Chapter 3: The Cursed Island

The Thousand Sunny finally landed at the 'cursed island' as the sun started to rise.

"So this is the 'cursed' Galuna Island, huh?" Franky said. "Don't look cursed to me."

"Maybe that's because we've already been affected by the curse." Usopp said scared. Then he grabbed his own throat and pretends like he choking on something. "Oh no, I can feel it now coursing throughout my body, it's a poison."

"Would you cut the act, you little drama queen." Zoro said to the sniper. "You don't know if the curse is real or not."

"Hold on, somebody could've made that stuff up as if it was a practical joke?!"

"It's a possibility." Sanji said, blowing a puff of smoke.

"Ah, who cares if the curse stuff is real or not?" Luffy said, entering the conversation. "Let's go explore it!"

"Hold on Luffy." Nami ordered, stopping Luffy from leaving the ship. "Robin, has anyone proven that the curse is real or not?"

"Like I said before, the curse was placed on the island three years ago." Robin answered. "So the only that can say the curse is real or not are those who live on the island. I can't say for sure but there must be proof that curse is real because the request forms to left the curse from the island were sent out to every island within the grand line and no one accepted the job. Even pirates don't come anywhere near this island."

"Are you serious, Robin?" Luffy asked his archeologists and she nodded yes. "In that case, let's be the first pirates to explore it."

"NO!" Usopp and Chopper cried as they jumped their captain from behind to stop him from leaving the ship this time.

"You heard what Robin just said, didn't you?" Usopp asked. "That's a hint and a half to tell us to turn around and leave."

"But we just got here." Luffy protested.

"It doesn't matter! Do you want us to be cursed too?"

"I say we can go in." Zoro said.

"Not you too!"

"Face it, Usopp." Sanji said. "You should've already known that when Luffy is in his adventurous mode, there's no stopping him."

Usopp sighed in defeat. "I guess you're right."

Meanwhile, the group from Fairy Tail was already on the shore of the island not that far from the Straw Hats' ship but far enough for it not to be detected.

Lucy was the first one who started to stir as she opened her eyes and saw some tropical trees. "Where am I?" she asked herself. She got on her feet and walked towards Natsu, Happy and Gray, who were still knocked out. Lucy looked at the wreckage that was their boat to get to the island and said. "What a mess."

Natsu, Gray, and Happy started to stir as well. Natsu shook his cobwebs loose and looked at where they are. They're on Galuna Island, the 'cursed island' on the Grand Line. "It looks like we made you guys." He said happily.

"You're lucky that wave washed us to shore."

"Well I don't know if I call it lucky." Gray said.

"I can't help but wonder what happened to the guy that brought us here. Right after he told us about the curse, he vanished."

"Forget about that stuff for now and let's go exploring!" Natsu said excited.

"Aye." Happy said in agreement for the idea just as excited as Natsu.

"We've been here for like 30 seconds and you guys already forgot about the mission." Lucy said with a sweatdrop. Natsu and Happy calmed down when they heard about and the three gathered around to discuss what they need to do. "Apparently, there's only one village on the entire island. The village chief is originally the one who put in the request. So I guess we need to try and find him."

"Not so fast." Gray said, catching their attention.

"Give it up, Gray." Natsu said. "You can't take back to the guild now that our boat has been destroyed."

"You're right. So I'm coming with you." Natsu and Lucy looked at Gray surprised. "There's no way I;m going to let the two of you clowns make S-class before I do. And if you were kicked out, the guild would be pretty boring. Gramps would be upset but if we pull this off, he wouldn't stay mad at us for long." The two expressions changed when they heard that possibility. Gray smirked and said, "Let's go." With the three wizards set off to find the only village on the island.

On another part of the island, The Straw Hats were already in the forest.

"Oh boy, I wonder if there are any people." Luffy said happily.

"There must be somebody wants some curse lifting from the island." Zoro said.

"Then we'll lift the curse."

"Yeah, we're going lift to a curse." Nami said sarcastically. "And just how are going to do that?"

"I don't know."

"Do you know what kind of curse is on this island?" Usopp questioned.

"No."

"Do even you know what a curse is?"

"A little bit."

"Well there's some line of hope." Nami said.

"Yeah, but I bet you anything that it'll vanish fast." Usopp said and Nami nodded in agreement.

"As a matter fact, there is a village on the island." Robin said. "From what I heard it's the only one village here."

"Really?" Luffy asked. "How far along is it?"

"It's in the middle of the island and its going to take some time before we get there."

"Okay, so which way is this village?" Franky asked. Robin pointed to the east and everyone went that direction but Luffy went the opposite.

The group continues to walk to the village but they stopped when they felt that something's wrong. "Uh guys, did we forget something?" Chopper asked.

"It's not something." Franky said. "It's not someone."

The crew looked around and saw that their captain was nowhere to be found. "THAT IDIOT!" Nami screamed.

Nighttime fell on the island. The group from Fairy Tail continued to walk until they found a gate with a wall created by logs with markings on them and a 'Keep out' sign on the gate. "Well we found the village." Gray said. "Now what?"

"Check out that gate." Natsu said. "When they say 'keep out', they mean it."

"Anyone home?!" Lucy shouted. "We came to help you!" There was no response from the other side of the gate.

"Let's bust in."

"No way!"

"Did you guys hear something?" a new voice said, sounding like Happy. The three wizards turn to Happy, thinking it was him, but he shook his head no it wasn't him.

"I believe it came from this direction." A female voice said.

"It didn't sound like Luffy." Another voice said, sounding deeper.

"Where the hell could that idiot run off to?" another female voice, sounding almost sounding like Lucy said. Natsu, Happy and Gray looked at Lucy, who also says no, then at the direction of where the voices are coming from.

"How could one person go from being in front of us to out of our sight?" a male voice said irritated.

"Does this always happen to you guys?" asked another male voice.

"Yeah, but it didn't take all day to find him." Another voice said.

The Fairy Tail group looked around to see where the voices were coming from. Then they saw 6 people and a reindeer walking towards them. Gray and Lucy's eyes widen when they saw who they were.

Natsu and Happy looked at Gray and Lucy confused. "Who are these guys?" Natsu asked.

"T…th…that's the Straw Hat Pirates." Lucy said scared.

To be continued…

Sorry it took me so long to make this chapter. So I figured I should make the Straw Hats and the Fairy Tail wizards meet each other to make up for it. Please R&R.