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Alfie and Odaga were leaving the island. After what happened in the streets they couldn't risk anymore scrutiny or Marines finding them.

" Hey Alfie I can't stop wondering about something." Odaga said.

"Wondering what? asked Alfie.

" Should we invite Kimmy to the crew?"

Every member of the Straw Hat Pirates warned them not to face Marines with only two pirates.

" Do you think we can trust her?" asked Alfie.

" She has more than a few screws loose but I have great respect for her." Odaga said.

"Great Respect?" Asked Alife. " Well if you think she is trustworthy then I say welcome aboard, I just wish she'd talk. Does she refuse to or can she just not talk?"

" I don't know. She's never told me." Odaga laughed at how Kimmy was mute which wasn't funny to Alfie.

" Come on dude we should at least try to figure it out she might be scared of us how can she join us if she's to scared to communicate." Alfie said.

" She may not talk but that doesn't mean she's scared of us. She was brave enough to help me when that guy Rimachi almost killed me."

" Well do you know where she went?" Odaga saw her when she left but he was touching his lip trying to remember where she was the last time he saw her. " Well lets go find her."

Odaga and Alfie ran back to town looking for what could be their first new nakama Kimmy.

"Kimmy! Kimmy!" They yelled up and down the streets hoping to get some kind of sign of her whereabouts.

They asked everyone they could find. Odaga asked one half of the town and Alfie asked the other half.

Meanwhile Kimmy was walking through a nearby forest wondering why those guys were so nice to her. Even after she betrayed him Odaga still helped her. Kimmy did not want to join Alfie or Odaga on their crew and that was why she tried to get away from their, but she was planning on giving them something they would want. But the question is what should she give them. A necklace? A puppy? Gold? Weapons? She needs to figure it out.

" Kimmy!"

Kimmy flinched as she heard her name being shouted. Like a squirrel she climbed up a tree.

"Where'd she go?" Asked Odaga.

"I think I saw her run up a tree" came Alfie's reply.

Odaga and Alfie looked up in the trees. If they looked up sooner they would have seen Kimmy sitting on a tree branch.

"I don't see her," said Alfie.

Odaga saw something that belonged to her. It was her necklace hanging from a branch reflecting off the sun. Odaga climbed the tree to take the necklace down.

" Don't fall," Alfie warned.

"I won't," Odaga said as he grabbed the necklace.

What the hell was what Odaga though as the tree branch fell from the tree. "Craaaap!" Odaga yelled about to fall.

Odaga fell off the tree but he was caught by Alfie and something long that wasn't Odaga's sword.

The Hell thought Odaga.

Alfie liked to use swords for most things but the things he couldn't use a sword for he used a long wooden staff. It wasn't the same one his sensei's nakama Nami used before Usopp created the Clima-Tact for her.

" Hang on." Alfie said as he tried to pull Odaga up.

Alfie wanted Odaga back in the trees so he could continue his search for Kimmy.

" She has to be around here somewhere," said Odaga.

" Your right." Alfie replied. " Hey look it's a little bit of blood. She must've cut herself."

Odaga saw that blood. It was mostly on the leaves but it was there.

" Lets try to find more," suggested Alfie. " Maybe she left a trail."

Odaga was a little afraid to find a trail of blood. What if the trail was long, she could be bleeding to death.

" Come on lets go," said Alfie. " We gotta find her before someone else does."

" Speaking of someone else...there was someone else looking for Kimmy. He was in the shadows with four knives in sheathes around his stomach."

Kimmy heaved a heavy sigh of relief when Odaga and Alfie wandered away in the wrong direction and started to exit her tree. Kimmy couldn't hide when she was bleeding profusely. Kimmy looked around desperately for something to bandage the wound. She considered using leaves, even. Leaves however would take too much time to absorb the blood and she could hear Odaga and Alfie still following her.

Thinking fast, she considered taking some bandages from a store. However, stealing without being caught would take too much effort. Instead, she ran by some people, tearing off bits of clothing from them as she went. Finally, she had enough strips to make some bandages. Because of Kimmy's horrible teachings and parenting she didn't know stealing was wrong. Because of that, she didn't know why the people she tore strips of cloth from were yelling at her. Growing upset, she turned and ran away.

" Animal!" One of the people she stole from shouted. " Go live with your squirrel friends! Better yet, enjoy living with all your animal friends becuase we won't let you back into town!"

She blinked back tears as she ran away ftom the angry, hurtful words.

" Sister!" A voice called out to her, it wasn't Odaga or Alfie's.

Kimmy stopped running and looked around quickly. She saw him for a second but he disappeared the moment she focused her eyes on him. He was always faster than a few people. Turning away, she quickly tied the strips of cloth together and began bandaging herself. After she was bandaged she was slower than before but she still tried to get away so she kept running as best as she could, weaving through the crowds of people and doing her best to hide as she went.

She felt like the person in the forest was still following her so she did her best to be quiet while still running away, trying to escape being captured or worse.

" Kimmy! Kimmy!"

She stopped running and turned around at the sound of the voice.

It was Odaga and Alfie.

She stopped for a moment. She wanted to see who was closer to her, Odaga and Alfie or her brother so she decided to find out. She transformed into lion form and let out a great big roar. After letting out her roar she waited to see what would happen.

" Lion!" A woman screamed causing everyone around her to run away.

People were screaming as they went, absolute panicked at the sight of a beast in their midst. The only people who didn't run were Odaga and Alfie, running to the lion because they knew it was her. She growled in a way that sounded like purring when they reached her.

Odaga and Alfie had a short scuffle to get close to her but they eventually managed to make it to her.

" Take it easy, Kimmy," Odaga said trying to calm the lion own. " It's just us, Odaga and Alfie."

She swished her tail, which for a cat could either mean playfulness... or irritation. And the boys had no idea which one it was right now.

" Pet her head. If she bites your hand you will know she was irritated," Alfie deadpanned.

"WHAT?!" Odaga shouted. "I don't wanna get bit! YOU do it!"

" This whole mess started because you let her onboard. If anyone is responsible for her it is definitely you."

"But-!" he tried to argue before Alfie cut him off.

"No 'but's! Just go!"

Odaga sometimes hated the decision to let Alfie be the captain; letting him get to boss him around because Odaga was too lazy to take command. Muttering somewhat angrily to himself, he stepped forward toward Kimmy.

" I'm not going to hurt you, Kimmy. I only want to know if you are happy or irritated."

She just waited for him to do something.

She licked her lips.

He gulped.

" Please don't bite this hand. It can feed you as well as it feeds Alfie."

Much to his relief, she let him pet her. She did, however, play with his hand a bit after moment as if it were a cat toy.

" Good Kimmy," Alfie said. " Now we need you to transform back into your human form. You're scaring everyone as a lion."

She pouted at him like a child who had just been told that they couldn't have any candy. Odaga tried to get rough with her. In response, she smacked him with one paw, though her claws were sheathed so he didn't get hurt. Odaga still stared at her waiting for her to turn back into a human. Finally, she pouted again and did just that. She transformed just in time. Men whose jobs it was to contain animals showed up to grab her.

"Whoa, hey! Hold up a minute!" Odaga shouted at the man, standing in front of Kimmy with his arms stretched out. "She's human! See? Perfectly human! Now go away!"

" Did you three see a lion go anywhere?" One of the men asked Alfie, Odaga, and Kimmy.

They all shook their heads.

" Are you sure? Last we heard the lion was sitting where you three are standing." Another man said.

"Nope. Never saw it. Don't know what you're talking about," Alfie replied, perhaps a bit too quickly and nervously.

The men just left them to go find the lion scaring the town. They had no idea that the lion was right in front of them. Alfie and Odaga sighed heavily in relief while Kimmy seemed completely unconcerned by her near capture.

" Kimmy." Alfie said appearing in front of her face. " I was wondering...if you want to...would you join me and my brothers crew?"

She blinked at them, obviously surprised.

" Hey Kimmy. We've been talking and we want you to join our crew. What do you say?" Odaga said.

" Just shake your head yes or no." Said Alfie.

" My little sister isn't coming to a stinking pirate." A voice said behind them.

The boys whirled around to see who it was. It was a man they have not seen until now. They did not know he was watching his sister from the trees. He was wearing a white shirt with a black belt and black pants. His hair was brown with few streaks of black and his eyes were red. Alfie noticed in his pockets he had some kind of weapon. He could only see the black hilts of them.

"Uh, sorry, but who the hell are you?" Alfie asked, his tone saying that he was really more irritated than sorry.

" I'm Malcom. I'm here to take my sister home. Now come on." He said. He looked like he was going to yank Kimmy away.

Kimmy hid herself behind Odaga and started to growl at her brother.

" It doesn't look like she wants to go home." Alfie said.

Malcom stomped his foot on the ground. " She's coming home whether she wants to or not!"

"No, she's not!" Odaga snapped, for once seeming like he was truly angry, a rarity for him. "She's gonna do what SHE wants to do for once in her goddamn life and YOU'RE gonna butt the hell out!"

Alfie was surprised that Odaga was speaking so passionately in this girl's defense. Malcom pulled out two knives. Him using knives counted as him being a swordsman so Alfie unsheathed his sword.

Alfie got ready to duel the man. " Why is your sister so scared of you?" He asked.

"None of your business, Alfonzo!" Malcom seemed to have just made up a name that was mean-sounding to call Alfie, but it was so close to Alfie's actual name that Odaga burst out laughing.

"SHUT UP!" Alfie shouted at him. "OR I'LL CUT YOU, TOO!"

Odaga immediately froze, though it was clear that he was struggling not to laugh.

Malcom unsheathed two of his small knives. Alfie wasn't sure what made the man use small weapons. Malcom attacked Alfie with such speed and ferocity Alfie couldn't keep up. Alfie was almost cut because he couldn't block Malcom's double knife attack. He managed to move out of the way before Malcom could really cut him. When he dodged Odaga ran for the ship with Kimmy.

"Get back! here!" Malcom yelled.

" Your not going any where near her." Alfie said as he cut Malcom across the stomach.

Malcom looked at the long slash wound on his stomach and smiled.

"You shouldn't have done that," he said darkly, the threat obvious in his voice.

Alfie immediately became concerned. 'What's he gonna do...?' he thought.

The next thing Alfie knew he was punched hard in the face. ' What the hell? It's like he's twice as strong.' Alfie thought to himself.

Very concerned for his life, Alfie tried to land his own attack.

" Jumping Impact Slasher!" Alfie shouted.

Malcom eyes widened as he barely dodged the attack.

" Breaking Slicing Knife Slash!" Malcom shouted.

Alfie was forced to block since he couldn't dodge. Suddenly, he realized that his new sword was giving off a violent aura. Alfie tried using that aura to test his swordsmanship against Malcom. Malcom parried Alfie's a ttack but didn't expect a punch to the face. Malcom stumbled backward, clutching his bloodied nose.

Malcom swung his small blade at Alfie's eye leaving a small gash. Gritting his teeth, Alfie swung his sword, unleashing another attack that decimated a street when Malcom dodged.

" Be grateful I didn't cut through your eye making you blind." Malcom said with a smug smile.

"Be grateful that I haven't disemboweled you yet," Alfie muttered back.

Even after that Malcom's smile didn't banish. Alfie glared at him. Though he didn't notice it, the angrier he grew, the more dangerous his sword's already violent aura became. Alfie stood waiting for Malcom to make his move.

Malcom, however, had frozen in momentary fear of Alfie's sword's aura. Gritting his teeth, Malcom demanded to know what Alfie was doing to his sword to make it do that, even though Alfie had no idea what he was talking about. The next thing Malcom did reminded him of what his teacher Zoro would do in a fight. He put one of his knives in his mouth. The next thing he did was pull out another one, spit the one in his mouth out, and started juggling to Alfie's bewilderment.

Alfie watched in confusion. Alfie didn't expect a knife to come flying toward him as he got hit in the shoulder.

" I have three more knife's to through. Do you want me to throw more?" Malcom asked Alfie.

Three huh is that all Alfie taunted as he charged at Malcom

Alfie swung with his left hand because a knife was inside his right hand. Malcom ducked back and proceeded to headbutt Alfie in the face. Alfie could have blocked Malcom's headbutt with his sword but he didn't want to chop through his head.

He gritted his teeth and went in for another attack.

' I can see the flaw in your strength.' Malcom thought.

Alfie prepared for another attack.