Air rumbled as it left the cage of Zoro's mouth. Smiling at Zoro, De-Ji returned to her book. Hearing a yell from below, De-Ji's head snapped up, then a curious expression crossed her freckled face. Nami was shouting about something, and Luffy and Suta were voicing excited squeals, so it was probably an island. Lowering her head back to her book, and feeling Zoro shift against her, the smile returned to her face. Little did she know, that it was not an island, but an enemy ship approaching on their port bow.
The ship approached with a intimidating flag of snakes coming through every orifice of the skull. Nami shouted at Luffy, who was staring without the slightest care at the ship. Suta's eyes caught the sight of cannons lining the sides of the large ship. A cannon blasted out of one that had just passed under Suta's awed gaze and flew into the crow's nest. Nami stopped yelling at Luffy when the cannon ball exited cannon's hole and crashed into the highest room on their vessel. Then she started screaming upward, waiting for an answer, and receiving nothing. Zoro climbed up, spluttering from the water that had intruded into his mouth.
"Where's De-Ji?" Nami asked the still coughing swordsman. The green haired man looked up with a surprised look on his face, and answered,
"I thought she was down here with you!"Nami's jaw dropped, and Zoro and Nami ran over to the side of the boat, to see a net pulling up an incapacitated De-Ji and Suta, who had fallen in looking for De-Ji. Luffy, who had started attacking at the first cannon fire, was seen falling into the water, followed closely by a cursing swordsman and cook. The ship scurried off into the distance, disappearing into the horizon when Sanji and Zoro both climbed up carrying their rubber captain. Usopp and the rest ran outside, just barely missing the action.
"They ran just at the sight of the Great Captain Usopp!" The marksman said with a confident grin and gesture. Everybody gave him an 'oh brother' look. Regaining thought with each breath, Zoro finally remembered that De-Ji was missing. Nami hadn't remembered, because she was busy hitting everybody who did anything wrong. Which was everybody but Robin. Luffy, ran off recklessly. Franky, Usopp, and Chopper weren't there. Sanji, who was flirting again. And last was Zoro, who hadn't saved De-Ji in time. As Nami said this, a gasp resounded over the ship's deck. Then, the freaking out occurred. Luffy ran around screaming his head off, and even more so when he realized again that Suta was gone as well. Usopp was scaring Chopper of strange creatures snatching them out of the sky (also resulting in running around screaming), Franky was trying to make sure that they were really missing, and resulting in yelling because of the screaming. All of this, until…
"SHUT UP!!" Nami yelled. Huffing from frustration, she explained to everybody what she and Zoro had seen. Luffy immediately gave her the order to follow them. The navigator would have been happy to oblige, but she wasn't watching where they had headed off to. She had been paying attention to her captain falling into the water and sinking like a hammer. And, thanks to the fog that was closing in, she couldn't simply look for their ship.