1 Island Life

On an island on the very blue sea, on a green lively cliff edge overlooking the sea, there was a boy.

This boy looks to be around 8 years old, brown eyes and black short hair.

This boy was doing push-ups as the winds come and go making it feel lively.

"Haah...Haah...Haah- arggh!!"

The boy dropped not able to go on anymore, he did some push-ups but couldn't do anymore as he couldn't feel his hands finally dropping and panting.

The boys name is Alexander Knight

At least that was his new name, when he came to this world.

Alexander got up and walked to the edge of the cliff and looked out into the ocean, he didn't say anything.

The only thing he did was smile, a very exciting smile.

When he came to this world he didn't experience what it was like as a baby, at least not coming out of his mother or experienced what feeling in a womb was like.

The last thing he remembered was opening his eyes to see a man, this man didn't say his name, didn't say why he was there or didn't explain where or who he was.

Before he could speak and ask questions, the man beat him to it and with a booming voice told the young Alex that he was going to another plane.

And even before that Alex doesn't remember about his past self, he remembers most things in his past life but nothing about any friends or family, even emotional attachments seem nonexistent.

And the things Alex remembered was everything that didn't involve him, he remembers watching news on the TV, he remembers cars, planes, how the world works, how it is and mostly the entertainment world but nothing of him.

And remembering his favorite hobbies such as movies, Tv's, Cartoons, anime, manga, he even went deep into novels and such. He remembers the stories in these entertainment films and the short stories as well in fan-made fictions.

He took a liking to a few where the main characters of the stories would die by some truck and be reincarnated or by other methods of going to other worlds.

And remembering that and the moment he was in, he couldn't believe it, the man who was supposed to be a "God" didn't ask him for wishes, which is one of the most amazing opportunity and turning point a person could have.

The man didn't even let him talk, the "God" of a man just told him that he will be transferred to another world and that was it, he was gone.

And before he knew it he became a 2-year-old baby, and at 2 years old he can already do many things.

Walking, jumping, running or even mumble some sentences, but with his adult brain, he was already a smartass baby that could talk.

When he first opened his eyes as the 2-year-old, he saw another man, an old man.

This old man was his grandfather.

Now Alex doesn't remember shitt about his new body's past 2 years as a baby, but he didn't give a shitt and decided to be an independent child.

Alex wasn't sure if this new grandfather of his was the one who took care of him his whole 2 years but he was thankful anyways, even more, thankful that it was a human face that he saw when he woke up in this new life rather than waking up in some hell somewhere.

Alex noticed that he wasn't as freaked out about the whole life and reincarnating thing as he should be, but knowing that nothing could come out of freaking out, he just let it be.

And as time passes he was able to do things by himself, feeding, sleeping, and using the bathroom independently.

And Alexanders grandfather let him, he would usually do most things for Alex but now he let it be seeing that the child is maturing nicely.

Now this old man, on the other hand, is not much of a talker, he would only say something when necessary, this old man had grey'd out spikey hair and a scruffy beard.

This man is very calm and collected, not rowdy but not gloomy either, just normal.

It was hard for Alex to tell what kind of person this grandfather of his was or what he thinks about because the man was like some kind of a monk statue, something along that line at least.

As time passed Alexander started to get curious and his inner adventurous side took over him as he started going out of the house exploring, though he didn't go too far as his grandfather told him not to.

Alex liked where they were living at, it was in the mountains where a pretty neat wooden shack house stood at.

Every once in awhile Alexander would see a few ferocious animals around the outer area but they would never go inside the territories of the house.

He was curious as to why these beasts wouldn't enter like there was an anti-beast barrier around the place or something, but that was for the better as he didn't have to worry about being in danger from these mountain beasts.

As time passes in his lonely but curious childhood, Alex would with his grandfather go on small walks to one of the villages on the island doing food runs, meet old friends, have a few drinks or just having to come down for a break from the lonely mountains.

That's when he also realized that he wasn't in a modern like world, or at least this island wasn't.

Alex would just follow his grandfather along where he would be introduced to some old folks and such, he also learned from these people that his grandfather's name was Abner.

He also learned that the island was a small one, and on the four corners of the island there are four villages, and the village they were on was Nabashi village on the island of Manato.

Whenever they would go down to the village, Abner would spent his time the most with another old man, drinking in front of a front porch looking out onto the village.

It wasn't a big place as there was only about 200 people or more, and so at some point, everyone would have already met each other already, and it was a peaceful village so old Abner would sometimes let Alex have some freedom running around the village meeting new people friends and getting to know more about this world.

By the time Alex was 4-years old he already read all the books, his grandfather had in the house on the mountains along with books he would ask to read in the village.

Reading was one of the best ways to know more about a world and how it works, as he progresses through his curiosities in the book he would also ask questions he had to the villagers.

He tried asking his grandfather but the old guy just gave out short and bland answers and so Alex barely asked anything of him.

As he read and learned more he felt like he already knew of this world and had some thoughts on what it could be, but he still had to be sure.

By the time he was 5-years old, he started doing exercises and strange trainings, at that time he learned of something truly significant to this whole situation.

He was in the One Piece world.

He heard this from his grandfather as the old guy would at times speak of pirates, marines, world government, and some respectable sword god.

It was further confirmed when he read one of the newspapers Abner would read.

The things he read about made him cloud nine excited.

There were stories of pirates and marines roaming the seas and battling for their desires and their own goals.

What shocked him to the core the most was that there was news about a crew of the Roger Pirates.

The legendary pirates of the pirate king.

This means he was years early before the start of canon.

In his memories, Alex could somehow tell he was a hardcore fan of One Piece, and being in that world was one of the best world there is if you want a life full of adventures.

The One Piece world was even built for it, the way the islands are built, the power scales the different lands.

Fishmen island, Sky island, the Wano land and more, this world was full of things to experience and there are so many different things here from weird to complicated.

The fact that these people use snails, SNAILS, for communication is enough to be curious about.

The thing he didn't expect though was that the legendary Roger pirates were not the most talked about, the pirates Alex was new to was these pirates called the Rocks pirates.

And they were the most talked-about pirates ferocious and messed up.

He didn't know of this crew but he saw the name of Edward Newgate in this crew and so he had more surprises and theories.

That was all he could get out of the newspapers so he just left it aside and did some thinking of what this could mean and what path he could take in the future.

In the end, he decided to be a pirate, he could have became a marine or even start a new faction but there would be too many responsibilities, and he didn't wanna be under fat snot-nosed pigs who think themselves as gods.

No, he has seen it, and pirates are one of the most free in this world and that is what he will be, the new situation has made Alex extremely excited and nervous.

A bit nervous since it is a dangerous world and it barely follows common sense, extremely excited for the new possibilities he can explore.

Back to the present...

As Alex stood there looking out into the vast ocean, he wasn't able to see behind him.

Behind him were two shadows that were slowly and quietly sneaking up to Alex, who was just in his head looking out into the ocean.

"RAAHHH!!"

The shadow in the lead pounced at the distracted Alex.

But before the shadow could get a hold of Alex, Alex did a simple sidestep and stood on the side of the shadow with his hands up in the air.

*PAH*

Alex sends a chop onto the shadow as it pathetically dropped onto the grassy ground.

"Wahh!!"

"Hehehe." Alex chuckled and send a mocking look on the shadow.

"Told you it wouldn't work, this is like the hundredth time you did this you airhead." The other shadow sounded out.

"Agghhhh, shut your trap you bastard, I'll get him someday." The boy on the ground yelled back.

He was rubbing his head back and forth trying to ease the pain of Alex's chop.

"Did you guys even finish your training?" Alex asked.

"We finished a long time ago, we were just waiting for you. Fight me!!" The boy who was chopped on the head said.

The name of these two boys are Viktor and Markus.

These two other boys were around the same age as Alex, and also had black hair, Viktor has brown eyes, was a few inches taller than the two and is also the oldest.

Markus was the youngest with also black hair, but he was the shortest and had blue eyes.

Alex met them both in the village, although different villages.

Viktor was from the village Nabashi which was closest to his house in the mountains.

...

At 5-years old he met Viktor in one of his and Abner's strolls into the village, as Abner did his things he let Alex have his freedom running on about.

Alex would go around do his usual thing in the village, help the elderlies, ask questions to anyone, and/or meet new friends.

That was until he saw a scuffle around a corner, Alex ran to the area and what he saw was Viktor around 7-years old beating up a few kids younger than him and to Alex, this was bullying, even if the numbers was against Viktor.

Seeing the situation turning bad against the innocent young kids Alex decided on stopping it as he stepped up and screamed.

"Hey!! Stop hurting those kids." Alex said pointing at Viktor.

All the kids including Viktor looked at Alex like he was an idiot, Viktor just looked at Alex with a raised eyebrow, the other young kids saw this opportunity and screamed out.

"Help!! He is bullying us!!" The younger kids yelled out, some even took the chance and ran.

"Hey, bastards!! Come back here!!" Viktor screamed and proceeded to follow them but a hand grabbed his shoulders before he could go anywhere.

"You're not going anywhere you-" before Alex could finish Viktor kicked him on the stomach as he took some steps back.

"Tsk, you bastard!! This isn't any of your business, I need to beat them up!!" Viktor said pointing at the running group of young kids.

Viktor took positions to start running after the kids but Alex jumped on Viktor and grabbed his head onto a headlock.

"NO! YOU! DOON't!!" Alex screamed.

As he held onto the head of Viktor, Alex put one leg behind Viktor and tripped him, Viktor lost his balance and using this chance Alex pulled on Viktor's head and slammed him on the ground.

"Haha." Alex chuckled and dusted his hands as if saying 'well done.'

Seeing Viktor on the ground and the young kids out of sight Alex nodded before turning to leave.

But before he can take more steps, it was his turn as a hand landed on his shoulder, he looked back to see a maniac smile of a crazy nutjob psychopath.

"You're strong!! Haha YEAHH!!" Without warning a fist of Viktor's flashed and landed on Alex's face.

Alex was taken aback and was knocked back on his butt, he looked up and held his numb nose looking at the smiling Viktor.

A rush of excitement and adrenaline-filled Alex, when he was punched it hurt and it turned numb, but more than that it felt good, almost like some kind of pleasurable pain.

Alex stood up, and like Viktor, he smiled manically as well, he thought of this as his first little brawl in the One Piece world and was excited for it.

Viktor would always get into fights in the village and would beat up kids as well as some of the older kids, he tried fighting adults but he would just get spanked like the misbehaving kid he is.

Alex, on the other hand, had done light exercises for a year, and he would live to test his capabilities right now with this boy in front of him.

Alex wanting to do some intimidation cracked his knuckled and his neck preparing for battle.

Viktor twirled his hips left and right cracking his back as well as his fists and neck.

They both crouched down before charging into each other.

"RAAAHHHH!!"

"HAAAHH!!"

Viktor threw a right at the coming Alex, but Alex dodged to the left before sending a right counter hitting Viktor in the face.

But it didn't seem to hurt Viktor much.

It was reasonable as Alex did some light training to be strong and even fast enough to dodge an attack like Viktor's.

And Viktor had spent his time in the streets of the village fighting about which brought up his durability.

And at that moment they were both smiling glad that the other was at least this strong.

Viktor wanted to have some kind of rival that would be around his level that he could spend time brawling with and get strong.

Alex was happy for the fact that he could use Viktor as a punching bag with his high durability.

They didn't know but a small seed of respect popped up inside them as they went back and forth punching each other's brains out.

"RAHH!!" Viktor sends a strong straight at Alex.

But Alex ducked and sped behind Viktor and wrapped his arms around Viktor's stomach before picking him up and executed a German suplex.

"OWWW!!"

When Viktor hit his head on the ground he knelt on the ground and started to aggressively rub his head.

"Hhahaha!!" Alex stood there laughing at how hard the head of the boy was.

"Tsk, keep laughing." Viktor said as he put the pain aside and stood up.

He ran to Alex before sending another strong straight at him.

Alex smiled thinking the boy never learns, he ducked from the punch.

Seeing Alex fall for it Viktor quickly brought his hand back and lifted his knees as it met with Alex's ducking head.

When Viktor kneed Alex in the head he smiled widely seeing the victory, Alex, on the other hand, took a great force as Viktor's knees rocked his brains back and forth.

As Alex fell on his back he couldn't tell which is which as he felt the gravity change from sides to sides.

"BAHAH!!"

It was Viktor's turn to laugh.

Alex slowly got up and spit blood on the ground, the blood was from his lips as it seemed to have been cut.

Alex smiled and looked at Viktor, he also returned the smile.

Standing there staring at each other long enough, they finally started the 2nd round and ran at each other again.

Before they met in the middle, Viktor send a kick from the side hoping to kick Alex by the side, but in the end, he kicked nothing as Alex jumped over the side kick and grabbed Viktor's head and kneed his head on the nose returning the favor.

Viktor's upper body was knocked back as his nose leaked blood, although it doesn't feel like it since Viktor's was smiling regardless of Alex's attack.

Viktor grabbed onto the hands of Alex, which was still grabbing onto his head.

Viktor had a firm grip on Alex's hands turned and was planning on slamming Alex on the ground, but Alex wrapped his legs around the back of Viktor's head before freeing one of his hands and repeatedly elbowed Viktor on the head.

"RAGHH!!"

Annoyed Viktor turned his back on the wall before quickly moving back slamming Alex's back on the walls which his legs lost the grip on Viktor's.

Alex slid down the wall and Viktor fell forward onto his knees grabbing onto his head.

After a few seconds, their eyes made contact again before getting into another scuffle like animals.

They both sent hits against each other trying to get the other one to back down, and they themselves held on promising not to fall before the other.

If others were to look they would be pretty shocked, since the fight was getting a bit bloody, and that's not the worst of it as these two were only around 5 or 6 years old.

As they went back and forth throwing elbows, sending knees, kicks, punches, slaps and even headbutts they got more tired but was enjoying every moment.

After some minutes or so, the two stood in front of each other sending soft punches at each other which wouldn't even hurt a fly, but these soft punches were enough to knock one back down on the ground.

Alex's rush of excitement and adrenaline was gone, his mind was now elsewhere but he did feel his body heating up, the dirt on him, the warm blood on his face and arms, and the stinging pain all over his body.

He felt his head going numb as if he is to fall onto the best sleep he ever has, but knowing that he would lose if he gives in to that comfort zone he willed himself to stay up glaring at this honorable opponent in front of him.

"Alexander." Alex said.

"...Viktor." Viktor said smiling weakly

"Hehe." Alex chuckled before closing his eyes, he was ready to fall until he heard something.

*Thud*

Alex opened his eyes up just to see Viktor fall face-first onto the ground before he started snoring.

Alex's mouth and eyes were open in shock, then onto extreme shock.

He won the fight, he actually won the fight, and it was an epic fight too, there were no explosions or great force of powers but in the middle of the fight he fell in love with this kind of simple fighting, this brawling this straightforward manly fight.

"Hehe." With a victorious smile, Alex finally lost control of his body as he fell unconscious.

But before he hit the ground a large hand grabbed him and he was lifted onto the shoulder of his smiling grandfather.

Abner looked at the other boy, Viktor, before also picking him up.

He dropped Viktor off at the place he lives in, which was a foster home for kids with no families.

After that Alex and Viktor became a little close, they became rivals, Alex didn't even think of it like that but Viktor would always come to him for small fights.

As they fought more Alex seems to be putting large gaps between him and Viktor always winning, and almost easier than usual.

And with his repeating bothers to Alex, they became closer.

Alex also learned that Viktor wasn't bullying that day... well he was, he was just bullying the young bullies who were bothering Viktor's sister.

And so Alex met Viktor's sweet sister who was called Addilyn, Addy for short.

Addilyin had white hair and wore glasses with green eyes, she was shy at first but after getting to know Alex she became less shy, she was still caring and nice.

After one day of Alex beating Viktor, he had enough and asked how he keeps getting stronger, seeing his training "partner" desperate to become strong, Alex let him in on the exercises.

Viktor never considered training and exercising, he grew up in the streets with hands-on experience on fighting and thought that was the only way to get stronger or the only way he thought of.

Viktor ends up asking if he could train with Alex and Alex welcomed him with open hands and showed him what kind of training he does.

In the morning Alex would stretch, then do some small warm-ups like jumping jacks and such, after that he runs around a small path he made in the mountains for an hour running up to a few miles.

After that Alex would focus on his upper body strength and do the basic push-ups and pull-ups using trees.

It was a bit easy since there is almost no weight on his body to push on, but it greatly worked on his endurance and stamina, after that it was lower body workout and Alex didn't leave it out.

By the time it is afternoon Alex would sit in a meditative state and meditate training his senses by hearing and feeling the environment near him.

When Viktor tried this workout plan on his first day he was lacking a bit, he could keep up with Alex but he would end up snotty and ragged.

When it comes to the meditation Viktor completely rejected the idea saying it was a useless and stupid, and so Alex didn't push him and let him do more training when he meditates.

A year later Viktor was able to fully keep up with Alex, and Alex was completely disturbed by this airheads talent for hard work and determination.

Only after a month of their training, Viktor challenged Alex to another fight, Alex agreed and went on to fight, even after a month Viktor was able to progress at a fast rate catching Alex off guard.

Seeing that the guys' talent is higher than his, Alex decided on focusing on other tactics, speed, and precision.

But that wasn't all, Alex put meditation onto full priority and would at times seem like a statue.

After half the years of training, Viktor was finally able to stand toe-to-toe with Alex which brings them back to how they fought the first time.

Viktor was getting a little arrogant until the table turned as Alex would decimate him like he was nothing.

The speed, the precision, and the timing, Alex seemed like he could fight Viktor with his eyes closed.

From then on Viktor was demolished every time they were to fight, and Viktor was extremely frustrated as no matter how much he trains he wasn't able to even touch Alex, he felt like Alex would know where a punch would be before it lands and Alex would always precisely destroy any fighting tactics Viktor had.

Addilyn also started coming to the mountains frequently just to watch the two, she didn't wanna do training like them but as time passed she turned to cooking for the group up in the mountains.

The reason Alex was able to even beat Viktor -who was slightly stronger and faster than him- with no sweat was because he grasped the technique of Observation Haki, he had a foothold on the technique and didn't know much but he was still able to beat Viktor with it.

Alex thought about all that time he spent meditating and sensing his surroundings paid off.

At the time when they were busy training, a villager ran in ragged and breathy, though nobody recognized this villager to be from Nabashi village and is most likely from the other villages.

The villager panically told everything to Abner, the mountain man who lives in the mountains.

It seems mountain bandits were spotted planning to do a raid in the village on the other side.

Immediately old man Abner ran to the other village which was on the other side of the island.

Alex was wondering why the villagers would tell his grandfather, he had some suspicion that Abner might actually a badass but he wasn't sure, but this was a chance to find out.

Without waiting Alex sped up after his grandfather but the gaps keep getting bigger and this is the first time Alex realized that his grandfather was monstrously fast, Viktor was able to easily catch up with Alex but they were not able to catch up with Abner at all.

By the time they reached the village, they saw bandits on the ground making a path deeper into the village, when they followed the path of blood and mess they saw from afar a situation Abner was in.

Abner must have taken out more than 30 bandits which were on the ground, now there were 5 left standing, facing Abner with hostages.

That was when Alex and Viktor knew that the old man was a marine since the pirates were talking about him being a marine and all.

Some of the bandits were holding hostages so Abner couldn't move in, Alex seeing this thought of a plan.

He grabbed a pistol that was on one of the dead bandits which Viktor did as well.

Alex explained his plan to Viktor before they moved behind the houses and came out behind the bandits, the bandits were fully focused on Abner.

Two of the bandits were aiming rifles at Abner, two other were holding pistols against a woman and a boy, while the boss of the group was sitting in the middle looking relaxed and taking his time with Abner.

When Abner saw Alex and Viktor behind the bandits a quick smile appeared on his face though no one noticed.

The bandits didn't seem to be able to sense anyone behind them, taking the chance Alex and Viktor tried to walk up close behind the two bandits who have the hostages, Abner also took the chance to speak distracting the bandits.

Crouching low, both Alex and Viktor took a position behind the two bandits who had hostages, they both aimed the pistols at the two bandits and under Viktor and Abner's sight Alex counted down from 3 before they shot.

The bandits freaked and jerked up, the bandits boss looked behind and saw us, Abner rolled to the side before bringing out two pistols and shot them at the two bandits aiming at him.

Abner made the shots right on their heads, but one of the bandit's rifles sent a bullet to Abner's shoulder which is now paralyzed.

The bandit boss angered ran at Alex and Viktor to fight them, surprisingly they were able to keep up with their teamwork.

Alex with his precision and timing with his Observation Haki and Viktor with his speed and strength.

The two were getting pushed back by the bandits boss before Abner joined in and ended up saving the day.

The villagers were thankful, they came out thanking the three before treating Abner's shoulder.

Alex was again curious asking about Abner's past.

It seems like Abner was a retired marine captain, he settled in this island ever since and always protected it when needed.

But that was all the old man said, again showing he is not much of a talker unless necessary, but Alex didn't care if he were honest, all he wanted to do was go out into the sea.

They were having a nice time at the moment, the villagers were treating them to food and booze, well the old man had the booze.

As they were feasting a boy walked up to them, the boy was one of the hostages that were being held by the bandits.

The boy introduced himself as Markus Morano.

The boy did some small talks and the kid thanked them for saving them, along the line he asked how the two other boys were so strong, and after gearing that they train in the mountains.

Markus begged to train with them after that, and the two didn't mind and brought him along, Markus expressed his goals were to get rid of the islands bandits as they took his parents from him, and also realizing he was now another kid with no parents.

And so with that Markus followed them to the mountains and started to train with them for another year.

Back to the present...

"Again?! Dude, you know you don't stand a chance." Alex said to Viktor.

It's been a year since that bandit incident at the neighboring village.

Over the years the three grabbed a hold onto some professions;

Alex with a sword and a gun.

Viktor with a sword.

And Markus with dual pistols.

After fighting against the bandits a year ago, the three rounded up the weapons to use in training and such.

Over the months the three got stronger, Markus got strong pretty quick as well since Alex and Viktor didn't go easy on him with training, but he still doesn't hold a candle to the two.

In the mornings they would do some light training and warm-up before moving onto hand-to-hand combat, after that is afternoon training which was pretty tiring, after afternoon training is profession trainings.

That is when Alex and Viktor would engage in sword fight, while Markus learns marksmanship from Abner who suddenly announced that he is an expert marksman.

He was able to teach both Markus and Alex gun works.

Viktor didn't bat an eye at the gun and said he didn't like it, Alex could understand why since having a fight feels more better than boringly shooting and all.

Markus popped up and disagreed with Viktor saying that gunfighting is the best way to end a fight quickly.

And over time the two started arguing more and more, having their own opinions and spouting facts this and facts that.

Alex didn't care, he thinks they are both useful, a sword on his right and a gun on his left is good for a fight.

If Alex didn't use Observation Haki when fighting Viktor then he would lose, because the guy is a fanatic about strength, speed, and swordsmanship.

But if he used both sword and gun than he definitely have a higher chance of winning.

If both Alex and Viktor were to go all out against each other than Alex would win, without the Observation Haki of course.

If they were to fight Alex would use the sword for sword-fighting, but if he had a pistol on his other hand shooting every once in a while then he would definitely win, at least against Viktor.

But if it was only sword and Observation Haki then Alex would win, his Observation Haki progressed more.

Not enough to be on the next level but enough to demolish Viktor again.

"What do you know?! There is only one way to find out!!" Viktor yelled.

"How many times was that?" Alex looked at Markus and asked.

"I don't know I lost count." Markus said.

Viktor said 'There is only one way to find out' a few times, yet not much changed.

"Fine, but if I win you will do 2000 sword strikes." Alex said with a smile.

He likes to punish Viktor into doing more sword training, the stronger he becomes the stronger his training partner gets.

Who knows maybe he will be a candidate for [The Worlds Strongest Swordsman], Alex thought.

"Fine with me!" Viktor said, as long as he gets a battle with Alex.

Because with every single battle Viktor improves, because Alex would point out openings and weak spots which he can improve on, and he always improves on it.

"Ready?" Alex asked.

"Ready!!" Viktor pounced at Alex.

5 minutes later...

Viktor was on the side swinging his sword down horizontally aiming to do 2000 sword strikes, Alex and Markus was on the side watching him.

"Alexander..." Markus said.

"Yeah?" Alex asked.

"You think we're ready? When are we gonna take down those damn cowards who only terrorize the weak?!" Markus asked.

The only reason he wanted to get strong was to take revenge on the bandits who took his parents.

"We might be ready... but we are not gonna go and fight them just yet." Alex said.

"Why not?" Markus asked a bit impatient.

Markus was miles away from how weak he used to be, and he could feel it, and he believes he could already fight the bandits but Alex kept on holding him back.

"Because I want us to fight the mountain king first." Alex said.

There were three small mountains on this island the mountain they were in which had some beasts in it but the three already fought the strongest on this island and beat all of them.

The mountain in the middle which has few beasts, it is also where the mountain bandits stay at, there are two groups of bandits.

And the third, which is all the way at the other side of the mountains where a big gorilla resides and is the king of the beasts in that island.

"The mountain king?! What makes you think we can fight that thing?" Markus yelled.

"We'll see, if we beat him than we don't even have to worry about the bandits." Alex said with a smile.

"That still doesn't mean we stand a chan-" Markus was interrupted.

"I'll meet you guys on the lookout." Alex said walking away.

"Tsk." Markus was frustrated, but still walked to the lookout.

"Hey! Swordbrain, let's go." Markus screamed out to the swinging Viktor.

"Swordbrain?! Watch your trap before a sword goes through your brain, what do you want?" Viktor asked.

"Alexander said to meet at the lookout." Markus said as Viktor followed.

When Alex walked into the wooden house he didn't see Abner his grandfather, he shrugged his shoulder before grabbing a bottle of liquor before walking out with three small cups.

When he appeared at the lookout again he looked out into the ocean, Viktor and Markus was sitting near a tree as Viktor leaned on it.

"Guys!" Alex called them.

"So why are we here?" Viktor asked.

They saw that Alex had a small bag on his shoulders and was staring at the two smiling.

"Why are you looking at us like that? It's weird." Viktor said.

"Hehe." Alex chuckled.

Alex walked to the edge as the two had their sights on him, as he stared out into the ocean a breezy wind came and caressed his face and his hair dance in the wind.

He turned to the two still looking at him and asked.

"Hey, do you two wanna-"

*SCREEEE*

Before Alex could finish the sound of a screeching beast called out.

They looked up to see a golden eagle swooping down before flapping in front of Alex.

"Hahaha hey Hermes, where were you? I haven't seen you for weeks?" Alex said.

He put his right hand up as the eagle flapped up before landing on the forearms of Alex's.

With the background, the breezy wind, the blue vast ocean, the blue sky, white clouds, the green grass, the lighting, and the golden eagle... Alex looked like some kind of an angelic hero or something to the two that were still staring.

"Hey, you're seeing what I'm seeing right?" Viktor asked leaning close Markus.

"Charismatic..." Markus said.

*Screee*

The golden eagle was screeching and squawking at Alex as if having a conversation.

(Not really golden as in 'yellow' the eagle is themed black and brown, It's just called the golden eagle.)

The thing though was that Alex was actually talking back, the two have seen this many time but now they just don't care.

This golden eagle was a young eagle, and was shot down by Abner.

They were doing some training with guns and rifles when Abner did a demonstration and shot a flying eagle.

When the eagle fell from Its wings being messed up, Abner planned to cook the eagle for dinner, until Alex stopped him and nursed the eagle back to health.

And even when the eagle was at Its peak health it still couldn't fly since Its wings were messed up, and it would take a while to heal.

But even after it recovered fully, the eagle still didn't go and stuck with Alex.

That was until the eagle finally flew off and everyone thought that was the last they would see it, but it came back a few hours later carrying an apple on Its claws and gave it to Alex since then he could somehow understand and have small talks with the eagle.

But that wasn't the end since the eagle keeps on coming back and forth, in the end, Alex named the bird, Hermes.

Back to the present...

"Anyway guys, do you wanna sail out to sea with me?" Alex asked.

He walked near the tree and told Hermes to perch on it for a while, and he sat down with the two.

"Sail out to sea?" Viktor asked.

"To do what?" Markus asked.

"To be pirates." Alex said smiling like he didn't say what the guys think he said.

"PIRATES?!" Viktor screamed out.

"WHOA, calm down my gramps is a marine, don't just yell out my plans." Alex said.

"EXACTLY, YOUR GRAMPS IS A DAMN MARINE!! What is wrong with you?" Viktor said.

(Ex-Marine)

"Yeah I have to agree with him Alex, and why pirates?" Markus asked.

"Because that is the way to explore freely in this world." Alex said.

"You know what pirates are?! They are the same if not worse than bandits?!" Markus said almost screaming.

"Being a pirate doesn't mean you terrorize the weak, It's what you aspire to be, you can be a pirate doing all the exploring without doing a single bad thing." Alex said.

"That doesn't make it any better Alex, the marines own the seas and-" Markus spoke but was interrupted.

"GAHAHAHAHAHAH!! You have no idea what you are talking about Mark, all I'm asking is if you wanna sail with me?

There is a whole world out there that is meant to be ventured, have you heard of the Fishmen island? Where warriors of the sea swim, where mermaids are so graceful they are hunted down for a few berries?

Or the land of the sky? Where people with wings reside? Who look like angels?

Or Wano?" Alex asked and looked at Viktor.

"Where thousands of strong samurai live? Even the weakest might be stronger than us, did you know Wano is the origin of the [Sword God] Ryuma?" Alex asked tempting Viktor.

Viktor's eyes were already shining when he heard of strong samurai, and wanted to hear more.

"Come on guys, what did you expect to do with your lives? Live easy until you die? You haven't even taken one step off this island, and trust me when I said this world is build to be ventured." Alex said.

"I'm in!" Viktor immediately said.

"Hahahah attaboii, how about you Markus? You know I need a gunner and you are already so good at a young age." Alex said.

Markus sat there with crossed arms doing some thinking, he already wanted to go but he had to think it through before deciding.

When Alex talked about the fact that they haven't stepped out of this island he was already bought.

"Fine, but we take out those damn bandits before I take one step off this island." Markus said with a smile.

"HAHAH YESSS!!" Alex screamed.

He reached into the back and brought out a bottle of liquor with three small cups.

"What's this now?" Viktor asked.

"Well, for a while we have been on this island doing almost everything together here sleeping, washing, laughing and all, but most importantly... we sweat, bled, and watched each others back the moment we started training and kicking those beasts ass.

This is to commemorate and make a pact for a new future and create a strong bond together." Alex said.

He put a small cloth on the grass the put the cups on it before pouring the liquor on all the cups.

"Grab a cup." Alex said.

"What is this liquor? Really?" Markus asked.

"There is more to it than simple liquor Mark." Alex grabbed a cup as did the other two.

"To drink this, we promise to share each other's blood, raise our weapons to protect another, cut down our enemies to protect our honor and are sworn to walk the path of this new life as sworn brothers!" Alex said as they raised their cups.

The two felt pretty happy with this pact they were making, they are practically becoming brothers, something they already thought of each other.

"Drink!" Alex said as they downed the whole cups.

"Eugh!!"

"Ughh"

"Oh, Godd!"

They almost gagged drinking the liquor.

"What kind of booze is this?!" Markus asked.

"I don't know but It's so thick and heavy." Alex said.

Getting rid of the taste they stared at each other with goody smiles.

Viktor was happy of having new brothers in arms, and Markus was happy for this pact since they were the only people he had left on this island.

"Brothers!!" Alex said and put his hands in the middle, Viktor put his hands on top of Alex's with a smile, and then Markus put his hand on top next.

"Brothers!!!" x3