Hey guys, this is my first fanfic! I'm going to put a few spoilers that you can skip, just to give you a general idea of where it's going and if there are any turn offs:

SPOILER

Luffy eats Yami Yami no Mi, Kuina replaces Zoro, Usopp doesn't join the crew, eventually Luffy takes Goro Goro no Mi from Enel.

SPOILER END

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10 years before Canon - Sea near Ohara

In the distance, the island of Ohara burned in an unstoppable inferno, the famed Tree of knowledge was reduced to a glorified torche that's light could be seen for miles. The island was surrounded by dozens of marine ships from the buster call that reduced the island to this pitiful state. But unbeknownst to them, a single boat manned by a tiny figure had slipped away. As the 7-year-old Nico Robin looked back to see what remained of her birthplace, she failed to hold back her tears. Everyone she ever met and everything she ever knew, was gone, taken by the flames, ripped away from her by the corrupt government that refused to let the truth be known and that now saw her very existence as an unforgivable sin. Soon the sadness the girl felt faded, consumed by a rage stronger than the flames that had reduced her home to ash. On that day, as she sailed away, fighting against the waves that threatened to crush her small embarkation, Nico Robin swore she would find the truth the World Government had tried so hard to hide, that she would use it to bring them down, and that they too would know the pain of having their world ripped away from them and destroyed before their very eyes. She swore it in the name of every deity she knew, on the memories of the people she had lost today and on her very life. She would not let their deaths be in vain. She knew what she had to do, where the truth she was now desperate to find laid hidden: the Grand Line.

Meanwhile - Off the cost of Mary Geoise

The city burned, to many of the former slaves currently on the ship it was a scene straight out of their wildest dreams, the hell that some of them had spent their entire lives in, was finally getting what it deserved. All-most all of them had a smile on their faces, for many of them it was the first time in years their lips curled upwards, the feeling of joy so foreign to them they wondered if they where somehow ill. However, one of them was noticeably not smiling, the 7-year-old Boa Hancock had tears filling her eyes, oh she did not cry for the city that burned, but for her two sisters that left their lives in that god forsaken hell. While she had only spent half a year as a slave, she had lost far more than 6 months. When she and her sisters had been bought in Sabaody, they were instantly force-fed devil fruits with unknown effects, she was lucky enough that the apparently only effect of the fruit was to make her more beautiful, her sisters unfortunately ended up with the Hebi Hebi no Mi, Model: King Cobra and the Hebi Hebi no Mi, Model: Anaconda the interesting Zoan duo gave their sadistic new owner a idea: to enter them in the fighting pits. The World Nobles, in one of their sadistic epiphanies, had developed what they believed to be the ultimate form of entertainment, fights to the death between devil fruit users. Two contestants would enter a huge room made of seastone and the entire fight would be relayed through Den Den Mushi to the World Nobles sitting safely and comfortably in a lounge. Sandersonia was the first to die, she won half a dozen fights until she was pit against another Zoan who ate the Neko Neko no Mi, Model: Lion, she almost won but lost at the last moment due to second of carelessness that led to her being ripped in half. Hancock saw the hole thing due to her owner bringing both sisters to watch, out of cruelty no doubt. Marigold, managed to win another dozen fights before ending up against a logia, she never stood a chance. And again Hancock was made to watch as her sister suffocated to death. Compared to them, Hancock could be said to have gotten off easy, lucky for her, her owner had no interest in young girls or girls in general for that matter, she was only made to clean the manor and serve food, with the occasional beating of course. But all of that was behind her now, she was free… or was she. She could still feel the mark on her back reminding her of the pain she felt when it was burnt onto her skin, with that mark on her back she would be followed to the ends of the earth, always looking over her shoulder. Could she truly return to Amazon Lily, wouldn't it be the first place the marines will check, wouldn't it simply endanger her people and besides what was left for her there ? No, she couldn't go back, she needed to hide, where no one would ever look for her, the most backwater place in the world, the last place anyone would expect a former Kuja tribe princess to be, the weakest sea. A Fish-man soon began asking the former slaves of their hometowns to send them home, when came the fish-man turn to Hancock he asked:

"What about you, little girl? Where are you from?"

Without hesitation Hancock gave her prepared answer

"East Blue"

The Fish-man looked a bit troubled before asking:

"You're gonna have to be a wee bit more specific, little girl... The East Blue is rather large."

Hancock was taken aback by the question, she hadn't really thought beyond 'weakest sea' but the East Blue still coved a bit more than a fifth of the planet. She began to panic, what would the pirate do if he knew she was lying, would he hit her like the World Noble? Her thoughts began racing as she remembered the night Sandersonia died, when she overheard a World Noble complaining about the King of a pathetic nation in a corner of the East Blue that kept pestering him about coming over to visit, she remembered that night like it was yesterday but the name of that kingdom... what was it ?!

"Well…"

The Fish-man asked, obviously annoyed by the girl's silence. This spurred Hancock on as she replayed that World Noble's voice over and over in her head. 'oa Kingdom?, no. Loa Kingdom?, no. Zoa Kingdom? No…' it was on the tip of her tongue, any minute now.

"Look girl if you're not gonna tell me, I can't help you-"

"GOA KINGDOM !"

Meanwhile - in the New World

"Teach… you. Bastard."

Gasped Thatch, as he bled out. How could it end like this, he had served faithfully for years as the 4th division commander to Whitebeard, he had been nothing but loyal and faithful, he had never begrudge the man that now stood looming over him with a bloody dagger in one had and his devil fruit in the other. Yet there he laid, murdered by the man he once called brother and over what ? A fucking fruit !

"I'm sorry Thatch, I really am !"

He didn't look sorry with that ecstatic grin on his face…

"But I need that fruit, far more than you"

And with that, Marshal D. Teach swallowed the purple devil fruit hole, he knew it needed only one bite to take effect… but he didn't want to risk it. As soon as he had eaten the fruit, and the joy of finally obtaining what he had searched for most of his life, subsided. The full implication of what he had done sunk in, he had fucked up… the plan was simply to steal the fruit and sail away under the cover of the dark. But now he had done the one thing that would make the strongest man in the world and his entire crew, follow him to the ends of the earth. While he did plan on antagonizing Whitebeard eventually to take his fruit, this was to soon, he needed to learn to control his new powers and, more importantly, a crew. He was brutally brought out of his thoughts by the shouts of his former crewmates.

"Thatch !"

"You traitor !"

"You're dead you fool !"

"HAR HAR HAR HAR ! It what am I thinkin' ! of course, it was worth it ! Behold, the strongest devil fruit in the world… Black Hole !"

The incoming pirates froze as they braced for what they assumed was an extremely powerful attack. But after a few seconds, they began looking around and noticed nothing had changed.

"Ara? What's this ?"

Spoke Teach in confusion as he looked down at his hand.

"Ehu… was that it ?"

The pirates deadpanned, in obvious disappointment.

"No! Of course not you idiots! I just can't seem to get it to work…"

Said Teach as he began to shake his hand furiously in an attempt to make his fruit work, but to his horror it began... to stretch!

'No, no, no, NO! This can't be happening! I Checked a thousand times! Round, purple, swirls, leaf- leaf... THE LEAF! Oh fuck, the leaf! There was no leaf! I thought he just plucked it out! I ate the fuckin' Gomu Gomu no mi! A motherfucking paramecia! Not even a strong paramecia! Oh I'm dead, so very very dead!'

Teach began to pale a he started to fully grasp the gravity of his situation (no pun intended). And so he did what any sane man would do in this situation, which no sane man would ever find themselves in, and ran for it or rather bounced for it. The Whitebeard pirates looked in complete confusion as they saw the murder leap away, had he really just killed one of Whitebeard's commanders, antagonized, a Yonko, the strongest man in the world for the ability to jump a bit higher? 'An idiot…' they all thought as one...

AN: Yeah so as you can see I changed Robin's and Hancock's age to make them as young as Luffy. Because A: I need it like that for later and B: It kinda always weirded me out that Robin (a 30 year old) followed a 17 year-old as a captain (not even a mature 17 year old) and that no one seems to care that Boa Hancock (a 31 year old) was in love with a minor.