To resume our little not-well-planned story, we'll resume the past chapter on the same night, but somewhere else, still on the ship, but not completely.

The captain of the Strawhat pirates was sitting on the ship's swing, enjoying the continuous journey towards his and his crewmate's dreams. Marines were tailing them quickly, but he wasn't worried, just one of his crewmates would be enough and he didn't like to steal any of his friend's desired battles.

When he saw Zoro and Franky getting ready to fight, the marine's opponents were decided. Luffy stood up and headed to the galley. When he entered, he saw Sanji cooking, like always. Wait, not like always. The chef his usual suit and a pink apron from the Doskoi Panda brand or maybe a Dosko1 Panda brand that nobody noticed, but he was wearing something extra. He was wearing a small shiny crown.

Instead of asking for meat as he was entering the galley, he stared at his cook for a while before snapping out of it. But once he asked for meat,

"Sure, Luffy. I was actually thinking on a recipe I heard once."

"Oh great! When will it be rea-?"

"First, you put cow tail meat on a big pot with water for about 30 minutes with half an onion andgarlicand a bay leaf." Said Sanji not from memory but just analyzing the ingredients the food consisted in. "After that you put the previously cleaned beans to the pot, when they're about to be ready you add salt. After that you add the hominy and-"

"Uhh, Sanji," said Luffy, really enjoying Sanji's excitement on a new recipe, but really not understanding anything. "I know how you could tell me all that without words!"

"Huh? How?" asked Sanji while turning to look at his captain.

"Well, you could get to it, or write it so you don't forget. We'll all understand how good it is once we taste it, don't you think?" replied Luffy, ending his statement with a grin. After a while staring at Luffy, Sanji smiled and sighed. He would sometimes forget Luffy was a blockhead that enjoyed tasting food more than hearing about it.

"Alright Luffy, It'll be ready in two to three hours."

"AAHH?" Luffy's jaw touched the floor. "I'm sorry Sanji! I'll hear the recipe!"

"It's not that! Beans barely take a hell of time to be ready by themselves! Now with meat and nixtamal it will add up!" yelled Sanji at the boy. "Now get out of here or you'll suffer because of the smell and I don't want you whining here!"

With that, Luffy left the galley, slowly though and with his head down. When he opened the door, a bright white light entered the room and…

Once Luffy opened his eyes, he realized he wasn't actually leaving the galley but he was leaving his dream. Luffy sat on his bunk bed and saw that everyone had left already. He must've had a really heavy dream.

He jumped off of his bed, got dressed quickly and headed out the boy's quarters. When he got to the deck, he saw his friends talking in a circle, almost whispering, nobody had noticed he was there.

"Hey guys! What are you doing?" Luffy said with a grin. He saw everybody shiver before turning to see him.

"L-Luffy! You're up!" said Chopper, sweating.

"Hi Chopper!" Luffy lifted the little reindeer and hugged it. "So, what's for breakfast?" he said as he looked at everybody else.

He had noticed that Sanji wasn't in the group but figured he was in the kitchen. But when he mentioned breakfast, everyone acted as if they hadn't heard him and looked anywhere else but him, which looked rather silly.

"What is it? What's wrong?" asked Luffy, the smile never leaving his face. Everyone looked nervous to even try to answer that last question. Luffy looked ateach and everyone of them waiting for anyone to answer.

"Oh, Luffy" started Nami. "We've looked everywhere. We really have!"

The silence took over again, leaving Nami's words in the air before she faced the grass with a hand over her elbow. Luffy's smile had faded and on it's place left a blank stare that meant that he was trying to understand what Nami had said.

After a while of thinking, he thought he understood and carried Chopper with one arm while the other one lifted its way to his head. Once he touched the edge of his hat, he sighed in relief, bringing him to try to understand Nami again.

"Is something lost?"

"Luffy," said a voice next to him, he turned to see Chopper with a worried expression, "breakfast isn't ready, and the kitchen is empty."

"And the rest of the ship is too," finished Franky.

With that, Luffy's brain gears started turning, starting in a slow motion and getting faster by the second. Chopper jumped off of his arms and retuned with the rest of the crew, hiding behind Ussop. Luffy stared in front of him for a while and looked as if he was looking at his crew, but he was just staring, thinking.

"W-where's…" Luffy finally said, hesitating, "Where's Sanji?"

He saw as some of his crew just stared him and then cried or sobbed, some looked at the grass under them, some just closed their eyes, not bearing to see their friend's reactions. Luffy didn't stop staring. Not until he raced and barged into the kitchen which was lifeless. He then ran to the bathroom, knocking first, and then opening the door abruptly. Nothing.

Luffy checked the whole ship, even the women's quarters, looking for his chef who was nowhere to be seen. He passed in front of his crew that was in an even worse mood than when he left them, some of them crying silently not wanting to see Luffy's desperation.

Once Luffy finished on looking around the whole ship, he began to search all over it again. Once his crew knew he was searching again, Ussop held him from his shoulders when Luffy passed in front of them. They both stared at each other for a while before Luffy spoke.

"What happened?" his voice was shivering and sounded cracked.

"We don't know," Ussop replied "we really don't know."

"When I was about to take my turn on watch after him last night" said Franky "I went to the Crows nest and he wasn't there." Franky had trails of dry tears all over his face. "After that, I went to look for him, but he was nowhere."

"That's when Franky began to wake everyone up," said Chopper.

"I even searched the water we're anchored in," said Zoro, Luffy noticed he actually wasn't completely dry and that he had a towel in his hand. "He wasn't there either."

"Luffy," sobbed Nami trying to calm her eyes from pouring "what should we do?"

Luffy did not respond. He couldn't, he had actually mysteriously lost a nakama.

Ok, it's plot-wise now. Hope this goes good. Feel free to correct me in any mistakes I've made.