Soo, this chapter is a little more interesting than the last. It has a little more adventure for the kiddies, and a little more interacting between all the other characters. Enjoy.

Chapter 2 : Lunchtime pirates

"Grassy! You were supposed to be over here an hour ago." a blonde boy said sitting next to a girl with orange hair and a pink dress. She was writing in a little book, but whenever the blonde looked over, the girl snapped her book shut.

"Lunchtime only just started der brain." Zoro replied as he sat down on the grass and leaned against a tree. "Just sit down anywhere, kid." and Luffy sat right down next to the blonde with an unhealthy sounding 'thump'.

"Who are you?" the blonde boy asked, and Luffy noticed the toothpick sticking from the boy's mouth.

"I'm Luffy! Who are you?" he responded. The blonde blinked for a second, small bangs covering his left eye.

"Uh, Sanji." the boy replied and Luffy grinned. Usopp had sat down next to Luffy, looking around nervously.

"What's your name?" the girl asked, closing her book with a snap and then putting her pencil behind her ear and looking pointedly at Usopp.

"Uh, Usopp." the little, long nosed boy replied. The girl smiled.

"I'm Nami." she said and Usopp smiled back. Luffy ripped into his sandwiches, devouring the first half of his second sandwich in almost a second. Sanji leant away slightly, his little yellow shirt rustling with the movement.

"Uh, Zoro? Why'd you bring him?" he whispered. Zolo shrugged.

"He's cool." the boy replied before biting into a piece of watermelon. Nami looked around, holding a slice of orange in her hand.

"I thought Vivi would have been here by now." she muttered. Sanji turned to look at her.

"Vivi's probably… umm, being pretty somewhere!" he cried. Nami blinked.

"You're weird." she said and stood, brushing off her dress as she did so. Luffy paused a moment to right Chopper, who had fallen over in Luffy's haste to eat his food. Nami looked at him.

"Hey, that toy's so cute!" she cried and then bent down to look at it. "What's his name?"

"Chopper!" Luffy cried and then bit into the other half of his sandwich.

"Awww. So cute. I'm going to find Vivi. Then we can come back and play!" Nami cried. Sanji nodded, Zoro didn't even answer, Usopp was busying eating, and Luffy was also busy eating. Nami skipped off, her book clutched tight in her hand. Luffy finished his food and then jumped up. Zoro looked at him.

"Where are you going?" Zoro asked. Luffy looked around.

"To find my brother." and he ventured forth, grabbing Chopper's little fluffy hoof as he did so.

"Wuffy!" Usopp cried and ran after him.

"I'm coming too!" Zoro cried and jumped after them.

"I'm not sitting like a… by myself person!" and then Sanji was after all three. Luffy grinned. He had friends, and on his first day too! He walked around the playground, noting the small shed that was open on the hill. Other kids seemed to go in without anything, and then come out with balls, hoops, skipping ropes, bats, and paddle-bats. Luffy stared in awe.

"That's the fun shed." Sanji explained. Luffy nodded and then saw a familiar orange hat out on a large green field. His face split into a large grin, and then he began to run towards the hat.

"Ace!" Luffy cried and hit his brother full force, knocking the two of them over.

"Luffy! I was waiting for you to come and find me!" the taller boy said before grabbing Luffy in a hug and then standing up again. Zoro and Sanji looked at each other.

"He's your brother!" the two boys asked. Ace looked up and Luffy grinned ferociously as he grabbed his hat from where it had fallen and placed it on his head.

"This is Ace! He's so cool." Luffy said, looking up at his older brother with obvious awe. Zoro blinked.

"But, that's, that's Ace Heat Fist! He has the best throwing arm in the whole playground!" Sanji cried, waving his own arms around in excitement. Luffy blinked and then looked at Ace for confirmation. The older boy shrugged and then looked back across the oval.

"Hey, Luf, I would play with ya bro but, Whitebeard and Blackbeard are gonna play soccer and they need me to play centre-field." and Ace ran off, leaving Luffy pouting. Zoro looked at Sanji, who shrugged and then both looked back at Luffy again.

"Sanji!" a girly voice called. Sanji spun to see Nami walking towards them, a blue haired girl trailing behind. Luffy looked around as well. "Where did you go?" she asked when she had reached them.

"Right here dummy." Zoro muttered causing Sanji to stamp on his foot. Zoro glared at the blonde.

"Wooooooow!" a voice said, stopping all current conversation, glaring, and hurting of other people's feet.

"What do you see Wuffy?" Usopp asked. Luffy looked at him and then pointed back across the playground towards a large, wooden pirate ship that sat deserted on the edge of the playground.

"So cool!" and then the littlest boy was off, racing toward the ship at top speed. Usopp paused a moment and then raced after Luffy as well.

The ship was as large as a real ship and it had a steel ladder bolted to the side of the hull. Luffy zipped up it and then gasped as he looked around the ship. There was a real mast and a real crow's nest, but, there was no ladder leading up to it.

"Wow, this is awesome Wuffy." Usopp commented as he got up on deck as well. Luffy ran up the little stairs that led to the bow of the ship and looked out over the figurehead which was shaped like a ram's head.

He looked out and grinned, imagining the feel of salt water on his skin. It was almost like being on a real ship! He jumped down the stairs and then ran towards the aft of the ship. There was a door that led down into the under workings of the ship.

"This has been here since I was in grade one." Zoro commented as he swung himself onto the deck of the ship and looked around. Luffy paused and looked back at the green haired man.

"Why haven't you ever played on it then?" he asked. Zoro shrugged.

"I used it to hide from the teacher once, but I fell asleep next to the mast, woke up late at night, and went home." he replied. Usopp cringed.

"You wewen't s-scared?" he asked. Zoro blinked.

"Of what?"

"The goobi monsters! They come out late at night and try to suck your brains when you're not looking." Usopp explained, waving his hands like they were spiders. Luffy looked at him.

"Really?" he asked and Zoro rolled his eyes before walking around and then opening the door down into the underside of the ship.

"Yeah! They wook wike monkeys with the head of a chicken and I defeated them!" Usopp said proudly and stuck his chest out a little too far, causing him to overbalance and land on his butt. Luffy laughed.

"You're funny Usopp." and then Luffy grabbed Chopper from under his arm and put him up on his shoulders before running after Zoro down the stairs. Usopp looked around and saw Sanji, who blinked at him and then nodded towards the opening.

"You go first." Usopp said. Sanji frowned and chewed for a second on his toothpick.

"You go first, seeing as you defeated those goo whatevers." he replied. Usopp nodded.

"Exactly. You see, if you go first, then, I can watch your back and make suwe they don't attack you when you awen't wooking."

"I'll be right, you can go first."

"No you."

"You."

"You!"

"You infiminity!" Sanji returned, stumbling over the big word. Usopp snorted and Sanji glared.

"I'm gonna go fiwst." Usopp cringed and then ran down the steps, Sanji walking casually behind.

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Zoro looked around, his mouth open and a gleam in his eyes. This place was so cool. He couldn't believe he had never discovered it before.

"Hi Zoro!" Luffy cried, popping up behind him and causing the green haired boy to trip over and fall flat on his face. Zoro growled as he got up again.

"Why'd you do that?" he asked as he brushed off the front of his black shirt. Luffy shrugged.

"Cos." he replied. Zoro shook his head.

"Have you ever seen anything like this?" he asked as he looked around. Luffy shook his head, the hat going left and right and then falling over the boy's eyes. Luffy pouted and then readjusted it, Chopper beginning to fall off his shoulder before Luffy readjusted him as well.

"Wouldn't it be cool to be a pirate?" Luffy asked, his voice hushed as though in reverence. Zoro nodded and then pointed to the bit of wood at his waist.

"You see that?" he asked and Luffy nodded, not really understanding what it had to do with pirates, but hey, he was willing to listen if Zoro was willing to talk. "It's gonna be a real sword some day."

"Woooow. But, won't a wooden sword just give people splinters?" Luffy asked, putting a finger on his chin in thought. Zoro slapped his forehead.

"No dummy, it's gonna be a proper sword. Like, metal and stuff and shiny. It's gonna be the coolest thing ever!" and Zoro whipped out the sword and began doing a few practiced moves. Luffy watched him for a few minutes until he got bored and his gaze slipped towards a small room to the left of them.

"Hey…" he muttered and got up to head towards it.

"Oi!" Zoro called and quickly slipped the sword into the belt around his waist before following. Luffy gently pushed open the door, and walked into a room that looked a little dangerous. People from the school's Health and Safety committee would probably have a fit if they found out about it.

There was a hole in the top of it where a shaft of sunlight beamed through and hit the dusty floor. Luffy walked carefully forward, his mouth open in awe. There was something about this place. Something that made Luffy want to just stand there and look around.

"Oi, why'd you walk off?" Zoro asked as he walked in. Luffy didn't even look at him. He was staring at the spot where the sun hit the floor. That spot looked interesting and Luffy walked forward.

"Hey, Luffy!" Zoro growled, putting a hand on his hip and then he sighed exasperatedly before looking around the room. What was so great about this? It just looked like an ordinary room to him.

Zoro's mouth twisted and he looked over to see a small desk sitting in the corner and a chair that went along with it. Intrigued, Zoro walked over to it and looked down at the dusty surface. On it, lay a piece of paper that had weird drawings on it.

"Hey Zoro." a voice whispered beside him and Zoro jumped and spun. Sanji stood there, chewing on his toothpick thoughtfully.

"Would everyone stop doing that?" Zoro hissed and then spotted Luffy, who was sitting in the middle of the floor in the shaft of sunlight, the toy sitting on his lap and the straw hat clutched in his hand as he looked up and out through the hole.

"What's with him?" Sanji asked and Zoro shrugged before hurrying over and poking Luffy in the head.

"Hey, wake up." Zoro said. Luffy didn't answer. He was intently focused on the hole above him. Zoro looked at Sanji, who shrugged.

"W-w-wuffy?" a small voice echoed outside the room.

"In here Usopp." Zoro called. The small, long nosed boy walked into the room and looked around.

"What arwe we doing in here?" Usopp asked as he walked towards Luffy. Zoro and Sanji both shrugged.

"I don't know. Luffy came in here and I followed." Zoro explained and then went back to trying to wake Luffy by poking him in the head.

"I followed Marimo." Sanji said. Usopp nodded. Zoro sighed from beside Luffy.

"What is so interemesting, interesteling, grr, cool, about the hole?" he asked, getting annoyed at trying a big word and failing. He looked up at it and then blinked before pulling out of the sun.

"No way…" he whispered before settling himself beside Luffy and then looking up to stare at the hole as well, wooden training sword in his lap. Sanji sighed.

"What are you air heads looking at?" he asked. Usopp walked over and poked both Luffy and Zoro in the back of the head.

"They've been zombified." he gasped and Sanji blinked for a minute.

"Zombified? There's no such thing." he commented. Usopp looked around at him.

"Then how do you explain Wuffy and Zowo?" he asked. Sanji snorted and took the toothpick from his mouth with a flourish.

"They just don't have any brains." Sanji explained before putting the toothpick back in the corner of his mouth. Usopp blinked.

"Weally?" he asked and then knocked on Luffy's head with a balled up fist. There was a dull fwump and Usopp's mouth twisted. "It sounds like there's something in there."

"That's just Luffy foolin' ya." Sanji commented. Usopp blinked and then looked up towards the hole in the ceiling. He blinked again and then, just like Zoro, he pulled his head away and shook it.

"Wow…" he said and then went and sat down on the other side of Luffy, his little slingshot slung across his lap. Sanji gave a loud groan.

"You guys are so losery." Sanji said.

"Sanji? Where are you guys?" Nami's light voice came from above. Now, even though most young boys thought girls were yucky, and most young boys generally avoided the 'girl cooties' as it were, Sanji was different.

Living with his mentor had taught him that girls were something that should be respected and cherished. So, Sanji hurried up towards the opening, leaving the three nitwits to their little 'game'.

"Nami." Sanji squeaked as he popped up from the opening. Nami turned, dress swishing as she looked at him from beside the mast. Vivi peeked out from behind her best friend, the little blue dress with a grey hood also swishing with her movement.

"Where have you been Sanji?" Nami asked, putting her hands on her hips.

"I'm sorry Nami, Vivi, but, grass head led us down there," and he pointed towards the dark opening behind him, "and now they are all sitting there doing nothing. They just won't move."

"What's wrong with them?" Vivi asked. Nami marched forward.

"I'll show those dummy heads." she muttered as she walked down the stairs, hand clenched tight around her little book. Looking left to right as she walked, Nami soon spotted the room and paused at the doorway to look at the three sitting on the floor.

There was a soft step behind her and she twisted to see Sanji behind her, and Vivi behind him. Nami heaved a deep breath, stuck her chest out and walked into the room.

"Wake up!" she yelled, but the three didn't stir. Nami's eyes flashed. No one ignored her. It just wasn't done. "Hey!" and she gave Zoro a kick in the lower back. The green haired boy groaned in annoyance before swiping a hand over the sore spot and then going back to staring at the hole.

Nami grimaced before looking up at the hole herself. Her narrowed eyes widened, and her mouth slacked open.

"Nami?" Sanji asked from the doorway, but the girl had walked around the three boys to sit beside Usopp. She was now entranced like the other three, her little book lying across her lap. Sanji slapped a palm to his forehead and then looked down at Vivi, who shrugged, and fiddled with her small, gold studs in her ears.

Sanji shrugged back and walked over to the sunlight, and looked up at the hole too. What happened, was something none of the little group had expected.

Okay, so now we have nearly everyone. There are some more characters to add, but, they will come in later. Okay, I'll see you there then? Giant chickens and Zoro plushies for everyone who can guess what the light will do. XD