Lost

Luffy & Law

A mix of light and dark purples laid out above him when Law opened his eyes. Pressure pounded in his head. Bile threatened to rise from his stomach.

Closing his eyes, he took several slow and deep breaths until his stomach settled back down. Once that happened he pushed upon his arms and sat up. His hand brushed against something hard. Looking down he found a large sword and a black sheath with white plus signs lying next to him.

He had no idea who it belonged to but for some reason the sword felt familiar to him. He reached for it. His fingers were less than a half of an inch from it when a dark aura emanated from it. It was a cursed sword. Pulling his eyes and hand away from it, he continued to look around. The rocky ground was hard and grey in color. To his right he found a large forest with bluish green flora that sparkled and massive large trees. Looking to his left he found a black haired teenager that lying sprawled out on the ground a few yards from him. The boy was wearing pants that fell below his knees and an open red shirt and a straw hat was lying by his head. His mouth was open and he was snoring.

Law lifted his hands and looked down at his palms. The wheels in his head turned but couldn't come up with a reason on why he was in this place. It was at that time he realized he couldn't remember anything about himself but for his name. "What's going on here? Why can't I remember anything but for my name?"

A loud, unidentifiable roar lifted up from the forest. It sent his heart racing through his chest. His hand grabbed the sword beside him and he leaped to his feet. Facing the forest, he waited for the beast to come. Silence was the only thing that met him. Several seconds passed before he lowered his sword and his defenses. His eyes dropped to the sword. "Am I…a swordsman? I grabbed this thing like I knew what I was doing. For all I know it belongs to that kid over there." He paused and looked over to the boy. "I wonder if he knows where we are. Should I wake him?"

Law stared at the boy for a while before looking around his surroundings again. With no idea where he was and what kind of danger was out there, he decided to wake the boy up. So he sheathed the sword and walked over to him then nudged the boy's arm with the toe of his boot. "Hey, you. Wake up. Tell me where we are."

"Naw…I'm hungry," the boy said.

"Then wake up and eat," Law said while continuing to nudge the boy. "Come on. Wake up. I said wake up!"

"Huh?" The boy opened his eyes. He sat up and looked around, a stream of drool running down his chin. "What's going on? Where am I?"

"That's what I'd like to know," Law said.

"Huh?" The boy looked up at him. "Who are you?"

"Trafalgar Law," Law said. "Now tell me where I am."

"I have no clue," he said looking around. "This place is weird. Where are we?"

"Didn't you hear me? I asked you that question," Law said with an annoyed sigh.

The boy jumped to his feet and started to run around. "Wow! This place is so cool!"

A dull pound appeared behind Law's eyes. He pinched the bridge of his nose with a heavy sigh. Turning away from the boy, he headed off towards the left, away from the forest.

"Hey! Where are you going?!" the boy asked.

"To figure out where I am," Law said.

"I'll come with you!" he said.

"Why?" Law asked as the boy ran up to his side. "Just go home."

"I would," he said. "If I knew where my home was."

"What do you mean?" Law glanced over at him.

"I don't remember where my home is," he said.

"You don't remember?" Law stopped walking.

"That's right." He walked a few feet ahead of Law then turned around. "I only remember my name. And that's Monkey D. Luffy."

"D?" Law asked.

"Of course," Luffy said. "Though I'm not sure what the D means."

"I see," Law said.

"What did you say your name was?" Luffy asked.

"Trafalgar Law," Law said. He paused in thought of whether he should tell this boy he too had the initial D in his name. For whatever reason he didn't feel like this boy was a threat to him. Still, he decided not to tell him about it.

"Trafa….Traffy…oh! Tra! I got it now!" Luffy grinned.

"You're an idiot," Law said before walking off again.

"So where are we going?" Luffy asked.

"I'm going to look around and try to find out where I am," Law said. "I thought I already told you that. I don't care what you do."

"Great! I'll come with you!" Luffy said.

"I'd rather you didn't," Law said.

"Why not?" Luffy asked. "You seem to know where we're going."

"I told you already that I don't know!" Law said. "I can't remember anything but for my name!"

"Then we're in the same boat," Luffy said. "And we have to stick together."

"Whatever," Law grumbled. He continued to walk forward for about half a mile. Salt appeared into the air. Soon he was lead to a beach. His eyebrows drew together in confusion. Instead of seeing a blue sea he saw a black sea full of stars. Pushing passed it he looked out into the sea. In the distance appeared to be another island of some sort.

"Wow!" Luffy exclaimed. "I wish we had a ship! We could go sailing then!" He ran out into the water. "I would love to…go…what's wrong with me? I feeling tired."

"What are you doing?" Law asked when Luffy slumped in the water. "Hey! You're going to drown!"

Bubbles rose to the surface from Luffy's face being in the water.

"That idiot!" Law ran out into the water. The water seeped through his jeans, wetting his skin. His energy left him. "What's…going on?" His kneels buckled, causing him to drop to the ground. "My energy…it's fading." Ice-cold panic gripped his chest when the waves lapped against him. He was going to die if he didn't get out of the water. He closed his eyes. No ideas of how to get out of this mess came to him. "Crap. I'm going to die out here."

'You can't die,' a voice said.

"What?" Law opened his eyes.

'Hold out your hand,' the voice instructed. 'You know what you have to do. Trust your instincts. Hurry before it's too late.'

Law, for whatever reason, lifted his hand. It came to him. His instincts lit up with knowledge of what he should do. "R-room." A blue sphere spread out around him and Luffy. "Sh-shambles."

In a flash, the two were back on the beach, safe from the water's draining affect. Law rolled over onto his back. His chest heaved up in down as his energy came back to him. He glanced over at Luffy. The boy was laying on his side, his mouth open, and his eyes closed. Law's heart skipped a beat. Luffy wasn't breathing. Pushing himself to his hands and knees, he crawled over to Luffy. He pushed the boy onto his back. Placing his hand over Luffy's nose he confirmed he wasn't breathing. So he pinched Luffy's nose closed and breathed into his mouth before pumping his chest. "Come on. Breath. Breath, dang it!"

Luffy coughed. Water shot out of his mouth before he gasped in air.

"Good," Law said sitting back on his legs. "You're breathing."

"What happened?" Luffy sat up.

"For some reason the water drained our energy," Law said. "We both almost drowned."

"How did we survive then?" Luffy asked.

Law opened his mouth to reply, but paused. He looked down at his palms. "I'm not sure. I formed some kind of sphere and was able to pull us out of the water."

"Sphere?" Luffy asked. "What are you talking about?"

"Watch." Law held out his hand. "Room."

"Wow! That's so cool!" Luffy screamed when a blue film spread out around them. He jumped up and started running around in it. "What is this thing?!"

"I don't have a clue," Law said.

"What else can it do?" Luffy poked at the blue wall.

"Will you stop that?" Law said. "I have no idea what will happen if you pop it."

"But it's fun," Luffy said while he continued to poke the wall. "Doesn't feel like anything's there."

"I said stop it!" Law swiped his hand threw the air. His eyes widened when Luffy's body severed in half. "What the…?"

"Ah! What happened to me?!" Luffy cried. His arms flailed as his legs ran around in a circle. "I'm going to die!"

"I'm sorry!" Law jumped up and ran over to the boy. He paused when he noticed that Luffy wasn't bleeding. "What's going on?"

"What do you mean?! I'm dying that's what!" Luffy said.

"No, you're not," Law said. "You're not bleeding."

"Huh?" Luffy looked down at his body. His top half was floating above his bottom half. "What the heck?! I'm still alive?!"

"How is this possible?" Law asked. He bent down and examined Luffy's body. "Amazing. It's a clean cut too. No ragged edges at all."

"That's great. But can you put me back together?" Luffy asked.

Law studied Luffy's body for a few more minutes. He then grabbed his shoulders and pushing his top half to his body half. It sealed back into place. "Amazing."

"Yeah!" Luffy ran in a circle. "I'm back to normal!"

"But how is that possible?" Law stood up. "How did I know that would work? And how did I know how to get him to breath again? What's going on here?"

"Yahoo! I'm normal again!" Luffy shouted. "I'm normal!"

"There's got to be answers somewhere," Law said. He looked around his surrounding again. He found he only had two options. One was to continue looking around this place and hope someone was here that could tell him what was going on. The second was to get to the other island across the sea. But that would need a ship, boat, or a raft to make happen. So the decision was made for him. He had no choice but to look around this place and see what was here. So he walked down the beach in search of other life, the sphere disappearing as he went.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Luffy called out from behind him.

The hours passed. And nothing else seemed to be on the island. Law had no idea how big the island was either. Legs and feet aching from walking so long, he sat down on a fallen tree. "This is great."

"I'm hungry," Luffy whined as he plopped down on the ground. His stomach released a loud growl. "We need food."

Law's stomach growled as well. "There might be some fruit trees inside of the forest."

"I want meat," Luffy said.

"Only if you can kill something," Law said. "The only weapon we have is this sword."

"You can kill with that," Luffy said. "And you can use your sphere thing."

"If you hadn't noticed that doesn't kill things," Law said. "You remain alive."

"But I'm hungry!" Luffy whined.

"Don't make me regret saving you," Law said.

"But you're hungry as well," Luffy said.

"Fine," Law said. "Let's go into the forest and see what we can find." He stood up and turned to the forest. "By the way, I heard some wild animal roaring in here. So watch it. It might find us to be its dinner."

"Whatever! Let's go!" Luffy dashed into the forest.

Law sighed. Resting the sword on his shoulder, he followed after the boy. The salty air gave way to the smells of the forest. The strongest smell smelled like honey and bark. All the flowers were large and in shades of blues, grays, and purples. Vines ran down the majority of the trees. He looked up one vine. He wondered if it could be use to escape whatever wild beast they may encounter while stuck here. He also wondered if they could use the wood here to build a raft incase they needed to get to that other island. Reaching out he grabbed the vine. His fingers were unable to circle the entire thing. The vine was bigger than he thought it was. It would be hard to use it as rope.

"Hey! I found some fruits over here!" Luffy yelled.

Law followed after Luffy's voice and found him hanging onto a very large yellow and orange spotted fruit. The fruit was hanging thirty yards off the ground. Several other identical fruits were hanging with it. He watched as Luffy took a giant bite. "You really shouldn't eat unknown foods like that. It could be poisonous."

"Ish yummshy," Luffy mumbled around the food.

Law rubbed his forehead, hoping the fruit was poison so he didn't get stuck with this child for the rest of his life.

Luffy took another bite.

Law waited for any signs of Luffy getting sick. No such luck. It seemed the fruit was eatable. He walked over to it. Unsheathing his sword, he cut off a piece of fruit for himself. He looked over it. The inside was a bright yellow and smelled like citrus. He took a bite. Citrus flavored juice flooded his mouth. He chewed and swallowed then took another bite.

That skin crawling roar erupted from the forest again. Leaves shook off the trees and cascaded down around them.

"What was that?" Luffy asked.

"That was the roar from before," Law said.

Luffy jumped down from the fruit. "It sounds so huge!"

Law glanced over at Luffy, wondering how the boy was able to move so easily after the chest compressions he did. It also made him wonder how he knew what to do in the first place. Helping Luffy live came off and felt so natural to him.

The roar sounded again. Following it was a low thump that made the ground rumbled.

"Great." Law grabbed the hilt of the sword. "How big is this thing?"

"Maybe it's a giant!" Luffy said.

More ground shaking thumps followed it.

"Giant might be right," Law said. More leaves fell from the trees as the thumping came closer and closer. "We have to get out of here."

"Why? Maybe it's friendly?" Luffy suggested.

The creature rushed through the tree, coming into their view, and roared.

Law took a step back. The creature was at least fourteen feet high. Its skin was dark gray. Two teeth, three feet long at least, protruded from its bottom jaw and tapered off to sharp points. Its front legs were longer than its back legs. Wiggling its paws revealed dagger like claws stained with blood. He opened whatever it killed wasn't human. But he knew it didn't matter as soon as its yellow eyes looked down at him and Luffy.

"Wow! It's huge!" Luffy said with a laugh.

"You're laughing? At a time like this?" Law growled in a low voice. "And keep it down. We don't want to make it angry."

The creature roared and charged for them with ground shaking fury. Just before it could hammer its large paws down on them, they jumped.

"I think we're a little late on that!" Luffy said. He held his hat to his head to keep it from flying off. "I think it's already angry!"

Law grabbed a vine and swung himself away from the creature before landing back on the ground. He pulled the sword from his sheath. "I guess we're going to have to fight it."

"Fight it?" Luffy asked. "Do you even know how to fight?"

"I'm not sure," Law said. The creature turned and roared at him. "But I guess we're going to find out." He stood ready as the creature charged at him. Once it got close enough he leaped to his left and sliced at the creature's leg. It roared in pain, blood tainted the air. "Don't just stand there! Help me!"

"What?!" Luffy looked around. "What can I do?!"

Law jumped into the air when the creature swung its massive head towards him. His eyes widened when the creature's paw followed him. It was faster than he thought. The paw was about on him when he remembered his sphere. He held up his hand. "Room! Shambles!"

Law appeared on top of the creature's back. He held up his sword and stabbed it into its skin.

The creature roared and trashed around, trying to throw Law off of its back. It swung its head in an attempt to knock him off. The creature knocked down small trees as it rampaged. It then charged towards Luffy.

"Ah!" Luffy screamed when he saw it coming.

"What are you doing?! Don't just stand there!" Law shouted. He held on tight to his sword, wondering where he should teleport himself. Or maybe he should teleport this monster somewhere. Or divide it up. Yeah, that's what he would do. Have it in multiple pieces so it would give them enough time to figure out how to kill it. He started to pull out his sword but stopped when he saw Luffy winding up a punch. "What is he doing?" "Come on!" Luffy said before throwing out a punch.

Both Law and Luffy's eyes widened when Luffy's arm stretched out impossibly far. Luffy's fist slammed into the creature's chest. The creature released a sharp whine of pain before collapsing onto the ground, dead.

"What the heck did you just do?" Law asked.

"I'm not sure," Luffy said. His arm came back to him with an elastic snap. He looked at his arm like it was a foreign object before throwing out another punch. The same result happened. His arm extended far beyond what it should before snapping back into place. "Wow! That's so cool! It's like I'm made of rubber or something!" He grabbed his cheek and pulled it away from his face. A joyous laugh escaped him. "So cool!"

"So weird," Law said. He removed his sword from the beast. Staring at the blood he wondered again why he felt like this sword belonged to him. He knew it did. He just wished he knew how he knew. Glancing back over at Luffy he found the younger boy was pulling his skin away from his body as much as he could. "Would you stop doing that?"

"Okay!" Luffy released his cheek. It snapped back into place. He then pointed at the beast. "So do you think we can eat this thing now? I'm still hungry."

"We might not have much of a choice," Law said. His stomach was still growling from hunger. "Fine. But don't blame me if you get sick from an unknown poison inside of it."

"It'll be fine," Luffy said. He moved closer to the creature and picked it up.

Law's eyes widened in shock at seeing the display before him. It shouldn't have been possible for such a lanky boy to pick up a creature that size.

"Come on!" Luffy said while heading back for the beach. We're going to need a large fire to cook this thing up!"

Law sighed yet followed after the boy. He flung as much blood off his sword as he could. Once they reacted the beach, he stepped upon a rock that jutted out into the water a few feet. He dunked his sword in the water, washing it off the best he could. He then went back over to find Luffy working on creating a fire. Before long a hot flame lit up around them. The wood snapped and crackled the hotter the blaze got.

"Um, do you think you can cut it up for us?" Luffy asked while pointing at the dead creature.

"Fine." Law formed his sphere then sliced the animal up. He watched as Luffy stuck pieces of the meat on sticks and hung them over the fire. He was unsure of eating this meat. But when the cooked flesh floated into his nose his mouth watered in anticipation. So once the meat was no longer red he sliced himself a piece off and ate it without hesitation. "We need to get off this island."

"Hm?" Luffy glanced over at him his cheeks stuffed with meat.

"Most likely there's no other human life on this island," Law said. "This beast, I'd say, proves that."

Luffy swallowed. "So what are we going to do?"

"There's another island not far from here," Law said. "It might be bigger than this one. So people might be living there. If we can build ourselves a raft we should be able to make it there."

"And if we fall in the water?" Luffy asked.

"We'll just have to be careful," Law said. "If we paddle together we should be able to make it to the other island."

"Why don't we just stay here?" Luffy asked.

"We can't do that," Law said. "This island most likely has a limited supply of food. If you hadn't noticed this creature we're eating has been the only one we've seen."

Luffy chomped down on a large piece of meat and swallowed it.

Law sighed and rubbed his forehead. "And with how you eat I doubt the fruit on this island will last very long."

"Okay then," Luffy said. He licked his lips and grabbed another piece of meat. "We'll build us a raft and leave."

"It might take a while to get a raft built considering how huge everything here is," Law said. "So don't eat everything up in one day."

"You got it," Luffy said.

"We should probably also play around with our…abilities…to see what else we can do," Law said. "How did you know you could punch like that?"

"I didn't," Luffy said. "It just happened."

"I see," Law said. "That's what happened with me and my sphere. I wonder if we were born with these abilities or if we obtained them somewhere."

"Who cares? We have them so let's just use them," Luffy said.

"Don't be stupid!" Law snapped. "It could be dangerous to jump in without testing things first!"

"How can being made of rubber be dangerous?" Luffy asked.

"Well, it could…" Law didn't really know. But it was clear to him this Luffy wasn't the cautious type. "Never mind. So tell me again, you don't remember anything but for your name?"

"That's right," Luffy said. "I know what food is and the fruits, the water, the ground, the island, the-"

"Okay, okay. I get it," Law said. "It appears whatever happened to us only erased things about our lives."

"Such as?" Luffy asked.

"Well, these powers of ours for one thing," Law said. "And we have no clue where we are from, or how we got here, or what this creature actually is."

"So we have kind of memory loss?" Luffy asked.

"That appears to be the case," Law said. "So we should be able to get our memories back after a certain amount of time. Or I hope we do. There has to be a reason we have forgotten everything that we have. And there has to be a reason as to why we're together. And why we both ended up on this island."

"Of course there's a reason we're together," Luffy said.

"And what's that?" Law asked.

"It's because we're friends!" Luffy grinned.

Law's eyebrow twitched. The dull throb returned. "I highly doubt that with how much you annoy me."

"But if we weren't friends then why would we be together here?" Luffy asked.

"I don't know," Law said. "Maybe we're enemies and I was on the verge of killing you."

"No, that didn't happen," Luffy said.

"How do you know?" Law asked. "I'm the one with the sword."

"Because we're not hurt," Luffy said.

Law looked down at his body. The boy was right. There wasn't any injures on their bodies at all. It only added more confusion on why they were here in the first place. "So what? We just appeared here out of nowhere?"

"Why not?" Luffy asked.

"Because that's ludicrous!" Law said. "People just don't lose their memories for no reason at all!"

"How do you know that?" Luffy asked.

"Because I'm a…" Law paused. He didn't know. Yet he said it. Why? Taking off his white and black spotted hat, he ran a hand through his hair. "I don't know. I don't know anything."

"Fair enough," Luffy said.

"Nothing fair about this at all," Law said.

"Don't worry about it," Luffy said. "I'm sure we'll figure something out. I know we will."

Law scoffed. "Whatever."

"Relax. This is going to be fun," Luffy said with a grin.

"This isn't going to be fun at all," Law said. "This is going to be dangerous."

"We survived this far," Luffy said.

"Only by chance," Law said. "We got lucky in killing this beast before it killed us. We might not be so lucky next time."

"We'll be fine," Luffy said. "I just know it."

"Well, that's nice," Law said.

"I mean it," Luffy said. "I can feel we'll be fine. This place actually feels rather familiar."

"How so?" Law asked.

"I'm not sure," Luffy said. "But I got a weird feeling that I've been in a place like this before. Maybe we'll run into someone who can tell us who we are. Someone has to know that."

"Maybe," Law said. "If we're in an area that we've been before. If not then we're screwed."

"Come on! Think of it as an adventure!" Luffy said.

"We have no memories of ourselves but for our names. We were almost killed and eaten by an unknown beast, and we have no idea where we are," Law said. "How can this be an adventure?"

"It just is!" Luffy said. "And it's going to be fun!"

"You know, I think I might be the one to kill you," Law said.

"Then you'll be all alone," Luffy said.

"Might be worth it to have some peace and quiet to figure things out," Law said.

"But we can't figure anything out if nothings here," Luffy said.

"We haven't searched the entire island yet," Law said. He stood up, placed the sword on his shoulder, and walked away from Luffy and the fire. His skin cooling off the farther he got away from the blaze.

"Hey! Where are you going?!" Luffy asked.

"To continue searching the island," Law said. "And to get away from you."

"Great! I'll come with you!" Luffy jumped up and followed him.

"I'd rather you didn't," Law said.

"You might need me to help fight another beast," Luffy said.

Law didn't have anything to say to that. He wasn't sure if he would have been able to beat that creature himself or not. So he let the boy tag along with him. They walked along the beach before coming to a rock formation blocking their path. He looked to his right. The rocks appeared to go into the forest, disappearing in the thick foliage. "Well, I'd rather not go trekking through the forest. If someone passes by this island we won't be able to see them from in there."

"Then let's keep going straight," Luffy said.

"And how do you expect us to climb this rock?" Law asked.

"Like this." Luffy wound up a punch and tossed it to the top of the cliff. He then put his other arm around Law.

"What the heck do you think you're doing?!" Law demanded. "Let me go at once!"

"You want to keep going. So we're going," Luffy said just before flinging them into the air.

"You're going to pay for this, Straw Hat!" Law shouted. The wind whipped his face, threatening to knock his hat off.

"Yahoo!" Luffy landed at the top. "That was fun!"

"That was stupid!" Law stumbled forward when his feet hit the ground. "You could have killed us!"

"Never happen," Luffy said. "By the way, what did you call me?"

"What?" Law asked.

"You called me Straw Hat," Luffy said.

"I did?" Law thought about it. "I guess I did. Must be because of your hat. Do you not want me to call you that?"

"I don't care," Luffy said tugging his hat down a bit. "I actually like the sound of it."

"Fine," Law said walking forward. "Let's just go."

"Right!" Luffy nodded.

Law huffed and walked forward. The waves crashed against the side as they walked along the rock formation. Ten minutes passed by before they finally reached the other side. The air cooled off, chilling his skin. He glanced at Luffy. The boy didn't seem to mind that it was getting colder. Standing at the edge of the formation, he looked down before spreading out his sphere. He didn't want Luffy to get them down from the rock. "Room. Shambles."

"That's so much fun!" Luffy said when they reappeared.

"Shut up," Law said as he continued to walk along the beach. His eyes scanned both the water and the island. His hope dwindled with each step they took. Neither ship nor house appeared in sight. No other animals appeared to be on the island like he had thought. A couple hours later, or so he assumed since they had no sun to tell what time it was, he and Luffy reached their fire again. "Well, that's that. There's no one else on this island. Unless they're hiding in this thick forest somewhere.

"I'm exhausted." Luffy plopped down on the ground, his tongue hanging from his mouth.

"Since we have no idea how to tell time here, we might as well get some sleep," Law said. "We can work on a raft later then set sail for the other island."

"Setting sail sounds fun," Luffy said. "Maybe the other island will have a ship. We could really go sailing then."

"Sailing huh?" Law mumbled. "Now why does that sound familiar?"