Yay! Chapter 2 is up w00t! Ok i know these chapters are a bit short but im trying to make them longer but i just dont want to keep people waiting for a new chapter, but ill try to make my chapter longer, but coming after this chapter: The first major fight in this fic! Chopper vs. (I'm not gonna tell!)

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Chapter 2: Ronald

"Paradise Island?" exclaimed Usopp. "Why yes," the man said "Is something wrong?". "Do you have a boat sir?" Usopp asked. "Why yes I do" said the man. "Is there a problem?" the man asked. "Yes," Usopp replied "I have been thrown overboard and I need to get back to my crew." Usopp finally got a good look at the man, the Caucasian looked about in his mid twenties, he had black hair that was slicked back but was spiky on the rear side, and he also wore a red t-shirt with a blue number 99 on it and he had on some loose blue jeans. "We have to hurry!" Usopp yelled "they may be under attack!"

So Usopp and the man cast off and were headed for the ship.

Zoro emerged from the water and looked around at his surroundings, he counted how many people were there to himself "Sanji, Nami, Me aaaaannnndd…" Zoro thought. "Oh my god! Chopper!" Nami screamed. Within seconds, Zoro was underwater swimming down to save the sinking chopper who looked at him with eyes of a dying man. Come on Chopper Zoro thought Just hang on a bit longer! Zoro pulled out one of his swords and held it by the blade and handed the hilt to chopper so he could grab on. When Chopper grabbed the hilt he accidentally cut Zoro's hand causing blood to float all in the water making some parts turn red. Zoro then grabbed Chopper and swam to the surface.

Nami grabbed a chunk of the ship that Chopper could go on to float. Just then Zoro came up to the surface gasping for air while holding a breathing, living Chopper. Zoro set the half-reindeer on the chunk of flotsam. Then they heard Usopp's voice "Guys! Over here!" he yelled. So they all swam over and got on board. Nami looked at the man inside the ship that helped Usopp pull his friends aboard. "Who's this Usopp?" Nami asked. "I am Ronald" the man said "I live on Paradise island and I saw your friend wash up onshore and he told me that he'd been attacked and he had me tow him to his boat but then we found you in the ocean."

Ronald explained. "Nami, what happened to the Merry Go? And where are Luffy, Robin and Franky?" Usopp asked. "Much of the Merry Go was blown up by one of the Baroque Works members that attacked us." "Baroque Works?" Usopp interrupted "What're they doing here? Didn't their organization collapse when we killed Crocodile?" "The surviving members came here to re-create the group and have recruited many new members. They have also taken half the island hostage, my family included" Ronald explained. "That's terrible" Usopp and Nami said as if almost in unison. "We can take shelter at my place while you wait for your comrades" Ronald offered. "Thanks, well take you up on that" said Nami as they pulled into the island.

After everybody helped get the boat in to the dock, they all went back to Ronald's house. Chopper slept, still tired from the day's earlier events. Sanji, Zoro, and Usopp had a 3-way sparring fight, and Nami recorded the magnetic field of the island with her log pose.

Then two men kicked through the door and each held a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other. "ALRIGHT! THIS IS A ROBBERY!" one man yelled. The man was wearing a black ski mask, no shirt and torn jeans. The other man was wearing a green bandana with a ripped up shirt and black pants. The bandanna man pointed his gun at Zoro and fired, but in the blink of an eye, Zoro unsheathed his sword and sliced the bullet in half causing the two bullet fragments to pierce the wall behind Zoro. Sanji sighed and walked over to the bandanna man "HEY! WHAT'RE YOU DOING? COME ANY CLOSER AND I"LL BLAST YOUR FRIGGIN' HEAD OFF!" The man yelled. Sanji lifted up his leg and yelled "Nez!" while kicking his opponent square in the face, knocking him to the floor. The robber got up with blood running out of both of his nostrils. Sanji yelled "Collier!" while kicking the robber in the neck with great force causing him to fly back and cough up blood. "I –cough!- give up" said the bandanna man. "Yeah, well I'm not done with you." Sanji said almost evilly. Zoro then walked up to the second robber. "So, you wanna give up or take a worse beating that your buddy here." The swordsman smirked. He slowly unsheathed Wadou Ichimonji and put the sword in his mouth, he then unsheathed his other sword and put the two swords behind the mouth sword and yelled "TORA GARI!-TIGER HUNT!" and swung the swords forward, making an x-like cut on the robber, killing him instantly. "Oh crap" the bandanna man said as he looked at his partner's killer in fear. He then looked up at the blonde who jumped up in the air yelling "Mouton Shot!" the last thing the man remembered before bieng knocked unconsious was a foot headed for his face.

A few hours after the victory a man came over to Ronald's house. "Hey Cleatus" said Ronald. The man looked to be in his early 30's wearing a green shirt and khaki pants. "Can I stay here for a day or two, my wife kicked me out." The man asked. So Cleautus joined in the entertainment with everybody else.

In a building elsewhere on the island. A short man dressed in ragged clothes ran up to a man in a black hood yelling "New Mr.13! I have something important to tell you!" "yes?" said the hooded man. "Mr. 75 has returned from his mission," replied the short man. "Send him in" the hodded man orderd. "And one more thing" "yes?" said the short one "It's Mr.13, not the new Mr.13 I am continuing the originals legacy" said the hooded man as he pulled out a pistol and shot it at the servant straight in the head. Then a man walked in the room and kicked the servants dead body out of his way. The man was briused and had blood running out of both of his nostrils and he had a dribble of blood on the left corner of his mouth and 2 on the right side. "Ah, Mr. 75 where is your partner, Mr. 56?" Mr. 13 asked "He's dead" the bandanna man replied. "But did he deliver the message to Mr.99?" "-huff- yeah" "good"

While everybody else was having fun and drinking Grog, Ronlad went into one of the back rooms and read the message one of the robbers gave him, it read "You have 24 hours". Ronald then proceeded into another room opened up a door and pulled out a rifle.