[One Piece] Sand Like Snow in the Desert

It has been a year since the days when not a single drop of rain fell on the kingdom of the oasis. In their search for hope amid the turmoil, people took up arms and roared across the scorching land, even as a gigantic wave closed in around them. A thousand miles beyond the stretch of sea, behind a range of towering mountains, lived another group of people under the same threat. They were diligent and clever, mischievous and...

Ahem. Anyway! This is a story about the Grand Line, about a small island called Winter Solstice Island, which may or may not exist, about Alabasta, and about the deep-sea prison Impel Down.

The pirate ship called Heavy Rain set sail into the distance amid a roar. From then on, rebellion and slaughter clung to them like a shadow.

A little boat bearing the weight of fate carried assassins, pirates, and survivors away from the sea and into the embrace of the desert.

Whether right or wrong, whether loyal or not

I'm a not-quite-new newbie. I deleted the story and started over for various reasons. Come back to me, my readers! Ah!