18Wildest Son
AN: Sorry I don't have these characters, ideas, or copyrights to my name, or really that much money so please don't sue me.
Prologue
Chapter Zero
In a place formerly known as the East Blue, the people live in constant fear for their very survival. 'The East' has long since become lawless territory, ever since the 'Terror' that shook the world all those years ago. Before that even the East had been the safest sea, before that the other parts of the world seemed to hold back the floodgates, kept the monsters away from the likes of Gecko or Orange. But now the Fishman Empire has spread throughout most of the East, leaving only a few corners in human control. The Government does nothing, as the East has no protection money left to pay the Celestial Dragon Fee, they are no longer a part of the World Government. Now, those heroes, few and far between as they may be are the last hope of the people of the East, ever since the Terror arrived and vanished just as suddenly, ever since the East Blue died, and the East was born.
Dozens of Fishmen from Fishman Island have come to the East, the other side of the world, simply because they want to live on the surface. It's not just the East that's come into hard times, on the Grand Line Alabasta grows nearer and nearer to Revolution, the Heirless King of Drum sits on his last leg, and a traitor sits amongst the family of the Strongest Man Alive. But these are in what may as well be a different world, one that few had dared to dream of before all hope was lost to the East, before the 'Pirate Graveyard' before the Grand Line became more hospitable than the weakest of the Blues. Now it can no longer be called blue, because it has long since been the home of terrors beyond some imaginations, the place where anything can happen at any time, not because of the weather or size or animals, but because of the monstrous forces of nature in humanoid form, capable of both miracles and irreversible plagues on humanity. This is the East, this is the search for One Piece, but first, the search for hope.
AN: So this is The Wildest Son, many of the characters are very different from the canon story, but with good reason. Various characters are alive when in the original story they'd been dead for years, others have been maimed or mutilated. Most affected is the East Blue, which I wanted to make much more dangerous and challenging for our main cast, and thus make the original East Blue Saga a bit more interesting without betraying the original story too much, as well as taking a pretty cliched subgenre of One Piece Fanfiction, the 'Different Devil Fruit Luffy' and bringing it to its logical conclusion. The crew will be larger than in canon but will not have all the same characters as in the original story, a few will noticeably be missing later in the story, but all with good reason.
Also of note, I will respond to any reviews I get in the chapter being written at the time of the review, but I also plan to read at least one chapter of a story by each and every reviewer I get for this story. This will likely be a weekly series updated during the weekend at some point.
In this format:
R&R(Responses and Reviews, a section dedicated to responding to reviews):
Thanks to everyone who has followed and favorited my story...
Auranyx(Who favorited and followed), Dreamy-Girl2016(who favorited), Newgate-D-Luffy(who favorited and followed), SacredFlames(who favorited and followed), Samira Sky(who favorited and followed), WayDrifter(who favorited and followed), ZKARYX(who favorited and followed), fjvo(who favorited and followed), lyaanatdg(who favorited and followed), nbolduc111798(who favorited and followed), Lord Knightsky(who followed), SebasOoalDemiurge(who followed), Shadowman13(who followed), erik448(who followed), hells reject 69(who followed), kingdavidtt(who followed), theonereader(who followed), and Smiley-Nami(who followed and reviewed).
Thank you all, and a very special thank you to my reviewers.
Awareness Bringer(Rev): "Let me guess, a general story? Still, I trust that you're making a convincing reason as to how Luffy's a Whitebeard Pirate. I can believe that he may have gone with Ace on his ship to the New World, but I never once believed that an Emperor would be bothered to go to the East Blue when Luffy's a child. Not to sound offensive by it, but I've seen to many of the above to be properly annoyed by it."
(Res): Awareness Bringer, thanks for being the very first review for this story! I'm not sure what you meant by the first question but I am fully aware of how many different Devil Fruit type stories there are, and there are even a lot of 'Luffy joins the Whitebeard Pirates' stories, but I merely took one idea, Whitebeard basically replacing Shanks in his role in the story, and brought it to its logical conclusion. On him being a Whitebeard Pirate in general, he's not technically a member of Whitebeard's crew at this point, he merely has his mark, and functions as an allied crew to Whitebeard, many will mistake him for being a member of Newgate's crew, but he isn't technically. And as for an Emperor going to the East Blue when Luffy's a child, Shanks went to the East Blue in canon, while the reasoning behind that hasn't been stated in the canon story, I will explore why Whitebeard came, and it's not for Luffy. I have no idea what the last line of your review is trying to say though. I'm assuming you're saying that you've seen too many stories that feature Whitebeard going to East Blue for no reason other than seeing Luffy and that you're annoyed by it, but I'm not sure. Anyway, thanks for the read and review.
Smiley-Nami(Rev): "This is good. Continue when you can."
(Res): Thanks Smiley-Nami, I appreciate the support, I will probably be updating weekly on Fridays or Saturdays.
kyle77776(Rev): "luffy weaker than zoro and sanji."
(Res): I know you're probably trolling but actually, Zoro and Sanji are going to be stronger than Luffy in this Universe. Zoro is going to be the strongest on the crew, Sanji is going to be the fastest, but Luffy is going to be the most powerful. Thanks for the review!
And without further ado, welcome to the world of the Wildest Son.