One Piece (Love Story) [Part One]

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Six [Rewritten]

"Exactly" Sanji and Usopp nodded in agreement.

"Camping!" Luffy happily cheered as he and the reindeer now started to jump up and down in childish glee.

"This isn't a party! We're in enemy territory!" Usopp snapped at the two. "Now, calm down!" he huffed.

"Not a party, got it" Luffy nodded before his gaze wandered over toward the knocked-out Sky Sharks that lay floating in the water, his eyes soon sparkling as an idea suddenly crossed his mind. "Hey, Usopp, is a barbecue a party?" he slyly asked.

-Later-

"These things are tasty!" Luffy grinned, tearing into the cooked Sky Shark as we sat around the campfire we had built for the night.

"Where does it all go?" I asked while leaning over toward Zoro after finally noticing just how much Luffy had eaten in such a short amount of time since we left the ship and settled down onshore. How was his stomach not aching? How wasn't he feeling sick and nauseous from eating that much food in one sitting?

"Don't know" Zoro shrugged.

"You would eat dirt if we told you it was food..." Nami grumbled in slight annoyance as she watched how the captain continued to stuff his face.

"You haven't tried it—what do you know?" Luffy shot right back.

"Luffy, have...have you eaten dirt before?" I slowly blinked upon registering what he had just said.

"Maybe..." he responded before quickly going back to eating his food, not really elaborating on his answer. Part of me knew I couldn't judge him too much for possibly eating dirt, but a stronger part of me felt revulsion at the idea of eating something so grainy and inedible as dirt. At least the food my brothers and I would raid from the trashcans in desperation was edible in a way.

"Quiet down! It is now time to hear everyone's field report!" Usopp exclaimed, tapping against a chalkboard that seemingly came out of nowhere since I don't remember it being there just mere second's ago.

"Where the hell did you get a chalkboard?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Doesn't matter" he dismissively waved before turning his attention towards Sanji and motioning for the blond to speak.

"We ran into this Priest named Satori who uses spheres with different kinds of threats inside each one—explosives, dragons, the usual" Sanji explained. "But what really hung us out to dry in the fight was the guy predicting our moves using a power called Mantra or something."

"The Priest that attacked me was named Shura and he used a spear that catches fire to anything, he seemed like he could predict my moves just like that Satori guy and I tried and tried to attack him but he...he dodged me every single time..." Chopper sadly muttered, his head drooping as his mood soured upon remembering what had happened. "Then the bird that he was riding burnt down the mast and the Sky Knight was defeated" he concluded.

"Sounds like you all had a rough time" Nami said. "Well, what we found out was that this island we're on is actually the missing part of Jaya" she told everyone. "You see, the City of Gold didn't sink into the ocean, it was shot into the sky like us."

"Excellent work! Now based on your report, we've learned that the Priest can predict our moves using a power called Mantra, and the bird and spear burn you" Usopp reiterated. "But most importantly, we've learned that this," he pointed at the words he had written down on the chalkboard, "the City of Gold, is not thousands of lengths down under the ocean as we thought, but it is somewhere on this very island."

"No way!" Luffy excitedly gasped as if he was just hearing this for the first time.

"That was the first thing I told you!" Nami snapped.