Ch. 1: Welcome to Devil Island!
"Incoming!" Luffy shouted as another tidal wave hit the ship. Everyone screamed as the massive wave barely tilted their ship over, flooding the deck with pounds of water. It was one of the worst days to be out at sea. Massive storms of lightning followed by cracks of thunder echoed throughout the sea as the Marry Go continued to be pushed back by one after another wave, each one more fierce than last.
"Luffy, we're taking on too much water! Nami shouted, hanging onto the wheel of the ship for dear life. Luffy quickly took a glace towards Nami before looking back towards the rest of his crew. Everyone was using their own specialtiesto help them stay on the ship. Zoro had two of his swords thrusted into the ship, helping him stay pinned in place, Robin used her arms to help her feet stay on on ground along with Franky, Ussop used a special hook robe around the pole of the ship, although staying attached to it was probably harder than it seemed, esspecially when he keeps shouting "I'm slipping I'm slipping", and as for Sanji and Chopper, they were busy below deck keeping any holes they found in the ship plugged, although more holes kept breaking through as they did.
Another crackle of thunder roared through the sea as the ship was hit with a much harder wave than the last. Luffy's gaze shifted as back as he heard Nami screaming. His eyes widened as he saw Nami getting swept off her feet from the wave of water, and hurtling over towards the edge of the ship. Reacting quickly, Luffy stretched both his arms, one wrapping around the steering wheel of the ship, and one grabbing onto Nami's shoulder. He yelled in fury as he puled himself towards the steering wheel and pulled Nami towards him at the same time. She quickly grabbed onto the steering wheel tightly, even though Luffy still his hand over her shoulder, just to help her stay on tighter.
"You ok?" He asked. Nami looked at him as she nodded, replying. Her gaze suddenly shifted behind him as her eyes widened, which he looked intently on.
"Luffy, look!" Nami shouted as she pointed over his shoulder. As he looked back, he saw what it was Nami was looking at: off to the eastern side of the ship, some thirty yards away, was a large island, just big enough to help them get out of the storm. He nodded a bit as he pulled the steering wheel of the ship to the right as hard as he could, closing his eyes to keep the rain from getting into them.
There was a large tremble of the ship as it pushed against the waves, just to turn in the direction it was steered towards. Ussop started screaming again as he completely lost grip of the hook and rope and headed towards the edge of the ship, but not more than two feet away Robin used her abilities and grew a line of arms from the pole, all the way towards Ussop, grabbing onto his hands.
"Thank's Robin!" Ussop shouted as he started pulling his way towards the pole again, grabbing onto each hand as he did.
"Everyone listen up!" Luffy shouted from over the deck, catching everyone's attention. "Hoist the sails open comlpetely. There's an Island dead ahead not that far from here!" Luffy commanded, looking back towards the Island. Zoro took no hesitation as he quickly sliced the ropes keeping the sails together with his swords. As soon as he did, he, Robin, and Franky all grabbed whatever ropes they could grab that wasn't fully blown away by the wind. Even as they did though, much of the sail was blowing in different directions no matter how hard they pulled back, esspecially with the deck getting flooded with endless water.
Ussop clenched his hand to his mouth as the endless feeling of the waves began to make him feel sick. Usually, he wouldn't get sick, but in a practically endless storm like this, esspecially with the ship moving up and down for practically two hours straight, it could make anyone sick. As he turned around, still a bit nauseated, his eyes shot out in terror as he let out a humongous scream which cought everyone's attention. Their gazes widened as well as they saw the sight of the practically 50 ft. wave. None of them even paid attention as Sanji kicked open the door from the inside of the ship.
"Guys, we're taking on too much wa..." He froze at the sight of the giant wave as the others had.
"We're going to need a bigger ship..." Ussop commented, hanging on tighter to the ship than he had been before. Everyone let out a large roaring scream as the tidal wave came crashing down onto the ship, sinking them all into the sea...
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The feeling of touch slowly came back to Nami as she awaked a bit. She squinted a bit as she slowly opened her eyes, seeing it was clear and sunny outside. She moaned a bit as she rubbed her head a bit, feeling like she was just thrown off a mountain. She let out a small gasp a bit as she remembered what happened about the storm, remembering the tidal wave knocking the ship over before losing consiounce.
"Luffy, Ussop, Robin!? Anyone?" Nami shouted, looknig around the beach. She was even more shocked to see many broken pieces of the ship lying around the ground, seeing even more pieces of wood coming in from the sea. Are they all dead?! Nami thought to herself, somewhat shocked at the thought that she would be the only one alive out of the whole ordeal. She suddenly jumped a bit as a hand came out of the sand right in front of her. She let out a somewhat scared scream as she suddenly kicked it, which was followed by a large scream of pain as Ussop suddenly popped out of it.
"AAAAAAAAAACK!" He screamed, rubbing his somewhat swollen hand a bit before looking at Nami. "I was trying to get out of there thank you!" He stammered, irritated at Nami's reaction. She felt a sweat drop behind her head as she apologized a bit, helping pull him out of the sand. He let out a long breath as he sighed, brushing the sand off his pants. "Man, that was insane. I thought we were goners." The two of them suddenly looked to their right as they saw Zoro pulling himself out of the sand a bit, grunting after coughing a bit of sand out of his mouth.
"Zoro!" They both shouted, somewhat happily, running over to him to see if he was ok. Zoro sat in the sand as he coughed a bit more sand out of his mouth, as well as brushing it out of his hair. Next to him, Franky was breathing heavily as he wiped the sweat from his head. He let out a big drawn out sigh as he opened the hatch to the inside of his chest, dumping all the sand that got stuck in him as well as as very exhausted Chopper.
"So you guys made it too huh?" He commented, looking back at them as he heard them walking near.
"Yeah, but what about Luffy or Robin?" Nami asked, sounding a little worried. "Niether of them can swim, and I don't see them anywhere..." Nami stated as she looked around the beach. Sure enough, as she had thought, the beach was empty except for the piles of wood that kept coming in. And lastly, Sanji was was sitting next to Franky as he dumped all the sand and water he could out of his shoes, knowing how uncomfortable the feeling of both are in your feet.
"What about Brooks?" Ussop asked, looking around the beach and noticing that the others hadn't said a thing about it.
"Oh yeah...where was the perv anyway?" Nami asked Sanji curiously. Sanji simply grunted as he put his shoes back on.
"The jerk simply hid in a barrel as the bottom of the ship began to flood. For all we know he's probably long gone by n..."
"He's right there." Nami interrupted unsurprised, seeing the barrel with an air tube sticking out. It wasn't the fact she recognized it as one of the ships barrels that helped her know it was Brook, it was the stupid tune he was humming to himself that clarified it. As the barrel finally touched sand, the air tube seemed to be wobbling for a few seconds before finally going inside the barrel. After a few seconds of wobbling, the top of the barrel finally burst open as Brook starred into the sky.
"I lived!" Brook stated to himself, completely unaware of the crew that was watching him. As he inhaled deeply, he turned around as he stepped out of the barrel, but froze as he saw saw the other members of the crew as well. "Oh, my friends, we've made it. Horray for us." That only got him a whack to the head by a pissed off Sanji considering he tried hiding away during the massive storm. Even as Sanji continued to beat the crap outta him, which Ussop, Franky, and Chopper simply watched, Zoro looked back as he noticed how Nami was looking at her hands in a strange way, then looking around the sandy beach.
"Hey, something wrong?" He asked, grabbing her attention.
"Huh?" She replied, just realizing he was talking to her.
"I asked if something was wrong. Your acting a bit strange." Zoro repeated. Nami simply looked along the beach again for a few seconds before looking back at Zoro.
"Don't you find it strange?" Nami asked, causing Zoro to mentally raise an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Look at us. There was a storm last night and yet none of us even have a scratch. There's not even any water on us!" Nami stated. Everyone else just looked at her with the same shocked experession, except Brook who was looking at her in shock and pain from the injuries Sanji caused, realizing she was right. It was one thing for all of them to be completely fine without a single bruise or scrape, but the fact they were completely fine and weren't even wet was a different story. Before their conversation could continue, however, everyone suddenly jumped a bit as row upon rows of sand all grew together in a circle formation at least ten feet big, and began digging their way into the sand.
"Robin!" They all exclaimed, knowing that she was using her powers to dig herself out of the sand. Considering the fact that the hands were digging quickly in a bit of a crazy fashion, they all knew she didn't have much air left. Everyone immediately, except for a knocked out Brook's, started digging in the same spot to quickly. It took them a few minutes before they finally saw Robin's regular arms coming out of the sand, trying to grab anything to pull her out.
"Robin my love!" Sanji exclaimed, quickly kneeling to her as he pulled her from the sand. She had bits of sand in her hair and clothing, and even coughed a bit from bits she had in her mouth. "Are you hurt, my swan?" Sanji asked, formally, helping her walk out of the ditch the group burried. Robin simply breathed in and out deeply a bit before she managed to calm down from the mass claustrophobia that she just went through. If though she wasn't, heck, who wouldn't have problems of claustrophobia when your burried completely everywhere.
"T-Thanks...guys..." She finally said, still breathing a bit heavily.
"Well, that's one down, now we're just short one captain..." Ussop commented, looking around the beach. Everyone simply starred into thought as they knew he was right. Everyone else was fine, but now they were without a captain. Luffy could've been anywhere on the beach considering how spaced out the rest of the crew were, and the fact some were even burried in the sand, and for all they knew, he probably wasn't even around the beach at all. He could have drowned out at sea unlike the rest of them.
At the same time, Nami was the only one who was feeling a little bit more crushed by this then the rest. For some reason, unkown to her, her heart ached as she remembered first meeting Luffy, to when he saved her entire village from Arlong, the journey to Alabasta, saving Robin from her execution, stopping Moria at Thriller Bark, and just recently when he saved her from going overboard on the ship.
She suddenly snapped out of her train of thought though as she felt something poking on her shoulders. At first she thought she was just imagining things, but then she realized that what she was feeling was something made of rubber.
"Luffy!" She blurted out loud, catching everyones attention. They looked at the exact same place Nami was, all seeing a rubber arm that stretched from the woods to Nami. At first, they expected to see their always go-happy captain, but to their shock, it wasn't their captain, nor did it look anything like their captain. Instead, they saw a short kid with brown hair, light blue jeans and shirt, appearing to be around nine years old. He gave sort of a startled experession as the group looked at him in a bit of shock.
It wasn't that they were shocked the island turned out to be inhabited, but the fact that the kid had the same rubber powers as Luffy did, and there was no way he was Luffy just by looking at him.
"Hey kid..." Zoro suddenly said, causing the kid to look at him wide eyed. Before anything else could be said, the kid's arm immediately stretched back to himself as he started running away deep into the woods.
"Ok, I have no idea what I just saw, but I'm suggesting we follow him." Franky statted.
"What about the ship?" Chopper asked. Sanji just looked back at the broken remains of the ship, seeing how it was torn in pieces.
"What about it?" He asked, knowing there was no point in worrying about a ship that was already destroyed. As the other's began running in the same direction as the kid, Ussop looked back a bit in dissopointment and sighed. It'll take forever to fix...He thought to himself, before running to where the others ran.
"Hey guys, wait up!" He yelled, running as fast as he could to catch up.
At the same time, everyone ran after the boy who still managed to outrun them. Even though they could see him as they continued to run, they were unable to catch up with him, although they did manage to keep up with him. Everyone was panting a bit as they continued to run, knowing that something was wrong with the whole situation. They couldn't believe the kid had the same powers as Luffy, which was the one thing that kept coming to their minds.
Even as they continued to run, the deep dark woods seemed to go on for hours, even though they've only been running for a few minutes at the time. They were quite surprised how thick the woods were considering there didn't seem to be any sunlight illuminating the forest. After what seemed like forever within the few minutes they've been running, they finally saw some light up ahead, knowing that they were finally reaching towards the end of the forest.
"Help!" The finally heard the boy shouting as he ran into the light. Judging by the sound of it, they knew they were entering a village about now. Once they finally crossed the forest, however, everyone went silent at what they saw: There were people all around working, using devil fruit powers. Some of them who were Dice-Dice fruit users were working on cutting pieces of woods with their own arms and legs.
On another side of the village, was a single worker who was nailing pieces of woods together, while arms were protruding from different sides of the building, either passing each different arm a piece of wood, holding parts together, or hammering nails down as well, due to effects from a Flower-Flower fruit.
Everywhere they looked, they saw different people, all having different powers and working on something in particular. They had no idea what it was they were gazing upon, but it was truely amazing to see such a thing. Their sightseeing was cut short through as a group of somewhat angry looking villagers, probably about ten of them, surrounded them. Near one of them, they saw the little kid from earliar, hiding behind one of the women.
"Are these the people you mentioned, hun?" The woman asked.
"Yeah mom, I recognize the blue head from anywhere!" The little boy replied, tugging on his mother's long skirt. Robin just blinked a bit confused, never even meeting the boy before.
"What do you mean? We've never met before." Robin asked, a bit confused by the situation.
"No no no, I mean the one with the long swords, Zoro!" The boy exclaimed, causing Zoro to blink a bit surprised to hear that even somewhere this far out at sea they have people who know his name. "He's the pirate hunter, and I bet you he wants to kill us for the bounty on King Devil's head!" He said scared. At this, Robin let out a small gasp as her pupils went short. Sanji simply looked at her a bit curiously, never seeing Robin as shocked as she was before.
"What's wrong Robin, you're acting like you've seen a ghost." Sanji stated, although a few months ago they technically did see ghosts at Thriller Bark. Before she could reply, Zoro interrupted.
"Actually, that's ex-pirate hunter Zoro. Now I'm just a pirate." Zoro replied calmly. The villagers experessions changed from angry to curious as he said this, although they didn't seem to be any less denfensive than they once were.
"Wait you mean...you mean your not here for King Devil's bounty?" The boy asked.
"Len, what did I tell you about jumping to conclusions?" The mother asked a bit irritably. She then looked back towards the rest of the crew with a smile. "You'll have to forgive my son, he has a tendancy to...how some people say," Judge a book by it's cover,". The woman apologized. The other villagers just sighed a bit as they gave a soft smile as well.
"Welcome to Devil Island." One of them greeted, tipping his hat as a formal greeting. The crew simply sighed to themselves as they saw the villagers weren't as aggresive as they had first thought. Although many of them were confused as too what type of island was called "Devil Island".
"Err...thanks." Nami replied, somewhat confused about the whole situation as the rest of the crew was. "Anyway, we were wondering if you've seen out captain. His name is Luffy, somewhat crazy, acts like a doofus..." Nami began. It didn't even take more than two descriptive words for the people to know who she was talking about.
"Oh, you mean the guy with the straw hat and everything, right?" One of the villagers asked. "He's over at the bar, quite a strange fellow, but then again everyone on this island is." The villager joked. Nami thanked them as the group quickly ran over towards the bar. They couldn't tell what it was about, but apparently people were all laughing about something strange. When they finally opened the wooden pushing doors (I forget what those gate like doors are called, old texan doors), they were all surprised at the sight: Luffy was laughing and chuckling while his arms were over two other people, mugs in their hands while singing the Pirate song (the old Yo-ho Yo-ho one).
"Luffy!" Nami yelled, grabbing his attention. He let out a wide grin as he saw his crew were A-Ok.
"Guys, this place is awesome!!!"
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So what cha think? Been awhile since I last wrote anything. Don't worry if your confused, more will be explained about the mysterious island next chapter, and we learn what makes King Devil such a surprising person! Also, please review, since it motivates me to write more. The more review, the faster updates. Either way, hope you enjoyed the first chap!