Zoro lunges towards her, Ariel who's agile, grabs the wooden railing that Zoro was on and propels her body through the space between each pole, still holding onto the railing she thrusts her legs back over and her double kick hits Zoro in the face as he was about to turn, he's propelled back and hits the wall next to the open door of Choppers studio, when Ariel lands elegantly back on the other side as if waking up from a trans she hurriedly runs up to Zoro and kneels next to him, shaken that she could do such a thing Chopper joins her on the other side of Zoro worried now more than ever.

" Ariel what have you done you've hurt Zoro why did you do that?" he shouts at her.

Ariel looking quite scared and worried herself Chopper begins to see she didn't do it on purpose.

" I'm really sorry Chopper it's just…it's just when I see danger my body moves on its own, sir I'm truly sorry please forgive me"

She bows down in front of Zoro who is steadily getting up not hurt at all, he turns and grabs Ariel by the black strap on her chest.

" ooii what's the big idea? and Chopper you know this..p.p"

Zoro's eyes find Ariel's and he cuts off his sentence, suddenly Ariel's face turns red as a beetroot and Zoro quickly realizes why. He feels soft lumps at the top of the straps and turns red himself releasing Ariel immediately and moves back into the side of the ship with incredible speed while both Ariel and chopper look at him astonished.

Suddenly Ariel senses danger again, from behind Sanji swipes his leg trying to get Ariel and throw her off-balance, Ariel jumps and lands on the railing once more; more kicks come her way in an endless rhythm, she's able to dodge all but their starting to pick up speed and she realizes that their aiming to hurt. Sanji getting ever more irritated finally lands a blow. However, Ariel manages to blocks it with her silver bracelets as they magically mold as if they were liquid which covers her hands to form a shield and is flung back, doing a flip she lands with ease on the lawn right opposite Luffy and Usopp.

" who the hell are you and what are you doing on our ship?!" Sanji yells angry and glaring in Ariel's direction.

Usopp who is freaked out completely takes out his slingshot and aims it at Ariel, whereas she's completely focused on Luffy who's unfazed and staring back at her.

" o..o..o..i.i.. Sanji asked you a q..q..uestion answer it if you don't want to get hurt" Usopp asks while scared and stuttering, when he sees that she isn't answering he gets irritated and let's lose three of his projectiles.

"green star shuriken"

Ninja stars fly towards Ariel who once again broken out of her dreamlike state evades them all one backflip at a time until she's at the far side of the ship, Luffy still hasn't moved. Ariel tries to explain herself.

"w...wait...I"

But with no luck, another attack comes her way, this time, it's a lightning strike curtsey of Nami.

"thunderbolt charge!"

Ariel jumps up onto the edge of the ship and holds up one of her hands covered by the metal of her former armbands absorbing the electric attack and with the other hand releases it out into the ocean, no time for explaining when another attack comes her way.

"Frrrrankycannon!"

Ariel once again blocks the cannon with her armbands and the cannon ball explodes in her face, losing her balance she falls overboard. Splash.

She slowly floats downward into the endless depths of the sea slowly losing the sight of the ship, air escaping from her. She tries grabbing hold of the bubbles, she sees them float to the surface, the light steadily diminishing; deeper and deeper she falls.

"well so much for that, I can't even swim... is this the way I'm going to go? I'm so stupid… ah this view of looking up at the sky from below the water is just like that other time…right? Kuma-chan…" she thought as she sank.

Meanwhile, on deck Sanji, Usopp, Nami and Franky were congratulating themselves for a job well done at warding off an enemy, when poor Chopper bursts into tears running to the edge of the ship to look for where Ariel could be, "she hasn't yet surfaced!"

" OII! Ariel, ARE YOU OK! You guys she was a friend why did you all attack her? she just wanted to meet Luffy…*sniff*she's not coming back up she might be drowning!" he shouts at his friends.

All the straw hats look at Chopper astonished except Luffy who has a serious expression on his face.

"she? That was a woman? no way chopper your eyes must be playing tricks on you and what if he was going to hurt someone what then?" Sanji stated with an air of bewilderment and irritation at Choppers claim.

Chopper then turned back with an angry expression and yells up at Sanji.

"ARIEL IS A GIRL! SHE TOLD ME SO AND IF SHE WANTED TO HURT ME SHE COULD HAVE BUT SHE DIDN'T NOW SHES DROWNING!"

Chopper jumps up on the border of the ship and is about to jump in to save Ariel who still hasn't come up.

" CHOPPER!" They all yell as he's about to jump in.

When Zoro catches him, places him back down on the floor while he shouts at him and hits him on his shoulders.

"let me go Zoro someone has to save her!"

"I know I'm going to get her don't worry" Zoro replied bluntly, he quickly turns and jumps into the water to recover Ariel who is on the verge of death.

" what's that stupid marimo doing it's an enemy, right?" Sanji says trying to convince himself.

He turns around to seek approval from the others when he sees that Nami's head is lowered, Usopp is facing another direction and Franky is scratching his head feeling ashamed, Luffy still wearing a serious expression walks over to the side of the ship to wait for Zoro and Ariel's return, Robin and Brook have also joined them, standing and waiting. Luffy turns to face Chopper who is still up near his studio immobile looking down into the water still very worried and upset.

Under the sea Ariel is slowly sinking unable to move as if the water itself was dragging her down to some unimaginable depths, her view slowly blurring as the air in her lungs was starting to be exhausted, the light of the sun slowly fading as she falls deeper into the abyss that is the sea.

"the darkness always seems to find me, this invisible force pulling me down strangling the air out of me, I won't get to see the sun again. Well at least I saw Luffy-kun even if it was just for a moment, he seems already surrounded by wonderful and strong friends I guess you can rest easy now I'm sorry I couldn't find it though…Ace..."

Just as her vision was about to black out completely she sees someone dive in, the man with short green hair was swimming towards her.

"what's he doing does he still want to fight?"

That was her last thought as the last bubble of air left her mouth and she blacked out completely. Zoro finally reaches her and grabs her arm pulling her close to him, he placed her arm around his shoulder and his around her waist and starts to swim towards the surface.

When their heads poke out of the water Chopper is overjoyed he runs down the stairs to meet them as Zoro climbs up the rope ladder that was thrown over with Ariel's whole body over his shoulder. Luffy greets him with a pat on his back.

"welcome back Zoro nice work hehe"

"yeah yeah, hey Chopper she needs some help" he replies while looking for Chopper.

Zoro lays her down on the ground very gently surprising his crew mates who look back and forth from him to the stranger on the grass. Chopper comes in pushing through his friends arriving at Ariel's side, he places an ear on her chest, she has a slow heart beat and it's getting weaker.

"quick I need someone to carry her to my studio she needs urgent medical attention her pulse is getting weaker!".

Without even thinking Zoro quickly scoops Ariel up in his arms once more and is heading for the studio with Chopper at his heels while the others again look at the three walking away with great curiosity, Zoro has never acted with such concern for a stranger in that way. Zoro lays her down on the bed and stands unmoving in front of her while Chopper gets ready.

" Zoro can you remove her mask? so she can breathe easier" Chopper asks as he gathers his equipment.

Zoro does what he's told with a shaky hand he slowly removes the mask only to find a stunningly beautiful face under it, it's mesmerizing and he keeps staring at her fascinated, how someone like her could move like that and have so much power? He wondered, when he moves her bangs out of her face he finds at the top left corner of her head a small horn dark gray in color barely noticeable under her hair; When he's woken up from his fantasizing by Chopper asking him a question.

" Zoro you need to remove her clothes too, otherwise she can't breathe properly"

"ehh?! her clothes?!"

He turns to face the girl once more and back at Chopper, face flushed with embarrassment, he storms out the door.

"Nami CHOPPER NEEDS YOUR HELP!"

Nami looks up at him and starts heading towards the studio looking puzzled.

"what for? weren't you helping him?…and why is your face all red?"

"shut up and just go help Chopper" he replies irritated still flustered.

"alright, alright calm down," she says shooing away his irritated tone.

Nami enters the studio and sees the girl lying on the bed and exclaims.

" wow she really is a girl and very pretty too!"

She shuts the door and helps Chopper with the task that Zoro couldn't handle, while the others go back to normal knowing that everything's going to be ok now that Chopper was in control of the situation, Zoro abruptly sits down next to the door having no intention of moving; heading up the stairs his way are both Sanji and Brook sneaky as ever to get a peek at what's happening in the studio.

"a new lady has graced us with her presence and Nami-swan says she's beautiful I want to see" Sanji exclaims while drooling.

"yes, Sanji-san I wonder as well what mysterious beauty lies behind that door," Brook says with the same devilish expression at his tail.

As they get closer to the small porthole on the studio's door to get a peek Zoro stands up furious and hits the two across the ship with one punch.

"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! damn ero cook you're not even getting close"

Sanji getting to his feet with a swift movement, immediately ends up butting heads with Zoro.

"haa? what did you say shit head marimo? why do you care? and why should I listen to you!?"

"ehh? what did you call me you damn ero cook?, I'll slice you up into a million pieces if you don't get out of my face!".

"you shit head marimo! you get out of my face or I'll char your ugly mug with my kicks".

And their heated discussion continues for a while until Nami bursts through the door and pummels them both until you find both full of bruises and lumps on the floor.

"stop shouting you idiots she's sleeping and if you wake her up I'll kill both of you got that?!" she says furiously.

" yes," they say in unison sounding beaten up.

Luffy and the others laugh and normality has returned to their day once again, Chopper walks out of the studio and slowly closes the door behind him, breathing a sigh of relief and visually relaxing.

"she's going to be ok she just needs a little rest, Sanji could you prepare something cold and fresh for her to eat when she wakes up?" He asks walking up to Sanji.

" ah right away! with pleasure, just think waking up and enjoying my meal she will defiantly fall for me".

" shut up and just go cook you perverted ero cook" Zoro adds irritated.

" haa? what did you say moss head?!"

And they were butting heads again, Nami breaks them apart once more with a fist load of punches, and everyone goes back to what they were doing before all this happened, Luffy still complaining about his hunger, Sanji irritated shouting back at him, Robin goes back to reading her book, Franky meddling with his work, Usopp putting away his experiments and cleaning up, Brook begins to play his melody once more, Zoro sits back down beside the door, Nami goes to get changed, and Chopper re-enters the studio and sits on his chair next to Ariel who is peacefully sleeping, waiting for her to wake up.