Hello, everyone! I'm very sorry for the long wait. I was busy with school work and such. I wrote this as fast as I could so I could get it up just as fast. Also recently I've been into Blue Exorcist (Ao No Exorcist) and have fallen for Rin 3 Anyway, time to respond to the reviews!

Portgas D. Paula: I'm sooo sorry for taking sooo long! I'll try to do better next time!

UNICORNSPOORAINBOWS: I'm glad you liked the chapter! Here is another one! Though it is very late. *bows* I'm very sorry about that!

A special thanks to those who have altered/favorited this story or me as an auothor. You are all awesome people!

A thanks to those who read this story! You are all great people!

Tia: You took waaaaaay to long this time. *stern look*

Lily: I'm so very sorry!

Tia: *fusterated sigh* Oh well, it's here now. Lily doesn't own One Piece or the idea of demons with tails!

Lily: Enjoy the new chapter!

Tia stood by Luffy's special seat, holding onto the railing, as the ship sailed down Reverse Mountain. She could see the blue of the ocean up ahead. Smiling in joy and anticipation, she looked over at Luffy, who was hanging onto Merry's figure head.

"So this is the Grand Line, the greatest sea in the world…!" Luffy had a hand raised over his eyes as he looked out onto the sea.

"FULL SPEED AHEAD!"

*BUOOOH!*

A very very very loud voice (to her) sounded in the air, causing Tia to shriek in pain and fall down onto her knees, her hands over her ears. It was goddamned loud!

"What's wrong with Tia?" Nami asked, watching the demon girl.

"Did you hear something just now?" Zoro asked Tia, Luffy and Nami.

"WHO CARES! WOOOHOOO!" Luffy yelled.

"I wouldn't be surprised if that's just the wind. The terrain here is quite odd, after all. Plus, it's probably a lot louder to Tia, thanks to her hearing" Nami commented.

*BUOOHHH!*

Tia winced as the voice sounded again. Usopp, who was sitting on the Merry's main mast, had seen something and was now checking to see if what he saw was true or not.

"What's that…?" Usopp muttered to himself, with the right lens of his goggles over his right eye.

"Nami! There's a mountain up ahead!" Sanji reported. There was, indeed a mountain looking thing ahead. Tia lifted herself off the floor so she could see and when she did, she froze in shock, her jaw dropping.

"A mountain? That can't be! Once we pass the twin capes up ahead, we should reach open sea!" Nami said to Sanji, turning around to look at him.

*BUOOHHHHH!*

"ACK!" Tia yelled again, wincing and covering her ears, while she leaned against the railing for support.

"Hm?" Luffy had his hand to his forehead again. It looked like he was trying to see by blocking out the sun... or something.

"THAT'S NO MOUNTAIN!"

"IT'S A WHALE!"

*BUOOOHHHH!*

"WHAT SHOULD WE DO!?"

"SHOULD WE FIGHT!?"

"ARE YOU KIDDING? HOW THE HECK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FIGHT SOMETHING THAT BIG?"

"BUT IT'S BLOCKING OUR WAY!"

"We're too close to see anything! It looks like a giant wall! Where are its eyes?" Sanji said, his teeth gripping his cig for dear life.

Tia would have said something to that, but her head was ringing, and she couldn't exactly hear right. Everything sounded warped.

"How dare that whale do this to Tia-Chan! I'll make sure he regrets it" Sanji said to himself. Nami was sitting by Tia, holding onto the poor demon, making sure she didn't fall off.

"Ah, that's right! Maybe the whale just hasn't noticed us yet!" Nami said her hands on Tia's back as Tia lay on the ground, trying to fix her hearing. Everything sounded warped, but she could just make out words, so she had a vague idea about what was going on.

"Well if we don't do anything soon, we're gonna crash! There's an open space up left! Turn portside!" Zoro said, pointing out the pirate's only escape.

"But the rudder's broken!" Usopp yelled.

"Well we've gotta do something! I'll come help too!" And with that, Zoro jumped over the railing and went to help Usopp with the broken rudder. How Usopp got off the mast and down onto the deck that fast, Tia didn't know. Since the whale seemed to be calming down now, Tia's hearing was finally fixing itself. She pushed herself up, ignored Nami's worried gaze and grunted "I'm fine now."

"THAT'S IT! I'VE GOT A PLAN!" Luffy yelled as he took off. Nami followed to the railing so she could watch him run into the cannon room under the front deck.

"What is it, Luffy?" Nami asked. Tia stood up and stumbled. She grabbed the railing for support. Looks like her legs weren't as steady as she thought…

Usopp, Zoro and Sanji where chanting "LEEEFFFTTT" as they tried to get the ship to turn, to no avail. Tia watched the whale get closer and closer, freaking out herself.

"It's no good! The rudder won't budge!"

That was when the front cannon went off.

*BOOOM*

"THE CANNON…!?"

*CRACK*

The ship had slowed down, and stopped just before it hit the whale, but Merry's figure head had connected and thus broke off. 'Luffy's not gonna be happy about that…' Tia thought to herself. Nami was on her knees, just under the flight path of the figure head. She was in shock, it was obvious. As for Tia, she had been off to the side, so she didn't get hit.

"MY SPECIAL SEAT!" Luffy yelled in rage and shock. Everyone was just sitting there, waiting for the whale to react. There was a long moment of silence as everyone and everything (including the whale) just sat there.

…

"Now's our chance! Run for it!" The boys got the oars and started rowing like all hell was on their tails. Pun intended.

"What's with this thing!? Did it not even feel that cannonball just now!?"

"Maybe it's just really slow!"

"Who the hell cares! Let's get outta here!"

*BUOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH~!*

"AGHHH! MY EARS!" Tia, as well as Sanji, screamed.

"Row! Just row as fast as you can!" Usopp yelled.

"We've got to get away from this thing" Zoro called over. He was one-manning an oar. How strong is the guy anyway?

Nami was sitting by Tia again, since Tia was leaning on the rail, a little blood trickled out of her ears.

"Huh?" Nami asked as she saw Luffy.

"How dare… You destroy…" Luffy was winding back his hand as he talked "MY SPEACIAL SEAT!" He attacked the whale's visible eye (which was as big as Merry) with a punch.

"THAT IDIOT!" was the other's reactions.

The whale's pupil moved down to look at the tiny ship.

"IT SAW US!"

Tia's hearing was now back to normal and she was standing again. She wiped the blood away, and looked back at Luffy with a death glare, then sent one at the whale. Really, the shit she had to go through…

Luffy (and the whale) ignored her, though.

"COME AT ME, YOU BASTARD!" Luffy looked ready to start a fight. Zoro and Usopp kicked Luffy's head, though with a yelled "JUST SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!" Tia walked away from the whale, toward the railing that kept people from falling onto the lower deck.

Time slowed down and Tia started seeing things in not moving images, but pictures in this order.

The whale opened its mouth and started sucking water.

Luffy fell off.

Tia fell with him.

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"LUFFY! TIA!!"

Tia grabbed onto Luffy, since it was the only soil thing around her.

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHH!"

"… well, what am I supposed to do now?" Tia said to herself. She was sitting on the left side of the twin capes. She wasn't exactly sure what had happened, either. She remembered holding onto Luffy, but went he swung onto the whale; she was flung into the ocean. When she saw the blue directly in front of her, she took a deep breath, held it and with a splash, she hit the water. After that, everything got fuzzy.

Thinking back, she remembered the weakness that came with being a devil fruit user. She also felt the sensation of being carried. Then she woke up on solid ground.

…

"ARGGG!" Tia yelled, scratching her head in frustration. She fell back on the ground, with her arms and legs spread out. She started at the sky, her eyes half lidded. God, she was so tired…

She only knew that she was dreaming for the fact that she was floating in the sea, and she didn't feel weak. In fact, she could even move. Wow, who knew swimming was so much fun!

After an unknown amount of time, Tia broke the surface and found herself on a green paradise. Literally, it looked like heaven. Tia started from where she floated in the water, her mouth agape, and her eyes wide.

"Come on now. Out of the water before you catch cold" A kind voice said off to her right. Tia looked there and got the second shock of her life.

A girl stood there, long blonde scarlet-streaked hair tumbling down in an elegant way around her frame. She had startling bright and deep brown eyes. She was wearing a red, yellow and orange knee length dress. She was holding out a hand to Tia, a gently looking smile on her face.

Tia reached out and gripped the girl's hand. The girl pulled Tia (such amazing strength for her small frame) out of the water and onto the ground. Tia sat down and shook out her hair.

"You must be Tia Xene Angeliki, correct?" The girl asked. Tia's brain was still dead, so she just nodded. The girl's face broke into a happy and proud smile.

"FINALLY! I found the right girl!" The girl did a little victory dance. She seemed like the kind of girl that said whatever came into her head.

"Uhhhh…" Tia said, the gears in her head finally starting to work. That was when she noticed the pointed ears, small fangs and the tail, simalar to her own. Her reaction?

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH!" Tia screamed and made a break for it. In mid-step, her body froze. Literally froze, like unable to move an inch, froze.

"Now, now. None of that! Don't want you to hurt yourself. Calm down and I will explain why I am here" The girl said, walking around the frozen Tia. Girl snapped her fingers and Tia comically fell on her front.

"Ouch" Tia said as she set up. The girl sat down again, her legs folded under her. Girl's tail flicked into view. Now Tia could get a good look at it. It was long and black, like Tia's and had a permanent curled part at the end. The curled part was tainted scarlet. That looked strange to Tia, seeing as her own was all black.

"Good. Now, I am here to…" Girl looked thoughtful for a second, and then said "Well, mostly to make sure the seventh Great Demon was still alive and well. And so you are!" Tia started at Girl for a second.

"Um, how about telling me who you are?" Tia asked.

"Oh! Good idea!" Girl answered. Tia sweat dropped to herself as Girl said "So, I am the fifth Great Demon. I am currently living on an island paradise for Demons of all kinds. If you are wondering who saved you from the ocean that was my familiar. It is a sea type dragon!" Girl smiled happily at that.

"D-d-d-DRAGON?!?!" Tia stuttered (for the first time in her life) in surprise.

"Uh-huh! Dragon familiars are very common among the 12 Great Demons! You will most likely get one soon yourself!" Girl nodded to herself, a hand to her chin.

"OK… So you saved my life?" Tia asked. Girl nodded. Tia put on a grateful smile and said "Thank you."

"No problem! No problem! Anyway, I'm going to link our unconscious minds together so we can share dreams together!" Girl said, way too happily.

"Wait! Hold on a second-"

"DONE~!" Girl yelled in happiness. Then she looked over at Tia and asked innocently "You did not want that? Sorry, but it is irreversible!" Tia fell on her face for the second time that day and resisted the urge to punch something. Oh well. At least she had met one of her own kind.

"The Queen wants to meet you when you have the time. So I ask you in her place. Once you have sailed through the Grand Line to reach my home, will you stop by and visit?" Girl said, smiling. This girl seemed to smile a lot. Like Luffy. 'Queen?' Tia thought to herself.

"Well, it all depends on my captain" Tia told Girl. Girl nodded understandingly.

"WAKE UP, TIA!"

"MY BEAUTIFUL TIA-CHWAN LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL IN SLEEP~~!"

-BAM- "SHUT UP, DUMBASS!"

"TIA! WAKE UP! IT'S DINNER TIME!"

"LUFFY, THAT ONLY WORKS FOR YOU!"

Tia and Girl looked up at the blue sky after hearing the yelling voices. It probably wasn't yelling in real life, but in the dream, it was yelling.

"It looks like your friends want you to wake up~" Girl sang and she stood up. Tia stood up as well. "Remember; don't tell them about this dream. Don't tell them about who saved you, either. You do not want them getting in too deep" Girl winked, snapped her figures and Tia felt herself waking up.

"Wait! I don't know your name!" Tia called out, only for Girl to wink and disappear. Basically saying 'ask me next time~'. Tia let out a frustrated growl as the dream world melted away and she entered the waking world.

Tia opened her eyes with a gasp to see the faces of her crew starting down at her.

"Good, you're awake" Nami said as Tia looked around, trying to get her bearings. She was lying on the cape, the place by the ocean where she had fallen asleep. Tia sat up and stretched, flicking her tail as well, getting rid of all the soreness of sleep. The boys went to help an old man set up some tables and chairs. Nami helped Tia stand and led her over to the table. That was when Tia really noticed the old man.

"Ah. Who's the old man?" Tia asked, pointing.

"His name is Crocus" Nami answered. Tia bowed to Crocus, saying "Nice to meet you."

"A demon with manners. First time I've seen one" Crocus commented, looking thoughtful. A confused look entered everyone's face at that.

"AH! Tia! Your tail!" Usopp yelled, pointing. Tia blinked, and then looked behind her, to her in plain sight tail. With a mumbled "shit!" she grabbed her tail and hid it behind her back, turning to look at Crocus, planning to say that she wasn't dangerous or anything.

"No need to worry. I know a few demons myself. Judging by the light blue in your hair, you're a Great Demon, right?" Crocus asked, smiling. Tia nodded slowly, letting go of her tail. "You must be looking for the demon paradise. I hear it's really hard to find, so good luck to you."

"Um, thanks" Tia said slowly. Luffy, Usopp and Sanji all looked confused with question marks above their heads. Nami looked thoughtful and Zoro just looked blank.

They sat down at the table. The others started talking about the whale and a pirate group. Tia tuned them out and thought about that dream. She had finally met one of her own kind and doesn't even know the girl's name. On top of that, a Queen wanted to see Tia. Plus the things she had learned about dragon familiars. Girl had said that Tia would get one soon. 'I wonder what my dragon familiars going to be like…'

"UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHH!" Luffy yelled as he shot toward the ship. It snapped Tia out of her trance. She watched Luffy take the mast of the Merry and start climbing up Laboon's body.

"Huh?" Nami asked.

"What's that idiot up to now?" Usopp questioned.

"Take your eyes off him for one second and…" Zoro commented.

"Maybe he just likes climbing things?" Sanji asked as all four of them just sat there, watching Luffy's progress.

"I wouldn't put that past him" Tia said in answer to Sanji's question.

They watched as Luffy made it to the top of Laboon and slammed the mast onto a fresh wound on Laboon's nose.

"Hey, is that a mast?" Zoro asked. 'They finally noticed it" Tia thought to herself.

"Yeah, I think it's our ships…" Sanji said, smoking rising in the air from his cig.

"Yup, it's our main mast, alright" Usopp commented calmly. Tia sweat dropped at the 3 men. Jeez, they were acting really dense.

*BUOOOOHHHH*

Laboon yelled in pain and started shaking it's head back and fore, trying to get rid of the mast sticking in its nose.

"WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING!?"

"HE DESTORYED OUR SHIP!" Usopp started crying for the Merry. Luffy was screaming as he held onto the mast. Tia saw Laboon's eye (the one she could see) change. Tia's eyes widened a bit, and then she made a break for it, running to side of the lighthouse and as far from Laboon as was possible.

"What's wrong, Tia?"

"AGHHHHHH!"

"It's coming this way!"

"He's going to crash down here!"

Laboon jumped out of the water, and onto the land, landing with his nose down effectively crushing the rubber-man on the ground.

"Hey! Hey, kid!" Crocus yelled as he started to where Luffy was.

"It's too dangerous! Don't worry about him, he won't die!" Nami held the old man back. Laboon yelled again and went for Luffy, but Luffy dodged the whale and punched his eye. Laboon smacked Luffy into the lighthouse and Luffy landed on the ground. He was breathing hard.

"Luffy! Just what the hell are you doing?" Zoro yelled.

*BUOOOHHH!*

Laboon made his way to Luffy again, planning to flatten him when Luffy yelled "IT'S A TIE!" Laboon stopped and started.

"I'm pretty tough, eh?" Luffy asked with an exhilarated smile that could only come from fighting a strong opponent. "Our fight has yet to be settled, so we must fight each other again! Your old friends may be dead, but I'm your new rival! And once my crew sails around the Grand Line, we'll be sure to come back here to see you again." Laboon started crying now. Tia smiled lightly. Her captain sure was amazing. "AND THEN WE'LL DUKE IT OUT AGAIN!"

Everyone smiled at that.

*BUOOOOOHHHHH!*

Laboon sounded happy, too. Tia sighed to herself and walked back over to the table, sitting down again. The fight was over for now, so she could relax. Her mind went to the fish that was in storage and her mouth started to water. She couldn't wait to eat it. Tia watch Luffy get a huge paintbrush, huge paint cans and start to draw a very bad version of their pirate flag.

When Luffy was painting, Usopp went to fix the ship, Sanji went to cooking, Nami started to chart out their navigation route and Zoro? He grabbed Tia's arm and dragged her over to a secluded part of the cape.

"What? What do you want?" Tia asked in irritation.

"I want to know about that sword" Zoro demanded, pointing at the said sword on Tia's hip. Tia blinked at him, twice as she grabbed her new sword.

"What about it?" Tia asked, suddenly feeling protective of it, though she wasn't sure why.

"There is something not right about it. I want to know where you bought it and why it seems so dangerous to me" Zoro snapped. He was getting annoyed, Tia could tell. Might as well answer his questions.

"Well, this old man running a weapons shop gave it to me. It's named Yedi-Kuyruklu Şeytan and from what he told me, it's a Sword of the Devil. Or something" Tia looked down at her light blue sword. "I don't know why it seems so dangerous to you, so I can't answer that."

Zoro let out a frustrated sigh and said, pointing his finger in her face "If that sword turns out to be any more dangerous then I already think it is, I swear I'll throw it into the ocean" and with that, he stomped to the ship. Tia watched him go, feeling a little miffed. Of course, she knew he was just worried for the crew and her as the swords owner but she didn't feel anything dangerous from the sword.

"You wouldn't hurt me or my friends, would you?" She asked it, her hand tightening around the hilt. She felt an affirmative come from the sword, like it was saying 'I wouldn't hurt them or you.' Tia shook her head and made her way back to the table. It must be the dream that was making her act like a loony. She laughed to herself as she walked. This crew was turning her into a crazy person, but really? Who wouldn't go insane with a captain like Luffy.

Boo! Didn't think you'd see me here as well? Well, too bad for you! *sticks tounge out* Anyway, I was thinking of starting another fanfiction, this one on Blue Exorcist, also known as Ao No Exorcist! If you guys want me to, just tell me in your reviews! Also, if you say yes, should Tia star in this fanfiction as well, or should I use a different character?

Oh! Before I forget, I also started writing another One Piece fanfiction. If you guys want to read it, just say so and I'll post chapter one on here~! Let me know what you guys think! Have a great day!