Author's note: Just a heads-up, I won't always do the updates in such a rapid pace, they should be posted every 1-2 weeks. As for how the older Mew looks like, just think of the innocent looking Nyu/Kaede from Elfen Lied.
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ShadowCat444: Yeah, I kinda had some trouble writing that chapter with Mew's involvement, because it kinda messed up the story a bit. I tried my best to get it to work, but isn't near the level I planned it to be.
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Here comes the Time Skip.
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(Baratie, 10 years latter)
"Hey look, I can see it!" Mew said happily at the sight the large ship her and her companion have been looking for. Mew had changed her appearance a good bit to match her human age to a teenager, but she kept the hoodie but made it darker shade, and the mask, it was cute to her. "Oh, and there is a fish ship too!" She exclaimed at the odd ship.
Her companion just grunted a reply, he didn't really want to be here, but she forced him to.
"Ah come on Mihawk, I know you like cutting things with that weird sword of you," Mew claimed, sitting against his throne like chair. Mihawk just turned to glare at Mew.
'Damnable debt,' Mihawk swore in his head, before touching the handle of his blade. 'But if it wasn't for her, you'd still be stuck in the bottom of the sea.' He thought before unsheathing it for only a second to cut in half the ship near them.
The two of them could hear the sounds of the crew of both ships yell out in surprise and terror of what happened.
"It's them!" One of the pirates yelled as they got near the half ship. "Don Krieg, it's them! The ones who destroyed our fleet! They followed us all the way out here!" He screamed in terror.
"He's come to kill all of us!" Another yelled out, but the two ignored them and continued with their path.
"Hmm," Mew said, scanning the ships for her brother, she knew he was nearby, her Unown said so.
"Damn it! What did we ever do to you!" Another one shouted at them. "Why the hell do you have to follow us all the way out here?"
"You were in our way/ Just to kill some time" Mew and Mihawk explained simply.
"That's bullshit," The man yelled and pulled out two pistols and fired at them. Before the bullets even could hit either of the two, Mihawk used his massive sword, and deflected the bullet away.
"Thanks Mihawk," Mew said, not really paying much attention.
"Wha?! I-it missed?!" The crew of the half ship yelled in surprise.
"He deflected it," A green haired man said near them on the half ship. "It'll be the same no matter how many times you shoot. He changes the bullet's trajectory with the tip of his sword."
"And who're you, you bastard?!" A man yelled
"I've never seen such graceful movements," The green haired man said, ignoring the man.
"A sword without grace is no strong sword," Mihawk said, sheathing he sword.
"Yep, and is no better than a stick if you don't have to mind to use it," Mew said, adding the Cubones' motto. "Hey, have you seen a boy made of rubber nearby?" She asked, not seeing Luffy.
"You mean Luffy?" The Zoro asked. 'What does she want the captain?' "He is that way," The man pointed to the Baratie.
"Oh, thanks!" Mew said happily as she jumped off Mihawk's boat and jumped from wreckage to wreckage to get to the fish ship. Once she stood on the ship, she was surrounded by the cooks.
"Oi, what are you doing here?" The questioned, holding large forks at her, but Mew ignored them. She looked around at the people, looking for Luffy, and found him.
"Luffy!" She yelled, as she ran through the cooks, knocking those in her way down. "Luffy!" She yelled again, and got the boy's attention. She lunged at him, and wrapped her arms around him.
"Um… hello?" Luffy asked, not really sure what was going on.
"Ehh?!" The men yelled in surprise that the mystery girl was hugging him.
"Aw, did you really forget me?" Mew asked, faking hurt before removing her mask. "You think you would treat me better." She pouted.
"Mew?!" Luffy yelled in surprise and wrapped his arms around Mew many times. "Where have you been, it is so good to see you, are you going to join the Nakama?" He asked quickly, a large grin plastered on his face.
"Luffy-Bro what are you doing?" Yelled one of the swordsmen behind him, "Do you know who you are hugging?!"
"Yeah, Luffy-Bro," The other one agreed. "Johnny is right, you are hugging The Phantom! She is a wanted pirate!" He yelled.
Luffy turned his head and looked at the two of them oddly. "Yeah I know Mew, we grew up together," He said, gaining a look of shock from those around him.
"The Errand Boy is friends to The Phantom!" The cooks yelled, their jaws dropping.
"Yep, I am here as promised," Mew said happily, she had missed being with the infinite rubber ball of energy. "Oh, I almost forgot." She turned back to sea to face Mihawk. "Thanks for the ride!" She yelled out.
Mihawk didn't pay any attention to Mew or her yelling, he was looking forward at the man before him.
'The foolish weakling,' Mihawk thought as he pulled out his knife.
"Just what're you planning to do with that?" Zoro asked, reading his swords to fight.
"I'm different from those stupid brutes who'd go all out to hunt a mere rabbit," Mihawk explained. "Though you may be a swordsman of some renown, this is the East Blue, the Weakest of the Four Seas. That are separated by Red Line and Grand Line. Unfortunately, I do not have a blade smaller than this at the moment."
"There's a limit, to just how much you can underestimate me," Zoro growled as the insults. "You better not regret it when you die!" He yelled and charged forward.
"Hear me, little frog in his well," Mihawk mocked. "It's time for you to realize that the world is bigger than what it seems from your well."
"Oni Giri!" Zoro shouted as his three swords clashed, but were all stopped by the knife, unable to continue forward anymore.
"Zoro?" Luffy asked in surprise.
"You know that swordfighter?" Mew asked.
"Yeah, he is my first mate." Luffy admitted, not taking his eyes from the fight.
'Oh… well he may survive this… maybe,' Mew thought for the poor boy fighting Mihawk.
'I can't move… there hasn't been a single man who could see through that move until now!' Zoro thought, his mind whirling with what to do. 'So how can he stop me with that toy?! This is rediculus!'
He takes a step back, and tries to go again with all his swords in a mess of swings, but each one was blocked are deflected by the small knife. Before he fell from his momentum forced to the ground.
'There shouldn't be such a vast difference between us! There can't be!' He thought in denial as he prepared for another assult.
"Such ferocity," Mihawk commented calmly, continuing to stop the three blades from touching him. He wasn't even out of breath from the effort. "What burdens you so? What do you still desire at the extent of your stenghth, weakling?" He mocked after the assault bored him.
"How dare you call our bro a weakling?!/ We oughta teach you a lesson, you bastard!" Johnny and Yosaku yelled, trying to jump over to help Zoro, but was stopped by Luffy.
"Stop, Yosaku! Johnny! Don't interfere, stay put right here!" Luffy ordered, holding them both down.
"If you interfere with this fight, I will make you stop," Mew said sweetly, causing Luffy to pale from the memories, and help the two down harder. 'Rule 1, never interfere with a one on one battle.'
Zoro was knocked back by the knife, causing him to skid on the floor, and he quickly recovered ten feet away.
"Tora Gari!" Zoro yelled, putting everything in to this strike to try and end Mihawk.
When Zoro got close, Mihawk lunged forward and stabbed Zoro dead center of his chest. But Zoro didn't take a single step back from the strike.
"Do you wish for me to pierce you heart thus?" Questioned Mihawk, "Why do you refuse to step back?" 'Does this man have a death wish?' He wondered.
"Beats me," Zoro admitted, blood dripping from his mouth. "Not really sure myself… but I get the feeling… That if I were to take even one step back right now, I'd lose something very important to me…. A promise or oath… or whatever it is would be irreversibly broken. And that I'd never be able to return back to where I'm standing right now."
"Yes, such is defeat," Mihawk stated, wondering where he was getting at.
Zoro gave weak laugh. "Then that's why I can't step back."
"Even if it means your death?" Mihawk questioned.
"I'd much rather die," Zoro stated, his eyes hardening by his conviction.
'What conviction he possesses,' Mihawk said impressed. 'To rather choose death than defeat!' "Kid… tell me your name." He ordered, removing his blade from Zoro's chest.
"Roronoa Zoro," He stated, and prepared his swords again in a pin will like formation.
"I shall remember it," Mihawk said, sheathing his knife, and pulled out his sword. "For your strength is not often seen in this world. And to pay my respect to you as a fellow swordsman, I shall end this duel with my Black Sword, the World's Strongest Sword.
"He unsheathed it! That sword he used to cut our ship with," The pirates yelled in fear.
"Luffy," Mew said, catching his attention. She saw the signs of worry on his face. "Mihawk doesn't kill what he find interesting." She said to try and relieve her brother's worry.
The two swords man prepared their blades, and Mihawk charged forward, now on the offensive.
"Satouryuu Ougi!" Zoro yelled, spinning his blade to take his final stand, and charged forward as well.
The moment the blades touched, all but one of Zoro's blades were destroyed, and blood spurted from his stomach as Mihawk passed him. Zoro stood up from the blow and dropped his now broken swords. Zoro sheathed his last sword and turned to face Mihawk, his arms out.
"What?" Mihawk asked in surprised by this action.
"A wound on one's back, is the shame of the swordsman," He said weakly, blood leaving him.
"Splendid," Mihawk smiled as he swung his sword down, making the finishing blow.
"Zoro!" Luffy yelled, worried for his friend.
'Don't rush to death so fast young one' Mihawk thought as he watch Zoro's body fall backwards. Before the body could touch the water, it stopped it's fall.
Slowly, the body floated across the water and landed in front of Mew as she looked down on the fallen man.
"Hm… He will survive," She said, much to the relief of the others, while the others looked at Mew in shock of what she just did. Mew turned back to face Mihawk, "He does have some potential, doesn't he?" She asked happily, but Mihawk just turned away to get back on his boat.
Zoro reached for his sword, and held it high in the air.
"Zoro-Bro!" The other two swordsmen yelled in shock he was still conscious. "Hurry! Apply the medicine on his wounds!" Johnny yelled.
"Luffy… c…can you hear me…?" Zoro asked weakly.
"Yeah!" Luffy said, glad Zoro was still alive
"Sorry for worrying you…" Zoro continued. "I know… that if I don't become… the world's strongest swordsman, it will only embarrass you." He began to cough of blood, but continued to speak." I swear! That I'm never going to lose again! Untill the day I fight him and win… I swear! To never lose again! Any problems? Pirate King?"
"Hee Hee!" Luffy laughed, "Nope!"
"Quite the crew you managed to get," Mew laughed as well. 'Zoro would of made a wonderful Pokémon.'
"You make a good team," Mihawk told them. "I'd like to see you two again, sometime in the future" He said, sitting down on his throne.
"Hawk-Eyes! Phantom!" Don Krieg suddenly yelled at Mew and Mihawk. "Did you come all the way out here for my head? The head of the infamous ruler of East Blue "Don Krieg"?!"
"Who?" Mew asked, causing the Don Krieg pirates to face fault.
"No, I had to drop of the girl," Mihawk said. "I care little for weaklings such as yourself, but I've already enjoyed myself here. And so I'll return back to my nap." He said, angering Don Krieg.
"No need to be so curt. You may have had your fun, but I sure haven't. How about you die before leaving!?" Krieg shouted, as his body opened up to reveal numerous weapons and fired at Mihawk.
"You never learn, do you?" Mihawk asked as he took his sword and slashed the floor, sending a wave to cause a distraction so he didn't have to fight the weakling.
"Hmph, gone already…" Krieg said, as he saw Mihawk was gone. "Well, I still got Phanto… Where the hell did Phantom go?!" He yelled, seeing another person gone.
"Oh, I asked her to go find my friend," Luffy said, excited for the upcoming fight.
"Why would she listen of a weakling like you?!" Don Krieg yelled. 'Who does this brat think he is?!'
"She is part of my Nakama!" He said happily, while everyone else looked at him in shock.
"EHHH!?"
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Mew went with Usopp, and the two swordsmen to find her brother's friend. It was after some time of following Nami's trail that leads them to come to the decision that someone had to go tell the rest, but they lacked anyway back then the ship, and they needed to still follow Nami.
In the end, the men all drew straws for who had to swim back. None of them included Mew in the drawing for wanted to appear to be the stronger man, and left Zoro out due to his injuries. In the end Yosaku had 'won' and jumped off the ship and swam back to the Baratie
"Do you think he is going to make it?" Usopp asked Johnny.
"Nope," He said, as he turned back to steer the ship.
After a few more hours of sailing, they found the place where Nami had stopped at.
"We've finally arrived but…" Johnny spoke up. "The real problem is from here. First, let's try to find where Nami docked the ship…"
"And then cut our way in?" Zoro asked, holding his sword.
"Sure," Mew agreed with the tactic, and put her mask back on.
"As if!" Johnny yelled, looking at Zoro in anger.
"Are you an Idiot?!" Usopp cried out. "We don't have the slightest clue what's going on yet!"
After a small scuffle, Zoro ended up died up to the main area of the ship as they continued to look for the Going Merry.
"There it is!" Usopp called out, seeing the ship docked to the east of them. "I found Going Merry! She docked it over there!"
"Hey, what's the meaning of this! Untie me now!" Zoro yelled, trying to break from the ropes.
"Hmm, that certainly is a rather strange place to dock the ship." Johnny said, looking at a map of the local area. "It's a little off from the "Cocoyashi Village" marked on this map."
"I said untie me!" Zoro yelled again, tired of being ignored. Mew just looked over at the loud man, and just climbed up the mask to get some quite from them.
"Such noisy humans my brother has found," Mew said to herself as she looked down below as the men started to yell about something or another. She watched as the boat got close to the dock, and saw some weird creatures she has seen before. 'Fishmen?' She wondered. 'I wonder if they know Jinbe.'
"Full speed ahead!" Usopp suddenly yelled, and they passed the docks.
"The hell are you just passing by for?!" Zoro yelled.
Mew just decided to just block out the sound of them down below, and instead focused on the fishmen they had passed. 'Why does the name Arlong pop into my head when I see them?' She pondered, trying to remember who or what that was.
"That's an unfamiliar ship!" A fishman yelled, as they swam after us.
"Hey! Wait a sec!" Zoro shouted, catching Mew attention as she saw Johnny and Usopp jump off the ship and swim away. "At least untie me before you run away!" He yelled.
Mew continued to watch around her as the fishmen climbed up on the boar.
"Heh, heh, looks like I caught up to ya," One of the fishmen said. "Stop this ship!"
"Huh, there's only one guy on board?" The other one questioned, seeing Zoro tied up. "Were ya exiled or sumthin'?"
"Hey, what are you doing down there?" Mew called out from above, causing the fishmen to look up at her.
"Oh, and looks like we have another one," One said with a smile. "Come on down here or we will hurt your little friend here."
Mew decided just to listen to them, and jumped down. Once she touched the floor, the fishmen looked at her in a mix of shock and terror.
"Phantom-sama, we didn't know this was your ship," One said quickly, and bowing to apologize.
"It is quite alright… have we met before?" Mew asked, wondering where this fear/respect came from.
"N-no Phantom-sama, but we have heard about what happened between you and the Sun Pirates" The other one said, not daring to look up at her.
"It is quite alright," Mew said. 'So they know of that? Do they know Jinbe as well?' "Are you apart of Jinbe's crew?" She asked, causing the fishmen to go ridge.
"No, we are with Arlong," One said, and managed to gather the courage to look up now. "We can take you to Arlong if you wish, he should know."
"Hmm… alright!" Mew said happily, and watched as the fishmen scrabbled about, getting the ship moving back to the west.
"Mew?" Zoro said, getting her attention. "Why did they act like that?" He asked.
"Oh, a few years ago, some of the Sun Pirates attacked me for being a human so I sunk about 15 of their ships before they surrendered," Mew said casually. "But I think that it freaked them out when I took out half of them in a few seconds, and played around with the others. I ended up having to fight this really strong fishman called Jinbe." She grinned.
Zoro just sat there looking at Mew before remembering that she had arrived with Mihawk. 'She must be someone quite powerful; I wonder how she would stacks up against Mihawk.'