Chapter 8: BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA-LAKA!

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Everyone who was in my class at the table shouted, save Bri and Gabbie. A man with a yellow sweat-shirt had punched Luffy's head into the table, cracking the wooden object in half. Needless to say, Ussop and Chopper were to scared to move, although they were shaking like it was the middle of winter.

"Dude, you f--king spilled my beer! Val, hold me back! Hold me back!" Rick-James ordered. Val grabbed him by the arms, only to hear him now say, "Now lemme at him Lemme at him!" Lets just say Val didn't let him go.

Geez, it's no wonder his first word was the f-bomb, he uses it at least twenty times a day! "What the hell was that for?!" Zoro asked, his hands placed on his three swords.

"What was that for? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT THAT WAS FOR!" The man shouted angrily.

"Sounds like someone needs ta take a chill pill." Gabbie whispered to Bri.

"SHUT UP! Just because he can stretch his arms doesn't mean...he can stretch his arms...arms can stretch...HANG ON, HE CAN STRETCH HIS ARMS?!" the man shouted with question in his voice.

"Little slow on the reaction there man." we all said. Dude, even my seven year-old sister has faster reactions than that. Luffy stood up from the crash with a 'Yosh' and stared at the strange man.

"And so the glaring contest begins." Brian said sarcastically.

"So you have the power of the Devil's Fruit?" The man asked our captain. Luffy had no chance to answer, because a rather large group of angry and hungry pirates had formed around us.

"Oi! That was our food! You don't have a right to eat it at all!" One of them with pink hair in a buzz cut said.

"Well it's ya'lls own fault that ya'll couldn't protect your own food." Bobby-Joe pointed out. Why can't he keep his mouth shut?!

Well, that made most of the other pirates angry and about three of the pirates aimed and fired their guns at our soccer fanatic redneck. But he used his new-found powers to escape all three of the bullets.

"He's a Devil Fruit eater, like Gasparde-sama!" one of them shouted. Another pirate closed his eyes and fired his gun randomly, hitting Luffy square on the head.

"LUFFY!" My classmates shouted. Well, everyone except Rick-James because he only cares about himself, and I because I know that he's OK.

"Don't worry about him guys. He'll be fine in about three...two...one...HIT THE DECK!" I counted down and ducked as the bulled ricocheted off of Luffy's rubber head and back towards us. I was the only smart person who ducked.

"OI! What's the big deal?! That scared me!" Luffy shouted as he pointed at the man who shot him.

"Normally when I shoot a guy it's supposed to do more than to scare them..." The guy managed to squeak out. Luffy shifted some rubble of the table over to find his hat and placed it on his head.

"What the hell are you?!" The man with pink hair asked.

"I ate the Gomu-Gomu no Mi as a kid. I'm a rubber man!" Luffy said as he pulled his arm far back and shouted, "GOMU-GOMU NO...PISTOL!" With that single punch, he took out about a dozen of the angry pirates.

"What's with ya'll naming' your attacks after weird shit?" Pete asked Zoro.

"I dunno. It sounds cooler I guess." the swordsman answered.

"Hey brat, do you even know who we are? We're Gasparde's crew." The pink-haired man said.

Is it me or do most pirates here have bigger ego's than Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh?

"Yeah, but ya'll shouldn't underestimate us either. We're Providence students who know how ta kick ya'lls asses." Brian said as he sprouted sharp bones from his body, making him look like a porcupine. He shot them off at the pirates, but let's just say that Brian doesn't have the best aim. Guess he's not fully used to the Devil Fruit powers yet...But still! Not only have I witnessed a Zoro vs. Sanji fight, but now I get to fight with the Straw Hat pirates! At this point I don't care if I die when I get home cuz now I can go happily!

"Nice move, whatcha gonna call it?" Pete asked as the pirates came at us. He tried to attack with his shadow by grabbing a pirate, but he accidentally grabbed Ussop with it and wound up using the poor guy as a shield, "My bad man!"

Brian dodged an oncoming pirate and said as he stabbed him with a bone,

"Maybe I'll call it...ASSAULTING BONES."

"Sounds good dude, but check this out, PIERCING SHRIEK!" I said as I attacked. I used my voice to shatter the eardrums of some of the pirates. I'm glad that I already normally use my voice to hurt people even before the Devil Fruits.

"That's nothing compared to this Yankee, RUNNING TWISTER!" Bobby-Joe said as he ran around a group of pirates so fast, that a tornado formed, sucking them up.

"Hey, where's Luffy?" Bri asked as she barely dodged a pirate with a rusty blood covered sword.

"I think he's..."

"GOMU-GOMU NO...PISTOL!"

"...yeah, he's right there." I said to my fellow Northerner, pointing in the direction of the shout, "When unsure where the baka rubber man is, just be quiet and you'll hear him soon."

Turns out, Luffy was fight the pirates side-by-side with the guy with the yellow sweatshirt. The man was using a sword until a pirate broke it, so he grabbed on to the chain on the pulley that kept the boat hanging from the ceiling up.

"C'mon ya'll, let's follow him!" Rick-James said as he turned from water into a normal human body.

One has to wonder how he uses that to fight. Far as he knows, all he can do is turn into water. One by one, we grabbed on to the chain. As we went up, we saw that we were being followed by the pirates.

"Hey look, it's the rest of the crew! HI YA'LL!" Ana shouted while waving with one hand to the rest of our crew. The other hand was drawing something while her feet were tightly wrapped around the moving chain and her knees were holding her drawing pad steady. Oh the joy of having A.D.H.D and being able to multi-task...

"Huh? What are you guys doing?" Nami asked.

"Nothing much." Chuck said casually.

"It's just a fight." Luffy, who was below the other pirates, said.

"Oh, OK. Don't get lost." Nami calmly said as she returned to drinking tea.

"Uh-oh, a dead end guys!" Gabbie said as we neared the top.

"Hey ya'll, I got an idea! Just grab on when ya see it!" Ana said as the picture she was drawing came to life. It was a giant, crudely made bird. I don't think any of us cared, cuz we all grabbed on to it, except Luffy. The poorly drawn bird carried us to the rest of our crew. Unfortunately, Ana's powers still aren't under full control, and the bird poofed away within thirty seconds. That being said, we fell onto the thing and/or person under us.

"Ya'll do know at other schools, they have normal days and students. They don't get sucked into a world of pirates and get freaky power by eating damn weird fruits." David said we landed on top of him.

"Yeah. But we're Providence students bitch!" Rick-James said as he sat on top of all of us.

"Maybe it's time that we should go and raise our boat money." Ashley said with an eyebrow raised.

"AW! Such a good idea from Ash-Chwan!" Sanji said.

"Fine, let's round up everyone else and set things up. Now where's Luffy..." Val asked as she accidentally set someone's pants on fire. I think it was that pink-haired pirate from before...

After rounding everyone up, we headed towards the boat to get dressed. But we were a good ten feet away from the Going Merry...when it blew up. Yes, our only ship blew up.

I kid you nots.

Needless to say, everyone said at the same time,

"Shit."

"We need a new boat, and we need it NOW." I said. Ussop started crying instantly and moaning about how his present from Kaya-chan was gone. Everyone went to comfort him. Some of the original Straw Hat crew even started to cry. Heck, some of US started to cry. I mean, even though we only spent one night on that boat, it grew on us very fast. Bri went towards the water and used her wind powers to the best of her abilities to bring a floating board towards her. She grabbed it and gave it to Ussop, saying,

"I'm sorry Ussop, but this is all that I can get with my powers so far." Ussop sniffed a few times before taking the board. On it were the words, The Going Merry.

"T-t-thank you Bri." the marksman stuttered out as he grabbed the wood and hugged it tightly. Bri nodded to my classmates and I, and we stood up and started to walk away.

"Wind-san, could you please tell us where you all are going?" Robin asked. Bri turned her head to look at Robin and answered with a serious look on her face,

"We're gettin' money so that we can get a boat and win this race. After all, we're Providence students as well as members of the Straw Hat pirates; we don't let something like this block us. If ya'll wanna come, we'll be in front of the clock tower. Zoey's got your swimsuits in her bag. And don't worry about finding the guy who did this Ussop," Ussop looked up at her with a confused face. She continued, "Having A.D.H.D. and stuff like that lets us pay attention to the tiny details. Brian, T.J., an' Fort Knox are gonna find out who did this. And those people will have hell to pay for messing with our... What's that word for crew mate Zoey that you were talkin' bout a week ago?"

"Nakama."

"Right. They're gonna pay for messing with our nakama and their feelings. Lets go guys."

"RIGHT!"