I'm just geussing about Carrot joining the crew, and this isn't set at any particular time. Just a thought bunny I wanted to play with. Hope you enjoy!

"What are we going to do with it?" Nami asked, looking at the yellow Devil Fruit sitting begningly on the table. Having fished the Devil Fruit out of the water, Luffy - because of course it had been him, who else would find one in the middle of the damn ocean? - had asked everyone if they wanted to eat it, resulting in an impromptu meeting in the kitchen.

"I should get a book of Devil Fruits," Robin said, peering at it curiously. "Maybe at the next island I could find something so we would at least know which one it is."

"Does it matter?" Zoro asked, his arms folded behind his head. "I won't give up swimming for one."

"I hate agreeing with Moss Head, here," Sanji commented, for once uninterrupted by Zoro, "but we have too many Devil Fruit users for us to be deliberately eating Devil Fruits."

"How could you accidentally eat something that looks like that?" Carrot questioned, reasonably enough, making Zoro snort.

"Ask our captain here."

"I thought it was dessert!" Luffy protested, "but it tasted awful." He stuck out his tongue, and even Robin shuddered at the memory.

"That's not the point, Luffy!" Nami objected. "Devil Fruits are worth a lot money! We can sell this if no one wants to eat it!"

"Eh?!" Luffy replied, obviously appalled. "That's no fun at all!"

"Ignoring him," Nami said, because sometimes that was how the ship had to operate, "does anyone want it?"

"I am always willing to pull people out," Jinbe offered, not wanting his friends to hold back if it was something they wanted.

"Thank you," Robin said, smiling gently at the merman.

"We'll be counting on you! Yohohoho!" Brook added cheerfully while Chopper nodded beside him. Everyone shook their heads when Nami looked at them. "Do you know what these go for, Robin?"

"Anywhere from 5 million to 500 million belli, depending on the ability," Robin answered, making everyone's jaws drop - except for Luffy who was no longer paying attention to the conversation. Bellis appeared in Nami's eyes at the possibilities.

"I wonder how they work?" Usopp questioned, looking at it warily. "If Donflamingo was able to produce Devil Fruits, did someone produce the first Devil Fruit?"

"I've been wondering about that myself," Franky admitted. "I didn't come across any information on them in Vegapunk's old lab, but he hadn't worked there in years."

"There's some possibility that they were invented during the Void Century," Robin acknowledged, earning looks from her crew mates. "There's no mention of them prior to that and then all of a sudden they're popping up everywhere. Initially, using them was banned since they were considered cursed. That's why they're called Devil Fruits. Anyone found to have eaten one was executed by the World Government."

"Freaky," Franky commented soberly.

"What made them change the law?" Jinbei asked.

"It's speculated that non-Devil Fruit users were at too much of a disadvantage when faced with Devil Fruit users, but I've never read Marine texts to hear their side of the story."

"I don't think we should let anyone know we have one," Sanji said after a moment, earning nods from the more nervous members of the crew.

"Why not?" Carrot asked, tilting her head curiously.

"People might try to steal it," Brook explained.

"I have a SUPER hiding place for it!" Franky offered, taking his signature pose.

"That sounds good," Nami agreed, turning to grab the Devil Fruit. Which was no longer on the table. "Luffy, where did you…" she trailed off, staring at the empty table. "What did you do?!" She screeched, reaching out to strangle her captain.

"Luffy, did you eat that?" Chopper panicked, jumping onto the table in case he needed to pump Luffy's stomach. "You can't eat two Devil Fruits, Luffy, you'll die!" Considering the mystery surrounding Devil Fruits there was no guarantee that pumping his stomach would work. Tears treated down Chopper's face at the thought of loosing Luffy.

"I didn't eat it!" Luffy protested. "I fed it to my hat!" Total silence fell on the assembled pirates.

"You… fed it to your hat?" Franky repeated, because either Luffy had gone crazy - crazier - or he had to do some serious maintenance to his ears.

"Yeah!" Luffy nodded, smiling brightly, ignoring Nami's hands wrapped around his throat. "Hat can't swim anyway, and I didn't want it to feel left out, so-!"

"You fed it to your hat," Sanji finished, rubbing his brow, because his captain's logic always gave him a headache.

"What gave you the idea, Luffy?" Robin asked, apparently entirely unperturbed.

"When we were at Enies Lobby they had a sword that ate a Devil Fruit, right? So I thought Hat might want one!"

"Luffy!" Nami shouted, finally snapping out of her trance. "That was worth money! Possibly a lot of money!" Strangling the rubber boy never did any good, but that wasn't enough to stop her from trying.

"That would be boring, Nami! This is so much cooler!" He lit up as another idea struck him and turned to Franky. "We can feed the next one to Sunny!"

"NO!" Everyone shouted in unison. Seeing his bewildered look, Franky added:

"We don't want Sunny to sink, Captain."

"Oh, that's right! Sorry, Sunny!" Nami stepped back with a sigh. It was too late to fix now, and Luffy was the one wearing it, so if it turned into the Vomit-Vomit logia on his head, it was entirely his problem.

"So any idea what it is?" Usopp asked, staring at the hat with the caution one might show a rabid striking viper.

"Nope!" Luffy replied. "Hey Hat, what are you?" He asked, poking it curiously. When the hat turned into a lightning bolt, temporarily blinding them, they had their answer.

"So that's where Enel's Rumble-Rumble fruit went," Robin commented calmly as their vision returned. "I did wonder."

"The kitchen wasn't the right place for this discussion," Sanji added, looking around at the scorched walls.

"I'll get it fixed up in no time," Franky assured the chef.

"How can you all be so calm?!" Usopp cried. "We're all going to get struck by lightning! This is awful!"

"Hey Hat," Luffy said, as if he was expecting it to understand, "don't hit my friends, ok?" The hat flared again which Luffy evidently took as agreement and smiled brightly at his crew. "See? It's all good! Isn't this better than selling it off?"

"No, it's not!" Nami denied. "That would have been worth a TON of money! That's an unbeatable Logia, Luffy!"

"But I beat Enel, Nami, so it's not unbeatable," Luffy grumbled, as if that was relevant.

"It was worth hundreds of millions of bellis and you FED IT TO YOUR HAT!" Luffy scowled at her, obviously not seeing the problem.

"Luffy keep that hat away from us!" Usopp insisted. "Better yet, lock it up!"

"Oi!" Luffy argued, "don't be mean to Hat, Usopp!"

"I can't be mean to your hat, Luffy! It's a hat!"

"That doesn't mean you can't be mean to it!"

"Well, it's the captain's decision," Jinbei interrupted, hoping to calm the crew down, "but for now we need to find out if it's a threat to us."

"Hat just said it wouldn't hurt my friends!" Luffy objected.

"Hat can't say anything, Luffy!" Usopp cut in, wondering how many times he would have to say 'it's a hat' before Luffy got it. At this point, it was a deadly lightning hat.

"I'm not sure about the minks," Chopper commented in his doctor voice, glancing at Carrot, "but you might be the only person who can wear that hat without being killed, now."

"That's too much lightning for me to handle," Carrot admitted. "I don't know anyone who could handle that much and not get injured, at least." Luffy was giggling right up until Zoro spoke.

"You know Shanks can't wear that now, right?" Luffy's jaw dropped in horror.