ONE PIECE : THE LAST VOYAGE

- Calm Belt, Ranpopo Island, Main Market Area -

A kid in a purple hoodie that covers his face and black trousers can be seen walking around looking from shop to shop as if looking to buy something.

He didn't even look past 9-10 years of age.

The wierd thing about him however was that if someone looked closer they would see that he wasn't looking at shops, instead he was looking at the people that were buying many things around him while clutching his stomach from the insides of his pockets.

The only thing visible about the kid was some overgrown black hair coming out of the hood, two electric blue eyes and his slightly pale chin.

Just as kid was going to move on to the next market lane, he saw a wealthy man coming out of a shop.

Their were 2 more men following him carring a lot of stuff and moving out of the market area towards the noble quadrant.

His eyes lit up after seeing this and he started to move towards the men with a pacing walk. As he quickly walked past them and turned around the corner he held his position and started counting seconds in his mind.

As he did that he took something out of his pockets. He held in his right hand, an extremely small sized pocket knife that was the size of a finger-nail.

Soon he stopped his counting and did something incredible.

He concentrated on his knife and it miraculously grew in size. It grew from a finger-nail's size to about the size that fit in the kid's hand perfectly.

He quickly hid it in the inside of his sleeve and started walking back towards the wealthy person and the men following him.

He walked into the wealthy person as he came to the corner, who was startled as someone just came out of the corner towards him. But then the kid quickly bowed to the rich person as if he was sincerely apologetic. In doing so he also lined himself to be right in perfect place to tumble one the guys carrying the rich man's stuff.

And it all went exactly as the kid planned. The guy carrying the stuff fell face first into the wealthy man and he scattered all the belonging onto the floor while doing so.

The Kid quickly took that as his chance to cut open one of the bags while pretending he was helping gathering the stuff as he continuously kept apologizing.

While the other man put down the crates and bags to help the wealthy person up, the kid put his knife away by shrinking it and putting it in his pocket. He quickly put his hand in the cut bag and felt the dozens or so apples inside.

He hid his hand as if it was holding the bag from underneath with one of his hands and started to shrink about quarter of what he could feel inside.

While he did that the rich man started berating both him and guy that fell on him while exaggerating his injuries. This went for about 10 minutes before the rich man had enough and started to walk away as he gave the order to collect his things.

The men that was berated together with the kid quickly turned towards him with an angry face, snatched the bag from his hands without noticing the lessened weight or the hole in bag. Then he punched the kid in the stomach, started collecting the stuff and walked quickly with the other man to catch up to the rich man leaving the kid on the floor dry heaving while holding his stomach.

***

Cough . Cough . Whizeee . Huff . Huuu .

I support myself of the ground with a shaking hand and put my back against the nearby wall and just sit there for a bit catching my breath and trying to ease the pain a bit.

After about 5-10 mins of reflecting on my plan and what went wrong i got back up and started moving towards a nearby alley that wasn't occupied and sat down after finding a rather dry and consealed spot.

After making sure i was alone i took out today's hall. Taking out the cherry sized apples from my pocket, i start counting them. 1. 2. 3. . . 14.

After confirming the numbers once again i put back 13 small apples back in my pocket and unshrinking one, i start to eat it little bites at a time.

After finishing the apple i sigh and just pick up a fist sized rock from nearby and start to shrink and enlarge it constantly.

" 14 apples are definitely good for today and if i eat sparingly i can stretch it till tomorrow morning. "

Sigh without stopping the exercise with the stone i look towards the sky from the ally.

" No clouds today , that good atleast. Ugh, Should have known that there was a 50% chance that guy would hit me after getting berated so harshly. Next time i'll step a half step back before the punch even forms that way i'll only get 40% of the force of the hit."

As i was mulling over my faliure of the plan just now. I sence a shadow over myself, big enough to block the whole sun on me in that alleyway.

Without even lifting my head i reach into my pocket and grab the knife and hide it in my sleeves.

I look up to see an old man in black suit and a marine overcoat standing infront of me.

I quickly got up and start to walk away as if i didn't see him. Just as i stood up and about to start to moving i heard his gruff voice.

" Ha, where do you think you're going you little thief."

I replied with only one word and kept walking.

" Home "

Just as i was about to make a run for it , i feel a tug on my hood and realised that i was dangling from my hood that he was holding.

I tightly clutch on to the knife.

' I don't want to do this, but I can't afford to spend time wasting away in a prison. '

" Hoo, And where exactly is this home of yours brat? "

As he asks this question i hesitate for just a second to confirm my decision and sigh.

' The first chance i get i am stabbing him and making a run for it. Till then i need to get his gaurd down. '

"Don't know. I got lost in the sea a few islands back."

Which is technically the truth.

" Hmm, Hey brat how did you get these powers to make stuff small? Do you know? "

' I should have known, if he saw me steal that means he saw me using my powers as well. '

" I ate a rotten fruit in the sea and then i could just do this stuff. If you are going to throw me in prison for stealing just get it over with already. " I said and looked towards his face. An old man with a head full of grey hair and beard was wearing a black suit over a white shirt. And a marine overcoat over his shoulders.

" Hahaha, A rotten fruit. Well you're not totally wrong about that. Well whatever what's your name brat. "

Asks the old man as he pulls my hood of my face to get a proper look at my face while i was still hanging from his hand with a calm face showing no emotions.

" It's rude to ask people their names without giving them yours ." I look towards the other end of the alley to find anything i can use to obstruct him with, as he would probably chase me .

I see the old man look stunned for a second and then he starts to laugh.

" Hahaha, Well it seems i was rude indeed. The name's Garp brat. Now whats your name and why were you stealing using your powers huh? "

I look upon this as a perfect chance to get his gaurd down.

" My name is Kai, As for the powers. I haven't eaten anything since two days and what i did get wasn't very filling. So when i saw a chance to get some food i couldn't resist the opportunity. "

I look upto his face expecting to see an expression of pity but instead all i saw was amusement. I knew now that the chance to getting away from this old man was thinning so i devised a plan and quickly put into action.

I put my hand into the pocket and took out one of the apples and started to enlarge it. The old man was now looking onto my hand as well waiting to see what i was doing. As the apple was halfway enlarged i quickly threw it towards his head.

" Ooto, Hey kid don't waste food! If you're hungry why are you throwing good food to waste like tha..

Huh..? "

The old man shifts his neck and his eyesight follows the apple as it smashed into the wall behind him. But as he wasn't looking i took out the knife to stab into his hand that was holding my hood right above my head. I was preparing to make a brake for it but i made two big mistakes in my plan.

First I shouldn't have tried to stab something right near my face and Second i should have thought things through as i still didn't know how the old man saw me in the act of stealing as i made sure no one was looking at my hands directly.

The now full sized knife's blade snapped in two from the middle as it hit the old man's hand as if it had collided with a thick steel plate. And the worst part was that the sharp broken part was heading straight towards my left eye.

That was the last thing i remember clearly, before passing out probably from blood loss or shock.

***

A Few Hours Later....

On a Marine Ship sailing on the ocean, in one of the rooms. The boy with the purple hoodie can be seen lying on a bed with his head and left eye bandaged.

There seems to be a tube going into his arm that is connected to a blood bag hanging near the bed.

Now that the hoodie wasn't covering it the boy's face was clearly visible.

He had pale skin and black mid-long hair.

His face could be seen as it had sunken in and the cheek bones were clearly visible due to malnutrition.

Not far away two people can be seen standing and chatting about the boy. Well it looked more like an old man getting an earful from a man half his age.

" How could you let this happen to a young boy vice-admiral garp!? I heard you not only cornered him for stealing some fruits you even stabbed him. Shame on you!! " A man wearing a brown three piece suit is seen shouting at the same old man seen before or now dubbed as the legendary Hero of the Marines Monkey D Garp.

" Eeh , but it wasn't even my mistake the brat was the one that suddenly stabbed me. I just used haki instinctively as he took me by surprise. How would i have known that he would be the one that gets hurt. " Replied Garp while looking unpruturbed by the mess he caused.

" Anyways Bogard set a course towards goa kingdom, Its been a while since i saw my idiot grandson." While saying that garp hangs his marine coat on a hanger nearby and went to sleep while sitting near the boy's bed.

" Haaaaa?!? Th..then what about this boy Vice-Admiral? Aren't we going to drop him off at his home? " Asks Bogard while confusingly alternating his gaze from the boy to his superior.

" Yawn, The brat's name is kai and he says he's lost at sea but that's clearly a lie since there are no inhabited islands nearby. My guess is his Island got raided by pirates and someone important to him died. And the marines weren't able to reach there in time. Otherwise he wouldn't have resorted to straight up stabbing first just after stealing just some food." After finishing the explanation to his subordinate garp closes his eyes and gave the final line before going to sleep.

" I am bringing the brat with me. Now go, Let me sleep. "

" Ha..But..sigh..I understand. " Bograt sighs slightly sakes his head in disappointed as he walks out of the room to change their route through the calm belts into the weakest of the blues, The East Blue.