Arts of the Ocean
Disclaimer; I do not own One Piece…it belongs to the great Oda sensei!!
New Island
It was a perfect day on the Grand Line. The bright source of light and heat that was flaming in the sky as if it owned the day was happily warming the sparkling blue-green waves of the vast ocean. Only a few white puffs of cloud could be seen floating aimlessly in the scroll of clear blue. Through this joyance atmosphere, a certain ship was sailing, its sail spread out, riding on the mild tail wind that was slowly but surly taking them to their next adventure, the next island.
The ship called the Thousand Sunny was sailing merrily through these waters, directed by an orange-haired navigator who seemed to be happy about the weather conditions of that day as she calmly worked on one of her superb maps and kept watch for any changes in the climate. The ship's sharpshooter was in the middle of conducting an experiment with a new gadget that he had created while being watched with amazement by the young doctor. Just then, the cyborg shipwright walked out onto the deck to join the doctor in watching what the sharpshooter was doing. Over to the end of the deck, a cook with his eyes in the shape of hearts, along with the heart-shaped smoke that issued out of his cigarette, was serving a raven-haired archaeologist who was sitting on her deck-chair reading a book, a cup of freshly brewed coffee. Up in the crows nest, a snore could be heard from a swordsman who was supposedly keeping watch for any upcoming island.
The only person that had any complaints of that day was a certain captain who was bored out of his wits at the lack of excitement that was going on.
"Hey, Nami! When are we gonna get there?" Luffy asked the navigator for the ten hundredth time.
"In three hours…" Nami answered trying not to loose her temper.
"But you said that four hours ago!" Luffy whined. The navigator's palm slapped him upside his head.
"For the last time… I'm trying to concentrate here!" she shouted at him. Luffy walked away from the girl defeated as he decided to see what Usopp, Chopper and Franky were up to.
"Man…this is boring…" Luffy muttered to himself as he walked towards the center of the ship where Usopp was showing Franky how to use the dials that they had collected from Skypiea. Then, just as Luffy reached the three, a voice shouted from the crows nest, "Land ahead!"
Immediately, an excited captain bolted over to the front of the ship followed by the doctor, sharpshooter and shipwright. After a few seconds, the navigator rushed over as well.
"Finally!" sighed Nami as she pulled out her binoculars to scan the island with them.
"What do ya see?" Luffy asked eagerly.
Nami paused for a second and answered, "I can see a couple of houses on the coast line…there's probably a town somewhere in the middle of the island…"
"Do you see any sign of the marines?" Robin asked as she had just made her way over where the majority of the crew was standing. Nami looked back into her binoculars and shook her head.
"No, no sign of them…"
"Yeah!! A new island! Sanji!!! I'm hungry!" the captain called out across the ship to the cook.
"Me too!!" two voices that belonged to the long-nose sharpshooter and small reindeer doctor joined in.
"Fine, I'll make us all some lunch before we get to the island," Sanji answered as he walked off to the kitchen to prepare the food.
"Yoshi! Let's go!!" Luffy shouted with a big grin on his face. He was, however, stopped by Nami who had yanked on the back of his vest.
"Not so fast Captain," she said, growling at Luffy's impatience. "We don't know anything about this island yet so you can't just go running off!"
"Aww, Nami! Let go!" Luffy whined. Nami refused and turned back to the rest of the crew.
"So I think we should stay together until we find a town or something," the navigator continued on the conversation that had been going on before she had to prevent the ship's captain from leaving.
"That's probably a good idea" Sanji nodded in agreement. "Especially when you have certain crew mates that loose their way while following a straight line."
"What did you say!?" Zoro growled at him.
"You heard me marimo!"
"Shut up, dartboard-brow!"
Needless to say, their fight was soon put to an end by the fists of the annoyed navigator.
"Bye the way, who's going to watch the ship?" Usopp asked.
"First say, first serve," Franky laughed.
"I agree, good luck Usopp!" Nami said, letting go of Luffy's vest. Usopp's jaw dropped about twenty centimeters.
"What-what!!! Wait! There's probably giant monsters living on this island! Meat eaters! And I have a 'I must not stay on a ship alone' illness! And it's 'First come, first serve'!! Oi! Are you listening to me???" he yelled, to which no one responded.
"Oi, look everyone! A town," the excited captain shouted happily. It indeed was a town that was located right in the middle of the island. It wasn't very big, but even from a distance the pirates could see a couple of streets filled with people and houses and shops lined up against each other.
"Remember guys, no stealing food, no getting into fights or causing trouble or causing a scene," Nami reminded Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Franky sternly, a dangerous look in her eyes.
"You all got that?" she asked as if she were the commander of an army.
"Yes ma'am!" the four saluted. The seven pirates walked down to the town and entered on of the back streets so that they would be less conspicuous. It wasn't bad for a back street but there also wasn't as many shops or anything of interest to them.
"Namiiiiiiiiiii, can we go onto the main street now?" Luffy asked, eagerly.
Nami sighed and answered, "Fine, but lets split up…um, let's see…Franky, Chopper and Sanji, you guys go in one group, Zoro and Robin, you guys can go together and Luffy's staying with me so I can make sure he doesn't cause any trouble."
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" Luffy pouted.
"Nami-swan, don't you want me to come with you instead?" Sanji asked with hearts surrounding him.
"No Sanji-kun, I know you won't cause trouble…right?" she asked with a smile. The amounts of hearts surrounding the love-cook multiplied.
"Yes, Nami-swan!!"
"Idiot…" mutter the green-haired swordsman.
"What was that?!"
"Anyways," continued the navigator, "We can meet back here in two hours, okay, everyone's free to go." And with that, they all split up into the groups that had been assigned to them.
"Hey wait up Nami!" Luffy said running after her. Zoro and Robin only exchanged slightly awkward glances at each other and began to walk the other way to the main street.
"Hey Sanji, can we see if there's a book store here?" Chopper asked the cook.
"Yeah sure Chopper, but we have to go and get groceries too…"
Franky added, "Yeah and I have to go and get some supplies for the ship."
"Hey Nami, I'm hungry!" a very predictable captain told his navigator.
"Actually, come to think about it, I am too," Nami replied her stomach growling. "Is there a restaurant around here?" The captain and the navigator looked around for a place where they could get some food. However in there search, something happened that made Nami think that Luffy had left her side for a split second.
"HEY! CATCH THAT FOOD CROOK!!" and angry voice shouted across the street. For a moment, the orange-haired navigator could only come up with one name to fit that description. However, her assumptions proved to be wrong as she noticed the next second that Luffy was standing right beside her.
"What the…" Nami and Luffy both thought as a girl running at such a fast speed, they thought she was probably broke the world record in sprinting, bolted past them, knocking them both off their feet. They watched as the girl continued to sprint and with a great leap, jumped on top of one of the roofs of the houses and ran until she disappeared.
"Relative of yours Luffy?" Nami asked still staring at the roof top that the girl had been.
"No," he answered simply. "Man, she's amazing!" he said with a grin on his face.
"Whatever…" Nami said standing up. Luffy followed in this action.
He continued to grin and started walking in the direction that the girl had come from, "At least we know where we can find food now!"
Meanwhile, Zoro and Robin weren't having as an eventful of time as Luffy and Nami.
"Mr. Swordsman, do you have any place in particular that you want to go to?" Robin asked. Zoro just shrugged.
"Not really…you?" he asked.
Robin said, "Well, maybe if there's a book store or something…" at that moment, Zoro pointed ahead of them.
"Isn't that one?" he said. Robin looked and sure enough, a small book store was in sight.
"Do you mind if we go in?" she asked.
Zoro just shrugged again and said, "Sure, I don't mind." That was about the extent of their conversation for that time.
"Sheesh, I don't know why I had to get stuck with these morons while that crappy swordsman got to go with Robin-chan and rubber idiot with Nami-swan!!" one very unhappy cook was muttering to himself as he walked around the town with a cyborg and a reindeer, a rain cloud over his head.
"What's wrong Sanji?" Chopper asked him.
"Hey cook, it's only for two hours!" Franky reminded him. However, this didn't seem to make Sanji feel any better. So, Franky tried another tactic. "Hey, look Sanji, there's a whole group of girls over there!" Immediately, as if he had been shot by adrenaline arrow, the love-cook shot over towards the group of ladies.
"Oh man, I'd better get started on that medicine for hopeless idiots," Chopper said.
When two hours had finally passed, everyone met (surprisingly) on time as their rendezvous.
"I guess we can head back to the ship now," Nami said when everyone had gathered. However as the Straw Hats began to walk down the back road towards their ship someone disrupted them.
"You don't wanna be goin' that way," a female's voice came out of nowhere. The seven looked around and after a couple of seconds, found the speaker.
"You!" Nami and Luffy shouted together.
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