Hello everyone :D this is my first fanfiction ever and I hope it won´t be too bad...
Anyways, I hope it isn´t too confusing! Please enjoy :D
Chapter 1 - the big gold rush
1896. It was the year when a lot of naive people went to Alaska and Canada fo find their big luck.
The message that gold, tons of precious gold was found at the Klondike River in Canada faded out.
Everyone wanted to be rich. It was their big aim and most of the people would have done everything to reach it. But it wasn´t an easy trip. You could hardly find gold there and if you did it wasn´t easy to get back home safe. And when they were in Alaska or Canada, all alone ´cause they killed their friends of partner ´cause of greed, they suddenly noticed that they can´t survive alone. But when they eventuelly figured that out it was already too late for the most of them...
However, these messages of thousands of dead gold diggers never reached the ears of people who went to Klondike or Yukon River. In fact, nobody would´ve listened to them if they had heard the messages. They were just naive people who dreamed. But hardly any of their dreams came true...
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The Klondike River gold rush began in 1896 and reached its acme in 1897/98.
There werer two different routes you could choose.
The first one started in Skagway in Canada and let to the famous Chilkoot Paß at the frontier between Canada and Alaska. It was a hard trip and from 250 000 people who wanted to reach Dawson city at Klondike River died about 200 000. They were unexperienced and didn´t know how to survive in this ice hell.
The second one started in Seattle in USA. Then you traveled by ship along the All Water Route to St. Michael in Alaska. The city was near the Yukon. This river had a tributary called Klondike ( in Canada) where the gold was found in July 1896. Consequently the chances were high to find gold there, too.
After St. Michael the big adventure along the Yukon River began.
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15. 10. 1897
"Sanji! Zoro! Hurry up!!" An orange- haired girl screamed furious.
"HAAI, Nami-swaan!!" Came a happy response.
"Don´t yell at me, stupid which!" Came another, less happier resonse.
"What did you say to Nami - swan?"
"You heard me, Dartbrow. Or are you deaf?"
"What?! Stupid moron!" A nineteen- year - old man shouted. He glared in anger at the green - haired man called Zoro.
"GUYS! Quit arguing! Come on and hurry up! Do you wanna miss the ship?!" Nami yelled again. She had dark brown eyes and was carrying two backpachs.
She and her cousins who ran with more backpacks behind her finally reached the harbour in Seattle. It was already getting dark.
"Finally, guys..", Nami sighed. They put down their heavy bags.
"See, Nami, the ship isn´t here yet." Zoro said.
"I think its already gone.."
"No, we are good in time. We should just wait, it will come soon, " Sanji murmured and lit his cigarette.
Nami, Sanji and Zoro had chosen the All Water Route to the city St. Michael in Alaske. They didn´t wan to go to Dawson City or to the Klondike River, their aim was the Yukon River.
And so had a strange guy with a pigeon, a boy with a dog and a fat woman who where also waiting for the ship.
After a few minutes the ship came and everyone got on board.
They all paid for the route and the capitan told them where their rooms were. Sanji, Zoro and Nami got a room with three beds, on the right side was a room with two beds where the boy and the strange guy with the pigeon slept and on the left side was the one-bed-room of the fat woman with the black hair.
"Good night, you two"
"Night, Nami-swan" The young blond man answered with heart in his eyes and a quiet grumble from Zoro was heard.
Yay, first chapter done! If you have any questions, please ask! ( I think I explained it very bad...)
And if you want you could take a look at this page, there is a map of Alaska, maybe you´ll understand Nami´s route better:
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Please tell me what you think of this story ;D
