone out there actually likes reading the authors input on things. Since this is my first chapter, what I wanted to focus on first was the Original Character and why I decided to have the harem be around him.

First, I want to start by saying my original plan for this story wasn't even going to include an original character. I'm normally not interested in stories that include them because it usually seems like wish fulfillment on the authors part and them wanting to include themselves in the story to be with the characters. However, the more stories I read that included harems, the more I realized they are all the same. Luffy restarting his journey whether through time travel or some other weird explanation; He usually gets a different devil fruit for some reason and is way too overpowered at the start, He is somehow 10,000 times smarter, and all the women magically love him after he says like 3 words.

I really wanted to stay true to the characters, or as true as I could considering on who I plan on adding to the crew! But that's all hush-hush for now. With my wish to be as faithful to Oda's characters as I can be, I decided to not have the harem based around any of the current straw hats. Luffy has never been interested in women so he is out, Zoro doesn't really seem like he cares either, Usopp is well Usopp and who wants to write about that, Sanji is just too annoying for any girl to actually be interested in (in fact they all seem annoyed by this side of him), Chopper is too innocent, Franky is too weird and in the same boat as Usopp for me, and Brook doesn't have the necessary body parts to fulfill what I am going for with the story. Jinbe isn't fully part of the crew yet but by the time I get to Wano, he probably will be, but I don't want it to be about him either.

Which brings me to Adrian. First and foremost, I didn't want it to seem like I was just adding myself and my personality into the character, I wanted Adrian to seem like his own character that could exist inside the story. It also made the most sense to me considering the girls must have some sort of sexual tension build up considering none of the guys show interest in them and they don't seem interested in the one who does. So, in comes Adrian to help relieve some of that. It also will help greatly to add to the story when it comes to a creativity standpoint because I can shape him in ways I couldn't with the already established characters. I decided to make him strong so it wouldn't make me limit his character in combat and him focusing on a bow just seemed unique to me even if Usopp is also a sniper type character. Adrian is proficient with a sword, although he will be a tier or two lower than Zoro when it comes to swordsmanship, and his fists. Think of him like having a prime CW Green Arrow type of skill set. After reading that you probably just figured out where I got the name Adrian from if you have seen the show.

I want this to be an organic relationship though, I want Adrian to fit in the Straw Hats as a friend, and within the girls, who I promise will be more than just Nami and Robin, love life. I don't want it to be a thing where at the end of her introduction chapter Nami is already dropping her panties. That isn't realistic to me and I prefer an actual build up in the relationship between the girls and Adrian, as well as the girls and each other to explain why they would be ok sharing and being a part of a harem. I am also flirting with the idea of having the girls be into each other, It would make it easier on me as an author in explaining why they would be ok with the harem, as well open up some possibly great story moments for me to write about, especially Robins devil fruit ability which already gives me a lot of potential ideas with both Adrian and the other females. I am also going to be respectful about this as well, so no super excessive lemon scenes or anything like that, there will definitely be some lemon for sure, but they will be earned and won't be overly detailed for anyone who isn't into that stuff.

The last thing I want to talk about is what the story will encompass and how far I am planning to go. The second thing about these types of stories I notice after the similar plot elements is that none of them are finished. My goal is to continue this until completion. I can't speak on how often this will be updated, but I'm shooting for at least every two or three weeks with how long I plan to make the chapters. I wish I could do more but, you know, life. I work a full-time job and have school so its basically whenever I can get some free time.

As far as story content goes, I plan to start at the beginning and go through the whole story. I plan to take my time to really build up the characters so hopefully by the time I am nearing Wano, The Canon story will be much further along. I am going to be following the same plot points as the original story, but thanks to both fear of copyright and my own admitted laziness, its not going to be a one-one retelling. I am mainly going to focus on the characters while they are on the ship and them building their relationships. I will follow them during the arcs to highlight important moments from the arc that I feel will add to my own story. I will be changing some elements of the story as I go but nothing to serious outside of the original character and the bigger Straw-Hat Crew as I add more females for harem purposes. I am open to taking suggestions on who you guys would like to see added to the harem, leave any suggestions in the review.

Wow, I apologize for how long this Authors Corner turned out, if you read all of it thank you! I promise they won't all be this long I just wanted to get the basics of my plans for this story out of the way. I also would love to consider answering your guys' questions here as well, kind of like the SBS's. Any question is allowed! Whether it's about my story, my thoughts on the actual One Piece story, or even questions about me if you care that me much! You can leave them in the review section or message me them and I can leave your name anonymous if you want.

I plan on this being a huge multi-chapter project, so I won't be starting any other stories as I want this to be my only focus.

Thank you for reading.