Fic post: Different
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onepiece_300This is the first fanwork I've done in months and months - fulltime work plus an online education takes to sap your energy when you're getting on in years, especially when you don't get new ideas all that often either. But now I wonder if anyone will even read this...
Title: Different
Medium: Fic
Word Count: 300
Rating: G
Characters: Strawhat Pirates
Prompt: Tomorrow
They come from almost all the directions; scattered across the first half of the Grand Line, in the Calm Belt, and beyond it in the South and East Blue, all drawing back again to this one point. They come in ships large and small, grand and simple, and two not in ships at all. They come accompanied by a ghost princess, a helmeted hero with giant beetles, maidens of Kamabakka Kingdom, revolutionary agents, the fabled Pirate Empress, and the entourage of a great rock star on a world tour. One travels in a ship he's built himself, a submersible he's made easy for one man to operate. One is carried by a giant bird, landing on uninhabited isles on the way in order to rest. And one steers a cloud in the skies towards Sabaody Archipelago; once she is right above it, she will use an octopus balloon to descend safely with.
They do not all arrive on the same date. Some have days to spare, others - including the captain - will only get there in the nick of time. They do not all have easy, or pleasant, or interesting journeys. But each have the same thought on the eve of arrival, looking out at the waves as the sun goes down.
Tomorrow will be the first day in two years that is truly different.
They are returning to this vile and beautiful place; the site of their greatest defeat, the point for their promised reunion. To the lion-headed ship that is their home.
Tomorrow is when time will start running again.
And there is a sense there, shared by them all, that comes from imagining the others with that same anticipation, like an invisible current connecting them.
It's time for new kinds of tomorrows. Waiting is over.
Title: Different
Medium: Fic
Word Count: 300
Rating: G
Characters: Strawhat Pirates
Prompt: Tomorrow
They come from almost all the directions; scattered across the first half of the Grand Line, in the Calm Belt, and beyond it in the South and East Blue, all drawing back again to this one point. They come in ships large and small, grand and simple, and two not in ships at all. They come accompanied by a ghost princess, a helmeted hero with giant beetles, maidens of Kamabakka Kingdom, revolutionary agents, the fabled Pirate Empress, and the entourage of a great rock star on a world tour. One travels in a ship he's built himself, a submersible he's made easy for one man to operate. One is carried by a giant bird, landing on uninhabited isles on the way in order to rest. And one steers a cloud in the skies towards Sabaody Archipelago; once she is right above it, she will use an octopus balloon to descend safely with.
They do not all arrive on the same date. Some have days to spare, others - including the captain - will only get there in the nick of time. They do not all have easy, or pleasant, or interesting journeys. But each have the same thought on the eve of arrival, looking out at the waves as the sun goes down.
Tomorrow will be the first day in two years that is truly different.
They are returning to this vile and beautiful place; the site of their greatest defeat, the point for their promised reunion. To the lion-headed ship that is their home.
Tomorrow is when time will start running again.
And there is a sense there, shared by them all, that comes from imagining the others with that same anticipation, like an invisible current connecting them.
It's time for new kinds of tomorrows. Waiting is over.
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