Midnight: Hey! I is back! Yay! It's STILL snowing! Woohoo!! Oh, by the way, if you haven't already, meet Muse!

Muse: Hi.

Midnight: We had a big snowball fight last night, 'twas great!

Muse: Yup.

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece..but I wish I did..

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The sun was high, it was noon and finally Buggy woke up.

"Grrr, I hate the sun..hurts my eyes.." Buggy growled as he sat up.

He looked around and found Shanks still sleeping, with his hat in his hands. He sighed staring at Shanks.

"I suppose I'll have to wake him up," Buggy rolled his eyes as he said this and bent down to shake Shanks.

"HEY WAKE UP!!!"

"Huh? What's the matter?" Shanks asked still half asleep.

"Nothing, just thought you needed to get up, you can't sleep ALL day.."

"Yes, I can," Shanks stood up and looked around. He rubbed the back of his neck while stretching. "OH! How could I forget! We're building the raft today!"

"How could you possibly forget?!?" Buggy said sarcastically while looking towards the horizon.

Dark storm clouds were forming far off. It looked pretty strange with the sun still shining brightly over them. The wind was also picking up a bit too, but the storm wouldn't be there for at least a few hours, judging by how long they've been over there.

"Well, let's see what we need.." Shanks began to pace back and forth while counting out what they needed. "First, we need logs, right?"

"Well, DUH!" Buggy pointed out sarcastically, yet again.

"You're optimism truly makes the situation all the better, Buggy!" Shanks threw back the sarcastic remark with a wide grin. (Did. That. Make. Sense?)

"....you're stupid.." Buggy glared at him.

"Now," Shanks started. "As I was saying, we'll also need some kind of rope, so we'll have to search the whole island....I wonder how big it is, we haven't explored all of it yet.."

"Does it matter? Nobody's here anyway.."

"Whatever Buggy, for now, that's what we're going to work on getting, got it?" Shanks asked. He then went off into the wilderness to search.

"Stupid Shanks," Buggy growled under his breath. He too began to go into the jungle to search.

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Shanks was wandering in the jungle not doing too well in his search for items for the raft. He figured that he was about half way through the jungle. He wondered if the people on the ship even noticed he was gone, well, he and Buggy.

He kept walking further and further into the wilderness and looking around all around, not really paying any attention to where he was walking. Shanks looked up and to his surprise saw smoke. While he was walking, he failed to notice a log in front of him and ended up tripping over it and landing on the ground.

"What the-"

Shanks turned around and saw the log under his feet.

"Ohh! A log! Just what I needed!" Shanks shouted happily as he stood up and grabbed the log off the ground.

Shanks kept walking, being more careful where he stepped. He found another log and picked it up. He had two large logs and he realized he couldn't carry them both all the way back, so he left the one there and decided to find Buggy on his was back to get the other.

As he walked back, he passed a bush with berries on it. Shanks was a bit hungry so he decided to stop and pick a few. As he was picking a couple good ones, he noticed the bush moving. He slowly stood up and moved back, observing it carefully.

"Buggy?"

Suddenly somebody jumped out of the bush and began to move towards Shanks. Shanks wasn't armed so he tried to turn around and run away but he ran I to another man who grabbed him. The other took the log Shanks picked up and hit him over the head, rendering him unconscious.

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"I HATE this place!!!" Buggy yelled while kicking a tree. "And where is Shanks?"

Buggy was back at shore, with three logs he found. The storm that was far off before was now getting closer and rumbles of thunder could be heard in the distance. Buggy sat there for a few minutes, just staring at the clouds and the seagulls flying away.

"I suppose I'll have to get Shanks, he's probably off doing something besides what we need to be doing.."

TO BE CONTINUED..

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Well, that's it for that chapter.I think it was longer than usual..or not. Please leave a review and I shall be back next chapter! Mwahahaha! n.n;;;;;;