Chapter 21
-We go!-
Ace found himself next to a house in the middle of the forest. It was an abandoned house, no one seemed to live here.
"Gnh!" He heard next to him and looked around, just to see Luffy with his head in the ground.
"What are you doing, Luffy?" Asked Ace and stood up.
"Help me, Ace!" Luffy shouted and slammed his hands on the ground by trying to get his head out.
"You're always making trouble, you moron." Ace said and put his arms around Luffy's belly and he pulled Luffy out of the ground.
"Where are we?" Ace asked and looked around to the house.
"It looks like the house of the old man we have met first. But it doesn't looked this abandoned." Luffy said.
"The past had been changed... so the future changed, too." Said suddenly Robin who went out of the house.
"So we have really made it back?" Asked Luffy and laughed.
"Shouldn't we go where the others are?" Asked Ace. "There's probably a meeting place."
"Yeah, our ship!" Shouted Luffy. "Let's go there!"
Then he ran forward without waiting for Ace and Robin.
"We should better follow him." Ace said. "Before one of us will get lost."
"You're right." Robin answered and both followed Luffy.
"Marimo! Don't go ahead, you only just get lost here!" Shouted Sanji while Zoro went on. Zoro just turned around and looked angrily at the blonde man.
"What did you said, you moron?!" Shouted Zoro angrily and looked around. He grabbed his sword. "I'll cut you in two half!"
"Hey, now is not the time to fight!" Said Franky.
"I agree to it." Said Brook. "After all we have to meet the others."
"Right." Said Chopper who is able to speak again.
"How should we, the Marimo is always going his way." Sanji said while he ignored Zoro offending.
"We're not far away from the ship." Franky said. "I can feel it!"
And he was right. They weren't far away from the beach and they just went the sand bank along and saw the ship in the water and at the same time Ace, Luffy and Robin arrived by the ship.
"OI!" Luffy shouted to tell them that he's back.
"Robin-chen! Are you all right?!" Sanji flew over to Robin and she nod.
"There you all are!" Nami appeared on the balcony by the stern.
"Who have repaired the mast?" Asked Franky while they entered the ship. Ace seemed to be amazed that a ship could have grass on it and then they found here Anne, Sabo and Usoppe.
"Seems like when the future is changed the future will partly change, too." Robin explained to Sabo and Anne. "The island is still abandoned, no one other than us seems to be here."
"Then the old man is away, too..." Muttered Sabo.
Then suddenly Luffy stood in front of him with folded arms and looked at Sabo.
"What about joining us?" He asked.
"What...?" Asked Sabo surprised.
"You don't have anywhere to go now, right? The old man is away now and you probably won't stay alone here." Luffy said and grinned. Sabo first didn't seemed to know what he should say but then he grinned.
"If you say this... then all right. I'll join you." Sabo said.
"Yeah!" Luffy shouted and grinned.
"Welcome in our crew, Sabo." Said Sanji and smiled just like the others.
"Shouldn't we already get sailing?" Asked Zoro. "After all we have to go on."
"Zoro you insensitive ass!" Shouted Nami and hit him.
"What?!" Shouted Zoro back angrily.
"He's right." Said Luffy. "Come on, guys! Take the anchor in and pull the sails down!"
"Aye, aye!"
After the ship was sailing again Nami looked at the Log Pose which pointed to the next islands.
"Weird. Although we fell through a hole in the middle of the ocean we seems to be back on the Grand Line again." She said.
"It's maybe because of we changed the past." Anne said who was standing next to her and looking at the Log Pose.
"You think?" Nami asked and looked surprised at her and Anne nod.
"It could be." She said. "This is the New World after all. Here is everything weirder than in the other side of the world."
"Right." Answered Nami and smiled. She took out the map she found on Punk Hazard and looked what the next islands may be.
"The next island will be this one." Said Nami and pointed on the island which will be the next. Anne knew this island. It was an merely inhabited one and that's why some of them decided to make that island into the graveyard for famous pirates. But to reach the graves you have to walk quite long into the island and through a corn field.
But usually pirates are using that island as a chance for resting before they travel on.
"It's a resting place. It's better to stop by there and rest before traveling on." Anne said.
She was saying this but on the Graveyard Island were the graves of Ace, Whitebeard and even Gol D. Roger.
"Let's go to that island!" Shouted Luffy and pointed over to the horizon.
"We are already on the way." Nami answered annoyed. "It's good to be there, we need to rest before we'll meet again some strong enemies."
"How long will it need to reach that island?" Asked Usoppe.
"Around three days." Nami answered.
"And we can increase our supply." Said Sanji. "After all that what Luffy had ate."
"I was hungry." Luffy answered with a haunch in his hand.
The others just laughed and even Anne smiled.