Hello! BerryBlast99 here! So this is my first fanfic on the site and also one of my first fanfics I've written. I cannot tell you how LONG it took to write this. I have rewritten it, had it all nearly lost thanks to an evil virus, and had almost thought not to put it up at all. but it's almost two in the morning and I'm tired. And what does a person do when they are tired and on the internet? Do idiotic mistakes they wouldn't normally do! But I really do hope you all enjoy this story and maybe get a good laugh.

(Also keep in mind I had started writing this when the whole OC in one piece was newish. but then again I like these kind of stories anyway so :P)

Now then on to the story!

... Oh yeah.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, this is purely a fan based fiction. the only thing I own are My OC's otherwise I got nothing.

Okay now, really, onto the story!


We all wish for something adventurous to happen in our lives

But do we have any idea what we are getting ourselves into?

When we wish for something

Always be careful for what you wish for…

Prologue

"Rita! Do you need any help?" A women's voice called from somewhere in the old looking house.

"No thanks Mom! I got it!" A young girl answered as she continued her way up the stairs, holding a large cardboard box. The girl, Rita, was actually having a hard time balancing on the steep steps, but she didn't want to bother her already busy parents.

"Sides I can handle a box- Whoa! Ah!" Rita grumbled but then started to lose her balance, wobbling on one leg. She could feel a surge of panic grip her chest, and she swung her other leg forward hoping to find the next step. She quickly found it and continued to climb up and finally got to the top.

"…See! Totally handled." She smiled and went into her new room, to unpack.

Her family had just moved into an old house that sat in the middle of a forest. Her parents thought it would be nicer to live out there then the neighborhood they use to live in. It was starting to get bad with several robberies and other such things. Rita just wished it was a bit closer so her friends could come visit, but it was a two hour drive away now.

She sighed and continued to put away clothes and other things of the like.

'I suppose I could email them every day and chat with them on face book. Ash would hate her slow connection even more though… Oh my god what if this place doesn't have Internet?' Rita thought horrified by the very idea of not being able to get online. She was very addicted to it and her longest record of not being on it since the day she learned of this wondrous invention, was two weeks.

She sat in the corner of her new room and just stared at the wall, letting the possibility sink in. This was about the time her father entered the room.

"Here you go Kiddo, more box… Are you okay?" He asked her. Now Rita could tell him her real reason why she was having a little mental breakdown and listen to him rant that she needed to spend less time on it anyway or go a safer route and…

"So many boxes! Why on earth do I have so many?" She complained. Which isn't a lie, why did she have so many boxes? Her Father rolled his eyes and set the boxes down next to the others.

"Get over it you drama queen. Now listen I'm heading off to work and your mother is going to get groceries later, got it?" He asked as started out the door.

Rita sighed and realized he was right and she was probably blowing things out of proportion again.

"Yeah, I got it. Love ya dad!" She called out to her father's retreating back.

"Yeah, yeah love you too." And then he was gone. She went back to her unpacking and it was rather uneventful until she pulled out the last of her things, which happen to be gifts. Looking at the two items, she grinned and hugged them close remembering who she got them from.

*Flashback*

"I'm going to miss you so m-much!" Hailey sobbed wrapping her arms around Rita. She was in a rather poor state with tears falling down her cheeks and her body trembling.

"ME TOO!" Rita wasn't any better. In fact, You could say she was worse because Hailey was squeezing her way to tight.

"Oh, stop acting like such babies." Ash grumbled standing next to them with her arms crossed and a scowl in place.

Hailey and Ash have been Rita's friends since they were very young. She could remember the day she met Ash quite vividly. She was in kindergarten and a boy was picking on her. She was going to cry when Ash came to her defense and beat up the bully. And continued to when ever he came to close them. Though Ash didn't have friends herself and wasn't that interested in having one, that didn't stop Rita. Eventually, after months of following, talking, and generally being annoying, she managed to wedge herself into Ash's heart and they have been friends ever since.

Rita met Hailey the next year after. Hailey was new to the school and the teacher asked Rita to show her around. They became friends instantly, however Ash was jealous of Hailey for a while. They eventually settled there differences though and the three have been tight knitted friends ever since.

"I-I want you to have these, and think of me when you play them okay?" Hailey sniffed and pulled away to hand over a box with a little bow taped to it.

Rita blinked and took the package carefully. Opening it she saw Hailey's favorite games of all time, the Jak and Daxter series. All of them. Rita grinned happily and hugged her in thanks. It would be impossible not to think of her when playing them anyway. Hailey had posters, plushies, fanart, and nearly everything associated with the franchise.

"Thank you! I'll play them all summer!" Rita thanked. She then felt a tapping on her shoulder, so she spun around on her heels to face a rather, nervous looking Ash. Instead of saying anything, she shoved a gift at Rita's chest and waited for her reaction.

Rita blinked and looked down at it and saw it was the latest issue of her favorite manga "One Piece".

Rita was speechless. Ash never took an interest in anime or manga, like Hailey and She. Whenever Rita started to talk excitedly about it, Ash tended to tune her out or play whatever rock song was on her I-pod. The fact she remembered the name and took the time to hunt it down, left a warm feeling in Rita's chest.

"I… I don't know what to say. Thank you!" Rita smiled softly at her long time friend.

"Tch, whatever." Ash muttered, looking away. However, Rita and Hailey could see the light blush dusting across her cheeks.

"Aww, Come here!" Rita grinned happily and proceeded to hug her grumpy friend.

"Oi! Get off!" Ash growled as she struggled to get free. Hailey giggled and hugged them as well, with a small cry of 'group hug'.

"Why are you hugging me!?" Ash screamed at Hailey.

*End flashback*

Rita smiled softly at the memory of the day before and placed Hailey's gift on the desk of her room. Then she flopped on to her bed and just relaxed for awhile. Unpacking was hard work! She began to read the new issue of 'One Piece' She still had in her hand.

'Man I wish could join the straw-hat crew! It would be amazing! It would be sweet if my friends could come too, Then we could help the crew and become strong and stuff…' Rita thought to herself, then she sighed when she realized that could never happen. 'Still, it's fun to imagine. Maybe we could make a tree house around here and pretend it's Skypiea. I don't care what they say, you're never to old to play pretend. That and a tree house is cool regardless if you pretend it's something else.'

"Hey sunshine! Wow, your room looks very nice!" Rita's mother broke her daughter out of her thoughts.

"Thanks mom!" Rita closed her book and sat up, stretching her back.

"What were you reading?" She asked curiously.

"One Piece. The crew just went on this creepy ship and there's a talking skeleton on it! And, get this, he has an afro!" Rita gushed excitedly, waving her arms around as she talked.

"That's… weird." Her mother said looking at her child with a look that said, 'what does she see in that thing?'

"It's cool." Rita pouted. She then heard someone cough from behind her mother and blinked wondering who was there.

"Oh! Sorry! Rita your friends are here." Her mother said happily as she moved so her friends could enter.

"Hi Rita! Did you miss us?" Hailey asked, running into the room and jumped on Rita's bed barely missing her.

"Hey." Ash greeted calmly walking in.

"Hey guys! What are you doing here? Not that I'm complaining." Rita asked.

"Well, seeing as it's summer, we decided that a few more friendly faces would help you settle in." Hailey explained, but then shuddered, "Ash drove us. I thought I was going to die a few times there."

"Oi! What's that supposed to mean? We got here didn't we?" Ash growled.

Rita winced, knowing what it was like to have Ash drive the car. Honestly, how did she get a driver's license in the first place? She didn't think she wanted to know the answer.

"Rita, why don't you show them around? I'm going to get the groceries, call if you need anything!" and with that her mother left.

"So, what do you want to do?" Hailey asked. Pushing herself off the bed, Rita grinned and grabbed her friend's wrist.

"We're going exploring!" She yelled happily and went out to the hall, grabbing Ash's wrist along the way.

"It's just an old house…" Ash muttered but allowed Rita to pull her along. They explored through out the house finding an old basement, and a small attic filled with spiders, that made the girls shriek in terror (though Ash will never admit it), and now they were outside staring at the forest.

"…We're going in there, aren't we?" Ash asked.

"Yep!" Rita grinned. Ash sighed and hanged her head. Ash had a rather bad feeling in her gut about this. Once Rita had something in her head, however, there wasn't much you could do to stop her.

'Best to just get this over with…' Ash thought to herself and began to walk towards the forest, Rita following close behind.

"M-maybe we could just go play a game- Hey wait for me!" Hailey called when she realized she was being left behind.

As they traveled through the forest Rita let her thoughts wonder. 'I hope that there's a lake or stream near by. We could get a boat and pretend it's the going merry! …I also hope Hailey hasn't gotten any ticks on her.'

Hailey was wearing nothing more then a white skirt, a t-shirt with a picture of a whale on it, and sandals. Not the best things to wear out in the forest.

While we're on the subject of description, Hailey was a short, curvy, sixteen year old girl. She had a lovely shade of caramel skin, dark brown hair, and light emerald colored eyes.

Ash on the other hand was very tall and skinny. Her pale white skin stood out in the dark brown and greens of the forest. Her blond hair was messily tied up in a ponytail and her bangs were mostly brushed to the right side of her face. Ash's eyes were a dark brown. So dark you'd think they were black. She wore a bright red sweatshirt, simple blue jeans, and black sneakers.

Rita, herself, had an average height with orange hair, cut just above her shoulders, with blue eyes, wearing a black t-shirt with a picture of the planet, baggy blue jeans, and brown sneakers.

'How long have we been out here anyway?' Rita wondered to myself. It felt like it might have been an hour. In that time she had found a perfect tree for the tree house, but no luck with water.

Ash seemed to think they had been out here to long as well because she suggested they turn back.

"Yeah, your right let's g-Hey! What's that over there?" Rita asked. Over in the distance there seemed to be something… glowing.

"Don't know…" Hailey muttered.

"Hmm well, let's go check it out!" Rita exclaimed and dashed towards the light.

"Rita! Wait! Arrg that girl needs to learn to control her curiosity," Ash yelled after Rita but quickly realized she wasn't listening. "Come on, let's get to her before she does something stupid."

"Right!" Hailey agreed and the two went after Rita.

"Whoa… GUYS CHECK THIS OUT!" Rita called to them when they got closer. She was looking down at a large pit filled with white blue, glowing… slime is was the best word for it.

"What is this?" She asked and leaned forward to get a better look.

"I… have no idea. But you probably shouldn't touch it. It might be poisonous or something." Ash warned causing Hailey to immediately take a few steps back. And she was probably right, though one has to wonder what this stuff was doing in the middle of a forest.

"Yeah okay we should head back any-WAY!" Rita yelled ,for you see, as she was leaning back to get away one of the rocks came loose making her fall down the pit.

"AHHH WHY?" Rita screamed before landing in the slime.

"RITA!" Ash and Hailey screamed, frightened for their friend.

In the slime, Rita was having a rough time. She couldn't tell which way was up or down, and dared not open her eyes incase the slime was poisonous. The slime itself felt like thick water, and it was cold. Really cold. It so cold you would think you were in Antarctica, at night, in the water, naked… Okay maybe not that cold but pretty cold. It made her body numb, making it harder to swim. And it got worse, as the slime was starting to irritate her skin. At first it was a tingling feeling then it started to feel like hundreds of needles poking at her skin.

And soon she was in a great amount of pain, it was like the slime was squeezing her body and pulling her limbs. She tried hard not to scream so the slime wouldn't get in her mouth and lose the air in her lungs, but soon it became to much.

'Am… I going to die? It hurts! What if I never see mom or dad again? Ash, Hailey… I don't even get to say goodbye! This really blows…' and with that last thought, Rita fell unconscious.

Meanwhile…

"RITA!" Hailey and Ash screamed as their friend fell.

"Ash what do we do? What do we do? WHAT DO WE DO!?" Hailey asked panicking, and started to pull on some of her hair in a nervous habit.

"Calm down! Rita knows how to swim, just… give her minute." Ash's thought were racing, but she took deep breath's to calm herself.

'Why hasn't she come up yet? She's a great swimmer, heck she taught me to swim!' Ash thought.

"Come on Rita…" Ash whispered to herself. It was then that it hit her. Rita wasn't going to come back up.

"Damn it. Hailey go to the house and get help! I'm going in!" Ash ordered and got ready to jump.

"WHAT!? But Ash! I-"

"I said GO!" Ash interrupted and dived. She quickly realized why Rita was having a hard time.

'Jeeze, it's freezing in here! I can barely move!' Ash thought as she stretched an arm in front of her blindly searching for her friend. 'How deep is this pit anyway?'

Ash was beginning lose hope when her brushed against something solid and warm.

'Gotcha!' Ash thought bringing Rita close before, she too, lost consciousness.


And that is the end of the prologue! I hope you liked it so far. I know not much happened in this chapter except falling into a pit of glowing slime that will no doubt lead them to the greatest events of their lives, but the fun stuff will be in the first chapter! ^^