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Blown Away Ch3

Beat on the Brat

I wrote the 2nd half of this while sick as a dog, and honestly I don't really like it, so I've taken it out and gonna rewrite it and post it as a seperate chapter.

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Despite my exhaustion, sleep eludes me. So I decided to take stock of what I have on me and what I may need.

“Here guys, I snagged a couple apples before we left.” I say, tossing each of them an apple.

“Nice! Thanks Tahi!” Luffy deftly snatches his out of the air, biting into it.

“Ack! Ngh…ah. T-thank you.” Coby fumbles his, almost dropping it off the side of the boat into the ocean.

I smile at them and start emptying my pocket, laying it all out in front of me. ‘So far I have four cans of fruit salad, six granola bars, one packet of crackers, three small knives.. art book, pencil case, silver flip lighter with a ram skull , fabric face mask, zelda wallet..’ I pause, pulling out my phone and powerbank. ‘If I can get some rice I might be able to revive these..’ I turn the power bank this way and that. My mum had bought a couple that were solar powered for everyone a while back, when the electricity had been shut off and we needed a way to charge our phones.* ‘Being broke really pays off sometimes.’ I snort derisively.

"Whatcha doing?” Luffy pops up next to me

“Taking inventory.” I smile, showing him the phone.

“What's that?”

“This is.. well used to be for communication but now it's just a glorified music player, if I can get it to work.” I grin at the intrigued look on his face, rummaging in the same pocket for my froggy headphones.*

“Communication, so like a denden?” Coby asks.

“Kinda? But even denden need something on the other end.”

“So how does it play music? Is it like a music box?”

“I guess, It's more like a record player? But It also has other uses.”

“Really? what else can it do?” Luffy asks, bouncing excitedly.

“Well aside from playing music, it can do a lot, it can take pictures, videos and record sounds.” I list off on my fingers. “I can write and draw in it like a journal and I have quite a few books saved.”*

“Take pictures! So cool!! I wanna try!” I can practically see the stars in his eyes and it's kinda infectious.

“Unfortunately it got wet, it's a bit like a devil fruit user and becomes completely useless if it goes in the water.” I sigh, seeing Luffy's dejected face ‘god he's like a kicked puppy.’ “I might be able to get it to work, I just need some things when we get to a town.”

“We should be there pretty soon, as long as we can stay on this heading.” Coby says as he adjusts the sail.

“Wow, really!? That's so cool!” Luffy cheers, easily distracted. “You mean we’re actually gonna reach the place we originally set out for?”

“That’s pretty impressive.” I smile, putting everything back in my pockets. Pausing and handing Coby a knife, he looks at it confused. “Might come in useful.” I shrug and he pockets it.

“It's nothing. I'm just using the skills every sailor should have.” Luffy giggles in response. “You know, there's really nothing to be so giggly about, because… at the marine base…they're holding pirate hunter Roronoa Zoro.” Coby says fearfully.

“Yeah, you were freaking out about him earlier.”

“With good reason!” He exclaims, pointing an accusing finger at me. “You would freak out too if you've heard the rumours!”

“I have heard them, ‘the man who chops up his victims like a bloodthirsty beast. A living breathing demon in human form.’ But those are rumours, I’d rather see what he’s like in person before jumping to conclusions” I say with a shrug ‘Yeah, while I’ve read the manga and watched the anime he may be completely different irl, or exactly the same or we might hate each other just because..’

“Yeah! What he said." Luffy nods, agreeing.

“Land ho..I think?” I say, squinting when I see a small black smudge on the horizon..

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It takes less than an hour for us to arrive and dock.

“We’re here!” Luffy leaps from the boat with a shout, stretching his arms above his head. “The Marine Base City!” I follow him off the boat, relief surging at the feel of solid ground under my feet.

“Land glorious land!” I moan, sinking down on the cement dock, overcome with the blissful feeling of unnoticed extra sensory input from being on the water washes away with the presence of solid ground.

“You ok?” Luffy crouches down next to me, concern flickering in his eyes.

“Yeah, I’m good. Gimme a moment for my brain to reboot..” I smile shakily.

“You’re so funny!” Luffy’s laughter is pretty grounding. I close my eyes sitting there for a moment, just relishing the feeling of non-movement. I take a deep, fortifying breath, then climb to my feet, smiling at my captain.

“Let’s go meet this pirate hunter!”

“Yeah!” He bounces up grinning. “Let’s Go!” He marches ahead, I skip along following after, pulling out my face mask and putting it on, the covering easing my nerves slightly.

“Wait, what, nononono!” Coby scrambles to catch up. “Luffy, seriously, you’re out of your mind if you think the right thing to do is get this guy to join you. Tahere as first mate you should be talking him out of doing crazy stuff like this!”

“Well I haven't made up my mind yet. I gotta see if he’s a good guy.”

“Yeah need to know if the guy goes around kicking baby seals” ‘Unlike a certain Snake Princess.’

“He’s imprisoned because he’s obviously not a good guy!” Coby shouts in frustration.

“You’re gonna be in for a hell of a reality check one my guy.” I cringe in sympathy, petting his shoulder. I notice Luffy, not paying attention anymore having spotted a fruit vender, grabs a pear, sniffs it and takes a bite.

“Hey is that guy Zoro around here somewhere?” He asks as he tosses a coin to the merchant. Everyone freaks out, jumping away from us as if he had declared he had ebola or something.

“Fucking weird…” I squint at the people around us, still pulling shocked and horrified faces. ‘This kind of reaction is kinda excessive..’

“Maybe we shouldn’t mention the name Zoro here, okay?” Coby worriedly whispers to us.

“Yeah.." I snort, looking at Luffy who looks confused, I shrug, he shrugs. We move on and start walking away.

“Let’s head to the base and check it out.” Luffy says casually to Coby who's looking around worriedly. “You wanna be a marine, right?”

“Well, of course I do, but I really don’t think I’m ready just yet.” I roll my eyes at his response.

‘Life will pass you by with that attitude.’

”From what I’ve heard, the man in charge of this base is named Captain Morgan.” That gets a bigger reaction than when Luffy mentioned Zoro.

“This town is such a weird place.” Luffy laughs.

“That was odd.” Coby mutters, perplexed. “I mean, I understand if they’re scared of Zoro, but why did they flip when I mentioned the Marine Captain’s name?” I pat his shoulder, comfortingly. “I don’t know… I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”

“Maybe they were all just jumping around for the fun of it.” Luffy suggests.

“And how would that make any sense?” Coby pulls a face.

“Eh, could be some sort of ritual dance or something.” I snort.

“This looks like the place.” Luffy states, I follow his gaze and see the looming gates to the Marine Base.

“I made it…” Coby chokes out, tears welling up in his eyes. “This is where we part ways. Thank you luffy, Tahere.” He says, scrubbing at his tearfilled eyes.”We didn’t have long together but-” I watch Luffy hoist himself up to peek over the wall. “ Luffy, what’re you doing?”

“I wonder if I can see the ‘demonic beast’ from here.” He looks around briefly and drops down.

“You won’t find him just by peeking over a wall.” Coby states.

“Oh yeah? Well there's somebody tied up over there.” He takes off like a kid hopped up on ten tons of sugar, me and coby chasing after him. “Maybe it’s Zoro!” He’s already up the wall pointing at something.

I squint up at the wall, ‘I’m not exactly fit and I can’t even remember the last time I climbed anything taller than a garden fence…’

“Eh fuck it..” I kick off my thongs, roll up my sleeves and attempt to climb the wall. I pause halfway up.

“Get down from there! What’re you guys doing!?” I ignore Coby’s panicked shouts. “They’ll see you!”

‘ow ow ow! My fingers are killing me.’ I ignore Coby, trying to focus on getting my out of shape ass up this stupid ass wall. ‘Almost to the top!’

“They wouldn’t keep him out in the open. He’s probably tucked in a prison cell below ground.” Coby shouts.

“Or he’s in the middle of the yard on display for everyone to see.” I say as I finally get to the top and peek over the edge and have a pretty clear look at the guy. Beaten and battered, covered in bruises and dirt, lips chapped and bloody. A bit skinny, unsurprising after not eating for two and a half weeks, but still very muscular. His head is tilted down so I can’t really see his eyes..

‘He reminds me of a caged tiger..’

“What!? That’s absurd! The marines wouldn't do something like that!”

“Yeah! I see him!”

“Ugh. I’m telling you he’s not- Wha!?” Coby pops up between me and Luffy. Sure enough, following Luffy’s gaze Coby sees Zoro tied up in the middle of the courtyard for all to see.

“Yeah, not surprising..” I say dangling over the ledge like that ‘Hang in there’ inspirational cat poster, I catch my breath, “Urgh this is killing my tits..” I climb the rest of the way up and sit cross legged on top of the wall rubbing my sore chest. Coby sputters and blushes.

“Wa-”

“The Marines do like big displays of their power.” I roll my shoulders stretching my neck while clenching and unclenching my hands trying to get the feeling back in my fingers.

“If we untie those ropes, he can just walk away.”

“Oh, don’t be such an idiot, Luffy! There's no telling what a bandit like him will do if you let him go! Heáll kill us then wreck the town!” Coby goes off on Luffy.

“Don't worry, I’m strong, I can protect us.” Coby’s face scrunches up in disbelief and despair. I shake my head.

“Hey, you there!” I refocus on Zoro who was staring at us, ignoring Coby’s fearful scream. “You’re an eyesore.” He glares,eyes like daggers, tone exhausted but deadly. “Get lost.”

“You guys, trust me, there’s no chance you’ll survive with someone like him on your crew.”

“I think he’s exactly what we need.” I look behind me, hearing movement and see a little girl with a ladder. “Hello…” I look down at her as she positions the ladder next to me and scurries up.

“Shhh.” She shushes us, a determined glint in her eyes, she looks around, flings a rope over and slips down, running towards Zoro.

“Stop!” She ignores Coby’s panicked yelp. “We gotta stop her! She’ll be killed” I slap my hand over his mouth, cutting off his panicked yelling.

“Do you want to alert the whole base?”

“But-”

“Just watch.” The kid is now standing in front of Zoro, smiling and clutching something to her chest, hiding it from view.

“Whaddya want?” Zoro asks gruffly.

“I thought you might be getting hungry now, so I made you a couple of rice balls.” She reveals, beaming up at him showing him a wrapped up bundle.

“You got a death wish, kid?” He asks tiredly.“Just scram.”

“But you haven’t eaten anything the whole time you’ve been tied up.” She unwraps the onigiri and holds them out for him to see. “Here. I’ve never really made them before…but I did my best, so I think they're fine”

“Listen, kid, I'm not hungry! Now stop irritating me, and get outta here!”

“But-”

“Do not make me kick your ass, little girl!” He shouts frustrated.

“Now, now. No one likes a bully.” A whiny voice admonishes annoyingly. I look over and see a man with the dorkiest blond bob, wearing a purple suit and too much jewellery, walking into the yard flanked by two marines. “Roronoa Zoro, you seem to be handling this well. Don’t you agree?” Helmeppo smirks mockingly, rubbing his lapels between two fingers.

“Hey, look. Now there’s another weird guy.” Luffy points out.

“I already hate this smarmy fuck.” I mutter, watching the interaction, Luffy nods, eyes not shifting from the unfolding drama.

“That’s great!” Coby lets out a relieved sigh, ignoring me. “He must be with the marines. Now we know the girl will be safe.”

“Don’t be too sure on that..” Coby side eyes me, but says nothing.

“Looky, some tasty rice balls.” Heleppo snatches one out of the kid’s hands and takes a bite. “Ungh, blegh. Too Sweet!” He yells, pulling a face. “They’re packed with sugar!” Spitting it out, he shakes his fist threateningly at the kid. “You're supposed to use salt, you idiot, Salt!”

‘Honestly it was pretty smart of that kid to make them sweet, since sugar helps keep you going when fasting.’*

“But I… I thought they’d taste better sweet.” She looks up with big doe eyes, voice trembling.

“Gimme that!” He swipes the rest of the onigiri, throwing it all on the ground and stomping into the dirt angrily.

‘He’s so lucky we didn’t pick up sanji first…’

“That’s just awful.”

“Mmhmm.” I nod.

“But I…worked so hard to make those…” kiddo says in a teary disbelieving voice.

“Too bad..” El Douche mocking her tone. “You must’ve not read the notice that was posted’ He holds up a piece of paper. “Those who assist criminals in any way will be executed. Signed Marine Captain Morgan.” He laughs nastily when the kid recoils in fear.”It seems even little brats fear my daddy.”

‘goddamn internet.. why does that have to sound dirty...’ I cringe at the thought.

“His daddy?” Luffy asks just as confused.

“So that man's father is Captain Morgan?” Coby mutters in disbelief.

“You!” El Douche casually gestures to one of the marines with him. “Toss this kid out right now.”

The marine hesitated, so El Douce grabs the guy by the collar and gets in his face. “I said throw her over the wall, soldier! Now if you won’t follow my orders, I’ll tell my father.”

“Y-yes sir! I-I’ll do it!” The marine stutters, going over to the kid and crouching down, muttering something to her then hoisting her up and tossing her over the wall. Luffy leaps in her direction, snatching her from the air and rolling as he lands.

I follow him, jumping down to the ground and fumbling my landing. I pinwheel my arms and end up smashing my forehead against the wall.

“Bassza szájba!” I exclaim, hunched over clutching my forehead in pain. ‘How the fuck do I manage the dumbest injuries ever!?’ I see Luffy’s hat nearby and pick up. Dusting it off, I walk over to hand it to him. “Nice catch Luffy.” He takes it nodding in thanks.

“Thanks mister!” the kid grins up at Luffy as he looks down at the hat in his hand.

“Luffy! Are you two ok!?” Coby runs over fussing over the kid. Luffy puts on his hat then looks back at the Marine Base with an unreadable expression. Hearing El Douche’s nasally laughter fading into the distance, Luffy moves.

“I gotta talk to that guy..” I nod, following him over the wall, using the kids ladder and rope.

“Are you still here?” Zoro asks tiredly. “Better not let Helmeppo’s father catch you.” He says in a mocking tone.

“Look…” Luffy walks forward, I follow a step behind, silently. “I’m looking for good men to join my pirate crew.”

“Pirate crew?” Zoro snorts derisively. “You think I’d lower myself to that level? No thanks!”

“Becoming a pirate’s my dream!” Luffy asks, offended. “What's wrong with it!”

“You think if you untie me, I’m gonna join your pirate crew?”

“I haven’t decided if I’ll ask you yet.” Luffy smirks. “You've got a pretty bad reputation, you know?”

“Bad reputation, huh?” Zoro chuckles. “Well anyway, I don’t go for that kind of deal. I’ve got my own plans for the future.” His eyes flash with determination. “I don’t need your help. I can get out of here on my own. All I have to do is last for a month here, then I’m a free man!” He smirks arrogantly. “Captain Morgan’s idiot son promised me. All I’ve gotta do is survive here for one month. Then I’ll be free to pursue my dream.”

‘How can he be so naive?’ I frown, but say nothing, feeling as first mate it's my place to offer support not be a snarky asshole right now.

“Hmm… I see.” Luffy grins. “I don't think I could last one week without food.”

“Me and you are different. I’ve got more will power.” He pauses. “Go look for a crew elsewhere.”

“Hah, what a weirdo.” Luffy shrugs and turns to walk away.

“Hey, wait a minute….” Zoro calls out, Luffy pauses, looking over his shoulder. “Could you.. pick that up for me?” He looks down at the smooshed remains of the onigiri.

“You’re gonna eat this?” Luffy crouches down and picks up a clump. “ ‘Cause it's more a ball of mud than a rice ball...”

“I have some granola bars if you wanna eat something.” I break my silence, pulling one from my pocket and holding it up to show him.

“Shut up and give me the onigiri, now!” He shouts angrily.

“Uhh…” Luffy pauses before shrugging and feeding the muddied rice to Zoro, who chokes it down. I cringe watching him eat, coughing and sputtering. “I told you. It was mostly dirt. You wanna kill yourself?” Luffy says, crossing his arms.

“T-tell the kid-” Zoro devolves into a coughing fit, “Tell her I said it was delicious. Tell her I ate all of it.” Luffy laughs good naturedly and walks off, I pause looking back for a moment then follow after my captain.

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“Really!” She exclaims happily

Rika, as she introduces herself, had led us to her family’s restaurant. We were sitting out the side, next to the back entrance. Coby is on the porch step looking like a kicked puppy, Luffy’s on a barrel sitting with his legs crossed and I’m stretched out next to him, leaning against the wall.

“Yeah!” Luffy nods grinning at her. “He ate it all up!”

“I’m so glad!”

“Could that guy really be as evil as everyone says he is?” Coby questions meekly.

“You’ll find that’s very rarely the case. Honestly I don’t think anyone is purely evil… or purely good for that matter.” I reply shrugging. “Everyone has the capacity for both. It’s what we choose in the moment that defines us.” I pause pulling a face. ‘Where the fuck did I pull that profound bullshit from?’

“Everybody in town is afraid of him…” Rika speaks up. ‘But he hasn’t done anything wrong! He got thrown into prison ‘cause of me.” She admits. “Captain Morgan’s son had a bunch of mean dogs! They attacked me… Zoro saved me! Besides, those dogs were running loose and scaring everybody in town!”

“That's why he’s in prison?” Luffy asks incredulously. “Because he hurt that guy’s dog to save you?”

“Yeah..” She nods sadly.

“Zoro’s really scary..but he only goes after people with bounties.” Coby states. “You wouldn’t get thrown in prison for that.”

“Yeah, Morgan and his brat are the ones in the wrong.” I agree. “Ugh I hate irresponsible pet owners and entitled jackasses!” I say rubbing my eyes.

“They put people to death for no reason at all! Everyone in town is afraid of them!” Rika exclaims in frustration.

As if on cue I hear the sound of glass shattering from inside the restaurant.

“I’m hungry!”

‘Speak of the devil..’ Looking inside the window and see El Douche Kicking his feet up on the table like he owns the place, marine henchmen standing at attention behind him. Luffy goes inside, the three of us following him in, the entire restaurant was tense, no one saying a word as the marines threw their weight.

“Bring us whatever you got and keep the check for yourself.” The blond demands in a grating voice, laughing to himself.

‘Jeez everything about this guy screams new money… I hate that I know that…’ I scrunch my nose in disgust.

“And bring me a bottle of your finest moonshine or whatever crap you serve. Put some speed to it, lady.” He snaps his fingers. “I don’t have all day!” The woman, who Rika had told us was her mother, rushes to fetch him a bottle of wine, filling his cup. “Oh… That’s more like it.” He takes a sip of the wine.

‘Holy fuck can he be anymore tacky?’

“I’m trying to think of something interesting to do, seeing as how I’m bored outta my skull here.” He theatrically muses aloud. “ I suppose I can execute Zoro. How about three days?” He asks one of the marines with him. “It’ll be great! We’ll make an example of him!”

“But..” Luffy gets in his face. “You made a promise!”

“What? Where’d you hear about that?” He smirks, holding back laughter.

‘I really want to punch that smarmy face…’ I purse my lips.

“That promise was just a joke!! He’s such a stupid beast for believing it!”

My vision goes red and my fist is flying before I know it, smashing into Helmeppo’s face alongside Luffy’s, sending the bastard crashing into the table.

“Luffy!! Tahere!!” Coby tries to grab us by the arms, I shake him off angrily, stepping back. He focuses on attempting to stop Luffy from committing murder. “Stop, you guys! Calm down!!”

“That guy is scum!” Luffy growls.

“You want to make an enemy of the Marines, do you!?” Coby asks.

“We’re pirates, I don’t give a flying fuck about the marines!” I growl. “Isten baszó szájba a kurva anya ott!”I flick my chin at the bastard.

“This guy is scum..” Luffy snarls, Coby struggling to hold him back.

“Y-you Hit me! You actually hit Me!” The blond screeches in disbelief. “No one has ever hit me! Not even my daddy!” Tears welling up in his eyes. “I’m Captain Morgan’s Beloved Son!! I’m Telling Daddy on You!!”

“I don’t care who your father is! Face me like a man!” Luffy snarls.

“Guys please stop!” Coby begs.

“You’ll die begging for mercy!” El Douche shouts over his shoulder, being supported by the two marines. “You're dead! I tell you, Dead! Father will kill you!!” Casually grabs his hat from where it had fallen in the scuffle,putting it back on.

“Now you’ve done it…”

“You were great, big bro Luffy, big bro Tahi!” Rika cheers. “I feel a lot better now!” I ruffle her hair, smiling.

“Then I wish I’d given him a few more whacks for ya!” Luffy laughs.

“Rika!” Her mother rushes over, checking her over. I turn and face the woman, bowing apologetically.

“Sorry about the mess, I’ll get started on cleaning this up for you.”

“No! No, it’s fine…” She says, wringing her hands. “Although I think it would be best if you and your friends leave. I-if the marines think we’re helping you…” She trails off and I nod.

“Of course.” I nod then turn to a teary eyed Rika. “It's fine, we got places to be, asses to kick.” I wink conspiratorially at her as we walk out.

“Ahh!” I glance at Coby who’s freaking out. “They won't let you guys get away with this! And Captain Morgan has the Marines backing him!”

“Yeah, whatever. I need to go talk to Zoro.” Luffy walks away. “I’ve made up my mind. I’m going to ask him to join my crew!”

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* I honestly love my powerbank! It’s pretty cool and holds a lot of charge. A whole day in the sun is enough to fully charge a phone three times over! and the torch function is awesomely bright!

* I literally have a 2 terabyte sd card in my phone, the internet in my area is super shoddy so I've downloaded a lot, I literally have almost a hundred books, a couple emulators with all my favourite retro games and about 1300 songs.

(;⁠^⁠ω⁠^⁠）

* I can’t remember the exact details but my school used to do a fundraiser called the 40 hour famine, where we’d fast for 40 hours, the school handed out barley sugar and plenty of water to prevent fainting.

Hungarian

Isten baszó szájba a kurva anya ott- god go fuck your whore of a mother in the mouth

Basza szájba- Fuck mouth(fuck in your mouth? Short form of above)

Faszkalap- dick hat

Bozsmeg-fuck

Australian

Thongs- Flip Flops or sandals

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tahere-ravenword · 1 month ago

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Blown Away Ch2

Sweet Dreams Are Made of These

I am a mix of Australian, Canadian and Hungarian. I will use quite a bit of Aussie slang since I grew up here, with smatterings of Canadian slang and words in Hungarian. I will include an explanation and translations at the end of the chapter for less confusion.

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So somehow we both fit in that barrel… It's pitch black and unbelievably uncomfortable, we're wedged tightly in a tangled mess of limbs, Luffy’s elbow is firmly lodged in my ribs and his foot is in my face. How? Idk rubber man logic.

With all the chaos I’ve honestly lost track of time and couldn't tell you how long we’re in there. I have no words to truly describe the experience, but I imagine it's not dissimilar to being in a washing machine on a roller coaster designed by a madman.

Finally the violent movement stops, feeling the barrel gently bobbing in the water, I let out a sigh of relief.

Luffy's voice pipes up after a few moments. I squint into the darkness, trying to make out his face. “So Tahi, why were you out in the middle of the ocean?” “Honestly, I have no idea, one moment I was in the middle of a storm on my way home and the next thing I know I’m waking up in the middle of the ocean, meeting you.” I attempt to shrug, unsuccessfully. I probably got knocked out by flying debris and my concussed ass is dreaming or hallucinating..Let's go along with it and see how this goes. I've had some pretty detailed and in depth conversations while dreaming.*

“Wow! That's so weird, do you know how to get back?” He laughs at me.

“Eh, not really, but c’est la vie” I again attempt to shrug unsuccessfully. “How ‘bout you, you said I'm your first crew member? Is that really true?” I mean with the whirlpool we're probably up to the whole Alvida thing.

“Shishishi yeah, I just set out from Dawn Island today! I made a promise to a friend a while back that I'd set out, gather a crew, find the One Piece and become King of the Pirates!”

I go to reply but am cut off by the barrel being jostled, the sensation of a rising elevator washing over me, then stops, muffled voices and the barrel tips over and starts rolling.The dizziness that had almost subsided comes back, thankfully the rolling stops soon enough and I hear more muffled voices outside. I feel Luffy shift and wriggle.

“Wha-” I’m falling on my arse as the barrel explodes around me, Luffy jumping out with a yell. I let myself just flob on the ground, attempting to regain my equilibrium.

“Looks like we survived! I got so dizzy I thought I was gonna barf! Shishishi”

“I feel like-urgh-might still..” I groan from the ground my arm over my eyes in an attempt to quell the vertigo.

“Shishishi silly you'll catch a cold sleeping on the floor!” Luffy laughs at me.

“Aye aye mon capitan” I groan, giving a lazy wave and dragging myself to my feet.

Once I'm standing I take notice of three imposing men and a bespectacled tween? Pink hair and round glasses, I'm guessing that's Coby? standing around us

“Huh who the hell are you guys?/Nice day we're having ain't it?” Both Luffy and I ask at the same time.

“WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?!?” they shout back in shock and anger,ignoring my question “And what the fuck were you doing in that barrel!?”

“Seemed like as good a place as any to take a nap” I shrug, these guys are annoying so I'll be annoying right back. Luffy seems to find it amusing so it works.

“Are you messing with us, when you know good and well that we're vicious pirates!” The guy with long greyish hair and tattoos points a cutlass at me. Oooh scary, what are you gonna do, dream pirate dude, stab me?

“Hey I'm starving, got any food” Luffy asks the teen ignoring the pirates. At the mention of food I'm suddenly ravenous.

“Oh hell yeah, I could totally eat!” Did I remember to eat today? I can't remember, I was sucked into crafting for most of the day, I'm surprised I even thought of going to the beach, my crafting moods can last days..

“Fuckers! don't you dare ignore us!” He yells, bringing his sword down. Some instinct telling me to move, I twist out of the way, but not soon enough. I feel a cold sting across my cheek and my heart plummets into the pit of my stomach as pain blooms across my face. I slowly reach up and touch my right cheek, hissing as it burns like the worst paper cut and see my fingers bloodied. Ow fuck that hurts! Wait… When did dreams have pain…I stare at the blood on my fingers. Oh... this isn't a dream. I blink. Oh my god this isn't a dream!! My eyes go wide. This isn't a dream and there's a very angry pirate trying to kill me right now!

“Ohh shit!” I dodge as tattoo guy goes in for another swing at my head. Focus on not dying now, existential crisis after. I can't help but feel grateful for my mum teaching me some basic self defence shit. So I stand straight, make myself look tall and imposing, Look the man in the eyes and pull deep from my core.

“woof.”

The pirate stops short mid swing, confused. This is embarrassing.. “Woof!” If this doesn't work it's going to be the most embarrassing way to die…I growl, deep and low, clenching my teeth I just need to freak him out enough to back off. Come on LOUDER! “WOOF!” he takes a step back, looking at me like I've lost it. It's working! “Grrr! WOOF! Grr! WOOF WOOF! Grr! WOOF!” I go all out, putting my all into this feral dog impression. I step forward for each step back he takes. I widen my eyes, bear my teeth, snarling, barking and snapping at him. The fact that this is a legitimate self defence technique… The pirate keeps backing away, he's looking around, Luffy has already knocked out the other two pirates and (maybe)Coby has hidden himself somewhere. With no backup in sight he looks back at me, his face going through several emotions, then settles on resolve and determination. He takes a breath, tightens his grip on his weapon and… turns on his heel, running away. Yelling “Crazy bitch!” over his shoulder as he retreats. I continue to growl and bark until he's out of sight.

I stand there, This is the first time I've been in an actual fight. It was so fucking scary!! I'm panting, trying to catch my breath, anxiety coiled tight like a spring, ready to snap…

A hand slaps down on my shoulder making me jump a mile high. Swinging my head around fast enough to give myself whiplash, I see Luffy, doubled over one hand gripping my shoulder, the other clutching his side, laughing so hard tears are rolling down his face.

“W-why were you hahaha b-barking? Ahahahaha! And that guy just ran away! That's s-so stupid! Ahahahaha!” He gasps out.

I take a shaky breath, then register what he said. I cross my arms indignantly, “It-it worked didn't it?” I say tilting my head snootily, that was the least lethal way I know how to defend myself... aside from shitting myself and throwing it at the aggressor… no way in hell am I ever doing that! Never! I shiver, disgusted at the thought. I really need to learn how to defend myself, dream or not. I sigh. Right, this..this isn't a dream..and I really need to learn how to fight, there's gonna be way scarier guys after us and I've already committed to this shitshow.. I uncross my arms, turning to face Luffy “I have pretty much zero fighting experience, so I'll need some help and until I learn to fight I'll need you to watch my ass, kay Cap’n?” I say with a smile.

“Of course! It's the captain's job to look after his crew after all!” His big black eyes are so earnest as he nods determinedly, throwing his arm over my shoulders.

“Thanks” I nod, patting his head appreciatively.

“So…” A voice behind Luffy squeaks out. We turn around and I get a proper look at the kid. He's pretty short, a whole head shorter than me, he's wearing a white button up shirt with navy blue accents and black pants, his pink hair is combed neatly, although it seems to have grown out of the intended style, he’s staring at us dazed. His whole getup screams Navy fanboy, but he really needs to develop a backbone if he wants to survive in the military..

“What just happened?” (definitely)Coby mumbles.

“You got me/No fucking clue” Luffy and I answer in tandem.

Coby gasps with a look of dawning terror “Quick! You’ve got to run!” he shouts “If those guys come back here with their buddies, then they'll kill you both on the spot!” A loud rumble echoes through the hallway. My cheeks go red, Luffy laughs

“Yeah, I don't care about that! I'm hungry, and so is Tahi!” Luffy crosses his arms.

“How can you just blow this off like that!? There are hundreds of them up on deck and they're waiting for the opportunity to kill anything!” Luffy just starts walking away, I follow and Coby is dragged along.

“You're going the wrong way! No! Wait!”

It takes us no time at all to find the food storage.

“It's a gold mine!” Luffy laughs in delight,leaving Coby at the door “Food! Food! Food! Food! Food!” He jumps down into the, uh pit? space? basement? starting to rummage, I grin following him down using the ladder. I hear Coby mutter something to himself as he quietly shuts the door, looking anxious. ”This looks promising!”I hear Luffy crack open a box and peer over his shoulder” Apples! Excellent!” He laughs, stuffing his face.”Heh, Tasty!”

“Yoink!” I grin, snagging an apple, biting into it hungrily. Mmm! He's right, these are pretty good! I pocket two more, finishing the first as I turn my attention to other boxes.

“Uh… Hey! My name's Coby. You're Luffy and she's Tahi? Is that right?” Coby introduces himself, timidly, “I’m Tahere, friends and family call me Tahi.” I give a friendly smile “also not a she, at least today. I'm gender fluid. Right now I'm feeling He/Him pronouns.” Luffy looks confused while Coby nods. I turn back to rummaging through boxes.”If you're unsure just ask and I don't mind people making mistakes, it can be hard to keep up with since how I feel changes with the weather.”

“Got it” Coby nods, then fidgets “That was pretty neat when you guys jumped out of that barrel back there.”

“I mostly fell on my ass” I shrug, having found a pry bar leaning on the wall, start using it to open some of the boxes around me.

Mostly finding ingredients and stuff like flour, vegetables that need to be cooked and some lace tablecloths, not exactly useful when we're gonna end up in a small row boat, if the tablecloths were simple cloth I could salvage them for scrap cloth and diy bandages.. I keep looking, Luffy and Coby are chatting by the apple crate as Luffy eats. I hear Luffy telling Coby about us being dragged into the whirlpool making me shudder, remembering the damn thing. I never want to ride on the Vomitron 3000 again, thank you very much. I half listen to the conversation as I continue my search.

“The big one outside!? No way! No one could've survived that!” Coby terrified exclamation draws my attention from a box of cutlery, where I had found some sharp knives.

“Yeah, I gotta say it was a big surprise!” Luffy laughs.

“It seriously sucked… Pun unintended” I mumble distractedly sending Luffy into a fit of giggles. This is cool! These have protective sheaths. I grin, tucking a couple small knives into various pockets, making sure one is in the inside pocket of my denim jacket.

“So are you one of the pirates or one of the passengers?” Luffy asks.

“Uhm well.. it's a bit complicated…it was on a fateful day, long ago…” Coby starts telling us his tragic backstory. “I stepped out onto a small fishing boat on the outskirts of town to catch my dinner” I listen as I'm squirreling away anything useful.“Turns out that particular boat was actually headed for a pirate ship!”

So far, aside from the knives, I've found a couple cans of fruit, some granola bars and a packet of crackers. I put the granola bars into my jacket, shoving the rest randomly into the many pockets of my cargo pants. I'm so happy I decided to wear these when I went out to storm watch. Out of all the things to be Isekai-ed in they are both practical and comfy! Only wish I had my paratroopers, I'm fine booting around in thongs** but they're not really practical for running or fighting…

“In exchange for them letting me live, I'm forced to live the life of a cabin boy.”

I look around seeing if they have a first aid kit but come up empty handed, I make my way back to the boys sitting on the floor next to Luffy.

“You're pretty stupid, you know that?” Luffy says bluntly.

“Gee thanks for your honesty.” Coby’s dejected reply has me reaching over and patting his shoulder sympathetically.

“Why didn't you leave?” I ask.

“Are you kidding!? I can't do that! No way!Nuh-huh! Not a chance!” Coby exclaims, shaking his head “Just the thought of Alvida finding me scares me so bad, I wanna throw up!”

“You're a moron and a coward!” Luffy laughs, “I hate people like you!” I see Coby tear up.

“Luffy, that's rude!” I admonish. “Although I agree, you can't complain about your situation if you're not brave enough to even try to change it.”

“You're right.. If I had the courage I could drift along in a barrel and be rid of these pirates..I actually have my own dreams” He has a small, wistful smile as he continues “Someday…I'd like to live out of all of them.” He straightens up “so.. what about you guys? What was it that first got you to set sail on these seas?”

“Well, I'm going to be the King of the Pirates!” Luffy says casually, Coby’s jaw drops at the proclamation.

“The King!?”

“Yep.”

“Are you serious!?”

“Yeah.”

“But..but that would mean you're a pirate, too!”

“Right.”

“ Yeah”

“And your crew?”

“Just added my first mate!” Luffy points at me.

“And you! You're ok with this!?” Coby turns to me, shocked.

“Sure am! I didn't exactly leave home on my own accord, but c’est la vie. And I haven't figured out what my dream is yet, which is ok.” I shrug. “Sometimes you just need to take that first step without knowing the destination.” looking over at Luffy, who grins when our eyes meet. “I guess right now my dream is to find a dream” Coby freezes, mouth open. “I think we broke the kid…” I snort, snapping my fingers in his face, with no reaction.

I turn to ask Luffy something when Coby jumps to his feet shouting. “You're both nuts! What do you mean your dream is to find a dream!? That makes no sense! And you!” He points an accusatory finger at Luffy “King of the Pirates is a title given to one who obtains everything this world has to offer! You're talking about seeking the great treasure of wealth, fame and power. The treasure that you seek is the One Piece!”

“Yeah! Luffy says happily.

“Yeah!? That's it? Pirates from all over the world are looking for that treasure, ya know!?”

“Yeah, so?”

“No way! It's impossible, impossible, impossible!” Coby yells, shaking his head. “There's no way anyone like you could ever reach the pinnacle during this great pirate age! There's just too many out there that are meaner and better!” Luffy gives him a firm bop to the head.”Ow… Why did you hit me?”

“Cause I felt like it”

Coby groans “Oh well.. I'm used to that stuff.. my ship mates smack me around a lot..all the time in fact.” geez this kid’s had it rough…

“It's not about if I can.” Luffy ignores him. “I'm doing this because I want to.” He takes his hat off, smiling as he looks at it in his hand “I decided long ago that I'm gonna be King of the Pirates. If I have to die fighting for that… then I die.” He states matter of factly, “All right… Now that my belly’s full, I'm gonna get me a brand new boat.” he puts his hat back on and starts walking away, with me following. “They might even give us one if I ask nice enough.”

“Luffy, these guys don't seem like the generous giving types.. You'll probably have to kick their asses to get one.” I chuckle. “Hey, what kind of person do you want to add to the crew next?”

“Hmm.. well I definitely need a cook and maybe a musician to keep us entertained!”

“Yeah, that makes sense. We'll also need a navigator, I'm not bad at land navigation but zero experience on the sea.”

“Yeah!”

“Can I do something like that?” Coby asks from behind us. I look over my shoulders at him.

“Huh? Like what?” Luffy turns around.

“Do you think.. Do you think I could ever join the marines?”

“Marines?”

“Yes! Catching bad guys is the only thing I've ever wanted to do!” He shouts passionately. “It's been my dream since I was a child! Do you think I can do it?”

“How should I know that?”

“Then I'm gonna do it! I'm not gonna get stuck here as a cabin boy for the rest of my life!” He starts stomping forward as he yells. “I'll break out, then I'll turn right around and catch Alvida myself!” As he says that the roof is smashed in kicking up a cloud of dust.

“Who is that you plan on catching Coby?” As the dust settles we see a large woman in a cowboy hat and holding a spiked club “And you actually think these brats are gonna help you? Well?” She looms over Coby, who is shaking like a leaf “ Answer me!” She booms. I jump as a bunch of blades pierce the door behind me. “My guess is that you're not Zoro, the pirate hunter.”

“Zoro?”

“Coby!” Alvida stands there grinning “ Who is the most beautiful of all the seas?”

“Well… I…Um…Gimme a sec… I know this..” He stammers

“Hey Coby, who's the fat lady?”

“Seriously most beautiful, More like most delusional..” I say, feeling very safe next to my captain. I nearly start cackling at the shocked and horrified looks on everyone else's faces.

Growls in anger, lifting her club “You…Runt!” She screams as she brings it down. Luffy and I dodging out of the way, Luffy, landing across the room, crouched down in front of Coby.

“Let's go,” He grins, grabbing me and Coby he jumps out of the hole Alvida made, right into a crowd of angry pirates…

“Fuuuuuuck! Shit! Kurva! Mutherfucking! Picsa! Cunt! Bosmeg! ” I scream,doing my best to dodge and weave as pirates try to cut me to ribbons. One grabs me from behind.

“You!” He turns us to face Luffy. “Stand down or the lady gets it!”

“I am not a lady!” I stomp on his foot and slam the back of my head into his nose, to finish off I perform the grab twist and pull. The pirate lets out a girlish scream as he collapses holding his nads. “It’s he/him pronouns today.” I nod to myself dusting off my hands only to duck as a blade cuts through the space where my head was previously. A pirate coming right up in my face, on instinct I shove my hand out and up. Crushing his nose with the palm of my hand, he collapses, twitching, bloody foam coming from his mouth… I think I just killed that guy… I don't have time to dwell on that as I'm dodging more swords. I've completely lost track of luffy, and down another guy with an accidental headbutt. I get a moment of reprieve as a guy is thrown into the crowd attacking us. I take the distraction to put some distance between me and the pirates, only for Luffy to bring a mob towards me as he runs from them. “God fucking damnit!” I exclaim, following him. From the corner of my eye I see Luffy grab the mast as he keeps running, his arm stretching behind us. I notice his cheeky grin as he meets my eyes running in place for a moment before turning to the pirates behind us.

“Gotcha!” The pirates start running away. “Gum… Gum…Rocket!” Then he's hurtling back towards the pirates like a torpedo, taking pretty much all of them, except Alvida, out in one hit.

“Tha-that… was… awesome!” I'm panting, leant over hands on knees, trying to catch my breath.

“L-Luffy…What are you?” Coby asks, frightened.

“Oh… I'm a rubber man.” He pulls his cheek for emphasis. I make my way over.

“So you're… made of rubber…?”

“He ate a devil fruit. Though it's not really common here in the east blue, there's tons of people on the grand line that have eaten them.” I notice Alvida standing behind Coby.

“Devil fruit huh.. I heard they existed but never seen proof before today.” She says contemplatively. “You're more skilled than the average deck swabber. And you.” She turns her attention to me. “You took out three of my men with little effort.” What do you mean ‘little effort’!? I nearly died.. a lot! “Are you two bounty hunters?”

“We're pirates! I just added my first crew mate today so it's official!” Luffy says straightforwardly, looping his arm over my shoulder and pointing at me for emphasis.

“Pirates? Hah all by yourselves, just the two of you, on these waters?”

“These waters? Lady, we're in the east blue. The most peaceful of all the seas.” I roll my eyes. “ Plus I have faith in my captain to steer us where we need to go, a crew of two is still a crew” Huh.. I really do have faith in this dork. And not just because of the show. I look at him, standing tall and unflinching in the face of the hulking monster of a woman. He talks with such confidence that you can't help but believe him and trust in his word.

“Yeah! A crew’s a crew, so what if it's just me and Tahi today? We'll find more crewmates tomorrow, or next week, or something.” He says casually “I need… I dunno, like ten guys..Yeah, ten.”

“Hah!” Alvida scoffs “Tell me… if we're both pirates, and we're not under the same flag, then that would make us enemies.” She says with a nasty leer. “Am I right?”

“Uh, Luffy, Tahi… Let's go.” Coby whispers to us anxiously.

”But why?”

“You saw how powerful her club is…And of all the villainous cheats in all these waters she's easily the most-” Coby cuts himself short, staring into Luffy's eyes. I smile, seeing him come to an epiphany.

“Go on…” Alvida prompts smugly. “Tell me.” Resolve and determination light Coby's eyes as he yells.

You're the most… UGLIEST THING ON THE SEA!” Luffy is laughing uproariously, I let out a few snickers. Coby has his eyes squeezed shut tightly, tears pricking the edges, waiting to be struck. I pat his shoulder, causing him to jump, but I just smile, proudly.

“What’d you say!?” Alvida gets out past(or through?) clenched teeth. Coby steps forward meeting her eyes.

“I'm leaving and I'm gonna join the marines! Then I'm gonna spend the rest of my life beating up dirty pirates like you!” Luffy is still laughing next to me and I'm smiling so hard I might crack a tooth.

“Do you have any clue what you're saying to me right now!?”

“Of course I do! and I'm gonna do what I want and no one's gonna stop me! And when I join the marines, I'm gonna join them! AND I'M GONNA CATCH YOUR LOUSY ASS FIRST!” He screams the last part, two years of pent up fear and frustration boiling over.

“You're dead, kid!” Alvida lifts her club with both hands, intent on crushing Coby. Luffy and I jump into action.

“That was great, Cobester!” Still grinning, I grab Coby Pulling him back behind me.

“Well said!” Luffy dashes forward between us and Alvida. Her club slams down on his head, springing off him harmlessly. “Heh. That won't work.” he said in a sing-song voice.

“What!?”

“I'm rubber!” Luffy smacks her club to the side as if it was made of paper not steel. He pulls his arm back, letting it stretch back for a fair bit “Gum…Gum…Pistol!” With the sound of a plucked guitar string he lands a punch so powerful it sends Alvida’s huge form flying into the horizon. I put my hands up.

“SCORE!” I shout in my best referee impression.

“Hey you!” Luffy calls out to some of Alvida's men who were still conscious.

“Yes!”

“Go find a boat and give it to Coby. He's leaving your ship to join the marines; you're not gonna stop him.”

“Also load up a couple barrels of food and water while you're at it!” I pipe in.

“Yeah… sure!” The move into action.

“Thanks, Luffy.” Coby says gratefully. “And you too Tahi.” I hear a couple bangs and a whistling sound, then the whole ship is rocking as cannonballs land around us, knocking me over, falling hard on my ass. Looking over the railing, I spot some marine ships.

“Looks like the marines arrived…” I say as I get to my feet.

“Ooh! Perfect timing” Luffy says gleefully. “Head over there and tell them you wanna join.”

“Huh?”

“But I'm a pirate so I'm outta here!” He jumps down to the lower deck. “You coming Tahi?”

“Yeah right behind you” I sit on the railing and jump down. I land hard and need a moment to shake it off as I follow my captain to our new boat.

“No, wait! you can't be serious!” Coby yells panicked “ I approach them like this, they'll just capture me like another pirate!”

“Kay I gotcha.” Luffy stretches out and grabs Coby, who screams as he shoots towards us. “Ready to set sail!” with the assistance of the lingering pirates to launch the boat, we land in the water with a splash. Luffy and I start rowing at top speed. I never thought two years of dragon boat racing would end up being actually useful. We're able to escape the marines in one piece, I fall backwards exhausted, while I have the experience, that doesn't mean I have the stamina.. I stare up into the sky, watching clouds float by lazily.

“We actually managed to get away!” Coby exclaims elated.

“Ah.” Luffy sighs, sitting next to me with a relaxed grin. “What fun!”

“Yeah...fun…” I snort sprawled out like a cat.

“So, Luffy.” Coby interjects.

“Huh?”

“If you're searching for the elusive One Piece, then you have to be headed for the Grand Line right?”

“Mhm., yeah”

“You know the people I've talked to call that place the Pirate Graveyard.”

“Ehh, it's not as scary as the rumours say it is.” I say lazily.

“Wait, have you been?” Coby asks.

“Not exactly, but I know quite a bit about it from first hand accounts I've read” technically true since it follows the strawhats adventure directly. “The first half, Paradise isn't too bad. There are a few Warlords set up there, Crocodile, Moria, maybe Kuma? He kinda just bounces around depending on who needs him for what.. but it's pretty chill. The New World, the second half, is were things get a bit crazy. The weather is insane and the people there are crazy strong. All of the four emperors have territories there and a few warlords too.” I'm starting to feel kinda sleepy.. The warm rays and gentle sea, lulling me into a near sleep.

“That sounds so exciting!” Luffy wriggles in anticipation. “I didn't know you knew so much about the grand line! That's so cool! We'll need an extra strong crew!”

“What about Tahi?” Coby asks

“I'm working on it. And not every member has to be a powerhouse right off the bat, eh cap’n.”

“Yeah, you're right. But you know, you didn't do too bad against those guys! That whole barking thing was hilarious!” He laughs, then turns to Coby. “you mentioned some pirate hunter. So what's he like?”

“Oh, you mean Zoro? Last I Heard Was That he’s being held prisoner at some Marine base.”

“Oh, well…A weakling, huh?”

“No! You're so wrong!” Coby shouts “He's as violent as a demon, and three times as horrifying!” he pauses. “Why are you asking about him anyway?”

“I figure if he's good enough I'll ask him to join my crew!”

“Chasing him down is just plain reckless!”

“You never know, he might jump at the chance to join me.”

“He's a bad enough guy that the marines caught him!” He's so worked up the boat starts to rock. “No way! Not a chance!” I sit up watching Coby freak out “Forget it! No, no n-” I take a thong off and throw it catching Coby square in the face just as Luffy bops him on the head.”Ow! Why’d you guys do that!”

“Cause I felt like it.”

“If you keep freaking out like that you're gonna capsize the boat.” I retrieve my thong, sliding it back on my foot and plopping down next to Luffy, resting my head on his shoulder. “Sleepy…” I yawn as Luffy laughs.

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*This is true. I have super vivid dreams that get super detailed. I wrote a few of them down, but got lazy lol. One of the ones that stuck with me was casually discussing the politics around Opium with Lau from kuroshitsuji. I don't even remember the specifics but I do remember enjoying the conversation, that was a fun dream lol.

** When talking about “Thongs”I am not talking about underwear, I'm talking about flip flops or jandals. Sometimes we call the underwear a thong or G-string.

With my Hungarian, since most of my family immigrated in the 50s, thanks to the time capsule effect some terms I use are dated, or just wrong.

Hungarian.

Kurva(Koo-r-voh) Whore/prostitute

Picsa(Pee-choh) Cunt

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Blown Away Ch1

One Piece Isekai FanFic

Also available on A03 under the same name. First time posting a story so please don't be too harsh.

I will try to post fortnightly.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63692560

Chapter 1:

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

I love storms. Love watching huge, ominous clouds roll in off the ocean. Love the feel of rain on my skin. Love the rumbling of thunder like the beating drums of great big giants in the sky. Love the striking patterns lightning leaves as it arches across the clouds. Most of all I love the wind. Ever since I was a child I've loved the wind. I love the howling, like the song of wild animals. I love watching twirlie devils scooping up leaves and ruffling hair. And most of all, when it's at its peak, feeling like one of those leaves as it blows you off your feet.

I have fond memories of walking home with my mum and being swept up in a gust, her hand strong and steady as I flap like a weird ass flag, giggling my head off, feeling like if I let go of her hand I would just fly away.

I smile to myself as I look out into the ocean, watching the sun set, boats silhouetted on the horizon with their tiny shimmering lights, and where the horizon meets the sea huge, black, clouds like the Nothing from the Neverending Story roll towards me.

The ocean is churning, roaring waves crashing loudly as rain comes down steadily, a rhythmic tempo as it hits someone's tin roof. Though not strong, gusts of wind swirl around me, trees swaying like they're dancing. And I join in, half humming half singing the lyrics to dancing in the rain as I do just that.

The sun dips below the clouds and dusk becomes night, the rain starts pouring down in buckets. The wind is stronger, feeling like hands pulling me out into the inky black ocean. I make the executive decision to go home.

Trudging back through the storm is more taxing than I expected, the side paths have gone slippery with mud so I opt to walk on the road in an attempt to avoid going ass up. The rain is coming down so heavily it feels like pins falling from the sky, made worse by the biting gusts of wind, tearing at me from all directions, the temperature dropping fast.

“Jesus fuck , why is it so cold all of a sudden!? I live in the tropics! What I wouldn't kill for a warm fire and hot chocolate right now..”

I'm about a block away from my house when a strong gust hits my back knocking me back off my feet, my head cracking hard against the curb.

I’m a dumbass… but that storm was gorgeous coming in..

Everything goes dark.

I feel like I'm underwater, I just float, my thoughts slow and sluggish, and I open my eyes. I see nothing but dark around me except light above me, looking like a glistening gem. I just float, watching the light above be, Idly thinking if I'm meant to go towards it or what.

When a shadow passes overhead my brain catches up, I exhale in shock, I'm actually underwater and need to breathe, need to breathe,needtobreath!

I desperately swim up, gasping and wheezing as I break through.

I just float there for a moment, catching my breath.

“What the actual fuck just happened” I mutter to myself, I look around seeing small boat and endless ocean. Too open it just keeps going on forever!

toomuchsky!toomuchsea!toomuchemptyspace

“Hey you ok?” A boyish voice calls out, pulling me out of my panic.

I look over to see a guy wearing a worn red vest and straw hat, looking at me with a mix of concern and confusion.

“Honestly I don't know, is it ok if I hitch a ride?”

“Sure thing!” He grins sunnily at me, then he reaches out and his arm stretches unnaturally, hoisting me up and out of the water and into the boat. My mouth hangs open in sheer shock at that.

I must have hit my head pretty hard.. I rub the back of my head feeling a decent lump.

“I think I probably have a concussion,tsitsitsi, I swear your arm just stretched like a bungee cord…” I chuckle awkwardly

“Shishishi. Yeah it did, cause I’m a rubber man!” I feel my eyes bulge as he pulls on his cheek and it streaches, and streaches, and streaches. What the fuck! How!? I pause, properly taking in the guy in front of me. He's so unassuming, messy black hair, tanned skin, dark brown eyes with a scar under his left eye. His clothes are pretty commonplace for coastal areas, but it's straight out of the pages of the manga, scuffed sandals, old jean shorts, faded red vest and worn straw hat.

“No way, w-what?” I mutter, what the fuck, what the actual living fuck!? No fucking way this is real, am I having a lucid dream? Yeah lets go with that, this is just a disturbingly vivid dream. No fucking way is Monkey D fucking Luffy sitting infront of me right now! I'm legitimately freaking out. Am I having a panic attack? Maybe? Almost? Probably

“Shishishi, you're really weird!” He says laughing “I’m Monkey D Luffy! Who’re you?”

“Y-yeah a-a lot o-of people th-think I'm w-weird. I-I’m Tahere Dy-Dynasty ” Between my anxiety and the chill from the storm I start stuttering and stumbling over my words.

“Nice to meetcha Tahere D Dynasty!” I'm sort of on auto pilot at this point.

Wait no thats not-

“Heey do you wanna join my pirate crew?” His grin widening.

I slump tiredly “Yeah s-sure, why n-not” I obviously have no control over whatever the fuck dream I'm having right now, might as well go along with it

“Yes! I got my first crew mate!” He yells, pumping his fist in the air. “What a great day!”

Wait first? How early in the series am I? I then notice the boat we're in is moving on its own. Looking around, please no… There it is, a great big fuck off whirlpooI sucking us in faster and faster!

“U-um captain..”

“Shishishi, you called me captain!”

“We're ah.. being sucked into a whirlpool”

“Hmm oh, whoops… I guess I was a little careless..” He laughs “Oh well, can't be helped, down we go.”

“Wait what!? nonononono!” I grip the sides of the boat screaming as we're sucked down into the vortex of swirling water, Luffy laughing the whole way down.

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