Hey guys, Sokka's Fan-Lawyer here! This story is the result of being an Eragon obsessive fan and a One Piece obsessed fan right before the latest Inheritance book comes out. I'm sorry if some of the characters, especially Franky, seem OOC, but that's mostly due to me not knowing the character nearly as well as the rest of the crew. Now that that's said, on with the fanfic!
Disclaimer: I don't own Eragon or One Piece…only a few copies of the books.
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Prologue
Luffy smirked confidently to himself, congratulating himself for a job to soon be well done. He was all alone in the kitchen, managing to bypass all of Sanji's traps and was just about to smash the lock off the meat locker, when a voice began to speak….
Luffy, don't smash the lock. That will advertise that we were here and Sanji will know that it was us and kick our ass!
The straw hat clad captain looked around, "Who was that? Who's talking to me?"
It's me, your voice of reason.
"Who? I've never heard of you!" Inside his head, his voice of reason only rolled his eyes and went back for another seventeen year long nap, having said his two bits. "Hello? Voice of Reason Guy?" When he got no reply, he just shrugged it off and immediately began to try and remove the lock on the door….
Somewhere on the Thousand Sunny, Sanji's head suddenly rose, as if he sensed something was amiss. "Is something wrong?" Nami asked as Sanji stopped waving a fan over her while she was studying some maps.
"Nothing, Nami-san, I just need to go check something in the kitchen; But I'll be back!" He called as he left, heading towards the kitchen.
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What first alerted Luffy to someone's presence in the kitchen was the chill that ran down his spine as soon as the door was slammed open. "Damn it Luffy! I take my eyes off of you for a second and you go straight to the meat!" He somehow cleared half the distance of the room and kicked Luffy away from the meat locker. Luffy scowled and crawled out of the kitchen, knowing that Sanji was watching his every movement.
With his meat venture a failure, the captain had nothing to do; so thus, he just wandered around the ship, bothering people for his own amusement. "Hey Usopp, what'cha doin'?"
The sharpshooter raised his hand to silence Luffy, "I'm trying to creating a much more devastating pepper star using…" From that moment on, Luffy tuned out and began to scan the room for something else to do, "'Kay, good luck with that." He said and headed off in Chopper's direction.
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"Hey Chopper! What'cha up to?" Luffy asked as he entered Chopper's hospital like room. "Oh, hey Luffy." The reindeer turned doctor greeted distractedly while he was mixing some concoction. Luffy quickly scampered over to his friend's side and looked into the stone bowl he was using to mash leaves and such together.
"What're you making?" Luffy asked. Chopper added a few ingredients.
"I'm making a lotion that could possibly speed up the recovery of wounds as well as stop bleeding, but I can't come up with the final ingredient that could make it work; do you think that maple root might…" Luffy quickly said good bye and hurried out of the room, accidentally kicking Usopp's pepper mixture on his way by, sending some of it into Chopper's mixture and most of it on Usopp's face.
"Sorry about that," he said and continued on his way out.
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"Nami!" Luffy said as he got up on deck, looking around.
"Not right now Luffy, I'm busy." She said as she scoured her charts; trying to come up with a route through the Florian Triangle.
"But..." He began to whine, but Nami cut him off.
"Look, can't you go talk to Zoro?"
"He's sleeping."
"Robin?"
"She's reading."
"Usopp or Chopper?"
"Already been there; they're busy too."
"…Sanji?" Luffy shook his head, turning down the idea due to wanting to avoid the cook until he had cooled down.
"What about Franky?" She offered, hoping that Luffy would take up on her hint and leave her alone.
The rubber captain hadn't considered visiting his latest crew member yet, so he quickly said thanks and ran off to go see Franky while Nami let out a held breathe and went back to her charts.
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"Franky, you in here?" Luffy called as he entered the older man's workshop. Looking around, he noticed that Franky, having not responded, was bending over, working on something. "Franky?"
"Shhh! Shut up moron, I'm trying to work on something here!" The speed-o clad man hissed, and then went back to work. Luffy looked at the device: it was about as tall as the ceiling, and was little more then a metallic pipe that trailed into a metallic teardrop shaped space that rested on the floor, with buttons and dials covering the surface.
Franky then sat up, wiping sweat off his forehead with one of his massive wrists, "There, that should do it."
"Do what?" Luffy asked curiously.
"This invention is going to be so SUPER!! The technology is so ground breaking that my genius will be known for centuries!" He struck a pose, waiting for Luffy to respond.
"Yeah, okay, but what does it actually do?"
"This," Franky patted the teardrop. "Is going to change the science of transportation as we know it. What it does is it bends time and space around our ship, increasing the distance we can cover by a hundred, no a thousand folds!"
"That's lame."
Franky was angry, "WHAT WAS THAT STRAW HAT?!"
"The long way to getting to places is part of the fun!" Luffy countered with, what he thought was, good reasoning.
"I don't care about that! Do you have any idea of what this could mean for our travel expenses? We could save thousands of berries! Escaping the marines will be a snap!" As he ranted, Franky waved his arms for emphasis…only to bring his fist down on the teardrop, denting it and causing it to begin to make beeping noises.
"You broke it." Luffy stated as Franky stood, shocked.
"This is your fault you idiot!" Franky picked up Luffy and was walking him to the door when the beeping noises stopped; both of the pirates turned and saw that the machine was beginning to glow. "Aw shit." Franky murmured as the glow expanded, engulfing them all.
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Luffy's eyes opened slowly, and then widened as the memory of what had happened came back. He sat up and took a quick look around the deck of the Thousand Sunny, only to see his fellow crewmates spread out around the deck unconscious as well.
The rubber captain got up and looked over the side, only to see a sea of dark, greenish water with an island several miles away; unfortunately, Luffy couldn't make out any features of the island. The sky was also kind of greenish and dark.
By that time, the rest of the crew had come to and had joined their captain. "What happened? Where are we?" As Franky explained to the others what had happened, Luffy noticed that the ship seemed to be heading towards the island on its own.
"Um, guys?"
"Shut it Luffy, it seems that this is all your fault anyway!" Nami said as she punched him across the deck. It was then that she noticed that the ship was moving; however, by then it was too late, for the ship had already gotten close enough to the island for the crew to disembark.
Eventually, the crew (i.e. everyone besides Nami and Usopp) decided to go and explore the island, so Sanji packed some food, Chopper some medical supplies, and then the crew was ready to go.
After getting off, they got their first look at the island that they had ended up on; it wasn't much to look at, with it's dead trees and shrubbery, plus of the lack of signs of life didn't help much either.
Usopp's legs were shaking as he and Nami tried to put themselves in the middle of the group as to not get left behind and face whatever horrors that they imagined the place to have.
After they had walked for about fifteen minutes, a hut came into view. Eager to finally meet someone as well as to get an explanation of their surroundings, the Straw Hats raced towards it. The hut itself was rather plain, made with tan yet sturdy straw with a roughly six foot tall opening for a doorway. The inside had a bed, a night stand, as well as a bookshelf filled with titles in an unfamiliar language (Robin immediately walked over to the shelf and tried to guess what language they were in.).
While the Straw Hats explored the hut, a voice came from the doorway, "Taken a liking to my home, have you?" An old man stood in the doorway holding a few pieces of wood. The pirates quickly apologized and explained what they had been doing. When they had asked where they were, the old man laughed, "Do you really have no idea about where you could possibly after being engulfed in an explosion like that?"
They shook their heads. The old man sighed and said, "You're in the land of the dead." With that, everyone glared at Luffy. "You rubber bastard! You killed us all!" They began to beat said bastard up while the old man chuckled at the sight.
Now that they got a better look at the old man, what he had said made sense: he was wearing a robe made of material that hadn't been used for thousands of years, and when they had brought up some of the technology in their story, he had looked baffled at the ideas of the simplest things (such as guns and for that matter, blenders…as well as the very idea of a cyborg)…how couldn't he have known about such things unless he had died long ago?
The now bloody mass that had been their captain asked, "What about our ship? If we died, how come our ship came with us?" This seemed to surprise the old man as well, "Your ship, you say?"
He thought about it for a second, and then asked, "Blue Hair,"
"That's Franky."
"Whatever. Anyway, what did you say you were making again?"
"A device that bends the time and space surrounding the ship and making it capable of…" The cyborg's eyes widened as he figured out what the man was hinting at. "We didn't die…I just accidentally activated the device and it transported us here…." The others nodded, satisfied with the explanation, but it still didn't answer one of their questions….
"HOW THE HELL DO WE GET OUT OF HERE?!" They all yelled at the old man, as if he would have the answer.
He just shrugged, "Couldn't you just use the machine again?" Franky shook his head, "Heck no, do you have any idea of how much cola that thing used to transport us here? Twenty gallons…which is more then we have on the ship." The others looked shocked.
"That much?" Franky nodded, "It was one of the kinks in the machine's design; I had been planning to work on fixing the problem, until Luffy interrupted me…." Everyone once again glared at Luffy, who scooted a little closer to the old man for protection, who was thinking.
"You say that you managed to destroy an entire 'marine' base all on your own?" They nodded, "Yeah, we even took down CP9, which was made up of practically super humans!" He seemed to be considering something….
"I could possibly help you get this…'cola' as it were." "You can?" He nodded, "Yes. You see, here in the land of the dead, we wind up getting things from all sorts of time eras; chances are that, with enough searching, I could find it somewhere." "That's great!" the straw hats chorused, but he held up his hand, "But, in return, I need you to do something for me…."
"What?" Usopp asked. "You see, in the land that I was from, there currently a massive power struggle among the people: The people trying to overthrow the king of the empire there-known as the Varden- and the Empire's forces. Among these forces, there is a boy who holds the key to success for the Varden in liberating the country of its king…"
"So you want us to kick his ass?" Luffy offered.
"No! It's the king that's the problem, not the boy. The boy is who I want you to protect and help in order for him to achieve his destiny of defeating the king, for he needs all the help he can get." The Straw Hats considered this for awhile, and then said, "We'll do it."
The old man looked at them suspiciously, "You will?" Luffy nodded, "If anything, we wouldn't mind kicking this king's ass, but we'll help out the guy too."
"What's his name and how do we find him?" "And for that matter, what's your name?" Zoro added.
"His name's Eragon and all you would have to do is…" He went on to explain where the Varden currently was, as well as mentioning that they should keep their ears open to any rumors of a 'dragon rider' (he didn't bother explaining the significance of the term to the pirates) that they heard, that they should disguise Chopper and force Franky to wear pants…and dye their hair, which was something that the pirates just couldn't do for some reason.
After the Straw Hats were prepared enough, the old man led them down a path to a cave, which was pitch black inside. "We have to go down there?" asked a trembling Usopp. The old man nodded, "Yes, this is the tunnel that connects life to death. Normally, no one from this side can enter, but since you aren't dead, it may work." He then looked over the pirates. Franky, while being the one with the oddest hair, was forced to wear a hood that covered much of his face except his jaw and mouth…he was also wearing pants. Chopper was completely covered in cloaks and robes to try and disguise that he was reindeer…he even had to wear a pair of boots that could feet any three old to hide his hooves.
Other then that, the rest of the crew had simply changed clothes; they all wore boots as well as long sleeved tunics (except Nami and Robin, who wore dress to keep from suspicion) while Nami and Zoro had to wear hoods to hide their hair. Satisfied, the old man gestured to them that they could begin to leave. Zoro went first, followed by Chopper, until only Luffy and Franky were left. Franky looked at the old man with concern on his face.
"Don't worry, I'll find this 'cola' substance that you need." Franky nodded and left to follow the others. Luffy looked at the man and grinned confidently, "Don't worry; we'll help out this kid for you!" With that said, Luffy ran down the tunnel.
There was silence for few seconds after Luffy's departure, but then the old man murmured, "Good luck." Under his breathe and began to leave, with Brom feeling confident that Eragon and Saphira were in good hands.
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And that's it for the first chapter…and possibly the last chapter. You see, right now I'm working and concentrating on a different fanfic, so this one may not be updated for a long while…however, if I find that people want to read it, I will continue it.
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