This is my first actual One Piece (not mine) Fanfic, so no flames please. This will later tie into Ace Vs. Shanks. There is still time to vote, so, vote for your favorite, and see them win in this story. I'm only on Chapter 177 in the manga, so if there is any inaccuracy or non -corresponding information, please, no flames. Being there are over 400 chapters, I really don't want to read before I can write this. Also, this has buzzing in my head for a few days so I need to get it out to focus on other things. Well, on with the fanfic! Wait! I dedicate this story to you readers out there, and to my new Chihuahua puppy, Monkey, named after our favorite pirate captain!

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Bananadile-Chapter 1- Island, Ahoy!

The Strawhat pirates neared yet another island of the Grand Line. Everyone but Nami was still asleep. Once, she spotted the island out of the early morning fog, she alerted the rest of the crew.

"Island, ahoy!" She shouted. Nami laughed to herself when she heard the ruckus below deck that always arouses when another island is spotted. Luffy always was overenthusiastic. She didn't care; he was always entertaining. As if on cue, Luffy, rubber and all, came shooting out from the cabin and sat on the figurehead- his seat of choice and looked for the still, quite distant, island. Luffy looked back to Nami.

"Which island is that?!" He cried, excitedly. Nami looked to her map.

"That looks like a Swamp island."

"Ugh…water…"

"WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN AND YOU'RE CONCERNED WITH WATER!?!?!" Nami screamed. She knocked him in the head with her staff.

"…" Luffy ignored her, rubbing his head. Sanji came up followed by Zoro, Usopp, and Chopper. Zoro yawned, and very loudly. Usopp, as usual, was rubbing the bridge of his nose and, on schedule, was wrapping a bandage around it. Bored pirates at sea for a few weeks, things can become pretty rehearsed. Nami silently shook her head at her teammate's antics.

"Hey guys! What's that?!" Luffy shouted.

"Luffy…That's an island."

"No not that. THAT!" He adjusted his point at some floating debris. "Let's go check it out!"

"Alright. But it's just debris." Zoro mumbled, sleepily.

Soon the Merry-Go was within fifty feet of the shoreline of the island. Zoro, in the mere five minutes it took them to get to where they were now, had fallen asleep. Usopp had taken the liberty of setting a wonderful little trap for the swordsman, with the help of Luffy, of course. When Zoro would awake (if ever) a string that is set under his boot will be let loose and, from the crow's nest, a net rigged with scary masks and other wonderfully devious collections of objects will fall, hopefully will scare Zoro, and he will trip and fall overboard where an inflatable Bananadile will be waiting. It was a jolly and harmless trap. Then, unexpectedly, Sanji wanted in on it. He agreed to stay back on the island with a camera and take as many pictures as possible. Now they had memorabilia. As soon as everyone was clear on jobs and outcomes, Luffy shot out to the island to check the piece of acclaimed 'debris'. Nami, Usopp, and Chopper took a lifeboat to the island hoping that when they got there, Luffy hadn't already made some new friends.

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Sanji waited from within a trunk, lid opened an inch for picture taking. Minutes flew by, ten…twenty…thirty…forty…fifty…

An hour. Sanji wondered what possessed him to want this job.

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Luffy and the rest of the crew, besides Sanji and Zoro, had finally outrun the clan of little angry green monkey-reptile things Luffy tried to eat. Luffy ate one, and now he wished he didn't. He didn't know that, once ingested, they secreted acid and gave the diner a very bad case of the runs and a very uncomfortable stomach ache.

"Oooohhh…..OWWWWWWW!!!!!" He groaned.

"Luffy…You are so stupid…I'm sure you would eat dirt if we told you it was food." Nami retorted.

"Nami's right Luffy. You shouldn't eat things you don't know are safe. That green thing could've been poisonous. You could've died." Chopper said, yet again, putting everything into 'worst-case scenario'.

"Hey Chopper? Can't you make some kind of medicine to make my tummy better….Owwwwww……" Luffy whined in pain.

"I might… Wait!" Chopper took off his hat and pulled out a book. He flipped through the pages and stopped.

"That creature's called a Monkeydile… Here it is…'If ingested, few remedies are known other than death. The most effective is eating…'" Chopper stopped. Luffy grabbed Chopper.

"WHAT!!!!!????? WHAT DO I HAVE TO EAT!!!!!!???????"

"'The most effective is eating…Bananadile scales…'"

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Poor Sanji still waited for Zoro to wake up.

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Down below, the inflatable Bananadile had floated away. A large object neared to the Merry-Go. The closer it got, the more defined the object became. It stopped where the dummy once was. Now instead of the dummy, a real, alive, angry Bananadile rested.

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How's that for a start? Remember, R&R!!!!