Title: Sweet Dreams

Media: fic

Characters: Straw Hats

Word count: 748

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"Run! This way! I'll hold him back! Even the greatest fighter in the Grand Line cannot defeat Roronoa Zoro!" Zoro screamed at the top of his lungs.

Sanji flinched and rolled over.

Chopper screamed and plunged beneath the covers.

Franky turned down his noise receptors. Ahhh…

Usopp jumped about four feet directly into the air and clung to an ornamental display made of bronze that was nailed to the wall above his hammock.

Luffy flailed about so much that his arms and legs whipped out below him and then wrapped around him several times, neatly tying him to the hammock.

"Z…Zoro…" Usopp trembled from his perch, "It's only a dream, snap out of it." He sighed and climbed back down to his hammock.

Chopper poked his head out from under his doona, "A dream, are you sure?" he squeaked.

"Yes, Chopper, it's ok. You can come out, " Usopp soothed.

"Thank goodness, I thought I was dreaming… but I wasn't sure. I'm glad you're having the same dream as I am Usopp-kun," the little reindeer beamed.

"No, it's Zoro. He's the one having a dream, he has been.."

"Help me!" Luffy called out, thrashing about in his hammock and becoming more tangled, "Gomu Gomu no.."

"NO!" Usopp jumped on Luffy and tried to unravel him, "Don't be so hasty!"

"I WANNA FIGHT THE GREATEST FIGHTER IN THE GRAND LINE!" Luffy enthused, getting more and more tangled.

"Stop thrashing!"

"No! I wanna fight with Zoro!"

"He's just dreaming! He doesn't want to fight you!" Usopp narrowly avoided being knocked across the room and tried a different tactic.

"I can't untangle you unless you hold still!"

Luffy gradually stopped wriggling as he woke up properly and took in his surroundings, "Where am I? Where is Zoro?"

"In bed. I tried to tell you!" Usopp undid the knot holding Luffy's right arm to his left leg and the Captain sprung back into shape, the sharpshooter swelled with pride and began to recount his heroics, "I've just been holding Zoro down single handed and preventing him from destroying the ship, and you had to make it worse by joining in! I would hate to have to hurt you in order to protect the Sunny," Usopp finished nobly.

"*lies*" Sanji coughed.

"Awww… I was stuck," Luffy replied, flexing his joints to make sure everything was back to normal.

The door to the room opened slowly and an afro complete with outrageous hat crept into view.

"Is everything ok?" Brook asked, "I was on watch up on the deck and I heard some shouting that made my flesh crawl, not that I have an.."

"Yes, yes," Usopp cut him off, "Zoro is having a bad dream, I think he's stopped shouting though…"

"EVERYONE THIS WAY!" Zoro bellowed, jerking in his hammock and rocking violently.

"Why did I say that?" Usopp mumbled.

Sanji threw his covers up and sat up cursing like only a pirate can.

"Hello Sanji," Luffy grinned, "Zoro's fighting a great enemy but he's asleep!"

"Yes I know. Allow me," A wicked glint danced in the corner of Sanji's eye and he kicked savagely, sending Zoro hurtling out of bed. As the swordsman turned in the air, he opened his eyes in alarm and grabbed Sanji's ankle, pulling the cook down on top of him.

"What the hell are you doing?" Zoro growled.

"Let go of me!" Sanji demanded.

"What is all this ruckus about?!" Nami shouted, bursting into the room wearing only her negligee.

"Evasive manuevers!" Usopp shouted.

"EEEeeeeekkkk!" Chopper joined in.

Nami advanced on Zoro and Sanji, a look of delighted revenge in her eyes.

"We were jus.." Zoro and Sanji chorused.

Nami struck them both with a closed fist, hard, on the top of the head.

"Stop it!" she demanded. "Everyone back to bed!"

"But my-gorgeous-barely-covered-sexy-divine-Nami-swan, Zoro has been most annoy.." Sanji fluttered.

"I don't care!" The fiery red-head snapped, "BED!" then stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind her.

"Nami is scary…" Chopper muttered from behind the swordsman.

"I don't want to come out…" Usopp said from behind Chopper.

"Me either," Brook joined from the rear.

"Sea witch," Zoro grumbled, getting to his feet.

"You heard Nami-chan, shut up! This is all your fault anyway!" Sanji complained as he took his stripy pyjamas back to bed.

"Hey Zoro, want to fight?" Luffy asked.

"SHUT UP!" Screamed Nami from the other end of the ship.

"How does she..?" Zoro began.

"SHUT UP!" Chopper, Franky and Usopp chorused.

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