AN. Despite the mixing of a few elements this is not a crossover. I got this idea from getting back into One Piece and Witcher 3. I do not own One Piece or the Witcher.
Waking up to annoying noises is not something I am unaccustomed to doing. Alarm clocks are supposed to do that. Today though my simple alarm had been replaced by Shield Hero op.
Reaching around for the phone so I could shut it up, I looked up wincing with burning eyes as they adjusted to the light.
It was the questline screen The Witcher 3: Wild hunt.
Fuck, I left the Xbox on. I thought.
Blinking, I looked with eyes at the screen opened on Main Quests.
And Floating in the air without a tv.
Flashing red, the words that usually span running commentary to the right stretched full screen and started scrolling up like a Star Wars opening.
Waking up in a strange bed in another world, the newly mutated Witcher is left baffled and shocked by all that has happened to his body.
What's happened to my body?!
I sat up and noticed a mirror siting across the room. And saw a stranger.
It was not Geralt of Rivia and it wasn't me. Scarred and pale in pigmentation, the white-haired stranger sat with a face like my own and looked back at me with wild, cat-like eyes. A silver wolfs headed medallion siting on my chest.
The screen reappeared.
Waking up in a strange bed in another world, the newly mutated Witcher is left baffled and shocked by all that has happened to his body.
A Random Omnipotent Being pulled him from his bed and granted him the skills, knowledge, abilities, and gear of his last saved videogame file; then dumped him in the middle of a forest and left to die in a flash of light and gust of heat.
Saved from a giant bear that would have killed him come morning and with nothing to offer his savior except the unknowingly granted abilities of a Witcher and quasi-gamer, the young man has fallen under the Law of Surprise.
Bound to this new world until the destiny of his savior is fulfilled, this new Witcher will embark on an adventure in search of a way home….
The screen disappeared.
CRASH
The floor became a door as a secret hatch opened up.
"HEYYYY NAKED GUY, ARE YOU UP?"
Standing up fully (and becoming aware that I was, indeed, undressed) I covered "myself" with my hands and looked at the guy climbing up the ladder.
Tanned skinned and dressed in One Piece cosplay, the tweenaged would-be Luffy walked up the ladder with a comically large picnic basket and a toothy Colgate smile.
He turned my way and dropped the basket with the clattering of what I assumed to be plates. Getting uncomfortably close into my personal space despite my nakedness, he looked up at me like I was the most interesting thing in the world.
"Ah, you're up."
And that was it.
Ok. Introductions first. I took a deep breath and was immediately cut off.
"Hey, will you join my crew?" The guy begged, his arms expanding and wrapping around my torso several times, uncaring of my lack of cloths.
"….." Holy shit, That's the real Luffy. I'm in One Piece.
"…. please join my crew?" Apparently, he took my silence as me thinking about it.
"…." Well he did say please.
"Ok but first-," I got cut off with a hasty shout of "YESSS!" and the rubbery arms surrounding me letting go. I stuck my hand up and he started staring at me. "Let me tell you about myself."
Let's see if this works. Menu
Menu
The world paused now and the screens back, holding itself in front of me. Neat.
Inventory
Okay, first-things-first swords.
I tried to reach out to the screen in front of me only to find myself unable to move.
No shit I'm paused too. FUCK, where's Aerondight?
Oh, fuck it.
Legendary Viper steel sword/silver sword/chest armor/gauntlets/pants/boots
Legendary feline crossbow
Now bombs.
Superior Northern wind bombs
Superior Dancing star bombs
And potions.
Superior Thunderbolt, Superior Petri Philter
Superior Swallow, Superior Maribor Forest
Ok and now to get back.
Light started shooting around me, collapsing and reveling me in my new gear.
"SOOO COOOLLL!" At least my captains impressed.
"Huh, that looked surprisingly like Re-Quip." I muttered. Cool.
Looked at the pirate again, marveling what he looked like in real life. While his clothes were the same, his features look more Mediterranean than I would have guessed coming from a Japanese anime.
I sat down on the treehouse floor and motioned for him to do the same. Reaching into the basket I pulled out a thermos filled with tea and two, lightly cracked, cups.
Drinks in hand, I pondered a question I always seem to have.
How to start?
From the beginning; with Who, what, when, where, how, and why.
Should I lie.
Fuck it, honesty is the best policy.
"Okay Luffy, my name is Brandon, I'm a 22-year-old college student who last night was unknowingly transported to this world and turned into a Witcher; a mutated human of what I once thought was fantasy who is created to hunt and kill monsters utilizing, quite literally, otherworldly magic and weapons.
"The reason that I know your name is because your journey of finding the One Piece and becoming the King of the Pirates is one of the longest running stories on my world.
"I don't know for certain if the treasure is real, or what might be there if it is, but I do know that the only way to find out for certain is to read the Road Poneglyphs, a set of structures that are hoarded by the Pirate Emperors.
"When you saved my life and I didn't have anything to offer you as thanks at that time I fell under the Law of Surprise, a magic law from the world of the Witcher's that says I have to give you that which I have, but do not know. Because I didn't know I was turned into a Witcher, that ended up being myself as a member of your crew, binding my destiny with yours."
Luffy sat on his legs and drank his tea in silence, eyes closed and apparently lost in thought eerily like how my philosophy professor had done during my argument on the nonexistence of the number zero.
Without warning, he opens his eyes and looked into mine. "So, you're a mystery psychic alien witch?"
"… Sure, why not?" I guess he's more of a go with the flow kind of guy.
"Cool," he looked to the clock on the wall before hopping onto his feet wrapping me in his arms before jumping down the hatch in the floor, giving me the brief feeling of falling and the thought of Oh, Shit, and landing with rubbery legs springing slightly.
I bent over and decorated the ground with vomit.
I looked behind me to a smiling sociopath whose arms were reaching for the tree branches. "WHAT THE FU-," "GUMO GUMO ROCKET!" And we were flying.
Like a rocket.
I get transported from another world, talk to the guy for three minutes, and the next thing I know I'm falling out of a tree and being shot through the air.
So why wasn't I panicking.
Flying through air over the woods in the arms of a crazy-ass rubber-man from another world, and the only thing that got to me was how uncomfortable it was. Is this a Witcher's stoicism affecting me or just shock?
Suddenly we reached the apex of the arc over a gathering of people standing by the shoreline of a small town. It looked like a nice town that couples would drive through and comment isn't that nice?
Just missing a clock tower a rubbery hand shot out in a move reminiscent of spider-man, grabbing hold and slowing down just before touchdown letting go of me. The captain landed in a superhero landing and a cry of "BAANNZI". I landed in a belly flop what most defiantly not a whimper.
Rolling onto my back, the captain looked down on me laughing. "Shishishishi, wasn't that fun!"
I flipped him off.
Luffy grabbed my hand, hauling me up and leading me to a small rowboat at the end of the dock as the crowed collapsed on us. They move aside as we approach.
"Good luck, Luffy!" A middle-aged man called.
"BYE LUFFY." A little girl shouted from behind her mother, eyeing me like a dangerous animal. I shot her a smile that she slightly returned.
"Are you sure that you want to leave on that Luffy?" A guy called.
"I'm good," my captain says.
"Hey Luffy, who's that with you?" A green haired woman calls.
"Oh Makino, this is Bran. He's my first crewmate!" He yells, jumping on top of the barrel and turning back to me.
"Bran, start rowing, captains' orders!"
I turned to look at the people on the shore one last time before taking up the oars.
Brandon, but whatever, I thought. "Aye Captain."
I took a set at the bench and started rowing.
I barely got out of the dock before there was a crashing behind us.
I turned around and looked up.
What looked like the cross of a giant shark and a lizard looked back with a toothy grin. Atop his head was a name framed with a silver bar and a number.
45
Seaking
And I'm at level 94, and Luffy is Luffy. I stood up and put my hand on top of the silver sword but Luffy held his hand out.
"I got this," he said winding his arm like one of those old timer boxers. "I've been training this punch for ten years."
His arm stretched out behind him; fist clenched.
And then he let it fly.
"Gomu Gomu Pistol!"
And gave the monster a punch that knocked it out.
Then he held his arm, freshly retracted, to the sky and screamed across the ocean. "I'm going to do it! I'M GONNA BE KING OF THE PIRAAAATES!"
He turned to me. "Ben, keep rowing. We set sail for the Grand Line!"
"Ok." Ever onwards it is.
I kept rowing. And rowing.
For ten minutes.
"Brraaannn, I'm bored."
"Nice to meet you Bored, I'm Bran."
Too easy.
"That's not funny! Tell me a story or something." And suddenly my captain was pouting like a little kid.
Fine, I just hope that Jump Force isn't a thing here.
I thought about it for a second and spoke.
"Once on a moonlit night, A giant fox with nine red tails attacked a village.
Only this was no ordinary village, but a village of ninjas gifted with the power of chakra and it was protected by a leader they called the Hokage…."
And on I went for hours.
"… and his hands flew together as the sky darkened and thunder broke, he looked at the three ninjas before him and said only two words, "You Pass.".
Hey captain what's that sound?"
Luffy blinked, the spell of the story broken and looked behind him.
"Ah, a whirlpool."
"….."
"….."
"…." Aww shit.
"AH, A WHIRLPOOL!"
I set the oars down and looked out to the sea. Luffy was right there was a whirlpool.
And we were getting sucked in.
Luffy didn't even flinch. "Quick Bran, use Magic!"
I looked at him. "I'm not a Pokémon, and my magic doesn't work like that."
He looked at me with a frown. "What kind of crappy witch are you?"
"I'm not a witch, I'm a Witcher." I opened the barrel. "GET IN."
He hoped in and closed it again, a little roughly on the rubber-man's head.
I tossed us both overboard, unequipped all of my armor and weapons and took a drink of Killer Whale.
Don't want to be weighed down if I cant help it.
Me being naked is going to be a running gag isn't it
Then holding onto the barrel like It held my only friend in the world (it did), I kicked us forward.
For ten minutes.
"…Bran I'm bored."
"…. And as the words of Kakashi echoed across the field, the sun came out and shined on the faces of the three students. For though the kids failed his test, they learned the lesson he wanted to teach. 'A ninja who abandons their mission is trash, but a ninja who abandons their friends is worse than trash'…."
A.n. Finaly got around to publishing this. I will go on to descibe the Gamer mechanic in the next chapter.
