Title: One Piece, Remnant's Crazy Gamer

Chapter: Life

Volume: Sapphire

Rating: M

Year Timeline: 12 Years before RWBY Canon

Warning: Contains varying expletives, violence and suggested scenes of sexual nature. (OK, no sexual nature scenes, yet.)

Disclaimer: I own nothing. One Piece and RWBY are the respective properties of Eiichiro Oda and Rooster Teeth (and the late Monty Oum)

"Start living before you start dying"

- Portgas D Ace -

~ Vale ~

"So, what kind of name is Adam?" Alice asked as the boy who she had brought back had now woken up.

There was a brief pause before the boy replied, "...It's just my name."

"That's a funny name." Alice said as she began to lean closer to Adam.

"What are you doing..." Adam asked as Alice was coming closer and closer, looking at his hair, or rather what it was covering, his horns.

Brushing aside Adam's red hair, Alice looked at Adam's horns before deciding to touch them, causing Adam to flinch, "Ow, what was that for!?"

"I just wanted to touch them!" Alice said as she then pointed out the 'tattoos' on his face, "You have tattoos on your face? That's so cool! But, what does it say?"

"My tat-" Adam stopped himself, as he recalled some memories, he would rather not say, at least not now.

"Huh? I'll just ask later then." Alice said as she could always ask later.

Despite this however, Alice continued to touch Adam's horns.

"Can... You stop, please?" Adam said, though careful, not to seem to aggressive, he did not want to annoy the children of the person who had just patched him up.

There was also a sense of extra security in that the mother was a cat Faunus, or a Faunus of some sort. If it was a human, perhaps, they might have taken him back to Atlas or force him to a similar situation as before.

"Nope! Your horns are to cool! They're kind of like the ones I used to have!" Alice said as she continued.

"They're cool?" Adam asked, as he thought about the statement, the only times people talked about his horns, were often negative, as if it was bad to be born with them.

"Yep! I bet Alex would love to touch them as well!" Alice answered as she continued.

For some reason, Adam felt an uneasy sensation upon hearing the name, 'Alex...'

White Fang Base

"Roger!" Alex said out of nowhere as his tail suddenly sensed something in the air.

"What do you want this time?" Roger asked as he was reading a book titled, 'How to make money, fast,'

"I feel like I'm missing out on something!" Alex answered.

Roger thought of putting it off merely as Alex feeling something out of nowhere, but, he also felt it. He wasn't sure why, but, he did. Gently then putting down his book, afraid that he would accidentally damage it, said to Alex, "You know what, me to!"

"I'll go first! I feel like Alice met someone new that's really interesting and I'm stuck here unable to meet them!" Alex said, pausing for a bit, then asking, "So, what do you feel like your missing out on?"

"A training arc or something like that," Roger answered.

Sapphire Orphanage

"Anna! I've made it!" Jack shouted as he had just arrived outside the orphanage, both sweaty and tired, holding with him medical supplies.

"He's alright now, but we'll have to wait for a few days." Ms Sapphire said as she began to walk outside.

"Hmm, I can stay if you want me to, or I can just leave the equipment here, since nobody needs it back at base." Jack replied.

"We should go back and check up on him first, I left him with Alice." Ms Sapphire said as she invited Jack inside.

"With Alice...?" Jack said quietly, though still loud enough for Ms Sapphire to hear.

Alice

"Grandpa, look at Adam's horns! They're much bigger than Raymond's horns!" Alice shouted as she had now began to compare Adam's horns and Raymond's, well, not horns since Raymond actually had antlers, but they were the same thing to Alice.

"Alice, stop touching them!" Jack said as he tried to stop Alice from touching them, he had no doubt that they were likely a sensitive issue for the young boy in front of him, though Alice of course did not know as she kept circling around Adam with her hands still on his horns while jogging away from her grandfather.

Adam would have said something, but, for some reason, he felt the urge not to.

Something deep inside of him was telling him to laugh with her, to play with her.

He felt conflict.

He wanted to be angry, but, he could not.

There was something about her that Adam remembered, he could not remember what, but the feeling was there.

That obnoxious and loud personality, as if she had no care in the world, as if nothing could affect her, she was unfettered as could be, and for some reason familiar.

'No, she just doesn't know...' Adam decided, the girl in front of him, did not know of what he had gone through.

She was not like him, she was simply to young, and yet he as well, she had yet to know the world in its full entirety, but he did not either, and there were people in the world, who would feast on the sufferings of other, delight as others felt pain, laugh at misery, smile to others death, she did not know, nor did he.

As he continued to think, he heard a voice from the girl,

"How did you get your horns so big?" Alice asked looking at Adam.

'They're not that big...' Adam thought, but, chose not to say as someone else spoke up.

"Alice, that's enough!" Adam heard and looked to the source.

It was a girl with black hair and eyes, a rather bland look, though, Adam had to admit, for a girl, she was tall.

"Let's go." She said with a voice full of authority, though of course, Alice simply disobeyed.

"I'm not leaving Adam, Mai!" Alice shouted in response.

"You don't get a choice your coming with me now!" Mai said as she began to pull Alice away who eventually let go.

"No, Adam wait for me!" Alice said as she was slowly pulled away.

Adam

Watching as the girl previously touching his horns was pulled away, Adam then looked towards two figures, the first was an old man, he did not look like a Faunus, but, he was at least willing to help and he knew that some Faunus were known to have some of their parts removed, by choice or force, Adam was unfortunate to know only those who fit in the latter group. As for the second figure, it was the lady with sky blue hair and a matching coloured tail who had treated him before, Ms Sapphire.

"Now that Alice has left, who are you, and where did you come from?" Jack asked Adam.

Adam was hesitant, not saying anything, before the lady did for him.

"His name's Jack, don't worry, you can trust him."

Adam would have hesitated more, but, perhaps he had nothing to lose.

"I come from..." Adam stopped himself as he began to struggle with saying his words, "At... Las... I..." He tried to say more words, but, found himself unable to. He wondered why. Was he afraid? What was there to be afraid of? He was safe now, was he not? Then why?

"You came from one of those companies in Atlas, didn't you? The ones that mainly use Faunus as their workforce..." Jack said, as Adam nodded in response.

"Must have been one of the Dust Mines near the old Mantle cities, I heard they collapsed a few days ago..." Jack continued, to which Adam could only nod in response.

But, "How'd you know?" Adam asked as he wondered how the old man in front of him knew, Atlas probably would have mitigated the news or get rid of it completely. That was to say if they were no paid to do so, if they were, without a doubt, the existence of the already collapsing Dust Mines would have been as if it never existed.

"Haven't you seen- Oh right, you haven't and there isn't a television here." Jack said as he laughed a bit.

"What are you talking about?" Adam asked, confused.

"The Great Dust Mine Collapse, is what they're calling it, though some Faunus have given it a different name."

"A different name?"

"The Faunus Rebellion."

Atlas

"I thought I told you not to do anything until it's time!"

"Sorry, there were just to many-"

"Of course there were to many! But you have to understand, this is a war, and people die."

"Huh. A war... People dying...Sounds about right, y-"

"Just get over here, with Atlas, no, the whole world knowing who we are, we can't stay here much longer."

"Whatever you say..."

Chapter Notes:

Notes in General

1. I was originally going to have Adam more similar to his Canon counterpart, but, I decided, screw it. He'll have gone through some shit in this version, but, not as much, especially since there were people helping him.

Extra Important Note

Chapter 9: The three year time skip still occurs. Roger and Alex still try to make it into Signal Academy. They are still Faunus and poor. Also, it's finally going to focus on them again.

Chapter 10: Signal Academy starts. Ah, I got so much random stuff planned... Just get ready for a bunch of Original Characters that who are virtually all designed by me, and thus as a side effect, have literally the same personality, and are somehow more blander than bread. I'll get better at character design/personality, trust me.

HAPPY NEW YEARS: Hopefully, next year will be better than this. - That's right, this chapter was 90% finished on New Years Day, but, it took five months of editing to get it this far.

Reviews:

January 12, 2020 (Chapter 7) [Guest]: Well, Roger's been mainly reading books and trying to survive. I'm trying to make him realistic in that he doesn't become overpowered and get a harem or something stupid like that. Yes, the world he's in is dangerous, but, what's he meant to do? Is Roger meant to go to a gym or something? In the original I had him and Alex do some training which unlocked their Aura's. In hindsight that was stupid, as it shouldn't have, especially considering how young they were and the detrimental effects it would have had on his body on the long term. Also, no, he wouldn't be beat a kid younger than him that trained unless he had his Aura unlocked already, or some sort of weapon.

January 13, 2020 (Chapter 7) [Jj]: He is. At least I think he is. Anyway, next chapter will focus on him, though as said above, he's been spending most of his time reading books and trying to survive.