A dinghy "Really Luffy, I mean we can afford better." I say as he loads a big barrel of food onto the dinghy.

"Do you think he is trying to die right out of the gate" Onna says, not that Luffy or anyone else for that matter can see or hear her. Onna is a spirit of sorts, she is the manifestation of the will of all the oceans and water of the world and personified so she can work with water witches, that's what I am. Really I'm the only real witch left, at all. The rest of my family have slowly lost their powers over the generation, now all they can do is mere parlor tricks compared to the real thing, they can't even see onna anymore.

"Nah, I want to start from the very beginning and create our own adventure." Luffy smiles at me and I know by now that no matter how close to death it brings us this is the path we are going to take. well might as well have fun along the way.

"Aye, aye captain" as I climb on board, a carefree smile plastered on my face. This is what I have been waiting for my whole life finally my true adventure begins.

"He is still a crazy idiot" Onna sighs and sits down on the side of the boat without disturbing anything physical.

"Yes, but the key is that he is our crazy idiot." I laugh as Luffy starts looking around.

"Hey onna where are you" I nod in her direction. "shishishi you ready for any adventure Onna?"

She nods back at him with a smile and I translate for her "Yep she can't wait." Then we all turn as we here cheers as everyone for the village and the bandits have come to see us off and say their goodbyes. We push off into the sea for our new life to start, we take in the sun and the sea in awe as luffy's home island disappears into the distance, the only island home I have ever known.

Luffy soon gets distracted from the experience, but sensing I'm in too good a mood, leaves me alone in turn for trying to play with the fish in the water. After luffy nearly fell in trying watch a fish that swam under the boat and ask if I could cook one up for the third time, we start discussing everything we need for a pirate ship and crew. Luffy is sure that we will just figure thing out as we go, and while I am sure he is right it's still irritating.

"Fine ok Lu, I'm going to take a nap so I can take watch tonight, try not to drown while I'm asleep" I say as I lay across one of the boards, my arms crossed behind my head and my legs crossed and rest on the other end of the boat.

"Well I'm heading back to the realm then to check on things, don't die on me" Onna says as I stick out my tongue at her and nod, then she disappears, and I nod off.

-O0o.o0O0o.o0O-

When I awake I am floating in the middle of the ocean, no Luffy, no dinghy, only Onna sitting cross legged on top of the water next to me. I sigh and sit up just like her with the only difference being that I am making ripples in the water. "So do you know what happened."

"What, other than Luffy being an idiot again, seriously what was Asholle thinking." The part she mumbled under her breath, but I still caught it and giggle a little.

"Well let's start looking for him, do you see any chaos near by?" I say standing up, Onna floats up high until she can see most of the ocean, then comes back down.

"Yep there seems to be a pirate ship, cruise ship and a few marine ships way off in that direction." She says as she points off in the direction of the ships.

"Well that as good a place to start as any." So we head off in that direction, I form some water around my shoes and repel the water on my shoes from the sea while leaning forward, for extra speed.

So here I am, I am 5'4", with jet black hair, ocean blue eyes, and tan skin wearing a hoodie that is obviously way to be for me, jean capris, tennis shoes and a green tank. speeding across the ocean in search of my rubber brained captain, with my best friend and partner Onna. she is about 5'8", has light blue hair the flows around her like she is under water all the time, her skin is very pale and soft like it has never seen sunlight once, with aqua green eyes, and when we use our magic she becomes surrounded sparkly bubbles, the stronger the magic the more bubbles. She is wearing a simple white dress that goes to her knees where it is very wavy and full length sleeves that end wavy as well, and it also looks like she is always under water.

As we get close to one of the ships we stop and look around, all the pirate are being arrested by the marines, Luffy isn't among them but it's probably best to try and get some information out of the pirates first. We, well I climb on board the ship, onna just floats next to me, and start looking for some unattended pirates, a few close calls with some marines later we some of the prisoner. "Well hello boys, have any of you seen guy wearing a straw hat, about this tall and has a scar under his eye." They all flinch, yep they've seen him.

"And so what if we, why should we tell you." The biggest guy says.

I smile, tilt my head and open my eye with a slightly evil glint in them "Because" I lean in closer "I'm a member of His crew." Mission achieve, they are now terrified of me, and Onna is now laughing her butt off and rolling around in mid-air.

"Ok, ok we'll tell you, he beat up the captain, took Coby and left." I give them a stronger glare to the continued amusement of Onna.

"He said Coby was going to join the marines, they must have gone to the nearest island with a base on it, it's that way." on the smaller guys say pointing in a direction.

I stand up and smile "Thank you boys, now good luck with the marines, bye." and we leave off in the direction the men point me in.

-O0o.o0O0o.o0O-

It took us awhile to find the island and by the time we did Luffy was already leaving and there's a tall green haired man, who has three swords, with him, as we walk up I start to overhear their conversation.

"Coby should be able to handle the rest on his own, I have faith in him." Luffy say walking up to the ship, which has gone from a simple dinghy to a landing ship with a mast.

"It is a fitting way to leave this place unable to turn back because everyone here hates us now, very pirate like." Mr. Swordsman says.

"Hey Luffy, I see you found a better ship and a new crewmate, maybe?" I ask as luffy unhooks the ship from port then turns to me smiling.

"Hey Kai there you are, this is Zoro our new swordsman." Zoro nods to me and is about to say something when he is interrupted by a small boy with pink hair.

"Luffy, I can never thank you enough, you have done more for me than anyone ever has." The boy, who i assume is Coby, salutes.

"I've never heard of a marine thanking a pirate before, that's one for the history books." Luffy and I both laugh at Zoro's comment.

"Oh you'd be surprised" Onna comments next to me, even though only I can hear her, I give a little snort, Zoro gives me an odd look. We all climb on board and set off.

"We'll meet again Coby, some day." Luffy says waving his arms for a big goodbye. I look back and notice a woman and a little girl are also here to see us off, along with what must be all the marines on the island saluting us.

I sweat drop "Um, do i want to know."

"It's a long story." Zoro tells me.

"See ya" Luffy yells one last time as they have been out of earshot for a good minute now.

"So who are you exactly?" Zoro asks, looking at me.

"Oh yeah I am Luffy's first mate, Enolle Kairin Swanami Shanks."

A/N: so off the bat I would like to thank my friend starelight for giving me a reason and motivation to actually do this. in starelight's honor i will be doing a comment conner, so tell me how I did and ask me a question or something along those lines and i'll give you a response at the end of the next chapter.

by the by you should really check out starelight's work it's really good.