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And it goes on and on. By the way I'm not Oda in disguise. I don't own One Piece. So don't expect this to be coming up anytime soon in the Manga or anime. I am just the invisible voice that calls out of the world wide whiteness (that is fake computer pages).
I must thank my 'Concerned Guest'. I totally did not notice that error until you pointed it out. It made me laugh out loud, that I had made such a stupid mistake. It's a good thing this story isn't being printed, and that I can go back anytime and change mistakes. :D
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Luffy, Always Bounces Back: Luffy's Log Book
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Chapter 3:
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A little something about Luffy.
Sometimes the ferocity of Luffy's orders would take all his crew by surprise, but then again when had he ever been unsurprising. Although they hated how regularly they were put into unnecessary danger, they also knew it was worth it to be on such a happy, wild, and crazy crew. Luffy was a naturally born leader despite what people might say about him. He loved the people he was in charge of and would 'stick by them through any trouble and pain' just to make them smile, and to admit that they too enjoyed living. He didn't like being alone. He was alive to have fun, to win, to fight, to survive, to build up friends, to make people smile, to sail all the seas, to become the Pirate King, and then just maybe he would be satisfied.
After leaving his old home-town Luffy had taken to sailing. It was one of the things that came naturally to him and he was actually good at. He couldn't swim, like the cursed pirate he was. He couldn't read very well either, and would often get some place-names wrong. In general he liked it far more when he was spoken to, or read to when the need arose. He never liked to actually read to himself when it came to the actual words on a white page, it reminded him of his grandfather, and how much he was always telling him he had to learn to be 'A Strong and Independent Marine', and how a Marine had to be smart and clever, and write detailed and brilliant reports. That had never sounded like fun to him as a kid. Luffy was more of a visual learner. He would watch his sniper, Usopp and copy the knots he tied until his were almost as good Usopp's sailor knots.
Now Luffy had always been the sort of man to appreciate art. Once the Strawhats had been shown all their Bounties by the Franky family, he had gathered them all up, after their escape from Waterseven, and stuck them to the dinning room wall of their new ship, the Thousand Sunny. Yes, Bounties definitely counted as art. They portrayed their journeys as a pirate crew and all their promises and achievements. However, he had to keep taking down Sniper King's poster, because Sniper King wasn't a part of his crew, but somehow it kept on miraculously appearing back on the wall alongside all of his crew. It was a mystery poster. And in the end Luffy left it up, because just maybe the hero from Sniper Island had somehow blessed the Strawhats with his ghost presence, and was now watching over them, that's what Usopp said anyway. For Sniper Island was place to be found in your heart.
And so, he left it up there to watch over them. There was also one that would somehow always look ruined and screwed up, and he would often find it ripped off the wall. That was Sanji's poster. He didn't know why. It was the coolest picture of them all. Like some cool-ass old pirate picture of old. He thought Sanji looked cooler and mean, and unlike everyone else's picture.
So, Admiring artwork was something Luffy liked doing. He liked to have pictures of things for him to look at, and not just boring writing. Yep, he would be the sort of person that would never dream to look for fanfiction to read, for extra and exciting stories, but he would be fine with the Manga, for a while at least. You see Luffy's attention span was slightly lacking in the focusing department. Unless it was about food of course, in which case he would be happy to give anything or anybody his undivided attention, but otherwise most words just bounced off him like a cannon ball would bounce off his rubbery body. It wasn't like he was doing it deliberately. It just happened.
He was a carefree, slightly dipsy, but a loving child, with not much going for him apart from his smile, his laugh, and his ability to make people believe in him and follow him into the fires of hell itself. And that, should be enough to show anyone who was undecided about how Luffy's pirate crew worked so well. It all boiled down to Trust. He trusted them. And in turn they too learned to trust one another and to rely on his bluntness and stability. He didn't change. Luffy never changed no matter what situation he was in or who he met. He didn't treat the wealthy man any different from the poorest man he might have met, and he always said what he thought. Luffy was an open book, and he never burned the pages of his story, but left it out on show for the whole world to see if they wished it.
Now, although you might not know this, but Luffy took the duty of Captain very seriously, and would secretly record in his own Captain's log book. Not with boring and crazy writing, NO! He drew pictures of the days events. Pictures of people or his crew doing weird things, Islands in lots of colour because he liked colour, and (because Nami didn't really draw in colour), and he would also draw what he had eaten that day. Yep, food was what drove the Captain to do some crazy stuff. It was his true love in life, apart from becoming the Perfectly Cool, new Pirate King. He would become the legendary Pirate King and use his money and gold to buy the best food from all over the world. He would sail the seas and eat everything he wants, visit everyplace he wants, and become friends with everyone he wants. That was his dream and he was living it. (I mean) is still living it.
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When a log book was found in the guys room everyone was very much surprised. Not only because Luffy had actually hidden it, but also had been able to keep it a secret from the whole crew. The one to have had the pleasure of finding it had been none other than Nico Robin. For she knew if there would be any clues to indicate the starting point of the mystery that was Little Luffy, it would be found where he hid the food he stole from the kitchen. She didn't know the location of his secret stash room precisely but she had made a good estimated guess about its whereabouts and she was right. She had expected to find lots of crumbs and bits and pieces of scraps and leftovers that Luffy hadn't seen in his tucked away hiding space, but she had been pleasantly surprised by his book.
So, while everyone else was outside preparing to embark on an odious journey back to the shore she sat calmly in the men's sleeping quarters assessing the creativity of her Captain's handy work.
It really was quite priceless, with drawings of the crew and their enemies along with tiny scrawls of words like, Stupid Sange, MONSTER NAMIE, and Zoro be'n funny. It was needless to say that the pictures that accompanied these words were brilliant and amusing causing Robin to chuckle softly to herself. The fact that Luffy couldn't even spell his own crew-mates' names right also made the pictures seem funnier. It was as if the pictures had been drawn by a child. But then again he still acted like one right?
She flicked the book over and restarted from the back of the book to look at the latest drawings. Because just maybe she would find the clue she needed. The Pages themselves were a bit grubby as if he had attempted to paint on them, dry the paint with sand, and then closed the book straight away. It was an interesting experience. Robin made a mental note to never try to get Luffy to read any real book. It wouldn't be able to survive his abuse for long.
His pictures of the unknown forest-like Island were busy and messy, and their were five in all. The first one was an angry drawing of Nami barking out orders to everyone, the second was of Sanji kicking a tree and catching the fruit that fell from it (he had drawn a stretched out Sanji with three heads so he could catch all the fruits, so weird). His third was of an unusual bug that he and Chopper had found, the fourth was just a lot of water flowing down from some rocks to somewhere else, and the final one was a mountain of food.
Robin giggled at the drawings. "Well, they are all very cheerful." she said to herself. The mix of imagination and reality was really interesting. In fact the more she looked at the pictures the more she believed that Luffy liked to try and make his drawings as obvious and relative as possible. But, out of all the pages she found herself inquisitive about about the second to last one most. "I wonder."
She kept her finger in the page and stepped outside, and found Zoro dragging around some unnecessary baggage called Luffy.
"Zoro! I want to see. Show me! Show me!" Luffy whined up at the giant green haired man. Luffy had his arms around Zoro's leg and was holding on tightly to prevent being kicked off.
"NOT A CHANCE IN HELL!" Zoro retaliated, "I told you! You can't play with my swords!"
"But you've got three. I just want to play with one." Luffy twisted his legs around the swordsman's right one and gripped even tighter then and tried to reach for Wado Ichimonji, but Zoro was not having it.
"No Luffy! Get lost!" He tried to pull Luffy off, but their legs were all knotted together, so when the swordsman threw him he sprung back with a boing and temporally knocked Zoro off his feet. Zoro managed to untangle himself and slowly stood up holding onto Luffy's (Nami's) GOLD t-shirt/ vest. He was giving off his scary glare (the one that would give nightmares to little children), but Luffy just returned his glare with a glazed and bored look. Obviously still not quite convinced that Zoro was all as scary as he made himself out to be.
Zoro would change that. "Listen Luffy, and listen well. I don't try and take your hat off you, do I?"
Luffy shook his head.
"And I don't tell you what to do with it, or how to wear it, or demand to have it, or try to squash it when I'm angry!" Zoro's voice rose up a notch.
Luffy's eyes went wild and his arms reached over his head to protect his treasure.
"Well, if I don't try and steal your treasure then don't try and take mine. I won't put up with it." he let go of Luffy and watched him drop to the floor. "Beware around me Luffy, if you try to steal something of mine again," he paused and laid his hand upon the hilt of his white sheathed blade "... your toes and fingers will go missing in the night, and sometime the next day you will eat them from Sanji's cooking at Lunchtime."
Luffy screamed and ran away from Zoro and made faces at him somewhere out of reach.
"You certainly have a way with children." Robin said smiling, as she came up to Zoro.
"I'm not going to spoil Luffy just because everyone else thinks he's cute and worth it all of a sudden. He might be a child, but he's still Luffy. He's a pain, and he needs to be treated the same." Zoro leaned back against railing. "So when are we going to leave, I thought you two girls would have been ready by now."
"I was just doing some extra surveillance. Do you know where Nami is at the moment?" Robin asked.
"Nowhere nearby thankfully." He yawned, "No idea."
Robin turned and made her way to the dinning hall. She saw the immaculate kitchen and thought of the missing chef. "I wonder if Sanji is okay?" She said to no one in particular. He had left about an hour ago and hadn't returned to find them or to discuss anything. He had gone out blind and crazy. It was really very strange.
Robin eventually found Nami talking to Usopp about what they needed to bring to the Island. And so after excusing herself for interrupting them she showed them Luffy's unusual Log Book. Nami read through a few of them and then did the same thing Robin had done only a few minutes before.
"Haha!" Usopp exclaimed. "Is that supposed to be you? That's so lame!" He was cut off from saying much more as he was sent flying into the far wall.
"This looks interesting." Nami said pointing at the fourth page. "I don't remember seeing that."
"Nami!" Luffy charged into the room and crashed into them, breaking up their conversation and pulling on Nami's trouser leg pocket. He was demanding attention, again. "Nami? Come on! Let's go to the Island now!"
"Not yet Luffy." She pulled his hand out of her pocket, dropped it, and looked back up at Robin. "So, you don't remember this on the Island right." She looked back down at the terrible drawing of the waterfall.
"Well, no. I don't, but it could just be a picture from his imagination."
Luffy pulled the book down to get a look at what they were talking about. "Oh! I remember that! That water was yummy! It tasted like fruit and meat." the oblivious kid smiled at the memory.
Wait, Memory.
"Luffy?" Nami asked "You can actually remember this?"
"Yeah! It was nice. I wanted to go swimming, but I couldn't so I stuck my head in and drank lots of water until my tummy was out here." He stretched out his stomach with his hands to try and indicate how large it actually was.
Franky was doing something crazy that caught Luffy's attention and he sped away unaware how important his words had been.
Robin frowned and turned back to the Navigator, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Water that tastes sweet to the drinker, and that makes people young again, being drunk by the gallon." Nami nodded. "What else could it be?"
"Let's tell the others." Robin and Nami went outside and called the rest of the crew together.
"It is time to go, does anyone have any other ideas as to where Luffy went and what caused the change to happen?" Nami said.
Usopp spoke up. "I think!" he said with a serious undertone as Chopper looked on at him with starry eyes. "That Luffy has been put under a spell." He whipped up a spell book from somewhere and spoke in a loud voice. "Winato! Begone!" he waved his hand over Luffy's head, "Evil Spirit! Begone!" Luffy started picking his nose in confusion. "Diabolical Demon! Begone!" Luffy started giggling. He found this guy really funny.
"Did it not work this time?" Chopper asked.
"It must be an unknown demon." Usopp said with his worried voice. "I can not cleanse things that I do not understand."
"Yeah right." Zoro yawned. "He isn't possessed."
"Are you sure?" Brook asked. "I see no reason for him to have changed, unless he was put under some sort of enchantment. And if I could see that then you should, because I have no eyes."
"This is a SUPER surprise! But we need to change Luffy back otherwise we will not be the same Pirate crew. The Strawhat Pirates can't be without their Strawhat Captain." Franky added.
"Well, I did check to see if he has eaten anything poisonous, but the results were normal." Chopper said.
"So what does that leave us to go on that he drank some magical water." Zoro scoffed.
Robin smiled, "Yes, that is possible, but what if this just so happens to be the legendary Island of the Fountain of Youth?" Everyone stopped what they were doing and thinking about and focused on Robin. She continued, "This Island fits all descriptions that I have ever read about it. Wouldn't it be incredible if we have really found it. Or I should say Luffy found it, but there is still the matter of where it would be located."
Everyone stared in a shocked and stupefied astonishment at these words, and Robin took up the book and showed them the terrible picture that had started her speculation.
"It would make sense if this was indeed the Island." Robin carried on, "Luffy has not just become youthful but impossibly younger. And we don't know how much Luffy even drank, so the result for someone else could be entirely different." Robin frowned, and looked over to her tiny, confused looking Captain. "But, if it really is the fountain of youth, I have no idea about how to change back such an amazing phenomena. The Fountain has always been legend it has never been proven only speculated."
"So, basically we still need to do the same thing?" Zoro spoke up. "Find it. Get Chopper to run some weird tests on it, make sure Luffy gets back to normal, and leave." he clicked and cracked his neck moving it from side to side preparing for a new adventure in the jungle-like Island, and looked up at the Strawhat organizer. "So, Nami. You finished here or what?"
"Yes, we're finished here."
"Whatcha gonna name this Island?" Usopp asked.
"Well," Nami allowed a evil grin to spread across her pleasant face. "That still is undecided, but I do think the name of our crew might change, the 'Eternally Young Strawhat Pirates' has a good ring to it." She ran her finger around the log post on her wrist, and grinned at her friends. "I think it time to find out. Get ashore everyone! And make it snappy."
"Yeah!" Luffy jumped up into the air and starting running round in circles. He didn't really understand what had just been said, but they were about to go exploring and he couldn't contain his excitement. "Yeah! Yeah! YEAHHHHHH! Yeah! Yeah! YEAHHHHHHH!"
It wasn't long before Franky had picked him up and took him downstairs to the Miny Merry. And so the Strawhats' made their way to the Island. They weren't quite sure what they would find out there, but they would be sure to solve the mystery.
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