The calming sound of waves reached Sophie's ear, the constant up and down of the waves outside on the beach. Seagulls screeched over the roofs and the bright rays of the sun peeked through the curtains. She rubbed her eyes sleepily. Seagulls Did she really mean she hears seagulls? As usual, she sat up and fished for her slippers with her feet. Now she heard seagulls in the morning, it was getting better and better not to mention the waves.
Confused, her feet groped on, the slippers must be here. But in the next moment she had to admit that they weren't there.
Confused, she rubbed her eyes and forced herself to really wake up. With all her might she blinked the last bit of sleep out of her eyes.
That was clearly not her room! This realization hit her like a blow.
Where was she here? Doubtful she let her gaze wander around the room. The room was held in a light shade of orange, lemon-colored curtains were drawn down on the sides of the windows.To the left and right of her she discovered two more beds, Amy and Beccy were snoring blissfully in them. Opposite a door was let and a massive cupboard stood to the left of it.
She was everywhere - but very far from home it seemed. But where?
"Psst! Beccy, Amy!", But all Psst was in vain, the two slept like dead. "Amy? Beccy?", She said a bit louder afterwards, but nothing happened now either. Resigned, she let herself fall back. Where was she here?

The door across from her suddenly creaked and a strange, black-haired woman peeked through the gap. "Ah you're awake!", A smile appeared on her face and she stepped in, "about time too." "How long did I sleep?", Sophie escaped immediately. "Mmh, about two days", the woman put a mug on her bedside table, "drink this here." "What is it?", Sophie was completely perplexed, what was being played here? "Nothing bad, just so you can regain your strength.Reluctantly, she straightened up and reached for the mug, it tasted as expected - horrible. Hastily she put the mug back.
"Who are you?" "Oh, sorry. I'm Makino, the owner of the pension here." "Pension?"
"Yes, pension. Would you like something to eat?"
"Um ... no thanks but ...", she looked around confused, "what ... I mean ... where ... what's going on here ??"
"You were found unconscious on the beach and as the next hospital is further away you were brought here for the time being," gushed Makino, as if it were the purest intelligibility, "you've been through a lot, huh?"
Sophie frowned skeptically, it couldn't be true that she didn't know how they got here. "On the beach? But ...", she thought hard for a moment, "there are no beaches here." That was true. Where was there a beach in Korbach? A valid question.
Makino looked confused, but then smiled. "But there is a beach here.We're at East Blue, after all. "
"East Blue? East Blue?" She managed hysterically, you were at the East Blue? "That ... that doesn't work.", Disbelief and hysteria spread in her head, "this is just a story ..."
"I think you should lie down again", the poor child was really confused. Still smiling, she smoothed the bedspread, "you're all confused."
"Yeah, yeah, I think I really should rest one more time," and wait until I wake up.
Makino gave her another encouraging smile, then turned to leave.
"Oh yes", she turned around again in the doorstep, "what's your name actually?"
"Sophie", Sophie replied and watched the door close.
Sighing, she fell back into bed. What was going on here? Did this Makino seriously sell her that she was at East Blue? That was ridiculous. Makino ?? The Makino? She started up as if struck by lightning.
If everything was true, then ... then that had to mean that they ... that they were IN One Piece.Was that even possible? She desperately tried to remember how she got here. Nothing. The more she thought about it, the more the solution seemed to slip out of her hand. It was really bewitched.
But she could hardly be at the East Blue ...

"Man, man, I dreamed a shit ...", Beccy rubbed her eyes sleepily, "something really crazy ..." And she would undoubtedly experience more crazy things, Sophie was sure. "But somehow he was something else too", Beccy had her eyes wide open but still didn't seem to notice that here, she was completely alien, "a crazy woman who dreams crazy things ..."
Sophie was silent, she'd rather not say anything and wait to see how Beccy would accept the realization that they weren't home. Amy was about to panic, but Beccy, Beccy was different. She might jump out of bed with excitement when she heard where they were.
"Do I hear waves there?"Beccy stepped to the window, more amazed than anything," I think I'm dreaming. We are by the sea. " "Near the sea?? "Amy suddenly jumped up like a tarantula, how could they be by the sea? Where, where were they anyway?
Her gaze fell on Sophie, but she just shrugged her shoulders. "Look!", Beccy pointed to the window with an encouraging gesture, "We are at the sea."
"At the East Blue", somehow Sophie had to say yes and it seemed that it was the right moment.
"What?", As if struck by lightning, Amy and Beccy turned around to see Sophie, who seemed to have gone mad.
"We're at the East Blue. Makino just explained that to me," she knew herself how stupid that sounded, but it was true.
A happy whistle sounded outside the door, the only sound that broke the sudden silence.
"You're kidding us, huh?", Amy looked at her friend closely, but the telltale wrinkles that otherwise betrayed something she could not discover anywhere, "that must be a joke."Sophie shook her head seriously." No kidding! " "But that..."
The door creaked suddenly and a second later, straw hat was visible in the crack in the door. "Hi, I heard you guys talking and I thought ... well," Beccy stared at the 17 year old boy in disbelief. Her jaw dropped, her eyes widened. That was ...
"Well, I thought you might be hungry. Will you come down to breakfast with me? Only if you feel fit enough, of course ...", he leaned casually into the door frame and looked at the three girls with hidden curiosity, as well like this him.
It couldn't be, it wasn't possible.
"So what is it now?" Did they even understand what he was saying? Perhaps they came from so far and didn't speak his language ... "We ... we'll be right there!", Sophie finally answered uncertainly, her gaze wandering to the scar under her left eye opposite.
"Well, if you follow the smell, you can't miss the kitchen at all," the boy grinned again mischievously in parting and disappeared behind the door."That was, that was Luffy!", Beccy breathed instantly and bit into her bedspread in disbelief, "that was Luffy." All of the color had suddenly disappeared from her face. "Can you still remember last night? About all that water?"
Amy nodded in a trance. "It came from the locket", her voice trembled slightly, "So we are REALLY at the East Blue?"
Perplexed silence. They didn't know whether it was horror, disbelief or fascination that they should feel. You were here in a place that didn't even exist, here were people who only existed on paper.
"Should ... shouldn't we go downstairs?", It was Beccy who finally broke the silence, "sitting up here and brooding doesn't get us any further either." "You're right", that wouldn't help, they had to learn little more about their environment. Sophie fished for her clothes and began to get dressed, "so towards the good scent ..."
"Are you aware that we are not home?Not in our usual environment? ", Sophie and Beccy pretended hardly anything had happened," we are, are not at home. "
"Yes, but I don't want to think about it now", Beccy replied shortly and helped Amy to her feet, "let's see what happens next first. Maybe we'll wake up in the next moment and everything will be as it was."
Amy sighed in resignation, wishing it was like that.