Light shined through the walls and onto Chopper's face. He lifted himself from the mattress and wiped his tired eyes. His arm reached black and he stretched while yawning. Taking a few moments to regain his location, he looked at the sides of his room as if staring through them to see his crew members. 'I wonder if Sanji's awake by now...'

Usually the blonde was awake before the others, with the exception of Robin, to prepare breakfast. But now that they were docked on an island, the need for him to prepare food has disappeared.

Chopper slid the door and glanced both ways. The inn workers weren't in the greeting room, but at the other end of the hallway, someone was there. Chopper slid the door back into its place and started trotting down the hallway. There were several couches that looked less comfortable than the floor. Robin sat with her legs crossed with a book in her lap. "Good morning," she stated.

"Morning!" Chopper said with a yawn.

Another door opened, and the blonde came out. He was already dressed in his usual suit and blue undershirt. His long legs crossed the hallway into the lounge room. "What a lovely morning, Robin-chan~!"

"It is," she nodded.

"Is there anything I could get you~?"

"There's nothing, but thanks, Sanji-san."

"What are you going to do?" Chopper uttered as he looked at the two.

Robin sat her book down. The sides of her lip gave a small curl. "The history of this island is minute, so I'll search upon the topic. Maybe there have been more changes than some may think."

The reindeer's mouth rounded. "Oh, can I go with you?"

"Sure, Chopper-san. Is there something you are looking for?" Another door opened and Nami walked out. Sanji imminently hopped down the hallway to greet her.

"I wanted to look around at their medical books. Maybe loo-"

Nami stretched her limbs and cracked her neck. "I need a hot shower."

"There's a spa on the hill," Sanji stated.

"Hot springs," Robin calmly corrected.

"Robin, you want to come with me?" The orange haired asked.

"Me and Chopper-san already made plans."

Nami nodded and moved her hair behind her ears. "Guess I will be going." She heard other footsteps; and already knew. "Sanji-kun?"

"Yes, Nami-swan~?"

"You're not going to peek at me, are you? Or follow me there?"

"WHERE'S BREAKFAST?" Luffy jumped out of his room. He looked down and up the hallway. He didn't smell food in either direction. His stomach grumbled and he moaned. "I'm hungry..."

"Can't you let me sleep!" Usopp moaned as he shifted to his other side. He moved the pillow and placed it over his eyes to stop the sun from burning his eyes.

The cyborg opened his door and stepped out into the hallway. "It's morning already, man."

"Looks like everyone is waking up. Maybe we shall go get breakfast from the diner?" the black haired girl suggested.

"Not everyone!" The longnose wrapped his pillow tighter over his head.

"Come on, Usopp. Wake up already!" Luffy moaned from the outside of his room. The captain slid the door open and pulled the longnose out of the bed. "We're going to miss breakfast!"

"HELP! THE ENEMY HAS TAKEN ME HOSTAGE!" Usopp wriggled about. Luffy dragged him and his pillow outside of the room. Usopp took his blanket and threw it on Luffy, "SHOOT HIM BEFORE HE GETS TO HIS BASE!"

Nami's stomach grumbled, and moaned. Maybe she should go to the inn instead of the hot springs first. Chopper's head went back and forth as he tried to decide rather which one he should help.

"Come on, Luffy. If he doesn't want to come along, he can come later," Zoro yawned. He poked out of his room, being the one across from Luffy's.

"You're up, Marimo?" Sanji questioned.

"No, I'm buried two hundred feet below ground, Dartboard."

The blonde glared at the green haired, who only ignored it and grabbed his swords. The swordsman shut his mouth and went down the hallway. "I wish," the cook followed behind with Robin.

...

The group split once again to do their activities. The two researchers went on their way to the town hall, or library; anything with historical records or other oddities within. Zoro walked around with Franky as the two were in need of some drinks. The longnose was sent to give Brook some food they brought from the small restaurant. Nami went by herself to the hot springs, while halting Sanji from coming along. Without being able to harass the ladies, he somehow was in charge of keeping his captain out of trouble.

The blonde stood there mumbling about how this was unfair, and Nami-swan and Robin-chan would need his attention. "Hey Sanji. I'm going to go explore."

'Oh great. Now I have to search for him,' the blonde rolled his eyes. "You better not get yourself lost, or I'm going to throw you into the ocean."

"That's mean," Luffy pulled out his tongue. "There's not much else to do here."

"What else could there be other than these fine beauties?" He pointed to the girls on their way to work. "So civil, graceful, and...GET BACK HERE, IDIOT!"

The lad didn't even allow Sanji to continue his speech about the fine arts of women. He raced ahead into the forest line. The cook followed after him with great speed. 'I did not sign up for this.' He ran through the trees and looked both ways. Luffy was almost as directionless as Zoro; he could never find his way back to the ship by himself. "Come out, Asshole!"

He shook his head. There were fewer trees, and soon he came to an opening. Flowers bloom with insects buzzing about. The grass was well maintained. Sanji glanced around until he sighted red. "Luffy! What the hell are you doing?!"

"Yo! Sanji! Come look at this!" He hopped up and down. While grinding his teeth, Sanji went to the captain's location. "What is i-"

In front of them was a pin full of goats. "What's with these..."

Luffy reached over the wooden goat and petted their wool. "It's rough...geeps?"

"Looks like goats. Those ones must be shaved," he pointed to what he thought were sheeps moments ago. "This must be their farmland. Not far away from the town."

The black haired boy bent down, with his knees touching his shoulders. He looked into the goat's eyes. "Can I ride you?"

"You're not going to get an answer."

"Then it's a yes."

It took Sanji a moment to understand what was going on. His captain pulled the goat out of it's pin; then placed her onto the ground. The goat started to stir from being taken outside of her yard. She looked both ways and her legs started to move. The captain took no time jumping onto her back. The goat galloped forward. Moving side to side to get the human boy off of her back. It wasn't working.

"LUFFY! JUMP OFF!" Sanji shouted. It caused the herd of goats to stir. They scattered about and made baa's noises. They were louder than the cook, which caused him to shout louder in hopes Luffy would hear and listen.

Captain did not listen. He was roaring with excitement; the goat was the total opposite. She ran towards the trees; Luffy squealed with delight; Sanji shouted with fright. On the other side of that was the city, and crazed goats weren't welcomed.

In the city, Chopper stepped outside of the building he found with Robin. It wasn't a library, but it held some insightful books for his research; but the town's records were nowhere in sight, unfortunately. He was able to scan through the pages and took some to study on board the ship. It was run by a witch, who was nowhere in sight, but other items of the household were kept in charge. Brooms sweep the floors and retreat when one turns around. Candles lit up as they walked down the aisles.

Luffy.

Goat.

Chopper.

The goat ran forward at full speed. Chopper dropped his books and other items onto the ground, and ran away as the goat chased him. The small reindeer went to the first safe heaven he saw; the building he just exited moments ago. "SHUT THE DOOR!"

It was too late.

The goat bolted inside, Luffy was flung off and knocked several items down. A bottle broke and dust fell onto the ground.

Papers scattered throughout.

Chopper ran.

Robin observed.

The human was off of her back, the goat thought. She went to the first thing she saw: papers. Books and calendars brightened her eyes as she stormed through the small building. Her teeth sunken through one, and papers scattered from the calendar. All of them fluttered on top of Luffy's body. The dust sprinkled on top of several items that rested nearby.

"Ocho Fleur Flip."

Hands appeared, and quickly the goat was pulled down by numerous hands.

"Luffy! Chopper! Robin-chaun~!" Sanji went from angry to confused to lovely within a matter of seconds.

"Sanji! The goat came and Luffy and tore everything up!" Chopper looked bewildered from what had happened within the matter of seconds. The young doctor looked back and forth until he saw Luffy. He ran to his captain. "He's not waking up!"

"That idiot must have knocked his head on something," Sanji grumbled. "Guess we have to take him back to the ship..."

A single bottle, broken at the top, rolled across the floor. Several pieces of dust fell from the top and onto the floor.

Robin notched the goat with a rope nearby. She could already see it was a bad idea once the rope started to sparkle as it wrapped around the goat's limbs. She could only think of it as a plus as it tied itself up instead of her doing so. "Where did she come from?"

"Out pass the forest, but I will take her back, Robin-chaun~!" He dropped Luffy's body back onto the ground as he went all lovely on Robin's actions. "You're so nice and kind hearted!"

"SANJI!" Chopper squealed. "Luffy could have a skull fracture or a concussion!"

"He's made of rubber! He can survive anything!"

Robin looked at the two, and calmly put her word in. "Sanji-san." The blond turned and looked at her. "Please listen to Chopper-san. Usually by now, Luffy-san would have recovered, but he hasn't. I will take her back."

"Of course, Robin-chan~!"

Chopper's mouth dropped. He shook his head and grumbled about Sanji's reaction. "Come on, and let's go get him on the ship. I have my supplies there, Sanji-san."

"Okay, anything for Robin-chaun~!" He quickly agreed and took his captain's body over his shoulder.

Chopper opened the door, allowing the blond to walk through. He waited for Robin, but she was staring at something on the floor. "What is it?" he questioned.

"There may have been a curse on Captain-san," Robin stated without taking her eyes away from the mess the goat caused. "Everything in here is magical, some sort of way and form. As one would say, not everything is how it seems." She pointed to the rope that fixed itself onto the raging goat.

The little reindeer gulped. Something like that was beyond his knowledge. He could only hope it was only a medical issue, and not of one magically. "D-Do you think...Luffy's cursed?!"

"We won't know until all of the other choices are eliminated."

Robin took a hold of the craze goat and carried it out with six of her arms. Chopper shut the door behind her, and quickly caught up to the cook; while shivering at the thoughts of Luffy being cursed. Sanji was only three houses ahead of Chopper, which was easy for the small reindeer to catch up. The cook looked a bit peeve at the accident just minutes ago. "I told him not to ride her..." he grumbled under his breath, referring to the goat and Luffy.

Soon they got to the water fountain stationed in the center of the village. They took the way with the archway, and led to the ship. The small boat from before was still docked there. Other than that small vessel, there was only a single fishing boat a few spaces across. When they passed it, Chopper held his nose. It smelled like cheese that has been left out for months with sliced raw salmon on top. "We didn't see this here yesterday...I wonder if they have any good ones..." Sanji thought out loud to himself.

They settled in the boat with Luffy resting on Sanji's lap. This only happened because of Chopper's nagging about keeping his head from moving too much. The ship was unleashed from the wooden post, and drifted into the small waves. The small reindeer transforms into his human point and sails to the larger ship. Brook was standing by the figure head once they appeared.

"Good afternoon, Brook!" Chopper greeted once the boat was hosted back into the Sunny.

"What did you get there?" he questioned.

Sanji held Luffy's body in his two arms. "Baka got into an accident. What else."

"He hasn't woken up?"

Chopper shook his head.

"Have you tried this? Luffy-san! There's a fresh load of meat! Sanji-san just made breakfast. Actually, now that I think about it, I am still hungry. I have to put meat on these bones!" Brook bent over with his own joke. Luffy has still shown no signs of movement. Not even a twitch in his eyelid when food was mentioned.

"Usopp has already been here?"

"He has and went. How's the island?"

"Old on the outside, a bit strange on the inside," Sanji shrugged.

"They hold old traditions," Chopper added.

"Like making sacrifices to the demons? Or run outsiders out of the village?" He opened the door to the infirmary as he questioned them. The two walked inside, and Sanji calmly rested Luffy onto the bed.

"Neither that we know of. If you want to go into the village, then go. We will stay here and guard the stupid captain and ship," Sanji uttered. Brook nodded but he stayed there in the doorway looking down on Luffy. "He's gonna be fine, right Chopper?"

"Uh...yeah," he paused. Robin's words made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He took cloth bandages from one of his draws and started wrapping Luffy's head. Sanji held the black hair's head up as Chopper went around it with the cloth. They positioned it along his jaw and around his neck until the roll of bandages finally ran out. Chopper tied the end piece around another stable piece. "He should be fine for now, Sanji-san, Brook-san. I will stay here and watch him."

Sanji nodded, but guilt caused his feet to stay on the floorboards. Unlike the others on the ship, Luffy was usually the first to recover, especially over something as minor as this. Nami-swan did give him the job of looking over this idiot. "Guess I could cook something up to munch on later. Brook, you should go and tell Nami-san and the others what happened."

The skeleton nodded, and once again, it would have seemed he's traveling alone. He sat in the small vessel and unhooked it from Sunny. The vessel dropped onto the waves, which floated against Sunny. Brook grabbed the wooden sticks and started to paddle away, onto the island.

...

Brook first sighted Robin once he stepped onto the island. He was expecting screams of terror, or at least some fright from being a skeleton and all, but none came; nor did villagers. All of them stayed in their houses, which made looking for his crew members easier. The black haired woman looked up at the skeleton. "Does Doctor-san have Luffy-san under control?" she questioned.

"Yes, they sent me here to tell the others, but it would have seen you already know."

She nodded. "Zoro and Franky are at a pub, Nami should be returning from his bath-"

Brook already disappeared. The image of a naked Nami filled his mind. Maybe he could even get a glance at her panties! Blood, from an unknown source, began pumping out of where his nose was years ago. "YOHOHO!" he laughed in joy. But he halted in his path. The whole village looked the same even though he had already passed seven houses. He took five steps back onto the diagonal road. His skull went three-sixty and looked for the black haired vixen. "Robin-san!" he called out.

"Yes, Brook-san?" she replied from behind a house. "Are you already lost?" She gave a slight giggle.

"Where would Nami-san be exactly?"

Robin walked over to a pagoda and pointed to the marker over the door. In this case, the marker was yellow. "First, look for a building with a blue marker. Behind it, on a hill, is the hot springs, where she should be."

"Arigatou, Robin-san!" Brook gave a bright smile and once again his feet were racing along the path. He looked at every single marker, hoping to catch a glance of blue. He saw one, but there was no hill behind it. It was only a pub, and from outside, he could hear the jolly drunks drinking and singing. 'After visiting Nami-san~! I should come here,' Brook thought.

The elder black haired girl gave a small grin at the skeleton's behavior. She strolled along the small path as a bag swung from one side to the other. The breeze lifted the skirt of her dress above her knees. Inside the bag were a few things she picked up from the store. Odd and ends that may or may not be helpful in the future; only time will tell.

Origin of Luffy: 'Luff' as a noun, is defined as act of sailing a ship, or sailing into the wind (sometimes it is translated to balloon); but, according to some sources, this was only a coincidence; Oda chose Luffy because it just fitted.