Chapter 2: Strange Events
Author's Note: This is my second longest chapter I've ever made! Enjoy!

Luffy stared at Nami as she silently stared back up at him with her ears twitching slightly.

"N-Nami? What happened to you?" Nami just stared at Luffy silently and then lowered her head and placed it against his neck.

Luffy slowly stood up, and Nami quickly stood up also as she stared at him.

"So you can stand?"

"…"

"Can't you talk anymore?"

Nami silently continued to stare at Luffy and he sighed and then said while putting his arms behind his head.

"I guess I could ask Robin what happened…"

Luffy turned and exited the alleyway with Nami directly behind him smiling.

Usopp and Chopper made their way back to Going Merry and climbed on board to see Robin still reading.

"Ah, Lose Nose-kun, Doctor-san! I sent Cook-san to find you all."

"Sanji's running around and so is Zoro."

"I see. I guess I'll tell you then."

Chopper looked around and then frowned as he looked at Robin.

"Where's Nami?"

"That's what I need to tell. Navigator-san is missing."

"Nani!? Where'd Nami go?"

"I don't know…"

-Flashback To Earlier That Day-

Robin and Nami walked down the shopping district and started to look at the various stores.

Nami turned toward a jewelry store and her eyes lit up as she looked in the window.

"Robin! I'm going to check out this store!"

"Hai."

Nami walked into the store, and Robin followed as Nami quickly went to a shelf and her eyes started to sparkle. The store clerk looked over from her clipboard and grinned as she noticed Nami staring at a bracelet.

"You interested in that?" Nami nodded and then turned to the clerk.

"How much?"

"How does 1000 Berries sound?"

"Strange. What's the catch?"

"None."

"I'll take it!" Nami paid for the bracelet and looked at it happily. It had a little kitten design on it and it seemed to have vines wrapped around it.

"It's beautiful!"

"I hope you like it!"

Nami nodded and then fingered it in her hands as she stared at it. "It's called the Neko Bracelet."

"That's obvious." The clerk grinned strangely and then said.

"How about you try it on?"

"Okay…" Nami took the bracelet in one hand and placed it on her other hand's wrist.

The clerk's grin widened until it became almost eerie. The bracelet suddenly started to smoke and eveloped Nami in the smoke. "Navigator-san!" Robin stareed at the smoke cloud as the clerk reached for under her desk and grinned as someone came out of the back door while wearing a deep blue jacket.

"We got one."

"I wonder if it works."

"This would be the third time we've tried. The last two died quickly."

Suddenly, something shot out of the smoke, broke through the window, and jolted down the street while the clerk shouted while pointing after it.

"Get it, Michael!"

"Hai!"

The man named Michael, reached for inside his jacket and pulled out a small blade and jumped through the hole in the window and ran after the thing.

Robin stared after Michael and then looked back at the clerk who was chuckling happily.

"What did you do to Naviagtor-san?"

"I didn't do anything. All I did was sell what that crazy guy Quince made."

"Quince?"

"Yep, Quince. He made that bracelet, and he was the one who made it so it turns whoever wears it into a cat!"

"A cat?"

"Yep, a cat. However, it was supposed to turn the person into a full cat! Darn, Quince! It only turned her into half a cat!" The clerk shouted toward the window and Robin crossed her arms and sprouted arms out of the clerk's body and held her down.

"Ah! You… You're a Devil Fruit User!?"

"That's right. Now tell me more about this Quince."

"He lives on the next island! He's well known as an inventor! You can't miss him!"

The clerk shouted and Robin released her hands and smiled. "Arigato."

Robin turned to leave the store and tell the rest of the crew until the clerk shouted back.

"You'll never get Quince to turn her back!"

"We'll see about that." Robin said and looked back at the clerk with a smile and walked out of the store.

-End Of Flashback-

Usopp and Chopper's mouthes hung as they stared at Robin in disbelief.

"Nami was turned into a cat-person!?"

"So she's know kinda like a Zoan Animal?" Robin nodded twice and Usopp and Chopper looked at each other and then back at Robin.

"So that giant cat we were asked to look for was…"

"Navigator-san."

Usopp clentched his fist and pumped it into the air.

"Yosh! Let's go find Nami, and then grab the others, and get the hell away from here!"

"We can't leave without turning Nami back to normal!" Chopper shouted and Usopp slowly nodded and then walked toward the railing.

"Yosh! We'll split up and search for Nami!"

"Hai!"

Sanji and Zoro were running down the same street as they furiously tried to knock the other away.

"I was here first, Marimo!"

"So what!? I'm stronger than you!"

"Nani!? You wanna fight right now!?"

"Bring it on, Curly Brows!"

Zoro and Sanji started to attack each other as everyone in the street turned to them and slowly moved away from the fighting.

Zoro and Sanji were bitterly attacking each other and then stopped when someone coughed nearby to get their attention.

"Please, can't you stop fighting to look for my cat?" Sanji and Zoro looked over and saw Michael staring at them with pity.

"I'm not racing against Marimo anymore! I need to find Nami-san!"

"Why should I even care about a stupid cat!?"

Michael sighed and then put his hands into his pockets and said.

"That's too bad. I was going to give you guys a reward for finding my cat, but I guess I won't." Michael turned away and slowly walked away until Sanji called back.

"Matte!"

Michael turned around to see Sanji taking a long drag of his cigarette before saying.

"I need to find Nami-san, but if I see your cat, I'll get it."

"Arigato!" Michael grinned and then pulled his hands out and held something toward the two.

"What are those?" Zoro asked with a hint of annoyance.

"They are good luck charms!"

"No thanks." Sanji and Zoro said in unison as they turned around and walked away.

Michael's grin turned evil and he suddenly jumped into the air and suddenly snapped what he had in his hands, onto Zoro's and Sanji's wrists.

Sanji and Zoro flinched and then smoke engulfed them, and Michael grinned more as he pulled out a steel net and quickly threw it over Zoro and Sanji.

"Got you! That's two more!"

Usopp walked down through the shopping area as he looked around for anyone with orange hair.

Suddenly, Usopp turned the corner and saw Michael pulling a large net behind him.

Michael glanced over at Usopp and grinned evilly. "There's another one!"

Usopp wasn't given time to either scream or strike back as Michael quickly snapped something onto his wrist and smoke also engulfed Usopp.

"There's three! I'm on a roll!"

Michael pulled out another net and quickly threw it at where Usopp was.

Robin calmly looked around the park as she searched for Nami.

Robin glanced behind her and asked. "Why are you following me?"

Someone chuckled from behind a tree, and came into view.

Robin's eyes widened as she stared at Michael. "You are the one from the store?"

"That's right. You see, I'm on a roll, so I thought I'd get you and your Captain as well!"

Robin couldn't cross her arms in time as something latched onto her wrist and smoke engulfed her as well.

Michael grinned as he tossed another net at Robin and called out.

"That's 5 so far!"

Chopper had turned into his reindeer form and was walking down the a deserted street as he looked around.

"Eh? Chopper?" Chopper looked around to see Luffy staring back at him.

"Luffy! We need your help! Nami's missing!"

"No she isn't."

"Robin said she was."

"Nami's right here."

Luffy pointed behind him and Nami poked her head out from around the corner and Chopper instantly turned to his small form and stumbled onto the ground.

"Nami!" Chopper quickly nodded and then stood up as he muttered.

"That's right, Robin said Nami was turned into a cat-person…"

"Huh? Robin knew?"

"Aa, but she wasn't able to find Nami. So she asked if we all could help." Luffy grinned and then asked Chopper.

"Where is everyone?"

"They should be looking for Nami right now. We need to find them and show them Nami!"

Luffy nodded and then reached his hand up and stroked Nami's cat ear.

Chopper stared at Luffy in confusion as Nami smiled and then walked out so her tail could be seen by Chopper.

"Luffy, what are you doing?"

"Nami seems to like it when I do this, and she listens when I do it."

"Can't Nami talk?"

"I don't think so. If she can, she hasn't said anything yet."

"That's strange."

Chopper stared to walk down the street with Luffy and Nami following him.

Suddenly, a large net dropped down at them, and Luffy quickly moved Nami back as the net caught Luffy and Chopper.

Nami knelt down to Luffy and stared at him in surprise.

"There we go! There's the little kitten!" A voice said from above, and Luffy looked up to see Michael standing on the roof of one of the shops with a large cannon on his shoulder and a pair of visors on.

Michael flicked his visors up onto his forehead and grinned down at Luffy.

"Why did you do that!?" Luffy shouted up at Michael, but was replied by a laugh.

"Oh? You didn't know? To be honest, I was looking for that cat right next to you."

"Nami?"

"I thought you would know her! I came to get her, and you as well."

"What did you do to Nami!?"

"I didn't do anything. All that happened was that the little kitten put on one of Quince's bracelets and became half cat. By the way, the name is Michael! I captured animals and sell them to circuses and zoos."

"You were planning on selling Nami to a circus!?"

"That's the idea."

Luffy looked at Michael with hatred and then struggled to stand up and get out of the net.

Michael laughed as Luffy fell back to the ground exhausted.

"Struggle all you want! That's a Prison Bullet! It was designed against people who have eaten the Devil Fruit!"

Luffy glared weakly up at Michael as he readied his cannon again and pointed it at Nami who was still looking at Luffy confused. "That cat will make me very rich!" Michael shouted and was about to push the trigger.

"Nami! Run!" Luffy shouted, but it was too late.

Michael fired a net at Nami, and grinned as it hit her to the ground.

"Nami!" Luffy shouted as he tried again to get the Prison Bullet off of him and Chopper.

Michael jumped down onto the ground and sneered as he raised his arm to reveal a similar bracelet to the one Nami had worn.

"This is called the Taka Bracelet. It's one of the only bracelets that Quince made that actually can be controlled! I have mastered the ability to transform into a Falcon! You had no chance of ever defeating me!"

Michael called out with a lugh and then bent down to pick Nami up.

Luffy thrashed against the net holding him down as he shouted. "Don't you dare touch her!"

Michael was about to look over and say something to Luffy until he froze as something ran by him and said.

"Santōryū. Oni Giri!"

Michael froze as his chest erupted in blood and the person behind him took his katana out of his mouth and sheathed it as he also sheathed his other two katanas.

"That's for earlier." He said and Luffy grinned as he shouted.

"Zoro…" Luffy paused before saying something else, and then him and Chopper burst into laughter at Zoro.

Zoro's vein pulsed and he shouted back.

"What's so damn funny!?"

"You are!" Luffy and Chopper shouted in unison as they laughed at Zoro even more.

Zoro grumbled and then slashed apart the two nets and said.

"I would like to know what is so funny."

"How come you're a peguin?"

Everyone in the deserted street was silent as they stared at the penguin in front of them.

The penguin had green down, and a bandana wrapped around it's head. It carried three katanas at it's side and was grimacing as Luffy and Chopper erupted into more laughter.

"It was that guy's fault!" Zoro shouted and pointed with his fin at Michael who lay unconscious on the ground.

"How'd he do that?"

"Probably the same way he turned Nami into half cat." Chopper said and then Zoro finally noticed Nami staring at him from behind Luffy.

"Ah! What happened to Nami!?" Chopper explained to Luffy and Zoro about the bracelets and the two nodded.

"I remember that guy putting bracelets on us, and then smoke. I felt something move close to me so I jumped away, and when I looked back, Ero-Cook and the guy were gone."

"So Sanji's an animal too?"

"I guess. I wonder what he is?"

"Maybe he's a warthog?" Zoro thought grinning as Luffy and Chopper shrugged.

"At least I'm not a penguin, Marimo!"

Everyone turned around and Zoro, Luffy, and Chopper laughed as they stared at Sanji as he held his cigarette between his beak.

"That's better than a warthog! A duck!"

Zoro shouted laughing and Sanji narrowed his eyes and swiftly kicked at Zoro.

"Urusai, Moss Head!"

"How about you make me, Love-Cook?"

The two started to fight again, and Luffy and Chopper watched as they tried to hit each other, but found a lot of problems.

Zoro's fins couldn't reached Sanji, and Sanji's webbed feet couldn't reached Zoro.

The two paused as they examined their new forms and quickly made a different fighting method, they started pecking at each other. Luffy started to roll on the ground with Chopper while laughing, and Nami stared at Luffy silently until they all finished when another voice came from above.

"I see that Cook-san and Swordsman-kun have been turned into animals as well."

"Oi, Robin! Don't… DROP ME!"

Something hard hit Chopper on the head and a small armadillo rolled nearby.

Chopper rubbed his head and tried his best not to laugh as Usopp uncoiled and wobbled a little.

"Usopp's an armadillo!" Chopper said and burst into laughter as Usopp turned around and he looked at Chopper.

Sanji then finally noticed Nami and he froze in shock.

"Nami-san has been turned into a beautiful cat!"

Zoro grimaced and they all saw a bird land on Luffy's hat and gave a soft laugh.

Everyone but Nami's jaws dropped as they stared at the pitch black bird, or to be correct, a robin.

"Robin!?"

"Robin-chan!?"

The robin nodded and Sanji instantly went into heart-eyes mode.

"Robin-chan! You're beautiful even as a bird!" Robin gave another small laugh and said.

"Arigato, Cook-san."

"Is that really you Robin? You seem to be…"

"A Robin?"

"Aa."

Robin turned her head to look at everyone and then said.

"It seems that almost all of us have turned into animals except for Captain-san." Chopper nodded and then added to everyone.

"I bet that those bracelets wouldn't work on me because I'm already an animal."

Everyone but Nami nodded, and Luffy stood and grinned as Robin moved a little to keep her footing on his hat.

"How about we go back to the ship and eat?"

The Straw Hats finally reached Going Merry, and Zoro and Sanji threw Michael, who they were dragging along, into the water. "Serves him right!" They both said and with difficulty, climbed on board.

Chopper had to carry Usopp on board, and Robin easily flew on board and perched on the railing as she watched Luffy come up with Nami next to him.

Zoro quickly scaled the rope ladder and grinned down as Sanji fumbled with his wings.

"Need help, Baka-Cook?"

"No I don't, Marimo!"

After a while, Sanji finally made it on board and they sat down on the deck as they looked at each other.

Robin had moved so she was perched on Chopper's antlers, and Sanji had went to the kitchen to see if he could cook something while being a duck.

"How about you cook yourself?" Zoro asked with a sly grin and Sanji returned the grin with a glare.

"I bet penguin tastes better!" After even longer, Sanji finally entered the kitchen and Zoro leaned against the mast as he shortly fell asleep.

Robin let out a low giggle and said.

"It seems Swordsman-kun hasn't been affected as much as we have."

Luffy nodded and waited until Sanji finally called from insode the kitchen.

"I made some! Granted it's not my best…"

Everyone sat down in the dining room as Sanji, with the help of Chopper, brought the food out, and they all started to eat.

Chopper and Luffy seemed to be normal, but everyone else had difficulty with their food.

Zoro had problems holding his fork and knife, Usopp didn't have any hands, so he had to eat face first.

Robin ate her food slowly with small bites thanks to her beak, and Sanji had the same problem as Zoro and Robin.

"We have three birds, an armadillo, and a cat now." Chopper said as he bit into another piece of meat.

Luffy nodded and then looked next to him to see that Nami hadn't touched her food yet.

"Oi, Sanji! I don't think Nami likes your food!"

"Nani? How come?"

Sanji stood on the table and walked over to Nami's plate and looked at her as she stared back with her brown eyes.

"Maybe since she's half cat, she needs someone to feed her it?" Robin said as she looked over toward Nami.

Sanji grinned and tried his best to pick up Nami's fork, skewer a piece of food, and hold it up for Nami.

Nami stared at the fork, but didn't open her mouth at all.

"Maybe she's not hungry?" Luffy said and he took the fork from Sanji, and Nami instantly ate the food on the fork.

Everyone stared at her as she chewed, swallowed, and then looked at Luffy again.

Robin smiled and then said to the bewildered Sanji.

"I think she'll only eat it if Captain-san feeds her." Sanji frowned and then turned to Luffy and sighed.

Luffy placed more food on Nami's fork and held it up for her.

Nami perked up and ate the food again.

Zoro cringed as they watched Luffy feed Nami over and over again until her plate was empty.

"There."

"It's about time! I thought I was going to be sick!"

"Urusai, Marimo!"

Zoro and Sanji glared at each other as Luffy secretly stole some of their food and shoved it into his mouth.

Nami watched as Luffy repeated it over and over again as Sanji and Zoro fought each other.

Usopp finished eating and sighed, but then suddenly curled up, and yelped.

"I think I need to practice with this new body some more…" Chopper nodded as Usopp uncurled and stared at his empty plate. Robin also finished and was calmly waiting for Sanji and Zoro to stop pecking each other to death.

Luffy ignored them as he shoved the rest of Sanji's food into his mouth and grinned.

"I'm done too."

Nami perked up as she looked at Luffy's face and everyone froze as they stared at Luffy.

Luffy was also staring but not at the others.

He and everyone else was staring at Nami as she licked some crumbs off of Luffy's cheek.

When she was done, she backed up and smiled as everyone stared at her in shock.

"Did Nami just lick Luffy?"

"Nami-san…"

"Urgh…"

"I think Navigator-san was just doing what cats usually do."

"Eh?" Everyone but Nami looked at Robin as she explained.

"Cats tend to be very clean, so when you have food on your fingers or cheeks, they usually tend to clean the food off of them."

"I get it! Kinda like when your fingers have food on them, and a cat starts licking your fingers?"

"That's right."

Zoro leaned back and grinned at Sanji's shocked face. Luffy looked at everyone in confusion and said.

"So she was just cleaning my face? Big deal. I'm going to go take a nap."

Luffy stood up from the table and left the room, and Nami quickly followed him.

Everyone continued to stare after Nami and Luffy until Usopp broke the silence.

"So why is Nami following Luffy around then?"

Robin looked over at Usopp and said.

"Probably because Luffy was the first one who Navigator-san saw properly after she became half cat."

"I get it! So Nami's going to follow Luffy around thinking that Luffy is her owner?"

"That's right."

"Nami-san can't be owned by Luffy!"

Everyone stared at Sanji as he shouted at them.

"Nami isn't a thing!"

"We know that, Ero-Cook."

"Urusai, Marimo!"

"Cook-san, we merely ment that Nami is following Luffy around because he seems to be to her, her guardian." Sanji nodded slowly, and then Chopper asked innocently.

"But don't cats tend to sleep with their guardians?"

The room froze and Chopper looked at everyone and then asked.

"What?"

"That's a good point…"

"Nami-san can't sleep with Luffy! That's plain wrong!"

"It's better than her sleeping on the floor!"

"…True…"

Luffy walked toward his room, but looked back to see Nami behind him.

"Why are you following me?"

Nami silently stared at Luffy as she tilted her head to the side and smiled.

Luffy shrugged but then grinned and he opened the door to his room and walked inside with Nami right behind him.

Luffy yawned as he kicked off his sandals and placed his hat on the bed.

He then lay down and closed his eyes as he tried to go to sleep.

Luffy opened an eye when he felt someone else get on the bed, and he looked down to see Nami curling up on him.

"Nami!?" Luffy blushed lightly as Nami looked up at him innocently and then nuzzled his neck happily.

Luffy flinched as Nami's hair and her cat ears brushed against his neck, and he started to chuckle a little.

"That tickles!"

He said while trying to not laugh. Nami smiled as Luffy stroked her cat ears and she instantly stopped nuzzling his neck and started to purr as Luffy stared down at her in surprise.

Luffy silently looked at Nami until he fell asleep shortly after.

Nami fell asleep on Luffy as the moon rose higher in the sky outside.

Outside, the surface of the water broke, and Michael gasped for air as he coughed water out and climbed onto the dock.

"Darn penguin! I should of known he'd show up soon! Same with the other animals! Why couldn't that stupid clerk hold them down longer?"

Michael muttered to himself as he stood up and shook the water off of him.

"That cat will be the money maker for us! I guess we'll need to inform Quince about this though…"

Michael added as he walked into town dripping wet still.

Back inside the Going Merry, Nami was still asleep as she nuzzled closer to Luffy's head and continued to purr softly.

XD How's that? Zoro's a penguin, Sanji's a duck, Robin's a robin, Usopp's an armadillo, and Nami's a cat!

Also, for those who read my other fic Zoro's Bad Habit, there won't be a new chapter until after Thanksgiving break. Yggdrasill Chain will still be updated as usual though. Blame school and Thanksgiving, not me!

Please review:) Ja ne!