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Steve's POV
"If that's an island how come the log isn't responding?" Nami said.
"Because it's originally from the West Blue." Brook explained "Today was a great day."
Brook jumped from the deck to the figure head.
"He's so light."
"Please try to escape. Do not lower your anchor here." He said "I'm so glad I was able to meet another person! If it's fate we'll meet again someday!"
Brook jumped off the lion head and into the water with no hesitation.
"You can't swim."
Brook ran past the side of the ship.
"He can walk on water." Rose yelled.
"Well let's do what he says Luffy." Nami said "This place looks dangerous."
Luffy turned around with a dumb smile on his face "Did you say something?"
"It's Ghost Island!" Usopp whined "Let's just leave."
"That vibration from before was the mouth gate closing." Robin said "We were eaten."
"So we got pulled in?" I said.
"Exactly. We're being drawn towards the island. We are locked in." She explained "I'm not sure we could leave even if we wanted too."
"If this island can move then we can't drop the anchor." Franky said.
Chopper and Nami both said they had "can't go to the island disease."
"Well then you guys can watch the ship." Luffy said.
"I guess we're going for a walk." I said jumping off the rail and onto the deck.
"Sanji! Lunchbox!"
"No way! Think about this!" Usopp yelled "What if we get cursed."
"Doesn't matter I'm going to get Brook." Luffy said.
"Stop complaining Usopp." I said.
"I pumped." Franky said "Let's go!"
"Here's your lunch." Robin said.
"Listen you three idiots." Sanji said looking at Luffy, Franky and I "You better look after Robin."
"You're coming too?" I asked.
"I enjoy thrills." She said.
"Don't leave me here." Lil said "I wanna come too."
"Only four people fit in the small ship." Franky told her "You gonna have to sit this one out."
"We have a smaller ship?" Zoro said.
"That would be channel 2." Wyper explained "0 is the paddles, 1 is the waver, and 3 is the sub."
Franky pulled the lever "Channel 2! This is our SUPER shopping ship Mini-Merry!"
The ship opened and the three people who didn't want to go to the island we riding around in a tiny ship.
"It's incredible!"
"You really put your heart into that didn't you?' Zoro asked.
"I don't get it?" Lil said "what's so special?"
"That is just something special for us." I explained "It's hard to explain."
"Come back I want to ride!" Luffy yelled.
"Wait your turn." I said "Let them have their fun."
"For people who didn't want to get cursed they're getting awfully close to the island." Rose said.
"Now you've seen everything." Franky said "Channel 4 is empty but when the time comes, we'll put something in there."
"You're the best Franky!" Luffy cheered.
"I'm having a SUPER week!"
There was a girly scream coming from the waters below.
"Fog's too thick, I can't see them." Zoro explained.
"Hey get back here it's my turn!" Luffy yelled
"At least be a little worried!"
"What if they were cursed or killed by a ghost?" Robin said.
"What an optimistic viewpoint." Lil said.
There was a thud and the ship's weight shifted
"The anchor dropped!"
"No one touched it." Rose said.
"The ships brand new it shouldn't just fall like that." Wyper said "I'll go pull it up before we lose balance."
The hatch down to the workshop opened itself.
"What the hell!"
"No one was even near it."
Luffy face started getting pulled.
"Now not the time for jokes Luffy." I scolded.
"It's not me." He whined.
The mouth snapped back into place.
"Grrrr."
Luffy got pushed to the floor and then one of Zoro's swords unsheathed itself and tried to kill Luffy, Franky managed to kick it away in time though.
"The Katana justâŠ"
"Is it the cursed one?"
"Something's here." I said "Be careful."
"Is it a ghost or a Devil Fruit user?" Franky mused.
"A moment ago I heard a growl." Robin said.
Sanji tried to jump off the ship to go help Nami and just face planted into the side.
"That was just sad!"
Sanji then started floating in the air and got throw across the ship.
"I guess it doesn't want us to get off the ship." Wyper said "It could kill us any second."
"Mama!"
I looked over and Robin was trying to push some invisible force away from her.
And then it licked her.
"What the hell you son of a bitch!" I kicked the air and sent a wave over at the monster.
It let Robin go after that and I went to check on her "are you alright?"
"It's gone now." Robin said somewhat depressed, I took it that she wasn't happy to have been violated like that.
The waves got more intense and the ship was rocked around.
"Franky get us out of here."
"Not much I can do." He said "not with no wind and waves like this. And we can't just blast off without the other three."
"The only thing we can do is wait." I said.
Eventually we floated around the island and into a huge spider web.
"We'll there ain't no getting out of this thing." Franky said "We're stuck."
"Brook's ship is here too." Rose said.
"Even the Mini-Merry is here too."
"Well no point in sitting around." I said "Come on let's go take a look around."
We all hopped off the ship except for Zoro and Wyper.
"Quit rambling and let's go!" Luffy said.
"I'll stay here and watch the ship." Wyper said "It's not smart to leave it unattended here. You guys go I'll be fine by myself."
Leaving Wyper behind to look after the Sunny the rest of us went off to explore Thriller Bark. It wasn't long before we found a weird staircase that said entrance.
"There sure are a lot of stairs." Rose said.
"There's something coming!" Luffy said.
A three headed dog walked out of the shadows and growled.
"A Cerberus." Sanji said.
"It's cute." Robin said.
"I disagree." I told her.
"I wonder how it tastes. I'm gonna tame it." Luffy said walking up to the beast.
"Be careful dummy." I warned.
"Shake."
*Chomp*
"You dumbass! Listen for once!" I snapped.
Despite being trapped in its jaws Luffy petted the creature on the head "DownâŠ"
The thing let Luffy go "Good boyâŠStupid Mutt!" Luffy yelled throwing the dog into the wall.
After that the thing started listening to Luffy.
"These wounds are bad." Robin said "I'm surprised it's alive."
Two of the heads barked and the other yipped.
"Wait a sec that's not right." Lil said.
"What do you mean?" Franky said.
"Two of these heads are wolves, the other is a fox." She explained "This creature shouldn't be alive, it's not natural."
We exited the moat and entered out into a forest next.
"This place is so much fun!" Luffy yelled.
"Nami where are you~!"
"AHH!"
"Lil what's wrong."
"It's a unicorn." She said pointing at the creature.
"It's having a drink with that tree."
Franky and Luffy ran off and caught the two strange monsters.
"Wanna join my crew." Luffy asked the tree.
"HELL NO!" I yelled
I dragged Luffy the rest of the way through the forest to make sure he didn't do stupid shit again.
"First the reindeer, then the robot, and finally a skeleton. No more freaks!"
"I'm a cyborg jerk." Franky said.
"We'll you invited a girl who has one arm, a guy with wings, and a little girl!" Luffy yelled back.
"To be far I had two arms when I joined."
"All the creatures we've come across. Have been covered in injuries and had numbers on them." Robin said.
"Do you think these are someone's experiments?" I asked.
"I'd say so." Lil chimed in "None of the things we've seen are supposed to exist in nature, Cerberus and the unicorn are supposed to be just myths."
"Do you hear something?" Rose said.
A little ghost flew past and kept repeating the same phrase in a singsong voice "Negative."
"It's the ghost!"
As the enigma danced two more ghosts appeared.
"I'm gonna catch it!" Luffy swung his net around to try and catch the specter but they just passed through it.
"Fresh Fire!"Â Franky spit flames at the ghosts but they were unaffected.
The ghost passed through Franky.
"I'm so patheticâŠI should just die."
"It's not that big of a deal!" Sanji yelled.
"Get back here!" Luffy ran after the ghost and one passed through him "I should be reborn as a clamâŠ"
"What are you doing?!" I snapped.
"When the ghost touches you, it drains your spirit." Robin observed.
"It only affects them because their wills are weak." Zoro said as one flew through him "I didn't deserve to be bornâŠ"
"Suck it up!" Rose yelled at him.
"They have no tangible body." Robin said "And when they touch you, you become depressed. They would make difficult enemies."
Once the others had their confidence restored we headed back to trail. Our next stop was a graveyard.
"It's spooky." Lil said.
"Let's eat lunch here."
"Not a chance." Sanji told him "The atmosphere is all wrong."
As we walked among the graves a hand emerged from one of them.
"Ahh!"
Luffy walked up to the zombie digging his way out of the grave and pushed him back into the ground.
The zombie burst right back out "Like I'd just go back!"
"An old man with serious injuries." Luffy observed.
"It's a zombie stupid!" we all yelled.
A bunch more zombies came out of their graves to attack us.
"They're too lively to be scary." Lil said.
"We'll show you the danger of Zombies!"
"What was that about danger?" Luffy asked "We'll show you danger."
I cracked my whip forward with Luffy and Franky's hands.
"Billion Beli Jackpot!"
We don't actually add up to a billion but I suppose some rounding is in order.
After we beat the crap out of them the zombies were more than willing to answer our questions. They told us Nami, Usopp and Chopper had passed through and gone into the nearby mansion. After planting the Zombies back in the ground we continued our journey.
"Wait a moment."
"An old man with serious injuries!"
"Again, Zombie!" I told him.
"Actually. I am a man with serious injuries."
"This is too confusing." I groaned.
"There is a man I wish to see defeated." The man said "I really think you guys can do it. He has many victims and I'm sure they would all be grateful is you defeated this man. If my shadow could be returned I'd be so thankful."
"He doesn't have a shadow." Lil said "He's just like Brook."
"Who did that?" Zoro asked "Is he on the island."
"A Man called Moriah did this to me."
"Are you talking about Gekko Moriah?" Robin asked.
"Yes that's the one."
"You know him?" I asked.
"I know of him" she said "He's a pirate whose former bounty exceeded Luffy's."
"Former?" Luffy said.
"Gekko Moriah is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea."