One Piece-Ice Labyrinth
Labyrinth series 1#
Summary: Luffy and crew sail away with no real destination until they navigate into a mysterious haze. What dangers will unfold for the crew?
The walls of thee shift and isolate,
Banishing those with illusory fate,
Shifting at twin titles of glass,
Until you grieve in death at last…
Disclaimer: Just to be safe, I own nothing except the plot and a few random names.
Hello readers! This is my fist fanfic so go easy on me. I'm hoping for positive feedback but if there really is that much of a problem, please tell me (nicely). This story is set in no particular time but I would say its before the Alabasta arc which is pretty early in the series but Vivi isn't in the story. I based this fanfic on the English edition of One Piece so technique names and stuff will be in English edition, please don't flame for that because I did it to clear up stuff for people who don't know as much about the Japanese version of One Piece. There is no romance in this fanfic except for the usual Sanji and Nami stuff. It might be a bit weird because the characters are quite talkative but please bear with me. I'll just experiment and see how it goes along. Enjoy
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Chapter 1: Freezing point
Waves bathed the Merry Go as with tongues of water and pushed it along its path. Sprays of water shot at Nami's face who was scanning the horizon dreamily. She sighed as she took another look at the sea. The Merry Go has been drifting for quite a while, they had sailed into unknown territory which hardly had any wind at all to push along its eager sails. The other crew members didn't seem to notice the big deal. Luffy was eating as Sanji was desperately trying to satisfy the hunger of his captain. Zoro was sleeping like he always was and Usopp and Chopper were just plain childish.
Nami gave up on her search and headed over to figure out what Luffy had been doing after eating his meal. Sanji was now sitting where Luffy was, holding out a platter of cakes.
"Want some Nami-swan?" Sanji said as he acted hypnotised by Nami.
"Save them for Luffy, I'm sure he's still hungry" Nami pushed the platter back at Sanji, Sanji shrugged and sighed,
"Strangely, I'm not surprised after Luffy ate half of our stock in one meal". Luffy was sketching some sort of picture, Nami bent down to take a peek when Luffy noticed her and smiled,
"What are you sketching?" Nami asked curiously. Luffy had pride glistening in his eyes and held out his piece of paper, on it was some sort of landforms.
"Err...what's that?" Nami asked again, now even more curious than before.
"It's a map" Luffy smiled, "This way we won't get lost here". Nami sighed,
"How are we going to use a map that looks like Sanji's burnt leftovers". Luffy sniffed around,
"Speaking of food-" Luffy started.
"NO!" Sanji yelled as he bent out of a small window from the kitchen, "You've eaten enough".
"Aww" Luffy groaned. Luffy's moaning woke a very cranky Zoro,
"Are we getting anywhere yet?" Zoro asked while remaining in the same position. He didn't need Nami to answer back because he knew that there was no wind.
"Hey Chopper, I've got a great idea" Usopp suddenly remarked.
"What Usopp?" Chopper asked.
"Since you can speak to animals and all, you could ask a Sea King to push us along!" he joked around.
"But aren't Sea Kings dangerous?" Chopper shivered,
"If our Sea King gets angry we'll feed you to it and then it'll be so cheerful it'll gladly push us along" Usopp teased. Nami gave Usopp a big wack with her staff and Usopp instantly stayed silence.
Zoro yawned for the hundredth time and sat next to Luffy who was also bored. Chopper escaped from Usopp and went to explore the kitchen with Sanji, who had nothing to do so he decided to teach Chopper to cook up something little.
"All the drifting is making me dizzy" Usopp complained.
"Well then maybe you shouldn't keep on walking in circles so we don't get dizzy too" Zoro smirked. Meanwhile in the kitchen, Sanji decide to teach Chopper to make a simple cake. Chopper picked up the method easily and was soon nearly finished with the delicious cake.
"We should give it to Nami-swan" Sanji suggested but then Chopper stared at Sanji blankly for a moment.
"But we get the first slices" Sanji added, Chopper reverted to making the cake, it was time to begin baking it. He put it in the oven with his small hooves and closed the oven door. Sanji adjusted the settings but the oven wouldn't start. Sanji checked the oven but nothing was disconnected, he assumed the oven was broken and moaned angrily.
"Darn oven" Sanji insulted. Chopper took the cold cake out of the oven and placed it on the stove,
"Will the stove work?" Chopper enquired,
"Just try" Sanji said and tuned on the stove, there was also no flames, nothing at all spewing out of the stove, no sign of the element that was usually desperate to lick the bottom of the cake.
"Strange" Sanji grinned, "We'll just put the cake in the fridge for a while". Chopper opened the fridge but he gasped.
"What's the matter Chopper?" Sanji asked,
"The temperature here is colder than inside the fridge" Chopper said. Sanji shoved his arm in the fridge and pulled it out again. Chopper was right, in fact, the temperature was so different that it almost felt warm in the fridge. Sanji and Chopper stepped outside the kitchen and headed to the rest of the crew.
"Is there any wind yet?" Sanji asked.
"Zero" Zoro groaned lazily, "not even a breeze.
"That's strange" Chopper spoke out, "Have you notice that it's pretty cold out here?"
Luffy stood up and held his hand in the air.
"No wind but it sure is freezing" Luffy thought.
"It must be the works of the freezing squid of doom" Usopp nudged Chopper.
"Not now Usopp" Nami sighed and wacked Usopp on the head again, "we don't have time for jokes, for all we know this might be the cause of a cursed fruit".
"Don't worry, Captain Usopp will protect us all" Usopp grinned.
"Don't lie Usopp, you couldn't even protect that chunk of meat from Luffy" Zoro said. Luffy grit his teeth as Sanji gave Luffy a demonic stare.
"What? It was a tasty chunk of meat, I couldn't resist" Luffy explained.
"People, we're not talking about meat here, we're talking about the sudden temperature change!" Nami burst out. The crew fell silent for Nami to continue or speech. The crew finally gave into the cold and went inside to continue their discussion, Zoro went and lit a fire while the others sat down on wooden stools.
"Look, the temperature change is going to be a big challenge for us, some of our food will go bad and we'll definitely need to get out of this region somehow before we freeze" Nami said.
"We could use Chopper's fur as a coat!" Usopp chuckled but was bopped on the head by Nami.
"Just because Chopper is the only one who has good experience of the cold" Sanji told Usopp, "Hey Usopp, why don't we cook Chopper and use his skin at the same time". Chopper retreated behind Nami and hugged her leg.
"Boys, don't frighten Chopper like that" Nami growled and bopped both of their heads madly in rage. Luffy scratched his head.
"As a captain do you have anything to say?" Nami offered Luffy.
"So…" Luffy said. The crew all leant towards Luffy to hear what he had to say.
"How would you make my meat hot?" Luffy finished off. Everybody fell off their chairs and sighed.
"Luffy! At a time like this you're still talking about meat!" Nami roared. Sanji got up to his feet and helped Nami up.
"I just hope we find an island quick" Zoro wished.
"Let's check again" Nami said as she opened the door to go out but what she saw shocked her.
"What do you see?" Zoro asked as he approached the door as well.
"Nothing" Nami replied, "literally". Zoro knew what Nami meant when he took a peer outside as well. There was a huge haze, the biggest haze he had ever been in. It appeared to be even colder than Drum Island although there was still no sign of any wind.
"If only our sails could catch some wind, we could get out of this blasted place" Zoro stamped his left foot on the wooden planks, which creaked at the impact.
"For now we don't want wind, the sails are totally frozen and wind will only cause us more cold" Nami said.
"Just close the door, we're freezing in here" Luffy complained,
"The point is we don't want to freeze in here, I'd rather freeze out there" Sanji debated, "If we just stay in here we'll become nothing more than toast"
"Yes please, I'd like some hot toast" Luffy jumped back onto his feet.
"Luffy!" everyone yelled at him in unison.
'There's no point in arguing in here, lets go outside, it's lucky that we kept these clothes from Drum island" Nami pointed out. Everyone wore their warm clothes and Chopper kicked open the door. There was still no sign of wind although it was freezing cold. The ship had now adopted the appearance of a colourful iceberg.
The mist shrouded around the ship, cloaking the scenery with tendrils of haze. Usopp leant down and tried to catch a glimpse of the ocean. The ship suddenly shook and rumbled as if they had crashed into land.
"What was that?!" Usopp exclaimed in wonder. Luffy joined Usopp and also peered down.
"I don't see anything" Luffy said.
"Of course you can't see anything" Zoro smirked again, "there's a bloody haze here".
"We must have hit land" Chopper told Nami, she nodded at back and tried to make out an island in the thick mist. Luffy stretched his arm lower and lower down into the mist until he gasped.
"Land!" Luffy sang out.
"You can pull your arm back up now Luffy" Sanji advised, "Before anything wants to chew on it".
"I can't Sanji, something is chewing on it" Luffy flinched.
"I was just joking!" Sanji laughed.
"Oh finally, a battle, my katanas are making me bleed from boredom" Zoro said and drew his three katanas in his santoryu stance and jumped overboard.
"Oni giri!" the crew heard Zoro yell and a roar from an unknown creature followed.
"How is everything down there?" Usopp enquired.
"Not very good, there's a whole pack of these walrus thug things here" Zoro alerted and a clashing of two sharp objects was heard.
"We should help" Chopper cried and stood on the border of the railing. Luffy jumped straight down although Sanji suspected that it was accidental. Everything was fairly clear on land as the haze finally started to clear away. It retreated backwards creating a dome of haze that caged the island.
Suddenly four walrus-like creatures with a wolf body charged at Luffy trying to rip his rubber skin to shreds.
"Gum Gum whip!" Luffy yelled and his elastic leg stretched out and wiped out the creatures in one blow. A walrus thug crept up behind Luffy and ambushed him but Sanji ambushed the walrus himself and delivered a kick that sent it flying at two other walruses. Zoro stepped back until he was beside Sanji.
"How many are there?" Zoro asked almost expecting no answer at all.
"Enough for me to wipe out" Sanji remarked and took out another five walruses. Usopp was frantically screaming and sweating onboard with Nami and Chopper.
"There's so many! How can we beat them all?" Usopp exclaimed.
"Just shut up and go fight" Nami said and studied the weather, "I need to figure out if we can survive in future weather". Chopper yanked Usopp's shirt,
"Come on, lets help the others" Chopper urged, Usopp nodded and took out his trusty slingshot. He fired madly in horror at the walruses that had snuck past the pirates and began trying to destroy the ship. Chopper turned into his human form and jumped right on top of a walrus.
"How many of these are there?" Chopper asked Usopp as he punched a walrus hard.
"Maybe a couple hundred or so" Usopp replied, nearly out of breath from all his running and shooting.
"Gum Gum rapid fire!" Luffy exclaimed and barraged the enemy with a flurry of punches. The pummelled creatures were knocked back and hit even more walruses. Zoro and Sanji were working together making sure no more walruses make it pass them.
"Sanji it looks pretty good here, you go help out Chopper" Zoro advised.
"No problem" Sanji grinned showing his self-esteem and dashed towards Chopper who was having a hard time fending off ten walruses at once with Usopp now bombing walruses in front of Luffy. Sanji launched another excellent kick at a walrus, breaking other walrus's concentration so Chopper could easily pummel the rest.
"Bring it on, there's no way you can chew me up, I'm rubber!" Luffy smiled. It was then that the walrus's roared and opened their jaws wide enough to reveal a set of sabre teeth. The ambushed Luffy again, this time with the teeth revealed.
"Not so fast, don't forget about Captain Usopp, smoke star!" Usopp shot a blast at the centre of the mob and poisoned the surrounding air with smog.
"Nice going Usopp" Luffy complimented, Zoro finally caught up with Luffy and grinned.
"Allow me" Zoro entered the cloud with his blades swinging round and round,
"Three thousand worlds!" Zoro yelled and a sharp ear-splitting sound occurred following with several Walruses growling in pain.
"So long Sabre freaks" Sanji smiled.
End of chapter 1
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That's Chapter 1, I'll start working on chapter 2 as soon as I can but please help me and tell me how you felt of the story so I know if there is something wrong with it. Just to tell you there will be more action in chapter 2, which I guess is what you're all waiting for . Until then sayonara
Yorshel