Captain Monkey D Luffy of the Straw-Hat Pirates stared out of the window of the Crow's Nest, seeing of the black sea and the starry night sky. It was a cold night, his breath kept streaming up the window making him wipe in now and again.

His mind drifted back to the time when he had to be outside and keep watch; Going Merry Gou's Crow's Nest was small and open, but he did love those nights. Luffy moved away from the window, and glanced around the library like room and smiled, he wanted a big ship but Thousand Sunny Gou really out did everything he dreamed about.

Luffy stood and stretched his arms above his head, he did not know why he seem did this after all these years of being a rubberman, it did nothing for him. No matter how much he stretched out like he seen others do when tried or how he remembered it from his youth, it did not work.

Slowly he stood and walked around for a bit, again why he did not know; he could sat in one place for hours and not lose the circulation of his legs. He snickered to himself remembering that sometimes he would do small stretches in front of his emery as he readied himself.

Luffy yawned loudly and glanced towards the clock on the wall and frowned, the second hand on the clock's face had stopped moving. And could it did been that time the last time he looked.

Luffy came forward, standing on the chair and tapped the clock. He then leaned over and placed his ear against it, there was not sound.

"Not working, huh?" Luffy said with a tired voice. Jumping off the chair he made his way over to the desk to see the clock there. "I'm sure Usopp should be taking over from me now!" He mumbled as he flopped down in the desk's chair and glanced at the clock there. "What?! This one too!"

Luffy blinked at the desk's clock, it was stopped at the same clock as the clock on the wall.

Moaning lightly with a pout he pulled himself away and headed for the window again, wanting to check the seas one more time before going down and getting Usopp.

With his face almost pushed against the glass, he stared out blinking; seeing nothing he moved away and walked over to the next window and did the same; only time he sighed heavily against the glass.

"Huh?" Luffy mumbled out as he saw that no stream fogged up the glass; he leaned forward, opened mouth and breathe hard. Nothing!

Blinking in confusion he stared at the glass, his eyes slowly widen as he noticed his reflection was no longer there.

"Vampire!" Luffy shouted the first thing that came to mind, "I'm a vampire! How did this happen? I didn't fall asleep for one to bite me or something!"

Luffy turned around the room, glancing at everything to see if there was anything out of place or a vampire was hiding. It was then he saw it, at the window he had last been sitting at was himself sleeping against the window.

Hurrying over to his other self and leaned only while blinking close to his face. It was his face, no doubt around that, it was him in every sharp and form. Luffy stood back looking around seeing if anyone was not him.

It was silent. Too silent, he could not hear the cold wind blow on the glass or the wind blowing his pirate flag above, nor the waves crashing on Sunny's side. He could not even hear his own breathing nor the other him.

"What's this? What's this?" Luffy said more awake now, he rushed to the window and carefully gazed at the sea below. The waters were not moving.

Black.

Everything turned black; Luffy blinked through the darkness around him and held up his arms, trying to feel the side of Sunny. He took a step forward and then another and another, soon he was walking with his arms out in front of himself.

A loud clicking sound was coming...from his right, then from his left no wait, a beeping sound came from his left. A low hum came from above and from below was a tapping noise.

It stopped.

Luffy frowned deeply, or at least he thought he was frowning. He could not feel himself, something was a dull numb feeling all over.

As if someone lifted a curtain the darkness was pulled away, upwards and out of sight. Luffy blinked slowly; he was standing in the same place he had started from, with his other self sitting by the window.

The only difference now was that he could hear the clock, hear the wind and the sea, feel the water rocking his ship gently and feel the coldness in the air.

The door opened and Luffy turned and saw Usopp walking onto the room, he walked right up to Luffy's other self, not seeing him there, and shook his shoulders.

The other Luffy blinked awake and just stared blankly up at Usopp, his face void of all emotion.

"Sorry Luffy," He could hear Usopp say, "I'm a bit late, you can go to bed now."

The other Luffy just sat there staring at Usopp, Luffy walked round and watched the lifeless eyes that were his.

"Oi Luffy?" Usopp said as he leaned forward and place a hand on his shoulder again, as if trying to wake him some more, "You can go to bed now, unless to you to sleep here?"

Luffy turned to Usopp and tried to touched him, his hand fell right through. Luffy grinned at this and did it again, the stood in front of the marksman and stuck his tongue out at him. Pulling away he laughed loudly and fell backwards onto the seat.

Luffy frowned at this.

"I can go through Usopp, but I can't go through the Crow's Nest seat?" He asked on one with a pout, he turned where he was sitting and stared at himself. Usopp had walked away saying something under his breath and sat on another window seat, staring out of the window.

"Am I dead?" Luffy asked himself as he stared at the dull eyes, "No, I wouldn't be here if I was dead! So," He thought about it some more, "Someone stolen my body!"

Luffy placed his hand on his chin and rubbed, it was then he noticed he could not feel. His skin was normally a odd mix of softness and roughness, but there was nothing. He suddenly grabbed his chin and pulled. Nothing happened.

"OI!" Luffy shouted at his body as it got up and started walking towards the door, "Give me back my body!" Luffy noticed not that he was floating, and being pulled lightly along where his body was going. There was nothing he could do but float there, he tried to pull away and stay in the room but he went right through the door.

"So I can go through doors?" Luffy asked confused as he chose to float and watch the body stealer instead, he watched as it down the mast and headed for the men's dorm, yawning slightly as it pushed open the door and went to bed.

XD ~ DX

This was the worst...

Luffy was floating above the breakfast staring longingly at it, but could not touch it. The body stealer was eating it's own eat on the plate and never took from the others.

"Why ain't you said anything!?" Luffy shouted at his crew from above, he crossed his legs and arms and floated there. Everybody was eating and talking as they normally did, not one made mention of their captain's odd behaver.

Luffy held his stomach, he was not hungry at all. But that was not the point, he wanted the food.

He glared down at his body; It had a grin across it's face yet no joy shone in it's eyes, those dull lifeless eyes stared at the meal before them like it was nothing.

Luffy was already sick of this, if he would escape the bounds to his body and float around Sunny, that would have been fine but he was stuck and left to think about where he was; it just was not any fun.

Sanji began to clear the plates away, even Luffy's half eaten meal without question. The last of the Straw-Hat Pirates one by one started to leave their seats and go to their daily lives. Luffy blinked as he saw Sanji was frozen.

Sanji was frozen completely as he looked down at the half eaten plate of food.

"Something wrong, Sanji-kun?" Nami said as she moved over to him the others turned her way, "You look like you have seen a ghost."

"Nami-san..." Sanji said as sweat formed at the side of his face, he opened his mouth and he appeared to have something stuck in his throat before finding some words,"Does Luffy always eat this much?"

Nami open her mouth to answer, but no sound came out. Frowning she turned again and once more nothing came up, she held her neck and rubbed it slightly.

"Luffy eats this much everyday!" Nami said as her face changed into one of confusion, "Why do you ask Sanji-kun?"

"No reason..." The chef said as he looked down at the plate again and moved, making his way to the kitchen. While all this was going on, not once did the pair look down at their captain who was still at his seat.

Luffy watched as the body seemed to darken slightly, before returning to normal. For a moment Luffy thought he saw Nami's eyes widen but it was to quickly to tell. She turned and walked towards the door,

"Oh Luffy we all going to the Crow's Nest to talk about our next stop." Nami said as she reached the door, she paused there taking one last careful look, before walking out the door, she looked like she had wanted to say more.

"Oi! Body stealer!" Luffy shouted at himself, and came to stand beside it, "I don't want you to have my hat! Give it to someone else!" His body stood move, walking slowly for the door.

Luffy heard footsteps and turned to see Sanji coming back, he walked passed his body as if he did not see him there and went right out the door. Luffy gritted his teeth as he floated along, feeling the need to punch something anything! But knew that nothing would come of it.

At last his body reached the Crow's Nest, the crew seemed to have already began walking without him. Luffy frowned deeply at this, he was the one they all waited for, even if he listened or not.

Luffy's body sat in the same place as the night before, staring dully at the crew as they chatted together. None talked to him, or even glanced his way to see what was the matter.

"Give one, anyone my hat!" Luffy growled into his own ear, he tried to grabbed his shoulders but like Usopp he went right through.

'...is that really what you want for now...'

Luffy blinked at the sound of a familiar voice but he was sure he never heard this voice before, so how could he be familiar to him.

Luffy blinked again, this time through his our eyes. He glanced down at his hands, and stood he began to walk towards his crew. He felt like he was walking in water, each step was hard to take. He made to Nami, who was still talking about the next island and never seeing him there.

"Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook." Luffy said with a chocked voice, he took hold of his hat and place it upon Nami's hat and grinning boldly he went of to say, "I seemed to be going away for a bit. But I'll be back. Shishishishi~"

"Did you say something Luffy?" Nami asked as she at last turned to him, Luffy blinked lifelessly at her. Luffy was once again floating above them.

"No," Came the flat voice of Luffy, "Nothing at all Captain..." The whole room became silent like everyone there forgotten how to breathe, making Luffy above frowned.

Nami suddenly looked like she was going to cry, then it happened; tears formed in her eyes and ran down her cheeks. Luffy floated downwards and landed at her side, wondering what was wrong.

"Well listen carefully, we will reaching land by this afternoon." Nami said as she the tears seem fell, yet her face was a commanding one.

Luffy turned to the rest of his crew mates, those too looked like they were fighting against something.

"Wait! Could the same thing be happening to them?!" Luffy asked aloud as he glanced around the room, seeing if his crew was floating somewhere there.

'…..no just you...'

Luffy blinked, then looked around angrily trying to see the one who spoke, "Show yourself!" Luffy roared to the one who spoke.

'….soon...we...need to see …...default program is …..just a little while longer...'

Luffy did not understand a word, but something was wrong with him and his crew. He felt himself being pulled again as his body moved away from the group. Sighing he suddenly felt sleepy, very sleepy...