Year 1516(16 yrs after rogers death) :
Somwhere in the grandline; unknown island:
A small boy sat in a worn down hut located in the middle of a dense jungle. The huts contents were scattered about, with broken pots and a rotting floor. The bed could barely be called a bed, looking more like a slab of wood with on pillow on it.
The boy had extraordinary features. He looked to be about 18, with deep amber eyes scrunched up in confusion as he scratched his golden hair. His 7 foot frame was huntched over an object on the floor. It looked lean and decently muscular, which was odd since Warhaven D. Rudolph or Rudy, the boy, had never exerciseed or worked out in his life.
Sure, he sometimes, he fought for his life 1 or 2 times a month when collecting food in the jungle, but other than that he just stuffed his face and slept around. But we're getting of topic here.
Rudy stared at the strange looking object - a fruit - in front of him with slight suspicious. It was strange golden/yellow watermelon with squiggly lines going all over it. It was unlike any watermelon hed seen before.
A devil fruit.
Quite an exciting prospect, right? A fruit that when eaten would give you magical abilities.
If he was an ordinary citizen of the OP world, he would have eaten without a second thought. Assuming he knew devil fruits even existed, of course.
But he was not.
You see, around a year ago, Rudolph had started to have dreams. Dreams of another life, of a world called earth. He dreamt he was again, guy called Rudolph in this world.
An orphan with a wealthy inheritance who lived a lavidh life, who shrugged of his uncaring foster family and was using his money mainly to gamble, though due to his luck, his money just kept increasing instead of decreasing. Rudolph of that world died young at the age of 23 after a truck crashed into him.
At first it was a little wacky having to inherit more than 2 decades of memories within a year, but considering both versions of himself had extremely similar personalities and nothing of importance actually happened in other Rudolphs life, he was able to adjust.
Well, nothing of importance except for a little(not) show he watched called... one piece.
It was an anime that centered around the world he currently lived in. And if it was to be believed, then a lot of shit was about to go down.
And sitting in front of him right now, was a devil fruit. One that wasn't mentioned in the canon.
Rudolph was, hence, in deep thought.
Rudolph POV:
'I've heard of the term "there is no useless devil fruit, only useless user ". And while that is true for most cases, there are definitely shitty ass DF that break that rule. ' he thought.
I placed my arm over my cheek at sighed for a second, making up my mind.
'My gambling instinct is telling me to eat it. So obviously I should. '
I picked up the devil fruit with a look of finality on my face.
"I swear, if it's like the cook-cook fruit or something, I'll... "
Without wasting another second, I opened my mouth and took a small bite from it.
My eyes suddenly seemed to bulge out of their sockets as my faced turned from tanned to green. It took all my willpower not to throw up on the spot.
It tasted like the most disgusting thing I had ever tasted. A God awful taste with a strange, equally disgusting texture.
After finally compling the painstaking task of swallowing that one bite, I dropped the rest of the fruit down immediately.
"I should have the powers now. Right? "
I blinked for a second, looking around. The world looked completely different. Sharper, and even a bit slower. My hearing picked up things like the birds chirping miles away, and my smell increased seemed empowered as well.
The scent of rotting wood hit me like a truck (see what I did there? ) forcing me to immediately abandon my house and run a good distance away, where I inspected the rest of my powers.
"Hmm.its not just my sensess. I ran way faster just now, and I feel my vitality increased as well. Since it's effecting my body without me using a power... Is it a Zoan? Yeah, it definitely is. " I said to myself.
A faint, almost instinctive feeling creeped into my mind. An outline of an animal formed and gradually started to fill out in my head, with the devil fruits name forming as well.
A feral grin seemed to split my face apart, flashing my newly grown fangs.
"This'll be fun. "