Alright, next chapter and as always, I dont own One Piece, RWBY or any references, abilities or characters from other sources as they belong to their respective owners.

As the sounds of battle raged on an island in the night, the young woman was held down by two men while another man stood before them. Looking down at her with both irritation and annoyance, the man just spat on the ground in front of her, his black eyes and hair both sharp and shaggy, with a tone that demanded immediate respect.

"Why must you ants run, all you had to do was be nice and just tell us where are you hid the treasure, and yet here we are having two play this silly little game of hide-and-seek all because you weren't able to come clean with me. Tell me how many people of this island has to pay for such actions because of there greed? So I'll give you one last chance, tell me where is the treasure?"

Silently glaring at the man, the woman just spat at the ground before him, "we told you there is no treasure, we keep telling you and you never listen, why... why are you so focused on such a treasure that doesn't even exist, who are you, you damn bastard... who in the help are-" she cried out before she felt something being plunged into her back, her body shaking and her sensation of awareness slowly growing cold and dark.

With a sigh, the leader of the group of men just walked away and continued there's search for the Island's treasure, leaving her corpse with the rest of the villagers as they no longer hold any used to them. "Boss Releo, what's our next plan to get the treasure from these worthless villagers?"

As the larger man continued to walk to his personal ship, he merely smiled and replied with no emotion in his tone. "Isn't it obvious, go out for the hunt. Comb the island and leave no one left hiding." And with that, the several men saluted and began their search.

Meanwhile, the group of three were each taking care of their boredom by entertaining themselves. As Isaribi focused on her navigation as well as making a list of supplies she would need to enter the Grand Line, she was also currently the pseudo accountant, having got some money from Anko after Amachi was turned in. Adding that all together with the money that both the aura users had when they first met, it came to about a decent fifty-thousand Belli. Case and point... they were poor, they probably had enough money for a low grade sword while at the same time had to take into account for food, medical supplies and just basic standards of living at seas. Jaune knew this and that's why he was trying to think of an idea to find a solution to their financial issue.

Neo was busy looking up at the sky with an annoyed expression. They were broke... well they were always broke but it just occurred to her just how broke they were, not only that but while the easier way would have to just loot a town or steal the money from somewhere, she knew that Jaune and Isaribi would be up in arms about it. Still, that didn't mean she couldn't steal from other crews, infect if another pirate crew tried something than by all means she could easily just as well take their money as a spoils of war.

Jaune had reached a conclusion, similar to Neo's, the only issue was that other crews had more men than they did, not to mention a much stronger drive to kill. While he was sure they could hold their own, he was unsure about Isaribi and her eagerness to take more lives than she had. Even Jaune would admit that there were some cases where having to kill, intentionally or not was sadly a mandatory thing unless you were so strong it didn't matter. That didn't mean he liked it though. Shaking his head, that was the best bet, unless they just happen to stumble onto some treasure or something.

He'd have to think about that later, his next objective was getting to the next island. "Hey, Isaribi" he called out to her, snapping her out of her thoughts as she turned to her captain, "How much longer until we reach the next island?"

Thinking about it, and since they were still on point, "probably in a few minutes" she said as Neo and Jaune both nodded.

"Got it, thanks" he said as Neo spoke up.

"You said that this island has a small village on it, not to mention it's a fairly big island... then we should head to the village first... and then we can get down to basics" she stated, making the two of them confused.

"Basics for what?" Jaune asked as his first mate gave him a small smile, one that made him think of Nora or Yang right before a fight and immediately came to a conclusion and sighed. "You mean our sparing, don't you." Jaune said over asking, remembering how Neo explained his horrible control on his aura.

"I still say in my defense I was trained by a nut that tormented me over conditioning my control" Jaune stated with his arms crossed as Miles wasn't a trained huntsman, he was an assassin on the run by the people he served. Neo on the other hand smirked.

"Then good news, you're going to be tormented by a maiden that will help beat control into you" she stated as Jaune sweat-dropped, he thought he was done with this after he left Dusk. Why wasn't life easy? Isaribi just wondered how that would turn out before Jaune spoke up.

"That being said, remember who's butt I kicked back in Palma, if memory serves-"

"That was a fluke at best" Neo stated as Jaune smirked.

"Then I guess that kiss was a fluke as well?" the swordsman taunted as Neo silently glared at him, her eyes switching colors while a fighting spirit came to the front of the huntress, she was debating fighting the smug swordsman right now, the only reason being the fact that she could fall into the wster.

Isaribi however just stared at yhem, there was a kiss? Now she was interested in how the two met but seeing Neo glare at Jaune in a means of what she could consider borderline hate, she chose to stay out of it and remain ignorant of any... history the two could have. "Also, you should train with us as well, Isaribi" Jaune stated, getting a confused look from his navigator.

That was a good point, Isaribi was the least-trained when it came to fighting, her Kaima form having an advantage but her control and reluctance on it being a means of an impending disaster screaming out, "I'm open"

"I'm not a good fighter, I can't keep up with you guys, I dont have any aura or really and special skills like Neo's fruit ability" she said as Jaune smiled.

"You do have one ability" he reminded as Isaribi frowned at that as Jaune continued. "Look, I know you hate using the Kaima transformation but at the moment it's something that can give you some means of a fighting tactic. Trust me when I say that using something you know you have but not knowing or liking it can cause some serious doubt. I was the same when it came to my semblance and even now I only use it when I need to. I was the weakest in Beacon but I had to do what I could to not only support my team but to always improve so I could help them if they needed to. Besides, you aren't as weak as you think you are, just some basic fighting lessons can come a long way."

Neo said nothing as she knew all about his skills, or lack of when it came to his time in the Accademy but hearing the basics of training he went through, as well as the self-doubt being erased, Neo would admit that if he gained a better control over his aura then even the more skillful huntsman and huntresses could be considered weaker than him. Then again, if they ever did make it back, then that was for another story. She wanted, needed to get stronger. If she wanted to survive then she needed to not only master her Maimu-Maimu no No but get back into shape, if not more so with her hand to hand fighting.

Strong enough to where she could take down anyone that threatened her, strong enough to easily kill people like Cinder or Raven if she ever had to fight them again. Jaune was the same in a sense, safe to say he nearly went on a war payh when she informed him about what Cinder and those two followers of hers were planning.

It was something he had to admit that he was powerless in, he just hoped his friends and family were alright.

"Hey, look... it's the island" Jaune called out as both women turned to see the landmass that was in view. It was starting to get late so the sooner that they got there was for the best. As they reached the shore, Jaune smirked as he jumped off with gusto, happy to be back on solid groung while Neo and Isaribi followed suite.

"So, which way to the village" he asked as Neo and Isaribi shrugged, it was only until they heard a gunshot and saw a young woman running out of the forest and onto shore that they realized something was wrong. Before the three pirates could say anything however, the young woman was surrounded by four men in suits, suits that brought back memories frm both aura users.

"What's going on, who are they" Isaribi asked as Neo placed an illusion to hide herself, not wanting their location to be noticed, well... hers anyways. Jaune said nothing while his eyes narrowed in on the four other men.

'No doubt about it, they're..." Jaune thought as one of the men noticed them, leveling a gun at Jaune and Isaribi.

"Hold it, you two... come with us to Lord Releo and join her, now" one of them said as Jaune looked at Isaribi, who seemed unsure before he whispered something he knew that only the other two pirates could hear as the man shot the ground near Haines feet. "Hurry it up, the next one is going through your girlfriend's head" he shouted while both Jaune and Isaribi blushed, oh great... first his first mate now his navigator, Neo however shook her head in amusement.

"Alright, just calm down and look out for the snipper" he muttered as he and Isaribi joined the woman in the middle before one of the men smirked two more for the interogation.

"Still, you don't seem like islanders to me... actually, I think I've seen you before, watch them for one moment" one of the men said as both pirates felt a gun to their heads as the man pulled out a booklet with several pictures. Jaune didn't know what he was doing but eventually, the man smirked. "Heh, now I know where I saw you before, you're that damn Huntsman that messed with that newbie Rein Zero's schemes... well isn't this our lucky day"

"Huntsman, I thought you said you were the Silver Blade?" Isaribi asked as Jaune frowned. He was called the Silver Blade because that damn marine back in Palm spread the rumor of him taking that captains sword and killing him with it. Looking at the Panda Family goons holding up a picture of him, more so his current wanted poster, it just made things confusing.

'Guess I'm both the Huntsman and Silver Blade... that's going to be confusing, if he had two different epithets then how many will he have later on? "Look, we don't want any trouble. So but the gin away and let's just-" he started out before he was interrupted by a bullet bouncing off his head, Cleary growing irritated at the assult.

"Huh, what in the world" one of the men muttered as Jaune just calmed down, this wasn't Little Moss, before he was shot a foreseen second time, Jaune sighed when he saw the man's head now have a hole in it, curtessy of Neo while Isaribi froze. Did she have to kill him?

As the other three started to move back in fear, Jaune intercepted them, grabbing two of them by the head and knocking them out while Isaribi launched a bullter of water from her mouth, sending the last man flying into a tree. Once it was over, Jaune looked back at Neo with a small smile as she beamed.

"Did you really have to snipe them?" Jaune asked as Neo shrugged. Hey, in her defense that guy disrespected Jaune my shooting him, and in turn, disrespected her. Besides, better to take out the grunts, especially when they could cause problems in the future. Jaune was too soft at times.

Ignoring the corpse at her feet, Isaribi turned to see the woman looking at them with an amazed expression as Jaune just smiled a bit nervously. "Oh, er... hi, I'm Jaune... you're-"

"How on earth did you do that? Who are you?" she interrupted as Neo crossed her arms while Isaribi just coughed into her clenched fist nervously as Jaune continued.

"So yeah... like I said, the names Jaune Arc, this is my first mate Neo, and my navigator Isaribi. We're pirates" he said as The woman nodded her head before giving a worried glance at the men before speaking up.

"You... can fight these guys, and win... right" she asked as the three of them nodded. Earning a nod in return, the woman ran off into the island forest before turning back to face them. "Let me take you to the cheif... I'll let him explain our plight, if you want" she explained before rushing out of their sight.

As the three of them stared back at where the woman disappeared to, Isaribi spoke up first. "What do we do, follow her?" she asked as Jaune said nothing before Neo looked at her captain, expecting an answer.

"...l guess for now. If those Panda guys are here then this place must be in bad shape. Neo, secure the prisioners, Isaribi... help me move and hide the boats so no one can find them... then we look around for that woman or village chief she mentioned" he said as he went to the boats, leaving the other two to their tasks.

As Jaune was unsure on what exactly what was happening, he had a gut feeling it was bad. And unknown to their comrades, that woman seemed to unnerved each of them.

"You're telling me that you lost communication with the recon unit" a large man grumbled out and stroked his beard with narrowed eyes anger covering his figure and annoyance at his situation route to the front. "And you're also telling me that's you couldn't find anyone else?"

"That's correct sir, according to the other recon units they're searching the area to find out what happened we're still waiting back from them and at the moment some of us don't even think that there are any villagers left despite that the treasure should still be on the island."

Taking a deep breath the large man side and kept his composure before voice interrupted them. So the Recon failed, that's to be expected from low-level grunts. Thinking about it if I'm a sir I would like to personally join the hunt and see if I can't smoke out some of the rats left in hiding."

Looking at the source of the voice, the larger man turned to see a subordanate, a young man with brown hair, dawned in a mask as boss smiled. "I see, you can flush them out then, Olsin? Very well, bring anyone or anything back... take some men and don't disappoint me" Releo said as the masked man nodded, jumping off the ship as several men soon followed.

"Where did she go... she couldn't have gotten this far" Isaribi muttered has she pick up the rear and looked at a small stream of water that's headed back towards the shores.

"I'm not sure, it's getting dark and if we have to deal with with panda guys, not to mention the wild life in the area..." Jaune muttered with a hand on his swords handle while Neo remained quiet, her umbrella deployed out and leaning on her shoulder, keeping an eye on things.

"You know, I think we should set up camp for the night, we should find some cover, like a cave or something, I can make some torches. Is that okay with you too? Jaune asked as both Neo and Isaribi shrugged. Isaribi had to do work with Amachi in an underwater cavern while Neo worked with Roman in the tunnels of Mount Glenn to prepare for that invasion of Vale. Seeing a small cave that they could get into for the night, the three each grab a branch and created makeshift torches before heading on.

"So do you think anything lives in here? the oldest of them asked as Jaune frowned, still on edge and ready for a quick-draw if he needed to act, the last time he entered a cave like this was with Pyrrha and afterwards he still had unsettling dreams about it, as well as a disdain for Death Stalkers. Seeing him shiver made the others confused while Neo was curious when he mentioned something about the Grimm... must have been pretty hard for him since he silently voiced his complaints.

As they kept walking though, it didn't take them long until they arrived in a dark room, it was as big as Beacons caffiteria and there was nothing really similar to the rest of the cave, it's dimly lit flames that shed light on it was just enough for Isaribi to realize something. The walls weren't formed naturally, they were too smooth, chiseled to be flat, Neo's grunt alerted them to something else in the room.

Turning to shed some light on it, the three spotted a large block, something, foreign to the cave as they were. Matching the room's smooth texture, the stone was large and on it, were faint chiseled markings. Looking down to try and read it, Neo silently tried to come up with any kind of similarities or noticeable patterns, Isaribi looked at it, amazed to see something like this in an island like South Blue.

"Any luck, Neo" Jaune asked as the hundreds frowned, shaking her head before placing her ring back on in order to talk.

"I'm not even sure what this is. Looks like code, or random gibberish" she replied, narrowing her eyes before a voice spoje out.

"To you, this might appear to be random gibberish... but to us, this is our greatest treasure" an older man's voice spoke out before the three of them turned and fell into a fighting stance, only to see an old man and the woman from earlier glancing at them as the man continued. "That stone was entrusted to us by our ancestors long ago... one we have promised to protect with our livez, Grace, thank-you for bringing these three here."

"...who are you supposed to be? Neo asked in a tone of clear distrust as the two others followed suit, Grace and the old man sighed before the younger of the two islanders spoke up.

"We... we need you to help us... to help stop and defeat Alan Releo, hello protect our treasure..." she started off strong as she slowly grew more somber. The old man spoke up, however as he did, several others emerged from the darkness, people of different ages, different genders and clothing.

"Please, help us protect this island, from those known as the Panda Family" he begged as Jaune spoke up.

"Uh... sure, but who are you guys?" He asked with confusion in his words before Grace spike up.

"We are... were, those that protected this pineglyph before you, those that can no longer fight to keep it safe and who fought to the end to do so" she said, earning different reactions from the Remnant Pirates.

For Jaune and Isaribi, they knew the significance of the Poneglyphs, Amachi and Miles both having been informed and shared it with them while Neo seemed confused at the wording.

"What do you mean by "were" and "we already did" she demanded as Jaune and Neo smapped out of their thoughts, all while the people looked down until Grace looked at them, her eyes glowing a faint pale blue as her body soon began to glow as well, her body becoming more and more transparent... her tone and complexion, her feet leaving the ground, all before she said her chilling words of remorse.

"Because... we've failed" the ghost muttered, leaving the three pirates to stare in shock, denial and fear. They were surrounded, yet the spirits don't seem hostile to them. "I'll explain how this happened... but please, if we do then in return, we want you to help us..."

"To save us"

"To take them down"

"To finally... set us free"

And here's where I'm ending it, and bringing back in the Panda Family, please leave comments, advice, thoughts or criticism and have a good day.