Setting sail

The final time skip!!! I am now sixteen and can't wait anymore to go out and explore. I've literally stagnated in every thing I'm good at, I even figured out how to turn the environment into a spring but that isn't my awakening. The girls are in the same boat as me with them only having their hobbies to progress in and they can't do that in north blue.

The only one whose not dying of boredom is Muret who started studying about being a seamstress. She spent some of the money she had saved up to buy rare thread materials after becoming proficient at it.

Then after a conversation with myself she started trying to recreate machi's techniques from hunter x hunter. The idea of reattaching nerves, muscles and even cells if you get skilled enough excited her so she rushed into studying it. She got a job as a seamstress in town to practice and earn cash on the side. She became the best in north blue within months after using haki to observe all the other women's techniques.

The other girls weren't so lucky, lami who has become very impulsive elected herself to start dragging me on dates. Once the others heard they also started dragging me away. Now I've seen most of the plays in north blue and tried almost every delicacy.

Granny also allowed me to begin exploiting north blue as she's sure nothing can harm me unless I let my guard down or a new world pirate comes around. Doffy chan moved her operation to dressrosa a while back and the crime families never recovered from her rampage so.....

Me and sugar went travelling~ well erasure hunting would be more accurate. She developed an ability she calls treasure map that when she's in an area she will blind fold herself and begin scribbling. If there's anything of value in the area it'll appear like a child's treasure map with an X marking the spot.

We found 11 sunken chests and a damn poneglyph submerged under ground in a cave. Your probably wondering how I can go under water right? My seastone resistance that I spent years developing alongside the girls. Now we won't feel weak in water but just unable to use are devil fruit abilities. We also found out that if a zoan is transformed when wearing the seastone they can't change back until it's removed.

Granny told me that several slavers use this trick to sell hybrid zoan users to the dragons telling them that they're minks. The dragons never find out as they don't take off their collars. A handy piece of info if I wanted to infiltrate mariejois, I could send in a zoan user in their animal form and have them run wild.

Back to the sunken treasure, we used a diving bell to put ourselves under water. We just hold onto the bell and use our haki to see our surroundings. With my conquerors haki no sea creature would approach so we were free to search. We may not be able to swim but we can use geppo or blue walk as sanji calls it to manoeuvre ourselves under water. It's not swimming so it counts~

The poneglyph we found in the caves I copied with ink and parchment. I plan to use this to negotiate with robin in the future to either read the road poneglyph or to teach sugar and myself the language. I still don't understand why she never made the language wide spread, with her devil fruit it would have been easy.

It would have also made the world government drop her priority so that they would hide the poneglyphs. Big news Morgan would have began wide spreading their messages once he learned the language. I'll inform her of this once we meet her, I wanna see her face.

The rest of my time was spent working on our ship, I commandeered an old navy ship that my granny "lost" then gave it a paint job so it looses the green colour in exchange for dark blue and metallic gray. We even developed a flag and pirate name four ourselves once we set sail.

Our ship is just a repainted navy one and a wolf figure head on the front like garp's dog. We called our ship the "running horny", I took inspiration from the going merry to name her. The girls weren't happy about it till I said that I'm down for bed stuff once we set sail on her. They changed their tune very quickly.

We naturally restructured the interior so that we had a lab/medical bay, more bedrooms, a smaller armoury, removed a few cannons to add an art studio and a library along with a training room. Sailing can get boring so we need pastimes. We even added rooms for the pink family along with a special tool that'll help us later.

Our jolly Rodger at its base is a skull and cross bones except heavily modified. The skull is metallic silver or grey instead of white, the top of the skull has a golden ring like the monkey kings crown, the neck is elongated and connected to the cross bones via a spring and lastly the cross bones are actually several needles.

Our crew is named the Metallix pirates, the name comes from a sonic villain I watched in my previous life. SMBZ ended to soon for me along with sonic GX. Now then now that we have are supplies and cash that we saved up over the years. Our gear is in top condition it's time..... to....to... to go, it's time to go. I'll just have to break it to granny.

Two days later I spent my time goofing off on the island as usual. The people recognise me and like me because I beat up the odd criminal and help out sometimes. Plus when I pull a musical performance everyone loves to listen. I'm not a gajeel!!!

It was 3am and I was walking down the stairs caressing the banister one last time. I won't be back for a long time after all. I saw my granny sitting at the dinner table with a candle lighting her surroundings but the shadow obscured her face.

I look towards her and say "granny tsuru, thank you for all you've done for me over the years. I truly love you with all my heart but it's time for me to fly the coup. There's nothing for me here anymore".

She silent before she says "your not going to become a bounty hunter then? Not even going to think about being a marine".

I look at her still obscured face, her shoulders are shaking a little with what I assume is rage. I swallow my spit and answer her.

"Granny you know I was never going to join them. I would never serve under anyone. I want to explore the world and see what it has to offer. I want to fight and drink and run wild. Following orders and being buried under paperwork will never be my future. I'm also going to beat every bastard that gets in my way. We both know who that will include."

Her shoulders begin trembling more so and she stutters out "you go out that door and we will be enemies from this day onward. Just like your mother and I."

I stop in my tracks "I know and I'm sorry but this was always going to happen. I love you" and with that I opened the door and walked out. I heard something shatter but I quickly flashed away with spring step towards the ship.

Inside the house the candle holder shattered giving a better show off tsuru's face. *drip, drip, drip* she's crying heavily. "How can my family ever be my enemy you stupid grandson" and like that tsuru spent the day at home trying to regain herself.

Back to bellamy he's arrived outside the ship, most of the girls are already on the ship except his first mate Muret. "How did she take it bell?" "She was shaking, it breaks my heart but I won't stop." She nods then shakes herself.

"Come on then captain, time to christen the ship" she says as she hands me a bottle of champagne. I take one step onto the board leading to the ship and like magic the sails unfurl and the knots holding her to the port loosen while flying back into the ship. The wind picks up and my jolly Rodger begins blowing in the morning wind. The ship begins to creek as it begins to move.

I grin and toes the bottle at the back of the ship. Muret hands me my dark blue captains coat which I slide over my shoulder and leave unbuttoned. I'm wearing a grey tank top that displays a fresh tattoo on my chest that I got over the years. It's kanji that read "those that break the rules are scum but those that abandon their friends are worse than scum".

I felt that quote was fitting for me plus I loved that scene as a child. Sugar was perplexed when I asked her to tattoo me with her devil fruit. After that day I had to tell them the story of naruto and say that ninjas may be out on the grand line.

I inhaled before shouting "set a course for.... kentry island!!! We have to pick up our marksman!!!!" This was the day the metallix pirates started their journey.