Mr. 5 had Vivi by the throat and Ms. Valentine had me by the arms.

"Did you honestly think you could escape from Baroque Works?" Mr. 5 asked. He flicked something at Luffy and it exploded.

"Luffy-san!" I yelled.

"Especially when someone with a thirty million bounty winds up like that?" Ms. Valentine mocked.

"You wannabe pirates should never have stuck your noses into delicate issues," Mr. 5 said. "We've already captured your swordsman friend and the other girl."

"Nami-chan! Zoro-san!" I said.

"You caught Zoro?" Luffy asked. "Then you guys are gonna get cut down!"

"Oh? You still talk big even after one of my Nose Fancy's to the face?" he asked.

"You can't hurt me with that! I'm gonna kick you guys' asses!" Luffy said, spitting in his direction.

Mr. 5 passed Vivi over to Ms. Valentine and she held her by the arms as well. Mr. 5 walked over towards Luffy and kicked him in the face, while it exploded.

"LUFFY-SAN!" Vivi and I yelled.

He kicked him a second time, and a third. I stopped counting after ten kicks.

"Luffy-san…" I said, on the verge of tears.

Mr. 5 grabbed Vivi and held her by the arms. "Let's go, Ms. Valentine," he said.

They forced us to walk with them into the forest.

We came into a separate clearing where a man and a small girl were standing in front of the other giant, Broggy. But Broggy was lying on the ground, being held down by the candle man's wax.

Mr. 3 laughed and said, "Are you aware that the large bounties on your heads from long ago come to 200 million Berries in total?"

"So that's what you're after!" Vivi said.

Ms. Valentine tightened her grip on my arms, causing me to wince and said, "We brought them."

"The company's traitor and the stupid little girl that got involved," Mr. 5 said.

"What took so long?" Mr. 3 asked. "I was getting tired of waiting."

"How could you place bombs in Dorry's alcohol?!" Vivi asked, furiously. "You're a monster!"

Broggy's eyes widened in realization that it was all a farce. He'd only won because of Mr. 3.

"Wretched girl, giving our tricks away…" Mr. 3 said. "Well, there's nothing you can do now, anyway. Candle Lock!"

Mr. 5 jumped away from Vivi, wax locking her legs together and she fell to the ground. He did the same to me. I quickly put my dagger away.

Mr. 3 laughed in delight. "Mr. 5! Bring the swordsman and the girl!" he said. "We're about to begin." I couldn't see what was happening, but he yelled, "Extra Big Candle Set!"

Nami and Zoro were thrown to the ground, too.

"Set the candles up quickly!" Mr. 3 ordered Mr. 5 and Ms. Valentine.

"Nami-san. Mr. Bushido!" Vivi said.

"Vivi! Maggie-chan? What happened?! Weren't you guys with Luffy?!" she asked.

"He's kinda stuck under a big rock," I said.

"I took care of him myself," Mr. 5 said. "He won't be coming out."

We were taken up onto a huge cake-looking structure made of wax. They took off our restraints and placed our feet in the wax, so that we were stuck.

Vivi was on the end, Zoro was next to her, I was next to Zoro, and Nami was next to me.

Since my hands were free, I took off my handcuffs because they were hurting my wrists. I put them back into my bag.

"Welcome, my friends, to my service set!" Mr. 3 said, bowing.

"So this is how it feels to be a candle stuck in a cake…" Zoro said.

"What's that thing spinning up there?" Nami asked.

Zoro tried to cut the wax with his swords, but it was too hard.

Something the color of snow started raining down.

Mr. 3 laughed and said, "May you enjoy my Candle Service! The wax haze falling from above you will eventually change you into wax figures! You'll be my perfect human models! Now die, in the name of art."

"Screw that!" Nami said. "Why do we have to turn into your works of art?!" She looked over to Broggy and said, "Broggy-san! Quit sitting there and go on a rampage! You're gonna get turned into a wax figure too, you know!"

I dug into my bag for my dagger, panicking. I can't die here… I can't die here! I thought. No way am I going to die here!

I squatted down, rather awkwardly due to my legs being stuck, and started jabbing it into the wax cake.

I'm going to get out of here! I thought. We'll all get out of here!

"It's not going to work," Zoro said, looking at me. "If I can't cut it with my sword, you can't do it with that."

Broggy broke free from the wax, but Mr. 5 shot explosives at him, that knocked him back down. Mr. 3 encased him in more wax, ensuring he couldn't escape again.

"Can't move now, can you?" he teased the giant.

I kept stabbing the wax cake with my dagger, sure that I'd be able to chip my way out.

"Now then, accelerate Candle Set!" he said. "Turn these people into wax figures!"

The wax haze started raining down even harder. I coughed wax as I kept lancing the wax beneath us.

"Yes! Yes! Just try to look like you're in as much pain as possible!" Mr. 3 said.

Sadistic jerk-face… I thought.

"Scream, holler, and try to get out all you want!" he said. "It's not going to work!"

I could feel my back starting to stiffen. The wax haze was already hardening on me. I stood up, breaking some of it off and used my dagger to peel off the wax from my back.

"My hand won't move!" Nami said. "Can't we do something?!"

"I'm already turning stiff!" Vivi said. "What do we do?!"

"Zoro! Do something!" Nami pleaded.

He looked over to the giant and said, "Let's kick their asses together." He brought out two of his swords.

"You're gonna cut off your own legs?!" Nami asked. "Quit joking around!"

"It's not a joke," he said. "It's the only way out. What're you guys gonna do?"

"I'm going to scrape off the wax," I said. "I'm not going to die!"

"Oh?" said Mr. 3, regarding my statement. "You won't be able to keep up with my Candle Service!" He his hand towards me and grabbed the dagger out of my hand with wax and brought it back over to him. "Well, anyway, I'll take this from you, just in case."

A flash of pure rage pulsed through my body. "Give that back…" I said. "GIVE IT BACK!" I screamed. "Give it back! Give it back! Give it back! Give it back!"

"I'd prefer not to," he said, throwing it to the ground and kicking it away. "Oops."

I felt like I was about to burst into flames of rage. "GIVE THAT BACK TO ME!" I yelled, with tears swimming down my face.

"Why's it so important?" Nami asked. "It's just a dagger."

"My dad gave that to me!" I said. "I don't care if I hate him; he gave it to me and said to use it to protect myself! Give it back, right now!"

Mr. 3 ignored me.

I could feel my face starting to become stiff from the wax haze. I scratched it all off with my finger nails and started scratching off the wax from my arms as well.

Right as Zoro was about to cut off his legs, Luffy, Usopp and Karoo ran into the clearing.

"Let's do it, Usopp!" Luffy yelled.

"Yeah!" he said.

"Bird!" Luffy yelled. Karoo honked in agreement.

"Luffy! Usopp!" Nami said happily.

I was so happy to see them, I was speechless.

"Bust those guys up so much, they lose their original forms and send them flying somewhere far off!" Nami yelled.

"Yeah, I will!" Luffy agreed. "These guys spoiled the giant old guys' duel!"

I started scratching my arms and face again. Wax started getting stuck in my fingernails. I picked it out and continued scratching.

"Break the pillar first, Luffy!" Nami said. "We're about to turn into wax figures!"

"Oh, you're in trouble?" he asked.

"No, there was no problem at all," Zoro said.

"You're legs…" I said looking down. Blood was spilling off our layer of the cake.

"I was about halfway through," he said. "But it's not a problem."

"How is that no problem?!" Nami asked.

"Well, for now. Can you break this pillar for us, Luffy?" he asked. "I'll leave the rest to you."

"Alright, no problem!" he said.

I continued scratching off all the wax and picked it out of my fingernails to continue scraping.

Zoro stuck his sword in the air.

"What are you doing…?" Nami asked.

"If I'm going to be solidified, I prefer this pose," he said.

I laughed and continued scratching the wax off of my arms and face.

"Keep scratching like that and you'll start bleeding," Zoro said, looking at me.

"I don't care," I said. "I'm not going to die here."

"Well, if you guys are going to do a pose, might wanna start now," he said.

"Don't be silly," Nami said. "It's a stupid idea."

"Mr. Bushido! Please be more serious about this!" Vivi said.

"I'm always serious," he replied.

I completely focused on scratching all the wax off before is became hard. Parts of my arms were already getting stiff, but I was doing better than the rest of them.

That's when I had an idea.

"Tick Tock," I whispered, stopping time.

I scratched off more and more wax until it was almost all off of my arms and face.

"Un-Tock," I whispered.

Zoro was right. I did start bleeding. My arms were red and they were starting to bleed from all the skin I was scratching to get the wax off. It was starting to get very painful to keep scratching, especially on my face.

Before I noticed what was going on, the pillar holding the giant spinning thing above us broke and made it come closer to us, speeding up the wax haze solidification process exponentially.

I panicked. My skin was raw and bleeding, my fingers were aching, and now I wouldn't be able to keep up with the falling wax.

That's when I gave up trying to scratch it all off. Like Zoro, I decided to do a pose. I put on I put a cuff on each hand, leaving the other cuff open and put my hands on my waist.

I started watching the battle between Luffy and Mr. 3.

That's when I had another idea.

"Zoro-san?" I asked.

"Hm?"

"Remember when you threw that plate at me and I stopped it?" I asked.

"Yeah."

"Do you think it would work with the spinning thing?" I asked.

Nami gasped and said, "You could do that?!"

"I don't know…" I said. "But it's worth a try, right?"

"What? What are you going to do?" Vivi asked.

"I'm going to stop the spinning thing," I said. "Or at least try…"

From the silence, I figured she was confused.

I racked my brain to figure out how I stopped the plate. Was it some sort of special technique or was it just a weird miracle?

I looked up at the spinning candle-holder above us and bit my lip.

"That's much bigger than a plate…" I said.

"You can do it!" Nami said. "Go Maggie-chan! Go Maggie-chan!"

I took a deep breath and focused on the rhythm of the spinning wax above us. It was about a half a second per rotation.

"Tick Stop!" I said.

The giant spinning candle holder actually froze in time.

"I… I did it!" I said. "I actually did it!"

"Nice one!" Zoro praised.

"How… How did you?!" Vivi asked. "You have Devil Fruit powers?!"

"Yes, she does!" Nami said happily. "Now hurry up and break this thing Luffy!"

"No," he said.

I saw that Mr. 3 had been defeated and was lying on the ground.

"Quit joking around and hurry!" Nami said.

"I don't know how long I can hold this thing…" I said.

"No," he said again.

"This isn't the time to be acting stupid!" Zoro said. "You heard her! She won't be able to hold it for very long!"

"Luffy-san, please!" Vivi asked.

"What should I do? I don't feel like saving you guys…" he said.

"Luffy-san…?" I asked, breathing hard from the strain of freezing it. "What's wrong with you?"

"Colors Trap," said the little girl, named Ms. Golden Week. She was Mr. 3's partner.

"I can't hold it forever!" I said.

"I know… I know, but…" he said. "But I don't feel like saving you…"

"Why are you saying that?!" Nami asked. "We're gonna become wax figures if Maggie-chan doesn't keep holding that thing! Do you understand?!"

"Yeah, but for some reason I just can't get motivated," he said.

"This isn't a motivation problem!" Nami yelled.

Usopp ran into the forest with Mr. 5 and Ms. Valentine chasing after him.

"Ms. Golden Week! This is your doing!" Vivi accused.

"Colors Trap: Betrayal Black," said the girl. That's when I noticed he was standing on a weird black symbol. "Touch the black paint, and you'll want to betray your friends, no matter what they say."

"Then whatever you do, Luffy-san, don't you dare step off that black paint!" I yelled.

"Yeah!" Vivi said. "Don't move a step! We don't want you to save us!"

"What the heck are you two doing?!" Nami asked.

My breathing became more like wheezing for air. "I can't hold it for much longer…" I said.

"No," Luffy said, stepping off the black paint.

"I get it," Zoro said. "You made him do the opposite of what you said."

"Luffy-san, hurry!" Vivi pleaded.

"I can't…" I said, taking in a huge breath and letting the spinning candle holder back into reality. I took a lot of huge breaths and felt very week. "I'm sorry… I can't hold it anymore…"

"Alright!" Luffy said. "I'll save you right now!" He wound up his fist, getting ready to punch it, but he started laughing uncontrollably. "Never mind you guys! I just wanna laugh!"

"Colors Tarp: Laughter Yellow," said Ms. Golden Week, holding a brush and pallet.

Luffy fell to the ground, laughing so hard. The yellow mark was on the back of his shirt.

"Luffy! Hurry and take off your shirt!" Nami suggested.

"Nah!" he said, still laughing. "I just feel like laughing!"

"This is bad…" Zoro said. "We probably won't last a minute with it raining down like this!"

"I'm… I'm sorry…" I said.

"You did your best," he said. "And it really did help. Don't apologize."

I smiled weakly and felt my body go stiff in the pose I wanted. I tried to move my arms, but they wouldn't budge. I really couldn't move!

The wax haze was already clouding my eye that wasn't covered with an eye patch. Pretty soon, I would lose all visibility.

Usopp came bursting in with Karroo, running away from his two pursuers. He accidentally ran into Luffy, which smudged the paint on his back.

He got up and yelled at Ms. Golden Week, "Hey! Knock it off, you jerk!"

"Was Laughter Yellow funny?" she asked.

"Shut up, stupid!" he said. "Anyways, I'm gonna break that pumpkin! Gum-Gum!"

Ms. Golden Week put a red mark on the ground and said, "Colors Trap: Bullfight Red!"

"Bazooka!" Luffy yelled, hitting the red mark.

"You're not allowed to break it," she said. "Mr. 3 would be mad."

"What is this?!" Luffy yelled.

"Just like bulls rush to attack red, you feel the urge to attack that Bullfight Red mark," she explained.

"This definitely not his kind of fight…" Nami said. "All his power is useless!"

"Colors Trap: Tranquil Green!" she said, painting a green mark on his back.

He sat down with her on a picnic blanket and drank tea calmly.

"What's gonna happen to us…?" I asked.

No one wanted to reply, for fear of knowing the answer.

My eyes and mouth were finally covered with wax. I was completely covered, now. I couldn't even breathe.

Not good… Not good! Not good! I thought. Ok, remain calm. Just hold your breath until something happens. You're not going to die, Magnolia. Not here. Not now. Someone will save you. Someone's coming to save all of us.

My lungs were already begging for air. I just hoped that I would last until someone actually saved us.

I could hear faint voices from somewhere dark. I gasped for air and it came. Where ever I was, it was very, very hot. It was almost like I was in the middle of a furnace. I couldn't see anything.

"Flaming… Oni Giri!" I heard Zoro say from somewhere close by.

I could feel myself falling into something hot and liquid-y, but I didn't know what it was. My muscles ached and my arms and face still hurt from the scratching. It was getting too hot, almost too hot to bear.

"Where's Magnolia-san?!" I heard Vivi say.

"Don't tell me she's still in the fire…!" Nami said.

I tried to find my voice, but I wouldn't come.

That's when someone grabbed me and took me away from the horrible inferno.

"Got her," said Zoro.

"Maggie-chan!" I heard Nami said. "Are you alright?!"

I nodded my head and said, "Y-y-yes."

There was still something hot and sticking on my face. I wiped it off and I could see! It was wax that made me temporarily blind.

"Thank you, Zoro-san," I said.

"No problem," he said.

Broggy sat up and said, "Only two foes left."

"Luffy chased after them," Nami said. "He'll take care of it."

When Luffy did come back, Broggy was crying so hard, it was about to form a new river. He was extremely sad that his dear friend Dorry was dead by his hands.

But Dorry stood up.

"Dorry! How are you-?"

"It seems I blacked out…" Dorry said, using his sword for support.

Broggy hugged his friend so tightly that Dorry complained it was hurting his wounds. They both thanked their god that he was still alive.

They were in such high spirits, that they actually threatened to fight each other again.

I smiled at the two, happy that they were both ok.

They invited us all to celebrate with them.

Sanji eventually caught up with us. He told us that he talked to Mr. 0 via Transponder Snail.

"You talked to the boss?!" Vivi asked.

"Yeah. I found this weird hideout in the jungle," he said. "He seemed to think I was Mr. 3, so I told him I eliminated everyone."

"So he thinks we're dead?" Vivi asked.

"We're finally free of people chasing us, but we can't go anywhere!" Usopp said, partially happy.

My dad's going to think I'm dead… I thought.

I didn't really know how I felt about that. On one hand, I was happy that he wouldn't try to look for me, but on the other I felt bad because he would think he's all alone and the last one left in our family.

Sanji brought out an Eternal Pose to Alabasta. Everyone cheered for him. Vivi even hugged him.

"Come on, Captain," Nami said. "We shouldn't be lounging around now that we know where to go."

"Alright, then," Luffy said. "Giant old guys, we're gonna go now!"

We all headed off towards the Going Merry. Usopp promised to visit Elbaf someday.

Zoro and Sanji started arguing about their hunting contest. Each was sure that their dinosaur was bigger than the others. I chuckled to myself as I climbed up to the crow's nest. I sat down and relaxed.

"Oh wait!" I said. I almost fell off the rope ladder while climbing down. "I forgot my dagger!"

I ran off the boat, only to be stopped by Luffy holding the back of my shirt. "Where're you going, Maggie?" he asked. "We're about to set sail!"

"I forgot my dagger in the clearing!" I said. "I need to go get it!"

"Alright," he said, letting me go.

I ran into the forest and into the clearing and picked up my dagger. I put it back in its sheath and into my bag. I took a deep breath and ran back to the ship. I went back up to the crow's nest and rested my head against the wooden railing.

What a long day… I thought.

I yawned, closed my eyes and fell asleep.

(I don't own One Piece or any of the characters. This was made for entertainment purposes only and no copyright is intended.)