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Natsu was startled awake when Luffy yelled, "It's fixed!"

Natsu looked around completely confused on what was happening. "I just mended the cuts," Nami told him as a needle and thread were in her hands and added as she placed her stuff away, "I think that should do it. Try not to poke it too much."

"Right, right! Thanks! You did a great job in fixing this hat!" Luffy poked the top his hat and his finger went through the top of the hat and Natsu face palmed.

Nami realized what happened and yelled at Luffy, "Didn't you listen to what I just said?"

"Share some food with us!" Zoro demanded from Nami and Natsu closed his eyes once more.

"Oh please! You need to be more prepared! You don't bring food or water and you dare to go to sea. You underestimated the sea!" Nami told them.

"Ah! I see something!" Luffy said something completely off topic.

"Is it food?" Natsu opened an eye in interest.

"It's miracle you've survived up to now!" Nami commented.

"There's always a way!" Zoro told Nami.

"I've gone hungry many times before. This is nothing," Natsu answered Nami's comment and asked Luffy again, "Do you see food? If it's a Sea King or something, I can cook it."

"No, it's an island!" Luffy answered.

"That island is no good," Nami looked at the island through binoculars, "It's unpopulated so it's useless! Let's just keep going!"

Luffy was already rowing towards the island. "Wait!" Nami yelled at them.

"Let's see if we can find someone who would join us there," Luffy told Natsu and Zoro, "And let's look for food too. You know, Nami was right. We seem to have no plans!"

Natsu gave a laugh. "Does it matter if we have plans at all?" He asked them, but there was no answer at all.

Luffy got them to the island with Nami following behind. "We've reached the isolated island!" Luffy and Nami walked on to the beach, Natsu followed after them. "There's nothing here, but forest!" Nami told Luffy, "Like I said, this is an unpopulated island! It would be weird if you found someone for the crew here!"

Luffy completely ignored her. "Hey! Zoro, come over here!" Luffy called out.

Zoro was in the boat asleep. "Hey, you're sleeping!" Luffy complained.

"Let's leave him. He can watch the boats," Natsu told Luffy.

"You're right! Well, let's go!" Luffy marched towards the forest.

"Go where?" Nami asked.

"Toward the forest! You never know, there might be people there!" Luffy told Nami.

"There's no one here, but poisonous snakes and wild animals!" Nami tried to convince Luffy.

"I would've turned him around now, you know," Natsu hinted to Nami and was given a face that showed a bit of shock as she understood what Natsu meant. "Don't worry, we'll be just fine," Natsu reassured her and went after Luffy who was taking a look around the forest. They caught up to him when an animal who was a mix of a fox and rooster passed by them. They watched as it passed by. "What is that?" Nami asked.

"Hey look! What a weird rabbit!" Luffy held onto a snake-rabbit.

"It's weird alright, but I think it's a mutant snake," Nami told Luffy.

Natsu looked around, knowing the animals on the island were really weird. "How about that lion?" Luffy pointed to a lion-pig.

"That-that's a pig, isn't it? A weird mutant pig," Nami pointed out and reached the conclusion, "This forest, it's really weird!"

Her eyes reached Natsu and she came closer to him. "You lied to me, didn't you?" Nami yelled at Natsu.

"Couldn't be helped. There was something really weird about this island that I wanted to see as well," Natsu told her, unaffected from Nami's angry face.

Nami sighed helplessly. "Don't come closer! Get out!" A voice called out to them.

Smiles disappeared as they looked around to find out what that sound was. "What was that sound? Who are you?" Nami called out.

"Me? I am the forest guardian!" The voice answered.

Natsu looked around to find where the source of the voice was coming from. "The forest guardian?" Luffy asked.

"That's right! If you still want to live, then leave at once!" The voice warned them and added, "You are pirates, aren't you?"

"Yes!" Luffy answered.

"Why did he ask that?" Nami asked, suspicious.

"So you are pirates!" The voice said and continued, "Listen well. Don't take a step further to the forest! Or else you will face the forest's judgment!"

"Who cares!" Luffy said.

"What exactly is that?" Nami asked, a bit scared.

"What a weird guy," Luffy told them.

"Hey, the brat with the straw hat, what did you just say?" The voice asked angrily.

"Where are you, come out!" Nami demanded.

Luffy, the voice seems to be coming from over there," Natsu pointed into the direction and Luffy agreed.

"Hey! I told you not to come closer!" The voice told them as soon as Luffy stepped a step forward, the voice said, "Receive the forest's judgment!"

Something hit Luffy's back and made his back arc from the force and Luffy sent it flying back. "What a shock! That was a bullet, right? So bullets don't hurt you!" Nami said.

"It would've been bad if it was a sword. We got really lucky," Natsu sighed in relief.

"Yeah, but that surprised me too!" Luffy admitted.

"What-what kind of thing are you?" The voice asked, a bit frightened.

"That's our line!" Luffy told him.

"The bullet was fired from there!" Natsu told them.

"Look there's a pistol!" Nami realized as a treasure chest with a huge afro sat next to the pistol.

They neared it, curious. "What's this?" Luffy asked.

"It doesn't look normal," Nami admitted.

"It has a human smell to it," Natsu told them.

It began to move quickly away from them. "Ah! It's moving!" It surprised Nami.

Then it fell flat down onto the ground and let out a sound of surprise. "Hey! Why don't you lift me up?" A man's head popped out.

"Wow! It's a man!" Nami said in surprise.

"Lift me up!" The man ordered them.

"Why are you so angry? You tripped yourself," Nami told him.

"What an interesting cauliflower head! Cauliflower Man!" Luffy said.

Natsu looked over the man carefully, seeming to recognize him. "Gaimon, was it?" Natsu asked.

The man stopped yelling at them. The man studied Natsu for a bit of time. Recognition showed in his eyes. "Ah! I didn't expect to see you again!" The man seemed to recognize Natsu.

"Gomu Gomu fruit, it's a Devil's Fruit, right?" Gaimon asked and continued, "I have heard about that before. But it is the first time I have met someone who actually ate that kind of fruit."

"It's the first time I've met someone who's stuck in a treasure chest too. You're like a son in a box," Luffy told Gaimon.

"Yeah, my parents took care of me when I was still small. Are you an idiot?" Gaimon asked.

"Don't worry, Gaimon. I lived with him for the past ten years so you'll have to get used to him," Natsu told him.

Gaimon sighed and continued, "I got stuck in here and I can't get out! I've lived on this island like this for 20 years already! Can't you understand what I've been going through?"

"What? 20 years? Lived on this island by yourself?" Nami asked.

"Yes, 20 years," Gaimon repeated himself.

"Except 2 of those months was with me," Natsu reminded him.

"That's really stupid!" Luffy told him.

"What did you say? I'm gonna kill you!" Gaimon threatened Luffy.

""Gaimon, bear with him. He's an idiot so you'll have to bear with it," Natsu calmed Gaimon down.

Gaimon gave a sigh. "20 years, what a long time! My hair and mustache have already grown this long and even my eyebrows are connected," Gaimon admitted.

"I haven't talked to anybody for 20 years," Gaimon told them.

"Gaimon, about 10 or 11 years ago I had spoken to you! I might've been sick and I don't really remember what happened, it doesn't mean that you haven't spoken to anyone," Natsu was a bit irritated.

"You were small and you didn't even give your name. The most you told me about was the dragon you were looking for," Gaimon told him and asked, "Are you still looking for that dragon?"

"He's been missing and I can't find him still. He's no where in the East Blue, that's for sure," Natsu told him.

Luffy then came over and pulled on Gaimon's head. "It hurts! It hurts! What the hell are you doing?" Gaimon asked through pain.

"Why can't I pull you out?" Luffy asked.

"Stop! Stop! My neck's gonna break!" Gaimon ordered Luffy and Luffy let go.

"You're crazy! I haven't moved in years!" Gaimon yelled at Luffy, "My body and this treasure chest have already become one! If you are going to forcefully pull me out, then my body will be done for!"

"I offered to burn it off for you. You still don't want to take that option?" Natsu asked.

"No!" Gaimon answered Natsu.

"But, how did you get to this island?" Nami asked.

"You mentioned earlier that you were pirates, right?" Gaimon wanted to clarify.

"Yes, there are 4 of us," Luffy told him.

"I was also once a pirate!" Gaimon told them.

"Oh!" Luffy was a bit surprised.

"It's nice being a pirate, venturing for treasures, it's even okay if I risk my life," Gaimon told them.

"Do you have any maps? We have a navigational map for the Grand Line! I'm going for One Piece!" Luffy told Gaimon.

"What? One Piece? And you intend to go to the Grand Line?" Gaimon asked.

"It might be where my dad is as well. That's why I'm sort of tagging along," Natsu told him.

Luffy sat down next to Gaimon. "Um, which one is the Grand Line?" Gaimon asked as the map was shared between eachother.

"This, Uncle Cauliflower Head. You don't know?" Luffy asked.

Natsu sighed and lay down on the floor as if he was finished talking to them. "I don't really know how to read maps!" Gaimon admitted.

"Oh, I see!" Luffy and Gaimon laughed together.

"Is that how pirates are supposed to talk?" Nami asked.

Nami took the map from them. "Listen! Do you know the Red Line?" Nami asked.

"I know! That's the land that separates the oceans," Gaimon told her the answer.

"Yes! There are 2 oceans in this world! And the land that splits the world's two oceans is called the Red Line!" Nami gave her little lesson.

"Using the Red Line as the center, draw a line around the world across the opposite way and that is the Grand Line!" Nami told him.

Nami continued, "In history, only the Pirate King, Gold Roger has conquered this route! Also, it is the most dangerous route!"

"One Piece surely in that place! That means we need to sail around the world!" Luffy told Gaimon.

"Idiots! That place is not that easy to find! It also has another name, 'The Pirate's Graveyard'," Gaimon told them, "Long ago, I saw pirates that returned from the Grand Line."

"Every one of them had lost their spirit and looked as if they were dead. Their facial expressions were even more painful to look at. It looked like they had met something horrid. Perhaps a dreadful pirate or perhaps a monster," Gaimon told them the horrid tale, "Nobody dared to talk about it. You could see from their look, the horror of the Grand Line!"

They looked a bit surprised from the story except Natsu. "I have other proof than this. The rumors only made it more and more mysterious! It's already been more than 20 years since the beginning of the Great Pirate Era. That treasure might be nothing more than legend," Gaimon continued to try and scare them with tales of the Grand Line.

"Can you see now? One Piece is only a dream inside a dream" Gaimon finished.

"Is that so? I think that there is a better ending, right?" Luffy asked.

"If a person really found such a treasure, he wouldn't tell anybody!" Nami told him, "That is what a smart person would do!"

I will surely find the treasure because I'm always lucky," Luffy began a wide grin.

"I just can't understand where you get such confidence," Nami told Luffy.

"Gaimon, you can't change Luffy's mind. Once he decides, there isn't anything to change his mind," Natsu sat up.

Gaimon watched them and then changed the subject, "Now I will tell you why I can't leave this island."

"Oh! Why is that?" Luffy got distracted by his conversation changer.

"It's because I'm not mature! I don't know how to adapt to the changes in situations!" Gaimon told them.

"What?" Luffy asked as they were all very confused.

"It happened 20 years ago, I was a pirate and the ship docked on this island because we found a map that said that there was treasure on this island," Gaimon began to tell his story on the treasure and how he had gotten stuck in the very treasure chest he's in now.

"No one came to this island in the past 20 years?" Luffy asked again.

"Yes! People came. There were many times they were all pirates looking for the treasure, but I used the forest's judgment to scare them all away!" Gaimon told them.

"Except me. I had washed up on the beach and I don't remember much after that," Natsu added into the story.

"My eyes were never wrong! I'm very sure that there's a lot of treasure on that large rock hill!" Gaimon told them.

"I've been stuck in this chest! I've only been able to protect the treasure these past 20 years! That treasure is all mine!" Gaimon told them.

"That's right! Those are yours, Uncle!" Luffy nodded in agreement.

"Okay, Gaimon-san! We'll help you bring down those treasures!" Nami decided.

"What? Is that true? That's very nice! I knew I hadn't misjudged you!" Gaimon praised them.

"Aren't you a professional thief that steals treasure from pirates?" Luffy asked Nami.

"Don't speak nonsense! I have my principles too!" Nami told him.

"She can try to escape with the treasure, but she won't get away," Natsu reassured Luffy.

"This is it. It's been a long time since I came here," They stood in front of a weird steep mountain.

"But why haven't you asked anyone to help you before?" Luffy asked.

"Because I don't trust anybody and anyone who sees me like this wouldn't believe me anyway," Gaimon answered.

Natsu analyzed the mountain. "I've waited for this moment so long. Today is the happiest day of my life!" Gaimon told them with a smile on his face.

"Okay, go for it!" Nami encouraged Luffy to go up.

"You want me to go up there?" Luffy asked.

"Of course! Do you think that I can climb this?" Nami asked Luffy.

"You might as well go, Luffy. You'll be able to get up there easiest," Natsu encouraged Luffy.

"I'm counting on you, Straw Hat Kid," Gaimon told Luffy.

"Okay," Luffy gave a smile and stretched his arm out and caught the edge on the top of the mountain.

Gaimon looked impressed and Luffy launched himself up on to the mountain as the three at the bottom watched. "Wow!" Gaimon said.

"There really are some treasure chests up here! There are five of them!" Luffy told them, holding one of them tightly.

"That's great! Quick! Drop them here! But don't hit me," Gaimon laughed out of joy.

"No way!" Luffy told him, a smile on his face.

Natsu sniffed the air and realized what Luffy was getting at. "What?" Gaimon asked.

"What the hell are you talking about? Stop joking around and drop the treasure chests now! Tell him, Natsu!" Nami ordered Natsu.

Natsu didn't say anything as his arms were crossed over his chest. "Hurry up and drop them down to us!" Nami realized that Natsu wasn't going to do what she asked so she ordered Luffy.

"I don't wanna do that!" Luffy refused.

"Don't you dare come down here again!" Nami threatened Luffy.

"Forget about it! It's okay if he doesn't want to drop them here!" Gaimon told Nami.

"How can that be? That's your treasure!" Nami argued against Gaimon.

"Straw Hat Kid, you-you are a good person," Gaimon told Luffy.

"What? What are you saying?" Nami asked Gaimon.

"Actually, I've thought about it before. It might be a possibility, but I always try hard not to think about it," Gaimon began and Luffy sat down on the edge of the cliff, the smile on his face disappeared.

Natsu looked to the floor in disappointment, knowing what had happened. "The treasure chests are empty, aren't they?" Gaimon started to cry.

Nami suddenly was filled with shock, guilt, and realization. "They're all empty," Luffy confirmed.

"The treasure on the map actually did exist, but by the time we found the map, the treasure had already been taken by other people," Gaimon continued to cry.

"How can that be? The treasure you guarded for 20 years is just a bunch of chests!" Nami couldn't believe it.

"So disappointing," Natsu admitted.

Luffy laughed aloud. "Don't be disappointed, Uncle! You meeting us after these 20 years is a really good thing too!" Luffy told Gaimon, "'Cause if it had been 30 years, you might've already be dead!"

"Straw Hat Kid," Gaimon couldn't believe his words.

Natsu smiled and looked up at Luffy. "Luffy," Nami said, also not believing Luffy's words.

"Don't worry. There is still the great treasure, One Piece, waiting for us! Will you join us, Uncle?" Luffy asked.

"You-you-you're inviting me?" Gaimon asked.

"As I thought he has going to do," Natsu sighed.

"Uncle, are you sure you're really going to stay on this island?" Luffy asked as they were now on the shore.

"Yes! Thank you for inviting me, but I still want to be the forest guardian," Gaimon answered.

"Why?" Luffy asked.

"Because there are many rare animals in this forest," Gaimon gave his reasoning.

"You're right! We saw a strange snake and pig!" Nami reasoned.

"There were many people who came to this island to get those animals and living here for 20 years made me grown to love those animals. I can't just leave them behind!" Gaimon told them.

"Make sense," Natsu gave a nod while he smiled, understanding.

"You're a rare and precious animal too, Uncle!" Luffy told Gaimon.

"I'm gonna kill you!" Gaimon threatened Luffy.

Natsu laughed a bit from the statement. "Now that there are no more treasures, I feel somewhat relieve. I can now live in this island more comfortably," Gaimon added.

"It's too bad. You are an interesting person, Uncle!" Luffy admitted.

"I'm sure you'll find good companions for your crew! And also find the One Piece then buy the whole world!" Gaimon encouraged them.

"That's right! I can do it! See ya!" Luffy told Gaimon.

"Good luck finding that dragon, Natsu!" Gaimon told Natsu.

"I'll find him day for sure. I'll be sure to!" Natsu gave Gaimon a nod.

They waved off as the 2 boats began to sail off once again.

11 years ago...

"Who are you? You okay?" Gaimon asked a much younger Natsu.

Natsu's vision wasn't good as it can't blurring and clearing. "Igneel, where are you?" Natsu muttered before passing out again.

"Oi, don't pass out again, wake up!" Gaimon begged.

Natsu awoke again and burst into a coughing fit. He looked around to see a weird animal next to him. He felt cold even though his skin was burning from the reaction of a cold and fever. "So you're finally awake. I thought you were going to die," Gaimon told him.

"Where am I?" Natsu asked.

"You're on an island. I'm Gaimon, by the way. What's your name?" Gaimon answered and asked.

Natsu stayed silent from the question, but then spoke again, "Have you seen a large red dragon somewhere here. His name's Igneel."

"Haven't seen a dragon around. You need to rest more though," Gaimon told Natsu.

Natsu struggled to stand up. "No, I have to find him. I have to keep searching," Natsu told Gaimon.

"You can't! You have a terrible fever! You won't get well if you keep traveling like this!" Gaimon told Natsu who struggled to walk away as he seemed really unsteady and was struggling to keep his vision straight.

Natsu took another step and collapsed again and was on the floor. Gaimon sighed.

Present Day

Natsu remembered how Gaimon and the animals took good care of him to get well again.

This is such a long chapter! I hope you enjoyed this freakishly long chapter! It was actually ONE manga chapter, but I think this'll be the longest one for the next bit of time. Look forth to the next chapter in less then a half an hour!