A Stupid Way to Die

Part 1

Luffy was enjoying himself on the winter island the crew was docked at in the middle of the New World. He wasn't very cold, but Nami and Chopper forced him to at least put on a jacket, which he promptly destroyed on accident almost immediately. Zoro was the one forced to chaperone the captain while the other Straw Hats picked up their supplies, or in the ladies' case, clothes.

After a couple hours of Luffy having fun and Zoro being bored and irritated that Luffy kept randomly throwing snowballs at him, no matter how many times Zoro threatened to injure him, Luffy predictably got hungry. They were a ways away from the ship, out in the middle of nowhere, so Luffy said he couldn't wait and went foraging through the bushes and trees, coming across several colorful mushrooms. Zoro followed behind the idiot boy and saw him stuff the unknown mushrooms in his mouth.

"You did not just eat a random mushroom," Zoro said irritably, already knowing the answer of course. Luffy swallowed and smiled, telling him it tasted great, followed by an angry tongue lashing by the swordsman, who insisted they get back to the ship. Luffy was still very hungry and willing to go back to the ship immediately, so off they went.

The two were lucky they could still follow their footprints easily since it had not been snowing for a few hours. When they finally got back to the Sunny, the log pose had set fairly quickly so they left the island and followed the direction of one of the log pose needles. Luffy would miss the snow. Who knew when the next time they came to a winter island would be?

Luffy was happy. It had been a great day even though Zoro didn't really pay attention to him the whole time. He didn't see why he always needed to be baby sat. It's not like the mushroom had done anything bad. That happened almost four hours ago and he was fine. Zoro had started to worry about the mushroom for some reason. Something was wrong. Maybe it was his weird bond with Luffy that he could tell something was off with his captain before he did himself. He felt irritation that he hadn't noticed Luffy being an idiot and eating something that he didn't even know was edible. Luffy's motto was "everything is edible until discovered otherwise". Zoro felt like telling Chopper, but he knew the young reindeer would freak. Luffy didn't like his crew worrying about him.

Sanji had wanted to make fish that night for dinner, so Usopp, Chopper and Luffy were fishing, not catching much. Luffy was laughing at Usopp's jokes, even though they weren't very funny, before he suddenly felt sick.He made a small moan of discomfort before he blacked out and fell off the railing into the sea. It was a loud splash and then it became eerily quiet.

Both Usopp and Chopper sat there for a few seconds before they started screaming that Luffy had fallen into the water, as Zoro was already running to the edge of the ship.

This time he reached Luffy fairly quickly since the waves were calm and the water was beautifully clearer than usual, but something was weird this time. Luffy looked like he was thrashing in the water, which was new. Usually his whole body locks up and he can't move when he's in the water. He grabbed the thrashing and sinking Luffy and made towards the surface as fast as he could. Luffy gasped for air when they reached the surface, but he was shaking like he was having a seizure, making it harder for Zoro to swim back to the boat and rope ladder that was thrown overboard against the side of the ship. Zoro hated that he was usually right when it came to his captains body and mind. Robin bloomed a ladder of arms and pulled the straw hat captain up onto the deck after running to the side when he heard two splashes and a panicking reindeer and sniper. Luffy was flopping around in her arms' grasps, making it difficult to pull him up without dropping him back into the ocean.

Robin became even more concerned as Luffy continued to seize and flop around a bit after he had been set on the deck, his eyes rolled back in his head. Usopp and Chopper ran over to him, Chopper immediately going into doctor mode. Zoro ran over after climbing over the railing and onto the deck, immediately bombarded by Chopper with questions. Chopper was taking Luffy's pulse as he almost interrogated the swordsman.