One Piece (Love Story) [Part Two]

Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty Nine [Rewritten]

-Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty-Nine-

"We're counting on you!" someone else shouted.

"Yeah! Tear Moria a new one!"

"What the hell? The other victims, huh?" Sanji questioned. "It's not polite to eavesdrop!" he scolded.

"Whoa! Sorry about that Mr. Freaky Curly Eyebrows Guy!" one of the men quickly apologized.

"That's a crappy way to apologize!" Sanji snapped as I chuckled.

"Is that rain?" Luffy questioned as it suddenly started to pour after leaving the old man and the other victims behind. Now making our way to the mansion at the center of the island.

"Man, that sure came from out of nowhere" Zoro said.

"Makes everything more eerie, don't you think? A gloomy island full of monsters with rain pouring down—sounds like the plot of a horror novel" I hummed.

"It's really coming down too, should we run for the mansion?" Franky asked when he noticed how harsh the light drizzle was now starting to turn.

"Hang on a second, I see something really big by the mansion" Luffy squinted as he came to a sudden halt. "Over there! It looks like some kind of mark" he pointed.

"Mark?" Franky questioned as we looked in the direction our captain was pointing in.

"The rain's clearing the fog, I see it" Zoro said as the rain helped in clearing the fog and allowed for us to see whatever it was our captain had spotted. "Is that a flag?" he questioned.

"No, I'm pretty sure that's a sail" Franky corrected.

"What?" we asked.

"But...this is an island, isn't it? What's a sail doing here?" I owlishly blinked.

"Yes, you're right" the man from before said, seemingly having followed us.

"Hey, why are you still following us?!" Franky, Zoro, and Sanji snapped.

"Right about what?" Luffy asked.

"Like he said, what you see before you is a sail of giant proportions—it's so large that seeing the entire thing at once is quite difficult" the man answered. "You see, Thriller Bark is not the island it appears to be. Believe it or not, it's actually the world's largest pirate ship" he revealed.

"This whole island is a pirate ship?" Sanji questioned in disbelief.

"The largest one in the world?" Zoro raised an eyebrow.

"Awesome!" Luffy exclaimed with literal stars in his eyes.

"Bit overkill, don't you think?" I asked, not seeing why anyone would want a ship this gigantic.

"I get it, so Thriller Bark, huh?" Franky chuckled. "A bark is a type of sailing ship with three or more mast" he said, now understanding the island's name. "But it's hard to believe this entire island is some sort of boat" he confessed, finding it hard to believe in the man's words.

"The back of the mansion is where you'll find the main mast, it's also the home of Gecko Moria" the man informed us before finally taking his leave and allowing us to continue on with her journey. When we eventually reached the front gates, it was Luffy who was the brave one to push them open, causing them toe eerily creak.

"Well, here we go, to the ghost mansion" he grinned as he stepped through the gate. "Hello?" he called out, barely knocking on the front doors of the mansion as he looked around the stoop. "Nobodies there, I'm going in" he said when there wasn't a response.