Over

[macinosh.livejournal.com]

Title: Over
Rating: K
Media: Fic
Characters: Strawhats
Word Count: 253
Prompt: Hunger

The adventure was over.

After years of sailing together the crew had achieved their dreams and turned the world government on its head.

There wasn’t a goal to sail toward anymore.

Luffy wore the mantle of the pirate king on his shoulders: Shanks took his hat back.

Zoro carried the title of best swordsman proudly: few challengers came to meet him.

Nami proudly displayed her completed world map above the kitchen table: there were no new islands to add to it.

Usopp now wore his father’s bandana after beating the man in a sharpshooting and storytelling contest: the children still wouldn’t believe his true stories.

Sanji cooked meals a plenty from the fish in All Blue: he was the only cook for that sea.

Chopper spent his time treating illnesses at most harbors: few diseases were difficult to defeat for him.

Robin wrote a book on the true history: her next research project was not nearly so interesting.

Franky maintained the pirate king’s ship in his proud manner: none of his newer battle inventions got much use.

Brooke met up with Laboon at Reverse Mountain: he later had to attend the giant whale’s funeral.

The crew was not sad, indeed, they were as lively as ever, and they were overjoyed to have achieved their dreams at long last. However, on especially slow nights when the moon hung over the ocean they would wake up, one-by-one, yearning for the years of adventure they had left behind: the times when the world still challenged them.

Comments

[jadekitty777.livejournal.com]

Oooh, nice use of the prompt here. I loved it!

I like the idea of the 'hunger' being not a physical entity but rather a mental one here. It does make you think where they will be when they achieve their dreams, and how much they'd miss adventuring towards them.

[macinosh.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was the first thing to pop into my head when I read the prompt.

Your own fic with Usopp is what put me in the mood to write it: That line close to the end where Usopp contemplated Luffy's hat... no words. <-- but of the good "no words" variety.

Thanks,
Mac

[jadekitty777.livejournal.com]

Aaah, well thank you as well! I'm glad you liked it 8D

[printfogey.livejournal.com]

I really like the wistful tone in this. ♥