04 Training Log

-15 years earlier-

Brook and Arthur have finally woken up after 3 days out at sea.

Wh... what the hell happened." Arthur muttered.

"Back to square one." a ghostly green projection answered.

"Huh? what do yo- Oh..." as Arthur looked around to see nothing but fog and calm ocean as far as the eye can see.

"Goddamn it!" screamed Arthur as he slammed his boney fists into the deck of the ship. "Damn damn damn damn DAAAAAAAAYUM!" a loud raddling of bones filled with rage hit and kicked and spit, not that they had any saliva to begin with.

"Yohoho! No need to get so upset, so we lost our shadow? what's the big deal?" Brook replied calmly as he levitated above Arthur.

"What's the big deal? WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?! THE BIG DEAL IS THAT NOW EVEN IF WE WANTED TO WE ARENT ALLOWED TO GO OUT INTO THE SUN, WHICH MEANS WE CAN'T LEAVE THIS SILENT ABYSS UNTIL WE GET IT BACK!!" Arthur screamed with a raspy tone that would put smokers to shame.

Brook was rather dumbfounded by this. "What do you mean?" he questioned.

"Ugh..." Arthur sighed. "I should've given you my knowledge on devil fruits." he quietly muttered to himself.

"What was that?" Brook asked.

"The Kage Kage no Mi allows you to turn shadows tangable and the shadow is like a second soul that's supposed to follow and copy their master till death. Since we can't cast a shadow we can't go out in sunlight or we'll be vaporized." Arthur explained.

"Why didn't you share this info with me during the spirit fusion?" Brook questioned.

"Because I didn't think you needed to know!" Arthur replied voice quivering.

Brook was about to blow his top until he finally looked into Arthur's empty sockets. It was clear to see he was crying even though no tears could form.

"Brook I messed up... and you deserve to know everything..." Arthur said with his head down totally defeated.

Arthur came clean. He told Brook every last detail, Multiverse Theory, his past life, the butterfly effect even about One Piece itself as a franchise of course leaving out details like names and anything having to do with Brook.

"Another... World..." Brook was in deep though as he was a little overwhelmed with info.

"Feels good to finally get this off of my chest." Arthur stated as he let out a sigh of relief.

"So you basically know the future?" Brook asked.

"To a degree." Arthur replied. "Who knows what will happen if I- we do too much." Arthur replied. "Since I'm here this timeline has already branched off from the one I know."

"Yohoho... how Interesting." said Brook.

"Interesting? doesn't it kind of freak you out?" expressed Arthur.

"YOHOHOHOHO!" Brook bellowed. "If every little thing freaked me out how would I be a pirate? a Grandline pirate no less."

Arthur was a little taken aback by Brook's openness but after some more discussion Arthur made a deal.

"Brook, help me get stronger and achieve my dream and I will do the same for you." Arthur put his hand out as he finished speaking.

"Yohohoho who couldn't agree to a deal that sweet." Brook put his ghostly green hand towards Arthur's only to have it phase through as they tried to shake hands.

"Yohohoho!" they both chuckled in unison.

"With the much needed chitchat out of the way let's explore!" Arthur replied as he too became a ghastly manifestation of their body.

After exploring the ship there wasn't anything worth too much. It had clearly been raided by Moria's zombies before they were cast away.

"Man there's almost nothing here but bookshelf after bookshelf." Arthur thought as he read off the titles. "Sewing for Pirates, Occult Phenomena... Finally something interesting." He saw a book that was titled Alexander's Log.

He floated back into Brook's body and decided to check it out. As he went back to where the book was Brook phased through the bookshelf just as Arthur was about to grab the book.

"ARTH- oh your right here." Brook said.

"What is it?" questioned Arthur.

"There's a secret room on this ship." replied Brook.

"Really?! how do we..." Arthur facepalmed. "No way it would be that easy." Arthur reached for the book he was about to grab and...

Kerchunggggggg KEEERK!

The bookshelf was on a giant ball bearing that caused it to act like a spinning door and the book is the handle to open the door.

"How cliche..." Arthur mumbled as Brook looked in amazement at the technology at work.

In the secret room there were small bookshelves about waist height on the average person. Each shelf acted like a table as books were open and sitting on top as well as ink and everything you'd need for writing. there were at least 20 log books one for each crew member that had previously sailed this ship as well as a whole lot of blank books filling the shelves. Arthur walked over to one that said Alexander's log and began flipping through the pages.

"The founding of the Truth Seeker Pirates blah blah blah. Knowledge collectors blah blah. Government hunting them whatever, whatever. ugh how boring." Arthur stated as he put the book down and began think up a new plan.

Sometime after when they had finished throughly exploring they discussed the plan Arthur had thought up to the last detail.

"Yohoho! You're knowledge never ceases to amaze and intrest me." Brook said.

"Just you wait Moria We're coming for you! and I will get payback!" screamed Arthur at the top of his lungs well not that he has lungs to scream with.

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-3 hours before arriving at Thriller Bark again-

Brook was in control of the body tonight doing his daily drills of Fencing when he noticed a barrel in the ocean. He jumped off the boat.

"Soul Solid... Mini Ice Age!" Brook thought to himself as the ocean beneath him froze just enough to give him a platform to stand on and bring the barrel back to the ship.

"Arthur is certainly creative with naming moves." Brook said to himself unaware that Arthur had stolen the technique from Aokiji.

Meanwhile Arthur was in the captain's quarters. Arthur's ghostly form was completely separate from Brook sitting in a chair well hovering right above it as if he was sitting.

"Maaaaaaan... I feel like getting hit with a nostalgia wave." Arthur sighed as he pushed his hand into a book titled Training Log. The book began to have a green glowing outline and the book opened to the first page.

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To whoever may be reading this hello and goodbye for I have long since left the Florian Triangle... Hopefully and have already made a name for myself!

This book logs the progress of our training please bring this book to a museum once We're famous.

Signed, A. Brook

Day 1

Training has begun! I mean I guess it's finished for a while but not having to eat, drink or sleep means we can train 24/7 however Idk if I want to do that. Good thing Brook can switch off with me when I get bored.

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Day 63

Training is really ramping up heck we've almost made Ice for the first time. Soul Solid... what a neat trick. Well since training is getting intense I think I'll be logging less and less. Brook and I are keeping tally of the days though so hopefully we don't lose track of the date!

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Day 200

Day 200! So close! we are almost at the level of soul solid that he was at after 3D2Y unsurprisingly. So little time to log I think I'll have to change the style of this log from daily updates to yearly... but we'll see.

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Year 2 Update

It's been 2 years and I'd like to think weve surpasses the him in the story... I can only speculate as I don't remember the story to clearly anymore all I really know is that we have all the same abilities he had after 3D2Y

Year 3 Update

Found a solution for my memory problem! While in deep meditation I figured out an amazing ability of the Yomi Yomi no Mi, Soul Scape is what I call it! Basically I enter a Mental Room that is modelled after the ship we're on except instead of all those random books it's filled with books full of my memories. To think I'd be able to read this beautiful Manga again finally time to do some "Training".

Year 5 Update

The last update I explained how I started making Ice Shapes and they're getting more and more complex. from a perfect ice cube to a smooth as ice sphere! So cool!

Year 7 Update

I've detached. I was using the Ghost form as usual when all of a sudden the tail that anchored me to Brook became a pair of legs! I think I'll call it Poltergeist!

Year 8 Update

So while using the new and improved Poltergeist so regularly the name gave me an Idea! Guess who was right? Me! I can possess inanimate to a degree although they have to be light. I can't even lift Brook's sword only slide it slightly.

Year 11 Update

You would not believe what I have finally mastered after 11 years and being completely unsure if I could build physical strength I have my answer! A big fat yes! For you see reader I have just mastered one of the 6 Powers! The almighty Rokushiki technique Soru! To bad I won't be able to master anymore. Thanks for telling me you just need to stamp your feet 30 times a second Lu ! I blanked out the rest of the name as not to spoil any of the fun!

Year 12 Update

Those books are more useful than I gave them credit! Thank you Alexander! With the knowledge of sewing I've made a new suit! A nice Maroon suit jacket, and dress pants made from the curtains, a white undershirt made from bedsheets and I even found a pink tie in the captain's quarters. Does it ever feel good on these bones to get out of that ratty old suit.

Year 14 Update

I've mastered Soul Solid completely. It can go from very intricate to hellishly destructive in a matter of moments. It's so refined I can make all sorts of things, Hell I could make a new ship completely out of Ice if I wanted! Too bad I need my shadow.

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As Arthur read the last update he heard a whizzing that almost sounded like...

"A flare?" Brook questioned.

Arthur peered through the wall to see the skeleton standing in front of a barrel and gave a wicked smile of glee.

"Brook! we'll be at Thriller Bark soon" Arthur stated

As he phased back through the wall tho the log book he possessed a pencil and began writing.

Year 15 Update

We've finally made it to Thriller Bark. The technique I developed in this last year your probably asking? well let's just say it's a technique that'll let me defeat a certain ghostly girl.

This is the final Log to whomever is reading. Consider this the origin story of the strongest pirate to ever live!

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-3 Hours Later-

"So 45 years have passed for Brook huh? Fate sure is a curious thing." Arthur thought to himself.

"Yohohoho seems you were right." Brook mentioned.

"So the time has finally come! To think things would line up so perfectly with canon!" Arthur stated ignoring what Brook said as a perfectly sculpted ice staircase formed between the ship that had no rudder and the island ship Thriller Bark.

"Yohohoho! what do you mean canons? I don't see any lined up?" said Brook in Poltergeist form.