Max was walking slowly beside Matt and Danny. She really didn't want to go home with these people. They just seemed too familiar, but she couldn't remember where from. It felt odd for her to not know seeing as how she can name almost everyone in town and all of the pirates in the port. Danny walked on one side of her gently bumping into her, telling her to walk faster. Matt walked at her pace on her other side. He just seemed content to walk as slowly as she was. That was fine with her, seeing as how whenever she would sneak a peek away from her friends at least two of them would be looking at her.

"What! Ain't you ever seen a girl walk slow before?" Max asked the man with the long nose. She really didn't mind being the center of attention but this was ridiculous. All of them at one time stared at her. She would just give them all dirty looks. Matt would laugh at them when they would suddenly turn around and gaze ahead like they had always been looking that way. Danny sighed next to her. "That's a big sigh." Max whispered where only Matt and Danny could hear her. "I've sighed bigger."

"True." Max mumbled. Now the girl with orange hair and the man who said his name was 'Shanks' were both gawking at her. 'Take a picture it'll last longer!" She said through clenched teeth. Both turned their heads away. Shanks was still looking over his shoulder at her sometimes. Max can't ever remember a longer walk in her life. The man with three swords looked like he was going to ask her something but Danny, Matt., and Max all glared at him.

"They act like they've never seen kids!" joked Matt. Max laughed softly causing some of the people in front to turn around slightly. "Weirdoes!" said Danny. Max guessed that they all couldn't hear them cause if they could on that walk home she was sure they wouldn't have made it home alive!

"Why do you think they're here?" Matt asked to no one personally just out loud. "No clue. I mean I've been here for a while and today is nearly one of the first times to ever be attacked." Max said kicking rocks up the hill. They would roll back down it to her feet and she would kick it back up again. Max soon grew bored of the kick the rock game and settled for watching the people in front of her. They didn't seem to have any bad intentions like the last guys. Or at least that's what Matt said. He could sense when people were good and bad and what they intended to do. From what he was getting from their brains it was something about the sea, father's, and telling something that they all didn't know.

Danny had said that he didn't like the looks of them. No one could blame him because one of them had a weapon hidden beneath her skirt, another had three swords, and one had a huge gun strapped to his back. All in all they just didn't look like people you would want to mess with.

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Max was sitting in the living room with Lizzy, Jenny, Matt, and Danny. Lizzy and Jenny had gotten there soon after they got to Amy's and Max's house. They had been looking for Max, Matt and Danny. Jenny had looked like she was going to explode from not knowing what was going on. Lizzy seemed content not knowing. Besides sometimes when it came to Max it was just best not to know. "So when do we get to hear this story?" asked Matt putting his feet up on the coffee table only to have them swatted down by Lizzy. He just gave her a glare and put them back on the table. Now Lizzy had Jenny doing it. They would both hit his legs down just to have him put them back up there. Eventually Max leaned over and punched him in the leg making him drop his feet off the table.

The pirates looked at the kids in front of them. This was Luffy's Daughter? I mean sure she could smile like him and the attitude of fun loving but she just didn't seem like what they would have imagined for his kid. In fact they never really given' it much thought that he would have a girl. Nami's thought about Luffy's kid was that it would be a boy and he would be just like Luffy, slow, dim-witted and fun loving.

But here they were sitting in front of her and they couldn't say anything to her. They had decided that since they each wanted to tell her something different that they would take turns. First Strawhats then the Red-haired pirates. Ace had decided to go with the Strawhats. All the people who weren't part of the strawhats cleared out of the room. Nami and the others watched Max's friends waiting for them to leave. Max knew that too. "They're not going anywhere so you can forget it. Anything you can say to me you can say to them." Max stated proving the fact that her friends weren't going to leave any time soon.

"Fine." said Sanji already tired of dealing with the kid. "Yea. If you didn't read the file on Max it has 'disagrees with people easily' in big bold letters!" joked Matt. Matt just shot him a glare. Lizzy looked over the people in front of her as did Jenny. They had the replay on the cliff story, but still didn't know who they were either.

"So anyone going to start talking yet, you know tell me the whole story?" Max asked as she flicked her wrist and it made a popping sound. She seemed slightly amused by the noise so she did it a few more times before she stopped and looked at them expectantly. They paused. How were they going to start the story.

"So, how old are you?" Usopp asked. He was starting out slow. "No! You guys said that I would have my time to ask my questions. So I want to ask them." Max said shaking her head no as if to say that she wouldn't answer until she got her questions answered. Sanji sighed. "Fine what's your questions?"

Max seemed to think about it for a minute. "Well I have a few, but I'll ask the most important ones first." she paused "Who are you?"

Nami stood up. "We are pirates. I'm sure you heard of the Strawhats?" she stopped waiting for a reaction. There was none. 'Dang these kids aren't going to make it easy for us.' Nami thought. "Anyways, we were once on the crew. The man who was Monkey D. Luffy was our captain."

Still no response. Nami opened her mouth to say more but was cut off by Max. "Okay so your pirates. Second question. What are you doing here?" The question seemed so innocent but none of them knew how to respond. "Well, you know how we said that we were part of the strawhats? Anyway, we came here to talk to Luffy's Daughter." Usopp said. "And we were wondering - if -you?" he said leading her in the right direction.

"If I know her?" Max asked. "Not really. What we were wondering was if you well, you know, are her." Ace said finishing Usopp's first thought. " No. I don't now getting on to question three." Max said ignoring the looks of the disbelief on the pirates faces. She clearly wasn't going to say it out right and more. After all in the water stating her name had been caused by her hitting the water too hard. But now out of the water with her friends around her she with out a doubt wasn't going to make the mistake twice.

"Question three. If I did know such a girl, what would you want with her and why?"

"We have an important request for her." Ace said leaning closer to the table to get a hint of her reaction. She seemed to take the bait as she leaned closer to, her friends following. "And what would that be?" Nami and the rest of the crew leaned forward too. Zoro simply replied "Does she know where Monkey D. Luffy is." He straightened back out and put his back against the couch he was sitting in. Max's face finally broke. The girl who looked like she was about twelve or thirteen showed remorse and looked down at the ground.

Danny put his hand on her shoulder. Matt, Lizzy, and Jenny all moved closer to Max than they already had been sitting. Max just shook her head no repeatedly. "So what do you want to know?" she whispered.

"We want to know if you are her and if you are if you know where we can find our captain." Sanji said. "Yea. I'm her." Her voice was low and crackly like an old radio. Jenny put her head on her shoulder and Matt squeezed her knee to show that if these guys did something then he would be on them in a second. Danny practically crushed her shoulder. "and what if I could tell you where to find him?" she got even lower if possible when she was talking to them.

"Could you tell us where?" Chopper whispered just as she did. "Yes."

"Okay could isn't really the word it's will you tell us?" Ace asked . "Maybe." Max said her voice still meek. " She doesn't have to though so keep that in mind. If you want to take her you'll have to get through us first." Jenny stated really loud. She seemed to think that these guys were going to attack them but Max knew they wouldn't. It's okay Liz. Their good pirates." Max said gaining a bit of her voice back.

"She doesn't have to tell us." Nami said trying to make it easier for Max. She'd been in that kind of position where it seemed like everyone was after her and she remembered that she hadn't liked it. "No. I'll tell you. But I can't really tell where." Max said not making any sense. "What do you mean?" Zoro asked.

"I mean that I know where it is but I can't show it to you on any map. I can only show you if I was there." Max said although you could tell that she didn't want to be there. Max looked up to see confused looks. " I mean it's not listed on any map and I can only show you if I'm there. It looks like no other place in the world." Max said seeming to forget about her sad position she had been in a bit ago. "It is so pretty."

"Yea it is." Lizzy said. "You've been there?" Usopp asked. None of the other kids there had said anything about the scenery so it was pretty safe to assume that they hadn't been there. "Yea. I was there when Max went. We were the best of friends when we were little. We didn't even realized we had met before the first night Jenny and myself spent the night here."

" In fact if Danny hadn't kept bugging Max to let us be her friends we never would have known it." Lizzy said a half hearted laugh in it. "Yea, you guys were so annoying. I really wished that you guys would leave me alone but now I'm glad you didn't." Max said laughing sort of loudly about the memory.

"Yea me too." Said Danny and Matt.

Hey guys this is me! I just want to say sorry for not updating! I was going to update on Monday but I had homework to do and a test to study for so ya know. And on Tuesday I was going to update and my internet didn't work. I really need a NEW COMPUTER! But then I would have to rewrite this and that is not something I want to do! See ya! Hope I can update tomorrow and PLEASE REVIEW!