Jade: I did it! I own One Piece!
Ussop: Even MY lies are more believable.
Jade: Okay, I admit it, I don't own One Piece.


Nami pushed Zoro.

"Quick, we don't want to miss it, and I need a distraction" said Nami.

Zoro raised an eyebrow in confusion; he let Nami guide him to a dirt road not far from the lake. Nami pushed Zoro onto the road.

"Lie down" she said, "quick, they're coming."

Zoro didn't think he just did what she said. The carriage came along the road, the old man who was driving slowed down.

"Are you all right boy?" he asked.

Zoro discreetly made eye contact with a hiding Nami who gestured for him to act sick.

"Hrrrrh…" Zoro groaned as the old man stepped down from the carriage to help him.

Nami snuck around the back of the carriage and climbed up on top to reach the luggage on the roof. Zoro continued to distract the man while Nami rummaged through the gear.

"Here, I'll get you some water" said the old man.

Before Zoro could stop him he turned around to see Nami unloading the last of the luggage.

"You little THEIF!" shouted the old man.

Just then a voice sounded from inside the carriage.

"You dare steal from me?" said the strange voice, "I will have my guards chop off your heads! I have a hundred men trailing this carriage for protection. After all, I AM the prince of this kingdom and I have the power to destroy you all."

"Liar" said Nami.

"HOW DID YOU KNOW?" Said a long nosed guy who stuck his head out the carriage window.

"Because" said Zoro holding back a laugh, "I am the prince around here" Zoro stood up.

The weird looking liar fell out the window in shock. The carriage took off with the driver.

"OI!" he shouted, but the carriage had disappeared.

"Ussop, I presume" said Nami.

Ussop sweat dropped and slowly turned around, his knees shaking violently, "how did you know that?"

Nami held up a luggage tag. Ussop sighed, and then nearly fainted.

"Hey there's some pretty good stuff here" Nami stated while putting on a gold necklace with a giggle, "here Zoro, look through this, you might like this bag" she tossed over a particularly heavy bag.

Zoro untied the bag while Ussop sat on the ground shaking with fear. Reaching into the bag, Zoro saw he had hit the jackpot; all the thoughts that were going through his head about how he shouldn't be stealing vanished. The bag was filled with weaponry. He pulled out some swords.

"You wouldn't know how to use them" said Ussop.

"Wanna bet?" said Zoro with a grin, "I've been sword fighting since I was eight."

He picked up a black sash from the luggage and tied it around his waist. Picking up the three best swords, he hung them on the sash. He grinned.

"You only have two hands" said Nami, "how can you expect to use three swords?"

Zoro completely ignored her; he was too caught up with how goo it felt to have three swords under his arm. Luffy came running out from between the trees, his hair was all wet and he looked angry.

"You went off without me!" he asked, not really looking for an answer.

Zoro wore a sorry look on his face, Nami was oblivious to Luffy, she just came up behind Zoro and took of his cloak and put it in her bag with hers. Zoro got goosebumps when she touched the bare skin on his arm.

Luffy looked around, "yay! I have a gang! I'm one step closer to my dream!" Luffy did a weird kinda laugh.

"Gang!" asked Zoro.

"Yeah, without Nami we wouldn't know the way through this forest, and you Zoro are a prince and you got swords to fight so you're really cool and you can help protect us, and there is that guy with the long nose on the ground, he looks like he can contribute something" said Luffy with a big grin.

"I am a marksman," boasted Ussop while pulling out a slingshot, "I don't just use slingshots, I can use any type of long range weaponry! … LONG NOSE!"

"Back to camp!" said Nami, gesturing for the others to grab the loot follow.

Somehow Zoro ended up carrying most the baggage, Luffy had two bags and Ussop held nothing. But Zoro didn't care, he was the only one there with the strength to carry the amount he held, what ticked him off was that Ussop and Nami were walking ahead of him together.

The trees were scratching Zoro's clothes just enough to get annoying but not enough to tear them, he was getting bored with this whole "live in the wild" idea. He didn't know why Ussop bothered to hang around, surely he had better things to do back with civilization.

"It's getting dark" said Zoro, "we've been walking for at least two hours" and he hadn't spoken once for either of them.

"Camp is just up ahead" reply Luffy, stopping to unhook his light brown shorts from a tree, "can you hold these for a moment?" asked Luffy, throwing the bags on Zoro's load without waiting for a reply, "thanks" Luffy dusted off his button up red singlet and ran ahead leaving Zoro to carry everything.

"Grrr…" Zoro growled, but he didn't do much else.


Jade: Yay! Another chapter down!
Sanji: When am I coming in?
Luffy: When I'm hungry!
Sanji: Then I should have arrived first in the story…

By the way… reviews are highly encouraged. I am willing to take on any constructive criticism, and if I have made any grammar mistakes that are annoying. ... Review so I can eat XD