Thank you everyone who has been enjoying the story so far. I do not own One Piece, but I love making up stories for it.

My favourite character in One Piece is Luffy; just in case you didn't know. And my second favourite character is Nami. Followed very closely by Tashigi. I know what a lot of you are thinking, (W.O.E) but I really like the character of Tashigi, and her history is still a total mystery. And she looks like Zoro's rival / friend. So Cool! I can't wait to actually find out more about her. And my fourth favourite is Zoro, because he is just so... hot? no... handsome, awesome, manly, cool, hopelessly lost and … wait I can do better...

Hopelessly Handsome

Ruggedly Rough

Casually Cool

Monstrously Manly

Absolutely Awesome

Stupidly Scoundrelous

Likely Losable

and so this is our …

Super Sleepy Swordsman

Who Sails the Seas

He can do as he please

And does it with ease

Slightly Stupid,

Scarily Strong,

He's often right

Hardly ever wrong.

He stacks up losers

By the pile

He's been fighting long

Yeah, for a while.

Yep, we all know

He gets lost within that mile,

But who cares 'cause Zoro uses

Three Sword Style

:D

by Abigail Skywalker

Okay, so maybe I'm not really sure which guy is my number one favourite, but they are both awesome in their own unique way. So I can't quite decide.

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Luffy, Always Bounces Back: Don't Get Lost

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Chapter 4:

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The Island wasn't large, and it wasn't to wild and filed with crazy people or animals, but it did have something that was very hindrance to their mission. It was incredibly over-grown and filled with thousands of good produce and things to eat. It has, in the One Piece World, been established that Luffy will eat almost anything and could catapult himself anywhere. And so, having been given the odious task of finding where this fountain of Youth could have possible been, wound be a mission in itself. It was one fit for the phrase 'Easier to find a needle in a haystack'.

They were currently in the swell of a large wooded area with a leafy floor. It smelt musty as if the sun hardly ever reached the earth below, but the woodland smell was rich and invigorating.

Luffy smiled, and took in a deep breath. This reminded him of the Forest near Dadan's house. He just couldn't wait to go exploring. He was running around the group with excitement. They had almost become used to his crazy childish energy by now and tried to ignore him most of the time because he was just to much.

Once the crew had gathered together Nami had divided everyone into groups. The First group were Brook, Franky, and Usopp, the second group was Robin, and Zoro, and the last group was Nami, Chopper, and Luffy.

"Why do you get to decide who goes into each team?" Zoro demanded. "I work better on my own."

"Shut up! I know what I'm doing. That might be true, but I want to put people into teams where at least one person can read a map, and know which way is North, South, East, and West." Nami retauted.

Usopp smirked at Zoro picturing him being lost of hours on this small Island, "I'm with Nami on this one. I'm fine with this set up." of course Usopp was fine. Brook could chop up anything in his way, and Franky might be able to dig into the island if he wanted. He had nothing to worry about.

"Imagine what would have happened if we weren't with Zoro at Punk Hazard." Brook added. "Yohohoho! He might have gotten lost in the gas."

"That would have been unfortunate." Robin said into the conversation. She was just putting her bag over her shoulders, making sure the fresh and very rough map that Nami made for her was secured in her bag. "I wonder what Zoro would look like as a petrified statue." she thought aloud.

"Shut up you morons! Are we going or not?" Zoro didn't like this idiotic discussion.

"Well," Usopp said. "he would look just the same as he did as a Baroque Works' Wax Statue on that Giangantic Island... what was it called?"

"It was Little Garden." Nami said, folding her arms. "and don't forget I was almost frozen as a statue as well. It was a terrible experience."

"Oh, so that's when you met MR. 3" Robin smiled, "I did wonder what you all did there." she sighed, "I wish I had been there to see. That sounds like you had fun."

"FUN! SHUT UP ROBIN!" Usopp sounded traumatized. "Have you ever watched your friends being frozen wax solid infront of you before? It's not funny!"

"Frozen Wax Solid! That sounds scary!" Chopper hid behind Robin's leg.

"Yes, it was for them, but luckily..." Usopp paused and cupped his chin with his right hand. "I was free and distracting the enemy. While Zoro, Nami, Luffy, and Princess Vivi where captured I alone fought off the enemy and pulled them all out of certain doom."

"No you didn't Usopp. Luffy did." Zoro gave away with a bored expression.

"Yeah, well I helped more than you did!" Usopp yelled. "You were just standing there like a candle on a cake!"

"And Usopp wasn't the idiot who tried to cut his feet off." Nami said.

"What you tried to cut them off? Is that when you got the scars on your feet?" Chopper yelled concerned, "Baka! They still don't look good."

"I can just see it now," Brook muttered to himself, "Red with White wax, like strawberry cake with cream..."

"No! It was nothing like that! It was disgusting!" Nami exclaimed.

"Well, I would still have liked to see Mr. 3's artwork. It's sounds beautiful." Robin said.

"It was a joke of a devil fruit power. Really stupid." Zoro said.

"... Strawberry cake with tea would be nice." Brook carried on.

"Well, as a matter of fact the creeps from Baroque Works were drinking tea." Usopp said.

"Where was Sanji?" Franky interupted. "Didn't he try and free you guys. I can't imagine him letting two girls get frozen stiff with Zoro."

"He was making friends with Crocodile over the Snail phone and pretending that he was Mr. 3." Nami explained.

"Wow, Sanji's so clever." Chopper said cheerfully.

"Well, look who's lost now. The Clever Cook is lost." Zoro smirked as he looked around for the idiot cook. "See, nowhere in sight." his smile soon left his face though when he realized that someone else was missing too.

"Hey guys? Where's Luffy?"

They all looked around.

"No way!" Nami fell down to the ground at her feet. "I have my back turned for just a few moments and he goes missing." she started hitting the earth. "It's not fair. What did I do to deserve this? Why is Luffy such an idiot? Why! Why!"

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They had all been talking for a long time now, and Luffy had since long decided that he was bored of this game. And what was worse is that no one had thought to tell him what they were even looking for. And what they were saying made no sense to him.

He knew something was out there and he could smell things that were interesting. These trees were bigger and weirder than the ones he, Ace, and Sabo, lived in.

"Food! I'm coming food!" He yelled and charged off to the biggest tree, and started climbing it.

About nine minutes later he had reached the top and had eaten a lot of fruit and weird mushroom stuff on the way.

"So good." he patted his full stomach and then found a spot in the tree to snuggle into. The sun was warm and shining down on him. There was a fresh breeze that kept whipping through the trees and he was high enough to be overlooking them all. He just felt so relaxed, so peaceful, as if the trees were singing a lullaby to him.

"Sleep now," he mumbled, "go exploring later." he rolled over and lay face down on the branch of the tree. He wrapped his arms and legs securely round the branch to stop himself from sliding and when he was finished, let out a sigh of contentment. And so, Luffy fell asleep to the rocking of the tree and the whispers on the winds.

But alas, no one knew where he was and no one knew what was really out there. Was what they were looking for really the fountain of youth or was it a clever and devious enemy?

As the sun started to set, and the shadows started to grow the tree Luffy was on had another eager visitor climbing the trunk. When he got to the top he noticed Luffy, shook his head, and then picked him up. "You shouldn't have run away from me, my Little King of the Pirates." he whispered to the sleeping child. "You promised me remember..." The stranger took the hat off the sleeping child, and put it on his own head. "we will always be together forever." Luffy stirred a little in his sleep, but then relaxed into the strangers arms.

"I'm going to be the King of the Pirates." Luffy muttered in his sleep.

"Of course we will. Of course we will." the stranger repeated.

He made his way down the tree and out of sight into the night. And Luffy made no sound. He was still fast asleep, and having pleasant dreams. The kind of dreams that you just don't remember.

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Isn't this exciting! I think it is. What could happen next?!

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