Chapter 4: Settling in

After quenching my hunger Wolf guided me to his lab.

In the middle of the lab stood an uncompleted yellow submarine/ship I recognized as the one Law used in the anime.

'Mhm so the original Law would have found his way to this old man's house.'

" Wow this submarine looks great!" I exclaimed while approaching it to have a closer look.

" Yeah one of my greatest projects so far!" Wolf sais puffing his chest with pride.

"But unfortunately it isn't finished yet, and probably won't be in my lifetime." The old man said while visibly deflating.

" Huh why? It looks almost done to me?" I asked.

"Well it is, it could be finished in a year or two. But unfortunately, as you can see, I'm not as young as I used to be." The old man said while indicating his scrawny body.

" Mhm... What if I help you finish it? I have nothing else to do, in exchange all I ask for is a place to sleep and something to eat." I said while giving him a bright smile.

The old man perked up at my suggestion as he looked at me with a new light in his eyes.

" That would be really appreciated, I can pay you if you want?" Wolf said.

" Nah you don't have to, I'm doing this for myself I want to see the completed submarine." I said with a smile as I looked at the already impressive unfinished submarine.

Wolf looked at me with a teary smile, before turning to look at the submarine and nodding his head with new found hope at his life long project.

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Wolf provided me with one of his guest room and allowed me to live with him.

Now my days consisted of helping Wolf build the submarine and practicing my devil fruit ability as usual by trying to expand the area covered by my 'room'.

I had told Wolf about my devil fruit ability and he started helping me control it and come up with new abilities.

He would make time everyday to accompany me into the forest and help me train out of sight of the other villagers. His insight and ingenious idea helped me a lot in understanding my devil fruit capabilities.

With his help I managed to recreate: Injection shot, this ability allowed me to stab any organ in someone's body from a distance. I simply had to aim my small sword at a person, target the organ I wanted to cut and mimic a stabbing motion in its direction.

I practiced this ability on some robot dummies that Wolf created. The small flying robot drones would fly around and try to avoid my attacks so it helped me increase my accuracy as well.

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It has been a month since I started living with Wolf. This morning Wolf left town in direction of the port. Some merchants were docked there and he wanted to buy some supplies and some metal parts for the submarine.

I tried accompanying him, but he refused saying I should learn to take a break after a month of continuous work.

So that's exactly what I did, I woke up later than I usually would. Took a shower and ate the cooked breakfast I found on the table.

Before going outside, the weather was great today so I decided a hike through the woods would do me good.

While walking out of the small town, some of the citizens would wave at me making me wave back with a welcoming smile. In such a little town everybody knew everybody so it didn't take me long to get acquainted with everyone.

Putting my hand behind my head in a nonchalant manner, I started walking happily into the forest. Taking the time to enjoy the scenery.

I might leave this island as soon as the submarine is finished. I wonder if Wolf will give it to me. If not I'll just build a small dingy and set sail.

While walking I started hearing someone's pleas for help.

" Please stop! Why are you doing this? I'm sorry!"

I simply ignored the pleas for help and continued my walk. But the more I walked the more I realized the pleas seemed to be coming from the same direction I was walking towards.

After what seemed like a 5 minute walk, I came into a clearing in the snowy forest.

In the middle of the clearing was a talking Polar Bear. The Mink was surrounded by two teenagers, a boy with fiery red hair, yellow eyes and pale skin and a boy with medium-length black hair, piercing grey eyes and pale skin.

The moment I entered into the clearing both bullies seemed to notice me. They both turned around to look at me ignoring their victims for a little moment.

"What do you want?" The red haired boy asked arrogantly.

" Nothing just walking by." I replied with my usual smile still plastered on my face.

" What are you smiling for? Are you making fun of me?" He asked threateningly as he tightened his grip on the metal pipe he was holding. While the black-haired boy walked next to him in a threatening manner to show his support.

" Hahaha, Why would I do that?" I asked.

*tsk* he exclaimed in annoyance.

While they were paying attention to me, the Polar bear they were beating crawled his way to my feet and grabbed onto my leg.

" Please help." The bear mink I had recognized as Law's first mate said weakly.

" Hey! What are you doing there? Come back here you freak!" The red haired boy shouted.

I completely ignored whatever he was saying and crouched down next to the young bear.

"Mhm..? I could help you." I said with a smile, "But in exchange you'll have to join my Pirate crew." I finished with a smile.

" A pirate crew? Hahaha, you're barely 13 and you're talking about being a pirate. What can a little pip-squeak like you do anyways." The red-haired boy exclaimed while laughing at me mockingly with his friend.

I proceeded to ignore him again and just focused on the Mink at my feet.

" So what do you say? Do you want to be my Nakama?" I asked with a smile.

The young Polar Bear developed tears in his eyes as he exclaimed, " Hai!".

I took off my snow Leopard fur hat and place it on top of the crying bear.

Slowly standing up, I started walking toward the two bullies with my usual welcoming smile completely gone, it was instead replaced with a bloodthirsty grin. I was eager to get into a fight for the first time in this world.

" Hey, What do you think you're doing punk?!" The red-haired boy asked while pointing his metal pipe in my direction.

I simply ignored him and started increasing my speed from walking, to speed walking to a full-on running toward both of them.

I could see a small amount of fear in the red head's eyes, while his friend only developed a cold look while looking at me.

Once I was in range of his pipe the redhead swung his weapon in my direction aiming for my head. I took out my small sword/knife from my waist and blocked his strike with ease. Pushing him back by applying more pressure on my sword, I easily managed to overpower him and sent him sprawling on the ground.

Just as I was about to slash the redhead, the black-haired boy next to him sent his fist in my direction. Making me jump back to evade it.

The black-haired boy took the time to help his friend stand back up, as they now both looked at me warily with a considerable amount of fear in their expressions.

Looking at their defensive stance I realized they were waiting for my next move.

[Room]

I extended my hand forward as a small transparent blue sphere left my hand and grew bigger. Easily englobing both me and the culprits.

[Injection shot]

I said as a some sort of sniper like aim replaced my vision. Aiming at the red hairs thigh I enacted a stabbing motion with the knife in my hand.

The boy immediately yelped in pain and fell to the ground while grabbing his thigh. He was gritting bus teeth in constant pain, as he essentially received internal damage.

"Huh? What did you do you bastard!" His friend shouted as he started running in my direction with clear hate in his eyes.

The teenager tried punching me in the face with all he had, but a simple sidestep was all it took to evade his strike. Cocking my sword hand back, I flipped the sword in my hand and struck the boys neck with the blunt side of the blade. Sending him sprawling on the ground as he started coughing uncontrollably.

Seeing as both opponents could no longer fight. I closed my [room] and started walking in the injured Polar bears direction.

The fight was less exciting than I thought it would be, with Law's training in the Donquixote Family these teenagers could barely put up a fight with or without my devil fruit it was a simple one sided beat down. I hope I find someone strong soon.