"I caught a whole month's worth of fish. How did it all get eaten in little over a week along with the provisions that Dravde took?" Nami complains as she looks at all our stocks.
"Dunno. Maybe you miscalculated." Zoro just doesn't really care.
'I knew that I'm a big eater and Luffy can't control himself but this is ridiculous. I really need to keep the food situation under control before we get Sunny. The idiot is already starving when the food just ran out.' I plan for the future while Nami is still bantering with Zoro.
"No matter what we say, food isn't gonna just fall out of the sky." Zoro ends the banter and starts resting.
*Whistling* "What?" At the sudden whistling and Nami's exclamation everyone turns their eyes to the sky while Luffy jumps up and shouts.
"Maybe it's food!" A huge Bullet Bill looking missile falls from the sky and explodes near our boats blasting them to pieces while flinging us meters into the air. Zoro and Luffy land on a half of a boat that hasn't sunken yet while me and Nami drop to the sea.
I quickly swim and take hold of a plank from the wreckage and stay afloat on the surface while Nami grabs the now broken mast.
'Fuck, fuck, fuck. I love swimming but I HATE THE SEA!' [Scary, scary, scary. The dark abyss, the monster in the deep, I don't want to drown again!]
My heart races as scary images of what could lurk in the depths chill my body and soul as I'm also reminded of childhood experiences where I've drowned twice. Suddenly a dark shadow creeps closer towards us from the depths and starts to surface.
"Oh fucking hell no..." I mutter in fear as I watch the now humongous shadow trying to break the water surface.
"Something else is coming!" Zoro shouts as he also notices the obvious sign.
The creature that could be described as a relatively small size Sea King erupts with such force that everyone is once again thrown into the air. I once again swim to get a hold of something and then look at the helmet wearing Sea King in front of us.
'FUCK! This is only a small Sea King! I don't even wanna know what the hell else is down there!'
"Oh, yay!" Suddenly a sudden shout distracts me and my eyes go to the source.
"Yay! Yay!! FOOD!!" Luffy starts running on top of the Sea King and climbs on its neck.
"Yosh, I'll fry it up!" Zoro takes out his blades and prepares for battle.
"How the hell are you gonna do that!" I shout as this isn't a battle that we can win.
"FOOD!!" Suddenly Luffy starts biting the Sea Kings throat and it starts thrashing around.
Zoro falls into the water and Luffy is flung next to him.
"WHAT!? Luffy let go!" Luffy starts clinging on Zoro for dear life and because of that Zoro has hard time staying afloat.
"I'm a hammer!" "Let go!" "I can't swim!" Luffy and Zoro keep struggling to stay afloat with difficulty.
"KYAAAAA!!" Suddenly Nami's scream is heard and we see her being carried away in the Sea King's mouth. Because of that Zoro and Luffy panic even more and they sink down below.
I look in horror as Nami is taken away and Luffy and Zoro sink leaving me all alone drifting in the middle of the sea, leaving me in a situation of one of my worst nightmares.
"Hold up! The script is wrong! This didn't happen! What the fuck is going on!?"
I start panicking as the situation has gone out of my expectations and into a nightmare situation. Then I make another mistake and look down into the water and see vast ever encompassing darkness. My panic and fear just get worse as it makes my body feel weak and numb.
With great trouble I get on top of the plank as my survival instincts kick in and tell me to do something. I start paddling forward slowly regaining better control over my motor functions. Eventually I see a shadow in the distance and realize it might be land and regain some of my vigor and head towards what I perceive as salvation.
After what I presume to be hours of paddling, I finally arrive at the islands shore, dead tired. I crawl my way a couple of meters and take rest in the shade of a rock formation and slowly succumb to sleep. Suddenly I'm woken up by a noise of something crashing loudly towards the cliff walls.
I notice the aftermath of Luffy pistoling two guys into the cliff wall and dropping down in exhaustion. I get up with a struggle and slowly walk up to Luffy. I also see what I would presume to be a dwarf in full knight armor if I didn't notice a young girl's face showing from the helmet.
"Thank god, you are alive." I sit down next to Luffy and sigh in relief.
"I'm hungry..." Luffy whines as I also agree that food would be good right about now.
"Thank you for saving me." Suddenly the little girl comes over here and thanks Luffy for what he had done.
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"Man, thanks for helping us!" Luffy thanks the old man who cooked us food after the little girl brought us back to her place.
"Yeah, we're really grateful, old man." Says Zoro who we found along the way as I also nod in appreciation.
"It was nothing." The old man just waves it off and keeps smoking his pipe.
"I wonder what happened to Nami." Zoro wonders since she's the only one missing.
"Dunno. She's probably alive. After all, we're alive." Luffy just shrugs and keeps eating.
"I saw her getting carried by the Sea King so she is most likely alive." I tell them the last of what I saw of her.
"My guests. After you've relieved your appetites, please leave this island. They'll return soon." The old man suddenly gives us a warning.
"Who?" "Those guys from before?" Zoro and Luffy asks who the old man is talking about while the little girl nods in affirmation to Luffy.
The old man starts to tell the story how the pirates, led by a man named Ganzack, have forcefully occupied the island for weeks and have taken every able-bodied adult to work in a place they call the Devil's Tower. He also admonishes the little girl, Medaka, from fighting with the pirates.
Suddenly and explosion comes out of the top of the tower that shakes the island and makes Luffy drop his food. We hear a familiar whistling and another explosion little off the island and we realize that they were the ones who shot our ships to smithereens.
Luffy tries to ask for more food but we were told that that was all they had since the pirates took everything. While we feel bad the little girl starts coaxing Luffy to go beat Ganzack and his crew so that he could eat as much as he wants.
Luffy and Medaka, still in her knight armor, start running towards the tower while me and Zoro get a late start and try to catch up to them. We get inside the tower and find a factory type of place.
"Looks like they're building a cannon." "More like cannons." Zoro observes the area as I add looking at a couple of finished products.
"Where's the food?" "I told you to keep quiet!" Luffy starts walking casually but Zoro quickly pulls him back to hiding.
Suddenly Medaka hurriedly starts running towards a fenced off area.
"Papa! Papa!" She shouts as she runs towards a man who seems to be her father.
"Medaka!" "Papa!" But before the father daughter pair could reunite the two grunts from the beach catch her.
"Hello, little missy. So we meet again."
"Stop! Let go of Medaka!" Her father shouts but is quickly detained by another grunt.
While they are arguing Luffy suddenly walks over.
"Oi, are you the guys who have the food? Gimme."
"Aahh! It's the demon kid!" The pirates shout in horror.
"Who's a demon!" Luffy shakes his fist in front of them.
Luffy Gomu Gomu Whips the duo away and the rest of the pirates start to surround them.
"You didn't have any sort of plan, did you?" Zoro walks out of the hiding spot and joins the fight.
Suddenly someone comes from above hanging from a wire and kidnaps Medaka and Luffy runs after them, leaving Zoro alone with the pirates and the hostages.
Being threatened by shooting him along with the civilians Zoro decides to surrender and is dragged away by the pirates as they go to report to their captain.
"Whew." I wipe away the sweat from my forehead. 'Now that the pirates have left, it's my turn.'
I get out of the hiding place and go towards the townsfolk.
Now what's happening here? Captain Ganzack? Who? What is happening on this island? Find out in the next chapter of this 2 part (temp) special!
I'm back! The break was nice but it didn't really fix my sleep schedule, I'm still tired. I guess I'll do breaks here and there since I don't want to destroy my life for a hobby.
Happy readings everybody~!