CHAPTER 4:

"It must have been at at least 40,000 feet when it happened." Jack held up a leaf he cut to make look like a plane and the people around his fire stared at him. "We hit an air pocket. We dropped about two hundred feet, then, well I blacked out." He sighed and lowered the leaf.

Nami looked at him in surprise and then even more so at the girl named Kate who cut in, "I didn't. I saw the whole thing." She sounded close to crying, but she wasn't going to. "I knew that the tail was gone, but I couldn't bring myself to look back." She shook her head imagining the rough memory. "Then the front end of the plane broke off."

The orange haired girl remembered seeing the very tip of the plane falling into the forest, and looked closely at the girl with Jack. "Can I trust you?" Nami asked the girl out of nowhere.

"Huh?" Kate turned to the teenager and Jack looked at her, wondering if she was going to repeat what she said earlier at the med station. "Sure, you can trust me."

"Alright," Nami hoped the woman would stick by her word here. "I wasn't on the plane. I was on our ship that sank the same time your plane crashed."

Kate's eyes went wide and Jack was actually pretty surprised too as Nami kept talking. Now he was actually convinced they weren't on the plane. "When the plane hit shore, shrapnel ripped through our hull and we took on too much water. Before it hit though, I saw the tip of your plane rip off. Back then I wasn't paying much attention, but I did see it crash inland a few kilometers."

"Was it in that direction?" Kate pointed and Nami nodded. "I saw some smoke rising right through the valley." Jack looked deep in thought and the raven haired girl continued, "If you're going for the cockpit, I'm coming with you."

Jack chuckled with a shake of his head; he really didn't see a reason why she couldn't come. "How 'bout you?" He asked the orange haired girl who just shook her head.

"I'm going to stay here and watch over Luffy and Zoro..."

"I'll go," an excited voice said from behind them and they all spun with wide eyes as the boy in the straw hat was standing there. "Shishishi, sounds like an adventure!"

"Baka!" Nami jumped up and punched him so hard on the top of the head that he slammed into the floor. "Go rest for longer, you have way too many injuries!"

"I'm fine," Luffy groaned as he lifted back up and did little arm circles.

Kate whispered into Jack's ear as they argued, "Didn't you say he was going to be out for at least two days?"

"He should be," Jack muttered in response, wondering what was different about this teen and his friend.

Luffy turned from Nami who was still yelling at him and spoke to Jack directly. "I'll go with you to..." he stopped speaking mid-sentence and spun around. Everyone stared at him for a second wondering why he did that, and then they heard the noise.

It sounded like a huge crash mixed with a scream followed by an explosion. Luffy got that same bad feeling in his gut as he stared at the forest now as he did earlier.

Usopp shrieked at the horrific sound coming from the forest. "Monster!" He shouted in a panic as he looked that way and stood up with Sayid and Charlie.

"There's no such thing as-" Charlie stopped talking as they walked forward since one of the trees in the dark jungle shook.

Everyone on the beach started to stir as the noises got louder. Trees were shaking and it sounded like something was smashing into them. Usopp walked up the beach with Charlie and Sayid who were staring at the trees. The long nosed pirate was feeling very nervous, never having been off his island before.

Luffy, Nami, Kate, and Jack all walked up between the other people who stood up. Not everyone got up to move closer to the trees and check out the shaking, but quite a few did. The two Koreans, the bald guy, the black man and his son, the blonde smoking man, the tall blonde girl and her brother, the fat guy and pregnant girl, all gathered close to the tree line. Usopp ran ahead of Charlie and Sayid and up to Luffy. Both the sharpshooter and the navigator were hiding behind their captain a little as the boy in the straw hat stared out into the jungle in awe. They poked their heads out on either side and stared out with fear stricken faces, wondering what kind of monster could be making such a crazy noise.

CHCHCHCH EEEE CLACKACKACKEEEE BOOF! A tree toppled in the distance and whatever it was, it was big. They could follow the direction it was moving by the movement in the trees.

Jack stared in disbelief. He had no idea of what could possibly be doing this. "Terrific," Charlie commented sarcastically as the sounds started to die down.

A cracking sound was heard much closer to the group than the thing barreling through the trees. Usopp and Nami stayed where they were, but their captain started walking towards the trees. He had his right fist clenched and he pushed his left palm into it to crack his fingers.

"L-L-L-Luffy, what are you..." Usopp started but his captain's scream startled him enough to stumble back and lose track of what he was going to say.

Charlie's eyes turned huge as did every person around them as Luffy rose both hands high in the air. "Whatever it is, I'm gonna go catch it! I'M COMING MONSTER! RAAAAAAAA!" He charged off from the front of the group of survivors and into the trees where he disappeared into the brush.

Nami and Usopp both reached their arms out in front of them, but it was no use; he was already gone.

"What the Hell is that guy doing?" The blonde man with the stubble beard scoffed. He was trying to conceal how freaked out he was by the whole thing, but everyone was at least a little unnerved by now.

Jack looked to his right where Nami and Usopp were whispering to each other. "Should we go after him?" Usopp whispered, casting a glance at the people behind them. "I don't really trust all these people."

Nami looked at the doctor and Kate, then back at Hurley and Claire. "I think we should stay here for now." She might have thought these people were weird, but they weren't bad guys. "Besides, if they are bad, we can't just leave Zoro here alone with them."

The woman looked back towards the little makeshift medical center. He threw me out of the way of that explosion, her guilt was gnawing at her and she felt the need to go over and sit with him again.

"Want to explain what that kid thinks he's doing?" The two pirates turned and saw most of the group of people staring straight at them. The man who asked the question was the black guy with curly hair.

Nami sighed and turned away from them, "You heard him as well as I did. He's going to try and catch that thing, whatever was making that noise." She walked away and towards her unconscious friend. Usopp looked around at the people once more but couldn't handle the looks they were giving him and he ran off too.

Claire looked at Hurley. The two of them were there when the crazy green haired guy saved them from the plane's explosion. He did some crazy stuff, and apparently he was a pirate. "Who are these people?" Hurley whispered out loud and the pregnant girl stared over at them speechlessly.


Luffy scratched his head in the middle of the woods. He looked every direction around him, but he didn't see any trails that looked like monster footprints.

"That's strange, I thought it was this way for sure." Luffy stretched an arm up in the tree and pulled himself up to one of the higher branches. He looked around and didn't see any hints, but he did see something weird.

Back the way he came from, he could see bright lights and puffs of smoke up in the air. However, when he looked the opposite direction, he could swear he saw another puff of smoke and a small light just on the other side of a cliff on maybe the other side of the island. "Is someone else making a fire?" He scratched his chin, "I'll check it out tomorrow after I take a nap."

The pirate dropped from the tree and started walking back the way he came. He got a few feet before hearing something and stopping in his tracks.

The sounds started off as just wind through the leaves, but they quickly became more than that. Luffy could hear... whispering. "Haassppaasshh aassshh pssesssaah," the noises were coming from all around him and the teen was losing his composure a little bit.

"Hey! Who's there? Show yourself!" The whispering continued and he could start hearing words in the mix.

"SssaaAcceee, SsLufffyyhassa," the teen in the straw hat heard his brother's name and now he was really freaking out. How did these people whispering around him know who he was? The noises sounded like they were coming from right above him, and on all sides. It started to speak rapidly and in a hushed voice, "The three of us have to set out to sea someday."

Suddenly Luffy remembered where he'd heard this before and his breath caught in his throat. "S-Sabo?" Luffy looked around but all he saw were the rustling of branches of trees around him.

The whispering continued a little louder, "We'll get out of this country and be free. And be free, be free, be free," it kept repeating itself as it circled around Luffy. The pirate closed his ears with his hands and didn't want to hear anymore.

Sabo never did get out. He never was free! Tears were streaking down his face and he didn't even notice the whispering stopped and the wind stopped blowing. Luffy looked up in the sky and shouted at the top of his lungs, "SABO!"

A/N Hey everyone! So the passengers still don't know about the pirates, though Luffy's acting much stranger than most of them can even believe. He heads pretty far into the forest and hears the whispers. Just like Sawyer hears something a man he killed once said, Luffy heard from his dead older brother. It was pretty sad writing Luffy cry, but I hope you liked the scene. Leave a review telling me what you think below. 'Till next time!