Geh the ground sure is uncomfy. Luffy didn't know why he was lying on the ground, but he'll surely remember eventually so it should be alright that he didn't know now. First he should get up and find some food. And his nakama. Getting up to do just that, he brushed some small rocks that stuck to his skin off, not noticing how they left small red marks for once. He was in the middle of a forest from the looks of it. He tried to remember what island they stopped at, but it was hard to think. Shaking his head, Luffy decided that he should just go along with what was happening instead of trying to think his way through it. It wouldn't do if he caught a fever after all. Nodding to himself, he stopped trying to think how he ended up in this strange place. Time to start exploring instead. He was much better at exploring than thinking anyways.
Hopefully he could find food while he explored. He'll find his nakama sooner or later even if he wasn't looking for them, but food wasn't going to just come to him. Oh, but if food could just come to him how great would that be? Then he would never run out of food! After he eats, more would just come up to him! Luffy grinned as he imagined food with legs asking for him to eat them, not paying attention to anything else as he made his way into the forest.
"...-ello? Hello? Anyone there?"
Luffy blinked as a voice interrupted his daydream. Looking around, he saw that he wasn't alone like he thought. There standing a little ways from him was a girl who looked rather exasperated. Strange, Luffy didn't sense her presence before. Something was weird about this place. Luffy tried to reach out with his haki, but nothing happened. What was going on?
"Are you going to just stand there with a blank face all day? Really, I can already tell that there is nothing in that head of yours." The girl gave a sigh and walked over to the pirate to stand right before him, looking him up and down to size him up.
Luffy wasn't really paying attention to the girl. She didn't seem like she was about to cause any trouble, and he was more concerned about the lack of haki. Why couldn't he use it? He stared at his arm, muttering "Busoshoku, Koka," trying to get his arm to harden like it has so many times before. But...this time there was nothing.
The girl sighed and waved a hand in front of Luffy's face to catch his attention. It worked, but only for a second before he turned back to his arm. The girl sighed again. "What a boring master. I don't know what you are doing, but you seem confused. Want me to tell you what is happening?"
That caught Luffy's attention. "You know what's wrong with my haki?" He asked, pausing in his efforts to get his haki to work. He hadn't struggled this much to use his haki since when he was first starting to learn how to use it back when he was training.
Satisfied that she finally had the other's attention, she nodded. "You are part of a game from now on. Your...haki, or whatever, has been taken away so everyone has a more even playing field. And I'm-......What are you doing?"
Luffy stopped listening to the girl as he tried to reach for a tree by stretching his arm. His Devil Fruit power wasn't working either! He wasn't a rubberman anymore? He tried to pull on his cheeks, but they barely stretched before it started to hurt. It hurt to pull on his cheeks! This was weird. He didn't like it. He turned to the girl and said decisively, "This place is weird. Where is my nakama and how do I get back to them?"
"..." Taking a deep breath, the girl tried to find a way to get her master to understand. "You can't. No matter what you do-" She stopped talking as Luffy turned and ran away from her, to the direction of the sea. "..." Just great. She was supposed to explain what was happening, but how was she supposed to do that when her master just keeps ignoring her? Sighing yet again, she figured that she was going to do that a lot now, she went to follow her new master and attempt to get him to listen to her.