Chapter Seven: Snow and the Flu
Summary: Luffy watches the snow from inside and thinks about the joys of it even though he can't go outside and have fun himself.
Disclaimer: One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda!
"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." Luffy thought as he watched the beautifully crafted flakes falling from the endless white sky. "At least I think that's how the song goes. I love snow. It's white like a soft blanket and it can be tough to for making snowballs. Right now the whole deck is covered with at least three feet of snow! Poor Chopper needs to walk on stilts because he sinks down and all you can see are his antlers. If it weren't for those, he never would've been found! I was the one who found him and he was great full but then forced back in the infirmary because… Because I'm…"
"ACHOO!"
Luffy sneezed so hard that he fell off the chair he was sitting on and accidentally knocked it over when he did.
"I HATE BEING SICK!"
Luffy stood up and put the chair back where it was. Then he went up to the window he was looking out from before and put his forehead against it.
"It's not fair. Usopp and Brook are having a snowball fight and I'm stuck in here!" Luffy thought with a sigh which fogged up the window a little. "Chopper was playing with them earlier but then stopped to check on me. He says I have the flu, a fever and a cough. I haven't coughed in a while so hopefully it's going away. Don't you hate it when you don't cough for a while but as soon as someone walks in you start coughing like crazy? Then they tell you that you're still sick even though you tell them you're fine. Sometimes it's the other way around, though. … I'm hungry. I was going to eat soup but it didn't have any meat in it so I didn't eat it. It's actually still there so it must be cold. Speaking of cold…"
"It's freezing! Where's my blanket?!" Luffy said looking around and then spotted it on the floor where he fell off the chair before. He grabbed and wrapped himself in it and resumed looking out the window.
"I'm so bored! All that precious snow and I can't even touch a flake! Wait… Chopper said I couldn't go outside. He didn't say anything about opening the window and feeling the snow."
Luffy smiled and then opened the window which quickly let in the cold air. He placed his hand outside and many ice cold white and blue snowflakes landed on him. Luffy enjoyed it so much that he started laughing to himself. He even enjoyed the smell of the cold air which made him cough a little but he didn't care.
"You know what? I'm going outside!"
Luffy ran away from the window and over to bed but then tripped over the chair that was conveniently left behind him.
"Get out of my way!" Luffy said madly kicking the poor chair across the room and then cursed at it.
Luffy grabbed his two jackets, which Nami wanted him to wear because he's sick, put on his sandals, (Nami gave him a pair of Zoro's boots but they didn't fit him) his scarf, earmuffs, straw hat and his mittens.
"I'm ready to go!"
He opened the door and ran out. Suddenly, he bumped into someone or in this case, a few someone's and next thing he knew, he was on the floor.
"Luffy, what're you doing!?" Nami yelled sitting up.
"I'm staying outside!" Luffy said sitting up to. "It's boring being in that room!"
"You're sick!" Chopper argued. "You have to stay inside! Doctor's orders!"
"But…"
"Doctor's orders!"
Luffy pouted and just sat down in the snow with his arms crossed.
"I don't wanna stay inside." He mumbled.
"Luffy, please go inside." Nami said nicely.
"No."
Nami and Chopper looked at each other and then at Luffy. Then Chopper turned into his Heavy Point form and grabbed him.
"I don't wanna go in the room!" Luffy yelled as he grabbed the wall that was opposite of the door. "Let me go!"
"Get in the room!" Nami said trying to get his hands off the wall.
"I don't want to!"
"Let go!" said Chopper trying to get him in the room.
"No~!"
As they argued, everyone was just watching them with a sweat drop forming behind their heads.
"Let go and we'll give you food!" Nami persuaded still trying to loosen Luffy's grip on the wall.
"I wanna play in the snow!" Luffy whined.
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"It took about ten minutes but Nami and Chopper finally managed to get me in the room." Luffy thought. "This is what happens when you don't listen to your doctor... You get tied onto a bed by force and then you really can't go anywhere! Stupid snow!"
Luffy struggled to get the ropes loose but Nami tied them so he wouldn't be getting out any time soon. "I can't wait for winter and this dumb flu to be over!" Then his stomach growled. "And I'm still hungry!"
This chapter was a little longer than I thought it would be but I'm happy because I had fun with it. That's what matters, right?
It snowed here yesterday so that's what inspired me do this chapter.
Review, please! :D
