So I had this idea after hearing Ruth B. - Lost Boy and I thought a One Piece/Peter Pan crossover would be fun. I took the original story from James Barrie for the backbone of the story, so there is a lot of the original story in place. It also includes bits from Hook, Pan, Peter Pan and the Tinkerbell series.
Peter Pan - James Barrie
Lost Boy - Ruth B.
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Chapter 1: Nico Robin
All children, except one, grow up.
They soon discover that they will grow up, and the way Robin found out was this. One day when she was three years old she was playing in the garden, and she picked a flower and delivered it to her mother. She must have looked rather lovely, for Olivia Nico put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why must time take you away from me?!" This was all that was ever said on the subject, but from then on Robin knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are three. Three is the beginning of the end. At least that is what Robin grew to believe.
Life of a single mother during the early 20th Century was difficult, and Ohara, Russia was no exception. Somehow, Olivia Nico managed to diminish whatever it was she thought their lives were missing, though Robin who knew life no differently, was sure things were just fine. The happiness of those times! Unfortunately, those times did not last for Olivia became ill during Robin's 9th winter and passed away the following spring.
There was a time when I was alone
Nowhere to go and no place to call home
My only friend was the man in the moon
And even sometimes he would go away, too
Robin was then moved to a local orphanage run by a kind woman named Makino. Soon times became happy once again until the coming of Monkey D. Luffy.
Makino first heard of Luffy when she was tidying up Robin's mind. I don't know whether you have ever bore witness to the map of a person's mind. There are jagged lines on it, and these are probably makeshift roads on the island, for Neverland is always more or less an island, with breathtaking splashes of color here and there, coral reefs and smart-looking craft in the lagoon, and pirates and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly cobblers, and sparkling caverns through which a river runs, and princes with twelve elder brothers, and tall out-of-the-way towers, and one tiny old lady with a hooked nose and cauldron. Along with ancient trees that seemed to touch the clouds, crystal blue-green waters, snow-capped mountains and foliage plentiful with fruits ripe for the picking.
Of course, Neverland varies a good deal depending upon the imagination of the child. On these magical shores children at play are forever beaching their boats...which are quickly forgotten. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
Of all inviting islands, Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawled out, with long distances between one adventure and the next, but nicely crammed together. Occasionally in her travels through this child's mind Makino found things she could not understand, and of these the most disconcerting was the word Luffy. She knew of no Luffy, and yet he was. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Makino gazed she felt that it had an oddly arrogant appearance.
"Yes, he is rather audacious," Robin admitted with regret. Her guardian had been questioning her.
"But who is he, my dear?"
"You know, he is Monkey D. Luffy."
At first Makino did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she remembered a Monkey D. Luffy who was said to live with the fairy folk. There were old stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they would not be frightened or get lost. She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was older and full of sense, she quite doubted whether there was any such person.
"Besides," she said to Robin, "he should be grown up by this time."
"Oh no, he hasn't grown up," Robin assured her confidently, "he is just my size." But it would not blow over and soon the troublesome boy gave Makino quite a shock. "He resides in Neverland and is said to live with the fairies. Do fairies really have tails? Do they even exist... Like them this place as eternal mystery... A never ending adventure"
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met a slender man and had a game with him. It was in this casual way that Robin one morning made an unnerving revelation. Some leaves of a tree had been found on the bedroom floor, which certainly were not there when she went to bed, and Makino was puzzling over them when Robin said with a tolerant smile:
"I do believe it is Luffy again!"
"What do you mean, Robin?"
"It is terribly naughty of him not to wipe his feet," Robin said, sighing. She was an orderly child.
She explained in quite a matter-of-fact way that she thought Luffy sometimes came to the bedroom in the night and sat at the foot of her bed and sang nonsense songs to her. Unfortunately she never woke, so she didn't know how she knew, she just knew.
"What foolishness you talk. No one can get into the house without knocking."
"I think he comes in through the window," she said.
"Oh my, it is two floors up."
"The leaves were at the foot of the window, ma'am?"
It was quite true; the leaves had trailed from the window seat into the room, through the window.
Makino did not know what to think, for it all seemed so natural to Robin that you could not dismiss it by saying she had been dreaming.
Oh, surely she must have been dreaming.
Yet still, there were the leaves. Makino examined them carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in Ohara. She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a light for any sign of footprints. She rattled a poker up the chimney and tapped on the walls. She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a straight drop of twenty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.
Certainly Robin had been dreaming.
But Robin had not been dreaming, as the very next night proved, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of this child may be said to have truly begun.
On the night we speak of Robin was once more in bed. Makino had given her a bath and sung to her till Robin had let go of her hand and slid away into the land of sleep. Robin was looking so safe and cozy that she smiled at her fears and sat down by the fire to read.
The fire was warm, however, and the bedroom dimly lit by a night-light, with a book laying across Makino's lap. Then her head nodded, once, then twice. She was asleep. There should have been a second night-light.
The dream by itself would have been inconsequential, but while she was dreaming the window of the bedroom blew open, and a boy did drop onto the floor. He was accompanied by a peculiar light, no bigger than your fist, which darted about the room like a living thing and I think it must have been this light that woke Makino.
She quickly sat up, and saw the boy, and somehow she knew at once that he was Monkey D. Luffy. He was a lovely boy, clad in brown shorts, a yellow vest with a straw hat strung around his neck and appeared to be no older than 11 or 12. A mop of obsidian hair stuck up all over his head and when he noticed her, large mocha eyes were what she saw before they narrowed in her direction. When he saw she was an adult, he bowed politely before crouching into a defensive pose as he gnashed his teeth at her.
Makino screamed, before her body gave a jerk and she was wrestled from the dream that she had been in. Looking around the bedroom, she no longer saw a strange boy…just a peaceful Robin laying in her bed. Makino rose from the chair and headed off to bed, as it was late and Robin had school in the morning…forgetting the dream almost instantly.
There are 5 references to other works...hope you were able to spot them. R&R
ORIGINAL POSTING DATE: June 30, 2016
WORD COUNT: 1,416