Luffy boredly clapped his feet together, sitting on the head of the Sunny. Absolutely nothing had happened in the past week, and he was starting to grow tired of looking at blue, blue, and- oh! More blue!
"Namiii... Are we there yet?" he moaned, laying on his back to look at the navigator. The orange-haired girl was sitting leisurely on a beach chair and reading a historical book Robin had lent her. Glancing up impatiently, she closed the book and checked her chart.
"We won't be there for another two days, Luffy. Stop asking me!" she snapped, opening the book once again. Luffy groaned before laying on his stomach.
"But I can't last that long..." he complained, putting his head on his arms. Staring at the door to the inside of the ship, he started thinking about food. As if on cue, his stomach growled.
"Sanji! I'm hungry!" he shouted, expecting the cook to be done with the food he had been preparing.
"It's not ready yet! It'll be another hour before the soup is finished!" the cook called back irritably. Luffy blinked at his reply. Was everyone in a sour mood today? It must be the heat. Sitting up, he glanced up at the sun, a hand shielding his eyes.
"It sure is hot out," he stated, leaning on his back once again.
"Thanks for stating the obvious," Nami said sarcastically, ready to shove her captain into the water if he continued whining.
"You're welcome," Luffy answered, not noticing or not caring about the sarcasm. Franky came charging out from the belly of the ship.
"I feel SUPER today!" he exclaimed, getting into his signature pose. Zoro, laying against the wall next to the door, opened his eye slightly.
"How can anyone feel good in this weather?" he muttered before closing his eye again and falling asleep.
"Ah! There's something in the water in front of us!" Usopp, keeping watch in the crow's nest, suddenly shouted. Luffy perked up immediately, ready to do anything for the sake of breaking the boredom.
"Really? I'm gonna see!" He turned to the sea behind him and stared at the water. As the sniper had said, there was a dark shape in the water directly in front of the Thousand Sunny.
"Whoah! That's huge!" Luffy commented, noticing how the dark spot was at least ten times bigger than the Sunny.
"Avoid it! It could be a trap!" Nami ordered, getting up from her chair. Franky climbed up to the steering wheel and gripped it tight. But it didn't move.
"What are you doing? Steer us away!" Sanji ordered, just coming up from inside.
"I'm trying! It won't budge!" Franky grunted, straining to move the wheel. Sanji snorted incrediously and grabbed the wheel as well.
"What the hell? It really won't move!" Usopp jumped down from the crow's nest to help, but still, the wheel never moved an inch.
"Ah! The thing is moving!" Luffy realized. As he said, the shape had started to move towards the Sunny.
"NOOO! WE'RE GOING TO DIE!" Nami shrieked, panicking already.
"It might be a giant fish that's going to eat us," Robin, who had been standing off to the side, suggested calmly.
"DON'T SAY STUFF LIKE THAT SO CALMLY!" Usopp shouted.
"Luffy! Get over here and help!" Sanji demanded, still trying to turn the wheel.
"Okay!" Luffy called back, standing up and turning to face the cook. Chopper, just getting to the deck, suddenly screamed and pointed at Luffy.
"What? Is there something on my face?" Luffy put a hand on his face, feeling for anything abnormal. But Nami looked exactly the same as Chopper.
"Behind you, moron!" Sanji let go of the wheel to charge at Luffy.
"Huh? Behind?" Luffy looked over his shoulder to see a giant, scaly... thing. There was really no other way to describe it, except as a thing. It was huge, yes, but it was also darkish blue, scaly, and completely misshapen. They couldn't tell where it's head even was, let alone it's eyes. Or even if it had any eyes.
"HUUUUGGGEEE!" Usopp and Chopper screeched.
"My eyes! Ah! But I don't have any eyes! Yohoho~!" Brook sang.
"That's a really ugly fish," Zoro yawned, waking up from his nap.
"That's not a fish! It's a monster!" Usopp shrieked. The fish-monster thing made a noise between a roar and a gurgle, causing Chopper, Usopp, and Nami to all hug each other in fear. Luffy stared at the thing a second more before grinning.
"Sanji! Can you cook this?" he asked.
"Hell no! What could I make, ugly fish stew?"
"Then I'm going to send it flying! Gum Gum-" Luffy stretched his arms back, preparing for a strike. "-Bazooka!" Bringing his arms forward, he hit the fish-monster straight in the middle of its... stomach? Face? They'll never know. But, to the crew's surprise, the fish didn't so much as flinch at the attack. Luffy brought his arms back to their original size.
"No way! It didn't even move an inch!" Usopp's jaw almost hit the floor.
"No, but we did!" Nami was looking at the water over the ship's railing. In fact, the Sunny was drifting backwards from the force of Luffy's attack.
"Why didn't it go flying?" Luffy tilted his head curiously. "HEY! FISH MONSTER THINGY! I STILL WANT TO KICK YOUR ASS! GET BACK HERE! GUM GUM-" He stretched his arms to grab the monster.
"No! We're the ones moving! Don't go and pick a fight with-" Sanji cut off mid-lecture as Luffy 'Gum Gum Rocket'ed over to the beastly fish thing. "YOU IDIOT!" he shouted, cigarette falling from his mouth. But Luffy misjudged the fish as it ducked from his oncoming flying tackle.
"Eh?" Luffy passed the spot where the fish had been, flying off to the sea.
"LUFFY! YOU STUPID MORON!" Sanji shouted, ready to dive in and save his anchor-like captain. But Luffy flipped upside-down before he hit the water.
"Gum Gum Rocket!" he shouted, latching onto the fish and rocketing back to the Sunny. Crashing into the deck with a painful-sounding thud, he slid on his face until he hit the door leading to the inside of the ship. Sitting up, he laughed nonchalantly with his face still red from sliding on the deck
"That was a bad idea!" he observed, still laughing.
"NO, DUH!" his crew shouted at him. The fish, though, had an idea of it's own. It started swimming to the now-prone ship.
"GYAAHHH! IT'S COMING!" Nami shrieked.
"My heart can't take much more of this! Ah! But I have no heart! Yohoho~!" Brook joked lamely, dancing slightly.
"Let me try, Luffy," Zoro said, stepping in front of Luffy with a hand on one of his swords.
"Yeah, sure," Luffy agreed, sitting cross-legged in the middle of the deck. Zoro grinned slightly, then jumped up to the fish.
He slashed his sword at the fish, who was now too close to the ship for comfort. The fish, sporting a new cut on it, paused. Zoro landed on the deck lightly, sliding the sword back into it's sheath.
"Amazing!" Chopper awed, watching the fish start to squirm around.
"SUPER! I'll prepare a Coup de Burst!" Franky went down to who-knows-where to start up the burst.
"I'll hold it off until then," Zoro decided, looking at the fish.
"Hold it, marimo! I'LL hold it off!" Sanji shoved Zoro out of the way, causing the man to fall on the raven-haired boy behind him.
"What was that for, love cook?" Zoro growled, not noticing that he was crushing his captain.
"Z-Zoro..." Luffy gasped, trying to breathe. Zoro glanced down to see that he was sitting on the black-haired boy. He quickly hopped off of Luffy to continue yelling at the crew's cook. Luffy breathed deeply, laying on his back on the ground, before starting to cough. Zoro paused in his rant about 'swordsmanship' to stare at Luffy.
"Hey, you okay?" Luffy didn't have time to answer, as the fish decided to ram straight into the ship. Everyone jerked to the side as the ship was hit.
"KYAAHH!" Nami squealed, falling right over the railing.
"Nami-chaaan!" Sanji shouted, trying to run over to get her. But Luffy beat him to the punch, stretching his arm over the rails to wrap around Nami's waist and bring her back up.
"T-thank you, Luffy," Nami managed, eyes wide from her near-swim. Luffy grinned, having recovered from his coughing earlier.
"No problem! We can't lose our navigator, can we?" Giving her no time to answer, he turned to face the fish, who was reeling from it's collision with the Sunny. "HEY! YOU STUPID FISH THING! I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS NOW!"
"Well said!" Sanji said, grining dangerously and lighting another cigarette.
"I guess it was bound to happen." Zoro gripped his sword's hilt.
"COUP DE BURST!" came a shout from the inside of the ship. The Sunny jerked forward, throwing it's passengers back against the wall.
"GYAHH! TOO FAST!" Chopper and Usopp said together. Nami merely opened her mouth wide in a soundless scream. Luffy had his mouth open, his laugh whipped away by the wind.
When they finally stopped, the fish was long out of sight.
"That was awesome!" Luffy shouted, smiling wide. "Let's do that again!"
"Let's not!" Nami hit him on the head. "We nearly drowned!"
"And it's still hot out..." Usopp moaned, climbing up to the crow's nest again. Chopper quickly ran inside the ship, not wanting to get too hot since his fur was meant for cold climates. Luffy sat on Sunny's head again, looking out at the almost-still sea.
"Ahhh... It's so boring..." he mumbled.
Would you quit whining? We almost died! Isn't that enough excitement for a day?" Sanji snapped, going back to the meal he had yet to finish.
"But now it's really boring... There's nothing to do..." Luffy muttered, laying down.
"Well, complain silently like the rest of us," Nami growled, sitting down to read her book. Robin sat in a chair next to the navigator and read her own book.
"Nami-chan! Robin-chan! I made some smoothies for you~!" Sanji swooned, coming up and holding out a tray with two drinks on it.
"Thank you, Sanji-kun!" Nami took a drink, smiling at the cook. Robin took the other.
"Hey, love cook! What about me or Usopp?" Zoro called from his spot beside the door.
"What about you? You can get your own, marimo!" Sanji snarled, going back inside the ship. Luffy blinked.
"Okay." Standing up, he hopped off of the Sunny's head to go inside.
"Stupid cook," Zoro grumbled, standing to follow Luffy. Usopp didn't move, just continued looking around.
"Get mine for me, Luffy!" he shouted to the captain.
"Kay!"
"Hey! I see some land!" Usopp, still in the crow's nest, shouted down. Hugging his coat closer, he tried to spot the land he had seen. "It's to the south of us!"
"Finally! Land!" Luffy cheered, kicking snow everywhere. It had started snowing yesterday, surprisingly, and it showed no signs of stopping any time soon. Usopp climbed down from the crow's nest to see Luffy building something.
"Hey Usopp! Look! It's that fish thing!" Luffy said proudly, showing a large pile of snow with no particular shape. Usopp started laughing. The snow really did look like that fish.
"Now is no time to be playing around! Usopp, steer the ship to the island you saw!" Nami ordered.
"Okay, okay..." the sniper grumbled, going to the steering wheel and turning it. Luffy happily sat on the Sunny's head, enjoying how the snow made everything smooth and white.
"Will we land soon?" he called to Nami.
"Yes, the island isn't even a mile away," Nami answered, looking at a chart.
"Woohoo! Adventure!" (A.N. You have NO IDEA how hard it was not to make an 'Adventure Time' or 'Up' reference!) Luffy cheered, shaking snow off of his straw hat. "Zoro! Where'd you go?" Getting up, Luffy started looking for the green-haired swordsman. Until he tripped over something buried in the snow.
"Waah!" came from under the snow pile. Luffy, face buried in the snow, sat up curiously.
"'Waah'?" Digging into the small pile of snow, he found a... boot? Tugging on it, he dragged a certain one-eyed man out.
"Hey, what gives?" Zoro growled.
"We found land!" Luffy repeated what he had heard. "We're going to land soon!" At this, Zoro perked up slightly.
"Land? Already?" Standing up, he looked out to the water. "I don't see any land."
"It's over there," Luffy said, grabbing Zoro's head and turning it in the direction of the island.
"That island looks kind of small," the swordsman commented.
"My skin feels so cold! Ah! But-"
"-you have no skin, right?" Chopper finished the joke.
"Exactly! Yohoho~!" Brook laughed.
"Finding an island was SUPER! We're running out of cola!" Franky butted in.
"Luffy! Where's your coat? It's snowing, you know!" Nami realized that Luffy was only in his red shirt, shorts, and sandals.
"Gah! Cold!" Luffy suddenly started shivering.
"I told you!" Nami sighed. "Hurry up and get a coat!" Luffy scurried off to find his coat, which was probably not where he thought he left it.
"Sanji! Where did you put my coat?" came the predicted call.
"On your bed, idiot!" Sanji shouted back.
"Oh! Thanks!" Luffy came out of the ship, coat securely buttoned on. "Now, let's go! I'm hungry!" Nami rolled her eyes.
"We aren't stopping so you can eat, you know," she pointed out. But Luffy ignored her. He was too busy trying to see the island better.
"We're close enough to anchor, now," Sanji said. Franky went down to drop the anchor down.
"Woohoo! Adventure! Adventure!" Luffy cheered again, hopping down onto land without bothering with the ladder.
"Luffy! Wait for us, idiot!" Nami called after him, climbing down the ladder. But when Luffy didn't answer, she knew something was wrong.
"Luffy?" Zoro shouted, expecting an answer. But he was only met with silence.
"Luffy!"