Day One: Part 1

[Monkey D. Luffy]

"Glugurglebluburgle" Obscured something-or-others seeped from Luffy's fluid-choked gullet as he flailed about perilously, eliciting his crew-mates to scuttle over and rescue the dolt from a marshy doom. The ignoramus never taught himself how to swim, or rather, given his Devil Fruit weakness, was never provided an appropriate opportunity.

"Huff . . . guh . . thanks you two, I was nearly fish food!" Straw Hat conveyed gratitude with a double pat on the head, ruffling the tyke duo's killer hairdos. Wringing his soggy garments free of murky deluge, the rubber eccentric brushed his cap free of seaweed and fish poo.

Errrgurrh.

A hearty gurgle resonated from beneath the ambrosian princess's naval, stealing her cohort's empathetic gaze. They too had grown famished following numerous bouts of fisticuffs and that which felt comparable to an aeon of deprivation.

Plucking the straw hat from his damp locks, Luffy plopped it upon Desco's meager dome, slightly teetering to the left as it was several sizes too large for the squirt. "Hold onto this for me, 'kay Wriggles?" The captain entreated, provoking a compliant nod from his exotic comrade before trudging over to the forestry expanse. "I'll go hunt us some lunch!"

Roughly thirty minutes came and went, the sultry sun sloping along a speckless azure sky. Prepping a fire for a forthcoming, hopefully edible meal, Guu and Desco nestled betwixt a makeshift terrace comprised of loose branches and linen conjured by the impish goddess herself.

A tremorous splitting of trees and sprigs solicited the lazing couplet to aim their attention to the skirting woodland. Stung by perplexity, they fixed eyes upon their abhorrent colleague paving a path through the brush, towing a mammoth-sized beast ensnared via fastened ropes.

"You've got to be kidding . . . " Guu murmured with unsettled breath while a speechless Desco merely dangled her drooping jaw minor hairs above the sooty terrain.

"Oi! Bubbleguu! Wriggles! Let's eat! Kahahaha!"