User blog:Kuma the Bear/In the beginning: Shanks' Journey revealed.

After being on the fringe of this wikia for many years I've finally decided to take the plunge and join the fun. So for my first blog I've decided to start from the begining. IN the begining there was a boy named Luffy......!? ha ha ha JK I'm sure everyone here knows that story but while we are here we could talk about Shanks. As the series progressed more and more was revealed of how awesome Shanks is and one question started forming in my mind, 'What the hell was he doing in East Blue when he meet Luffy? I mean a pirate as strong as Shanks wouldn't be like "yeah enough of the Grand Line let's take a vacation in one of the blues" and if he was originally from the West blue why was he recruiting members (Yassop) in East blue.

Then I watched the recent episode where Inurashi explained about Log pose and Roger and I figured it out. So here it goes.

Roger pirates reach the log pose end of the Grand Line, Roger learns of the poneglyphs and that the Grand Line has still more secerts so he  decides to start all over again from where he started, East Blue (cause why the hell not!?). But this time the journey would be more dangerous so they leave Shanks and Buggy in East Blue, with the promise to meet them again (more likely) or telling them to start their own journeys (less likely). Shanks hangs around East Blue, wittnesses his captain's execution, gets a ship and a crew and starts off himself.

AND follows the way he has seen it being done. Reaches the log pose end learns of the poneglyphs and starts again.....from where he started East Blue. Meets Luffy and kick starts the whole awesome series.

This would explain a lot of things. Like Shanks use of haki and why the whole crew sat quietly, later laughed about it, when Higuma the mountain bandit insulted their captain. I mean after facing off against monsters like Mihawk and Whitebeard a puny mountain bandits insult would not even be annoying, it would be downright funny.