***Author's Note: I do not own One Piece, Oda does, I do own the characters I made up in this story (ex: Ivy, Cecily (Shadow), and any other made up characters throughout this story that I might create). Also, please do not copy this story and claim it as your own***

Chapt. 2: The Devil Fruit, The Happy Idiot, and The First Time Seeing Mountain Bandits

"Captain," panted Yassop catching his breath from running to the deck caring a small snow leopard kitten in his hands, "We found this inside the Shorty's bag."

Ivy glanced over at Yassop, instantly her eyes became hearts as she saw the adorable fluff ball struggling in his hands.

"Let's eat it," muffled Roo, as he walked onto the deck with a huge chicken leg in his hands.

"No!" Ivy shrieked with horror as she barreled into Yassop to snatch the poor thing out of his hand. Apparently, the kitten was thinking the same thing as Ivy considering it was hissing at them until Ivy had it in her arms.

"We were joking Shortstuff," Shanks apologized while placing a hand on my shoulders, "Besides it seems like the thing really likes you."

"Well, I don't like those kinds of jokes," I distractedly accused while cuddling my precious kitten, "How long until we are on the island?"

"We'll be there in an hour," answered the navigator from the crow's nest.

"I'm going to my room then," I called over my shoulder as I walked into my room carrying the kitten in my arms.

"Phew, I thought I could never talk to you!," came an annoyed voice.

"Wha…," I mumbled confusedly while looking around the room for the voice.

"What, you don't recognize your best friend? I'm hurt Vines.," teased a voice coming from the kitty.

"Cece, is that you?" I voiced with pure disbelief, looking at the cat sitting on the floor with a huge smirk on its face.

"Who else? Although, Cecily Thompson was my human name, in the "real" world my name is Shadow and I was ordered to come along with you.," Cecily…I mean Shadow, proudly claimed, "Plus, the human girl you saw isn't the real me."

"What do you mean?" I asked confused

"I'm actually a black wolf pup, however I can change into any animal I want.," replied Shadow with a huge smirk, as she saw my eyes turn into stars, "Before you ask, no I can't turn into any mythical animals."

"That stinks!," I pouted, "But it's still pretty awesome though."

"Yup.," Shadow agreed

"So you're like my personal pet then?," I grinned mischievously, while Shadow's smirk fell off her face right when she saw my grin.

Lucky for her, one of the guys banged on my door to tell us we're docking on the island in about a couple of minutes.

As I stood next to Shanks staring out towards the island with Shadow sitting on my shoulder, I got excited because I was going to meet Monkey D. Luffy.

As soon as we docked, I raced off the ship running towards Makino's bar to meet Luffy, with Shanks and his crew following me. I walked behind Shanks, suddenly feeling very shy, as we entered the bar.

Cue in 3…2…1 I thought chuckling

"SHANKS!," hollered Luffy, flying off his stool, spitting food everywhere as he ran towards Shanks.

"Hey, Anchor.," Shanks laughed.

"Shanks, whose the boy!," Luffy rudely pointed towards me with a chicken leg, while continuing to stuff his face with food.

Do I really look like a boy that much? Well, I guess I was more boyish back then. I thought dejectedly

Apparently, Luffy went back to his stool and was back to stuffing his face after saying hi to Shanks.

"Luffy!, that was rude.," scolded Makino as she walked over to me with a playful scowl on her face. "What's your name sweetie?"

I stared in awe at one of the characters I highly respect. She had green hair that was pushed back by a yellow bandanna and was wearing a black dress shirt under an orange vest with the same pattern as her headband and a light blue long skirt with ties down both sides of the hips. On her feet she had on plain bright red shoes.

"My name is Ivy Miller.," I answered as I walked over to Luffy with a chilling smile as I punched him on the head, "I'M A GIRL NOT A BOY!"

Everyone froze for about two seconds before Shanks started rolling on the floor laughing with tears streaming down his face, then everyone started laughing really hard, though Makino quietly chuckled. That's when everyone except Makino realized what I just said.

"WAIT YOU'RE A GIRL?!," everyone shouted with their jaws hanging open.

"Yeah," I spoke with an agitated voice, "Did you guys think I was a boy?,"

"Ignore them Ivy," Makino started as she smiled at me while laying a plate of mashed potatoes, corn, and chicken strips in front of me, "They don't know what they're talking…"

Makino and I looked in horror as Luffy held a dagger to his right eye while shouting this will prove to Shanks to let him go with him. Makino ran behind the bar to retrieve the first aid kit as I rushed over to Luffy seeing the blood coming out of his hand. When Makino was finished with Luffy, he had a scar underneath his right eye from stabbing the dagger into it. After whacking Luffy in the head for giving me a heart attack, I went back on my stool to continue eating. I smirked to myself when hearing Shanks ask Luffy if he wanted some milk and laughed when Shanks said he never seen a pirate that drinks milk.

After a while, the laughter in the bar died down and I looked up from my plate to see what made the room so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. A group of mountain bandits kicked opened the door with a loud bang. I frowned at knowing what was coming next.

"I'm Higuma leader of the mountain bandits.," Higuma praised himself cockily, "I'm guessing you guys are pirates?"

"They look weak Boss," laughed a bandit.

"Yeah, this is the first time I'm seeing pirates and I have to say it's a letdown because they look like a sorry lot.," agreed Higuma, as he made his way towards Makino, "We would like to buy ten barrels of sake."

"I'm sorry we're fresh out of sake.," Makino answered.

"Funny, then what is that those pirates are drinking?," sneered Higuma, "Water?"

"I just served the last of it.," Makino replied with a tense smile.

"Sorry about that, I guess my crew and I drank the place dry.," Shanks cheerfully apologized, "Here you can have this bottle, it's not even opened yet."

Everyone waited with their breaths held as Higuma looked at Shanks then at the bottle.

Then suddenly Higuma grabbed the bottle and broke it over Shanks's head and yelled what kind of fool does Shanks takes him for, while Shanks's eyes are covered by his straw hat.

"Oh no, now the floor's all wet.," Shanks calmly commented as he bent down to clean up the mess, "Sorry about the mess Makino."

Higuma was obviously getting ticked off that he was being ignored because in the next second he swung his sword across the bar making the dishes fall onto the floor where Shanks was.

"Since you like to clean so much…," fumed Higuma, with a huff as he and his bandits left but not before calling over his should, "Maybe next time he will think twice before messing with us!,"

As soon as the bandits left, Shanks crew laughed at him, which made Luffy furious as he stood on the stool.

"WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING!," fumed Luffy, "That was disgraceful, who laughs after being picked on! You're not a man or a pirate!"

"Look, I know how you feel Luffy.," Shanks began, "But it was just a bottle of sake, there's nothing to get worked up about."

Luffy went back to his stool eating something fast, clearly still ticked off at Shanks.

When Roo made a joke about Luffy eating out of anger, he realized what Luffy was eating, which was when Shanks started rushing over to Luffy.

"Luffy, please tell me you didn't eat that fruit that was in the treasure chest!," panicked Shanks while shaking Luffy upside down only to stare in dread as Luffy's head hit the floor, "Luffy spit that out right now! That's a devil fruit now you won't be able to swim again!"

"WHAAATTT, I thought it was dessert!," Luffy yelled in horror.

"YOU DUMBASS!," Shanks cursed.

TO BE CONTINUED…