This took longer than I expected to write. Due to changes in my schedule, I'll be updating once a week now. Either Mondays or Tuesdays.

"Ms. Nami! I have a report of love! Dark clouds ahead and looks like there a storm under them!" Sanji yells down.

I look at Nami standing next to me, in front of the lounge studying a map. "We back on our original course?"

She nods, tense. "Seems like it. I don't understand how we are going up a mountain though."

I shrug. "There seems to be a current that helps us get up. We'll have to find it quickly and hope we don't crash into the Red Line."

"Would you be able to change our course if we were in the wrong one?" she looks at me hopeful.

I thought about for a moment, "With the strength of the current that is indicated...nope."

She deflates. "How are we going to know we are in the right current?"

"You. That's how." I point to her.

She looks at me confused. "...I don't get it."

"Have you been meditating like I asked you to? Focusing on the winds, sea, and sky?"

She frowns. "Yeah, I have. Doesn't seem to be helping anything."

"Really? You're aren't sensing wind changes faster? Current changes? A storm gathering?" I prod her.

Her eyes widened. "Actually I am. Even though we didn't turn away fast enough, I knew we needed to stop before we entered the Calm Belt. Also, that thing with the mirage on the water, at the other island, I was calm as I could feel there was nothing wrong happening. Other times too."

I smile. "Yep, I think you have some sort of Haki that goes beyond a typical navigators instinct to predict weather."

She grins. "That's would be incredible. How come it isn't mentioned though in that book Luffy lent me?"

I shrug. "It's my theory. No one knows everything Haki can do. It's an extension of yourself, so it's a possibility."

She nods, "I see." She was going to say more when she turns around and yells inside to Usopp at the helm, to turn the ship more to the starboard side. "Now!"

I feel the ship shift a bit. "Told you. We'll be fine, Nami."

She sighs. "I guess. Still...a mountain."

I chuckle. "We just saw dragons, this isn't that far off.

"True." She calls out, "Everyone inside! I want to discuss what's going to happen!"

We all gather inside the lounge and I lean against the wall, staring at Usopp trying to move the helm as Nami talks.

"Really, we'll be climbing up a mountain?" Zoro asks in disbelief.

"Based on Luffy's book, rumors, and this map, it seems like it." Nami replies.

Luffy laughs in excitement. "Neat. I wish we were crossing already."

"Don't you understand the danger if anything goes wrong?! This is the reason only half who try make it to the Grand Line, live!" Nami burst out.

"I do know and I don't care. We'll be fine." Luffy states nonchalant.

Nami opens her mouth to yell and I cut in. "Relax Nami. Take deep breathes, search around and tell me, are we in danger?"

She glares at me, "It's a little hard with him yelling in the background." She points to Usopp still trying to move the helm.

"It's no use, Usopp." I call out to him. "We are locked in a current flowing straight to Reverse Mountain, and then the Grand Line."

Usopp stops yelling and walks to the table. I look at Nami.

She sighs and closes her eyes. After a few minutes she opened them and look around, "I'm still not entirely convinced, but I sense no danger. What about you?" She looks at me.

I smile at her. "You seemed to have timed it right. Even at this distance, I can see that we are most likely in the right current."

"That's not reassuring! I need a definitive, 'yes'!" she glares at me once more. The sound of rain on the cabin stopped her from yelling at me more. "Sanji, Luffy, tie up the sails."

"Right away, Ms. Nami!" Sanji yells as he dashes out the door dragging Luffy.

I put on a waterproof military style hat and followed them out. While they tie up the sails I stare ahead while standing in front of the lounge. Seeing the huge rock in front of us I yell out, "Red Line and Reverse Mountain straight ahead!"

The others except Luffy, still up where he had finished tying the sails, rushed to stand near me and stare at the huge reddish cliff face in front of us.

"T-that's...insanely h-huge!" Usopp stutters out. "I-I can't see the top, because of the clouds!"

Luffy laughs. "The Red Line, eh?" He looks back at me grinning. "Finally here!"

The ship jerks as it's pulled into the current that'll take us up Reverse Mountain. Luffy is thrown of his perch but quickly rights himself.

I look at Nami. "Are we on the right course? If needed I could adjust slightly, but only that much."

She stares straight ahead, after a few moments she grinned. "No, we're perfectly on course."

"It's so hard to believe, even looking at it, but the ocean really is going straight up the mountain!" Zoro states.

"Those water gates, we are perfectly in the middle, get through those and we are safe." Nami speaks out tensely.

Luffy runs to sit on the figure-head despite the fierce rocking of the boat. I jump over the railing and run to stand by the railing at the figurehead, just as we pass through the gates safely.

"We made it!" Everyone yells in relief an excitement.

"Yahoo! It's now just a straight shot to the summit!" Nami tells everyone, with a grin that could almost rival Luffy's.

Zoro stands next to me. The rest soon follow, everyone laughing in joy.

After a few minutes, we pass into the clouds, and then emerge out of them to see the summit. It sparkled as water sprayed into the air, crystallizing and then bursting apart.

"Beautiful," I breath out.

We are pushed straight into the air and then fall down perfectly to the current going into the Grand Line.

"Whoohoo!" Luffy yells in excitement. "I can see it! The Grand Line! The Greatest Sea in the world, here we come!"

We shoot back down the mountain and officially enter the Grand Line. The others celebrate, but Luffy and I look at each other.

"Skye do you sense that?"

"That giant creature somewhere below us?" I look into the water trying to see it.

"Yeah, he sounds so sad though." Luffy comments.

I was about to ask more when I felt the creature beginning to rise in the water. "It's surfacing!"

"'He', Skye! It's a he!" Luffy corrects me.

"Well isn't that nice. He is going to turn us into smithereens if we don't move the ship!"

"Oh, right! Everyone to the oars we need to move closer to the lighthouse!" he yells to the still celebrating others. "Now!" Luffy orders as they try to ask why.

We move only slightly closer when the creature surfaced from the water. Thankfully we are far enough from it that the waves it made pushes us closer to the lighthouse. I stare at the giant whale that had appeared.

"That was close," I comment.

"Maybe a warning next time?" Zoro asks.

"I'll try, but I wasn't expecting that whale to surface so soon and move so fast."

"What's up with Luffy?" Sanji asks.

We look at him standing at the back of the ship staring at the whale.

I look at Zoro. "Do you see the same thing I do?"

He sighs. "He's going to fight that whale, isn't he?"

I nod and the others start protesting.

"Shut up!" Zoro yells and they quiet. He walks to Luffy. "Do you want us to move closer?"

Luffy grins at him. "Just a bit."

We row closer and Luffy uses Geppo to reach the whale. They seem to converse for a bit when Luffy surges forward, punching the whale.

The whale knocks him back into the lighthouse. They went back and for a few minutes Luffy using Haki, Geppo, and Tekkai to protect himself.

"It's a draw!" Luffy yells out stopping the whale.

"I'm strong, right? You want this fight to continue, to see who is stronger, don't you?" Luffy grins. "You're friends are dead, but I'm your rival forever! We have to fight again in order to see who is stronger. After going around the Grand Line we'll come back to see you again. When I come back we'll fight again!"

"Look, the whale is tearing up." I tell the others, as the whale seems to cry out in joy.

Nami gasps. "Eh? What did Luffy learn about this whale to make that promise and the whale respond like that?"

I shrug. "Don't know." I study the whale. Looking at the body of the whale I noticed something odd. "Hey guys, am I seeing things or is that a door in the side of the whale?"

"You're definitely seeing things," Zoro says as turns his head to look, "there is no way..." he trails off as he sees it.

"It's door alright," Sanji comments. "Why though?"

Before anyone could make a guess, we saw someone appear from the top of the whale.

"Did he just climb out of the whale?" Nami asks, wide-eyed.

"Seems like it." I'm going to say more when I feel two presences approaching on the water.

Putting on my mask and concealing myself, I air-walk to their boat. Seeing the weapons in the two people's hands and sensing their killing intent, I knew the whale was their target. Using a Water slice I cut their weapons apart.

Dropping behind them, I drop the concealment, "My Captain seems to be fond of that whale. It would be your best interests to leave him be."

They turn around in surprise and fear, seeing me they try to attack. I immobilize them quickly with water cuffs on the hands and feet.

"Who are you?" the woman of the two, tried to seem brave, but I could smell her fear, even through the mask.

"Tch. That is my question to you. I'll have my answer later. Right now I'm going to take you to my Captain. Geppo!" I air-walk to the light house, carrying the two in a net I quickly formed instead of the cuffs.

Reaching Luffy at the shore, I drop the two on the ground. They try to make a run for it, but Luffy quickly stopped them.

"Who are these two, Skye?" Luffy looks at them then at me curious.

I shrug. "Don't know. They did want to kill the whale though. So I brought them to you to deal with."

"Laboon. His name is Laboon." Luffy glares at me.

I glare back. "I have no way of knowing that, short of talking to him" I point to Laboon, "which, unlike you, I can't."

He rubs the back of his neck, embarrassed. "Sorry, I just really like this guy." He glares at the two still trying to discreetly escape. "Stop trying to leave, and tell me who you are, and why you're trying to kill Laboon!"

"I'm Ms. Wednesday!" The blue-haired girl states.

"I'm Mr. Nine!" The man with the crown and marks shaped like nines on his face. "Killing that whale would feed our town for 2-3 years."

I study them, "Code-names. Why do you have those?"

"None of your business." Miss Wednesday replies.

I shrug. "Fair enough. Eventually I'll find out though."

Luffy was glaring at the two making them cower, "No one is killing Laboon. He and I have a promise to fulfill."

"And I thank you for that." an unknown voice says.

We look to the water to sea that the others had docked to Going Merry and were jumping off the ship with an old man.

Luffy grins. "Ah, you must be Crocus. Laboon was telling me about you and how you stop him from ramming the Grand Line."

The man scowls. "If I didn't, he'd eventually kill himself."

Luffy nods. "I see. Well, I was wondering if you have a lot of paint and a big brush?"

Crocus stares at Luffy for a long minute. "Yes, I do. Why?"

Luffy smiles, "I want to make a sign of our promise." Luffy stares at Laboon, or more specifically his scars.

I sigh. "Do you mind if I paint it? I'm not as good as Usopp, but I'm a bit better than you."

"No! I will paint it!" Luffy declares.

A short while later, Laboon's head was painted with the Straw Hat Pirate's Jolly Roger, although it was very...crooked. It was sweet though, an assurance and also a deterrent for Laboon not to keep hitting his head on the Red Line.

I look at the two we had tied up. "I guess we are taking these two to whatever island they're from?"

"Tch. Do we have to?" Zoro asks. "There is something about tem that's bothering me."

"You mean their code names?" I ask him.

"Yeah. It reminds me of something, I just can't remember it right now." He stares at the for a long minute, creeping them out. He then shrugs, "Well, it'll come to me." He yawns. "I'm going to take a nap." He walks off to sit down and lean against something.

I shake my head a smile on my face. "Ah, well I guess I'll go see what Nami is doing." I look at the tied up pair. "I don't really care what happens to you two as long as you don't cause trouble for us." I glare at them. They shrink back in fear.

Nodding in satisfaction I walk over to Nami who is sitting at a table nearby looking at a map and our log pose.

Nami looks up at me as I sit on a seat across from her. "Hey Skye. Did you hear Laboon's whole story?"

I shake my head. "Not the whole thing, but I know enough. Waiting for a long 50 years for someone who's never coming back. About to eventually kill himself, hitting his head repeatedly, and then Luffy makes his promise."

Nami gives me a reproachful look, "There's more to it."

"Tch. I know, but..." I shrug. "I don't want to look into it more."

"Cold heart."

"Perhaps. It's how I live. There are a few things that can touch my slow heart. Besides, I take on his sorrow, it becomes mine, and I've already got enough."

She nods. "Fair enough. We just have to wait a bit for the log pose to set. Oh! Take a look at this." She hands me her compass.

It was spinning around like crazy. "Whoa. I knew that the magnetic field here was different, but it's one thing to see it." I hand her back the compass. "I'm really thankful Luffy was given a log pose. I have no idea how one is even made."

Nami nods staring at the log pose on her wrist. "Yeah, we'll have to be really careful with this one. We can't let it break."

"Actually, we have another one." I pull it out from my satchel and show it to her. "It'll be a good back up."

She gasps. "Where'd you get that?!"

I smirk, "I may or may not have pick-pocketed it from Mr. Nine."

She smiles and laughs. "So I'm not the only thief. Nice one, Skye."

I just smile and put it back into my satchel. I take off my mask and relax as I sense the two prisoners make their escape. Sanji comes to our spot with huge plates of food.

"Ah so you were finally able to cook that fish you won at Loguetown." I comment.

"Yes! Hopefully Luffy won't eat it all." Sanji looks around suspicious.

"I won't. I may love to eat, but I know not to eat other's portions." Luffy comments as he dashes to sit in a seat, staring at the food hungrily.

They all sit down to eat and Crocus joined in. Soon the fish was gone. Nami starts talking to Crocus, getting pointers on navigating through the Grand Line.

I look to the sea as I hear an explosion and sense two animals flying off. Weird...wonder why they were here.

Laboon come up and throws two people onto the shore. I sigh. I was hoping we'd seen the last of those two. They're hiding something.

Sanji runs down and helps Ms. Wednesday up and starts walking back here with her. Mr. Nine says something causing Sanji to look back.

When all three reach us, Sanji points to them, "Apparently they have a favor to ask."

Luffy, who had moved to sit on the table, stares at them. "What do you want?"

The bow before him, "Could you take us to Whiskey Peak?" Mr. Nine asks.

"Whiskey Peak? Odd name. Where is that?"

"It's where we live. Could you take us there?" Ms. Wednesday pleads.

"That's asking a lot after you tried to kill Laboon, don't you think?" Nami points out.

They look a bit guilty, and very nervous.

"Who're you guys?" Usopps asks.

"And why did two animals try to blow you up?" I throw in as a guess, enjoying being proven right as they pale.

"We can't say!" Miss Wednesday cries.

"But we want to go back to the town." Mr. Nine adds. "We don't wan to be so secretive, but.."

"'Mystery' is the motto of our company after all."

I get up and get to their level. "A company that blows up their workers, is never a good one. Especially one that prides themselves on secrecy. Isn't that right, Miss Wednesday?" I say her 'name' in a mocking tone.

She glares at me. "You know nothing."

I stare at her in surprise, as I hear the note of desperation as she says that. "You're desperate to stay in the company, but are already disgraced."

She doesn't look at me, but I see her fists clenched, pressed against the ground. "I have to go back."

I stare at her for a long time, cursing my still beating heart. Something about her resonated with me.

"Skye?" Luffy asks.

"I vote we help them." I sigh as I get up to stand next to the table.

"Unusual for you." Luffy comments.

I just shrug, staring at the girl.

"Hmm...you guys don't want to help them, do you?" Lufy asks the others.

They shake their heads no.

"Well, we are going! Shishishi" Luffy grins. "Whiskey Peak, was it?"

The others sigh, knowing protesting is pointless.

"But you can only choose your route from here, the starting point." Crocus tells him.

"If we don't like it, we can always go around one more time." Luffy replies.

"I see..." Crocus grins.

"We'll let's go. Now that I've made my prmise with the whale, eaten and gotten our starting point, we can start our journey." Luffy gets up and stretches.

"Who're you?" Miss Wednesday asks.

"I'm the man who is going to be King of the Pirates," Luffy replies with a grin.

The two laugh quietly and I rush behind them. "Make fun of him, and you won't make it to Whiskey Peak, understand?" I threaten them in a dark voice, quietly.

They freeze, "Yes, we understand." They whisper in sync.

The others move off to the ship to prepare, including the two, but I hang back for a minute to ask Crocus something.

He looks at me, "You're not going with them?"

"I will in moment. There's something I need to ask you..." I hesitate.

"Ask away."

"Luffy...he reminded you of something, or maybe someone. I saw the same look on another, when we were in Loguetown...who is it?"

Crocus smiles, "Probably someone we both met for a short time, yet impacted us in ways that changed us forever." Crocus nods. "You've chosen quite the man to follow if he can make us think of him."

I sigh. "That tells me nothing. I already know that I've chosen to follow a unique man."

"Do you believe he will find the One Piece?" he stares at me.

I grin. "I believe it, and I'll be there every step of the way, following him and making sure his recklessness doesn't kill him first. He'll find it though."

"SKYYYYYYEEEEEE!"

I roll my eyes. "Captain's calling. Thank you for the small amount of information you gave me. It's at least a piece to the puzzle."

I jump down to the ship and we're soon moving off to the call of Laboon.

"To Whiskey Peak!"

"What in the world is with this snow? Crocus mentioned odd weather patterns, but sudden snow?" Nami mutters. She turns around from the window and glares at me, "How are you not freezing?"

I look at my bare arms, as I had taken off my jacket and was wearing a tank top. "Don't know. I like colder temperatures and for some reason this level of cold isn't effecting me." I grin "It's nice."

"Go outside!" Nami points to the door.

"Fine, fine. So grouchy." I get up and open the door walking outside.

"Close the door!"

I turn back and close the door. Turning around I look at Luffy's snowman. "Nice job."

He laughs. "Not as nice as Usopp's though." He points to the other's sculpture.

I nod in appreciation. "Not surprised. He's a really good artist." I look around at all the snow. "Hey Luffy, this would be good training ammo. We can throw as much as we'd like and it wouldn't be too painful. Might sting a bit as you're hit more, but it shouldn't be too bad."

He agrees. "Alright, everyone out here!"

Everyone, except Miss Wednesday and Mr. Nine, came out.

"What is it Luffy? It's too cold to stay out here long." Nami shivers as she speaks.

Luffy grins. "It's training time. Zoro needs to work on dodging projectiles. The rest of you are close to unlocking Haki. Snowballs will be helpful and less painful."

Everyone agrees and begins making tons of snowballs. With that done, Luffy and I blindfold everyone.

I start throwing snowballs at Zoro. After a few fast throws he grumbles.

"You are enjoying this way too much." He fails to dodge another snowball aimed at his head.

"Yes, I am. The thing is, if you can't get past your annoyance at me, you won't be easily provoked in a real fight, thus keeping your much needed concentration." I throw more snowballs. "The thing is, in your fight with Mihawk, you let his low opinion of you, cloud you. When you began to see that you were so far from his level, desperation clouded your actions."

"In other words, I need to fight with a clear mind." Zoro guesses. He almost dodges a snowball.

"Yes. Emotions are good, they drive you. If you let them control youthough, you lose. Find the balance, the rhythm. Don't listen with your ears though, listen with your heart. You don't use your mind to fight, it relies solely on the senses. You use your heart. Sync your heartbeat, your senses, with the world around you..."

He stopped trying to dodge my throws and let them hit him. I watch as he takes deep breathes, focusing. Listening. After a few more hits, something shifts. He begins dodging, smoothly weaving between each snowball. I change it up, throwing at his legs, then his torso, I do random throws and he dodges each one.

I laugh. "There we go! You've got it!" I stop throwing snowballs and tell him to take off his blindfold. "What changed?"

He grins. "Do you know that moment in a fight where everything falls away and It's just you, your heartbeat, and your opponent?"

I nod.

"I've felt that, when I've been close to death, but I felt that just now, death nowhere in sight." He stares at me. "Skye, what does it mean to be able to cut nothing?"

"You already know."

"Now I do. How do I learn to do that regularly? I won't always have a moment to center myself. Actually I don't even know if I can do that with a sword."

"That is entirely up to you. I have an advantage of seeing life's rhythm, because of my powers. You though, you can do it without them. I'm kind of jealous of your skills." I give him a soft smile.

He looks embarrassed and walks off mumbling, swearing at me and then going over training plans.

"You rattled him. You're rarely nice to him." Luffy comments as he comes to stand next to me. "I mean, even a compliment?"

I shrug. "I mean it though. All of you amaze me. I have my smarts, but the rest of me is from an experiment. You guys though, it's all from training and natural gifts.

"There's more about you that isn't a result of an experiment than you think. Like I said, someday you'll see it."

I hummed. "Maybe, how did the others do?" I change the subject.

"Surprisingly, Usopp unlocked his Haki." Luffy grins.

I look at him in shock, "Really? No offense to Usopp, but I really thought Sanji would be next."

"Shishishi, so did I. Everyone heard your words to Zoro though, and I think it really struck Usopp combined with your advice from earlier. What was it, anyway?"

"Hmm...he's our sniper. It's really good he's unlocked his Haki. I told him that as a sniper, he may not be as strong as you Monster Trio, or be in the thick of a fight, but he's no less important. He sees what others cannot because he has a different view. He can take out an opponent you wouldn't sense coming. I also told him, that with Haki, if visibility is limited, he'd be able to find any of us, or hit an invisible opponent"

"Ahh, yes. Something about that and today clicked, and he's unlocked it. He's not quite good at dodging yet, but almost has it working consistently and he can find everyone each time."

"Good, good. Sanji's already learned Soru. Which I'm not the least bit surprised with his leg strength, and he already had good speed. Nami is getting better with her new staff, that Usopp and I worked on. She can now make small weather phenomenons, plus with her increasing strength, a hit with that staff is going to hurt."

"Shishishi. Yep. I'm happy with everyone's progress." Luffy grins, looking around at the snow. "By the way, everyone, even Zoro, went inside to warm up."

I nod and look up as lightning flashes and wind begins blowing. "Are we on course?"

"Yep. Nami checked the log pose every few minutes or less and adjusted. It was very odd we were in the snow for so long."

Nami bursts out of the cabin with the others, shouting orders to keep the ship on course as the weather changed to sunny. Luffy and I pitched in.

We went through a few weather changes and damages to the ship before it was calm again.

I repair the last of the bottom of the ship, mending it together and sit back exhausted.

Usopp looks at me, "Thanks, Skye. I know it must be hard to do that and keep the water out."

I give him a thumbs up. "It's fine. Go on up and I 'll be there in a minute."

He nods in understanding and leaves, I join the others on deck as soon as I feed a little and rest. I look around and see them all laying on the deck exhausted.

I walk over to Nami, "So how'd you like your first taste of navigating the Grand Line?"

She darkens and glares at me, "Shut up." I swear I could see fire around her. She gets up. "Well, I know how not to navigate here. It'll be fine though, because look! We finished our first journey. Whiskey Peak!" She points ahead.

I turn around and see a strangely shaped island. "Looks like cacti." I comment and the others agree.

Miss Wednesday and Mister Nine jump ship after an odd farewell. We look around and see a river.

"Looks like we can go inland by using the river," Nami comments.

"Skye!" Luffy calls.

"On it!" I put on my mask and as soon as we were a bit inland I jump off the ship and rush to where I could sense a lot of people.

Walking around and using a mix of Shadow and Light, I go unseen among the residents listening to their conversations and looking at the preparations. Seeing some put on disguises, hide weapons and other things. Slipping to what seems to be the leaders office, I find nothing of note. What are you hiding? Those two needed to return for some reason...

Centering myself, I use Haki to scan the island for the two. Sensing the two I determine the general direction they're headed. Rushing to a point ahead of them I see nothing and quickly run forward under a concealment, looking around the area.There!

Seeing a log hut, I stop at it, sticking to the shadows. Seeing the strange mailbox I conceal myself and walk to it. I smirk as I see the emblem on the box, and the word Baroque. Well...doesn't tell me anything about it, but at least I know the name of the company they work for now and a bit of what they do.

I rush back to the ship just before they reach the false welcome. I drop the concealment as I knew the leader had done his research and knew I was part of the crew.

Luffy looks at me, "So?"

I nod, "It's fine. It's a place that welcomes pirates." With Air, I decide to tell Zoro, Nami, and Luffy the truth. I believe they can act well enough to fool everyone. "Be on guard. This is a bounty hunting group under the company Baroque Works. They lure pirates in with a party, get them to fall unconscious, and kill or capture them for bounties that might be offered."

I see the three of them subtly nod just as we reach the cheers and welcomes.

Luffy puts on his 'I'm a total fool' act while dancing with Sanji and Usopp. Nami and Zoro act like their normal selves. Zoro, the aloof swordsman, and Nami the responsible navigator.

I act like I'm wiped out and just need to sleep for a long time. "They can party, but could you show me to a place I can sleep?"

Curls, I decided to call him, nods. "As you wish. Right this way."

They show me to a room and I settle in sitting and leaning against the wall and I after they leave I take out a book. Well now, just have to wait for the party to settle and see what happens next.

An hour or two later, everything quiets. I close the book, and lie down pretending to be asleep as they drag in Usopp and Sanji.

After they leave, I get up and sneak outside. Sensing Zoro on a roof, I quickly join him.

He glances at me. "Have a nice nap?" he asks quietly.

"Nope. Read a good book though." I smirk. "Sanji and Usopp are out."

"Why didn't you tell them?"

"Wasn't sure they could act well enough. I knew Luffy could because I watched him live like that for a year. Nami, because she is a thief. You, because...well I'm not exactly sure why." I look at him. "I really mean that, it wasn't a jab at you."

He looks at me surprised. "Well...okay." He takes out his sword as Curls talks about capturing everyone. "Could you not? We'd like to let them sleep. They had a tiring afternoon on our journey."

They all look up at him then me and take a step back, gasping in surprise.

"You bastard. I thought you were completely asleep." Curls snarls. "You as well!" he points at me.

Zoro smirks. "Swordsman never make the mistake of letting their guard down that much. Let's see...a nest of bounty hunters who dupe pirates high on entering the Grand Line." He scans the area. "Hmm...about 100 of you. I'll take you all on...Baroque Works."

They all reel back in shock again. "How do you know our company's name!" Curls yells.

Zoro gestures to me as he stands up. "She's our scout. Plus I was offered to join you years ago. I declined, too much secrecy with code names and you don't even know who you're working for. Baroque Works is a criminal group that blindly carries out their orders." Zoro smirks again, "Was it a secret?"

Curls tries to act intimidating, "If you know our secrets, then we have no other choice but to kill you. Another gravestone will be added to Cactus Rocks."

I stand up and stretch. "You know it's kinda creepy how you live in the middle of a massive graveyard." I shrug, "To each their own, I guess."

"Kill them!" Curls yells.

We jump down and hear their cries of shock as they no longer see us.

"Well, I'll leave them to you. Remember to take off your ring." I tell Zoro.

"You're letting me fight them all?" Zoro looks at me in surprise.

"Yep. I can tell you want the practice."

"Thanks."

I nod and rush to a different place out of the way and settle in to watch Zoro fight.

I turn my head and watch Luffy settle next to me. "Just in time. Zoro's about to let loose."

"Shishishi. Nice. It'll be good for him to go all out. Maybe at the next stop, the others can do that too. Good training and experience."

"Yep. Now let the show begin."