"Can you do me a favour Zoro?"

The sleeping man just opened one eye and looked at her. Cedar made a fist and stuck out her arm. Turning it to wood.

"Can you cut it off?"

He just continued to look at her.

"Please. I can't cut off something so big with my knife. There, by my elbow."

He grabbed one of his kantana, the white one, and in one single strike fell the wooden arm to the deck. She smiled and picked it up.

"Thank you."

"Marimo what have you done?"

"What did you call me dart eyebrow?"

Before she could blink was Zoro standing there, blocking Sanji's attack. Cedar got scared they would hurt one another.

"Sanji it's okay. I asked him to do it."

They didn't listen to her.

"It grows out again, see."

But the two of them was fighting like madmen. Cedar looked desperately around her for help, but there was no one around.

"Stop it both of you."

Her voice grew with desperation.

"How dare you hurt a woman like that marimo?"

"I didn't do anything ero-cook."

"I will kick some manners into your head."

In desperation Cedar made two knifes and threw them at the boys, making them fly just before their eyes. Stunned they stopped fighting each other and looked at her.

"I'm fine Sanji. Look."

She held out her arm just as the wood turned from dark brown to white.

"I asked him to cut it off. It grows back. He didn't hurt me. He did me a favour. I'm sorry if I worried you."

She bent down and picked up the wooden arm.

"Thank you for helping me Zoro."

Then she left the two men as quickly as she could as they continued to fight.

--

"You were so brave today."

"You think?"

Cedar looked down at Chooper and couldn't help smiling. He had a bandage under his left eye.

"You fought almost as good as Luffy."

Cedar laughed, knowing quite well that was a huge exaggeration.

"I thought you were quite brave."

He looked down and blushed.

"I was scared."

She made him look at her.

"And you still fought. Someone once told me that true bravery isn't the absent of fear. But fighting even thou you're scared."

"Really. Who told you that?"

He looked at her with stars in his eyes, but she turned cold when she realised what she had said. She got to her feet.

"No one."

Then she left the other and walked towards the front of the ship. It had started to be her spot.

"Cedar…"

"Let her go Chopper."

Nami looked after her friend.

"But…"

"My arm hurts, and you check on it?"

Immediately he turned into the doctor and ran over to check on it.

"You really think that you are brave even though you're scared?"

Cedar looked up confused, and saw Usopp stand there, looking over the ocean.

"Yes I do."

"How can you say that? Bravery is the lack of fear."

"Think about it. For someone like Luffy, Sanji or Zoro, fighting is just a game. You're not brave if you're playing a game. But if you are afraid, and still fight. Still say I'm not going anywhere, deal with it. If it costs you every thing you have, but you give it. If you're not playing a game. To me that's true bravery."

She would have sworn he was crying, but she couldn't be sure. She got to her feet, and he dried his eyes and turned to her, gleaming.

"Have I you of the time I saved Arabast all on my own using my unique skills as the best sniper in the world Sogeking."

He was lying. She smiled and came up next to him.

"No, tell me all about it oh brave warrior Usopp."

--

"What are you doing?"

Cedar turned around, knowing she had been caught red handed.

"I'm sorry Franky I… You see… Ehm"

"Are you ruining my ship?"

She took a few feet away from where she had been sitting. Holding the tiny splinters in her one hand, her knife in the other. She was honestly a little scared of the cyborg since she didn't have a lot of contact with him.

"I'm sorry. I only took a few splinters. I'm sorry."

He looked over his sunglasses.

"And why did you do that?"

She looked down and blushed.

"Nami told me this ship is built by Adam wood and I've always wanted to study one. Do you know how rear it is? I asked Chopper if I could borrow his microscope."

"You want to watch the wood under a microscope?"

"Oh yes. You have no idea what you can tell by looking at wood through a microscope. I can actually tell between over six hundred different trees just by looking at them through a microscope."

He pushed his glasses back in place and smiled.

"Is that so?"

She nodded.

"… a tree commonly found on spring islands."

"Right again."

Belinda blushed proud, but still smiled.

"That's amazing girl. Who ever thought you that?"

The proud happy feeling vanished.

"My mother."

She didn't look at him, but she could feel him looking at her.

"She's dead isn't she?"

Cedar turned her face away.

"Listen, it's okay if you don't want to talk about it, but you should know if there is one ship where you find people who have pretty much experienced everything. It's this one."

She didn't answer him. Just got to her feet and left.

--

"What are you doing?"

Cedar looked up and smiled to Nami.

"Writing. I'm noting that the gumu gomu, hito hito and the hana hana fruits have been eaten."

She looked queerly at her as she read over her shoulder. Cedar gave her the book. There were some other names written down there as well.

"You log who eats what fruit."

Cedar suddenly thought it sounded stupid. She bit her lip and blushed.

"It's a hobby."

"It looks like more than an hobby."

She didn't answer. She didn't know what she could answer without telling her everything.

"Hey Robin come look at this."

"What is it Miss Navigator?"

Robin rose from her lawn chair and walked over to them. Cedar blushed more intensely as she understood more and more people would get involved.

"It's nothing."

"No, she's written down a lot about the different devil fruits. Look, here is you."

She read through it, and her eyes widened.

"I'm sorry."

"You shouldn't be sorry Miss Botanist, it's your job. You've specialised in devil fruits?"

"As I said, it's a hobby."

Her voice was weak, and none of the women believed her. They looked at one another before Nami sighed and gave her the book.

"You still don't trust us do you?"

"I trust you with my life."

Her head was spinning and pounding higher than the waves hitting the boat. She got to her feet and took her book back before she managed to get from the front of the ship to the women quarters. She placed the book in the bag again and placed it under her pillow. It used to hang on her belt, but she left it more and more around on the ship.

--

The sun was shining, and everything was calm. Sanji was making lunch. Franky was looking over some minor repairs that needed to be done. Zoro was working out. Usopp was making some new contraption. Luffy was sitting on the figurehead, looking out on the sea. Nami was sitting in her lawn chair, sunbathing. Robin was sitting next to her, reading, and Cedar was sitting next to her again, working on the statue. All three near the figurehead.

Suddenly Chopper was standing next to her, looking at how her knife flew over the wood. Removing only the necessary. He had stars in his eyes, and Cedar thought about how naïve he seamed some times.

"Yes Chopper?"

"How do you do that?"

She blushed proud.

"Practise."

"It's a magic talent."

Cedar looked at Luffy with wonder, but he hadn't even turned around. She turned back to Chopper and showed him the knife.

"Wood has always been in my blood, even before the devil fruit. I grew up with trees all around me. My mother…"

Her voice vanished for a moment.

"My mother used to take me out and thought me everything about them when they were alive. My dad thought me what to do with it when it was dead."

"Oooohhhh."

She didn't realise that both Nami and Robin was listening carefully.

"I'm not so good as my dad when it comes to carving, he was, is, an artist. But I think I'm okay."

She looked down at the knife, before her hand went to her necklace.

"This knife actually made this necklace. I'm the eight person to use it. Both of them. They're the most voluble things I've ever had."

"They're your treasures?"

Cedar was surprised. She hadn't thought of it that way.

"It's my past, so yes. I guess both the knife and the necklace are my treasures. They're the only things I have left."

"Oh, what happened?"

Cedar suddenly understood she had said too much.

"So Tony Tony Chopper, after I'm finished with the captain's statue what do you want me to make for you?"

His eyes sparkled and Cedar breathed out, happy she had dodged that bullet.