One Piece: The Whereabouts of the Crew
One Piece © Oda
Blizzard © Me
Summary- While Luffy and Blizzard are en route to Impel Down, they can only wonder where their friends are.
Ch. 1- The Science of Weather and the Mechanical Island
Last time on One Piece, Monkey D. Luffy and his loyal wolf-dog, "White Wolf" Blizzard had landed on Amazon Lily, the Island of Maidens after being sent flying Bartholomew Kuma's powers. There, they befriend the Kuja warriors and gained the trust of one of the Seven Warlords, "Pirate Empress" Boa Hancock. The two are prepared to go back the Sabaody Archipelago and reunite with their scattered crewmates.
Unfortunately, fate seemed to have different plans for them.
Portgas D. "First Fist" Ace, Luffy's older brother, had been captured by the Marines and is due to be executed in six days time. A pirate ship would never be fast enough to get to Ace before he is killed, and Luffy and Blizzard are forced to make the decision of rescuing Ace first before getting back with the others.
Hancock agrees to take the Marine battleship that came for her to Impel Down, sneaking Luffy and Blizzard aboard in the process.
Now, it was only a matter of time until the two Straw Hats got there.
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They were disappearing…
He was losing, one-by-one…
Zoro…
Brook…
Usopp…
Sanji…
Franky…
Robin…
Chopper…
There were only two left, now: Nami and Blizzard.
Blizzard, he knew he would somehow manage…but Nami…
He had to save her!
He ran. Ran as fast as he could, his hand reaching out to take hers, just as she did the same to him.
"Luffy! HELP M-"
That was all she could say…before she, too, disappeared.
"NAMI~!"
XXX
Luffy woke up with a gasp, sitting up with one hand over his heart. He took a look at his surroundings. He remembered the pink drapes and walls, the furniture, the lounge near the porthole window…and, of course, the familiar white fur of his beloved dog, Blizzard.
At least he still had him…but still.
"Luffy?"
Luffy turned to see Hancock, sitting on the sofa across from him, a concerned expression upon her face.
Blizzard also looked up at Luffy, whimpering and putting a gentle paw on his lap.
"It was just a dream, huh?" Luffy asked.
"Yes," Hancock said. "A very bad one, at that. You were tossing and turning in your sleep."
Luffy brushed a hand through his jet black hair.
It had now been a day since he stowed away on the Marine battleship with Blizzard, but even the night before, he was still having this nightmare about his disappearing crew.
"I saw…my friends…" he muttered.
"I see…" Hancock said.
Luffy, Blizzard thought.
Hancock twiddled her fingers in her lap. She knew that somehow, Luffy needed some sort of comfort…but what could she possibly do?
Slowly, she stood up, went over to the sofa across from her, and sat down next to Luffy, gently putting one hand over his.
"Luffy," said Hancock. "You need not worry. After all, saving your older brother is your first priority. You do have faith in your crew…don't you?"
Luffy stared at Hancock with wide eyes.
"You…" he whispered.
"Also, you're not really alone," Hancock said. "At least you still have Blizzard with you. Most of all…I am here for you, too."
"Hancock…!" Luffy muttered before he smiled and took her hand in his.
In Hancock's eyes, the boy looked like a charming young man with shining brown eyes.
"I'm such a fool!" Luffy said. "Up till now, I never realized that there had been a goddess by my side!"
"Oh, Luffy!" Hancock said.
"Hancock!" Luffy sighed.
With that, the two slowly leaned in for a passionate kiss…
"If only that would really happen…!" Hancock whispered to herself, holding her blushing face in her hands.
It turns out that she was just daydreaming.
(A/N: Thank god…I'd never let that happen in a million years!)
As Hancock covered her face in her hands with muffled swoons, Luffy and Blizzard just stared at her, the former spinning his hat in his hand by the bowl.
"What are you doing, Hammock?" Luffy asked.
O…k… Blizzard thought. I think this chick's starting to creep me about a bit more than Robin does.
In spite of their concern, Luffy and Blizzard couldn't really help but wonder…
Where were their scattered friends? Were they all right?
Were they even- dare they think- alive?
XXX
Meanwhile, a few days ago…
In a unknown location, an old man, dressed like a wizard in fairy tales, heard a crash outside his house. Cautiously, he went out to investigate.
There, he found her: a girl with short, orange locks, a yellow short with a floral design and a pair of white shorts, lying in a crater the shape of a bear's paw.
Although he wondered how he got here, the kindly old man took Nami into his house, got her a change of clothes, dressed her wounds, and put her in a nice, soft bed.
It had now been two days since she had been here, resting. Right now, she appeared to be having sweet dreams…about a certain captain.
"Oh, Luffy," Nami muttered in her sleep. "That feels nice. Right there…I…huh?"
Her eyes fluttered open, and she saw a room that was unfamiliar to her.
"Where…where am I?" she asked.
"Are you awake, young lady?"
Nami looked up and saw the old man that took her in.
Her first instinct was to scream, and the old man screamed with her.
THWAK! Nami clocked the old man in the head with her Perfect Clima-Tact.
"What the hell?" she exclaimed. "Who the hell are you, old guy? More importantly, where am I?"
"C-calm down!" the old man stammered, nursing the bump on his head. "You're safe in my house!"
"DON'T SCREW WITH ME!" Nami barked.
"Oh, my!" the old man said. "You're quite scary, aren't you?"
Nami, ignoring that comment, just rapidly got out of bed and prepared to get out as soon as possible, but the moment, she stumbled and fell on the hardwood floor.
"I wouldn't be moving around so much, if I were you," said the old man. "You're still in pretty bad shape. Plus, the weather is-"
"Stay away from me!" Nami shouted as she scooted away from the kind old man. "Bad shape, be damned! I'm getting out of here, now!" She looked away, suddenly feeling somewhat sad. "If I'm here…they can't go anywhere…he can't go anywhere."
"Oh…" the old man as he attempted to approach Nami, again.
"I told you to GET LOST!"
BAM! Nami threw a frying pan at him, causing another bump to form. The old man still attempted to approach her, once more.
"Forgive me," he said. "I just can't help wanting to help you, young lady."
"I said BACK OFF!" snapped Nami.
THWAK! WHAK! BAM! BAP! POW! Nami continued to hurl various objects at the old man ran behind a wall, cowering.
Nami panted, holding her Perfect Clima-Tact in her arms. She brought her knees to her chest and looked down at the floor.
She didn't know where she was. She didn't know how to get back to her friends.
And more importantly…she realized that she was starting to miss Luffy…and quite terribly at that.
Luffy, she thought. I hope you're okay. Alive, at least.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey," the old man chimed in. "Young lady…! Young lady who flew through the sky?"
"I heard you the first time. What is it?" Nami questioned as she stared back at the old man, who cowered behind the wall, again.
"Uh…are you calm, now?" he asked. "You're not going to flip out, again, are you?"
"N…no," Nami said. "I'm good."
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Nami was sitting at the elderly man's table, enjoying a meal of bread and hot stew.
"Delicious!" she exclaimed as she tasted the soup.
"No wonder," said the old man. "You've been asleep for two days since you got here."
"That long?" Nami asked in disbelief.
"Yes," the old man answered. "You must've been through quite a lot."
Nami suddenly went silent.
She hated to think about that battle with Kuma…and how Luffy was the last person she saw before she was sent flying.
The old man, sensing Nami's sadness, pulled a rope with three knots in it.
"Ta-dah!" he chimed.
"What's that?" asked Nami.
"Behold!" the old man exclaimed. "There are three tightly tied Wind Knots!"
"Wind Knots?" Nami repeated.
"Yes!" the old man replied. "Allow me to demonstrate! When I untie one…"
Fwoo~! A slight breeze blew within the house as the old man untied one of the knots on the rope.
"If I untie two…"
WHOO~! A strong wind suddenly followed the slight breeze.
"And I untie three…!"
WHOOOSSSHH! A huge gust came, blowing Nami, her food, and the table away.
BAP! Nami hit the old man over the head, once more.
"What the hell was that for?" she barked.
"I-I thought it would cheer you up, a little…!" the old man stammered.
"Oh, yeah!" Nami said with a sarcastic tone. "I'm REAL cheery now! Thanks a bunch! Now, if you'll excuse me, I HAVE to go!"
With that, Nami slipped on her shoes and prepared to head out the door, but the moment she opened it, she was soon met with a strong wind and a gloomy sky. Plus the ground was wet.
It was raining cats and dogs.
"No, wait!" the old man called. "Come back, young lady! You can't go out there!"
"Watch me!" Nami barked as she tried to go out in rain. She struggled a bit, but she seemed to manage. "This rain is nothing! I can make it through this, just fine! Huh?"
Just then, Nami saw something rolling into view. It turned out to be a huge vase, and it looked like it was about to crash right into her!
"DAH!" Nami yelped before she jumped out of the way.
SMASH! The vase crashed right into the old man's house.
Nami slid on the wet grass on her front before she stood up and looked at the sky. It was then that she realized that this wasn't just a regular rainstorm.
The wind was blowing really hard that it was making the windmills in the fields spin incredibly fast, and the air pressure was dropping at quite a speed, as well.
Nami just stared in horror.
"It looks like…there's a huge cyclone coming this way…and pretty soon, too!"
XXX
Nami hurried back inside, wet and cold.
"Well, I hate to say I told you so," said the old man. "You're covered in dirt and mud. Please come in and take yourself a nice shower!" He turned to leave. "In the meantime, let me wash and dry your clothes for you."
Nami stood by the door, still quite shaken about the encroaching cyclone.
Of course, this old man was completely unaware of this and simply passed this off as a simple rainstorm.
"Old man," Nami called. "This isn't just your regular rain. There's a huge cyclone coming this way!"
"What was that you said, young lady?" asked the old man.
"I SAID THAT THERE'S A HUGE CYCLONE COMING THIS WAY!" Nami snapped, frightening the old man, once again. "A REALLY BIG ONE!"
"Oh, of course, there is!" said the old man with a smile. "Perhaps someone else will fall out of the sky, as well."
Nami fell to the floor in exasperation.
XXX
"My god…he's more irritating than Luffy could ever be!"
Nami had stepped into the bathroom to take herself a nice, hot shower. For some reason, these tiny clouds were floating around inside. Nami simply shrugged them off as simple steam clouds.
The old man, who was busy cleaning her clothes, told her to turn the handle to make the hot water come out of the waterspout. At first, Nami was expecting a regular shower, but what came next surprised her.
A rain cloud came out, and it was somehow raining hot water!
Afterwards, the old man told her to push on the wheel to make hot air come out.
Nami found it quite useful for blow-drying her hair.
After taking her shower and getting her clothes cleaned, Nami sat down to enjoy a cup of tea with the old man. However, she remembered the real matter at hand: there was a cyclone coming, and now wasn't the time to be relaxing.
Outside, the wind was blowing harder and harder, getting worse by the second. The rain was pouring buckets, and it looked like the windmills were going to get pulled right out of the ground. The wind was blowing so hard, it practically shook the house!
"I suppose it's getting to be that time," the old man said before he went outside. As he did, a strange bubble appeared around him. "I'll be back soon. Until then, stay here and wait for me, young lady."
"Huh?" Nami muttered. "W-wait! Come back!"
The old man soon went out into the rain on his own.
What confused was how he was able to withstand such a powerful wind.
Wind…
"That's it!" Nami declared.
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Nami rummaged through the closets and cupboards, trying to find whatever it was she was looking for. When she searched inside the old man's room, she soon found it.
The Wind Knots.
She raced outside, the Wind Knots tied into one more knot on her Perfect Clima-Tact.
"Cool Ball!" exclaimed Nami as she spun the Cool Pole over her head. "Heat Ball!" She started to charge the Heat Ball below herself.
She then threw the Cool Pole up into the air, and in doing so, she untied all the knots in the Wind Knot.
"Cyclone BURST!"
WHOOOOSSH! A huge cyclone came bursting out of Nami's Perfect Clima-Tact, going high up into the clouds.
There was a pause.
Then, a powerful burst, throwing Nami back down to the ground.
Suddenly, the dark clouds parted…and the sky became a gentle blue.
Nami looked on, amazed at her own power, then back at the Wind Knot. To think it was actually powerful enough to stop a cyclone!
"Wow…!" she whispered.
She continued to stare up into the beautiful blue sky. The wind blew gently, slightly ruffling her hair.
It took her back to whenever she was sitting out on the grassy deck with Luffy, watching the clouds go by without a care in the world.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey," called a familiar voice. "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, young lady!"
Nami stood up and saw the old man approaching.
"I heard you the first time," she said. "What is it?"
She undid one of the Wind Knots.
"Oh!" said the old man. "Even though you've only seen it once, you already know how to use the Wind Knot! I'm impressed!"
Nami chuckled.
"It's pretty easy!" she said. "Now, I really gotta get going." With that being said, she prepared to leave, but then, she got a good look at the horizon from where she was standing.
She saw hills. She saw clouds. She saw windmills. She saw seagulls. But the one that she couldn't see…was the ocean.
Where was the ocean?
"Uh…" Nami started, "W…where am I?"
"This is a small Sky Island known as 'Weatheria'," the old man explained. "This is where the scientific studies of weather are conducted."
"A…Sky Island?" Nami repeated in disbelief.
"That cyclone was going to be a good sample," said the old man, "but it suddenly disappeared. I wonder how that happened."
Nami just stared in shock and horror.
She was trapped on a Sky Island with seemingly no way back down to the Blue Sea!
How was she ever going to back to her friends?
To Luffy?
XXX
Meanwhile, in a Winter Island somewhere in the Grand Line, a huge snowstorm had hit.
A young boy and his grandfather were out hunting with their dog, who, for some reason, had a visor over his eyes and some rocket launchers on his back, but the old man suggested that they go back home until the storm passed.
Before they could do so, a huge figure appeared before them.
"A monster!" the boy cried.
"Kitton! Stand back!" said the boy's grandfather as he pulled out a gun.
Their dog, Taroimo, opened his mouth, revealing two rockets inside.
BLAM! The rockets were fired at the shadowy figure, who let out a cry, and in the smoke, the boy, Kitton, could see a human hand.
"Oh, no!" Kitton cried. "Taroimo, stop!"
Click! The boy pressed a button on his the dog's face, forcing him to stop. He then went to see whoever it was Taroimo fired at.
It was revealed to be a man with blue, curved hair, wearing a tropical shirt and a nothing else but a Speedo.
"It's a man!" Kitton exclaimed. "Uh…hello? Sir? Are you okay? I'm sorry about Taroimo! He just though that you were prey, that's all."
Suddenly, Franky sat up, popping the joints in his neck.
"Yeah, I'm okay," he said.
"AHH!" Kitton screamed. "How is that possible?"
"This is bad, though," Franky said to himself. "Where the hell am I?" He stood, arms wrapped around his body as he shivered from the bitter cold. "It's SUPER freezing out here! Where is this, the Arctic?"
FRANKY! He sneezed his own name.
"Oh, no!" Kitton said. "You're in the snow, wearing nothing but your underwear!"
"It appears you might've been robbed by bandits," said Kitton's grandfather as he pulled out a fur cloth out of his bag. "Here. Put on this loin cloth."
"What are you, crazy?" Franky questioned. "I'm not wearing that thing! To wear that would tarnish my reputation as a pervert! OW! Follow me!"
And so, Franky proceeded to teach Kitton, his grandfather, and even Taroimo how to do his special dance, and even struck his signature pose at the end.
However, he soon remembered how freezing it was.
"It's still freezing out here!" the cyborg cried. "Where the hell am I?"
"This is Mechanical Island!" said Kitton's grandfather. "It was created by a true genius! It is known as the future land, Baldimore."
"WHAT?"
Franky passed out from the cold, moments later.
As Kitton and his grandfather prepared to bring him back to their house, Franky didn't realize that he had landed in a very important place.
This was the birthplace of Dr. Vegapunk, the World Government scientist.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Sorry if there were some things you were expecting, like Franky with tea and all, but there were some parts that I found a bit disturbing to me. Again, I apologize.
Anyway, review, please!