For some reason, this chapter is very long. I didn't do well with the breaking up, so this is as long as two chapters. I just had to fit in the end fight because I thought maybe the first chapter was boring since I got only two reviews I think. Enjoy~

As Luffy ate her slice of cake, she was coming up with ideas of how to take that human's pretty swords. She wanted to add to her collection of different types of weapons. She'd been stealing weapons for over a decade. Everyone thought she was a bit strange. They all stole pretty things like coins and jewelry. Or shiny clothes to wear around home. They wore their plain clothes outside their area.

Everyone around her was playing with the new baby nymph that the celebration was about. They were all drinking delicious wine and juice they'd made from real grapes for the occasion. She was sitting against the entrance of their beautiful home. It was in a tree, but it was a magic tree. It was a portal to a big beautiful compound that rested in a cove with beautiful clear water, home to many fish and sea mammals that came and went out to a long river to the ocean. No one came that way by ship because it was impossible to navigate through the coral and jagged rocks.

There were giant leaves used as umbrellas with fluffy seats underneath them. They had created everything there with their abilities. If a human ever found them walking through the tree hole, they were banished. Sent off to somewhere else in the world, far from the island.

They only killed when someone harmed any of the nymphs. Luffy couldn't stop thinking about what the swords must feel like. If their handles were soft and if they were heavy. She could turn any part of herself into a weapon, but real ones were fun to collect and use as models.

"What are you thinking about?" Makino came up. Luffy smiled.

"Nothing," she replied, but it was obviously a lie. When she gave Luffy a stern look, Luffy told her she was thinking about the swords the green haired human had. Makino sighed.

"Well, tomorrow you can go steal it. But make sure you are careful. He looked strong. I know you like fighting against strong opponents, but be careful. Last time you took a sword from someone battling you, it was bad. I don't want that to happen again," Makino finished. Luffy nodded.

"Whatcha' guys talking about?" Ace, their brother and Luffy's older twin, said as he plopped down next to them, tipsy from the massive amount of wine he had consumed.

"I found swords I want to steal!" Luffy said, immediately more lively with her brother there.

"Oh ho, what do they look like? Any different from your collection?" he asked as he took a large gulp of the alcohol.

"There's a white one, and two black ones. Their hilts are really pretty. And all of these are carried by one guy! All at once. So crazy," she replied happily. "I can't wait to have them. Ooh, I hope he fights with me over them. I want to see how he uses all three at the same time."

"Sounds like a big challenge. I have something interesting to tell, too. Promise you won't pass it on tonight?" Ace asked Luffy. Makino immediately left, because she was terrible at keeping secrets, so she stayed away from them.

"What is it? What is it?" Luffy questioned excitedly.

"There was a creature that heard us, and spoke out loud. It was picking our herbs," (Luffy gasped in anger) "But then he heard us getting angry about it, and apologized and left, leaving the herbs he'd picked! It was crazy!"

"Wowww! That's so cool!" Luffy was amazed by Ace's information. "What did it look like?"

"It looked very strange. It was furry, but it walked upright. It was even smaller than we are! It had hooves and antlers. And it wore a hat and bottoms. It was a strange experience. He seemed friendly, though. And his human companions didn't hear us. It was just him," Ace finished, smiling at Luffy's amazed expression.

"We should try and talk to it!"

"Shh… Don't be so loud. But we really should go and find it. Let's do it tomorrow, before others get there first," Ace offered. Luffy nodded her head enthusiastically.

"Then we have to find the man with the swords I want."

"It's a deal. It's getting late, so we should go to bed and get up before everyone else." Luffy agreed and they went to their rooms at their area. Makino still wasn't back when they closed their doors and said goodnight.

Luffy and Ace got up early and snuck out the portal and back into the forest, closing the entrance behind them, sealing it so no human could get through. They quickly headed back to the town Luffy had gone to yesterday and the one the weird animal/person had headed to from the meadow they were trespassing on.

They sat on the same bench Zoro and Robin had sat on the day before. Everyone gave them a wide berth, trying to keep out of their area. The siblings waited for two hours, until they saw a group of people. It had both the creature Ace had seen and the man Luffy was going to follow that day.

"Is that him?" Luffy asked when the little creature came into view.

"Yeah. You go up first. You're smaller and cuter. They won't be too scared of you, hopefully." Luffy frowned.

"I'm strong like you are, too!" she replied indignantly.

"I know, I know, but you look less threatening," Ace assured. It was true Luffy was exceptionally strong, but she was also small and very cute.

As the group got closer to Luffy, who was standing in the middle of their path, staring at Chopper, they all grew nervous. Zoro unconsciously put his hand on his swords. Chopper hid behind Robin's long legs.

But the group came closer. One of them, a man with a very long nose, slowed his walking, pretending to be casually looking at an interesting brick wall.

Robin smiled at her, looking at her beautiful face and small body. As a human, she'd be considered very undeveloped. She had a very flat chest and was overall pretty skinny. But it was clear she was not a child. It was a strange sight honestly. The pirates all stopped in front of her. Sanji was turned away from her so his instincts didnt kick in and flirt with the dangerous girl.

"Do you understand me?" Luffy questioned, looking directly at Chopper. Everyone around them, stared discreetly as they walked past. They hoped the nymphs didn't get angry about anything, because these people might never be seen again if they offended her or the male sitting a while behind her.

"Y- yes," Chopper replied. The crew wondered what she had "said" to him.

"Why?"

"I d- don't know." The girl tilted her head. Then she turned to the other nymph.

"Did you hear him?" Luffy called. Ace nodded. Then he got up and walked over as well. He was over a foot taller than Luffy, but was still pretty short compared to the humans before them.

"What is your name?" Ace asked.

"Chopper," the reindeer answered. Luffy asked what he was curiously. Everyone around them was shocked at this. Humans and nymphs never spoke to each other, and it looked like this furry creature could understand them.

"I'm a reindeer," Chopper replied.

"You don't look like a reindeer…" Luffy said, tilting her head again. He didn't look like a deer at all. Then he told them he wasn't gonna hurt them, which put the siblings in alert mode. But Chopper just changed and turned into a real reindeer, still wearing his clothes. Luffy gasped, and Ace blinked in confusion.

"Wow! That's amazing!" Luffy exclaimed, though her expression was still just surprised. "Can you shift into anything else?"

"Well, kind of… but it's still only being a reindeer. Do you want me to show you?" Chopper asked, feeling more at ease with the two nymphs. Luffy nodded her head. Chopper took out a little ball and crunch on it. Luffy and Ace watched, excited to see what would happen, but they both kept the slightly blank looks, the surprised expressions gone.

Chopper changed his shape 7 times, causing more nymphs to come over and watch. Soon there was a small crowd of little people, some carrying bags or boxes. More and more came over, and even humans watched, though keeping away from all of the nymphs.

Once Chopper turned back into his original form, one of the nymphs from the back of the crowd clapped her hands, and soon Chopper was greeted with applause from all of the small beings. Then the crowd dispersed and they went on their ways again. It was a strange sight for all of the humans.

"That was amazing. Hey, can I try with one of those balls?" Luffy asked, slightly bouncing on the toes of her slippers.

"No, Luffy. Don't eat one, it could mess with you," Ace told her, putting his hand on her petite shoulder. She pouted slightly and crossed her arms. "Seriously. Chopper, what would happen if she ate one?" he asked the still blushing reindeer from the applause.

"I don't know, but it's not a good idea. It would be bad for humans to eat, but I don't know about you guys. I wouldn't eat it if I were you," Chopper replied casually. He'd grown very comfortable around Luffy and Ace. Ace looked at Luffy, as if to say, "Told you so". Luffy frowned.

"Thanks for showing us. We've never been able to talk with humans before. I assume we can talk to you because you are an animal. How long will you be here?" Ace questioned. He paid no mind to Luffy's eyes flicking to Zoro's swords and back to the ground.

Zoro did notice this though, and gave the girl a stern look. But she pressed her lips together to not smirk. She was going to get those swords.

"We can leave in eight days. Then we'll head for the next island," Chopper replied.

"That's too bad. I'm sure everyone would like you. But we understand if you have other things to do," Ace said, bumping Luffy's shoulder to get her to stop looking at the green haired man with a challenging look. That was asking for trouble.

"Uh… no, I'd like to see more of you!" Chopper said. He liked the nymphs. And they obviously liked him. They seemed to just not like humans. He wondered why that was.

"Wait, Chopper! We're supposed to get more medicine today since we left so quickly yesterday," Sanji said. He had looked over at all the nymphs while they watched Chopper's performance, and all of the females were beautiful. He was trying to hide a blush, and especially a nosebleed.

"You can come and pick herbs from our meadow!" Luffy offered loudly. But she was greeted by frowns from the other nymphs.

"No, he can't come to our meadow!" a male nymph said to Luffy and Ace. "He'll use them to help humans. It's not allowed."

Luffy's face fell. She knew he was right. "Sorry, nevermind," she told Chopper sadly. "We should go. Thanks for showing us your cool stuff," Luffy told him. She turned around with Ace, who held her hand, and they began to walk away.

"Wait! Do you… wanna have breakfast with me - us?" Chopper asked. He didn't want them to leave. He liked them, and they were interesting. Luffy and Ace eyed him warily, and then their eyes flicked to the much larger humans.

"We don't consort with humans," Ace said, both he and Luffy, stopped again. "We have to go now." Both Luffy and Ace had grown uncomfortable so close to such large and negative looking humans. "Bye!" Luffy called as she and Ace walked away and around the corner.

"What do ya wanna have for breakfast?" Ace asked Luffy, who looked a little down. She wanted to hang out with Chopper more, but she didn't like the other humans being there.

"Hmm… Why don't we go to their ship and eat some of their food?" Luffy said mischievously. "They offered to have breakfast with us. We just misunderstood and thought they were offering to eat at their ship. When they weren't there, we got so hungry we couldn't help ourselves."

Ace grinned, up for a little trouble making. Not being able to do anything yesterday had taken its toll of the two. The two nymphs turned another corner and ran to the docks.

"Why did you offer them to have breakfast with us?" Usopp asked Chopper, like he was crazy. They were all sitting at a restaurant waiting for their food. Chopper was moping.

"I liked them. They were nice. They offered me to use their herbs. But the other ones got mad and said no. Luffy seemed really fun, too. I wanna know more about them. Are they magic? They just seem so interesting!" Then he went back to moping, playing with the straw in his juice.

"What were they saying? And what are their names?" Robin asked. She also had wanted to have breakfast with them. They were fascinating, even if she couldn't converse with them personally.

"The girl was Luffy and the other one was Ace, her brother. She kept asking me questions about myself. She wanted to eat one of my Rumble Balls but Ace told her not to. When I asked them if they wanted to eat with us, they told me they wouldn't consort with humans… I wonder what happened to them to hate humans so much?"

"Think about it, Chopper. They're all tiny and aren't exactly threatening looking. Think about most human nature. Humans would use them for their powers, whatever they may be. I think, for whatever reason, it is smart for them to keep their distance from humans personally.

"It would be nice to be friends with them, but it looks like that wont be what happens, and that's fine. I dont think it's anything personal, like who we are as individuals. It's probably also tradition. We shouldn't bother them with forcing our company… But they were so beautiful!" Sanji cried, thinking about how he could be the protective partner with a fragile female partner needing protection. Though he was sure if he said that, it would be quite offensive.

Zoro was scowling while they spoke. He did not like Luffy. She kept eyeing his swords, almost hungrily. And that mischievous smile put him on guard. It's not like she could get his swords on the ship. They wouldn't even know which one was theirs.

Luffy and Ace sat in the tangerine grove, eating delicious food from both the trees and the kitchen. They made sure to keep everything in the right places. No one would know they'd even been there. Even if they broke something, they could easily repair it.

After Luffy finished eating, she explored the inside of the ship. It was pretty small for such a large group of people, but it was cozy. The bathroom was nice, though small for humans. The tub was a nice size if Luffy wanted to take a bath.

The hammocks were fun to play with and swing around in. She looked in every drawer and closet. In the girl's room, Luffy was surprised about how many outfits the human women had. And they were all so revealing. If Luffy were to wear something like that, it would be frowned upon. She wouldn't want to even if she could, but she was sure no nymph would be seen in something like that.

Ace was surprised that the men of the ship had multiple pairs of the same outfit. They also had one pair of shoes each.

"Ace! These women wear so many revealing outfits!" Luffy called through the thin wall between the women's and men's rooms.

"The men wear the same thing every day!" he called back. He headed to the room Luffy was in and saw her pinching her nose away from a bottle.

"Ace, what is this? It smells terrible!" Luffy commented, waving the air. Ace spritzed the thing, too, revolted as well.

"I have no idea. It's nasty." Luffy had moved on to the vanity table. She rummaged around the drawers, pulling out lipstick and nail polish.

"Ooh, it's like a pen," Luffy said absentmindedly, drawing the lipstick onto her small hands. Then she easily wiped it off with her other hand, the mess disappearing. "I feel bad for humans. They have to use stuff to clean. It's so much easier for us…" Luffy said, now playing with nail polish.

"That was a pen and this is a brush!" Luffy exclaimed as she played with makeup. When she realized Ace had left the room, she put everything back where it was. She hurried up to the deck and ended up finding Ace in the storage room.

"It's too bad we can't let them know we were here. This is quality rope to take."

"Why does it matter? Just make yourself some rope," Luffy said, jumping from one box to another, then swinging on the lamp in the room. "Do you think we should go now? I'm sure they'll be coming back soon," Luffy mumbled to herself, but Ace could hear of course.

"Yeah, let's go," Ace agreed, turning everything back to how it was.

As they left the ship, and ran up the docks and to the forest nearby, Luffy laughed, saying, "Now I know the layout of the ship to get those pretty swords."

"I don't know, Luffy. They looked pretty powerful, even if one of them refused to look at us. They looked like surprisingly powerful people. Besides the human with the long nose. Even the lady holding the book looked powerful," Ace said, both of them walking away from the small harbor, home to many boats people live in.

"I'll be okay. But it was a really cool ship, huh? And big for us. I liked their comfy seats. They'd be fun to bounce on, right?" Luffy asked. She couldn't wait to get back on that boat and prove to Ace and Makino that she was strong enough to steal from a powerful human. She'd come home with a big, beautiful weapon. And then she'd go back for the other two. Eight days, huh? Plenty of time.

"Yeah, I'm sure it'd be fun to live in. Let's go home, I'm tired. We got up too early," Ace said. Luffy skipped next to him as they walked down the familiar trail.

The nymphs had left the crew alone other than some saying hello to Chopper, who was drinking up the positive attention. He wished he could hang out with them before he and the crew left. But he didn't want to ditch the others, so he went back to the ship with them, moping slightly.

The other humans left the little people alone, everyone ignoring each other. They didn't see any more of the nymphs as they walked back to the ship.

Chopper heard laughter, and by the fact none of the crew seemed to hear it, Chopper assumed it was nymphs.

"I dare you! If you do it, I'll steal you some candy," a female nymph told another girl. There was a rope being lowered from a peak high up above the trees.

"Are you sure? You know you can't swim in it…" Chopper heard a male nymph say. The rope now touched the water at the far end of the harbor. Chopper could only hear them from that far because of his enhanced hearing. He watched the three play up on the peak. They were younger. Actually, all of the nymphs they'd seen looked youthful.

"All you have to do is climb down, lick the water and come back up in under two minutes. It's easy!" the one who spoke first said. "I'll show you."

Chopper watched as a girl wearing the plain dress all the females wore slid down the long rope. She flipped herself upside down, her legs wrapped around the thick rope, and lowered her face down to the water. She stuck her tongue in it and then climbed back up easily.

"See?" she asked, sounding haughty. More nymphs came up to the peak, and Chopper stopped to watch them play. Robin had stopped, too, and was watching them with a smile.

Another girl told the original she could do it better. Then she tied the rope around her waist and spun down all the way to the bottom of the rope, swinging by one hand at the bottom and tasting the water. She then climbed up nimbly, laughing.

"What are they saying?" Robin asked. The others also had stopped to watch the little people play in the distance.

"They're daring each other to climb down, taste the water and then climb back up. Now it's turned into a competition," Chopper explained.

Suddenly, all of them stopped playing and pulled up the long rope once they noticed humans were watching them play.

"Stupid humans, acting like we're entertainment," a female nymph said irritably. "Let's go someplace else."

"Wow, they really hate humans…" Chopper said sadly. Robin looked a bit sad, too. She wished she could be around them. "They left cause they thought we were using them for entertainment."

Robin suddenly frowned at herself. That's what she'd been doing. She wanted to be around them because they were fascinating. She was studying them… like they were entertainment. As if she were in a zoo, amused by the 'creatures'. She felt guilty now.

"Let's just get back to the ship," she said.

They didn't really do much the rest of the day, though some of them felt like someone had been on the ship. But upon inspection, nothing was out of place, and nothing was missing, besides some food, but it could have been any of them going in the fridge for some sort of snack.

It was Zoro's turn on watch that night, and he would stay awake the whole time. He could just picture that girl climbing up on their ship and stealing his precious swords. Well, that was not going to happen. Zoro would be humiliated if a tiny female stole his swords.

So he sat up against the railing all his watch, eyes wide open. He refused to be snuck up on.

Luffy watched the swordsman sit up against the railing, obviously expecting her to come. She hoped he put up a good fight. She was determined to get at least one sword to start off with. She'd target the white sword first. That one was the prettiest. She'd never seen a white sword with a white scabbard.

Luffy jumped from one ship to another, silently landing barefoot on the sheep's head of the bow. She silently walked along the railing, watching the green haired man. He didn't move at all. She hoped he wasn't asleep.

After watching him for a few minutes, she jumped right in front of him. He growled at her. She gave a small smirk. Then Zoro stood up. He was easily two feet feet taller than her.

"Think you're gonna take my swords, runt?" he growled, pulling his two black swords out, one in each arm.

Luffy gave a big smile. "Of course I am, stupid human." Zoro knew what she was thinking based on that massive smirk of a smile. She put both arms up, like a fist fight.

"You think fists can beat swords?" Zoro asked incredulously.

Luffy's forearms suddenly morphed into two long, sharp, curved blades that reflected the moonlight. Zoro's eyes widened slightly in surprise.

She attacked first, swiping at his legs, since she was smaller than him by far. But he blocked well, thrusting a sword up, as if to slice her in half, but she danced away from him gracefully. He swung again, with both blades going towards her small chest, but she blocked with her arm-blades easily. Every time he was about to do a move, she'd run to him too quick for him to even get in position. She'd dash in and strike so he had to block. Luffy was ruthless and relentless.

He felt a familiar feeling fighting Luffy. She was so unpredictable. She'd even, in mid-air, shift her lower leg so it became a blade as well. He found himself backing away from her strikes. This both angered him and made his heart pump faster. He tried to swing all his swords at once, but she pushed up one blade with her leg as a blade, and spread apart his other two blades so his chest was in the open.

But he jumped out of her range as she mercilessly slashed where his chest had been. Zoro thought she was trying to kill him, but that was not her intention because she could heal him if she felt like it.

The battle lasted for a little under an hour, and Zoro was panting, a shark grin around the sword in his mouth. Her clothes were ripped, and his shirt was stained with blood from the small slashes she got in. He thought he cut her multiple times, but she was able to heal over too fast for him to see. It was a one sided battle they were both enjoying. But she was tired, and just wanted to get the sword already.

She stabbed her arms into the mast and climbed up, before she leapt at him one more time, curling all her limbs in so she had four jagged blades. He felt her sword-limbs pierce him painfully. He swore as he went down. Zoro stared up at her, feeling strange, not only because he was in pain. She had cut deep, and he was bleeding a lot.

She smirked at him as he lay there, panting and in pain. She dusted herself off and, right in front of him, picked up Wado Ichimonji from between his teeth and sheathed it gently. She waved it at him before bringing it down on his head to knock him out cold.

Little three foot, eleven inches Luffy had defeated the Pirate Hunter, Roronoa Zoro.

Of course, she didn't leave him to die. She healed his wounds, and left his other two swords. She'd take those in their next battle. She was surprised no one had woken up from their noisy battle. Maybe they assumed he'd deal with it. He was going to be very embarrassed when he woke up.

Luffy jumped to the dock and ran away with the large sword, laughing hysterically. She won! There! Ace nor Makino would ever act like she was weak again. She couldn't wait to fight him again. And take another sword.

Zoro and Luffy finally interact! Update on story status: pages = 187 words = 66,206

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