I wasn't a superstitious person. I didn't believe in ghosts, other dimensions, voodoo, magic, and the like. I didn't believe in the afterlife either - not much of a religious person, contrary to my family - so when I touched that pulsating orb-egg-blob thing per my sister's daring request (from about ten feet back of course,) I didn't think anything would happen. I expected it to be slimy, yeah, hell, maybe even explode or some shit. What I didn't expect was for a dome to fly out some ten feet, engulfing me, my sister, and my dog, Laisha, that had come running at the sight of us.

I also didn't expect it to shine so fucking brightly before disappearing altogether, leaving the three of us - where do you ask? That's right, in the middle of a fucking pirate ship, and it wasn't even 8:30 yet.

Now mind you, we weren't entirely defenseless. I mean if you count my pitbull and the things me and my sister had in our bags for the hiking/hunting/photography trip we were on, then I guess we could have run off while sustaining minimum injuries, if we hadn't been in the middle of the fucking ocean with no land in sight.

Don't get me wrong. It's not that I wasn't afraid, I was fucking terrified, but it was for a completely different reason than my hyperventilating sister. My... hyperventilating... sister... fuck! I ran over, forgetting my fear as I quickly instructed her to start breathing normally, not stepping away until she was calm again. Though that didn't last long because, as soon as she saw the gigantic men that were slowly gathering around us, she soon grabbed the back of my jacket, shaking. She wouldn't have been alone in that if I didn't know these people, if I hadn't seen them appear on my IPod's screen countless times, and if I hadn't, admittedly, read so many Fanfictions about them. So I dearly hoped that these weren't some incredibly close lookalikes and that the people I was looking at we're truly, in the flesh, the Whitebeard Pirates.

I finally found my voice when they started murmuring around us, probably how the hell two little girls got on their ship without their noticing. I severely hoped that, when I spoke next, that they would look at me confusedly, but my hopes were soon shattered. "Dare desu ka? (Who are you?)" I asked in one of the few Japanese phrases that I knew that could be of any real use in this situation.

Sadly they answered. "Shirohige Kaizokudan (Whitebeard Pirates)." Came the voice of a pineapple-haired man who stood by a vastly larger looming figure that was sitting in an equally large throne.

I froze, even though I was expecting it. "Shit." That sent me in panic mode. 'What do I do?! What do I do?!' I seriously freaked out. We were stuck in a strange world (well not so strange to me) and didn't even know their main fucking language. Granted I had been taken classes to learn Japanese, but the extent of my sister's Japanese knowledge was less than pitiful.

Knowing it was futile, I decided to try seeing if anyone knew English. "Umm... Does anyone understand me?" I looked around at the blank faces, sighing and blinking back tears. Well, so much for that. As the pirates murmuring continued again, a series of crashes and banging made its way to our part of the deck until two large, white dogs race into the middle of the circle. They were barking and chasing each other around playfully. "Mia!" The pitbull looked at me beggingly. "No. Come and sit." Her tail hung low and she abandoned her destructive game to come and sit by the two of us.

AN: "(This is speech in Japanese because I'm too lazy to look up the Romani for every piece of speech in this chapter.)"

By now my sister had calmed down, meaning she wasn't about to pass out at any moment, but was still giving the pirates a fearful look. When Laisha came over and sat by our side, she grasped her collar and hung onto her, to my wrinkled jacket's relief. I didn't know how I was still standing, my legs felt numb and my knees were wobbly. The same pineapple man stepped forward after discussing something briefly with who could only be Whitebeard. "(Hi, I'm Marco. And you are?)" he said, stretching out his hand.

I hesitantly took it and introduced myself. "(I'm Ceretiy. N-nice to meet you.)" I turned to my sister and kicked her in the side with my boot after disengaging the handshake. "Greet yourself, too, Kai."

"What?! What are you saying?! That's a pirate flag!" She yell-whispered, gesturing to the Jolly Roger flapping above us. "Can't you feel that heaviness in the air?! These guys totally outmatch us! They could kill us with a pinky finger!"she said, indicating by waving her pinky back and forth. Yeah, I could feel that pressure in the air, like my body was being pressed down to the earth by some sort of increased gravity. Every part of my body was tingling like there were magnets surrounding me. I guess that's what people call aura or presence or haki or something that I've seen in a bunch of anime.

"I know. But if we're going to find any way to get home then were going to have to start here. Besides their trustworthy." I explained surprisingly calm. Though my shaking hands were betraying that calm persona.

"Trustworthy?! Did you just describe pirates - god damn pirates, as trustworthy?!" She said, raising her voice slightly. "Do you know what these people do?! They pillage, murder, and rape people! They are the farthest thing from trustworthy that you can get!"

I knew where she was coming from, I mean she was just teleported onto a strange ship not five minutes ago so she was probably not gonna get up and have tea with them, but to be honest, even though I understood where she was coming from, she was irritating me. So I flicked her in the forehead, really hard. Like, really hard. I think it may or may not have left the slightest of bruises.

"What the he-" I pulled her from the floor and made her bow alongside me.

"(I'm sorry for our rudeness.)" I saw Whitebeard smirk slightly. I let go of my angry sister. She seemed to have all her energy focused on me so that she didn't have to realize the situation at hand. "(This is my little sister Kai. And this is my dog Mia.)" I said pointing to the two of them respectively.

"(How did you get on our ship, yoi?)" Marco asked. "(Was is a Devil Fruit?)"

How was I going to respond to this and not sound crazy? I came from another world, so technically shouldn't know about devil fruits, so I played the ignorant. "(Devil... Fruit? What's that?)" I replied hesitantly. My sister must of noticed my shaky response cause now she was freaking out a little.

He but on his lip slightly before waving the question off. "(Doesn't matter right now, yoi.)" He gave me a pointed stare. "(What does matter is how you managed to get on the ship of the strongest man in the world without being seen until your were no more than ten yards from him.)"

I gulped. As before I had been completely sure that they wouldn't hurt us, now not so much. It was only now I realized just how bad this looked. "Ceretiy, what's he saying?!" Kai whispered.

"He wants to know how we got here." I answered, noticing that most of the men that had gathered around us had left, only leaving the faces I actually knew; Whitebeard, Marco(who was still sitting next to us,) Izuo, Haruta, and Jozu.

"How in hell are we going to explain that?!" She almost yelled at me.

"How am I suppose to know?!" I said throwing my hands in the air. " How about 'Oh I touched a blob in the forest of another world and landed on your ship, please don't kill me!' Is that good enough?!"

"Be serious!" She hastily whispered. "I don't want them getting impatient and slicing our necks off, thank you very much. I'd like to live another day!"

"It's heads, not necks!"

"I think that's hardly the issue right now!"

"I know that!" I shot back, taking a breath to comb my hand through my hair. "I know that..."

I turned backed to Marco, who had been surprisingly quiet throughout our little spat, of which had made me calm down. "(Sorry bout that..)" He chuckled and shook his head. "(So.. Do you want to hear the extended version, or the short version?)"

Chapter 1 is done! Yay! So I've recently been reading MarcoxOc and "girl falls into one piece" stories and wanted to do one myself. Hope you guys enjoy my take on it.

I can't promise any updating. FSA testing and final expanse are coming up, combining that with Marching Band practice and the fact that I just don't get a lot of time to write will most likely all for very slow updates.

And for any of you who are following any of my others stories, which are in need to updating, I WILL NOT abandon them I promise! If I end up abandoning them, I will post a warning a few days before deleting/putting it up for adoption.