After the letter was explained to Franky and Chopper they set sail for the island. Uneventful days passed as they sailed for the island, everyone's daily lives continued as if the letter never came except Luffy of course. He would not stop talking about it and practicing, every night Brook would have to put him to sleep with one of his lullabies. Until one day, "I can see the Island!" Usopp yelled looking through his boggle goggles "There's something strange about this island though." Robin used her powers and planted an eye on one of the trees and looked around, "He's right, this island isn't a summer, winter, spring, or fall island," she says,
"Eh?!" Chopper exclaims "then what kind of island is it?"
"That's just it, it's an island that's all four"
"EEEEEEHHHHHHHHH?!" Chopper, Luffy, Usopp, and Brook all exclaimed in unison
"I don't know how it happened but I am curious to see what caused this" Robin continued her eyes back on the ship. Once they landed on the island a tall, thin man with blonde hair in a white shirt and black tie.
"Name?" he called from the shore, Luffy appeared on the Lion's head
"Monkey D. Luffy! Captain of the Straw hat Pirates" he called down, the man flipped through a clipboard of papers, some of which were wanted posters most of which Luffy couldn't make out.
"Ah, Monkey D. Luffy right this way, you were the last one we were waiting for" the man said at last and gestured for them to dock their ship as he jumped aboard. They sailed for about another twenty minutes and came upon a dock leading to a path, there were eight other ships. The ones that drew the various Strawhats' attention were a yellow submarine, a very large red boat drawn by two giant serpents, a paddle boat with a swan on the bow and a marine ship. Luffy's face grew into a very large smile about the swan ship and was going to dash off the ship and run down a path, but the man stopped him.
"Wait I have to make sure the path is clear," he said and jumped off the ship and knocked on a nearby tree and then waved to the crew "Ok it is safe to come down now, follow me" and with that he started down the path. Luffy jumped off eagerly and followed after him, Chopper collected his pack and followed suit in full human form and the rest of the crew checked their things on the ship and followed suit. The path they followed wound around a forest, filled with massive trees, Luffy was bouncing around excitedly waiting for the time they would reach wherever they were going, the rest of the crew followed along patiently.
"ahhhh, this brings back memories." Said Usopp, remembering his days on the Boin Archipelago "well minus the food plants, the animals trying to eat me, and the island itself trying to eat me"
"well here we are, the place where your crew will be staying " the man gestured when they reached a huge building with an even huger clearing surrounding it, he led them into the front door where they stared in aw,
"no time to be seeing the mansion right now the other guests are waiting for you in the dining hall" he said and gestured them into an elegant ball room and dining hall, there was a multitude of familiar characters there, Luffy scanned the room looking for the one man he had been looking for until he saw him.
"BON-CHAN!" Luffy screamed with excitement, a man tall man with dark hair and a ballet outfit with swans looked over and a grin spread across his face.
"MUGI-CHAN!" he leaped up with join and tackled Luffy with excitement as the rest of the crew, especially Usopp and Chopper, greeted him warmly.
"Bon Kurei, how did you make it here? We saw you got captured by that navy ship back in Alabasta?" questioned Usopp
"Well my friends, it's truly good to see you again, I was captured and they sent me to Impel Down all the way down to level three the famine hell, one day I was trying to keep my fellow inmates in high spirits with some dance when Mugi-chan here comes busting through the walls, we fought together to get his older brother out of there, we didn't make it and I had to sacrifice myself to let Luffy go save his brother. They locked me up again but this time on level five and I eventually made my way to Newkama land where I became the new king. One day this blonde man here breaks into impel down himself and finds me in Newkama land and requests that I participate in this tournament, so naturally I took the chance and here I am now"
"That's great Bon-Chan!" Luffy said happily, "what's this competition all about anyways?"
"Well it's interesting you say, some anonymous benefactor has gathered some of the best devil fruit users in the grand line" Bon Kurei said taking Luffy by the shoulder "I'm sure you've met some of these guys on your travels haven't you?" In fact, Luffy has he sees his old friends from Alabasta Chaka and Pell, two marines and one ex marine Kizaru, Smoker, and Aokiji. He also sees some old enemies like Caribou and Crocodile. He also saw Law, as well as the Boa sisters from Amazon Lily, he tried to remain out of Hancock's sights so he wandered over to another set of tables. Here he saw his fellow super nova Trafalgar Law, and two unfamiliar faces so he decided to sit next to them. One was a boy who didn't look any older than fifteen he looked just shy of six feet with brown hair, icy blue eyes, and a solemn demeanor he wore a long sleeved blue shirt with a black vest and jeans, the other was a girl she was a few inches shorter than the boy but seemed to be about seventeen, she had hair that seemed to be a mix of all natural hair colors, and blue green sort of eyes she was wearing black slacks, and a black tank top. Luffy decided to introduce himself
"Hi I'm Luffy!" he said cheerfully to the couple, the boy looked warily at him before holding out a hand,
"The name's Gunnar, and I already knew who you are, you're Monkey D. Luffy second highest ranked of the eleven super nova's, your grandfather is the once great Navy leader Garp, you have the powers of the Gomu gomu no mi, basically you're a rubber man impervious to blunt attacks unless Haki is applied" the boy summarized
"Wow you certainly know a lot about me" Luffy said
"You'll have to forgive him," the girl chimed in "I don't know much about him but from the way he acts around the other competitors, he doesn't exactly like pirates, I'm Annie by the way"
"Nice to meet you, I guess, so if this is an all devil fruit user tournament what kind of devil fruits did you guys eat?" Luffy asked inquisitively, Annie was the first to respond,
"I ate a Paramecia fruit, I believe it was called the Camo Camo no mi I can't turn invisible but I can make it so I look like my surroundings, I could be a tree, a mound of snow, or in a house environ I can turn into a piece of furniture" she said and right before their eyes she turned into the chair she was sitting on.
"Cooool!" Luffy said with excitement "Gunnar what can you do?" the boy let out a sigh of exasperation.
"I guess you'll find out sooner or later. I ate a mythical Zoan fruit, the Ryu Ryu no mi model: Shiro. I can turn into a white dragon." He said and sprouted a pair of scaly white wings and a long white tail, "being a white dragon I can breathe an icy breath" he turned his head to his glass of water and breathed a white stream of air and the glass shattered. He was going to continue his demonstration when the blonde man came to the podium on the stage and called for attention.
"Welcome, all of you who were summoned here were because of your amazing abilities with your devil fruit powers, and have been chosen to compete in a survival competition, I am not the man who came up with this event but I will be representing him none the less so let me explain the rules. You fifteen combatants will be set loose on this island of four seasons, you are allowed to move anywhere on the island but you have to get your own food and water, this is a no holds barred survival contest so you can use any trick, weapon or power you can come up with. We begin tomorrow, but tonight we celebrate." He clapped his hands and chefs with big platters and barrels of sake came out of the kitchen. Everyone stuffed themselves, Annie went and sat over with the other women from Amazon Lily. Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, and Brook all partied with Bon-Kurei and had a good time. All the Navy men all sat together and talked about strategy. Law, Gunnar, and Crocodile all ate their meals quietly and peacefully. Sanji looked up from his meal to see a couple of men from Alabasta.
"Hey if it isn't Chaka and… Pell? I thought you died carrying away that massive bomb into the sky" Sanji said in awe
"No just roughed me up pretty bad, this nice old man on the outskirts found me and nursed me back to health." Pell explained surprised that he is remembered
"well anyways how is Vivi chan?"
"she is doing very well, I'll tell her you said hi when we get back" Chaka boasted, Sanji smirked.
" You sure you can beat any of these guys, I mean Crocodile alone kicked your butts and our captain kicked his butt" Sanji retorted in a matter of fact tone.
They both chuckled and returned to their meals, After a night of eating drinking and partying the host showed each of them to their luxurious room where they waited for morning to come.