Part 3 Sign Language
Luffy hummed to himself as he rowed happily. Knowing that somehow his crew had survived. He could feel it. As he came near an isthmus (A water form that separates 2 forms of land) surrounded by mountain ranges he shouted. "NAMI!!! ZORO!!! ANYONE THERE?!" Hearing no reply he decided to row in another direction. But he stopped, when he heard an echo from the other side of the isthmus. "Luff...don...ere!"
Recognizing the voice as Nami's he started paddling it's origin. "HANG ON NAMI!!! I'M COMING TO SAVE YOU!!!" he shouted. A few minutes later he heard yet another echo. "Gt...wy...hre!" This one sounded like Zoro. He yelled back. "ZORO'S WITH YOU TOO?? GREAT!! I'M GONNA SAVE YOU BOTH!!!"
Luffy kept on paddling to the other side. It was still a long way from him though... However, he wondered how far away he was from his friends. He brought out binoculars and looked through them. He jumped with joy as he saw a ship in the distance. On it he saw the figures of Nami and Zoro waving at him. Unfortunately his celebration didn't last long, as his jump had made a hole in the crow's nest, slowly filling it with water. Luffy winced temporarily but smiled. "I was going to slow anyway." As his 'boat' was sinking, Luffy stretched his left arm to the left mountain and his right to the right mountain. "Gomu Gomu Rocket!!!" Just as it sank Luffy catapulted himself from the crow's nest towards the ship. Still 'flying' towards his destination Luffy looked through his binoculars again. Nami and Zoro were waving at him furiously shouting as they waved. "Luffy...get...here!" "COMING!!!" he shouted back.
Luffy zoomed too the ship headfirst, with surprising speed. Eventually he no longer needed the binoculars to see the ship. At first it was a dot on the horizon. But as time went on, it appeared to have increased in size. Luffy took another look through the binoculars. His grin fell as he saw Nami and Zoro weren't on deck anymore. In their stead were 3 men holding a large, open, metal barrel in his direction. After figuring out was happening Luffy said. "Uh-oh..." (He figured out it was a trap) Despite his efforts he found himself unable to change his course. Thanks to his momentum Luffy crashed into the barrel. One of the men slammed a lid over it. Luffy (now in the barrel) thought to himself. "Maybe Nami and Zoros' sign language didn't mean 'Come over here'. Maybe it meant 'Get away.' Oh well... Least I'm not sinking anymore..."
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