Third Age: Episode 1

Third Age: Episode 1 is entitled "Tale of the Straw Hat, Part 1".

''The episode begins 10 years before the universe's pre-timeskip storyline. Enter Jonathan Arleigh, a kid who has just finished playing ball with his friends goes home to prepare for lunch time. While his mother is cooking meat and a soup meal, Jonathan is setting up the table by placing the spoon, the forks and the plates. He also cooked three cups of rice in a cooking machine.''

''Every lunch time in Tendokyo, it is a custom to go home for lunch and it usually lasts for three hours, one hour for eating and two hours for siesta and/or other afternoon-related activities. It begins at 11 o'clock and ends at 2 pm.''

''His father and older brother arrives after a few minutes. His father is soon to be revealed to be Arleigh D. Shiraz, a former pirate and is now working as a member of the Tendokyo's Royal Guard while his brother is revealed to be Santino Enriquez, also a member of the Royal Guard.''

"Hey guys, nice to see you back!", Jonathan's mother said while she was doing the finishing touches on fixing the table.

"Do we have anything to eat already?", said Shiraz.

''An infobox reveals some more information about him, his name in Kanji and his age. He is already 50 years old.''

"Mama (pronounced as in Spanish in a fast manner) cooked some pork and matching stew for us," said Jonathan.

''Jonathan is the next person to have the infobox, his name in Kanji and his age. He is 11 years old.''

"Nice! I really can't wait since I haven't ate for six hours straight," said Santino.

''Santino is a 15-year old trainee in the Tendokyo's Royal Army. He will become a regular soldier once he turns 16. Everybody goes by the table and starts thanking the spirits for the food. Now, everybody will start eating.''

After eating, Shiraz asked, "So, who wants storytelling?" and everybody said that tey wanted to.

''Shiraz starts to tell tales about Monkey D. Luffy, the previous Pirate King. Shiraz was a witness to Luffy's actions in the New World as a young kid like Jonathan.''

"So it begins with this, Luffy obtained his Straw Hat from Shanks, a pirate who will be one of the Yonko who in turn received it from the first Pirate King, Gol D. Roger." His voice fades to a flashback.

The flashback begins with the young Luffy being saved by Shanks from the sea king in East Blue. Then he received the Straw Hat from him.

"I'll promise that I'll became stronger until we can fight again. That's when I'll return this hat back to you!" Luffy also injured himself to thank his idol.

Shiraz said, "He participated in several actions nobody has ever made and as most of the people react who see it, I also refer to his actions as reckless and insane! He managed to enter all of those key offices and managed to get away from all of them alive, despite being injured. He was also involved during the raid on Enies Lobby, the Battle of Marineford and Impel Down's only mass breakout. In these three cases, only one is the thing he did not manage to win. I think the only one the Straw Hats haven't entered yet was the Red Line, but it did not end there." The flashback returns afterwards.

After the Marineford War, Fleet Admiral Sengoku was shown commenting on Luffy's rise to popularity.

"Monkey D. Luffy really grew up as a headache just like his father." He crumpled Luffy's wanted poster and threw it away with anger. "I can't simply keep calm with this situation especially that his actions are no joke! Now that he is taking over the islands so fast, how I can keep up? I must take action before anything happens."

''A ship carrying Silvers Rayleigh, Luffy and Jinbe comes again to Marineford and carrying a flower, Luffy prayed for Ace's soul carrying a silent message for his crewmates to become stronger and return to Sabaody Archipelago after 2 years rather than 3 days. Afterwards, Luffy trained with Silvers Rayleigh during those 2 years absence.''

After two years, Luffy was seen again on a ship of the Kuja Pirates. He then sailed to the Sabaody Archipelago in a rowboat and carried a large backpack with all of his stuff, Hancock's jacket as a veil and a moustache to cover himself.

Luffy arrived in the island and said, "It has been a while then, huh?"

TO BE CONTINUED

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