"Luffy!" Nami screamed loudly. Poor Luffy had a look of pure terror on his face as he tried to evade Nami.

"What did he do now?" Sanji remarked to nobody in particular after they had stormed through the kitchen. Lucky for them he was doing the dishes, or else there would be another shitstorm Luffy's way. But he got his answer almost immediately.

"What did you do with the money?" She snarled as she had finally cornered Luffy. Realizing he couldn't escape Nami anymore, he went for lying.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Luffy hesitantly said, looking the other way and whistling. Zoro had woken up, and he could easily spot the beads of sweat forming on his rubbery skin. Nami now grabbed Luffy by the neck and lifted him up, causing him to look a bit like a giraffe..

"Don't you lie." Nami hissed in a low tone. "When we left Siesta Island, we had three hundred thousand Beli. I check the coffers two days later and there's one note left." Her face was contorted in the angry mask only money could bring on. Robin had stopped reading and was looking at the spectacle with a slight smile, while Usopp was in armor and Franky had gotten some wood ready. Brook was nervously making skull jokes to ease the tension, and Sanji had been drying the same plate for five minutes now.

"Really? Maybe Zoro spent it on sake." Luffy lied, pointing at Zoro with an expectant face. It had horrible timing, as Zoro was checking to see if the bottle of sake next to him really was empty.

Nami's iron fist came down on Luffy's head. It was a remarkable thing that she could physically hurt Luffy with a punch. But then again, it was like watching Whack-a-Mole sometimes. A vein was throbbing next to her bright orange hair and if Luffy wasn't going to be answering anytime some, Chopper would be pretty busy. The reindeer in question was now alarmed as he took in the scene. Everybody was watching, happy that it wasn't them Nami's wrath was directed at.

Luffy was rubbing his head and looked at Nami with the best puppy-eyes he could manage. She faltered, but then strengtened her resolve. Again her fist was raised, as if she was at a fair and was going to hit the bell and take the prize. Luffy realized he wouldn't be able to get out of this unless he dished out his answer. He mumbled something unintelligible.

"What was that Luffy?" Nami growled in a dangerous low tone.

Again he wasn't looking at her.

"I bought armor."

'WHAT?" She screeched. "YOU SPENT THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND BELI ON ARMOR?"

"It's a man's romance!" He defended himself, puffing out his chest.

"He's going to be needing it soon." Usopp whispered to Chopper. And boy he was right. Luffy saw it coming and launched himself up in the sails as Nami had let him go. Admitting defeat, she stomped back into the boat looking even angrier than before. Luffy slowly slid down, and his usual grin returned to his face.

"Phew…" He said, wiping the sweat off of his brow. Sadly for him, the storm wasn't over. Nami had returned, with a triumphant grin and the armor in her hands. It was cool armor though, the steel was black and shiny and had an intricate silver pattern on it. Luffy just looked at Nami blankly, not getting what her purpose was for bringing his extremely awesome up to deck. Surely it was worth the money right?

Wrong. Dead, dead wrong. Nami grabbed a part of, and revealed a torch. Agonzingly slow, she put on fire-proof gloves, and turned the torch on. The flame slowly melted the steel and Luffy was looking at her as if she was torturing his puppy. She was taking Luffy's dreams and squashing them down. Technically burning them to a crisp. His face was filled with pain as the metal disintegrated. Ashes pelted the deck, and in an agonizing five minutes, the affair was over. Luffy had the face of a six-year old boy who had just seen his pet killed.

Sanji quickly started on a meat dish to cheer him up. Chopper and Usopp were trying to get him to go on the swing. Franky was checking the deck for damage, and Robin was reading again. Zoro, as usual, was fast asleep. But Luffy's spirits couldn't be lifted. The meat made the intensity of his sadness a little less, but he wasn't his usual self.

"Nami, weren't you a bit harsh?" Robin gently said as Nami passed her to sunbathe. The glare said it all, but Robin took no mind. "That was three hundred thousand Beli you just torched." She remarked. Nami was in bitch mode, and didn't reply. Robin concentrated on her book again. Then Franky shouted.

"I see an island!" Franky shouted loudly.

"So soon?" Chopper asked hesitantly. They were used to waiting for quite some time before another island came, and it had only been a day since they left Siesta Island. It had been Zoro's private heaven, with him sleeping most of the day, just like all the inhabitants. It had been a quick stop, and they'd exchanged some of the treasure they'd found there, and of course restocked.

"The Grand Line isn't logical. There are records of people hitting the next island mere hours after leaving. I've read the New World is even more difficult. They call this half 'Paradise.'" Robin said. Everybody was running around, getting things ready to leave the ship. Nami had put on a sundress and was commanding everybody around. Luffy was somewhat excited, but not his usual self. The poor captain was taking the downfall of his amor rather badly. But that didn't stop him from being the first to hop off the ship and explore.

This island was like paradise. White sand covered the beaches, and tall palms, twisted in strange shapes, lazily swung in the wind. Sanji was going crazy over the sexy girls in their bikinis, sunbathing or swimming in the cool turqouise water. Some sort of complexes had been built over the water, so you could be in your cabin and then literally jump out of the window into the sea. A large wooden sign, embellished with shells and colorful letters welcomed the Straw Hat crew to Fiesta Island.

They all followed the wooden path, looking at the beach longingly.

"We should stay here a while." Usopp mused, clearly enjoying the nice weather of a Summer Island. His eyes were closed, and he looked relaxed.

"And rent one of those cabins!" Chopper said, his voice clearly excited.

"I finally fit in." Franky said with a grin. His speedo's, Hawaiian shirts and gold chain proved to be a rather questionable outfit almost anywhere, resulting in him being called a pervert more often than not. The blue-haired man looked like a beach bum, and there was nothing wrong with that here.

"Your eyes have more radiance than the sun." Sanji said seriously as he took a good-looking girl's hand and gave her a flamboyant kiss. "I'm Sanji."

The girl giggled, flipping her caramel colored hair over her shoulder. She was deeply tanned, and was wearing a glittery gold bikini with a cream cloth knotted around her hips. Zoro looked at the scene with interest, as he wasn't immediately rejected as usual.

"I'm Grace." She answered, giving all the guys a smile that clearly wouldn't be forgotten for a long time. Zoro wasn't affected, as he had more important things to concentrate on than the size of her massive breasts. The crew thought he was just so set on his goal he didn't seem to have any time for one night stands or anything of the romantic sort. "Welcome to Fiesta Island. The Log Pose should set in seven days. I work at the Cabana Cabin's, so would you guys like to stay there? It's not too expensive…" She noticed Brook. Her mouth opened, and she was about to scream. Not the impression the crew wanted to make. Robin quickly bloomed an arm to cover her mouth, scaring her even more.

You could hear her trying to talk.

"I'm Dead Bones Brook, a skeleton gentleman!" Brook said, adding his trademark 'Yohohoho'.

"Don't scream please. He's harmless." Robin said as her arm disappeared in a flurry of pink petals.

Grace nodded, and shyly stuck out her hand, and brushed Brook's sternum. Her eyes looked at him in wonder.

"Your skin feels heavenly on mine, even though I have no skin since I'm a skeleton! Skull joke! Yohohoho!" Brook laughed at his own joke.

She decided the skeleton wasn't too much of a threat, and caused a chanting of Sanji's 'Mellorine! Mellorine!" as she hooked her arm through his. No male could resist her. Luffy was eating a banana he had taken from a tree, looking around with a slight smile. Nami was feeling a tiny bit sorry, as Luffy's spirit was still rather crushed. He wasn't even walking in front or was grinning his usual lazy grin. Brook was slightly miffed, probably about not taking the chance to ask if he may see her panties.

Just as she was about to apologize, she was shut up. A simple wooden display board had been placed in the middle of the beach, and the text could have been sent from the heavens.

SANDCASTLE COMPETITION IN:

SIX DAYS

PARTICIPATE AND WIN

250,000 BELI!

Sign up at the Cabana front desk.

Beli sign flashed in her eyes. She could refill her coffers again. And buy a new lock. Her greedy giggle alerted the crew member, who read the board and sighed. Nami would surely force them all to participate and build some monstrous thing while she sunbathed and watched them work, commenting non-stop. Thy quickly reached Cabana Cabin's front desk where Grace signed them into three cabins.

"Excuse me Grace-san." Nami quickly interjected as she stated explaining something about rules and regulations, wasted on the pirates. "We would like to enter the sand-castle competition." She looked serious. Her hands were flat on the desk, and she was leaning dangerously close to Grace, terrorizing the poor girl.

"S-sure…" The beauty stammered. "W-what's your g-group's name?"

"Straw Hat Pirates." Luffy said, his lazy grin returning. Some would say he said it to impress Grace, but knowing Luffy, with his lack of libido, that wasn't the reason. Maybe he did it to get a rise out of her, as he was a pirate and lived to disrupt society, a Marine could have said. But his crew knew he said it because he was proud of his nakama and his crew.

"You g-guys are p-pirates?" She said pirates as one might say a dirty word.

"Is it against the rules?" Zoro growled, giving her a fearsome look. He'd rather be embarassed about wanting to join a sandcastle competition than face that witch's wrath.

"N-no, b-but…" Grace looked even more terrified. Her eyes darted from Zoro's swords to the muscles in Franky's arm to Luffy's scar.

"Do you guys have any non-saltwater swimming area's?" Robin asked with a small smile, waiting for her to work out the math. They were making sure Grace wasn't going to call anybody. Nobody wanted to mess with Devil's Fruit users. "It's such a pain for us."

Her eyes widened and then she looked around again. Everybody had drawn out their weapons just enough for her to notice them.

"So, a team of nine?" Grace said with a small attempt at a smile. A failed one at that, as she was terrified. The pirates nodded and Grace wrote it down on a clipboard. Quickly she put it away and took her her sign-in list where they had to put all their individual names. The poor girl couldn't help herself and looked at the names, and then at the bounty posters on the wall. It was a fact Grace would have nightmares. She stumbled to get a map to give the criminals, and stammered to explain where fresh water was located and paths. Also, she handed them a sheet of paper with ruler about the competition.

Grace sighed as they walked out of the door. Maybe it was time for a vacation.

"Zoro, Robin!" Nami sighed. "We didn't have to terrorize her." It wasn't that she was bothered, she just didn't want the judges to have a prejudice against them in the competition.

"If we didn't, there would be a shitload of Marines here. Didn't you see the bounty posters they had on the wall?"

"Only Luffy was there." Nami said.

"Oh, I ripped it off." Robin suddenly said, holding up a ball of paper which she threw in the sea. "Better get rid of evidence we're pirates."

They relaxed as they sea breeze wafted in their faces. The cabins had indeed not been expensive, and they would pay after their not if they lost the competition. Nobody would let that happen if they valued their lives though. Well, not a person was really planned on paying, since they could have just as well stayed on their ship. The allure of these tropical cabins had proved too strong, and maybe Luffy would leave them 'Treasure Credit' as he'd done when he was small.

"Wow!" Chopper said, clearly impressed. Even Zoro gave a grumble that signified him liking it. Bamboo covered the inside of the cabin, and the beds looked luxurious. Mosquito netting had been hung over every bed. This was the largest cabin, having four beds. Soon it was worked out that Luffy, Brook, Usopp and Chopper would stay here, while Sanji and Zoro would take one of the cabins with two beds and Nami and Robin the other. Franky would watch the ship, and he volunteered for it, saying he was shipswright and it was his duty. Usopp, Luffy and Chopper had ran to the livin area, where couches, filled with water and a table that actually was an aquarium stood. The glass table had a small tube in the floor that went to a wall, with a stunning display of small nurse sharks, manta rays, coral and colorful fish swam around.

Luffy had stuck his face to the glass and was laughing. As he ran to the bathroom, a smudge showed where his cheek had been. Usopp hooted as he saw the jacuzzi, bathtub and the grandeur of the shower. The crew laughed at their antics, but even Zoro smiled at how happy the three were.

"Let's go swimming!" Luffy shouted. Sine they were unstoppable, everybody walked over to the ship for their bathing suits and quickly changed. [A/N Think that colorspread Oda did] Soon they were all relaxing in a hot spring, except for the childish three who were using jungle vines to splash into a nearby spring. It wasn't too deep, and everybody laughed when Luffy went first and bounced into the air as he jumped too late.

As the sun started setting, it became pretty cool so they returned to their cabins.

"This island is great!" Usopp cheered just before they split up. Franky had already left some time ago. Usopp was ignored though, because as soon as they hit the beach a stunning display of people dancing with fire surprised them. You could barely make out their shapes, and the fire was flying at a high speed.

"It almost looks like they're controlling it!" Chopper said, his mouth agape.

"I thought your brother ate a fire Logia." Zoro said.

"These people don't have a Devil's Fruit power Chopper. They're trained to do this." Robin remarked.

Chopper walked a bit more to the front, only to fly onto Zoro's head. One of the fire dancers spit a flame in his direction, nearly burning him. They heard Zoro angrily mumble something and trying to get Chopper off. Robin chuckled and pried him loose.

"You're going to choke swordsman-san."

"I thought you were a man Chopper, but alas…" Usopp said, feigning disappointment. "A great warrior of the sea like me is rare-"

"I am a man!" Chopper said angrily, jumping out of Robin's arms.

Usopp opened his mouth but then his pant leg caught on fire as one of the dancers had thrown a sort of fiery boomerang.

"Stop, drop and roll Usopp!" The reindeer ordered quickly as Usopp was running like a chicken without a head. Immediately he dropped, and rolled. It was quite a comical scene, as Usopp was rolling about with no effect.

"Roll harder!"

People started laughing at the scene, but diverted their attention as the flame went out. The crew kept on teasing Usopp about it until they all fell asleep in thir luxurious beds. To Luffy's delight, it was a water mattress, and you could hear it sloshing around all night.