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Please Read: I'm working to get a beta-reader for this story, but as of yet no one has answered my requests, so until I get one, I hope my own poor attempts at grammar don't stop you from enjoying 'Absolute Confusion.'(Updated- Now Have modestfox as beta reader).
Edited: June 3, 2011
Chapter 00- Bouncing Back
The Pirate King nodded, and turned away from the new rookies entering the New World, it was nothing new, and frankly he didn't care. His floating island moved from its location on the sea regularly, and sometimes he'd end up at the entrance of the New World every once in a while.
Of course, as good as Luffy's luck was, he would regularly be spotted by the rookies and give them the scare of their lives. It was all in good fun but, as with all things in his life, the novelty of his gestures had been starting to lose the fun they once inspired.
Pirates were swarming into the Grand Line more then ever before, and about once a week Shanks, Whitebeard or one of the other four kings would come to his island for their chance to beat the Pirate King, though it was really ironic. Luffy's crew had beaten them at finding One Piece, and now the world was after him day in and day out.
Some days it was the Marines, other days it was some of his friends that he'd made over the years, but most of the time it was some stuck-up pirate thinking they were going to be lucky and get rich beating the most infamous pirate on the sea. Yeah, right. That was Luffy's personality, and stupid dumb luck not theirs.
"Luffy?" Luffy blinked, and turned to the voice...except no one was there...
Luffy sighed.
He was really starting to get tired of hearing his dead friends call for him. Maybe Ace was right, he was losing it...Oh well. It's not like anyone important would know...
Vivi was gone-dead of an incurable disease, as was Ace. Nami, Usopp, Zoro, and Sanji has all passed ten years ago from old age. Chopper caught the recent epidemic sickness while making the rounds about five years ago before slipping into a coma, and then dying. Robin had been cut down saving a small girl, and the rest well...they were alive but they all had their own lives, and he was an outlaw, even if the people didn't treat him as such.
"Luffy! Are you there?" Luffy looked around.
Still nothing.
Maybe the voices would go away if he ate lots of meat and went to bed.
Luffy drooled thinking about it, yeah that was it...
He jumped off the branch he had been sitting at and walked the short distance to his house, passing by all the other rooms, and climbing into bed, not even caring about locking up, or paying any mind to the amount of clatter gathered in his room.
He climbed into bed waiting as the first hints of sleep overcame him. His tiredness coming off his body in waves. He had no dreams, in his peaceful slumber, and the darkness was so peaceful, so welcome in the face of everything he'd endured thus far... he was so comfortable, and so warm...
"Luffy? Are you there?"
There was the voice again, Luffy turned over in his sleep, and tried his best to ignore the voice, he wasn't going to listen to them not anymore.
"Come on, get up!" He felt someone shake him roughly.
Luffy snapped up at the touch and centered in on the voice,and blinked, and blinked again. There was absolutely no way he was seeing who he thought he was. Maybe he was still dreaming... He punched his cheek, fully expecting no pain, but it was not to be. His cheek slapped back to his face, making him aware of reality.
Yes, he was awake, and yes his older brother Ace was standing in front of looking no older then ten or eleven.
(End of Chapter)
A/N: Maybe not the best chapter, but hopefully a good enough chapter for the readers... Constructive Crit. is welcome, but please don't just say grammar in general- I know I'm horrible, point out specific things if the grammar brothers you that much...
THANK YOU modestfox-san for the beta-ing.
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