*Disclaimer*
* This is my own original story but I'm using character based of the manga and Anime series "One Piece". All characters, and rights to those characters, belong to Eiichiro Oda and the Series "One Piece". Please read the author note at the end of this story for important information.*
Chapter 3
` *A day ago in the afternoon*
"LAND HOOOOO!" Usopp said to the crew with the speaker system as he was using the telescope to spot the island. "The fog has cleared since this morning and were close to the island. Prepare to set the anchors!"
As everyone heard Usopp, everyone was running to the deck to get a good view of the island. The island was very small compared to the other islands that the Straw hats have been on, but enough where there are places to go and have fun. The island was a shape of a crescent and it was very fortified. There were huge metallic walls that were covering the whole island and in the middle was a gigantic gate.
"Wow! That some heavy weaponry." Franky said as he was looking at the weapons that were alongside the wall. "Those walls must be really thick if they are able to place cannons inside the walls. Do you think this is a marine base?" Franky said.
"I don't know, they don't have a Marine or a World Government flag, and they haven't fired at us yet." Robin said trying to inspect the area.
"Well hopefully there aren't any marines here, because we have to stay on this island until the log resets. Maybe they haven't seen our Jolly Roger yet." Nami said. "Its best we put down the flag that they don't grow suspicious." As she was talking, she felt someone poking her shoulder and she turned to find Zoro with a sweat drop.
"I think you're a little too late for that." Zoro said as he was pointing behind him. Nami started to follow the direction of his finger until she saw what he meant. Behind Zoro was Luffy, who was scooting back little by little with his hands stretched. She followed the other end of the stretched out hands until she saw that his hands were holding onto Sunny's head. She than realized that Luffy was about to catapult to the base.
"Luffy, what are you doing!?" Nami exclaimed as Luffy was still stepping back. She than started to follow him so she can stop him but it was too late. He started to smile at her and started to laugh.
"I'm just going to say hi." And with that he blasted off. Everyone was looking at him soaring into the sky until he made it into the island and couldn't be seen behind the walls. It was that moment, when they heard a scream coming from the other side.
"That doesn't sound too good." Usopp said, secretly fearing for his life. The crew expected to hear more come from the wall such as screams but everything was silent except the ocean.
"Well let's just keep moving forward until we reach the gate. Get ready, because we might be attacked." Zoro said with a smirk as his hand rested on the handle of his swords."
"Then who is going to protect me!?" Usopp said as he was cowering behind the mast.
"Screw that! Who's going to protect me?!" Nami said in protest.
"I will Nami-Swannnnn!" Sanji said.
The Straw Hat Crew ship was sailing to the gate until they made it there. Nothing was happening for a couple of minutes and everyone was preparing for an ambush until they started to hear a machine turn on and gears moving. It was happening for quite a while until they saw the gates were finally open. The gate was opening slowly until they were able to finally sail through the gates and that was when they were all shocked.
When they finally passed through the gates they were able to see inside the walls, and they didn't expect to see what they were seeing. They saw buildings (a little bit shorter than the walls covering them) that were covered in beautiful murals that showed eccentric scenes of nature and of celebrations.
The buildings seemed to be apartment buildings since many of them were labeled in different house numbers and many people lived in each one. The Straw Hat crew saw that the town was preparing for something since they saw many people on top of buildings and construction platforms.
They realized that the island was split into networks of canals and they were moving inside the biggest one. On each canal, there were sidewalks alongside them were people can walk on land. The sidewalks that were parallel to each other were connected by a bridge. The bottom of the bridged curved up so that ships and boats can sail through the bridge; there was a bridge every 20 feet.
As they were moving inside the canal, many people who were outside constructing, walking down the sidewalk, or people who were crossing the bridges saw the Straw Hat crew and were shocked and surprised. The Straw Hat crew soon realized that many of the townspeople were staring at them and they didn't know what to think of it.
"Ummmmm guys? Should we even be here? Look at them; they are just staring at us." Usopp stated.
"Yea, I know. It kind of freaking me out to. What should we do?" Chopper said worriedly.
"You shouldn't be worried. They have opened the gates to us and they haven't tried to attack us or anything. But it does raise the question why they are staring at us?" Robin said. As the Straw Hat Crew were talking, they had seen many people run ahead of them and were running up to the next upcoming bridge that they will soon pass through.
As they were close to the bridge, everybody of the Straw Hat crew were preparing for an ambush. They were expecting the worse, but they did not expect what was going to happen next. Many people were waving at them and chanting and cheering about the Straw Hat crew. People were shouting things like…
"You all are the best!"
"We love you all"
All of the Straw Hat crew was confused on how things turned out be and just didn't expect it to come to this. Soon enough, every bridge they passed on the canal and even on the construction platforms, people were just chanting their names. Many people were throwing flowers that were planted on the ground, girls that were blowing air kisses to all the guys of the crew ( which Sanji thought those were all meant for him), and many men were whistling(the type of whistling when you flirt) to Nami and Robin.
"What the hell is going on here?!" Zoro said being annoyed with the cheering.
"I don't know, have we even met these people?" Usopp said.
"No, but does it even matter? Look at all these girls! Hey, ladies!" Sanji exclaimed. And when Sanji shouted to the girls, many of them responded to him, shouting his name. Sanji couldn't believe what was happening that he was just twirling around the deck.
"That really worked?! Then this must to." Brook said as he was walking to the very top of the deck and shouted to the girls that were coming up on the next bridge. He grabbed his hat and bowed to the ladies and said, "May I please see your panties" Brook said as he had his head lowered.
At first he started sweating because he felt they were going to throw things at him while he was bowing before them. But when he turned his head up to look, he was utterly baffled at what he saw. He looked up and saw all the girls with skirts were showing it to him. Though Brook was a skeleton, he had gotten a nose bleed that came out so strong he flew back to the middle of the deck. "That was just amazing!" Brook exclaimed.
Franky decided to help him up and started to talk to him. "It wasn't amazing, you idiot! It was SUPPPEER amazing!" Franky said in his pose. Brook decided that Franky was right and joined him in his pose. Though it all stopped when Nami went behind the both of them and started to hit him them until they dropped.
"You perverted idiots!" Nami started to shout. Nami turned around looking at what lied ahead of them and she could see that they were going to stop at a house. "Do you think Luffy going to be there?" Nami said.
"Why don't we ask?" Zoro stated. He started walking in-front of the mast and started to shout. "Everybody just shut up for a minute!" Soon enough all the town people were silent. "Now can someone please tell me where we going and where is our Captain." One of the people from the crowd answered.
"Straw Hat is in the mayor office and you're heading there now!" Zoro nodded and said thank you and headed back to the middle of the deck. He saw that they were about to set anchor at the mayor office and all the towns people were headed back to the apartment or the construction platforms.
Once they docked they were finally able to clearly see the mayor house. Most of them expected to see the mayor office as big as the apartment buildings but were surprised to that it was actually very, very small. From looking at the outside, it had one floor and was very small in length, width, and height. It very much looked like a small house. The crew started walking to the front door and they started knocking on it.
The door opened and revealed an elderly short woman. "Hello and welcome to Fort Worth Island. Your Captain is inside." She started waving them to come inside and they soon entered. While the mayor closed the door, the crew was looking around the house and there were very few decorations around the house. The crew started to hear laughing on the other side of the house and the crew decided to go inspect.
When they were getting closer to the sound, they knew it was Luffy voice. They opened a door to a room and saw what they were looking. They saw a dog that was on top of Luffy, who was continuously licking his face. The dog was getting his saliva all over him but Luffy didn't care much because his licking was tickling him.
The mayor soon saw the crew huddled up around her office and she decided to go through them and walk to her office chair. "Come in! Come in!" Everybody was able to get in the room except Brook and Franky. Franky tried getting in but he couldn't get through the doors and Brook couldn't fit in the room because his head kept on hitting the ceiling.
"Sorry Mademoiselle, but Franky and I can't fit inside this room." Brook said.
"Don't worry I can fix that." The mayor said. The mayor than searched through her desk until she finally found what she was looking for.
"There it is" the Mayor said. She than revealed a remote control with many buttons on it with different shades of color. She than aimed the control on top of the ceiling and pressed a green button. Nothing was happening for a few seconds until they started to hear huge cranking noises and beeps. Everybody was clueless on what was happening until they saw that the floor below them was expanding and the walls also. They saw that the ceiling was going up and the windows of the office were getting bigger.
"What is going around her?!" Usopp and Nami both screamed.
"Don't worry, nothing bad will happen here," The mayor said reassuring, "It just your friends were big enough to fit in this small room so I just wanted to give them some space."
"That was SUPPPERRR amazing. HOW DID YOU DO IT?" Franky said with look of astonishment and curiosity.
"Well before I became mayor, I was an architect/designer and my husband was an engineer. When both me and my husband first came to this town, the previous Mayor asked us if we can remodel his office and he asked if it can have a look of a house but as big as the apartment buildings. Well at first, we didn't know how to meet his needs until my husband got the greatest idea. He decided that we should make designs for a house and I'll be the one to design the interior and exterior and how it should look, and my husband decided to make this house where it can decrease and increase in size."
"THAT IS SUPPPER! DID YOU KNOW HOW HE DID IT?" Franky said.
"My husband never told me and he kept his blue prints for this house as a prized possession." The Mayor said.
"Do you know where he is? I want to ask him how he did it." Franky asked excitedly.
"I'm sorry but I'm afraid that is not possible. My husband died a few years ago and before his final breaths he asked me if I can bury his plans with him."
Everyone felt sorry for the mayor for her lost, but not as much as Franky. Throughout the conversation, Franky felt the man that the Mayor was talking about was similar to his icon and father figure Tom. Franky really wanted to meet this man because it seemed he had the creativity of Tom and felt like it would have been an honor to meet him.
"Well I'm sorry for your lost and you have my deepest apologies." Franky said with sorrow.
"It's okay," the mayor said reassuring she was comfortable about the subject, "That just happens when you get old. Life just catches up. But the past is the past and the future is now. Let just talk about something else."
"Well if you don't mind answering, but why was everyone cheering for us?" Robin asked, very curious.
"Well back when Whitebeard was still alive, this was his territory. He saved this town from a band of criminals and decided to make this his territory. The whole town loved him and he had much of our gratitude. 2 years ago, when we received news about Impel Down and Marine Ford was when we learned your Captain was Ace's little brother. This whole town very much liked Ace and when we heard about Luffy courageous act at Marine Ford, we liked your captain also. After the tragic events that happened with Whitebeard and Ace, our village was no longer under Whitebeard protection. Our whole town despises the Navy and the government so our town decided to join forces with the Revolutionary Army and supply them with Intel. We been hearing a lot about you and all the things in the New World you have done in the New World. Though all of you are not a part of the Revolutionary Army, you have been going against the government and me and the island highly praise you. We consider you all as heroes."
Robin than nodded and responded, "Well now we finally understand what was happening in the canals, but I have to admit, it is a little weird for us since this is our first time being on this island. It seems like the townspeople will do anything for us."
Franky and Brook started repeating what Robin said when she said "the townspeople will do ANYTHING for US," in their head. They started to get perverted thoughts and blood was coming from there noise. Nami went up behind them and slapped them in the back of their heads and told them to stop. Sanji quickly turned himself over from everybody else and wipe the blood of his nose that he wouldn't get caught thinking perverted thoughts too. He soon after started to smoke his cigarettes and let go of a smoke puff.
"Well can you please tell us what is with all the construction around the town?" Sanji said.
"The walls have been there since this village was founded. We have been invaded many times and we decided to fortify our island and defend it. The construction that you have seen is us preparing for our annual celebration. Every year we celebrate when this island and village was founded and we place fireworks and decorations all over the place. We have a huge gathering place at night where there are a lot of drinks, music, dancing, and food. Many people will be there. Think of it as a formal party" The Mayor said. Luffy soon got up from the floor and got close to the mayor.
"Did you just say you have food?" Luffy said with as much excitement when a kid is about to open there birthday gift.
The mayor started to laugh. "Yes, we have plenty of food that everyone can eat."
"Well when does the log reset on this island?" Nami said.
"It takes about 12 hour for your log to set, so it will probably be set by morning. That means you can stay for the celebration! May all of you please come; it will be a great honor for the village if you came." The mayor asked.
"Why not?!" Luffy said with excitement. "It seems like a lot of fun and I'll think we will enjoy it right. Right guys?"
"I don't see a problem with it. It about time we get to an island where we can just relax and enjoy ourselves for a bit." Nami said.
"If there boozes, than I'm in," Zoro said happy and excited to get drunk.
"Well that is fantastic! There is a hotel that you can stay in and prepare for the festival if you like." The Mayor said.
"We don't need to stay in a hotel but is there somewhere me and Robin can go and shop for some clothes?" the Mayor said.
"Yes there is. If you go outside, there is a billboard that has a map of all the locations of this island." The Mayor said.
"Well thank you very much. Guys, Robin and I are going to get ready for the party. You all just can wait back on the ship. Come on, Robin!" After Nami was done talking, she pulled Robin out of the room and both started to run outside. The rest of the crew can see Nami and Robin walking down the sidewalk through the window until they couldn't be seen anymore.
"Well Mayor, it looks like we got to go as well." Sanji said as he started to wave everybody to come with him. The mayor nodded and everyone left. The males of the crew were in the kitchen discussing what they were going to do before the festival and everyone had their mind set on something else.
Sanji wanted to look good for tonight that he can impress all the ladies so he said he was going to buy clothes for the festival. Brook decided to tag along since he didn't have anything formal to wear. Being reminded that they had to wear something formal, Zoro decided to go look for something to wear by himself since he didn't want to be with Sanji.
Though Zoro said he was going alone, Usopp decided to go with him that he doesn't get lost. Luffy said he was going to explore the village and the island before the festival starts. Brook had asked if he need any clothes but Luffy said he had clothes he could already wear. Franky and Chopper said they will just stay on the ship since they had clothes and even if they need clothes, they probably wouldn't have their size.
So as the males of the crew were doing their own thing, Robin and Nami were shopping for clothes at a store called Genette's clothes and accessories. It was a very big store and there was different type of clothes that you could buy. Nami and Robin were walking down an aisle when Nami had finally found something to wear. Nami grabbed something off the clothes racket and showed it to Robin.
(Author Note: Look at the One Piece Cover Page for Chapter 756 to see what everyone will be wearing for the festival/party.)
"Do you think this would look good on me?" Nami said as she had the skater dress in front of her.
"It will look good on you but make sure it fits. I saw a dressing room in the corner of the store. You can go and try it on; I'm going to keep on looking for clothes." Nami said ok and then walked off to the dressing room. Robin started to roam around the store for a couple of minutes and still hadn't found anything. She decided to just wait for Nami until she got done in the dressing room. She waited near the dressing area for a couple of minutes.
Robin heard a clicking sound from a door and saw Nami come out. Nami than walked to her and start to twirl and pose for her. "Well, what do you think? Do I look good in it?"
"You look great and it fits perfectly! You should go ahead and buy it." Robin said.
"Well what about you? Have you found anything to wear?" Nami asked.
"I haven't had any luck and I don't think I going to find anything her. Let just look at another store." Nami nodded, changed back into her original attire, and both headed to the cashier. When they arrived, they saw the cashier was a lady who seemed like she was in her 40's. She had short black hair with freckles around her cheeks. A girl was next her who seemed to be in her 20's and had similar features as the women.
"Hello, we would like to purchase this item." Nami said
The cashier recognized them and started to smile. "Well hello there! I heard that you came to this island but I didn't know if it was true or not. Are you coming to the festival?"
"Yes we are and were excited to come. It seems like it will be fun." Nami said with a cheerful face.
"Everyone is so excited that you guys are coming. The festival will be great!" the cashier said. The cashier took the dress from Nami and started to clip off the tags. Once she was done she than faced Robin and said…
"Excuse me, but do you want to purchase a dress?"
"Sorry, but I couldn't find anything that I liked." Robin responded.
"Really? Well I have a dress that I have in the storage room that we just got shipped here. It is in the back, I can go get it if you like?"
"It is okay miss; I don't want you to get in trouble by your boss if you're giving me something that is not being sold to other customers."
"It is okay. I'm the owner of this store so you have nothing to worry about. My name is Genette and this girl you see next to me is my daughter, Lisa. I'm here trying to teach my niece how to work the cash register and help the customers and no else can now since mostly everybody is preparing for the festival." Genette then faced Lisa. "You just stay here while I go to the back and get the dress."Genette then walked off to the back.
There was a comfortable silence between Nami, Robin, and the new girl they met Lisa until Lisa started to talk.
"Excuse but can I ask you something?" Lisa asked.
"Sure, what is it?" Nami said.
"How is your captain like?" Lisa asked.
Both Nami and Robin were confused on why she had asked that question and didn't know how to respond. They both looked at each other deciding they should respond. A few seconds later, Robin just shrugged her shoulders and just tapped Nami's shoulders giving her a sign to just answer it.
"Well…"Nami started to talk, "Our Captain Luffy is probably the one of the greatest people you will ever meet. He is extremely nice and he cares about everyone. He would risk his life if someone was trouble, even if it was a stranger. He also the strongest person you will ever meet. He is always honest and never tells a lie, even if telling the truth might get him killed. He can sometimes be stupid at times, well most of the time, but his personality makes up for it. He doesn't know when to quit and he is in love with meat. He can eat a whole ship full of meat and still ask for seconds."
As Nami was talking, she kept on talking faster and faster until she actually needed to breathe. As she told Lisa about him loving meat she actually started to breathe heavy. As Nami was catching her breathe Robin started getting curious on Nami response. Robin saw as Nami was talking about Luffy she started to smile and her attitude and demeanor had changed from when they first enter this store until now.
"Sorry about that, it's just there a lot of things I can tell you about Luffy, but I just needed to catch my breath." Nami said.
"Well he seems like a great guy. Just one more thing." Lisa asked.
"Well what do you want to ask?" Nami responded.
Lisa started to blush and started to mumble when she was talking.
"Well, I just wanted to know, well ummmm…. Is he dating anyone?"
At this point both Nami and Robin were confused. Why would someone ask that type of question?
"Well, why do you want to know?" Robin said very suspicious.
"Well when most of my friends heard that the Straw Hat crew was here, me and my friends went to go look for ourselves. We went on one of the bridges and saw all you guys. When we saw the males on your crew, we started talking about who we liked most out of the guys. When we saw that your crew was at the mayor office, me and my friends decided to go and see what the guys looked up close by peeping through the window. When we saw them, we started to pick out which one we thought were hotter. All of us girls made a bet that whoever guy we picked, we have to kiss them by the end of the day. I choose to pick Luffy since he looks good looking to me. I just wanted to make sure he wasn't dating anyone that I don't get anyone mad."
After Lisa explained why she been asking all these questions, Robin didn't know what to think. She didn't know whether to laugh because these group of girls made a silly little bet or to feel weird that someone was actually doing this type of thing. She was going to turn over to Nami and ask what she thought but when she turned over to see Nami, she had an idea what was going to be her answer.
Nami had a wide cynical smile and her right eye kept on twitching. Though it seemed like she was trying to make it seem she was having a positive attitude, she showed everything but a positive attitude. Robin had an idea why she was acting like this but everyone time she replay the thought in her mind, she could only think of one thing. "How much money is she going to pay me to keep my mouth shut?"
"Are you alright?" Lisa asked very insecure.
Nami right eye stopped twitching but she still had the same smile. "Why wouldn't things be alright?" Nami said in a different tone of voice different from her original. It was that point that Robin new something was off and she decided she would talk to Nami about it later. Before the conversation can get any weirder or dangerous, Genette came in with the dress.
"Here you go, do you like this dress?" Genette asked as she passed the dress to Robin. Robin started to inspect the dress and placed it in front of her. Robin loved how the dress looked and she decided she would buy it. She gave the dress to Genette that she can clip the tags and gave Genette the money for both her and Nami dress. She turned over to Nami to see if she still had the same face she had when Lisa asked that question but it seemed that Nami turned to normal. They both walked out of the store with their new clothes and were heading to the ship.
"Hey, are you okay? You were a little off when Lisa told us what she was going to do? You seemed mad." Robin asked.
"I wasn't mad! I was just a little a little shocked that all." Nami responded.
"It even seemed like you were a little jealous." Robin said giggling. Nami started to blush and started to shake her head to get rid of the blush.
"I wasn't! Let just get to the ship already." Nami said. Before Nami and Robin went to Genette's store to get clothes, they had gone to other store to go look for clothes. So ever since they have left the mayor office, they have been out for a quite a while. So by the time they made it to the ship, the festival was about to start. When they were going to room to change they saw a note on their door. The note said that all the guys were going to be at the party. Both Robin and Nami knew where everyone else was at and decided to change that and to get to the festival as quick as possible.
As Nami and Robin are at the ship Luffy and the rest of the guys just made it to the festival. They were surprised when they got there because the scenery was different from when they first came to this village. They expected to see buildings but none were seen.
They were outside at a flat plain surface filled with grass and flowers. The canals that were surrounding the area were streaming peacefully against the land while the moon shined brightly over it. They saw tables and seats spread all over the area except for the middle. The tables were spread all over except for the middle which made the middle in a shape of a large circle.
In the large circle was where the music was played and where people can go and dance. Near the tables, you could see that there were a couple of bars that the people made outside where people can drink. There was also a large house that was near the tables and from its chimney, smoke was coming out. You could see waiters coming out of the house with plates of food and inside were where the food was being made. Many people were already there and enjoying themselves.
Luffy and the guys were able to find a table and save chairs for Nami and Robin. They all sat down and began to talk.
"Does anyone know where Nami and Robin are?" Luffy asked.
"I don't know where they are at but they should be done looking for clothes." Usopp expected.
"Well I left a note for Nami-swan and Robin-chwan at the ship saying we were going to be here." Sanji said.
"GUYS! DO YOU SMELL THAT?" Luffy said as he was sniffing the air.
"Let me guess." Zoro said pocking his ear. "Food."
"But not any food Zoro! I smell the delicious aroma of MEAT! The best type of food of all! Wait here!" As Luffy finished talking, he looked side to side to see if anyone was paying attention and started to walk in an anonymous direction. He was looking around other people table to see what they had to eat and he didn't find what he wanted. When he found that a group of people had a table full of meat he started to drool. Everybody at Luffy was paying attention to what Luffy was doing and just sighed on why he was acting this way. Luffy turned to the guys and started to laugh silently and gave a thumb up.
"What the hell is he doing?" Usopp said curiously.
"I don't know but let's watch." Franky stated.
Luffy started turning side to side to see if anyone (besides Zoro and the others) were looking in his direction. When he decided that the area was clear, he turned to group of people with the table full of meat and used his Conqueror's Haki on them. One by one, the group of people were becoming unconscious and there head were going to fall on their plates. Realizing this (and getting worried that their faces will be on his meat), Luffy quickly used his devil fruit powers to quickly grab the food before the group of people faces were to touch it.
He had about 10 plates that were stacked together and he sighed, happy that his food wasn't ruined. The table that he got the meat was about 10 meters away from his original table and he realized that he was going to have trouble carrying it. He took a breathe and started to walked to the table with the unbalanced pile of food he had in his hands. He was biting on his tongue and trying to concentrate on not to drop the food. As he was walking, he had seen random people walking the opposite direction he was going and some were bumping into him and he had more trouble in balancing his pile of food.
The guys had seen it and they decided to have a little fun with it.
"Guys, how much do you want to bet that Luffy is going to drop his food and land on the ground before he gets to this table?" Sanji said with a smirk.
"I'll bet 50,000 beli that he won't drop it." Zoro said very interested.
"Ok, all people think that Luffy won't drop it is with Zoro and people who think the opposite is with me." The group wanted to join in this bet and started placing in bets. 300,000 beli was the cash price for whoever won. Sanji, Franky, and Usopp thought he was going to drop it and Zoro, Brook, and Chopper thought he wouldn't. Everybody put their money in a pile and were having all their eyes on Luffy. As they started to place their bets, Nami and Robin made it to the festival and saw where the guys were seating.
"Let's see what they are doing." Nami said as she waved Robin to move to the table. They made it to the table without them knowing.
"Hey guys, what are..." Nami said before she was interrupted by Zoro.
"Shhhhhh, were doing something right now. Come on Luffy, you got this!" Nami and Robin were confusing in why was Zoro was cheering for Luffy and started to see what Luffy was doing.
As that was happening at the table, Luffy was about halfway there to the table with no significant problems until now. As Luffy passed a table with his huge pile of food, a man decided to needed to use the restroom and he pushed away from the table with his seat. As the man pushed away with the chair, the chair had bumped into Luffy; causing Luffy to drop a plate from his pile. Zoro had saw this and he was scared that he was going to lose while Sanji was about to take the pile of money over his victory. But as you all know, Luffy will always have his meat. NO MATTER WHAT.
So as Luffy saw that he had dropped his plate of meat, he quickly used his devil fruit powers to grab it. He had stretched his head and stretched it all the way to the meat as it was falling. Just as the meat was about to touch the ground, Luffy had grabbed it with his mouth and retracted his head back to its original form. He then ate the meat whole and started to laugh as he was walking to the table.
Once he had made it to the table he had seen that some of the guys were happy while the others were sad. "What's a matter with you guys?"
"Nothing." Zoro said smirking while grabbing the money pile. He started smelling it and then hover the money over Sanji's crying face. "You smell that, Ero-Cook? That is the sweet smell of victory."
Zoro started to distribute the money to the other winners and all the winners started counting there money with smiles. Chopper and Brook seemed very happy with the outcome and had very happy attitudes until they saw who was behind Zoro. They soon started to sweat and placed their money in their pockets. Zoro had seen this and was very confused why they were acting this way. He was about to place his money in his pockets that he had in his hand but he couldn't find it. He started to look around the table until he started to hear breathing behind him. He turned around only to see that Nami had stolen his money and was counting it. She started placing it in her pocket and started to laugh.
"What did you think you were going to do money? Remember, you owe me billions worth of beli. Your winnings are my money."
"Evil witch." Zoro mumbled as he turned around with an unsatisfied face. But as he turned to face the table he saw Sanji run across the table and jumped on top of his head to land in front of Nami and Robin with heart eyes.
"Robin-chwaannnnn! Nami-swannnn! You look so beautiful this evening. May I please take both your hands and walk you to your chairs?" Sanji exclaimed.
"It is okay Sanji; we can walk to our seat ourselves." Nami said embarrassed as she realized that Sanji yelling was causing people to turn this way.
"You can come seat by me my beautiful angels!" Sanji said as he ran across the table trying to kick Brook and Usopp (who was sitting next to him) out of their seats.
"It is okay Sanji." Nami said trying to tell him not to kick them out of their seats. "We can go sit somewhere else."
"I have an empty seat here" Luffy said as he was pointing at the chair next to him. "You can seat next to me and Robin can sit next to Usopp and Chopper. And as Luffy suggested Nami sat between Luffy and Chopper and Robin sat in between Chopper and Usopp. So after the situation about the bet on Luffy and after he ate his meat, everyone got situated in their seats. Soon enough, the waiter had stopped by and asked everyone for food.
"Hello, my name is Sara and I'll be your waitress for today. What would you like to have for today?
"I would like to have you my beautiful waitress." Sanji said with heart eyes.
"Hey, you barely met the women and you are already asking her that." Usopp said smacking the back of his head.
"It cause it love at first sight." Sanji said winking at the waitress.
The waitress was a little disturbed by his logic and bend over to Nami to ask her a question.
"Is he always like this?" Sara asked.
"Don't worry, you'll get used to it." Nami said with a sigh.
After Sara got her answer, she started asking what everyone wanted to eat one-by-one while ignoring the comments that she was given about her beauty by Sanji.
"...And what would you like?" She asked to Luffy
"The whole menu." Luffy said. Sara dropped her jaw to the floor and looked at everyone one else for explanation. Everyone was looking at her like everything was normal.
"The whole menu?" Sara said making sure she heard him right.
"The whole menu." Luffy said with a smile.
"I'll return with your food later." She said with a smile. She quickly turned around and walked away with now a horrific look, thinking...
"What is with these people!?"
Minutes have passed and everybody was enjoying each other company. Luffy and Chopper was explaining to Nami why Franky's inventions are amazing while Nami was laughing at their reasons. Sanji and Zoro were bickering across the table on who was better in fighting and giving reasons. Franky and Brook was debating about what was the most honorable thing that a perverted man, such as themselves, can do. And Usopp was complaining to Robin about how she scares her with her evil comments, only to be told that she just thinks it fun talking about it.
As Robin is explaining to Usopp why her sinister thoughts and comments are amusing to her, something catches her eye. She looks past Usopp and see at least 6 girls in a group ,grabbing a team that is a couple of feet away. The group of girls sat down at a table and started talking. It when they sat down, that Robin was able to recognize one of them. She started to smile knowing who she was and decided to tell Nami. She used her devil fruit powers and tapped Nami on the shoulder. Nami felt the tap and saw the tap came from a hand sprouting from her shoulder. She knew that Robin was trying to get her attention so she turned to look at her only to see that she was pointing at a direction.
She turned in that direction (which was facing in the direction behind her seat) and was looking in that area. She didn't what she was looking at specifically and just started to inspect the area. She couldn't find anything until she started here laughing from one table. She turned to look at the table only to see a person that she didn't want to see. It was Lisa.
"Oh no" Nami whispered. Luffy had heard say that and leaned in close to Nami facing the same direction she was in.
"What is it?"
Not knowing that Luffy was very close to her (Nami) face, she turned to face Luffy to tell him it was nothing, thinking that he was in his original position, but little did she know. Nami turned to talk to Luffy, only to see that his face was only few centimeters away. He right after turned to face her and now both of them were looking at each other. Nami started to blush from the closeness and she soon turned around to hide her face. Luffy hadn't seen her red tinted cheeks and thought she was acting weird since she turned her head so quickly.
"Nami, are you okay." Luffy asked worried thinking she might be sick. Nami sighed and calmed herself to get rid of her blushing and then faced to look at Luffy.
"I'm alright. I just remembered that we are going to have to pay for the food." Nami said giving a fake reason.
"I don't think we have to pay since this a festival. So cheer up." Luffy said with a smile. Though he didn't know the actual reason why she said what she said, she was happy that she Luffy was trying to cheer her up and she felt even happier because of his smile.
"Excuse me." Robin said as she got out of her chair. "But I have to use the restroom."
Nami thought she meant something by this statement, and she was thinking that it meant to come with here but she couldn't decide.
"If she wanted me to go, she would have said something else. Well if she needs me, she probably figure it out." Nami thought.
After Robin had left the table, she headed to the restroom and went into a stall. She than got in her stance to use her devil fruit power and started to spy on the group of girls that were with Lisa. Robin started listening into their conversation...
"OK, so how do you all want to proceed with the bet?" Lisa had asked to the group of girls that were at her table.
"I think we should do it all at the same time." One of the girls suggested.
"But some of us have the same Guy." a different girl responded.
"Well than what if we all do it one by one?" another girl responded.
"Well that seems okay. At least we get to see what happens." Lisa said." Who is up first then?"
"I am!" a girl said
"Okay Soy (A/N: I had Chinese food with SOY sauce while trying to think of a name, so yea), who did you choose."
"I choose the guy named Sanji, the cook."
After Robin heard the conversation a little longer, she decided to leave the bathroom and head to the table since she knows what is going to be happening. As she was walking back to the table though, she was wondering how the girl named Soy will approach Sanji. Robin knew Soy was definitely going to get a kiss from Sanji but how was she going to do it?
Robin headed back to the table and saw that the table was still empty.
"Has the food come yet?" Robin asked.
"They haven't come for the food yet. The waitress told us that they are back-logged with food orders and it going to be longer to make the food." Brook had commented.
"Well better than getting food later, than getting none at all." Usopp said.
"Yeah, trying telling that to Luffy." Zoro pointed to Luffy, as Luffy was banging his hand against the table saying.
"Meat"
"Well what do you expect?" Sanji said. They don't have my cooking abilities, so of cours-"
"Excuse me and sorry for the interruption, but someone called you saying they know you and it's important that you come to them right now." the waitress said.
Sanji looked at the crew and gave an expression of confusion but just shrugged her shoulders.
"Well who is this person?" Sanji asked.
"Well I don't know who she is but she is at the bar waiting for you." the waitress said pointing to the bar. After hearing the word 'she' and 'bar', he quickly got out of seat and next to the lady that the waitress pointed to in God speed. He was so fast, that there was trail of fire that was on the grass caused by Sanji's running.
Everyone was looking at Sanji and the girl talking at the bar and didn't know who she was. Once Robin clearly saw hear, she started to laugh knowing what the outcome of this situation will be.
"Excuse me, but may I please borrow your pen." Robin asked the waitress. The waitress nodded and gave her the pen. Robin than grabbed a napkin and started writing something. As everyone was paying attention to what was Sanji was doing, Robin leaned over the table and tapped on Nami and gave her the napkin. Nami slowly read the napkin and it said...
"One of Lisa's friends. They are starting to do the bet." Nami eyes widened and then turned over to see Sanji and the girl. Both Sanji and the girl were blushing and they started to laugh. Everyone thought that the girl was insane to even blush because of Sanji perverted ways but the situation escalated even more. Everyone at the table thought they were losing their vision because next thing they knew, the girl was holding Sanji hand and getting very close to Sanji.
"Holy...crap...don't tell me this is happening." Zoro said as he was utterly shocked.
"Sanji is actually getting somewhere with a girl." Usopp said unconsciously. He soon realized what he said and covered his mouth, feeling like he had said something that was forbidden. As they thought nothing could get worse from here (or better for Sanji) the girl gave a kiss to Sanji. And not a simple kiss on the cheek, but a kiss on the LIPS! Everybody in Luffy table saw this and they few like they were choking in air and started to cough. Some were able to get their composure back faaster than others and started to go hysterical.
"What the hell just happen?! How does Sanji, the most perverted guy here, get a kiss?!" Usopp asked.
" Sanji must have drugged her somehow. That is the only way he could have gotten a kiss." Zoro said trying to think of another explanation. Robin started laughing to herself thinking how Sanji must be feeling right now. As the group is discussing what happened, Robin sees that Sanji is heading back to the table with heart eyes, and the girl is heading back to Lisa table. As Soy made it back to Lisa's table, some of the girls at the table high-fived her. Robin assumed that they were congratulating her since she won the bet. Robin stopped paying attention to Lisa's table when she saw that Sanji had come back to his table.
"What just happened?" Usopp asked.
"I fell in love again!" Sanji exclaimed while having his hand under his chin and dreamily staring into the sky.
"What really happened Sanji?" Brook asked.
"Well when I got to the bar, I had seen this beautiful lady. She was wonderful. She had called me over telling me that she heard that I was a cook and that she was a cook also. She said that cooking was her life and she said she loved men who cooked. I knew once she said that, she was the one for me." Sanji exclaimed.
"Yea, only cause she like guys who cook idiot." Zoro said.
Sanji ignored his comment and started telling everyone what they were talking about at the bar. As Sanji was recapping the conversation, Robin thought that maybe that the girl just said the whole thing about the cook part to get Sanji to like her more.
"Smart move." Robin thought.
But Robin wasn't the only one who was thinking something else about the conversation. Nami was also thinking and unlike Robin, it wasn't anything of a positive nature.
"Oh my god! I know that Sanji is blinded when it comes to girls, but how did that girl do that?! What going to happen when Lisa tries to kiss Luffy?! What would she do?!" Nami thought worried. Nami was so deep in thought that she wasn't even paying attention to the conversation. She was awoken from her train of thought when she started to hear her name being called out several times.
"Nami-swan! Nami-swan! Nami-swan! Please forgive me for what I have done. I promise that I'm still yours and Robin-chwann man." Sanji said with worried.
Nami knew from his comment, that Sanji thought that both she and Robin were jealous for his kiss. "It's okay Sanji, there nothing to worry about." Nami said with a sweat drop going behind her head.
"Guys you need to stop worrying about Sanji..." Luffy said with a serious tone. This made everyone turn to Luffy. "...and you need start worrying about the food."
"Why I am not surprised that you said that." Nami said as she laughed. "You're just going to have to wait for the food."
"I'm just so hungry." Luffy exclaimed. "I can't wait anymore. I'm going to take some food from the kitchen." and before anyone can protest, he started walking to the kitchen
"Oh well. It not like we can stop him from trying to do something, especially when it comes to food." Zoro said.
Everyone nodded. But as Luffy was walking to the kitchen to go steal food, the waitress had reached the table with everybody food.
She passed everybody food and when she was going to serve Luffy food she was confused.
"Where is your captain?" The waitress asked.
"Oh, he just went to the restroom. He will be back in a bit." Usopp said trying to cover up for Luffy. "You can just place his food on his side of the table."
The waitress nodded and then snapped her fingers. Soon enough many waiters appeared with carts full of food and placed it next to Luffy chair. The waiters and the waitress disappeared and everyone was going to start to eat until Franky had asked…
"Do you want me to go get Luffy?"
"Don't worry about it. He just going to steal some food and come back. It shouldn't be a problem." said Zoro. A couple minutes have passed and Luffy still had not appeared, but nobody was worried. A couple more minutes passed and Nami started to wonder where Luffy was. She looked where the kitchen and was trying to find Luffy. She soon did but she also saw someone else with him. Lisa.
"Oh, crap." Nami whispered. Without telling anyone where she was going she left the table and walked to them in a hurry. While she was walking she was trying to calm herself that she doesn't start yelling and finally made it to Luffy.
"Hey Luffy!" Nami said smiling. "What are you doing?"
"Nothing much. I was going to steal the meat when this girl name Lisa told me that she could get meat for if I could do something that she wanted. She hasn't said yet though."
"I was going to say-"
Knowing that she was going to say something that will result into a kiss, Nami interrupted quickly.
"Luffy. You don't need to get any meat from anywhere or nowhere. There a lot of meat at the table. See." Luffy looked at the table and saw the meat. Once he did, he ran to the table with his tongue hanging out of his mouth. Nami laughed at his antics and then looked at Lisa and showed her tongue at Lisa and walked away. Lisa was confused at what happened and just shook her head in confusement.
"Finally the meat!" Luffy said as he finally made it to the table and started to stuff his face. Nami later came to the table and started to eat.
Everything was finally in order. Everybody was eating together and enjoying their company. Many were talking about the adventures they had and recalling funny moment in the past. Everyone one had a great time and were enjoying themselves. The soon were talking about Sanji and the girl, and were making funny comments off of it, and though Sanji would tell them to shut up about it, he was laughing also as well. It was starting to get funnier when a girl winked at Usopp and Usopp started to blush.
Everyone started to laugh and was teasing Usopp about it and Usopp told them to shut up. The waitress went up to Usopp and passed a note to Usopp saying it was from the lady that she was pointing to (Lisa's table). He read the note and it said to meet her in the back of the kitchen. He then started to sweat and wrote a response on the note and told the waitress to give it back to the girl.
Everyone saw the note and started to laugh.
"Hhahahah! What did you put?" Zoro asked.
"I told her that I was already taken."
Everyone spit out what they were drinking and looked at Usopp "WHO!?"
"Well I wouldn't say taken, but reserved. Remember Kaya?"
Luffy, Nami, and Zoro finally knew what he meant but not the rest of the crew. Robin had asked who was she and Usopp was describing her and talking about her continuously. Everyone was all ears and everyone was astonished on the way Usopp described description was so well that it seemed like Usopp just saw her a few hours ago, though it has more than 2 years. Everyone was most impressed and thought Usopp was sweet for still caring about someone who he hasn't seen in a long time.
Time had passed and everyone was done eating. A few minutes ago they were told by the waiters and waitresses that they should stay longer because the fireworks were going to go off and it can be seen from this area. The crew decided to stay and enjoy themselves until the fireworks. To pass the time, everyone decided to different things. Luffy asked the waitress a whole cart-full of meat, Zoro decided that he will go to the bar to go drink, and Nami and Robin decided to go sit together and talk. The rest of the guys decided that since they have nothing else to do that they will just go and dance. Later Luffy finished his meat and decided to go dance with them.
Nami and Robin were talking when Robin asked a sudden question...
"I saw what happened and what you did with Lisa and Luffy. Do you mind telling me why you did that?" Robin said giggling at Nami.
"What are you talking about?" Nami lied, knowing what she meant.
Robin started to laugh. "So you want to be like that? Fine, I'll explain what I'm talking about since 'you don't know'" Robin said sarcastically at the last part.
"When Zoro said that we shouldn't go look for Luffy, in a couple of minutes after, you did. You saw Lisa with Luffy and you just walked off and went there. You later came back with Luffy. I had to use my powers to see what you guys were talking about and it seemed like you didn't want Luffy hanging out with Lisa. You want to tell me why?"
Nami wasn't surprised that Robin saw the whole situation but she still felt embarrassed for that fact that she saw it.
"I was just trying to make sure Luffy was safe. You don't what that girl could have done to Luffy." Nami said giving an excuse.
"Mmmhm, sure. You know what Lisa was going to do to Luffy and you didn't want it to happen. It seemed to me like you were jealous." Robin said smirking.
Nami started to sweat.
"What the hell am I supposed to say now?! She freaking knows everything! She always figures out when I'm lying!" Nami thought. Nami started to sigh and just gave up.
"Alright, alright, you got me. I was jealous, so I did what I did that way Lisa doesn't kiss Luffy. What else do you want to know?"
"Ok, well when you-"As Robin was talking she saw something past Nami, where the dance area was, and saw what was happening and her eyes went wide. Nami had seen her eyes go wide and she turned around to see what she was looking at and her eyes went wide too.
Lisa was with Luffy again and Nami had seen she was attempting again at winning the bet.
She turned over to Robin and said…
"Excuse for one moment." She than got out of her chair, drank her glass of wine in one gulp and started walking fast. Robin thought she was going to walk towards Luffy but than she saw she was walking towards Sanji. Once Nami reached Sanji, Robin saw Nami talk to Sanji and Sanji started looking around the crowd with heart eyes looking for someone. Robin raised an eyebrow feeling confused but continued watching none the less. Robin saw that Nami was getting Sanji attention and pointing to someone. Robin followed the point of her direction and saw she was pointing to Lisa.
"What is she doing?" Robin thought.
Robin saw that Sanji started running to Lisa and grabbed her by the hand. Before Lisa could respond or react, Sanji started to run to a house and they couldn't be seen.
"What was that? Why would Sanji take her behind the house?" Robin thought. She saw that Luffy saw the whole thing and just shrugged his shoulders. Robin saw that Luffy started to sniff the air and ran to anonymous area. She soon understand that she was smelling meat because Luffy ran to an empty table with meat on it and started stuffing his face. Robin turned over to the dance area to see that Nami was heading back to the table.
"Hey Nami, what was-"
"Sorry Robin, but I'm heading to the bar. I talk to you later."
Robin had assumed from her response that she was just stressed out since she been going all over the place trying to get Lisa away from Luffy. Robin just decided to read her book at the table to pass the time that she can see the fireworks.
As Robin is reading her book, Nami at the bar.
"Bottle of Sake please." Nami asked the bartender,
"Are you sure miss? That a lot of alcohol that your going to buy."
"Just give me it already. You want my money or not?" Nami said.
The bartender just nodded and went to go get the sake.
"What a matter with you." Nami turned to her right to see who was talking to her.
"Nothing, just a long day. And why are you here Zoro?"
"I'm here to get drunk." Zoro said with a smirk.
"I'll drink to that." Nami said with a gloomy attitude. Zoro had seen this and was wondering what was a matter with her.
"Seriously though, you usually don't act like this. Something happened for you to be like this."
"You want to know? Well all of you guys are just stupid. You never know when to take a hint." Nami responded
"What do you mean?" Zoro said, very confused.
"What I mean is that Luffy-" but before Nami could continue her sentence she stopped herself from talking. Today, ever since what happened at the clothing store, Nami has been tangled up in her feelings. She just wanted to spill it all out, but before she could, she realized she was talking to Zoro and she stopped herself. "You know what never mind."
Nami turned over to Zoro to see if he would respond but all she saw was him smirking.
"Why the hell is he smirking for" Nami thought."Why are you smirking."
"Oh, nothing. Don't worry about it." Zoro said. Nami was confused and she decided to let it go. The bartender came back with the sake and Nami started to smile. She grabbed the bottle of sake and started to gulp it down. Both the bartender and Zoro looked at her wide-eyed and saw that she was already done with it. "Another one please." Nami said licking her lips.
10 minutes have passed and Nami cheeks were cherry red and at her side of the bar, you could see 20 bottles of sake empty. Zoro was about to drink his sake but Nami took that out his hand and gulped it down in less than 15 seconds.
"*hic...that...so...soooo..good..." Nami said waving her hands in a drunken matter."Nami..*hic*...going to go...*hic...now."
"Is she talking in third person?" Zoro said confused.
Nami stood up from her stool and tried to walk but she soon fell onto the ground.
"Damn it. I didn't even get drunk today. I'll be going to bartender." Zoro stated. Zoro got out of his stool and picked Nami up back to her feet. He than put Nami arms around his neck and started to help her walk back to the table. Robin saw this and ran to Zoro to go help him.
"What happened?" Robin asked while she was helping Zoro carry Nami.
"She just got drunk." Zoro said. They were finally able to make it back to the and they sent down Nami.
"Look, I'm going to hang out with the guys, can you watch Nami?" Zoro asked.
"No problem." Robin replied. Zoro left and Robin was at the table watching over Nami. Robin sat back in her chair and saw Nami was just turning her head around and staring at nothing. This has been going on for a couple of minutes and Robin was constantly look back at Nami from her book to make sure she was okay. She soon saw that Nami was opening her mouth and than close it at certain times. Robin thought she needed to say something but the words never came out of Nami's mouth.
" . Robin, come over here." Nami said in a whisper, waving her hand to Robin. Robin laughed but obliged to her request. She soon after sat down to Nami.
"Nami doesn't want anyone one to know, but me tell you." Nami said. Robin started to laugh because the way she was using her words.
"Come closer." Nami said waving. Robin put her head closer to Nami. Nami than placed her mouth near to Robin ear and started to whisper.
"Nami doesn't want anyone to know but, Nami likes Luffy." Robin looked back to Nami with a surprised face. Robin had already thought that Nami did, but she was surprised to hear it now. Especially to hear it from a drunken state Nami.
"But don't tell anyone. Nami will get mad." Nami said while placing her finger on her lips, signaling to be quiet.
"Nami, you know that YOU are NAMI?" Robin said trying to make her come back to her senses. Nami tried to respond back, but before she could she started to vomit. Robin started to keep her hair up that it wouldn't get in her hair and started to rub her back to soothe her.
"Okay, I'm taking you back to the ship." Before Nami could respond, Robin made two clones of herself and both clones grabbed Nami and carried her to the canal. While the clones were moving to the canal Robin left a note for the guys saying that they are at the ship. Robin soon after ran to her clones and Nami and they grabbed a boat and sailed it on the canal, back to the ship.
After Robin and Nami left, the guys were hanging around the table and goofing off. When they saw that Nami and Robin weren't with them, some of them panicked. It was when Franky was checking around the table, that he saw the note. Most of them were tired, but they were still waiting for the fireworks. When they saw the fireworks, they were deeply amazed. Many shown eccentric colors and some fireworks made the shapes of stars and flowers. They were most astonished when the fireworks showed animals.
After the fireworks ended, everybody had left and the Straw Hat crew made it back to the ship. All of the guys just went straight to there bed wanting to get some sleep. None had enough energy to stay up. But as he guys were trying to sleep, they all could hear Luffy mumble...
"Meat...meat...meat"
Author Note: Well I hope you like this story and you want to continue reading this. The reason why this chapter is so long is because originally, this chapter was actually made up of 3 chapters. Reason why I wanted to you give you this huge chapter is because I felt like if I posted 3 chapters of this event, I would feel like I would be 'milking' the story. Basically what I mean is that I would feel like I would be prolonging the story. As usual please give me feed back on grammar mistakes, or any scenes or setting that don't make sense that way I can do better next to time. As an apology for the late update, I will tell what the next chapter is about. In the next chapter, it will take place the day after this event in the morning, before Luffy goes missing. You finally get to know what Nami's secret is and what she tells Robin and Chopper. FEELINGS WILL BE REVEALED! Anyway I hope you were able to spend time with you family in Christmas and you had a great time. Stay in tune for the next update!
