A small dinghy slowly floated across the sea without rowing or unfurled sails. Eventually, the dinghy arrived at a small port.
Almost immediately, a battalion of Marines stormed to the dock and yelled, "No docking without payment! Please pay up or leave!"
When no one responded, the Marine officer kicked the dinghy and addressed the sleeping young man on the boat with growing anger.
"Wake up immediately! You will pay the fee or be arrested!"
The young man let out a yawn as he stretched his arms out before finally opening his eyes.
"Did you have to wake me up? That was a really good nap I had going there," said the man with a wry smile.
"Do you not know where this is?" Asked the Marine Officer with a deepening frown.
"Of course I don't know where this is. I just woke up," replied the young man while rolling his eyes at the officer.
"This is Shells Town! A Marine-occupied base! Our Captain is the feared Axe Hand Morgan!"
"Like I give a damn," retorted the young man as he slowly got up from the boat and stood to face the officers.
His black hair was ruffled from sleeping while his white healthy skin faintly glowed in the sunlight. He was wearing a black coat over a white shirt that could hardly hide his muscles beneath. Two swords hung at his waist, one white and long and the other black and short.
Overall he was a handsome young man.
"State your name, business, and pay up!" Yelled the marine officer as he raised his gun and pointed it at the young man.
"Alright alright. My name is Miyamoto Toji. I don't have money to pay for the docking fee," the young man said while raising his hands in a mocking tone.
"Then we will take your boat as payment and you will be arrested for docking without pay."
Toji smirked. "Arrested? I don't think I will."
In a laid-back manner, Toji placed his hand on the hilt of his katana. "After all, what kinda pirate would I be if I got arrested on my first voyage?"
The Marines collectively frowned as they raised their guns and swords towards Toji and got ready to shoot.
The Marine Officer gave Toji a look of pity.
"Another young kid poisoned by the great era of pirates. Another kid to die, unknown. Goodbye, nameless pirate."
"I already said my name was Toji," yawned Toji as he raised his other hand and waved. "Weapons. Arise."
Before the Marines could shoot, their guns and swords rose into the air about ten feet and hovered before combining into a giant metal ball in the sky.
Looking at the terrified looks on the marines' faces, Toji let out a small smile.
"Grind."
The mass of weapons started grinding against each other as sparks flew out like a New Year's firework show. Eventually, using the incredible friction generated the metal mass was reduced to a red-hot molten ball in the sky.
"Since I am a pirate, I should do pirate things right?" Teased Toji as he glanced at the Marine battle ships sitting in the dock. "I don't think this amount of metal will do for my new ship so I guess I'll be stealing some metal from yours?"
Before the marines could even process the words, metal started ripping out of the ships at the port and joining together with the molten ball, increasing its size by many factors until Toji was satisfied.
In front of the marines, Toji started using the molten metal ball to form the shape of a ship and eventually dropped it into the sea, causing a loud hiss of steam to explode from where the hot metal touched the sea.
Toji rolled the ship around the sea once or twice to cool it off enough before releasing it from his control.
Seeing that his creation was able to float, Toji let out a happy smile as he controlled the metal soles in his shoes to slowly float up and land on his ship.
"Thanks for the metal, I really needed a large amount to build my ship and every other town I went to only had wooden boats. I can finally truly start my voyage now."
The marine officer, finally grabbing ahold of himself let out an angry yell! "Devil Fruit user! Captain Morgan will take care of you personally! Just you wait!"
Toji let loose a loud laugh. "Send my thanks to Captain Morgan too! He can send a message to the Marine Headquarters and perhaps they will respond fast enough to send him a new boat after a week! But I guess I'll be long gone by then… farewell!"
Gritting his teeth, the marine officer grabbed his transponder snail and hurriedly reported to his captain.
"Captain! An upstart pirate has robbed our ships of all their metal! Yes! He is a devil fruit user! We can't chase after him! All our ships are sunk! His name?"
The officer gritted his teeth with hatred. "His name is Miyamoto Toji!"