A Piece Kanou Chapter 1 : The Three Islands

• Addiden Zhao
• Short Story
• 2023

The sea, nearing the Paradise-New World Diva...
The Silver Knight Alliance's giant ship rocked on the waves as it neared the Paradise-New World Diva, where the Alliance would finally reach the New World - a relatively unexplored segment of the world, filled with extremely powerful pirates and marines. "Arc? Arc! Come and check this out!" came the excited voice of Fajita. Arc jerked up. "What is it? Marines?" choked Arc as he struggled to get up. "Nah, it's something good!" replied Fajita excitedly as he rushed to Arc, gripping a newspaper in his hands. "Look! Look! You're on the front page of today's issue! You know why? It's because you've become one of the NEW Emperors of the Sea!!!" gushed Fajita. Everyone on the ship stopped what they were doing at the announcement of the news. "Really?" questioned Arc as he peered at the newspaper, "wow! I really am an Emperor now! Wow, I'm replacing Leon! And the person replacing Buster is... Misery? Who's this? Geez, I've got a bounty of 4,599,016,985! And this Misery guy has a $4,000,000,000 bounty!" Marco looked up. "Misery? Isn't he the former captain of the Astral Pirates?" Marco cried out. "What? The Astral Pirates had a former captain?" asked Cypher, bewildered. "I believe the captain now is Omen? It was on the Buster Fall papers about three years ago," announced Foliage. "Hey, guys! Look! It's the Diva!" cried out Viper, pointing out towards the horizon where there was a huge dividing wall of tides and storms. "It looks... dangerous!" remarked Gunem'all. Karnarnia merely grunted. "Woah, it does look dangerous! OK, what's the first island, guys?" questioned Arc excitedly. "Well, the first 'island' isn't one island. It is composed of three alike islands pulled together by a strong whirlpool," explained Law, "it's called 'Kanou'." And then, the giant ship sped out into the Diva, where a mist shrouded them and then, they were gone from Paradise.
Marine HQ - New World Branch...
Fleet Admiral Aramaki got up and paced around in the room. "We'll be departing for Kanou soon, sir?" questioned one of the new three Admirals - Bulldog. "Yes. I don't know why, but the new Commander-In-Chief of the World Government has ordered us there to investigate - it seems the Kanou citizens are studying history - specifically 800 years in the past. I don't know why the Government is covering up information from 800 years ago - remember what happened when Geppoux went to Saturn Island because the citizens of that island supposedly knew something of the past 800 years? What a shame, what a shame! I suppose Onigirishima will be next, they've always studied this history," answered Aramaki, "I think the Zoan Army will be there too. Come on, let's go or we'll be late!"
The New World...
"WOAH! This looks so beautiful!" remarked Arc as they entered the New World. The rest of the Alliance looked with glee at the beautiful new world they had entered. "Aha! I see Kanou! It is three islands after all! Let's hop off and explore!" ordered Arc. "There's three islands. Where do we go first?" questioned Oxford. "I know! We'll just split up and meet again at some point! Fajita, Oxford, Viper, Foliage and me will go to the first island. Law and Marco, you go to the second. Cypher, Gunem'all and Karnarnia - you go to the third. Got it? Let's go!" And so, the Alliance bounded towards the new island.
Kanou, Island One...
"Wow! This place is fascinating!" exclaimed Arc, bounding forth. "Careful, now! You can't forget that there are civilians here! And civilians hate pirates!" warned Oxford. Arc didn't seem to hear. He bounded to a villager and greeted her with glee. "How are you all doing on this wonderful day?" he asked. The villager shivered and avoided his gaze. "Not good at all... the Marines and the Zoan Army are coming to raid this place! They going to execute us just because we've been studying a curious history! Hmm? You're not a local, are you? Hey! You're an outsider. Are you a Marine?" she asked suspiciously. "Nah, I'm a pirates-" began Arc. The villager yelped. "-but I'll help you battle those Marines and the Zoan Army! We've done it before!" he hastily continued. "Really? We could really use your help. Now that I think about it, you look familiar. Hang on... you were on the front page of the paper today! You're-you're an EMPEROR of the SEA! Wow, we could really use your help!" exclaimed the villager in awe.
Kanou, Island Two...
"Nothing to see here... this place is so barren!" said Marco wistfully as he flew into the sky as a phoenix and scouted ahead. "And the sun is scorching! Ah, I think I'm going to die from heat stroke! Wait! Is that a river up ahead?" questioned Law. "Wow! You're right - let's go there!" replied Marco and they bound off ahead towards the water.
Kanou, Island Three...
A Marine Battleship was on the coast...

TO BE CONTINUED In Chapter 2 : A World of Pain