In the known world, everyone knew that the land was mostly that of water made out of four different seas. Those seas were known to all as the East, West, North and South Blues and all of them were isolated from one another by a giant landmass that span across the entire world called the Red Line.

However, running through the world centre was another sea that was called the Grand Line, a mysterious and dangerous place that was hardly ever touched. It was mostly uncharted, but that all changed 22 years ago when the man, by the name of Roger D Gold, that everyone would soon call the Pirate King conquered it.

His very name struck terror into every single person, Navy and Pirate civilian and criminal alike, but that all changed when he was captured and was promptly executed in the town of his birth. However, to show strength the Navy made it a public execution which many might call a mistake as it set things into motion that spiralled out of control.

Many people attended his execution, but his dying words were like a raging tidal wave and soon they were spread across the entire worldwide wildfire.

"You want my treasure, you can have it," he said with a smile. "I left everything to gather in one place! Now you just have to find it!"

With those simple words it began what was soon called the Great Pirate Era that drove many people into the sea. These pirates would cause turmoil as they roamed the sea not just in the four seas, but in the Grand Line and checked plundering and pillaging everything they saw.

However, even to this day no one has been able to find the Pirate King's treasure that was known to everyone as the One Piece. With that said, that didn't mean that no one would find it and soon a young boy went on a wild adventure in order to find it and this is how his tale began.

It all began in the East Blue in the middle of the sea, a cruise liner was sailing peacefully across the calm waters without a care in the world. They were sailing past the aspiring whirlpool and that's when two sailors on deck heard something crash into the ship. The two of them looked down and saw a wood barrel floating in the water.

Inside everyone was drinking dancing and basically enjoying life, looking out of the window was a beautiful young woman of 18 years in a blue dress. She had beautiful golden blonde hair there was tied in a ponytail and had a set of steel blue eyes that could pierce anything.

Approaching her was a husky boy of 17 years, he has short blonde hair and had a pair of very powerful arms. His legs on the other hand were rather skinny for his size and was amazing that he was actually able to stand.

"You show was all right coming here, Astrid?" the boy asked.

The girl named Astrid looked at him. "You know what we have to do and you might as well enjoy yourself, Fishlegs."

"Excuse me," said a new voice. The two of them turned and saw handsome young man extending his hand towards Astrid. "With the beautiful lady care to dance?"

Astrid merely shrugged and took his hand.

The two crewmen on the deck immediately wrapped a rope around the barrel and began to pull it on board. It was rather heavy and it took both of them to lift it onto the deck.

"It's heavier than I thought it would be," said one of them. "Maybe it's filled with beer."

"Well, it's our beer now," said his friend.

"And I'm not sharing my half."

However, the crewmen on the crow's nest eyes widened in horror, because sailing towards them was a pirate ship painted pink. It was waving a skull and cross bone flag with a heart engraved upon the skull.

"Ship ahoy on the starboard bow!" he cried towards the crewmen. "And they're flying a pirate flag! We've got a pirate ship in pursuit! Enemy raid, enemy raid!"

The Pirate ship immediately fired upon their bow, fortunately the cannonballs missed the ship, but they did strike the water causing the entire ship to shake. Everyone inside began panicking as the ship rocked tow and throw.

Immediately the two crewmen who are on the deck immediately rushed inside.

"Captain, we've got pirates!" one of them yelled.

The ship's captain's eyes widened in horror. "What?"

The ship then shook once again has the Pirate ship fired more cannonballs, he then immediately turn to everyone on board.

"Everybody, please stay calm! Panicking were only get you hurt!" he ordered. "Just for my crew's instructions in an orderly fashion!"

Unfortunately, no one was listening to his orders they began running around in a panic. However, Astrid and Fishlegs were the only ones not panicking, or at least not as much, it was almost as if they had expected this to happen.

The Pirate ship was still bombarding the cruiser with cannonballs and they managed to destroy the figurehead. Leading the pirates was a rather plump woman with long black hair and in her hand she was holding the spiked bludgeon.

"Gustav," she said.

Gustav was a 15-year-old boy, who was feeling very nervous. "Yes, ma'am."

"Who is the most beautiful of all the seas?" she asked.

"Well, that would be the captain of our ship, Lady Alvida," he said with as much sincerity as possible and with a little twinge of fear.

She then laughed. "Good answer."

Truth was she was anything but beautiful, but if you said anything she would have hounded to death with her spiked bludgeon. The fact of the matter was she was extremely overweight and had a very chubby face, which wasn't exactly one would call beautiful.

"That means a lot to me," said Gustav looking relieved.

"It's been a while," said one of her men. "We're finally going to see a little action."

Alvida smiled. "That's right, so make it count! Hit them with all you got, boys!"

They immediately fired a cannon ball and this time they struck the mainmast causing it to collapse. This meant the cruise ship was no longer able to escape them, in the midst of all this confusion the barrel the two crewmen had carried on board rolled its way down into the cargo hold and somehow managed to skid into the kitchen.

Finally the Pirate ship managed to reach the cruiser and though it was small, it had far more firepower. The pirates on board then immediately tossed grappling hooks onto the ship and were clearly planning to board her.

"Here we go, time to show them the terror of Iron Clubbed Alvida, Lady Pirate of the seas!" said Alvida.

Her men then immediately began climbing the grappling hooks and jumped onto the deck with sword in hand. In fact the only person who was not eager to jump on board the cruiser was Gustav, who was holding the rope fearfully.

Alvida narrowed her eyes at him. "Gustav, what are you doing?"

"I'm not really good this stuff," he admitted.

Alvida approached him looking furious. "You're telling me! Maybe it's because you're too busy back talking me all the time."

Gustav panicked. "No, not the club! Anything but the club!"

"Then get your ass in gear!" she yelled.

She then literally kicked him in the backside and sent him flying onto the ship.

"Move it you brat!" Alvida yelled.

Gustav looked up and saw Alvida jumping towards him raising her bludgeon, he then quickly ducked causing her to crash into the deck.

A few minutes later, the pirates were now surrounding the entire guests, who are cowering behind the crewmen.

"We're not going to take your lives, we swear," one of the pirates promised. "But we will take everything else you've got on you."

"And anyone who fights back will be eating their dinner of the bottom of the ocean," said Alvida as he joined her men.

Astrid and the Fishlegs, were the only ones not being surrounded.

Astrid smiled. "Finally I can get this thing off."

Soon the two of them changed and well wearing pirate get up and Astrid had an axe strapped to her back.

"Now it's time to get to work," she said.

Fishlegs quivered. "Surely there is a faster way to get money?"

"Come on, we need to get moving," she said practically dragging him away.

Gustav wasn't with the other pirates as he was sneaking around not wanting to get involved with the plunder. He soon made his way into the kitchen and carefully made his way inside.

"I really hope there's no one in here," he said hopefully. He looked around and found it completely deserted. "That's a relief."

He then noted the place looked as if a tornado had blown through and then he saw a large barrel amongst the wreckage.

"Whoa, that's one big barrel," he said as he approached it. "I wonder what's inside it?"

Outside both Astrid and Fishlegs, were sliding across the grappling hooks towards the Pirate ship. With practically all the pirates now on board the cruiser, it was virtually unguarded and with so many men on board it was easy for them to blend in.

Carefully and quietly they made their way towards the cargo hold and Fishlegs was about to open the door when suddenly flung open and a pirate entered.

Pirate looked at the two of them. "Who are you two? I haven't seen either of you before."

Then suddenly Astrid punched him right in the gut so hard that she knocked him unconscious.

"Let's tie this guy up and then get to work," she said to Fishlegs.

Gustav meanwhile was rolling the barrel out of the kitchen, it was extremely heavy and it took all his strength to move it. Then entering into the kitchen were three other pirates and they weren't exactly excited to see him.

"Well, if it is in our favourite cabin boy," said a musclebound pirate. "You trying to hide in here under ducked out of all the action again?"

Gustav panicked. "No way! I was just trying to hull this big barrel, for you guys."

The Pirate chuckled. "Why don't you let us lighten the load?"

A blonde haired pirate licked his lips. "I was just starting to get thirsty."

Gustav stared at the three of them. "You can't, Lady Alvida would kill us if she ever found out."

A pirate had to on his neck smiled at him. "She won't if you keep your trap shut. Right, boy?"

Gustav just smiled at them innocently. "Yeah, right."

The muscular pirate then immediately lifted the barrel up right. "This sucker is heavy."

The blonde pirate smiled. "Perfect."

The muscular pirate then cracked his knuckles. "Hold on boys, I'll open it the old-fashioned way."

He was about to slam his fist into the top of the barrel when suddenly shooting out of it was a scrawny boy of 18 years. He shot up so fast that he actually punched the pirate right under the chin, knocking the poor guy unconscious before he knew what was happening.

Gustav stared at the boy, he was tall and lanky and had very little muscle on him. He had a scar on his chin and his eyes shone like green emeralds. He was wearing a green T-shirt which was merged with a pair of baggy trousers and a pair of boots. He wore over his shirt a black jacket which wasn't zipped up.

The boy then yawned. "Boy, that was quite sleep." He then looked down and saw the pirate unconscious on the floor. "Who's that?"

Then he turned to the two pirates staring at him dumbfounded. "And who are you guys?"

"How will you start answering about who the hell are you!" said the blonde pirate.

The boy then removed himself from the barrel. "Sorry about knocking him out, you better tender his wound."

The two pirates then immediately drew their blades and pointed them straight at him.

"Hold it," said the pirate with the tattooed. "Do you have any idea who we are? We of this is pirates."

Hiccup ignore them and looked around at his surroundings. "Seems as if I woke up in the kitchen, good thing I'm a little peckish."

This annoyed the pirates to no end and the immediately raise their blades preparing to strike him. Gustav cried out as the slammed their blades towards the boy and immediately covered his eyes.

However, somehow the boy managed to shatter the blade and the tips pierced wooden ceiling above them. This left the pirates completely dumbfounded as they looked at the bloke in blades and Gustav finally found the courage to open his eyes and stared at him in amazement at the scene.

"That's certainly an interesting way of saying hello," he said looking at the two of them and then scratched his teaching. "There again are not want to criticise I did punch one of your pals."

"Who are you?" said the blonde haired pirate.

"Me?" said the boy folding his arms. "The name is Hiccup D Haddock."

Immediately the pirates ran off screaming, dragging their pirate friend with them.

Gustav stared at him. "What just happened?"

"I think I scared them," Hiccup shrugged.

Gustav then quickly approached him. "Quickly, you have to run! If those guys come back here with their bodies, then they'll kill you on the spot!"

Hiccup looked at him confidently. "I'm not too worried, I can take care of myself."

Gustav shook his head in disbelief. "How can you just shake this off? There are hundreds on them on deck and their waiting for the opportunity to kill anything."

Hiccup then began making his way to the storage room, but Gustav quickly grabbed his arm in the attempt to pull him back. "You're going the wrong way!"

Despite his best efforts he was unable to stop Hiccup from entering the storage room.

"This is a good thing I landed on the kitchen," he said as he took an apple from a crate. "I must have been in that barrel for long time if I'm this hungry."

"Hopefully we'll be saving here as long as no one else gets hungry," Gustav sighed as he closed the door.

"So what's your name?" Hiccup asked as he took a bite of an apple.

"It's Gustav," he said. "Earlier you said that you name was Hiccup? That was quite impressive what you did back in that barrel back there."

Hiccup looked at him. "So are we on a pirate ship?"

"No, it's a passenger ship being raided by pirates. Pirates under the command of Lady Alvida."

Hiccup frowned. "I see, but are they any boats on board?"

"I think there are a few."

"That's good, because mine got sucked in a whirlpool."

Gustav eyes lit up. "The one outside, no way? No one could have survived that."

"It was a close call," Hiccup admitted and then he looked at him curiously. "Tell me are you one of the pirates or a passenger on the ship?"

Gustav looked at the floor sadly. "It was on a faithful day, long ago. That day I stepped out onto a small fishing boat on the outskirts of town to go catch my dinner. As it turned out that particular bow belonged heading for pirate ship, that was two years ago. In exchange for them letting me live, I'm forced to live the life of a cabin boy."

Hiccup looked at him in disbelief. "How could you have made such a mistake like that?"

Gustav groaned. "I don't know myself."

"Why don't you just escape if you hated so much?" Hiccup asked.

"Are you kidding? I can't do that, no way," said Gustav shaking his head. "Just the thought of Alvida finding these scares me so much that I want to throw up."

Hiccup shook his head. "Perhaps you should try and get a backbone."

Meanwhile Alvida was ordering her men around to grab as much treasure as possible and transfer it onto their boat.

"All right, quit you're lorry gagging, boys!" she yelled. "We have to load up everything before the Marines get here. I catch anyone slacking and they will get a real mouthful of my iron club."

Astrid and Fishlegs were down below putting all their treasure in the hole into a large bag. Though they knew that sooner or later the pirates were discovered and they would be in for a hard fight they did.

Soon emerging from the cargo hold on the cruiser were the two pirates that encountered Hiccup and they had panicked look on their faces.

"Captain! This is bad!" they cried.

Alvida turned towards them. "Then out with it."

"Something popped out of a barrel!"

"A horrible monster!"

Alvida looked at them furiously and tossed her club at them. "Who are you calling a monster?"

The two of them immediately ducked, but is the same time they did their pirate friend regained consciousness and was struck by the club. It struck him so hard that he was tossed off the ship and landed in the water. The club then immediately fell onto the two pirates.

"We weren't talking about you, my lady," said the blonde haired Viking looking a little dazed.

"Some guy was hiding in a barrel, he could be a bounty hunter," said the pilot with that had to.

"What?" she said as she looked up.

Meanwhile Hiccup and Gustav were still in the storage room and Gustav nodded at what Hiccup had said earlier.

"You're right, if I had the courage I could drift alone in a barrel and leave these pirates," he sighed. "I actually have my own dreams. Someday, I would like to live out all of them." He then looked up at Hiccup. "So what about you, Hiccup? What first got you to set sail on the seas?"

Hiccup looked at him inquisitively. "I want to become the king of the Pirates."

Gustav stared at him openmouthed. "The King?"

"Yep," Hiccup nodded.

"Are you serious?"

"Of course I am."

"But that would mean that you're a pirate too?" he said horrified.

"More or less," Hiccup shrugged.

"Your crew?"

"I don't have one, not yet anyway."

Gustav just stared at him horrified and you immediately got to his feet. "The King of the Pirates is the title who obtained everything this world has to offer, you're talking about seeking the great treasure of wealth and power, the treasure you seek is the One Piece!"

"Sure am," Hiccup smiled.

"Don't you realise that pirates from all over the world are searching for it?" Gustav cried.

"And so what?"

"So it's impossible! There is no way that anyone like you can reach the pinnacle of this Great Pirate Age, there are just too many out there in the open sea!"

Hiccup looked at him. "I know, but I am going to find it and I don't care what kind of hardship I have to face. Besides there is no if about it, I'm doing it because it's what I want. I made a decision a long time ago that I'm going to be King of the Pirates and if I have to die fighting for that then I'll die."

Gustav just stared at him in bewilderment.

Hiccup then began making his way to the door. "Now I think I should try and get my hands on a boat."

Gustav looked to the ground. "I've never thought of it that way, maybe if I put my mind to it, if I'm prepared to die for it, could I do something like that?"

Hiccup looked at him. "Like what?"

"Do you think… do you think I could ever join the Marines?" he asked.

"The Marines?" Hiccup blinked.

Gustav looked up at him. "Yes, catching bad guys is the only thing I ever wanted to do. It's been my dream ever since I was a child, you think I can do it?"

Hiccup smiled at him. "I'm afraid the only one who can answer that question is you."

Gustav then stood strong and firm. "Then I will do it! I'm not going to get stuck here as a cabin boy for the rest of my life! I'll break out and then turn right around and capture Alvida myself!"

Then suddenly the wooden ceiling tore open and then someone very large landed through the dust.

"Who is that you're planning to capture, Gustav?" said Alvida's voice in the dust. "And you actually think that this twig is going to help you?" She then immediately turned towards Gustav, who was quivering in the corner. "Well, answer me!"

Gustav was too shocking up to say anything.

Hiccup just stood there then suddenly blades stuck out of the wooden wall behind him, nearly missing his head. Alvida then turned her attention away from Gustav and looked directly at Hiccup.

"My guess is that you are not Toothless the Pirate Hunter," she assumed.

Hiccup looked up. "Toothless?"

Alvida smiled. "Called it! Now then who is the most beautiful of all in the seas?"

Gustav quivered at her. "Well, give me a sec… I know this."

"I can definitely say that it's not you," said Hiccup folding his arms.

Everyone then immediately stared at him as if he was crazy, the pirates looking down at them from the large hole in the ceiling were utterly terrified.

"Oh no."

"Not good."

Alvida looked immensely furious. "You runt!"

She then immediately slammed her club towards him, but Hiccup dodged it by jumping into the air and then landed next to Gustav, who couldn't bear to watch.

"Time to go," said Hiccup.

Gustav looked at him stunned.

Alvida turned to face him, but he had already jumped into the air with Gustav in his arms. Soon the two of them landed on the deck and almost instantly the pirates charged at Hiccup with the swords.

One pirate tried to slice him with his blade, but Hiccup leaned back avoiding the blade and immediately punched him hard in the face. Never pirate then tried to attack from behind, but he quickly spun around and dealt a powerful sidekick in his face. Four pirates then attempted to attack him at once, but he jumped into the air at a great height avoiding the blades.

"Try again," he said as he jumped to safety.

Gustav couldn't believe his eyes, Hiccup was holding his own and was making the pirates look like amateurs. He then immediately screamed as a pirate jumped from the bridge and raised his sword towards him. However, he merely sidestepped out of the way and avoided the blade and then grabbed his head.

"It's not fair attacking someone from behind," he said and immediately tossed him at the four pirates in front of him.

Hiccup then looked over his shoulder and saw a whole nest of pirates advancing at his position.

"Ganging up on me at all at once, not going to work," he said.

Then suddenly he began to transform to their amazement, his skin slowly turned to black scales, his eyes became slits, his hands and feet became claws and talons. He then began to grow a tail and a pair of wings and is head began to transform in the shape of a very large lizard and his muscles increased in size as well until there were twice as large as before.

The pirates were so stunned they were ill-prepared when he immediately flapped his wings and slammed right into them, knocking them aside like dominoes. Gustav stared at his friend as he suddenly had transformed into a manlike dragon. Alvida had seen the entire thing as she climbed out of the large hole in the storage room and her mouth fell wide open.

Gustav stared at Hiccup. "Hiccup, what are you?"

Hiccup smiled. "I'm a Dragon Man."

"So, you're a dragon?" said Gustav stunned.

He then immediately looked up and saw Alvida standing over him and immediately scampered off and we was behind Hiccup.

"So, you've eaten of the Devil Fruits," she said looking at Hiccup.

Hiccup nodded. "Yeah, I ate the Dragon-Dragon Fruit."

"Ah, I had heard rumours that they existed, but I've never seen any evidence of them before today," she said looking at him curiously. "You're more skill than the average deck swapper, are you a bounty hunter?"

Hiccup shook his head. "I'm a pirate."

Alvida laughed. "A pirate? All by yourself on these waters?"

Hiccup shrugged. "Today it might just be me, but I will find my crew tomorrow or next week. They could be anywhere in the world, I just have to find them."

In the midst, of this conversation both Astrid and Fishlegs had exited the cargo hold, they weren't sure what was going on that distracted the pirates, but they weren't arguing. The two of them then immediately scampered off unaware of Hiccup's presence.

Alvida looked at Hiccup. "Tell me, if we're both pirates and were not under the same flag then that would make us enemies. Am I right?"

Gustav looked at Hiccup fearfully. "Hiccup, let's go."

"And why should we do that?" Hiccup asked.

"You saw how powerful her club is and in all the villainous cheats in these waters, she's easily the most—"

He starred when he saw the look and Hiccup's eyes telling him that he was not going to back down. It soon dawned on him that Hiccup was not going to run away and that he would fight for his dream, even if it meant his death.

"Go on," said Alvida smiling. "Tell me."

Gustav looked at her and took in a deep breath. "You're the most ugliest thing on the sea!"

All the pirates that was still standing open their mouths in horror and Hiccup merely smiled. Alvida looked absolutely furious as she glared on murderously down at Gustav.

"What did you say?" she roared.

"I'm leaving and I'm going to join the Marines," said Gustav firmly. "Then I'll spend the rest of my life beating up dirty pirates like you!"

"Do you have any clue what you're saying to me right now?" she glared.

"Of course I do and I'm going to do what I want and no one is going to stop me! And when I join the Marines, I'm going to join them and catch your lousy ass first!"

"You're dead, kid!" Alvida roared as she raised her club.

Gustav cried in panic as the club raced down towards him. 'No regrets! I said what I wanted to and fought for my dream!'

"Well said," said Hiccup as he quickly pulled Gustav out of the way.

He then quickly raised his forearm and blocked Alvida's club. The impact was strong enough for the floorboards beneath Hiccup's feet to crack, but Hiccup himself looked completely unharmed.

"You're going to have to do better than that," Hiccup smiled.

"What?" Alvida roared.

Hiccup then pushed her club back and clenched his fist. "It's time to end this. Dragon Fist!"

He then struck Alvida in the chest with all his might and literally knocked the wind right out of her. He struck her so hard that she was sent flying right off the boat and crashed into the ocean, is it so hard that a large burst of water of corrupted into the air.

Everyone stared at Hiccup openmouthed as he immediately reverted back to his human form. Hiccup then turned and looked at the pirates that were staring openmouthed on the pirate ship.

"Now why don't you guys find abode and give it to Gustav," he said looking straight at them. "He's leaving your ship to join the Marines and you're not going to stop him."

"Yes, sir," said the pirates gobsmacked.

Gustav regained his composure and looked at Hiccup. "Thanks, Hiccup."

Then suddenly a firing out of nowhere were a series of cannonballs and the immediately turned and saw several Navy ships floating in the water.

"Look it's the Marines," said Gustav.

"We'd had better get out of here," said Hiccup looking at him. "Unless we want to be chained up and thrown in prison."

Astrid and Fishlegs had already lowered a boat in the water and were now fattening their ill-gotten treasure just as the Marines fired again. Then suddenly dropping out of nowhere was another boat, this one containing both Hiccup and Gustav.

Both Hiccup and Astrid looked at one another briefly, but before either of them could see a single word more cannonballs range from the sky. The two of them then quickly sailed off in different directions away from the Navy ships.

Once they were safely away from the Navy ships, Gustav looked at Hiccup in amazement.

"We actually got away," he said as he looked around for any trace of Navy or pirate ships.

Hiccup leaned back as he pondered. "I wonder I was guys were when we escaped? You didn't recognise any of them from Alvida's ship."

Gustav shook his head. "Never seen them before. Do you think they snuck on board from the cruiser?"

Hiccup shrugged. "Possibly."

Gustav then looked at him curiously. "So Hiccup if you're looking for the elusive One Piece, then you have to be headed for the Grand Line, right?" Hiccup nodded. "You know the people I've talked to call that place the pirate graveyard."

"And that is exactly why I want a strong crew," Hiccup explained. He then looked at him curiously. "By the way, Alvida mentioned something about a Pirate Hunter. Do you have any idea what he's like?"

"You mean Toothless?" Gustav frowned. "Last time I heard he was held prisoner at some Marine Base."

Hiccup looked disappointed. "If the Marines caught him then he can't be that strong."

Gustav shook his head enthusiastically. "No, you're so wrong! He's a Drake that is fine and as a demon and three times as horrifying." He then frowned as he looked at Hiccup. "Why are you asking about him anyway?"

Hiccup smiled. "I figured that if he was good enough, I'd asked him to join my crew."

Gustav mouth fell wide open. "Chasing him down is just plain crazy."

Hiccup laughed. "Sometimes the craziest plans are the best."

"He's a bad enough guy that the Marines caught him!"

Hiccup looked at him. "I always take these rumours with a grain of salt, rumours are extremely exaggerated. I want to see for myself if he's any good."