AN: It's been a long week. I just had my English exam and all next week I've got a line of exams. So the story might be put on hold for a little bit but I'm going to keep with my schedule of putting up a chapter on my Sundays so that's one chapter a week.

This chapter is about Kreig's defeat and just heading into the Nami's ark.

I must thank the amazing reviewers that were able to help this story get up to 100 reviews before we even reached 10 full chapters. A applaud you. Now on with the story.

I'm currently going through all the previous chapters and cleaning them up, spelling mistakes and all that. I put some more pictures up on my deviantart account. A little preview to Shabondy is there, if you want to see a small preview to Shabondy it's there, so go check it out.

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~Previously~

"Hey, Old Man, if I get rid of these guys can we call it even?"

"Do as you please."

The Krieg pirates began getting riled up when Krieg spoke of the Grand Line. He gave his men a speech that had brought his men the motivation to sail back to Grand Line despite the dangers. The pirates were at the ready to take of the Baratie and Luffy only saw it as a declaration of war on her part.

Luffy pulled herself up onto the railing and launched herself at the attacking pirates, knocking out a fair few on her way in. Luffy grabbed onto a mast that was sticking out of the water to prevent her from falling in. She still had to win her bet with Ace about swimming in the sea and she wasn't going to lose.

"You ungrateful jerk…I'll knock you to the moon." Luffy stuck her tongue out in follow her childish threat.

Krieg wasn't very impressed with Luffy's display of insults.

"You brought the fight to us on the water, where you can't even move freely." Krieg taunted, "I know that you Devil Fruit freaks sink like stones in the sea."

"What are you talking about? I just keep up my end of the bet."

Krieg didn't understand what Luffy was spouting on about but since his head was so thick he still believed that Luffy was a Devil Fruit users.

"FORWARD!" A gruff voice shouted.

A large clank had caught the attention of everyone in the premises as they watched the fish figurehead of the Baratie come and turn into its own paddleboat with cannons on the front.

"That's so cool!" Luffy shouted cheerily, "Papa doesn't have anything like that!"

The giant fish boat came closer towards the broken galleon and fired its round of ammunition at the pirates. Luffy watched as the fish boat fired at the pirates and then turned her attention back to the Baratie when a huge fin had extended from the side of the ship. Luffy was so impressed with the ship that she almost forgot about her fight with Krieg.

That was until Luffy's attention was pulled back to Krieg because the fish boat was coming in close to fire a cannon ball at Krieg. The attack didn't affect Krieg at all; he instead grabbed the boat and threw into the air. The boat was headed towards the Baratie but Sanji had kicked it out of the way.

Luffy wasn't paying much attention to what was happening around her, it was only until a small amount of time later she looked over her shoulder and saw a man with huge sets of shields with pearls in the center all attached to his body.

"What the heck it that thing?" Luffy asked absently.

Krieg had seen his opportunity to strike Luffy while she distracted, he swung a spiked ball at Luffy, sending her flying towards the guy with the pearl shields. She smashed into the back of the guy's head and bounced off. Sanji, who was fighting the guy, immediately spotted Luffy and caught her on her way down.

"Luffy-chan, are you okay?" Sanji asked.

"Yeah, thanks."

Luffy was placed back on the ground but the consequences of landing on top of the pearl guy was that he had set himself on fire along with fin due to him seeing his own blood. Luffy was unfortunately caught in the flames and was running around like a headless chicken.

Krieg had thrown his spike ball at Luffy but she had punched the ball like it was nothing and it was just a play thing back at Krieg, it didn't land on target instead it had crashed into the mast that Luffy was previously clinging onto and it fell all the way across the top of the water and landed on top of Pearls' head, knocking him unconscious.

Gin who was observing the fight from the sidelines had inferred with the fight but pulled a dirty trick in ripping off Zeff's peg leg and aimed his gun at the geezer's head, threatening to pull the trigger if any of them hurt a member of the crew.

Pearl had awaked and started beating the crap out of Sanji but Sanji didn't fight back in order to protect Zeff from a bullet in the brain.

Luffy wanted to know why Sanji was taking so many hits when he was so strong. Sanji had told her that he wasn't going to let the old geezer die no matter what, he told everyone that listened about how Zeff saved him when he was a kid and what he had done for him; eating his own leg and giving all the food to Sanji.

Luffy was a little astounded and amazed at the survival that humans were capable of and just how far they were going to go in order to protect each other. She truly loved being alongside them but it wasn't enough if they were to die in her presence.

Luffy jumped up high into the sky that was almost a speck in the sky. With her leg raised, Luffy plummeted down on the fin, smashing it to pieces.

"I'm going to sink this ship!" Luffy declared boldly.

The ferocity of the both the pirates and the staff were astounding. Luffy had caused quite the uproar with her declaration.

"OI! Luffy-chan, are you crazy?!" Sanji screamed, "Don't you realise why I've slaved away all this time on this ship?!"

"But if I sink it they've got no prize." Luffy stated simply.

Zeff smiled at Luffy statement, he was glad that someone else also saw the Baratie as Sanji's prison. Zeff thought about how Sanji could see the world if he were to become that pirate girl's chef and he was glad that she had brought the opportunity with her.

"My enormous debt…and the way I feel about this ship…you could never understand." Sanji growled.

Luffy slapped Sanji across the face, she tried to get him to see what was really going on around her.

"So you're going to die for this ship? That's stupid!" Luffy grabbed Sanji by the collar, she was furious. "GETTING KILLED IS NO WAY TO REPAY YOUR DEBT! HE DIDN'T SAVE YOUR LIFE SO YOU COULD THROW IT AWAY!"

Luffy could only think of how Shanks had given up his arm to save her life from the slavers, Whitebeard when he had saved her and Sabo back on Goa Kingdom and the large amount of time the Whitebeard Pirates were more than willing to lay down their lives to protect her from all harm that threatened her as a child.

"ONLY A COWARD WOULD DO THAT!"

Luffy pulled away from Sanji when Pearl had interrupted but he was taken down by Gin. Gin had given up on holding Zeff hostage and was going to take Sanji down himself.

Luffy was glad that she didn't actually have to destroy the Baratie in order keep Zeff from harms way but she was glad that it worked out.

"Straw hat, you should've left with you crew when you had the chance." Gin said.

"What for? There's absolutely no way a bunch of wimps like you could defeat me." Luffy stated.

The Krieg pirates were so anger at the fact that they were called weak by some girl in a waitress outfit and were started getting riled up.

"WE'RE THE KRIEG PIRATES, THE TOUGHEST MARAUDERS IN THE EAST BLUE!" They shouted at the top of their lungs.

"You're not strong, I know strong. You just have a lot of men. You're nothing."

Sanji smirked into his cigarette and then breathed out a puff of smoke.

"You really hit them below the belt, didn't you? ~Such a cold heart, Luffy-chwan~"

Krieg ordered his men to fall back and that he was going to take on Luffy himself and that anyone that responded to the taught of being weak agreed with the statement. Krieg then turned to Luffy, as he was about to ask the girl a question.

"Girly…Of the two of us, who do you think is King of the Pirates material?" Krieg asked confidently.

"Me."

Krieg was pissed; he wasn't going to get bad mouth by some girl that wasn't even a real pirate. She obviously didn't know what real strength was and he was going to prove it to her.

Krieg fired a bomb at the would-be-pirates claiming that it was poisonous gas, Luffy went to intercept it with a kick but the bomb had exploded on impact and shuriken had burst out cutting up Luffy's legs, all up along her skirt, arms and chest.

The pirate felt a nosebleed coming on as they saw the Luffy's legs and chest become more exposed from the damage that her clothes had taken.

Luffy didn't think anything of it, she stood back up like it was nothing and patted down her skirt. Her brothers had put her through much worse during training than a couple of cuts.

"This is war, girly!" Krieg shouted, "I have many ways of killing you! Now I'll ask you again, which of us is better suited to be King of the Pirates!"

"Me! You obviously don't have what it takes. Hiding behind your toys."

"Gin! Do your duty and send that cook to hell! As for this bitch…I'll kill you myself." Krieg ordered, "Now girly, I'll show you the armed might that rules the East Blue. And you'll see how insignificant your little power is."

"Try it. I'll send you flying without needing to transform anyway. Say your prayers, metal man."

Luffy jumped up onto the fallen mast and began running over towards Krieg. She felt that running in heels was a little challenging but it really gave her that extra push, she could see why her sisters always wore them.

Krieg fired a cannon ball into the water just next to Luffy and made a wall of water to prevent Luffy from seeing in front of her. Krieg fired large needles at Luffy. Luffy grabbed her hat and ran back towards the Baratie as she held her hat close to her chest to protect it.

The needles had hit directly into the back of Luffy's leg and her arm. Luffy ripped them out like they were nothing and threw them into the ocean to be eaten up by the fish. While Luffy was on the scattered pieces of the Baratie fin she watched Sanji's fight against Gin.

When Gin wasn't able to kill Sanji. Krieg was so furious he said that he was going to kill Gin along with Luffy and Sanji by using his poisonous gas. Gin wasn't permitted to wear his gas mask despite Luffy's attempts to convince the man to wear it.

Krieg fired the gas bomb and Luffy grabbed two masks from some of Krieg's pirates and tossed them over to Sanji and Gin but didn't exactly think about what she was going to do about the gas. Luffy panicked but when a mask had appeared next to her, Luffy grabbed it placed in over her face.

The poisonous gas was in the air for 5 minutes until it had cleared. Luffy was lucky that she didn't breath any of it in but when she went to check on Sanji and Gin was met with the sight of Gin suffering from the effects of the gas.

"Gin! Don't tell me that you threw your mask to me!" Luffy shouted.

Gin collapsed from the poison and all Luffy could do was listen to Krieg laugh at the fate that Gin had befallen to. Luffy was so angry at the treatment of his men, crewmates were the most precious thing to a captain. They were what made a crew. She wasn't going to stand for it.

"Don't die, Gin. Don't die for a guy like that." Luffy said, "You have to survive, okay? I'll destroy this guy."

Sanji and the staff that were at the scene tried to stop Luffy from fighting Krieg saying that it was he was going to be too much for her but she just went straight on ahead of them.

Krieg laughed at Luffy's second attempt at trying to harm him and blew up the water at Luffy's feet once again and sent another round of large needles at her. Luffy didn't even try to dodge it, she let them piece her body and she rushed through the water and jumped into the air to punch Krieg.

Krieg couldn't believe that Luffy was still alive after that attack but he pulled out his cape that was covered in hard spikes. Luffy didn't even bother to change her fist into a claw to protect her; she went straight into the punch, hitting Krieg right in the face.

The chefs cringed at the site of the pain that Luffy must've felt and pitied her hand but then discarded the feels when they figured that Luffy wasn't the type to be pitied.

Luffy reached up to the spike in her shoulder and ripped it out, she was losing a lot of blood and fast, but she wasn't focused on that at the moment.

"So this is my grave?" Luffy smirked, "Your grave? My grave? Like hell…you don't decide my grave…I not meant to die here anyway."

Luffy continued her fight with Krieg, she had bypassed so many of Krieg's weapons that were meant to kill an enemy before they could even touch him but Luffy wasn't the case. She was going to fight until she couldn't move anymore that was her fate.

Luffy spotted Krieg at the top of one of the broke mast and began running at top speed to destroy his last line of defense, his armor. She ran up cracking her knuckles and pulled power from the moisture in the air and punch the armor with her Fishman Karate.

The armor shattered on impact and Don Krieg was sent flying towards the water, Luffy had jumped out to finish of Krieg but she was put into a ne, lucky for Luffy that it wasn't made of sea stone. Luffy smirked, grabbed the net and despite Krieg's best efforts to pull her down, Luffy had far more strength and flipped Krieg over the top of her and smashed him into the deck of the Baratie.

Luffy had won but she was too tired to get out of the net, before she knew it she had fallen into the sea. Luffy didn't think anything of it she simply fell asleep.

Sanji sat on the ground as he breathed in the air of victory. He was so happy that the Baratie was safe and the old geezer was still alive.

"Ah, Where's Luffy-chan? Luffy-chan~" Sanji asked as he frantically ran around the ship in hopes of finding his sweet goddess despite his injures.

"Oi, lil' eggplant," Zeff shouted out, "The girl's sinking at to the bottom of the sea. You better go get her."

"Why didn't you tell me that soon? I'm coming my beautiful mermaid princess~"

Sanji dived into the water and began swimming as far down as he could. He began losing his breath the further down he went. He began doubting whether on not Luffy really was the mermaid that he remembered when he was a kid and continued swimming down to rescue her from drowning.

To Sanji relief and shock Luffy was still in the net stuck on a broke board but what had shocked Sanji was that Luffy didn't show any pain from the lack of air. He saw that she was breathing normal underwater and had confirmed his suspicions of the girl and untangled Luffy and brought her back up to the surface.

Sanji laid Luffy down on the deck and took in her features, despite being bloody and bruised Sanji saw her as the most beautiful woman that he had ever laid eyes on and probably for the rest of his life and he wanted to be by her side forever but he knew that he wasn't able to leave the Baratie since he still had his debt with the old geezer.

Gin had walked up to Sanji, who was sitting down next to the sleeping Luffy, and gave thanked Sanji for all he ha done and that he was going to take Krieg away and they were going to rebuild their crew from the ground again and looked forward to seeing him and Luffy on the high seas in the future.

Luffy had been peacefully sleeping in one of the spare bedrooms on the Baratie until she felt a light breeze brush through her hair and she immediately woke up and began searching for her hat. She really didn't like not having it with her.

"It's on the bench, Luffy-chan." Sanji had had called out from the other side of the closed door.

Luffy pulled away the bed sheets and noticed that the waitress outfit was all torn up and almost falling apart. She didn't think much of it but she figured that was why Sanji was standing outside of the room. She chuckled at the thought a man that was guarding her while she was in a valuable state. Luffy looked around the room and found her red vest and shorts and changed into it before grabbing her hat and placing back where it belonged.

Luffy opened the door a poked her head out with a grin but her features soon turned neutral when she noticed that Sanji wasn't acting like his normal self.

"Sanji?"

" "We might meet again at the Grand Line," was what Gin said."

"Gin, eh? He told you that?" Luffy wondered strangely.

Sanji cringed over the railing a bit but couldn't help but smile.

"Luffy-chan, he was talking about you." Sanji followed.

"Eh? But aren't you coming with us?"

"I'm not going. I don't want to be a pirate. I'm staying here to continue to be a cook, until that old fart acknowledges my cooking skills."

Luffy stood directly behind Sanji, her hat shadowed her eyes.

"I see…I'll give up then." Luffy said as she grabbed the back of Sanji's collar.

"You're hand isn't giving up!" Sanji panicked. When Luffy let go and strutted over to the railing and pulled herself up to face Sanji. "But I'll go there one day. To the Grand Line."

Luffy gave the man a genuine smile as she felt the presence of a sparked dream. It was still a small flame but it was soon going to be a huge fire and she was looking forward to seeing Sanji's dream come true the same as the rest of her crewmates.

"Hey, Luffy-chan, have you ever heard of the All Blue?" Sanji asked.

"I think some of Papa's cooks used to talk about it, but I don't know what it is?" Luffy responded curiously.

"I imagined that the Sea Goddess would know about. It's a mysterious sea. It's a sea, fish from all over – East Blue, West Blue, North Blue and the South Blue can all be found there. It's a wonderland for cooks like us and it's in the Grand Line."

"That really cool! I've never known of a place like that. Mama has a lot of secrets that even I don't know about just yet. But I'm sure it's the perfect spot for swimming in."

Sanji continued talking about the All Blue and Luffy took it as her opportunity to learn more about herself and her mother and listened to the legend of the All Blue and smiled along as Sanji happily talked all about it.

"Lunch time, boys!"

Sanji turned his head towards the sound of the voice and the turned back to Luffy. He bowed politely with his hand extended.

"Mademoiselle, shall we go and get some Luffy?"

Luffy chuckled lightly that brought a thump to the cook's heart as she took his hand as he guided the female captain to the dining room. When they got there, Sanji opened the door and escorted Luffy in but when he turned to look at the room he saw that there weren't any seats available.

"Hey, where are we sitting?" Sanji asked.

"We didn't save a seat for you."

"Eat on the floor, the floor." The chefs replied.

"No seats? You're going to let a lady sit on the floor to eat."

Sanji didn't get very far in trying to get a seat for Luffy so she could eat considering she went ahead of him and grabbed some food for herself and sat on the floor before he could do anything about it. Sanji was still against having a lady sit on the floor but he figured that there was nothing that he could do to get a seat and grabbed his own food and joined Luffy on the ground.

"Hey! Who in the world made this soup this morning?" Patty shouted out angrily.

Sanji perked up and claimed his piece of work but when Patty started insulting the soup Sanji was ready to kill a man. Luffy watched without saying a word about what was being played out in front of her. It wasn't her place to interrupt with her opinion, so she simply kept eating.

Luffy watched as Sanji argued as the chefs continued to discredit Sanji's soup, even the Head Chef claimed that he hated it and punched Sanji until the poor man ran out in a fit of rage.

Luffy was curious to see just how bad the soup was and picked up a bowl and poured herself a portion. She picked up a spoon and took a sip.

"Wah! Sanji's cooking really is the best. This soup's great." Luffy cheered.

"I know it is." Zeff said, "Sanji's cooking is revered by everyone here."

The chefs all told Luffy how they actually looked up to Sanji's cooking skills.

"But, if we didn't pull it off, he'd never leave, that stupid brat." Zeff continued.

Luffy brought her bowl of soup over to her spot on the floor and continued to drink it. Zeff turned to Luffy and continued to talk.

"Hey kid! You mentioned that you needed a cook on your ship, right? I'm not going to force you or anything, but that lil' eggplant of ours, care you take him with you? To the Grand Line…The Grand Line is what he's always dreamed about." Zeff said, "So, how about it?"

"Sorry, no can do. I would love to have Sanji on my ship but he says he wants to stay here so there's nothing I can do. Can I have seconds?"

In that moment Luffy witnessed the wall burst into a thousand pieces, Sanji came flying through the wall in absolute shock imprinted on his face and a man with a shark eating away his lower half.

"What? A merman?"

"He came all the way from a merman island to eat here?!"

Luffy pushed through the crowd of chefs and spotted Yosaku unconscious in the mouth of the shark. She sighed and walked to the side of the shark, which already looked pretty angry.

"Oi." Luffy said. Her voice echoed but the only ones that caught it was Zeff and the Shark, "That's my friend."

The shark's pupils dilated as it took in the human girl's features.

"The Sea Goddess! My apologies, I didn't know he was your friend."

The shark released its hold on Yosaku and Luffy watched as the chefs pulled Yosaku out and wrapped him in a blanket. Luffy lifted the shark and tossed it over her shoulder and walked out through the gapping hole in the wall and threw the shark back into the water.

The shark poked its head back and bowed to Luffy and she smiled and waved as it swam away. Luffy went back to Yosaku and asked where Nami and the others were but all Yosaku could tell her was that Nami's location was a really dangerous place and she needed to come.

"I understand. We should probably go."

Luffy and Yosaku got up and walked out of the hole in the wall, but Sanji stopped them.

"Wait. All of us hold on to foolish dreams. I'm going to do this for my dream, for the All Blue."

"Sanji?" Luffy wondered.

"As you wanted, I'll go with you. I'll become to the cook of the Pirate King."

"Really! YES!"

Sanji joined Luffy's crew and they prepared to set out to go get Nami.

Luffy had accompanied a couple of the cooks and went to the kitchen to grab as much meat as she could. When a one of the cooks put a fish inside the bag, Luffy went off at them.

"No fish!"

"O-oh, sure. Sorry about that."

"Get that beef."

"You've already taken a lot already."

Luffy continued to fill the bag with as much food as she was aloud. That was when Zeff came up behind her to talk to her about something.

"Kid!" Zeff called out.

"Oh, old geezer." Luffy chuckled.

"You want this?" Zeff held out his logbook and offered it to Luffy but she turned down the offer. She just grinned and let told the old man that she wanted her own adventures instead of following a book. When Zeff left, Luffy went straight back to filling the bag with food.

Luffy slung the bag over her shoulder and walked out to the boat that Yosaku prepared. She passed the bag over to Yosaku who then moved it to the inside cabin to be stored later.

When Sanji came out, the chefs were lined up on the broken fin, no words were passed between any of the men and Luffy saw it as a little strange. But when Zeff had called out to Sanji, telling him not to catch a cold. Luffy watched as his defenses fell and he cried, bowing to Zeff and continually thanking him for all he had done. Luffy knew the feeling well and only smiled.

"Let's go! Set sail!" Luffy shouted.

Sanji waved to the crying chefs with every ounce of energy that he had as the ship sailed away into the distance.

"Let's go get Nami!" Luffy declared.

Sanji sat near the railing as he fawned over Nami's beauty, dreaming about seeing her again, but he knew that his heart belonged to his captain. Luffy was his mermaid goddess and he was going to protect her at all costs especially from that swordsman of hers that she had on her crew. Every time he was in the Baratie all he wanted to do was kick him to the other side of the planet and never let a man like that come close to his captain.

Luffy moved to the front of the ship and crossed her legs and leant in towards Yosaku as she held her head in her hand.

"Yosaku, what is it about this island that Nami's at?"

"You're too naïve! Way too naïve! Don't you get it?! We're getting closer and closer to Arlong's base!"

Sanji snapped and kicked down on top of Yosaku's head.

"Don't shout at my sweet Luffy-chan!" Sanji growled.

Luffy squinted at the name of the fishman that she had heard about. Her tutor, Jimbei, had often talked a lot about Arlong as an example when he would come to the Moby Dick to train her and talk to her about the problems with Fishman Island. Jimbei wanted Luffy's help as the Sea God to help out about the condition of Fishman people and their hatred for humans but she wasn't going to do anything since she knew that it wasn't her place and she didn't like taking up her role as God, so she was left with history lessons from the Fishman.

"I've heard of Arlong. But what's he doing here in the East Blue." Luffy was almost a whisper. Her voice was threatening; she didn't like the idea of a fishman being out of Fishman Island it just spelt bad news. She knew from Jimbei that because of how the world treated Fishmen that they weren't able to leave the island but Arlong was a pirate and was a different case.

"Well, I should start from the start. Arlong is a merman, who's already been to the Grand Line." Yosaku said.

Luffy and Sanji got distracted when Luffy started drawing poorly drawn fishmen that she's already seen but it really didn't help with the visual for anyone.

"Fine, I'll start again from the top. The reason why the Grand Line's called the pirate's grave is because there are three superpowers that exist there. One of them is the Shichibukai."

"Shichibukai?" Luffy questioned. She never heard of them before. Probably because the Warlords weren't of any concern to the Whitebeard Pirates and Jimbei never mentioned it.

"In plain terms," Yosaku continued, "They are seven pirates whom are acknowledged by the government. The man who defeated Zoro and who Luffy-aneki kissed, Hawk Eyes Mihawk is one of them."

Sanji began flaming at the sound of Mihawk's name; he was going to beat the crap out of him if he ever saw him again for stealing his precious Luffy's kiss. If anything he was definitely going to tell Zoro about the trouble he caused, because of him, Luffy had went to fight Mihawk and came out with her lips tainted.

"Eh~" The sound of Luffy's voice snapped Sanji out of his flaring thoughts, "That's pretty awesome. Seven of them just like him; Shichibukai's are something else, aren't they?"

"Among the Shichibukai is a merman, Jimbei, who's the captain of a merman crew."

"EH!"

"What is it, Luffy-chan?" Sanji panicked.

Luffy had her hand covering her face as she took deep breaths, she couldn't believe that her mentor and friend was a Warlord. She was going to have to write a letter of complaint to Jimbei later about what she just heard.

"Luffy-chan, what's the matter?"

"Nothing, I just didn't expect to hear that Jimbei's a Shichibukai." Luffy replied.

"Do you know him?"

"Yeah," Luffy said timidly, "He's my mentor he taught me a lot about fighting and a lot of history about my heritage. He came a lot to Papa's ship to train me and see how we were going. I just never expected him to be a Shichibukai."

"You mean he never told you?" Sanji asked.

"Nope. Wow, that's surprised me."

Yosaku didn't know what was going on with the female captain. He never expected that a beautiful girl like Luffy would know a fishman, he knew that they were incredibly dangerous but for someone like Luffy who was trained by a Shichibukai meant that she was incredible strong.

"Anyway," Yosaku announced as he drew the attention back to him, "Jimbei had a guy who fought alongside him while he was in the Grand Line. A devastating and wicked pirate…another merman, Arlong and he's strength can't even be compared to Don Krieg's."

Luffy regained her composer and just stretched her arms out, she was getting a little stiff from listening to Yosaku talk about background info, it reminded her of back home and it only made her sleepy.

Sanji noticed Luffy's tiredness and got up to make lunch.

"Luffy-chan, what can I get for you to eat?"

"I'd love some meat on the bone."

Yosaku stepped in with his request of fired beans and Sanji went off to cook lunch.

Luffy did a few stretches then straightened out her vest and pulled down her shorts. She turned her attention to Yosaku who looked a little deflated.

"Ne, Yosaku, do you have some paper and a quill. I need to write an important letter?"

"Letter? To who?"

Luffy's voice turned satanic, "Jimbei. He's going a few things to explain."

Luffy sat down at the dining table with a couple pieces of paper, a bottle of ink and a quill. She looked up at Sanji who was busy cooking and then over to Yosaku who was just outside of the doorway with a fish rod. She smiled at them and then turned down to the piece of paper.

Dear Jimbei,

I haven't seen you since Ace defeated you. I still remember when we had to drag you onto the ship to give treatment. You taught me so much in the many years that we've known each other but know a concerning matter has crossed my path.

A fishman by the name of Arlong that you mentioned a lot of in your stories is going to be my next opponent and I'm going to have to fight him if it means that I'm going to get my navigator back. I know you have a history with him but if things go down for the worst. There is nothing I can do and I hope that you won't hold it against me.

I'm only doing my job as captain.

P.S.

YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU WERE A SHICHIBUKAI! THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A COUPLE OF WORDS YOU UNDERSTAND ME! I DON'T LIKE HAVING INFORMATION ABOUT MY FRIENDS KEPT SECRET CONSIDERING THAT EVERYONE ELSE ON THE SHIP KNEW!"

Luffy put down the quill. She was pretty pleased with herself when she knew that she was going to have Jimbei on pins and needles for a couple of months but she felt that he deserved it. Luffy folded up the letter and placed it in an envelope. She wrote on the front, simply, "To Jimbei"

Luffy walked out to of the where Yosaku was fishing and asked him if he had caught anything yet.

"No, not yet." Yosaku replied, "Oh, you finished your letter, Luffy-aneki. But you're nothing going to be able to send it for another couple of says when the News Coos come around."

"Don't worry I've got that covered."

Luffy placed her fingers between her lips and whistled as loud as possible. Yosaku flinched a little by the sudden sound but then heard the water in front of them slash about and all eyes were on the surface of the water as a sea king the size of an island had appeared in front of them.

"ARGH!" Yosaku panicked. Never in his entire life had he ever seen something so huge.

"If it isn't the Daughter of the Sea, another letter?" The sea king asked.

"I need you to take this letter to Jimbei. He's a friend of mine. If you could pass it to the guards at the front of Fishman Island they can do the rest."

"I understand."

Luffy passed the letter to the giant sea king and it disappeared as fast as it did appear and Yosaku was left shaking in his boots as he stared wide eyed at Luffy.

The droplets of water that were in the air had caught the sunlight as it made the girl standout in the sun. She was the image of absolute beauty but the queen of terror and Yosaku didn't know what to do with himself. He almost felt sorry for Arlong; Luffy definitely was going to be the woman that was going to beat his arse into next week.

AN: There are probably a lot of mistakes in the first half of this story but I just wanted to get this chapter done soon. I know one of the readers was looking forward to the fight with Krieg. I'm sorry but I had to cut it short, so I could continue with the storyline without boring too many people.

Personally I really like that letter at the end. This Luffy writes a lot of letters, she started writing letters when she was 9 and traveled the world and sent letters back home to tell them about her adventures and now it's become a bit of a habit. If you like the letter idea there's going to be more later on. If you don't you're going to have to deal with it.

I put more pictures up on my account. Two new ones, one when Luffy response to seeing Bepo again at Shabondy and Luffy in a more detailed mermaid form. Go check them out.

Sunday updates, this coming week is all my exams but I'm going to try and get the next chapter done (By the way. I keep these chapters short by keeping them in Luffy's point of view only while being written in the third person. If you haven't noticed.) So Nami's Ark might be a little short(er). But you all know how it goes, basically.

See you next week.