My Enchanting Second Life (A One Piece Story)

CHAPTER 1

All One Piece characters and show belong to Eiichiro Oda

Original Characters to me. And if you know the artist(s) for the images I'm using. Let me know show I can give credit. I'm getting them off the internet. Enjoy!

CHAPTER 1

"This...is still not enough for one meal..." I said to no one. I stare in defeat at the little money I was able to collect in my filthy tin-can for my daily meals or meal. I sat between an alleyway near the opening, taking a break from begging for money in the humid night air.

I feel the famine take over after 3 days of my last meal, "I'm so...hungry...it hurts."

Tears begin dripping down my face as my thoughts swarm through my miserable life that led me here.

I always believed in if you do the right things in life such as: following the rules, doing what you can, life would turn out for the better. I believe in reward after hard work. But as I had abated by that belief...I had lost so much to even survive on my own.

At first, my life wasn't at all great. My father was mostly absent until he disappeared. I was somewhat raised by an emotionally unstable, verbally abusive mother. Fortunately, I grew up on Anime and cartoons to give me a sense of delusional comfort to endure my sufferings. So, it was a living. I had a few friends who I felt I was a burden upon. We all liked Anime but I didn't want my situation at home to come to light. Until the day my mother passed away.

My mother turn to drugs over the years and died from an overdose when I was fourteen. I had ended up at a foster home for about two years. In high-school, I met a teenage boy from a broken home who I felt we understood each other. We dated shortly after having a few of the same classes together. I was so naive that I run away with him at seventeen.

We both worked to afford to live in a crappy one-bedroom apartment. It was manageable for a few years. I was so in love with my boyfriend that I gave my all to him. I foolishly thought he cared about me as I showed my devotion. Even, finding out that I was infertile to have any kids of our own. I cooked, cleaned, and worked more to provide for him. He would tell me that his job didn't pay much but being blinded by "love" I never questioned it.

For years, I thought I was just living a normal simple life like everyone else. In times, I decided to get back into Anime whenever I wanted to cheer myself up. It was what got me through the hardships in my childhood. It might help now as an adult and I engulf into my old habit again. I didn't mind spending a little money on one app, it was good enough for me.

"Ah..." I sighed in bliss as I sat on the worn-out couch that I was accustom to, "okay now to be brave and see this through!" I prepared myself mentally as I surfed through my Funimation app for One Piece. I took my time catching up on the show. To be honest, I've been avoiding the Impel Down Arc since I spoiled about Ace's Death for myself when I spotted a meme about it. I wasn't ready to accept a character's death from the series until now. I had plan to see the show from the beginning since I've almost forgotten details of the other Arcs. But I sort of remembered the most significant details like all the main character's origins and such. I always enjoyed how Luffy met the others all over again.

One day, my boyfriend did the unexpected in my love-blinded eyes and kicked me out of the apartment. He had gotten a younger woman pregnant, and was going to have her move in with him.

"But I-I Iove you!" I remember shouting at him in a pathetic state.

"If you loved me, you wouldn't have gotten so fat and ugly on me!" I heard beyond the front door while my stuff laid scattered outside with my defeated self, "beside I have someone else who's hot, finally! She's young and mature! Doesn't watch any dumbass cartoons instead of bringing me a beer without me telling her too!" He had crushed my heart to pieces.