One Piece: Straw Hat Chase
One Piece © Oda
Blizzard © Me
Summary- It's the most horrible, most outrageous, most unspeakable that has ever been committed…well, in Luffy's case. A huge eagle has stolen his most precious treasure: his beloved straw hat! Now, Luffy and the crew scramble to get it back, but with the Marines on their tail, it won't be easy. Then again, it never is for the Straw Hat crew. Will Luffy regain his hat? Why did the eagle steal it in the first place? And what is the story of this dying old man? Find out in One Piece: Straw Hat Chase!
Prologue
The sky was a deep navy blue with twinkling stars and grayish-pink clouds. The lighthouse that stood at the island's peninsula was shining bright, lighting the way for ships that were coming or going.
Walking through the streets of the town, there were two figures.
One was an elderly man with fairly dark skin, a prominent forehead, and a big nose. He is bald at the top of his head, but has long gray hair flowing down from the back of it to his shoulders, with a cropped mustache and beard. He also seemed to have a large stomach in comparison to his rather slim limbs. On his chest is a red tattoo, although it appeared obscured by his purple shirt.
He had a light purple buccaneer's coat dangling from his shoulders like a cape, frayed on the bottom with gold trimmings, as well as two lines of buttons on the front. It looked tattered, seeing as how there are holes and tears on the edges, indicating that he must've used it for a very long time. Under this coat, the old man wore a royal purple vest, as well as a blue sash tied around his waist, tucked in the let side of which was a flintlock pistol with a green gemstone in the handle. His pants have vertical orange and tan stripes on them, and each leg had a slim rope tied around it just below the knees. He wore a pair of purple shoes which seemed to be in the same shade as his vest. In his hand was an old, gnarled, wooden cane.
Waddling along behind him was a stout, Basset Hound-looking dog with orange-colored fur, a large body, and slim, stubby little legs. He looked like he had a perpetually sad expression on his wide, short face with a scar on his right brow. He has a blue nose, as well as incredibly long ears that dragged along the ground as he walked with a slim tongue that's just as long. Around the dog's neck is a pair of distinctive and elaborate pair of goggles, which were being worn on his neck like a collar.
This old man had been trying all day to get this dog away from him, but the dog wouldn't leave his side.
How could he after all they've been through?
"Quit following me," the old man growled. "You're free to go wherever you want, now."
The dog persisted in following him, much to his frustration. With an angry growl, the old man turned to face him.
"Don't you get it?" he snapped. "As of today, the Schneider Pirates are disbanded. You hear me? We're done!"
The dog whimpered.
"Besides," Schneider said, "we can't run a pirate crew if there's only two of us. There's nothing left I have to do with my life, so you can just beat it."
With that, Schneider turned and left, but the dog still followed. Noticing this, the man broke into a run, and the dog tried to keep up, but it seemed impossible with those stubby legs of his. Schneider ran as fast and far as he could through the empty town, hoping that the dog would just give up chasing him. Once he was certain that he had gotten a good enough distance, the old man stopped to catch his breath. As he turned to walk away, he saw that, somehow, the dog was sitting right there!
Ruff! He barked, wagging his tail happily.
"GAAAAAAAH!" Schneider screamed. "You damned mutt! Don't sneak up on an old man, like that!" He then sighed and knelt down on one knee, dropping his cane and scratching the dog's chin.
"Good grief," he said. "Listen, you. It's not that I don't appreciate your loyalty and everything you've done for me all this time…but, come on…look at yourself. You're getting up there in years, too, you know. If you keep following me, all you'll be is nothing but a burden on our travels. Seriously." He grabbed the dog by his cheeks and pulled him closer to his face. "I'm not so nice as to lug something like YOU around with me. You hear me, you useless mutt?"
The dog whimpered again.
"I mean, really," Schneider said as he stretched the dogs cheeks, "you look like such a joke."
Suddenly, two Marines appeared, walking up to the bulletin.
"Is it true?" asked one. "Are the Straw Hat Pirates really here?"
"No doubt about it," said the other. "The coast guard sighted their ship near our ports."
"They sure sound dangerous don't they?" the first asked as he stuck something on the bulletin board.
It was a wanted poster of the world's most notorious pirate captain: Monkey D. "Straw Hat" Luffy, whose bounty was 300,000,000 Berries.
"If we end up starting a fight with these guys," said the second Marine, "then there's no telling how many casualties we'd suffer from the result."
Schneider smirked, and then picked up the dog.
"Hear that, Buzz, old boy?" he asked.
"Whatever the case may be," said the first Marine, "ALL pirates must be eliminated."
"You're right," said the second. "It's our duty to see to that."
"You got that right."
"Well," said Schneider to Buzz, "I'll be seeing ya."
With that, he picked up his cane, stood up, and walked away.
"Goodbye, Buzz," he said.
Buzz just stood there, whimpering sadly while watching his master disappear around the corner.
As Schneider walked, he suddenly keels over and goes into a coughing fit. He leaned against a wall as he kept coughing and finally knelt to the ground. He pulled his palm away from his mouth and saw, to his horror, that there are specks of blood on it.
He sighed, and looked up to the starry night sky.
XXX
It was a quiet night on the Thousand Sunny, if one didn't count the sounds of snoring coming from the men's room and the sound of Roronoa Zoro doing his nighttime exercises before bed.
Usopp, wearing his nightgown and cap, came running out of the men's room, his hands between his legs.
"Gotta go! Gotta go!" he exclaimed.
He rushed behind the mast and opened the door behind it.
Nami and Nico Robin laid fast asleep in their beds, dreaming sweet dreams.
"Oh, Luffy," Nami muttered in her sleep, smiling. "Stop that…you're tickling me…!"
In the men's room, Monkey D. Luffy, Sanji, Tony-Tony Chopper, Brook, and Blizzard lay asleep, snoring away.
Luffy had his hat on the side of his bunk while his limbs are hanging over the sides.
"ZZZZZZZ…Nami…ZZZZZZ…meat…" he snored.
Just then, Usopp came back from his little trip to the "porcelain throne".
"It's freezing out here," the sniper said before he let out a yawn.
However, he stopped when he saw that the door was open. He could've sworn he close it behind himself when he left for the bathroom.
"What in the-" Usopp started.
FLAP!
He froze when he heard what sounded like the sound of beating wings. Looking up, Usopp saw what looked like the silhouette of a huge bird.
Deciding that what he saw was probably a result of being half-asleep, Usopp returned to bed, unaware of how right he was.
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