"Ugh get me off of this DAMN ISLAND!" I yelled out to the sea. It didn't reply to me. Why would it, I mean we're not allowed to leave. Ya know what, it's not this island, it's our damn ancestors. Not like it's a law right? So technically I could leave. All the old Geezers call it an ... unspoken rule. Makes it sound so secretive. It really isn't, they say we can't leave cause we are all supposed to grow up to be amazing doctors or scientists or in my case an herbiest. Others have done it, my dumb parents did it, WHY THE HELL CAN'T I? Okay I'm just pissing myself off. I sat down on the beach and closed my eyes. The only thing that can keep me tranquil is the ocean, and it's also one of the things that can kill me. I listened to the waves as they crashed on the shore and the wind as it made a whistle sound in my hair. " Why am I stuck here?" I whispered to myself along with the wind. "Oi piper!" I looked down the beach to see my brother standing there waving his arms, and he sounded concerned. "What is it Sam?" I yelled back at him. "Pirates at dock 20, they're rampaging the town there!" He started to calm down. "Why didn't you shoot them from the shore?!" I started getting up to run towards our house.

"They were disguised as marines when they pulled in to port!"

"How in the hell did they get a hold of a marine ship!?"

"I have absolutely no idea!"

"Great..."

En Route to the dock we stopped by our house. It was a little two story brick building, with a roof ( if that's what you wanna call it, it had so many holes) that sat on a hill in the middle of the forest which engulfed half our island. Our island is the smallest in the North Blue its way out of the way of any other island, and is basically a dot on the map... literally. No one comes to our island because of that reason exactly, they can't find it. The only way you can, is if you have a vivre card. But, the only way you can get one of those is from our island elder, Cecilia. Who just happens to be my grandmother. And yet I still can't get one... Ugh I may hate this place but I couldn't leave knowing I couldn't find my way back. Of course every marine ship in the north blue has one.

We went up the stairs of our house, to the room at the end of the hallway. It was once the place my parents slept, now it houses the neighborhood birds. I and my brother looked under the bed and grabbed our weapons. In my brother's hand he held a katana once used by my grandfather in the marines. My choice of weapon was my two daggers. These two daggers are of great significance to me and my island, they were the two daggers that were used by my great-great-great-grandmother to found this island, they are why we exist, they are our history. I use them only today to protect this island. I held the brass handles in my hand, I rubbed my finger along the carved name of my great-grandmother. "Piper!" My brother snapped me back to reality. "Yea let's go."

The little town of dock 20 looked like a ghost town. The villagers had left and probably tried to enlist help from the men at dock 17, but all the men had just gotten off work and were at the bars... by now half drunk as well. " Captain, did ya see the look on that chic's face when she realized we were pirates and not marines, bwahahaha!" the rest of the men around the pirate started laughing. "Good job boys, now load all this sake up and we'll take those women we grabbed with us." he said with a sinister look on his face. I jump out in front of the pirates as they started to walk away. "How the hell did you find this island and what is an asshole like yourself gonna do to these women over here, ya know don't answer that cause I'm gonna kick your ass, and get your ass, OFF MY ISLAND!" the pirates stood there and stared at me. Then they all bursted into laughter. "Keep on laughing..." I mumbled under my breath. I raised my hand and with the other took my dagger . "Aero aero no mi." I said as I jumped forward, now I was on the other side of the pirates. I holstered my dagger and took a little step forward. Behind me all of the pirates fell except for their captain, who I had left on purpose. His lone laughing died out as he finally noticed he was the only one laughing. "So I'll ask again... how did you find this island?" I said to the now scared captain. "Th-th-there was a vivre card on the ship..."

"And how did you acquire the ship?"

"We found it, drifting..." He had stopped stuttering and had started smelling.

"What's with that look?"

"Piper!" my brother called from behind me. I turned to him just as the man at my feet had chained a seastone cuff to my wrist. Reinforcements had come to help the pirate. I passed out from the exhaustion. I heard a few words before I fully went to sleep. "Just take this brat, this should be fun." The captain's face had brought back it confidence and now was holding his head high. I don't remember much from my experience of those cuffs for the first time, but I do remember the next morning. It felt like having a hangover times ten.

At first I thought they had drugged me, cause when I awoke my cell mate was a bear in an orange jump suit. At first glance I brushed it off as irrelevant. I tried tuning into the world around me. I heard two men talking down the hallway about me and the injuries to the men. "Hi the names Bepo!" he said smiling. I tilted my head. Piper it is just your imagination, God only know what the hell goes on up there. Just calm down and come back to reality. " Oh I understand you are probably thinking you are in happy land right now, right? Well sorry to tell you but you are on a marine ship hijacked by pirates in a cell with a pirate who was on his way to impel down." He started to ramble on about who he was and why he was here and how he was caught, and with every word he spoke I still couldn't get over the fact that a bear was talking to me. He paused in the middle of his sentence. " I know maybe you will understand who I am if I told you about my crew and our captain. I am part of the heart pirates, and our captain is tra-" " SHUT UP YA DUMB BEAR" one of the men called down the hall. It didn't matter I knew the next two words that would come out of his mouth. "Trafalgar Law?" I said with an amazed look on my face. "Yes, so you know his name? Good then we are getting somewhere." "Law..." I said again. The name was so nostalgic. "Yes Law, so now I am his firs-" "so you are his first mate on his crew, I knew he would make it far," I started smiling and my face lit up like a match. "I told him so many times he could do it..." by now the tears had started to come pouring down my face. "Oh my why are you crying?" Bepo had started mumbling to himself about what he had said.

"BOTH OF YOU IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP I WILL KILL YOU!"

"I'm fine Bepo. And by the way mister pirate guy, were you the one who chained me up?"

"Yea why?"

"Are all pirates as stupid as you? Aero aero no mi melt!" the cuffs around my wrists melted as my devil fruit pulled the air pressure out of them. "Well dumb ass you gave me the wrong cuffs and gave the 'dumb bear' the seastone cuffs."

The guy stood there with a dumbfounded look. "Well you're screwed!" Bepo said. I kicked the guy in the balls and grabbed the keys from him. I unlocked the chains around Bepo's ankles, and put one of Bepo's arms around my shoulder and took him up to the dock prepared to fight... well I didn't have to. The head of the captain rolled towards my feet, I screamed not because it was a head, but because it talked to me. I looked up and saw a man standing and around him were seven other men. "Captain!" Bepo called across the deck to the man. "Bepo!" the men standing around called. They ran over to him and took him off my shoulders. "Law he's got internal bleeding coming from his abdomen." one of the men said. "I'm fine guys. No need to operate." he started holding his head down. "Bepo of course we have to, but first you need some anti bacterial medicine because of that cell we were in, you were sitting right near some very poisonous fungi. If I'm correct you are going to need some..." I started to ramble on about the herbs I had in my bag that was on my hip when I left my village, then I came to the conclusion that I had left it sitting there on the beach. Needless to say I was pissed. "If you need those herbs I've got 'em on the ship!" The tall man said to me. I finally realized how oblivious I was being, I was standing on a ship surrounded by pirates who were supposed to be bad guys and I was talking about herbs to cure an infection. All of them kinda stood there with their mouths wide open. Well all except for Law. "Piper Lynn..."He said in the dead silence. All the others looked at him. I smiled "Trafalgar Law... damn it's been a long time." I ran up to him and gave him a hug. Of course his face turned a shade of crimson as the rest of the crew laughed at him. "So this is the little girl from your home town. That's how she knew your name." Bepo called to Law. "Yea this is my little brat." He said smiling. "You make me sound like a little kid asshole!" I yelled at him. "Its cause you are a kid." "Whatever I'm 18, old enough to drink and old enough to fight, I only got caught cause of that damn seastone cuff."

"So they got you with that trick?" He started to laugh at me.

"Yea and? It's not like you cou-" I fell to my knees and grabbed my chest.

"Shit Piper! You used your devil fruit to much didn't you? How many times have I told you not to do that?! Oi penguin go grab some-"

"Law I got it!" I pulled from my pocket a bottle of about thirteen pills and took one of them. I have a heart defect that prevents me from over using my devil fruit. If I'm not careful, there is a chance I could really injure my heart. These pills are the first medicine I learned how to create, I had to make them for my personal health. They are made of a certain seed found in warm climates. They are ground together and mixed with sugar to help pump the blood through my veins better.

"Piper?! Are you okay?" Bepo started to worry. The grip I had on my chest eased up along with the pain. I took a deep breath and sighed. "Yea I'm fine. I just need a little break from fighting and some food for energy and I'll be back to normal." I smiled and sat up with my legs crossed. Law was standing over me looking down. Wow he sure has gotten way hotter since I saw him last... did I really just think that? Anyway there is this one thing I have been wanting to do since he got here. "Hey Law come down here for a second I want to see something." I don't think he remembered our little 'ritual' per say. Before he knew it I grabbed his hat and placed it on my head. I stood up and walked toward their ship. "So you guys coming or what?" I yelled back at them as I jumped to the submarine at the side of the huge tanker. "Hurry guys Bepo needs surgery right?" At my words they all snapped back to reality and jumped on board Law following behind them. They took Bepo inside and I waited for about an hour in the medicine room creating a pill for Bepo to take when he awoke from the sleep drugs. Law met me out on the deck and from there I went in to see Bepo. He looked depressed, so I walked up to him and gave him a hug. He didn't see it coming, "Why did you hug me?"

"Because you helped me cheer up in the cell on the marine ship so whenever you need me I'll be there for you so you don't have to worry. Oh, and here are those pills I was talking about!"

He was quite shocked, so I squeezed his hand and gave him the pills. I walked out of the room and the rest of the crew (not including Law) rushed in to see him. On the main deck I met with Law to ask a few questions. "Hey." he mumbled under his breath.

"Hey, I can't believe it's been two years since you left."

"Feels like just yesterday right?"

"No for some reason it's felt like an eternity..."

"Piper I have a question."

"Anything?" I turned around and leaned my back against the railing of the sub.

"Will you join my crew?" He said as he turned and grabbed my hip so I would look him in the eyes.

I couldn't move my lips, I couldn't breathe, here I was thinking he was just gonna take me home. To join his crew? What the hell? What do I say? Without even thinking further than that I looked in his eyes and got lost. How could I leave him again? He was my best friend and he still is. "Of course I'll join you Law." I smiled and hugged his neck and with that I had no idea what I had just gotten myself into.