A/N:Authors Note: This is a redo of the first chapter.

Now more awesome thanks to my new beta Chash123

"Hey Sanji I want some meat" someone talking

'No way ramen is better' someone thinking

"Shut up both of you SHANNARO" Techniques

"Why am I stuck with these mortals" demons talking

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Chapter 1: Ichibi, Bloody Sands.

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The Sandora Desert was a desert that stretched over most of the Alabasta Kingdom, which was located on Sandy Island in the middle of the Paradise Grand Line. This desert was very old, ancient really, but no one knew exactly how old it really was. The only clues to the desert's true age were the many ruins that were scattered throughout the desert.

What people did know was that the Sandora Desert had sand dunes that could pile up to 300m if placed on hard ground. People knew that this was the place was where the Sandora Lizards, Kung-Fu Dugongs, Erimaki Runners, Spot-Billed Duck, and Warusagi Birds lived. This was also the place where a plant called the coveted Mescal Cactus grew.

Most people have tended to stay away from the Alabasta Kingdom in recent years, as the Sandora Desert has made it one of the most dangerous places in the Grand Line. If someone that didn't know how to cross this desert, or didn't have someone with him/her that did know with them, then they would surely die from the many dangers that were indigenous to it.

However, the Sandora Desert wasn't the only factor that played into this. There was another reason why people stayed away from the Alabasta Kingdom, one that was not indigenous to the desert.

Baroque Works was the main reason people stayed away from the desert kingdom. It was a criminal organization, of unknown strength and numbers, which had essentially taken over the country before Alabasta's King could react and form a counter plan.

The man known as Sir Crocodile had created Baroque Works to fulfill his own insane goals. After the man had "left" the Shichibukai, he had traveled around the Grand Line looking for the perfect island to make his own; eventually he set his sights on Alabasta.

He initially gathered over 20 people, the majority of them having eaten Devil-Fruits, and made them the commanders of Baroque Works. Crocodile himself had allowed his minions to go forth and gather other criminals, and once he had enough men, they began their subtle take-over of Alabasta.

With the power of his Devil-Fruit, the Suna-Suna Fruit, and the vast resources of his criminal organization, he planned to overthrow Alabasta's government and royal family. He would then remake Alabasta into his own personal kingdom, and kill anyone that would dare to defy him.

This was his plan until a certain, unusual band of Pirates came the shores of Alabasta, with the princess of Alabasta under their protection. Crocodile had sent his commanders out to eliminate the princess, as she could prove troublesome to his plans, but miraculously his commanders were defeated one after another by the pirates protecting her.

Who were these "Red Sand" Pirates, and why were they protecting the princess?

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-Sandy Island: The Sandora Desert-

Sir Crocodile had never been angrier at a single person in his entire life. All of his carefully-laid plans were unraveling before his very eyes, and it was all because some no-named, snot-nosed band of Pirates decided to help a princess with a sob story.

Why couldn't they have just left the Princess alone? Why couldn't they have just left her at Cactus Island, and allowe the Princess to go off by herself, so Baroque Works could eliminate her?

'After I get rid of their captain, I'll go after the rest of these "Red Sand" Pirates. It shouldn't be too hard, since I possess the powers of the Suna-Suna Fruit.' Crocodile thought as he looked at his opponent, the Captain of the "Reddened Sand" Pirates.

The Pirate Captain was wearing full-length dark trousers, a long-sleeved shirt, and a sand-colored gourd that was attached to his body with a couple of buckles. He was also wearing a straw-hat on his head, and a small pouch strapped to his hip.

This was Monkey D. Luffy, Captain of the "Red Sand Pirates". He was also known as "Straw-Hat" Luffy, and "Luffy of the Bloody Sands", for reasons that were currently unknown to Crocodile.

Luffy was currently standing in an almost relaxed stance, with his arms crossed in front of him, glaring at Crocodile. His eyes were a pale, sea-foam green that were encircled by black rings. Oddly enough, this seemed to make him look like a raccoon.

"I must admit, "Bloody Sands", you are quite the nuisance for someone of your age." Sir Crocodile admitted with a sneer.

"I do not care what your opinion of me is." Luffy stated in a flat, monotone voice. "All that matters is that I defeat you, here and now."

That statement sent Sir Crocodile off the deep end. How dare that no-named, snot-nosed boy think that he could defeat him, a former member of the Shichibukai? It was inconceivable!

"How dare you… you arrogant little GNAT!" Crocodile shouted, his face twisting with rage. "Do you have any conceivable idea of WHOM you're talking to? I am SIR CROCODILE, a former member of the SHICHIBUKAI! YOU are NOTHING BUT A CHILD TRYING TO PLAY IN THE BIG LEAGUES! Desert Spāda (Treasured Sword of the Desert)!"

Sir Crocodile's right hand transformed from flesh and bones, into a loose blade of sand. He then stabbed his former hand into the sand around him, extending it along the ground like a torpedo fired from a submarine.

The attack left a gouge in its wake as it made its way to cleave the straw hat captain in two.

Just as Sir Crocodile's attack was about to hit Luffy, the Pirate Captain finally decided to move. In a blur of motion he swung his right hand at the incoming attack, causing it to disperse into millions of harmless sand particles.

This sight caused Crocodile's eyes to further narrow into slits. In his rage-filled mind, he didn't consider that his next action would be completely pointless. He didn't realize that he should've used his attacks to probe his opponent's power, to see what he could do, before he decided what his next attack should be.

"You… INSIGNIFICANT GNAT! Deseret la Spada (Adamant Treasured Sword of the Desert)!" Crocodile roared, just as both of his arms transformed into clouds of sand.

With the sand that was swirling around him, Crocodile formed numerous solid fan-like blades that flew through the air and through the earth. The blades cut numerous paths in the earth and scattered the desert sand as they traveled towards Monkey D. Luffy. Luffy waved his left hand at the incoming blades of sand, causing them to dissipate into millions of sand particles. However, he wasn't prepared for the sand to reform into Crocodile's upper body and for him to thrust his hook at the surprised Luffy.

A booming "clang" was heard as Crocodile's hook ricocheted off a wall of hardened sand that had suddenly risen from the desert itself to protect Luffy. But, even as Crocodile recoiled from the failed attack, the sand around Luffy erupted into numerous swords that were ready to rend him to pieces.

Each sword was blocked mere inches from Luffy's skin by a protective dome of sand. The dome then preceded bulge as spikes erupted from the dome, forcing Crocodile to leap back; as he did not know whether or not other sand attacks would hurt him. Part of the sand dome dissolved back into sand revealing Luffy's frigid gaze to the world. Without warning the sand around Crocodile's feet rose up, engulfing the former Shichibukai in a sand coffin.

Quickly dissolving himself into sand Crocodile escaped the sand coffin before it had the chance to crush him. The sand that was Crocodile started swirling around the dissolving dome of sand gaining more and more speed as sand from the desert joined the swirling sand. After a moment Luffy found himself in the eye of a colossal sand storm, as soon as the last bit of the dome fell, Crocodile's voice was heard from all around him.

"Now Bloody Sands this is the end of you, Sabaku Shippu Spada (Desert Storm Blade)"

The sand in the storm merged into countless blades that all drew closer to the still stoic Luffy. As the blades drew closer to Luffy his expression did not change once as he whispered under his breath,

"Te No Shakaku (Hand of Shakaku)."

Millions of clawed hands shot from the desert floor, each grabbing onto one of the countless blades and crushing them in their grasp. Crocodile reformed thirty feet from Luffy, a stunned expression was on his face.

"This isn't possible. JUST WHAT ARE YOU?"

Luffy slowly developed a smirk on his face as he finally decided to acknowledge the screaming Shichibukai. "I am a being that is far above you and you're so called power" Luffy said, lifting his arms to the desert around him. "Now allow me to show you what a true master of the desert is capable of."

The sand around Luffy's feet began to twist and turn. A second passed before a waterfall of sand flew into the sky, Luffy standing upon it with his arms still raised. Luffy looked down, sand starting to consume him, and gave Crocodile a predatory smirk.

Crocodile could only watch, with a growing sense of dread, as more and more sand flew into the sky and joined the ever-growing column of sand. Suddenly, everything seemed to stop, as if the earth itself was holding its breath in anticipation.

From within the column of sand, two giant yellow-colored eyes opened.

Sir Crocodile could feel his soul shiver from fear as he stared at what that column of sand was becoming. That column was forming into a giant, sand-colored raccoon with unique blue markings all over its body. The pupil of its eyes were black, containing yellow irises with pupils that took shape as a four-pointed star with four black dots around it.

This raccoon then opened its mouth, revealing rows of sharpened teeth.

"Fool… To think you could beat me with my own element? How foolish. Now, behold the true power of One-Tailed Shukaku! Kiko no Suna (Army of the Sand)!"

The sand around Crocodile began to shift and turn before a hand, made of compacted sand, rose out of the depths. Crocodile looked on in horror as an army of men began to arise from the desert.

Each of these sand-beings wore a long coat that went past their shorts, and scarfs around their necks. The most prominent feature of these sand-soldiers was the large top-hats and goggles they wore around the brims of their hats.

"For hurting my nakama, feel the wrath of an entire nation."

Acting upon an unseen signal, each of the sand-soldiers leapt at Crocodile. Each of them was ready to inflict massive amounts of pain upon that wicked man.

Crocodile didn't even have a second before he was attacked by at least thirty of the sand clones from all sides. Quickly dissolving himself into sand particles Crocodile dodged the many attacks sent at him and reformed himself on a large rock outcrop that was near the battlefield. Unfortunately since he was so focused on the giant sand raccoon and his army, he never noticed the figure that was behind him.

SHINK

*drip…drip*

Crocodile stood there stunned as the tip of a large, claw-shaped halberd emerged from the left side of his chest. Even though none of his vital organs had been pierced, Crocodile was astounded that he had gotten hurt in the first place.

'How can this be? How could he have bypassed my defense?' Crocodile thought.

Turning his head around to face his attacker, Crocodile could see that it was another of "Akasuna" sand clones. However, this clone was different than the rest of them. It was fully colored, and if Crocodile didn't know it, he would've thought it was an actual person.

In the clone's right hand was a demonic-looking halberd that looked just like one of that demonic raccoon's claws, the tip of the spear was lodged deeply within Crocodile's body. In the clone's left hand was a broken canteen, still dripping water onto the desert sands?

'Damn, beaten by a kid.' Crocodile thought.

The rest of the clones moved in closer, each of them with demonic-looking halberd. However, moments before the clones would've hit him with their halberds, they stopped before dissolving into sand. This gave Crocodile a clear view of the demonic raccoon that "Red Sand" Luffy had become.

"Goodbye, Sir Crocodile." The raccoon stated.

The demonic raccoon lifted one of its massive arms above its head and, with a second's pause, slammed it against its stomach. A highly compressed sphere of wind shot from its mouth and seemed to scream as zoomed towards Crocodile.

As this attack drew closer and closer to his immobile form, Crocodile couldn't help but have one final thought.

'I should've never tried to fight you, "Bloody Sand"…' Crocodile thought aloud. 'You are the true Master of the Desert…'

Techniques:

1. Desert Spāda (Treasured Sword of the Desert): Crocodile forms his right hand into a loose blade of fast-moving sand and then stabs it into the ground, extending it along the ground like a torpedo, splitting anything in its path, including the very ground itself, through extreme and focused erosion, created by the sand blade, which is strong enough to slice a man in half.

2. Desert la Spada (Adamant Treasured Sword of the Desert): An altered version of Desert Spada. Crocodile now forms several solid blades with fan-shaped edges instead of one large blade made from sand. This is the only time Crocodile has formed solid objects out of sand, although a sufficiently powerful blow will shatter it back into sand.

3. Sabaku Shippu Spada (Desert Storm Blade):

4. Te no Shukaku (Hand of Shukaku):

5. Kiko no Suna (Army of Sand):

This is the redone version of Ichibi:The Red Sands.