Somewhere in the East Blue;
Underneath the hot rays of summer sunlight, a young man was lying on the boat with his eyes closed, his entire body soaked and mixed with blood.
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
Suddenly, he opened his eyes and coughed up water. After a minute, he placed one of his hands over his forehead and muttered.
"What's going on? Am I in the hospital? Why am I feeling so much pain?"
"Hiss!"
As he said that, he couldn't help but let out a cry. His entire body was aching like hell.
He couldn't even find a way to describe his situation.
More importantly, he was feeling absolutely weak. He slowly turned his head, noticing blood marks all around him.
With several scratches and bruises on his skin, he noticed something was wrong with his arm.
It was a bit too small.
"What?"
When he noticed his arm, he almost sat up, but the extreme pain forced him to stay down.
"What's going on? Why is my body so small?"
He hissed once more before he let out a scream.
"Arghhhhhh! No, this is not my body... Go away! What's this?"
He felt an extremely powerful force trying to break his mind. But his mind proved to be superior.
Especially after merging with the memories of this body, his mind had successfully awakened an extremely mysterious power.
Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!
Red and black lightning shot out towards the sky, and two forces in his mind started colliding.
These two forces were on the verge of breaking his brain. But an extremely potent energy burst out of his body.
This energy started helping him recover, constantly refreshing his brain as it kept two forces colliding with each other.
Boom!
After nearly a minute, a loud explosion occurred around him, shattering the surface of the deck as his body suddenly rose.
With a mysterious white cloud floating around his neck and several strange scales appearing around his body.
A pair of large red wings appeared behind him, and his body seemed to have grown at least five times in size.
But the next moment, his body started shivering as if he had been electrocuted before the scales on his body, and white clouds disappeared.
Thud!
His body fell to the ground, but he couldn't feel anything as he had already passed out.
But surprisingly, the bruises and cuts all over his body had healed.
As the sun slowly set in the west and rose from the east, he finally opened his eyes.
This time, he slowly got up on his feet and muttered.
"So, did I die? It seems like I was fated to die; otherwise, how can a truck simply ignore the traffic rules?"
"It's not like I rushed to the middle of the road to save a little girl or her dog. That is simply absurd. I actually got reincarnated in One Piece World."
He shook his head as he turned towards the small room on his boat. He walked inside and found many places drenched in seawater.
He found some dry food and swallowed everything he could. He finished the food that was enough to feed him for a week in a single meal.
But this wasn't his fault. After all, he was quite hungry.
Especially after awakening his Mystical Zoan Devil Fruit.
Yes, he was not only reincarnated but also ate a mythical zoan fruit. But just after two days of leaving the island, he encountered a storm.
The storm was so massive and destructive that he could neither leave nor stay in the boat.
Leaving the boat was possible only if there was an island nearby. With his full zoan transformation, he could easily leave.
And that's also why the original soul of this body died.
He tried to leave using his full transformation, but encountered a massive wave that instantly weakened him.
After that, he lost control of his Devil Fruit and fell into the sea. At that moment, he almost drowned.
But for some reason, or rather a divine intervention, he didn't die; instead got flung back to his ship by a large wave.
His body crashed on the ship several times, causing those wounds. Throughout all of this, the simple boy from a small village died.
His strength grew immensely after eating the Devil Fruit, but his mentality didn't. He simply gave up when he was hit by the wave.
By the time he crashed on the boat, his mind had officially shut down, allowing another soul to invade his body.
That soul merged with the original soul of this body. It was already scattered and injured, so it was quickly devoured by this body.
But while he was gaining control over his body, he found an extremely powerful resistance from this body.
After all, while his mind did shut down, he hadn't died. The recovery of a mythical zoan was astonishing.
Not to mention, this was the One Piece World.
So, the Will of the Mythical Zoan was still preserved in his body, and that will collided with this new invading force.
Their collision allowed him to awaken one of the most powerful forces in this world.
Conqueror Haki!
With the help of Conqueror Haki and the combination of two souls, he managed to overwhelm the Will of the Mythical Zoan and take control of it.
That's how he awakened his Devil Fruit.
But, according to Kaido, to awaken the devil fruit, one's mind and body must catch up to the powers of the devil fruit.
In the case of Mythical Zoan, that power was astronomically high. Even with his conqueror Haki and two souls, he could barely complete one condition.
So, his awakening wasn't complete.
If he used his awakening, it would strip him of his lifespan. But that did help him recover from serious injuries.
"Whether this is a divine intervention or I am just an unlucky/lucky dude, I will take your body and fulfill your dreams."
"This is my promise to you, Tyler Vodmos! So rest easy!"
After eating, Tyler stood up and touched his heart as he made a promise out loud.
After he said that, he felt a strange burden lifting from his body.
He knew this was the original soul giving up all hope and peacefully merging with his soul.
The original Tyler's soul merged with him when it had been injured, and he had given up all hope.
But after his recovery, that soul wasn't able to overwhelm, but it did leave behind a lingering will.
That Will was resolved when Tyler made him a promise.
After all, the original Tyler was a hot-blooded young man who dreamed of becoming the Pirate King.
In fact, after eating the devil fruit, without much training, he simply left his island to chase his dreams.
So, Tyler had only eaten this fruit for almost a month. That's why he wasn't sure if this was just a coincidence or a divine intervention.
After all, this man simply found a mythical zoan somewhere in West Blue, ate it, and left the island without any training.
But he did realize that Tyler's dream wasn't false.
In fact, when Gold Roger announced to the world about the One Piece, he dreamt of finding the treasure.
But without a strong body or powerful ability, he knew he couldn't do anything. So, he just lived a normal life for ten years.
He was seven years old when Pirate King Roger got executed. Now, he was seventeen.
This age was also perfect to leave the island and become a pirate. But who would have expected that before he could find anything, he would face a storm like that?
From those memories, Tyler was sure that this kind of storm wasn't much inferior to the storms in the Grandline.
So, the idea of flying away in such a storm was quite stupid.
Why was Golden Lion Shiki so interested in Nami?
Because of her navigation skills. She could predict the weather, making it easier for him to manoeuvre in the sky.
So, flying during the storm was an absolutely bad idea.
But the original Tyler only saw it as an opportunity, especially since he could transform into a dragon.
Ryu-Ryu No Mi- Model: Dragon King!
This fruit had never appeared in the original series. It was a fruit that granted him the abilities of the Dragon King.
Unlike Azure Dragon or Niddhoggr, Dragon King was the deity who controlled the storm, water, and weather.
So, the very idea of running away from the storm was stupid.
In fact, Tyler firmly believed that the sea sent him back to the ship because he was the user of the Dragon King fruit.
Otherwise, it wouldn't make sense for the sea to send him back to the ship.
The main problem of this body stemmed from his lack of training and control over his abilities.
In short, he was a weak guy with an overpowered fruit who had already left his home in search of the One Piece.