"Listen!" Usopp pointed up at the dirt path. They were in between two cliffs, with steps sides, thanks to erosion. "They're planning to attack the village tomorrow morning from this very coast. However, this is the only route that leads to the village. The rest are cliffs."

Walking up the path Usopp stopped continuing, "There's no other way to attack. In other words, if we hold firm to this slope, the village won't be attacked.

"I see…that sounds simple." Luffy smiled.

"Talking's east, but we'll need true strength for the battle. What're you guys capable of?"

"Slicing!" Zoro said.

Stretching!" Luffy said before stretching his arm out.

"Thieving!" Nami said.

"Punching, kicking, and chopping!" Cecilia said.

"I'll be hiding!" Usopp said, turning around.

"YOU WILL BE FIGHTING!" All four of them shouted.

"Just joking, I'll back you guys up."


"Good, it's perfect!" Usopp smiled.

Cecilia looked down the slope as the oil shined. Usopp had brought three barrels of oil and poured them down the hill causing a good two meters of slick, ground.

"Now they can't get up this slope. The oil covered all over should do the job. After they slip on the oil, we jump in and wipe them all out."

"Oil, eh…" Nami wondered as she, Zoro, and Cecilia walked towards the oil carefully.

"Anyways, all we need to do is defend this slope!" Usopp exclaimed.

"But we should be careful not to slip on it ourselves. Or else it'd be like getting trapped in quicksand." Nami said.

Luffy flopped down and started sliding his foot up and down the oil. "You're kinda smart coming up with this trap!" He said.

"I bet 10 beli that Luffy ends up flying down this thing before the pirates get here." Cecilia mumbled as she stared down at her Captain tempted to push him down.

"Of course I am! I have complete confidence in myself with my traps and slingshot!" Usopp said proudly with his arms crossed.

"Zoro will be the next one down the sloop." Cecilia mumbled.

"I can see that." Nami mumbled back.

"Shut up." Zoro growled.

Cecilia looked up from the oil ground to the rising sun. "It's almost dawn! They'll be coming." She said as they all stared at the rising sun.


The five of them stood there for almost twenty minutes till Cecilia covered her mouth and yawned out of boredom. "Okay…it's dawn, so where are they? Pirates or not, they could at least show up on time!"

"Maybe they overslept?" Zoro wondered. Cecilia sighed at her Captain. "Only if they think like Luffy." She mumbled to herself.

"No way. They'll definitely come. They're just a little late." Usopp stated.

"Hey you guys…I'm not sure if it's just me hearing things...But, there seems to be people shouting somewhere." Nami said after she cupped her ears.

Cecilia cupped her ear and listened. It was faint, but she can definitely hear people shouting. "I can definitely hear them." Cecilia stated.

"N-Now that you mention it…" Everyone looked at Usopp who was looking down. "Hey, what wrong?" Zoro demanded Usopp.

"There's an exact same slope up north! Don't tell me…" Usopp yelped.

"Maybe we're at the wrong coast?" Luffy asked.

"Because they met on this coast, I assumed they'd come from this side."

Cecilia sighed and said, "This is why you should get some info about your enemies before you do anything else. That's a basic rule when it comes to combat."

"Hey, then we oughta hurry or they'll attack the village! Where' that coast?" Luffy demanded.

"Head straight north from here and it should take you about three minutes. The landscape is very similar to this one. We just need to stop them from climbing up the slope, but…" Usopp explained.

"Don't worry, we'll make it somehow."

"Oh crap!" Nami shouted.

"What is it?!" Cecilia asked.

"The north coast that you mentioned is where our ship is anchored! All of my treasures will be taken!"

Cecilia's left eye twitched as she looked at the Navigator. "That's what you're worried about?" She asked.

"I can be there in less than twenty seconds!" Luffy shouted before running off.

"Damn! I came up with such a great plan for nothing!" Usopp cried out while holding his head.

"My treasures…" Nami muttered.

"Hey!" Nami looked at Cecilia. "What're you doing? Let's go!" She walked forward with Zoro following her from behind.

"We've gotta hurry…Ahh!" Cecilia stopped when she heard Nami's scream and Zoro's grunt. She looked over her shoulder to see Nami holding onto Zoro's sword as they were slowing slipping on the oil.

"You've got to be kidding me…" Cecilia muttered with a sweat drop on her head.

"Help me! I'm slipping!" Nami cried out.

"Get your hands off, you idiot!" Zoro shouted.

"Sorry." Nami looked up at Cecilia. "Cecilia, give us a hand here."

Cecilia sighed and turned around and ran after Usopp and Luffy, who was already too far to see.

"Hey! Where are you going?!" Zoro and Nami shouted.

"Sorry, but you're on your own! You got yourselves in on this mess, you can get yourselves out!" Cecilia shouted to them over her shoulder.

"YOU TRAITOR!"


"Usopp!" A voice called out to Usopp. As he continued to run to his destination, he looked over his shoulder to see Cecilia easily catching up to him, not even running with all her might.

"Cecilia! Where are the others?"

"They're on their way! They was a minor setback that they need to take care of!" Usopp nodded as they both continued to run.

"I can't let them get to the village! But that Luffy sure is quick. He disappeared in an instant." Usopp said to himself more than Cecilia, pulling out goggles and putting them on.

"Heh, that's Luffy for ya."

It didn't take long for them to make it to the other beach, just like Usopp said. Looking at the pirates at the bottom, Cecilia found out the reason they were called 'Black Cat Pirates'. Each of the pirates had black cat ears and the head of the boat was a black cat. Usopp pulled out a slingshot and some pinballs.

At the top of the hill Usopp let loss a rain of pinballs, knocking more pirates out. Cecilia smiled as she was impressed of Usopp knocking out at least a third of the pirate crew. "What? There's someone up there!" One of the pirates screamed.

"My name is Captain Usopp! I've been waiting for quite a while! We're fully prepared for battle! If you don't want to die then leave this place!" Usopp shouted, throwing a few pinballs in the air with his right hand, his left holding the slingshot.

"What's going on?! Why are we the first ones here?" Usopp whispered to Cecilia out of the corner of his mouth. "That guy should have been here ahead of us!"

"Wouldn't surprise me one bit if he got lost. When it comes to directions, he sucks." Cecilia said with a sweat drop on the side of her head.

"You're that guy from the other day, the kid who eavesdropped on our conversation. What do you two plan to do?" Jango asked.

Usopp put out his hand and shouted down at the pirates, "I-I'm warning you, retreat immediately! Otherwise, my one-hundred million men will dispose of all of you!"

"One-hundred million men?" One of the pirates asked.

"Hey now, does he think he's dealing with kids here?"

Cecilia groaned and said, "Usopp, when this is all over, we really need to work on your fibs. Besides Luffy, no one would be dumb enough to believe that."

"What?! One-hundred million men? Incredible!" Cecilia looked over to the man who had said this finding the voice familiar and found it to be the hypnotist from before.

"Really?! I stand corrected…" Cecilia got a sweat drop as she put all her weight on to her left foot, crossing her arms with her sword in her hands.

"He's obviously lying, Capt'!" One of the pirates shouted.

"How can you believe him so easily?"

Usopp gasped. "Crap, they saw through it."

"Rule #1 when it comes to telling lies: Make your lies somewhat believable, you moron." Cecilia groaned. 'Maybe I should've stayed with Zoro and Nami and helped them out of that oil trap.'

"He'd actually thought that we'd buy that."

"You, how dare you try to deceive me!" Jango shouted at Usopp.

"Rule #2: Be careful of who you lie to." Cecilia sighed.

"Captain Jango, there's a problem!" A pirate shouted, running up to Jango.

"I see, that's bad."

"No, it's not bad news!" The pirate turned around and Cecilia found that he was looking at hers' and Nami's ships. "We found lots of treasures on that ship! It's very valuable. It's worth forty…no fifty million beli!"

"WHAT?!"

"F-Five million beli?! Why do you have so much on your ship?!" Usopp asked Cecilia.

She just shrugged. "Isn't obvious, we are pirates after all. Of course we're going to have gold and such." Looking back down at the pirates she shouted, "Hey ugly! If I were you, I'd take my hands off that money! I know a certain little thief who'd gut you like a fish just for being even close to it!"

"…Those treasures are mine!" Usopp suddenly shouted, causing her to look over at him. "I'll give it to you!"

"You must have a death wish if you did not hear what I just said." She said to Usopp.

"What? You're giving it to us?" The pirates asked staring at Usopp like he was an idiot.

"That's right! In return, for the treasure will you now please retreat!"

"Now he wants to bribe us with money." One of the pirates said.

"What a despicable guy."

"Are you stupid? We are pirates. Of course we'll accept these treasures! However, there's no reason for us to leave." Jango said.

Usopp flinched, giving Cecilia the idea he was starting to have an episode or something. Jango pulled out the ring and started swinging it from side to side. "After I say, 'One, Two, Jango!', you will move out of the way."

"It's that weapon back when…"

"One! Two! Jan…!" Cecilia looked away from the ring as Usopp suddenly got his brains beat in.

"STOP MAKING UP NONSENSE!" Nami shouted with her bo staff out and ready.

"That hurts!" Usopp cried as he held the back of head in pain.

"Wh…who is that woman?!"

"Captain! This is no time to be hypnotized and moving out of your own way!"

Pointing down at the pirates, Nami went on, "The treasures on that ship are all mine! I won't let you even have a single beli! You'd better put everything back where it was! If you don't, Cecilia will go down there and kick your butt!"

Cecilia looked over at Nami with a glare on her face, "YOU GO DOWN THERE AND GET IT YOURSELF, YOU LAZY ASS!" She shouted at her. Nami ignored her and turned to Usopp.

"That really hurt!" He shouted.

"How can you just hand over my treasures?!"

"Couldn't you have just told me that?"

Nami sighed leaning her staff against her shoulder, "What're you talking about? I saved you! I forgot to mention it, and I don't understand why Cecilia didn't, but you should never stare at that ring! He's a hypnotist!"

"Hy-Hypnotist?"

Nami looked around noticing that they were missing someone. "So, where's Luffy? Wasn't he the first one here?"

"Beats me. Wither he's still on the way or he got lost somewhere."

"He's probably lost then. Geez…at such a critical moment too!"

"I'd better just give out orders. You go attack, while I cover you." Usopp ordered Nami.

"Hey, why does it have to be me?! How can I fight such a large group? I'm just a weak girl!"

Cecilia looked down at Usopp's legs as they started to shake uncontrollable.

"If you're expecting a man, don't look at me! I'm so scared that even my legs are rattling…see!"

"So what! I'm so afraid that I'm almost bursting into tears."

"YOUR EYES ARE COMPLETELY DRY! IF YOU'RE GONNA LIE, AT LEAST MAKE ONE THAT'S BELIEVABLE!"

"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY THAT!"

The two stopped fighting and seemed to talk telepathically as they both turned to Cecilia and said, "You fight them, Cecilia!"

"WHAT THE HELL SHOULD I!?" She shouted at them pissed off.

"You're stronger than both of us combined." Nami stated. "You wouldn't make us fight would you?" she asked giving her puppy eyes.

Cecilia got a sick look on her face. Sighing she unsheathed her sword. "You two owe me." She snort.

"We have no time to fool around with them. Get rid of 'em immediately! To the village, my comrades!" Jango shouted.

The pirates roared and flew at Cecilia. She just smirked at them, planting her feet shoulder length apart. Cracking her knuckles out in front of her, her palms facing the men in front of her, she cracked her neck as well.

An evil smirk came to her face as she said loud enough for all to hear, "I'll show you what this girl can do."

Some of the men jumped in to the air, going to pounced on her shouting, "Out of our way girly!"

She lowered her head so that her eyes were shadowed. As one of the men came down on her, she locked her fingers on the handle and hit the man really hard on the face, flung the man away from her knocking others off their feet. She made her sword cut another man all over his face and body before she moved her elbow back, hitting the other man behind her on his face, hearing his nose break. She stabbed her sword to the ground before she grabbed on to the back of someone's head getting a head full of hair and slammed his face in to her knee.

Using the moment her body had her kick another man in the face. Jumping high in to the air, she flipped forward with her right leg stretched out and her left leg was bent before she hit a man on top of his head, making his head bleed in the process.

Once she landed, she flipped backwards and landed on her hands; she smirked again before shoving her heels in to two of the men's jaws. Spinning around really fast on her head, she knocked a few more men off by kicking them. Jumping backwards using her hands, she grabbed her sword before landed on her feet next to Nami and Usopp again and sheathed her sword.

The two stared at them in what she can guess was a mixture of, fear, respect, and amazement. She smiled at them, looking up to reveal her purple cat eyes. Jango looked around at the men Cecilia had knocked down his eyes…glasses wide.

"YOU FOOLS LET A GIRL BEAT YOU?! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU GUYS?!"

"She…she ain't human boss!" One of the pirates shouted.

Cecilia smiled at them innocently. Usopp slowly scooted away from her, while Nami stared at her amazed. 'That man's right! There's no way she can be human!' Usopp thought.

"Listen up you dogs! If we don't hurry, we're all going to be in trouble! Now get up and take them down!" Jango shouted. The men cried out running back at them again.

Cecilia snort, her smile turning to a smirk. "Looks like they didn't learn their lesson the first time."

"Oh, yeah!" Usopp suddenly said. Cecilia turned to him a question mark above her head. "I've got some caltrops!"

Nami looked over at him as well holding out her hand, "You've got some good stuff in there. Gimme, gimme!"

Usopp handed Nami some of the caltrops, and together they threw them at the pirates. "Just you watch!" Nami shouted. "Caltrop Hell! Eat this!" Usopp shouted as well. Cecilia smiled as the men started howling as the stepped on the sharp jacks.

"Great, it's working!" Nami smiled.

"Now! Special Attack: Lead Stars!" Usopp shouted before hitting one of the pirates with a pinball using his slingshot.

"Bastards!"

"Not bad…Keep it up, okay? I'm gonna take a short break." Nami smiled, patting Usopp on the shoulder.

"Hey, you haven't fought anyone yet!" Usopp cried. Nami just turned around ignoring him.

Cecilia pulled out her sword and moved her sword to the side, which created a strong wind and knocked out some of the pirates. Heck she didn't even have to move from her spot.

Nami's sudden gasp caught Cecilia's and Usopp's attention. "What's wrong?" Cecilia shouted back at her, not even looking behind her.

"There are caltrops back here, too." Nami pointed out.

"Are you a moron? How did they end up back there?!" Usopp shouted ticked off. Even Cecilia was too since Nami had gotten rid of their only escape route.

"You're a hindrance!" Someone shouted right behind Usopp. Cecilia's eyes widen when Usopp hit the ground as someone hit him upside the head really hard. She was quickly to her feet, her sword out in front of her.

"Did you really think you could stop us?" The man who hurt Usopp asked.

Cecilia glared at the man, "You think just because you did this, you think you're the strongest now? Ha! You've obviously never been to the Grand Line!" The man smirked at her and was about to say something when Usopp grabbed on to the man's shoe.

"What's up with this guy? Let go of me! You bastard Let go of me!" The man growled as he tried to shake Usopp's grip off of his shoe.

Cecilia gasped as the man suddenly started kicking Usopp at the same spot he hit repeatedly with his other foot, causing it to bleed out more.

"Damn you…bastard! Bastard!"

"This slope…" The man stopped what he was doing to hear what Usopp had to say. "I can't let you beyond it. Because I'd like to keep lying as I've always done in the past. This village…will enjoy another day of peace like any other day. That's why…I can never let you pass!" Usopp yelled as his blood was running down his face from the back of his head.

"Shut up, you fool!" Another pirate shouted. Flying at Usopp's back with a sword ready to silence Usopp for good.

Nami ran forward and knocked the man out with her staff. "Why you…" A pirate shouted hitting Nami's staff, as she tried to save herself, which just threw the girl backwards in to the cliff. "That hurts!" She cried out.

"Will you stop this nonsense already?!" The first man shouted as he faced his weapon, which was just a huge rock tied to a stick, at Usopp.

"HEY, YOU GUYS! JUST FORGET ABOUT 'EM! HURRY UP AND GET GOING! OR HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN KURO'S PLAN?! IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG WITH THE PLAN, WE'LL ALL BE KILLED! UNDERSTAND?! YOU BUNCH OF IMBECILES!" Jango shouted at the crew.

"Hey…"

"Yeah, let's hurry to the village!" Cecilia stood her ground as the pirates suddenly ran towards her at full speed.

"Stop…Damn! Stop! Stop! Don't go to the village!" Usopp cried grabbing on to one of the pirates.

"Shut up!" the pirate shouted kicking Usopp off of his foot and away from him.

As Usopp lied on his back, everyone that he loved and cared flashed before his eyes. His crew and Kaya were one of the people he was seeing right now. He knew that he couldn't let them down; he wouldn't let them get hurt even if he died trying.

He tried to get up on his feet, but the pain was holding him back. '"Stop…please…Please don't kill them…I love this village…I want to protect it!" Usopp screamed.

Cecilia gasped at Usopp's words, his voice ringing in her ears. Her eyes widen and her breath ragged as her body shook. Her sword fell to the ground as Usopp suddenly changed from the black haired, long nose boy he was…to a short dark brown hair, brown eyed man. Blood was running down the man's face as well, three scars straight over his left eye.

'…Brother…' A tear escaped from the corner of her right eye and ran down on her face.

Cecilia woke up from her shock as two people stepped in front of her, sending the pirates flying high in the sky.

"Wh…what's with all this, Captain Jango?" One of the pirates screamed.

"I never heard that there were such people in this village!"

"They're finally here." Nami muttered.

"Hey, Cecilia, you alright?" Luffy asked while holding his arm with a glare on his face.

Zoro looked down at her from the corner of his eye, seeing if she was all right as well. She slowly nodded her head and wiped the tear from her eye as she continued to stare at Usopp.

"What's all the ruckus?" Zoro asked, propping his sword on his shoulder. Cecilia noticed that he had his bandana around his head again.

"How should I know? But I'm still pissed off." Luffy said.

Cecilia jumped a bit as Zoro shouted, "NAMI! HOW DARE YOU TRAMPLE ME DOWN THE SLOPE!"

"USOPP, YOU BASTARD! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME WHICH WAY WAS NORTH!" Luffy shouted.

"Who are they?" Jango wondered while holding onto his hat.