Fallen Dragons

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Title: Fallen Dragons
Rating: T
Fandom: One Piece
Summary: Rather than being adopted by Sengoku, Rocinante is taken in by a kind pirate crew. As he grows up, his hatred for his older brother remains. Years later, the two encounter each other. Will their relationship mend or remain broken? [Rewrite of Rocinante the Pirate]

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His mother was dead…His father was dead…His brother had left…And now he was all alone….

His clothes and skin were caked with dirt and blood. Some of the blood was his own, but most of it had been his father's. When his brother had fired the single bullet into Homing's head, blood has splashed onto Rocinante from being in front of their father, still held in a warm hug as his father smiled despite knowing Doflamingo was going to kill him. After Doflamingo had decapitated their father's corpse and left for Mariejois, Rocinante was hugging the headless body.

'Father…' Rocinante still sobbed, although quieter now. 'M-Mother's already g-gone a-and brother l-l-left…P-Please F-Father…' He knew that his voice was reaching no one. 'I d-don't w-w-want to be a-alone…'

'Why did everything have to turn out this way?' Rocinante thought. 'Father just wanted us to live amongst everyone else! So why!?' He buried his face in his father's chest. 'Father was a kind person! Mother was a kind person! Why did they hurt us!? Why did they want to kill us!?' 'I don't understand…what did we do wrong?'

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Rocinante groggily awoke to footsteps. 'What?' His eyes registered to the dried blood on his clothes and the events from before came flooding back. 'D-Did brother come back?' He fearfully looked up at the person who had arrived.

It wasn't his brother.

It was a young man who was probably in his mid to late teen years. He had short, spiky, orange hair and green eyes. The teenager stared at Rocinante and Homing's corpse, his eyes wide at the sight. 'What the hell happened here?'

'We found the Celestial Dragons!'

'Get them!'

'Kill the Celestial Dragons!'

Within a few minutes, a crowd of villagers had gathered around them. The mob wasn't as large as it was the first day the Donquixote's had arrived and most of them had probably been killed off by Doflamingo and the four new friends he had made earlier. The villagers were still fueled by their hatred and held pitchforks, torches, swords, spears, bows, and arrows.

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The teenager noticed that the villagers' anger was directed towards the child. 'What the hell is wrong with you people!?' He took a step in front of Rocinante to shield him. 'Can't you see that this child is mourning over his father!?'

The mob silenced, shocked that someone was defending the boy. 'He's a 'former' Celestial Dragon that left the Holy Land to 'live as humans'!' One man spoke up. 'He deserves to die for all the suffering the Celestial Dragons have caused us!'

'That's bullshit,' The teen's eyes narrowed in disgust. 'If they chose to leave Mariejois on their own accord, then you shouldn't be trying to murder them! It just proves that they aren't assholes like the rest!'

'If you're gonna get in our way, then we'll just kill you too!' The villagers charged towards the man.

'W-Why isn't he moving out of the way?' Rocinante asked himself.

The teen was pissed off. He didn't run away and leave the boy for dead. Instead, he fought off the villagers with his bare hands, despite having a sword strapped to his back. He simply kicked and punched the villagers, dodging or blocking their own attacks. The villagers outnumbered him greatly, but he still overpowered them. As most of the villagers fell unconscious, the remaining ones realized that they were no match and ran away.

Rocinante whimpered as the teen turned to him. The orange-haired boy knelt down and looked at Rocinante and then to Homing's corpse. 'Do you want to bury him?'

Rocinante hadn't expected that question and stared in confusion at the man before slowly nodding, not wanting to make the newcomer lose his patience and hurt him like he did with the villagers.

'Do you have any specific place you want to bury him?'

Again, that was another unexpected question. But Rocinante nodded quickly. 'W-With…M-Mother…'

'Can you walk?'

Rocinante carefully struggled to his feet but managed to remain standing. 'Y-Yes…'

The teen carefully picked up the headless body. 'Lead the way,'

Rocinante slowly led him to the forest, tripping along the way. He had expected to be yelled at to hurry up, but the stranger was patient and helped Rocinante up whenever he fell. They finally reached their destination: the grave of Donquixote Mari, marked by a small piles of stones and a few flowers. The older boy gently placed Homing's body on the ground and began to dig a hole beside Mari's grave.

'Why is he helping me?' Rocinante thought. 'Why didn't he just let the villagers kill me?'

The grave was shallow but was deep enough for the body to be fully concealed. Homing was placed inside of the rectangular hole and covered with a thin layer of dirt. Another pile of stone and flowers was set as a grave marker.

'The name's Dante,' The teenager finally introduced himself. 'Kid, what's your name?'

'R-Rocinante…' Rocinante mumbled barely loud enough for Dante to understand.

Dante knelt down to Rocinante's level. 'I know that this is where your parents are buried and you probably don't want to leave them so soon. I know that you're probably reluctant to trust me because we just met. But if you stay here, the villagers will come back,'

'I-I have no place to go,' Rocinante stuttered, looking down as tears began to form again.

Dante put a hand gently to Rocinante's shoulder. 'Would you like to come with me and my crew? I promise that we'll protect you,'

Rocinante's eyes widened and he began to cry.

He cried because he had lost both of his parents.

He cried because his brother had abandoned him.

He cried because this stranger was showing him kindness, despite knowing that he was a former Celestial Dragon.

This is going to be more fleshed out that Rocinante the Pirate. The first few chapters will be Rocinante's experiences with the Draco Pirates [formerly known as the Death Heart Pirates] before meeting with Doflamingo.

The finales of Marked and Teenage Fatherhood will be put on hold so I can make sure things are as well written as I could make them.