Oh wow I updated this pretty quickly XD not to mention its the longest chapter yet! :D Anyway IMPORTANT! READ: OK FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE READ THIS FROM WHEN I FIRST UPLOADED THIS I SUGGEST YOU GO BACK AND READ THE FIRST CHAPTER. I HAVE FINALLY RE-WRITTEN IT AND UPLOADED IT. SO FOR THINGS TO MAKE A BIT MORE SENSE READ THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS BEFORE READING THIS. THANKYOU ;D

And that, that notice is over on with the story!

Ayla stirred and slowly opened her eyes; well at least she thought she had opened her eyes, it was pitch black. She blinked to confirm that they were indeed open 'Great, I've either gone blind or I'm in an extremely dark room…' She thought to herself sitting up. Her back hurt like she'd been sleeping on a hard floor which, she supposed by the feel of cold metal beneath her, she had. Not to mention she had a massive headache, was shivering (the room was cold!), and had her hands tied together (at the front) to add on. In her opinion -despite being the most eventful trip yet- this was the worst trip to this dream world of hers. Not only had she become solid but apparently she had become visible as well! And all that had done was get her into trouble with the psychopathic captain of the submarine.

She shuddered at the memory of the moving body parts and organs in the jars. Just remembering what she saw that man do made her feel queasy and lightheaded. Ayla slowly leaned back, she wasn't sure if there was a wall or anything at all behind her. When she didn't feel a wall she scooted back a bit until her back connected with the cool metal. There she sat, in her pyjama shorts and an over large t-shirt, huddled in a shivering ball. After a while she started humming a tune to herself.

Ayla sat there for who knew how long before her head snapped up in realisation. Why hadn't she woken up in her own comfy bed at home? Usually if she fell asleep in her dream world she'd instantly wake up to see the roof of her room and –depending on how long she slept and woke up – the morning sun. So why was she still here? Stuck in a dark, cold, metallic room? Fear washed through Ayla as she thought of all the possible, yet impossible situations she could be in. What if this was actually a real place and not just a dream, like she had suspected, and now she was stuck here, forever? How worried would her mum be when she tried to wake Ayla up to find that she wouldn't? Ayla knew her mother would freak out and become ill herself. She knew that all her mums stress over her being sick was making her mother ill as well even though she denied it whenever Ayla brought the subject up. Was her body in a coma to be put on life support at a hospital and then taken off when they realised she wasn't ever going to wake up? Or heck, had her heart stopped beating already? Or maybe even, as odd and impossible as it sounded, her body had started fading away seeing as she was becoming more and more solid and clear here?

There were too many 'If's' and 'Why's' and 'maybe's'. These thoughts continued to circle around Ayla's mind over and over again; each time her fear growing and taking over. Tears welled up in her eyes and threatened to overflow; she didn't want to be here at all. She hadn't asked for this nor wanted it. All she wanted was to be at home in her room with that annoying, purple itchy rash. After all it wouldn't be there forever like she could be here.

Her thoughts paused on that particular thought of being here forever. For all she knew the people on this submarine could come back and kill her. Or that psycho captain guy might cut her up into pieces and put her body parts in jars. She'd just end up in that grotesque collection of his.

Ayla was so caught up in her paranoid thoughts that she almost missed the worried yelling and hurried footsteps running past her prison. She looked up and saw a sliver of light coming into the room from next to her. She realised she had been sitting next to the door the whole time. However she didn't have enough time to see the insides of the room she was in before she unwillingly figured out just how far it is from her side to the other. There was a loud bang of something against metal and she was sent to the other side of the room and her head hit the wall, it didn't help the headache she already had.

"Shit!" she screamed as pain coursed through her head; Ayla held it as best she could with her hands tied. "Ow…" she whimpered, hot tears wanting to spill. She heard someone stop outside her room. She vaguely wondered if she had a concussion.

"Hey captain what about the girl? I think she's awake!" She heard someone say.

"I'll deal with her later, first we have to lose this seaking!" Ayla supposed that was the psycho captain who answered considering he was the one spoken too.

"Right captain!" The man outside her door ran off; she listened to his fading footsteps. There was another bang, though louder this time as Ayla realised that whatever was causing the noise had hit the side of the submarine she was in. She was sent to the other side of the room again, though only her back hit the door this time. She remembered hearing something about a seaking attack, whatever that was. So maybe that's what was hitting the submarine around like a ball. 'It must be freaking huge! Like a sea monster or something.' She thought while sitting up. 'I definitely don't want to be stuck in a place with sea monsters!'

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Trafalgar Law hurried threw the hallways of his submarine; he distantly noticed that his crew was running around securing things and checking for any critical damage that the sub might have taken. It would seem that a Seaking had its mind set on making the submarine and its inhabitants its dinner. Law turned into what you could call the submarines 'foyer' and hurried up the stairs into the control where Kiga was.

"Can we go any faster?" He asked the penguin hat wearing man.

"I'm trying but any faster and we might over work the engine."

"We'll risk it then."

"But-" Kiga was cut off when Bepo came running into the room.

"Captain we have leak!" He informed Law.

"Well get James to patch it up!" He answered annoyed. Bepo nodded and ran off to find the bearded man. Law closed his eyes for a moment to calm down; he was barely listening to Kiga rambling on about how disastrous it would be for the heart pirates if their submarines engine was over worked. When he opened his eyes next they noticed something on the sub's radar.

There was a crevice not too far away and according to the radar it was big enough for their submarine but too small for the seaking that was chasing them.

"Kiga, why didn't you head to there in the first place?" Law pointed to it. Kiga looked.

"Sorry captain I didn't notice it before." Kiga realigned the submarine with the crevice. The shape that represented the seaking came closer again and hit the submarine. Law almost lost his balance and Kiga was thrown out of his chair. He stood up and righted his penguin hat. Law could faintly hear some of his crew shouting about another leak in the background; anymore and they'd all drown.

He noticed that when Kiga had been thrown off, the submarine had been sent off course. Law quickly righted it again and increased the speed.

"Whoa hey Captain, be careful, it would suck if the engine broke just before we get in there!" Kiga warned as he took his place on the chair again. Law had a straight face on and ignored Kiga who sighed when he realised his captain wasn't listening.

The seaking shape on the radar was coming at them and was looking like it planned to swallow them this time and not hit them like previously.

Kiga looked up at his captain worriedly "Captain we're-"

"Safe." Law had his usual cocky smirk on again as he watched the submarine enter the crevice and the seaking stop chasing its prey. Kiga looked at the radar and sighed in relief. "Turn the lights on." Law said as he slowed the submarine down to its usual speed. On the outside of their submarine where two large lanterns on either side for situations like this.

"Aye captain!" Kiga said enthusiastically, he was happy that he wasn't going to be a seaking's dinner just quite yet.

Law didn't say anything and left to go to the captain's quarters. He felt like sleeping and couldn't really be bothered dealing with that girl just quite yet.

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Ayla sat still for a while waiting for more bangs. When none came she stood up and squinted around the room. The light had been left on outside and just lit up the room enough that she could see the outline of everything. It was a small room with not much in it; just an old bed frame with no mattress 'that must've been what hit me the third time…' Ayla thought annoyed while looking at it, the bed frame had definitely moved in all the bashing around because it was now almost in the middle of the small room on an angle. The only other thing in the room-and also had just enough room for - was an empty barrel which had also rolled around. 'Or maybe that was what hit me…' Ayla squinted at it. Well whatever had hit her sure did hurt. Now she had a bruised head, back and a very sore left arm from the moving object.

Ayla sighed and looked at the door, she couldn't even believe she was considering trying the handle, there would be no doubt that it was locked but even so there was always a small chance they hadn't locked it. They were underwater after all and if she did get out of the room she couldn't do much with her hands tied together. And even if they were above water and she made it outside, it's not like she was going to jump overboard. Not with there being possible sea monsters. So maybe they hadn't bothered locking it with knowing those facts?

Ayla reached her hands up and felt around for the door handle; even though there was some light in the room now the door was still in complete darkness. The palm of her hand rested around the cool handle and pulled down. Ayla let out a breath she hadn't realised she had been holding until then. The door was locked just as she thought. She sighed and sat down in the middle of the room but not before attempting to push the bed frame out of the way with her shoulder. It was a massive fail.

Her feet were freezing from the metal floor so Ayla tried to keep them warm by sitting in a ball with her oversized blue t-shirt covering them. She really hated this room, it was cold, still pretty much dark and not to mention very boring. Ayla's thoughts began to wander back to the possibility of being stuck here forever. She shook her head and banged it on her knees 'No! Don't think of that it won't help you Ayla. I have to find something to do…' desperately she ran thoughts through her head on things she could possibly do in this room to cure her boredom and keep her thoughts occupied.

The rope around her wrists was starting annoy her and make the skin sore. Her head shot up with an idea. Scooting over more into the sliver of light from the door, she looked at the rope binding her wrists. It wasn't overly thick so maybe if she chewed on it long enough it would break or at least come loose? It was worth a try she figured. And if she did get her hands free maybe she could somehow get out of the cold room and find a warm place to hide until they hit land. It would certainly be better than staying in here.

And so Ayla sat there in the metallic room chewing and pulling at the rope for what felt like hours. Ever so slowly it became looser and felt more comfortable; however from all the pulling, she had received some rope burn. Her mouth was very dry and hurting but she kept at it just for something to do. After about 3 hours - though it felt a lot longer – she gave the rope another hard tug with her mouth and strained her wrists against it. And finally, to Ayla's relief, it broke.

She rubbed her sore wrists and rested her mouth for a moment before breaking out into a huge grin. And now she just had to make a plan. Her stomach rumbled. 'and some food….' She hadn't realised just how hungry she was until that moment. Sighing she stood up, stretched, and walked over to the door.

Hm, I wasn't sure if Law's submarine would be wood inside or metal. I'm pretty sure submarines are usually metal (plus it makes sense to me) so I just went with that. And I've been going through the One Piece chapters with Law's crew in it to try and figure out how many are in it and what they look like. I counted about 10-11 (including Jean Bart). If you want to know who James is then look at One Piece chapter 580, page 3, he's the man in the bottom right hand corner with the beard and headband XD (only do that if you read the manga of course).

I don't know if that was a boring chapter or not but its setting some stuff up for the future so its an important chapter! ;D Thanks for reading :)