17 Ways to Mess Up Your Life
1 - Get pregnant
2 - Contract an STD
3 - Have sex before you are married
4 - Do drugs
5 - Drink Alcohol
6 - Put off your homework
7 - Get bad grades
8 - Dont do your chores
9 - Obsess over your appearance
10 - Drive drunk
11 - Drive high
12 - Drive dangerously
13 - Drive at all (You're not 17 until next month!)
14 - Talk to strangers
15 - Never get a job
16 - Fail to appreciate all that you have in life
17 - Piss off your parents
Love Mum and Dad
Steph rolled her dark grey/blue eyes eyes and put the hand written note (done out in her father's usual messy scrawl) back onto the counter and looked around the house to determine what her parents had taken with them on their trip. The new system of letting Steph know how long they would be gone for was her mothers idea of a funny Hip'N'Now joke to show their daughter that they were "still cool", one item on the list for each day that they would be at a work conference or some other trip out of state; so it appeared that she had the house to herself for 17 whole days. Steph walked out of the room that was both kitchen and entrance to the small but well furnished house and into the dining/living room. From there she headed upstairs to check on the study, art room, her parents bedroom and on-suite, household bathroom, and her own bedroom.
They hadn't taken too much with them on this trip, so she probably wouldn't have to go to the shops for at least a week. Steph smiled and chucked her school bag into her purple and green themed bedroom before heading back down to the living room to watch TV and internet serf on her laptop. Putting her gold streaked shoulder length chestnut brown into a messy pony tail, from which a number of layers managed to escape, she turned the TV onto background sound and brought up Wikipedia. One of her favorite pastimes was clicking the 'Random Article' button and reading whatever it was that came up. However she only read a couple of articles (All of which had been about almost unheard of capital cities of African countries) before her attention wavered and she decide to just zone out and watch TV for a while. However TV proved to be rather un-interesting, so Steph decided to blow off her home-work and get an early night.
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Steph woke with a jump, feeling like she had just been electrocuted. Wow...Ok She attempted to catch her breath and calm her heartbeat What was that? I don't even remember dreaming... Steph swung her feet sideways to get out of bed and screamed I'm on a dirt ground!?!? It was now that Steph looked around her, she was in a small clearing...In a forest. Steph shook her head and pinched herself, gasping when hurt. After a while she slowly rose to her feet, bare foot touching damp dirt That definitely doesn't feel fake, augh! its cold! Steph shivered, her long baggy teddy bear t-shirt and green boycut undies were not very good for retaining warmth.
Still not quite believing what was happening, Steph started out into the woods to look for help. Unconsciously following the slight downhill slant of the earth around her, Steph soon found herself next to the Ocean. The warm sand felt good on her cold feet, and Steph looked around her. In the distance to her right she could see smoke rising Maybe that a house or something... I hope they know what happened to me. Steph started off towards the smoke.
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Luffy cheered as the ship neared the island. "This one should be another deserted island" Nami commented. Usopp turned pale "L- Like with monsters and stuff???" he stammered. Nami shrugged "The last one didnt have any" she said. "But the one before that did!" Usopp reminded her. Nami froze, and when Usopp shouted that he had the 'I-Can-Not-Go-Onto-This-Island' desease Nami joined in.
"I think that Mika should stay on the boat" Nami called out to Luffy as they anchered. But she was too late, Luffy was already flying though the hair with his excitedly squealing daughter on his back, carrying two 'Pirate Lunch Boxes'. "Franky! Sanji! Zoro!" Nami shouted at the three. They all paused from what they were doing to look at her questioningly, expressions going from a range of utter love and devotion, to total annoyance. "Go with Luffy and protect Mika!" She commanded them. "Haiii Nami-Swaaann!!! I will protect the little maiden!" Sanji agreed instantly, taking off at a run after his Captain and the little girl. Zoro and Franky sighed, they had been planning on going on-shore anyway, so they might as well do what Nami said and doge a beating.
Nami breathed a sigh of relief Atleast Mika will be safe. And we still have Brook and Robin on ship.
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Steph knocked on the door to the small sea-side wooden cabin. "Hello?" She called, knocking again when there was no answer. Steph waited a while longer before she cautiously opened the door "Helooo?" She called out as the door creaked open. Inside was a single room, and a small wire haired old man. He looked up with an expression of surprise as the door opened. "Who are you?" he demanded, talking so quickly that Steph almost dint understand him. "My name is Steph...I was wondering if you could tell me how I ended up here?". The man went instantly deathly pale, causing Steph to worry about his health. "IT WORKED!!!!?" the man shouted, still talking absurdly quickly.
Apparently that's just how he speaks Steph thought to herself with a degree of amusement. "What worked?" she asked out loud. "And I was beginning to think that that stupid Devil Fruit I ate was completely useless!" the man continued, apparently not concerned with following normal conversational etiquette.
Steph was beginning to get a little freaked out by this odd man, but pressed on "what worked?". "My power of course!!!" The man said, as though this was obvious "I managed to finally bring a person back alive from another universe!!! After 20 years of failed mistakes!!! I always seem to forget something, the last guy I brought over had no eyes and ran straight into the mouth of a lion, more or less" the man almost babbled.
Steph turned pale "No... No eyes?" she proceeded to check herself for missing parts before breathing a sigh of relief Good, all here... Wait! What am I doing? this guy is obviously insane!? Steph backed out of the door, leaving the man to talk to himself about how great his accomplishments were. Once she was out of the room she took off at a run in the opposite direction.
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"Suuuuggooiiiii" Luffy said, standing with Mika on his back, one hand shading his eyes as he looked up at the giant monster "Its Huuuggggeeeeeeeee" Mika put in. Luffy agreed. "What is it?" Mika asked after a moment. "No idea" Luffy said "Lets jump on it, I bet it has an awesome view!". Luffy stretched out his arms to the (apparent) head of the giant fuzzy blue monster, and pretty soon he and Mika were towering over the trees and looking around at the island below them.
After a few minutes they heard the sounds of people roughly beating their way through the forest below them "Oi! Luffy" Zoro's distinct voice called out. Luffy and Mika leaned over the edge of the monster to look at the ground below them "Whats up Zoro?" Luffy asked the swordsman. Zoro paused for a moment as he took in the sight of his Captain and Mika sitting on top of a giant blue fuzzy monster before he turned beat red and began to yell at them "Get down from there! Nami is going to kill me if she see's that I let you take Mika near that thing!". Luffy pouted "But the view is awesome!!! Come seee!" he shouted back happily, stretching an arm down and pulling the protesting swords man up with him.
"Whooo!!! Its MOVING Dad!!!" Mika shouted excitedly as the giant creature began to walk. Luffy laughed and held onto his hat as the wind began to pick up around them, Zoro glared at his captain Nami is going to kill me he thought.
A scream brought the 3 pirates attention back to the ground in front of them. "Whose that?" Zoro asked, indicating the strange girl on the ground in front of them. She was gaping up at the monster and the crew with such an expression of utter terror that Zoro felt obliged to call down "Dont worry, you're safe". The girl feinted.
Zoro made an annoyed sound before jumping off the monster towards the young woman, Luffy, Mika and the Monster all paused what they were doing to watch him.
"Oi, Girl" Zoro said, shaking the girl a little. When she didnt respond he made a "Che" sound and picked her up. "Luffy" he called up "Im gonna take her back to the ship. Dont get Mika killed". Luffy grinned and waved at him as the monster again took off, walking away from Zoro and the shore.
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After getting lost, Zoro eventually found his way back to the Thousand Sunny. He jumped up on deck, causing Nami to shout at him for not doing what she said, before she caught sight of the girl he was carrying. "Whose that?" she asked. Zoro shook his head "No idea, Oi! CHOPPER!". Chopper came running, halting when he saw the newcomer "Is she ok?" he asked, sounding concerned. "I dunno, you're the doctor" Zoro reminded him, carrying her into Chopper's infirmary and lying her down on the available bed, before leaving to go have a nap on deck.
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Steph woke slowly Augh, it was all a she thought with a sigh of relief as she realised that she was her own bed Thank goodness, that monster was terrifing! Steph sat up and froze, in front of her was a small reindeer wearing a doctors lap coat, he turned at the sound of her stirring and smiled "Oh you're awake!?". "Uh? You can talk?" Steph asked uncertainly. The Reindeer nodded. "My name is Chopper" he introduced herself. Steph hesitated "Uh...Im Steph.