Just My Luck Chapter Two
First POV
I'd like to say that I accepted my fate with poise and grace. The truth is, however, that my begrudging calm lasted only a few seconds before I was done. Done with the plane, done with God, done with life. If this was how death was gonna try to take me, I'd give it all the fight I had left. So the next few moments consisted of me exercising every curse word in my extensive vocabulary, and every combination thereof. I cursed out everyone and everything from the plane to my choices to God himself. It felt like I was falling for hours, when honestly it was probably only a few minutes. Soon I had fallen through the layer of clouds – which were very cold and very wet, resulting in even more vehement curses – and saw the ocean glittering beneath me. If I hadn't had my dreams ripped away when they were finally within my grasp, I might have marveled at the beauty. As it was, I just got even angrier. Because of course when I finally got to go skydiving it would be to my death. Just my luck.
Strawhat's POV
By the time that the mystery person hit the water, Usopp had run to get Nami to pull around the ship, and Zoro was already on his way to where the person was going to land. Luffy was halfway between pouting and trembling in anticipation on Merry's figurehead.
"Saaaa~" Luffy sighed. "I hate having to sit here waiting." He soon had a steaming welt on his head, complements of his irritated navigator.
"Then stop sitting there and come help us stop the ship so we don't leave Zoro behind!" She screeched. Then she walked off muttering something about "Stupid boys pulling stupid stunts and making me save their stupid butts". Whatever that was about.
Strawhat shenanigans aside, the Going Merry soon coasted up to where Zoro tread water, holding a soggy mess under his arm. Usopp dropped a line over the side, and the superhuman swordsman heaved himself and his cargo up the side of the ship with one arm. As soon as he was back on deck, Zoro dumped the body on the deck and pounded twice on the newcomer's chest. Pounding, which while gentle by Zoro standards, was still more than enough to forcefully expel the water that had entered the lungs of his rescuee.
First POV
My first thought as I regained consciousness was a creative string of curses. 'Dammit. If I survived that fall only to drown I'm gonna fricking kill whoever's in charge when I finally do kick the bucket.' Maybe it was my threat, maybe the man upstairs just wanted to torture me more, but whatever reason there was, I soon finished coughing up the fluid from my lungs. "Gah! I hate saltwater!" I spit out as I wiped the water from my face. As much as I love playing on the beach, salt water has always had a way of getting on my nerves.
It was at this point that I realized I was on a hard surface. Scrubbing at my eyes a couple more times – because no way was I getting more saltwater in them if I could avoid it – I squinted up at my surroundings. Well, not so much up as over. Thankfully I was on my side, or I might have drowned again. On the same water. Heh. That'd be something to put on my resume. Or maybe not. Aaaaaand now I'm rambling. There wasn't much to see anyway. Bright sky, wooden deck, wooden railing. So I was on a ship. Flipping onto my back, I glanced at the people surrounding me. One tall dude with green hair, one girl with ginger hair like my sister's, one scrawny kid with dark curls and something stuck to his nose, and one boy grinning like a kid at Disney wearing a straw hat.
Wait. I blinked. And blinked twice. And kept blinking. Nope, they were still there. I'm pretty sure I stopped breathing. Nope. No way. It's not happening. I mean, I've read these fics. Be it via ROB or death, a kid from my world gets to go on the journey of a lifetime into the world of One Piece. Heck, I've read most of the popular SIs more than once. Cross, Jones, Riskua, Lily, Evan, they were all cool! They knew useful things, could do amazing feats! But not me. Nothing interesting happens to me. I mean, I'm a teacher. Why am I here?
Then Luffy poked me and I remembered to breathe. Deep breath. In. Out. Despite my feelings of inadequacy, I felt one of the biggest, most genuine smiles I've ever experienced split my face. Tears joined the seawater on my face as I let out a quiet sob. Like walking into Diagon Ally in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, I felt like I was finally where I was meant to be. I was home.
A.N. So… Heh. Sorry? I started two jobs, an unpaid internship (fml, it's required to graduate), and school kicked my butt. Not to mention I had a competition last weekend that I was practicing for in all my free time, but it was worth it 'cause I got first place! Plus my sense of time sucks, so I thought I'd only missed a week or two, rather than a whole month. My bad. Either way, I hope you're enjoying life and my fic and thanks for reading!