Chapter 1: CHAPTER 1
The vast, open blue sea roared with vigor as a wave crashed into my miniature boat meant for fishing. It was the best I could do and while it was small, it wasn't all bad. It was easy to maneuver and heavy enough to resist the oceans waves.
Ignoring the groaning and creaks my boat elicited, I laid on my back as I drifted a float. Not a thing on my mind as I watched the bright blue, partly covered popcorned sky. My breathing stayed steady regardless of whatever hit me. The moist, humid and salted air calmed whatever nerves I may have had before I could even feel them.
It's been a while since I've been on land. I can't say I miss the feeling of earth beneath my feet, but to be honest? I feel like I could make do with some of that right now. That and some nice buffet food... I can't remember the last time I ate, it could be dangerous if I keep doing this.
I raised my right palm to the sky, half expecting to grab the very muffin shaped cloud above me, but instead the feeling of emptiness and my own finger nails digging into my palm greeted me.
*VRRRRRRRRM!*
Out of literally no where, a deep, vibrating hum surfed the ocean water sending small ripple like waves throughout it that then traveled for miles on end. Slowly lifting from my very comfortable position on my row boat, I groggily squinted my eyes as an annoyed grumble escaped my lips.
"...What fucking moron wants attention now?" Low and behold, a damn ship the size of a Marine galleon drifted a couple of miles away from me. There were multiple bug-eyed and differently shaped people hug over board, dancing and cheering like wild animals.
There were mugs in there hands and as they danced and celebrated what was most likely a successful pillage, their beer chugged out the cups and into the endless dark sea.
However, as I focused on them some more, I noticed a particular someone hunkered in the middle of the group, near the mast. A man with a triangular shaped head, a pole of deep brown hair sticking straight up like a lightning pole. His weirdly angled cheek bones sported puffs of matching brown hair that reminded me of a rabbits ass.
"Wait... Is that really him?" I look to my right and my eyebrows crinkle with a cruel smile forming on my lips. The man aboard that ship is a man with a bounty of 50K belli. That would be more than enough to feed me for the week, maybe two. The bounty paper flickered in the wind but it didn't budge an inch with the pin holding it in place.
'It must really be my lucky day.' I think to myself as I move to the edge of boat. Sticking a foot into the water while my body was positioned in a front ended squat relying on my open leg, I felt my body begin to drain of strength rapidly. But I pushed past it and let my jaw clench as a way to keep me focused.
'50K belli isn't bad. Pirates are stupid. You challenge one, beat that one and another lines themselves up for the challenge. It's so easy.' Mocking the simplicity of the creatures always brings me an unbridled since of joy... It's amazing.
Forcefully regaining control of my strength, my foot in the water came to life with vigor as a powerful black flame shot out. Rocketing me in the direction of the giant galleon, the explosive, ill-mannered happiness upon the boat quickly turned into confusion and then fear.
The look of absolutely shock never gets old.
Once I was a few meters away from the boat, I quickly abandoned my own with a quick and little redirection of my weight. Shooting myself up and into the air, I fell like a cannon ball onto the pirate ship. Their black flag with a skull riding a cloud waved in my hand as I gripped it.
Palpable silence filled the air as the party came to a close.
The deck seemed to hold the entire crew, which says a lot about their man power. About fifteen men excluding the captain stood before me. Hughie Yellow, the captain of the Cloud High Pirates stood on the area with the ships wheel, looking down on everyone with his obese, disproportioned body hanging over the edge.
"Hoho! And who are you!? To arrive so flashily before me, even going as far as to disrespect my crews flag! Not to mention our party..." He cackled, balls of dirtied saliva flying in every direction.
"Oh me? I'm a nobody just looking for a quick meal." As those words left my lips, his heartily fashioned attitude turned angry and heavy. The flag belonging to his crew went up in black flames as I lit on fire.
"You bastard... Just who do you think your talking to?! Get this kid out of my sight!" To go as far as to call me a kid... I may be short, but I can't possibly look like a kid, right? Well no matter, my thoughts had to be pushed aside. The group of pirates roared as their sabers, katanas and guns alike swiftly swung out of their holding sheaths.
The world around me went quiet as my heart began to beat furiously. The blood in my very veins became noticeable, the paths they took all too laid out for me. Dropping the crumbs of the pirates flag, my lips cracked into a smirk.
This was all to familiar.
The guns, the swords- Every weapon meant for killing that was aimed at me immediately began to crackle with black electricity. The very air around me began to heat up and buzz to life as my power rose.
The very wood beneath my feet began to crack and sizzle from the shear heat my body exuded.
"T-this power... A D-devil fruit!? Hurry up and kill that bastar-!"
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Hughie Yellow, a fearsome low-end pirate. Hailed for his cruelty and smart decision making as well as his rather unique outward appearance, now laid at my feet. His life a thin thread that was still attached to the index finger of my hand.
Back on my fishing boat, the Cloud High Pirates were no more and the evidence of their existence was nothing more than a fleshy waste waiting for death before me. His ship a sunken charred mess.
Whistling with an up-tone beat, I sat down at the opposite end of my boat, the bounty paper for Hughie right in front of my smiling face. Seeing that 50K bounty made the endless blackhole I like to call a stomach, rumble in excitement.
"Haaah~ All in a days work, am I right, Hughie?"
"...R-Right." Poor bastard...
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