A.N. So. This was supposed to be a long one shot, but as that obviously not happening, this will be a short story… I hope… Either way, it's late Luffy's birthday gift… I started this when I was sick (yea, one of those times) and couldn't find it in myself to continue… now I got the drive back on! (I hope… :D )

Warnings: Yaoi – manxman, AU, LawLu (what else do I write these days?), aliens, moody Law, probably a little OOC, but aren't they always like that? It's fanfiction after all…

Disclaimer: I'm in this I-wanna-be-a-sassy-bitch-so-do-not-bother-me-with-dumb-things-or-I-am-going-to-curse-you mood… So NO, I do not own One Piece.

People Who Stared At Walls

For some reason humanity always seemed to make the wrong conclusions.

They said that Earth is flat - they were wrong. They said that diseases are punishments from Gods - they were wrong. They said that Earth was center of the Universe - they were wrong. They said that humans are unique, that there isn't any life form exactly like ours – well, they were WRONG.

(I'm a line and I don't care that you don't like me…)

When humans sent message to cosmos no one truly thought that anyone will answer, that there really was another life form that can receive such messages. You had to admit that possibility of a life form that was smart enough to have technology, technology which is able to receive the message, understand the message and even respond to it was crazy.

And that the response would actually reach them through all those light years. Such thought was truly unbelievable. So no one - except for those few that were deemed crazy by the rest of humanity - believed in such possibility. Of course, none could blame them - the thought was truly too crazy to believe.

Yet. It happened.

And there was nothing we could have done to stop it. This only proved some sick theory that humanity was always deemed to be wrong.

(So. It's a line, never saw one before?)

The day it all started was as common as they could come. But didn't everything that had a major turn in history started on a common day?

At first no one believed it. NASA leaking information, that some sort of aliens responded to the message that was transmitted into cosmos ages ago? Nonsense. Everyone was interested, but no one really believed it – that's how it was. But then fishy things started happening.

Military started moving, no one - except high rank officers - really knew what was happening. Next were scientists - everyone who was a specialist at something were requested by government. That's when another leak spread through internet.

This time people started to be more cautious. After all, the people leaking information were well-known scientists. When the government started inviting ANY kind of specialists even the dumbest people knew something was up.

And then governments declared that temporary truce was up. An impossible thing happened - first time in Earth's history there were no wars raging its surface.

People became suspicious.

And then, finally, an announcement was made. In three days a spaceship of unknown diameters would land on Earth. They were contacted by some sort of unknown life form. The new 'guests' didn't give much information - or maybe government simply hid it - only that somehow they learned English and were able to understand the message.

So the world waited. And of course, where would aliens land if not good-old America? And that's where everything started...

(Excuse me? Did you just insult this line?)

Trafalgar Law liked to think of himself as a prestigious surgeon. As prodigy. After all, not everyone get their doctor degree at the age of eighteen. It also helped that his patients' death rate was one of the smallest and the deaths that did happen never were his fault. And he always made a point of that in courts when rich families accused him. Law never really understood what those people tried to prove.

So it came as no surprise to the twenty seven year old Law that he was invited to the research team when news about aliens appeared on internet. What did surprise him - though he was more angry then surprised - was that his adoptive father pulled some strings and put him in the very first team which considered of ONLY the best of the best. Law would have much more liked to get into that team on his own.

Though, he did understand that he wouldn't have been able to be here, because all of the old fools - that now were his colleagues - bought those spots for themselves.

Senile old fools.

But Law didn't have time to ponder about the skills of his teammates or figure out how to get revenge on his adoptive father.

Because today was Theday.

Today the alien ship was going to land on specifically constructed platform that was built in a week just for this. Also, today government officials were going to give them more information. They said they were trying to prevent another leak - like that was possible with something of this scale.

Law really didn't understand why he was pondering about his reasons of being here. Again. He should definitely be more focused on the fact that he's going to be one of the first to see aliens. And if something 'unfortunate' happens he's going to be the first one to cut open those new specimens…

Oh, the privileges of having connections. No matter this, his father was still getting revenge.

Law sighed. Why does he even care? He should just concentrate on that government official that just walked in.

"Okay, I believe everyone knows the reason they are here?" The small man in front of the room was wearing a costume and sweating like there was no tomorrow, he nodded after a while and continued. "One hundred seventy four hours ago NASA specialists received a strange message. In it, a friendly voice declared that they received our message and after some work managed to decipher it. They added that they would be glad to visit Earth. They said that they won't bring any harm and only wants meet us for civilized conversation.

We're still not sure if that truly is their goal and we won't be sure until they land, but the message truly is authentic and from life form that is not from Earth. We are not sure, how the aliens will look, but they promised that by the time they land they will be able to speak our language if we send them some dictionaries.

The dictionaries were sent, so there won't be any language barrier. We are also unaware of the visitors' culture or manners, so think over your every move and try not do anything that would earn their wrath. If they are smart enough to learn a language so quickly and travel such distances so fast, that could only mean they also have the right technology to destroy us if they wish.

Every one of you must be careful and respectful. If the negotiation works out those who will be allowed will be doing their subject's research. I believe everyone knows their duties as researchers and you've read your contracts and know how the work will be handled.

Next order in business would be when they land." The short man glanced at the expensive watch on his left hand. "Their spaceship lands in about forty five minutes according to our specialists. So if you all would follow me I will bring you where you will be watching and waiting what happens next. Let's hope for the best."

After five minutes Trafalgar found himself in a spacious room with huge thick looking windows which looked out to the special platform. People were running around it doing last minute checkups and adjustments.

The room he was in was on fifth floor of the facility everything was happening so all the people looked like small ants which annoyed Law greatly, how was he supposed to see how the aliens looked?

Looking around the room he noticed big flat panel TV on a nearby wall, it wasn't turned on, but there were some number on it and they were slowly going down. Thirty two minutes and fifty two seconds…

Law looked up at the sky trying to see anything. Luckily the sky was bright blue with only a hint of tiny clouds. It was only nine o'clock in the morning, so the sun wasn't that far up yet. He didn't see anything and simply leaned down on the cool glass trying to calm his waking nerves.

This wasn't something he was used to. Heck! Show him one person who was used to this! Aliens… Law took a deep breath. There had been long and heated debate if the first encounter with aliens should be transmitted through television for the whole world to see. But the people said their word - they wanted to see what will happen and how. So the government couldn't do anything against that.

There was going to be a transmission even if no one really knew the exact time. Law hoped that the aliens didn't look like out of those cheesy movies with low budget and bad actors - that would be such a disappointment.

Trafalgar sighed and turned his eyes up at the sky and once again started scanning it for something, anything abnormal, out of places, that shouldn't be there…

And there. There it was a tiny black dot in the sky. Law focused his attention on it and waited, it had to be it.

And it was. Slowly – way too slow in Law's opinion - little by little, the dot became bigger and bigger. The dark spot expanded until the land was covered in shadow of it. The he saw several orange sparks, and the dot started going down faster than before. Before Trafalgar noticed he could already tell the objects shape and color.

It was in deep grey color, almost black, he could see some sort of small lines here and there, but he couldn't understand what they were. The spaceship itself was in ellipse form, but instead going wide in horizon's direction it went up vertically.

The spaceship's speed became slower and slower until it seemed to slow down to its minimal speed.

As it drew closer Law started to hear and feel the vibrations the spaceship created and the whole building started to shake. The pressure made his ears hurt, but he couldn't get his eyes of that contraption, it was enormous.

The spaceship was bigger than any other ship, plane or rocket he had ever seen, and being a son of prestigious businessman who invested a lot into space travel he had seen his fair share of those things. Suddenly at the bottom of the ship something started to move and three huge support legs flexed out of ship.

When the spaceship landed a loud 'thunk' sound went even through the windows and some sort of smoke started rising from the ship.

When it cleared out it turned out that those weird lines were actually long and narrow windows with obscure glass. The contraption didn't seem to have any doors, but not seeing all of it, might have been the reason for that.

Tearing off his eyes from the spaceship outside Law looked at the TV screen. The cameras had turned on sometime while Trafalgar was looking out the window and at the moment showed the whole ship from all angles.

Then in one of the cameras he noticed some sort of movement on the ship's surface. No one dared to talk, some even holding their breath as the seemingly whole wall pushed in and moved to side. Everyone stared at the dark hole it relieved with growing anticipation.

Even Law could feel it. Deep inside his stomach something tossed in turn without finding peace. This was it, this was the moment which will change the world as they know forever. They will have proof that other life exist, maybe if they're lucky they will learn much more complex technology…

But these weren't thoughts in Trafalgar's head. For some reason he knew that things will change much more than anyone could guess, that the change will affect him, he could feel it. On his skin, in his bones, he could almost taste it. This event will effect him personally, Law could hardly wait, he could feel the pull, it pulled him closer to the ship. Closer to the entrance of it…

Then some sort of shadow appeared in the entrance. The doors were quite high, maybe five or six meters high, but no stairs or anything else appeared. One by one five people jumped out of the ship.

Law blinked once, then twice. What the hell? What were they wearing?

The first one who jumped out was a red haired man with only one hand, he wore slightly lose brown trousers with half buttoned white shirt and black cape over his shoulders. He had a short scruffy beard and three scars running across his left eye. He had a slight smirk on his face as he looked around. All in all he looked messy. And very, very human.

All of them looked human.

The second person who jumped out looked like he was in his late teens. He was shortest of his four companions, he wore red long sleeved open chest cardigan, yellow stash around his waist and light blue short trousers. He also had a straw hat on his head, so the color of his hair was unidentified as the hat was pulled on his face and the upper part of it wasn't seen. But the lower part of his face with his huge grin was clearly seen.

The third man was shirtless. On his back was a purple tattoo with a grinning skull which spotted white crescent above the grin, in the background there were two crossed bones. He wore black knee-length shorts and also had an orange cowboy hat. For some reason he look utterly bored.

Fourth looked the most normal of them all. His hair was rich blond color and tossed in every side, but even though he had some purple tattoo on his chest and looked a little annoyed his purple shirt and dark grey knee-length pants didn't make him stand out too much.

The fifth person... Well he was an enigma. Bright green hair, vertical scar across his left eye, three swords stashed on his right hip, some sort of green open coat showing big scar across his chest – he looked dangerous. He was even scowling and looked like he was always on guard.

Law scanned the five aliens. They looked so normal, so human. No extra limbs, no abnormal size, no strange skin color, nothing abnormal, well except that green haired guy.

He was lost, but he could feel the small tingling under his skin, Law wrote it off for the humble of emotions he was feeling. How wrong he was…

A.N. Right. Leaving you all here. There will be more, but not today as you may understand… I'm going to watch Eurovision… if you don't know what it is, it's time to google a bit… :D