Prologue arc

## Story

the story opens with a narration explaining how a couple hundred years has passed since the reign of Monkey D. Luffy king of the pirates and goes on how despite all the changes nothing really changes.

the story opens up on the kingdom of Kano in the west blue with Armande Ferro at age ten along with his friends Mann Kay and Dia Rose chase off a couple of older kids. Ganivant Pica Appears behind the children celebrating their victory and scolds them for skipping their classes. she then brings them to Ferro's Grandfather's (Lector Gilant) house. Pica tries to explain Ferro's importance to the kingdom being that he holds the blood of two royal families the Lector and Armande, Scholar and Warrior clans respectively. she also scolds Kay and Rose for not upholding their duties as Retainers in training. Ferro rejects his destiny and gets into a shouting match with his grandfather. after which Ferro and his friends wander off once more despite Pica's protests. Gilant tells her to let them go and goes off to the baer himself, much to Pica's frustration. down the road Ferro airs his frustration and he and his friends run into another small group of friends. they insult Ferro by saying his mother was a slut, his father a traitor and said his grandfather doesnt love him. Kay and Dia chase off the bullies but Ferro keeps his back to them. Dia asks if Ferro is okay only for him to turn around with a smile on his face and giving a thumbs up, calling the bullies idiots. he tells his friends he wants to be a pirate like his father and explore the world. Dia promises to follow him as the world's greatest ninja and Kay promises to be a great swordsman. another girl walks up to Ferro and gives him a rice ball as a present and runs of nervously, Kay claps Ferro on the back and Rose only rolls her eyes.

later at the bar Espada Greese meets with Gilant at the bar. a man walks up to Gilant and tells him Ferro had been beating up his son. Gilant says he doesn't care and the man calls Gilant's daughter a slut, her husband a traitor and their son nothing but a smear on their kingdoms great history. Gilant doesn't budge but Espada threatens the man, calling him a treasoner for speaking so ill of the royal class. Gilant calls Greese an ass for thinking that way and a fight almost breaks out in the bar. but representatives from Mowe corp Commodore Kelly Rebel and Lieutenant Newman Vance come through delivering bounties. they alert the people of a group of pirates calling themselves the Full house pirates had been spotted near by and to be on alert because they were seeking powerful devil fruits and that they may come for the one known as the national treasure of Kano. Gilant responds by laughing and calling Mowe corp nothing more than new age marines, only instead of creating the seven warlords they are controlled by them. Kelly responds by saying that they were only around to make sure the violent murderous pirates didnt get out of control. Kelly Points out to Gilant that there are only three pirate crews in charge of Mowe corp not seven. but Gilant has none of it and says they're still looking for four more crew to Which Kelly reluctantly agrees that that is true. Gilant then goes on a ramble saying how nothing really changes and everything remains the same no matter what they do. history always repeats itself. Kelly Rebel agrees and leaves the bounty posters, outside he tells Newman Vance that there's no point in arguing with Gilant, even going so far as to call him a paranoid old man.

a few days later a pirate ship arrives in Kano with the Full house pirates jolly roger. the division captain Jack of Hearts steps off with Shinza Bita a mysterious cloaked being, Corazon, Herz, Cuore and Zertz and is greeted with the kingsguard who had seen their ship from afar. he threatens the army to bring him the national treasure or he would cause havoc. the army refuses and so begins the battle. Jack tells his men to bring him the devil fruit and to be quick about it, mentioning the island is protected by a yonko and they weren't ready for that kind of battle. Pica Tells Gilant the news and says she is unable to find Ferro or his friends.

meanwhile Ferro and friends followed a couple of people they found weird to the palace. these men are revealed to be commander of the ship of hearts Herz and a few lackeys. Herz studies a few papers he has on hand and says there's a secret entrance which is likely used for escaping so he and his group wait outside to see if anyone comes out with the treasure. as he said a few of the countries soldiers run out of the secret entrance with the treasure in its box. Herz and his flunkies attack and defeat the soldiers. Herz tells his men to grab the box only to find that Ferro had stolen it and he and his friends were running off. Kay tells his friends to keep going he would hold them off and used his training sword to disarm one of the pirates. Kay was then beaten with the blunt end of Herz spear. Herz tells his men to ignore the brat and follow the others but they had gotten to far away.

Espada Greese is holding off Cuore and Zertz only to be cut down by Jack. Jack uses observation haki and see's Ferro running through the woods holding the treasure and sends Corazon and Shinza Bita after them. a few soldiers notice this and try to hold off Shinza Bita, they shoot her only to find out they had eaten the Mera-mera fruit. they unleash a wave of fire and burns the soldiers and melts their weapons. Corazon aims his cross bow at the kids but he's stopped by Ganivet Pica. Bita follows the kids and wraps a ring of fire around them. Rose tries to throw a few kunai at her but they just pass through. Bita is then stopped from attacking the kids by Gilant who used haki. Gilant tells Rose to go get them a boat ready for them to leave. when she does he tells Ferro he just needed her to go so she wouldn't get hurt.

Jack finds Bita and insults them for being so weak. Bita comments on how they are on this mission so he could eat the fruit and tells him where they went. Jack goes into the woods after Ferro and his grandfather. Deep in the heart of the woods Gilant break the silence to tell Ferro he always saw his father like the son he never had and was pleased that his daughter had found him. he then says Ferro being born was the happiest day of his life. they cry and hug and Gilant tells Ferro the treasure is a devil fruit of someone who served the king of the pirates Monkey D. Luffy. he then tells Ferro that he should eat the fruit but to be careful because it probably won't stop the pirates. Ferro eats the fruit and Gilant then tells Ferro not to fight them now, he may get stronger later but now is not the time. Jack catches up to them and sees that Ferro had eaten the fruit. Jack yells at them and tells them he needed that fruit to get stronger so that way he could join the warlords on of the people in charge of Mowe corp. Gilant stands between Ferro and Jack. Jack comments that Gilant used to serve under one of the Yonko but he was confident he could kill him since he was so old now. Gilant tells Ferro to run and attacks Jack, covering himself in haki. Jack defends himself and they fight. Ferro is frozen in fear as the two men fight. Gilant is losing but gains an upper hand using the six king gun technique. Jack is taken aback but Gilant's Haki dissipates. Jack prepares to make the killing blow and Gilant tells Ferro to run once more. suddenly a bullet rips through jacks abdomen. Ferro stands there with his arm taking the form of a rifle. Gilant once again tells Ferro to run. Jack gets back up and slashes at Gilant with his sword. Gilant gains a second wind and blocks it but loses his arm in the process. Gilant fall unconscious while calling out Ferro's name. Jack prepares to make a killing blow but Ferro stops him by unleashing Conquerors haki. Jack almost loses consciousness and curses Ferro promising to take that devil fruit from him. Bita appears suddenly and grabs Jack. they they tell him that they just got word the yonko that protected the place was on their way. Bita uses their devil fruit to carry Jack away.

the scene changes to the docks hours after the battle. all of Jacks forces fled. Mowe corp was there to check in on things. Kelly Rebel is once again there with Newman Vance. Rebel tells the people that they are going to capture Jack but Ferro comes out of the crowd and tells them that they attacked so they could join the warlords. Ferro starts echoing the things Gilant told Rebel before. Rebel brushes this off and Mowe corp leaves.

Meanwhile Jack is being patched up on his ship and Bita appears before him and takes off their mask revealing they are a 15 year old girl. she give Jack a transponder snail and tells him it's their captain Black Ace. Jack gives his full report and Ace doesn't care. he tells Jack they have already found another devil fruit for and and tell him to come get it.

on Mowe corp ship Rebel Kelly calls home base to report Fullhouse pirates attack only to be told by Admiral Kagamera that they are no longer issuing arrests or bounties for the Fullhouse pirates since they are now joining the warlords that own Mowe corp. Rebel looks off at Kano and murmurs what Gilant had been telling him.

Back in Kano the three kids Ferro, Kay and Rose, bruised and battered ask Greese to train them to be pirates. Greese asks why and Ferro answers because he wants revenge and to stop evil pirates. Greese bashes him in the head and tells him that's a stupid idea. to become judge jury and executioner is a flawed ideology. he tells them the only thing a man should want to be is free! Greese repeats his previous question and Ferro answers he wants to be free. he promises to train the three kids and tells them that what they do with the skills he gives them is up to them but he makes Ferro promise never to fight for his breed of justice only for the benefit of his friends. Greese then goes on to explain devil fruit and haki. he also tells the kids about the many fighting styles there are in the world like Black leg, Rokushiki and Hasshoken and promises to teach Ferro all he can. Rose meets with Pica for her ninja training and and asks Pica to teach her how to cook. the three kids later that night steal a bottle of saki and promise to fight for each other and to never cause violence for their own gain.

8 years later Ferro all grown up and says goodbye to his grandfather and steals his hat. Gilant prepares to curse out his grandson but instead sadly wishes him luck in his journey. Ferro meets up with Rose and Kay also now 18 and leave for their journey on a rickety old fishing boat. Rose prepares lunch and asks which of them studied navigation only to be surprised when neither boy learn this skill. she then proceeds to call them idiots as the arc ends.

## Characters introduced

Armande Ferro

Mann Kay

Dia Rose

Jack of hearts

Shinza Bita

Black Ace (voice only)

Newman Vance

Kelly Rebel

Lector Gilant

Ganivet Pica

Espada Greese

Calister Duke (mentioned)

Zertz

Corazon

Herz

Cuore

Kagamera (voice only)

## Devil Fruits introduced

Mera-Mera no mi/Flame-Flame fruit

Buki-Buki no mi/ Arms-Arms fruit