What is going on on the Going Merry? Has Midna finally given up fussing? Where is Usopp and Chopper? Will Luffyever reach his destination?
Disclaimor: Nope, noone here owns One Piece or Zelda....including myself....
The ship felt lonely. Nami hated being on the ship by herself. Sure there was Sanji, he was strong and thus a comfort, but honestly how much of "Nami-swan I love youuuuuu!" and "You want anything else my beautiful tangerine?" could one girl take? It's no wonder Robin wanted to ditch the ship. She'd just have to sit put and endure it.
Her thought process was cut short when she noticed something. Some one was watching her from a window. When she looked, the person ducked failing to realize the hair atop their head was still visible. Nami looked down, the face looked in and jolted down again when Nami suddenly looked up.
"Are you an idiot?" she yelped throwing a fork at the wall. The sudden noised made the person let go with a splash of marbled waves speckling the window.
"Nami-swan? Are you ok?" Sanji barged in worried sick for his delicate angel.
"There's a peeping-perv on the side of the ship…"
Without another word Sanji was gone, Nami went back to her work.
Out on deck, Sanji stopped at the sight of this beautiful young lady. Her medium slightly spiked white hair with yellow tips, gorgeous green eyes and delicate thin figure all dripping from falling into the water.
"Here my lovely lady, to dry those clothes and prevent your getting ill!" A swift turn and bend to one knee put him right in front of her, holding his jacket in a generous and caring manner.
She stopped ringer out her shirts bottom half to look at him in disgust, "Dude! I'm no lady, look pansy, guys chest!" he said pulling up his shirt.
Sanji shuddered within but just as readily retaliated, "Yeah, I can tell that now! You sound like a jerk, and no lady sounds like a jerk!" How could have mixed this jerk with a beautiful woman? He may never forgive himself. "So, why were you spying on Nami-swan? Huh, creep?" He lifted up his leg.
"She looked delicious, kekeekeke!"
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He was close, Usopp could tell by the freshness of the trail. Despite being side tracked by slipping off a mud patch into a tree with a bee's nest and running from the swarm for half an hour, Usopp had managed to close the gap between them.
"See, I told you I could track him down! I am…The GREAT HUNTER USOPP! The only man to have ever tracked a dodo and lived!" his finger pointed high in the sky and chiseled features rippling the shadows of his face.
"Amazing!" Chopper chirped his eyes sparkling in shear awe, "What'd you do with it?"
"Well…uh, I considered keeping it as a trophy, but instead I… sold it! I got millions of berries for it and donated it ALL to the Animal Humane Society! Of course!"
"Amazing, Usopp you're so kind!" Chopper clapped his hooves in appreciation, before stopping and sniffing, "Usopp, that way, I can smell that dog's sent again!"
With a nod they raced off in the direction the deer had pointed. Running they caught sight a guy dressed in all green, blonde hair swept back across the left side of his face. "Sanji?" Usopp questioned wondering why he was out here when Nami had sent himself, and just what that imp thing he's talking to was, "Hey, Sanji!" He ran faster to catch up, Chopper close at his heels.
"Sanji!" Chopper smiled running up and grabbing at his pant leg, Usopp put a hand on his shoulder letting out a breath.
The man looked at him in, not shock, but slight confusion. Usopp stared back a second, you could almost see his brain ticking.
"You're not Sanji!" he shrieked jumping back. Chopper gasped doing the same when he looked up.
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"What is this place?" Robin spoke softly to help her consideration. She had slept in the cave that night, it was quite warm which was a surprise. What surprised her even more was when she had awaken, there was light coming from further on in the cave. Upon entering the light, she had come to a great pasture and glowing warm rocks that hung atop the very high cave ceiling.
The pasture was filled with giant beasts, sheep and goats, grazing on what looked like grass mushroom hybrids growing up from the ground. Robin considered pulling out her small notepad to take notes but reconsidered when she saw a woman take notice of her from the fields.
Robin went closer and bowed politely, "This is a most magnificent place, might I ask where exactly this is?" The woman grimaced at her question getting up and pulling her flowered hat down more around her ears, "I'm sorry, am I not suppose to be here?"
"Oh, my, no, you're very much welcome," she replied the shadow of her hat hiding the expression in her eyes, "do follow me," she turned and headed off to a structure towards the center of the large area. Robin obliged, but felt uncomfortable seeing the slight smirk on the woman's face before she had turned.
"Mind if I ask a few questions about this place?" Robin asked.
"Not at all, but after we get to the house. It's deathly hot out today and we wouldn't want you to fry."
Robin could almost imagine a "yet" being added to the end of that sentence, but followed. Still keeping her senses alert. The walk was pleasant enough and the animals were very mild, once in awhile looking up in curiosity before continuing their meal.
The house looked normal, though very old in style, and of fair size. When she entered, she was caught off guard by the smell. It was faint and she couldn't quite recognize it but it made her sick.
"Might I get you something to eat? We have some very lovely meat stew from last night."
Though most certainly not, she lied, "I'm a vegetarian."
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"Dang!" Sanji said getting to his feet. When he went to kick the guy, aka jerk, he had somehow dodged Sanji's attack and whacked him hard with something. Looking over, Sanji could now see that it was a very large pair of shearing scissors.
"Kek, didn't think I could avoid you so easily, huh?" his teeth shown in a sneer.
"No, I expected it from you to move like a girl, he hated using women as an insult, but this guy quite frankly ticked him off.
"I'm not a girl," he cried, "look guy!" he yanked on his pants revealing just enough to prove his point, then pulled them up again.
"Good, then I can kick your butt just fine," Sanji said charging towards him. In response he tore off and tossed aside the leather casing to his shears, racing at him. Sanji raised a leg to kick strait at him. The jerk opened his shears with a metallic shing noise holding it ahead of him. At the glimmer of the sharp metal Sanji halted his attack, instead stomping that foot into the ground and swinging his other foot up into the flat side of the shears.
The jerk gaped, such strength he could never hope to grasp, the shears being flung strait up into the powder blue sky. He was distracted with the sheer height to hear Sanji's "Mouton Shot" before a foot made contact with him, smashing him off the ship and into the sandy beach.
His eyes whirled, and mouth twitched, Sanji only felt bad, there was no pride in defeating the weak. Even if annoying, this man wasn't worth thinking about the effort you wouldn't need to defeat him. Sanji merely stepped aside when the sheers came down and clanked against the decks wooden panels. With a slight kick the sheers landed next to the jerk's head, and Sanji headed inside, "Maybe this place isn't so dangerous after all," he sighed walking to Nami's location.
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When he had heard Usopp's voice, Luffy shot over, "Usopp! Guess what, I found a new nakama, who you just met!" Usopp just looked at Link and back at Luffy.
"Gr, quit ignoring me!" Midna shot out, "he's not joining your nakama and we're leaving this stupid island as soon as possible!" her face was glowing redder with irritation.
"Uh, Luffy? Who's the imp?" Usopp asked, now from behind him.
"Oh, that? That's Midna thing, she tends to act like that. She's a friend of Wolfie so we just don't really worry about it, he said with a shrug. Midna nearly strangled the boy if Link hadn't of intervened once again.
Zoro walked over, "Eh, good to see you're in one piece, but why are you both here?"
"Well, Nami sent me to get you two. She sent Sani yesterday, but he came back with an animal instead so she sent me, the great HUNTER USOPP!" he dramatized this with a pose.
"Oi, Luffy," Zoro said ignoring Usopp's display, "Nami's looking for us, we should head back."
"If it's that way," he smiled broadly only to frown at Usopp's shaking head.
"No it's that way," he pointed, "I marked the trail so we wouldn't get lost!" he rubbed his chin, "Cuz, I'm th…"
"Then I'm not going, come on, guys!" Luffy walked on in his own direction, Zoro shrugged at Usopp and followed his captain.
"But-but…ah, Nami's gonna kill me," he said following. Midna defeated, did the same. Link however had stayed behind going up to an old rotting tree, with a mostly visible little deer hid. He jumped, hiding more completely as Link knelt down.
"What do you want?" Chopper sputtered. Link slightly smiled, "Luffy trusts you doesn't he?" Link nodded. Chopper came out slowly, clip-clopping over and barely touched his hand. He jolted back behind the tree, and Link's face turned to a concerned look. After a couple more minutes of this Chopper gave in and took Link's hand, "you're not that scary!" Link nodded patting his hat. Chopper then ran off ahead to catch up with the others and Link followed after.
Caught up with Luffy, Usopp looked around when something occurred to him, "eh, Luffy when we tracked you, we followed some signs from a dog, but," he looked around, "Where's the dog?"
"I don't know, Chewy ran ahead hours ago," he said starting to pick his nose.
"Chewy? Hey stop that!" Usopp gave him a smack to the back of his head.
"Hey," Luffy rubbed his head, then stopped to listen, "I think I hear him."
"Who?" Usopp tried to listen, as Chopper ran over.
"He's saying he found something delicious," Chopper looked up at Luffy who smiled. "Huh, delicious! Good boy!" the boy sprang to the distant noise. Usopp confused, Chopper running after, and the others walking along at their leisurely pace.
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"So, this is the island where the great agriculturist started her pioneer studies. I've heard of Emera Hodel but I never expected the island to still be cultivated," Robin drank more tea, putting together the pieces.
"Yes, yes she was a great woman and all, but never mind that, how about I show you around?"
"Thank you, but I should get back to my ship," she wished to not reveal that the others were on the island too.
"Oh, I insist, you must come and I'll show you everything you're curious about," she clapped her hands together getting up, "Now this way," she gestured to the back door.
"I'm sorry, I must be going," Robin said more stern then before getting up, "Good day." She headed for the door hurriedly, but stopped noticing the woman's shadow changing. Fur growing over her body, her form becoming larger. Robin turned to see the frightful creature looking back down at her.
"I insist you stay-ay-ay!" it growled, Robin quickly opened the door with a hand from out the wall. She dashed towards the opening and was gone before the beast could shrink enough to fit through its own door.
Robin ran down the fields the entrance a ways away, the creature now exited from the house called out a horrid noise. Without notice, Robin was rammed into a fence by the horn of a goat monster as it clawed at the ground, charging. She immediately scrambled up, blood escaping the side of her arm, flowing amongst her fingers.
As they came at her, she dodged, weaving and flipping over as many as she could, though she couldn't avoid one ram's horn as it thrusted into her back making a sickening cracking noise while she gasped in air. The momentum slung her high up only to come crashing down into the mushroom hybrids, along the pasture's edge, that cushioned her fall.
Quickly getting up, nearly crippling she almost made it to the entrance when another goat came to charge her from the side. She focused and with the words "Sies Fluer" sprouted six arms grabbing firmly onto its horns. Though they cut into her fingers, she managed to hold tight as she ran up to it and jumped onto its shoulders.
With a kick it reared slightly but ran forward in Robin's desired direction and she released its head. It moved in high speeds thorough the cave, soon natural light filtered the opening making Robin glad to see the real daylight even if her view was hazy.
When out of the cave, a sigh of relief escaped her lips as she leapt from the animal that continued is aimless running. Her muscles shuddered now that the adrenaline had run out only allowing her to get a small distance from the cave before she fell.
"Robin?" a silhouette came forward, "hey?" The woman was out.
One complaint that was a little bit annoying for you all was, chapter size, so instead of breaking it up i kept it together as on larger chapter. I can't help the jumping around. It just goes with my writing style i suppose. i did try to seperate the different story lines so that its easier to follow... Anyway, sorry this was long coming! i finally got around to typing it out today. I hope you like the turn of events. And i am not a Robin basher....its just she happend to be in the wrong place at the wrong time! sorry! Well, enjoy! 3