One piece : rise of the merchant clan

"How long have I been here?" The little blue ball of spirit said for perhaps a million times. It had been floating around in line with all the other balls he'd tried to talk or communicate with them only to realize that it was impossible.

"Well boss it been a reaaaaaaaaallllllyyyy a long time." The balls said to himself in a high voice.

"Shut up Fred you're not allowed to talk, you're in time out." The balls responded to himself.

This continued for a time, adding a few more imagine individual personalities in the mix. While most of the balls around seem to float calmly adrift in a certain direction, this one would shift a little around as he talked to himself.

"Sigh, this was amusing the first few decades ago. Now it the only thing keeping me from zombing out like almost all the others." He remembers the first time he'd wake up after his death, the other balls had all been moving around with a great deal of energy. But with time more and more stop moving, only to float gently on the invisible current, following this invisible current that seemed to be leading them all toward an unknown destination.

"Should I try going against it today or is it nighttime? Megh who cares, it not like I get anything out of it, all I get is tired from pushing while I still float around at the same speed as all the others." The balls wallowed in self piety for a time, this was its new existence for the following few years.

"Come on, come on move it, damn it, I'm almost there." He shouted in excitement. A few months ago he notices a change for the first time instead of void and blue balls he saw a human-like figure in the distance, it seemed to point to a ball, then some lights would go up, he picked that ball up and tose it in the portal. Did he know what the portal was no, did he know who the figure was again no, did he know what the lights were no, but he knew that whatever those three things are they all represent a possible escape from the endless drifting he has done.

Over the past coming months and weeks, he would slowly drift closer and closer, as he looked around he couldn't spot any balls that were moving anymore. There used to be one or two that would give a twitch from time to time, but ever since he spotted the portal they all seem to stop moving, even he found himself wanting to stop and sleep more and more. But he kept snapping himself out of it, by recalling every memory he could, a lot had become fuzzy with time.

Like the best tv shows, movies or anime. Also, books and novels he liked, life lessons he'd learn and precious few vague memory of family, friends and love ones. Sadly the later memory of his more personal life was the weakest, he had long forgotten his or her own name. As for people he knew, only a vague shape remained. But the warmth they provided in the very deepest spot in his soul still burned strong even after all this time. It was very much the reason he could still retain some awareness.

"Yeah, I think I might be the last who remembers some things. So the xanthan novel had it wrong, there no grandma soup. Only a long sleepy line of souls. Guest Il find out if I get a prize for still being aware. Wait, what if I get destroyed for remembering."

"Well, guess you should come up with a plan B chef."

"Oh sure, just let me wave my magic wand and pull something out of my ass."

"You don't have an ass, Dick, concentrate all other us let's focus on the problem."

The blue ball of spirit kept on arguing with himself for many hours hoping to bounce some idea out of his imagination. Unfortunately, it only manages to pass the time and find many silly ideas that had no chance in hell in working. Like putting on a disguise, of course not having any arms and being a floating ball with hardly any control put a wrench in that plan. Or how about fading in the mass of other souls, again not have any motor function also put a quick stop to that plan. Then he came to the brilliant idea of the age-old bribe, but he soon came to the devastating truth he had jack all to trade.

"Doooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I'm ddddddddooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmemeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the end is near my friends I shall miss you all."

"No boss, don't give up, we can beat this. Think of all the battles we won. What about that time with all the ninjas."

"That was only me, placing myself as the MC in a world run by ninjas, who became the big boss ninjas in the hidden village."

"Then what about that time you fought off all those superpower evildoers."

"No, again I only dream that up to put you to sleep, fighting as a lost alien race of warriors, who power up after every defeat only to rise like the phoenix and be even more powerful."

The ball became quiet as he saw his time was up, the man shape light thing was reaching out to him. It grabbed him like every other soul, raises him up to a crystal ball of some kind. The ball emitted light as if it was scanning. Over the course of his time waiting, he had noticed the ball producing a few colours of light. He still had no idea the meaning of the colours. Since no matter the colour the human shape being simply chucked before throwing the ball in a portal.

The crystal after scanning him gave out a very rare light of green. He had only seen it twice before. After each the shape seem to pause, give itself a fist pump, bring out another device and press the button. This device would spin in various colours, land on something then the being would move this device over the soul and then chuck it inside the portal.

Now it was his turn, the device had just finish spinning, he figures that the colours were a mix of violet silver and blue. He had no clue as to the significance of this. For the other two souls, the colours seem to have been different. As the device move over the soul, it heard this.

"Subject soul # J289167383499617837517390 of sector Zebra 67893517382098754792, found semi-aware, the prize for holding onto memory, scanning, soul found linking to plane one piece. An additional prize, potential scanning, found lacking. No system, no power, memory keep and refresh, fixing madness. Soul subject # J289167383499617837517390. Please enjoy your new life in the one pieces world. You will be reborn with the remaining no corrupted memory of your past life. Designated time frame ten years before Luffy is born. Goodbye."

"Wait, whaaaaaa....." Was all it said before the being picked it up and happily threw it into the portal.