The only real change to this chapter was that I decided to move the altered Lisa scene to this point, everything else still plays out the same.
Enjoy :)
-Forest-
Lincoln had spent the better part of the day trying to find his way out of the forest, though he felt he already pulled a Zoro a few times and wasn't even sure if he was getting closer or further away from the camp site. While he survived off the stuff his sisters taught him, this wasn't just one night until he found a hotel to sleep in, he would be out for who knows how long.
"Ah man," said Lincoln, "I'm not even sure where I am anymore, even Zoro would have found something important by now!"
Lincoln had already put on his leaf poncho to keep himself warm before the sun started to set but he still needed to find a place to sleep and given this island may still have a giant bear and giant tiger on either side of it, he needed to find shelter soon.
Lincoln's stomach then started to growl, "Great now I need to find food!" he groaned.
Then he smelled something nearby, it smelled really bad but it was still something, so he followed it. He made to a clearing and found the dead body of a giant pig. Lincoln just groaned at the bad smell wondering if the tiger or bear got it. But he would find out soon enough. The forest echoed with the sound of heavy footprints. As the tiger emerged from the forest and Lincoln just dropped his mouth at the size of it.
'It's even more terrifying when you see it's real size up close,' he thought to himself as the tiger approached the dead pig, 'Well at least-'
Just then another set of footprints came from the other side and the bear emerged from the other side of the forest and growled at the tiger. Tiger roared back in response to the challenge.
'I just walked into a battle between the two most dangerous animals in Goa kingdom,' thought Lincoln, 'And the worst part I don't know whether to excited about watching the real thing or worried that I will get caught in the crossfire.'
The bear and tiger charged at each other and began slashing and biting, 'Never mind,' thought Lincoln, 'THIS IS AWESOME!'
But just then his stomach growled again, though luckily the tiger and bear were too focused on their fight to even notice. Lincoln thought about leaving but then on the other side of the forest he saw fruit trees nearby...right on the other side of the battle.
'Okay now I am back to being afraid,' thought Lincoln. 'Okay I have to time this just right.' As the bear started pushing the tiger back Lincoln made a mad dash towards the pig's body, he quickly dodged and rolled out of the way before the bear ran him over after being pushed back. The bear charged forward again at the tiger and Lincoln saw his chance he slid and hid behind the pig. Lincoln tolerated the smell for a bit before making a mad dash to the fruit trees and hid behind them.
Lincoln let out a breath of relief, 'Made it' he thought to himself.
He made his way over to the fruit trees and began to climb. He started picking fruits and ate to his heart's content. Though he ended up dropping his guard as then he would have noticed the fight had stopped and the tiger had left. The bear was about to dig in when it heard something. It looked over to the fruit trees where the noise came from and saw Lincoln eating, it approached Lincoln, and the apparent thudding of footsteps was enough to get Lincoln out of his meal. Lincoln turned around and saw the bear coming towards him
"Dang it," he said but before the bear could get close, Lincoln crossed his hands across his body, fell to the ground and played dead.
The bear approached Lincoln and give it a sniff it tried to get looking to move by pushing him with its giant paws, but Lincoln just rolled with it and didn't move. So, the bear moved on back to the pig's body and picked it up and dragged it away. After he was sure it was gone, Lincoln got back up.
"That was close," said Lincoln, "But how did he know I was here? I don't think I was eating that loud, did I step on something while I was eating?"
Just then he heard a rustling which stopped instantly, he looked down at his leaf poncho and gave his body a shake which made a rustling sound, "Oh must have been this."
Lincoln took off his poncho and folded it but then noticed night was starting, "Now I really need to find a place to sleep," he said.
He left the fruit trees and went deeper into the forest trying to find a big hole in the base of a tree or hopefully and bear free cave. What Lincoln did not realize though was that his poncho was not what made that sound, from behind a bush two figures emerged.
"Well that close we almost got the person who saved me killed," Kuina said.
"Still, he must be pretty weak if he had to resort to playing dead," said Zoro.
"Hey!" said Kuina bopping Zoro on head, "Don't be rude, people do what they must to survive in this forest."
"You don't have to hit me jerk!" said Zoro getting louder and irritated.
"I wouldn't have to if you used your manners for once," Kuina said angrily.
While those two were arguing not only was Lincoln getting deeper into the forest and out of their site but also the tiger had heard them and had made his way back. He was about the ponce and eat them when the two turned towards him and drew their swords, "YOU WANT TO START SOMETHING?!" Zoro and Kuina shouted.
The tiger then had flashbacks to the three boys who had beaten him up all those years ago, so he turned around and walked away looking depressed.
"Glad we got rid of it," said Kuina, "Now let's go find white hair."
"Alright," said Zoro and started walking until Kuina called him, "That's the direction the tiger went!"
"I knew that" said Zoro blushing as he began to walk the direction, they last saw Lincoln.
-Cave
Lincoln lucked out and was able to find a cave and began to check it to make sure it was empty, 'Okay,' he thought to himself, 'This is not even close to the size that monster bear's size so this can't be his cave, but it could belong to one of his smaller friends.'
After checking the entrance, he went inside and used the knowledge of one his idols Rip Hardcore, survivalist expert, to light a torch with some sticks and stones and walked deeper into the cave as he got deeper, he saw something glowing.
"I can't be!" said Lincoln as he ran ahead, he saw...gold and treasure! Now while some would be beyond levels of thrilled of this Lincoln felt nervous and for two reasons. One, who put the gold here and two what if they come back for it?
"Great, Straw hat luck is already rubbing off on me," said Lincoln realizing the irony in what he said and looking over the bags he knew what he had to do even if it cost him his bet with Garp.
"Well, I might as well take one of these with me I can start helping Nami," said Lincoln as he moved to grab a bag.
"Nami?" said two voices.
Lincoln turned his head and saw Zoro and Kuina standing at the cave entrance, Lincoln just stared back at them, "Uh hi?" he said awkwardly.
"What are you doing?" asked Kuina.
"Would you believe me if I said I was inspecting this treasure?" Lincoln asked.
"Nope," said both Zoro and Kuina.
"In that case I am taking this to save for a rainy day," said Lincoln
"And whose Nami?" asked Zoro.
"No one you know," said Lincoln.
"I am aware of that," said Zoro, "But how is this going to help her."
Before Lincoln could come up with an excuse, they heard footsteps coming, Lincoln quickly grabbed Zoro and Kuina and they ducked behind a rock. Five men walked into the cave with more treasure and put with the other sacks. They looked like your average pirates but the person that stuck out the most to Lincoln was the man in the middle with a burned face.
The man had a burned captains coat, and his hair was almost completely gone but the burn marks all over his body was a scary site to behold and nearly all of this creepy guy's teeth was gone.
"It can't be," said Lincoln quietly.
"What can't be?" asked Kuina who was covering Zoro's mouth.
"We scored a good haul this time boys," said the captain.
"Thanks to you Captain Bluejam," said one of the pirates.
Lincoln's eyes widened at that, 'HE'S ALIVE! HOW THE HELL DID HE SURVIVE THE FIRE?!
"Soon boys we will be off this pathetic island," said Bluejam, "And sail the seas again."
"Plus, we can have a bonus help with the fruits we found," said one of Bluejam's men holding the box in his hand.
"Yes, with these devil fruits we will be able to be a match for those on the high seas," said another.
"Now boys let's head to town and celebrate," said Bluejam taking some of the gold from the bags that was already there, "And once again we have those pathetic boys for their charitable donations," said Bluejam and his crew walked away laughing as another man setting down the box with the devil fruits in it.
After they had left Lincoln, Kuina and Zoro emerged from their hiding place.
"Great, so Bluejam survived the Grey terminal fire," said Lincoln.
"You know that guy?" asked Zoro.
"Yes, he was a pirate that screwed over my sensei's grandkids," said Lincoln, "Though I had assumed he died in the fire near Goa Kingdom."
"Well looks like you assumed wrong," said Kuina as she saw Lincoln walk over to the bags and started to tie them up and tried to brag them away.
"What are you doing?" asked Zoro.
"What does it look like? I'm taking their treasure back," said Lincoln.
"That's stealing," said Kuina.
"Okay first off, like I said this was taken from my sensei's grandkids, so it's reclaiming," said Lincoln, "Second I'm going to be a pirate so why not?"
"You're a what?!" asked Kuina and Zoro.
"Pirate! P-I-R-A-T-E," said Lincoln.
"Why would you want to be one?" asked Kuina in shock that the person who saved her life wanted to be a bad guy.
"Cause my sensei's grandkid asked me join his crew," said Lincoln.
"And how old is he?" asked Kuina.
"About your boyfriend's age," said Lincoln pointing to Zoro.
"HE'S/I'M NOT MY/HER BOYFRIEND!" Zoro and Kuina shouted at the same time.
Lincoln smiled and laughed at that, 'Okay now I see why everyone did this to me and Ronnie Anne this is just funny!'
Zoro and Kuina blushed until Lincoln calm down from his laughter and tried to pull the bags, but they were too heavy for him to pull. Zoro and Kuina just looked at him deadpanned and Zoro got tired of it and grabbed two of the bags and dragged it away.
"Hey!" said Lincoln.
"There's a cash exchange office back in the village," said Zoro, "You can cash this in there."
"Zoro, why are you helping him?" asked Kuina, "He said he was a pirate."
"Cause it will get us out of here faster," said Zoro, "Plus we have to pay off our debt somehow for saving you somehow, right?"
"But I don't know about helping a pirate," said Kuina nervously, "Plus I still want to know how you knew."
Lincoln just sighed sadly, he looked at Zoro and Kuina and the treasure and said, "Look let's make a deal."
"A deal?" asked Kuina.
"If you help me get this treasure to the cash exchange office before the moon sets, I will explain everything to you," said Lincoln holding out his hand.
Kuina thought about for a moment and was about to shake his hand when a thought crossed her mind and she asked, "Why give us a time limit?" causing Zoro to sigh in annoyance.
"Cause my teacher gave me a week to come back and teach me and I made a deal with him as well," said Lincoln trying to move things along.
"And what would this deal be?" asked Kuina folding her arms.
"Can I explain on the way please?!" said Lincoln in desperation, "Look I'll add more get me there before midnight and we will cut this treasure, three ways."
Kuina and Zoro started to see the desperation, and both looked at each other, Zoro nodded and Kuina sighed and shook his hand and said, "Deal."
Kuina went over a grabbed the rest of the bags and much to Lincoln surprise even the one that the pirates brought in a while ago, "Um actually only this bag I'm carrying is what is left of the treasure...I assume."
"Like I'm going to leave stolen goods here with pirates," said Kuina.
"Okay in that case," said Lincoln dropping his bag, "Zoro can you carry thig bag as well while I grab the devil fruits?"
"Devil fruits?" asked Zoro and Kuina.
"And how did you propose I do that?" asked Zoro, "I only have two hands."
"You're practicing three sword style, aren't you?" Lincoln asked.
Zoro went wide eyed at that and Kuina looking questioningly, "Three sword style?"
"One in each hand and one in the mouth," said Lincoln.
Kuina went wide eyed at that, "You're training to wield three swords like that?!"
Zoro said, "yeah," like it was no big deal though he was surprised about how Lincoln knew what he was doing.
"How-" Kuina started to ask.
"Okay, look," said Lincoln as he grabbed the devil fruit box, "We have been here too long as is, we don't know when Bluejam and his crew will be back so let's get going now if you want answers and talk on the way please!"
Kuina and Zoro got the message and dragged the sacks away while Lincoln grabbed the box with devil fruits and followed after them out of the cave.
-The Loud house (Basement)
Downstairs Lisa was repairing the damage to her portal, after getting a long night's sleep. The Casagrandes would be arriving with Lori in a few hours, they were still having their cars repaired after Hector's 'great' idea. Lola was trying to fix her make up, but her heart just wasn't in it. Luna was strumming in her room while Luan lay on her bed, Leni and Lily were hugging each other close and tearing up. Lynn Jr. was punching her punching bag as tears streamed down her face. Rita was in the kitchen trying to work, but just couldn't and Lynn Sr. was doing not better in the kitchen as tears kept falling into the food.
Lucy walked down into the basement and saw Lisa trying to turn her machine on, she typed in a few buttons, but the machine only flickered then shut off. Lisa let out a groan of disappointment and was about to cry.
"Lisa?" asked Lucy behind her causing Lisa to jump in shock.
"Lucy?!" shouted Lisa, "Don't do that!"
"I'm sorry," said Lucy, "How are things going?"
"About as well as last time," said Lisa frustrated, "It turns out that wherever Lincoln was sent took so much power, it overloaded the power source, and I haven't even been able to fully check if anything else is wrong with it!"
"Well, I might have something that could power it, but I don't know if it will be enough," said Lucy.
"What could you have that can match uranium?" asked Lisa.
"Well, I don't know if it matches uranium," said Lucy reaching into her pocket and pulled out the jewel from Morag's scepter, "But what about this?"
"What the?!" shouted Lisa in shock, "That's the jewel that-"
"Yes, it is," said Lucy, "I studied Morag's jewel and found out I could charge it a bit more than what she had, could it be enough?"
"There...there is a possibility," said Lisa, "But do you have a way to charge it?"
"I can talk to Rosa, and we can see about any ritual that charges these," said Lucy.
"Perfect!" shouted Lisa with joy and hugging Lucy, "Thank you, elder sister! Thank you!"
"You're welcome," said Lucy hugging back.
After they let out go Lucy ran back up the stairs to look for Rosa and Lisa decided to look over if there were any parts that needed to be replaced before she could start the machine.
"While the battery was overloaded, I better check the wiring and make sure nothing else is wrong," she said as looked at the wires, "Everything seems to be-wait, what is-oh no!"
-Forest-
As they continued on their walk Kuina asked Lincoln questions, but Lincoln avoided the big one, Zoro was trying his best to ignore them as he focused on carrying the bags of treasure for three sword style practice but like Lincoln, he too was getting annoyed by Kuina's constant questions.
"So why did you take the box full of fruits?" asked Kuina.
"Well, have you ever heard of devil fruits?" asked Lincoln.
"You mean those myths about the fruits that grant you power in exchange for losing your ability to swim?" asked Kuina.
"Yeah, but they are 100% real, the East Blue just has such a rarity of them that they are considered myths," said Lincoln.
"So why take them though?" asked Kuina.
"It's better if I take them or there could be a chance it will be used against mine and my captains crew later," said Lincoln.
Kuina nodded in understanding as they continued on their way the moon was almost high, "How much farther are we?" asked Lincoln.
"I'm not sure," said Kuina.
Just then Lincoln paused, "Oh no!" he said suddenly realizing something.
"What? What is it?" asked Kuina nervously.
"I know why we haven't found town yet," he said.
"Why?" asked Kuina and Zoro looked back as well.
"Kuina if you're back here talking to me, then who were we letting lead us?" asked Lincoln.
Kuina then went wide eyed, "You mean?"
"WE WERE LETTING ZORO LEAD US!" he shouted starting to cry.
"Oh, come on!" said Zoro dropping the bag in his mouth, "It's not my fault the village always moves."
"It stays in the same place! You just always get lost!" shouted Kuina.
This of course caused them to get into an argument and Lincoln was so annoyed at his mistake that he didn't even make a joke about this being a lover's spat. His time had been cut and now he has no idea where he even is and all because he accidently let Zoro be the one to lead them back to the village.
Then when he looked up, he saw they were back at the cave and he deadpanned even more, 'Seriously Zoro's sense of direction is so bad even going straight can make him go in a circle.'
Zoro and Kuina were too busy arguing to notice they were back at the cave, 'Maybe if we tried to find the cave, we would have found the village,' thought Lincoln to himself.
Then his eyes wide-eyed in realization and got an idea, an awful idea, Lincoln Loud got a wonderful, awful idea as he flashed his best rip off grin he could of the Grinch.
"Well," Lincoln started in a fake smile getting the attention of Zoro and Kuina, "I guess we will have to go back to the cave and get our bearings. Zoro would you kindly lead us back there."
"WHAT?!" asked Kuina.
"Of course," said Zoro proudly as he turned around and walked back the way they came, picking up the bag he dropped with his mouth and walked on.
Kuina glared angrily at the white-haired boy who saved her life and grabbed him by the collar and whispered angrily, "What are you doing?"
Lincoln smiled and pointed behind him and Kuina saw they were back to at the cave and got even more confused and angry.
"We are already back here!" shouted Kuina.
Lincoln quickly covered her mouth and checked to see if Zoro heard her, luckily, he didn't and he sighed in relief, "Look you and I both know Zoro's sense of direction is so bad we will be out here for hours but if trying to find the village led us back to the cave despite going straight the whole time then maybe finding the cave will lead him back to the village."
"You really think it will work?" asked Kuina.
Lincoln just raised his eyebrow and gave a look that just said 'really?' then said, "And what do we have to lose apart from our bets?"
Kuina sighed and agreed, and they followed after Zoro, "There is no way this is going to work."
-Shimotsuki village-
Not only had they made it back to the village but now they were right in front of the collection office and Kuina just had her mouth dropped at the sight.
"Okay how did we get here?" asked Zoro.
"I tricked the world," said Lincoln.
"What?" asked Zoro and a very confused Kuina.
"Well since the world always seems to make you lost Zoro, I thought if I told you to find the cave, we would make it back to the village and the collection office," said Lincoln.
Zoro was quiet for a moment and said, "Good job," then he looked at Kuina, "See he knows what he is doing."
Kuina just blushed and they entered the shop to make the collection and when they came out, they had a total 12,000,000 Berri and when the clerk asked where he got these Lincoln just said 'Found it' but also asked that is be split the 12 million between three briefcases with four million in each one.
They then left the office with each of them carrying a briefcase, except Lincoln who was also carrying the devil fruits. Lincoln felt pretty good with himself until he saw Kuina's face and knew she was tired of waiting.
"Alright you guys helped me bring Bluejam's stuff here so I will tell-" as he talked, he saw Kuina and Zoro go wide eyed and looked up and Lincoln realized what cliché he was in and asked already knowing the answer, "He's standing right behind me isn't he?"
"Correct kid," said Bluejam looking down at him with a look of amusement mixed with anger while the rest of his crew were cracking their knuckles.
"I don't suppose the fire messed with your brain so much that you got some good in you to the point where you would give us a ten second head start?" asked Lincoln nervously.
"Not even close you little brat," said Bluejam and grabbed Lincoln by the scruff of his shirt and pulled him up, "Now here is what is going to go down, you are going to give us that money as well as those devil fruits then you all will be our little ser-" Bluejam stopped as he felt a great pain below his belt and dropped Lincoln.
"I don't think so," said Kuina after she pulled her swords scarab.
"Oh, right in the Jolly roger," said Lincoln, "My sisters would love you."
"Get them!" shouted Bluejam while still holding his privates in pain.
"Okay now we run," said Lincoln as he run with Kuina bragging Zoro with them.
"C'mon we can take these guys," said Zoro, "A man never runs from a fight."
"Good thing I'm a boy then," said Lincoln
"I hate running to Zoro, but we can't take them with just the two of us," said Kuina before looking at Lincoln, "No offense in leaving you out."
"No, I'm with you," said Lincoln as they continued running.
Lincoln, Zoro and Kuina continued running as fast as they could, but the pirates were catching up fast but then out of the blue, one of them got slashed and fell to the ground out cold, everyone stopped running and looked to see the newcomer. he wore the same dojo outfit as Zoro, he had tan skin and short silver hair.
"Saga?" asked Kuina hopefully.
"Kuina, Zoro you guys, okay?" Saga asked.
"We are now that your here," Kuina said as she drew her own sword.
"Finally, I was getting tired of running," said Zoro as he drew his swords.
"So, I'm guessing you guys have got this now?" asked Lincoln.
"More like we can stall until the master gets here, white haired kid," said Saga.
"Just stay back Lincoln, we got this," said Kuina.
"Okay, good luck guys said Lincoln running off to hide.
With a dash of speed, Zoro, Kuina and Saga attacked dealing damage to the pirates. Just then one of them slashed at Kuina leaving a scare but she quickly recovered and fought back. Another man came up from behind Zoro and was about to strike when he got hit by a rock causing him groan. Zoro heard him and turned around and struck the guy knocking him out. Zoro looked and saw Lincoln behind a rock giving him the thumbs up. Zoro nodded and went back to fighting.
Saga was getting overwhelmed by some of the pirates but then a red beam came and sliced right through their swords making them useless, with this Saga was able to overpower them causing them to back up a bit until they pulled out their spare swords, he looked over and saw Lincoln with his watch, before he ducked back behind the rock. Not questioning it Saga went back into fighting.
Lincoln kept trying to help in any way they can but then he heard a beeping sound and looked down and saw that his watch had run out of power, "aw man, Lisa is going to kill me," he said and then as if to make matters worse the blue energy surrounding the three swords' wielders suddenly disappeared. This caused Bluejam to smile and he finally joined in the fight and pulled out his gun and fired it right into Saga's shoulder.
Saga screamed in pain, and he was then scooped up by Bluejam and held a gun to Saga's head, "HOLD IT!" he shouted.
Zoro and Kuina halted their fights and saw what Bluejam was doing and then Bluejam said, "If you don't want your friend to have a hole in his head you will put down your swords and surrender!"
Zoro and Kuina had no choice but to comply but as soon as they did the rest of the Bluejam pirates jumped on them and pinned them down to the ground and restrained them. Bluejam laughed at this outcome, "Did you really think I would keep my word?! Now brats you will...wait a minute...one two three...WHERE IS THE WHITE-HAIRED KID?!"
The crew looked around and saw that Lincoln was nowhere in site and while the money was still here the devil fruit box was also gone! Bluejam growled in rage then pointed to two of his crew members, "You two! Find the kid and bring him back alive I want to kill him myself!"
"YES CAPTAIN!" they said, and they took off into town to find him.
But Lincoln wasn't really all that far he was hiding behind a rock not far from where the pirates were holding his friends and had the devil fruit box right in front on him.
"Can I really do this?" asked Lincoln to himself, "Just because I have a devil fruit doesn't mean I will be strong or anything."
Lincoln thought it over a peaked out behind the rock and saw that the three sword students were still restrained by two of the crew members were gone probably looking for him. Lincoln and turned back to the box and said, "I guess I don't have much choice."
He opened the box and saw three devil fruit right in front of him, the first fruit was a green swirl strawberry, the second was a big swirly blue pear, and the last was a light purple melon, 'Really?' thought Lincoln to himself, 'I'm being presented this Pokémon starter style?'
Just then Lincoln heard a gasp of pain and peaked out to see Zoro was getting stepped on as an example, Lincoln knew he didn't have much time, so he grabbed the blue pear at random and took a bite.
"Okay I am tired of waiting," said Bluejam and prepared to pull the trigger on Saga.
"NO!" shouted Zoro and Kuina.
But then out of nowhere something swopped by and knocked the gun out Bluejam's hand but it ended up shooting him in the foot, causing Bluejam to scream in pain and let go of Saga dropping him to the ground, Saga saw his chance and kicked his friends swords to them, Zoro grabbed his and slashed at the guy stepping on him and then attacked the pirates that were restraining Kuina after they released her she grabbed her swords and stood at the ready.
"WHO DID THIS?!" said Bluejam angrily.
"I did," said the voice and they turned to look at what swooped at Bluejam and saw a mix of what looked like a human and a bald eagle.
"Lincoln?' asked Kuina.
"YOU ATE IT?!" shouted Bluejam angrily.
"Yes," said the now identified Lincoln said, "Bird Bird fruit, Model Bald eagle! Get ready Bluejam cause today you will pay even more for the fire!"
There finally finished with the three chapters edits, hope this worked well for you guys
Now enjoy chapter 5