The decision

Will the straw hat crew help Luffy get Tia back? Is the storm ever going to stop? Can Jeraud stop his son?

"Put me down already!" Tia yelled in Elli's ear has he was holding her on his shoulder.

"Yes, my Queen." he said arrogantly, he really though he won. He put her down but made stone handcuffs to keep her from moving too much.

"Shut up! I'm not your Queen." Tia said angered. She sat on the floor and tried to break the handcuffs.

"Why yes you are. You can kiss your dream goodbye." He said and added made a low chuckle, for her effort of trying to break the handcuffs and at her dream.

"H-how do you know about that?!" she said embarrassed but more angry.

"You forgot I can read minds, you know I could prove it to you anytime, and have fun embarrassing you at that." He said with another chuckle.

"Whatever." She said trying not to care too much about what he said. She brought her knees close to her chest and laid her head on them and looked away, she was really tired.

"Oh really?" he said trying to irritate her, and it was working.

"Yeah." She said tiredly. Still looking away, and when Elli had his back turned she let a tear roll down her cheek. 'Why did it have to turn out this way?' she thought to herself.

"What have we now?" Elli said, turning towards the door as if he was expecting something.

After a minute the door was broken down, and there was someone there. It was too dark to see. It seemed to be a man, but he just stood there for awhile before taking two steps forward. Tia forced her eyes to try identify the man.

"You've gone too far this time, Elli!" he said with anger. "I can't let you do this!"

"You!" Tia said recognizing the voice and seeing him a little better.

"So you really do want to save her?" Elli said. "Right, old man?"

"I thought I could let you do this at first… but I can't anymore, it's not right!" he said.

"You never truly supported me in anything…Father." Elli said bitterly.

"It's not because I don't love you son, it's because it's wrong." said Elli's father, Jeraud.

"What's so wrong about sacrificing this girl for the sake of power?" said Elli emotionless. Tia was getting more and more confused while she listened to both man talking.

"What's going on? I don't understand?!" yelled Tia, confused and angered.

"I'm so sorry I got you into this Tia." said Jeraud sadly.

"Well I'm not sorry." said Elli arrogantly. "Should I tell her? Or do you want to?" he asked.

"Allow me." said Jeraud, moving closer to Tia to tell her what she had to hear.

"Jer…." said Tia worried and scared, not knowing was this was all.

"Truth is Tia…" said Jeraud getting ready to tell her. "The only reason I took you in as my apprentice in the first place was because you were a young vulnerable girl, and we needed someone like that. We would make you strong. It was like turning a seed into a flower. We need someone like that so we could perform an ancient spell of power. The combination of you and my son could have brought lots of power; you would have been able to cast any spell you would have wanted with not much effort. You could have ruled the world."

"So I was just some object to you?! Was I some toy?!" Tia cried angrily, crying in betrayal and frustration.

"At first yes, but seeing how wonderful you were, and how hard you worked to make your dream come true…. I couldn't force you to marry my son if you didn't want to anymore… I'm sorry Tia." said The Lord looking very ashamed. Tia couldn't say anything, she was still in shock.

"Well there is nothing any of you can do now." said Elli overconfidently.

"I will stop you, as the Lord of this island I can't let you do this!" said Jeraud.

"If I were you," he said giving an evil eye towards his father. "I wouldn't be saying that."

"You are my son! I will not, cannot let you do this!" said Jeraud getting up and walking toward his son with an angered look and a tear running down his face; he was ready to kill him if he had to, it was for the good of the whole island. Elli was too evil.

"So you think you can beat me? You're just an old, worthless man!" he said with a touch of hatred that frightened both Tia and Jeraud.

"How can you say that to your own father?!" yelled Tia in frustration.

"He means nothing to me! Just stay quiet already!" he yelled at Tia.

"That hurts son..." he said regretfully. "How did you become this way?" he asked.

"I've always been this, your kindness is weak!" he said.

"A kind heart is never weak!" said Jeraud while murmuring a spell that formed a fireball in his hand. He threw it at Elli who dodged it easily.

"And so that battle between father and son started!" Elli said with amusement.

They both started going after each other and Tia couldn't do very much, all she could do was try to warn Jeraud of attacks from behind and try to hit Elli with a few of the spells she knew she could use with her hands behind her back, still in the stone handcuffs. They stopped for a few second to catch their breath and Tia could see Elli had landed more hit of Jeraud then they both had. Jeraud was in a pretty bad shape.

"You want to give up now old man?" asked Elli with an air of superiority.

"Never! I will not be defeated this easily!" he said between each breath he took. Clearly, he was tired of this fight; it had been going on for a while now.

'I wonder if Luffy's ok. The he take my advice and ran away with his crew?' Tia thought sadly. 'Well if he did, it's best if he's ok. I should probably give him a message somehow…..I know!' she tough of an idea to give Luffy a message, she didn't know much about what was going on but Elli had told her the wedding was tomorrow night, she'd give him till then to either help her or run away.

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Earlier before

"Oh that girl you mention?" asked Zoro after awhile of wondering who it was.

"Yeah. Can you please help?" said Luffy.

"I will always help a girl in need. I'll never forgive the person who hurt her!" said Sanji angry with whoever would hurt a woman.

"I will too!" yelled Usopp, since he knew this girl was important to Luffy, Usopp couldn't say no, even though he was scared. Luffy smiled at him.

"I guess I'll help too, I just got my sword sharpened, and I'd like to try them out on someone." Zoro said ready to fight.

"I can't let a lady down either." said Brook agreeing with Sanji.

"I'd like to meet this person, so I'll help too." said Robin.

"I guess we have to do what captain tells us to." said Nami in an easy going way. Nami and Robin were the only ones who could see there was something more between this girl and their captain, they weren't told like Usopp had, but they could tell.

"I'll be there to heal your injuries if anyone gets hurt." said the little reindeer.

"Thanks everyone!" Luffy said to his crew, feeling proud and lucky to have people like them in his crew.

"So what exactly happened?" asked Usopp.

"I'm not really sure… but I know he's making her marry him." said Luffy seriously.

"Who is 'he'?" Nami asked. Luffy hadn't told them much but they all knew he was serious, and that's why they all agreed to help him. Now they just needed to know what was going on.

"All start from the beginning." He started saying, but he was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"I'll get it." Said Sanji while getting up and walking towards the door. "What the?" he said when he opened the door.

"A cat?" said Usopp as he laughed.

"Aiko!" said Luffy when the cat came in and he recognized her.

"Who's Aiko? You mean the cat?" asked Zoro.

"Yeah! That's Tia cat!" he said happily as he welcomed the cat to sit on his lap.

"Meow!" said the cat as she showed them a letter that was attached to her collar.

"What's this?" said Luffy as he took the letter from Aiko's collar. He unfolded it and it was blank. "A blank piece of paper?" Luffy asked has he unfolded it. Suddenly the word 'No' appeared on the paper. "Whoa! What is this? I think it answered me!" said Luffy in excitement. "Papier Savoir." Luffy read from the paper.

"Did you say 'Papier Savoir'?" asked Robin as everyone turn to look at her.

"To you know what this is?" asked Luffy as he showed her the paper.

"Yes, I read about it when Chopper and I were at the library." said Robin.

"Is that what you looked interested in?" asked Chopper.

"Yes. When someone owns one of those, it can know and record all that the owner knows. So you can ask it any question and it'll answer you if it can." said Robin matter-of-factly.

"Good, it'll be able to help." said Luffy looking back at the paper. "Good girl." He said to Aiko.

"Where's Tia?" he asked the Papier Savoir.

"Devoveo Tower." was written on the paper.

"It's this tower right here." said Nami as she pointed at the tower that was behind the castle.

"Did you make that map?" asked Zoro.

"Yes, did you really think I would let this opportunity pass?" said Nami smiling.

"That's great Nami! You're amazing!" said Sanji all lovey-dovey.

"At least we know where we're going." said Luffy. "What else to we need to know?" he asked the paper he still held in his hands.

The Papier Savoir filled them in; they now knew what was happening this very second. That Jeraud was fighting Elli, the real purpose behind the marriage, that Tia was handcuffed and couldn't do much to help him, and that the wedding wasn't until tomorrow night.

"How 'bout we wait till then?" asked Zoro.

"What?!" said Luffy.

"I don't like it either but…Luffy it's late, we'd be stronger tomorrow. The paper even said Tia wanted you to wait till tomorrow." said Sanji a bit ashamed of himself.

"Alright, It'll be tomorrow, at least we know she's okay." said Luffy bitterly and feeling weak that he'd have to save her tomorrow. "Let's all get some sleep." He said as he went to his room leaving the paper behind and being followed by the little kitten.

"She means a lot to him, doesn't she?" asked Sanji.

"More than you think." Said Usopp said while still looking at the area where Luffy left.

"Hmmm? What's that mean?" asked Sanji with a questioning look.

"Oh-Uh! Nothing!" said Usopp as he realized what he had just said. "Good night!" he said as he quickly tried to run away from the crowd.

"Wait just one minute!" said Sanji as he took him and pulled him to the ground to start is investigation.

"Ah! What lovely weather! I think I'll go for a walk!" said Usopp as he tried to get up and run away from Sanji.

"There's a huge storm outside, you fool!" yelled Sanji as he sat Usopp back on the floor.

"Oh, that's right." Said Usopp as he starched the back of his head and tried to look innocent.

"What's happening between Luffy and Tia?" asked Sanji with a tell-or-you-die look on his face.

"Let it go Sanji." said Nami. "Let's just get some sleep we have a big day tomorrow."

"Okay Nami!" he said sweetly to Nami.

Sanji gave Usopp one least glare before going to his room like the rest of them. Everyone fell asleep quickly. It's wasn't till the sun came up that the storm started to die down, but it was still pretty violent when the straw hat crew woke up that morning. Sanji woke up first to make everyone breakfast. It all seemed normal till Luffy came in the room last. He sat emotionlessly at his seat, looked at the food in front of him and ate his meal in a matter of seconds but still without much emotion. The whole room was quiet; no one wanted to say a word.

"Are you guys ready?" Luffy asked as he finished his meal.

"Yes." They all replied and, thinking Luffy was back to normal, gave him a smile. Thankfully he gave one back.

"Thanks guys." He said to his crew. 'I hope we'll make it in time… Maybe I should ask a couple more questions to that piece of paper.' He though while eyeing the Papier Savoir. 'They better not have hurt her.'

He walked towards the Papier Savoir and the sleeping kitten that seemed to be protecting it in her sleep.

"Good morning Aiko." He greeted the cat as she woke up and meowed her greetings to Luffy.

"Let's see." said Luffy as he picked it up. "How's Tia?" he asked the paper. "What?!" he yelled as he read what was written on the paper. "Oh no…" he said quietly in disbelief. "This can't be…."

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To be continue! You'll have to wait till the next chapter to know what was written on that paper, sorry (: