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A thank you to all of you comment, fav, and/or follow this story. It really helps me find the will to continue the story and keep my energy for writing it up. If any are wondering why I skipped the Davy Back Fight arc, it's because I think it's a stupid filler that added nothing of value to the story. As I believe I have stated in another chapter notes, I will not bother writing through filler if I cannot exploit it for everyone's Zoro/Lucy needs. Also, Chapter Ten whoo! We're in the double digits now baby! And now, enough embarrassing myself, on to comments.

raepan2010

I'm a huge fan of this story. Absolutely love the internal war going on with Zoro. It makes a lot of sense considering that he seems romantically challenged. Anything outside of the battlefield isn't exactly his forte. Which would make a great scene, though I know you're not good at fight scenes. I never used to be either. One thing that helped me develop better was to pick an anime with a fight scene that I loved and describe that in my story, only using the characters I was working with. For example, take a fight scene from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood and describe it in a chapter for Fairy Tail or One Piece. When I want to write a fight scene now I close my eyes and visualize the scene. As I work through it in my minds eye I type. Once I'm finished I go back and fix grammatical and spelling errors. Seems to work out really well for me and I use to avoid writing fight scenes like the plague. It's just a suggestion if you're interested. If not then no worries, this is still a great story and I look forward to the next update.

I thank you greatly for your advice and I'm glad you like Zoro's reactions since I'm always afraid I'll make them do something that's way out of character. I will be sure to keep this advice in mind while I am writing the next chapter. Unfortunately, there is a lack of anime fights where the fighter uses whips. I was originally going to just gloss over their encounter with Aokiji, but then I realized it would be the perfect chance to show off Phoenix.

WindBear47

*giggle* Embarrased shock, denial of feelings! TSUNDERE! Love their reactions!

I'm glad that you liked their reactions, and I tried to keep them in character. Unfortunately it was taking me far to long to come up with anything for the training scene so I pussed out like a bitch, meaning we all missed out on what could have been some awesome training/bonding time between Zoro and Lucy, and I'm sorry for that.

Yoyo77

very good chapter by focusing more on the relationship between Lucy and Zoro , very cute moment that Zoro charged to Lucy , that my friend ... he killed me ... happiness x3

Continues hope you :)))

Yeah, I decided that they really need a little more advancement in their relationship because . . . Well, there just weren't enough Zoro/Lucy moments and I didn't want things to seem like they were escalating too quickly for the future plans I have for the pairing.

GINKA

Please update and the story is before or after the 2 year time skip in One Piece?

This takes place before the 2 year time skip in One Piece.

One their way to Water 7, they came across another island. They all went deeper into the island, strolling through the forest. As they walked along a path, a few of them, including Lucy, noticed an odd, thin rut in the ground that seemed to have made by a bicycle. Then, suddenly, the forest ended and they entered a clearing. In the center of the clearing appeared to be a larger rock, with what Luffy thought to be a large, black mushroom. When the crew went around the rock however, the "mushroom" was revealed to be a very tall man with and afro . . . who appeared to be sleeping, though that didn't last long.

The most surprising thing though, was Robin's reaction to the man. The woman, who was normally so composed, fell back and stared at the man with terror on her face. Immediately, the crew was on the defensive. As they would soon find out from Robin, the man was one of the powerhouses of the Navy. A Marine Admiral by the name of Aokiji, a position held only by three people, and was the second highest rank in the Navy. Lucy couldn't believe it. The man was too laid back, but even she could sense his power, this guy was definitely strong.

That being said, she was extremely thankful when he said that he had no intention of capturing them, since he hadn't been ordered to do so, and was just checking up on Nico Robin's location, which he would have to report back to headquarters. By this point in time he had laid down, and that's when 10 people came out into the clearing, 7 men, 2 children, and a woman. They had been shipwrecked on the island after the cruise liner they were on crashed into a frog doing the crawl stroke and broke. They had been there for a month.

After Sanji and Usopp brought food from the ship to feed them, and Chopper treated their injuries, Aokiji told the survivors that there was a nearby island that he can help them get to. So, after loading the group up with supplies, they went to the shore of the island that was facing directly at the nearby island. Aokiji then knelt at the edge of the water, dipping his hand into the sea and a Sea King burst from the water and went for the tall marine. Lucy, Zoro, and Luffy were about to aid the man, but then the sea froze as far as their eyes could see, even the Sea King was turned into a popsicle.

Lucy stared in shock. Gray was the most powerful Ice Mage she knew, and even he was capable of freezing that much ocean, and what was more was that the marine didn't even seem worn out even a little bit! She was even more glad now that he had decided not to attack them. They sent the survivors on their way, and that's when the real bombshell was dropped.

"Ara ara, I really should just kill you right now." Aokiji said in a lazy tone.

"What?! But you said you were going to let us go!" Lucy exclaimed.

"When I look at the progress your small group has made . . . you'll become really troublesome in the future, it'd be better if I just dealt with you now. The reason . . . is that Nico Robin has joined you. Her bounty isn't just a reflection of her strength, but of her threat to the World Government, that why, at the age of eight, she was given a bounty of 79,000,000 beli. Frankly, I'm surprised you survived as a child." he said. "Of course you survived by betraying everyone who has taken you in."

"Oi, oi!" Sanji protested. "Just what do you think you're saying about Robin-swan?!"

"Yeah!" Chopper chimed in. "Robin's our friend, we won't just let you bad mouth her like that.

The rest of the crew seemed agree with the sentiment.

Aokiji seemed slightly impressed by their loyalty to their crewmate. "You did well befriending this group. But I can guarantee that you'll regret taking in such a person. I can prove this. All the organizations that Nico Robin has joined have been completely annihilated . . . except for her."

"Who the hell cares about her past!?" Luffy exclaimed. "Her past doesn't matter! She's our friend now!"

"In time, she'll betray you too." Aokiji said.

Finally, it seemed that Robin had had enough. Much to the chagrin of Usopp, Robin sprouted her arms to grab Aokiji and forced his body to bend backwards until it shattered into shards of ice. Lucy gasped in shock, thinking the marine dead, but the shock was quickly replaced with terror as Aokiji began reforming out of the ice shards, completely unharmed. The others watched in fear as well.

"Now, that wasn't very nice." stated Aokiji leisurely as he stood.

The Marine Admiral grabbed a handful of grass and threw it before blowing on it, freezing the grass to form a blade of ice. Using that ice sword, he attacked Robin. Lucy had been about to call out to her, but Zoro and Sanji were already moving. Zoro blocked the blade of ice and he was quickly followed by Sanji, who kicked the ice sword out of the marine's hands, then Luffy who rushed at the Admiral and punched him in the stomach. Aokiji placed a hand on Zoro's shoulder and Sanji's knee, and all three of the crew's main fighters fall back with shouts of pain, the parts of their bodies that had come in contact with the marine being covered in ice.

Angry and needing to do something, Lucy grabbed one of her new keys. "Open, Gate of the Fire Bird! I summon thee, Phoenix!" she called, summoning the hyper spirit.

It would be too late however. Aokiji wrapped his arms around Robin and soon the woman's entire body was encased in ice.

"ROBIN!" the Straw Hat pirates cried out.

"She's not dead. She might live if you thaw her out carefully, but her body is extremely fragile like this. If it were to break, she'd die." said Aokiji, going to punch Robin's frozen form.

Two things happened at once then. Luffy ran forward and grabbed Robin, bending backwards to move her out of the way of the punch, and Phoenix caught Aokiji's fist. Frowning, Aokiji goes to stomp on Robin but Usopp dashes by, grabbing Robin from Luffy.

"Everyone," said Lucy, facing away from everyone as she took out her whip, eyes fixated on the man before her. "Get Robin back to the ship, I'll stay here and fight Aokiji."

"Lucy! What the hell do you think you're do-?!" started Nami.

"Just go!" Lucy shouted, interrupting her. "I'm tired of always being the weak one, now when I can actually help . . . Just this once I want to be the one protecting my friends, instead of always being the one protected!"

" . . . Everyone . . . " said Luffy. "Get to the ship."

"But what about-?!" Sanji protested.

"Now!" Luffy shouted. Something seemed to click with them and Chopper and Usopp carried Robin to the ship, being followed by Luffy, Nami, Zoro, and Sanji.

Aokiji examined Phoenix with interest. "Where did you come from?"

"Lucy-sama summoned me!" Phoenix answered cheerily.

"And you came?"

"Of course! She's my key bearer!" Phoenix said, grinning.

Aokiji looked at Lucy with a newfound interest. "Is this some kind of Devil Fruit ability?"

"No, it's magic." said Lucy, grabbing the cylinder attached to her belt. "Flueve d'etoiles!" she called out, activating her magical whip. "And, no matter what, I'm going to use my magic to protect my friends!" she declared, her brown eyes sharp with determination.

And with that, Lucy and Phoenix attacked Marine Admiral Aokiji.

Mwahahahaha! Cliffhanger! I'm so eviiiil!

I didn't actually expect the encounter with Aokiji to take this long, and I know this is shorter than my usual chapters, but I wanted to save the fight scene for later. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed and please leave a review.