CHAPTER 1–The Island Of Call's Cell
It was a beautiful, peaceful, and stormy day.
The Thousand Sunny was sailing through a huge storm, heading toward the next island.
Suddenly, all was calm and the crew all paused in surprise until Usopp called down from the crow's nest, which he was too afraid to leave during the storm. "Land!" he shouted with glee.
Everyone cheered except for Zoro, who was fast asleep.
Nami looked ahead and nodded. "That's the island. That person from the last island talked about it. He called it Call's Cell." Nami said staring at the green island.
Chopper stared in horror however at the island. "What's that?" he asked scared. Chopper pointed to a large temple that could be seen from anywhere.
"Probably a temple or shrine." stated Robin.
"Cool!" Luffy shouted cheerfully.
Usopp finally crawled down the mast and started shaking. "There's probably monsters on the island that eat pirates and sacrifice their bones in some ritual." Usopp said.
"Really?" Chopper said scared.
"Yes, there's no doubt. Of course, I know about them. I once fought 1000 of them with both my hands tied." Usopp said heroically.
"1000! Awesome!" Chopper said with stars in his eyes.
"Okay, let's land!" Luffy shouted and everyone but Usopp cheered.
When they finally landed on the island, Sanji, and Zoro jumped onto the beach to make sure it was safe.
Usopp was dragged off the ship when they said it was safe.
Luffy started to run around happily while chanting. "Island, Island, Island, Island!" Chopper joined in, and Usopp was complaining about his I-don't-want-to-land-on-this-island disease, which was shot down when Zoro said that they had already landed.
Luffy and the others slowly made their way through the green jungle that surrounded the island. They continued to walk until suddenly, they heard a loud bang and whipped around to the direction of the bang.
Zoro and Sanji walked forward and broke down the trees in the way.
When everyone saw what the bang was, they all were surprised.
In front of them, was a huge city with an amusement park.
"That explains the bang." Sanji said looking around.
"Welcome to Call's Cell!" cried several voices. Everyone looked around and saw people grinning and waving down at them.
In front of them stood a short man wearing a huge hat that was made of many different hats. "Cool! Look at that hat!" Luffy said in amazement.
The short man walked toward them and held out a hand. "My name is Rubio Less. I'm the mayor and owner of this island. Everyone looked at him and smiled.
"I'm Luffy." Luffy said and shook Rubio's hand.
"I guess you must be tired after your voyage." Rubio said and stopped shaking Luffy's hand.
"Follow me." Rubio said with a flick of his wrist. Suddenly, some of the people came over and dragged the Straw Hat Pirates along.
"This hotel is hopefully, to your liking." Rubio said with a bow that made his hat touch the floor when they reached it.
"Awesome!" Luffy shouted.
"Hopefully there's a kitchen." Sanji said.
"They better have big rooms." Franky said.
"I wonder if they have a library." Robin and Chopper both said.
"We have all of that!" Rubio said with a big smile. Rubio looked over at the front desk and out walked a sullen boy.
"This here is Gregory. He's the one in charge of this hotel." Gregory looked over at the pirates.
"Welcome to Hope's Last Hotel." Gregory said quietly.
"What a weird name." Nami said.
"Anyway, there are only four rooms available however, so you will have to share some." Gregory said quietly again.
Gregory handed Robin the four keys and he walked back to the room he was just in. Rubio glanced over with a strange smile.
"Okay, don't mind him. Please get some rest, and if you want to know, the Log Pose sets in three weeks." Rubio said and then waved cheerfully and walked away.
Luffy and the others were all sitting down in the front room, wondering who sleeps with whom.
"That owner Gregory also added that one of the rooms only has one bed." Robin said.
"Okay then. I'll sleep with both Nami-chan, and Robin-chan!" Sanji said with hearts in his eyes.
"No." the two girls said bluntly.
Zolo took one of the keys, and looked at it. "So there's a 1 in 4 chance of getting the rooms the room with only one bed, right?" Zolo asked.
"That seems to be the case." Franky said.
"There's no way I'm sleeping with one of the guys!" Sanji shouted angrily.
"Me neither!" Usopp shouted too.
Luffy took a key and then smiled. "How about we play Jan-Ken-Po? The first two out have to share a room, and then the next two have to share one also, and then the final two have to share also." Luffy said smiling.
"That sounds fair." Zolo said with a smirk.
"Yes it does." Robin said smiling.
It took 4 hours before the rooms were picked and the partners were made. Sanji slumped into the corner and started moping.
"How comes I'm stuck with Long Nose…" Sanji said whining.
"Hey, I feel bad too!" Usopp shouted at Sanji.
Zolo stood up and so did Franky. "I can live with this." Zolo said.
"This week's super me can also deal with this!" Franky said and did his pose.
Chopper was staring up at Robin and then blushed. "I guess this will do."
Chopper said while hiding the fact that it was better than sharing a room with the guys.
Everyone except for the moping Sanji looked over at Luffy and Nami.
Nami had her head in her hands and was saying. "Why him? Why him? Why him?" While Luffy was just standing there, staring at his hand.
Gregory walked over and quietly said. "I'll show you to your rooms now."
He said and then walked off with everyone following him.
When they reached their rooms, Gregory pointed at each room and said their numbers.
When everyone was in front of their doors, Gregory looked over at the group.
"I should warn you about this island." Gregory said. Everyone looked over at him puzzled.
"Why is that?" Robin asked.
"Beware of the Numbers." Gregory said.
"Huh? Numbers? What are they?" Luffy asked Gregory.
"They are a group that cause trouble to new-comers. Please be careful." Gregory said and then walked off while everyone stared after him puzzled.
Nami and Luffy entered their rooms and looked around.
Nami let out a cry of despair that startled Luffy.
"What happened?" Luffy asked Nami wondering what had caused her to cry out.
"I've been cursed. We got the one-bed room!" Nami shouted at Luffy.
"So?" Luffy said dumbly. Nami sunk her fist into his head and started to grumble words like, "Idiot", "Bad", and "How did this happen?".
"It's okay." Luffy said while sitting down next to Nami.
"How can it be okay? I have to sleep with you!" Nami shouted at Luffy and punched him on the top of his head. Luffy just stared at Nami for a while and then asked.
"Do you hate me?" Nami was startled by the question and quickly said.
"No, of course not!" Nami said and held up her hands in front of her.
"Then why did you hit me?" Luffy asked.
At this, Nami was lost for words. "Well because… you're such an idiot." Nami said with a punch to Luffy's head.. Luffy smiled and patted her on the head.
"It's okay! It didn't hurt." Luffy said with a smile. Nami looked up at Luffy big grin, and then couldn't help giggling.
"Huh? What's funny?" Luffy asked.
"Nothing." Nami said with a smile. Nami waited till Luffy wasn't looking to slowly move closer a little.
At night, in the entrance to the hotel, Rubio and Gregory were standing outside while waiting for something or someone.
Suddenly, some one appeared in front of them.
"Number?" Rubio asked the person.
The person smiled in the moonlight. "No.3." the person said.
"Good, one of the Primes, now then, onto business. I have eight new pirates sleeping right now." Rubio said.
"So? Why should I care?" the person asked.
"If I were you, I wouldn't talk to me like that just because you are one of those no good blasted pirates of his." Rubio said angrily.
The person just lifted a hand and started to play with their hair that in the moonlight, appeared to be the color orange. "Whatever, I don't care." the person said.
Rubio looked furious and grew red in the face. "Now listen, all I want is the Key. Nothing more, nothing less." Rubio said while trying to calm down.
"Okay, you want some key thing, right? Okay, where is it?" the person asked.
Rubio calmed down and pointed behind him. "In the hotel." Rubio said with a smile.
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Forgive me if it's too hard to read, but I'm still learning about this myself. Hooray to my first fanfic:)
I'm still learning so I'll at some time make it easier to read, just bare with it for now.
YAHOO! Fixed it! Now it's hopefully easier to read! Chapter 2 is coming just as soon as I can upload it.
Currently working on Chapter 11! I have no life.
- N.R.