Journey to One Piece

17. Dreams

"Haah... This was amazing. I never knew that jumping on trees would be so refreshing." Ace gave a wide grin. The first day with his new found powers made him gleeful. After reaching home and delivering food for Dadan to cook, they went to their rooms to discuss their future plans.

Dadan who had seen these small kids grow up was happy that these kids were so powerful but she noticed that Ace had a little change in his behavior. It was very subtle but she did notice it. Ace's way of walking, talking and other small habits had changed as he sat with them to eat. Though she did notice it she didn't point it out.

After eating all the 4 were again at the room where Ken spoke more of his powers. About how he could peep into their lives when they were in simulation and that was why he knew the story of their world. They were fascinated by the character of Naruto, Jiraya and others. Especially Luffy, who cried when he learnt Jiraya died later.

Luffy was really a crybaby at that point. Ace had no other option but to hit him on the head to make him shut up.

"Luffy, from tomorrow your training in water will start. Your current sandals will prove of no value tomorrow so I will provide actual shoes of the ninjas and even the dress to the three of you." Ken said.

"The ninja dress. Your Devil Fruit allows you to bring things from that world?" Sabo was more fascinated by the power. He had never heard nor could even imagine what weird powers this Devil Fruit of Ken was.

"Of course. Or else how do you think I got my hammer?"

They were silenced by this as they didn't think of the fact that Ken's hammer had just appeared from thin air. Later Luffy and the three even tried lifting the hammer but they couldn't. No matter what!! After a few more small talks, they went to sleep.

Next day after having breakfast, the 4 people left early in the morning. All this time, Ace and Sabo had to struggle for food and money but from this day everything changed for them. They would only have to practice and make sure that they become strong. Collecting money would be a walk in the park after they become powerful. Money was no longer the first priority at this point.

"I will help you get money. You just train." That's what Ken said and the three were happy about it. Luffy was the person who had the hardest time though.

The next portion of training was walking on water. And Luffy being a rock in water had to fight a lot. Sabo and Ace had to leave their practice and help Luffy. Even Ken had to help him. The moment Luffy touched the water of the river he automatically became weak.

And in order to overcome this weakness, Luffy had to practice there for a week. Yes! A week it took Luffy to walk on water and make sure that the water was no longer the weakness. Ken gave a wild grin when he saw that. A small part of Wano is taken care of. No longer will Luffy suffer just because it's water.

Luffy was jumping joy seeing he could walk, run and even use his own hands to treat water like a solid object. The character progression of Luffy had already touched 13% at this point. It was slow but Luffy was only 7 years old. There are 10 more years left for Luffy to go to the sea.

On this week, Sabo and Ace were not idle. They practiced. Ace practiced his Byakugan and the first move of Eight Trigrams. It was hard but he was able to complete it. And Sabo too was practicing.

He was practicing with shuriken!!

Danzo had wind style jutsus and used vacuum as his main selling point. In order to be good at that he needed to be proficient in shuriken and kunai and thus Sabo was practicing with the ones which Ken had provided.

The week went by fast and after Luffy learnt the way of walking on water, they decided to celebrate. And the celebration came in the process of sharing sake and becoming brothers. Ken smiled when Sabo had brought sake and 4 cups. The famous scene was finally taking place.

At night, under the stars, at their makeshift home, the 4 brothers clinked their cups and became 4 brothers. The story which should have been 3 brothers changed at this point when Ken joined. He changed the dynamic of the trio and the changes that he would bring to the world would be unprecedented.

It was at this point that everyone declared their dreams. Ken was surprised that there were changes to the dreams of Sabo here. He said

"I want to erase the darkness of this world. Living Danzo's life I understood that there is necessary darkness in order for the world to move but I want to be as less as possible. I don't want innocents to suffer for a thing they didn't do or a future generation to carry the burden of the past."

Ken smiled at this. This was a change. But a welcome one. Ace on the other hand didn't change his dreams. He still wanted to be free in the sea and explore. And then the actual situation came. The dream of Luffy.

The actual dream of Luffy was always a mystery in the One Piece world. He had always clamoured about being a PIrate King but only very few people know that Luffy had an extra dream. And Ken was looking forward to that.

But fate played a joke at that point. As Luffy spoke of his dream there was a loud roar nearby by a lion which had sneaked up to their hiding place and was less than 50 metres away. Ken, who was too much focused on Luffy, stiffened when he heard that roar.

This roar just straightly killed the sound from Luffy's mouth. Not only Ken didn't get to hear the dream of Luffy. Neither did Ace and Sabo. Ken was so angry at this point that he proceeded to use lightning to kill this lion which roared at the foot of the tree.

The lightning fell from heaven directly at the lion and burnt it to the crisp. Luffy and others were terrified seeing this.