Two Dreams, One Adventure

Drum Island

We're at the Drum arc in this chapter! Things are different from canon a lot, of course. Enjoy~

A bit later, they were having good food with the giants. Luffy wondered where Sanji was all this time. But he was tired and wanted to just enjoy some food. He looked at Zoro's ankles, angry. He saw this, and said he was fine. "You weren't. That was stupid, cutting your legs off?"

Zoro bristled. "We were going to die!" he said.

"You would'a died from blood loss, right? That would have been bad, and we couldn't reattach them! Unless you got two stumps, your time as a swordsman would have been that much harder!" Luffy shot back. The group was quiet as they argued. Luffy got up and left, heading back into the forest. He found a little alcove in a tree and sat there so no animals would bother him.

It didn't take long for Zoro to appear. Luffy looked away. "Are you really mad about my legs?" he asked.

"Of course! And then you didn't trust I would be there for you," Luffy said angrily. Zoro sighed, saying he wanted to be there for him. Escaping death was part of it. But he was scared about not knowing where he was. Luffy sighed, and looked back at his legs.

"It doesn't hurt, and I'm fine." Luffy was still angry. Then they both heard footsteps, but Luffy knew it was Sanji. When he came into view, Zoro demanded to know where the hell he'd been all this time. Sanji was shocked at the blood and soot on Luffy.

Sanji said he was talking to Mr. 0. He asked if they were okay. Well, he asked Luffy, but Luffy said Zoro was okay. Sort of. He tried to cut his legs off. "Huh?!"

"Maybe if you'd been there you would have known why!" Zoro shouted. "God, you're so useless!" Luffy had them stop arguing so they could just go to the others. When they got out there, everyone else was angry Sanji wasn't there. Especially Nami, whose clothes were ruined.

The giants were happy with how everything ended up. Luffy knew things could have been really bad if Dorry had drunk that alcohol. And Luffy was glad the circumstances were able to get him some blood. Vivi wasn't looking at him in fear, or ignoring him, which was good. He knew others wouldn't accept it, but so far his crew had. Maybe he could just somehow sense people that would understand.

He hoped Vivi might be able to stay once they save her kingdom. Nami finally has a female friend. If not, then they'd find another girl to take with them. That was for sure. When Sanji told them the news about telling them they were all dead, and getting a log pose, everyone was shocked.

Luffy started laughing about how things had turned out just fine! They had more food and booze with the giants, them telling the Straw Hats stories of their times, stories about their lives at Elbaf. Usopp was the most amazed. Luffy ended up falling asleep, food crumbs all over his mouth. The party was unusual, but really fun.

Zoro and Sanji had both brought their hunts back to the ship. Two dinosaurs. A t-rex and a triceratops. Both were almost exactly the same size, and nobody had the heart and bravery to tell them which was larger. They fought over it, but when Nami said, "They're both very nice, Sanji-kun! Why don't we cut up and load the useful stuff onto the ship?"

"Yes, Nami-swan~"

Luffy was a bit bummed they had to leave so soon, but time was of the essence now. Dorry and Broggy had a plan to help them get off the island as they followed the new eternal pose, bypassing the year long wait completely.

Then the water started to rise behind them, they were shocked at what they saw. A massive goldfish that tried eating them! "Keep going! Trust what they said!" Usopp called, though he was shaking violently. Luffy also didn't have any urge to try and run away out of the mouth until two bursts of powerful wind slammed into the beast, killing it and giving them a hollow path inside of it, the thing dying instantly as its body was mutilated.