One Piece: Rise - East Blue Saga 1

A week had passed since the day you assaulted Tequila Wolf and Rebecca joined the crew.

After looting the place for everything of value, you had stayed behind while the former slaves escaped on marine shapes to cause as much damage to the massive bridge structure as possible.

Something that was very easy after Carina ate the Shout Shout fruit. The basics of its use were pretty straight forward, and she had an example to follow in El Drago. So within a couple hours, she'd already replicated what the gold obsessed fool had been able to do with it.

And in outright pure destructive power, it was funny that Carina was already your superior in that regard. It showed just how powerful a devil fruit it was.

It only took a night, and between you, her and Rebecca, the three of you had destroyed tens of dozens of miles worth of the bridge. And in the process, looted over two hundred million beri. Though, half of it was given to the former slaves to make sure they were well taken care of.

Carina was happy regardless. Even with giving half away, in beri alone, the coffers of the crew was at one hundred and seventy seven million beri. And you assigned her the job of being the treasurer and keeping track of the money on top of being the crew musician, a position she was all too happy to accept.

Your destination from there, was Dusk Island. It was a resort island not far away from Dawn Island, home of the Goa Kingdom, and were known for hosting the best shipwrights in East Blue.

Currently, you found yourself lounging, curled up into a ball in the form of a massive white tiger, relaxing atop the warm beach sands.

"Right, let's do it!" Rebecca laughed happily as she held a blue beach ball aloft. Your eyes traced her form and you had to praise Carina's sense of style and the cloths she'd given the girl. The clothes she'd taken to wearing most, were already beach ready.

She was wearing an orange bikini top that tied atop the back, and by god did it show how stacked the pink haired girl was. Despite being years younger than Carina, she was just as busty up top, with huge creamy breasts.

And the tiny little daisy dukes she wore, made for a drool worthy sight, exposing a glorious amount of round, perky backside

The voluptuous pink haired girl through the beach ball into the air before leaping up after it and spiking it down over a volleyball net, to the other side where Carina was.

The purple haired woman if possible, was dressed in an even more revealing attire than Rebecca, wearing nothing but tiny white triangle bikini that left tons of large jiggly breasts and her large ass in clear view

She quickly downed the champagne in the glass she was holding before tossing it aside and cupping her hands together to receive the blue beach balls, and returning it.

Rebecca was strong, really strong actually. Not as strong as you, but you didn't doubt she could overpower the average fishman with one hand tied behind her back easily.

Carina was no slouch either though, and interestingly, the Shout Shout fruit, upon eating it, had strengthened her body to be able to hand the massive kinetic force it could generate.

You happily watched both voluptuous females run and bounce around, their jiggling curves made for quite the pleasant viewing pass time.

And you were not the only one to think so. There were tons of guys further down the beach who clearly wanted to come over. But they couldn't hide how terrified they were of you, being a massive tiger and all, and didn't want to get anywhere near you.

"Time out, time out!" Carina shouted after a moment as a news coo descended through the air.

"Kay!" Rebecca caught the beach ball instead of hammering it back as the purple haired woman pulled a small roll of beri from one of her tiny bikini cups and passed it to the news coo in return for the newspaper.

"Keep the change." she waved it off and let it take into the air.

She opened the newspaper and then went totally wide eyed and you felt shock and horror resound strongly through her with your haki, "Magnus!" she shouted, turning to you.

...Well what's this then?

"What's wrong?" you asked.

The purple haired woman ran over to you , pulling bits of paper from the newspaper and when she stopped in front of you, she shoved them in your face, "This is what!" she shouted.

You pulled back a bit so you could see them properly, and your eyebrows rose in interest, "Oh, my bounty went up." you noted, and a massive grin spread across your face when you saw how much.

Hah, you knew it! One hundred and sixty four million beri. That was a truly absurd amount for East Blue, higher than you'd ever heard of from this sea, by far!

And the second bounty, was one for Carina herself. Seventeen million beri for a starter bounty in East Blue. Not bad at all! The only current active pirate in East Blue with a bounty higher than that besides yourself was Arlong.

"How did they even get this picture?" Carina groaned, "We killed like every marine there!"

"Probably a surveillance snail or something like that," you replied. You'd felt a few of them with your haki, alongside a bunch of Den Den Mushi snails. But, you weren't going to kill innocent little things like that. "Oh, we should get a few for ourselves alongside a few Den Den Mushi." you remarked idly.

"And of course you don't even flinch," Carina sighed, then shrugged, and collapsed against you, her bare back resting on your furry side, "Oh well, this wouldn't happen sooner or later I suppose considering I joined the crew of the most wanted man in East Blue."

Rebecca made her way over and checked out the bounties herself, "Red Magnus and Hell-Cat Carina, these are such cool names!" she gushed, eyes sparkling, "Why didn't I get a bounty?" the pink haired girl pouted.

"You were a slave on the bridge, and didn't really do much even when we destroyed the bridge." Carina replied.

"Oh, right," Rebecca gave a blink as she remembered and laughed sheepishly, "Guess I'll need to beat up a lot of people when we get into fights if I want a cool name like you guys."

"We'll probably need to get a move on soon," Carina pursed her lips, "Sitting around in one place isn't a good idea for long, everyone will want a piece of us now."

"Is it though?" You asked lazily, "Not many had the balls to challenge me before, and my bounty was already pretty damn big. And you two aren't exactly weak. There's probably nobody in this sea that can even touch Rebecca now with her fruit, and you're better with that fruit already than El Drago was."

"This is different, your bounty is literally record breaking," Carina shook her head, "It shows how big a threat the world government considers you, and my bounty is clearly only so high starting out because of association. This is outside the realm of normal, they may send in bigger guns from the Grand Line just specifically for you."

She did have a point. But, even in the past seven days where you'd mostly relaxed at a high class resort after paying out two hundred thousand beri for the best hotel and best treatment possible for your stay, it wasn't like you'd been idle.

You'd got the basic uses of Rankyaku and Geppou down. And even made some progress in copying how your old teacher Graydle used Armament Haki.

Give it a couple months and you were sure you could catch up to where he was in regards to it, if not sooner.

You were already a decent bit stronger than you were when you fought him, and you didn't plan on slowing down at all. And it wasn't like Carina or Rebecca were weak. You'd sparred with Rebecca a bit over the past week and she was pretty damn good with a sword, and her ability to dodge was amazing. She'd been trained since she was a child apparently to be able dodge attacks from all directions using her Observation Haki with the most minimal of movements and to use her opponents strength against them. Now, with the Metal Metal fruit, even after just getting a few of the things Graydle used with it down over the past week, she'd become a bit of a power house in her own right.

"Ah, leaving already?" Rebecca pouted again, "I've been having fun while here, I've not been able to do anything like this before."

Rebecca was a really cheerful girl, that hadn't been an act. And with your promise to defeat Doflamingo for her, it was like a weight had been lifted from her shoulders. She apparently only had one person waiting for her back at Dressorsa, but without her, they'd be much more able to survive apparently because they were much stronger than her. A Soldier-san. Apparently, someone that had been turned into a toy because of a devil fruit power due to someone on Doflamingo's crew.

"I'm not opposed to leaving," you shrugged your furry shoulders, you were all for relaxing and enjoying things, but you also wanted to hit the Grand Line sometime soon, "But we're still waiting on the ship being finished up."

"It should be finished by tomorrow apparently," Carina replied, "We just need to pick it up tomorrow since we've already paid in advance."

"So where should we go next then?" Rebecca asked, "I'm not familiar with East Blue."

"She's got a point," you nodded, "Beyond attacking a few other pirate groups, I don't know anyone worth going after to recruit. Maybe Roronoa Zoro?" the pirate hunter was supposed to be a pretty strong guy and had a hell of a reputation for the East Blue.

"We have no idea where to find a guy like him, he's always on the move apparently." Carina replied.

"So Grand Line then?" Rebecca asked, "Unless you want to attack some pirate groups and steal their stuff? That's what we do as pirates right?"

"Is there anyone even around worth going after?" you wondered, "The fishman pirates aren't exactly impressive, the Black Cat's are more successful than them, granted that's due to me, but still."

"There's the Trump Pirates," Carina mused, "I was looking into Clockwork Island to steal the diamond clock since it's like the most expensive thing in East Blue and I found that they'd taken the place over. Their combined bounty is almost forty million beri and two of them even have devil fruits we might be able to grab."

They did, did they? "That's an option I suppose," you nodded, "And Clockwork Island is on the way to Reverse Mountain from here."

"We kinda need other people for the crew though right?" Rebecca asked, "I mean, there's only three of us and sailing the ship is pretty hard with so little of us."

"True, though that won't be a problem once you can do that metal clone thing Graydle could do," you nodded, "But we really do need other crewmates. Like a proper cook and doctor."

"There's Nami I suppose," Carina tapped her chin, drawing both you and Rebecca's attention to her, "You could say she was my rival in stealing from pirates. She's a really good navigator, and she's from the Conomi Islands, but she's always on the move so it's unlikely she'll be home. And well, she really hates pirates, and considering I done her kinda dirty last time we met up on top of that, it's really unlikely she'll join."

Well, it was tempting. You didn't actually have a designated navigator, it was just you and Carina that were while pretty good at it, not exactly masters. But, it looked like it would be a pain to recruit her, so no point going for it.

"Let's go for the Trump Pirates," you decided, "We've got El Drago and  Golas' heads stored, we can grab the heads of them as well when we take them down, and then have Rebecca drop all the heads off at the marine base in Logue Town on the way to the Grand Line."

"Eh me?" Rebecca pointed at herself in surprise.

Carina nodded, "That's a good idea, and Clockwork Island is on the way to Logue Town anyway," the purple haired beauty said, then looked at Rebecca, "And since you want a cool bounty. You'll have it on your rep that you took these guys down, so when you come out as a pirate later, it'll make your bounty even higher."

"Oooh!" Rebecca's eyes sparkled and she jumped into the air punching her fist high up, "That sounds awesome! Let's do that!"

"Alright, it's decided," you nodded, wrapping your tail around Carina's hips and lifting the bikini clad woman up onto your back as you stood up, "We should go stock up on food and stuff right now then for the voyage."

Carina rolled her eyes, "You enjoy being a tiger too much." she replied, but chucked lightly at your actions anyway.

"Ooh, can I ride you to?" Rebecca asked eagerly.

You smirked, eyeing the girls large breasts that shone with perspiration and sunlight, jiggling and rippling slightly with each breath she took, "You can ride me anytime Rebecca." you winked.

"You're the best Magnus!" she cheered again and hopped up onto your back. The innuendo flew completely over her head.

And in response, Carina chopped the back of your head, "Keep it in your pants tiger boy."

"How about no?" you laughed, glancing at her from the corner of your eye and taking in her own massive well of cleavage, "Kinda hard to when you walk around like that."

"Aww, am I giving the big strong and scary Red Magnus a hard time? Shishishi." Carina sniggered.

"What are you talking about?" Rebecca asked, confused.

"He thinks we have nice breasts." Carina continued to laugh as she responded.

"Oh!" Rebecca blinked, "Thanks Magnus! You have great fur!" she complimented back.

You shook your head in amusement and started walking, carrying the pair of them on your furry back.