Luffy's Bad Day

Luffy's bad day

When Luffy opened his eyes, he found himself standing in a large open meadow with a clear blue river winding through it. He looked around and smiled at the beautiful scene unfolded before him.

“Wow. This island’s b-e-a-utiful~! I wonder where the others are? Come to think of it, when did we even get here? I would have been able to spot this island a mile away. In fact, where’s the ship?! Oh no I must be lost. Dammit, I’m becoming more like Zoro every day.” But as Luffy began to think, a large cloud of smoke suddenly blew into him. COUGH!-COUGH!-HACK! The black haired man coughed heavily as he tried to get the smoke out his lungs, but as he looked up he gasped. Sanji was standing in front of him, only the chef was about a hundred feet high and was currently taking a drag on his cigarette. Noticing his miniscule captain, he glared at him.

“It was you who stole the meat from yesterday, wasn’t it, Luffy?” he said in a slow but booming voice, before he began to lift his foot, causing the latter to rapidly wave his hands in defence.

“No!-No!-No!-No!-No! C-Can’t we talk this over?!” BOOM! Luffy had to jump away to avoid the enormous black shoe from crushing him. Left with no other choice, he ran, with Sanji in hot pursuit.

“You get back here, you little thief!” he roared.

“No way! If I let you catch up, you’re gonna make mulch out of me!” Luffy shouted until he suddenly bumped into something soft causing him to bounce backwards. Looking up, he found himself staring at a large pair of breasts, which of course belonged to none other than his girlfriend and secret fiancé, Nami, who was lying in front of him on her stomach and was now also a giant.

“Hi, sweetie. What happened to you?” she smiled.

“What happened to me?! What happened to- oh what does it matter? Nami, you’ve gotta help me! Sanji’s gone nuts and he’s trying to squash me!”

“Sanji? But Sanji’s not here.” The giant Nami said.

“What are you talking about? He’s right the-”but as Luffy turned around to point to the giant cook who’d been pursuing him, he found only empty space.

“But…he was right…”

“Luffy are you feeling okay? You don’t look well. Maybe you should see Chopper.”

“M…maybe you’re right.” Luffy mumbled as he rubbed his head, seemingly forgetting that his girlfriend was now over ten stories high.

“Oh, come here. Let me give you a kiss.” Nami cooed as she pursed her lips slightly and began to lean towards him.

“Whoa!-Whoa! Hold on, Nami. You’re too big! You’ll end up sucking me into your mouth.” As he backed away from her.

“Aww that’s too bad.” She pouted before smiling again. “Well at least let me blow you one.” she added before kissing her palm and taking a deep breath.

“No wait!” BLOW! As the navigator gently blew the large kiss at her captain, a powerful gust sent him flying back across the field and far away from Nami until he hit something else that was also soft. However, what he’d hit seemed fluffier than Nami and a bit hairy. Luffy turned around to see an enormous Blizzard sitting in front of him.

“BLIZZARD! Boy am I glad to see you!” Luffy said as he hugged his dog’s leg. “Everything’s completely upside down. Everybody’s turned into a giant and I have no idea where I am. What’s going on?” the large wolf-dog looked at his master for a moment before licking his chops hungrily, causing Luffy’s eyes to widen in fear. “Blizzard? Buddy? You’re not thinking about eating me, are you?” he grinned in terror. The wolf-dog only licked his lips again. “I thought so. Bye!” Luffy added quickly before dashing off, Blizzard tailing behind him. Luffy ran and ran until he suddenly hit the side of a large mountain that seemed to come out of nowhere.

“Blizzard, come on, you wouldn’t eat me. It’s me, Luffy! You’re best friend!” the captain begged, but before Blizzard could pounce on him, several small shots hit the wolf-dog, exploding on impact. BOOM!-BOOM!-BOOM!-BOOM! Blizzard whimpered as the attacks hit him before he turned tail and galloped off.

“Who the hell was that?” Luffy asked no one in particular, before looking up again to see a figure standing on top of the mountain, pointing to the sky. A yellow mask gleamed in the sun, and Luffy gasped in happiness. “SOGEKING~!!” he cheered at the arrival of his idol who looked down, noticing him, but didn’t speak. “Thanks a lot; you came here to save me. You’re so awesome~!” the sniper king looked at Luffy for a moment before he took a flying leap off the mountain and began to dive down towards him. As he drew closer, Luffy noticed him reel his hand back to reveal an impact dial attached to his palm. Once again, terrified, he began to back away.

“No! Please! Sogeking, not you too! I’m your friend!” but before he could say another word, Sogeking thrust the dial at Luffy’s face.

“IMPACT!!!” and the last thing Luffy saw, was a flash of light and a deafening BANG!

XXX
THUD! Luffy awoke with a start to find himself lying on the floor of his and Nami’s room.

“Who?! What the-?! Whe-?!...Oh. Of course. It was all a dream. Blizzard wouldn’t eat me. And there’s no way Sogeking would attack me. He’s a hero.” As Luffy got to his feet, he noticed that Nami was no longer in bed, but just then, his nose caught the faint smell of food and he could also just hear the voices of his crew talking. He gasped.

“Oh god! No! No god, please, please tell me I haven’t!” he panicked as he scrambled up the ladder that led to the women’s quarters, out the door and around to the kitchen only to find, much to his dismay, the rest of his crew sitting together at the table already eating. They all turned to face him.

“Finally made it, huh Luffy? You’re only forty-five minutes late.” Zoro chuckled.

“But…”

“You know the rules, Luffy. You were late so you get no breakfast. Now buzz off.” Sanji said.

"Come on Sanji, gimme a break~"

"I'll break your arm if you don't get out of my hair. Now piss off!” Luffy growled at Sanji before facing Nami.

“Nami, why didn’t you wake me up? Ever since we started sharing a room, you always make sure I don’t miss breakfast.”

“I’m sorry Luffy. It’s just you looked like you were having a nice dream. I didn’t want to ruin it for you.” She said apologetically.

“Nice?! It was insane. You, Blizzard and Sanji were all giants. Sanji tried to squash me and Blizzard tried to eat me! And then Sogeking showed up and hit me with an impact dial and then I woke up and fell out of bed in the process. It was awful!” Luffy ranted.

“So what did I do?” Nami asked.

“You blew a kiss at me and sent me flying, cause you were so big. But that’s not the point!”

“I know what you mean, Luffy. In my dream, Blizzard thought my nose was a hot dog and tried to bite it off. Plus Brook was playing the bagpipes and hopping on one foot while singing a song about shrimps. Also, Blizzard could talk. You said some pretty mean things.” Usopp said to the wolf dog, who whined as if to say, ‘I’m sorry’, the rest of the crew staring at the sniper a bit surprised that his dream seemed madder than their captain’s. Luffy stared at his crew before huffing angrily and storming out. This wasn’t turning out to be a good morning at all.

XXX

Despite the fact that Nami managed to sneak Luffy a pancake after she’d left the table, it was nowhere near enough to fill even an inch of the boy’s ravenous rubber stomach. As of now he’d been casually lying on the deck, occasionally rolling back and forth across the grass to try and entertain himself, or to put it more accurately, ignore the hunger gnawing at his belly. The mad desire for food driving him more and more to attack Sanji and demand the combination to the fridge.

“Urgh! Staaaarrrviiiiinnngg~!!!” he groaned as he crossed his legs over, still trying to ignore the hunger or the evil part of his conscience attempting to persuade him to assault Sanji for the code. But as he sat up, he noticed Chopper approaching him.

“Oh thank god, a distraction. This oughta keep my mind and tummy off food for a bit.” He thought. “What’s up, Chopper?” he then said.

“Luffy, could you come and help me in the sick bay, please?”

“Sure.” Luffy replied as he followed his little friend into the sick bay. “So what do you need me for?”

“My shelves are getting a bit cluttered. I’m going to pass down some bottles to you and then you put them in this crate so I can move them to the storage room.” Chopper explained as he climbed onto his desk and reached for the first bottle of medicine which he handed to Luffy, who then put it in the box. The two continued to move the bottles from the shelf to the crate, but as Chopper reached for the next one, a wasp, which had flown in from the kitchen, buzzed in front of him sending the little reindeer into a panic.

“AAAAAAAHHH!! WASP~!!!” Chopper screamed as he swatted madly at the bug which flew away, but as he did, he accidentally knocked the bottle he was reaching for off the shelf, which fell towards Luffy. SPLISH! The captain was the dowsed in a shower of brown liquid, causing him to fall backwards onto the floor in shock.

“GAH! What is this stuff?! IT REEKS~!!” Luffy cried as he tried to wipe off the brown stinking, liquid.

“Luffy, I’m so sorry.” Chopper apologised, who was currently clamping his hooves over his little blue nose. He looked like he was about to faint. “That was the potion I developed for Usopp’s new Stink stars. It’s made from eggs, skunk balm and ground up Rafflesia pop greens.”

“I don’t care what it’s made off, just make it stop smelling or I’m gonna throw up!” Luffy yelled angrily and he covered his nose, only to pull his hands away and groan again since they were covered in the potion as well.

“You’ll need to go and take a bath, Luffy. And a long one. It’ll take a lot of water and soap to get rid of the stink.” Chopper said.

“You don’t have to tell me twice, pal.” Luffy grunted as he ran out of the sick bay.

“Again, I’m really sorry Luffy. It was an accident.” Chopper called as Luffy disappeared. “This just isn’t his day today.” He then sighed to himself.

XXX

Luffy staggered into the bathroom and turned on the taps in the bath as he impatiently waited for it to fill. But as he put a foot in, he immediately leapt back and shivered violently.

“JUMPING ICE CUBES~! IT’S FREEZING~!! BRRRR!” he shivered before grumbling and pulling out the plug. “Great, so now there’s no hot water. I’m not waiting for an hour for Franky to heat up the water. Looks like I’ll need Nami’s help for this one.” After grimly putting his now foul smelling clothes back on, he made his way to the library. As he entered, he found Nami beginning her latest map. Immediately noticing the smell, she pinched her nose tightly and turned to face Luffy.

“Luffy what the hell is wrong with you?! You stink! Go clean yourself up!” she shouted as she groaned from the stench.

“It’s not my fault! Chopper spilled a stink potion on me and I was going to take a bath, but there’s no hot water, and I’m not waiting for Franky to heat up the boiler, so can you please make me one of those shower clouds you like to use? Please?”

“Oh, Luffy I’m sorry. I didn’t know. Yes, of course I will.” Nami said as she followed Luffy back to the bathroom and pointed her Clima Tact at the ceiling. “Shower Tempo!” PLIP! A small rain cloud emerged form the tip of Nami’s Clima Tact and floated above the bathtub. “There you go, Luffy. That should give you all the warm water you need.”

“Thanks a lot, Nami. Really, thank you. I can’t take this stink much longer.” Luffy said.

“It’s okay, babe. I know you’ve had a rough morning, but it’ll work out eventually. I promise.” Nami said before taking her leave. Luffy smiled after her, before taking his clothes off again and stepping under the cloud which began to rain on him. As he showered, he had to admit, the warm water was very soothing, and he actually began to feel less grumpy than he was this morning.

“Maybe Nami’s right. Perhaps my day will get better eventually.” He said to himself, as the scrubbed his arms and rinsed his hair, until the cloud stopped raining, when he was finished. But as he stepped out to reach for a towel, he noticed someone hanging outside the window of the bathroom.

“AAAAHH! PEEPING TOM!!” he cried but as he tried back away he slipped on the wet tiles, sending him falling backwards and banging his head hard on the tiled floor. BANG! “OW!! DAMMIT, MY HEAD!!!” he cried as he clutched his now very sore head and kicked his legs back and forth.

“Hey, you okay, Straw hat?” the spying figure asked. Recognising the voice, Luffy shakily picked himself up, remembering to wrap his towel around his waist, before seeing that it was Franky hanging outside the window.

“FRANKY?! What the hell are you doing out there spying on me?! What’s wrong with you?!” Luffy yelled, furiously.

“Sorry, Luffy. I didn’t know you were in there. The wall outside has a dent in it from a past battle. I was just repairing it.” The cyborg apologised.

“Urgh! Never mind.” Luffy grumbled as he walked out of the bathroom to continue his terrible day, still clutching the back of his throbbing head, where a lump was starting to form.

XXX

As Luffy made his way back out onto the deck, he decided to go and see what Usopp was up to, hoping that spending some time talking to his friend would take his mind off his stomach which had started complaining again. He opened the hatch in the deck, before climbing down the ladder to the soldier dock system and making his way down the corridor to find Usopp tinkering with some sort of weapon in his factory. Sensing Luffy’s presence, he looked up and smiled.

“Hey Luffy. How’s it going?”

“Not well. I’ve had a very bad morning. As you know, I had a crazy dream, fell out of bed and missed breakfast, but then I got splashed by that stink potion Chopper was making for you.”

“Oh sorry, man. That must’ve been nasty.” Usopp said.

“Yes, but then when I went to take a bath, there was no hot water, so Nami had to make me one of those shower clouds of hers. But then after I finished my shower, Franky appeared outside the window, since he was fixing one of the walls. I got a fright and slipped and banged my head.” Luffy said before pointing to the large lump on the back of his head.

“Damn. Today just isn’t your day.” Usopp said as he took a sip of water from the glass on his desk, before going back to tinkering. Intrigued, Luffy wandered over to see what the sniper was inventing.

“So whatcha doin’?” Luffy asked.

“I’m trying to develop a new way of using an impact dial that doesn’t harm the user.” Usopp explained as he attached the dial to some form of metal glove, which he then put on his hand, before facing Luffy.

“Okay, Luffy. Gimme a Gum Gum Bazooka.” He grinned.

“Really?”

“Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. Come on. Gimme your best shot.” Usopp said reassuringly. Luffy shrugged his shoulders before stretching his arms back.

“GUM….GUUUUM…BAZOOKA!!” VWOOM!! As his hands hit the dial, the impact was immediately sucked into it.

“Great. Now to test it out.” Usopp grinned as turned to face a test dummy which he’d set up in the factory. He then reeled his palm back before thrusting it towards the dummy. “IMPACT!!” but as the shell touched the dummy, nothing seemed to happen.

“What the…” Usopp said, confused as he tapped the metallic glove, but at that moment, the contraption began to spark and jolt. “IT’S GONNA BLOW!!!” he screamed before taking the glove off and throwing it at the dummy. KABOOM!! The blast sent both Usopp and Luffy flying backwards and hitting the wall, as the impact dial was blown off of the glove and rolled around on the floor. Luffy groaned as he sat up, rubbing his head.

“Looks like it’s back to the drawing board, huh Usopp.” He said, but just then, he heard what sounded like a growl. He slowly turned around to see Usopp’s Kabuto had grown into its Chomping Grass form, since the glass of water had splashed onto it during the explosion. The large plant/weapon growled at Luffy before it lunged at him. CHOMP! It bit down on the captain, trapping his top half in its mouth.

“HELP! GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF!!” Luffy screamed as he tried to pull himself out of the hungry plant’s mouth. Usopp slowly sat up, a dazed look on his face, before shaking his head.

“Wha…What happened? LUFFY!” he shouted as he noticed his friend being eaten. He quickly grabbed a plank before running over to his slingshot and began bashing the plank again the plant’s head. BONK! BONK! BONK! “NO! Bad Kabuto! Spit him out right now!” the plant looked at the sniper for a moment before spitting Luffy out of its mouth. P’TOO! Luffy was sent tumbling across the ground, gasping for air and covered from head to waist in green slime.

“Usopp, what the hell is wrong with that weed?! Why would it try to eat me?! Now I’m covered in plant slobber!”

“Sorry, Luffy. Sometimes Kabuto can get a bit frisky when he’s hungry.” Usopp said as he patted the plant’s head which then shrank back into its mini form. But no sooner had this happened, an earth shaking rumble sound throughout the room. “What was that?! Did a Sea King show up?!”

“No it’s my stomach! In case you’ve forgotten, I haven’t eaten all morning. I’m dying over here!” Luffy groaned.

“Oh yeah you’re right. Hold on.” Usopp said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a large handful of sweets. “Here. You haven’t eaten a thing.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah. Think of it as my way of saying sorry for Kabuto trying to eat you.” Luffy stared at the brightly coloured treats in his friend’s hand. He knew that he’d run the risk of getting a stomach-ache if he ate too much candy, but his roaring belly seemed to be yelling louder than his thoughts. Ignoring any other option, Luffy gratefully took the offering from Usopp before heading back to the deck. Surely, at least a sweet treat would brighten his bad day up a little, right? RIGHT?!

XXX

Wrong.

“Uuuuhhh my tummy~!” Luffy groaned as he clutched his now aching stomach. Just as he’d expected, his sweet tooth got the better of him and now, the poor raven haired boy was in deep pain. As he staggered back to the library, knowing that his only cure was still there, he knocked.

“Come in.” Luffy opened the door to find Nami still working on her map.

“Luffy, what’s wrong?” she asked.

“Stomach-ache.”

“But where’d you get candy?” Nami questioned.

“Well…um…funny story. See, I went to talk to Usopp and he was trying to make a new invention but it blew up and spilt some water on his slingshot, so it turned into that big man-eating plant form, and then it saw me and tried to eat me. So…Usopp kind of gave me some sweets to say sorry.”

“Oh Usopp.” Nami sighed irritably.

“So…could you give me a tummy rub, please?”

“Oh, Luffy. I’d love to, I really would. It’s just, I’m really busy right now. I have a lot of drawing to do. I’m afraid I’m not gonna be able to give you a tummy rub right now. I’m really sorry.” Despite the fact that Luffy managed to keep an understanding smile on his face, inside, he was screaming with rage.

“That’s okay. I’ll just go and endure the pain.” He said, through gritted teeth, as he slowly stepped backwards out of the library.

“I really am sorry, sweetheart. I know you’re having a very bad day, but I promise I’ll make it up to you.” Nami apologised.

“No, you don’t have to. It’s not your fault. You have nothing to make up for. I don’t want to be a nuisance.” Luffy said, still wearing his forced grin.

“You’re not being a nuisance. You’re just down on your luck. I promise, once I’m done with my map, I’ll do anything I can to cheer you up.” Nami said before crossing her finger over the chest. “Cross my heart.” Luffy felt his own heart warm up over the sweet gesture, before smiling for real this time, and crossing his finger over his scar, before taking his leave.

“She always knows how to give me hope. I’m so lucky to have someone like her. I can’t wait to marry her.” He thought. But as he made his way towards the crow’s nest to begin his watch, he suddenly felt his sandal step on something. Something soft and squishy, almost like mud. “Weird, I don’t remember, the deck getting muddy. What could have…” but before Luffy could finish his sentence, he soon noticed what it was he’d stepped in. Something very bad that Blizzard had decided to leave on deck. As Luffy looked down grimly at the mess his foot was now in, he slowly inhaled and sighed, doing his very best to ignore the foul smell that had reached his nose. But then, he started to chuckle. While on first glance, you’d think he was just thinking of something funny, he was chuckling in anger, and he was about flip his lid. Luffy continued to chuckle madly before taking a deep breath and screaming a single word so loud, it would scare a school of Sea Kings.

“DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMNN~!!!!!”

XXX

About a mile away, a marine battleship was currently delivering supplies back to one of its bases, but just then, one of the men stopped working as he heard a sound not far off to the west.

“Hey. Did you hear something?” he said to one of his comrades.

“No. What did it sound like?”

“Like…an angry yell. On the portside.” The marine said before he walked over to the rail and pulled out his spyglass before looking to the west, before spotting a small shape on the horizon. “Hey, I see a ship about a mile away.”

“Can you tell who it is? Is it one of ours?” the other marine asked.

“No, no, it’s too small. Wait…the flag! IT’S THE STRAW HATS!!”

“The Straw hats?! Alert the commander! We’re taking a detour!” the other marine ordered.

“Yes, Sir!”

XXX

Back on the Sunny, Luffy had furiously cleaned his sandal of Blizzard’s unmentionable and then made his way to the crow’s nest to begin his watch. Despite the fact that  the whole crew came out asking him what he was screaming about, all he said back was ‘You don’t want to know.’ As of now, he was sitting on the couch in the nest, miserably looking around for any sign of danger. But at that moment, he spotted a ship approaching the Sunny from the west. After looking through the telescope, he soon discovered it was none other than the marines. He sighed irritably.

“Great. As if my day couldn’t get any worse.” He said grimly before climbing down out of the crow’s nest and over to the rail to see the marine ship pulling up alongside. He faced the commander, with a rather bored expression. It seemed that for once…Luffy didn’t feel like fighting.

“What do you losers want?” he said nonchalantly.

“Don’t crack wise, pirate. Now tell us where Straw Hat is.” The marine commander said. Luffy raised his eyebrow.

“You’re kidding right? Tell me you’re joking.” He said back to the commander. “Tell me. Have you even seen Straw hat’s poster before? Do you even know what he looks like? Well let me ask you punks a few questions. Say? Does he have a big friendly grin? Like this?” he said as he flashed his trademark smile. The marines nodded. “Aaaand does he wear a red shirt? Like this one?” he asked, pointing to his shirt, earning another nod. “Aaaand does he wear a straw hat? Like this?” the marines nodded again. “Nope. Never heard of him.” Luffy said as he began to walk away before turning right back around, looking absolutely pissed.

“IT’S ME YOU PEA-BRAINED NUMBSKULLS~!!! THE CLUE’S IN THE HAT!!” the marines gasped in realisation. “Honestly. You guys call yourselves marines? How the hell can you be allowed to work in the New World, if you can’t even recognise a famous pirate when you see one?!” By this point, the marines were now looking at Luffy in anger from all the insults he’d just given them, but Luffy simply shook his head in disappointment. “You losers aren’t even worth fighting, so go bite yourselves!” But as the marines were about to board the Sunny Luffy simply exhaled and looked right at them. VWEEM~!! His pupil expanded before all the marines began to tremble until every single one of them fell unconscious, foaming at the mouth. Luffy sighed. “What a waste of time. Well let’s get this over with.” he said before boarding the marine ship, purposely stepping on a few of the men as he passed.

XXX

About ten minutes later, the rest of the crew came out when they heard the sounds of banging and clattering coming from outside. Of course they all gasped when they saw a large pile of chests and bags lying on the deck, but they were even more shocked to see the marine battleship sitting beside them.

“When the hell did that get here?!” Usopp squawked.

“YOHO! I’m so surprised, my eyes may pop out, even though I don’t have eyes. Yohohohoho!” Brook said.

“Wasn’t it Luffy’s watch? Why didn’t he tell us a ship showed up?” Sanji asked.

“Maybe the marines caught him and threw him in the sea.” Robin assumed. But the crew soon got their answer when Luffy appeared on the marine ship, carrying some large metal contraption on his back.

“What’s that he’s carrying?” Choppers asked.

“I…I think it’s a boiler.” Franky said. SPLASH! Luffy then threw the boiler off the ship and into the sea.

“There. That settles that.” he said in a bored tone as he dusted his hands.

“Luffy, what’s going on? When did this ship get here?” Nami called to him.

“Oh, about ten minutes ago actually. But it doesn’t matter. The fight finished before it even started.”

“Wait, you mean you hogged all the fight to yourself. I really wanted to kick some ass, Luffy.” Franky said, slightly disappointed.

“Yeah me too. My swords are getting hungry.” Zoro agreed.

“Don’t forget me. I finished fixing my weapon. I could have tried it out.” Usopp said.

“Well, not today. I knocked them all out with my Haki, took all their money and most of their food. I didn’t eat any of it though, since my stomach still hurts. Oh, and I also tore out their boiler so they can’t follow us.”

“But Luffy, this isn’t like you. You usually want us to fight with you.” Chopper said.

“Yeah, this isn’t like you at all. You’re not depressed again are you?” Blizzard asked.

“NO! But I am pissed! This has been the WORST day EVER!” Luffy roared.

“Whoa! Easy, Captain. What could have been so bad about it?” Zoro asked.

“Oh? Well let’s do a recap, shall we? First I had a bad dream and fell out of bed. Then I missed breakfast, so I ended up starving. Next, Chopper spills a stink potion on me, so I have to go take a bath. But wait, there’s no hot water, so Nami has to make me a shower cloud. But after that, Franky appears outside the window and I get a fright and slip and bang my head on the floor. After THAT,” he continued, getting even angrier. “Usopp’s slingshot tries to eat me, after his new toy blew up. So then he gives me sweets to say sorry, and wouldn’t you know it? I get a stomach-ache!” By this point, the crew was becoming a bit intimidated. It wasn’t often they saw Luffy this angry. But he wasn’t done yet. “AND THEN, Nami’s too busy to give me a tummy rub, so I have to wait the pain out, but then when I’m going to start my watch, what happens? I end up stepping in one of Blizzard’s unmentionables!” the wolf dog shrank back, in shame, and whined, the rest of the crew looking rather disgusted at him. “And to top all that off, the marines decide to show up, and I can’t be bothered fighting, SO, that’s why I hogged the whole battle in ten seconds! THERE! That’s why this has been the worst day ever! Now, Franky, turn on the cola jet. We’re getting out of here.” He said as he began to walk away.

“But Luffy-”

“THAT’S AN ORDER!!” Luffy snapped at the cyborg before making his way back to the crow’s nest, leaving the crew alone.

“Poor Luffy. He really has had a bad day.” Chopper said.

“Now I kind of regret not letting him have breakfast this morning.” Sanji said.

“No it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have given him candy. I was just trying to apologise.” Usopp confessed.

“No, if there’s anyone to blame it’s me. Why did I have to go and do…‘that’ to him?” Blizzard said shamefully. “I’m disgusting.”

“No. It’s all our fault. Luffy’s gone through hell today and not had any fun at all. We should have been there for him, but we were too stupid to realise it. It’s up to us to cheer him up.” Nami said. “Especially me.”

“But what can we do? You know when Luffy’s fed up like this, nothing cheers him up. Not even meat.” Chopper said.

“Well there has to be something we can do. We have to cheer him up, one way or another.” Brook said, before the crew turned their gaze to Usopp.

“What gives?” he asks.

“Well you’re the one with the plans, Usopp. Got any ideas?” Robin asked.

“Hey, I’m not all about ideas! Besides, Chopper’s right. It’s nearly impossible to cheer Luffy up when he’s like this. I got nothing.” The crew sat there thinking, until a light flashed in Nami’s head, and she smiled.

“I’ve got it! I know just the thing to put that big smile back on our Captain’s face.”

“Like what?” Sanji asked.

“Well how does this sound?” Nami began.

XXX

Luffy lay sprawled across the couch, staring at the ceiling. It was six in the evening and he hadn’t bothered coming to dinner due to his stomach ache, or to put it more accurately, his fed up attitude. He just didn’t feel like eating after all the crap he had to go through. If there were two things he wasn’t right now, they were relaxed and cheerful. But at that moment, he heard the latch open and turned to see Nami poke her head through.

“Oh, hey Nami.” He said bluntly. “I kinda want to be alone right now.”

“No Luffy. We’re not going to just leave you here to mope. We know you’ve had a horrible day, but we want to cheer you up.”

“Well that’s sweet, but there’s no way anything can cheer me up after today. You could give a full roasted Sea King and I wouldn’t smile. Sorry Nami, but this has just been too much for me. All I wanna do right now is sleep and hope the next day will be better.”

“Well you’re not going to be able to sleep peacefully with that attitude, Mister. And as a matter of fact, we do know how to put that smile we love so much, back on your face. Please, if you’ll just come to the aquarium bar, I promise you’ll leave feeling happier than Chopper in a sweet shop.” Luffy stared at her for a moment before sighing.

“Fine. But I’m only doing this cause I have no other options.”

“Well actually, you could have chosen to stay here and be grumpy, but you didn’t. You do have other options, and you made the right one.” Nami said, before giving him a peck on the cheek. “You won’t be sorry.” Luffy casually followed her to the aquarium bar, to find the rest of crew waiting for them.

“What’s going on?” Luffy asked.

“Have a seat, Luffy.” Robin said. The former obliged and took a seat beside the archaeologist.

“I’ll ask again. What’s going on?”

“Luffy. Like I said, we know you’ve had a very bad day, and you don’t deserve that. So we’re gonna help you relax, unwind and let all that stress go. We’re each going to play our part. Right everyone?” Nami said.

“Right!” the others replied.

“Okay Luffy. Could turn a little to the left so I can reach your back?” Nami asked.

“Why?”

“So I can give you a massage. It’s great way to help you relax.” Luffy looked at her for a moment before shifting to his left, as Nami reached out and began to gently rub his back and shoulders. He flinched slightly before he began to loosen his muscles, and let out a contented sigh. But at that moment, he felt a pair of hands lift his feet up onto the sofa, discovering it to be Robin who smiled at him.

“While Nami does your back, I’ll give you a foot rub.” She explained before she began to slowly massage the soles of his feet, causing him to even groan a little from the relaxing treatment, while the rest of the crew chuckled slightly from seeing him smile, Sanji of course doing his best to hold back his anger form seeing his captain getting such a treatment. After Nami and Robin had finished massaging Luffy’s muscles, and the captain now feeling a lot less cramped, Franky then flipped a switch, which caused a few coloured lights to appear in the room and mirror ball released from the ceiling.

“Just a few relaxing details I added to the bar.” He explained.

“Neat.” Luffy complimented. But no sooner had he spoke, Brook picked up his guitar and began to play a smooth, jazzy song on it.

“YOW! Well now that you’re all loosened up, Luffy, I think now’s the time to cut loose and kick off your Sunday sandals.” Luffy grinned at the skeleton before offering Nami his hand, which she immediately took. The two then moved into the centre of the bar before they both began to dance cheerfully to Brook’s music.

“Say, that looks like fun.” Usopp said before getting up to join them.

“Me too!” Chopper cheered before getting up as well.

“Don’t forget me, little brother.” Blizzard laughed as he went to join Chopper. Within minutes the whole crew was dancing (except for Brook, who was still playing his guitar), Luffy still dancing with Nami, while Zoro danced with Robin. The swordsman was actually a lot better than he others thought he would be. After the song was over and the whole crew was now feeling relaxed, Blizzard then laid down in Luffy’s lap while Chopper curled up next to his big brother, pulling his tail around himself like a blanket. Usopp had decided to tell them a story; it was actually about his time on the Boin Archipelago with Heracles, since he never got the chance to tell them it when he first got back. Needless to say, the whole crew even found the truth hard to believe when it came from Usopp.

“Get out of here. You mean to say you ended up getting as fat as a blob fish and yet you came back not only thin again…but with freaking muscles?!” Sanji said in utter disbelief.

“Never mind that! You mean the island you were on was made entirely of food?!” Luffy said, his mouth watering. “Right! Set sail for the Boin Archipelago!”

“Very funny, Luffy.” Nami smirked. Not only had Usopp’s story helped cheer Luffy up a lot, but Sanji had also prepared Luffy a special snack that was made specifically to help the body relax but also satisfy any amount of hunger. The snack itself consisted of a cake along a cup of special tea that Brook had recommended. After all of this, the captain was now not only relaxed, satisfied and no longer fed up, but most of all, he was cheerful, as if none of the bad things that had happened to him that day had ever occurred. He let a long sleepy yawn, causing the crew to laugh.

“Looks like someone’s finally well and truly relaxed and ready to start a new day.” Nami smiled before helping Luffy to his feet. “Come on. All you need now is a good long rest.”

“Yeah. Thanks Nami, everyone. You really cheered me up. I’m sorry I thought you couldn’t.”

“No Luffy, we’re sorry. It’s our job, as your crew to be there for you when you need us. If you’re ever feeling fed up again, you just have to tell us. Next time, we promise we’ll be ready to help you in any way we can.” Zoro said.

“I’ll hold your word to it.” Luffy grinned. “Goodnight, everyone.”

“Goodnight, Luffy.” The crew replied, as Luffy and Nami made their way to their room and gently lay down beside each other.

“I really can’t thank you guys enough for this. You really knew how to make me smile again.” he said to his girlfriend.

“We’re always happy to help you, Luffy. You mean more to us than anything in the world, especially to me. That’s why we’ll always be with you to very end. Even after you’ve become King, and I’ve become your Queen.” Nami said.

“And you all mean more to me than anything in the world too. If I had to choose between the One Piece or my crew, I’d take you guys in a heartbeat, no, even quicker than that. What’s quicker than a heartbeat?” Nami giggled a little at the question.

“I have no idea. But it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that you already know what your true treasure is.”

“Yep. And I found it at the very beginning.” Luff said before embracing Nami warmly. “I love you, Nami.”

“I love you too Luffy. My greatest treasure.” Nami whispered as the two shared a kiss before slowly drifting off together, both lovers ready to face the next day together. But whether it turned out to be good or bad didn’t matter. All that mattered wad that they’d face it together and the rest of their crew, their family, would face it with them as well.

The End