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The Will of the King

A seven year old boy, wearing a white baggy t-shirt with a picture of an anchor and lose fitting blue shorts, walked into a local bar in Foosha Village (Windmill Village). The boy pointed at an older man at the bar talking to an attractive young lady.

"Shanks! Let me join your crew, I'm gonna be the best pirate you ever seen!" The boy screamed.

The now identified Shanks replied, "You know I can't let you join my crew Luffy, you are a scrawny little brat! You can't even swim, what goods a pirate that can't even swim?" Shanks is a tall skinny man wearing a loose fitting white button up shirt unbuttoned and open, black captains coat, brown pants and a red sash as a belt. He has a scruffy goatee, shiny red hair that his crew is known for, three jagged scars going vertical over his left eye, and an old looking Straw-hat resting on his head.

A man named Yasopp with curly brown hair, scruffy goatee, blue shirt and white pants. Relatively tall and skinny sitting slouched in his chair answered, "Luffy, it's not about how well you can swim or not, there's more to being a pirate than that!"

"I can fight! My punches are like a Pistol!" Luffy replied.

"Is that so?" Shanks asked.

"What do you mean by that Shanks!?" Luffy screams while somehow showing off teeth more fitting in the mouth of a Fishman than a Human.

A big fat man with a Piece of meat on the bone in his hand, wearing a pair of shades with a band holding them on his head, green and white striped shirt and bandana over his head, tan shorts and a green sash for a belt, spoke up, "Luffy is just a little kid..."

"Luffy's about the same age as my kid back home," Yasopp said.

"I'm not a kid! I'm a MAN!" Luffy angrily shouts.

"Don't get so angry Luffy, here have some juice," Shanks hands Luffy a orange juice.

"Thanks Shanks!" Luffy greedily slurps the orange juice down smiling like a kid the whole time.

Shanks slaps his hand down on the counter laughing at luffy "See! Still a little kid!"

"Damn you Shanks!" Luffy screamed. "Don't you laugh at me!" Luffy glared at the other patrons of the bar.

Suddenly a large group of men approach the bar, the leader kicking the door in. "Sorry for the interuption," the man says without sounding very sorry for the interuption at all. Everyone in the bar stops all conversation and stares at the grade-A-prick that chose to damage the kindly barmaids door. Except Shanks who continues to eat his meal as if nothing has happened making a lot of clanking noises as his spoon hits the bowl.

The leader of this particular band of bandits is a taller man with long black scraggly hair, beady black eyes, longer black goatee, long black trench coat brandishing a scimitar sword on his hip. "So these are pirates are they? They don't look like much to me." He walks upto the bar and asks the barmaid Makino. "We aren't here to trash your bar, we want to buy 10 barrels of your finest sake." While his men sneer at the pirates in the background.

"Gomen, we are all out of sake," Makino answered the man.

"Hmm, that's strange. These Pirates are all drinking sake right now..." The bandit leader inquired.

"That is because they bought all the sake we had in stock," Makin apologised.

"Ah that's no good, it seems we drank everything." Shanks stated from the bar. "If you want, you can have this" Shanks offered the man his bottle of sake.

This seems to upset the bandit leader a great deal, so he breaks the sake bottle spilling the contents all over the bar, floor, and mostly all over shanks face.

"I'm a wanted man. Worth 8,000,000 belli last I checked. One bottle isn't going to be enough for me, pirate!" The bandit leader states

"Oi, oi, oi, now the floors all wet. Sorry about that Makino-san..." Shanks apologized.

Shanks bends over and proceeds to pick up the broken glass "Do you have a mop Makino-san?" Shanks asked.

"I'll take care of it!" Makino races over to the front of the bar and helps shanks clean up the mess.

The bandit leader unsheathes his sword and slashes it across the bar breaking several bottles and laughs at Makino and Shanks. "You pathetic pirates like to clean so much, clean that!"

Luffy was watching this the whole time like it was a movie, as he waited for his hero to step up and show this no name bandit who was the unofficial boss of this town. As he was watching he felt a hunger settle in and thought it would be nice to have a snack while he watched the drama unfold. "Hmm this looks tasty" Luffy picks up a purple round swirly looking fruit that was sitting in an open box on the counter left forgotten by the current affairs in the bar. He took a bite and nearly vomited from the fowl taste so he put it back and washed it down with his orange juice. As he watched Shanks his idol and the strongest man in his little world let himself be pushed around he was getting more and more upset.

"Shanks! What are you doing! Don't let him push you around like a little girl!" Luffy screamed trying to motivate his friend and role model.

"Ahh Luffy it's alright, it's just some spilled sake. No need to get upset over that is there?"

"No need to get upset over some spilled sake is there? How about this?" The bandit leader hocked a nasty loogie right into Shanks face.

The rest of the pirates in the bar growled in anger at the insult to their leader, but continued to do nothing to attack or show aggression to the bandits.

Luffy had just about had enough, his faith in his mentor and idol was falling faster than a devil fruit user in the ocean. He stands up slamming his chair onto the floor and screams at the top of his lungs "LEAVE SHANKS ALONE YOU DUMB BANDITS!" Without even noticing it Luffy was slamming the entire bar with what he would later learn to be Haoshoku Haki (Haki of the Color of the Conquering King).

Shanks was shocked, he looked over at luffy who was glaring at the Bandit leader who's legs were shaking, his eyes had rolled back, and was foaming at the mouth slightly.

His small bandit army he had with him were all on the ground out cold twitching from time to time with foam coming out of their mouths.

Shanks crew had broken out into a cold sweat and were they themselves having trouble keeping in the world of the living, they looked at Shanks than at luffy.

Makino, who had retreated back behind the bar, had also passed out with the same symptoms as the bandits.

Luffy realized something was wrong, he looked around from the bandits that just started dropping like puppets with their strings cut, to the Bandits leader that seemed to be a.w.o.l. but his body just didn't realize it yet, to Shanks. "Um... What happened? Why do I feel so ti-red all of the su-dden..." Luffy then fell flat on his face, unconscious.

"Hey, Shanks was that what I think it was?" Yasopp asked wiping the sweat from his brow.

"Yeah, that was exactly what you think it was... The bigger question is HOW THE HELL DOES HE HAVE Haōshoku Haki HAKI AT HIS AGE?!" Shanks was obviously panicking and confused at this point.

"You know the kids got a lot of courage, and we all know who his Grandfather is... Maybe he got it from Garp?" Lucky Roo commented.

"You know Roo, I wouldn't even begin to think how else he may have gotten it..." Shanks replied.

"Yasopp wake up Minako-san and get her to a seat and get something cold for her. I'll take Luffy to the spare room upstairs. His use of Haki drained his spirit and he will be out for a little while." Shanks commanded his crew as a captain should.

Shanks grabbed Luffy's arm to pick him up and take him to the spare room when all of the sudden his arm stretched while leaving Luffy laying on the ground still sleeping like a baby.

"Oh shit!" Shanks screams and runs over to the box that was sitting on the counter, they had left it unlocked without thinking about the danger.

"LUFFY ATE THE DEVIL FRUIT!" Shanks screamed at his crew.

There was a chorus of "WHAT!?" and "OH CRAP!" from the crew.

One hour later, Luffy finds himself surrounded by the Red hair Pirates crew.

"I'm sorry I ate your treasure Shanks! I didn't know it was so valuable..."

"Ahh its not a big deal Luffy, you do realize you will never be able to swim again for the rest of your life now don't you? The Devil Fruits give great benefits but also removes the ability to float in water and swim of anyone who eats them. You ate the 'Gomu Gomu no Mi (Gum Gum Fruit)' Luffy, you are now a Rubber Human." Shanks informed Luffy.

Shanks grabbed Luffy's hand and yanked it far in front of him showing him the stretching ability. "WOW That is so COOL!" Luffy shouted with stars in his eyes. Thinking about all the cool stuff he will be able to do with his stretchy arms later.

"I'm glad you are okay with it, you are going to be like this the rest of your life!" Shanks reminded him.

"OK, now Luffy how did you use Haki earlier? That is very dangerous to throw around like you did Luffy." Shanks asked while trying to be as serious as he could be without scaring the boy.

"Haki? What is Haki Shanks? I have no idea what you are talking about, what did I do?" Luffy asked genuinely curious about the questions Shanks asked him.

"You released what is known as Haoshoku Haki (Haki of the Color of the Conquering King) and knocked out the entire bandit gang... As well as Makino-san," Shanks replied.

"I hurt Makino-san!? NO I would never hurt her she is so nice!" Luffy started panicking. He would never raise a hand to Makino, Shanks had to be lying to him.

"You didn't do it intentionally I think, you in a moment of rage released the Haki and just hit everyone in the bar. Your Haki was so powerful it actually made my crew break a sweat! You should be proud of that at least!" Shanks replied while trying to make Luffy feel somewhat better.

"Luffy, Haki is a power that we as humans can use if we have a strong enough spirit. You are a strong willed kid we all know that. We will have to help you learn at least how to control it somewhat before you kill someone with it." Benn Beckman told Luffy. Benn Beckman was an average sized man with shoulder length greesy black hair, a black sleeveless shirt, brown pants with a yellow sash for a belt, flint-lock pistol on his hip and smoking a cigarette.

Luffy started panicking, 'I don't wanna kill anyone, what if I kill Makino or Shanks next time!?' Luffy thought. "What do I do!? I don't wanna kill any of my friends or any random villagers!" Luffy asked/screamed at the man.

"We will train you for a few weeks and help you get your Haki under some kind of restraint Luffy, we are your friends and we won't let a friend down who needs help!" Shanks patted Luffy on the shoulder. "Lets go to the woods and we can help you practice your Haki in a safer less populated area, we can take your haki just fine Luffy."

That is the first chapter of my first story. Hope it was interesting enough to catch people's attention. As is the custom of people on this site I have noticed I ask you Read/Review. Thank you again for taking the time to read my attempt at a FanFiction of the always amazing One Piece.