Hello everyone :D This is my first ever story and, hopefully, not my last :P It's just a random thing on One Piece that occurred to me, coz seriously...what would happen if the captain of the ship was left alone on his ship?

Sorry if the characters seem a little OOC...

Chapter 1: The Bet

"WAKE UP EVERYONE! THERE'S A NEW ISLAND!"

Luffy shot out of bed and ran towards the direction of Nami's voice. "WOOHOOOO! A NEW ISLAAAANNNDDD! Nami look! It's an island Nami! An island! Nami, IT'S AN ISLAND! MAYBE THEY HAVE MEAT! MEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAT! WOOHOOOOOO!"

Nami leaned away from her loud captain and sighed. It was really quite annoying that Luffy reacted in the same hyperactive way every time they sighted land. Normally she would make him be quiet and tell him to ask Sanji for supplies so that they could leisurely explore the place, at which point Luffy would, as expected, dash off to see if Sanji had any food to eat and she wouldn't have to put up with his craziness any longer. However this time she couldn't help but be a little excited as well. It had been three weeks since they had last set foot on land and not only was supplies running low, but a change of scenery was also something that was quickly becoming a pressing need.

The sound of Sanji saying "Nami san is so wonderful when she's on lookout!" in his love struck voice snapped Nami out of her reverie. She turned around and smiled at the blond cook and was about to ask him if he could get some food for the trip ready when she was prematurely cut off by Zoro.

"Oy, shitty love cook! Stop blocking my view and go make me some breakfast!"

Zoro did not seem to be in a good mood, which was no surprise since he never was after being woken up. This was not helped greatly by the fact that Sanji seemed to be in a mood for, in Zoro's opinion, stupid come-backs

"You're the one with the three oversized kitchen knives, marimo head!"

The said marimo head was about to make a cutting remark (ha ha) about what he thought about kitchen knives when he was interrupted by a large rumble that came from the direction of Luffy's stomach. Luffy who had been jauntily doing what he called a real pirate's dance suddenly seemed to run out of energy and sunk to the floor.

"Aaaah. I'm so hunnngryy. I need some meat." He groaned with his tongue out of his mouth. Sanji took one look at him and stubbed out the cigarette that he had been smoking. Zoro saying he was hungry he could ignore but Luffy saying he was hungry was something that needed to be taken care of quickly. Sending the usual scathing look Zoro's way, he made off for the kitchen and, seeing this, Luffy suddenly became energetic again.

"ZORO!" he shouted, shooting his elastic arms forward so that they gripped Zoro's sides, "ZORO! WE'RE GOING TO AN ISLAND! HAHA! I'm gonna eat alllllllll the food they have! And I'm going to climb a tree and-"

"Wait, Luffy," Zoro's bored voice cut Luffy off mid-sentence, "Don't you remember the bet you lost?"

"Huh? Which bet?"

Zoro sighed. He knew this was going to happen and yet the lingering hope that his baka of a captain would remember had remained. Now he was going to have to break the news and he was pretty sure that his message wouldn't be received well by Luffy. He scratched the back of his neck and said:

"The bet. Remember? You made a bet with me last night…And you lost so you have to take my position of guarding the boat today…You can't go on the island"

"WHAT?" Luffy was shell shocked for a moment…Before he burst out laughing. He obviously didn't believe a word Zoro said. Zoro looked a bit ruffled at this but Luffy kept laughing and laughing until he was rolling on the floor and was banging his fist on the ground. He didn't stop until Zoro hit him on the head with the hilt of his sword which was pointless really because Luffy had his hat on and couldn't feel anything. He did, however, notice the action and immediately set up a hurt expression on his face and looked at Zoro sadly, his face clearly saying 'how could you do such a thing to me?'

Glad that he had Luffy's attention, Zoro poked Luffy and said "I'm not kidding. You are staying here and I am going on the island. Or else I'm going to have to ask Sanji for a favor."

At the mention of 'Sanji' and 'favor' Luffy suddenly looked absolutely terrified. The last time Luffy hadn't upheld his side of a bet, Zoro had gone to Sanji and somehow convinced him to make all of Luffy's food extremely disgusting. Even though Luffy was not really picky about his food, even he couldn't swallow the muck that Sanji had concocted. It was a special recipe, Sanji had told him later, that Red Leg Zeff had used when he had pretended to be a cook on an enemy's ship. Sanji had, apparently, taken out the one ingredient that would have caused all of Luffy's taste buds to die right there and then. Although Luffy had no idea what 'taste buds' meant he knew what 'die' meant, and when he paired it with 'food' it didn't sound very fun.

And now Zoro was threatening him with it!

He couldn't believe it: his own first mate had gone on the evil side.

Luffy watched Zoro's retreating back and made up his mind. He was captain of this ship and so all he had to do was order someone to switch places with him so that he could have fun on the island. Luffy jumped to his feet and ran over to Nami who was busy getting her map making equipment ready.

"Oy, Nami! How long until we reach the island?'

Nami smiled, thinking that Luffy was excited to get on the island. She glanced over at the island and looked at the sky.

"Well, there's a good breeze and the atmospheric pressure isn't too high meaning that no rain will occur...but then again we are on the Grand Line and the weather is quite unpredictable-' She stopped seeing the blank look on Luffy's face and remembered that with her captain, short words and sentences were always best. "We'll be there in an hour or so Luffy."

"An hour?" Luffy got the determined look on his face that Nami had seen many times before, the most memorable of which was when he was about to take down Arlong. His eyes couldn't be seen under the shade of his straw hat and his mouth was set in a firm line that showed that he had set his mind to something and was not going to back down. His arms hung at his sides whiles his fingers were curled in to fists. Nami felt a shiver run down her spine at the look but the feeling was quickly replaced with Luffy's next words:

"I..I will go on this island. And no one is going to stop me."

Nami face palmed. What was she expecting?