Waking up once more in the same wooden room, she felt better. It was a simple statement to describe the amazing way she now felt, her body was no longer heavy and lethargic, her muscles no longer felt as weak as a kitten, she could sit up and stretch without nearly falling out of the bed. Her symbiote woke too and the wrappings on her body seemed to shiver and slither again at it too stretched and then went still again, once again, nothing more than just an unusual style of dress.

Turning and dropping her legs over the side of the bed, bare feet hanging over the wooden floor, she paused to listen for a moment. There was noise coming from above, it sounded like a lot of shouting and a few bangs and heavy thumps, but she couldn't sense anything bad coming from above. She blamed the wood around her, it seemed to dampen her abilities some how, shrugging to herself she pushed herself out of bed and endeavoured to make it to the deck.

Leaning heavily against the walls, realizing quickly enough that her strength wasn't entirely returned, she was just grateful that the ship wasn't rocking too badly, just the mild gentle roll of the waves. Leaving her little room she realized it had been built in the storage area, probably especially for her, judging by the pile up of the normally neatly laid out supplies. Seeing no ladder she headed down the only corridor she could see leading away from the storage room, entering another room with a large capstan in the middle and a ladder above it.

Smiling and despite the faint shaking already beginning in her legs, she moved forwards, leaning a little on the walls for a moment and headed towards the ladder. She only made it up thanks to the help of her symbiote, reaching up and hooking on to the rungs of the ladder with her, pulling her up. Reaching the top the of the ladder she finding a trap door, she gathered herself and pushed it open and quickly and smoothly as she was able to, looking around as she climbed out to find... trees? And grass? Blinking in the sunlight, enjoying the feel of it on her skin once more she looked around to see no one was on the ship either. She was on the main little deck of the ship and there was no one here.

Sighing as she shut the trap door -it smoothly disappeared again except a tiny groove in the grass where the handle was- she looked around the deck, enjoying the feel of the grass on the skin of her legs and feet. There were two trees in front of her, one even had a swing on it, while further up, behind these she could see a few small tangerine tree's growing healthily. Strange ship she mused before she heard another large thudding sound and decided to pull herself to her feet and find out.

Shaking a little now, she walked over to the railings were she could see the mast and rigging of another ship. It wasn't smaller, it just was lower down, the decking must of only had one level below it but it was longer, allowing for more space to fight on she assumed, because that's were all the crew where.

Looking down at this deck, she watched as the crew seemed to be fighting off a group of pirates that were had tried to invade the ship, a quick flick of her eyes told her that she too was aboard a pirate ship. Figures, she mused as her eyes roamed over the strange assembly of people on the long bare deck.

A young man in a straw hat, another man with three swords and the attitude of an unsprung trap -interesting, the cook was standing there smoking with his hands in his pockets, besides him was a huge man with a large barrel chest and bright blue hair wearing only a shirt and tiny trunks. Besides this mammoth of a man was the small doctor with a determined look to his face, next to him a tanned young man with a long nose and a catapult in one hand. A movement drew her eye back to the start of the ragged little line and she spotted the black haired woman from yesterday, Robin, was leaning against the wall of the Captains cabin and looking calmly confident. The the level above them all, where the wheel was located for this long boat, was a woman with fiery orange hair, she looked very angry about something, probably these pirates? Wandered the watcher.

"Just be good an come with us little boy," taunted one of the pirates pointing towards the straw hatted young man. He looked completely confused as to why the large scarred man in front of him was trying to order him around.

"Why would I do that?" He asked almost innocently.

"Because some how your bounty nearly tripled over night when that stupid rumour came out!" Shouted the man, backed up by a few shouts from what she assumed were his crew, largely unclean looking men ranged all over the ship. "Your Straw Hat Luffy, the pirate Captain that supposedly took on the World Government!"

"Yeah, I did. I had to rescue Robin." He shrugged and looked over at the man with the three swords, "is this guy stupid?"

The man with three swords had green hair, a white shirt, green sash and black trousers, but it was the deadly aura around him that she was interested in. He was alert and awake and interested in what was going on, she'd not felt this awareness yesterday when she'd tried to work out who was on the ship. "Probably," he shrugged, eyes never leaving the angry man in front of them, he didn't laugh, he didn't threaten but everything about him was a threat. "Anybody that goes after the pirates that take on the World Government has got to be an idiot."

"Go home you little pipsqueak," said the large blue haired man loudly before pulling a pose, "before your left to float back!"

"You'll probably only have one chance," said Sanji casually blowing out smoke, "take it while you can."

"Your all talk!" Shouted the man and some signal was given that caused him and his men to try and charge the line of fighters below. She watched in shock as the -Straw Hat Pirates they seemed to call themselves, the ones who owned the ship she was on- crew seemed to almost play with these invaders.

Luffy was stretching his body around like an elastic band, Sanji was kicking people so hard they landed at the other end of the boat of the water and the swordsman hasn't even removed the sheaths off of his weapons but he was still injuring those that tried to attack him. The barrel chested man seemed to be part cyborg but she wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't seen it herself, while the small Doctor was able to change his size and shape to suit the situation before him. The long nosed man was using the reindeer as cover and shooting different types of ammo at the charging men while screaming loudly. Through all this the two women seemed to be chatting idly, Robin was defending herself easily with those strange arms of hers and the orange haired woman was occasionally shouting encouragement or warnings to the pirates below.

It was insane to her, with no apparent order to the events, there was a strange sense of enjoyment rising from the brawl going on, with little more than bruises and bloody noses being given out, the Straw Hat Pirates were playing with these guys.

A man landed heavily on the deck next to her, thrown up there as the large cyborg had juggled three of the smaller attackers and missed one when Chopper had called out to him. The man was filthy and sweaty, the aroma of him seeming to extend out from his body and make her weakened stomach turn a little, he got up with a groan and leaned against the rail getting his senses back. She was frozen is shock, this whole scene seemed far to surreal for a large dirty man to have landed next to her.

Looking up and blinking at her, his face moved from confused to surprised and then wickedly happy. He let go of the rail and took a step forwards, "well you don't seem to be fighting with the others." He chuckled and took another step closer, trying to menace her into a surrender "in fact you look like you've been ill. You've gotta have a bounty too, easy money."

A hand was reaching out to touch her, her eyes following it blankly, she knew she would be okay even if he touched her, but she just couldn't seem to get her mind into focus. In a blink the man was unconscious on the floor and the green haired man with three swords was standing where he had been looking down at her.

"Should you even be out of bed yet?" He asked with a confused frown but before she could answer he leaned over the rail and called out. "Chopper! Your patient is awake and wandering around."

Despite going a round of punches with another man, the reindeer looked away and up at the green haired man while still dodging attacks. "What was that Zolo?"

"The girl is awake." Called the swordsman again.

"Oh dear," he said in a worried tone, turning to look back at his attacker and knocking him out with one large hard punch to the face. He was up and on her other side in a moment and back to his normal size as he worriedly looked her over. "Why did you get out of bed?"

"I was worried," she said quietly, looking away from the anxious little face and over at the play fighting before looking up at the man called Zolo. "Thank you by the way."

Zolo blinked in shock for a moment then smiled, she noticed he had three earrings hanging off of one ear, they suited him she thought. "Your welcome, try and stay alert."

"I was safe," she said calmly and smiled at him as he shrugged and jumped back into the fray, shouting for Luffy and telling him the guest was awake. The straw hatted young man looked up and over at her, a large smile on his face and shouted that they should finish up quickly so they could meet the new guest properly. And eat of course.

It seemed to be an order that was followed smoothly, within five minutes the deck was empty of conscious pirates, they were being tossed, rolled or kicked below the deck of their own ship by the Straw Hat Pirates. Luffy bounced and stretched his way over the gap between the ships and sat on the rail besides her, smiling cheerfully and wiping the sweat from his brow, "sorry bout that. I don't know where they came from!"

"It seems to be an occupational hazard," she shrugged and the happy young man laughed, it was infectious enough that she felt herself smiling along with him despite herself.

"Yeah. What's your name?" He asked while the rest of the crew returned to their own ship and tasks, the large blue haired man was lamenting the ruining of the grass on the deck, being comforted by the long nosed man it seemed. Well, it seemed that way until five seconds later they both broke into song. He had been lamenting a small patch about the size of her fist she noticed.

Looking back at Luffy she smiling shyly, "Silk. Sorry, no ones asked me yet and I forgot to tell anyone."

"That's a funny name," shrugged Luffy and she was reminded about what the cook, Sanji had said the night before. "Are you hungry?" Asked Luffy suddenly but before she could answer he turned and called out "Sanji! Lets eat!"

"Sure thing, I hope dinners not ruined." Called Sanji back.

"You better be able to fix it stupid love cook!" Snapped Zolo with a smirk.

The two began to bicker and the sounds became muted as they both walked into what she assumed was the kitchen. "So Silk," said Luffy, drawing her attention back from the scene. "How did you end floating in the middle of the Grand Line?"

"Oh, that..." She bit her lip and the shrugged, "its a good story, I'll tell you all over dinner, how about that?"

"Great! I love stories!" Laughed Luffy before he was called by the long nosed man across the deck.


I don't like to ask, but could I please have some reviews? I've no idea how people feel about this story right now and its kind of loosing me confidence. anything?