It was a peaceful day in Windmill Village. Children were playing. Mothers smiled and chatted with others. Fathers taught their sons the way of the village. Daughters would linger around the garden, or peek in on their crushes.
Beyond great hills, dark forests, grand cliffs, was a home. It was an average-sized home. The outside was falling apart, piece by piece. They tried covering it up with wood planks and duck tape, but the other pieces started falling apart. It was endless work. This was Dadan's Bandit Family House. Housing over 30 bandits, plus some...
"GET BACK HERE! YOU BRATS!" called the orange-haired lady. She opened the curtain, which was used as a door, and screamed at the three children playing in the yard.
The one dressed in blue gulped and handed the cloth to the freckled one.
"GIVE IT BACK! YOU BRATS!" she yelled again.
The freckled one smirked in the orange's haired direction and started running towards the trees. He turned his head and threw the cloth at the youngest one. She caught the colored cloth and used her rubber powers to jump over a fence in front of her.
Dadan ran after the three brats. Behind the fat woman were her two goons, Magra and Dogra. Magra was the slowest out of the group. He was chasing Sabo. "Now, now, come back here!" he called.
Sabo turned around, grinned from ear to ear, and stuck out his tongue at Magra.
Ace laughed along with his brother. He was running behind Luffy, who still had the cloth.
"YOU DAMN BRATS! IF YOU DON'T GIVE IT BACK, OUT WITH YA! ALL THREE OF YOU!" Dadan threatened. All three of them laughed at the threat. It wasn't like she could do something against the trio of 'brats'.
Luffy unfolded the cloth, "Oh! It's a pirate flag!" The cloth was longer than her arm width. It was white and red. A perfect flag.
Dadan's cheeks reddened, and she yelled even louder. Even the peaceful Windmill Village heard it.
"I'm the captain!" called Sabo.
"Nope, I am the captain!" argued Ace.
"I'm the one with the flag. So I'm the captain!" called Luffy.
Ace turned to her and grabbed the cloth from her hands. "Now I'm the captain!"
"Yeah right!" shouted Sabo as he jumped over them; pulling the cloth away as he was doing so. He shoved it under his arm and took off ahead of the two of them.
"Boss! What should we do?!" exclaimed the little runt, Dogra.
"Chase the freakin' brats!" ordered Dadan. She was determined to get her fabric back from the kids.
"Catch us if you can!" teased Sabo.
Ace used this chance to take back the cloth from Sabo. "Hey!" Sabo yelled.
Ace stuck out his tongue and turned a quick right. He broke away from everyone else who ran straight.
Luffy, who quickly noticed, used her rubber to shoot herself through the air. She landed in front of Ace. "Ace-nii! Will you give it back?" she asked him with a puppy-dog face. He shut his eyes, but soon he gave in.
"Yay!"
"DAMN BRATS! GIVE ME BACK MY UNDERWEAR!" Dadan yelled.
"No! It's our pirate flag!" shouted Luffy. She ran with the underwear unfolded. It flowed in the wind. A smile planted on her face as the others followed her.