First Territory

Tashigi and Smoker watched everything that happened on this island with a frown on their faces.

"Captain Smoker... This..."

They understood Luffy a little bit after this incident. The two of them never liked that the grandson of the Marine Hero was against joining their faction. Both of them liked him and they wanted him in their faction. He always told them that the Marine was too troublesome and that they weren't better than pirates.

Smoker wouldn't leave the Marine, but he learned a lot today. A Warlord, their ally, wanted to destroy a huge kingdom and they allowed it without doing anything. They couldn't do anything.

"Tashigi", Smoker said in a dignified voice. "We will change the marine from the inside, and Luffy will do the things we can't at the moment. I understand his intention now. Our job is to become the strongest in our faction so we can change all those stupid things those Celestial Dragon's demand from us."

Tashigi nodded with new determination. This was a big lesson for the two of them.

...

Luffy and his crew gathered together. Even the King and Kouza was with them. Surprisingly, Kouza wasn't effected by Gabite's Haki.

The leader of the Rebel Force was confused, but he still didn't trust the king who stood in front of him.

"Kouza, look at this.", Luffy pointed at Mr. 2. Sanji brought him with them because even though he was a traitor, he was still important.

Luffy kicked Mr 2 and he complained. After a couple of seconds, he transformed into King Cobra. Kouza was shocked after he saw this, he finally understood the strange behavior of his king.

"So we were all deceived?"

"Crocodile", the king answered with an angry voice.

Luffy looked up to the sky and was confused. In the manga, after Crocodile was defeated, it started to rain. Where was the rain?

The crew focused on the egg that started to hatch. After a couple of minutes, a little yellow Pokemon stood in front of them.

It was... a duck?

"Oh man... Why this one?"

The duck looked a little bit insulted, but Vivi and Cobra liked the duck. They had many ducks in their kingdom so it was no wonder that they liked this little one.

Luffy scanned the duck with his Pokedex.

[Psyduck

Duck Pokémon

When headaches stimulate its brain cells, which are usually inactive, it can use a mysterious power.

Gender: Male

Nature: Timid

Type: Water

Ability: Swift Swim (If Rain Dance is active and this Pokemon is not holding Utility Umbrella, this Pokemon's Speed is doubled.)

Level: 1

Attacks: Rain Dance, Water Gun]

"This is exactly what we need at the moment!"

Luffy pulled the king towards the duck and handed him a Pokeball. "Catch it!"

The king looked confused. He threw the ball towards the duck and after a short time, he caught the little duck.

"From this day on, Psyduck is the Holy Duck of this kingdom!"

Vivi, Cobra, Chacka, and Pell frowned. They liked ducks, but the Holy Duck of their kingdom? Wasn't this too much?

"Summon him", Luffy said to the king. The little duck appeared in front of them.

Luffy took a piece of paper from his back. It was a map that he drew.

The crew gathered around the map. The king and Vivi were in front of Luffy.

"Your island is one of the biggest in this world, if not the biggest. The potential of your kingdom is huge."

The king nodded. "Yes, even the World Government saw the potential of Alabasta. Our problem is that it is too difficult to find places to live because of the desert."

Luffy smiled. "That's why the Dugongs worked all this time. They and Gyarados changed a lot in a short time."

He showed them blue lines on the maps that connected all of the cities together. "We've created a river system that connects all cities together. This will not only give the people enough water to create new towns, but it will also be an easy way to travel through the desert with a ship."

The king and Vivi were shocked. "Your idea is really good, but did you forget the weather on this island? The rivers will be gone after a short amount of time!"

Luffy smiled. "Here's were the Holy Duck of Sandy Island comes into play."

They looked towards this strange duck. This little yellow Pokemon looked really dumb, not like some holy creature. They saw how Chansey was hugging the duck like a mother. Chopper stood beside them and patted the duck on the head like a shy father. This was a strange family picture. The mother was an egg, the father a reindeer, and the son a duck? Whatever.

"We will stay a couple of days and Alvida will train you two commanders in the secrets of Haki with Chansey. King Cobra, it's time that you change your country now that your water problem is gone. I want you to train a strong army that is capable of mastering Haki! Sandy Island should be the strongest force in the first half of the Grand Line. With this, a situation like that with Crocodile shouldn't happen again."

"I'm against war. I don't like to bring sorrow and destruction with an army!", the king was clearly against it.

"You don't have to attack other nations. But sometimes, others attack you and you have to defend yourself. This island will be under my protection, so there aren't many guys out there who can harm you. But I want a strong ally and you have to make this island into a fortress no one wants to fight against!"

The king frowned and remained silent.

Luffy took ten strange fruits out of his bag.

"DEVIL FRUITS?", everyone was freaking out.

Those ten Devil Fruits were all acquired when Luffy was out there in the New World. He tested his Devil Fruit theory two years ago. When he defeated a pirate that crossed his path, he took his Devil Fruit with him. All of those fruits were Paramecia or Zoan Fruits, all of them weren't weak, but they weren't strong enough for one of his main crew members. He would never give such fruits to his crew, so he wanted to use them to strengthen his first ally - the kingdom of Alabasta. For him, they might be too weak, but for the first half of the Grandline, they were powerful.

"You have your two commanders who have a lot of potential with their Zoan fruits. With the addition of these ten Devil Fruits, you can train ten loyal commanders. After Alvida trained you in the secrets of Haki, you should create a strong army. There are difficult times for us in the future, pirates and the World Government both cause a lot of trouble. You should be prepared!"

The king nodded with a thoughtful expression. He couldn't say no this present. Cobra was sure that Luffy did most of this because of his daughter. His action on Sandy Island showed him that Luffy wanted the best for his homeland.

And Luffy wasn't a pirate, so this made things easier.

"Now to the star of this show. Psyduck, use Rain Dance."

The little duck started to dance in a strange way. It really looked stupid.

After that, clouds started to appear above Sandy Island. A couple of seconds later, it started to rain.

Cobra, Chacka, and Pell looked towards Psyduck like he was really a holy creature.

"With this, you can summon rain whenever you want. All problems are gone with the Holy Duck.", Luffy grinned and Vivi started to hug Psyduck. This little duck and Luffy's influence on their island would change the fate of the kingdom.

The Rebel Force and the Royal Army started to awake after the rain appeared. All of them started to cry after they saw the water descending from the sky.

With Mr. 2 and Kouza on their side, it was easy to explain all the misunderstandings and Alabasta was peaceful again.

Nobody knew that one of the biggest islands in the world would change in a short amount of time and would become the first territory of a guy who tamed a lot of dangerous monsters.

.....

The king and Vivi had a lot of work to do. Luffy and his crew were in the palace and ate something. He looked at his crew and grinned. Baccarat was back with her Lucky Egg in her hand. He somehow had to snatch this egg back, but he feared her a little bit.

"Alright guys, I saw your fights and you are ready for the Grand Line. Maybe you are a little bit overpowered for the first half..."

He was really a bad captain until now. He trained them and fed them with Devil Fruit's against their will, but it was necessary. Only he knew how dangerous this world truly was, and he had to make them stronger. Now everyone could use Haki and most of them had overpowered Devil Fruit powers.

Ain, Hina, Nami, Nojiko, and Alvida were overpowered. Nojiko and Nami because they had the strongest Devil Fruits, the other three because of their training.

Zorro and Sanji were strong from the beginning even without Devil Fruits. They were the strongest guys from the original crew so he didn't have to train them a lot. They only had to learn the secrets of Haki.

Usopp was a Logia, so this would save his ass for now. Vivi and Nico Robin had to improve a little bit, but Vivi was a Logia user now and Robin wasn't weak, she had a difficult life after all.

And Baccarat - Luffy didn't want to talk about her. If she decided to change the ruler of this world, he was sure she could do it. He was lucky that she liked him. She was loyal and without ambition.

"Your training was successful. Now all of you are accepted as the core members of my crew. I'm happy that all of you had the will power to stay until this point. Now every one of you is a Trainer himself. All of you will train one of Chopper's kids. You have to improve on your own now, but I'm sure you can do that. Now I'm sure that no one of you dies out there because he is too weak!"

The crew was confused by their captain. Only Ace laughed at the stupid faces of the crew.

"You did it! Congratulations!", the Whitebeard Pirate laughed.

"Can you explain?", Nami frowned.

Ace was still laughing. "When Luffy likes someone and they are too weak to defend themselves, he trains them like a madman. It's his way to show you affection!"

"IS THIS HOW YOU SHOW AFFECTION TO ANOTHER PERSON?", they screamed.

"You don't understand.", Ace continued but now he looked serious. "Luffy doesn't train you because it is fun for him. He does it for your own good. You don't know it, but out in the sea are terrible monsters that could kill you in a second. He did the same thing with me and Sabo, and it saved our life's more than I can count. Now that every one of you is strong enough, he finally treats you like human beings. It's his way to show you that he is concerned about you. He even trained Makino because he thought she was too weak, but then we realized... Forget it. Just don't fight Makino!"

"Who is Makino?", they asked confused. Then the crew looked towards their captain and they saw that he was embarrassed. Alvida jumped into his arms with a red face. The girls were a little bit angry. Since Alvida's 'evolution', so the two of them called it, both of them were really intimate.

"Alright, enough of this crap. I want a bath!", Luffy grinned and walked away. The crew followed him.