A/N: This chapter introduces one of the central villains... and I think I made a good choice in choosing the villain...
Chapter 4: Little Luffy
IT was a peaceful night on the Thousand Sunny… everyone was dreaming happy dreams… well almost…
(Dream Sequence)
A 7 year old Luffy was running from an invisible thing… he was scared… and he didn't know why.
"Brat… I will finally have my revenge…" said a voice that Luffy knew but couldn't put his finger on it…
(End of dream sequence)
Luffy woke up with a jolt, he looked around.
"Good it was all a dream…" sighed Luffy.
He went back to bed…
Outside a figure floated above the Thousand Sunny…
"He woke up before it was complete… he has to be 14 or 15…" said the figure, "Well… I guess I can always wait another day he…"
The figure vanished into thin air.
The next day was just your Average Day… note average has a strange definition: Breakfast, Pirate attack, Sanji getting possessed by a cat, evil sprit attack, lunch, visit from a passed on loved one (today's was Usopp's mother), embarrassment from said loved one (Usopp had a something on his face and his mother tried to clean it off), Sanji getting possessed by a chicken, another evil sprit attack, another pirate attack, a self-absorbed bounty hunter, "Ah! My guts!", arguments, dinner, after dinner things… however there was one thing that wasn't usual.
"Luffy… have you gotten shorter?" asked Mirror Girl.
"Why does everyone keep saying that!" said Luffy.
"Really?" said Mirror Girl.
"Yeah… I don't know why they've been saying that…" said Luffy.
"Oh… but it does seem like your shorter…" said Mirror girl with a yawn fogging up her mirror, of course yawns were contagious, Luffy yawned too.
"Maybe we should get to bed…" said Mirror Girl.
"Yeah…" said Luffy.
Mirror girl vanished while Luffy headed to the Captain's Quarters.
That night Luffy had another nightmare…
(Dream Sequence)
A 7 year old Luffy continued to run from the invisible foe… when suddenly the ground beneath him turned to water… he felt like he was going to drown… that's when he saw The Lord of the Coast, from Fuchsia Village…
"My revenge is almost complete!" said the familiar voice.
The Lord of the Coast was about to eat him when…
(End of Dream Sequence)
Luffy fell out of bed…
"That was weird…" said Luffy, who didn't noticed that his voice sounded weird.
He noticed that it was about a half hour until breakfast… which meant time to wake up and start bothering Sanji… Luffy got dressed not noticing that everyone looked big, that his clothe were too big, that his hat was also not too big or that his cheek was stinging a bit. He ran towards the galley.
Sanji was cooking breakfast as usual, and Hanako was helping… by which she cling onto him that his little ability of being possessed at the worst moments wouldn't occur, no one would let Hanako actually help with the actual cooking… even Sanji agreed… why…she haunts the toilet…
"Sanji!" yelled Luffy.
"Right on time…" sighed Sanji.
Luffy came into the room…
"Sanji? When's breakfast going to be ready?" asked Luffy.
"In a whi…" said Sanji turning around to face his idiot captain… to find that his childish captain… was a child.
"Luffy?" said Hanako.
"Yes?" said Luffy.
"You're tiny…" said Hanako.
"What do you mean?" asked Luffy.
"Oh not this again!" said Luffy.
"I think you should summon the other sprits…" said Sanji.
"I do too…" said Hanako.
"Is it emergency?" asked Luffy.
Both stared at the now little boy blinking.
"How can he not notice?" said Sanji.
"I don't know…" said Hanako.
Luffy shrugged… "There's an emergency in the Galley! Everyone, come forth and help out. WELCOME!"
All the Sprits with the exception of Hanako were summoned… they looked half-asleep…
"Why did you summon us…" said Chairman then got a good look at Luffy.
All the other Guardian Sprit's eyes were wide.
"What?" asked Luffy.
"Um… Luffy…" said Nino.
"Nino… when did you grow up?" asked Luffy who was now shorter than the statute boy.
"No… Luffy…" said Nino with a sweat drop.
"Luffy…" said Mirror Girl moving slightly so that Luffy could see his own reflection.
Luffy looked at his reflection then blinked a few times, "How did I become so small!" he yelled.
"I don't know but it's definitely qualify as an emergency…" said Chairman.
"I'll go wake up Robin and Nami…" said Nino.
"I'll go wake up the other guys…" said Natsume.
Nino headed towards the girl's cabin and knocked on the door loud enough. Robin answered it.
"What is it Nino?" asked Robin.
"It's an emergency in the Galley…" said Nino.
"What?" asked Robin.
"It's too unbelievable…" said Nino.
Meanwhile Natsume held a bull horn… she kicked in the door to find the room was complete mess… and it wasn't' caused by the guys... it was caused by Jasper… or as everyone called him "Jasper the Douchebag Ghost" said ghost was now putting Usopp's hand in warm water… how can the guys sleep though this was beyond her.
"Hey stop this right now Jasper!" yelled Natsume in the bullhorn.
This woke up the 4 sleeping guys.
"Natsume… it's too early…" said Zoro.
"Jasper!" yelled Franky.
"What do you expect? I'm Jasper the Douchebag Ghost!" said Jasper who disappeared.
There was a silence…
"Is that you woke us up?" asked Chopper.
"No it's an emergency…" said Natsume, "It's about Luffy…"
"What happened?" asked Zoro.
"Well…" said Natsume.
Not too long later…
"He's a 7 year old!" yelled the Straw Hats surprised.
"How did this happen?" asked Nami.
"Maybe it started yesterday…" said Mirror Girl.
Everyone looked at the sprit of a little girl stuck in the mirror.
"Well remember yesterday when everyone saying about that he gotten shorter…" said Mirror Girl.
"She's right… it's possible that it began yesterday with Luffy being a few younger…" said Robin.
"But that still don't tell how it happened…" said Chairman.
That's when Luffy's stomach rumbled, "Maybe we should talk about this over breakfast…" said Luffy.
Everyone sweatdroped.
About half an hour later during breakfast the living Straw Hats ate… talking while the Guardian ghosts just talked with the exception of Natsume who was altering some of Luffy's clothing so it would fit.
"Why would someone want Luffy to be a 7 year old?" asked Nami.
"Maybe they have a Shouta Complex…" said Natsume.
Everyone else sweatdroped at her.
"Sorry… I've been wanting to make that joke for a while for some reason…" said Natsume.
"I think that the sprit that did this to him obviously wants him this age for a reason…" said Chairman.
"Someone should look after him incase the Sprit that did it comes back…" said Robin.
"I'll do it…" said Mirror Girl.
"We might need someone else to help you…" said Robin.
"So in other words he needs a baby sitter…" said Nami.
"I guess you could it that way…" said Robin considering the captain was now a little kid again.
Chopper, Zoro, Nami, and Usopp all began to eat like there was no conversation going on… Sanji was currently possessed by a duck, Franky was chugging his cola, Nino was reading a book, both Bones and Haruo were broken up again, Red Mantle and Hanako were having a friendly conversation, Natsume was focusing more on the pants she was sewing… chairman, Robin and Mirror Girl sweatdroped… it was clear that with the exception of Sanji none of them wanted to baby-sit Luffy (who was currently as usual stuffing himself full of meat) especially since he was now a little kid who would probably get into worse trouble than before and wer curtly doing what they were doing to avoid volunteering… though chances were that Sanji was pretending to be possessed at the moment as his excuse.
"We'll draw straws…" said Chairman.
Later Luffy in his resized clothes had just finished counting, he wasp playing hide and go seek with Mirror Girl… Red Mantle watched them with a sigh, he held up the straw he picked.
"How did I end with the short one?" he asked no one practical…
Luffy searched for Mirror Girl and found her.
"You found me!" said Mirror girl who was blushing slightingly.
"Are you sick?" asked Luffy.
"No I'm fine…" said Mirror.
"Oh the little mirror girl has a crush on the living!" said Jasper appearing from nowhere holding hammer.
"It's not like that Jasper!" said Mirror Girl, "And you're not going to break me are you?"
"Maybe after all I'm Jasper the Douchebag Ghost!" said Jasper.
Luffy used Gum Gum Pistol on the ghost.
"Don't do that to Mirror Girl…" said Luffy.
"Fine…" said Jasper who disappeared.
"Thanks Luffy…" said Mirror Girl blushing.
"Well, well… isn't the little brat… I haven't seen you in such a long time!" said a voice.
Luffy and Mirror Girl turned around… Luffy growled when he saw who was behind him…
"I thought you were dead…" said Luffy.
"I am dead… in case you forgotten this ship is a Sprit Haven…" said the man, "How do you like my little gift…"
"You did to me!" yelled Luffy.
The man picked hm by his shirt, "Yes… after it's no fun if you're older than I remember you brat…" said the man.
Luffy glared at the man… who was Higuma the Bear… the man that nearly killed Luffy shortly after he ate the Gum Gum Fruit… it was because of him Shanks lost his arm…
"Perhaps you should put the boy down…" said Red Mantle appearing from thin air.
"Why should I?" said Higuma.
"We should talk about why you want to hurt that boy so much…" said Red Mantle using diplomatic solutions…
"Why? It's his fault I'm dead…" said Higuma, "It's his fault I was eaten by Sea King 10 years ago…" he with drew his sword and placed it by Luffy's neck.
"Then why did you turn him back to a 7 year old…" said Red Mantle.
"Because of two reasons… this brat is now one of most wanted men on the Grand Line… I need to weaken him somehow and the other… it wouldn't make me happy if I killed him as an adult…"
"Hey why don't you pick on someone your own size…" came a voice behind him.
Higuma turned around and saw Zoro… Luffy smiled when he noticed Yubshiri by his side.
"If you want a fight put the boy down… unless you're chicken…" said Zoro.
"I didn't know pirate were so brave…" said Higuma.
He threw Luffy… Luffy was about crash into the wall but fortunately with a flick of his cape he was caught by Red Mantle. The sprit set Luffy back on the Ground while Mirror girl floated by his side.
"You okay Luffy?" asked Mirror Girl.
"I'm fine…" said Luffy.
Higuma smirked he knew that the sword didn't stand a chance… unless this swordsman was special and could actually hurt him then that would be something… but he was dead.
"Hey Swordsman… what are you waiting for?" asked Higuma.
"Fien then…" said Zoro he resided his three swords… he ran towards the former bandit… "Oni Giri!"
The attack hit… the bandit's ghost fell to his knees, "How…" said Higuma.
"Two of these swords have spiral powers…" said Zoro, "They can hurt someone like you…"
"Fine… I won't kill him this time… and I'll remove what I did to him… but I will be back…" said Higuma who disappeared.
When he did so Luffy grew up once again… however.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip!
The clothes Natsume altered for him ripped to shreds.
"Luffy…" said Mirror girl blushing bright red.
"Want to barrow my…" said Red Mantle.
"No I'm fine…" said Luffy.
"But Luffy… we don't want to see that!" yelled Zoro.
Luffy took out off his hat and his little Luffy, casein the others to sweat drop.
"But anyways…" said Zoro, "Who was that?"
"Oh I guess I should explain…" said Luffy with a sigh.
Later in the meeting room…
"So the ghost that turned Luffy to a little kid wanted revenge because of something happened when Luffy was little…" said Hanako.
"Yeah… and he's going to come back…" said Luffy.
"Someone with a hatred that simmered for 10 years and gained the ability to change someone's age in death is a force to be reckoned with…" said Chairman.
"So we got to figure out to deal with him when he returns…" said Robin.
"Yeah…" said Natsume, "But there's something that needs to be done now…"
"What?" asked Luffy.
"I think I know what she means..." said Nami, "Put your clothes on now!"
Luffy was still naked for some odd reason… why he didn't get dressed was beyond anyone's guess, Robin at that moment was using her powers so that Mirror Girl and Nino didn't see Luffy's "Lil' Luffy"…
"Get dressed now!" yelled Nami.
"Okay!" said Luffy running out the Meeting Room.
"He will be back… and we have to be prepared…" said Zoro.
Everyone nodded in agreement… so did Luffy in the doorway.
"Luffy get dressed!" yelled Nami.
"Okay, okay!" yelled Luffy.
Next Time: With all the visitors that the other members are getting from passed on loves ones, Zoro wonders if Kuina knows about the Thousand Sunny... however Natsume is hiding something from Zoro... what's worse is that Luffy and Mirror Girl finds out first... what will happen.
A/N: Okay I want to say that Jasper the Douchebag Ghost is not something I made up... and if you know where he's from and you review I'll give you this pile of stakes... (sees that Luffy is eating said pile of stakes) O.o that Luffy is currently eating... LUFFY!
Luffy: What?
Me: -.- Okay I won't give the stakes but I'll give you this cookie
(Warning: cookie maybe not really exist)
