Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece or any of its characters.
Lynn: Thank God you don't. Because if you did... *shudders*
SS (me): Shut up. I created you, so you have no right to talk.
Lynn: You're crazy.
SS: Watch it, smart mouth, or I'll chuck you out of the story.
Lynn: If you chuck me out the whole story is going to crumble.
SS: Grrr...
Lynn: HAHA! In your face! Muahahaha!
SS: And, she calls me crazy...
Chapter 2 – The Boy From the Other Side
Lynn stared at the boy that stood before her. This was too weird. That didn't look like a pathetic cosplay, and that scar wasn't a fake, either.
"Holy cow, I think I'm going crazy…" she muttered, holding her head.
The boy tilted his head. The girl in front of him was somewhat small, compared to the heights of his other crew members and had deep brown eyes and black hair, tied in two rather cute looking low bunches on either side of her head. He found her startled expression quite amusing and laughed. "You're funny! Who are you?"
"Who are you?" she demanded in response. "Where the heck did you come from?"
"There." He pointed upwards.
And, for the first time she noticed it. A glistening circle of light positioned in the mist of branches. "What is that?" she cried in surprise.
"Beats me," the boy shrugged. "But, that thing sucked our Log Pose away so Nami sent me to come after it."
'Log Pose?' "This?" Lynn handed him the one that fell on her head earlier.
"Ah! Yes! That's it!" he cried happily. "Thanks!" He took it and strapped it onto his wrist.
The light above them started to dim and pulse.
That didn't seem good.
The boy noticed it, too, and stared. Then, it quickly sucked in on itself and disappeared without a trace, happening so suddenly that it left both of them dazed.
"What the hell is going on?" wondered Lynn aloud.
From the where the light once was, a piece of dark material fell onto the ground. The boy bent down and picked it up.
"Eh? What's this thing?" He examined it curiously.
Lynn gasped. She recognized it. It was, without a doubt, a shard of her wooden gate-charm. The boy looked at her. "You know what this is?"
"Y-yes…" she stuttered, taking a closer look. There was no mistaking such a uniquely patterned design.
"Is it edible?" asked the boy as he raised it to his open mouth.
"No!" Lynn shouted, snatching it away. "It's important! Plus, it's made of wood. You don't eat wood!"
"You can. I've done it before," he protested. "It tastes like chicken, really…"
She held it away from his reach and he pouted, like a child who lost his candy. "I'm huungryyy…" he groaned, slumping to the floor hands over his stomach.
Lynn ignored him and quickly fished out her necklace, which had on it attached her small section of the gate. She put the two together and, as she expected, they fitted perfectly. Then she watched in awe as the crack between them disappeared with a glittering glisten. What was left was a whole piece of wood with no sign that it was ever cracked. This was no ordinary piece of wood, Lynn could now be certain.
"Maybe the old woman wasn't lying. Maybe this is a gateway between worlds!" she thought, and glanced over at the boy who fell from the light. "Then this boy must be… the real thing?"
"Oi," Lynn bent down beside him. "Are you Monkey D. Luffy?"
"How do you know?"
Her smile grew. "So you're like the real deal? This isn't a cosplay?"
"Eh?"
"Prove it."
"What?"
"Are you really a rubber man?"
"Sure."
Her grin widened. "Can you show me?"
He pulled his right cheek all the way across his arm. "Hwot? Like dis?"
Lynn's jaw dropped open. "That… is…" she leant towards him. "So… COOOOL!" She took his arm and gave a pinch. His skin was soft and rubbery and stretched easily. She had never seen anything so awesome! A rubber man in real life was on a whole new level of cool from a rubber man in an anime! He grinned and let his cheek go. It snapped back into place.
"Wow! To think I'd meet the real Monkey D. Luffy!" she beamed.
Luffy stood up and stretched. "Where is this place?"
"It's a different world from yours," Lynn explained. "This is Whitby, a small town in England by the sea."
"What's an England?"
"It's a country. Like a large piece of land."
"Is it anywhere near Raftel?"
"Um, no… You're not even on the Grand Line anymore. Like I said, you're in a different world."
Luffy frowned and lowered his head in thought. "Whitby…" he muttered. "I get it!"
Lynn raised an eyebrow. "Do you really?"
"It's a mystery island!" he grinned, pleased with himself.
She slapped her forehead.
He didn't get it.
"Are you ill?"
"No, I am not ill, stupid!" she snapped at him but then laughed. "You've got a lot to learn!"
"Oh, I just remembered!" Luffy's smile disappeared in an instant and was replaced with a drained expression. "I'm hungry."
Rolling her eyes, Lynn fumbled in her pockets and pulled out a tenner. It should be enough.
"Come with me," she told him. "I'll get you something to eat."
"Really?" he leapt up immediately. "Let's go!" He started towards the high street, suddenly full of energy.
Lynn stopped. Hold on.
Letting loose a hungry Luffy in the bustling high street? There was no telling what he would do. He'd be arrested for sure! "On second thoughts," said Lynn, catching hold of his top collar, "you wait here and I'll bring back food, okay?"
"Can't I go, too?" he pleaded. "This place looks exciting! I wanna explore!"
"Exactly why I can't let you loose," she sighed. "You know nothing about this world, so all you'll do is cause havoc." She pushed him back on his shoulders to the tree. "Stay here, be a good boy and I'll bring the food to you. You can do the exploring later. Move one inch and that means no dinner."
Luffy immediately became stern and dropped cross-legged to the floor. "Gotcha. I won't move." With that, he stared straight ahead, a serious expression on his face. Lynn roll her eyes and started towards the high street.
This guy was really weird. She turned and glanced at his still silhouette, which looked like a meditating monk... with a hat. Sniggering, she dashed into the local Tesco's.
X x X x X x X x X
Lynn carried the four bulging plastic bags down the street, all of them full of ready to eat roast chicken, pork and such, wondering if she had maybe bought too much. Immediately after that thought, she laughed at herself. 'Too much?' she thought. "This is Luffy we're talking about! Knowing him he'll scoff this down in two seconds and ask for desert!"
"Lynn!" a voice called. "Whatcha doing?" Lynn recognized Miriam's voice and panicked. What should she do? "Hey, what's in those bags?" Miriam asked, coming up behind her.
"Um… these are…"
"Whoa!" she exclaimed, peering in. "That's a hell a lot of food! You're not eating all that for dinner are you?" She checked her watch and added, "Besides, it's only half four."
Lynn thought hard. "It's… for... um... our fridge… Yeah! Fridge supplies!" What she said didn't even sound believable to herself.
"Is your fridge even big enough?" Miriam raised an eyebrow.
"OOH! FOOD!"
Lynn turned sharply to the source of the voice, only to find Luffy beside her sniffing the bags she was holding. "For me?"
Miriam looked shocked. "No, not for you, you little pervert!" she declared, trying to smack him away, but he dodged her blows easily.
"I thought I told you to stay over there!" Lynn cried angrily.
"But I was hungryyy..." he protested and snatched a bag from her hands. "Oooh! These smell good!"
"You know him?" Miriam pointed at Luffy, who was already tearing hungrily at some drumsticks.
"Sadly, yes."
She grinned cheekily and nudged her friend in the ribs. "Is he your boyfriend?"
"N-no way! He's… he's…" Lynn didn't know how on earth she was going to explain this.
"'ore foog!" Luffy cried with a mouthful of meat. He had finished a whole bag in less than ten seconds.
"He wants more? Is this a guy or an elephant?" Miriam looked amused.
Lynn noticed only the plastic Tesco bag laid at his feet. "Luffy, what did you do with the wrapping and the bones?"
"I ate them," Luffy replied.
"WHAT! Even the plastic covering?"
"They smelt really nice." He noticed their startled staring. "You're not… supposed to eat them?"
X x X x X x X x X
Lynn, Miriam and Luffy sat under the apple tree by the sea, away from civilisation. Lynn had been trying to explain what had happened, but she found it rather difficult, as Miriam couldn't stop herself from cracking up. She had never taken interest in anime so she found what Lynn was saying quite amusing.
"Oh, so you're telling me, that this guy is a fictional character from the anime and manga 'One Piece' and he's a strong pirate captain with a crew, a ship, and a bounty of 100,000,000 quid?"
"Berries," Lynn corrected her.
"Whatever. And, you expect me to believe it?"
"Well, he's right here." She flicked a thumb towards Luffy, who was still stuffing down food like a hungry wolf.
"Are you serious?" Miriam, although she trusted her friend, had a hard time believing all this. "Do you have any proof?"
Lynn paused. "Well... I can prove he has strange powers. I mean, the guy's made of rubber."
"Go on, then." Miriam folded her arms across her chest.
Lynn stood up and took a whole roast chicken. Then she walked a few metres away and held it up. "Hey, Luffy! Do you want this one?" Straight away, his arm stretched past Miriam's face, snatched the chicken back and continued eating as if nothing happened. Miriam's jaw dropped to the floor.
"Monster!" she cried. "He's a monster!"
Luffy mumbled something through a mouthful, which sounded like "wobble gobble woo".
"Look, we can't understand you," Lynn said.
"Or oh wood..." he grumbled, frowning. Lynn reckoned that translated to 'you're so rude'.
She snorted. "Says you. Do have any table manners?" He gave her a funny look as if he'd never heard of anything of the sort.
Miriam swallowed. "H-h-how did he d-do that?" she stuttered.
"I ate a Devil Fruit," said Luffy, opening the last bag and chomping on another drumstick. "Ge wubba hroot. Ho I ga wubba wan."
Lynn laughed. She knew what he was trying to say. "He ate the rubber fruit so he's a rubber man! Cool, eh?"
"So, how do you suppose he got here?" Miriam asked. "The gateway?"
Nodding, Lynn showed her the piece of gate and explained what happened.
"Oh!" Luffy exclaimed, swallowing the last of his meat. "The wood thing got bigger!" he wiped his mouth on his arm. "Got any dessert?"
Lynn ignored him. "I have a feeling that if we find all the pieces and fix them together, we can create a portal to send him back!"
Miriam snapped her fingers. "I see. But, if this piece of wood created a small portal, then... wouldn't the other pieces as well?"
They looked at each other in horror as they realised what this meant. "Does this 'One Piece' show have any villains or monsters?"
"Sadly…" Lynn gulped, "yes. Loads and loads. This is an age of pirates were talking about. And, on the Grand Line you can get monsters the size of… you don't want to know."
"What are we going to do!" Miriam gasped.
"Right!" Luffy stood up and brushed off. "I'll be going back to my ship now. My mates are waiting for me."
Lynn sighed. "In case you haven't noticed, you dimwit, there's no way for you to get home."
"Mr. Light! Mr. strange light, where are you?"
He wasn't paying her any attention.
"Oh no!" Luffy cried. "The light's gone! How do I get back now?"
Lynn suddenly had an urge to punch him. "I just said, you can't get back before we collect all these shards and open another portal or before another portal appears."
Luffy looked at her blankly. Lynn rolled her eyes and, despite hating explaining things, she did so anyway. After at least ten minutes of lecture, she felt her throat burning.
"Got it now?" she rubbed her sore throat gently.
He nodded. "Yes, I understand. That's a mystery piece of wood."
Her fist automatically shot out and punched him. He went sprawling to the ground as Miriam gasped.
"Glad I got that out of my system. Damn, now I know why Nami is always abusive towards you," Lynn muttered, and, seeing Miriam's concerned expression, she added, "Don't worry. Physical blows don't hurt him. He's rubber."
Standing up with her hands on her hips, she glared at Luffy. "Now, what do I do with you?"
He gave her an innocent grin. "Give me more food?"
"Denied. I'm skint."
"That's a problem isn't it?" Miriam said, getting on her feet. "Where do we keep him? We can't leave him here and he can't go back to his world, so..." She looked over at Lynn. "Your house or mine?"
Lynn sighed. Was that even a question? Miriam's house had only three bedrooms, and with both her parents and her sister home, she couldn't possibly have a random boy that she knew nothing about stay over.
Lynn, on the other hand, was an only child, had a few bedrooms to spare, and her parents, being marine biologists, were away on a business trip, staring at fishes in the Pacific.
"It best be mine, then," she said.
"What about the baby-sitter?" asked Miriam.
"I'm sixteen - I don't need a baby sitter. I'll just call and cancel our appointment. I've been home on my own before; mum and dad won't really mind." Lynn paused, and grinned sheepishly. "I hope."
"But, you're not alone, are you?" Miriam looked at Luffy, who grinned back, clueless of what was going on. "Oh well. I guess it can't be helped. I'm staying over at yours tonight. You'll need help with him, won't you?"
"Really?" Lynn cried gleefully. "Oh, I love you!" She threw her arms around Miriam.
"I love you, too!" Miriam joked.
"You two sound like Sanji!" grinned Luffy and he added, "Do you have anything else to eat?"
'Looks like I'm stuck with a bottomless food pit,' Lynn thought.
"Let's get him over to yours first," suggested Miriam. "It's kind of getting dark."
"I can't wait!" Luffy beamed. "A new adventure!"
Lynn rolled her eyes and smiled. She didn't like the sound of what he said, and she sensed trouble ahead, but she figured it'd all work out somehow.
Well, that's what she hoped…
X x X x X x X x X
"WOOOOWW!" Luffy's eyes twinkled with stars. "This house is soooo cool!"
"He acts like he's never seen a house before…" Miriam was surprised at Luffy's reaction to the detached villa at the end of the cul-de-sac.
"I suppose it is different from the houses in his time, but I didn't expect this big an enthusiasm…" Lynn frowned. "If he acts like this before he even sees the inside…"
"Ooh!" he cried, pointing at the roof. "What's the thing sticking off it?"
They looked up and noticed he seemed to take an interest in the satellite dish. But, this was the first time he's seen one…
"Gomu gomu no…" He grabbed on to two shrubs and pulled back, stretching his arms. "Rocke-"
Lynn quickly caught onto his vest and jerked him away from the shrub before he could ping himself onto the roof. He landed with a bounce at her feet. "Don't do that!" she told him sternly.
"But, I want to see…" His attention shifted as he noticed something else that caught his eye. "What on earth is this?" He rushed over to Lynn's house's window and peered in.
Lynn pulled a face. She was beginning to doubt if this would work out.
"Should we even let him into my house? I mean we could just let him sleep on the streets…"
Miriam raised an eyebrow and Lynn sighed bitterly. "Why me? Oh, lord, why me?"
"I thought you've always wanted to go on an adventure?"
"This isn't an adventure; this is torture. There's a difference."
Miriam noticed Lynn's sudden change in attitude. "Why are you so suddenly pessimistic?"
Oh, there was a reason, all right. Lynn had thought at first that this might be fun, but that was before she remembered all the things in the house she did NOT want him to destroy. And, she only just realised that with his eating habits, she'd never cope! And, sooner or later, he'd definitely stir up unwanted trouble.
Maybe he'd flood the house, maybe he'd burn it down all together, maybe he'd escape outside and be arrested, maybe he'd get into a fight with the police and drag her into it, maybe people will eventually find out he's rubber and put him in a freak show, maybe he'll get put into a mental hospital for claiming to be a pirate, maybe…
Miriam saw Lynn getting more and more freaked out with her imaginings and gave her a shove. "It's not going to be that bad."
"Oh, you'd better be right…" she mumbled, shaking away the terrible thoughts and pulling out house keys. The jingling of the keys caught Luffy's attention.
"Woah!" he cried, dashing over. "Are those keys? Why are they colourful and strange? What's that thing?" He pointed at the key chain dangling from it.
'Oh, my god, this guy's like a six year old,' thought Lynn, slotting it in the key hole. Before she pushed open the door, she gave him a strict list of rules for inside the house, the most important ones being 'Do not touch everything you see' and 'Do not attempt to eat everything you touch'. He nodded after every rule but Lynn doubted he'd remember any of them.
She sighed and opened the door.
"Oh wow! What is THAT!" Luffy leapt into the house, and all that could be heard was crashing from inside.
Lynn chased in after him.
"Don't break the damn TV!"
X x X x X x X x X
Miriam and Lynn collapsed onto Lynn's bed, finally relaxing after a long battle. Who'd have ever thought taking in a pirate captain would be so tiring.
Lynn and Miriam didn't know why on earth Luffy was so hyper. If anyone saw the state he was in, they would have assumed either Luffy was high on sugar, mental, or taking drugs. Lynn thought it was probably all three. Who knows what Sanji might have been feeding him…
For the past two hours they had had to:
*Explain the images inside a TV were not real and for him not to try eating the screen whenever Burger King adverts came on or smashing it to 'save' the person stuck in it.
* Tell him the fruit flavoured soaps are not edible. (Even if he did eat some in the end, anyway)
* Clarify that plastic flowers are for display purposes only.
* Yank his head out from the washing machine after he got stuck trying to explore in it. Twice.
* Scream at him for turning on the gas cookers and leaving them on.
* Describe to him what ice cream was before he went and ate the whole tub and got brain freeze. (Which he went and did, anyway, despite what they told him)
* Apologize to the neighbours after he went into the garden and barked at their dog.
* Tear him away from the computer.
* Rescue him from the 'terrors' of the whirring microwave.
* Snatch the permanent marker away before he could do anything else with it.
*Show him that earphones go in your ears and not your nostrils.
* Ban him from going into the fridge.
After all the ruckus, they sat him down on the sofa in front of the telly with popcorn and made him watch it.
Then they made their way upstairs and died.
"Right," said Miriam, trying to catch her breath. "How long do you think he'll be out of action for?"
"I'd say about an hour. Television is a wonderful thing."
"That's good." Miriam let out a sigh of relief and sat up. "Now, tell me some more about this guy - Luffy - so I can be prepared. After all, I'm a part of this mess now."
"Well, he's seventeen, 172cms tall, likes meat, is an airhead, bottomless food pit and insanely strong fighter but has about as much common sense as a dimwit, and as much energy as a squirrel on Red Bull."
"Yes, I figured that much…" said Miriam. "Anything else?"
"It's kind of long story," Lynn brought over her laptop and switched it on. "Here, I'll show you instead," she said, opening up Internet Explorer. As her familiar Google homepage popped up onto the screen, she carefully typed in the words 'Monkey D. Luffy' and clicked Enter. Then her eyes widened at what she saw.
"I-I don't get it…" she stuttered, shocked beyond words. "I-i-impossible…" Her heartbeat sped up as she scrolled down the page.
Link after link regarding monkeys and fluff. Nothing whatsoever about the world famous pirate captain. Miriam was slightly bewildered as well. Slightly panicking, Lynn went back a page and type in 'One Piece'. Some eBay links on one piece swimsuits and such, but nothing on the subject of the anime or manga.
She tried a few more pages.
Nothing. What was going on? It was like One Piece never existed…
"I think I get it…" said Lynn softly. "Luffy crossed the line between fiction and reality. So in other words… One Piece is no longer just a made up story on earth but a whole other world, maybe in another dimension."
Miriam stared at her. "You know how crazy you sound right now?"
"It's the only thing that makes sense." Lynn shrugged. "And, if I'm not wrong, it should have disappeared from everyone else's memories, too."
"My, this is strange…" Miriam scratched her head.
"I'll say," said Lynn. "But, at least it takes away the problem of him being recognized in public."
Miriam's growling stomach ceased both of their attentions. Miriam giggled sheepishly. "I'm kinda hungry. Why don't we grab a bite to eat?"
"How's pizza sound?"
Miriam grinned. "Great!"
Lynn fished out her mobile. "My parents left my £200 on my bank account before they left because they know they'll be gone at least a week," she explained to Miriam as she dialed the pizza express number. "But, I'm not sure that's going to last us a day if we're stuck with him."
"Don't worry. I'll help and chip in a bit, too," said Miriam encouragingly. "We can find a way to get some more money later."
Lynn nodded and then placed her order to the sweet, sugary voice at the end of the line.
Miriam's eyes widened as she spoke into the phone, and Lynn was sure she could sense the pizza express employee-girl's eyes widen, too. Not surprising really, seeing as how much she ordered.
"Can we really eat all that?" Miriam gaped at Lynn as she hung up after giving her address for delivery.
"Well, we've got a pig downstairs to help us."
"He ate four bags of meat earlier; will he seriously still be hungry?"
Lynn laughed as she began making her way out of the room. "Oh, believe me! He will!"
X x X x X x X x X
DING DONG.
Luffy yelped and jumped up in alarm as the doorbell rang, raising his fists up in battle posture.
"Relax," Lynn told him, getting up. "It's just the doorbell. I bet that's the pizza I ordered."
"Pizza?" He began practically drooling.
Lynn opened the door and smiled at the delivery boy.
"Your pizzas, miss?" he raised six 18" pizzas. "That'll be £156.70 please. Card or cash?"
"Card," she said and slotted her credit card into the small machine he held up. Then she entered her PIN, and he handed over the pizzas.
"Food!" cried a voice from inside the living room.
No prizes for guessing who.
The delivery boy looked bewildered and tried to peek inside. "Doesn't look like you're having a party…" he said, handing Lynn her receipt. "Is all this for dinner?"
"Yep. We've got a hungry wolf in here that hasn't eaten for weeks." Lynn answered randomly, and laughed at the guy's startled expression. "Joke! Joke! The guests haven't arrived yet, that's all!"
The boy relaxed at hearing this. He had thought maybe Lynn had been torturing and starving people in there. "All right. Have a good party!" He turned and walked away.
"Thanks for the pizza!" Lynn called after him as he zoomed off on his scooter. She watched until he disappeared from sight before declaring the coast clear. She carried the giant pizzas into the living room and set them down. Luffy immediately attacked them, a famished look in his eyes.
"I don't believe this guy," chuckled Miriam, taking a piece for herself. "How on earth does he eat so much?"
"That's most my money gone," Lynn slid her credit card back into her purse. "Now, how the hell do we deal with this?"
She reached a hand out for a slice of pizza, but the ringing mobile disrupted her before she could do so. Luffy stopped eating and yelled in surprise.
"Aarhh! Your pocket is making strange noises!"
Lynn took out her mobile and waved it in his face. "This is a mobile," she said slowly, as if talking to a young child. "It's like a den-den-mushi, you know?" On hearing that, he seemed more at ease but kept a curious eye on her as she answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Lynn! It's Jess!" Lynn recognized her voice. Jess was a good friend from school and usually sat behind her in lessons.
"Hi," she replied. "What's up?"
"I just wanted to warn you about the surprise history test on Monday." Jess was the daughter of their history teacher, so she tended to know about these things.
"What? No way!"
"What, what?" Miriam looked up from the pizza.
"Okay, thanks, Jess. You're a life saver."
"I'll see you at school then. Bye. I've got others to warn."
"Bye," Lynn sighed as she hung up. Both Miriam and Luffy have stopped eating and were looking at her. "Bad news," she told Miriam. "Surprise history test on Monday at school."
"What!" Miriam cried, shocked. "Damn, why does Mrs. Watson always do that? We're going to have to review all tomorrow if we want to pass."
"What's school?"
They both looked at Luffy in surprise. He'd never heard of school? 'Oh yeah,' Lynn realised. 'He probably never got a proper education, did he?'
"Well, basically, it's a place where they lock kids up and torture them and make them do a load of crap called homework."
Miriam laughed at Lynn's sarcastic explanation and so she described school properly to Luffy before he freaked out and declared he was going to save them.
"Neat! Can I go to school?" Luffy asked when she had finished.
"No!" both Lynn and Miriam shouted in unison. "No way!"
"Please!"
"Nuh-uh, no way," Lynn shook her head furiously. Luffy in school? God knows what he'd do.
He looked annoyed. "I'm captain, and I say I'm going to check out school. Take me, or I'll make sure you don't get any revision done tomorrow."
"I'd rather fail!" Luffy and Lynn had a bit of a staring contest before Miriam broke them up.
"Stop it, you two." She shoved them apart. "You're both acting stupid." She looked to Luffy. "You can't come to school, I'm sorry, because we won't be able to keep an eye on you in…" She suddenly paused. Then her eyes widened in realization. She turned to Lynn and said in a soft voice, "We have to let him come."
"Why?" Lynn protested.
"I just realised, when we go to school on Monday there'll be no one to keep a leash on him. We can't leave him home by himself; he'll do something terrible if we're not around."
"But…" Her voice trailed off as the truth sank in.
Miriam was right. Luffy grinned triumphantly. "This sucks." Lynn knew if Luffy was to cause any trouble, she'd be dragged in, too. But, there wasn't really another option.
"Well, I guess we'll have to figure something out," Lynn sighed with a shrug. Then she turned and growled at Luffy. "Stop smirking like an idiot. You'd better behave on Monday, get me Luffy?"
"Yeah, okay!"
Somehow she didn't completely believe him. Sighing again, she reached for a slice of pizza, but her fingers touched only cardboard.
"Hey, where did all the pizza go?" She looked up at Luffy's bulging stomach and Miriam's guilty smile.
Did she even have to ask? Lynn held her growling stomach and gave Luffy a dirty look. He just grinned back.
"Any dessert?"
Next time: Luffy goes to school, gets himself a fan club (not purposely) and a new rival. And, gets flicked into the air by a trampoline!
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