Disclaimer: One Piece is a work of such brilliance that I shouldn't even be allowed to know of! (I don't own it)

AN: First fic in a verrry long time, but I'm already having fun with this one. I'm ready to accept the flames that will most likely come my way due to the fact that this story is mostly my OCs. But I still think that it should be amusing and I hope that those of you who read this will like it!

-Suki

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"Oh my god! Mada! Come look at this!"

Mada sighed contemptuously, "Kerra, for the last time, I do not want to see the piece of skin you pulled off the bottom of your foot!"

"No, it's not that!"

"Nor to I want to see you eat it!"

Silence.

"Okay, well it's not just that. Just come look!"

Mada shut the book she was reading and left the comfort of her cabin to the salty atmosphere of the deck. She spotted Kerra perched on a cannon reading the newspaper; something completely uncharacteristic. Kerra hated anything that threatened to burst her bubble of oblivion.

"Yes?"

"Lookit!" She exclaimed, shoving a piece of paper under Mada's nose. Mada disliked having unknown objects put in her face, but she had gotten used to it in the few weeks she'd been traveling with Kerra. Mada took the paper away from Kerra and held it in a more readable position. It was a wanted poster. The boy in the photo was smiling idiotically, the background a scene of destruction. He looked to have the IQ of a grain of sand. Perhaps two grains, if pushed.

"Monkey D. Luffy?" Mada quirked an eyebrow, "So?"

"Just look at him! And look at that bounty!" Mada acknowledged that 30,000,000 Belli was unusually high. "That's the highest bounty in the East Blue! And guess how he got it!"

"Why don't you tell me?"

"He defeated Arlong!"

"Arlong?" Mada had heard the name before, but the way Kerra prattled on about famous pirates, often using their wanted posters to illustrate her explanations (more than once, Mada had been victim to a "wanted poster puppet show"'), there was simply no way she could remember all the names.

"Yeah! The Fish-man! A vicious slab of part-fish, part-man fighting, killing machine! With razor sharp teeth too!" Mada nodded. Despite how little she cared about this boy, she was impressed. Kerra continued to ramble. Mara decided to just listen instead of trying to follow her thoughts, it was giving her a headache to try to do so. "He looks young, doesn't he? Maybe my age? A little older? God, he must be strong! How do you think he fights? Let's find him!"

This last statement caught Mada completely off guard. "What?"

"Yeah!" Kerra grinned, "I want to fight him!"

"Are you insane?" Mada waved the poster around, "Look at this bounty! You'll get yourself killed!"

"Hey!" Kerra snatched the paper back out of the other girl's hand, "Don't hurt it!" She smoothed the poster on her knee, making sure that no permanent damage had been done. She looked up and stared into the distance, obviously thinking. "Um, I think Arlong Park is on Commi Island, so set a course for there! We're gonna find out where he's going next!" The girl hopped off the cannon and bounced off to her own cabin, no doubt going to add Luffy's poster to her already expansive collection.

Mada heaved a sigh; what had she gotten herself into? She glanced up at the skull and crossbones emblazoned on the main sail and stuck her tongue out at it. She stormed into her quarters to locate Commi on a map and 'set a course for there.' Such was as her captain had commanded, and such was her duty as a pirate to comply.