Disclaimer: Me not owning One Piece (Oda guy who owning it)
This is the translation of my first fanfiction.
The Original in German: fanfiktion dot de (also called Wrong World)
I'm rewriting it a bit while translating, but nothing major. Only a few minor conversations and incontinuity problems.
The story starts after Enies Lobby but before Sabaody.
I wrote it a while ago, so everything after Dressrosa is created by me.
Don't hate me if you find any errors, English is not my native language. If you find any just let me know.
I'm here to both learn and entertain you.
So have fun!
I startle up. Looking around confused. I'm sitting on a tropical beach. Wait a minute…
Tropical? … beach? Where the heck am I? I look around again. Just a minute ago I was on my way home. How can I be here, on a beach. Ok think. Was it the greatest party night of my life. No, how could it be, I hardly drink any alcohol. Try to remember what happened. Maybe just go from the start.
06:15 Waking up
06:45 Going to school
07:00 Arriving at school, copying the homework for the day
12:45 Finally, school is over
But what happened afterwards? God damn it. Why is it so hard to remember anything. Ok just breathe and think on what to do now. There have to be some people around here. Maybe they can tell me where I am and how I got here.
I look around once more. Only beach, jungle und the ocean. Well, let´s hope there are people here. Better get walking because I want to get home. With motivated steps I'm heading in on direction. While I'm walking I look down to my clothes. Still the same as today in the morning. What the hell happened to me. Ok don't lose your head about it.
I look at the jungle closer. It looks pretty untouched, like you see it only rarely on earth. Do people really live here? Well they have to, how could I get here otherwise. At least I say that to myself.
After what felt like 20 minutes walking, suddenly I freaking loud roar was hearable. Scared I look around. What the hell was that? Are monster living on this island? I just wonder where I am. Ok keep walking, and keep an eye on the jungle.
Again. The roar. This time louder. Kinda reminds me of Godzilla, but that thing doesn't really exist, does it? More like running than walking I start moving again.
After another 10 Minutes running and scary roaring I arrive at a bay and I almost couldn't believe what I saw on the other side. A small town. Finally civilization, my rescue. I leap in the air inside out of joy. I just have to get on the other side.
Oh come on, really? Right in the middle of the bay is a big fucking cliff and the sand beach doesn't continues. Now I have to go around and that will probably forever. NO, wait I can't go around. Inwards there is this scary monster. As if this thing could hear my thoughts, again the roaring. How big has this thing to be to make his loud sound? The better question is, how can people still live here.
Looks like my only option is to swim around. Let's just hope there isn't also a monster in the water. I walk to the cliff and look at the water. At least it isn't too deep. I put my toes in the water. And it also isn't cold. Slowly I'm walking farther and farther from the beach until I couldn't stand anymore. The current is also not very strong. With fast movements I'm moving forward, around the cliff and towards the other side. Only 15 meter to go…10 meter. Suddenly something hits my feet. Oh god what is that?! Oh wait, just the ground. As fast as I can I move out of the water. The last few meters I basically run. As soon as I hit the beach, there is again, you guessed it, this powerful roar.
My clothes are soaked with water. I can at least take of my shirt. After doing so I start walking towards the small town. After a short walk I can see the first building from close up. I looks like I has outlived many of its inhabitants. On some walls there are even growing plants on the wall. Doesn't look inhabited. But as I walk closer I can some firewood stacked in front of it. It looks like it has been stacked not long ago. But as I look around I can't see anyone. Well at least now I know, that people live here.
As I walk further towards the town every house looks less and less like it's going to break down any second by itself and they look like there are actually people living inside. But I still haven't seen anybody. Ok think, where are normally people every time in such a small town. Right in a bar, and every city as at least one in some form or another. And logically the bar is probably near the ocean. As I walk further towards the ocean I can see a small pier with a ship. That definitely is an indication for people. Suddenly behind another building there comes what I'm searching for. I basically run towards the building with the letters bar written over the door.
Just a moment before I enter the bar I put my now completely dry shirt on. After that I enter the bar.
"Friend or foe?", is the first thing I hear from the guy behind the bar. Well that could have gone better. "Friend", is my short answer. "You sure? Because you are not from here, therefore you have to be one of the pirates which arrived just a while ago. They are the reason why you don't see any people outside, they are all afraid because of you" There is at least my answer why there are no people here. Wait a minute, did that guy just say pirates. Where the hell am I? Pirates aren't around since at least 300 years, if you forget about Somalia.
"Did you just say Pirates?", I ask him confused. "Either you are just dumb or you are from the moon because not long ago pirates docked down at the pier" "That's why I'm here. Where is here?" The guy looked now as confused as me. "What do you mean with that?" "Well I kinda woke up on the beach with no idea where I am or how I came here"
The guy suddenly just started laughing at me. "Probably been left by your last crew. The island is called Ritorumonsuta, which means something like little monster" Haha, even the name of the island is mocking me. "And where exactly is this island?" The barkeeper says only one word, but after that I'm pretty sure I'm currently dreaming. The word was Grand Line.
"Give me something to drink, something strong" Slowly I sit down on a bar stool. It is only a dream…only a dream. The barkeeper puts a small glass with a some liquid in front of me. I take it at empty it at once. "Fuck" I start coughing. That was a bad idea. Why the hell do I even know how that feels. I have never done that before. Probably just imagining things, I dreaming everything is possible. The barkeeper starts laughing again. "You absolutely not a pirate" I look at him. "Yea, you me too"
Suddenly the door so fast I almost thought it would break out of the wall. "FOOD!" A loud scream comes from outside and only a second later a young guy comes inside and sets himself directly beside me. "Everything twice please" The barkeeper just grins at us and walk through a small door outside the room, probably the kitchen. I look at the guy who now sits beside me. He already has a knife and fork in his hands. On his head is his iconic straw hat. Well kinda makes sense, they are the only pirates I know. "What are you starring at?"
I look to his face, did he just talk to me? "Hey I meant you" Ah nostalgia, I should watch the old episodes again some time. "Oh, it's nothing" "Doesn't look like nothing" I point with my head towards the door. "If you really want to know it, just ask yourself who stormed inside and broke the door in doing so" His head turns toward door and then back to me. "Who did that? It doesn't look pretty. Someone should fix it" Mentally I slapped his dumb head, but he is like he is. And what would it change, it's just a dream.
Just this moment the barkeeper comes back into the room with two plates in each hands. He puts it right in front of the pirate, who doesn't hesitate and immediately starts eating. That's more like the pirate I know.
After he ate the fourth portion, the door opens again. As a orange haired women the eating pirate beside me sees, her head looks like it would explode any second. With a powerful punch she punches his head into the bar, so powerful, that the wood cracks under the pressure.
I try to hold my laughter back, what I unfortunately can't. Immediately the women looks threatening at me, her hand still up, ready to hit again. "No wait I didn't meant it lik.." With another powerful punch, I share the same fate as my seatmate.
"Luffy didn't I tell you not too run off into the first bar you find" The man was already eating again. "But I was hungry" He shouldn't have said that, because she hit him again with her hand.
After the women calmed down, the whole crew sat around a table and ordered food and drinks. "Who was that guy beside you Captain? He wasn't scared like the villager when he saw us", asks suddenly the women with black hair. "I'm not from around here", I answer. "And why exactly should I be afraid of you?"
"Because we are pirates?", a men with a very long nose says. I rise my eyebrow. "And?" The guy with the straw hat just laughs. "I like him"
"I'm Monkey D Luffy and I'm going to be the next pirate king. This is my crew. The scary looking swordsman is Zoro" With a bunch of meat in his hand he points at a green haired man with three swords by his side.
"The long nosed guy is our sniper Usopp. The women who stopped me from eating is our navigator Nami" The orange haired women still looked with the same deadly look at me as just a few minutes ago. "Our cook Sanji" Luffy pointed at a blonde man with a suit, currently smoking. "That's Copper our doctor and the other women is Robin" The women just smiled. "And these are Brook and Franky"
After he finished introducing his friends he looked back to me, still eating. "And who are you?" "Oh I'm just a lost traveler" The straw hat tilts his head. "Lost?" "Well I kinda woke up on the beach a few hour ago, without knowing where I was and how I got here" He now grins at me. "That's no problem we could bring you back home"
Nami hit him again and yelled: "Stop helping stranger" "Don't worry Nami, I don't think you could help me. Because I don't know how to get home and neither do you" Now she looked confused at me. "What do you mean with that?" "Well I don't really know where home is" The whole crew looked almost shocked at me. "What do you mean you don't mean where home is. Everybody knows where that is" I just grin. "Well, did anybody of you ever heard of a place called Earth?"
The straw hats look at each other, like they are waiting for someone to say yes. After a while is say: "Didn't think so" Luffy hit the table with his fist. "You know the name of the place, so somebody has to know where this berth place is" "It's called earth, and I don't think anybody in the world would know where it is" The pirates looked now even more confused. "What do you mean nobody knows where it is?" Looks like I said to much. "Well don't worry about that, I still think this is a dream or some sort of hallucination"
Again the straw hates looked confused at me, but now a different version of confused. "For example from my hometown to the ocean I have a few countries to cross and yet I woke up on a beach. But there I was on a beach of a tropical island with a giant monster on it"
That got Luffys Attention. "Monster? Where I want to see it", he shouts enthusiastic. "NO", shouts everybody else back. "I'm the captain, I can go where I want" After he said this he took the whole food which was left on the table in his hands and stuffed it into his mouth. He swallowed everything in one go. He stands up, ready to go on adventure. "Who's with me?"
"I stay here", Nami, Usopp and Chopper said in unison.
"Still have to buy food"
"Get material to repair the ship from the last storm"
At last only Zoro, Robin and Brook would go with Luffy. Before the left he turned back to me. "Don't you come? You have to show us where that monster is" I look at him at first, thinking. On one hand I really don't want to see that monster first hand. But on the other hand, with the help of the straw hats nothing could really hurt me.
"Sure why not. I'm free anyway" I stand up and follow the small straw hat crew outside.
After we left the town behind us, we start to hear that roaring again. "Whoa that thing must be really big if it can make that sound" Luffy seems with every sound even more enthusiastic. "If it also tastes that good?" "Hopefully it doesn't shredders us into pieces", was the answer from Robin.
With every step the beast seems to be nearer. Suddenly there is movement inside a bush to the left. The first thing Luffy does is smashing his fists into it. After that silence.
A few moments later a furry animal about the size of a normal sized dog comes out. It opens its mouth and a roaring sound can be heard.
"That's way too small to eat", Luffy says disappointed. "We can still eat it", Zoro says. "This cute thing warms my heart, but I don't have a heart. Johoho"
"Meh, I don't eat small cute looking animals. I want big scary ones" After he said that, he was already walking back to town. I stand a few moments in front of the furry thing. "That was disappointing", I just say and follow Luffy.
As we arrive at the pier all remaining straw hats are already onboard their ship. I can finally see it in real, well in some form. It looks bigger than in the anime. As Nami sees us coming towards the Sunny she shouts: "The log pose only needed two hour to reset, we can set sail as soon as you want Luffy"
He jumps happy into the air. "YAY, let's set sail" With one jump he is on the ship and Robin, Zoro and Brook followed soon after. I stand alone on the wooden pier. Looks like this means farewell. Hopefully I finally wake up after that.
"Don't you want to become part of my crew?", Luffy says bluntly looking at me. "WHAT, me?" "Sure, you have the dream of finding a place nobody knows where it is. What's a better choice than sailing with the future pirate king. Maybe you find your home while you are with us"
I am almost shocked from Luffys words. They almost sounded reasonable. I just smile.
"You know, why not. I'm need a job anyway"
At the same time Luffy gets another hit from Nami. "Stop asking people to join us without asking your crew first. You know him since an hour and don't even know his name"
Ruffy just looks grinning at me. "What's your name?"
"Reji Ayama"
