Chapter 1: The Straw Hats, Journey into the Mist
The Thousand Sunny was sailing through the calm waves of the Grand Line headed towards Fishmen Island, and on this ship were the Straw Hats. The Straw Hats are a pirate crew and each member has their own dream. They are sometimes called the crew of dreamers but with a catch, they have a bounty of over 600 million beli.
The crew consists of their rubbery captain Monkey D. Luffy, who has eaten the gomu-gomu fruit which has given him the ability to stretch like rubber, and he has a current bounty of 300 million beli. Roronoa Zoro is the crew's swordsman who has mastered the three sword style technique, santoryu, and has a bounty of 120 million beli. Nami, otherwise known as The Cat Burglar, is the ship's navigator and she loves her beli. She has a bounty of 16 million beli. Usopp is the marksmen of the ship who fights with his giant pachinko called Kabuto, he's also the crew's bluffer and has the alias of Sogeking. His bounty is 30 million beli. Sanji is the cook of the crew, but also is known as Black Leg Sanji. He's also just not just a cook but a lady's man too, and he's not afraid to show it. His bounty is 77 million beli. Tony Tony Chopper is the doctor of the crew, but he's also a reindeer. He has eaten the human-human fruit and is allowed to change into different forms. Chopper is known as the Straw Hats' pet with a bounty of only 50 beli. Nico Robin is the archeologist on the ship and has all the knowledge the Straw Hats would ever need. She has eaten the hana-hana fruit which allows her to sprout hands and feet at her command. Her bounty is 80 million beli. Lastly, there is the crew's shipwright Franky. Franky is not just a shipwright though, he's also a cyborg that runs on cola, and he actually built the Thousand Sunny for the Straw Hats before joining. His bounty is 44 million beli.
As the Thousand Sunny was sailing, the Straw Hats did what they do on a daily basis. Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper were goofing around while fishing and Luffy tried to use his brain for once and ended up badly.
"Oi, Usopp we're out of bait." Luffy complained.
"We wouldn't be out of bait if you didn't eat it all!" Usopp yelled.
"Yeah but, I was hungry." Luffy said even though he was still hungry after eating everything.
"WHEN AREN'T YOU! NOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO USE!" Usopp said angrily.
"We could use the "emergency food supply"." As Luffy gives Chopper an evil glare.
"L-Luffy why are you looking at Chopper like that? No… You wouldn't."
Before Usopp could do anything Luffy already had Chopper at the end of the fishing line using him as fish bait.
"Oi! Luffy give Chopper back!" Usopp demanded.
"I agree with Usopp. REEL ME BACK IN! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" As Chopper started to cry from being afraid of drowning or worse, getting eaten by a giant fish.
"Oi! You three woke me up from my nap." Said an irritated voice coming from the ship's crow's nest.
The commotion the three were causing has now woken up Zoro from his routinely nap.
"So, the moss head finally decided to get up." Came another voice.
"Who you calling moss head, shitty cook." Zoro said.
The voice came from none other than Sanji.
As soon as Zoro got down from the crow's nest, Sanji and him started fighting. Meanwhile, Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper were still arguing about Chopper being bait, but they failed to see the dark storm cloud forming overhead.
"THUNDERBOLT TEMPO!" Out of the blue came a girl's voice and at the same time a ball of electricity shot into the dark cloud and down came lightning and struck the fighting group except Luffy because he's rubber, he doesn't conduct electricity.
"Why are you always fighting!" Nami said as she looked at the current scene with the perfect clima-tact in hand, otherwise known as the PCT. Sanji perked up.
"Nami-Swaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan~! You have hit me with a shock of love!" You could clearly see Sanji's affection for Nami because his visible eye had turned into a heart.
"IDIOT!" Nami said as she smacked Sanji on the back of his head causing a giant bump on his head before he fell down and literally hit the deck.
"I've been struck by an angel." Those were Sanji's last words before he passed out.
While all the commotion was going on up on the deck there were still two of the Straw Hat members below deck.
Robin was lying on her bed reading what seemed to be an old history book, and then she realized she has seen everyone on the ship today except for one crew mate. She got up to go look for him.
When she found him it was no surprise he was still in his room/workshop slumped over his desk sleeping, his head resting on an unfinished blueprint. Robin knew that he tried to pull off an all-nighter by the looks of his room. There were empty cola bottles scattered throughout the room, blueprints were thrown away in the trash bin but there were so many scrapped blueprints in the trash bin that it was full. He didn't bother to empty it so he just threw them on the floor, he didn't care. But in the middle of it all was Franky himself.
"Oi, Franky." Robin said trying to wake him up.
"Huh?" He turned around to see who had woken him up, suspecting to see Luffy or Usopp but to his surprise it was Robin.
"Oh, Nico Robin. I was suspecting Straw Hat or Long Nose." Franky said.
"No, it's me. I had seen everyone on the ship today except for you. I was just wondering where you were hiding. Then when I got here I realized you fell asleep trying to pull off an all-nighter." Robin said wondering if she should have just let Franky sleep.
Franky then got up rising to his full height of seven and a half feet tall and took the unfinished blueprint that he was just sleeping on moments ago and showed it Robin.
"I was designing a new weapon that was going to go into channel four. It's supposed to be the ship's sub weapon so we don't always have to use the Gaon cannon because it uses five barrels of cola and not every island we go to has cola, so this new weapon will be used to reserve cola." Franky explained.
"You really thought this though and by what you have designed so far looks really well, but, what is it? Robin asked as she wondered what Franky was planning on building. But, she couldn't shake the feeling she has already seen a similar design like Franky's somewhere before.
"I'm glad you asked. It's the Super Battle Franky Ballista! It's going to be a giant crossbow that fires iron spiked projectiles at any ship coming at the Sunny." Franky said as he was impressed with himself about his design. But he wasn't the only one impressed, Robin was too.
"Now I remember!" Robin said.
"Huh?" Robin had interrupted Franky's shining moment of satisfaction with himself.
"I've seen this similar design in the history book I've been reading. It was designed about 600 years ago. It was built to do exactly what you just explained Franky. Robin said hoping not to disappoint Franky.
"WHAAAAT!" Franky said shocked.
"Sorry Franky but the people in the Alabasta tribe already beat you to your own design." Robin said sorry she burst Franky's bubble.
"Damn. These past few days have just been so un-super. Well, time to scrap this idea." Franky said disappointed.
"No, wait Franky." Robin said right before Franky was getting ready to crumble up the blue print.
"Just by looking at your design I can already tell it's much more advanced then when it was made 600 years ago. I think your design is… Super." Robin said trying to make Franky feel a little bit better.
"You think so?" Franky was surprised, he even blushed a little. He was happy that she complemented on his design because Robin always tells the truth she rarely ever lied so Franky knew she was telling the truth.
"I don't think so, I know so." Robin said.
Then Franky started to cry-
"I'M NOT CRYING, SHUT UP GOD DAMNIT!" Franky said while breaking the fourth wall.
"DO NOT INTERUPT ME FRANKY!" As I was saying, Franky started crying… Tears of joy because the one hard to impress crew mate liked his design. So Robin couldn't see Franky crying he pulled down his sunglasses from the top of his head over his eyes but it was still so obvious that he was crying.
"Oi! Franky, Robin! Get up here, you have to see this!" Luffy shouted from up deck.
"Whatever it is that Straw Hat thinks is important we should go see what it is just in case." Franky said.
"Right." Robin said in agreement.
As soon as Robin and Franky got above deck they saw it. It was mist, but it wasn't any normal mist either. It was all pearl color towards the bottom but when you go to look at the sky all you can see is a deep crimson red floating above it, the two colors are intertwined.
"Robin! Do you have any idea what this mist is?" Nami asked in a nervous voice. Right after Sanji came up behind her.
"It's okay Nami~Swan I'll protect you from whatever this is." Sanji said as he tried to look as brave and manly as he could be in front of Nami and Robin.
"Sanji, that's so sweet. Now close your eyes and I'll give you a little reward." Nami said as she was looking all innocent towards Sanji.
Sanji was so happy the moment Nami said that, he almost fainted…AGAIN. As he waited for Nami's kiss his heart was beating like a drum, his one visible eye was now one giant heart. Just as he was envisioning him and Nami getting married and they were about to kiss to end the wedding Sanji blacked out. He blacked out due to the big hit Nami implanted on his skull which ended up being worse than the last.
"There, he won't be getting up any time soon." Nami said with satisfaction.
"Isn't that a little too harsh?" Franky asked while watching Nami repeatedly hit the head of a now unconscious Sanji.
"SHUT UP FRANKY OR YOU'LL BE NEXT!" Nami said with her PCT in hand ready to smack Franky on the head too.
"Anyways Miss Navigator, you wanted to know about the mist?" Robin asked.
"Oh yeah, I forgot." Nami said feeling stupid that she forgot.
"Well I can't say too much about the mist because I don't know much about it."
"Then what can you tell me about it then?" Nami asked curious.
"All I know is that it's a legendary mist called the pokémist and it's full of mysteries. Go in it and take the chance of never coming back out. Some pirates just go in and try to find their way back out to make their selves known and become famous pirates that lived to tell the tale, or we could go in there and find lost treasure from the sunken ships that failed to escape." Robin explained.
As soon as Nami heard the word treasure she put her beli face on.
"Uh-oh. I don't think you should have mentioned the word treasure Robin." Usopp said as he knew what was coming next.
"FULL SPEED AHEAD INTO THE MIST!" Nami yelled as her excitement to find treasure was rising.
"Woo-Hoo! Good idea Nami. You heard her everyone, get ready to head into the mist." Luffy said as he was sitting up front on the Thousand Sunny's lion head.
"Oi! Franky! Steer us towards the mist! Luffy demanded.
"Do you really think it's that safe Straw Hat?" Franky asked wondering if the Sunny would make it through the mist okay.
"No. I'm just going with my gut, guessing on a hunch, we won't really know what happens until we go into it." Luffy said while being an idiot as always.
"So it's decided, we're headed into the mist!" Nami yelled with joy but as soon as she finished yelling the Thousand Sunny started to rock back and forth from sudden violent waves caused by the presence of the pokemist. But of course the rocking didn't wake up the snoring Zoro or the blacked out Sanji. It didn't affect Zoro or Sanji but it was the exact opposite for Chopper and Usopp, they were running around the ship screaming in a panic.
"WE ARE GOING TO DIE!" Chopper yelled as he started crying.
"I think my don't-go-into-the-mysterious-death-mist disease is acting up again." Usopp said as he looked like he was ready to pass out and join Sanji.
"Oi! Franky! What's going on!" Luffy said while still sitting on the Sunny's lion head.
"The ship has been caught in a strong current pushing us away from the mist. I'm going to use the Dock System now. Solider Dock System! Channel 0! Cola engine! Paddle ship Sunny! Forward!"
The numbers on the side of the Thousand Sunny turned and switched to zero. Where the numbers where it was now opened up and paddle like wheels came out and started spinning. The Thousand Sunny started to move much more quickly and easier now that it was in channel zero. There were now no more problems with the new violent waves hitting the ship.
"YOSH!" Luffy shouted, happy from the success of the Dock System.
The Thousand Sunny now entered the pokemist wondering what it would bring upon them. But they didn't have to wait long because not even five minutes of wondering through the mist they broke through with a disappointed Nami.
"We didn't even stay in their long enough to find one beli or any amount of treasure." Nami whined as she was now all disappointed and feeling down.
"Guys, do you remember being by any islands when we went through the mist?" Usopp asked concerned already thinking they were lost.
"No. The log post would have pointed to the closest island and it's still pointing down into the ocean towards Fishmen Island." Nami said with a confident smile on her face.
"But there is an island right over there." As Usopp pointed to the island he could see in the horizon.
"That's i-impossible!" Nami said thinking how she could be wrong.
"I don't think your directions are wrong Miss Navigator." Robin finally spoke.
"Then what's going on?" Nami asked confused.
"For once I don't know, it's just something that can't be explained. Robin said with all her calm demeanor intact.
"GUYS, WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM!" Usopp shouted as his eyes bugged out of his head and he was pointing at the giant silhouette of what looked to be a giant sea king rising out of the water. But it looked like it had two horns sprouting out by its mouth so it was unknown to the Straw Hats.
"Is that a sea king?" Nami asked nervously.
"No, it doesn't seem to be one." Robin said confident of her knowledge.
"WELL, WHATEVER IT IS THE THING IS CHARGING TOWARDS US!" Usopp yelled as he looked for somewhere to take cover, Chopper did the same.
"NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE HIDING! YOU SHOULD BE GETTING READY TO FIGHT!" Nami shouted as she was getting ready to scold Usopp and Chopper.
"Luffy! Wake up Zoro! Nami said while shouting commands at the others.
"No problem." Luffy then jumped from the head of the Sunny and he got ready to wake Zoro up.
"GOMU-GOMU NO PISTOL!" Luffy's arm had stretched across the ship to where Zoro was sleeping.
"Huh?" was all Zoro could say as he woke up right before Luffy's fist made contact with his face. Zoro was hit so hard he flew about ten feet in the air before coming back down crashing into the deck of the Thousand Sunny and breaking a few floor boards in the process.
"Oi! ARE YOU TRYING TO BREAK THIS SHIP STRAW HAT! Franky said furiously because he was pissed that Luffy was messing up the Thousand Sunny.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR LUFFY!" Zoro said as Franky wasn't the only one mad at Luffy.
"Listen, Zoro we're going to need all the help we can get for fighting whatever is coming at the ship." Nami said hoping Franky and Zoro don't start beating up Luffy.
"GUYS, IT'S ALMOST HERE!" Usopp said as the monster was getting closer to the Sunny.
As the monster got into the Straw Hats' view they could now make out the details of it. It appeared to be a giant blue sea dragon that had its mouth open and looked like it could bite a ship in two without even trying. But the weirdest thing is that what the crew thought was horns were actually a mustache.
"What the hell is that thing?" Franky said as he slid his sunglasses from his face back to the top of his head just to get a look at this unknown beast.
That's the end of chapter one! Thanks for reading.
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Next up, Chapter 2: The Straw Hats Meet Team Rocket, A Battle At First Sight
