One Piece STRONGER

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda owns One Piece

Chapter 1: Premonition Preparation

It had only been a day since Ace sailed off into the sea to fullfill his dream. He had just become 17 and was ready to begin his journey to become Pirate King. "Take care" Luffy says along with Makino, The mayor of Fusha Village, and Magra and Dogra the mountain bandits that helped raise them both. They were all there to see Ace off. "Yeah I will, just wait and see. I'll make a name for myself in no time" Ace responded. With that he then sailed away into the horizon to realize his dream

Luffy was relaxing on a plateau, staring off into the ocean, listening to the sound of the tides hit the rocks and hearing the seagulls flock, the very same place where 7 years prior he had promised his older brother, Ace, that he would never be weak again, but rather become stronger. He began to reminisce

"Ace." a sobbing Luffy said as he tried to get his older brothers attention, Ace only glanced at him, "I... want to be stronger, more more more more more more more more more more more more more more, and more strong! Then I can protect anything and everybody, I dont want to lose anyone!"

He began to tear up as he remembered the reason for this promise. He remembered Sabo (his sworn brother along with Ace) and the suffering he went through. Sabo like any other person saught freedom and happiness as he had escaped his fate as noble. He decided to sail off to become a pirate at age 10. However the happiness was put to sleep as he was shot down by a visiting Tenryuubito. That day Sabo passed away at the hands of the world. Then he remembered Ace's words a day later.

"Ace." Luffy said sobbing uncontrollably, "Please don't die!" he finished the sentence with a wavering voice. Ace only looked furious at his weak little brother, BONK! was the sound of Ace's fist striking Luffy's head, "Idiot!!" he said. "Worry about yourself. I'm much stronger than you, listen Luffy, I WILL NEVER DIE!!"

Upon recalling this Luffy smirked and said in a low voice, "You better." With that he began to drift off into slumber he slowly closed his eyes as he saw one last seagull fly by.

He opened his eyes BOOM he heard "What the fuck!!, a cannonball!!", he looked around and saw a battlefield. Not much detail on anyones faces, he didn't know where he was but he saw bloodshed, pain and suffering, "Where the fuck am I?!" he screamed and continue to look around. He saw the symbol of the marines while thinking "The marines are battling? against who?" Then he saw an answer "who's jolly roger is this" he muttered while avoiding a cannonball.

His conclusion was that the marines were waring against a pirate who's jolly roger has the bones crossed perpendicularly behind a skull that wears a weird long mustache. He continued to look around and the scenery of the battle faded, the details of this fight were becoming blurry and ambiguous. "I'm dreaming right??"

Luffy was not seeing clearly, he then heard one, no two laughs. Not welcoming or kind but rather burlesque and evil, one wasn't anything special just common laugh, while the other one truly stood out. ZEHAHAHAHAHA!! He turned to the laughs and saw 2 silhouettes, one of a tall buff man almost wearing all red accept for his marine coat. It had a kanji that spelled "Justice". He saw the man's marine cap, it was one he had seen before on his grandfather's men. The other silhouette was of a fat hairy gorrilla looking guy with a toothless smile.

The surprising part was they both stood over a corpse, he couldn't see who it was from where he was standing so he decided to move closer. "Poor guy" he thought referring to the corpse. As he crept closer he stopped dead in his tracks as he saw it, his eyes widened as he saw who it was lying there dead infront of the two other silhouettes. He began to cry he couldn't believe it, it couldn't be, "he said he'd never die" Luffy muttered with a shaky voice.

"AAAAACCCCEEEE!!" he screamed the two silhouettes who immediately turned to face him, "It was you, you bastards killed him!!" Luffy shouted as tears continued to flow down his cheek. The silhouettes said nothing as they lunged forward to attack him. He had never felt this much anger and regret in his life, Luffy lunged at them as well. They clashed but Luffy lost this clash. He layed there hopeless as the red silhouette crept closer and attacked him with a fistfull of what appeared to be..."Magma?!" All he could do however as he waited for death as well was to cry "he's dead" Luffy muttered. The magma fist approached him, he closed his eyes awaiting his fate and then...

He heard a cry, it was a seagull! Luffy opened his eyes and he was back at the plateau, he looked around in a fast motion, "I'm.. home" he said in a happy voice. "Was that a dream?" he whispered, he was glad to be back home, "Ace" he thought. His worries were put down as he recalled Ace leaving yesterday. "Seems like a nightmare" he thought and a very realistic one at that. "Nightime" Luffy said, "I must've slept for hours". GROWL! was the sound of his stomach asking for meat, "guess Im hungry huh, shishishi!" he couldn't help but laugh at his own antics. He stood up and headed back home.

His nightmare ran through his head like a plague he couldn't even eat properly "You okay Luffy? your not eating" asked Magra who stuffed his mouth with rice. "Im okay" said Luffy. He finished his meal, showered and ran upstairs to sleep "Ace, be carefull" Luffy thought.

Next Morning

The next day was rather nice, Luffy didn't get another nightmare and the sun was shining brightly he picked up the pipe that had once belonged to his late brother Sabo, and was prepared to go hunting and follow that up with some training until... "LUFFY!!! Get your ass over here and call your brother too" Luffy gulped upon hearing this, he nearly pissed himself. Luffy knew he was coming but he did not anticipate the early arrival of his..."Gramps" said Luffy. "Call your brother" said Garp " The time has come" Garp continued. "For what Gramps" Luffy asked while sweating bullets. "He shouldn't be here" Luffy thought. He hadn't come up for an excuse for Ace's absence. "As if that would work" he thought. Luffy knew how stubborn he and his grandpa were. However the beans would be spilled regardless so he had to come clean.

"Well...he left 2 days ago to become a pirate" Luffy said with a nervous smile on his face. Garps face was shadowed as he looked down, his emotions were many. Anger, disappointment, worry. Luffy could feel these and many more eminating from the Marine hero. Luffy closed his eyes expecting the worst, maybe a "Fist of Love" as his grandpa called it or perhaps an earpiecing scream. What he didn't expect was a simple "Sigh" from his grandpa and then the following words "Well it seems that I'm too late" Garp looked at Luffy with a determined face " I'm not making the same mistake with you Luffy, you're gonna be the greatest Marine that ever lived, better than me or any Admiral". Luffy looked in shock but before he could retort his grandpa grabbed him by the arm and said "Your coming with me now" Luffy yelled at him to let go because he would become King of the Pirates like he promised Shanks. All he recieved was a Fist of Love from his grandpa as he dragged him to Dadan's house.

At first Luffy was pissed as he saw this as nothing more than further inspiration to become Pirate King. After all the King of the Pirates was the man with the most freedom in the world and this showed how little freedom he had. Then it clicked! Luffy was still troubled after the nightmare he suffered yesterday. After analyzing it to the best if his abilities (which weren't very high in this department) he said outloud "This is the perfect opportunity to become stronger." It made sense, his training was limited as he was probably one of the strongest people on the island, (which doesn't say much about the island). There was little room for improvement without raising the bar. However with his "Gramps" as he called him, they wouldn't just be raising the bar the would be destroying it! "Gramps fought the Pirate King himself. Of course he be one of the strongest" Luffy said in a low voice

All these thoughts came to him and the confidence in his plan was boosted when an hour earlier he had overheard a conversation between his gramps and who Luffy refered to as "Seagull-ossan".

An Hour earlier after Luffy was dragged back to Dadan's house...

"Dammit Sengoku" Garp yelled over the Den Den Mushi, "Let me take him to Marineford, Ace already ditched to become a criminal and I can't let my other grandson become one too" Garp begged, "You moron!! You know I can't do that" Sengoku retorted. "The Gorosei would be on my ass about it because of his heritage, you know that." "My heritage" Luffy thought as he hid behind a desk overhearing this conversation, "What does that have to do with anything" he finished his thought. Garp sighed acknowledging the truth in what he was just told. "Plus if that idiot Sakazuki found out too he would want him dead" Sengoku finished. Garp gritted his teeth once again acknowledging the truth in that as well. "Guess I didn't think this one through huh." Garp stated. "Can I atleast take him to a Marine base here in the East Blue?" Garp asked "Dumbass! of course you cannot, all Marine bases around the world are instructed to only recruit 17," Sengoku said "Even trainees can only be 17, even in the East Blue" Sengoku said. "Well whatever thanks anyways" Garp finished. And with that he hung up the Den Den Mushi and massaged his temples out of frustration. Luffy whispered as softly as possible "YESS!"

Luffy was confident that he wouldn't be a Marine while gaining the skills necessary to be stronger, the reason for his need to be strong was because of his "Premonition" as he no longer refered to it as a nightmare. "It just felt too real and specific" Luffy thought. "I know Ace would be mad if I ever risked myself for him because he believes it's his job to risk himself for me" Luffy said to himself "I know your stronger than me Ace, but I know I can catch up to you, maybe even surpass you" muttering to himself with a confident smirk. "If what I saw was a premonition and I did nothing about it, I don't know how I could live with myself" he thought outloud. "I know what to do!" Luffy yelled.

The answer once again was Luffy's grandpa. Garp had never took the time to formally or actually train Luffy, he would instead throw Luffy in the jungle leaving him to the mercy of the elements, or tie him up to balloons and leave it to gravity, or worst throw him in bottomless pits leaving it to both the elements and gravity! Occasionally making Luffy fight monkeys and gorillas making his grandson rely on adaptation/experience. However Garp never gave him training on techniques/skill, Which are complementary with experience/adaptation making a great warrior.

A/N: I think we can agree on the fact that throughout the series up until the timeskip, Luffy relied on mostly experience/adaptation to achieve skill/techniques, since he never had time to formally train. Up until the timeskip of course.

Luffy was ready to convince his grandpa (Garp) to formally train him now while he was 14, rather than waiting till he becomes 17, which is probably when Garp planned on doing it. He knew that there had to be secret techniques that WG agents and Marines use alike. The person that would know this would be "Gramps" of course. He was expecting his grandpa to try to convince and berate him about becoming a Marine, however as long as he could be stronger he wouldn't mind

So he gathered up all his courage and confidence and approached The Hero of the Marines. "Gramps." Garp turned to look at his grandson with tired eyes still conflicted about what he should do about him. He said "What is it Luffy". "Grandpa I want to be stronger, I want you to teach me your skills." This had piqued Garp's and made him assume one thing. "So you finally woke up did ya Luffy, So now you want to be a Marine." Garp said with mislead smile of relief. "Hell no!! I'm still gonna be King Of The Pirates like I promised Shanks" said Luffy. This of course triggered Garp and caused him to deliver a Fist of Love to his grandson. "Like hell you are!! You will be the best Marine ever and that's final" Garp retorted. "Even so, if you don't wanna be a Marine, which you will, why should I teach you anything until you become 17" Garp questioned furiously. Luffy then stood back up and said "Because I want to protect those I care about! I don't wanna lose anyone and I can't let Ace die!" Luffy declared. "Ace dying what are you going on about" Garp asked. Luffy then got up and explained his premonition to Garp. Everything from the battle between the Marines and a "mystery pirate crew," as he called it, to the silhouettes and their full descriptions.

Garp was of course taken aback by this bombshell of info thrown his way. He immediately recognized the jolly roger of Whitebeard as perfectly described by Luffy. While not recognizing the "fat hairy toothless gorilla looking guy," as Luffy called him, He immediately identified the red silhouette with the magma punch as Sakazuki otherwise known as Admiral Akainu. Garp reflected while so many things went through his mind, "I don't know any fat hairy tootless gorilla looking guy, but the Whitebeard flag perfectly described" Garp thought. "I'm almost certain Luffy doesn't read any newspapers, and he's never left this island, What the fuck is going on" Garp thought with widened eyes. "And worse he described Akainu and his powers, while never even reading the News Coo or leaving the Goa." After this reflection Garp knew to take everything Luffy said seriously and squeeze out as much info as he can.

After Luffy's mild interrogation that went on for about an hour. Garp really didn't know what to do with this information. What he did know was that Luffy wanted to be stronger and he was determined on becoming so. He then looked at Luffy and said "Very well Luffy I will teach you everything I know about combat and about the world so that you won't be a clueless Marine". "I'm not gonna be a Marine!" was Luffy's only response. Garp ignored the outburst and told him "Just know that I WILL NOT go easy on you, especially since you're my flesh and blood". Luffy gave a huge ear to ear smile and said "Awesome!! grandpa your the best I-" but before Luffy could finish his sentence Garp said "However there is a catch". "A catch? " Luffy asked, "Thats right" Garp responded "So what is it" Luffy asked with kitten eyes. "Well since I told you I would teach you about the world aside from physical training there are 2 requirements you must fullfil, think of them as a fee for me training you" Garp told him with a straight face. "I dont want you to be a mindless brute so I'll prevent that, so these other 2 requirements are like homework/fee," Garp kept talking "The first is you have to read the newspaper when it comes, as a future Marine you need to be updated with what's going on in the world" Garp said while Luffy rolled his eyes at the Marine comment. "The final is that you will get social lessons on how to behave with Makino, Marines need to be properly behaved" stated Garp.

"I'm not gonna be a lame Marine!" Luffy exclaimed clearly pissed at the fact that his grandpa still thinks he'll be one. Garp ignored the comment and said "I'll know when you're not reading the News Coo because I'll ask you to summarize what it says everytime it comes around" Luffy was frantic, he didn't mind social lessons with Makino but he hated reading. However his urge to be stronger was higher than his hate for reading so he accepted the terms. "I guess I'll get something out of it" Luffy thought.

A day later...

"ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!" Sengoku screamed at Garp from the other end of the line. Garp told Sengoku he need at least 2 years off to train his grandson. Sengoku could care less why Garp needed an extended vacation, what he did mind was its outrageous length. "Garp the most I can possibly extend your stupid vacation is 18 months, and you'll be leaving me with stacks of paperwork, don't forget that the Gorosei will want to know why The Hero Garp the Fist is taking year and a half break". " Hahaha, I'm sure you come up with an excuse" Garp said with a shit eating grin on his face. "You owe me!! BIG-TIME!!" Sengoku screamed his lungs out on the other side of the line.

Eventually their call came to a close but right before Garp hung up Luffy jumped in and said "Thanks Seagull-ossan", Garp bursted into laugter and Sengoku already exhausted from the boys grandfather said with a smirk on his face "No problem kid, give him a hard time for me will you". "You got it thanks Seagull-ossan" Luffy screamed. "Kid my name is Sengo-" he couldn't finish his sentence as Garp cut him off.

"Alright Luffy your training begins tomorrow so get ready for hell" said Garp while Luffy had his iconic grin. Garp was about to catch some sleep when Luffy stopped him dead in his tracks by tugging his shirt. "Luffy go to sleep because tomorrow will be hell" Garp was about to give him more reasons to go to sleep but then Luffy asked him "Grandpa... I heard your first conversation with Seagull-ossan and you brought something up that's been bothering me" Garp looked at Luffy with concern and worry as to what subject he was possibly gonna ask about. "Who are my parents" Luffy asked with the highest of sincerity. This of course hit Garp like a bag of bricks and widened his eyes. He knew this would eventually be brought up, but he never thought it would be brought up at a random time like now. "Luffy you're father's name is Monkey D Dragon he is the leader of the Revolutionary Army, and you're mother is with him". Garp was expecting a shower of questions but instead got simple..."Okay". "I know your tired so we'll talk about it another time" Luffy casually said. Garp sighed in relief and they both went to sleep.

Next Day...

"Okay Luffy get ready I will teach you Rokushiki (The Six Powers) and the basics of Haki. "Rokushiki?Haki?" Luffy asked dumbfounded. "That's right I can only teach you these techniques because I don't know anything else, maybe we can strengthen your punches and get some training with that pipe of yours, I cannot help you with your Gomu Gomu no mi, because I don't have a devil fruit" Garp stated with a grin on his face. He finally got to train his grandson the way he's always wanted but has never tried to pursue. "I'm ready grandpa" Luffy yelled. "Good" Garp responded. "Ace, whether you like it or not I will not let you die... Ever! And Sabo I know you're watching I have your pipe and I will make the best of it, watch over me." Luffy thought. "I will get stronger!"

For the next year and a half Luffy will learn Rokushiki and master the two basic forms of Haki, and even learn the third kind that only a few select people are a part of. And with that Luffy charged at his grandfather as his training begun.

HEY GUYS! Thanx so much for reading, this is my first official FanFic, and im already aiming big. I know im not the most experienced but I would like it if you guys commented on my mistakes as I would like to improve upon them. I don't know if you guys would like me to condense the East Blue saga. The reason being is that other FanFics, like the one im aiming to make, extend the crap out of the East Blue and are discouraged afterwards and only ever make it past Alabasta. Even if I do extend the East Blue Saga I plan to continue to atleast MarineFord as i set it up in this chapter. My plan with this FanFic is to reintroduce a Luffy that is not necessarily more serious rather less oblivious and impulsive, also just overhaul the crap out of him and do things that i would to see. Anyways if you made it to this part thanx again for reading and comment on it, i welcome all thoughts.

PS: This is probably the longest one piece chapter I'll ever write

PPS: If you're wondering about ships then ill just say Luffy x Harem (my favorite ship is LuHan tho).