AN: I just thought of this story... it will be a multi chapter. Main pairings are ZoLu, slight UsoNam, Frobin,and SanNam, if you don't like those pairings, that is fine. Go read something that suits your taste. This story will be in the OP universe along with a slight AU.I am not good on updates, so please bear in mind that if you want them daily then you came to the wrong spot. Constructive criticism is more than welcome. I do not own OP, it is owned by Eiichiro Oda.

The rain seemed to be falling from the sky in a steady stream that was nonstop, periodically a flash of lightning illuminated the dark afternoon sky, followed by a clash of thunder. Luffy sat on his hammock, his feet hanging off the edge, growing more and more impatient as the day wore on, unable or unwilling to go above on deck due to his injuries. The Thousand Sunny was rocking with the waves and loose items in the room was moving around the cabin, like Sanji's one shoe that had been lost till now, Usopp's old sling shot from way back when they had first moved into the Thousand Sunny after losing the Merry Go, some of Zoro's dumbbells were even rolling around on the cluttered floor going over Luffy's tossed about clothes and Choppers herbs that he had sat aside thinking he would dry them out later. He was the captain, he told himself, he had to go up and make sure the ship was ok. Well Franky could keep an eye on the ship as well as he could if not better. Nami was more than competent to navigate them out of this storm that just appeared last night and had raged all night and seemed to want to last all day too. Luffy had no worry on that; eventually she would get them to a spot that was calmer than this.

What had the captain more than a little upset was that everyone seemed to be busy with something, which is everyone except him. Even Brook was busy, leaving him all alone. Through the sound of the rain hitting the deck of the ship, Luffy could hear the faint melody of Brook playing his violin, Franky working on something below decks, Usopp talking to Nami and following her orders. Even though he couldn't hear the others, it didn't mean he didn't know what they were doing, Sanji was cooking a meal with the remaining rations, Zoro was up in the crow's nest working out, and Chopper would be busy studying his doctor books while Robin was quietly reading.

Luffy was more than a little restless, if only he was not hurt still from the last battle he had fought. He would have been up there with Usopp and Nami, figuring out a way to get out of this weather that seemed to be taking all the cheer out of him. Instead Chopper had insisted that he rest for today.

Closing his eyes, he leaned back and imagined the next island. It would be a meat island, shaped like a piece of meat. Instead of plants, the island would be full of meat. Without realizing it, he started to drool as he imagined all the different types of meat that he would consume.

So deep in thought about the meats, he didn't at first realize the rain had stopped till Usopp yelled for him.

"Luffy!" the sharp shooter yelled a touch of panic in his tone.

Jumping up out of his hammock, Luffy first realized it was eerily quiet, then he heard the crew as panic set in and they were scuttling about on the decks of the ship. He had to go find out what was going on.

Going out on deck, he first saw Usopp. His best friend was gapping at the sky, as if dumbstruck. "What happened?" he asked as he joined his crew.

"Look…" Usopp pointed up into the sky, at first Luffy didn't know what it was that he was looking at, then he realized what it was that he wasn't looking at. The sky above them had changed from a dark stormy sky with flashes of lightning to a swirl of all kinds of colors melding together till it hurt the eyes to look at too long.

The very air seemed to be breathing as the ship floundered in the waters. Up higher where the crow's nest was it seemed to be pulling and stretching into the kaleidoscope of colors.

"We have to get out of here." Nami was saying, trying to get the others to move. "Raise the sail… Franky, can you do a coup de burst?"

Franky was getting the ship ready to do just that when the entire ship was encompassed in the myriad of colors. Zoro, who up until now had been in the crow's nest, was the first to experience the change. To Luffy, it seemed that the first mate had taken over his rubber power and seemed to stretch and blend into the rainbow, along with the upper part of the ship.

"Zoro!" Luffy ran to try to stop his nakama from blending into the strange surroundings. When he went to stretch his arm to grab Zoro though, something tingled within him and it seemed that his entire arm vanished.

Before his eyes his first mate disappeared and a fury as intense as that time Kuma had sent them all to different parts of the globe surfaced, an underlying sense of sadness was being shoved down so that Luffy would not break down.

With his one arm disappearing, Luffy used his other arm to grab the smiling lion's head to try to pull free of the trap he was in. it was strange that his right arm was nearly gone. The more he tried to pull free though, the more the arm disappeared. It would soon reach his shoulder. The rest of the crew was running around, trying desperately to get the ship free of the strange colors.

"Not yet." He yelled as Franky got the ship ready for the coup de burst that would send the ship away from this tangled mess. He was too late though, and as he spoke the ship seemed to vanish while for a moment he was in limbo. His body seemed to be floating and all around him was different hues of all the colors that encompassed the spectrum. It was strange because his left hand could still feel the ship. While he was thinking about this, someone must have grabbed his left hand. As if in a distant fog, he could hear the panic in Usopp yelling for him.

He got a sense of Zoro, just a hint. Then with all he could muster he tried to follow that only to end up flat on his back on the ground.

Looking around he was shocked. What had once been the ocean of the Grand Line, was now just a barren waste land. The sky above him was a pale blue tinged with the pink of the setting sun.

Briefly he could feel a hand in his tugging slightly, only to be lost.

Panic nearly consumed him; he grabbed his head in his hands and tried to orient his thinking. He had followed Zoro; somewhere in this vast nothingness was his first mate. Before he could think about his own predicament, he had to find him.

Where to start looking though was his biggest problem, knowing Zoro, he would just wander aimlessly in circles till he dehydrated.

Standing up, Luffy realized that little to nothing was on the horizon. It looked like a few bushes that had seen better moisture and a tree or two that looked as if the slightest wind would break them. A slight chill was in the air and as Luffy continued to contemplate his surroundings, he saw a skull of some sort of animal with horns on its head. So much for his meat island, he mused to himself as he headed in the direction of the sun.

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Zoro glared once more at the sun. It seemed that it was taunting him, mocking the direction that he was walking. He was keeping the sun to his left shoulder at all times. Yesterday when he had gotten here he had kept it to his right, so today he decided to keep it to his left. It seemed like a logical thing to do; for him at least.

When the storm had cleared yesterday, he had been about to go find Luffy and let him know when the strange colors had distracted him. At first they were in the distance and made the swordsman stop to watch the way they shimmered, seeming to be alive. Then before he could think of anything, he was being swallowed by the colors. That was how it seemed at least to Zoro, he had vaguely felt apprehension as he had seemed to blend in to the colors, as he looked down at the fading ship, and he had tried to grab Luffy. His captain had tried to reach him and Zoro vaguely felt a wisp of the fingers brush his arm before falling into this wasteland.

And that was how it felt, like falling into a wasteland.

Off in the distance it looked like a pond with a few trees around it. To say that Zoro was thirsty was like asking if Luffy liked meat. The swordsman was more than thirsty though as he made his way to the oasis, only to have it vanish before his eyes. Once again he had let this hot sun mock him.

Glaring at the sun, Zoro licked his already parched lips and wondered why the sun was mocking him. He wondered what was happening with the others and why they had decided to let him be in this barren land with no ale to drink, let alone water. Knowing the others, they were probably lost, walking in circles. It would never cross their minds to keep the sun on one side of you while walking. It had been sheer brilliance to think of that, he reminded himself.

Feeling slightly better about his predicament, he lazily placed one hand on his sword hilts while surveying the landscape. Far off in the distance it looked as if someone were walking towards him. It looked like Luffy. Thinking it was just the devil sun playing tricks on him, he ignored it. For he knew better than most that Luffy could not be walking on water, that was just not possible with the devil fruit taking his ability to even tread shallow water without assistance.

Faintly though, he heard someone calling his name, it sure sounded like Luffy to him. Pausing he glanced to where he had first glimpsed the captain and smiled. Sure enough, it was Luffy; the straw hat was on his head, covering the black hair beneath it.

"Oi Zoro," Luffy called out to him. "Where are we?"

Zoro shrugged his shoulders in a nonchalant way. He didn't know if he could speak without moisture on his tongue. In fact it felt like he had sandpaper in his mouth.

When Luffy joined him, he was able to clear his throat enough to hoarsely ask, "Is there any water back there?"

Glancing back the way he had just been, Luffy shook his head no, "I saw a lot of fake water though."

"Fake water?" Zoro asked.

"Yeah," Luffy said indicating the place he had just left. "The kind that disappears."

Zoro looked and nodded his head, "I had that happen to me too."

Luffy was a bundle of energy as they made their way further, finally he asked; "Zoro, where are we going anyway?"

"Yeah," Luffy nodded his head.

Luffy had about given up on finding Zoro when he had come across the swordsman. The sun beating down on them was relentless in the heat, and last night it had gotten more than a little cold. Luffy had huddled next to a boulder, trying to keep warm.

"So how did you stay warm last night Zoro?"

Zoro shrugged his shoulders and gave Luffy the impression that the cold of the night before had only been a mild inconvenience, which it most likely had been.

The young captain was just thankful that he now had his first mate here with him. "What do you think that thing in the sky was that brought us here?" his question only resulted in a shrug, "Where do you think the others will be? I bet Robin knows what happened. Zoroooo," his voice dragged out the name, "I am hungry…"

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"This is just a dream," Usopp said to Chopper and Nami, "We will wake up and all be back on the ship. It is just a bad dream…"

"Yeah," Choppers voice added, "Some crazy dream…"

"Mass hallucinations…" Nami said.

Usopp pinched Nami on the arm, it was more of a startled hurt than an actual real pain, however Nami's arm flying through the air to connect to Usopp's head was more pain than anything, resulting in both Nami and Usopp howling and holding the spots that were starting to bruise.

"Why did you do that Nami?" Usopp seemed hurt.

"You pinched me…" It even sounded weak to her own ears.

"I was just trying to wake you up."

"You should have warned me first."

"That would have defeated the purpose then."

"I am going to have two bruises now." Nami gingerly rubbed the spot that Usopp had pinched her arm.

"I have a lump on my head, no thanks to you."

"Uh guys…" Nami and Usopp ignored the soft voice of Chopper as they continued their argument.

"All I did was a reflexive hit." Nami seemed indignant.

"Uh, Nami… Usopp…"

"You should watch that arm of yours, it's lethal."

"I… uh… Nami… Usopp…"

Nami and Usopp both looked at Chopper just then at the same time and in unison said, "What!"

Chopper was pointing at something above the arguing couple.

As if they were one person, they looked up just as some slimy clear liquid dropped on them, it smelled foul and the first thing that they noticed was that it was warm and it nearly gagged Nami as she whimpered at what was in front of them. Usopp was brave for a half a heartbeat before the fear set in and they were all running down a hill.

"Run!" Usopp yelled to the two that were running just as fast as he was.

Following close behind them was a monster that none of them had ever seen before; it had tentacles that were trying to grab them, it was a grey green color that had bulbous pours which emitted a foul smelling liquid, some of which was on Nami and Usopp, every orifice seemed to smell noxious and as they fled the thing seemed to use its tentacles to chase them.

"What is that thing?" Nami asked as they ran down the hill, absently she was trying to get the slimy liquid off of her.

"I don't want to stick around and ask it." Usopp said. He too was covered in liquid from the thing.

"Some kind of monster." Chopper said.

"Luffy!" both Nami and Usopp yelled as they ran.