Arts of the Ocean

Disclaimer: It's probably a good thing that the great Oda sensei owns One Piece and not me!!

Trust No One

"Hey! I recognize this one…" the marine said, pointing at the unconscious Chopper, "That's one of the Straw Hat's…"

"How did he get here though?" another questioned. They were staring at two people on the ground that were unconscious and discussing what to do with them.

"This one might be apart of their crew too," a marine said about Usopp.

"What should we do then?"

"Take them away and lock them up," a commander ordered.

"Yes sir!" the others answered, picking the two off of the ground and carrying them away.

"Don't worry…the others will be joining them soon too…" the commander said.

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"We have to get to the others…fast!" Sanji shouted running as fast as he could down the mountain.

"I know!" Franky yelled back. After the two had got back up the hill and through the cave, they had started to run as fast as they could towards the forest that Nami had said that the rest of the crew would be in.

"I just hope that Nami-san, Robin-chan and Mira-san are alright..." the cook said.

Franky sweat-dropped and said, "Oi…"

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"Is there really nothing here?" Zoro said after a while. They had all been walking around the mysterious forest for about two or three hours now with nothing interesting happening. Only that the forest itself looked like a rain forest or a jungle and there was not even a spot of winter in it.

"I've never even heard of this sort of climate before," Robin said.

"I know…me neither…" Nami agreed.

"Hey guys…" Luffy started but no one heard.

"I'm tired…" Zoro grumbled.

"Shut up, I'm trying to think," Nami said.

"Hey…guys…" the captain said again. No one was paying attention.

"Hey, let's rest for a second," Mira suggested.

Nami growled, "Fine! Do what ever you want!"

"HEY! GUYS!" Luffy shouted suddenly. Everyone looked at him.

"What's wrong Luffy?" Nami asked.

"Um…well, I noticed but there aren't any insects or anything living in this forest…just trees and grass…" the captain said.

"So…?"

"It's so boring!" the captain complained. Everyone sweat dropped.

"Come to think about it," Robin started, "I haven't seen any of the sort either. It's like there's nothing living on this island except for trees and grass."

"What are you saying Robin?" Nami asked. The archaeologist glanced around her for a moment in thought. However, all of their trails of thought were broken when they heard footsteps approaching. Immediately, Zoro's hand shifted to his katanas, Nami's to her clima-tact, and the others got ready to fight if they needed to.

"Oi! Guys! It's just us!" Sanji's voice came. Everyone relaxed as the cook and shipwright came into sight.

"Hey, what are you doing here? Where's Usopp and Chopper?" Nami asked, looking around for the other two. Sanji set his hands on his knees for a second to catch his breath since him and Franky had been running the whole way.

"Usopp and Chopper…got taken by the marines…" Sanji said between his short gaps pf breath.

"WHAT?" the others exclaimed.

"Yeah, there's a whole bunch of them on this island," Franky added.

"We have to go get them!" Luffy yelled, trying to run, but was stopped by Nami who had grabbed the back of his shirt collar to stop him.

"Not so fast," she said. "Sanji-kun, do you know where they took them?"

"No, we were only climbing down the mountain and into a valley and those two slipped and stumbled down and then the marines came…we didn't see where they came from," he explained.

"Perhaps they have a base here," Robin suggested.

"If that's the case, then we've just landed on one of the worst places we could have landed," Zoro said, folding his arms.

"How could we have though? The map I read didn't say anything about this island having a marine base on it," Nami pointed out.

"Are you sure?"

In an instant, there was a sound of three swords being pulled out and something clashing into them. There was a moment's confusion and then silence. Everyone stared at the scene in front of them, trying to comprehend it. Zoro had his three katanas pulled out and crossed in front of himself, shielding himself from a sudden attack from Mira.

"You're quick Roronoa…" Mira said looking up at him, "But you won't be able to beat me…"

"What's going on Mira-san?!" Sanji asked.

"You're next," Mira told Sanji, giving him a sudden glare. She pulled something that looked like two bracelets out of her pocket and tossed them up in the air. They floated there for a second, then split up and shot towards Luffy, Robin at a great speed and collided with each of them. The next thing they knew, the captain, archaeologist and were on the ground, panting with the bracelets tight around their wrists.

"Aaaa, why do I feel so weak?" Luffy mumbled as all of his strength left him, lying on the ground.

"Sea…stone…" Robin said.

"What's going on Mira?" Nami yelled, demanding an answer and pulling out her Perfect Clima-Tact. Franky was also getting his Beans-Left attack ready though with a slight hesitation to the situation.

"At least be thankful that I'm the one who will defeat you," Mira said to Zoro, ignoring Nami's question and the weapons that were being pointed at her.

"Why?" Zoro growled.

"'cause I'm not a swordswoman…at least you won't have that shame…" she answered. Zoro glared at her.

"Oni-giri!" he said as he preformed his attack.

"Sorú," Mira muttered as she preformed her move. Zoro's attack just skimmed Mira as she moved out of the way, super-speed.

"You really think you could get me with that?" she asked, standing right behind the swordsman, a dagger in her hand.

"Franky! Do something!" Nami yelled at the shipwright.

"I can't without blowing Zoro away too!" he yelled back. Nami grit her teeth and ran over to Zoro and Mira.

"Someone! Get Luffy and Robin's sea-stone off of them!" she yelled.

"Useless…" Mira muttered and with that, she reached around and plunged her dagger right into Zoro's stomach from behind him where she was standing.

"Zoro! Why didn't you move?" Sanji yelled. Nami stopped in her tracks and Mira pulled the dagger out of him and Zoro fell to his knees, his front drenched in blood.

"Couldn't…move…she's using her powers…" he said.

"Mr. Swordsman!" Robin yelled with as much energy as she could muster, as she tried to pull the sea stone bracelet off but failing.

"That's right…just stay like that for a while…" Mira muttered and turned to Sanji and Franky. Immediately as she moved away from Zoro, Franky shot at her with his Beans-Left but missed because she had used 'Sorú' again and appeared right in front of Sanji. She kicked, but of course, it was counterattacked by Sanji's kick.

"Mira-san…what are you doing?" Sanji asked seriously. Mira lowered her leg and stared at the cook for a second.

"You'll…" and with that, she appeared behind him, after having punched him in the gut, "see…" she finished as Sanji began to feel the effects and doubled over. Then she turned around and kicked him on his side, sending him skidding across the ground.

"Franky! Move out of the way!" Nami's voice came. A small dark thunder-cloud was formed between her Perfect Clima-Tact. The cyborg did as she said and Nami sent the cloud towards Mira. The cloud shot through the air and hit Mira square in the back and she fell over.

"Got her!" Nami said to herself.

"Nami! Get away from there!" Franky yelled at her. Nami looked at him puzzled but then suddenly felt her Clima-Tact leave her fingers and a hand around her throat.

"That's a vicious weapon…" a voice said behind her. Nami choked. No, impossible…there was no way…but then she looked closer at the figure that was lying on the ground and saw that it was beginning to fade.

"You forget…I'm an artist…if I concentrate the atmosphere around a certain part with my powers, I can even draw on it," she said. The navigator was losing air…and just as she thought she would stop breathing, Mira threw her on the ground. Luffy saw this, and despite of the sea stone that he couldn't get off, he became somewhat alert.

"Nami!" he said, wanting more than anything right at that moment to help her…however, circumstances wouldn't allow that as his energy kept on draining out of his body. Mira glanced at Luffy for a second and turned around.

"Strong-Right!" Franky's fist came flying at the artist. Then setting the hilt of her dagger in her mouth, with the agility of a cat she leaped into the air and landed next to Franky who shot at her again. She flipped backwards, out of the attack.

"Coup de vent!" Franky shouted as he sent an invisible canon towards her. There was an enormous blast, and a great wind with it. However, when everything had cleared, it appeared that the artist had been unharmed.

"That won't work on me," she said and raised her hand, apparently putting him in an invisible lock as she had done with Zoro so that he too couldn't move. She turned around and did the same to the rest of the crew who were all lying on the ground. Mira walked over to the captain who was barely conscious because of the effect the sea stone was having on him.

"All eight Straw Hats down…mission complete," she said.

"Mission?" Luffy repeated panting.

"Of course…" she said. "It was a mission…an order to me that said, 'Enter the Straw Hat crew and to lead them to this island and restrain them,' and I completed that…"

"You piece of…" Zoro began but couldn't finish because of his loss of blood.

"I know…" Mira began sitting down on the ground, "It's a horrible story, isn't it? A supposedly innocent girl just happens to meet up with a powerful pirate crew that she welcomes, she's so nice to them and then they decide to let her join their crew. She seems to have this dilemma in whether she should join or not but her friend convinces her because she made sure that everyone around her knew what she wanted…or supposedly wanted. So with that excuse, she joins and gains the trust of the crew and even fought for them. But there were a couple of problems…first, she had to find out each crew member's weaknesses and strengths. Then she had to find out about their relationships with each other. A couple of them were obvious…" at this point, Mira looked at Nami and then to Luffy, "But a couple of them were less so…" she glanced at Robin and then at Zoro, "And there was also the obstacle of being watched by those crewmates who didn't trust her…because one of them could sense when people were sneaking around and another was constantly watching her with her powers…so, naturally, she had to something about it, at least for a little while so she decided to drop a mild poison into one of their drinks…coffee, to be specific."

"That was…you?" Robin asked.

"Of course," Mira answered. "You see, the girl couldn't kill the person that was spying on her yet, but she just wanted enough time to be able to collect information on the ship without being followed…and to be able to switch the ship's navigator's log-pose with an eternal-pose which would lead the ship to this specific island."

"Eternal…pose?" Nami said, disbelievingly.

"I know, surprising right? It's an eternal-pose which is disguised to look like a log-pose. The government came up with them to sell to pirates so that their ships would head straight into traps."

"Government?" Sanji said. Mira made one of his cigarettes and matches come floating towards her and she grabbed them. Then she calmly lit the match and then the cigarette.

"Smoking isn't good for you, you know," she said as she inhaled it as Sanji always did and then exhaled a small puff of smoke. "But even if you know it won't be helping your lungs in the long-run, you still don't stop…"

"What are you trying to say?" Sanji asked.

"You would never think that a top-ranking assassin-girl from the World Government would be living in a Government-hating town…would you?" Mira said, exhaling smoke again. A dead silence followed.

"You're from the government?" Robin eventually said.

"Of course, Nico Robin. But you suspected me all along anyways so that shouldn't be too shocking to you. I mean, you're a little on edge about spies sneaking in since Water 7 and the whole Enies Lobby ordeal. And you knew that if the government were to do something like that, then they would send someone who was actually strong…not like those CP9 idiots."

"So you're going to betray us!? Just like that!?" Nami yelled.

"No, it's not just like that," Mira said in her phlegmatic manner, "It took a lot of planning and risk-taking…so it wasn't just like that." She stood up. "Don't take this personally…your crew is just one of the many that have been my targets. Just another…"

"You…can betray people that easily…without even changing your facial expression…you are a witch!" Nami yelled.

"Yeah, you're right. I am. But if I were you, I wouldn't be talking…weren't you one of Arlong's pirates a while ago?" she reminded Nami who gritted her teeth.

"Hey!! Don't talk about Nami like that!!" Luffy yelled as much as he could. Despite the situation, Nami couldn't help but blush just a little.

"So innocent…" Mira shook her head and looked at Luffy, "Unlike your father." Luffy just stared up at Mira and Mira just stared back. Suddenly there was a sound of foot steps from many people and they all saw dozens of marines coming.

"Well done Mira-sama," one of the captains said, saluting her. ('Sama' is put on the end of a name of a person that is highly respected or that you hold in high regard)

"Whatever…" Mira muttered as she walked over to them. She handed the captain a thick roll of paper.

"This is to show the completion of the mission which includes information about each of the Straw Hat's, their history, family lines, acquaintances, strengths, weaknesses, ambitions…"

"Ambitions?" the captain questioned.

"Yes, ambitions. Do not underestimate the ambition of a person Captain…many people do, and fall by it," she said. The captain just nodded. "And I also included diagrams of their ship, the Thousand Sunny." She pulled out another piece of paper. "And make sure that this gets to Admiral Aokiji. It's a mission completion statement," she said and handed it to him.

"Yes Mira-sama!" he said saluting her again.

"Do you have the other two in the compound already?" she asked.

"Yes, one of them is believed to be Tony Tony Chopper and the other…"

"Is 'Soge-king', yes I know," Mira said broadly. She walked passed the marines to the direction that they had come from.

"I'm leaving…I'm tired. I leave the rest to you," she said and walked off. "I'm sure you at least know how to restrain people." The marines began restraining the pirates, one by one, though some seemed afraid to even approach them (especially Franky because he would try to bite at them). They ruthlessly made Zoro stand up and bound him with chins although he was severely injured and was having a hard time walking because of the loss of blood. They didn't treat the rest of them with much sympathy either. The marines made the pirates stand up and walk out of the forest, back into the icy winter climate and towards their base.

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"Oh look, we each get our own cells…how thoughtful of them…" Sanji thought sarcastically as the marines led them into a large room which was lined with individual cells on either sides of the walls. The cells were made out of thick round bars, obviously sea stone, so that every angle of every cell was visible. There were already two occupants in these though. Usopp was sitting in one of the cells near the center and Chopper in another. They first threw Sanji into the first cell on the right, then Franky on the left across from it, then Zoro on the second right, Robin on the second left, then came Usopp and Chopper, then Nami on the fourth right and Luffy on the fourth left. The marines left.

"Oi! What are you guys doing here?" Usopp yelled, panicking.

"Where's Mira?" Chopper asked. The others didn't say anything. At that moment, Zoro collapsed on the ground.

"Zoro!!" they yelled.

"I'm…fine…" he said stubbornly, "It's…nothing…"

"Mr. Swordsman…" Robin whispered more to herself than anyone else, watching him from across the cell. Zoro managed to sit up and leaned his back against the bars of his cell.

"You baka marimo," Sanji said to Zoro so that only he could hear.

"What?" Zoro said angrily, despite his condition.

"You're making Robin-can worried," the cook said. Zoro looked over to Robin's cell and saw that she was staring at him intensely, obviously worried. He gave her one of those Zoro-ish smiles that would sometimes show. She gave him a small worried smile back.

"I'm hungry…" Luffy complained from his cell.

"Luffy…I don't this is the time to be thinking about…" Usopp started but couldn't finish because Nami's yells interrupted him.

"HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU BE THINKING ABOUT FOOD NOW?! YOU IDIOT! There's no one out there who will save us, you guys can't even move now and we're surrounded by marines, commanders, captains, vice-admirals, admirals…and an assassin girl that seems to be nearly invincible! How can you be so calm?!" the navigator yelled. Luffy just shrugged.

"I don't care…it doesn't fill my stomach." Nami just gave up.

"You seem awfully lax for the situation that you're currently in," a voice came from the entrance. The pirates turned around to see Mira standing there, dressed in thigh-high black boots, shorts that were black, a white tank-top and a trench coat that was also black and lined with silver. She was also accompanied by a man who seemed to be a high ranking marine.

"Okay guys, what is going on?" Usopp asked, trying to analyze the situation. Mira just ignored anything and walked over to Luffy's cell. The man that was with her, pulled out a ring of keys and opened the door. They both stepped in and closed the door behind them.

"So, you are the infamous pirate, Straw Hat Luffy…Monkey D. Luffy…we would like to know a few things, if you don't mind," the man said the last part slightly mockingly. The brim of Luffy's straw hat covered his eyes and he didn't say anything. "My, you do have one troublesome family…Vice-Admiral Garp, Portgas D. Ace, Monkey D. Dragon…and now we've also found out that you have a history with Red-Haired Shanks, and your brother is under White-Beard…you do have a lot of connections…but at this moment, we're only interested in one person…" the man pulled out a cigar and lit it, "Your father, Dragon. We'd like to know more about him, about his recent whereabouts, his plans, his connections…"

"How would I know?" Luffy said.

"You're his son, I' sure he's had some connection with you in the past while."

"No," Luffy answered simply. The other Straw Hats knew the same…Luffy hadn't been in contact with Dragon…heck, Luffy didn't even know that he was his father until a while ago! The man just stared at Luffy for a while.

Then he shouted, "Guards!" two marines came in. "Take him downstairs," the guards came into Luffy's cell and made him stand up and walk out of it and through the door.

"Where are you taking him?" Nami shouted suddenly. The man and Mira turned to look at her.

"Don't worry missy, I'm sure your captain can withstand a little bit of pain…right?" he said. Nami gritted her teeth.

"You're torturing him for information that he doesn't have?" Robin said.

"Nico Robin, I'm sure that you of all people know how this procedure works," he said.

"Of course," Robin answered, "You already know that he doesn't have the information, but you try to get it out of him saying "just incase" when all you're doing is torturing him before executing him."

"At this level, yes. This is surpassing the CP9 level already, a society that was supposedly non-existent…which naturally means that this base is also non-existent. What goes on here isn't known to the rest of the world," he said.

"You are all cowards," Zoro said. The man turned to him.

"Mira-sama, it doesn't look like you hurt him enough, he's still trying to insult us," the man said. Mira just glanced at Zoro and began to walk towards the door.

"I'm leaving," she said and disappeared though it. The man followed her but stopped before exiting the door.

"What rank are you?" Robin asked. The man just grinned slightly.

"Vice-Admiral," he said and left. The door locked behind him.