Luffy and I sat down under a palm tree to get some shade from the hot sun. Even though it wasn't much, it was very refreshing.

Luffy was still hung up on the man with the pinwheel hat.

"But it was so cool, you know?" he said.

I sighed and said, "I guess… I mean, it's funny looking, but I guess it's cool."

He thought for a while and said, "Oh, I just thought of a cool move!"

All of a sudden, people in the square were screaming for a doctor. I saw Nojiko, Nami and the man with the pinwheel hat in the middle of the huddle. It seemed like Nojiko was the one that was injured.

Luffy and I got up and walked over to them. "Yo, Nami!" Luffy said. "What's up? Need help with anything?"

I could sense that Nami was either extremely mad, or extremely sad. My guess was both from her reaction.

She turned around and stared at us. "You're still here?!" she yelled. She grabbed Luffy by the shirt and yelled, "This has nothing to do with you! Leave the damn island already!" She threw him to the ground and ran away.

"Luffy-san!" I said, helping him up.

He went to go sit back under the palm tree. "What's her problem?" he pouted.

"Maybe it has something to do with the story Nojiko was going to tell us…" I said.

"Well, whatever…" he said.

That's when the villagers started getting very loud. Most of them even were holding pitch forks. I wondered if they were about to mob Arlong Park.

Why would they do something like that? I thought. Surely they know how strong the fishmen are… Right?

I looked to Luffy and said, "Hey…" But he was asleep. I sighed and sat down next to him. "Well, no matter…"

That's when Nami came running back to the village. I couldn't really hear what she was saying, but from the looks of it, she was trying to calm everyone down.

I don't think her words worked, considering that they headed off in the direction of Arlong Park anyway.

Nami fell to her knees and started crying. I nudged Luffy to wake up. I had to literally slap in order to wake him up.

He stood up and asked, "What?"

I pointed to Nami who was actually stabbing herself in the arm by now.

Luffy's face turned dead serious. He walked over to her and I followed. He stopped her from hurting herself anymore and threw the knife on the ground.

"Luffy…" she said. "What do you want?! You don't even know anything! You don't even know what's happened on this island the past eight years!"

"Yeah. I don't know," he said simply.

"This has nothing to do with you!" she said. "I told you, leave the damn island already!"

"Yeah. You told me," he said.

She started throwing dirt on him and screaming, "LEAVE! I don't need you! Leave! Leave! Leave! Leave!" She started sobbing and looked to Luffy with helpless eyes, "Luffy… Help me…" she begged.

He took off his hat and gave it to her. He walked a little ways away and stuck his arms in the air as he yelled, "Of course I will!"

That's when I noticed Sanji, Zoro, and Usopp were all sitting nearby. Luffy walked over to them with a dead-serious expression on his face. "Let's go," he said.

Everyone stood up and said, "Yeah!"

"Maggie, stay here with Nami," Luffy said.

I saluted him and said, "Aye, aye, captain!"

They walked away. I knelt down next to Nami and said, "It's going to be alright. Luffy and the others will help you, I promise."

"Yeah…" she cried. "I know they can."

"Do you want me to clean up your wound?" I asked.

"Y-yeah, sure…" she said. "The clinic is just down the street, but the doctor is storming Arlong Park."

"I can do it," I said. "I had to do this kinda thing loads of times on the navy ship!"

I helped her up and we walked over to the clinic and I looked around for some bandages. Once I found them, I set them beside her and cleaned out the wounds. I wrapped her arm in the bandages tightly to stop the bleeding.

"There!" I said. "You're all done!"

"Thank you, Magnolia," she said, still crying a little.

"You can call me Maggie," I said, smiling.

She gave me a weak smile and said, "Alright then, Maggie-chan!"

I'd never really been called that before, but it sounded cute. I liked it!

"Then you can call me Nami-chan, too," she said.

I saluted her and said, "Roger that, Nami-chan!"

We laughed about it for a while. I was glad I got to cheer her up a little.


"Hey, Maggie-chan…" Nami said. "Can we go to Arlong Park? I kinda want to watch the fight."

"Yeah sure," I said. "I kinda wanted to watch it, too. Let's go!"

We both walked to Arlong Park. There was a large crowd outside one of the gates to get in.

"Arlong!" Nami yelled.

I saw Zoro and Sanji on the ground. They looked like they had been defeated. But where was Luffy?

"What did you come here for?" Arlong asked Nami. "I was just about to crush some pirates.

"I came here…" she said, "to kill you."

He laughed. "You've tried that dozens of times before! Were you able to kill me then?" he asked. "You must be completely aware that you mere humans can't kill me. Now, listen. I won't kill you and you can't escape from me. You'll be our surveyor forever. But, as you know, I am a good-natured man. If possible, I want you to be our surveyor of your own free will. So! How about this? I'll kill everyone here except you. But if you happily come back to the Arlong Pirates and draw sea charts as one of the leaders, I don't mind letting those people from Cocoyashi Village live. But I can't let these guys live, oh, and you two, runt." He was looking straight at me. I gulped. "They went too far. The question is who you'll be with." He paused. "Either take my side to let the villager live, or take the weakling's side and try to fight me while everyone else dies. Your choice. But from the look of these guys, it's pretty obvious it'll be a tragedy for you. Not to mention the runt looks like the weakest one." He paused again. "Nami… Are you my friend? Or… their friend?"

The villagers behind us were in an uproar about how unfair the choice was.

Either way I died, so I just hope she would at least let the villagers live instead of everyone dying.

But, it triggered something in me I'd never felt before. It was either an adrenaline rush or a wave of stupidity, but I wanted to go down fighting, since I was probably going to die anyway.

Might as well go down fighting… I thought.

I dug around in my bag and pulled out both of the handcuffs. I latched one on each wrist and tightened them. I took a deep breath and unsheathed my knife.

"Oi, what're you doing, girl…?" I heard someone say behind me.

Nami turned around to face all of us and said, "Sorry, everyone! Please die with me!"

I stuck up a fist into the air and yelled, "Yeah!" along with everyone else.

But then, there was a sudden burst of water from somewhere.

"Could it be…?" Yosaku asked.

"Luffy-aniki!" Johnny and Yosaku cheered together.

"Luffy-san?" I asked.

Both Sanji and Zoro stood up, even though I thought they were defeated.

"Thirty seconds!" Zoro said. "I won't last longer than that!" He shoved his white sword in his mouth and looked up at Arlong.

This weird feeling came over me and I rushed out to help them. "I'll double that time!" I said to Sanji.

"Maggie-chan?!" I heard Nami call. "What're you doing?!"

"I'm going to fight!" I said.

Zoro looked at me and smirked. "Ok, kid," he said. "Let's see what you've got!"

Sanji dove into the water.

Arlong just laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed. "YOU?!" he asked. "Fight me?!" He laughed some more. "Humans can't defeat me, let alone children!" He laughed and laughed even more.

I bit my lip and said, "We'll see about that…"

Zoro stood up and sliced Arlong's cheek. He was panting wildly. His injuries must be near life-threatening by now!

"Tick tock!" I said. I stopped time and tried to stab Arlong with my knife, but his skin was too strong. I panicked and it unfroze.

Before I knew it, I was being flown into a wall. My stomach was hurting really bad… He'd knocked the wind out of me, but I stood back up and stopped time again. I was looking for a weak spot, if he even had any. Then, I thought… Gills! Except I wasn't tall enough…

"Dang it!" I said.

I tried jumping, but he was just waaay too tall. I sighed and knew that fighting was definitely not my thing. But I had gotten myself into this, and I was going to go through with it, no matter how stupid!

I started time again and Zoro was attacking Arlong.

"People with Devil Fruit powers are hated by the sea and loose the strength to even struggle, and then they die! If that brat's still alive, then that means someone's cheating in this game!" Arlong said.

So that's why I can't swim… I thought. No one ever told me why.

"Cheating?" Zoro asked. "It didn't seem like a fair fight from the start."

"Well, at any rate, if there's a hindrance, I need to check on it," he said. "Out of my way."

Something came flying towards Arlong. "Egg Star!" I heard a familiar voice say. It was Usopp!

"I've got your back, Zoro, Magnolia!" he said from far away.

"Ok!" I said. "Roger that!"

"You don't honestly believe him?!" Zoro asked.

Turns out Usopp had beaten one of the leaders and Arlong was definitely not happy about that…

"You defeated… Choo?!" he asked.

"Hahaha!" Usopp laughed. "That's right! With my arrival, the fight comes to a climax at once! It heads into the final chapter!"

But that's when the octopus fishman got back up and said, "I won't let you have your way!"

"Hey, Arlong!" Usopp yelled. "Look this way!"

Arlong looked for a brief second before dismissing him as a threat. "Looks like you want to die first, Roronoa Zoro."

"No way I'll die," he said. "I'll break your proud nose!"

He immediately swung for Arlong's very long, pointed nose, but his swords couldn't even scratch it!

I gulped and said, "Tick tock…" which stopped time again.

His nose… His nose! I thought.

From where Arlong was standing, if I reached up high, the highest I could, I could reach his nose! I took my knife and started cutting, trying to see if I could cut it off.

I wondered if it had been a minute yet and what Sanji was doing in the water.

When I wasn't getting anywhere with his nose, I gave up and started time again. I was very, very out of breath. Must've been at least five minutes I was trying to slice it!

"Stupid…" Arlong said, as if he knew what I did. "It's a proud nose because it's unbreakable."

"So that's why…" I said to myself.

"If you were at your full strength, you might've been able to give it a scratch at best."

It was already a one-sided fight and Arlong hadn't even done anything!

They began fighting: nose vs. three swords. And yet, Arlong was overpowering Zoro!

I have to do something… I thought. But I need to catch my breath before I… SCREW THAT! Zoro! I need to help you!

But then I realized that if I brought Zoro into frozen time via handcuffs… he wouldn't be able to use one of his swords!

Dang it…

"Tick tock!" I stopped time again and knelt down besides Arlong's foot. I put my knife up high, to get as much momentum as I could, and forced it down into his foot.

Or so I thought.

It didn't cause him to bleed. If anything, I had just poked him in the foot.

I looked at my knife and touched it sharp edge with my finger. It was definitely very sharp! Why wasn't it cutting?!

Dang… His skin is waay too tough for my knife…

I started time again, but I forgot to stand up.

"Huh…?" Arlong said, looking at me. "Get away from my feet!"

"Magn-" Zoro said.

And with that, he kicked me very, very hard in the stomach into the wall opposite of where we were. I hit the wall with so much impact, I couldn't even move. Not to mention the exhaustion I was feeling from stopping time so much.

I struggled to get up to at least my knees, but strength wouldn't come to me.

My stomach felt wet and sticky. I didn't even want to look because I knew there would be blood.

I know this is… probably nothing…. compared to Zoro or Sanji… But I can't go on… any longer… I tried my best, Luffy… I'm sorry.

I passed out after that.


When I woke up, I felt much better. I heard screams coming from next door as I sat up. I sounded like Zoro. I looked around and saw that I was in the doctor's clinic from the time I bandaged Nami.

After the screams stopped, the doctor came in. "I see you're awake."

I nodded.

"You've got three broken ribs and one helluva bruise on your stomach," he said. "Just try and take it easy for the next couple days."

"Roger that," I said, saluting him.

I spent two days in the clinic while the whole island was partying. Luckily, when I was discharged, they were still celebrating the fall of Arlong Park!

Yes, Arlong Park had fallen and Luffy was the cause of it.

I was congratulated a lot by the villagers even though I really didn't do anything to help. Usopp had stacked at least a dozen tables on top of each other and started singing songs about himself. I didn't really see Nami or Zoro throughout the whole party. But Sanji was hanging out with some girls and Luffy was stuffing his face.

The party ended the morning of the first day and our pirate crew decided to set sail once more. The only thing missing was Nami. She hadn't shown up yet.

"Maybe she's not coming," Zoro suggested.

"Why not?!" Sanji asked. "You made another pass at Nami-san again, didn't you?!" he accused Zoro.

"Why would I do that?" Zoro asked.

Zoro and Sanji started arguing again. I smiled happily at everyone and laughed. "Nami-chan will come," I said. I climbed up the rope ladder to the crow's nest and took out my telescope. I pointed it in the direction of the town and saw her running to catch up.

But, I decided not to tell them. It was a surprise!

When everyone finally noticed her, she stopped running and yelled, "Get the ship moving!"

She full-out sprinted for us, dodging every single villager in her path. We set sail and it looked like she wouldn't make it aboard!

That's when she jumped from very, very far away, but somehow made it on board!

She smirked and partially lifted her shirt, letting a bunch of wallets fall out. I laughed and said, "She stole their wallets!"

She turned towards the village and kissed one of the bills. "Take care, everyone!" she said.

I looked through my telescope at all of the angry villagers and laughed.

"She's still the same…" Usopp said.

"Who knows when she'll betray us again…?" Zoro said.

Well, Sanji, Luffy, and I were all happy to have her aboard again!

"Bye everyone! I'll be back!" she called after them.


(I don't own One Piece or any of the characters. This was made for entertainment purposes only and no copyright is intended.)