Tarako Saga

Map of the Area Explored in the Tarako Saga

The **Tarako Saga** is the first story saga, covering the start of the Crew's adventure to when they defeat Eustass Valve and Captain Marrow.

The PC's Crew gets introduced and they journey through the South Blue, learn more about eat other, eat Devil Fruits, and become heroes. They also meet some notable NPC's, some who will become Crew members, namely Pearl and Gravy, and some who become great allies, like Jasper and Atom. However, they're opposed by powerful forces, one in the Marines, the dreaded Captain Marrow, and one of the piracy, the crazy Captain of the Steam Pipe Pirates, Eustass Valve.

## Summary

### *The Gallows Island or Angler Pirates Arc*

This saga starts off with the audience meeting the crew and the crew waking up on a beach after a typhoon has just destroyed their ship, finding a strange girl being captured by the Marines, they decide to save her, finding out her name is Pearl. Giving the crew a small ship as thanks for saving her, the crew and Pearl head to the closest island, Gallows Island. Pearl leads the crew to Shipwright Friggworth to get them a new ship, finding out that they don't have any money the shipwright says that his son has gone missing recently, and if they can find and return him, he'd be willing to give them a ship for free. Finding out his son regularly went to a tavern, the crew makes their way there, finding out some information about him which leads them to a fishing shop, which leads them to the wine cellar under the Gallows Island Mayors Mansion. It is here they meet and fight the Anglers, another band of pirates, and save the son of the shipwright, returning him home the shipwrights son tells his dad that the Anglers wanted a map they had, the shipwright tells his son that wasn't worth his life, giving the map to the crew, the shipwright says the map leads to a Devil Fruit.

Overjoyed to see his son, Friggworth prepares the ship in a few days and tells the Crew where the island is. During this time Friggworth also told the Crew that Little Timmy was going to be hanged. The Crew, knowing the couldn't fight an entire island (yet) decided to leave him to his fate, but William always believed he'd be just fine. In honor if his death, Verona names his gun Little Timmy and they start a new adventure, leaving the island with Pearl on their newly named ship: the Yogi Pooh!

### *The Search for the Devil Fruit Arc*

The Crew leaves Gallows Island and stop on a small island to avoid the Marine's toll checkpoints. After landing, William and Verona go on shore to investigate and find an old man living alone in a small shack. William pretends to be the old man's son, Captain Marrow, while Verona calls himself Carl. They talk with the old man and learn that Captain Marrow, the commanding officer of all Marines in the region, ate a Devil Fruit 10 years ago. Once the old man keeps them from leaving William has Verona knock him unconscious with the butt of his rifle. Ragnar, Pearl, and Duros then enter the shack and are surprised to find an old man on the ground. After a heated discussion, William says he'll heal the old man so Duros goes to the doorway. William then kills the old man in cold blood while Duros notices a small boat approach the island.

The Marine Postman gets out of the boat and approaches the shack while William prepares to do his best old man impression. When he gets close to the shack, William tells him to come in, which he does as Ragnar restraining him, and stealing his Den Den Mushi. The Crew tie up the Marine and leave the island, now directly heading for the Island marked with an 'X'.

Landing on a small unnamed island just below Miller Island they meet an old man who they find out if the father of a Marine Captain, killing him they leave this island and land on the island with the red X. After disembarking from their ship they are attacked by a Polar Bear, doing some damage it is eventually killed by a pimp like man who uses explosives, Atom.

Working with Atom they make their way towards mountains on the island in search of all the snow, after reaching the mountain they find out that it's not a mountain and actually legs of a sad Giant. After finding out the Giant just wants companionship and that they just killed its pet, the Polar Bear that attacked them, they put some fish in some boots which the Giant likes, and it points them towards the middle of the island where they find recently dug up dirt and rocks, Atom blows it up and asks them who wants to go down the now revealed hole first.

The group enters the hole and Verona slips part way down, but Pearl catches him through some mysterious means. Down there is a mysterious, apparently ransacked town with one treasure chest that has remained closed. Ragnar and Duros break open the chest and find a Devil Fruit inside. This sparks Atom to attack Pearl in order to claim her bounty, but instead she turns into a massive pink and brown dragon. Atom then flees the scene leaving the Crew out to dry.

After burning Ragnar and Duros almost to death Verona and William try and calm Pearl down while she claws at them, which they do after a few more desperate pleas. Pearl returns to her human form and apologizes for her actions while the Crew rest in the village for the night. The next day they discuss what they know about Devil Fruit and that Ragnar should eat it, as he needs the strength to kill Eustass Valve, captain of the Steam Pipe Pirates, the man who destroys this village along with his home. Once he does this, he becomes a Grizzly Bear Human, allowing him to turn into a bear.

The Crew go back up and out of the hole, but find the giant dead, with the only wound being one through its heart. In death he kept Fish in Boots warm and proves a grim reminder of how weak the Crew is now. But once they make it back to the Yogi Pooh, they have a party all through the night, until dawn dawned, and Marine ship came beside them.

After screeching William and Pearl's bounties, a fight ensues between the Crew and Lt. Hubris' Marines. The Crew stomps them and when Hubris begs for mercy as William and Duros board his ship. In the midst of his pleas, Verona shoots him with Little Timmy.

### *The Atom Arc*

On the ship, William and Duros find some bounty posters, the most relevant one being Eustass Valve's, for 40 Million, and Gravy, a cook on the Marine's ship. Coming back to the ship, the Crew set off to Krendor, a wasteland of an island. Once they dock near the end of the island, they find Atom's ship and William and Verona proceed to piss in his bed. After this, the Crew goes to the local saloon where they find and interrogate Atom, but spare him as he was motivated by his hospitalized sister. Now gaining him as an ally, Pearl wants to have him help them break her brother out of prison. In return Atom then leads them to a secret casino where they meet Bullet who has a Devil Fruit. William then gambles Ragnar in exchange for the fruit and some information, and after some dubious actions, wins, and eats the fruit, becoming a Roulette Human. William then finds out that the Steam Pipe Pirates have a base on Krendor, which the Crew immediately heads towards.

The group then reach the cave and Ragnar starts by killing a guard in one attack. Upon entry, Ragnar explains that his wife and son were taken by the Steam Pipe Pirates, so he wants to hunt down their captain to find them. they find Steam Pipe Pirate Commander Volt, who has jagged blonde hair and a mechanical arm, and ask him about Valve. Volt tells them he's not here, but will kill them in his stead before charging up his arm.

Volt and some random members of the SPP fight the Crew and after Ragnar goes down, the Crew end up killing everyone there, expect for one sad member. After learning that Valve is planning to invade Tarako, Ragnar kills him and then the Crew eat salads. The Crew then head back to the town, while Atom, Duros, and William go visit Atom's sister Molly in the hospital. The next day they get some buns and sail towards the Tarako Kingdom while William trains with his Devil Fruit.

However Verona soon spies two sinking ships in the distance, one pirate, the other a Marine ship. William, Verona and Atom board the Marine ship finding various wanted posters and Duros and Ragnar find two people tied up, they untie and talk to them. They say they're slaves and are brought onto the Yogi Pooh. However, when they're being questioned, one of them kills the other and summons black tentacles around the ship.

### *The Prison Break Arc*

After some tense negations, the tentaclly Not Steve and the Crew agree to break into the prison due to a common interest and never meet again. After getting everyone in one room, they lay out a plan to bust open the prison, which only involved a little stealth and some explosions. As the Crew neared the island, Not Steve left with William and Verona. Not Steve sneaks into the shadows, disappearing while William and Verona sneak up and jump some guards giving Atom time to plant and ignite his explosives.

The Crew then blow up the walls, rushing inside they blow up another smaller wall and Ragnar meets an old man from his village, finding out that the people from his village were taken and sold as slaves, also finding out that the healthier people are sold much sooner to people in the Grand-Line, meaning there is a chance Ragnar's family is alive. The crew then head further into the prison and find Pearl's brother in a cell but also meet Not Steve again, who is angry the person he wanted to assassinate wasn't there, so he begins to fight the crew. He holds out a calling card which William recognizes and later on during the fight Ragnar kills him in his bear form.

### *The Tarako Kingdom Battle Arc*

The Crew quickly rouse Jasper who agrees to meet them in the Throne Room. But as they head towards the kingdom, they encounter Captain Marrow, Atom distracts Marrow so that the crew may run by him and Marrow ends up killing Atom by piercing his chest with a large bone attack. The Crew run towards the city, and kill some Steam Pipe Pirates who call in their commander, a girl named Piper who fights with two pipes,. The Crew ends up killing her and moving further towards the castle.

Then they encounter Bullet here and she attacks them, they end up knocking her out and stealing her equipment, tricking her into believing they are part of an assassin organization out to kill her, they end up telling her the contract is no longer valid and let her go before continuing onto the castle where they encounter Captain Marrow, Valve and Jasper all about to attack one another.

Verona starts to makes a speech about how Marrow killed his father and so the battle against Captain Marrow, the man who killed Verona's father and Eustass Valve, the man who kidnapped Ragnar's wife and child and sold them as slaves, begins. As they fight William gets the Heat Heat fruit and uses it to copy Valves steam based moves, hitting Valve with a Thousand Degree Punch. Duros and Ragnar slash into Valve as the fight goes on, weakening to the point in which Ragnar is able to slice him and push him to the ground, stamping on his head with his foot to kill him.

Meanwhile Verona gets knocked out by a powerful attack from Marrow and William hits Marrow with a thousand degree spinning kick and knocks him off a balcony. Marrow uses a special attack called BONE BONE EXPLOSION, he shoots hundreds of bones towards the ground but Duros protects them all behind his shield, Pearl then flies into the sky carrying Ragnar and drops Ragnar down onto Marrow, Ragnar using his special move KUMA SHREDDER, to shred Marrow into strips of meat, killing him.

After killing Marrow they discuss the battle and manage to stabilize Verona from death and they venture into the treasure room, convincing Jasper to adopt Atom's Sister during the walk. Once they arrive at the treasure room they find a treasure chest has been looted with a blue card with a key on it, similar to the one they found back in the prison with Not Steve and a letter addressed to William, William explains what it says and who 'Boss' is.