Hello again! This is my third chapter. We're still in episode 408, but soon we'll move on to the next episode. I'll probably be switching point-of-views during this chapter, so I'll try to be easy to keep up with. I also give all credit to the creators of One Piece and Xiaolin Showdown. And if you want to watch the original, go to Hulu. Now, let's get on with the story!
Chapter 2: Search and Rescue
Luffy walks into a clearing, stopping at the center. "This place sure is quiet though..." he says, having a look of wonder. His face droops as he starts to slide into memories.
*Flashback*
His friends where enjoying themselves, each in their own way. Brook playing his violin, Franky playing a guitar, Sanji lovingly serving tea and cake to Robin, who was enjoying the tea, Zoro getting yelled at by Nami (Ahh look, they were actually getting along), and Chopper being with Usopp doing another chopsticks-in-nose-while-with-a-basket dance (Classic).
Turning, Luffy spots some mushrooms (Oh no…) and approaches them. "Aren't these laughing mushrooms?" he asked no one in particular, crouching while doing so. He then grabs one and looks at it, and takes a bite. Suddenly, he starts laughing uncontrollably, clapping his hands like a tambourine monkey. "Now I'm having fun!" he laughs. "even though I'm all alone."
He turns and sees more mushrooms (Don't Luffy!). "Oh, oh! There are some weird ones over here, too!" Luffy gobbles some up. I'm now showing the horrors of mushrooms. He stops, raised his arms, and says, "Now I'm feeling mad!" and …..breathes fire? ….I've got to get myself some of those. "Laughing mushrooms, laughing mushrooms!" he sings before eating them…. And now he's laughing his ass off. The boar skeleton next to him sweat-drops. (Even if the feat is impossible here, it is not for this world.)
"Oh, there are weird mushrooms here too!" he exclaims. Man, it's times like these when I wish I had a video camera! Luffy starts eating at random now, not caring if the mushrooms have spikes or coloring that screams poison. "Crying mushrooms!" he exclaims while eating like there's no tomorrow.
While eating, Luffy didn't hear the groan coming from the bush near him. Nor does he notice when he dropped a mushroom or as it rolled under the bush, having whatever was under there eat it, and then drop back down as if it fainted.
Meanwhile…
Someone was running through the forest, seeming to dart past trees quickly. A womans voice is heard, "Hurry! The smoke is rising from over there!" Another woman, with a deeper voice, is also heard, "They've been anchored offshore for a while; you don't think they secretly made landfall, do you?!" She continued, "If so, then this is serious!"
The first one replied, "No! There's heavy security all around the island! Besides, if by some chance they did get through, it's hard to believe they'd do anything to draw attention to themselves." A third, more childish voice joined in, "Then who is it?" "I don't know." The first one admitted. "Let's split into two groups now!" "Got it!" the other two responded. The purple, pink, and yellow figures dart away, going about their search.
Later…
The second woman seems to have found our friend Luffy. "What is that?" she exclaims. "Margaret! Margaret!" she calls. Margaret responds, "Hm?" "Over here!" the second one says. "What is it Sweetpea?" she asks. "What do you make of this?" Sweetpea asks. "Of what?" SHIT! What happened to Luffy?! Those shitty mushrooms are all over him!
"What do you suppose this is?" It's a person you idiot! The one called Margaret crouched to take a closer look. She looks, and looks,… and looks…..WHEN ARE YOU GONNA IDENTIFY IT? "Wh-what the…?! This is a person!" Finally… "Is it someone from the village?" Sweetpea asks. "I don't know," Margaret replies. "there are so many mushrooms growing out of her body…" ….Wait..HER?!
"Do you think maybe it was actually a signal fire calling for help?" Margaret nods, grabs a mushroom, and holds it out. "Look! She ate this mushroom! A parasite mushroom. When eaten mushrooms grow out of your body! This is bad! If we don't do something, the mushrooms will sap away her vitality and kill her!" "It's a race against time!" Sweetpea states.
"Aphelandra, carry her to the village!" Margaret says to the tallest of the three, now known as Aphelandra. "Okay!" she cheerfully replies. "To the village it is!" Sweetpea agrees. "Hm?" Aphelandra says, looking at something as if confused. "What's wrong Aphelandra?" Margaret asks. "What is that in the bush?" (You didn't forget did you?)
The other two turn around, seeing what was there. There was a blob of white somewhat hidden from sight. "I don't know." Margaret said, sharing the same look. She got up, approached the bush, and pulled out the snow-white figure, and gasped. It seemed to be in the same condition as the other 'girl' but of course looked different.
"It's another girl!" she exclaimed. Poor Jack, it's enough sounding and sometimes acting like a girl, but now to be thought as one… "What?!" Sweetpea and Aphalandra said, bewilderment clear on their faces. "Who is she and what would she be doing in the bush Margaret?" Aphalandra said first.
"Probably a friend of the one we see here. I think maybe she hid her here for protection, there is a wild boar roaming around here." (LMFAO here) "That explains it." Sweetpea says. "Anyways, we should take her as well. They both need treatment." "Let's Hurry." Her companions said.
Later…
We seem to be at a temple of some sort. Though, what's up with the snakes? "We have some urgent patients!" Margaret announces. Holy…! There's a huge crowd of girls there! "Hey! Down in front I can't see!" someone shouted. "What happened to them?! They're covered in mushrooms!" one woman said, looking concerned. "Have you seen them in the village before?" another asks.
"No, never." Another woman replies, looking curious. "Hey, who are they?" one from a rooftop asks. "The mushrooms are covering their faces." Her companion states. "Where do you think they came from?" someone in the crowd asks. "Is they even alive?" "They both ate a parasite mushroom." Margaret states. "What do we do Belladonna?"
The one called Belladonna says, "They come off when pulled, so pull them out. All of them." Both Sweetpea and Margaret gasp, surprised at the information. "They come off?" they simultaneously asked. They started pulling the mushrooms off of both Jack and Luffy, finding this was easy to do. "They really do…" Margret started, "But some of the roots are left behind!"
"I'll get rid of them afterward, so don't worry about the roots." Belladonna reassures them. "You certainly brought some strange ones home, Margaret." A woman says while playing with her snake. "I couldn't help it! They were barely alive, and they might be from the village!" she sighs, before picking one more mushroom. "That's all of them!"
"Okay, now step back a little." Belladonna says, starting to get up. The women do this, looking anticipated for what would happen next. Belladonna then lights two matches, before throwing them onto the two 'girls'. Miraculously, both Luffy and Jack jumped high in the air, screaming. "Ouch! Hot! Hot!" they both repeated at the same time.
"I-I-I'm on fire! Put me out! Ouch!" they continued to scream. I see someone forgot the 'Stop, Drop, and Roll' technique. "Hold on Belladonna! What are you doing?!" Margaret asks. "This is the only way to keep them from growing back." Belladonna replies. They both hear simultaneous thumps, which caused them to look over and see a very crisp Luffy and Jack.
"But isn't that a little excessive?" Margaret asks. Both 'girls' then went limp. "They passed out again!" "Still, one is covered in injuries before she was covered in mushrooms." "Really?" "They seem like marks from a tremendous battle." "But what about the other one?" Belladonna glances at Jack, before having her eyes widen.
"What…? Margaret, come look at this." She said. "What's wrong?" "Can anyone survive a wound like that?" Belladonna asked, looking at a large scar on Jack's chest. "How did she survive that?!" Margaret gasped, looking at the scar. "She must be a fighter, to carry such a scar. Either way, it's an old one, probably one or two years ago…" "Well, besides that, she's perfectly fine." Belladonna concluded.
"Right! Now," Belladonna says, pointing at Luffy, "she needs treatment on her wounds."
She continues, "I hate to ask, Margaret, but could you wash them both off in the river?" "O-okay! Sure!" Margaret says.
Oookay…are these extra girls really necessary? I mean, don't they have something to do, like cooking or something? Anyways, in the middle of the river, both Sweetpea and Margaret were scrubbing-down Luffy. Jack was being cradled by Aphalandra at the side, scrubbing him as well. "It sounds like they're not from the village after all." Margaret concluded. "Yeah…" Sweetpea agreed.
"Hugh?!" Aphalandra said, "Look here!" "What's wrong?" the other two asked. "There's a mushroom between her legs that we missed!" she says, looking worried. "There's one on this one too!" Sweetpea says, now violating Luffy. Aphalandra blows some bubbles away, revealing Jack's manhood (to her, not us). "But don't these seem different from the ones before." She added, "They are oddly shaped."
"There seems to be a problem." A woman states noticing the confusion between the three woman. "Still, they're not well endowed. One seems sort of rugged. Though the other has slightly more curves." Another woman commits. "She even looks to be at least ten years old."
"Huh?!" Sweetpea exclaims, grabbing something below, "There's something weird beneath it too! What is this? A sack mushroom?" She continued. "Anyways, I guess we better pull them off!" Shit!…that's not good. "Alright!" Apalandra says getting ready to pull. Oh gods no…
"What's this? What's this?" an older voice asks. "What's going on?" "Oh, granny Nyon!" Margaret welcomes. (Sigh of relief) Bless the granny… "There's a mushroom growing out of these girls. We were about to pull them off!" "Now, now. Wait, just who are they?" Nyon asks, examining the two 'girls'. "Let's see here…Where are these mushrooms?"
Her eyes widen suddenly (with a good reason to), "Oh my!" she exclaims, starting to swoon to a dead faint. The women nearby caught her before she hit the ground. "Granny Nyon! Are you alright?!" one of them exclaimed. "Y-yes th-there's nothing to worry about…" she stuttered, "Th-these people…"
The women looked surprised, then expectant to what she would say. "Th-these people…" Nyon repeated, "A-are men!" she finished, shouting. Silence. Then, "Eehh?!" they all shouted. "Th-these are m-men?!" Margaret said, looking confused. "I never seen one before!"…. Are they daft or some thing? Oh, narration time!
Here sits the maiden island of Amazon Lily, inhabited by a tribe of female warriors known as the Kuja. May you ever dream of it or step foot on it, should you still value your life.Wow…there's something you don't learn everyday. Still, to never lay eyes on a man…they must be really sheltered.
How was it? Was it awesome, was it moderate, or was it just plain crappy? I gotta know! Please review, but know that either way, I'll be damned if I let this story hang.