A/N: Chapter 9 -finally :P I've decided to update every other day with this one, so that I can work on my personal novel in between, because really, if I don't follow a schedule of some sort, nothing seems to get done :P

For a while with this chapter, I didn't quite know where I was heading -but then I got things back on track :P I have an idea of where I'm going with the rest of the chapters now, but I have to say this is definitely the most action packed story I've written so far, so I'm trying to think of ways that I don't make it boring for both me writing it and all you readers -or else it won't be that good of an adventurous story :P

Well, that being said, I hope you enjoy!

Get it and Go

Nami

"Robin!" I said, rushing forward when she came around the corner.

I came to a halt quickly though. I leaned in one direction, trying to look behind her. Then I leaned in the other direction.

"Eh? Where're Zoro and Brooke?"

"They went down three floors –Brooke needed to get his violin, and Suki needed to get her mother's keepsake," Robin explained.

"His violin? Really?" I scoffed. The mother's keepsake I could understand. "And who's Suki?"

"She sings on the ship," she said.

"We should ask her to be our nakama," Luffy murmured behind me.

"Are we your nakama?" Mariko asked.

"Shishishi, of course!" Luffy laughed.

"And Zoro's with them? Is that such a good idea?" I asked.

"I'm keeping an ear on them," she replied.

"And how are things going?"

"You don't want to know."

I rolled my eyes, "Of course… Did I expect anything less? So they were the one's responsible for the ship's balance changing."

"That was my fault –it slipped my mind and I forgot to warn them about things like that."

I sighed. I couldn't blame her. Things had been hectic –and that was really an understatement.

"I can tell you one thing though," Robin said.

"Is it good news?" I asked.

"Mmmmm, yes and no."

"What is it?" I really didn't want to know.

"We know how high the water is now."

Brooke

Zoro dragged Suki and I over to the room I was staying in through the water.

"This water is so cold," Suki shivered as I unlocked the door.

"Indeed, it chills me to the bone," I exchanged a look with Suki before we both burst out laughing.

"Just find your violin and let's get out of here," Zoro said, throwing me into my room, the water pouring quickly to fill the space in the room. The water was now down to our knees –well, Zoro's and Suki's knees –after having so much rush by us, both down the hall and into the room. Still, it was rising. How frightening. Sea water did awful things to my hair.

"My ring," Suki reminded him.

"You're such a pain in the ass," Zoro grumbled. "Go quickly now."

"It'll take forever to find it alone after the ship's turned over," she said.

"Then just leave it," he shrugged.

"I will not leave it behind!" she growled at him, squaring her shoulders as she faced the demon himself.

I grabbed my violin, the case floating on the water's surface. I opened it, happy to see that there was no water inside. And it was undamaged from the tumbling.

Reli~ef.

"Yohoho! Wonderful! I've never been happier in my life!" I exclaimed.

"Except for the fact that you're dead," Suki said, still glaring at Zoro.

"Skull joke! Yohoho!" Silence met me. A small sigh escaped my lips. Tough crowd. "Let's go, Zoro –we can spare a few moments of our time to help Suki," I told him, closing the case once more.

"Zoro," Robin's lips moved.

"Fine," Zoro said.

"Besides, quite frankly you wouldn't be able to find your way back without us," I chuckled.

Suki

I was thankful that Brooke was here during this disaster. Not only did he bring a little relief with his humor, but I felt like he was actually on my side –unlike Zoro.

Still angry at him, I struggled to the door through the water. It was hard to walk through water that was at knee height. It resisted my movements, and all too frequently I would fall forward. Zoro and Brooke had an easier time –Brooke because he was taller and thinner, the water moving around him easily, and Zoro because he was stronger. The muscles in my legs were sore, and I hoped they looked amazing after all this.

When we arrived at my room, I unlocked the door and bit back a ground as water rushed in. The drawers started floating, and the clothes did too, until they absorbed so much water that they sunk down out of sight. Quickly I tried to close the door –scared that whatever was on the ground would get carried with the water. I couldn't close it though, and Zoro had to lend a hand.

I was still angry though.

I began making my way through the mess, pushing the drawers aside and reaching underneath the water, trying to grab things that were on the floor. I wasn't sure if the box the ring was in would float. I ignored the clothing there, my gaze hovering on the surface, looking for the box while my hands felt around for it.

"What is it we're looking for?" Zoro asked, kicking a drawer out of the way as it floated in front of him.

"A red box," I told him.

"Wouldn't it be floating?" Brooke asked.

"I don't know," I said, trying to hide the panic in my voice. I needed to find that ring. It meant so much more to me than anything that I could find in the world.

"This seems impossible," Zoro muttered before he even began searching.

"I thought you liked challenges," his girlfriend's lips said.

I still found that creepy.

"I never said I wouldn't help," Zoro said.

She –her lips –only chuckled.

Like I said –creepy.

Zoro was right though –a part of me knew that this was impossible –or at the very least it was going to take forever. The water level was rising as more water came from under the door. I didn't even want to think about how high the water was outside in the hall.

"We won't be able to find it like this if it's under the water," Zoro grumbled, standing up straight and looking out the window. "We need to hurry up and get out of here, or we'll all drown."

"No! I'm not leaving the ring behind!" I said, my voice coming out louder than I intended.

"You're such a pain in the ass," he muttered. "Look –the water's up to Brooke's knees now."

And it was up to my upper thighs. I was aware of all that –I really was –but I couldn't bear to leave without my mother's ring. I just couldn't.

"It's fine," Zoro," Brooke said. "I have complete confidence you will get us out of this when the time comes."

I continued to bend down and shift through the mess on the floor, ignoring how cold my body felt in the water. Eventually I just sat down, the water up to my neck.

"Come on, Suki-chan," Brooke encouraged. "It has to be here somewhere."

"It's hopeless," I was on the verge of tears. "I'll never find it –and when this ship sinks it'll be lost forever."

There was a loud splash, and I looked over and Zoro was gone.

"We'll find it," Brooke said, reaching out his hand to me. "Just tell me, where was the last place you saw it?"

"What does it matter? The tsunami messed up the room anyway," I said, wiping underneath my eyes. I couldn't tell if I was crying or not –my hands were already wet.

"Suki-chan," Brooke said.

"The drawers, by my bed," I murmured finally as Zoro came back up. The water had already risen to underneath my lips.

"What was that?" he asked, standing up straight, water splashing in all directions with his sudden movements.

"The last place I saw it was in the drawers beside the bed," I repeated, finally reaching and taking Brooke's hand and letting him pull me to my feet.

"Say stuff like that earlier, stupid," Zoro said, going over to the bed and nightstand, which were both submerged in water too now. He reached underneath the water and pulled out something –the drawer.

"Yohoho! Look at that," Brooke exclaimed.

"Too bad you don't have eyes to see with," I said, half laughing, half crying, as I rushed over, taking the drawer from Zoro and grabbing the red box that floated there. I opened it carefully, smiling widely to see it still there. I closed the box and turned to Brooke.

"Can we keep it in the violin case? I don't have any place to keep a hold of it."

"But of course," Brooke said, taking the small box from me.

I turned to Zoro, bowing so deeply that my nose almost touched the water. "Thank you."

"Let's just go," Zoro said, walking past me and heading for the door.

Robin

"They're coming back now," I told them as we walked towards the kitchen.

"That's good," Nami said, suppressing a sigh. "Remind them not to be too destructive."

"So a little destructive is okay?" I grinned.

"Like if they're helping someone," Nami said. "Then I think that's a good reason to be a little destructive."

"Shishishi," Luffy laughed, "Like how we saved Windsworth and Mariko."

"Mm," she smiled.

"I think this is it," I said, pushing open a door. Something seemed to be leaning against it on the other side, as it didn't budge.

"Luffy," Nami said.

"Mm," Luffy said, pushing on it. It seemed to move easily for him. He held the door open for the four of us, then moved the tables that had been leaning on the door away. There were dead bodies here too. A lot of them. Mariko paled, and Nami's face hardened as she looked over the room. Luffy reached down and brushed his fingers against the back of his hand.

"The kitchen's over there," Nami pointed. "Robin and I will stay here and see if anyone's alive."

"The food can wait," Luffy told her. "I'll stay and help."

Nami only nodded, but I can tell that she was thankful.

"Are you hungry, Mariko?" Nami asked, kneeling down to the girl's height.

"Not really," the girl shook her head. I wasn't hungry either after seeing all these. I could tell Nami wasn't either.

"Let's go eat," Windsworth said, taking the girl's hand and leading her along, not even shielding her eyes. I didn't like him very much, and Nami didn't seem to either.

Nami started grabbing table clothes.

"What are you doing?" Luffy asked.

"Let's… let's cover them up," Nami said. "Especially if we're going to be here until Zoro and Brooke come along –who knows how long that will be."

"Mm," I nodded.

"Hello?" Nami called into the room. Weakly she followed up with, "Anyone alive in here?"

"If anyone is alive, they'd probably be unconscious," I pointed out. "We'll have to go and check them individually."

I felt the pulse of one body after the next, finding nothing each time. How many table clothes did we use, laying them over the bodies?

Nami

I felt sick.

I realized that all these dead bodies were so much worse than the bodies on any battle field. They were all innocent –they didn't do anything to die because they were thrashed around inside a ship that was rolling over. Not that all the people on that fought deserved to die either –but admittedly, some of them had it coming.

Then my mind drifted back to the other dead bodies we'd seen –I hadn't checked their pulses, the idea just simply not being there. Maybe they'd been alive and I'd just left them there for dead. I shook my head, trying to clear the images from my mind.

I glanced over at Luffy. He was frowning as he covered people up. He looked at me and gave a half-hearted smile. Was he thinking the same way that I was?

The dining room was beginning to look like a morgue. All these bodies, covered with the white table clothes. I wondered if we should lay them side by side on one side of the room.

"Mm," Robin said when I suggested it to them. I wondered how she felt looking at these, but I didn't ask.

Luffy and Robin moved the bodies over to one area of the room, Robin using her many hands to move things along faster, and I continued to check for pulses and laying out the table clothes.

I was just about to draw my hand away from the bloody wrist of a teenage boy, when I was pretty sure I felt a pulse. I held my hand against his vein longer, and sure enough, there it was.

"Robin," I called, not quite sure of what to do.

"You found someone?" she asked, coming over.

"Mm," I said.

"Here, I'll look after him; you just continue checking the others."

I looked over –she and Luffy had gotten many of the bodies to the other side of the room already.

Bodies. It felt cruel to call them that way.

I brought my gaze back down to Robin and the boy. She got up, heading for the kitchen. I didn't think she was hungry, but I still found it weird until she returned with a bucket of water. She cupped her hands and splashed it on the boys face. He stirred, and relief washed over me.

Luffy came up behind me, giving me a small hug. I turned into him, letting him comfort me for a little before I pulled away.

Then I moved onto the next person.