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"Welcome back, family."

Kid's P.O.V.:
I woke up and instantly rolled over to get on my knees coughing to get all the water out of my lungs. After some time I stopped breathing heavily and sat up. I was on some kind of fall island. I was on the beach just a few hundred metres in front of me was a forest.Only a few leaves were left on the trees, clinging to the twigs and branches. The bottom was covered in lots of red, orange and yellow leaves colouring the whole island into the colours of sunset.
Then I remembered that blonde kid who got away with me. Did he drown or maybe he was found and killed by the human trafficers.
Either way he would end up dead. I looked around me, searching the whole shoreline for a sign of him, but I saw nothing. 'Dammit! I didn't even know his name. I kinda liked this kid...' "WHY CAN'T ANYTHING EVER WORK OUT??!" I sobbed. "After all that I've been through... I thought I finally found a friend! Why do they all have to die? What did I do wrong to deserve this??!" I broke down and just lied there for a while, criying and mumbling to myself. I cried for what felt like eternity.
When I finally calmed down I stood up looking over the shoreline once again before heading off towards the direction where I assumed the town to be.
When I arrived there I slowly walked across the market. While passing a little shop that sells vegetables and fruits, I spotted a fruit that I've never seen before. It looked somewhat strange and had some weird curls on its peel.
Because I was hungry and I didn't have any money -and I was curious about that fruit- I slowly approached the shop trying to look unsuspicious. When I was close enough I grabbed the fruit and ran away as fast as I could, dogding other people on my way. Behind me I heard someone yelling: "Stop that kid! Stop the thief!!" but just ran faster. I left the market without getting caught and hid in a small alley.
I slid down the wall breathing heavily. I smiled weakly "So what are you gonna taste like?", I mumbled to myself before taking a large bite of the strange fruit. My face went pale. I spit the fruit out and coughed.
'Wtf is this supposed to taste like?! Is it even etable??' I wiped my mouth with my sleeve making a disgusted face.
Then I heard someone yelling and suddenly someone fell over my legs and knocked me over with them. As I sat up I recognized a familiar face: "There you are! I was looking for you all the time!"; said the blonde boy. "When I woke up I didn't see you around and went to the town searching everywhere for you!", he said picking up his mask from the floor and patted dust off of it before putting it back on.
"Y-you - I thought you were dead", I said, shock written all over my face.
"Nah, I don't die that easily", he smiled. We stood up and turned around bumping into someone: "There you are" said a dangerous looking manwith a wicked grin on his face. 'He is one of the guards from the slave ship!', it hit me. He took out a gun and aimed it towards us. "You ready to die??!" he asked smirking. He didn't waste any time as he pulledthe trigger.
Time seemed to slow down. I stepped in front of the blonde boy, wanting to take the bullet for him, so he could flee and maybe make it away alive. I prepared for the impact, for the bullet to crash through my flesh and bones and closed my eyes. But nothing happened. When I opened my eyes again, I was still alive. But I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the bullet floating in mid-air.
"W-what's going on?!" shouted the guard. In my head I imagined the bullet to turn around and shoot the man in the head instead. And surprisingly it did so. The man's body became limb. He fell forwards on the ground, his eyes and mouth opened in shock. He didn't move anymore, a puddle of blood slowly formed around the body.
"How did you do that?!", the blonde boy asked completely stunned."I-I don't know, I-" "Did you eat that?!", he asked pointing his finger towards the strange fruit I was still holding in my hand. "Yeah. Why? What is this?" "You ate that fruit without knowing anything about it??" "I was hungry. So what is this?" "That, my dear friend, is a devil's fruit!"