Drooble request!
Luffy meets a Danno due to chaotic shenanigans
drooble #7 - chance encounter
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Danny poked his head through the door. He squinted at the bright sun in his eyes. Was this the right one?
"WOAH, how're you doing that?"
He turned to his right, brows furrowed. "What?"
"That!" A guy in a straw hat squatted at the edge of the portal. "The way you're sticking out of the ground."
"Uh, optical illusion. More importantly, have you seen a senior citizen with hair like stupid horns? Sorta looks like a low budget vampire?"
"Nope."
"Damn." He looked past the guy. A ways away were a group of four others, bickering and eating. "Those your friends?"
The guy nodded. "They're my crew."
"Cool. Could you ask them if they've seen him?"
"Why don't you come over and ask them yourself?" The guy grinned. "Sanji's stew is the best!"
Danny looked past the guy to his friends. The blond next to the pot- 'Sanji', he assumed- was shouting at the green haired guy, looking seconds from strangling him. "He doesn't seem very friendly."
"Aw c'mon! They'd love to meet you!"
"If I get any further out of this portal, I'll end up stuck here," Danny deadpanned. "And besides, you haven't even met me."
"Ah, that's right. I should introduce myself before recruiting." The guy's grin grew wide. "I'm Monkey D. Luffy, the man who'll become the King of the Pirates!"
Pirates have a king? This guy's a pirate? Now he definitely could not get stuck here. Sam would never let him live it down if he got scurvy. "I'm Danny Phantom. Now could you go ask-" Danny blinked. "What do you mean recruiting?"
Luffy's eyes started to literally sparkle. "Of course I'd try recruiting; you're so funny!"
"That's great and all, but I really just need you to ask-"
Luffy interrupted. "Hey, can you poop?"
"What the- yeah. Now can you-"
"How does that even work? You don't have a-"
"It works." Danny dragged a hand down his face. "Listen, I really need you to ask them because the guy I'm chasing is really-" Annoying. "-dangerous so if we could speed this up, that'd be great."
Luffy shrugged. "I guess." He turned and shouted, "HEY GUYS, I FOUND A FUNNY GUY IN THE GROUND!"
Danny cringed, covering his ears. He had half a mind to point out that Luffy could've just shouted the question.
As the group got closer- the redhead and guy with a long nose quickly taking cover behind the other two with identical shrieks- Danny didn't waste time. "I'm Danny Phantom, nice to meet you, have you seen any old men in bad Halloween costumes recently?"
"Why are you stuck in the ground?" all four of them asked, in a variety of tones.
"Because I live here. Answer the question please." They looked at each other. Looked at Luffy. Then, slowly and a little confused, they shook their heads. "Wonderful. Thank you."
"Isn't he great?" Luffy asked, eyes still sparkling. "He's our newest crewmate!"
"I never agreed to that."
For some reason, that made Luffy's friends groan. "You're not inviting someone just 'cause he looks funny," the green haired guy said.
"Zoro, he's perfect!" Luffy shouted, gesturing at Danny. "Just look at him!"
"I've known you less than five minutes!"
"Doesn't make a difference," Sanji said.
"You're not just a torso and head, right? These are your powers?" The long nosed guy asked, peeking out from behind Sanji.
"Yes. Powers. Ghost powers." Danny adjusted his grip on the door frame on the other side of the portal. "And now that I know the fruitloop isn't here-" He started to push himself back through the door. He just barely saw the Ghost Zone's green and purple sky when he felt something yank him back.
"WAIT! You didn't even try Sanji's stew!"
Bright light again, now with a bowl of piping hot stew shoved in his face.
The redhead smacked the top of Luffy's head. "If he wants to go, let him go! He's freaky!"
"But Nami..." Luffy whined. The long nosed guy whined with him, no longer hiding.
With a sigh, Danny accepted the stew from Sanji. He'd humour them for a few bites at least. No sense turning down free food.
Warm and filling, with a flavour like he'd never tasted before. He threw his previous plan out the window and started scarfing it down. "This is amazing!" he said between spoonfuls.
"See? Sanji's food is the best!" Luffy grinned. "And you can get it everyday if you're sailing with us." That was probably his most tempting offer yet.
Still. Scurvy. Probably dysentery too, who knew.
"Thanks, but no thanks. I really better get going-" Danny reached for his grip on the door, only to feel the bowl in his hands. "Uh."
He looked down. Stared at his feet on solid ground.
Stared at green grass rather than ectoplasm.
"Hey," Luffy said, tilting his head. "Didn't you say you'd get stuck if you got out of the ground?"
Danny was going to kill this guy before he got home.
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so. um. the good news is we found your boyfriend. the bad news is that, well, we sort of…dug him up…in the middle of a car park. in leicester (buckley et al. 2013). leicester, yeah. sorry. they demolished the friary he was hastily interred in when henry viii dissolved all the monasteries. you know how it is. and as it turns out, well, shakespeare was…sort of right about him. scoliosis, yeah, sorry (appleby et al. 2014). if it makes you feel any better we analysed his bones and it turns out he had a pretty high-protein diet before he died (lamb et al. 2014). and he drank so much wine that it changed their chemical composition, which we didn't know could actually happen before we analysed him (lamb et al. 2014), so he was having a good time, at least.
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Appleby, J., Mitchell, P.D., Robinson, C., Brough, A., Rutty, G., and Morgan, B. (2014). The scoliosis of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England: diagnosis and clinical significance. Lancet 383, 1944.
Buckley, R., Morris, M., Appleby, J., King, T., O’Sullivan, D., and Foxhall, L. (2013). ‘The king in the car park’: new light on the death and burial of Richard III in the Grey Friars church, Leicester, in 1485. Antiquity 87, pp. 519-538.
Lamb, A.L., Evans, J.E., Buckley, R., and Appleby, J. (2014). Multi-isotope analysis demonstrates significant lifestyle changes in King Richard III. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, pp. 559-565.
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