"Hey Maximum you still awake?" Zoro asked after a few moments of silence. They normally would have been back to land by now but they were trying not to move her too much as they made their way to land. "Yea. I'm 'wake." She said which sounded like she was half way asleep. "I was just thinking." They waited for her to continue but she didn't. "Come on stay awake." Sanji said shifting lightly. Maximum moved her head to say yea I'm up. "Call me Max." She said.

"I really don't like being called Maximum. Then people start to call me Maxi." "So you want us to call you Max?" Zoro asked. At least she wasn't dozing off anymore. She seemed pretty aware that she was in the water now because she was holding her on head out of the water. "Does your arm hurt still?" He asked another question. "Not really." She said. Max guessed that her arm hadn't been broken. "I think that when I hit the water it knocked my shoulder out of place. I think when you moved a bit ago it pushed it back in place." Max said as she wiggled her fingers to prove her point.

"And who are you guys? You can't be bad seeing as how you practically saved me." Max said as she looked from Zoro to Sanji. "You'll see soon k- I mean Max." Zoro said slightly out of habit of calling girls and boys her age 'kid.' "Why can't I know now? Please?"

"Max. The shore isn't too far I'm sure you can wait till then to hear." Sanji said hoping that he wasn't going to be the one to tell Max who they really were. After all Nami should do it. She would know how to tell Maximum who they were. "No. I want to know now."

"Max we're just a bit from land can't you wait?" Zoro tried this time to reason with her. "No I can't. And if you don't tell me then- well- I'll pull you guys under!" Zoro and Sanji looked at each other and then then girl they had been carrying this time, who just a second ago couldn't even hold her head out of the water. Now she's saying that she'll pull them under?

"Max. You must have hit your head because, we've been- hey wait! What are you doing?!" Zoro was cut off from talking when Max sucked in a ton of air and dove under. She ulled both Sanji and Zoro below the water. A few moments later she pulled them both to the top again. "Hey kid! What was up with that? A minute ago you couldn't even move and now your pulling us under!" Sanji exclaimed as he took in a few breaths of air.

"Well the currents aren't so strong here. Plus I feel fine now! I heal very quickly!" MAx said as she swam a few feet away from them. Max took in a deep breath and dove again. When she came back up she looked paniced. "Have you guys seen my braclets? I know I was wearing them when I fell off the cliff but I don't see them now!" She was about to dive back below again when Sanji caught her. "You mean these?" He asked holding up a black beaded braclet that had dimonds imprinted in them. The other braclet he held up was gold with diamonds imprinted in them.

"Yes! Those are them! Give 'em back to me!" She shrieked as she dove for them. Sanji moved away from her. How about we make a deal? I'll give these back when we get to land if you keep your questions to yourself for a while and let us ask our questions. How about it?" He asked swinging the braclets on his pointer finger. Just as Max replied a wave came over them. Sanji was sure to grab them before the wave hit. Max broke the surface shortly after the wave had passed. " Boy! You better not have dropped them!" (she has a habbit of calling people 'boy' or 'girl' you know how some people do)

"I didn't! Now what do you say to the deal?" Sanji asked holding out the pretty braclets. "I can't believe you would bargin my treasure! Those were a gift!" She yelled truly angry that he had her treasure. "You'll get them back. Just as soon as we get back to land." Zoro said as he started to swim towards land again. "Fine but as soon my feet hit shore I better get back my dang treasure." Max said with anger and sadness mixed in together. Her eyes wondered over to her braclets and she quickly began swimming again.

They hit land in mo time. Amy went running to Max and so did Danny and Matt. "Okay I want them back!" Max demanded as she ran over to Sanji. He looked up and then looked at the braclets. "You said as soon as me feet hit shore I could get them back!"

"Max is your volume stuck on oh I don't know? Loud?" Matt teased. "He won't give me back my stuff! And he said he would!" She was still hollering up a storm pointing wildly at Sanji. "Here if it will get you to shut up!" Zoro replied taking Max's treasure away from Sanji.

Max seemed happy now as she turned back to her friends. Amy hugged her and repetedly asked if she was alright. "Yea A- mom I'm fine." Max corrected herself not knowing that all of the Strawhats (plus Shanks's crew) already knew who she was. "Oh!" Amy said still squeezing Max. "Okay! Yeah I'm fine now let-me-go!" Max said as she pushed away from Amy. "Max!" Danny said hugging her right as she got out of Amy's grip. Matt teamed up on her with Danny and they hugged her tightly.

"Oh Max! I thought that we had lost ya!" Matt exclaimed as he squeezed her tightly one last time befor letting go. Danny did the same thing. "Why? You guys know better than anyone that not only am I tough I have the best of luck!" Max said waving her hands over to Sanji and Zoro.

Max noticed for the first time that there was other people there besides her friends and family. "Uh, hi?" She said scanning over them. They all seemed familiar but she couldn't remember where she had seen them from. They were all staring at her. Chopper was half way standing behind Nami who was about in the middle of the crowd. "Okay I guess you guys don't talk?" Still no reply. "Seriously! You guys are really bugging me! Some one of you say something!"

Shanks looked at his crew then stepped forward. "Are you Maximum?" she nodded her head. "And who might you be?" she asked putting her hands on her hips, still slightly annoyed that no one besides him had talked. "I'm Shanks. Nice to meet you." He said taking another step forward till he was about three feet away from her. Her eyes widened. "Red-haired Shanks?" she asked taking a step back. "Yep! Max that's him isn't that cool? He's the captain to your favorite pirate crew you know besides your dad's." Danny said trying to prove that he really did listen to her. "You big dummy!" Matt said tackling Danny. Max was right behind Matt. Together they were on top of Danny in merely two seconds.

"That's okay." Shanks said shaking his hands trying to get them to stop. Nami walked over to them. She raised her hands up and brought them down meaning to hit Matt and Max. When she looked up it turned out that she had only hit Danny. She could hear Max snicker from behind her. Nami swung around to look at her. Max stood there like she was innocent along with Matt. "What was that for?! All I said was-" He was cut off by Matt and Max again.

"Hey Max. Calm down kid." Ace said not trying very hard to get themt to stop. After all they were kind of amusing to watch. The way that Matt and Max teamed up on Danny because he was bigger than the both of them ( Danny wasn't much bigger than Matt but he still was) looked like something that Ace and Luffy would've done to some one. Gosh they had done it to a boy from their home town when he had picked on Luffy.

"Who are you?' Max asked swinging around to look at Ace. She looked him up and down and waited for a reply. "You look familiar too."

"My name's Ace. I'm your uncle." he said simply. She raised her eyebrows and rolled her eyes. "Like from my mom 's side right?" She asked trying her best to keep the little play going that had so many other people fooled. "No from your dad's side."

Matt raised his eyebrows too. Danny took advantage of Matt and Max being distracted and pushed them off of him. Max's fall was anything but graceful. She landed in front of Ace, Matt laying on top of her. She looked up at him. "Dang do you know that you are really tall from down here?" She asked as she pushed herself up with her elbows. "Matt! Get your butt off of me!" she said pushing further so that Matt rolled off of her. "Thank you."

Amy walked over to Maximum. "Honey why don't we go back to the house. I'll explain who these people are soon. And you can hear why they are here." Amy said as she pulled Max up off of the ground. "Lets all go back to our house." Amy waved her hand to the house up on the hill.

They set off to go to Amy's house and in the background of everyone leaving you could see a pirate coming back to check on the kids and he was cussing up a storm when he couldn't find them.