Chapter Four: Meet the rest of the Crew
"TAKE-DOWN THE STRAWHAT!" They heard the marines yell.
"Is it normally like this?" Mizuki asked Zoro and the man chuckled and nodded in reply.
"Uh-oh," Luffy spoke, picking his bag up and took off running after the three in front of him, "WELL THEN RAYLEIGH!"
"HURRY LUFFY!" Sanji yelled back at the Captain.
"Thanks a bunch Rayleigh!" Zoro called up waving at the Dark King
"THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!" Luffy yelled smiling brightly, "SEE YOU LATER!"
"Indeed…" she heard Rayleigh muse, she stopped and looked at the Dark King for a second before she felt Zoro's hand take hers and tug her forward.
"AFTER THEM!" The Marines were closing in.
"HEAD STRAIGHT FOR THE TOP!" Rayleigh yelled after them.
"THEY ARE HEADING TOWARDS GROVE 42!" She heard behind them then the pounding of the marines feet stopped, she glanced back and smiled as Rayleigh stood in front of the Marines, "DARK KNIGHT RAYLEIGH!"
"Your Captain has made some powerful friends," She smiled seeing Rayleigh hold them off.
"Yeah… he's got a lot of friends," Zoro smiled at her.
"THIS WAY!" Sanji yelled at them and she tugged Zoro in the right direction, "CRAP THEY ARE AHEAD OF US!" Sanji groaned seeing the marine group in front of them.
A familiar ghost slipped past them and Mizuki smiled, "Perona…" She whispered and laughed as the ghost slipped through the Marines and Perona floated down from the trees.
She laughed as the Marines dropped to the ground murmuring 'I want to be a tick.'
"I just knew this Mayhem had something to do with you people! Are you still hanging around here?" Perona sighed.
"PERONA!" Mizuki cried out hugging the ghost princess, "I thought you left days ago."
"Had to make sure you two get of the island didn't I," She smiled brightly.
"Err… who is she again?" Luffy asked.
"AHH! YOU'RE FROM THRILLER BARK!" Sanji cried out moving closer to the two.
"WELL WHAT ARE YOU DOING STILL HANGING AROUND HERE!" Zoro yelled.
"Is that anyway to talk to the person who brought you all the way back here? Why if it wasn't for me you'd be…"
"Er… Perona, we both got him here," Mizuki stated.
"THAT'S HOW YOU GOT HERE FIRST!" Sanji yelled.
Perona wrapped her around Mizuki's neck placing her cheek on top of the red hair, "But your so cute how can I be mad at you, your swordsmen on the other hand is not cute at all Mizuki, how can you like him."
Zoro glared at the Ghost Princess but smiled at Mizuki as the girls smiled at each other, the sound of sniffing made both girls snapped their head to the side, to see Sanji in to close for eithers of their liking.
"A real woman… A real woman…"
"WELL OF COURSE I AM! WHAT ARE YOU SICK IN THE HEAD!" Perona wasn't impressed with the cook, "At any rate you need to set sail as soon as possible, there are battleships appearing off shore."
"WHAT!" the three men shouted.
"SANJI!" A voice from overhead was heard and all five head snapped up to see Chopper on a giant bird.
"WOW CHOPPER YOU MAKE AWESOME FRIENDS!" Luffy yelled as the bird landed in front of them.
Luffy clambered up first petting the birds neck smiling brightly down at the little reindeer which hugged his Captain, Sanji stood next to the bird looking at the other two waiting, the three stood in front of each other and Mizuki hugged Perona tightly, "I'm going to miss you…."
"I'll miss you too Mizuki," Perona pointed at Zoro, "Un-cute Swordsman, take care of the cutie."
Zoro patted Perona on the shoulder and smirked at her, as Mizuki unwrapped her arms from the pink haired girl moving to the bird, Sanji leant down holding his hands out for her to boost her up onto the bird, Perona hugged Zoro gently and the swordsmen smirked down at her and patted her back. Sanji hopped up onto the bird sitting across from them, "Sanji who's this…?" Chopper asked looking at the red haired woman.
"Dracule Mizuki," Luffy wrapped an arm around her as Zoro jumped up onto the bird, "Our new nakama."
"D-dracule…" Chopper shivered and watched as she leant back on Zoro's side, "Isn't he the man you're trying to beat…" The bird took off heading towards Grove 42, the swordsmen nodded as they looked over to the horizon to see Marine ships. "P-powerful…" Chopper murmured and hid behind his Captain and the four laughed.
Luffy smiled brightly seeing the sunny, "HEY! YOU GUYS!"
"I've brought them," Chopperd called down, Mizuki scooped the reindeer into her arms and tickled his belly gently, "You think I'll like you cause you tickle me…" he laughed.
"LUFFY!" The crew yelled, "ZORO! SANJI!"
"You guys look more manly than ever," Franky smiled looking up at them and so did Robin looking up at the monster trio.
"LUFFY-SAN IVE MISSED YOU SO MUCH!" Brook called.
"HEY!" Nami called out waving her arms.
"We are all together again," Usopp smiled.
Mizuki smiled seeing how much the crew was devoted to their Captain, "SANJI!?" Sanji's eyes looked over the two Strawhats woman and practically flew off with a nose bleed, all four on the bird blinked slightly confused before looking down and releasing.
"That's a lot of cleavage," Mizuki mumbled. Zoro chuckled at the girls response and wrapped his arm around her jumping down onto the deck, Chopper still in her arms, she put the reindeer down so he could wave goodbye to his friend. Sanji had fallen onto the deck his nose still bleeding and Luffy had landed in front of Franky.
"WHOOOAAAA!" He yelled eyes wide stars shinnying from them, "FRANKY!"
Mizuki glanced round the thousand sunny, eyes like her new Captain and a hand appeared on an arm from the railing in front of her. She jumped back slightly to see Nico Robin smiling at her, "Pleasure to meet you, you must have been the new crew member Rayleigh said might be joining."
Mizuki shook the hand and smiled, "Dracule Mizuki, lovely to meet you Miss Nico."
"A pleasure as well Miss Dracule, I say we leave the introductions to later," The dark haired woman laughed smiling at her.
"Hold that Luffy," Nami said dragging the Captain away from the Cyborg, "I can't say I understand but can we leave the awe to later, we got word that battleships are almost on top of us."
"One… gorgeous… women… two… gorgeous… women… three… gorgeous… women," Sanji mumbled and Usopp shook him trying to snap him out of his thoughts.
"CHOPPER GET OVER HERE HES LOOSING A TON OF BLOOD!"
Mizuki laughed and stood next to the archaeologist (I spelt that right first time round I'm impressed), "It's quite erm… how to word this…" Mizuki mumbled to the woman.
"Over whelming," Robin answered for her, Mizuki nodded, "You will get use to it, they are a noisy bunch."
The sound of a cannon going off knocked everyone off their feet for a second as the thousand sunny rocked from side to side, "OPEN FIRE! SINK THAT SHIP!"
"SLAVE ARROW!" A shout came and the cannon balls exploded as heart shaped arrows embedded themselves within the cannon balls and exploded.
"HOLD IT! HOLD YOUR FIRE!" Boa Hancock yelled at the Marine ship.
All Strawhats made their way to the side to Kuja pirates blocking the marine's ship past, they couldn't hear the what the warlord was saying but the eyes were still on the War Lord. "That's the emblem of the Kuja…" Robin stated and Mizuki nodded her head in conformation.
"Pirate Empress of the Sea Boa Hancock," Mizuki stated.
"The Kuja?" Nami asked standing next to the two woman.
"An all-female pirate crew lead by the war lord, the pirate empress," Robin answered.
"Wait who are you?" Nami questioned the red haired woman.
"Miss Navigator, meet our swordsmen new partner Miss Mizuki Dracule," Robin smiled and Mizuki smiled back holding out her hand.
Nami gently took her hand, "You are related to a Warlord aren't you."
Mizuki nodded, "My Uncle Dracule Mihawk, one the seven war Lords."
"Hmm," Nami hummed, "I take it if my Captain trusts you, but I don't."
"Oh…" Mizuki pulled her hand back and reached into the inner coat pocket, "Zoro said that this might help you trust me," She pulled her hand out the pocket to show a white gold thick chain with diamonds imbedded into the gold.
Nami's eyes shined and widened taking the necklace gently, her arms wrapped around Mizukis neck jumping slightly in excitement, "Welcome to the family," She cheered hugging her tightly and Mizuki smiled wrapping her arms around the orange haired navigator.
The woman turned to see Sanji turned to stone and Usopp with his mouth wide open in shock, "A WARLORD! WHO ON EARTH IS THAT STUNNING BEAUTY!"
"AHH! MY EYES! SHE SHINES WITH AN UNEARTHILY BRIGHTNESS HER BEAUTY KNOWS NO END! WH… WHY IS SHE HERE?!" Brook cried out pretending to shield his… eyes?
"Oh its Hancock," Luffy stated smiling at Kuja pirate ship.
"EH!?" Brook and Usopp snapped their heads towards.
All the Strawhats gathered round the Captain, Mizuki turned her head back towards the island listening to the entire island go into chaos she squinted as she saw a familiar sword, "Uncle…"
"AH!" Brook leant back, "SHE WINKED AT US!"
"That was lucky," Luffy chuckled "Come on lets set sail!"
"Do you know her?" Nami asked.
Mihawk stood at the edge of Grove 42 and watched as Boa stopped the Marines, watched his niece hug the Strawhat Navigator, he smirked slightly and watched as his own eyes stared into his and he raised his hand to his niece.
"Yeah I was sent to the island of women so they're all my pals," Luffy chuckled.
Zoro noticed that Mizuki was moving towards the railing to the rear of ship as Usopp shouted, "THE ISLE OF WOMEN! THE LEGENDARY LAND OF DREAMS IT REALLY EXISTS!"
"He's friends with the empress," Sanji growled, "OH YOU'D BETTER BE TRAINING HARD!" Sanji jumped onto his Captain grabbing a fist full of his vest.
"Oh I have!"
Mizuki tuned out as she smiled brightly at her uncle leaning over the railing of the ship smiling at him and raised her hand back towards him holding the fingers up with the family ring and her father's jolly roger showing him she will never forget where she came from, Perona moved up next to him and she smiled at the girl she felt the jelly coating of the ship move upwards starting to cover her and rest of the crew.
She gasped slightly and smiled, "I'll do it Uncle.. I promise I'll get revenge for mum."
Perona looked at Mihawk as she watched the greatest swordsmen smile at his only relative turn her back and hoped down onto the green deck below, "You ok Mihawk?"
The man nodded as he heard his niece's last words to him he tipped his head down and smirked, "The new world is going to have such a surprise when they get there."
"Oh the marines," Perona turned to the group that was running towards the edge of Grove 42, "Such un-cute fighters," and released negative hollows onto them sending them to their knees hoping in a new life they will be a flea.
She turned away and hopped back onto the deck, "What the…" Luffy looked confused, "This jelly stuff is expanding… WHOA WE GOT A GIANT JELLY ROOF!"
"Is something wrong Usopp?" Chopper asked the sniper, Mizuki looked up towards the sniper so did most of the crew to see the sniper looking over at the island.
"Did you guys take out all the marines…?" he asked.
"No," Chopper answered, "I could hear plenty of them still shouting!"
"Then why aren't any coming for us from the island?" He questioned.
"If they're not coming then all the better!" Franky cheered, "We'll leave before they get her!"
"Lucky they might of got caught in something," Mizuki smiled slightly.
"Yeah Rayleigh and the girl from thriller bark must have stopped them!" Luffy cheered.
"Yeah… hmm… WAIT WHO ARE YOU!?" Usopp shouted.
Mizuki laughed, "Usopp, Franky and Brook I believe are the only ones I haven't been introduced to I believe."
Zoro nodded, "Guys, this is Dracule Mizuki… The daughter of Red haired Shanks and Niece of Dracule Mihawk, also my partner so NO! Asking to look at her underwear Brook."
"A most exquisite beauty before my eyes, even though I don't have eyes! Yohohoho Skull Joke," Brook laughed, he bowed taking off his hat, "It is a pleasure to meet you Mizuki-san."
She curtsied back, "A pleasure to meet you Brook."
"WOW!" Franky smiled, "A super Little Lady you have got yourself here Zoro."
Usopp shivered slightly trying to put on a brave face, "P-powerful f-family y-you h-have."
Luffy wrapped his around Mizuki and smiled, "She's going to be our new crew member now."
"SUPER!" Franky posed making the red haired woman giggle and smile, "Welcome to the family Little Lady."
"ARGH!" Sanji cried and dropped to the floor making everyone turn to him.
"Hey whats wrong Sanji!" Chopper shouted at the cook.
"I dunno…" The cook shivered, "For a moment it just felt as though someone was crushing my heart."
"Are you paying attention," Nami called gaining all the crews attention during her explanation Franky had jumped off the railing into the water below, "A coating has the ability to reduce the surrounding pressure in various ways! In other words, once a ship is coated it cannot float on its own accord so if we remove the buoyancy bag underneath the ship that currently supporting it, the ship will naturally sink beneath the surface."
"I see…" Zoro and Luffy murmured.
"I can see you two don't understand," Nami groaned and looked at the rest of the crew who nodded their heads in understanding, "At least you picked a smart woman Zoro."
Franky broke the surface and leant on the railing breathing heavily, "I've released the buoyancy bag."
"ALL RIGHT!" Nami yelled out, "WE ARE GOING DOWN! RAISE THE SAILS!"
"THE SAILS!" Brook and Chopper yelled out confused.
Mizuki nodded, "Sea currents are used instead of the air to move the ship forward when traveling underwater."
"So we just don't sink to the bottom," Usopp looked stunned at the woman and Robin chuckled next to her, "How do you know?"
"I've travelled to these type of places before," She answered smiling.
"Are we setting sail, Nami?" Luffy asked.
"That's right Captain," Nami smiled brightly at the Strawhat Captain.
2WELL THEN MEN! I HAVE TONS OF THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN WANTING TO SAY TO YOU ALL THIS TIME BUT FOR THE MOMENT LETS LEAVE IT AT THIS! THANKS FOR GOING ALONG WITH MY SELFISH WHIM FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS!" He smiled towards his crew.
"yeah, like this is the first time we've been swept along by his crazy whims…" Sanji chuckled standing next to Mizuki, more like giving her an explanation of their Captain.
"That's right!" Usopp cheered hearing Sanji, "This is just what you're always like!"
"SET SAIL! FISHMAN ISLAND HERE WE COME!" Luffy yelled out.
Zoro wrapped an arm around Mizuki's shoulder pulling her into his chest as they sunk below the ocean surface, "Told you… you're his family now," he leant down and kissed her lips softly.
He smirked against her lips as they both heard the cheers from the rest of the crew around them and Sanji mumbling about how the swordsmen got a girl before him, she smiled into his lips, 'I'll make you proud… father…uncle."
AN: HA!... I'm writing at ridiculous o'clock in the morning again but I got this finished and I'm happy that the response from the last chapter was amazing. Yes I know Mihawk wasn't there but I don't think he wouldn't let her go off without saying goodbye, I might continue a story after this I don't know cause I have dropped hints of her mother in three chapters and all you know about her is that she is Mihawk's Sister and Shanks love. I'm glad you have all liked this short series that I have written, it was a short thing which lead from Red and Green Lust to this.