This chapter took much longer to get out because baby cousin came over... computers and magnets don't mix and my work got deleted... So I had to put my brain power to work to remember stuff. ALSO BECAUSE OF THAT... THIS CHAPTER IS MUCH SHORTER THAN ORIGINALLY INTENDED IM SORRY!
Hellos! One question! Should I have romance? Any suggestions of a pairing? Also I personally hope that you people have read One Piece. Why? Because I really, really, really, don't want to bother with descriptions or too much plot explaining. One of my many weaknesses. Other than that, enjoy!
Chapter 2
"Luffy!" A feminine voice called out.
"Yeah, I'm coming!" Luffy picked up his trademark hat, thinking back to the two years, "Time sure goes fast, it's been two years already. Where the hell is Ranma!?" Luffy said to himself.
A woman with blonde hair, a green snake bow and a white cape appeared from the trees. "The boat's ready to go! We can leave at any time!"
"Ok! Thanks we gotta wait for someone first."
The woman looked past Luffy and sweatdropped at seeing gargantuan animals brawling for a piece of meat, one of the animals, a lion was growling at her.
"Someone? Do you mean Rayleigh?" Marguerite asked curiously.
"Nah, Rayleigh left a while ago." Luffy said waving her off. Then all of the sudden he shouted to the animals more specifically to the growling lion "HEY! Look closely, these are my friends." He gave the animals a stern glare and the lion backed off fearfully.
Four other women appeared from the trees. One was a strikingly beautiful woman, one was an old gho- er lady, and the other two were enormous reptilian-like women. Boa Hancock, some name I've forgotten, Boa Sandersonia, and Boa Marigold respectively.
"So you went and became the boss of this island." Boa Sandersonia said bluntly noticing the submissiveness of the animals.
"Yea unfortunately that means I can't eat em. I wanna know what they taste like. Though I didn't tame all of them. Ranma has a cat." Luffy said whilst drooling a bit at the mentioning of tasting the beasts that were sitting quite close to him.
Boa Hancock frowned a bit. "Ranma? I thought you and Rayleigh were the only people on this island."
"Nah, there was some disturbance in the space time continuum or something like that." Luffy then shouted "HEY RANMA! COME ON OUT ALREADY WE GOTTA GO AND YOU GOTTA MEET MY FRIENDS."
The five women looked past Luffy as they saw a rustle of leaves and branches and out emerged a red haired teen wearing a red shirt similar to the one Luffy was wearing but her's was buttoned. She had blue eyes and was riding a large white cat. She rid the cat and jumped off next to Luffy.
Hancock immediately scowled. Who was this woman who seemed to be a good friend of her beloved Luffy. She voiced her question. "Luffy, my love, who is this woman standing so close next to you." Hancock was considering turning this woman into stone but it wouldn't do good to make a statue of her husband's friend.
As if Luffy read the last bit of her thoughts, he shouted, "Hey! I already told you I'm not marrying you." He tilted his head to the side, bending it further than humanely (normal ones that is) possible. "I told you this is Ranma."
The girl dubbed Ranma stared at Luffy's friends and back at Luffy not missing Luffy's outburst. Ranma spoke up, "What did you beat her in combat or somethin'?" She then muttered to herself "Stupid amazons are even in other dimensions. They even have weird colored hair. And they have a marriage law too? Wha! There's even another old ghoul... LIKE WHAT THE HECK." A dark gloomy haze surrounded the red haired girl.
Luffy ignored Ranma's last outburst and replied, "Well I beat her sisters and saved my friends from being stone forever and for some reason she wants to marry me."
The girl muttered to herself, "Typical."
The mentioned old ghoul spoke up. "Luffy, what Hancock meant to say is: Why is this girl with you? I thought that there was nobody else on this island."
The girl was still muttering to herself as Luffy explained, "This is Ranma Saotome and he is from another dimension or somethin' like that" He then turned to Ranma, "Hey Ranma these are my friends, Marguerite, Hancock, her sisters, and some old woman."
"Hey!" The old woman cried out.
Sandersonia seemed to notice something strange. "He?" She spoke out.
"Yea that's right I'm a guy." The red haired girl shouted out, her arms crossed under her ample chest.
"Is it some type of devil fruit?" Marigold asked.
"I'm already hating the return to society." The girl mumbled.
Luffy spoke up. "Nah Ranma's just a weird person."
The old woman spoke up again "What do you mean."
"I'll go get my stuff..."
"Whats with her? Er him?" Marguerite asked.
"I don't know" Luffy said, "When he woke up he went straight for the restroom." Luffy put his hand on his chin in a thinking pose, "something about 'stupid time of month.'"
"Ahh" All five women chorused in realization.
There was a growl, "I'm hungry Luffy said bluntly." The animals behind him flinched and froze, their bodies tense and they started to inch away from the hungry tiny human.
Hancock's aura around her turned into a visible pink and she blushed as she put her hands on her cheeks delicately, "Don't worry Luffy, I already loaded all your favorite foods on the boat. I would make such a fine wife for you."
Before Luffy could retort about not marrying her, Ranma returned with his pack. "All right let's go." He turned around and whistled and the former large cat shrunk and jumped into his bag. It's small white head popping up from the flap of the bag.
Luffy spoke, "Too bad none of my animals ate the Size Size fruit, I wanted to take them along." He turned to the four enormous beasts, "Guess this is finally farewell huh guys." Surprisingly the beasts looked sad at seeing their master leave.
Luffy put his strawhat on and started to walk off with Ranma following behind a little depressed at his current condition. He yelled, pumping his fists up in the air excitedly, "Let's go see my crew!"
On the boat Ranma was sitting down with Luffy munching on the food Boa Hancock had loaded up next to him his white cat was playing with a bone. Hancock was scowling at the girl for eating Luffy's food, that girl was even stealing from Luffy's own plate! Suddenly she couldn't take it any more.
"MERO MERO MELLOW!" A beam of hearts headed towards the red haired girl who was chomping on a drumstick. As the beam passed through her she didn't flinch and kept on eating as if nothing happened.
Instead the girl spoke, "Hey Luffy what's that supposed to do?"
"...It didn't work. You're... not... infatuated with me?"
"Of course not." Ranma said matter of factually.
"Am I not beautiful?"
"Sure." The redhead said halfheartedly.
This is impossible! There is no way this girl could resist her beauty! She's just like Luffy...
Finally the food on the table was gone and Luffy patted his puffed up stomach and released a content sigh. "Ahh, your food is the best."
Hancock forgot all about her failure to kill Luffy's friend and put her hands on her cheeks and swooned. "Thank you Luffy." She said blushing.
"So who is this woman or man... with you Luffy?" A new voice popped in.
"GAH! The old ghoul lives!" Ranma said fearfully before she was bopped in the head by Luffy. Ranma muttered a bit before rubbing his head where Luffy had hit him. He then laid back in his chair, managing to balance in on two legs. "Right so my name is Ranma Saotome. And I am a man despite what you see here." He gestured to his well endowed chest. "Let's just say I got transported to the island magically and I started to train there with Luffy and Rayleigh and now I'm here." The currently female Ranma said bluntly.
After more talking and explaining the Kuja Pirates accepted Ranma and eventually they arrived at Sabaody.
"Hey Luffy, I'm going on ahead. I don't haveta worry about getting caught. They don't know who I am. Grove 42 right?" Ranma asked, his small pack on his back.
"Uh huh." Luffy replied as Boa Hancock was strapping a over-sized bag with food on his back. Ranma sweatdropped when she gave Luffy the the gag toy with a fake mustache and nose as a disguise. As he left he heard the two's conversation and Luffy's idea of good byes.
Several hours later, after giant birds, a rock concert, she-men, lightning storms, giant bugs and plants, fake crews, marines chasing, pacifistas, and coating the Straw hat crew was finally reunited! After greetings and cheer the crew were on their way to see the mermaids.
"YEAH! LETS GOOO TO FISHMAN ISLAND!" Luffy bellowed from the his ship. As the ship sank deeper and deeper in the ocean Luffy realized something. "Darn it! We forgot somebody! Guys! Guys! We gotta go back!"
*POW* Nami hit Luffy on his head before he could do anything rash, and a large bump formed, defying the logics of the gum gum fruit.
"Hey Captain, we have everybody here." Nami did a hand sweep, gesturing to Sanji who was in trance, Zoro, Brook, Robin, Chopper, Franky, and Usopp.
"No we don't! We gotta go back!" Luffy stretched his arms back in preparation of popping the bubble.
*POW* *POW*
"You're going to pop the bubble!" Chopper and Usopp both said, their teeth turning pointy and their eyes narrowing.
"Oh," Robin said, "did you find a new crewmate?"
Nami, Chopper and Usopp froze, they whispered amongst each other. "What do you think it could be? It's Luffy so it might be a talking house." Nami asked dreadly.
"Maybe it's a zombie." Usopp said, his face turning a pale color.
"Or maybe its a spider woman with eight legs." Chopper surmised, his fur turning white.
All three of them put their hands on their cheeks in horror.
Robin sweatdropped while Luffy was attempting to break the bubble once again but was knocked up by a combined effort of Nami, Chopper, and Usopp. Sanji finally snapped out of his trance a moved towards the kitchen with blood dripping out his nose from the sight of Robin and Nami.
"So if the coating were to take a beating from let's say a sea king monster then the coating would break."
Suddenly, while Nami explained the coating, asked by Franky, Sanji blasted out of the ship through a torrent of blood. The chef flew at a frightening pace and into the coating to the horror of Usopp and Chopper. He stretched the coating far and then busted out, unconscious and floating in the deeps.
"Sanji!" Luffy shouted and stretched for the man, his arms wrapping around him in the ocean. Luffy groaned and grunted through the weakening of the ocean. But still, Luffy managed to save the man, as Sanji fell onto the deck with blood dripping out his nose and a smile on his face.
"Oh no! Sanji is going to need a blood transfusion! Do fishmen have the same blood type as humans?" Chopper asked as he tried to make Sanji comfortable while cleaning the blood. "How did this happen?!"
"Oh there you are! I thought we left you on the island!" Luffy cried out relieved when he saw a sleepy person come out of the door. All heads but Sanji who was unconscious, Chopper who was tending to him, and Zoro who was sleeping with his sword in hand.
"Goddamnit." the person mumbled, "I was just sleeping, then I wake up covered in blood... this is even worse than Ryoga..."
Brook was the first one to speak up. "Who are you?" He stood close to the red headed girl. "Can I see your panties?" Without waiting for confirmation, he put head near the girl's baggy pants and pulled it out to look in. He promptly fell backwards in horror. "Boxers!" He whispered hushed tone. The girl just stared at the skeleton.
Franky was the next one to speak up. His robotic hand scratching his changing blue hair as asked, "When did you get on the ship? I was here the entire time."
"I went on a while ago, I've been sleeping in the kitchen after a couple snacks."
"Huh, I never noticed." Franky said scratching his head.
"I'm surprised, it's a normal human." Nami whispered to Usopp.
"This is strange for Luffy, but she probably has some crazy devil fruit."
The girl spoke up again, "I don't have a devil fruit..."
'SHE HEARD US!' Usopp and Nami thought.
"Hey Ranma! You're number ten." Luffy said cheerfully.
"Ten?"
"Yeah! You're the tenth person to get on the ship."
"Ok then."
*Cough* "Aren't you forgetting to do something?" Robin asked.
"Oh yea! Hey guys! This is Ranma. Ranma, this is Robin, Nami, Usopp, Franky, Brook, Zoro, Chopper, and Sanji." He introduced, pointing to each person respectively.
"You weren't lying when you were talking about your crew huh."
Nami perked up, "What did Luffy tell you about us?"
Luffy paled a bit, Luffy wasn't that clueless. Later, Luffy was found beaten up on the deck.
Chopper's, Franky's and Usopp's eyes turned into stars and bulged out of their sockets. "You don't have a devil fruit and you can make tornadoes and turn invisible?!" Chopper said running around back and forth excitedly. "SOOO COOL!"
"Yea I guess, but it's not as cool as a talking reindeer." The still female Ranma said.
"You... You bastard! Complimenting me won't do anything." Chopper replied while moving and waving his arms in a side to side motion.
Robin spoke up, "You said you're not a girl?"
"Yeah, it's just some weird curse from another dimension. I was originally a guy, I can turn to a girl with cold water and a guy with hot water. I'm stuck as a girl... for a certain time each month."
Robin was able to get the clue and covered her mouth in a soft laugh.
"Darn it. I was hoping for another lady in this man infested dump." Nami said whilst toying with her baton. "And you're one of those combat monsters."
Ranma shrugged.
Usopp put his hand on his chin, his face down and his back to Ranma. "You're worth zero beris right. That means..." Usopp whipped around a pointed his finger to Ranma's nose, "that you're under all of our commands! Even Chopper can command you." Usopp put on a snotty face, "Sooo servant, get me a glass of water."
Ranma's aura turned dark. "Go die in a hole."
Within an instant Usopp was behind Franky's massive body, hiding fearfully. 'SCARY!'
"Hey, let's fight." Zoro said simply whilst standing up from his spot near the wall.
"Heh, sounds good to me. Luffy said you're the strongest here."
"Hey whattabout me!" Sanji said, shooting up from his comatose form on the table. One good look at the three pairs of breasts sent Sanji flying back onto the table with Chopper panicking.
Zoro stood up close to Ranma's face. "I don't often fight girls but you'll do."
"I could say the same with you."
"What's that supposed to mean!"
Zoro was suddenly knocked out by the combined effort of Nami and Franky. "No fighting on the ship."
Nami put her face close to Ranma's scanning her face. "You're pretty cute as a girl, what do you like as a guy." Ranma felt sweat build up on his forehead, he could feel the Nabiki danger vibes from Nami. Nami started fondling Ranma's breasts, "Huh they are real." Nami looked down, "Hey where's this blood coming from?"
"STOP BEING SEXY!" Chopper shouted gnashing his teeth threateningly.
Brook held a pair of panties, "Here put these on." He offered to the red head girl.
"Hey! Those are mine!" Nami shouted indignantly.
"How are you holding up as a skeleton. If I took and pulled one of your bones out would you just collapse? Do you drink a lot of milk or somethin'?" Ranma reached out experimentally.
"Ohohoho, you're tickling my stomach." Brook looked up. "And I don't even have skin!"
The group save Luffy and Sanji broke out in a conversation with each other, talking about their past two years, while welcoming their newest member. They talked and laughed happily.
Ranma looked up and smiled. While this was completely new, he could get used to this happy atmosphere.
Author's Notes.
WAAHHH I'm really sorry about the upload time and the shortness of the chapter. This is really just the introduction of the crew and Ranma. Hopefully I can get my schedule back on track. Hopefully the next chapter you guys can see the new skills Ranma has.