"WOHOOO!" Luffy yelled as they stood at shore. "WE ARE HERE!" then he turned around to Sanji with a big wide smile on his face. "Zoro is here on this island, right? RIGHT!?" he asked excited.

"Yes, yes he is Luffy." Sanji told as he rolled his eyes. "Unless he moved about, but I havn't heard from him, so he should still be here." He told.

Donnie swallowed. "So you are going to pick up Rorona Zoro now?" he asked. "The.. great swords man."

"Sure." Luffy grinned. "I need my first mate."

"Well.." Donnie took a deep breath. "As fun as it sounds to meet a living legend I, I guess I'll better be going." He told, almost a little apologising. "I mean, we are back on land now."

"Well, if you want to come, you can." Luffy invited. "You are a friend of the straw-hats now." He laughed.

"Oh no no, I better not." Donnie waved his hands as he laughed nervously. "You've all been very kind to me, and giving me a lot to think off when I go back to the base." He told. "But going back I better have to, they are waiting for me." He grinned. "Now I'm going to tell people, pirates aren't so bad."

"Oh no, don't do that." Chopper asked, for their entire trip since he had made his reveal to Donnie, Chopper hadn't changed back to his human form, and was thus still in his brain-point. "It's not worth right now, it's to dangerous, you have to keep what you have seen a secret." He told.

Donnie hesitated slightly. "okay." He at last told.

"Promise?" Chopper asked.

"Promise." Donnie stated. "But I'll still keep these days in mind, and you Chopper, you proof to me that you should never judge any-one, and that you can do every-thing." He smiled. "thanks so much, it was such a pleasure to meet you." He told as he sat down on his knee and exstended a hand to chopper.

"The pleasure was all mine!" Chopper beamed grabbing Donnies hand with both hoofs. "Give me a call one day okay?" he asked. "And if you need any favors, don't hesitated, I guess I sort of owe you for kidnapping you and all." He laughed letting go of Donnies hand.

"Don't mention it, it was worth it." Donnie smiled. "Well." He turned around. "See ya!" he told waving over his shoulder as he walked towards the city.

The straw-hats had docked on a bare shore, far away from the nearest town so no one would see the boat coming in.

"Well." Sanji sighed as he pulled up his back-pack. "Afraid it's quite a bit of walking from here on of, lets get going." He mumbled.

In a blink of an eye Chopper turned into his walk-point, and was by Sanjis side in an instance.

Luffy grinned as he as well ran up to Chopper, laying an arm around Choppers furry neck.

"Wow you are so big now." Luffy commented. And true enough, Choppers walk point was now taller than Luffy was standing, Chopper had become enormous as a reindeer.

"I hadn't really noticed." Chopper admitted in a slight shrug.

"Your antlers are like ginourmus!" Luffy stated as he waved his arms. "You could really use those to stab people with." He commented.

"Don't say scary stuff like that!" Chopper exclaimed.

Luffy laughed. "Man you are so cool Chopper, I sincerely have no idea why you would ever want to change."

Chopper exhaled. "Luffy I.." he hesitated. "I can't really ask you to understand, but it was really hard for us back there, when all those things happened.. being caught in the middle of a way."

Big explosions, marines that yelled from all around the sunny, all they could do was to try and escape.

"Not having you there."

"If just Luffy was here."

"But he isn't! So just shut up all-ready."

"I wonder what Luffy would have done."

"Probably be an idiot as always and ask for meat."

"Where could he be?"

"Is he ever coming back?"

"Probably not."

"People getting hurt."

"I'm sorry, there is no cure for death."

"Heh." Chopper at last swallowed before he forced forward a little smile. "You know, I kind of forgot how easy it is to walk in this form, it's really comfortable!" he told in a slight grin.

"Ohh! I got an idea!" Luffy exclaimed hammering his fist into his palm. "Chopper, now you are so big, couldn't I and Sanji just ride on you to Zoro, it would be so much quicker!" he grinned.

"Eh." Chopper blinked astounded.

"Luffy, don't ask Chopper such stupid things." Sanji murmured. "He doesn't have to carry any-one if he doesn't want to."

"Actually I wouldn't mind." Chopper finally told, before he laughed. "Remember how I and Usopp would work all our combo attacks! He would sit on my back while shooting and I would run, and even though I would jump and move all the time, still he wouldn't miss a target, it was great." He grinned.

"I never saw you do that." Luffy blinked.

"We were probably off fighting the real strong guys while they did that." Sanji shrugged.

"Hey that's not fair." Chopper turned to them. "Maybe Usopp, Nami and I weren't the strongest in the crew, but we always came through together, by working together."

"It's fine Chopper." Luffy grinned reaching up a hand to hold Choppers neck. "I know, I wouldn't have asked any of you to be in my crew if I didn't know you were worth having around. You are all inexspendable to me, that's why I have to collect a full crew." He grinned.

Sanji stopped in his tracks.

"Huh?" Luffy turned around.

Darkly Sanji looked at Luffy. "How the hell do you intend to do that?" he asked.

"What?" Luffy asked.

"Collect a full crew, how?" Sanji asked.

"Dunno, I'll figure it out." Luffy shrugged.

"Didn't you listen to any-thing I told you?" Sanji asked ."Nami is dead. Gone Luffy! Not even you can bring people back from the dead." He muttered walking past the two. "I have no idea what I'm doing here to be honest, it's not like you can just change the past." He hissed as he walked.

Luffy blinked as he looked after Sanji. "Boy.. he's really upset." He pointed out.

Chopper sighed. "Namis death was hard on all of us, but Sanji." He looked after the cook. "He was just never the same." He mumbled.

"I'm.. sorry." Luffy whispered. "I really wish I could have been there. Really really wish!"

"It's not your fault." Chopper shook his head. "And Sanji will realise that soon enough, trust me." He asked.

Luffy nodded, then reached up to grab Choppers antlers, and pulled himself up on the reindeers back.

Then they slowly followed Sanji up the hill.

Chopper felt so helpless, why had there been so little for him to do? Why couldn't he just have saved her?

They had giving her a Viking funeral, building nami a raft, decorated it with her beloved tangerines and put it all at fired as they sat her to sea. That way they were sure that no one would come and disturb her grave.

Brook stood up on the cliff as he looked to sea, to where Namis burning raft had disappeared to.

Franky sat not to far away holding a hand over his face. Neither was Robin to far away as she just sat on a rock starring empty out in the air.

Sanji, Zoro and Usopp where no where to be found.

Chopper sighed as he decided to at least check on them, to see if they were all-right. It took a while for him, but finally he found Sanji tough a surprising sight met him.

Zoro had decided to accompany Sanji,by sitting beside the cook.. not saying any-thing, Zoro just sat there while Sanji cried.

That left only one person and soon enough Chopper found him, Usopp sitting by the shore crying his eyes out.

Slowly Chopper walked down to him, and sat himself beside the long-nosed young man, also letting his own tears fall freely.

"What are we supposed to do now?" Usopp asked between his sobs. "How are we suppose to find our way without our navigator?" he asked.

Hopelessly Chopper shook his head.

"And what will Luffy say when he finds out?" Usopp asked. "Dammit, why do I have to be so weak?" he asked. "Why couldn't I protect her?" he asked.

"You weren't even close to her when it happened, you where on the other side of the ship fighting." Chopper reminded him.

"How is that any excuse?" Usopp asked. "If I had been stronger, just a little bit, then maybe we could have turned the battle, maybe she would have been saved, if I had just seen him I could have hit him, I'm a sniper! I can hit things far away, maybe that would have helped!"

"That's a lot of maybes." Chopper silently pointed out as tears rolled down his eyes. "If I had just gotten to her sooner, maybe I could have saved her. Usopp! Why didn't I realise she was hurt?" he asked looking at the young man.

"Chopper don't even dare to blame yourself." Usopp exclaimed turning to the reindeer. "You did all you could, you you.." then he couldn't hold it together any longer as he let it all go, and just grabbed Chopper told hold him close.

And so Usopp did as he just held Chopper crying, Chopper as well accepted the hug and clutched to Usopp crying.

"It's just us now Chopper." Usopp whispered. "But we'll stay together right?"

"Mmm,mm." Chopper sniffed, he wasn't able to say any-thing because his voice had broken so much.

"WOOAHH!" Luffy exclaimed as he looked upwards. "That's a lot of stairs." He commented. "Oi Sanji, does Zoro life up there?" he asked looking down from where he still sat on Chopper.

"Yes Luffy, Zoro life up the stairs." Sanji muttered as he rolled his eyes.

"Then come on Chopper, lets hurry up the stairs!" Luffy demanded grabbing Choppers antlers.

"Luffy, I'm a reindeer not a horse." Chopper reminded Luffy.

"Yeah, but you are such a cool reindeer, and Zoro is so close! Come on hurry!" Luffy asked.

"Well okay." Chopper at last blinked. "Hold on tight." He asked, and made a big impressive leap up the stairs.

"HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" Sanji exclaimed, then he snorted. "Baka, always so busy." He hissed before he had to run, up the stairs, to even have a chance to follow Chopper and Luffy.

Luffy how-ever laughed as Chopper sprinted up the stairs with him on the back. "Shishishishi! Sanji is so much behind!" he laughed. "We are going to win this race for sure!" he stated.

Chopper blinked. "This is a race?" he asked.

"OI! I CAN SEE THE TOP!" Luffy pointed. "Hurry Chopper! Hurry!" he asked.

"Yosh." Chopper gritted and then he made a leap, one final leap all the way to the top. "Hah!" Chopper laughed. "I made it."

"Very nice indeed."

"Huh?" Confused Chopper and Luffy looked around, it was a female voice whom had spoken.

"But you wont make it further than this point." A male voice neither of them knew spoke.

"Hah!" "Hah!" the next moment Chopper and Luffy knew, two people had jumped down and landed in front of them to pose.

A woman with short blond curly hair, a dark red top, black shorts and long boots holding a long two-hand sword in her hands.

And a rather flamboyant looking man with a darker tanned skin tone, his black hair slicked back in his neck, a little black moustace to go with the hair, a white shirt with puffed arms, green trousers and long boots similar to the woman, only he was holding a rapier pointed at Luffy and chopper.

"huh." Luffy blinked athem. "Who are you?" he asked confused.

"heh." The woman smirked as she lowered her sword. "So you are ill informed, all-right then you shall have our names."

"Indeed." The man smiled. "I am SATUNE TYRONE!"

"AND I AM SATUNE ELISA!" The woman exclaimed.

"And together we are." The two exclaimed simultaneously pressing the palms together. "The sword duo of eternal love!" they exclaimed.

"Huh?" Luffy blinked as he looked at them. "So?" he asked.

"BAKA! WE ARE A FAMOUSE SWORD COUPLE!" Tyrone exclaimed.

"Easy love, maybe he is not from around here." Elisa calmed the man down, before she smirking picked up a rose. "Young man, in each our own right, we are very accomplished swords men." She told blinking at Luffy. "But together, our love makes our sword play different than any other, that is why we are worthy to be protoges of the great Rorona Zoro." She told.

"OOOH!" Luffy exclaimed. "Zoro! That's great, Cause we are-"

"Yes, the great Rorona Zoro, of cause you must have heard of him." Tyrone smiled completely cutting Luffy off and ignore any-thing Luffy had said. "The greatest swords man in the world, former first mate of the straw-hat crew, under the legendary pirate prince. Monkey D Luffy."

"Yes I know, and that's why." Luffy tried again, but was cut off by Elisa.

"Zoro doesn't see just any-one, so to proof yourself worthy." At that Elisa unshedded her sword. "you'll have to defeat us first but be warned." She smirked.

"We are loyal to Zoro-sama." Tyrone took over. "We follow him athis every step, so he may teach us what he knows about swordman ship. We are."

"THE PROTEGES OF RORONA ZORO!" Both Tyrone and Elisa exclaimed simultaneously.

Luffy sighed deeply. "I kind of just want to see Zoro quick as possible." He muttered. "So if I really have to fight you two, it's just going to be a quick one." As he jumped down from Chopper.

"Eh, are we really going to fight now?" Chopper asked looking wide-eyed at Luffy.

For a moment Elisa silenced as she looked at Chopper, then she screamed. "EEHHH! THE REINDEER TALKED!"

Chopper sighed deeply. "Been a while since any-one had that reaction." He mumbled turning into his human form.

"NO CHOPPER DON'T DO THAT!" Luffy exclaimed. "You're boooring again." He mumbled.

"SHUT UP! I'VE GROWN USED TO THIS FORM WHILE YOU WEREN'T AROUND TO STOP ME!" Chopper hissed right back.

At last Sanji made it up the stairs gaping for breath. "Wha-what's going on?" he asked breathing heavily in and out. Then his eyes caught unto Tyrone… and Elisa. "WHAT THE HELL LUFFY! WERE YOU JUST ABOUT TO FIGHT A WOMAN!?" he asked.

"HEY! She was the one who challenged me!" Luffy exclaimed.

"BAKA! I leave you out of sight for two minutes AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS?!" Sanji yelled kicking Luffy over the head.

"Sanji NO!" Chopper exclaimed as he jumped on Sanji, trying to hold the man back, though Luffy seemed ready to counter attack all-ready.

"HEY STOP IGNORING US!" Both Elisa and Tyrone exclaimed simultaneously, as Sanji, Luffy and Chopper seemed to have been caught up in their own private fight.

Then a new voice entered, and boomed over all of them. "SHUT UP!"

And all froze, Chopper swallowed, Luffy blinked, and Sanji squinted his eyes as he looked up. As well did Elisa and Tyrone.

And there up above them, standing on a stone looking down on them was a man, a scary looking man whom had a very annoyed frown on his face, his one working eye squinted at the people beneath him, his belt had three swords in it. In the years his green hair had grown long and was now tightly collected in a horsetail, otherwise the swords man was wearing a brown leather jacket, over his black pants and tall boots fit for fighting.

"Ah.." Luffy blinked, then brightned up. "YAY! ZORO!" he exclaimed.

Zoro blinked as he looked down, then shrugged. "Oh, Luffy." He remarked as if Luffy's appearance hadn't shocked him in the least.

"BAKA! That has to be the under-reaction of the century!" Sanji yelled up.

In one jump Zoro was down with them, and stood right in front of Sanji.

"Zoro-Sama." Elisa swallowed. "I'm sorry, we let them so close. We were going to fight them."

Zoro snorted as he send one glance at Elisa. "I never asked you to fight people coming up here, if I don't like them, I can slash them myself." He pointed out in a eye-roll.

"Still as brutal as ever I see." Sanji smirked as he pulled a ciggerate to light them.

"Tch." Zoro snorted.

Luffy couldn't help it, he grinned, the familiarity over it all, any second now and Zoro and Sanji would start to fight! So little had changed after all.

Then Zoro lifted just one hand, Sanji looked up as he blew out a cloud of smoke, then he to lifted a hand.. and firmly grabbed Zoros before they embraced each other in a brotherly hug.

Luffys jaw fell to the ground as his eyes threatened to pop out of his skull.

"What do you think you're doing, it's been far to long." Zoro smiled.. smiled at Sanji! As the two had let go.

"Hey, it's a bit unfair I am the one having to go up all these damn stairs every-time." Sanji told as he rolled his eyes and blew out some more smoke. "I all-ready told you to come to my restaurant one day, you can have any food for free and a place to sleep, but are you going to leave this rock. Nooo.of cause not." Sanji stated as he rolled his eyes.

"I suppose you're right." Zoro laughed amused. "I guess I am just a little afraid of becoming lost if I go to far away." He pointed out.

Sanji looked amused at Zoro as he offered Zoro a smile!?

"Cho-cho-chopper." Luffy stammered. "What's going on!?"

"What do you mean?" Chopper asked as he stuffed his hands in the pockets of his coat looking at Luffy.

"They are.. acting like best friends!" Luffy exclaimed as if the world was going under while he gestured at the two laughing men in front of him.

"Well. What's so weird about that?" Chopper asked. "They are best friends you know." He pointed out.

"NO THEY'RE NOT!" Luffy exclaimed. "They can't stand each other!"

"Oh yeah, they used to fight all the time." Chopper suddenly realised. "Well Luffy, people change." He finally told. "I guess they just became mature enough to acknowledge how much they admire and appreciate each other as friends." He commented.

"Oi Luffy, Chopper." Zoro waved at them. "Come on, lets go some-where private so you can tell me what this little re-union is supposed to be about." He asked of them.