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There once was a man named Gold Rodger who was King of the Pirates, he had fame, power and wealth beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Before they hung him from the Gallows these were the final words he said.

"My Fortune is yours for the taking, but you'll have to find it first, I left everything I own in One Piece."

Ever since, pirates from all over the world had set sail to the Grand Line searching for One Piece - the greatest treasure in the world.

It was a beautiful day in the east blue; the sun was shining, there were barely any clouds in the sky, and the gulls were soaring above on the fresh ocean breeze. Everything was perfect.

Luffy had been having a busy day, it was his first day at sea as a new pirate, ever since he was a child, Luffy had always dreamed of being a pirate, and not just any pirate, but the Pirate King. He had sailed from his home town on a good sized boat - it wasn't anything special but it was sturdy and well made.

Luffy had hoped his voyage would be full of excitement and adventure; he had only been at sea for a half the day and so far he had not been disappointed. First he had barely escaped the pull of a whirlpool by jumping into a barrel, then the ship that had saved him was attacked by a band of scallywags led by a zaftig old woman - Captain Alvida.

Alvida had been intending to rob the ship and Luffy had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. He had insulted her, single handily wiped out her crew and stole one of her life boats - because not only was his boat destroyed by the whirlpool, but the marines that had been tracking Alvida and her crew had showed up, bombarding her ship with canon balls.

Luckily, Luffy had managed to avoid the marines and their canon fire, and was now relaxing at the bow, enjoying sailing across the sea. That is, until his stomach growled.

"I'm hungry, time to eat," he said. grinning happily, getting up.

He approached the stern where a medium sized box could be found. It had been covered by spare sail - likely to protect what was inside form the gulls. Luffy had assumed that the box contained food and water for the life boat.

He pulled the sail off and peered inside the box. Inside he found a small, unconscious boy with brown skin, and shoulder length black hair. He wore a dirty thin torn potato sack, his arms, legs, feet and hands behind his back, were bound tightly with rope, and his skin was heavily bruised. Luffy lifted him; the boy was lighter and thinner than he should be.

He inspected him closely, frowning in disappointment. "Aw, I can't eat this."

He dropped the boy back into the box and walked back to the helm.

"Maybe I can catch some fish..." he muttered to himself.

Luffy looked over the ocean, took a deep breath and yelled, "OI FISH, COME OVER HERE SO I CAN EAT YOU!"

No fish came.

Luffy sighed. "Now what, how am I going to catch some fish?"

He suddenly spotted a boat that appeared to be sinking a fair way away from him; a single person was on board and waving rather frantically.

"I bet he has food and wants to give it to me," Luffy said excitedly

He stretched his arm out and grabbed the person on the sinking boat, who screamed as he flew through the air, stopping only when he had slammed into the mast of Luffys boat.

The person turned out to be a young man with pink hair and large round glasses. He wore a white shirt with two blue stripes, and blue pants.

He quickly backed away from Luffy, his jaw wide open.

Luffy approached him and asked, "HI, who are you?"

"Y...Y...Your arm? It stretched," the man responded.

"Yeah it went pretty far didn't it?" Luffy agreed.

"How'd you do that? Are you a Monster?" the man asked, he was shaking and clearly scared of Luffy.

"Nope, I'm Monkey D. Luffy, I ate the Gomu-Gomu fruit and now I'm a Rubber man." Luffy stretched his face to prove it.

"The devil fruit? You mean they exist? I thought they were only a legend?" the man asked in awe.

"Yeah but they taste terrible. By the way who are you, and do you have any meat on you?"

The man looked at Luffy like he was crazy. "My name's Coby, and no, I don't have any food, but I live on an island near here, you can get something to eat there if you're hungry," Coby responded.

"Really? That's great," Luffy said happily and then asked, "does the island have a doctor?"

"Yes, are you sick?" Coby replied.

"Nah it's for the kid," said Luffy absentmindedly.

"Kid? What kid?" Coby sounded concerned.

"The one in the box." Luffy pointed to the box at the back of the boat.

Coby went over and looked inside. "AAAHHHHH!" Coby screamed in terror. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?"

"Nothing," Luffy said simply

"Then how'd he get like this?" Coby asked

"Maybe he fell down some stairs," Luffy suggested.

Coby fell over.

The two men sat and Luffy explained his day so far. He spoke about the whirlpool, defeating Alvida and how he found the boy on his new ship. Coby took it all rather well and was surprised that Luffy had beaten Alvida, but didn't question him, and apologised to Luffy for accusing him of hurting the boy. After Luffy had finished, Coby realised that he had no idea why Luffy was out at sea.

"By the way Luffy, why are you out at sea?" Coby asked curiously

"I'm a pirate, in fact I'm going to be King of the Pirates," Luffy stated grinning with pride.

"WHAT!?" Coby's jaw dropped. "BUT TO DO THAT YOU'D HAVE TO GO TO THE GRAND LINE AND FIND ONE PIECE!"

"I know, isn't it exiting?" Luffy grinned. "I can't wait to find a crew."

Coby was shocked, here he was in the presence of a pirate that wanted to sail to the most dangerous sea in the world by himself. "You don't have a crew yet?"

"Nope, but I'll get one…maybe ten or eleven members - that sounds like a good number right? Oh and a big ship too with a Jolly Rodger," Luffy boasted.

"Ten or eleven members? You can't cross the Grand line with such a small crew, it's impossible."

"Why?" Luffy asked

"Because it just is, no one's ever done it," Coby answered.

"Then I'll be the first to do it," Luffy proclaimed. "Awesome, now I really want to find a crew." Luffys eyes were sparkling with excitement.

Coby sat down. There was just no persuading Luffy that what he wanted was impossible. Finding One Piece and becoming King of the Pirates was every pirate's dream, but that's all it was - a dream. Almost every pirate that went to the Grand Line never came back, and the ones that did never wanted to set foot on a boat again.

"Luffy if you go to the Grand Line you'll die," Coby warned, grimly.

"Probably," Luffy stated, evidently uncaring of Coby's tone.

"Then why go at all if you know you're going to die?" Coby asked desperately.

Luffy grabbed his hat from his head and looked at it fondly. "Because it's my dream. I decided a long time ago to be King of the Pirates. If I make it, great, and if I die along the way, I'm okay with that too. Because I'll die fighting for my dream," he stated, calmly.

Coby stared at Luffy in awe. He had never met anyone who thought like that, despite the impossible odds, and the certainty of death; Luffy was still going to chase his dreams.

"I have a dream," Coby confessed. "Do you think I could do it?"

"I don't know, what is it?" Luffy asked, looking at the man.

"I…I…I want to become a strong marine so I can catch bad guys," Coby said quietly. He looked back towards the box at the back of the ship. "Like the ones who hurt that boy."

Luffy looked at Coby, he could tell that Coby was scared of what he would think and how he'd react; Luffy was a pirate after all.

"Go for it," Luffy said smiling. "If it's your dream, then go for it, and one day we'll meet up on the Grand Line and see which of us is stronger."

Coby looked at Luffy in surprise, a smile slowly forming on his face. No one had ever encouraged him or believed in him before, but here was a pirate telling him he could do it.

"Yeah I'll do it, I'll join the Marines," Coby boasted with confidence, "and one day I'll be the strongest marine in the navy. So strong, I'll catch the Pirate King."