ttHello and thank you for waiting for me to FINALLY update.

YaY! I just got back from interschools for my horse riding, that was fun!

Disclaimer~: I -sadly T.T- don't own OP...

R&R...


On the way to the island we had managed to lose sight of the rubber-brained-idiot, pick up three stranded people –each with a creepy gin on their faces- and beat them to a pulp. Now we stood on this 'Buggy's' territory. I looked up at the sky and sighed. Luffy, what have you gone and done? Suddenly Zoro threw me to the side. Just before we hit the ground there was an explosion, and all the houses beside us blew up. We hit the ground with a THUD. I felt pain shot through my back and head.

"Owchy!" I moaned as I lifted myself off of the ground. I let out a groan as I did so, lifting up my now sore body. I heard Zoro cuss thing that I had no idea were even legal to think about.

As I sat up I hit my head against something hard. I opened my eyes and looked up to see Zoro, right there, in front of my face. I blushed a few shades of red as he opened his eyes. I very faint pink flush on his cheeks, as he frowned in embarrassment and widened his eyes.

"Err, sorry, Neka." He stated slowly. I felt his breathe on my lips as he spoke those words. I stuttered out a 'thanks' and flushed red. He grunted and started to get up. I followed his lead and dusted myself off.

"What the hell was that?" I shrieked at the three pirates. They ogled at me and I looked down to see a strap of my shirt had napped from the debris flying everywhere; Zoro had a few scratches too.

"T-that was a buggy ball!" One of the men squeaked.

"Buggy ball?" Zoro and I looked at each other and snorted.

"Y-yes, it's one of his greatest creations!" Another man yelled. I rolled my eyes and started to walk away and into the town.

"O-Oi! Hold up!" Zoro's deep voice came from behind me.

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We reached the pub of the town and heard noises, like a party or something. I looked up to the roof and caught a glimpse of some sort of tent? I nudged Zoro with my elbow and pointed up to the top. He turned his head up there and… silence. Another loud bang came from up top and pieces of wood flying everywhere from the other side of the building. We nodded to each other and started to climb.

When we reached the top a big and burly man stepped in our path. If I felt short compared to Zoro, then I was now a midget. Don't get me wrong; I'm not THAT short, I come up to Zoro's shoulder. But on this man, I came up to his elbow.

"Shorty and pretty short girl! HAHAHAHA!" The big man yelled clapping his hands together. He reached out for us and we jumped backwards and to safety.

"No fair! Big Man want's to play!" He sulked reaching out to grab us again. I turned into my cat-girl form and did a summersault backwards.

"Oooh! This is Fun! Big Man want pretty Kitty Girl!" He sat down and clapped. Zoro and I shared a look and held in our laughter as he started to laugh too. His shaggy black hair rustling as he did so.

"Big Man's other self want to say hello?" He seemed to ask himself. I raised an eyebrow at him. His other self, what? I watched him as his body started restricting and shrinking, he became less of a giant and more of a man at about Zoro's build.

"Who are you?!" I screeched in utter shock at the very attractive man in front of me.

"I am the Big Man. You don't need to know my real name yet." He spoke in a voice full of nothing. No emotions no expressions, just dull.

"Okay then Big Man. What are you?" Zoro asked him holding onto Wado's hilt. Big Man smiled at us.

"I am a Size man, I ate the size-size fruit. I can change my size but, unfortunately the bigger I get, the smaller my brain cells, quite ironic really." He let out a small smile and sighed.

"Do you work for Buggy?" I questioned out loud, turning to Zoro who nodded at me.

"No, I am part of a secret organisation, and we have taken a slight interest in you miss Domaneke." He answered, his light blue eyes flickering between Zoro and me.

"Oh, then we'll be on our way." I said cheerfully walking right past him, Zoro following my lead. Just as I was passing him, he grabbed my wrist and whispered in my ear.

My eyes widened slowly at what he was asking me, what he said, was true. But how did he know, that every time I am unconscious I have a weird dream of a lady with orange hair? I mean, I only just met the guy! He released my wrist and when I turned to face him, he was gone. I shook off all of my thoughts and ran out onto the roof to save my idiotic, stupid, retarded, rubber captain.

The sudden light change blinded me for a moment. As we came through the light we ended up on top of the building. By the looks of things there was a small fight going on. Luffy was in a cage, some random orange haired girl was holding her hands as if they'd been burnt, and there was a group if men running towards her with assorted weapons. I turned to look at Zoro only there was no Zoro. I turned back to the pirates and there he was blocking them all, with the blunt side of his swords against their faces.

"Zoro!" Luffy called out, a huge grin on his face.

"One move and I'll kill you." Zoro threatened them; you could see the sweat beginning to pour off of them before he flung them backwards and into the rest of their comrades. I took this as an opportunity to race over to Luffy while Zoro distracted what looked like the captain. As I ran towards Luffy I felt a searing pain in my lower back. It spread around the area like a flame and I fell to the floor. I put my hand to the wound and saw blood flowing out everywhere.

"NEKA!" Luffy yelled struggling against his ropes.

"Stupid girl, thinking she can get past me." A snort-ish voice spoke form behind me. I turned around despite the pain and pulled the throwing dagger out of my back. I cried out with pain and panted dropping the knife on the floor next to me. I stood up shakily and held a hand to my bleeding wound. As I took a shaky step forward I could hear Zoro shout out in pain. I chanced a look backwards and saw that he had been stabbed in the back also.

"My powers are an awesome sight to see, no doubt you are in awe!" Buggy called out as he re-attached his hand to his body.

"Devils fruit." I seethed as I continued to walk forward to Luffy's cage.

"I ate the chop-chop fruit, I can separate my body!" He called out again, and just to show off, he unattached his head from his shoulders. Zoro's eyes were wide as he also clutched his wound. I continued my way over to Luffy, whose eyes I couldn't see because of his hat. When I finally reached him I gasped for air, leaning against the cage.

"Neka, are you okay?" The black haired teen looks up at me, worry evident in his eyes. I nodded and forced a small smile.

"This isn't enough to kill me Luff's!" I said with a small cocky grin. He gave a small smile and nodded.

Turning back to Zoro I watched as he ran to the canon and pushed it so that it faced the Buggy pirates. I smiled as Nami lit it and it exploded right in their faces.

The moss head ran towards us and picked up Luffy's cage.

"Dude, you shouldn't do that. You'll make the wound worse." I told him as he started walking.

"Well who else will do it then? You?! Pah, don't think so!" He retorted, I really don't want to be around when his guts spill out of his wound, I turned to see that Nami was no longer following us, with that I shrugged, put a hand to my wound and turned around and stumbled my way with Zoro and Luffy.