"Joe, Teresa you're both respected at NYU as professors and you have Rose to look after. I'm telling you both this as a friend please give up on this comet and just focus on your jobs."

Joe slams on his hands on the desk in the study of his apartment while glaring at his and Teresa's colleague Prof. Jacob Adams. "I don't tell you what to research Jake, so I expect you to respect that and leave our research alone!"

"Look, it's just not me there are others in the department that are finding this whole comet crazy. Sure there are some sightings of something but there's no valid proof of it because it's only there for 3 minutes at most and then we can't track it! What the spectators saw could have easily been a shooting star!"

Teresa clenches her fists when she speaks "You and I both know that it's too big and the color is too different for it to be just a shooting star! We just need to find the way to harness the energy of the comet and we can do it! We already figured out its time pattern based on the-"

"ENOUGH! I tried to be nice about it but you leave me no choice! I'm talking to the department head to get you both out of the university! I refuse to have two crackpots ruin the schools reputation by believing in fake comets!"

Joe keeps his glare as he grits his teeth. "According to the head we still have time to finish our research! Tell me something though Jake, is it the school's reputation you're worried about or is it yours when we prove that we're right?"

Jake aims a punch at Joe but Teresa grabs his arm and slams him to the wall. "I suggest you leave now before I get angry."

She lets him go and he composes himself as he shows himself to the doorway. "This isn't over. Once you fail, you'll both be branded as lunatics!" Once he leaves the room both of them calm down and sit down.

"We can't give up Joe, no matter what." Tears start coming out in Teresa's eyes as Joe goes to hug her.

"Don't worry, just a little bit longer. We just need to find out how to harness the comets energy and we can travel out of this rotten world with Rose. No matter what we won't give up." He makes sure Teresa doesn't see his face as tears fall.

All the while 9 year old Rose was listening from her room curled up to the door in tears. "Mom, dad…" (Why am I so useless?! Can't I do anything to help?! I don't want to hear them being ridiculed anymore!) She cried herself to sleep on the floor of her room that night.


Rose woke up near the brink of dawn in the girl's quarters of the Sunny while wiping the tear streaks off her face. (Glad to see my bad dreams can be a good alarm clock… Mom, dad no matter what, I'd take the comet as a taboo than fake any day. Even if I have to deal with government assholes...)

A few days have passed since the crew left Water Seven and every morning Rose would take the newspaper before the others could grab it and see if the World Government said anything about her secret or her rejecting the offer as a shichibukai. Today was no different as she flies to the top of the observatory and finds the news coo flying to her and gives her the newspaper.

"Thanks again, news coo!" The bird nods then flies off while she goes into the observatory while inspecting the newspaper. (Nothing still… I don't get it. The World Government usually has a field day with this kind of stuff. What are they planning? …*Sigh* no point in worrying I guess. I just need to be careful in the future. At least before everyone gets up I should get back to that book.)

Every day after inspecting the newspaper she would read the encyclopedia on crystals that she grabbed before leaving Water Seven. She started on the second half of the book today and still has no luck on figuring out what the crystal in her necklace is. (Still no luck, if I could just find the name of this crystal I could get more answers. This has to be the piece of my parents' research to absorb astral energies but where do these kinds of crystals come from? … I'll take it one step at a time, for now I'll just be satisfied with the name.) Rose kept her focus on the book until the hatch to the observatory slammed open to Luffy climbing into the room.

"Hey Rose, are you done yet?! Sanji won't let us eat!" He walks up to the desk and pouts causing her to giggle.

"Hold on a second Luffy. I just need to save my place." Rose places a piece of paper in the book then opens the window and jumps with Luffy following until she uses her wind to cushion their fall and walk into the kitchen.

"MELLORINE! Good morning Rose-chan! Here's your breakfast!" Sanji love tornadoes over to Rose with her breakfast as she takes a seat and the others begin to have another loud meal.

(I'm glad the crew can eat like this again. The only one missing is Brook now, I can't wait!) Rose giggles in excitement for the next crew member as she enjoys breakfast and fights off Luffy's hands for her food along with the others.

"Before we go to Fishman Island would it be possible to stop by an island for some supplies?" Robin asks causing everyone to look at her.

Nami looks at the log pose in thought then nods. "Well, if we leave today it shouldn't be an issue with the log pose. I heard of a nearby island so we can stop there." She walks out to change the course of the ship while Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper cheer in excitement and head out.

Rose heads out with Robin to see the island approaching. "So what is it that you need Robin?"

"I just need to pick up a few things in town. Would you mind going with the guys to get some herbs?"

"I don't have a problem with that."

"ME NEITHER ROBIN CHWAN!" Sanji love tornadoes over to the girls with drinks in his hands. "To be with the lovely Rose-chan will be a wonderful adventure! I better make a bento!" He immediately runs to the kitchen while both girls giggle.

Robin looks at Rose with curiosity. "I'm surprised that Sanji's flirting doesn't bother you."

"Well, that's just how Sanji is. Since he does it to all the girls I just find it pretty funny since he's not serious."

She smiles and nods. "Well said."

"WHOOHOO! LET'S GO!" Luffy yells as the ship lowers their anchor on the shore of the island and he, Rose, Usopp, Chopper and Sanji go to the woods to find herbs and fruits while the girls and Franky head into town leaving Zoro to stay with the ship.


Half an hour has passed and Roses group split in two to get more coverage of the forest. Rose and Chopper searched for medicinal herbs while Sanji, Usopp and Luffy mainly searched for different fruits and edible plants.

Sanji groans in frustration at the group choice as he smokes his cigarette. "Why did I have to be with you guys while Rose is with Chopper?"

"The groups were chosen at random, so let's just get through this before any predators come." Usopp says as he looks around warily for animals then widens his eyes in realization. "By the way, where's Luffy?"

Sanji looks around to find that Luffy wandered on his own. "Damnit, we made groups for a reason. Come on Usopp, let's go look for him."
Before Usopp can say otherwise Sanji grabs the back of his shirt and drags him into the woods until they find Luffy eating fruit off of a tree.

"LUFFY, GET DOWN FROM THERE!" Usopp yells when Luffy looks at them and jumps down.

"Hey guys, I found some good fruits around here."

Sanji gives him an exasperated sigh. "Your ability to find food never ceases to amaze me." Sanji kicks the fruit tree and lets the fruit pour into his bag. "That should be enough for a while. Let's get going."

Both guys nod until Luffy finds an odd green, yellow and blue colored mushroom by the tree. "Hey guys, look at this weird mushroom!"

The others crowd it with curiosity.

Sanji looks at it with interest. "What a weird coloring. I wonder if it's edible." He goes to touch it but Usopp blocks his hand.

"Don't touch it, what if it's poisonous?!"

Sanji nods in agreement "You're right, let's go find Chopper and ask him about it."

While the two were talking Luffy picks it up. "Looks ok to me."

"LUFFY!" Usopp and Sanji yell as they swat the mushroom off of his hand but when it hits the ground a green spore spews out of it and clouds the three of them.

"AAAAAAAHHHH!" All three of them scream in surprise as the spore gets into their system and pass out.


After they finished herb collecting Rose and Chopper suddenly heard a scream and turned to the direction of the sound.

"That sounded like…" Chopper cuts himself off as both of them widen their eyes in realization then start running to the direction of the scream.

"Those three had better be ok." Rose says as they both find their three crew mates passed out on the ground.

"GUYS!" Both of them yell as they run to the guys. Rose crouches next to Luffy while Chopper checks Sanji and Usopp.

"They're both breathing." Chopper says as he checks their vitals and tries to wake them up.

"So is Luffy. LUFFY, WAKE UP!" Rose yelled as she lightly shook him until he started to drowsily open his eyes. "Are you ok? What the hell happened to you guys?"

Luffy looks down causing her to be concerned. "Mel-"

Both Chopper and Rose tilt their heads in confusion as Usopp and Sanji start to wake up. "Mel-?"

Luffy lifts his head to show hearts in his eyes as he gets up and love tornadoes in front of Rose. "MELLORINE! Oh Rose-chan, you're as caring as you are beautiful!" Her face goes completely red as she quickly backs away against a tree in shock.

(WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! DID LUFFY AND SANJI SWITCH BODIES?!) She turns to Chopper who's showing an equally shocked expression. "D-doc, please tell me I didn't lose my mind and you heard him say that."

"I-I heard it too, what about you guys? Are you feeling alr-" Chopper cuts himself off as they watch Usopp climb up a tree to grab some fruit and then a bird half his size tries to grab one but Usopp punched it before it could get it and flew away.

"Dumb bird, that'll teach him for trying to take my fruit. Hey Luffy, Sanji you should try this fruit!" Usopp says as he keeps eating while Sanji is frantic under the tree.

"Usopp get down from there! That bird monster could be nested there!" Sanji says as he waves for Usopp to get down.

Rose stares at the three of them in utter shock. "What… The… Hell?" (It doesn't look like their bodies switched, but what's going on here?!)

Chopper shakes his head to recover from his own shock then freezes finds the mushroom. "GUYS! YOU PICKED THIS MUSHROOM?!"

"Luffy did, what happened to us? Did we really get poisoned?! Did we catch the 'die in 24 hours by mushroom' disease?!" Sanji continues to spout out his worries causing Rose to whack him on the head.

"Calm down for five seconds Uso- I mean Sanji! Chopper, what exactly is that mushroom?"

"It's a persona mushroom! If you pick it the mushroom will let off a spore as a final defense mechanism that will switch the personalities of the people who inhale it!"

"WHAT?!" All four of them scream in shock at the news.

Rose takes a deep breath as she rubs the bridge of her nose. "Ok, let me get this straight. That mushroom switched their personalities?! Is there any way to fix them?!"

Chopper shakes his head. "No there's no known cure, but the effects only last until the spores leave their system, so until then we just have to deal with them. Let's head back to the ship and with the mushroom I can try to find a way to make the effects wear off faster."

She nods in understanding and turns to them but stops when she sees someone missing. "What happened to Usopp?"

All of them look around until they heard screaming. "WHOO! FOOD!" All four of them sweat drop at Usopps cheering.

Rose sighs in exasperation "At least we can find him easily… Chopper, you head to the ship with the others. I'll go make sure Usopp doesn't get himself killed."

Chopper and Sanji nod in agreement but Luffy goes in front of her and takes her hand. "Please let me come with you! With that idiot it's better if the two of us work together!"

She takes back her hand while blushing and was about to refuse but Chopper steps in. "Good idea Luffy, you two go get Usopp while we head back to the ship." The two of them left before Rose could voice any objections.

"MELLORINE! Let's go Rose-chan!" Luffy goes to pick her up but stopped after she whacked him on the head.

"I don't want any funny business from you San- I mean Luffy!" (This is weird even for Oda's standards…)

"Your wish is my command!" Luffy shows hearts in his eyes as he follows Rose into town.


Usopp ran to the town and followed his nose to the scent of food from a nearby ramen stand. "AWESOME!" He runs to the stand and accidentally knocks a thug over as he orders his food.

"Hey long nose, you bumped into me." The thug says as he and his men surround Usopp while he's eating.

"Shaorry aghbought thasht." (Sorry about that) Usopp says as he spits food at the guys while talking causing them to get irritated.

"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I'M AXEL, THE LEADER OF THE PISTOL GANG! ANYONE THAT MESSES WITH US GETS A BULLET TO THE HEAD!" The gang aims their guns at him but he doesn't flinch instead he jumps back to the top of the stand and fires his slingshot with exploding stars knocking them down.

Usopp crosses his arms and smirks at them. "I'm Usopp and I'm gonna be- THE KING OF THE SNIPERS!"

The gang gets irritated as they get up but before they can attack him arms sprouted on their bodies and placed them in a hold.

"OK, OK WE GIVE! JUST GET US OUT OF WHATEVER THIS IS!" Axel yells then Robin lets them go and watches them run off as Nami runs over to Usopp as he jumps off the stand.

"Are you ok Usopp? You are Usopp right? What exactly was that?"

"Yea, I'm fine. And of course it's me Nami, who else could I be?"

"The way you were acting almost made us mistake you for Luffy. By the way, where are the guys and Rose? We thought you guys went to get herbs."

Usopp snaps his fingers in realization. "That's right; I kind of took off because of the smell of ramen. Oh well, I'm sure Sanji-Luffy and Usopp-Sanji will be fine."

Robin quirks an eyebrow at him. "What do you mean by Sanji-Luffy and Usopp-Sanji?"

"Oh yeah! See, Luffy picked up a weird mushroom called the persona mushroom and its spore mixed up our personalities."

Nami widens her eyes in realization. "So what you're saying is that you have Luffy's personality, Sanji has your personality and Luffy has-"

"USOPP! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Rose yells as she flies in the air searching the streets.

"USOPP! DON'T WORRY ROSE-CHAN ANYMORE THAN YOU HAVE IDIOT!" Luffy yells as the three of them look to see them searching for Usopp.

Usopp goes to call out to them but Robin covers his mouth before he could say anything and takes him to an alleyway with Nami following to watch them pass by.

"Weird, I could have sworn I heard Usopp yelling earlier. I hope nothing bad happened to him." Rose searches the street for him in the air then lands in frustration when she sees that it's too crowded.

Luffy tilts his head in thought "Knowing me, he would be at some of the restaurants. I think the restaurants are this way." He takes Roses hand and starts heading to the restaurant district.

(This is too weird, I'm glad this isn't permanent. I know it's still Luffy but it just isn't right unless he's himself…) She takes her hand back and starts walking with him. "Good idea Luffy, we should get going."

Both of them leave the area while Nami and Robin grin as they let go of Usopp.

Usopp moves his limbs then starts whining "WHAT DID YOU GUYS DO THAT FOR?!"

Both girls look at each other then Robin follows the pair with her eyes while Nami turns to Usopp. "Hey Usopp, wanna go on an adventure?"

His eyes widen in excitement "YEA!"

Nami nods in approval "Great, then let's go." All three of them trail Rose and Luffy to see what will happen next.


Both Rose and Luffy checked different restaurants in the district but still no sign of Usopp. They start entering the third restaurant where she goes to the host "Excuse me, have you seen a guy with a long nose, curly black hair and overalls?"

The host shakes his head. "I'm sorry miss, I haven't seen anyone with that description."

She nods in understanding. "Thank you anyway. Come on Luffy, we should-" She turns to find Luffy flirting with one of the waitresses.

"For a beautiful lady such as yourself. I'd be more than happy to help." Luffy helps the waitress bring the tray of food to the customer.

The waitress blushes at the gesture. "Th-thank you very much-"

"Monkey D. Luffy my dear." Luffy bows to her then kisses the back of her hand.

Rose looks at the scene in surprise. (That mushroom really works. He's exactly like Sanji… Why do I feel annoyed all of a sudden? Whatever, I'll search on my own …) She walks out of the restaurant with an irritated expression and was stopped by Axel and his gang of 40 guys.

Axel walks up to her while his goons snicker. "Hey cutie, you said you were looking for a long nosed guy?"

She twitches an eyebrow "Yea, that's right. You've seen him?"

He gives her a smirk. "Maybe I have, maybe I haven't. My knowledge doesn't come cheap you know." He puts his face to her ear. "What are you willing to pay for my information?" He goes to put his arm around her but before he could touch her she twisted his arm behind his back them slammed his head to the ground.

"I'm in no mood for this crap! Either tell me or get the hell away from me." She lets him off and then used her wind to slam him to some of his guys then glares at them. "So what's it gonna be?"

Axel gets up completely pissed. "MEN, SWARM HER!"

The men surround her and when some of them try to attack her from behind they suddenly get slammed to the ground by Luffy. "LEAVE HER ALONE ASSHOLES!"

She turns around in surprise to see Luffy ready to fight them but is still a little mad. "Thanks Luffy, but I can take them so please don't pull the chivalry crap on me."

"Chival- what? I don't know what that means, but I'm not gonna hog the fight. Wanna see who can beat the most? Winner gets meat."

She looks at him in surprise. (L-luffy? Glad to have you back!) She grins at him then gets in a stance as she dodges an attack. "Fine by me, but let's not count the boss in this. I get dibs on beating him up."

He nods with a grin. "Sounds good to me!" They both charge at the guys and take them on all at once. The thugs try to shoot at them but the bullets ricocheted off Luffy and went through Rose and completely scared them.

"WH-WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY?! THEY'RE MONSTERS!" The remaining thugs run leaving their beaten comrades and Axel behind.

Axel turns to the running men in frustration "YOU COWARDS! GET BACK HERE!" He tries to chase them but Rose goes in front of him and cracks her knuckles.

"Now then, you said something about seeing my friend?"

He gulps before quickly nodding. "Y-yea, we saw him at the ramen stand down the street! PLEASE SPARE ME!" He bows begging for mercy with Rose turning away from him.

"Thanks, ready to go Luffy?"

He nods as they're about to leave but a bullet was fired by Axel and went through her.

She turns around completely annoyed. "Just when I showed mercy too. One sec Luffy." She goes back and gives Axel a flying kick to the nose and slams his body to the building and knocked him out.

"THAT WAS AWESOME ROSE-CHAN!" Luffy love tornadoes over to her. "I think you got more of them so I'll get you whatever you want after we find Usopp." He puts an arm around her shoulders then starts walking with her.

She blushes at the contact but lets it go this time. (I guess it didn't wear off yet… Like I said to Robin the flirting's just how Sanji is, so I shouldn't be mad at Luffy for Sanji's personality even if he gets distracted. At least until it wears off I'll humor him.) "Lead the way Luffy."


Rose and Luffy make it to the ramen stand and walk up to it with Luffy's arm still around her.

Rose gets away from Luffy's arm then goes to the young lady manning the stand "Excuse me miss, have you seen a guy with curly black hair, a long nose, and overalls?"

She nods. "I sure did, he made a scene in front of here because he messed with the Pistol Gang. That guy was nuts he even yelled something like 'I'm gonna be the king of the snipers!'"

Rose puts a hand over her mouth to hold back from laughing. (BWAHAHA! THAT'S TOTALLY LUFFY'S PERSONALITY!) "I-I see, do you know where he went?"

She shakes her head. "I'm sorry, I saw him walking with two girls though. One with orange hair and another with black hair. Are they friends of yours?"

Luffy nods. "Yea, that's Nami and Robin. Glad to see he's ok. Wanna hang out some more before heading back Rose?"

Rose tilts her head at him in confusion. (I guess the spore left his system this time. If it was Sanji he'd be jealous, I'm glad nothing too bad happened. Before I get back I should get some salt ready for the next arc.) She shakes her head to him. "I got some errands to run so you can head back. Sanji should be making lunch right now so you should get going."

He shakes his head then hearts appear in his eyes again. "No way, I'd be more than happy to help you Rose-chan!"

She sweat drops at his reaction. (Another false alarm?) "Well, if that's what you want then ok." She gives him a smile when the ramen lady hands each of them a small bowl of ramen.

"You two make a cute couple! Consider these on the house." She says with a smile causing Rose to blush.

"Th-thank you, but we're not a couple." Rose says as she and Luffy eat their bowls

She nods in understanding then looks at Luffy with a smile. "Really? Then would you like to go on a date with me cutie?"

He gobbles up the ramen then looks at her blankly. "No thanks, I'm already on a date. Let's go." He takes Roses hand and starts walking away with her causing her to be shocked.

(What the- Now I know this isn't Sanji's personality anymore. But this isn't fully Luffy's either… I get it, it's fading and his original personality is taking over but some of Sanji's is lingering. Wait a minute, did he just call this a-) "L-luffy, did you just say we were on a date?"

He stops and tilts his head in confusion. "Yea, wasn't it obvious?"

She blushes at his statement. "Hold on Luffy, you know what a date is right?"

"Yea, it's when the people who kissed hang out together right?"

(W-well that's the gist of it I guess but…) "Well yea, but-"

"If it's a date then it's a date! What did you need to get anyway?"

She sweat drops at his bluntness then lightly giggles (There's the Luffy I know. I don't mind hanging out with him as long as he's himself. Still though, why did his heart eyes last with me the-)

"Hey Rose!" She snaps out of her thoughts to Luffy hugging her. "Wake up Rose! Where did you need to go?"

She immediately blushes then gets out of his grip. "S-sorry about that Luffy. I just need to get some salt come on." Rose leads the way to the store with Luffy following while Usopp, Nami and Robin are hiding behind some barrels.

Usopp looks at them in confusion "Huh? Don't we already have enough salt?"

Nami nods "You're right, I wonder what she needs it for?"

"Maybe to ward off evil spirits." Robin says with an unchanging grin causing both of them to pale.

"DON'T SAY THAT ROBIN! THAT'S JUST ASKING FOR THEM TO COME!" Usopp yells causing Nami to whack him on the head.

"QUIET DOWN YOU IDIOT! Those two will be out any minute! Wait, did the spore leave your system?"

He blinks for a moment. "Oh yea, I guess I'm back to normal. But shouldn't you be quiet too. You're louder than me."

"What was that?!"

"I think you both should be quiet. They're right here." Robin points to Luffy and Rose looking over the barrels with Rose glaring at Nami and Usopp.

Usopp immediately hides behind Nami while sweat dropping. "H-hi Rose, good news I'm back to normal isn't that great?" He lightly chuckles but the unchanging glare causes him to tremble.

"Y-yea we made sure Usopp didn't do anything stupid with Luffy's personality after we dealt with the Pistol Gang!" Nami says with a nervous grin.

Rose nods then crosses her arms over her chest. "I see. How long have you been following us?"

"Since you guys went to the restaurant district. Good job taking down the Pistol Gang by the way." Robin says with an unchanging grin causing Rose to get embarrassed.

"So those guys were a gang?" Luffy says.

Usopp nods. "Yea, they were easy to handle by the great captain Usopp! All I needed was my slingshot and they fell to their knees!"

"I would recommend using that slingshot for the incoming marines Usopp." Robin says as she points to the group of marines heading their way.

"THE TIP WAS RIGHT! THE STRAW HATS ARE HERE! GET THEM!" The marines charge at them while they make a run for it to the ship.

"ALRIGHT! NEXT STOP FISHMAN ISLAND!" Luffy yells as he throws his arms to two trees up ahead and catapults himself with the others to the deck of the ship.

Usopp and Nami scream in fright while Robin chuckles and Rose laughs. "HAHAHA! Glad to have you back Luffy!" Rose uses her wind to cushion the fall as they land on the deck while Nami and Usopp whack Luffy for the catapult.

"Franky, we should get moving the marines are on our tail." Robin say as the marines start coming into view.

"NOT A PROBLEM ROBIN!" Franky runs to the engine room to raise the anchor while Usopp gets the ship moving with Nami navigating them away from the island before the marines could catch them.

"NAMI SWAAN! ROBIN CHWAAN! ROSE-CHWAAN!" Sanji slams the kitchen door open and love tornadoes over to the girls to hand them their drinks.

Rose takes the drink with a soft smile. "Thanks Sanji, I'm glad you got your personality back."

"Thanks Rose-chan! I'm more than happy to be myself again!"

Zoro gets up from his napping spot with a smirk "I don't know. I wouldn't mind having you be scared of me love cook."

Sanji's eye twitches as he aims a kick at Zoro. "SHUT UP MOSS HEAD! I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO KICK THAT SMIRK OFF YOUR FACE!"

"Oh yeah Mr. 'Please don't kill me Zoro'?" Zoro chuckles as he dodges Sanji's kick and gets in a leg and sword clash.

Chopper walks out of the infirmary and watches the clash. "So the spore wore off huh? Too bad, I just finished a medicine that could cure it."

Rose gives him a soft smile. "I'm just glad everything ended well."

"HEY GUYS, LOOK AT THIS BARREL!" Luffy yells as he points to a barrel floating in the water.

(YES! IT'S TIME TO MEET BROOK!) Rose runs to the side of the boat to see the barrel as Zoro fishes it out and most of the others surround it.

"It looks like alcohol preserves." Nami says

"I think it's left as a prayer to the gods for safe voyage." Robin says

"I say we drink it." Zoro says

"IDIOT, YOU'LL BE CURSED!" Usopp yells

"I say we open it." Rose says as Luffy approaches the barrel.

"Let's see what we got here!" He opens the barrel when a flare shoots out of it and into the sky.

"What was that?" Chopper asks while everyone looks to the flare in confusion.

"We better be careful we might be targeted." Franky says when Nami starts running to the navigation room.

"GUYS! WE GOTTA GET MOVING A STORM'S COMING!" A wind from the storm proves her point as thunder clouds come rolling in quickly.

The crew gets into position as they navigate the ship through the raging storm and into safety.


Usopp sighs in relief as he looks at the dark skies of the Florian Triangle. "Glad we're safe but what's with the sky? It shouldn't be night yet."

"I don't think we're in the New World yet." Zoro says with Franky nodding in agreement.

"You're right, we shouldn't relax. I think we're in the Florian Triangle."

Luffy looks at him with excitement. "Great! I wonder what type of monsters will be here?!"

"M-MONSTERS?!" Usopp starts trembling in fear.

Sanji lights up his cigarette and holds the flame under his face. "That's right. You weren't there when Kokoro warned us. Listen carefully Usopp, in this ocean hundreds of ships mysteriously vanish. That's not all a ghost ship filled with the corpses of its passengers sail these waters aimlessly looking for more passengers."

Usopp and Chopper start trembling while Rose nods as she gets her guitar ready. "You're right Sanji; they also say that on one of those ghost ships an afro skeleton rides this sea to meet fellow travelers with a song just like this." She plays the opening of Binks' Sake and starts singing. "YOHOHOHO~ YOHOHOHO~ YOHOHOHO~ YOHOHOHO~" Rose keeps playing the song while Usopp and Chopper scream.

Usopp runs in front of her causing her to stop. "STOP THAT! IS THAT WHY YOU BOUGHT THAT BAG OF SALT?! IF I HAD KNOWN I WOULD HAVE PREPARED ON THE ISLAND! No wait, I got some extra gear!"

Chopper clings to Usopps leg in fright. "Give me some too Usopp!" Everyone freezes when they hear Binks' Sake playing again in a more eerie tone.

Usopp turns to Rose in fright. "We get your point Rose, so please stop playing."

She raises her hands away from the guitar. "This one isn't me. I think it's that ghost ship behind us." She points to the giant ghost ship where Brook is singing Binks' Sake causing everyone but Rose to freeze at the sight of it.

"YOHOHOHO~ YOHOHOHO~ YOHOHOHO~ YOHOHOHO~" Everyone looks in shock to see Brook on the ghost ship singing and sipping tea.

(IT'S REALLY HIM! I CAN'T WAIT!) Rose looks at the ghost ship in excitement while everyone else looks at the ship in shock.

Most of the crew members scream in fright at the sight. "AAAAH! SKELETON ON A GHOST SHIP!"

TO BE CONTINUED