Arthor notes: The titles are getting too long, and the story is getting uninteresting so I'm going to spice things up. So once everyone gets back to the ship, I'm going to drastically change the story outline, the plot will still be almost the same, and I'm going to try to spice it up.

Chapter 8: Hima's Haunted Forest! Creepy Fears Realized!

Ussop: When we last left the gang, Sanji and Nami split off from the group to survey the island. When they stoped to rest with a picnic, they were attack by a giant ant. Sanji who was paralized by the ant left Nami alone to face and defeat the ant. Now what lies within the forest.

Nami and Sanji faced the forest of enraged eyes with courage and fear. They knew they would be able to take anything that came their way, but by the count of the pairs of eyes, it seemed that they were out number, two to four. Sanji gulped and steped in front of Nami, Nami tightly gripped her weapon and stepped back.

"Come out here and face us damnit," Sanji shouted, "Nami stay behind me and I will protect you."

"No Sanji," she disagreed with him and stepped to his side, "I will fight with you." Sanji looked at Nami and nodded,

"If that what you want my dearest Nami, I may object, but I want you to be happy about your choices," he kindly told her as he glared at the never blinked. With a split of a second the buses began to russle and whatever they were faceing came out at them. Nami and Sanji let out a blood curling screem as the light reveled their mysterious opponent. They both took a few steps back knowing that they were both scared of what they were faceing. A giant spider, with eight red eyes, and was hairry and brown, which really creeped the two of them out.

"How are we going to fight this thing?" Nami asked Sanji who seemed to bw more scared then she was.

"I'm not too sure," He answered with fear in his voice.

"Man up!" She demanded, "Aren't you suppose to protect me?"

"Yes, my dear Nami, but its really creepy," Sanji answered her. They both slowly started to walk backwards and the spider click its fangs together. Sudden out of the blue, it launched itself at them and they both jumped to the sides trying to avoid it. They quickly got up and rushed to each other, they saw the spider braced itself and turned around.

"I'M TERRIFIED OF SPIDERS!" they both shouted as they started to run into the wooded area with the spider following quickly behind them,

"What do we do? What do we do? What do we do?" Nami pestered Sanji with questions as she scremed.

"We have to over come our fear and fight," Sanji answered as he screemed along side Nami.

"Why though, why can't someone else help us if we run to them,"She started to cry.

"Just look ahead of us," Sanji cried as he answered. Nami looked as she finally noticed her surroundings. They have been running out of fear, they weren't watching where they were going, it seemed they ran deep into the forest, deep into the spider's layer. In this so called layer, was heavely forested with thick dark trees whos leaves seemed to block out most of the sunlight. The tress had pieces of webs stuck on them, with full webs inbetween the tree's gaps. Under the biggest tree who had a hollow opening at the bottom showed a cocoon that seemed like it was ready to hatch at any moment. The two of them screamed out in fear as they realized they have been trapped, no cornered by the spider. From here on out, it was either fight or be eaten.

"I guess we have no other choice," Nami cried as she pulled out her weapon and got into her battle stance, "We have to fight for our lives!"

"I agree, and Nami, I will gloadly scarafice my life to make sure you get out of here alive," Sanji reassured her. They two, both with a fear of bugs, knew that they had to over come this fear if they wanted to stay alive.

"Bring it on!" The two of them shouted as the spider was getting ready to launch its attack.

The spider lunged itself at Nami but with a swift kick, Sanji was able to knock it out of the way. Nami who fell back, and landed on her but, exhaled a "that was close" breath. She grabbed her weapon yet again.

COOL BALL

HEAT BALL

She used two of the tacts to release the heat and cool air into the sky. The spider who quickly recovered from Sanji's kick, spit out two webs balls from its fangs and knocked the tacts out of Nami's hands. The tacts still producing the heat and cool balls were webbed on two near by trees, and by the looks of it, they were going to be hard to get out. Sanji jump towards the spider, landed and rolled under neath it. He laid flat on his back and positioned his legs to hit the right spot of the bottom shell.

ANTI MANNOR KICK COURSE

Sanji used both of his legs to send a powerful, double kick to send the spider flying into the air.

THUNDER BALL
Nami used her tact to send some electricfied air into the dark, heavy, cloud that the other two tacts formed, and still adding to. The cloud got charged and with one more thunder ball, should be able to launch an attack.

THUNDERBOLT TEMPO

Nami called out and a huge strike of lightning (didn't really know how to describe it, sorry) relesed from the cloud and struck the spider who was flying in the air from Sanji's kick. The bolt was powerful and sent the spider back to the ground, but the spider wasn't giving up, and the tacts were already working to make another cloud.

"YOu just don't know when to give up, do you?" Sanji asked in a mocking tone.

"This is going to be harder then I thought," Nami thought to herself as she made a mad dash towards her missing tacts. The spider was struggling to get up and Sanji rushed over to it and gave it a few good kicks. While Sanji was keeping it "busy" she struggled to remove the tacts from the web. It took a few good tugs before they came freem Sanji appeared next to Nami, panting.

"We should leave before it recovers enough to fight back again," Sanji offered.

"Sounds like a plan to me," Nami said in agreement. A huge rip was heard in the air as they slowly turned to the hollow tree. The cocoon was opening and small spiders began to pour out, there must have been thousands of them rushing towards the two of them. There was noice coming from the bushes behind them. They couldn't fight off the millions of spiders and now an unknown enemy. Nami wrapped her arms around Sanji and started to scream, while Sanji to scared to enjoy the embrace from Nami, tried to think of a way to save the both of them. It was then, like an unspoken prayer have been answered, a spear flew out of the bushes and hit the ground a few feet in front of the spiders. They watched in shock as the spear started to emit fumes that were keeping the spiders at bay. The noise in the bushes grew louder, and then a huge shadow popped out. The shadow went in front of them and the spear was pulled from the ground, but the fumes were still there. The shadow, once revealed with light was shown to be a giant centiped (i don't know how to speel that and my word processor doesn't have spell check, so I will have to look that up later if I remeber.) with a girl, with long red hair, black pants, pink, long sleeve, collar shirt, and a flowing black cape, on the bug.

"Take my hand if you want to live!" she shouted as she reached out a hand to Sanji, who still had Nami wrapped around him.

"Hold on tight, He told Nami as he took the hand. She helped the two pirates onto the bug, and they escaped the spider's nest before the fumes wore off.

Preview for chapter nine:

Nime and Sanji managed to escape with the help of a strage girl. Mean while Luffy and the others are waiting for the wood cuter to get home so they can get material to fix their ship. What is in store for them next.

Zoro: Wow giant bugs, very origional.

Robin: Its not like we never encountered those.

: It's not my fault, it seemed like the perfect thing to add, what else will be in a forest.

Zoro: Wild animals.

Robins: Demons and spirits.

: Shut up!.

Robin:*giggle*

Zoro:Well, until next time.