a/n - hi, i'm new here and my grammar is not that great as english is not my first language, but i hope you'll enjoy this story.
STAB, BUSH AND FRUITS.
" Why it's so hot… " when I open my eyes all I see is green, tree and bush so lush with green like you never seen in city. While thinking why I'm not in my room right now then I remember, I'm never arrived at my home at all.
Around 12 hour ago.
" Man… that show suck so hard that my lil bro could do better. " I'm on my way to from stage show at the mall. While taking a shortcut at the park someone jump me and stab me in the gut then push me in the lake.
Now.
" Shit! what kind of people shank a person at daylight in the park?... " I ask my self, who could've done this, maybe that shithead at work. Then I realized " I'm dead? " then the pain at the gut kick in like i just get stab, well I did get stab " fu….." while holding my pain.
Then I think I start to have delusion as I see a what I can explain as rabbitsnake, then I start to saw more illusion as chickendog and pig with lion mane. " what the wat… I'm not even has a fever to start has delusion. "
" GET OUT! " said mysterious voice.
" WHAT?! " I'm startled by the voice, " who's that don't jump scare me out of nowhere. " even though I'm not afraid of ghost, I still got startled easily.
" I am the guardian of the forest, so get out of my forest. " said the self proclaim forest guardian.
" Are you a hobo? " asked me in most crude way possible.
" I'm not… what a hobo? " ask the guardian back.
" you know… a homeless person? " I answer while holding all the pain at my gut.
" I'm not HOMELESS! this is my home so GET OUT! " shout now angry guardian.
" Well I would like to… but someone stab me in the gut and now I'm to woozy to go anywhere.. I think I'm start to loose my mind, you see just moment I thought I see rabbitsnake " while showing my stab wound to air around me, while maybe the guardian also in my head.
" Ohh.. you got stab? are you a pirate?" asked guardian who sound curios.
" Pirate? no… why? " now I'm curios, pirate in this age of day? at land add to that.
" Then why is someone stabbing you? what you do to deserve that? " the busybody guardian.
" Dunno man.. people is scary that's why. " reply me casually. While I lost in my thought thinking all this only in my head, a bush in the box suddenly appear in front of me. First weird hybrid animals, now a walking bush, my delusion is getting stronger if this keep up do got to see my favorite AV actress of all time anr… then I realized that this is real person, and for unknown reason is dressing up like that guy in One Piece, I think his name is Gaimon.
" Hey?… mister guardian why is you dressed as Gaimon, do they have a anime con near here? " asked me confused.
" How do you know name is Gaimon?! Did you come for my treasure! " Gaimon is more confused then me and start to get angry, out of nowhere he point his gun at me.
" Hey even if that is prop don't point that to people without any notice, don't you know any man…. " Bang! Gaimon shoot the ground near my feet proving that the gun is real. " EH! that's a real gun! why the heck you shooting at me! "
" Say it! did you come for my treasure huh! " Gaimon angrily asked.
Maybe he one of those crazy otaku that stay true to story till the ends. " No! like I say someone stab me! maybe they thought I died and toss me in this place.. " I make an excuse so this Gaimon like dude calm down a little.
" Huh! like I'm gonna believe you… but you look like a good person so I'm gonna patch you up and after that you can go out of this island don't go anywhere near my teasure! got it! " said Gaimon while start to put somekind of grass herb to my stab wound. The ointment sting so bad that I think that I black out a little while.
Few hour later.
When I open my eyes day start to go night. " Urgh.. What happen where is this? ".
" You up kid?, sorry about that thing earlier, you know after living alone so many years I'm become paranoid that everyone is the enemy, hahaha.. now you up please leave this place." said Gaimon that I just realized still there just blending in with the other bush, he seem has calm down a little.
Me who still not fully clear headed agreed to Gaimon just to get out of here ASAP, " sure! okay, seems my wound is closed already so I can walk now. thanks Gaimon. " i start walking slowly to what seems to be way out of the forest, then the salty air hits me.
Sea, open and free, as far as I can see its sea all the way to the end. " What the what…. " shock and awe at what I see, never in my life that I saw a sea that open like this, granted that I rarely go out to the sea or beach much. " Hey Gaimon where is this place? " I asked for confirmation.
" You really don't know how you get huh? this island is an unpopulated island in East Blue, I'm not sure if its got a name. " answer Gaimon after saw the look in my face.
" Oh my G! East Blue? like One Piece's East Blue! " I started to shout.
" Ohh! you know of One Piece kid, you know I myself started sailing because of that, I'm a pirate you know.. well in the past that is. Also what you means One Piece's East Blue? " Gaimon started to reminiscing of his younger days.
" Uh.. Oh! nothing, I think my mind is not in the right place yet. " I try to evade the question.
What in the world that had happen that I'm a completely different world… wait, is this different world or just some island that I don't know and all of this just an elaborated pranks. No, who would stab a person for a pranks, dammit why is this happen, how is this happen, did I died or not, is this all in my head as I in coma in hospital somewhere? but the pain is real, the feel is real, even smell of the ocean is real. Is this is really happening? like in the fanfic novel that sometimes I read in the web?.
First I need to calm down myself, next is " Gaimon how you supposed I get off this island do you have any row boat or something? don't tell me you expect me to swim all the way to next island? " I need to confirm with Gaimon if he has any boat at all.
" If I had a boat I will not be here alone you dumbhead! well not like I'm a demon, so I let you stay until someone drop by this island, still you have to stay away from my treasure! " shout Gaimon.
" Okay… no need to shout I can hear your voice just fine, no treasure hunting , got it. " it seems he still doesn't know the treasure is a dud, so the Strawhats still not drop by. If I'm lucky I hitch rides with them. " Hey Gaimon do you got any foods, I has not eat since yesterday I think. "
" How dare you ask for foods brats! look at me! do you think I have many food to spare?! you still not introduce yourself to me has the guts to ask for foods!, kids nowdays … " grumble Gaimon.
" Oh! I forgot, my name is Hikaru, a healthy 25 years old man as you can see, so don't call me brats anymore if you please. " I introduce myself to Gaimon.
" Healthy your face! you just got stab not less then a day ago huh! " retort Gaimon.
" That's true. hahaha… so got foods? " asked me again.
" All I have is fruits and nuts, don't you go killing animals in this island they like family to me " Gaimon warning me to not even think of eating the weird animals here.
" I don't want to get stomach ache either, I can eat fruit no problem. How long you've been here Gaimon? " I asked to get the timeline right, if I remember correctly he told luffy that he been in the island for 20 years.
" around 20 years I say give or take, time pass differently when you're alone and nobody to talk to, only these animals can be my talking buddy, well they only listening. " Gaimon conforming my timeline of this new world.
If this is true then maybe I don't have to wait long for the Strawhats, well it could take months but if I'm lucky I got to meet Luffy in person. Even if I'm not a hardcore otaku, One Piece has been one of my guilty pleasure for as long as I can remember. Well I hope the first ship come here is Luffy's, if not I has to make up some excuse to stay longer here.
1 Week later.
After one week all my wound seems to closed up, the pain also gone, do this world logic also affect me?, do I only need to drink a milks if I have a broken tooth?. Even so one week in this island is freaking boring, luckily I had my phone with me, even though its cannot connect to anything all my music still plays well, for battery I have one of those battery pack with solar panel so I don't has to worry about that right now.
2 weeks later.
Sometimes when I at the beach I see boat pass by but they too far away to hear me shouting at them, so keep quiet about them from Gaimon. My relationship with Gaimon is improving but he still wont keep telling to get out of this island. Well I know he just say that to keep me off his treasure, if I have a treasure at my grasp maybe I will be like him either.
Now I'm exploring the forest, even though Gaimon say not go, but I'm bored as hell. From what I can see the vegetation of this island is pretty much the same like earth, there a few that's look weird but nothing harmful. Gaimon says in the forest has one tree that animals don't like but nothing there make him feels any different, so right now I'm searching for that tree.
" How on earth I supposed to search that one tree in this forest?! " I start questioning my decision to embark on the quest of tree searching in the forest. Then suddenly the surrounding became quiet, no critters no bird, like all animals suddenly go to bed early today. " Maybe I'm close to the tree that Gaimon says."
After searching the center of this phenomena for a while, I found it, the tree. Nothing special about that tree but what make me so sure this is the tree that Gaimon says is the fact that hanging from that tree is a white mango with swirly pattern that always you sees in Devil fruit. " Holy shiiet! , a Devil Fruit! is this my lucky days? " at the surprise from finding the Devil Fruit got me thinking, do I eat it or just sell it later. While the prospect of having Devil Fruit power is got me excited, having a lame power that in exchange of being able to swim in this word of 80% of ocean is bit of trade off.
' BANG! ' loud sound of gunshot startled me, someone must be ashore for Gaimon to open fire like that. Without hesitation I pluck the Devil Fruit and keep it safe in my pouch. Its take me 30 minutes to get to the shore, I hope Gaimon is okay, even though he has a gun, he cannot fight for himself if the fight escalate.
Then as soon I saw Gaimon head " Gaimon! are you okay… " there they are.
" Whoa! you surprise me " says the pretty redhead girl.
" Hihihi.. Uncle who are you? are you a guardian too? " says the black haired youth wearing a strawhat.
Strawhats.
Whoa! seeing them in real life really is different from what I can imagine but for some reason its like this is what they supposed to be, not like those cosplayer, even though they close to originals but u still get the feeling that's something not right, but none of those feeling appear when I look at these guys.
" Uncle are you deaf? why are you not answering my question? " says luffy while looking confused.
" Luffy! its rude to ask them that! also if he is deaf how can he hears you? " says Nami while jabbing at Luffy.
" I'm not deaf my dear sir, madam. I'm also not a guardian like Gaimon here. I'm just a stranded passerby that waiting for a rescue to come, now that you guys here means i get to finally set off from this island. if you kindly enough that is " said I.
Now knowing Luffy, he's probably said ok, but with Nami I'm not sure. She is one hard lady to read.
" Sure! not that we in a hurry or anything. " reply Luffy immediately.
" Luffy! how can you accept such a shady request without asking anything what is he's a bad guy " says Nami in respond to Luffy trusting issue.
" Are you a bad guy uncle ?" asked Luffy. " Not at all " reply me immediately.
" that's not how this work! " retort Nami angrily. " well if you insist in taking him then go ahead… but he stays in your boat. " added Nami.
" thank you kindly madam " I said to Nami with a smile, that just make her more irritated.
" My name is Nami. don't call me madam, make me feels old when you says it. " Nami said with annoyed tone.
" Very well miss Nami, and you are Luffy correct?. " I said while looking at Luffy.
" My name is Monkey D. Luffy, I'm gonna be the next Pirate King! " Luffy answering with the trademarked catchphrase.
" Ohh.. so you a pirate like Gaimon here . " I said while pointing at Gaimon.
" Huh! I already said that to them before you interrupt rudely.. lets me continue my story.. " said Gaimon who has been ignored for few minutes there. He started to tell the story how he found the treasure on the top steep hill and how he became stuck in the box.
It's strange to think that I has stayed here 2 weeks and Gaimon never open enough to tell me this story, but as soon as here met Luffy he just bable everything. Is this Luffy hidden power that main character has.
" How about we get that treasure down for you " said Nami.
" Are you gonna steal his treasure Nami, I'm disappointed at you " Luffy said in respond.
" Stupid even though i steal from pirate, doesn't mean I does not have a heart. how can I steal from a man who for 20 years guarding his treasure " Nami take offends at Luffy remarks.
" You guys… such a good guys. " said Gaimon while crying. Then Gaimon take us to where he found the treasure. Less than hill more like one big rock that so steep that I beginning to wonder how Gaimon climb it first time around.
Luffy begin to climb the rock, more like launching to the top with his rubber fruit. Weird to see a human hand stretch like rubber but I keep my surprised face to the minimum. When Luffy at the tops, he says there is a treasure up there but he change his mind and do not feels like bringing it down. Nami start to berate Luffy for that but Gaimon stop her saying that Luffy is a good guys.
" the box is empty right kid. I always thought about that also what if the box is empty, what if someone has come first. " Gaimon started to break.
" No way.. for 20 years for empty box… " shocked Nami.
" Well its good you got to know now than never… if you live your whole life afraid someone gonna steal your non existing treasure is not a way to live " I interject.
" Don't worry this one you miss the treasure but One Piece is still out there we can search for, will you join us bush uncle? " luffy began to recruit Gaimon for his pirate crew.
" You inviting me kid? hahaha thank you kids. " Gaimon seems happy at the invitation.
Gaimon reject the offer to become a Strawhats, he said he still want to be Forest Guardian to protect the precious animals in the island. Luffy and Nami said good bye to Gaimon and boarding the boat. I start to do the same and say good bye to Gaimon.
" Goodbye Gaimon, if you lucky maybe the is another person like you out there.. " I reveal a bit of his fate in the future.
" Where you can find a person in box anywhere else in this world! just get out off my island! " retort Gaimon to me.
" Alright Gaimon, take care of yourself see you again if I'm not dead somewhere" I said my goodbye to Gaimon.