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A/N: Thank you so much guys for reading my story, seriously, it means so much to me seeing how people are reacting to my first story. Also I hope you all like the cover image. And thank you yggdrasil001 for telling me I didn't post Robin's updated chapter, SORRY! Just in time too, I am about to lose the internet. (I literally lost it the next minute.)

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Chapter Three-Robin

Robin constantly fears that Paradise will disappear one day. To one day fall asleep on Ohara and wake up still on Ohara without visiting Paradise. She also feared that is wasn't real. She'd been told repeatedly by the people on Ohara that it's just a strange dream. Even by the professors in the Tree of Knowledge, who have the greatest amount of literacy and history at their fingertips. But Franky says it's real though and he would never lie to her. He hasn't lied to her yet anyway. Not including the incident where he accidentally ruined one of her books and tried to lay blame elsewhere.

Her family in Paradise means everything to her. They've never lied to her, never hated her, and never looked down on her. They always tell her the truth, always love her, and are always there for her. She didn't want to do anything to change that. She loves her eccentric blue haired brother, her busy Fishman brother and her joking skeleton father.

She had originally feared that Brook, Jimbei and Franky would fear her and call her a demon if she showed them her Devil Fruit powers, but then she realised Brook had eaten one himself and is now a skeleton that managed to keep it's afro. They wouldn't fear her for sprouting an extra arm with him around. So she told them, and unlike most of those on Ohara, they actually accepted her straight away.

The only negative reaction from them was Franky getting depressed that she had gotten more super than him, though he quickly added that he didn't want to eat any Devil Fruits. It was clear that Franky loved swimming, it was one thing he and Jimbei did together and he didn't want to give it up. Robin was admittedly sad she wouldn't be able to swim with them anymore but Brook was quick to distract her by taking her to the library in the Sunny. Robin was sure he only did that to make her happy though, and it cheered her up a lot, but made her fear what if Paradise was false or if it'll one day disappear more.

Paradise was filled with the people she loved most in the world; Franky, who looked after her like an enthusiastic older brother and made her laugh, Jimbei, who looked out her like a sensible older brother and made sure she was happy even though he was busy, and Brook, who helped raise them all and taught her to read. As much as she loved her mother and wanted to see her again, she loved her other family in Paradise more. The Thousand Sunny, the ship she has grown up on, is her safe haven from the other world with it's hate and her true home.

No matter the amount of hate and fear she had to endure in the Other World she could always go to sleep and talk to Brook about it. He had always liked the fact that she would wake him up on the Sunny, he said he loved being with them. She knew he wasn't lying, she knew he didn't like being stuck in the Florian Triangle. Who would? To be stuck alone on a ship that should have sunk long ago whilst being in what was probably one of the dreariest places in all the seas.

Robin liked that they trusted her. When Franky was twelve, some marines had come to arrest his mentor for building the recently executed Pirate King's ship, the Oro Jackson. Tom has managed to evade being executed for ten years by telling them about his idea of a Floating Sea Train. Franky tells her how they are going; some of the things that happen were quite funny, though she didn't like seeing him wake on the Sunny covered in bandages. She didn't like him being hurt.

She taught herself some of the healing arts to be able to help things be easier for Jimbei and Franky who both got hurt regularly from their jobs. She was glad Brook never needed any medical attention, and if he did milk was a surprisingly effective fix. Just give him a glass and he would be as good as new so to speak. She wondered if any people that might appear on the Sunny later would have the same skill, because something told her one would.

It would be nice to have new arrivals, she didn't have any friends outside of Paradise, and they were also her family so she didn't know if it really counted. But they were still precious to her so she didn't really mind and it didn't really matter.

When she made her first friend, a giant called Saul, she told them all about him and his weird laugh that managed to get her to smile regardless of the situation. They were happy for her but Franky did cry and exclaim that his 'little sister is growing up'. He keeps denying that he was crying though. Franky always makes her laugh and always reminds her he'll protect her when he rescues her after he builds the Thousand Sunny.

When her birthday rolled around she spent her usual birthday party with Brook, Jimbei and Franky, getting the next book of Brook's adventures, a book of Fishman Island's history and a satchel that Franky made for her as presents. She also got a surprise party from the Professors at the Tree of Knowledge. They revealed she had passed the test with flying colours and they made her a fully-fledged Archaeologist. She could barely wait till night so she could tell her family all about it. It was rude to fall asleep during your own party so it wasn't like she had much of a choice.

Unfortunately for her, not a week later her life in the other world had turned for the worse. First, Saul had to leave, and then her mother came back but was followed by marines who used a Buster Call to burn Ohara to the ground. They killed everyone, Saul, her mother, the professors and the innocent people who had tormented her. But one of them left her alive. The man had saved her and sent her away on a little boat guided by a frozen sea. She cried herself to sleep on that boat; Brook, Jimbei and Franky were there for her in Paradise, comfort and reassurance waiting with them.

She grew determined to keep her remaining family safe and to solve the mystery of the Lost Century, to fulfill the dreams of her mother and the professors. She spent the next year running, her bounty of seventy-nine million Beri made her known across the world. Franky showed her the poster and told her the story the public had been told. It helped reassure her fear of Paradise being false, now she just feared if she could no longer reach it. She lived a hard life in her living hell, but she always had something to look forward to at the end of the day.

The Dream.

Franky, Jimbei and Brook are always there for her, comforting her after a particularly hard day, and filling her days on the Sunny with music and laughter. Letting her feel happy, innocent and carefree, if only for a while.

Robin wanted nothing more than to lie, cheat and maybe even kill her way to Water Seven, or even Fishman Island, but she held herself back. If Franky or Jimbei were to be seen with her they could become wanted himself. She couldn't bear to let the few people she had left be put in danger because of her. Besides, she wasn't strong enough to last in the Grand Line long. She's still in the West Blue, all the facts Brook told her about sailing it coming in handy more than once.

She will do anything if it would keep her family safe. Even give up her life.

But just after her ninth birthday and seven days before Franky's, she had more family to give her life for.

Sanji was the third son of the Vinsmoke Family, a family of assassins of the highest caliber that rule the Underworld and once ruled the North Blue. She didn't want her new baby brother to grow up to be a heartless assassin like she was slowly becoming, but she couldn't do anything about it.

But that doesn't stop her from influencing Sanji while they're in Paradise.

He seems to like the bedtime stories about princes. It's adorable really, he always drags the book with him everywhere for her to read to him.

Coming Up Next: Sanji

I probably should have said there will be spoilers, huh... oh well.

Responses to reviews:

UOxOU: Thank you for all your compliments, and I'm glad you like my story. :D

DCTeenWOLF: I'll try my best to keep it up and I will continue writing this, your review helped give me the push to finish another chapter. ;)

yggdrasil: Thanks, I decided to post this story because it was different than most. I didn't think to use the Pirate Flag, I think I'll have Luffy find it, I wonder how the others will react to it. I should have put Jimbei in, he would have been hard for me to write him but I should have.

Everlight18: You're making me cry with happiness. I haven't really got that far with writing this story yet. Just finished Zoro's chapter, I don't know what I'll do after I finish Chopper's. Thanks for the ideas though. I think I'll have the dreams happen during the time skip, they'd could comfort Luffy if I let Ace die.