So, this would be my first fan fiction, so I guess, I hope it turns out for the better? I have read some amount of fan fictions, but I thought it would be interesting to write one myself, so here I am~!

I might take the time to talk about myself later, but not now... Maybe in following chapters!

So, it says romance. I plan on putting some in, but it will probably be really, really, really slow and subtle at the beginning at least. On the topic of length: to be honest, I'm not really sure how long this is even going to go, so yeah...

And the cover of the story is a rough idea of how the extra character is going to look like (the OC).

By the way, since the anime is still on the Dressrosa arc, and I haven't taken the liberty to read the manga, I'm going to pretend that the arc has finished by Luffy beating the crap out of the villain as usual (i.e. Doflamingo go bye-bye), and miraculously, everyone has met up at the next destination. I'm making it so the Heart Pirates and Law dropped off the rest of the Strawhats to the island where the Thousand Sunny is.

One more thing: I'm going to try to keep the characters as in-character as possible, but I'm probably going to fail at that, so please try and let it off. Also, I'm going to keep tabs on as many as the characters as possible, but there's so many... Some will obviously be more focused on than others.

Disclaimer: Eiichiro Oda-sensei owns One Piece and all its characters, and I only take ownership of my random ideas~

So with no further ado, let's start!

Chapter 1: The Haunted Forest

(Third Person POV)

"It's been a long time, you guys!" Luffy yelled with his signature grin. He approached the rest of the crew on the Sunny's common area (courtyard), followed by Zoro, Robin, Franky and Usopp. The rest of the crew on the ship got on, happy to be reunited with their crew mates. Sanji started swooning at the sight of Robin, until he spotted Zoro, resulting in the pair's usual banter. Usopp accompanied by Franky, were off to Chopper; Usopp beginning on his stories of the events of Dressrosa, while Franky was off talking about how "cool" and "superrrr" it was. Brook took the opportunity to sing a song, while Robin took her place on a chair and began reading. Nami, however realized the crew was getting out of hand.

"You guys!" She yelled. Immediately the noise on the ship came to a halt. She began, "This island, Green Town, is a small town― a normal small town. You guys are not creating any problems here, got it? We are going to have one restock group, and one 'explore' group. Is that fine, Luffy?"

"Yeah." The black haired captain replied.

"Then who wants to stay, and who wants to go?" The orange haired navigator asked.

Robin, absorbed in her book l, put her hand up. "I'll stay."

Following her, Usopp, Brook, and Franky said that they wanted to stay on ship.

"I need to get some ingredients." Sanji mentioned.

"I'm going to get some coollllaaa!" the cyborg shipwright added.

"I'll go with the both of you," Nami said.

"My Nami-chwaann~ is coming along with me!" the cook gushed.

The orange haired navigator just sighed.

"I want to look around the island!" Luffy said, face filled with excitement.

"Same here." Zoro said, putting a hand up.

Chopper followed.

"Then you three can go looking," Nami said, thankful Chopper was going to keep the Captain and the swordsman in line. "All good?"

"Yeah!" The crew roared, as they began to set out.

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[A/N: From here, we're following Luffy's group... kinda.]

(Still Third Person POV)

The island seemed to be more of just a very large market, the three realized, after taking a quick look at the island. Even so, Luffy still found interest in the various products in the market- yet upon smelling the blend of foods coming from his right, the rubber man's mouth watered. "Chopper, let's go that way!" He said, stars in his eyes.

Chopper considered that going to the food section could pose some benefit, as he could potentially find new herbs and medicinal foods. "Yeah, no problem! Let's go." The small figure turned to face what he last believed was Zoro, but turned to see that the green haired swordsman was nowhere to be seen. "Ehhhhh?!" He screamed.

"It's okay, Zoro will be fine," the captain laughed. " Let's go eat some meat!"

The small reindeer was worried Zoro would fall victim to his lack of directionality, but seeing as the island was so small, he concluded that they would end up encountering their crewmate one way or another. He proceeded to follow the giddy captain.

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Meanwhile, Zero had realized that he had lost his two companions and sighed. "Well whatever, I can find the ship when I'm done."

He took a look at the stalls. There was quite the variety of items within the market- jewels, scrolls, even swords, none of which caught his eye. He noticed that the swords seemed to be of bad quality after taking the initiative to touch a single one. He slightly regretted leaving the ship, as he was still slightly tired from his previous endeavors at Dressrosa. He turned to see what looked like a forest. "There's a forest here? I thought this was only a market." Zoro thought. He set aside his thoughts as he decided to go in, until he felt an arm on his shoulder.

He turned to see an old man. "You shouldn't be going in there. Ones who enter the haunted forest never get far and come out terrified."

"Thanks for the concern, but I'm good." The three-sworded man continued to walk, until he reached the mouth of the forest, dismissing the comment of a "haunted" forest. The entry was basically a red, old torii gate (not sure how to say that in English), which the swordsman walked into. He walked up some old stone steps of taking in the nice, natural scenery. He felt a blade at the back of his neck. All he heard was a high pitched voice. "Leave."

"A little girl?" He thought. He sighed and turned his head, to see...nothing. "What the hell...?" He muttered. He didn't want to waste his energy, but with a sigh, he closed his eyes, and activated his haki. Trying to perceive the origin of the voice, he found it- a small body, on a tree not too far off to his right. The green haired man turned his good eye to see a flicker of something that seemed like a white dress in that direction.

"Oi, tiny girl, take the sword off my neck." He said, yelling.

"I'm not tiny!" The same high pitched voice yelled back. "Return to your ship!"

"How would a kid in some forest know about our ship?" Zoro thought. "Why?" He called back.

"None of your busines- Kyaa!"

He heard an arrow fire from somewhere behind him. The blade on his neck fell off, as he simultaneously, he heard a figure falling down through the trees.

He heard the body crash to the floor, as he subconsciously ran to the direction of the noise.

"Don't come closer! Either of you!" The high-pitched voice yelled back.

He slowly continued, while another figure that presumably shot the arrow began running.

"Today, I'll get rid of you, you ghost!" The man ran, throwing what smelled like a mix of random things Zoro could not name. However, abruptly the desperate footsteps vanished, and the screams of the attacker disappeared. Zoro turned to see the man had fell, and reached for his blade, hesitating, smelling the iron scent of blood from behind him. "Are you-" his words were cut off by a sharp pang on his neck. The last thing he heard was a whisper, "Don't come back."

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Zoro opened his eyes feeling a cold wall on his back, and darkness around him. He felt his three swords on his waist, and got up, walking out of what was an alleyway. He turned to see the Sunny on his left. "What the hell...?" The green haired man sighed. "Since I'm here, I might as well head back to the ship."

Much to his dismay, he found Sanji's group back on the ship. Not that he had an issue with Nami or Franky, but seeing the face of that "goddamned cook" brought a scowl on the swordsman's face.

"Oi, shitty moss-head, what happened to Luffy and Chopper?" The cook yelled.

"Like hell I know, you bastard curly brows!"

Nami approached the two. "Shut up, both of you!" Once the two suppressed their disdain to each other to deathly glares, Usopp walked into the courtyard taking a corner, feeling the dense aura.

Franky took the opportunity to speak, but chose his words wisely. "How did you make it back to the ship this... quickly?

Zoro rubbed his hair. "A ghost helped me...?"

"Whaaaatttt?!" Usopp, Nami and two voices coming onto the ship yelled.

Luffy, coming aboard the ship with Chopper was excited, whereas the reindeer and the other two seemed frightened.

Nami composed herself. "Well, I did hear about a forest behind the market, that was supposedly haunting the town."

"I heard it was in a suuperrrr forest, that nobody can go into." Franky mentioned.

"Only the marimo would get lost and end up in there..." Sanji laughed.

Usopp, Brook and Chopper seemed scared shitless at this point.

The captain was gushing though. "Zoro, did you really meet this ghost? Can we see it?"

Robin, at this point, got up from her book, piqued by this development. "I'd also like to see this ghost."

Zoro was slightly inclined to see this so called "ghost" again, also slightly worried about that blood he smelled. Wait, blood? He realized, that if it was actually the blood of the figure he saw before, maybe she wasn't actually a ghost.

He was confused, but was too lazy to ponder on it any longer. "I guess we can go...?" He scratched his head.

Nami was worried."It's kind of getting late... so maybe you guys should rest and..."

Robin gave a surprising laugh. "Is it not more fun to do these kinds of things in the night time?"

Luffy laughed as well.

Nami sighed in defeat. "So only Luffy, Robin, and Zoro are going?"

Zoro, although unconsulted was fine with it. However, he recalled the blood he smelled before, and unintentionally worried for the "ghost". "Chopper, mind if you come along?"

"E-ehh?" The reindeer doctor was still in the state of shock.

"There's something I need you to check. You're the only person I can ask."

Chopper went into his flattered mode. "You can't flatter me! But only because it's me, I'll go." The reindeer sensed something was off, so he did not put up much of a fight, despite the frightening situation.

Luffy concluded, "Me, Zoro, Robin, and Chopper are going. Sanji, Franky, Usopp, and Brook will stay on the ship."

Usopp and Brook were acting as if these were the final goodbyes, while Sanji was giving excessive good-byes to Robin. The crew leaving got off the ship, and made their way to what was perceivable as the forest.

"So they have decided to come...?" A small girl said within the forest, observing the pirates.

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So I'll stop here~~

I hope you enjoyed that! The "ghost" is going to make her appearance (hopefully) next chapter~

It would be nice if you left a review too! And you can always tell me any suggestions as well (by PM or review!)! I am probably going to make and upload the second chapter as soon as I can, since I feel like this is a bad place to stop, but I really wanted to get the story up! I feel like I'm forgetting something... But whatever~

Wait, just remembered! (Added right before I was going to upload haha~) It would be nice to have someone proofread before I add more on, so if you would like to give this very lost writer a hand, it would be greatly appreciated~!

Until the next chapter~~

Sachiko Sora (Sachi's fine too!)