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Whooops, that is what happens when you start working I suppose. To many hours in the day wasting your brain power to talking to people who don't want to listen to you is depressing. Oh! How I love writing. I miss you Fanfiction. I love you Zoro. I love you Luffy. I am finally home! Away from strange people! Home with my laptop.
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Luffy, Always Bounces Back: The Wandering Swordsman.
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Chapter 8:
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Through the overgrown wood lands and over cascading waterfalls a wandering man strides with purpose. He seemed to take get delight in cutting things aside that were in his way just so that he could walk through a space untouched by the gianorous plants and undergrowth around him. He was strong and muscular looking and appeared to the untrained eye to be in a hurry to go somewhere important.
He cut his way into another clearing in the forest only to find that the subject of his intentions was no where to be found. He looked around briefly and saw nothing of interest and so he made a seat of the nearby tree.
"UH! I could have sworn I have seen this place before." He scowled at the hole he had made in the undergrowth in order to get into the open grassy place. He growled menacingly in the back of his throat. "Where would she have gone I wonder? She must have gotten herself lost."
He looked at his left hand infront of him and then at his right. "I have to find the rest of the crew before that woman does." He swung his fist into a nearby tree and frowned in concentration.
"If only she hadn't seen me." He let out a deep sigh of frustration. His keen green eyes focused on sudden movement through the trees and instantly froze on the spot, poised, waiting to see if he was required to strike down what might be his future prey. The distant movement started again, but was revealed to be nothing more than a large bird burrowing in the ground for food. He ran his hands through his thick but quite short hair, worry etching itself into his face. His left hand rested back on the blades at his side and he took in another deep breath.
Having enough of the silence and quiet he darted back out into the jungle forest infront of him. He needed to find the others as quickly as possible.
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Luffy ran to the top of the next cliff, the others climbing up after him hoping to find or at least spot some of the others. And low and behold the team of four found a glorious sight, the sound of water that they had been hearing from miles away finally revealed itself. It was a glorious, massive waterfall of glistening droplets catching the golden light of the sun and flicking it in every direction. And these pirates had come to the very top of the waterfall.
Luffy fell forward onto the wet grass at the top of a waterfall. His head he allowed to stretch over the edge dropping down meters until he finally reached the waterfall's basin itself. He grinned to himself at his own unique and cool idea and dropped his head straight in. Soon he was gulping up water through his rubber neck like a hose pipe, and then all of a sudden he resprung back into shape again splurting out the water from his mouth into the faces of his crew members as they sat appreciating the view.
"Luffy!" Usopp got out his weapon and poised to fire something dangerous at Luffy.
"It would seem Usopp has a bone to pick with you." Brook said apprently unaffected by the feeling of water dripping through his bones.
"YOW!" Franky pointed back out to the forest in the north. "What is causing all that commotion?"
Before long an unexpected guest crash landed into their midst. "Zoro!" Usopp announced. "Where have you been? We found Luffy by the way, and he went back to his original form all by himself."
"Oibubu! Zooolllo!" Luffy gargled with his mouth full of fruit again. "Wheeb yuoou beeem?"
Zoro seemed to breath a sigh of relief. "I came here to warn everyone. That small version of Luffy wasn't Luffy at all. This Island sort of creates miniature copies of yourselves and tries to deceive you into believing that the copy is the real person simply became smaller." Zoro sat down looking a little shaken. "I just saw a small version of me right now leading Robin away somewhere, but when I followed them they disappeared somehow."
Brook stood up and pulled out his guitar.
"There are monsters out there.
That gnaw on your bones
They want you to stare
and to walk all alone.
So we'll whistle away
and eat all the bait
we'll be away by today
but NOOOO! it's too late!"
"AHHHHHH!" Brook ended.
At Brook's jolly song of misery and fear Usopp broke down into sobs of worry. "Ghosts are taking over! Where are they!? Even Zoro's scared of them!"
"I never said I was scared of them, but I am worried about Robin. She might have been convinced by the smaller me already that he is actually me."
Luffy interrupted him. "Don't worry Zoro. We all know that even if they are smaller than us, we can still beat them. We have years and years of practice in fighting over them. You can easily beat up your younger self right?" Luffy tilted his hat slightly looking over at Zoro with a cocky smile. "You had better just leave Robin for now she can look after herself. If she is hiding from you it will be easier to see her in the daytime tomorrow." He tilted his hat right back looking up into the sky. The sun was getting lower in the sky, and reading itself for another day's rest. Franky yawned and moved away from the group to gather wood. All of a sudden there came a thunderous noise from the forest below.
"LUFFY!" yelled two more newcomers to the group. They fell through the trees and ran up to where everyone else was sitting. Chopper bounded into Luffy arms crying his eyes out. "I was so worried about you, you stupid fool." Chopper cried.
"Luffy!" Nami smacked him round the head. "Where have you been? I've been worried sick over your stupid ass."
"Sorry. I was asleep." Luffy held Chopper away from him shielding him from the possible ricochets from their navigators punches.
"That is no excuse!" Nami continued to yell.
"Well..." Usopp tried to cut in but was hushed instantly by the furious Navigator.
"Where have you been?" Nami repeated.
"I said I was just asleep." Luffy insisted.
"Oi!" Franky interrupted the fight rolling toward the two in one of his new weird forms carrying an awesome supply of wood. Nami stepped aside. "Oi Nami, Zoro has some COOL info! MECCA!" he turned robotically in the direction of Zoro as Zoro started to rexplain what he had seen and what had been going on.
"I can't believe it." Nami said sitting down. "You mean we were that close to taking away a fake Luffy, and …" She didn't finish.
"I still find it hard to believe." Chopper said. "All his scans showed that he had the same blood type, that he had the same … everything. Except for the fact he was younger."
"So." Usopp thought very carefully. "you mean to say that in ten or twenty years time there will be duplicates of ourselves running around the Grand Line?"
"Oooo!" Brook got excited. "It would be lovely to see a skinned version of me. Even though I have been skinned. Yohohohoho!"
'SMASH!'
"Now is not the time Brook!" Nami shouted. She started shaking her head and then fell to the ground at her feet and held her head in her hands. "I thought he was Luffy though. Every part of me thought that he was the real person. I really believed it."
"Well, so did we." Usopp added trying to make her feel a little more comfortable.
"But it's not the same! He was a kid, but I really thought..." Nami looked even more worried than before. "This doesn't add up."
Zoro took a step towards her and was about to say something when Luffy pushed him aside and grabbed a hold of her hand and pulled her up. "Come on." he said.
"What? Where?" she muttered not really wanting to discuss anything with Luffy or go anywhere.
"Let's just go and talk somewhere. Okay. You look tired." Luffy's smile calmed her down a little. If he was going to be serious then maybe she might like his company.
"Do you want me to examine her Luffy? Just to check and see that she isn't coming down with anything." Chopper asked with a worried expression.
"No, she will be alright with me." Luffy answered smiled up at everyone. "Let's go back the ship." he spoke to Nami.
"Oi Zoro!" Luffy called out to him. "Keep an eye out for Sanji, I saw him fetching some water like a couple of hours ago. When he gets back here everyone should get to the thousand sunny for the night." he started making his way back up the beach to the miny merry. "Oh! And make sure you save lots of fish for me! I'll be back soon!"
"Alright Captain." Zoro nodded and sat down by the fire, that Franky had just started.
"Luffy, I don't like this." Nami shook her head again. "I'm getting a terrible feeling."
"Don't worry Nami." His hand's grip tightened around hers making her feel safer somehow. "I'm here."
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End of Chapter 8. Sorry it's so late.