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-Jason P.O.V- Grand Line, Turtle Skull Island
Where should I start off?
I guess I should start off by introducing myself. My name was Daniel Jones back on Earth, but here in this world, people call me Jason. More specifically, Joker D. Jason. And yeah, as you might've already guessed, I'm a transmigrator.
I was thrown into the body of a newborn baby that got abandoned by his family. Just left out in the world to survive on my own. I grew up an orphan, and somewhere along the way, I found out I was in the first half of the Grand Line from the One Piece world.
The good news? I used to be a huge fan of One Piece. Watched tons of episodes and knew a decent chunk of the main story arcs. The bad news? I stopped watching after the Whole Cake Island arc, so anything after that? I only knew the basic idea of what happened.
The current year is 1520. That means there's still three years before Luffy sets out on his journey. But I'm not rushing to play pirate just yet. Like most transmigrators, I had a golden finger. No OP system or anything, but I did get a pretty sweet deal.
When I turned fifteen, I received the Seven Ninja Swords from the Naruto world—each one packed into its own Storage Scroll.
Was I a bit disappointed that I didn't get some flashy system? Maybe, a little. But I wasn't about to complain.
Before that, I was stealing scraps and digging through trash just to eat. After getting those swords? Everything changed.
I figured that a good way to I could make money and get stronger was to become a bounty hunter.
Been doing the bounty jig for three years now. And you know what? It's worked out pretty damn well. I've racked up a total bounty reward of 100 million Berries. Very good for a guy who started out with nothing but hunger and grit.
Anyway, back to my current situation. I'm on an island called Turtle Skull Island—and let me tell you, this place is a gold mine for bounty hunters. Weak pirates who barely made it into the Grand Line gather here. Most of them have bounties between 5 to 13 million.
It also works as the perfect place to gather intel. I've heard about the rise of notable pirate crews like the Kid Pirates, Heart Pirates, and Fire Tank Pirates—all from different parts of the Blues.
But the biggest rising star this year? None other than the Spade Pirates, led by the infamous Supernova, [Fire Fist] Ace.
A lot of pirates on Turtle Skull Island went up against Ace... and got wrecked.
I knew what would happen to Ace in the future, but honestly? I didn't think much of it. After all, we were strangers—until now.
-No One P.O.V-
"Hiken!" Ace shouted as he launched a blazing fist of fire toward Jason.
"Raikiri!" Jason responded, lightning crackling around his dual swords Kiba as he slashed, tearing through the flames with ease.
"You're strong. I'm sure of it I want you in my crew!" Ace grinned widely.
Jason didn't respond. He had just gotten back from fishing, only to find people standing in front of his house. He attacked on instinct thinking they were some new pirates.
Jason didn't reply and switched his weapon to Kubikiribocho, the massive beheading blade, and slashed toward Ace's torso. Ace barely dodged but still ended up with a shallow cut.
Jason didn't care whether he became pirate, marine, or bounty hunter—he just wanted to grow strong and survive. But one thing was for sure if he did end up following someone he would never work under someone weaker than himself.
"Woah, hey your weapon is super interesting is it made out of seastones or something?" Ace asked as he looked at the shallow cut on his torso.
Amongst most people in the One Piece world many would see Ace's Logia Devil Fruit and think he was unbeatable. But in the New World there were plenty of people who could use haki and many who had access to seastone, and Jason discovered that his seven ninja swords actually contained a bit of Seastone.
That meant his blades weren't just strong they were a serious threat to Devil Fruit users.
"Hey just join my crew it'll be fun!" Ace said before he dodged another slash from Kubikiribocho.
Jason swung the Kubikiribocho again. "Only if you can beat me!"
"Sounds fine to me!" Ace smirked, flames gathering in both hands. "Shinka Shiranui!" He hurled two spears made of fire at Jason.
Jason braced himself, swinging Kubikiribocho and cleaving through the spear. But when the smoke cleared, Ace was gone.
Jason's eyes darted around the fiery landscape. "Not below... can't see him… that means-" He looked up. "Above!"
Sure enough, Ace hovered above, surrounded by a swarm of blazing fireflies.
"Hotarubi" Ace said calmly.
The fireflies shot down like missiles.
"Shit!" Jason stabbed Kubikiribocho into the ground, preparing to summon another sword.
"Too late. Hidaruma!" Ace commanded.
The fireflies quickly approached Jason and exploded creating a massive blast.
-Somewhere off the Coast, on a Marine Battleship-
"Sir! A huge explosion has been spotted on Turtle Skull Island. Shall we investigate?" a navy soldier asked Vice Admiral Momonga.
"Turtle Skull Island? Let me see," Momonga said, taking the binoculars. His eyes narrowed at the flames. "Prepare all soldiers on deck for combat!"
The soldier paled, then quickly saluted. "Understood, sir!"
Momonga kept his gaze fixed on the burning island. "Damn pirates."
-Back on the Island-
The smoke from the explosion began to clear. Ace stood tall, watching.
Step. Step. Step.
A smile tugged at his lips.
"You bastard!" Jason emerged from the smoke, covered in cuts and burns. "Didn't you want me in your crew!? I could've died, you maniac!"
He charged at Ace with Samehada in hand.
Jason had gambled big. Right before the explosion, he summoned Samehada and hoped it could absorb the damage of the attack.
It worked—mostly. Samehada somehow ate most of the flames, but the attack still hit hard.
"Hahaha! I knew you'd survive!" Ace laughed.
"No, you didn't! I almost died!" Jason yelled, but paused when he heard something.
WhooshBOOM!
A cannonball smashed into Jason's house.
"What the hell!?" Jason turned towards the direction where the cannonball came flying from to see a Marine Battleship docking.
"It's the Marines!" a Spade Pirate shouted.
"Weapons out! Prepare for battle!" Masked Deuce ordered.
Jason ignored the chaos, walking over to his half-buried Kubikiribocho. The blade was shattered.
-Jason P.O.V-
I looked at what remained of Kubikiribocho. More than half the blade was gone. It wasn't even a sword anymore just a hunk of broken metal on a handle.
Then I looked at Ace, who was staring down the approaching Marines like it was just another Tuesday.
I'm still too weak.
I sealed the remains of the blade into its scroll before I turned toward my burning house, its remains crackling from the explosion.
I stood their watching the flame before a thought suddenly hit me. All of my money where inside the house and there was no way it could've survived a cannon fire. Three years of hard work gone just like that.
"Damn you!" I couldn't think properly, not with the sheer rage and frustration I felt towards the marines at that very moment.
When I came back to my senses I was cutting marine soldiers like vegetables along side with the Spade pirates.
My brain froze before I realized how much trouble I got myself into.
"Well... shit." I said to myself.
-Ace P.O.V-
It was quite the surprise when the Marines suddenly butted into my fight against... Wait I don't even know the guys name yet! Well lets just call him sword guy for now. Anyways it was a surprise that the marines suddenly appeared but that sword guy helping us fight them off was even more surprising, didn't he say he won't join my crew?
Oh well a change of hearts maybe?
"Hiken!" I burned another group of approaching marine soldiers.
BOOM!
And man they were weak. I wonder who the leader of this group is.
"Duck!" I saw the sword guy coming at me with that destroyed blade and quickly ducked my head down as he said.
Clang!
When I heard the sound of metal clashing I looked up to see a old looking man with a mohawk wearing a Vice admiral cape clashing blades with the sword guy. Without much thought I gathered flames in my fists before throwing it towards the vice admiral, but the man was quick and he nimbly jumped away dodging my attack.
"Phew thanks for that though I probably would've been fine sword guy." I stood back up and I wasn't boasting about being fine of course. Ever since eating the Flame-Flame fruit I have been hurt only by the sword guys sword and that smoke powered mans weapon in Louge.
"Sword guy? You don't even know my name?" The sword guy shouted at me and geez he had a temper.
"Duh, you attacked us before I could say a word." I watched as the sword guy suddenly go quite. He probably realized what our situation has been like.
"Then let me introduce myself I'm Jason, Joker D. Jason. I'll be under your care from now on..... captain." Jason, so that's what his name is-
"Wait did you call me captain!?" The only reply I got was a nod from Jason
"Yahoo! I got a new comrade- woah!" Before I could finish celebrating Jason pushed me away from a sword slash from that mohawk guy.
-No one P.O.V-
"Be careful you idiot! That man's vice admiral Momonga from Navy Headquarters he definetly knows haki you idiot!" Jason shouted out before clashing swords with Momonga
"Huh? Haki?" Ace asked not understanding what Jason meant before realizing that this wasn't the moment. "Shinka Shiranui!" Ace created a spear of fire and threw it at Momonga which forced the vice admiral the stop the sword clash with Jason and jump away.
Jason seeing this quickly backed off as well and placed the edge of the broken Kubikiribocho into a puddle of blood. And to the astonishment of both Ace and Momonga the giant blade started fixing itself.
"There much better." After inspecting that Kubikiribocho has fully recovered Jason immediatley placed it back inside it's scroll and brought out Shibuki. "Ace prepare the crew to retreat."
Ace's eyes widened stunned by the sudden retreat before he quickly nodded. "All of you prepare to retreat!"
"Like hell I'll let that happen!" For the first time the vice admiral spoke while charging towards Ace when Ace turned around to attack Momonga suddenly disappeared from sight.
"What the?" Before Ace could finish his word Momonga appeared above Ace
"Soru: Flying Squirrel steps!" Momonga swung his sword again only to be intercepted by Jason once more.
"Go, Ace!" Jason shouted as he gritted his teeth from the clash. Don't be mistaken just because Jason intercepted Momonga multiple times doesn't mean the man was weak. And Jason himself knew that better than anyone here.
"We would really love to stay and fight a bit more, but we don't want to visit Imped Down just yet Mr. Vice Admiral." As Jason spoke the tags attached to Shibuki started to glow.
"What are you-"
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!
A giant explosion happened between the two swordsman Momonga not prepared was sent flying quite far. The battlefield was filled with black smoke and smell of gunpowder filled the air. When the smoke finally cleared all the pirates were gone.
Momonga quietly stood up and observed the battleground, it was a massacre. "Someone give me a Den Den Mushi! Another troublesome pirate has appeared." Momonga said the last part to himself in frustration.
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