One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Square Enix and Disney
OCs belong to me.
-Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Eight-
"You are" Usopp answered.
"You both are—can it!" Nami growled, quick in shutting the two up before they could interrupt her any further. "Now, does anyone recall what Noland's Log said about the City of Gold?" she asked.
"I do!" Luffy quickly raised his hand. "It's a city of gold" he confidently answered.
"Great job, I never would have guessed that" I deadpanned before softly huffing a laugh when I saw the proud grin he now wore.
"You're such a dumbass—do you ever think before you talk?!" Usopp snapped as he glared, not the least bit amused with the rubber man's obvious answer.
"I think he wrote about the South Bird and a giant gold bell" Sanji said, this time giving a real answer. "Of course, there could be a lot more" he admitted with a shrug.
"The last thing he wrote in the Log before he died was something odd, it's something I can't figure out even after seeing the island" Robin said. "It says the City of Gold is in the skull's right eye" she said.
"That's it! Check it out!" Nami excitedly grinned, motioning us toward the table she had been working at earlier while we had been busy collecting supplies and maintaining the camp. "I matched up Robin's map of Jaya with the old Skypiea map that we found in the shipwreck. Of course, this isn't exact and they'll be some incorrect overlap, but when you match up the location of Cricket's house with the broken part up here..." she explained as she moved the pieces of paper around until finally, she matched the two together and held them up to reveal the completed map. "This is what Jaya looked like four hundred years ago!" she proudly proclaimed.
"It makes a skull!" I perked up, amazed by the unique shape of the island.
"Neat! A skull!" Luffy grinned.
"Whoa! It is a skull!" Chopper gaped in surprise.
"Well?" Nami asked, chest proudly puffing out as she seemed to almost wait for us to start praising her for this revelation she had made.
"Way to go, Nami!" Sanji praised, giving the navigator exactly what she wanted as her grin only grew.
"We did it!" Chopper happily cheered, now jumping around in eager excitement.
"Okay, but where in the skull's right eye?" Usopp suddenly asked, curiously wanting to know where exactly the treasure could be now that we had the full map to go off of.
"I'm thinking right...here!" Nami pointed at a piece of land that was located in the middle of the skeleton's right eye. "It's the only structure that's actually inside the eye and no one's found it yet because of all the people who've tried, we're the ones who have both maps!" she grinned.
"We certainly lucked out" I whistled.
"Of course! We must be lucky pirates!" Usopp boasted with a grin.
"It kind of makes sense" Zoro hummed in agreement.
"Hidden treasure!" Luffy eagerly cheered.
"Treasure!" Chopper happily echoed right back.
"The only thing left to do is make our way to the skull's right eye" Nami said. "But since we can't leave the ship unguarded, tomorrow morning we'll split the crew into two teams" she quickly explained, making it clear to us what exactly she had in mind for tomorrow morning. "This is our time—on the upper side of this island weighs more gold than we've ever dreamed."
-Later-
"Ah, now that's what I call gourmet" Luffy sighed in contentment once he was finished eating.
"Well, Sanji certainly is an amazing cook" I grinned, agreeing with the captain's compliment.
"Thank you, Skylar my dear! Your words mean so much!" Sanji swooned upon hearing my praise, causing me to chuckle.
"Tomorrow, we get the gold" Chopper smiled to himself as he helped Nami in gathering up the dishes so that they could be cleaned and properly put away.
"You got it" Nami nodded.
"You think it'll be sunny again?" Luffy asked as he looked up toward the sky.
"Hopefully" I smiled. "It'd be nice to have good weather for tomorrow—it'd certainly be a good sign about how things might go over" I said.
"Well, we're above the clouds, so I guess yes?" Usopp questioned, not really sounding too sure of himself.
"Let's put out the fires if we don't need them" Robin suggested, ready for us to douse the campfire for tonight and head to bed. "It's beginning to get late, you guys, we don't want to announce our location away to our enemies."
"What a rookie move!" Luffy suddenly laughed. "You hear that, Usopp? She wants us to douse the fire—what are we going to do?" he shook his head.
"I don't know—it's not really her fault though, she's never been exposed to this kind of living before" Usopp shrugged. "We should be tolerant" he told the captain, wearing a lax grin as they both spoke about the woman as if she was a child that had just asked an absurd question.
"What are you two saying?" Robin asked, clearly confused by their behavior.
"You're always supposed to have a campfire when you camp, that's what makes it camping!" Luffy cried, bagging his fist against the ground as he and the sharpshooter devolved into snifflingly messes as if it just broke their hearts to see the woman not understand something so simple.
"Aren't you being a bit too overdramatic?" I sweat dropped.
"It's never-ending for those idiots" Nami rolled her eyes. "Hey, lay off the sob stories" she lightly scolded the two, not really in the mood to be dealing with their overdramatic antics. "You know how dangerous this island can be, let's not give it any help in killing us."
"Don't care" the captain deadpanned.
"We're in the middle of a war between Priests protecting their God and Guerrillas forging a coup! Not to mention the giant bloodthirsty monsters waiting around every corner to eat us!" Nami snapped.
"No! Monsters?!" Chopper fearfully cried.
"Scary island scary" Usopp whimpered at the reminder of potential monsters prowling about.
"Luffy, look, is this enough wood for your fire?" Zoro grinned as he and Sanji presented a large stack of firewood to our captain.
"Don't encourage him!" I frowned.
"Can you idiots think for one second?!" Nami snapped.
"Don't worry, wild animals are afraid of fire" Sanji assured with a dismissive wave.
"What? No, they're not" I raised an eyebrow. "Sure, some tend to avoid fire, but a large majority find themselves attracted to it—especially bugs and large predators" I explained with a frown.
"They'll stay away" Sanji reaffirmed as if that would help reassure us that he was right and nothing was going to go wrong. Holding up the torch in his hands as if to prove his point, the light from the flames illuminated the sight of golden eyes that pierced through the darkness of the surrounding forest.
"Yeah, you're totally right" I deadpanned at the sight.
"But they're surrounding us! We have to run away or we'll die!" Nami cried out as Usopp and Chopper started to scream the second one of the predators stepped forward into the light and revealed itself to be nothing more than a wolf that had a very long scar running across one of its eyes.
"Chopper, I think it's trying to talk—you mind translating?" Sanji asked once he heard the wolf beginning to snarl right at us
"You jerks are being so loud we can't even hunt, why don't you dumbass humans go to hell and sleep already?" Chopper translated for the wolf.
"Who's a dumbass?" Sanji and Luffy glowered down at the reindeer as if he was the one that had insulted him.
"I didn't say it! It was the wolf!" the doctor squealed.
"Quit that! You know just as well as I do he's just doing his job in translating" I scolded the two.
"You rotten two-leggers better not be trying to muscle in and take what doesn't belong to you!" the wolf growled.
"No, we're not like that! We were brought here against our will" Chopper argued, quick in trying to soothe the animal's rage by assuring him that we weren't here of our own free will nor were we wanting to cause any trouble.
"This is our forest, you think you can come in here and start building fires?!" the wolf barked.
"Sorry..." Chopper apologetically mumbled.
"Everything here belongs to us! The land, the trees, and the air!" the wolf continued to rant.
"It's like he's having a conversation with himself..." I muttered, placing a hand on my cheek as I looked between the two animals. Quietly listening to the conversation being made between them despite the fact that Chopper was the only one really speaking actual sentences—saying his piece while also translating everything the wolf said so we could understand what was happening.
"Nothing's keeping me from that treasure!" Nami angrily snapped, frustrated upon hearing the wolf claim that he and his pack owned everything on this island.
"Nami!" I scolded the second she knocked the wolf out, angrily punching the canine and sending him flying.
"Great, everything's gotten worse again!" Usopp cried as the rest of the pack started to advance toward us, all of them clearly angry with the navigator for attacking their pack leader. "Now what?!" the sharpshooter whimpered. "We get eaten by wolves? Didn't see that coming!"
"Do something!" Nami frantically demanded, her fear now taking hold of her and washing out all of her anger from earlier.
"What can I do?" Usopp yelled.
"I don't know, sacrifice yourself so the rest of us can get away?" I shrugged, grinning as I turned my head and avoided all eye contact with the now sobbing sharpshooter as he grabbed hold of my shirt and started to shake me. Angrily babbling out a nonsensical argument that I couldn't quite understand over all his crying. "It's just a joke, not like I was actually being serious..." I muttered, making his babbling even worse.
"Back down boys, we may have the numbers, but they have the raw power" the scarred-up wolf suddenly growled, causing the rest of the pack to halt in their advances. "Girl, you pack one mean punch there—got to say, you're my kind of angry" he wolfishly grinned.
"Did...did we just get saved because of Nami's irrational violence?" I blinked, not really understanding how we went from nearly being torn to shreds by a pack of wolves to Nami getting praised by the pack's leader all because she irrationally punched him.
"So that's what a happy ending looks like" Usopp hummed.
"I guess so" Zoro shrugged.
"Then I have an idea" Luffy suddenly grinned. "Campfire!" he loudly cheered.
A/N: Enjoy
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