AN. I own nothing. I have noticed a few re-occurring spelling issues that i'd like to address, Some words i have spelled differently to what is in spell-checker (e.g like Colour and Realisie) this is done because that i live in Australia and what may appear to be spelled incorrectly to some, the way have written it is the correct way to spell these words in the Australian language. I apologise(hey another one) to my readers for any confusion.

Enjoy

Luffy, Connor, and Zoro were hungry, it'd been a week since they left Shells Town and they had yet to land on another island. It didn't help that none of them knew how to navigate and Luffy had finished off the last of their food yesterday.

They had left Shells Town in a hurry after the marines tried to arrest Connor, Luffy had told them that Connor was part of his crew, which had shocked everyone; after stocking up on supplies and saying farewell to Rika and Coby they set sail.

Once on the open sea Zoro had expressed his concerns over Connor joining them; Luffy assured him that he had only said that so Connor could escape the marines and they'd drop him of at his home island. The problem was, Connor didn't know the name of the island he came from; all he knew was it was in the West Blue, on the other side of the world.

This had annoyed Zoro even more because now they were stuck with him and Zoro had no intention of babysitting. A pirates life was not for children; he and Luffy could not focus on fighting if they were worried about Connor and that could cost them their lives. It's not that Zoro disliked Connor he just didn't want him to get hurt; despite his claims on defeating a giant and those three marines, Zoro simply did not believe him or that he could be any use to Luffy's crew.

"I'm hungry," Luffy whined.

"Were all hungry," Zoro responded.

"When's the next island," Luffy complained.

"I don't know, and why don't you know how to navigate?" Zoro asked.

"I thought you or Connor knew how to navigate," Luffy said.

"I can't even read," Connor said.

"Great, another reason why you're a hindrance to us," Zoro said.

Connor frowned it wasn't his fault he couldn't read; his mother had just started to teach him when pirates had attacked his village and took him away from everything he knew. Reading was not enforced after that, in fact any one who attempted to learn was severely punished as it could be used to escape.

"We need a navigator, finding one should be our first priority," Zoro declared.

"But where are we going to find one, it's not like good navigators fall out of the sky," Luffy said.

Connor sighed and looked up at the sky; it was going to be a very long trip.

"Hey, is that a bird?" he asked, he noticed a black figure soaring across the sky.

Luffy and Zoro looked up and saw a bird high in the sky.

"Meat! I'll get it," Luffy said, he jumped up excitedly.

He stretched his arms and lunched himself skyward off the top of the mast, Connor was surprised that Luffys arms stretched, but he didn't show it he'd seen Devil fruit powers before. Unfortunately the bird was lager then it appeared and thought Luffy was a big worm; it grabbed him in its beak and flew off with Luffy.

"Help!" Luffy screamed.

"YOU MORON!" Zoro yelled as Luffy was carried away.

Zoro grabbed the oars and rowed frantically trying to keep up with his captain, Connor just held on to the boats railing afraid to let go, Zoro was rowing so fast that if he did he'd fall overboard. Zoro was barely keeping Luffy in sight; three pirate castaways who'd been floating in the ocean boarded the boat.

"Surrender or die, we're part of the Buggy pirates and we're taking over this ship," they demanded.

Zoro took one look at them and punched them all on the head, hard. He looked towards the sky the bird and Luffy were nowhere to be seen; these pirate castaways had caused him to lose sight of his new captain, some first mate he was.

"Hey wait a second, are you Ronnoa Zoro the infamous pirate hunter?" one of the three castaways asked.

"Yeah I am and thanks to you three I lost my friend," Zoro said.

"We're sorry, please forgive us," the pirates begged on their knees.

Connor ignored Zoro and the pirates, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath and opened them again but instead of his normal brown coloured eyes they were gold. Everything was different now, the normal colours of the world had been replaced with a solid greyish dark blue and all details became clearer; He looked out to sea and found what he was looking for, a bright yellow trial in the sky leading off into the distance.

"Zoro, Luffy's that way," Connor said, he pointed straight ahead.

Connor looked at Zoro and was surprised at what he saw the three Castaways were red but Zoro was white with a hint of red what did that mean? Was Zoro a threat to him? He thought about everything he knew about his second sight which wasn't much, everyone was always one of four colours; red, blue, yellow or white.

He knew what two of the four colours meant blue was good, red was bad; but he had never understood what white and yellow meant or why yellow rarely appeared.

The last time Connor had seen a blue person was in his village, since then everyone had always been red and on very few occasions white. He'd only seen a yellow person once or twice, he had learned long ago that his second sight had never been wrong when it came to others.

He had never encountered a mix of colours before, it scared him and the fact was Zoro had red didn't help, Zoro could not be trusted but right now he need him.

"Kid unless you can… holy s*** your eyes. What happened to them?" Zoro said and stepped back in surprise at the sight of his eyes, they weren't gold before.

"I have a second sight, when my eyes turn gold I see things differently," Connor said.

"How different?" Zoro asked.

"The world goes very dark, it loses all its colours, details become clear and I can see a person's aura," Connor explained.

"Aura? You mean you can see a person's life force," Zoro said surprised.

"Yes I can and sometimes it leaves a trail," Connor said.

"A trail? Can you track Luffy?" Zoro asked hopefully.

"Yes, but the trail never lasts long and I rarely see it," Connor answered.

"How long?" Zoro asked.

"If I'm lucky a minute, maybe two at the most," Connor answered.

"Oi you three start rowing now!," Zoro ordered the three castaways, they obeyed fairly quickly.

Even with three people rowing they didn't find Luffy, Connor lost the trail very quickly and couldn't pick it up again he sat down and his eyes went back to normal.

"You lost the trail already, now what?" Zoro asked.

"If we keep heading in this direction we should find an island," Connor said.

"What makes you say that," Zoro asked.

"The bird," Connor said.

Zoro stared at him like he had grown a second head.

"What? Birds don't fly far out to sea, so if ones out here then there's an island nearby and the bird didn't change course so we'll come across it soon enough," Connor explained, he didn't like the way Zoro was looking at him.

"How do you know that?" Zoro asked.

"Well birds nest in trees and trees only grow on land," Connor said.

"I know were birds live, how do you know it didn't change course?" Zoro clarified.

"Birds glide on the wind to save energy, if the wind changed direction the bird would have as well and the wind hasn't changed. See," Connor responded, he pointed to the sail.

The sail was open and the full force of the wind pressed against it pushing the boat along, combined with the castaways rowing it was going pretty fast, Zoro nodded in agreement.

"This sight of yours, is it a devil fruit power?" Zoro asked, changing the subject.

"No," Connor answered.

"Did someone teach you how to use it then?" Zoro asked.

Zoro was very curious if this second sight was not a devil fruit then maybe it was a skill that could be taught; if that was the case then he wanted to learn it.

"No, No one taught me," Connor said nervously.

He didn't like talking about his second sight, he didn't even know where he'd got it, it was always there; in fact he couldn't remember a time when he didn't have it.

"Do you think Luffy will be alright?" Connor asked, trying to change the subject

"If there really is an island nearby and Luffy lands on it he should be fine," Zoro said.

Connor nodded and sat there quietly they'd just have to search the island when they get there. Zoro watched Connor curiously how had this kid come across such a useful ability; he'd heard stories of people that had trained for years to obtain that power and never succeeding. The kid had hardly said anything this past week, never spoke unless spoken to first and never looking at him or Luffy in the eyes. When he had explained about the bird and the wind; Zoro realised he was not talking to a child, he was talking to a hunter.

Luffy had had enough of being carried, he punched the bird in the eye; the bird squawked loudly and Luffy fell out of its beak and cashed on the ground, creating a small hole where he landed.

"Whew, that wasn't fun," he said.

He stood up and dusted himself off, Luffy found himself standing between a red headed girl and a mob of angry pirates.

Connor was right about an island being nearby, he and Zoro arrived a few hours later; as soon as they had docked the three castaways ran off. They weren't the only ones to have docked on this island; just off shore was an unusual ship that had a big top on the deck.

Connor switched to his second sight but he could not find Luffys trail, he glanced at Zoro who was now more red then white. Connor suddenly felt very afraid of Zoro as red was now the dominate colour, he'd have to be careful around him.

"Any luck?" Zoro asked.

"No," Connor said, his eyes went back to normal.

"Damn, guess we're going to have to find Luffy the old fashioned way," Zoro said, he started down a path that led to a small town in the distance.

Connor followed quietly keeping a few steps behind Zoro his eyes down cast, if it weren't for his footsteps Zoro would not have noticed he was there. The walk to town was pleasant and every few minutes Zoro would check to see if Connor was still following, at one stage they passed a small forest and Connor looked at it longingly, he noticed Zoro gave him questioning look; his eyes immediately went back to the ground and did not look up again.

'That was weird,' Zoro thought; they approached the town, there was a sign nearby and Zoro stopped to read it; Welcome to Orange Town the sign said.

"Orange town eh," Zoro said, he suddenly felt something run into the back of him.

Connor wasn't paying attention and bumped into the back of Zoro, he mentally kicked himself for his mistake, and Zoro looked at him.

"I'm sorry," Connor said quickly, he stepped back in fear.

"Its okay, the sign says this place is called orange town," Zoro said; he tried to ignore the fear he saw in Connors eyes and walked into town.

The town was empty, some houses were boarded up others had doors and windows broken and a few were completely destroyed; there was no sign of the towns people and from the state of things it looked like they weren't coming back.

"This is weird it's too quiet, where is every one?" Zoro asked.

Connor agreed it was too quiet, they walked through the streets not hearing or meeting anyone the lack of life in the town put him on edge; he eyed all the buildings carefully in case someone or something jumped out of them.

Boom!

A house behind them suddenly exploded, the force of the explosion knocked Connor off his feet. Zoro ran over and helped him up, they both looked at the house they had just past; it was completely destroyed.

Boom!

Another house was destroyed this one was in front of them, Zoro looked up and saw cannon balls raining down from the sky, someone was bombing the town.

"We have to get out of here," Zoro said urgently.

Connor was in shock, he saw the 2 houses destroyed and cannon balls continued to rain down, he didn't hear what Zoro had said. Connor crouched onto his knees, closed his eyes and covered his ears, he couldn't move he was too scared he just wanted it to stop but more importantly he wanted his mother.

It was just like that time all those years ago.

Flashback

It was a normal day in the village and Ratonhnhaké:ton was playing with some of the other children just outside of the village; Cannon balls had suddenly begun falling from the sky.

He watched as his entire village caught fire and the destruction that was caused.

The villagers panicked and ran but it was too late some of them could not escape the bombardment while others were trapped in burning huts and then the men came taking everyone who'd escaped the fire and killed anyone who tried to run or fight back.

End Flashback

Zoro yelled at Connor to snap out of it but it didn't work, so he did the only thing he could he picked Connor up and ran. Zoro carried the stunned boy and ran through the street desperate to avoid the explosions and debris that were flying everywhere, he spotted an alleyway that led to the next street and he ran to it only just barley getting through before it too was destroyed.

Zoro needed to get out of the open; he jumped through the first window he saw and landed on the hard wooden floor, he used his body to shield Connor from harm and held him tight as the house shook from the force of the explosions.

Connor was muttering something in a language that Zoro had never heard before but one thing was clear, Connor was terrified. He was shaking in fear and held tightly to Zoro afraid that if he let go Zoro would disappear.

After what felt like hours the bombardment stopped and the house they were in also stopped shaking.

"Hey kid, are you alright?" Zoro asked.

Connor didn't respond he looked up at Zoro, but he didn't recognise him, all he saw was a strange man that had carried him away from the destruction holding him and only now did he realise how close he was to him, he jumped back in fear and moved away from Zoro.

Zoro, surprised at his reaction, attempted to calm Connor down, but the closer he got the further away Connor moved, until Connor sat hugging himself in the far most corner of the room.

Zoro had no idea what to do, yes being in the middle of a bombardment was scary and he expected to have a scared boy cling to him. But Connors reaction was not normal, it seemed like the boy was more afraid of him than he was of the cannonballs.

'What's up with this kid? He's acting like an animal caught in a trap,' Zoro thought.

Zoro came closer and Connor huddled away in fear.

"Do you recognise me?" Zoro asked he didn't get a response.

"I take it that's a no then," he said and frowned.

He needed to get the kid to safety and find Luffy but with Connor being uncooperative it would be difficult. Zoro decided the best thing to do was to give Connor some space, if Connor was afraid of him he'd leave to find Luffy and come back in a bit when the boy had calmed down. He'd be safe here now that the bombardment had stopped.

"I'm going to find Luffy then I'll be back," Zoro said.

Not waiting for a response Zoro left the house leaving a very frightened Connor behind.

Zoro ran through the street in the direction that the cannon balls had come from. It took him awhile but he eventually found the pirates base on top of a hotel, all of the pirates were dressed like they belonged to a circus and Luffy was tied up in a cage. One of the pirates loaded a big red cannon ball into a large Cannon and moved it so it over looked a street and lit the fuse.

BOOM!

The cannon fired and the entire street was destroyed in an instant; Zoro paled, the house where he had just left Connor was in that street and it had just been destroyed. Connor was dead.

The pirates loaded another big red ball into the cannon and this time the cannon was aimed at Luffy.