You stop dead in your tracks when you see a group of six people and what looks like a reindeer. Your tail sticks out when you hear a loud voice say, "WOW! SO COOL!" You look at the boy who was yelling. He had messy black hair with a hat on, a red vest, and light blue pants. Your guessing he's around 18, but for some reason, you get the feeling that he acts a LOT younger. You start to ask who he was when you remembered that you were in wolf form... mental smack in the face.
Oi! Chopper! What does it want?" the boy yells. You guess that the reindeer you saw earlier was Chopper, because he came up to you and asked you who you were. "My name is Luna, I live in this village... why are you here? If it's to harm the people that live here, You'll have to get through me first! Also," you say as you look at the strange boy, " I'm a she, not an IT thank you very much", you say as you give a low growl. Chopper repeated every word you said. You had a feeling that you were going to like him.
The boy came up to you and gave you a big grin. "Hiya! I'm Luffy, captain of this ship. This is Nami (points to a girl with short orange hair with dark-brown eyes and a white shirt with blue stripes along with an orange skirt), Ussop ( a boy who looked around Luffy and Nami's age with a long nose, brown overalls, and goggles on his head), Sanji ( A blonde man in a suit with a cigarette in his mouth. He looks around 20), Vivi, a current passenger until we reach Alabasta (a beautiful girl with long blue hair, almost as long as yours. She had a very regal look to her), and Zoro ( a tall man that looked around Sanji's age. He has green hair with three earing on one side with a loose white t-shirt and black pants. He also had three swords on his side).
Your heart skipped a beat when he pointed to Zoro. You didn't really understand why, but something about him made your heart race... just a little. You looked back to Luffy and decided that for some strange reason, that you could trust him. You tell Chopper to tell everyone not to freak out. He gives you a curious look, but does what you ask. Right after he finishes, you change into your normal form. You freak out a bit when Zoro moves his hands to one of his swords and you yell "WAIT! I-I'm not going to attack anyone, so please, put the sword away." You relax when he puts his sword back. But immediately regret relaxing so soon when Luffy jumps over to you and starts flipping out over how cool you supposedly are and starts hurdling questions at you.
Your even more startled when Nami comes up and smacks him in the head and says with an irritated look, "Would you calm down?! Look at how scared she is". She then turned to you and says, "Hi, I'm Nami. Sorry for our idiot captain. You said your name was Luna right?"
"Y-yeah" you stammered, wondering why Luffy was the captain and why such a nice looking girl like Nami was so violent.
Luffy comes up to you, now with a large bump on his head, and asks why you jumped onto their ship. You once again went against your instincts and told them the truth... that the people of the village were chasing you because your a "monster" and this seemed like a good hiding place. When Luffy asked why you called yourself a monster you were shocked and yelled "Are you crazy?! Didn't you just see the horrible creature that I was just a few moments ago?!" Your voice was starting to crack and you realized the walls that you had built up over the past fourteen years was starting to crumble just because of this boy and his weird crew.
"Those people who were chasing me and calling me a monster had every right to... be-because..." before you could finish, Luffy cut you off and said, "Your not a monster just because everyone says you are. That's just something that they deluded themselves into thinking because they were scared. I don't think your a monster." You felt your jaw drop slightly when he stretched his arm out and hit Sanji on the head, who for some reason had hearts in his eyes muttering weird things like Luna-swan. "You- you ate a devil fruit?" you managed to say after realizing that he had stretched his arm in order to hit Sanji.
"Yup!" he said proudly, pulling half his face, " I'm a rubber man. I accidentally ate the gum-gum fruit when I was little. Chopper ate one too." You had no words. He said that he ate one when he was a kid... just like you. When you found your voice, you felt a tear escape as you asked Luffy, "Didn't they burn down your house and exile you as a freak who shouldn't exist when that happened?! How can you be so happy?!" The tears started flowing now, all of the years of pain that you endured, all of the days that you wished you had your family back, all of the thoughts that you had pushed aside, all began to rise to the surface as your wall shattered into a million little pieces.
The group of friends just stared at you as you poured your heart out, not knowing what to say as you screamed " DIDN'T YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PAIN OF WISHING SOMEONE WOULD JUST HOLD YOU AND TELL YOU EVERYTHING WOULD BE ALRIGHT EVEN WHEN IT ISN'T?!" And with that, you collapsed. No one made a single move as the great ocean within you crashed onto the deck of their ship. The only sound heard was the waves splashing against the ship as you silently cried.
After sometime, you don't know how long, Luffy came up to you and quietly said " It must have been hard for you to live with that kind of pressure on you for so long, but didn't your parents stand up for you?" Your voice was barley audible as you answered Luffy's question, " My parents, along with my brother and sister died when the marines set my house on fire. I've been living in the forest for the past fourteen years alone with only the animals as my friends. Luna isn't even my real name, I made it up".
"Well, in that case, why don't you join my crew and be my nakama?" Luffy said, a slight smile creeping onto his face. You were so surprised that you stopped crying, although you weren't alone, the rest of his crewmates seemed as surprised as you, everyone except for Vivi that is, she had a brilliant smile, as if it was a great idea.
"What are you talking about? Why would you want me on your ship, what would I even do?" you asked, not knowing what was going on. Luffy replied, "I want you to be our watchdog. I like you and I already decided that you going to be my nakama". You couldn't believe your ears. This boy just met you and he wants you to be his nakama? Nobody had ever even talked to you unless it was to call you by some horrible name. You look at the rest of the crew and found that they now had smiles on their faces, even Zoro, which brought warmth into your heart, something you hadn't felt in a long time.
You stood up and said, " I'll be a part of your crew, but only if you all want me to be here. I don't want to be a burden to everyone". "Of course we want you on the ship Luna-swan!" Sanji cried, earning himself a whack on the head from Nami as she said with a slightly annoyed look, "It would be nice to have another girl on the ship so that me and Vivi don't have to be quite so surrounded by all the boys". Vivi nodded in agreement. You laughed when Ussop yelled "Haha! Of course the girl may stay on the ship. If we didn't have her as nakama, then I wouldn't be CAPTAAAAAIN USSOP!" Chopper nodded and said, "It'll be nice having another zoan-type on the ship". You smiled when Chopper gave an adorable grin that you couldn't resist saying "Awww. Chopper your so cute when you smile like that," earning yourself a dancing Chopper calling you an idiot for thinking that would make him happy, but for some reason he looks really happy you think to yourself as you look at your new friend.
Your smile grew as that word played over in your head. Friend. I have friends. Even though you were the happiest you had been in a long time, you didn't start to blush until Zoro looked at you and gave you a grin that made your heart stop as he said, " This should be fun, having another devil-fruit user on board. Maybe we can even practice fighting, it'll be nice to not have to always use up my energy on eyebrows over there". "What was that you stupid swordsman?!" yelled Sanji, finally coming out of his trance.
"I called you eyebrows you stupid cook!" Zoro shouted.
"Your one to talk you idiotic marimo!" Sanji yelled back, starting to charge at Zoro. Leg and sword collided as the two started to stare each other down. You couldn't help it anymore...you laughed. You laughed your special laugh. You laughed, chortled, wheezed and snorted with tears flowing from your eyes. You couldn't tell if they were from the joy of being accepted as friends or from sadness, but you didn't care, you just kept on laughing at the two who were so surprised that they stopped fighting and stared at you.
When you finally stopped you finally noticed that they were staring and blushed again, not because they were staring at you, but because Zoro started to give you a massive grin. You turned to Luffy, your face still a light shade of pink, and said, " I will gladly become you nakama and sail the seas with you". And with that Luffy shouted "SET THE SAILS!" You waved goodbye to Sparrow, sad that you would have to leave her behind as you set off to Alabasta. It was official, you were now part of the straw-hat crew.