A/N: Though this is a One Piece fan fiction, the Strawhats won't show up until later, so if that's what you're searching for, you're sure to be disappointed. If it's not what you're looking for: thanks for reading!

Chapter 1

The salt spray rushed through Maria's hair as she desperately clung to the remains of her dingy that had the unfortunate circumstance of being blown up by a stray cannonball from a battle between two pirate ships near her.

Maria wore a red bandana around her neck, an orange tank top, a pair of black shorts and some black boots with golden studs.

"What the Hell!?" she screamed at them shaking her fist, knowing full well that if she fell into the water she was dead. "That's it! I'm coming over there!"

Maria quickly kicked and paddled her way towards the nearest gallant and climbed the rope ladder to the deck.

The clanging of cutlasses and the pop of flintlocks greeted her as she boarded the deck; she paused and tied her treasure, the red bandana around her neck, around her forehead to still her hair from slapping into her eyes.

"Oi! You stupid pirates! You blasted my ship apart!!" She screamed "Give me a new one!"

The pirates turned to look at her, and Maria realized that this wasn't a battle between pirates; this was a battle between pirates and marines. Upon realizing this Maria promptly said "Ooh... wrong boat." And quickly ran across the deck and jumped the distance between the two ships, landing neatly on her feet on the other deck.

Maria took a deep breath and screamed again "Oi! You stupid pirates! You blasted my ship apart!! Give me a new one!"

The pirates looked at her and laughed outright, Maria confused as ever asked "What?" a stupid crewmate came up and spit in her face while laughing "Stupid, girlie. Our captain has a Devil's Fruit! You're in for it now!"

At that moment an unnecessarily big shoe hit the deck, revealing that this ship belonged to none other than Buggy the Clown. Buggy sneered at Maria and said "That's right I'm a Chop-Chop man! You're in for it now you stupid girl!"

Immediately Buggy's had detached from his body and was speeding towards Maria as a fist, until it stopped suddenly.

Buggy, noticing his fist had stopped looked away from his cackling crew to see what had happened, only to have Maria say "What a coincidence, Big Nose, I also ate a Devil Fruit, I'm a Copy-Copy girl!"

Buggy looked at his hand to see Maria's detached hand had effectively stopped it by grabbing onto his wrist. Maria winked and stuck out her tongue at Buggy "You gave me all the information I needed, Big Nose, for copying your ability, stupid." With that Maria dashed into the hull of Buggy's ship and began searching for another dingy to replace the one Buggy blew up.

"Hum... now if I were a boat where would I be...?" Maria wondered aloud as she ran searching the rooms, until she stumbled up on a room with a girl a little older than her 17 years, who had purple hair and was chained to a desk with some charts.

She looked about 19 and wore a red tube top with white circles decorating the hem, she had a long pose, useless outside of the Grand Line, on her right wrist, she had a heart of her left shoulder, she wore a black skirt and black boots.

"Hey!" Maria said as quietly as possible "My name's Nicoru D. Maria. Do you know where I can find a boat?"

The girl looked up, startled from her map and said "My name's Shina Kato. I can help you if you can get these chains off. But try to be careful if you have a—"At that moment Maria fainted from the Sea Stone chains draining her power.

"...Devil's Fruit power." Kato finished lamely. Maria jolted to life at that second and said a little embarrassed "I think I'm going to need a key, Shina-san."

"It's actually hanging on the belt of Buggy's pants, so it's impossible to get without bring caught, no matter what your ability is, so you should just leave me and—"

"Hold on, I'll be right back!" Maria interrupted as she sprinted back to the deck to get Kato's chains key. Upon arriving back at the battle, Maria stayed by the entrance and decided to use Buggy's own power.

"Copy-Copy no... Chop-Chop...!" Maria said quietly as her hand detached and started flying over to get the key. Maria shivered "Ew... worst Devil's Fruit ability ever..." she whispered to herself.

Upon grabbing the key and regaining her hand's reattachment to her arm Maria had no choice but to yell "Thanks for the key, Big Nose!" before running back into the hull to free Kato.

When Kato was free Maria said as seriously as possible "On our way to my new boat... if you see an angry clown with a big red nose... you... never... saw me. Understand, Shina-san?"

Kato nodded and began to run down the hall with Maria and wondered aloud "I wonder why they don't have any boats on the deck..."

"Well I though checking down here first would be safer..." Maria answered dumbly.

Kato stopped and looked at Maria with wide eyes before yelling "YOU NEVER CHECKED THE DECK!!??" at Maria.

Kato sighed and spun Maria around to the direction of the deck, and began running towards the deck muttering "Just my luck to end up with an idiot..."

Upon arriving back at the deck fate had gotten rid of the marines for the two, but Buggy was waiting for a battle from them, instead.

"Maria...?" Kato whispered. "Yeah?" Maria asked. "I'll get the boat ready if you can beat them with your ability."

"Sure, but how are you—?" Maria's question answered itself as Kato whispered "I ate the Cloud-Cloud no mi..." and she turned into wispy cloud and reappeared next to a dingy on the deck and began to lower it into the sea.

"You know what?" Maria asked Buggy and his crew "I was going to hand you your asses, but I like Shina-san's idea better. Copy-Copy no... Cloud-Cloud...!" Maria said as she turned into smoky cloud and followed Kato onto the boat, leaving Buggy and his crew furious.

As Maria and Kato drifted away from Buggy's boat Maria untied her bandana from her head and retied it on her neck, she then asked Kato "So... Shina-san, what's with the Long Pose?"

"Oh," Kato said "This was my father's, but I've always wanted to use it to see the 'end of the world'." Then asked Maria "What's with that bandana?"

Maria grinned "This was Gol D. Rogers, he left it on my island 20 years ago, and my father gave this to me."

"Hey," Maria asked "Want to be my navigator? I'm going to the Grand Line anyway, and I've been looking for one."

"Uh, sure." Kato said "But you'll only hear this from me once: Captain." As she grinned.

A/N: Wow... 3 hours for 5 pages, not too bad. Chapter 2 should be up soon, but before I start typing it, I need to have some delicious ramen first! ...oh and I suppose I should do homework too... maybe.

Nicoru D. Maria – http:// .com/ art/OP-Kaizoku-Crew-Captain- 133249905 (remove the spaces)

Shina Kato – http:// .com/ art/OP-Kaizoku-Crew-Navigator- 133390460 (remove the spaces)