Sanji's voice woke me up a couple minutes later.

"Magnolia-chan~" he called. "Magnolia-chan~" I rubbed my eyes and looked over the edge of the crow's nest. He was holding sweets. "I made a snack for you!"

I climbed down the rope ladder and thanked him. Vivi, Nami and I all sat around and ate the sweets.

Zoro was lifting weights and Luffy, Usopp and Karoo were in the kitchen, eating the stuff Sanji had made for them.

Vivi was holding the Eternal Pose and looking at it nostalgically.

"Vivi… Sorry, I think I'm gonna…" Nami said. "I'm gonna go lie down…"

"That's alright," Vivi said. "I'll keep an eye on our course. You should get some rest."

Nami struggled to get up.

"Are you ok, Nami-chan?" I asked. She didn't look very well.

She collapsed to the ground.

I dropped the pastry from my hand as I rushed over to her with Vivi. She felt Nami's forehead.

"Are you alright?" Vivi asked. "Everyone, come here! This is bad!"

"What's wrong, Vivi?" Luffy asked with a full mouth from the kitchen.

"Nami-san has a terrible fever!" she said.

Everyone crowded around her.

Luffy carried her into our room and set her on the bed.

"Is Nami-san gonna die? Is she, Vivi-chan?" Sanji asked, crying.

Vivi squished out the water from a towel and placed it on Nami's forehead. "It's most likely the climate," she said. "One of the problems all sailors who enter the Grand Line run into is illness caused by abnormal weather. There are countless stories of notoriously strong pirates dying from this."

I gasped and said, "Nami-chan…"

"Is there anyone on this ship with any medical knowledge at all?" Vivi asked.

Usopp and Luffy pointed to Vivi.

"But eating meat makes sickness go away! Right, Sanji?" Luffy said.

"I can make some basic food meant for sick people, but that's entirely different from any medical knowledge," he said. "And there's no guarantee it would work. Besides, I normally put 100 times more care into Nami-san, Vivi-chan and Magnolia-chan's meals than I do with yours… As long as I'm the cook, there'll be no problems whatsoever in terms of balanced diets."

Vivi took her temperature. "Fourty degrees C?!" she exclaimed. "Her fever's gone up again!"

"There'll be doctors when we get to Alabasta, right?" I asked.

"How much longer will it take, Vivi?" Usopp asked.

"I don't know, but one week is out of the question…" she said. "This may be a life-threatening illness."

"Nami's gonna die?!" Luffy asked.

Everyone started freaking out.

"Be quiet!" Vivi hushed.

"Let's find a doctor to help Nami!" Luffy said.

"Ok, ok! Just calm down!" Vivi said. "You're going to make her even worse!"

With that, everyone shut up.

"No," Nami said, sitting up.

"Nami-chan?" I asked.

She took the wet towel off her forehead and said, "In my desk drawer, there's a newspaper…"

Vivi went to go fetch it. She read over the various articles and gasped when she saw one of them. "No… This can't be!"

"What's wrong, Vivi-san?" I asked, looked at the newspaper from behind her.

"300,000 royal soldiers defected to the Resistance…" she said. "It was originally a cold war with 600,000 royal soldiers and 400,000 Resistance soldiers. But now it's changed!"

"The uprising is finally getting serious," Nami said. "The paper's from three days ago. We can't change our speed, so I didn't want to worry you by showing you that… Understand, Luffy?"

"Things seem very bad!" he said.

Yeah, he didn't really get it at all.

"But you still need to see a doctor," Usopp said.

"I'm fine," she said. "The thermometer must be broken, or something. It's sunstroke or something. We don't need a doctor. I'll get better in no time." She stood up and walked to the door. "Let's just head straight for Alabasta as planned."

"So she's better now?" Luffy asked as soon as she walked out.

"She's acting like it's no big deal…" I said.

Vivi was still looked worriedly at the newspaper. Zoro called out for all the guys.

I put my hand on Vivi's shoulder and said, "We'll get there in time. I just know it, Vivi-san."

She stood up with a calm look on her face and said, "I've made up my mind."

She stormed out of the room and up to the deck. I followed her.

"I have a favor to ask of all you," she said. Everyone gathered around. "I know it's not my place to ask you this as a passenger, but my homeland is in a terrible state. We need to get to Alabasta as fast as we can, without wasting a single moment."

"Of course, Vivi," Nami said. "That's what we promised."

"So we need to find an island with a doctor as soon as we can," she said.

Luffy smiled and said, "Yeah! Sounds like a plan!"

"Well said, Vivi-chan!" Sanji said. "I've fallen for you all over again!"

"You got guts," Zoro said.

Nami clung to the railing as she walked over to Vivi. "Sorry, Vivi… I think I am kinda… in trouble…" she said.

Vivi helped her stand up straight and said, "Come on, Magnolia-san. Let's get Nami-san to bed."

I nodded and took Nami's other arm.

"WHAT IS THAT?!" Luffy yelled.

I looked over to the direction he was pointing. There was a huge cyclone made out of water off the side. It started pouring down rain and lighting cracked overhead.

"That's the direction we were just sailing in!" Usopp said.

Vivi looked at Nami with awe. "I've never seen such a navigator before…" she said.

"Alright! Let's go find a doctor!" Luffy cheered.

"Yeah!" we all replied.

We sailed into safer waters as Vivi and I placed Nami on her bed. I put a new damp towel on her forehead.

"I think I can take it from here," Vivi said.

"Ok," I said.

When I got out onto the deck, it was snowing.

I sighed and went back to go get my coat. I climbed up into the crow's nest and bushed away the snow.

It didn't get much colder as the hours passed, but the snow was definitely becoming annoying to brush away. I kept looking all around for islands to stop by.

"See any doctors?" Luffy called up to me.

I laughed and said, "No, not yet." But I saw a figure in the ocean right after that. It was a weird looking man dressed like a court jester. "Wait, there's a guy over there… He's standing on the water!"

"People can stand on the ocean?" Luffy asked.

"C'mon, don't be silly," Usopp said.

"No, seriously!" I said. "There's a guy standing on top of the water!"

They walked over to the front of the ship to see the man.

"Huh?" Luffy asked.

Zoro joined in to see what the man was doing. They all rubbed their eyes to see if he was actually there.

"It sure is chilly today," said the man.

I stared at him, transfixed as to how he was standing on the ocean!

"Yeah, it is chilly today!" Luffy agreed.

"Chilly, chilly," Usopp said, a little confused. "Today's very chilly."

"Really?" the person asked.

All of a sudden the ship was rocked out of place by a bigger ship underneath us. I held onto the railing tightly, so I wouldn't fall off.

"What is that?!" Luffy asked. "A watermelon?"

I highly doubted that a watermelon could be that big.

"Is that a ship?" Zoro asked.

The metal sides lowered to reveal a pirate ship. It was almost galleon sized! I looked with my telescope to see if anyone was on board. There were many, many people on the ship. I gulped and took a step back.

"Did our jumbo underwater raid ship, the Tin Tyrant, surprise you?!" said a disembodied voice from somewhere on the ship.

All of a sudden, men came out of nowhere and surround us on deck, even surrounded me in the crow's nest!

I was paralyzed with fear. There were about six men crowding around and pointing guns at me.

"Are you really pirates? You're strange," said a rather fat man taking a bite out of a piece of meat. "Is it just you four and a half?"

A half?! I thought, very much offended.

"I find it strange that a group of pirates would only have four and a half people," he said, taking a bite out of a sword. When he finished eating it, he said, "Well, no matter. I'll start by asking this… We want to go to the Drum Kingdom. Do you happen to have an Eternal Pose or a log pose?"

"Nope," Sanji said. "Never even heard of the place."

"You're done, right? So leave!" Luffy said. "We're in a hurry. WE don't have time to mess with you!"

"Don't rush life like that," said the man. "But if you have neither, that's alright. For now, I'll take your treasure and this ship."

"What?!" Luffy said.

"But first, I'm feeling a bit hungry…" he said. He bent down and took a bit out of the ship's railing.

He's eating the ship…?

"What is this guy?!" Usopp said, befuddled.

"Don't eat our ship!" Luffy yelled.

One of the men pointed the gun at Luffy and said, "Hold it right there! Wapol-sama is currently eating!"

"Shut up!" Luffy replied, punching him.

"Fire!" said another guy.

They all started shooting Luffy, but the bullets all bounced off of his rubber body.

Zoro and Sanji got excited, they wanted to fight.

"No, wait! We can discuss this!" Usopp said, hiding behind the mast.

I looked at the men surrounding me. They looked a little hesitant to fire.

"What are you doing?!" the man named Wapol asked. "Shoot the girl!"

"But… she's a little girl…" said a man.

I smiled and said, "Tick Tock."

While time was stopped, I took the guns out of the men's hands and threw them overboard.

"Un-Tock," I said, starting time again.

"What?!" one of them asked.

"Where'd our guns go?!" another asked.

I punched and pushed them all out of the crow's nest. I dusted off my hands and said, "That wasn't so hard."

"Wapol-sama…" said a man on the lower deck. "These guys are…!"

"This ship doesn't taste half bad…" said Wapol.

Luffy punched his way over to the rotund pirate, Wapol. "Stop eating our ship!" he yelled.

Wapol actually chopped on Luffy's head, but being the rubber man he is, he was too chewy.

Luffy Gum-Gum Bazooka-ed him into next week.

All the men on board our ship fled to theirs. Apparently, Wapol couldn't swim due to his Munch-Munch Devil Fruit Powers.

"This isn't over! We will make you pay for this!" said the man that stood on water.

They sailed away, yelling threats at us.

Usopp worked on the eaten railings the next day. It was rather annoying, all his hammering.

It wasn't snowing, but it was just very cold. Vivi explained that the constant cold weather was proof an island was nearby.

"Magnolia-san, look out onto the horizon to see if there's an island nearby," Vivi said.

"Got it," I said, putting the telescope up to my eye. "I see it! There's an island!"

Luffy came sprinting up as I announced an island was nearby. As we got closer, everyone could see it.

As we sailed further inland, I made my way onto the deck with my bag. The island was covered in snow. I dreaded the thought of trudging through all the cold, wetness. I hated the cold.

"This is really something," Sanji said. "Look at those mountains."

"Hey, Luffy. Are you cold, dressed like that?" Usopp asked, shivering in all of his layers.

"It's minus ten degrees C right now! That's when bears get ready to hibernate!" Vivi said.

I shuddered at the thought.

He looked back at us and said, "Oh…" He paused and started shivering. "So cold!"

"Took you long enough!" Usopp and Sanji complained.

We came across a small waterfall and decided to stop there.

"Who's going doctor-hunting?" Zoro asked. "Well, people-hunting comes first."

Luffy raised his hand, having put on a coat and gloves. "I'm going!"

"Me too!" Sanji said.

"Ok, have fun!" Usopp said.

All of a sudden, we were surrounded by angry people. "That's far enough, pirates!" one of them said.

"I think I found people…" I said.

"They don't seem too friendly," Usopp said.

"Leave this place at one," said a man who stepped forward. "This instant!"

"We came to find a doctor," Luffy said.

"Our friend is sick!" I said.

"We won't fall for that trick, filthy pirate!" said a citizen.

"Using a child to trick us," said a man. "How dirty do pirates play these days?"

"This is our island! We won't let any pirates land here!" said another.

"Leave now, or we'll blow up the ship!" said another citizen.

"They really hate us…" Sanji said. "And we've only just met."

"Don't talk back!" said the last citizen to speak. He fired a shot at Sanji's feet.

I gasped in terror.

"They're shooting!" Usopp said.

Sanji got really mad, but Vivi held him back. I heard another gun shot and saw Vivi fall to the ground.

I shrieked and yelled, "VIVI-SAN!"

"WHY YOU-" Luffy yelled, incredibly furious.

I fell to my knees beside her and said, "Vivi-san? Vivi-san?!"

She sat up, seemingly unharmed and grabbed Luffy before he could go on a rampage. "Stop! Fighting won't help anything!" she said. "I'm fine! It only grazed my arm!" She got down on her knees and said, "We won't land here. But could we ask for a doctor?" She bowed.

"Vivi-san…" I said, shocked. I got down and bowed with her. I didn't want anyone else to get hurt.

"Our friend is suffering from a grave illness. Please help! I beg you!" she said. "You're not fit to be captain, Luffy. Not everything can be fixed by acting recklessly."

Luffy was silent for a while. "Yeah," he said calmly. "I'm sorry. I was wrong. Please call a doctor! Please help our friend." He got down on his knees and bowed, too.

I cringed, expecting gunfire. None came.

"I will show you to the village…" said a man who had spoken before. "Follow me."

We all sat up and exchanged looks of relief. The citizens followed the man into the village.

"See," Vivi said. "They understood!"

"Yeah!" Luffy said. "You're amazing!"

Vivi smiled. We all got off the boat and followed the villagers. Zoro stayed with Karoo to look after the boat. Sanji carried Nami on his back.

I hated every second of sticking my feet into the deep snow and pulling it out, only to put the other in the cold ick.

The man who agreed to show us to the village said, "The only doctor we have here is a witch."

I gasped, a little bit scared of what was going to happen.

"Witch?" Usopp asked.

"You gotta be kidding me…" Sanji said. "Noting here makes sense. What is this place, anyway?"

"This land still doesn't have a name," said the man.

"A nameless land? Does that really happen?" Vivi asked.

A bear came walking by. Usopp started freaking out, but I was too cold and miserable to care.

"A hiking bear. They're not dangerous," said the man. "Don't forget to bow. It's proper manners."

I bowed at the bear quickly, along with everyone else. The bear bowed back.

We finally arrived in the village named Big Horn. I found it weird how the towns could have a name while the island didn't.

The citizens left, trusting the man's word that we didn't pose a threat.

"Come to my home for now," said the man.

A woman came up to him and said, "Oh, Dalton-san. I heard there were pirates. Is everything alright?"

"Yes, it's ok," he said. "There's nothing to worry about."

The woman nodded and walked away, but a man approached us next.

"Dalton-kun! We're all looking forward to the election in two days!" said the old man. "Everyone says they're going to vote for you."

"You can't be serious…" Dalton said. "I'm nothing but a sinful man."

He seemed very kind and humble.

Dalton led us into his home and said, "Use the bed over there. I'll warm up the place." He set down his things and said, "I'm Dalton, captain of the security squad of this island. Please forgive our… heavy-handed welcome." He paused, turned to Vivi and said, "May I ask you a question?" She nodded. "I somehow feel like I've seen you before."

"I-it's probably your imagination…!" Vivi said. "Anyways, will you please tell us about this witch? Nami-san's temperature was forty-two degrees C when I checked it just now."

"Forty-two?!" he asked.

"It's gone up for three days now…" I said.

"She'll die if it goes up any more!" Dalton said.

"Yes," Vivi said. "But we don't even know the cause of her illness, or how to treat it…"

"We need a doctor! Anyone will do!" Sanji said. "Where is this witch of yours?!"

"See the mountains outside the window?" Dalton said. I looked over and saw the strange cylindrical-shaped mountains. "They're known as the Drum Rockies. There's a caste at the top of the tallest on in the middle. That's where she lives, Dr. Kureha, the witch."

"Of all places, why does it have to be so far away?!" Sanji asked. "Call her right away! We have a critical patient!"

"Even if we wanted to, there's no way to contact her," Dalton said.

"And she calls herself a doctor?!" Sanji muttered angrily. "What the hell is she like?"

"She's a very skilled doctor," Dalton admitted. "But she's an eccentric old hag. She's nearly 140 years old now."

"How's that even possible…?" I asked.

"And… she likes pickled plums," Dalton said.

"What happens when people here get sick or injured?" Vivi asked.

"She comes down from the mountain when she feels like it," he explained. "She looks for patients and treats them. As payment, she takes whatever she wants from their house before leaving."

"She almost sounds like a pirate," Luffy said.

"How does someone so old make it down that steep of a mountain?" I asked.

"Well, it's just a rumor, but some people claim to have seen her riding a sleigh pulled by a strange creature on moonlit nights," he said. "That's why she's called a witch." He sighed and said, "All we can do is wait for the next time she comes down the mountain."

"You can't be serious…" Vivi said.

Luffy shook Nami awake and said that the only way to see a doctor is to climb a mountain, and that they were going to climb it.

Everyone started arguing about how he was going to get up, how Nami was going to get there, and how it would be too hard on her.

"I need to get over this fast…" she struggled to say. "I need to hurry… for Vivi…" She smiled weakly and said, "I'm counting on you, Captain!"

Luffy smiled ear to ear and said, "That's more like it! Leave it to me!"

We were all worried about them going up alone.

"Alright," Sanji said. "I'm coming too."

They walked out the door.

"Listen, Luffy," Usopp said seriously. "Don't even fall once, or you can expect Nami to die!"

Vivi tied a belt around Luffy, securing Nami to his back.

"Ok, that should do it," she said. "I think I'm going to wait here. I'd only get in the way."

"Same here," Usopp said.

"Well, I want to go…" I said. "I mean, it would take less time, but I don't think I'd be helpful beyond that. I'll stay here."

"Got it!" Luffy said. "Ok, Nami! Hold on tight!"

"If you're going, I won't stop you, but at least climb up from the other side," Dalton said. "There are Lapins on this course. They're fierce, carnivorous rabbits. If you encounter a pack of them, you're as good as dead."

"Rabbits?" Luffy asked. "But we're in a hurry. We'll be fine."

"Yeah, I'll kick 'em!" Sanji said.

"Kick? You can't be serious! You'd be walking to your deaths!" Dalton said.

Luffy and Sanji started running for the mountains. We watched as they ran away.

"Will they really be alright?" Dalton asked.

"They're strong," I said. "They'll be fine."

"I'm more worried about Nami," Usopp said.

"Yeah…" Vivi agreed.

We watched them run off into the horizon. Dalton invited us in, but we three insisted on staying outside. He decided to join us.

I took a deep breath and thought; I hope they'll be safe… I wonder what's going to happen.

My vision clouded for a second. I blinked a couple times, thinking snow was in my eye. But it was weird, the eye under my eye patch started to sting. I touched the eye patch, confused as to what was going on. This had never happened before.

"Magnolia?" Usopp asked me.

"Huh?" I asked.

"Are you alright?" Vivi asked.

"Yeah… Just this eye's hurting," I said, pointing to my eye patch.

"Has that ever happened?" Usopp asked.

I shook my head, "First- Ow!" A sharp flash of pain radiated throughout my eye socket.

"Did something get inside it?" Vivi asked. "Have you taken it off recently?"

"Only last night to go to sleep," I said.

"Here, let me see," Vivi suggested.

"Um…" I said. "It's kinda… Weird…"

"Weird how?" she asked, confused.

"There's a working clock on it," Usopp said. "It's pretty cool, actually."

"Clock?" Vivi asked.

"What's going on?" Dalton asked. "Something about a clock?"

"Her eye's bothering her," Usopp said. "Said it's never happened before."

I went to untie the eye patch, but as I got it off, there was another flare of immense pain. "Ow!" I exclaimed, squeezing it shut.

"Here, open your eye," Vivi said. "I'll see if there's something irritating it."

Usopp and Vivi crowded around. Dalton was standing behind them, craning his head to see.

I bit my lip and opened my eye. "Is it bad?" I asked.

(I don't own One Piece or any of the characters. This was made for entertainment purposes only and no copyright is intended.)