Finally, the Straw Hats are here! Please enjoy your read and leave a review. Oh, yeah… I don't own One Piece or AtLA.


Chapter Four: On a Certain Pirate Ship

On a certain pirate ship, a woman with long copper hair stared at the Log Pose on her wrist. Nami sighed deeply in her concentration. Something was off.

"Is everything alright, Navigator-ya?" Trafalgar Law asked her. She didn't answer right away, but sighed again before replying. "I think so, but something's been bothering me for the past day or two." She turned to face Law, and continued. "I feel like we're going off course from Zo. I thought at first it was because of the tides and the winds going in different directions or something. Rules of the New World, and the like… We keep correcting the course, and for a few hours everything's fine. Then practically out of nowhere we're heading east. I feel like whenever we change course, we're going faster than normal… Almost like something is pulling us."

Nami said that last comment mostly to herself, but the thought that something could be influencing their intended course didn't sit well with either the navigator or the Heart Pirate captain.

Luffy was sitting on his "special seat" of the Thousand Sunny's lion head, with a grin on his face. His classic straw hat waved freely behind him, secured by a cord around his neck. Luffy let the wind whip through his hair as the ship sailed along.

Chopper was busy reading at least three different medical books and taking notes, Robin was sitting beside Chopper at the table reading a book of her own, Zoro was sleeping, Sanji was busy cooking and preparing something special for the ladies (and those other bastards too if they wanted some) Brook was playing a tune on his guitar, Franky and Usopp were working on some sort of machine in the workshop, and the Straw hat pirate's guests Momonosuke and his father Kin'emon were fishing. They both cheered as Momonosuke hooked a large fish, and with his father's help, secured it onto the deck of the Sunny. "Chef-dono!" Kin'emon shouted to Sanji, "We have caught today's lunch!"

Luffy turned around, and eyed the fish. "Oohhh!" he proclaimed, "That looks delicious! Sanji, hurry up and cook it!"

The atmosphere was lively as ever, and Law had gotten somewhat used to the crew's antics.

While Law was still recovering from his confrontation with Dofflamingo, and the crew had just barely escaped from Dressrosa, that didn't stop them from having excess amounts of energy that the Straw Hats (especially Luffy) wanted to drag Law into. He just wanted to get to Zo, meet up with his (normal people) crew, take down Kaido and climb his way to the top as Pirate King.

"Hey, Tra-guy!" Luffy called out to Law, interrupting his thoughts, and Luffy ran over to him grinning. "We're going to have a contest while we're waiting for the fish, you wanna join?"

Law made a face, and sternly replied, "If it involves bodily functions, jumping, rolling, or any other activity in which I have to exert myself, then no."

"Oh, okay." Luffy replied, and walked away saying, "Your loss."

A few minutes later, boisterous shouts could be heard from a few of the others, followed by a pained yell (most likely Zoro's) and colorful language filled the air as whatever the Straw Hats were doing seemed to drag in unwitting participants. Law closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose and thought, "What have I gotten myself into?"

Law had lost count at how many times he had that particular thought since he had first asked Luffy into a pirate alliance. It wasn't that he regretted the decision, but more so didn't anticipate the headache that came along with such an alliance.

Nami was pretty much used to any and all antics her fellow crew members and especially her captain, could dish out. She made sure that they were on course, and when that was done, she made a few notes about something or other. A few minutes later, Sanji lovingly presented her with a drink and he handed Law a drink with a blunt, "Here,"

"Robin-Chwan~!" Sanji could be heard saying, "I made you something special~."

The Straw Hats quieted down somewhat now that food was present (and they anticipated the fish dinner that was coming) when the ship suddenly jerked, and obviously reverted course. Along with reverting course, the Sunny also increased in speed, causing large waves as they sailed.

"W-what was that?" Usopp asked shakily.

"Maybe there's a dark Spirit that is trying to abduct us, and we're all about to be dragged into hell," Robin suggested with the hint of a smile.

"Don't say things like that so casually!" Usopp shouted at her.

Luffy made a face, and said, "Something's down there… right beneath us. I'm not sure what it is."

Using his observational Haki as well, Sanji sighed. "I can see it too," glaring over at Zoro, "Hey, Marimo, let's go down there."

"Don't tell me what to do, shitty cook."

Due to the speed of the Sunny, the pair tied ropes around their waists so that they could climb out of the water easily once their inspection was over. They both dove into the water, and looked for anything or anyone that could be dragging their ship. There was nothing unusual that they could see. But their Haki was telling them otherwise. Something was there.

Zoro took a chance and drew his swords. Sanji's eyes widened as he quickly had to dodge Zoro's attack. They would have gotten into another argument, but they saw blood… blood slowly flowed out from some invisible entity, and slowly mixed with the water.

Both of them shared a "What the hell?" expression, and looked up at the Sunny, seeing that it had come to a complete stop now that whatever the invisible thing was had swam away.

They both climbed on board and Sanji glared at Zoro "Shitty Marimo! You almost cut me!"

"Well, you moved." Zoro replied casually.

"Don't act like you're disappointed!" Sanji shouted, and kicked at Zoro, who in turn blocked the attack, and went after the chef.

"Dart-board brow!"

"Shitty swordsman!"

The arguing would have continued if Nami hadn't whacked them both on the head, "Cut it out! Now what happened down there?"

"There's something down there, or was, Nami-san," Sanji stated to the others as he lit a cigarette. Zoro looked quite serious, and kept staring into the water, as if expecting something to appear.

"Well, what is it?" Nami asked impatiently. She was feeling on edge, and the guys dragging out the report wasn't helping.

"That's the thing," Sanji continued. "We didn't see anything, but there was definitely something underneath the ship. Marimo here cut it. We saw blood, but whatever was down there left. At least for the time being, anyway…"

"Maybe we can keep it as a pet?" Luffy spoke up, grinning hopefully.

"Let's not, we don't need strange things as pets," Nami said, and she turned to Franky. "Can you do a Coup-de-burst? Maybe we can get away from whatever it is by doing that. Let me just correct the course first."

After a few quick adjustments, and furling the sails, everyone found something to hold onto while Franky prepared the Sunny. Within a few minutes, he shouted, "COUP-DE-BURST!" and the Sunny went flying through the air. After they landed, everyone felt sure that the ordeal was over.

"Aw, I wanted to get a new pet." Luffy said with a disappointed sigh.

But just a few minutes later, the Sunny jerked and swiveled, and once again they were heading towards whatever destination the invisible entity wanted them to go, this time with greater speed and much more force. In fact, Sunny was riding a wave, making correcting their course again virtually impossible.

"We're hostages!" Usopp wailed. "What if Robin is actually right this time and we are being dragged into hell?! We'll be taken and dissected! Eaten alive!"

"Eh?! Really?" Chopper wailed as well. "I don't want to be dissected or eaten alive!"

"Well don't you worry, Chopper!" Usopp started with obviously fake bravado. "Did you ever hear about the time that I fought off hundreds of frightful demons who wanted to eat me for the insurmountable knowledge that I have in my brain and for the power of my soul? It was one of the most powerful tests of strength and endurance I ever had in my life."

"Really?" Chopper asked, with wide-eyed admiration.

Usopp continued like this for a while, with his story getting more ridiculous and grander, and Chopper getting more and more impressed. Robin approached Law and asked, "Do you think this has something to do with Dofflamingo, or Kaido?"

"No," Law shook his head. "I don't think so, I've never heard of either having this kind of power. Plus there's the fact that Three Swords-ya cut something that was in the ocean."

"I will fight whatever foe we face!" Kin'emon shouted. "It must be a coward who is doing this. At least whoever it is could at least have the decency to face us head on!"

Momonosuke approached Robin and said feebly, "I'm scared…" to which her response was to hold him close and try to comfort him. By the looks on Sanji's, Kin'emon's, and Brook's faces (wait, Brook doesn't have a face… skull joke!) they were peeved by the little boy's antics. Law took note of it and rolled his eyes.

"Ah, maybe Zoro-san and Sanji-san can swim down there and fight whatever it is again?" Brook suggested.

Zoro only shrugged and replied, "Whatever it is, we'll find out when we get there. There're eleven of us here who are more than capable of fighting if it comes down to it. Besides, it'll be interesting to see what kind of opponents come from this."

Zoro seemed to act casually about the whole thing and settled down for a nap. He kept his eyes closed even as Nami shouted at him that this wasn't the time for him to be sleeping. Zoro started snoring as soon as he finished speaking, indicating to the others that Zoro couldn't care less about whatever or whoever was pulling their ship.

"I agree with Three Swords-ya," Law stated, "It seems we can't do anything against this unseen force just yet."

Sanji also nodded, "I agree with Law, I say wait until we actually have a chance to fight back."

"Yosh~!" Luffy said with a nod, and he straightened his hat on his head. "I sense an adventure! Sanji, prepare an adventure bento!"

(Of course Luffy would find something exiting about being abducted… and think about food...)

All they could do was wait- and the wait made the sensible few aboard the Sunny quite unnerved.


***Next Chapter*** The Crew meets Team Avatar, and find out why they've been 'selected' to participate in a game of the Spirits. Please look forward to it!

***A/N***

So I've been watching play throughs of the new game "The Last of Us" and is that game awesome or what? I wanna play it! The zombie designs sort of inspired the design of the creatures in the mushroom forest where the Gaang is currently stranded.