Freedom
'Freedom...
What is is about freedom?
What is it about freedom that makes humankind strive for it?
What is it about freedom that makes men and women alike kill for it.
To make the kindest and quietest people sacrifice their innocence for it.
What is it about freedom?
Freedom...What is it?'
The sun glared down on the barren land. You could see for miles on miles on end. The ground was a dark red color covered in cracks caused by a wet surface drying all too quickly. There was no trees, or rocks to provide shade to those who dared travel the land.
"Hot!" Three voices choked out hoarsely into the barren land.
Despite the islands looks, a small group of eight people dared trekked across the dead dry land.
"Be quiet you three!" Yelled one of the two only girls. Her short red hair was pulled up in a small high ponytail. Her brown eyes squinted off into the distance as one of her hands shadowed her eyes. Sighing she bought her hand down and placed it firmly on her hips. "We should be there soon." She stated looking over to the other female of the group. Unlike the rest of the group she and the duck beside her seemed to have no problems with the high heat. "Are you sure theres a community across this dessert, Vivi?" The redhead asked the blue haired Princess.
"Vary." Vivi smiled nodding her head. "I've heard many stories about this island before sense its right outside my country. Travelers are always talking about it." She said as she patted her large duck that walked next to her.
"Hot!" The three voices yelled out again.
"Oi! Don't cling to me!" Yelled the green haired young man with three swords strapped to his hip. He desperately pulled at the small reindeer with a large pink hat that clung to the man's thigh with a vice like grip.
"But Zoro!" The reindeer whined clinging harder. "It's too hot~." He trailed off with swirls in his eyes as he finally passed out from the heat.
"Oi! Chopper!" The swordsmen yelled frantically as he shook the small reindeer back and forth trying to wake the small reindeer up.
"Sanji!" A boy with a straw hat covering his black hair cried out. "Sanji, MEAT!" He simply said to tired and hungry to say more. He tugged on the a young man with blond hair that covered half his face and had a curly eyebrow.
"Shut up Luffy we just ate a half an hour ago!" Sanji shouted at the black haired teen as he kicked him away.
"B-b-but!" Luffy stuttered standing back up following the blond chef like a lost puppy.
"Oh-oh! I see it! I see it!" The final young man with a long nose and curly black hair yelled jumping up and down, after pushing up his goggles back to the top of his head, pointing in front of the group.
Sure enough the small group could make out a small white dot on the horizon sticking out in the red of the ground and the blue of the cloudless sky.
"Well..." Nami trailed off watching Luffy run off far in front of them yelling on the top of his lungs, a sweet drop ran down the back of her head.
"We better pick up the pass before that idiot gets in trouble." Zoro pointed out picking his pass up to go after his caption the only problem was...
"Thats the wrong way!" Nami shouted hitting the back of his green head once he started walking left instead of straight where Luffy had ran off to. Nami Dragged the swordsmen off into the correct direction by his un pierced ear.
~Time Skip~
It didn't take long to catch up to the straw hat wearing boy considering he had collapsed a few miles away from where he had left them.
After a quick meal for him, he was up and going in a few seconds flat, and there were on their way once again.
"Mhaaa..." Luffy whined with his tongue hanging out of his mouth. "How much long-Ah!" Luffy shouted in surprise as the ground disappeared from his foot. None of them had realized that they had reached their destination.
With fast reflexes Zoro quickly caught the teen before he could fall.
"Holly!" Zoros dark gray eyes widen in shock as he looked down the very large hole. Along the edges where different levels of civilizations. A small tracks for small trains spiraled along the edges connecting the levels it lead all the way to the top and continued on west and east of horizon of the dead land.
"H-how?" Nami stuttered in awe looking down the seemingly never ending hole. The only thing showing the hole ended was the very small blue dot at the bottom that stuck out from the darkness.
The large white dot they had saw turned out to be a large castle like mansion that towered over them on the other side of the hole. It was surprising they had not noticed it in the first place.
"How!" Nami shouted looking back where they had came from.
"Thats soo coool~!" Luffy shouted with stars in his eyes.
"Thats one big hole." Usopp stuttered his knees shaking.
"Out of the way!" A shout came from behind the awed group. In their amazement they had failed to notice multiple pairs of footsteps coming towards them in a hurried fashion from behind them. A blur of electric green zipped past them. "Up we go!" The voice shouted in joy as the owner of the voice placed their hands on Luffy's head and launched over the straw hat boy high into the air.
"Thanks for the hat and the distraction!" A young girl with long electric green colored hair pulled back in a low braid shouted. Her bangs that framed her dark tanned face where black. A twinkle of excitement sparkled in her bright ocean blue eyes. Underneath her left eye was a tear drop shaped tattoo. Her single green and black colored earring that was barely visible behind her hair twinkled in the wind.
She winked at them as she placed Luffy's straw hat on her head and flipped over in the air to face the ground as gravity took over pulling her down the large hole. Grabbing onto a rope that was connected to one of the high levels and led down to one of the lower levels of the hole.
"MY HAT!" Luffy screamed in rage watching the mystery girl pull herself up onto the rope and run across the top down to the lower level making it look easy to balance on the rope. "Get back here!" He screamed pulling back his arm about to shoot after the green haired girl but was stopped by an armored hand taking hold of his red vest he immediately became limp from the connection of a sea stone coaler being attached around his neck.
"Oi!" Zoro shouted angrily as two men dressed in armour easl took him captive and handcuffed his hands together.
"Under the rules of Ground Z and the Holy Kings and Queens anyone who is under the suspicion of working with the Sins and or there is a suspicion of any criminal and or illegal act you will be taken in and will be brought before the kings and queens. If there be struggling you will be punished." They were surrounded by a half circle of large men cladded with armour and armed with weapons. The one who had spoken was the largest of them all with an odd symbol burned into the front of his armour on the chest plate. The symbol was also on the red cape that hung from his left shoulder. The symbol was a simple snake that wrapped around a cross that had a crown above it and on both sides of the cross was large angel wings. He sat upon a large lizard with armour running up and down its lethal looking body.
Nami opened her mouth to protest but she was interrupted by the same man. "If you resists you will not get judgement and go straight to your punishment." He repeated in a stern voice glaring down at them like they were the dirt under his feet. The crew had been stopped struggling and were rounded up, cuffed, and their weapons taken.
~Time Skip~
The captured group, well four of the captured group of pirates stared in awe at their surroundings, while the more pride full ones sulked because of how embarrassingly easy they were captured. The armed group of men had taken them to the large castle like mansion on the other side of the massive hole.
It was easy to tell why the so called Kings and Queens lived here once they passed the high, white stoned walls that surrounded the large building. What laid behind the stone walls were beautiful gardens, it was like they all had stepped in to the Garden of Eden, from the catholic religion, itself. Large, stone, female angels with their hands folded as if in prayer lined the path they walked down. It seemed like the group had seen every type of flower, tree, and bush that existed in the world during their brief walk through the beautiful gardens. Nami could of even sworn that she had seen a tree that had golden apples growing on it through a black metal fence that one of the more friendlier guards had said led to the sacred part of the Royal Gardens of the Holy Ones.
With the scenery the march down the winding stone path to the entrance did not take long. The doors to the castle where huge. The were made of stone and carved into them where two angale soldiers, dressed in armor similar to the armor clad men that surrounded them. The two knights on the door stood tall and proud on the door, their swords crossed like they were protecting what ever lied on the other side of the stone door.
"Now what..." Zoro grumbled grumply glaring at the knight that held his swords.
None of them answered the swordsmen. The leader however did get of the large lizard he was riding and got down on one knee in front of the group, hand in a fist above his heart, head tilted down.
"I, Gabrial, in the name of the Holy Ones have brought these out siders to be brought forth in front of the Holy Kings and Queens of Virtue. To receive judgment upon them." He said loud and clearly in a strong voice.
There was a pregnant silence before the large statues moved out from their spots on the door. Despite with the ground rubbing the leader did not move and inch from his bowing position on the ground. But the captured group did gaped as they watched as the large stone statues grasped the large handles of the door and pried it open. Once the doors were fully opened they were pushed from their shock and into the large front room and lead up a large set of stairs and through the large doors at the top.
The room was almost painfully pure white. The only things that had color to them were the captured group, knights, and the seven Kings and Queens themselves. They Kings and Queens sat on large throne like chairs that stood tall causing them to sit well above everybodies heads.
Every knight took off there helmens and kneeled in front of the their Kings and Queens. The leader who was surprisingly good looking, with his long dark red-brown hair that was pulled back in a low ponytail. His chocolate brown eyes stared steadily down at the white ground.
"Ah, Commander I've seen you have returned." The man in the middle on the highest throne spook in a soft tone. But even if it was layered with friendliness there was an undertone to it, that the pirates could not place.
"Your Holynessess." H bowed his head further down. "I have returned with outsiders to receive your judgment on what their faith shall be."
"And the target?" The man asked playing with a strained of his long purple hair, that was pulled over his shoulder in a ponytail. His dark blue eyes stared down at them commander swallowed loudly and wetted his lips before speaking again. "My apologies. We have failed to capture the target once again."
A.N.: Tada! Yes I am doing a One Piece FF now. And yes yes I know what your all thinking What about your other stories? Well lets just say I'll try my hardest to write for those ones too its just One Piece is one of the animes That I love the most it holds a special place in my heart and I really wanted to do a full One piece FF not a drabble that I've been doing. But unfortonly (or fortontly) I'm in my last year of high school and I have much to do so I might not be able to up date much. So anywho's I don't own One Piece and am sorry for the poor gramer and spelling I do not feel like reading over what I have writen so far so yeah...Just point out my mistacks (Nicely please if you could) And Ill go back and fix them : ) I hope you enjoy this storie.