A/N: I don't own any of this. The only reason I'm making this is that it doesn't look like the original author is returning to continue their story. The only thing that I indeed lay claim to is wherever I decide to take the story after chapter six. There will be small changes here and there. There were certain moments I didn't necessarily agree with in the original that I wish to rectify here. I will inform you of these changes when they take place and explain my reasoning behind them. Rest assured, I won't change anything significant about the story, though.
Team RWBY walked to their room on a seemingly normal Monday night unaware that this particular Monday would be the start of a legend that would live on years beyond their time.
"And I said, now that is a Katana!" Ruby said getting a groan from Blake and Weiss as her sister chuckled half asleep.
They had just finished their preparations for the Vytal Festival and were understandably very tired. Outside was already dark which meant they had to get to their room fast and go to sleep less they risk their (demonic) teacher scolding them again.
The window in their room showed that it was late at night, which meant it was time to hit the hay, or their (demonic) teacher would scold them again.
"Ruby, you need to get better at jokes." Blake said as she looked at the resident jokester of their team. "We already have one unfunny person here."
"Hey!" Yang protested while smiling. "My jokes are funny! It's you girls' fault you don't understand my jokes!"
Weiss scoffed in disbelief before smiling as an idea crossed her mind.
"Good comedy?" She asked teasingly. "What about that joke about you Torchwick, and that Ice Cream girl?"
"Oh, come on..." Yang threw her hands up in exasperation. "That was different..." She said darkly as her mind drifted back to Neopolitan and Torchwick.
"At least it was better than whatever you said!"
"Why, you little..."
Ruby clapped her hands, "Alright, guys, enough." She said, stopping Yang and Weiss before things could escalate. She grabbed the handle to their room. "Let's just get changed and sleep. We still need a lot of training tomorrow."
Her team nodded in agreement and quickly got changed into their pjs. Ruby hummed, walked over to the bunk bed she and Weiss shared, and climbed up to the top. Before falling asleep however she pulled a golden coin out from her pocket and placed it under her pillow. From where she was just about to get into her bed Weiss gave her leader a confused look.
"Hey, Dolt. What is that?" asked Weiss not having gotten a clear look at the item Ruby placed under her pillow.
Ruby grabbed the coin from under her pillow. and showed it to Weiss "I bought this today from the market. The peddler said that this coin would bring us to a great adventure." She happily explained as Weiss looked at her with a blank stare.
"You are getting tricked."
"What!"
"Definitely tricked."
"Oh, I know a good place where we can sell that coin," Yang said with a sparkle in her eyes, not noticing her little sister start to cry. "How much do you think these coins cost?" She asked Weiss, who inspected it closely.
Weiss shrugged, "The short version or the long version?" She asked and Yang gave a gesture for the short version. "A lot of Lien." She answered. "If this coin is made out of pure gold, then you would be surprised at how much people in Atlas are willing to pay for this small piece." She said as she tossed the coin to Yang.
Yang caught it and hooted, "We're rich!" She smiled, but she suddenly noticed something. "If it is that pricey, how much did you spend on it, sis?" She asked her sister as she tossed the coin back to Ruby.
"Nothing," Ruby said as she caught the coin.
"Eh?" Yang, Weiss, and Blake said in unison. Their eyes went wide in disbelief.
"The Peddler just gave it to me," Ruby said as she examined the coin. "She said I will be happy knowing what this coin will give us." She explained, trying her best to remember what the old peddler had said to her. "But she also said that I need to be careful about what I wished for or else it might be the last thing I ever do."
Blake narrowed her eyes.
"That is suspicious..." Blake muttered as Ruby nodded in agreement.
"Yeah. But think about it. It might bring us to another world." Ruby grinned as Weiss and Yang sighed at their leader's fantasy.
"You are reading too much of that Light Novel, Dolt..." Weiss said before she yawned. "Let us think about it in the morning. I'm beaten..."
Weiss moved to lay down while the other three nodded in agreement.
"Yeah..." Yang agreed as she hopped onto her bed. "We'll think about it tomorrow," she said as Blake jumped into her bed as well.
Eventually, they all fell into a deep sleep. Unbeknownst to them, the coin under Ruby's pillow started to glow.
In another world, particularly in the East Blue, a Pirate Group called the Strawhat Pirates were on their way to Loguetown, a town known far and wide for being the place of the death of the first pirate king Gold Roger, and the start of the Great Pirate Era. However as of now there was nothing interesting happening which meant there was nothing stopping a certain captain from eating all the food.
"Luffy..."
"Hm?"
"Can you stop doing this?"
"What did I do?"
"You know what you did?"
On the deck of the Going Merry, Sanji, the cook, stood before his captain Monkey D. Luffy, who sat cross-legged on the ground. He was sweating heavily and failing to whistle as he looked away from his cook. In his attempt to not look at Sanji his eyes caught Zoro, who was sleeping in the crow's nest with his arms crossed behind his head.
"Hey, why are you looking away?" Sanji said, irritated as he pulled his captain's cheek. "Look at me in the eyes." He said, annoyed.
"Seriously... I don't know what you mean." Luffy looked away while continuing to try whistling, causing a vein to throb on Sanji's forehead.
"Then let me ask you something..." Sanji said as he took the cigarette from his mouth. "How did enough food for five people that I carefully divided so it could reach Logue Town suddenly vanish in one night?" He asked as Luffy's eyes darted around. "Stop fighting. It's pointless! You've got a horrible poker face!" Sanji said, irritated, but Luffy kept silent.
Sighing, Sanji looked down and made a surprised face, "Hey, you have something around your mouth."
"Ah! Shoot! Food Crumbs!" A kick suddenly planted into Luffy's face.
"Will you two keep it down!" Nami, their ship Navigator, shouted as she slammed open the door to the ship's quarters. "I'm trying to work here!" She screamed as Sanji looked at the beautiful girl.
"My apologies, Nami, my dear," Sanji said before gesturing at Luffy. "It's just that Luffy ate all of our rations." He explained as the vein on his head throbbed again.
"Again!?" Nami immediately stormed down the stairs and made her way to Luffy. Upon reaching him she painfully grabbed him by the cheek. "Wasting all our food, do you have a death wish or something? What gave you the idea to eat all our food!?"
"We can always get more," Luffy said, simply.
"That's not the point!" Nami shouted as she knocked him on the head. "We'll waste all our precious money at this rate." She explained.
"Isn't that the money you pickpocketed from your village." Usopp, the sniper, said as Nami glared at him as if she was asking, 'Is that a problem?' and the sniper immediately shut his mouth.
Up in the crow nest, Zoro slowly opened his eyes. He let out a yawn as he looked down at his friends arguing. He was about to say something, but stopped when his ears picked up a faint noise. "Hey..." He called out. Immediately, his crewmates stopped squabbling and turned to him. Luffy had a few bumps on his head but didn't appear to show any signs of being hurt. "Do you guys hear that?" He asked.
"Hear what?" Nami asked, her tone becoming much calmer as she regained her composure.
"It sounds like... Screaming. " Zoro said as the four blinked.
"Sea Ghost? " Sanji and Luffy asked as they got punched by Nami and Usopp.
"O-Oh, come on, don't say that. we're not in Grand Line yet..." Usopp said clearly, afraid as his body was shivered. "Gyah! I heard it too!?" He screamed as he immediately hid behind Luffy.
"Do you think they'll join us?" asked Luffy in an excited tone.
"If we catch them, maybe."
"Can you two please focus!?" Nami shouted at Zoro and Luffy as she spotted something high up. "Something is falling from the sky!" She shouted. "Four shadows!?" The rest of the crew looked up, and true to Nami's words, four blurs were falling from the sky.
Red. White. Black. Yellow.
As the blurs fell and formed vague outlines of human shapes, their voices became much more clear.
"What is this dream! This has got to be a nightmare!"
"How did we end up in the sky!"
"Who cares? We're going to die falling from this height!"
"Not like this! Not like this!"
"Are those people?!" Nami shouted, her eyes going wide in shock. "How did they get up there?"
"Who cares? The fall will kill them if we don't do anything!" Zoro said.
"Ghost can die if they fall?" Luffy asked innocently.
"Enough with the ghost thing!?" Usopp, Nami, and Sanji yelled in unison.
"Sanji-Kun, you get the other arm! Usopp and Zoro get his feet and hold on tight!" Nami instructed as she immediately grabbed one of Luffy's arms and pulled him.
"On it, Nami dear!" Sanji shouted and grabbed Luffy's other hand while Zoro grabbed his left foot and Usopp his right foot. Thanks to his devil fruit powers, they could stretch their captain's body into a life net. Four falling people hit Luffy's body a few seconds later, breaking their fall. They temporarily bounced up and fell back down again, this time on the hardwood floor of the upper deck. All four of them, they noted, were dressed in sleepwear.
"Oww." said Yang holding a hand to her head in pain.
"Oww..." Ruby groaned, grabbing her head. "That hurt?"
"Took the words out of my mouth..." Weiss groaned. "Where are we?"
"We appear to be on the ship." said Blake looking around.
"You got that right..." Zoro's voice startled the four. They quickly turned towards Zoro, who stood with his shipmates. "What are you guys thinking, falling out of the sky?"
"Yeah, while we are on the subject, how did you get up there?" asked Nami curiously.
"Are you ghosts?"
"Stop with the ghost things!? " Usopp and Sanji yelled as the four girls jumped up and adopted defensive stances.
Usopp and Nami immediately hid behind Zoro, and Luffy. Zoro reached for the hilt of his sword as him, Sanji, and Luffy watched the four girls before them, waiting for one of them to make the first move. The girls seemed to be reaching for something that wasn't there in their person. And when they realized it, they began patting themselves down for something they could use. The Straw Hats tilted their head in confusion.
"Are they trying to find a weapon?" Usopp asked.
"Looks like it." Nami said.
"Why?" Luffy asked.
"Take a guess," Sanji said as he patted Zoro.
"I didn't draw my sword, love cook." Zoro retorted as a thick vein appeared on his forehead from the irritation of having the cook of all people pat him on the head.
"You look like a thug," Sanji said as Zoro and Sanji glared at each other.
"W-Who are you people?" Blake demanded getting Sanji's attention.
His eyes turned to hearts as he immediately started to swoon over Blakes beauty.
"Funny you should ask..." Zoro said regaining his composure as he turned to face her. "Because that's what we wanted to know. You're the ones who landed on our ship." He asked before moving just slightly to avoid Sanji's kick.
"Don't mind the moss-head here, ladies." Sanji said in a suave voice. He stepped forward and gave a formal bow. "The name's Sanji. May I have the pleasure of learning your lovely names?"
Yang, Blake, Weiss, and Ruby all looked at him in confusion. Nami immediately came out from where she was hiding and pushed Sanji to the side.
"Forgive them. They are idiots. My name's Nami, what are your names?" Nami asked gently.
"I'm Ruby Rose." Ruby introduced herself as she prostrated before them. "We're sorry that we landed on your ship."
"Don't be," Nami said as she kneeled. "A fall from that height, and you would be dead when you hit the water. You're lucky that we were here when you fell." She smiled.
"Thanks for the save, but what did we land on?" Ruby asked as she got back up. "It felt elastic and rubbery."
The Strawhats immediately turned their heads to their captain.
"Eh?" said Nami unsure of how to proceed with the conversation that would need to be had.
"Forget about that for now, Dolt; let's continue." Weiss stood properly as she addressed them. "My name is Wiess Schnee. Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company if that means anything."
She looked down in thought as Luffy blinked.
"You make dust?" Luffy laughed. "Must be a poor business."
"Not that kind of dust, you dolt!?" Weiss shrieked. "Dust! Fire, water, lighting, energy! The stuff that powers nearly everything on Remnant?"
"Remnant?" asked Nami clearly confused.
"Is there any island named Remnant in East Blue?" Zoro asked, much to Weiss's confusion.
"What's in the name of the brother gods is the East Blue?" asked Weiss.
"You must be really lost if you don't even know about the East Blue." said Zoro, snickering slightly before bringing up his sword to block Sanji's kick to the head.
"Don't snicker at Weiss-chan, Marimo! She's clearly lost!" shouted Sanji.
"Piss off Swirly-brows!" shouted Zoro about to draw his sword.
"Blake Belladonna." Blake quickly said cutting off the argument. "Pleasure to meet you all."
Usopp blinked and narrowed his eyes at her causing Blake to shift uncomfortably.
"Is it just me, or did your bow just twitch?" asked Usopp causing Blake to unintentionally tense.
Usopp perceiving this as an attack jumped back, but before anything could happen Yang spoke up.
"Yang Xiao Long, pleased to meet you all," Yang said, glaring at the Strawhats with all the exhaustion of someone who just wanted to sleep.
"My name is Nami. Pleased to meet you all." said Nami hoping to quickly get introductions out of the way and get to the main point.
At least two of the four girls seemed suspicious of them, and she'd be lying if she said she wasn't suspicious of them either.
"Roronoa Zoro."
"My name's Usopp," The Straw Hat sniper introduced, with a hint of dramatic flair. "I'm the captain of this ship! I've sunk countless warships! People know me as Captain Usopp, Lord of Destruction!"
"Yeah, right," Luffy punched Usopp in the back of the head. "I'm the captain. You're the liar."
"You're the captain?" Weiss asked dubiously, to which Luffy nodded.
'He certainly doesn't look the part.' She thought looking at his rather simple clothing that consisted of denim shorts, a red vest, sandals, and a straw hat. 'Then again, not all leaders do.'
Her eyes drifted over to her leader who trying to talk Yang out of continuing to glare at the strawhats.
"Yep. My name is Monkey D. Luffy! The man that will become the Pirate King! Nice to meet you guys!" Luffy said with a grin as wide as the sea itself.
Ruby's cheeks puffed out at the introduction, and when she couldn't contain it any longer, she burst out laughing. She fell to the floor while hugging her sides.
"What's so funny?" Luffy asked genuinely curious.
"Monkey?" She gasped in between breaths. "Your first name is Monkey?"
Nami let out a small smile. Without proper understanding of how Luffy's name worked she would admit that it was a little funny.
"We call him Luffy," Nami said. "A lot of people you'll find have their family names first, and their first names last."
Ruby nodded in understanding.
"Now that we've got that out of the way," Weiss said, nudging Ruby with the tip of her toes. "Can you tell us where on Remnant we are?"
"Remnant?" Nami asked with a raised eyebrow. "What island is that?"
"It's not an island," Weiss said, looking at her as if she had grown a second head. "It's the whole world itself. Everyone knows that!"
"Hey, that's just like saying the East Blue is the whole world," Nami scowled back at her not liking how she was being looked at like an idiot. "I don't know where you were, but you won't last long at sea with an attitude like that!"
"East Blue?" Blake asked. This had been the second time it had been mentioned. She briefly glanced over the edge of the ship eyeing the water wearily as she did. "Is that the name of the sea we're currently in?"
"Yes. There's also the North Blue, the South Blue, the West Blue, and the Grand Line. I haven't heard of an island named Remnant, though."
Team RWBY glanced at each other, shock, and confusion clear on their faces. Together, they turned back to the assembled crew.
"That can't be right," Weiss stammered. "There's not a single person who hasn't heard of Remnant, and we haven't heard of those seas before!"
"How can you not?" Zoro asked.
The four girls looked at each other and moved closer to have a quiet conversation. After a minute, Ruby turned towards them with a slightly worried but amazed look.
"This may sound strange," Ruby said. "But we may have come from another world."
The Straw Hat crew looked at them with disbelief except for Luffy.
"Huh, really!?" Luffy's eyes immediately sparkled in awe.
"What!? Does that mean they are going to probe our brain!?" Usopp said in fear.
"No! we are not Aliens!" Ruby desperately said. "I know you think it's crazy, but it's true..." She explained in a panicked tone. "One minute, we were sleeping in the dorm of Beacon Academy. Then the next we're falling from the sky!?"
Nami, and Usopp continued to looked at them in disbelief. "How can we be sure you're telling the truth?" Zoro asked as he immediately blocked another of Sanji's kicks.
"Moss-Head!" Sanji yelled. "Don't you dare call sweet Ruby a liar!" He shouted as Yang stepped forward.
"I swear, she's not making this up," Yang argued, her eyes flickering red in irritation. "We were just talking about Ruby's gold coin. When we went to sleep with it under her pillow, we ended up here!" Nami's ear perked up.
"Gold coins?" Nami asked quickly getting in Yangs face. "Do you still have them? It might be worth a fortune in Berries!"
"Berries?" Weiss asked looking at them weirdly. "You use fruits as a currency?"
"For your information, that's the name of our currency!" Nami shouted. "And gold will go for a lot of it." .
"Nami, we're getting off-topic," Zoro said snapping Nami out of her money frenzy. "You said that you came from another world. Do you have something that can prove that?"
"Well," Ruby kicked her feet. "We had weapons, but they were stored in our school's lockers. Then there are our scrolls, but we don't have them on us. But we have this thing called 'Aura'."
"Aura?" Zoro asked intrigued.
"It's the manifestation of the soul," Weiss explained (she pointedly ignored Luffy calling it a mystery power. While not technically incorrect, Aura was so much more than just a mystery power). "It functions like a forcefield, though we still feel the pain. We primarily use it for defense, sometimes for offense. Eventually, it develops into a semblance."
"A semblance?" asked Nami becoming just as intrigued as her friend.
"Think of it as a unique power," Yang said. "It's different to each person."
"Those sound pretty cool!" Luffy said with sparkling eyes. "Can we see?"
"Fine, only so you'll believe us." Weiss said.
She thought it would be a waste of aura, but they needed to prove their sanity. She held out a palm and created a minor glyph. Luffy looked at it for a moment and frowned.
"Is that all you can do... Lame." Luffy sighed.
"Hey, you wanted to know!" Weiss shrieked. "And for your information, I can do a whole lot more with my semblance. I just need my Myrtenaster!"
"Myrtenaster?" Luffy tilted his head. "What's that?"
"It's a white rapier." said Weiss as Usopp bumped his fist into his open palm.
"You mean this?" Usopp asked as he held up a white rapier with a chamber attached to it. "Luffy bought four weird weapons in Kokoyashi village."
Usopp pointed to the other side of the ship where a crimson scythe, black sword, and pair of golden gloves laid on the deck.
"My Crescent Rose!" Ruby said, crying as she immediately hugged the crimson scythe. "I thought we would never meet again." She said happily as she turned towards Luffy. "As thanks, I will show my semblance." Ruby said.
Instantly, she vanished and reappeared on top of the helm, leaving a trail of rose petals in her wake. Then zipped back to her original position. The straw hats stared at her in awe.
"Is...that proof enough?" Ruby asked awkwardly.
"Not quite," Usopp said pulling out his slingshot and loading it. He drew back the sling and aimed it at her. "Let's test this forcefield of yours."
He let it loose. The star flew straight at Ruby, who just stood there. The star hit the girl and fell to the ground.
"Huh?" Usopp lowered the slingshot and stared at where he aimed. He looked her up and down for any sign of the pellet having hit her, but found none. "Guess they weren't kidding."
"One question..." Sanji said seemingly at odds with himself. "Can all four of you swim?"
"Huh?" Ruby said in confusion. She turned to the rest of her teammates who also looked confused by the question. "Umm...yeah, why?"
"I guess that rules out the possibility of devil fruit powers," Sanji said seemingly no longer at odds with himself. "Told you they're telling the truth." He turned to his crewmates.
Nami put her hand on her head, "It looks like they are from another world," Nami said. "With a world as crazy as ours, I wouldn't be surprised." She said as Luffy laughed.
"That's so cool!" Luffy walked ahead of his cremates and looked team RWBY dead in the eyes. "Hey, wanna join my crew?"
"What?" The four huntresses in training asked in confusion
"Luffy!" His crewmates, minus Sanji, shouted. The cook looking rather welcome to the idea.
Nami walked up to him and pinched him on the cheek. "You can't just ask them to join our crew! You don't even know if they want to!"
"She has a point there," Blake said. "We need to find a way back to our world. You can drop us off at the next island."
"But where will you go?" Zoro asked. "Do you even know where to start looking for your home?"
"Uh..."
"He has a point," Nami said as she let go of Luffy's cheek. "As much as I want to argue about the living conditions, he has a point. There isn't a navigator who has ever heard of 'Remnant'. Not to mention we can't just leave you guys by yourselves."
"With our weapons, we can take care of ourselves..." Weiss tried to insist, but she didn't sound convinced herself.
"I agree with Nami," Sanji said, lighting his cigarette. "We can't just leave four lovely ladies by themselves. Something bad could happen to them."
The RWBY team looked at each other and nodded their heads in agreement. Right now, these people may be the only people who would be willing to help them. They also haven't covered any classes relating to sea expeditions, aside from fighting sea Grimm like a Sea Feilong.
"We agree... But, you better not try to flirt with my sister," Yang said, cracking her knuckles threateningly. "Otherwise, you and I will have problems."
"Yang-chan, you're so lovely when you're threatening people." said Sanji getting a weird look from Yang.
"Okay," Ruby said. "We'll go with you guys."
"For now," Weiss added. "This only lasts until we get home."
"AWESOME! SANJI, LET'S MAKE A BANQUET FOR OUR NEW CREWMEMBERS!"
"We don't have any food ingredients."
"What? Why?"
"BECAUSE OF YOU!" shouted the crew before Nami sighed.
"We need to get into the next island ASAP, and we should also buy necessities for Ruby and the others." Nami said as she glanced at the girls. "We can't have you running around in your pajamas. Fortunately, we're headed to Loguetown. It's the last stop in the East Blue to get supplies before entering the Grand Line, and it's a popular hangout for pirates like us."
"That's splendid," Weiss said. Then she stopped when the rest of their words sank in. Her teammates also stopped moving to stare at them. "Wait...what did you say...?"
"Oh yeah, I guess we forgot to mention," Luffy said with a carefree grin. "We're pirates!"
The four huntresses-in-training gaped at them, "WHAT?!"
THUD
"KYAAAAAHHH! Yang, Luffy, I can't swim!?"
"W-Wait, don't hold me down too tight, Blake. You will re-open my wounds..." Yang said as she looked around.
Immediately she recognized the room that she was in. It was their dorm room back at Beacon Academy.
Ruby yawned as she rubbed her eyes. "Why so loud, de gozaru?" she said as she noticed Yang and Blake on the ground. "Yang, Blake, you've came to Wano. Wait, what are you doing in Shinobu's house, and where's Luffy?" she asked, half asleep.
"Has breakfast already come to the hall Otoko..." Weiss said, half asleep before she took notice of her surroundings. "Eh? We're back at Beacon... How?"
"I don't know..." Ruby muttered as her eyes widened. "Eh? I've become younger!"
"Me too!" Blake said before she noticed something important about Yang. "Yang, your right arm!?"
Yang touched her right arm no longer feeling metal, but flesh.
"We've become younger." said Yang absentmindedly.
"No..." The three girls turned toward Weiss who looked dejected. "We just woke up."
"Huh?" Ruby said as Weiss showed her scroll.
"It's the day after tomorrow, two years ago..." Weiss said trailing off as she covered her face with her hand.
Yang immediately grabbed Weiss's scroll and narrowed her eyes.
"I-It's impossible!?" Yang shouted. "All of those things couldn't happen in just one night of dreaming... I mean, I lost my arm to Kizaru, and it's freaking hurt..."
Her hands trembled as she held the scroll in her hands.
"Does this mean it was all a dream?" Blake asked in disbelief sounding dangerously close to crying. "All of our adventures... Our Nakama-"
"It's not a dream!" Yang shouted as her eyes turned red, her teeth grinding against each other as he rage continued to build. "All those are real, and I won't believe otherwise."
"But where is the proof?" Weiss asked looking hurt at even the notion that it may have all been fake.
Blake, and Yang both looked at her wide eyed.
"Huh?"
"That adventure. Where is the proof?" Weiss forced herself to ask.
"You mean you don't believe our adventure with our Nakama is real?" Yang asked as her eyes turned red.
"No, I'm just asking for proof." Weiss said.
The only true proof that they had at this moment seemed to suggest that it had all been a dream, and no matter how badly she may have wanted otherwise she wasn't one to live in a lie.
"We remember all our adventures. It can't be a coincidence."
"Then where-"
"ENOUGH!" Ruby shouted causing the three girls to flinch before turning towards Ruby. "It's real."
"If it's real, where is the proof-" She looked at Ruby's blackened arm. "Busoshoku Haki..." Weiss immediately turned toward Yang, and Yang instantly blackened her arms. Yang started to laugh a little before grimacing in pain.
"Yang, what's wrong?" Weiss asked before stopping as she, Ruby, and Blake noticed something they hadn't before.
There were bandages wrapped around Yang's belly. Along her torso were burn mark and several other wounds that seemed to have come from sharp weapons.
"Isn't that the bruise you got from Oven?" Blake asked as the four began to smile and cry. "That means that everything that happened—"
"Wasn't a dream," Ruby whispered. Her silver eyes widening as she came to a realization. "Which means... We need to sleep immediately!?"
"Eh?"
"We slept, and we got taken to the other world, which means we need to sleep again. We need to do it now!" Ruby reasoned as the others blinked and nodded.
"R-Right! We can't waste any more time! The preparation should start now!?" Weiss said, agreeing as she and the others hopped into their bed.
Blake stopped herself just before lying down as something dawned on her.
"Then what?" Blake said causing everyone to stop and look at her. "We don't know if we go to sleep that we'll end up in Wano, or even the Sunny for that matter."
At Blake's words they all immediately became crestfallen. The members of Team RWBY felt tears trickling down their cheeks.
"Zoro...Usopp...Sanji...Nami...Chopper...Robin...Franky...Brook...Luffy..." Ruby spoke the names of their crewmates and their captain.
Yang laughed weakly,
"You know I will gladly fight that Hag again if we can meet our Nakama again..." Yang said before she angrily punched the wall. "And when I can brag to Zoro that I finally defeated his bounty, this happened... Damn it!?" Yang shouted in a tone mixed with anger and grief. Her fist fit the wall cracking it.
"Damn it! Damn it all!" Yang shouted as she continued to punch the wall more aggressively.
"I am sure Sanji will try to find us..." Weiss said, her body trembling, remembering her crewmate's worried face. "Damn it..."
Tears slid down Weiss's face and for once she didn't try to hide them. Blake said nothing. Her black bangs fell over her eyes, shielding them from the outside world. Nobody moved or said anything except for Yang, who continued destroying the wall.
10 minutes later, Professor Goodwitch came to their wrecked dorm room. After the teacher got Yang to stop demolishing the rest of their dorm, she proceeded to lecture them about 'damaging school property and 'consequences'. But team RWBY wasn't even listening.
Who could blame them?
Ignoring Goodwitch, Ruby thought back to just before they separated at Zou.
"So, it's eight of us, huh?" Luffy asked as a 19 years old Yang beside him nodded.
"Yep, and I'm glad you're going with us too, Pedro," Yang said, smiling at Pedro.
"Be careful, Nami."
"Thanks! You too, Wanda."
"Listen... We know how he is. There's a pretty good chance that he is perving with his wife now." Zoro said as 19-year-old Weiss nodded in agreement.
"I'm sure that pervert must be loving the idea of getting married." Weiss sighed.
"The sad thing is I can't deny that," Usopp said.
"Come on, I believe in Sanji. He will return to us." 17-year-old Ruby said while smiling.
"Sanji will return." Luffy said with all the assuredness of someone of someone who had already done it.
"So Long, Sir. Luffy."
"We will meet again in Wano."
"Ruby and I will work on Anti-Kaido's weapon!" Usopp said.
"If anything happens, please tell us." Weiss said.
"We will." Blake said.
"And now, should I assist you with my drawing?"
"No need, Kanjuro," Luffy said as his hands circled his friends.
"Eh?" Blake said before Luffy jumped off of Zou, shocking everyone.
"What!?" The Samurai, Pirate, Ninja, Mink Alliance yelled in disbelief except for The Straw hats and Law.
"See ya guys in Wano."
"Take care, Luffy." Ruby said.
"You bet."
"Try not to agitate Big Mom, Luffy. She is one of Four Emperors." Weiss said slightly worried.
"Got it, Weiss!" Luffy said before laughing.
"He won't listen at all will he." Weiss said with a small smile
"He wouldn't be our captain if he did follow someones orders." Ruby said.
"I'm sure it's going to be all right," Usopp said.
"I just hope that idiot knows what he's doing. We'll need everyone we can get to fight against Kaido" Law said before walking.
Zoro nodded.
"He'll get the idiot cook and meet us in Wano. In the meantime we should hurry there because we don't know when you will return to your world?" He said as the two-huntress looked at him weirdly. "What? Don't you want to go back to your world?"
"No!" Ruby said with a wide grin. "The Pirate King should have the greatest huntress as his crewmate. I will go with him until the end of the time!?" She smiled and slung her arm around Weiss. "I'm sure Weiss also doesn't want to go back."
"Of course. I must help Sanji with his cooking, and besides, I won't follow anyone other than Luffy. "I'm sure Yang and Blake also think alike." Weiss said.
"Then we better gear up because our enemy is the Four Emperors," Zoro said getting loud cheers as Ruby looked at the sea with a smile.
They were close. Closer than they'd ever been to making Luffy the Pirate King. They just needed a little bit more.
