-Chapter 1-

It is one of the few peaceful days for the Straw Hat Pirates, having just departed from Lougetown, they are headed to the Grand Line. But, little do they suspect, their adventure will be changed greatly by the small, tusked, dragon hurtling down towards them from the sky.

Luffy stretches his head over to Nami. "How much longer? I wanna get to the Grand Line, already!" Nami swats him away.

"I already told you, we'll be there tomorrow. And complaining about it won't pass the time any faster. Just keep an eye out for ships."

"Fine." Luffy grumbles as he wanders over to sit on the ship's figurehead.

"And stop that whistling, Usopp! It's distracting!" Nami yells.

"Yeah, Usopp!" whinges Sanji as he kicks Usopp. "You're distracting Nami-swan!"

"Ow!" cries Usopp, clutching his head in pain. "I didn't even do anything!"

"Nami! I found a ship!" Luffy shouts.

"Huh?" Nami looks at Luffy oddly. "There aren't any ships!"

"Stop wasting Nami's time, idiot!" yells Sanji, raising his leg.

"No, look!" points Luffy. "There, in the sky. It's a spaceship!" His eyes are now stars.

The crew followed Luffy's finger up to the sky. Sure enough, a small object was plunging down from the heavens.

"That's not a spaceship." Nami sighs. "That's a meteor."

"What's that?" asks Luffy. "A meteor is a piece of space rock that gets pulled in by the Earth's gravity and falls down to the sea." answers Nami.

"Oh, a mystery rock." concludes Luffy, failing to understand.

"Dumbass." mutters Zolo, awoken by the commotion.

"That's what that whistling sound was." realises Usopp. "Hey, aren't you going to apologise, Sanji?"

"Nope" replies the cook. While Sanji, Zolo and Usopp are fighting and Nami is yelling at them all, Luffy is still fascinated by his newly named "mystery rock".

"Hey, Nami." "What now?!" the navigator groans angrily.

"The rock. It's getting pretty close, ain't it?" asks the captain.

The crew all look up. The rock is on a collision course with the ship and is getting alarmingly close.

Usopp screams. "We're all gonna die!" He runs below deck, still screaming.

Zolo and Sanji just stare at the meteor. Nami yells at Zolo and Sanji. "Can't you do anything?" she pleads. They shake their heads in horror. "Luffy, what about you?" she begs desperately.

Luffy stretches his arms back, preparing his attack. "I can try."

Usopp has gotten back up on deck. His knees are shaking and he's hiding a chair. "I'm n-n-not sc-scared. N-nope." he mutters to himself, pathetically.

"Wait a minute." exclaims Nami. "That's not a meteor!"

Usopp peeks his head out from under the chair. "Wh-what is it?" he musters, shakily.

"It's a lizard." yells Luffy, cheerily, with his arms at his side.

"What?!" screams the crew in unison, as the would-be lizard slams into the deck.

-end of chapter 1-