A/N: Here you are! Next chapter xD

It's a bit short, but I hope you won't mind

"Wow!"

I stared at the ship with big eyes, "How cool!!"

"Yeah, isn't it?"

Luffy laughed as he put me down on the deck. "This is our ship, The Going Merry," he told.

"Did you build it yourself?"

"No, it's a present," Luffy answered.

"From who?"

I sat down on the deck and leaned against the main mast, while looking at Luffy, who also sat down. He now was sitting on the head of the prow figure. "I'm surprised Usopp haven't told you the story of Going Merry already," he said with a smile, "He loves Merry more than anything else. Well, except for a girl named Kaya, who gave us this ship."

"Why'd she give pirates a ship?"

"She and Usopp are very good friends. Besides we helped Usopp saving their village from an evil pirate named Captain Kuro!"

"Kuro? I think I've heard that name before," I mumbled, trying to remember where I had heard it, but I couldn't.

"I think he was called something like Kuro of the Thousand Plans. Or something like that. But he was a jerk! And a crappy pirate!"

"How can you be a crappy pirate?" I asked puzzled.

"He wanted to retreat and throw away his name!"

I could hear the anger in Luffys voice and didn't say anything, so he continued: "Also, he had no respect for his men! He wanted to simply kill them all!"

"Kill his friends?"

"He didn't think of them as friends! To him, they were just underlings who did what he told them to! He was a bastard!!"

I looked at Luffy for a moment. Then I was about to say something, but got interrupted as somebody yelled: "Finally I find you, Straw-hat!"

This was followed by a loud laughter and Luffy looked up in surprise. Apparently he recognized the person laughing, because he jumped to his feet with a big grin on his face. "Hey Ace!"

He waved his hand and jumped up and down on the deck. This made me curious and I turned to find a big ship sailing towards land. On the front deck three persons were visible. They were all smiling, but the two of them was looking rather evil. "Hi Luffy! Finally found you again!" the person with the nice smile yelled and waved back at the Straw Hat.

Then the ship reached us and the anchor was dumped in the ocean. The black-haired boy on the other ship jumped onto the rail and continued onto the Going Merrys rail, so that he was standing right in front of Luffy who grinned broadly. "So what are you doing with… uhm…"

Luffy looked at the two other pirates on the other ship and hesitated a bit, before continuing his question: "With… Alvida… and… what was it again? Boggy? Buggie? No, was it Buhii?... ah yeah! Buffoon, right?"

The guy standing on the other ship was quickly turning just as red as the big nose on his face. "Shut up flashily!" he yelled, "It's Buggy for crying out loud!"

"Oh yeah! That's right!"

Luffy just laughed and turned his eyes to Ace, who answered shortly: "They wanted to find you, so I thought I could help, since they gave me a lot of free food."

"Ah, okay!"

"So where are the rest of your friends?" Ace asked.

"Probably at her house."

Luffy pointed at me and I smiled shyly. "You've got another friend, I guess," Ace remarked and held out his hand towards me.

I hesitated a little, but then took it. "Yeah, this is Sarah!" Luffy presented me, and I blushed a little, feeling stupid, since it now seemed as if I couldn't say my name myself.

"I'm Ace," the black-haired boy told, "Luffys big brother."

"Straw Hat!" Buggy suddenly yelled and Luffy looked at him.

"What?"

A cannon was pointing directly at Luffy and before anybody could react it fired. "Die!"

This was followed by Buggys irritating laughter again, and I covered my ears, since I thought the cannon ball was going to hit Luffy. It also did, but somehow it got reflected and hit Buggy instead. I had closed my eyes, so I didn't see what actually happened, but when I opened my eyes again, the clown was lying on the deck. The cannon ball had apparently hit his body so hard that his head had flown of. At least that was what I thought, before the head suddenly frowned and reattached to the body again. "When will you learn that cannons can't hurt me, red nose?" Luffy asked and laughed.

"Red nose?! You cheeky bastard!"

I slowly stepped back behind the mast of the Going Merry, as Buggy looked really pissed and I didn't want to get in the way. But Luffy didn't look worried at all, and neither did Ace, which made me wonder, how strong those guys really were. "Bara Bara Punch!"

My jaw literally dropped as Buggys right hand flew straight of off his arm and flew towards Luffys throat. The Straw Hat, however, just grabbed the flying hand and threw it to the ground. "Is that all you've got?" he asked with his usually smile on his face.

Then he swung back his right hand and his arm kept stretching backwards for several seconds before finally stopping. "Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" he yelled, and his hand flew forward again.

As it was just about to hit Buggy in the stomach, the clown simply separated his upper body from his lower with a short "Bara Bara Kinkyuu Dasshutsu", and then, as Luffys arm retracted again, his body reattached.

I looked at Ace to see if he wasn't going to help his brother, but Ace had fallen asleep and was now lying on the deck, snoring. Then I felt fingers grab around my neck, and I got lifted up from the deck and through the air until I was floating right over Buggys head. "Haha! Now I've got your little friend!" Buggy roared and laughed again, "Surrender or she'll die!"

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Chop Chop Emergency Escape (or Split Split, depends on who the translators are).

A/N: Hope you enjoyed :D Please review if you got the time