Oh...God! Sorry that it took so long for this chapter to come out, guys! I had a MAJOR mind blank and it's been hard to continue. Good thing I have a sister who also likes to read this! She's been urging me on to write more because she likes it just as much as you guys do! :3
Anyhow...! (Pizza~! God... I want pizza so bad! I want to eat pizza while watching Megamind! Sorry, that was weird... I'll just continue with my...into...) Let's get this party started~!
I know I haven't been doing this but: DISCLAIMER: all of the chapters/fanfictions I have and will write belong to the Almighty Odacchi-sensei!
"Good...um...morning, class. Oh, and... uh... welcome back-possibly," a tall, tan teacher in the front of the room said. His voice was slurred and drowsy, his eyes droopy with bags under them. "I'd like to introduce... uh... hmm..." Suddenly, the teacher fell asleep all together.
"Mr. Hie!" the students called out his name at the stop of their lungs.
"What!" Mr. Hie gasped as he awoke from his short ... right. Children, I'd like to introduce our new student. He has come here all the way from... you know what, none of you care where he's from. Young man, please tell us your name and something about you."
Luffy looked up at the tall Mr. Hie from where he stood by his side and nodded at the teacher. He turned back to the large class and introduced himself, "Hello! My name is Monkey D. Luffy-"
Luffy was interrupted by the short giggles around the room. Luffy looked over at Sanji, who was staring up at him in worry. He was about to ask what he had done wrong, but he decided not to.
"Please, Mr. Monkey, continue," Mr. Hie urged.
"Um... All right," Luffy looked ahead and announced loudly, "And I'm going to be King of the Champions!"
His final sentence made the entire room, save for one person, burst out laughing. The one person that didn't laugh was an intimidating delinquent with a green hair and a wild, rocker-like style. He jumped up and gasped at the top of his lungs, "Wow!"
Everyone stopped and turned to the green-haired delinquent with annoyed glares. Another delinquent with red, spiky hair and goggles growled, "Seriously, Bartolomeo? What's wrong with you? That wasn't cool; it was stupid!"
"Oh..." Bartolomeo said quietly as he sat back down. When he looked back up at Luffy, however, he beheld him in utmost admiration.
"All right, Mr. Monkey," Mr Hie told him, "You can sit next to Mr. Roronoa."
Luffy looked over to see Zoro's eye widen in shock. He felt exuberance flowing throughout his veins as he ran over to see desk. The black-haired teenager wanted very dearly to become friends with Zoro. "Hello, neighbor! Isn't it funny that we're next to each other in almost everything?" Zoro glared at Luffy. His eyes did not reflect Luffy's own happiness.
Feeling a little hurt by Zoro's stare, Luffy looked off at the other people in the room. In front of him was a pretty, orange-haired girl. To his left was Zoro, and to his right was a dark-skinned teenager with an extremely long nose. The long-nosed boy was doodling something in the margin of his notebook paper. Luffy blinked and leaned over a bit to see that he was drawing a tall superhero-like man. The character stood tall and proud with a handsome, red cape flying behind him. On his face was an odd, yellow mask with a very long nose poking out of the nose-hole.
"Who's that?" Luffy whispered to him.
The teenager jumped in fright, darting his head over to see Luffy's grinning face. "W-who's this?" the long-nosed boy repeated, pointing at the superhero. "Oh, his name is Sogeking."
"Sogeking?" Luffy cocked his head to one side. "Is he a superhero? He kind of looks like it in the drawing from the way he's standing."
"Well, yes. Yes, he is a superhero," he answered, grinning wide.
"Oh! What comic's he from?"
"None, actually... well, not yet, at least," the teenager replied, "I made him. He's my own character with his own plot and his own design. He's the King of the Snipers and he originates from the great Sniper Island!"
"Ooh~! Sounds cool!" Luffy gasped. "And where's Sniper Island, exactly?"
"Well... it's, uh..." the young artist hesitated. Finally, he thought of something, "Sniper Island is in your heart!"
The words echoed through Luffy's mind. "In...my...heart?" It sounded so beautiful, so magical. It filled his heart with such joy to discover that something that sounded so awesome was inside it.
"That's right!" the teenager whispered back, "In your heart."
"Does that mean that awesome dude on the paper," Luffy asked as he began to tear up, "lives inside me, too?"
The long-nosed teenager looked down at the drawing. He stared at it for a while before smiling softly at the superhero portrayed on the thin piece of paper. "Yeah! Sogeking lives in us all giving us the courage to do the things that we'd be too scared to do ourselves. He's the hero that takes over when you don't have the courage or strength to do it by yourself for fear of being to weak. He shows us that there is strength in the weak!"
"Wow!" Luffy gasped. He looked down at his chest. "I didn't know that my heart held such epic power!"
"Oh!" The long-nosed boy put a hand forward for a handshake, "My name's Usopp! I'm going to be just like Sogeking one day!"
Luffy shook his hand. "I hope you accomplish that goal, Usopp!"
From behind the two young teenagers, two girls that ranked very high in the class status gossiped from behind them. One of the girls with long, black, wavy hair and dark green eyes. Makeup covered all of her features: she was determined to keep up with her 'natural born looks'. "Ugh! Look at those two! And after I started thinking that the new guy was a little cute he goes off and says such an idiotic thing... What do you think, Hancock?" The girl looked over at Hancock, the other woman sitting next to her.
"Hmm? Oh, yes. I can totally see where you're coming from, Alvida," Hancock nodded. Alvida and Hancock were known throughout the entire school for their 'never-ending beauty'. Every single man in the entire school was head over heels for the both of them. They were snobby and rude with stubborn, powerful attitudes. Whatever they wanted, they got. For most of the time, the two girls were two friends. When they weren't friends, it was when they were fighting over dominance over the school, or in large quarrels about which one was more beautiful. But, for the most part, they were friends, for Hancock didn't care about men one bit while Alvida did. As long as Hancock let Alvida get every single one of the men for herself, the two women remained as friends.
"I mean, looking at him, Hancock!" Alvida said, "He's puny and scrawny. There's no possible way that he's going to be strong."
"And 'King of the Champions'? What does that mean?" Hancock scoffed.
"Exactly!" Alvida agreed. "The best thing about him is his name! It's outrageous! What kind of surname is 'Monkey'? It sounds stupid!"
"I know," Hancock nodded, "He's my neighbor. He moved in about a week or so ago."
"Really?" Alvida snorted, "I'm sorry for you! He must be so obnoxious!"
"Well..." Hancock stopped, remembering how nice and friendly he had been to her, "He's..."
"He's what?"
"He's actually quite sweet, Alvida...!" Hancock hesitated.
"Wha-Excuse me?" Alvida hissed, "Did you just give him a compliment? What's wrong with you? It's plain to see that he's stupid! How could you like him, Hancock?"
"What! No, no! I never said that I liked him, I was just saying that he was sweet!" Hancock defended.
Alvida paused before turning away, not in the mood for an argument with Hancock. "Whatever..." she muttered.
Suddenly, the door slammed open, making Mr. Hie jump in shock. Everyone looked over to see a man standing in the doorway. He was an enormous man with a long, white, U-shaped mustache and brown hair. The man had wrinkles near his eyes and a black bandanna covering his brown hair. Mr. Hie gasped at the sight of him and exclaimed, "Principal Newgate! You surprised me!"
"Kuzan-I mean, Mr. Hie... There's going to be a visit in about a month from the Seifu Academy! The headmaster there is going to come and watch us to see if we're doing all right," Principal Newgate replied.
Mr. Hie's face turned bright red in anger. He pounded his hand down on the table loudly and exclaimed, "Darn! In a month? That's not enough time for me to get out of the country... They're probably tracking me down at this very moment, wondering why I, the former Vice Principal of Seifu Academy, ran away so quickly. Honestly, how could I remain there when there was that stingy Akainu Sakazuki always bothering me and the students?"
"Kuzan," Principal Newgate whispered to get his attention, "You're talking to yourself, again."
"Ah! Darn it! I always do that!"
"No, you always randomly start sleeping in the middle of lessons," the orange-haired girl in front of Luffy joined in.
"I don't need your comments..." Mr. Hie murmured coldly.
"Well," Principal Newgate said, "that was all that I came here to say, so good-bye students!" With that, Principal Newgate disappeared in a surprisingly quick way for a man of his age and size.
After five more minutes of class, Mr. Hie released them for their next class. Luffy was about to get up before the long-nosed boy stopped him. "Wait up!" he called to him.
Luffy looked over at the teenager in confusion. "Is there something wrong?"
Usopp smiled up at Luffy, "You're a pretty cool guy... Luffy, is it?"
"Yes!" Luffy nodded, "You're cool, too, Usopp!"
"Do you want to be friends?" Usopp asked.
Luffy felt his heart stop in happiness. No one had ever asked him to be friends. "F-friend?" Luffy repeated.
"Yeah!" Usopp nodded.
There was a long silence. Finally, Luffy jumped forward and clutched Usopp into an enormous hug, making him go a few inches off the ground. "I love to! Oh my God! This is so friggin' exciting! I'll be so loyal to you, Usopp! You'll see! I'll be the best friend you've ever had, like ever!"
"OK, Luffy!" Usopp coughed as his face started to turn purple, "Luffy...! You're too strong...! You're stopping the blood flow in my body...! Lemme go!"
Luffy gasped and dropped Usopp to the ground as if he had been hugging him lightly. "Oh, sorry, Usopp. That happens a lot. Everyone tells me that I'm stronger than I look, and it's true!"
"Seriously, man!" Usopp said as he stretched his back out, "What do you do to get like that?"
"I'm a professional martial artist! My grandpa started teaching me martial arts when I was seven years old... Well, five years old, to be precise. I've been fighting for twelve years!"
"Twelve years? Since you were five!" Usopp gasped, "You're like a child prodigy of martial arts or something!"
"Yep!"
"For God's sake! Get out of my classroom!" Mr. Hie barked gruffly from below his desk, "I'm trying to take a nap before third period and the next class comes in here! You're going to be late! Get lost!"
"Yes, Mr. Hie!" Usopp saluted. Usopp turned to Luffy and said, "Come on, Luffy! I'll lead you to Science Class!"
"Science Class?" Luffy repeated. Finally, he smiled a wide, toothy grin, "OK!"
Did you guys notice how epic Zoro's surname is? "Roronoa". That's so awesome! Zoro gets cooler every single time you mention him. I'm not a Zoro fan or anything, but it's just a true fact. You just can't deny it: Zoro's just epic.
For those Hancock fans out there who don't like me making her a rude person, don't worry: she gets better! ;)
Also, for those who were wondering in Chapter 2 when it was mentioned that Luffy was also the lost descendant of King Pakal the Great, if you were wondering who the heck that was, I'll tell you right now! His full name was K'inich Janaab Pakal, sometimes his name was spelled at "Pacal" as well. His name means "Sun Shield". Entering onto the throne at age 12, he died at the age of 80 years old after ruling for about 68 years. King Pakal the Great was one of the most influential leaders of Mayan culture. He ruled over the Mayan "city" Palenque, which is also the place where some of the most recognized temples of the Mayan world as we know it today.
King Pakal believed that he was a god with ancestors that lived in the heavens up above. He thought that when he died, his spirit would climb up to the stars and live with his ancestors up in the sky with them. This is representing from his eerie, yet beautiful, sarcophagus lid, which shows him being reborn as the God of Life, shown by the World Tree growing out of him. This led to Erich von Däniken's belief of that the lid proved the theory of "ancient astronauts", or the belief that the Mayans were helped or were connected with extraterrestrial beings. Däniken said that the sarcophagus lid and other ancient artifacts left behind were just to wonderful and too beautiful to be thought up by a normal human being. Everything about the Mayan's way of thinking and living was just too complex and extraordinary for anyone to ever comprehend. No man alive today probably would have been able of think up something so great that they discovered.
Yet, what really makes people wonder about ancient astronauts are the Rock Drawings in Valcamonica. These depict strange beings in odd uniforms. They very closely relate back to modern day astronauts. They appear to have round lids covering their heads. There are about 200,000 to 300,000 symbols and inscriptions of these strange designs all of the cave walls.
So... yeah. That's it for my alien lesson for today! I don't believe that the Mayans were helped by the aliens... they were just awesome people! :)
Anyways, see you next time! :) I'll publish Chapter 5 faster this time, don't worry! ;)