The waves of the sea were hitting my boat and the salty smell of the sea was in the air. I had now been at sea for a day and was halfway to my destination.
The town I'm sailing to is called Wooper Town and is located in the south of Dawn Island on a group of islands called Windy Peaks, it's said to be a good place to start a pirate crew. Ace also left for that island, but I know he never got there.
From afar I saw a pirate ship coming towards me, it was a pretty small frigate and I sensed 17 people on board of it. The ship had 2 sailing masts with two green sails and the Jolly Roger was a skull with a long tongue and a sword held by the tongue.
I lowered my sail and waited for the ship. The ship slowly approached my boat and a man wearing a green coat and a captain's hat jumped down onto my boat while the rest of his crew watched from above.
I sat on my sun lounger and watched my first victim slowly approaching me.
Wozul: I am Captain Wozul, the Long Tongue of the Long Tongue Pirates. I'm afraid there's bad news for you, darling!
Dia: And what would they be?
Wozuls tongue shoot out of his mouth and wraped around my body. His tongue left his spit all over my body, which I found really disgusting and showed a disgusted face to him.
Wozul: You taste really good, I will now take you to my ship and will have a lot of fun with you there.
Dia: How can you stretch your tongue so far?
Wozul: I once ate the Kam Kam no Mi and can turn into a chameleon.
Dia: That's good, you'll be my first guinea pig when I'm done with you.
I stretched my arms out with full force until his tongue threatened to tear and when he pulled it away from my body, I grabbed His tongue and threw him with full force against his ship, causing a hole in the ship's hull.
Pirates: The captain has been defeated! We sink! Run quickly to the lifeboats!
I pulled Wozul back to my boat and laid him on the ground.
Wozul: You know, we can talk about anything, please spare me!
Dia: I think I'll just kill you and see what happens to your devil power after that, it'll be over real quickly, I promise.
Why: No, don't do this!
I created an apple and stuck a knife into Wozul's head. I saw his soul detach from his body and then another soul fly out of his body and enter the apple in my hand. The apple turned green and a swirl pattern formed on its apple peel, its stalk also became larger and wider.
Dia: So that's how a devil fruit behaves, interesting. Next time I will use a different type of fruit. What do I do with the fruit now? I'll just save it for later, I guess the idiot couldn't use it properly anyway.
I set my sail again and stowed the devil fruit in my small boat cabin.
In the evening I finally arrived at my destination and docked my boat at the harbor jetty.
Pirates: Look guys, a hot-ass bride has landed. Hey sweetie, are you lost, maybe we should walk you home?
Dia: No thanks, I only like strong men, but you can tell me where I can collect the bounty for this pirate here, his body is starting to stink more than when he was alive.
I held Wozul's body in front of me and retrieved his wanted poster from his coat.
Dia: See, this guy is worth 3,000,000 belly's, so where can I find someone who will accept his body!
The pirates all widened their eyes and their knees began to shake.
Pirate: I know a bounty transporter, he takes 10% commission.
Dia: Okay, then take me to him and the rest of you make sure no one gets on my boat, you understand that?
Pirates: Got it, we won't let anyone on the boat.
Dia: If I come back and someone has some of my things taken, I'll cut off all of your hands. Now take me to your friend.
I followed the pirate and dragged Wozul's body behind me, the city was dirty and there were a lot of homeless criminals on the streets. Some were playing with dice cups and others were simply lying on the floor either dead or too drunk to sit up. The pirate from the dock led me to a place called Butchers Bar in a small dark back alley. I entered the store and the bar was filled with criminals, all eagerly eyeing my prey. The room was full of cigarette smoke and we went to the bartender who was wearing a western tuxedo.
Pirate: I have a job for Wester.
Bartender: Just go through, I know this guy.
Dia: Thanks for the tour, from here I'll go alone.
Pirate: I'm glad I could lend my help to you. Can I maybe get your name before I disappear?
Dia: You want to know what my name is? Of course I'll tell you my name.
My name is Blood D. Dia. and I'm going to look for a few people here for my pirate crew, of course they should have something up their sleeves, not like this weakling in my hand!
With that the pirate ran out of the bar and the others looked at me angrily.
I went with the body behind the bar into a small room no larger than 2x3m and a normally dressed man was sitting in the corner of the room peeling potatoes.
Wester: Oh, a new face, what can I do for you?
I held Wozul and his wanted poster in front of me.
Wester: A big fish is washed up today, that makes me happy. I'll get your money minus my 10%.
A gap in the ground opened and Wester took out 2.7 million berries in a small sack and threw it to me.
Wester: You don't have to count the money. I'm not stupid enough to piss on someone so strong.
I hung the bag on my belt and dropped the body and went back to the bar.
Dia: A bottle of whiskey and quickly!
I got my bottle straight away and after a few seconds I left the bar because it smelled like piss. I was walking out of the dark side street, drinking from my bottle, when I was bumped into by a man wearing a priest's robe. He wore square black glasses and had slicked back black hair and was about 20 years old.
Priest: I'm sorry, are you okay? I guess I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going.
Dia: All is well and now let me continue drinking my whiskey.
Priest: Thank you for forgiving me, may the Lord bless you.
The priest ran away and of course I noticed that my money was missing and followed him.
He left the city and entered a dilapidated church whose windows were broken and whose front door was on the ground. I continued to watch him from an opening in the roof of the church, where some tiles were missing.
Priest: Children come out! Today I received a large donation for our church, with the money we can renovate the building and have enough to eat for years.
Two children emerged from hiding. They were no older than 7 years old, a boy and a girl. The girl was wearing a brown dress and had short hazel brown hair and green eyes. The boy was wearing torn pants covered in dirt, a brown beret and a red short vest. He had a scar on his face that went from his ear to his chin, blue eyes and short black hair.
Coni: Father Wallace, is what you say true? Will we no longer have to go begging in the future?
Wallace: No, from today on, none of you have to go begging anymore.
The two children ran to him and hugged him.
Oliver: And who is the woman you brought with you?
The priest turned around and saw me standing at the entrance to the church and panicked.
Wallace: This, this is...
Dia: I am the woman who gave him the donation for your church. My name is Blood D. Dia and your priest will join my pirate crew.
Priest Wallace sweated on his face.
Wallace: Children, don't listen to the woman, I would never leave you alone, please excuse us both for a moment.
Coni: But then we're all alone, I don't want you to leave us!
Oliver: Exactly, give her the money back, we'd rather you stay with us.
Wallace: I'll sort things out, just wait in your hiding places for a little while.
Dia: Do you both like sweets?
Oliver: We shouldn't accept sweets from strangers.
Dia: But I'm not a stranger, you already know my name.
Wallace nodded at them and the two ran over to me and took a packet of candy from my hand.
Coni: Thank you.
Oliver: Thank you.
They both ran back to their hiding places and I went out of the church with Father Wallace.
Dia: Did you really think I wouldn't notice?
Wallace: I'm sorry, I shouldn't have stolen the money from you. But we need the money, I've barely been able to give them both anything to eat in the last month.
Before the pirates were here, the church was financed by the mayor, but he was killed by the pirates, as was my teacher.
Our church was attacked 5 years ago and only me, Coni and Oliver survived the attack. And after Father Frendolin died, I had to take care of everything here alone.
I was only 15 years old at the time and didn't know what to do. The two were still too small to understand everything, so I did everything I could to look after them as best I could and started stealing from pirates when I had no other option. And when I saw you in the bar...
Dia: Did you think I was an easy target?Well, you were probably wrong. However, I won't take back my offer.
You're exactly the kind of person I'm looking for to join my crew, so pack your things and come with me to the harbor.
Wallace: No, I can't leave the kids here alone, please take your money back and find someone else for your crew.
Dia: If that's the case, then we'll just take the children with us. Now pack your things, I still have to open my shop in town.
Wallace: I can't take the children on a pirate ship, that would be far too dangerous for both of them.
I used my bloodlust and Wallace fell to his knees, his whole body was shaking, sweat poured down from his forehead and His breathing felt like he had razor blades in his throat that were slowly filling up his lungs.
Dia: Do you really think this offer is negotiable?
I released my bloodlust from him and Wallace ran back into the church and came running to me with both children under his arms.
Coni: Father Wallace, why are you taking us to the woman?
Wallace: You know, children, from today on this woman is our captain and we will all sail the seas with her as pirates.
Oliver: Really and will we get real bounties like on the posters in the city?
Wallace: You're both too young to have bounties of your own, so don't get the wrong ideas.
Coni: But what will become of the church now?
Wallace: The church is just a broken building, the main thing is that we have each other.
Coni: You're right, as long as you're with me everything is fine.
Dia: From today on you both will call me Captain Dia, but only when other people are around, otherwise you will just call me Dia.
Coni: Got it, Dia and thank you for allowing us to come with you, we will do everything you tell us.
Oliver: On command.
Dia: Welcome to my crew and now let's go to the port, I still have a shop to open.