Chapter 49: The Lost World
The crew looked around at the strange jungle with a name like Little Garden they were expecting something different… like something… less threatening.
"You know with a name like little garden I was expecting something cute…" said Zoro.
"Like a land of ponies and rainbows…" said Naruto, "You know… now that I think about it… if it were like that I think Kyubi would have a good reason for being scared."
"What makes you think I'd be scared of that? Especially since we've known each other for a long time?" asked Kyubi.
"I just thought you would…" thought Naruto with a sweat drop.
"I've never seen trees like this…" said Nami.
There was a noise and something came out of the trees, scaring Nami and Hinata.
"It's just a normal bird." Said Sasuke.
"I don't know… looks like a bird lizard hybrid…" said Kiba.
Everyone got a good look at it… and it did look like a bird lizard hybrid… which caused the already scared Hinata to faint.
"Oh my god!" yelled Naruto trying to shake his friend awake, "Wake up! Wake up!"
Then there was a loud explosion.
"Does that sound like a normal jungle!" yelled Nami.
"Sounds more like the volcano blew it's top!" yelled Usopp.
"Calm down, I'm sure this is just a normal jungle, after all, how many island have volcanoes." Said Sasuke.
That's when they heard a roar…
"Is that a tiger…" said Sakura.
That's when the tiger who looked like it was dying because of sever wound collapsed.
"So Sasuke…" said Zoro.
"Don't say anything…" muttered Sasuke glaring at Zoro.
"What kind of monster… could do that to a tiger!" yelled Nami, "This island isn't normal!"
"I say we don't set foot on the island." Said Usopp.
"I say we stay on the ship until the Log Pose sets then get the hell out of here!" said Nami.
Naruto continued to shake Hinata, "Come on Hinata! Wake up!" yelled Naruto.
Sakura sighed, gave Naruto a good whack on the head and took out some smelling salts she had on… which woke up the poor unconscious girl.
"What happened?" asked Hinata.
She then saw the tiger carcass and fainted again, causing Sakura to sweat drop, she woke up Hinata once again.
Meanwhile Luffy shook with excitement.
"He has that look again…" said Kyubi as Naruto nursed that bump that Sakura gave him.
Naruto smiled, "Let me guess you want to go an adventure Luffy!" yelled Naruto.
"Want to come too?" asked Luffy with a big smile.
"Oh yeah!" cheered Naruto.
"Why do I even bother?" sighed Kyubi.
"Sanji! Make me a pirate lunch box!" yelled Luffy.
"And boil me some hot water and pack 10 cups of instant ramen!" said Naruto.
"Yeah, yeah…" said Sanji.
"Where do you think you're going?" asked Nami.
"On an adventure." Said Luffy, "Wanna come?"
Nami began to cry, "It's hopeless…" she thought.
"Come on Sanji!" yelled Naruto.
"Can I come too?" asked Vivi.
"Yeah, yeah! Sure!" said Luffy.
"Not you too…" said Nami.
"If I just stay around here I'll just brood, this way I'm doing something." Said Vivi, "And besides, Carue will protect me…"
Carue froze in place… he was extremely scared obviously.
"I want to come too…" said Hinata.
"But Hinata… you just fainted… twice…" said Sakura with a sweat drop.
"I'm fine… really… I'm 100 percent fine…" said Hinata, while invisible arrows pointed to her saying "Scared out her mind, just wanted to spend time with Naruto."
And so the 4 humans and one duck went out.
"Wow… that princess is brave." Said Kiba, "Unlike some people…"
"Well she did infiltrate a gang of crooks…" said Nami.
After a few minutes the crew on the ship dwindled, as Sanji and Zoro got into a fight and it turned into who can get more food while on the island.
"And then there were 7…" said Kiba in a grim away to scare his brother.
"Don't talk like that!" yelled Usopp.
"Sakura…" said Sasuke walking up to Sakura.
"Yes?" asked Sakura happily.
"Would you like to help me train on the island? I would have asked Zoro, but he's obviously busy… you are the strongest on the ship." Said Sasuke.
Sakura hung her head low, "Yeah… sure…"
The two got off the ship… before they could go into the jungle, Ino said to Sakura, "Have fun TRAINING billboard brow."
"Well at least I'm spending time with him…" countered Sakura glaring at Ino, causing the blonde to sweat drop.
"All right! That got her!" cheered Inner Sakura.
The two went into the jungle to train together.
"And then there was 5…" said Kiba grimly.
"Stop doing that!" yelled Usopp.
Both Nami and Usopp sat down.
"You know the two of you are pretty useless…" said Kiba.
"I don't see you going…" said Usopp.
Kiba looked up to the dog sitting on his head who in turn shook his head no.
"I plan to… when Akamaru needs to do his business…" said Kiba.
This made Usopp and Nami sweat drop. It was a better idea than his usual way of finding where the dog pooped and dumping it into the ocean.
"I don't want to step foot on this island either… it's too creepy." Said Ino sitting down next to the two.
"Wait! I just remembered something." Said Nami, "I read about this before."
"What do you mean?" asked Kiba.
"Little Garden." Said Nami.
Meanwhile with the explorers, the brothers managed to find something in the water.
"Cool squid…" said Luffy.
"It looks like an armored one…" said Naruto.
The girls got in closer.
"That looks like an ammonite." Said Vivi.
"That means armored squid, right?" asked Luffy and Naruto.
But that when the ground began to rumble.
"Look at the water…" said Hinata pointing to the water which began to ripple.
That's when a strange giant long necked thing came from the trees.
"What is that thing!" yelled Naruto.
"Is it a Sea King?" asked Luffy.
"No it's a dinosaur!" said Vivi.
"A dinosaur?" asked Hinata and Luffy.
"Yes…" said Vivi who began to explain about islands of the Grand Line.
"Is this what you were scared of?" thought Naruto as he ignored Vivi's explanation.
"Are you kidding me? I love prehistoric islands… they were among my favorite hunting grounds… after all you can't get better food than a dinosaur…" said Kyubi in a tone of voice that said "I miss the good old' days", "No… what I'm scared of is far worse… I used to love this island in fact until 100 years ago… when the unpleasantness came…"
"What sort of unpleasantness?" asked Naruto.
"Don't ask!" yelled Kyubi.
"Fine…" thought Naruto with a sigh.
"It's still in the dinosaur age…" said Vivi, "It's stuck in time."
That's when she saw that Luffy was climbing on top of the dinosaur, "Get off that thing!" she yelled.
Back on the Going Merry, Nami had a book on the island.
"Guys! It's bad!" yelled Nami running to the deck.
"What's wrong?" asked Ino.
"I know what this is island is!" yelled Nami.
That's when a big figure began to move through the trees… it was a giant… Nami, Usopp and Ino were scared out of their minds while Kiba stood thinking "Well… you don't see that every day."
"Do you have any ale?" asked the giant.
"I little… I think…" said Kiba, "You know the kitchen Ino."
"Uh… yeah…" said Ino with a sweat drop.
"You do have ale?" asked the giant.
The giant then yelled… as a dinosaur had bitten him on the ass.
"It's a dinosaur…" cried Nami.
After the giant, killed the dinosaur with a fearsome battle cry that proclaimed his name Broggy, he proudly invited the 4 humans and one dog as his guests… however…
"I think those three are dead…" said Kiba pointing to the girls and his brother playing dead, "But I'll with you…"
That's when Usopp realized Kiba wasn't playing dead… he began to slowly crawl to him and clawed his leg.
"Zombie!" he yelled and began to repeatedly hit his brother in the head.
"Stop doing that!" yelled Usopp, "Why were you doing that?"
"Because I thought you were a dead guy and dead people should be dead." Said Kiba with a smirk that said "I just wanted to hit you."
Usopp didn't say anything but just sweat dropped.
Meanwhile with Luffy's group, Luffy was still on the long necked dinosaur…
"Luffy get down!" yelled Vivi.
"You don't get him down like that…" said Naruto.
"What do you mean?" asked Vivi.
"Hey bro! I dare you to slide down that dinosaur while shouting Yabba Dabba Doo!" yelled Naruto.
"Why "Yabba Dabba Doo"?" asked Vivi with a sweat drop.
"I don't know…" said Naruto with a sweat drop not knowing why he wanted to have Luffy say that himself.
"Okay!" yelled Luffy.
Before Luffy could do the dare the dinosaur ate him.
"What the!" yelled Naruto.
"That's strange… those kinds of Dinosaurs are herbivores… that dinosaur's going to be sick in the morning…" said Kyubi.
"I have to do something…" thought Naruto who shifted to half demon form.
Before he could do anything… a different giant appeared and cut the dinosaur's head off… Luffy fell out of the neck and landed in the in the giant's hand.
"What is that?" asked Hinata blinking.
"It's a giant… I've heard about them, but I've never seen them." Said Vivi who comforted Carue after he fainted from seeing the giant.
"Oh god! It's one of them…" yelled Kyubi.
"Is that the unpleasantness you mentioned?" asked Naruto.
"Biju and Giants… well they don't exactly get along… I'll show you!" said Kyubi.
Kyubi used the mental link they had to show him a past experience he'd rather forget.
(Flashback)
Kyubi was wandering around an island looking for food when he came across a group of Giant… but not any ordinary giants… drunken giants.
"Hey! Look at the giant doggie!" yelled one of the drunken giants.
"Come here giant doggie!" yelled another of the drunken giant.
"I'm going to ride the giant doggie!" yelled a third giant taking out a saddle from nowhere.
Kyubi just stood there, sweating like crazy. The third giant put the saddle on Kyubi and jumped onto the giant fox demon.
"Get along giant doggie!" said the third giant.
(End of Flashback)
"Sad to say that's not only one of times that happened." Said Kyubi.
"So the only reason you hated this island… is because of drunken giants that always liked riding you!" mentally yelled Naruto, "Even though you knew that none of them would brother us in that way…"
"Now that you say it like that… I guess it was silly to make you worry…" said Kyubi.
"This isn't your revenge for looking at the guy… is it?" thought Naruto.
"No it… it's not… but you will know when that time comes…" said Kyubi who began to laugh evilly.
Naruto stood there shaking in his anger.
"Naruto… what's wrong?" asked Hinata.
"Don't… ask…" muttered Naruto.
With the thing that Kyubi feared being two giants, who knew what would happen in the future…. Especially with Baroque Works on their trail…
Next Time: The two groups of Straw Hats each befriend a giant, but all is not right... someone spikes some the ale with some sort of bomb, now Luffy and Naruto must fight Dorry while figuring out what's going on... what will happen? Find out next time!