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I'm going to update more, so don't be surprised if you see two or three more chapters. It's for a grade, you know! Using fan fiction as practice really does help...
Chapter 5: Falling Down Twenty Feet
The Thousand Sunny sailed quietly through the hot desert sun in the river. Chopper and Luna laid under Tsuki's apple tree in beast point due to the intense heat, their tongues hung loosely by their side of their lips as they panted heavily. Sanjiquietly approached the two, kicking Chopper aside (animal abuser), he sat next to Luna.
"Hot day, isn't it?" Sanji smiled cheefully, he placed a bucket of ice in front of her. "Ice?"
It didn't take him a minute to realize she was sleeping, he quietly left the bucket and got up to leave so he can tend to the other ladies on the ship. He knew, that behind his back, Luna was digging in the bucket for the frozen water shaped in cubes and was munching on it with her jaws. The chef look over his shoulder a bit to see her do so, then smirked while going up the stairs. He turned his head forward, but hten something slamed into the back of his head, full force. (I did that to Matt one time)At the step below him, was the ice bucket he left for Luna. It appears to him that Luna is still pissed. Somewhere in the distance, he can hear Matt, Zoro and Richie laughing their asses off.
"Yeah, yeah, laugh all you want. I'll be sure to cook Pip." Sanji taunted at them, he felt a tap on his shoulder and the chef whiped around. "What?" he asked rudely, not caring if it was a woman or man, it was Horus.
"Sanji...there is something I need to tell you-" Horus began.
"No, wait, I need to tell you something, buster."
"Must always be interupted by you?" (yeah)
"If we hadn't met you everythng would've been fine between me and Luna." the chef pointed out. "We wouldn't have almost died in the train, we would be somewhere in the Grand Line by now, Nami-san-"
"That is a lot of wouldn'ts you have stated there, I give you my most humble apologies." Horus gave a small bow of respect. "If I never saw you, Luna would be on her deathbed by now, and my daughter would be with me. We all have our dreams in life, and we let fate guide us to it-"
"Look, I don't have time for you." Sanjiscoffed with a sharp glare as he turned, but Horus reached his arm out and grabbed Sanji's sleeve.
"What I meant to tell you was...since we are apart from my brethren, there is a greater chance that Luna will be in danger-"'
"Hmph, where were the crap-Guardians when we needed them, huh?"
"That bomb caught us by surprise." Horus sternly argued back. "We-"
"Listen to me, I don't give a shit on what other shit you have to say." he took his sleeve back and walked off. Horus shook his head in disappointment, kids these days...
(Anywhere)
Yume and his men stopped riding at the edge of the river. A cloaked man stood before him, his hood covered his face from them all. The prince couldn't help but laugh,"Dra hahahahaha! And you are to say that the Protector is against Horus? That he will not protect the Sorceress?"
"Yes, Yume-sama. I had also killed my father, here is his necklace." the man offered the prince a small pendant, the seal of the Guardians.
"Good, go, go and bring the Sorceress to me, at her current state, she is unable to fight back." Yume took it and placed it around his neck, the man nodded his head in agreement. A fierce gust of wind came in and within a second, he was gone. "Do not worry, Becky, you shall see your sister soon enough." The prince smiled at the currently passed out hostages, or at least Becky looked asleep...
(Anyday)
Night had fallen, and the Sunny was anchored for the hour. Everyone stayed asleep, except for Horus, Sanji, and Richie, who temporally went off to shore to find his brethren while the two pirates drank away their toubles. Eventually, they got high and drunk, of course everyone need to sleep, and so they went to their rooms and called it a night.
A cloaked man suddenly appeared on deck, he ran to the nearrestdoor and quietly opened it with great care. It was the girls'scabin, he stared at all of them, looking for his target: Luna. He spotted her sleeping on her own bed, then smiled. The man slowly dragged her out of her bed by her foot, then took her outside. There, Yume's phoenix stood there, waiting for his rider. He tossed her onto the saddle, and got on it himself.
"Hya!" the reins snapped and the phoenix took off.
Eventually, morning came, and Cheherowoke up everyone with a drawn out scream,"AW SHIT! LUNA'S KIDNAPPED AGAIN!"
Matt scrambled to their room, along with all th other guys to see that the wolf was, yet again, gone.
"Who's yelling I'm gone?" they all turned around to see Luna leaning against the door frame.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" everyone yelled.
"You say Luna's gone, but then she's here." Usopp exclaimed. "What, now she's everywhere?!"
(Anywho)
"Wake up!" the cloaked man tossed Luna onto the sand. She started to spit it out as he grabbed her by her hair and dragged her towards the prince. "Here, sire, your order."
"Dra hahaha, you manage to do this." Yume started to laugh as hard as he could while grabbing Luna by her shoulders and holding her up to him. "You...are to help me win battles, take over the Grand Line, and soon the world. And after all that, I'll rape you of your powers."
Luna kept her head facing towards the ground, not saying anything.
"These bastards...they fell for it. Now all that the crew has to do is get Luna to the Fountain while I save Nami-san and the other two."
(Anyday)
"Hurry up, everyone, we gotta get Luna to the Foutain!" the great (and temporary) captain Usopp ordered.
"Usopp...I didn't eat yet." complained Luffy. "And aren't you supossed to be taking the sails?"
"Oh well, get used to it! By the way, where's Sanji?"
"The young man has barracaded himself in his own closet." Horus said calmly. "It would appear to me that he is in some sort of depression." He stared at Luna, who nodded. "Yes, I am aware that it is depression."
Robin stared at the two suspiciously as Luna placed her hand on her mouth to remove an itch, she felt something wet and stared at her hand. There was blood on her fingers.
"Oh, phit." Luna said as blood started pouring from her mouth, Horus moved his head towards her as she collapsed on the ground.
"Those are the signs of the manticorepoison." Horus muttered as he took out a piece of clothand covered her mouth. "Robin, get Franky to sail the Sunny exactally 2 kilometers south."
Suddenly, as if it was right on cue, they all heard Franky's voice boom from somewhere around the Sunny.
"COUP DE-"
"Uh...what was that?..."
"BURST!"
Whee!
(Anywhere)
"...did you hear something?" Akumu asked his brother. Yumetilted his head to the side.
"Must be an explosion. Ignore that, we must get to the Temple of the Rivers..."
Luna couldn't help but smile under her hood.
"It was the Coup de Burst, you can pratically hear it from here. The Phoenix Fountain and the Temple place must be three or four kilometers apart from each other."
(Anytime)
The Sunny flew in the air for several mintues before landing near shore. Matt fixed his hair as Brooke straitened his hat.
"Yo hohohohoho! No matter how many times, the manuver always gets me."
"Now." Franky started, he placed his shades on his head. "Someone give me an explanation om why I wasted three barrels of fine cola just to blast us all here? I practically see noting! And why is okami-kid spitting out blood like a fountain?"
"Speaking of foutains." Robin said, she stared really close at the large sand dune. "I would love to say that the Phoenix Foutain is located behind there."
"You are correct, Nico Robin." Horus suddenly disappeared and then reappeared on the shore line with Luna on his back. "Anyone who wishes to come with me, please do!"
"Gomu Gomu no..."
"Wait for me!" Chehero yelled, she stepped right in front of Luffy...
"ROCKET!"
...and was launched across the water.
"Geppou!" Richie made his way onto the shore line, Matt closely fallowed by jumping from boulder to boulder as if they were skipping stones. Robin did the same action while Brooke ran (yes, ran) across the water thanks to his skeletal features. The rest watched Chehero freeze the water, creating an ice bridge connecting the land to the Sunny. Chopper switched to beast point and sprinted across.
"Oi, Chopper!" Usopp called out.
"There's a medicine there that can cure anything, and I'm gonna find it!" Chopper called over his shoulder.
"W-wait for me!" the marksman jumped over the hand rail and onto the ice. Franky was the last to join.
"Oi, Zoro! You watch the Sunny!"
And of course, the swordsman was, you guessed it, asleep, along with the shinigami.
"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!"
"Uh-huh." Franky muttered under his breath while putting on his shades. "Let's go fine us that super medicine I've been hearing about."
Just as Franky touched the sand with his feet, Horus spoke,"It appears to be that most of you had decided to come with me, that is a good desicion."
"Leave Zoro to the monsters." Matt said. "Now...where's the entrance?" He took several steps ahead, the ground started shaking and it broke under him. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"
"For God's sake, Matt, you just fell six inches." Usopp rolled his eyes at the band manager.
"Six?" Matt asked pointlessly, he stared at his feet then at them. "Well, I thought I was gonna die..."
"Get out of the hole, Matt." Horus told his as he gave Luna to Franky. He got down on his knees and shifted the sand around, a small lever was burried in the sand and he pulled it. "Every temple is to have some sort of back door, no?"
THUD!
"What was that?" Usopp stared at the ground for a while as Chopper clung to his leg. "No, I'm guessing this is where we fall into a dark pit."
"Yes, pretty much."
Usoppt urned to him with that scared anime styled face,"EH?! YOU'RE KIDDING!"
"No, he isn't."
"HOW DO YOU KNOW, ROBIN?!" Chopper screamed.
"Because we're supossed to be falling by now."
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH?!"Franky, Brooke, Usopp, Chopper, Matt, and Chehero glanced down at their feet to see that they were standing over a bottomless pit. There was a ten second pause before anyone fell down.
"OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!"
As usual, the first person to scream that was Matt.
"BLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYY HHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL!!"
Of course, that was Chehero.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
Franky's scream.
"I DON'T WANNA DIE!"
It was Usopp's cry for mercy.
"MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY! MERCY!"
Chopper was screaming his antlers off his head.
"..."
Looks like Robin keeps her cool.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"
Luffy, the idiot of all idiots, was having fun.
"GLURP! GLURP! GLURP! GLURP! GLURP! GLURP! GLURP! GLURP!"
Richie was drinking his own tea.
"YO HOHOHOHOHOHO! May I have some?!"
"Yeah sure."
He taped Brooke's tea cup and instantly, tea appeared.
"Thanks." the skeleton took several sips and finished his tea.
"Like it?"
"Yes, now I can scream.."
They all waited a minute before he held his cane and hat to his chest.
"YO HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO! I'M GONNA DIE AGAIN!"
"TOOK YA LONG ENOUGH!"eveyone screamed at him.
(Anyday)
Zoro slept soundly in the crow's nest, not aware of the distant screams of his fellow crew mates.
Tsuki chuckled quietly.
(Anywho)
"HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN FALLING?!"
"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE A WATCH?!
"...YES!"
"IDIOTS!"
(Antime)
"I swear to god, I think I heard screaming." Akumu insisted as they landed for a short break.
"You hear things too much." Yume muttered. "You need to get your ears checked...Unless you had activated the traps in the Fountain?"
"Traps? Uh, yes, trap! I did that!"
"..."
"Shit, I forgot!" Akumu mumbled quietly, behind him. Luna gave a tiny smirk.
"Man, having Luna's body is so cool! I can practically hear anything! That Akumu guy was supposed to booby-trap the Fountain, bit I guess he forgot. At least it'll save time for everyone..."
After several minutes, Luna glanced around to make sure no one was looking at her.
"No one's looking...and I always wanted to do it, so...might as well do it. Luna never let's me do this so...la la la la, whoops, my hands slipped."
Then, out of pure boredom, she looked down her shirt, then smiled with a nosebleed. Nami, Becky, and Reese walked beside her on their phoenixes.
"Hey...hey, guys."
"What, Luna?" Nami asked, the three stared at her.
"Check this out...I can look at myself naked." Luna grinned.
Reese tried to hold back his laughter whiile Nami and Becky rolled their eyes at her.
"Urgh."
"Are you a lesbian?!" Nami screeched at her, everyone (including Yume, Akumu, the minions, the phoenixes, Yume's horse, a radom peacock) all stared at Luna.
Yume dropped the map he and Aukumu were reading, he ordered,"It's okey if she's a lesbian...I guess..."
(Anyways)
Eventually, everyone stopped screaming, there was no point in doing so anyway. Matt and Usopp were playing catch by using Chopper as the ball, Robin was reading a book, looks pretty typical, but wait. How manay times do you see pirates falling down in the sky and their doing their usual stuff? Never, so, let's put a stop to it. The all-powerful Horus summoned strong gusts of wind and the crew suddenly stopped their free fall by floating 1 foot above the ground, Horus flicked his fingers and htey landed on the hard black, stone floor.
"Ow!" Usopp landed on his nose first. (ouch)
"AYIE!" in Matts case, one of his guns went between his legs and it jabbed him. Hard.
"That's gonna leave a mark." Chehero commented while wincing, Brooke looked up. Light shined brightly above them, and it never took a while for Robin to realize how far they'd fallen, so she told them.
"TWENTY FEET?! IT WAS A FREAKEN MILE TO US!"Franky, Chehero, Usopp, Luffy, Matt, and Brooke yelled at her, she gave a modest shrug. As the group was aguring on what the hell had just happened, Richie looked around, they'd ended up in some sort of cavern. The golden phoenix statue was clearly visible.
"OI! Horus, that it?" Richie called out over their voices as he pointed at the statue. Horus nodded. "Good, now let's just toss her in the water!"
"You must be fast in doing so...we've been falling all day, so do it before the sunlight disappears." Horus pointed out the ray of light that shined in a large circle, and the circle was slowly getting smaller. "Well? HURRY UP!"
"Okey, okey, okey, okey, okey, okey, who's the fastest out of all of us?" Matt asked in a paniked tone. Everyone pointed to Usopp. "Good, you toss her in." Matt tossed Luna into Usopp's arms.
"Why me?!"
"JUST DO IT!" Matt and Richie boomed, Usopp started sprinting across the narrow bridge with Luna in his arms. "GO!"
"I could've just stretched." Luffy muttered as he watched the circle of light get even smaller.
(Anyplace)
They had just set up camp on a large sand bar in the middle of the river. Luna, Becky, Reese, and Nami were allowed to walk around and stretch themselves after being passed out from the desert sun. Sunset, that's what they were gazing at as it slowly went under the horizon. Becky ran over to Luna and hugged her tightly.
"Oi, oi, oi. Not so tight, that crap-prince was holding my belly too tight on the ride here."
The three pirate's eyes grew wide at the way she spoke to Becky, Nami tilted her head to see her better.
"Sanji-kun?!"
"Nami-san, don't blow my cover." Luna instructed as she took out a cigarette. "They've already reached the Fountain, I hope they get Luna to the Tears in time though...the sun's setting already, once the sun's gone, you're gone too..."
"Eh? What are you goin' on about?" Reese asked, Luna got to her knees and crossed her legs on the sand, the rest did too. "...lesbian..."
"Shut up, that was out of pure boredom and I was tempted. You woud do it too if you were a girl."
There was an awkward silence before she spoke again.
"Luna was exposed to the manticore poison before you did this other thing that'll kill you later on, this means she'll die an hour earlier than Becky."
"Hold on, before we get all serious here..." Reese started snirkering. "...are you cross dressing?!"
Luna turned bright crimson red, she bit both her lips,"...yes..."
"Then can I feel your rack? You got to stare at it for the whole trip and molest yourself while you were in the bath-"
"NO!"
"N-nami, did you see him blush?!" Becky screamed wildly, Nami was on her back holding her stomach, coughing, crying, laughing.
"Oh god! Yeah! He looks like a freaken lighthouse!"
"EVERYONE, STOP, YOU'RE KILLING THE DRAMA!"
After a few ten minutes of laughing their asses off, they eventually stopped for breath and gave a sigh before laughing histarically all over again.
(Anyday)
Since you-know-who was asking for drama a few kilometers away, the real drama was happening in the strange cavern...or Mystery Caven in Luffy's idea. Usopp raced like hell over to the phoenix statue, where the golden water was flowing freely already from its base. A small, little pool sat in front of it, Usopp stared at Luna, then at it. The pool was around thsize of a coffin fit for a 7 foot man, but it was only deeper in the inside, Usopp gritted his teeth.
"I'm getting the feeling Sanji should this, but...okey..." he inhaled a large amout of air before getting on his knees and dumping Luna into the pool. Instantly, she started moving and bubble started to float to the surface. He immediatly pulled her to the surface and she coughed up the gold water. "Luna?"
Silence swept between them all.
Matt, Luffy, Chehero, and Richie were beaming.
Franky did his pose "SUPA!"
Robin gave a warming smile.
Chopper was dancing.
Brooke drank his tea.
Horus held his arms behind his back.
"SANJI!"
The next thing anyone else in the room knew, Luna kissed, yes reader, KISSED Usopp on the lips. He started waving his arms wildly as he tried to get out of her tight embrace.
Luffy and Chehero were sticking their tounges out in disgust.
Franky's mouth gaped open as his shades hung by its side.
Matt and Richie were hurling in the corner.
Robin covered Chopper's eyes.
Brooke was spitting out his tea.
Horus raised his eyebrows in intrest.
"...something is telling me that this was highly uncalled for."
"Yo hohohohohoho! Uncalled for indeed, Horus-san!"
There was complete silence, with the exception of Matt and Richie's hurling in the background and the sound of water flowing from the fountain, nobody spoke.
It was like you-know-who asked everyone...
...don't kill...
...the drama...
Oh god, I still can't stop crying...of course Sanji would look at any girl's chest!
A lot can happen when you're falling twenty feet...
...some things are funny...others...are disturbing...