So before we get started here, I just need to say that I don't own One Piece or any of the characters. All of the Ocs, however, are mine. This is probably the only time I'll remember to put this in here... just sayin'
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"Oi!" The black haired man called from his perch as he waved at his friends below him. They had decided to sit down and rest for a bit while it was peaceful; after all, peace didn't come very often in the new world.
"Luffy," a woman with long orange hair said rather loudly, "will you come down here before you fall?!"
"But Nami," the man whined, "I won't fall."
A green haired man opened one eye and looked at the annoyed woman. "He wouldn't get hurt if he fell anyway, so don't worry about him."
"Shitty marimo, watch your tongue while you're around beautiful women like Nami and Robin! Nami-swan!" A blonde man with curled eyebrows put a hand on his cheek, "I wish you would worry about me like that!"
"It's not Luffy I'm worried about," she muttered, moving over so she was no longer sitting under her captain. As soon as she moved, a man with a long nose took the vacant spot. "No! Usopp, don't sit…. There…." She shook her head while the two men argued about who was at fault after the black haired man fell on the long nosed one.
"Will you idiots stop arguing?" the blonde man asked, "Nami-swan and Robin-chwan are trying to relax! Stop disturbing them!"
"There is not true peace when you're with this crew," the black haired woman was smiling down at the little reindeer in her lap. "But you get to see true joy and friendship every day."
The deer smiled back at the woman. "I hadn't thought of it that way before."
"Neither have I, Chopper," the blonde man agreed with the deer.
"SUPER way of thinking, Robin!" a giant man with huge arms and bright blue hair did a strange stance behind the woman and the deer.
"Yes," a skeleton was leaning against a tree toward the back of the group. "It is a pleasant way of thinking."
"It's what you get when you're a Straw Hat: loud arguments and no sleep," the man with green hair put his hands behind his head.
"Zoro," The black haired man looked at his friend, "does that mean you regret joining my crew?"
The man smirked. "I never said that."
"What about you, Sanji?"
The blonde man smiled. "How could I regret getting to live with two such beautiful women? And the other company isn't always bad either."
"Usopp?"
"I could never regret it," the man with the long nose smiled at his captain.
"Nami?"
"I haven't tolerated you idiots this long because I didn't want to be here." The orange haired woman grinned.
"Robin?" The black haired man looked at the black haired woman.
"It's one of the only things I don't regret."
"Chopper? Franky? Brook?" the man looked at the reindeer, the blue haired giant, and the skeleton. Each of them shook their heads without hesitation.
"Good!" The crew's captain jumped up. "Then let's get going! Right after we eat!"
The blonde had just reached the basket of food he had brought when the ground shifted and a wall of light started to split the group.
"Robin, watch out!" the blonde man shouted as he pulled the woman out of the path of the strange wall. It had a slight curve; it was circling around a huge area on the island. Robin, Zoro, Luffy, and Sanji were on one side, inside of the huge circle, while Nami, Franky, Brook, Chopper, and Usopp were on the other.
They were all shouting for the people on the other side, but they could only hear themselves. The wall of light was blocking out all sound from the other side; they couldn't see the others either, but that didn't stop them from trying to break through.
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"Trafalgar Law, you won't w-win against me! I-I'll defeat you!"
"Do you really think you have a chance against me, boy?" the black haired man smirked. He had been wandering around the forest, tired of sitting in the restaurant with his crew. He was restless, tired of sitting still, he hadn't really been hungry anyway. That was when this foolish young Marine had challenged him. The boy had been looking to please his captain, the young pink haired man who was watching from the side.
The Marine captain shook his head. He had told is subordinate not to interfere with Trafalgar; he didn't stand a chance. Now the pink haired boy was leaning against a tree, watching the boy make a fool of himself, and standing closer to the pirate than any of his crew- except maybe for the blonde man to his right. He knew the man was waiting for him to intervene, and he would. Just not yet. He wanted to be able to assess the pirate while he had the chance.
"Coby?" A black haired woman walked over to the two Marines.
"Tashigi? What are you doing here?" the pink haired boy smiled.
The woman adjusted her glasses and nodded to the blonde Marine. "Helmeppo. Well I heard that a few dangerous pirate crews were heading to this island, so I came to investigate. I don't want anything to end the way Things ended on Sabaody when the Eleven Supernovas had been there."
Both men nodded in understanding and turned back to the fight. That's when they noticed the ground beneath the pirate shift. The man stumbled back as a wall of light approached him, and Tashigi was right in its path.
"Tashigi!" the pink haired man ran forward, the blonde right behind him, and pushed the woman out if the way.
"Thank you, Coby. Have you seen my glasses?"
"Here," the pirate handed her what she had been looking for.
"Trafalgar," the man's names came out of her mouth harder than she had meant them to.
"Calm down now," the man smirked down at her, "I don't think this is the time to fight. Perhaps we should try to find a way out of here first."
The three of them had been trapped in a huge circle of light.
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The man with a red nose and blue hair had hid in the bushes. He had been running from a red haired monster when he had seen a marine trying to fight a Pirate. "Great. Trafalgar Law and Marines on one side and Eustass Kid on the other… I'm surrounded! Why did I have to try to be brave in front of my crew…?"
"Dammit!" the red haired man shouted. "Where did you go, you fucking red-nosed clown?"
"What did you say about my nose?!" the man yelled, and instantly regretted the decision. The red haired man grabbed him by the shirt and held him off of the ground.
"I-I-I" the terrified man tried to find a way out of getting killed, but nothing came out. Then the ground shifted, and he was glad he hadn't been on the ground; the tremor had even made the monster holding him brace a tree. "T-there's a wall! We're trapped!"
The red haired man smiled menacingly. "You think a light is going to be enough to save you now, clown?" The man paid no attention to the light that had surrounded them.
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"Susan, what are we doing here again?"
"We had to get out of the city, Tom. The northern lights are supposed to be out tonight!"
"Remind me again why we have to come here every time there out?"
"It's not every time, little brother, it's only when they're supposed to be brilliant."
"So… why?"
"Because it's an excuse to drink, of course!"
"Sometimes I swear you're becoming an alcoholic," the boy shook his head.
"Oh come on, you're friends are going to be there too."
"That's because we hang out with the same group. And I'm the designated driver, meaning I don't get to have fun."
"You can have fun; the DD just doesn't get to have fun drinking."
"Yeah, and I get to put up with all of the drunks."
"The drunks can hear you, you know," a smiling blonde girl stuck her head through the back window.
"Kat, don't do that!" Susan looked back at her friend. "Tom, just be happy you've got a truck. This way you stick us in the box and don't worry about us."
"I always worry about you guys," he mumbled.
"You hear that, guys? Tom worries about us!"
A few people in the box laughed and beer can was shoved through the window. It hit Tom's leg spilling the small amount it still held on his jeans. "Dammit, Matt, how many have you had?"
"I dunno, two?"
"Try six," another blonde shouted a little too loudly. Becca had had a few already, but not as many as Matt. "Matt, I'm giving you fair warning. If you pass out and we have to carry you again, I'm drawing on your face!"
"We need more!" Matt whispered loudly, slurring his words slightly.
"Matt, what are you saying?" Kat pulled the young man out of the window.
Matt took a deep breath and shouted. "We need more booze out here!"
"How many has everyone had?" Susan looked out the window. "Alex? You alright out there?"
"Hmm?" the last member of the group, a girl with brown hair, looked down. She had been looking at the sky since they left the city. "Matt's had six, Kat just started number two, Becca's working on her fourth,"
She was interrupted by Becca throwing her can on the ground and saying that she was done.
"Okay, Becca's done her fourth, and I'm on my third."
"Fair enough," Susan handed a few more out the window. She was right in line with Alex, just starting her fourth.
"Ummm…. Guys…" Alex dropped her beer, "the lights are out…"
"What?" Tom hit the brakes and pulled over, "we shouldn't be able to see them yet; we aren't far enough from the city!" Tom and Susan got out of the truck once it had stopped and looked at the sky. Sure enough, bright lights were in front of the stars.
"They're so bright…" Susan whispered.
Becca rubbed her eyes. "I've never seen the like this."
Tom just couldn't believe it. "They're moving. I swear they're moving."
"They're supposed to move. They dance around," Alex had to look away; they were just too bright."
"And I thought I had a lot to drink," Matt tried to push Tom but he ended up staggering back instead.
"No, he's right," Kat whispered, "they're getting closer."
They stood there in shock as the lights got closer and closer, as they got brighter and brighter, until they could no longer see. Then the light suddenly disappeared. They waited for their vision to return and, when it finally did, they were shocked. They all stood there in dead silence; not believing what was in front of them. A few feet in front of them, in a field of canola, was a tree. A tree that hadn't been there a few moments before and, under the tree, four people on the ground. Tom silently opened his truck and took beer out until all of his friends had one.
"Is that… really there?" He could barely speak.
Kat nodded and downed her beer, which she normally wouldn't do; Kat didn't really like the taste of beer.
"What should we do?' Susan had to sit on the ground, Alex sat next to her."
Becca didn't say a word; she just walked over and started dragging one of the people toward the truck.
"What the hell are you doing?" Tom was staring at her like she was crazy.
"Well we can't just leave them here. Something incredible just happened and I want to know who they are."
Matt nodded and helped her carry the person to the truck. "Besides, think of what would happen in the farmer finds them before they wake up."
Tom nodded and stepped forward, going to get one of the three people still on the ground. Kat followed to help him. When everyone was on the truck, they had to have another beer, not yet willing to accept what they had just witnessed.
"Where are we going to put them?" Alex asked from her spot on the ground next to Susan. The others were all leaning against the truck.
"We can… take them to our house," Susan volunteered.
"What?!" Tom almost shouted. He couldn't believe his sister had volunteered that.
"Come on, Tom, it could be fun."
"But…. What if… fine." Tom gave up. He knew it was the only option. They were the only ones who no longer lived with their parents. Susan was in her first year of university so their parents had helped her buy a house in the city. He'd had the option of moving and he went for it. The city was fast paced; he wasn't made for life in the small farming community they had come from. The thought of farming still made the siblings shudder. "Okay. Everyone in the truck, let's get these guys inside."
Everyone climbed into the back and Tom was left alone while the others watched their sleeping passengers.
A few kilometers down the road, Tom swore.
"What the hell Tom?!" Matt was the first one to speak once the truck had slid to a stop. "Are you trying to kill us?"
"No Matt, I was trying to avoid the tree and the people on the road."
"What…?" Matt looked up. There was a tree in the middle of the road. "You mean there are more people?"
Tom nodded. "Three this time."
"Let's get them and go," Kat was the first one to move toward the people on the ground. Everyone except Tom helped load them into the truck and Tom carefully drove through the ditch of the back road to get around the tree.
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"What do we do with them now?" Kat looked at the people they had thrown onto the floor of the house.
"Should we wake them up?" Becca crouched down in front of one of the girls.
"Holy shit!" Mat yelled, "This guy has three swords!"
"Do you think their hair is naturally those colors?" Kat was referring to the man with pink hair and when one with green hair.
"Three of them have weapons…" Alex said quietly, "do you think they're dangerous?"
Tom took charge of the situation, even though he'd had at least three cans of beer in the thirty minutes they had been at his house. "Let's tie them up just in case. Put their weapons on the coffee table in the living room. We'll tie them up and put them in the spare room."
"You perv. You really like bdsm, don't you?" Matt teased his friend.
"Do you actually have that muck rope?" Becca frowned.
"We have some rope, some duct tape, and a dog collar."
Tom set what they had on the kitchen table. no one looked overly satisfied with how much he had.
"I think we'll need more…" Susan sighed.
Kat just laughed. "What are you talking about? This is plenty!"
Becca and Matt volunteered to help Kat while the others tried to figure out what to do with the weapons. When everything was done, they were all tired. But no one wanted sleep in a bedroom in case one of the mystery people woke up and somehow got out. So Susan and Becca got the couch, Alex got the loveseat, Kat took a chair, and the boys took the floor. The last ne started to fall asleep just as the sun started to rise.
So this is something I thought of while I was at work the other day. I've been rolling through it every day to make time go by a little faster when it's not busy. I hope it's a little different from most and I hope you guys enjoy. Please review to tell me what you think.
Until the next chapter
-Devyn
