Never Had a Dream Come True

Book One:

Blind Ambition

Chapter 3

"Guns are Cheating"

"So exactly how long do we have to stay in the Grand Line?" Usopp asked.

They all sat around a round wooden table at a cozy little restaurant they had found a few miles away from the dock.

"Until I find One Piece and become King of the Pirates" Luffy answered like it was a stupid question. He picked up a chicken leg a stuffed in it his mouth.

"Or until we die" Zolo laughed.

"We're not gonna die we got Mr. Rubber Man over there leading us" Sanji piped in taking a sip of his drink.

"We're dead" Usopp moaned. Luffy stuck his tongue out at him and continued eating.

"What are you doing Nami?" Chopper asked looking over the red headed girl's shoulder. She had a map out in front of her of what seemed to be the Grand Line and it had red x's marked all over it.

"Huh? Oh I'm trying to map out a course for us when we reach the Grand Line. Even though we do have Luffy as our captain things aren't going to be easy. I've marked with x's where we should never sail and I'm trying to pick out the best route" she answered without looking up at the blue nosed reindeer.

"I have another question" Chopper said.

"Shot" Nami answered.

"Doesn't everyone here have different ambitions? After we go to the Grand Line are we going to find the Deep Blue like Sanji wanted? Or map the world like you wanted? And defeat MeHawk so Zolo can become the best swordsman.?"

The whole entire table was silent until the goof of a captain spoke up.

"Chopper we may all have different dreams but that doesn't mean we're going too spilt up to go after them. I don't want to get in the way of your ambitions but I am going to be standing there helping you reach them.

The Grand Line is where our dreams collide but friends stick together because we're not just shipmates we're friends and friends help friends make their dreams come true."

They all grinned at their captain's words. "Yeah! All for one and one for all!" Usopp shouted. Maybe having Luffy as a captain and having the friends that they did would be enough to get them through this.

"Excuse me?" a woman in a apron said walking up to Luffy.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Are you the famous Monkey D. Luffy?" she asked holding up the wanted posted which had his face on it.

His crew started waving their hands wildly motioning for him to say no. They were just about to leave for the Grand Line and were sick in getting caught up in all the trouble they had.

"Sure am!" Luffy smiled. His crew groaned and slid back in their chairs.

"Why do you want?" Zolo asked get aggravated.

"Hey that's no way to talk to a lady!" Sanji said looking at the woman. She had long wavy brown hair that hung in a messy bun on the top of her head and big brown eyes like a puppy. She looked around 50 or 60 and wore a sad look on her face.

"No it's alright" the woman said speaking up. "I-we just wanted to ask a favor" she said motioning to the rest of the people in the room.

"Hey hold up I'm sick of doing favors and good deeds with nothing in return. We're just about to make our dreams come true and you're going to have to make a pretty good offer for us to help" Nami spoke up crossing her arms.

"I can pay you 500,000 berries?" the woman offered.

"Come guys we gotta help them!" Nami smiled.

Luffy burst out laughing while the others thought about it.

"What exactly do you want us to do?" Usopp asked.

Just as the woman was about to answer a shrill scream filled the air.

Luffy and his crew ran outside to find a girl fighting with a man in all black.

He had a black uniform on with dark sunglasses and held a gun.

"GET AWAAYYYYYYYYY" the girl screamed unleashing a tremendous power out of her mouth.

"YOU WILL NOT DISOBEY LORD NIEKAN'S ORDERS!" the man yelled over her screams. He ran up and kicked her in the side of the face. She fell backwards onto the stone payment and rubbed the side of her face.

The girl growled and jumped back up on her feet kicking the man in the stomach. He fell to the ground clutching his stomach and reached for his side pocket. "I don't care what your father said you're going to die here and now" the man whispered aiming a gun straight at her. She tried to move but her body was frozen with fear and she could only watch as the man pulled the trigger.

Author's Note:

Cliff hanger! Thank you so much for my lovely review! Only one sob but that just means I have to do better! Let me know if there's something I could do to make this story any better. Thanks for reading -