Alright! So OPOL is taking off, and we'll start with this little piece. :D These are a series of drabbles or simply chapters I'll be writing for practice and write down some plot bunnies that keep chewing on my mind (feel free to use any ideas so as long you leave credit for the original). Not to mention try out a few writing styles 'cause I love this rambling type for some reason.

I also might take up any suggestions you post but no romance because 1) It's One Piece and 2) I am horrible at romance and 3) With so many shipping fics out there I don't think I need to add to it.

Takes place after CP9 Arc in case you're wondering.

Disclaimer: One Piece belongs to Oda-sensei! These are just plot bunnies that keep pestering me. :/

Chopper was a reindeer.

That fact was easy to forget, what with the Hito Hito no Mi he'd eaten. (or the whole confused-for-a-tanuki thing.)

Despite being very intelligent, he still had instincts, and liked to eat grass and hang around a big group of his friends and he gushed whenever one of his Nakama sneaked him a bit of their own salad under the table.

(A fact that would have Sanji kicking their sneaky hands away and pinning them to the wall despite the fact that they didn't throw their food away, just gave Chopper a little treat, because really, the chef's cooking was delicious.)

So when they arrived at a little seaside village, which had the most multi-colored and sweetest smelling grass Chopper had ever seen* after two weeks of following the lock post on the unpredictable oceans of Grand Line, and the villagers confirmed that it was edible even for humans, Chopper gave the Straw Hat Crew the biggest and most hopeful eyes he could muster.

(A feat that, even Zoro would admit, would be dangerous if Chopper managed to wield that into a weapon.)

Chopper was a reindeer.

That meant he was a herbivore.

It meant that occasionally, he'd submit himself to panic and warn your herd members, run away, because fangs and claws would eat you so run and hope they take someone else-

It meant that fighting was usually not his first instinct.

So when he was in walking point, happily grazing the delicious, tall grass while keeping an eye on Sunny, and there was the slight pressure he felt that was something probably watching him, he stopped whatever he was doing and glanced around the field.

At that point Chopper felt really stupid. And nervous. (Because really, they'd asked if the grass was edible but this was Grand Line and what they really should have asked for was were there any predators hidden in the grass.)

Once they'd gotten into some trouble with a hyena-zoan delivery guy who'd asked him if it was troublesome, to be prey and have to fend for yourself at the bottom of the food chain. To have to resort to run away when you had no fangs or claws.

Chopper hadn't had the time to answer since Luffy had flown into him.

Chopper was a reindeer.

He was still small and young and almost-but-not-quite at the point where a normal reindeer would leave his mother and survive on his own.

So when this huge spotted wolf (if he hadn't been too busy panicking he would've pondered about the curious patterned coat and then shrugged it off- this was Grand Line after all and he'd seen weirder things) burst out of the thick savannah his first reaction was to shriek out his surprise and run.

(It was silly, he'd think back on that occasion, because with all his transformations he could easily beat the wolf but he'd been too busy fleeing to stop and think.)

His anxiousness only increased when he realized wolves hunted in packs.

Later, back on the ship Usopp would ask him the same question that delivery guy man had asked him some islands back. (Though Usopp was his nakama and his question was more innocently curious and less teasingly vicious than the other one.)

"Doesn't it annoy you being a prey animal?"

So then Chopper would look back at a snoring Zoro who had the slightest quirk on his mouth due to an opportunity for more practice, a beaming Luffy who babbled about the amount of meat they'd have for supper that night and a Beli-eyed Nami who cooed about her new fur coats (he tried hard not to think too much about the last one**), and remember run away, a glint of metal and rubber that took him out of harm's distance and he was safe, while wolves yelped in pain in the distance when red flew.

Chopper turned back to Usopp and smiled.

"No, not really. I've got something better than fangs and claws."

"...a little seaside village, which had the most multi-colored and sweetest smelling grass Chopper had ever seen..."

*I've noticed that on Grandline (and sometimes before then, even), every single place the Strawhats have visited are this eccentric place which authors fail to notice here on fanfiction, all things considering I've seen a lot of places where they dock on a normal island with a normal village (that's not to say that they're not good fics, tho). So I'm gonna try and make my own places as strange as possible.

"...Nami who cooed about her new fur coats (he tried hard not to think too much about the last one)..."

**I have nooooo idea if these sort of things bother Chopper or not, considering he's been seen eating meat and stuff in One Piece. But since he's pretty kind hearted the answer's probably yes. (Don't worry though, Nami sells the fur coats to some gullible idiot for a good amount of Beli later on :D)

This is a mindless drabble really when I got to think how Chopper was a prey animal and if he fought any predator zoans they'd probably make fun of him for being a herbivore.

So! Questions? Critique? D'you like it or do you think it needs improvement?

Review!
-Cileo