"Roronoa Zoro…" A fishman hissed as he obviously recognized Zoro.

"That's him! The one that tricked me!" A octopus-like fishman yelped. "How dare he take me for a ride! Wait… No. I was actually the one who gave him a ride!"

Well… That sounds normal…

"That long nosed human is still alive!" Another random fishman cried. "He should be dead!"

"Pirates huh… I see… So that's how you're all related," Arlong muttered in a low voice. "So, your goal from the very beginning was only to get Nami, is that it? Shahaha! What could four measly humans do!"

Oh yeah, so what the fuck was I!

"You idiots!" The octopus fishman cried out. "As if Arlong would fight the likes of you! I'll turn you all into fish food!"

Then, using his odd shaped mouth the octopus made a weird horn like sound and yelled, "Come out, beast!"

"W-w-w-what's going on!" Usopp yelped in fear. "Could it be the monster form the Grand Line that destroyed Gosa!"

The water from behind the octopus started to ripple as he cried out, "Come out Mohmoo!"

A large sea cow burst forward from the water, just like it had looked in my memory. But was that bruises it had on it is? And it looked ready to cry… What the hell?

"Moo..." He said pathetically.

"Ahh! It's a monster!" Usopp screamed.

"Huh?" The octopus said in a dumfounded way at Mohmoo's appearance.

Mohmoo looked down at us and froze as Luffy and Sanji stared back at him.

"Oh him?" Luffy asked with his arms crossed.

"So he is one of them huh?" Sanji said with a nonchalant façade.

"Moo…" The poor thing whimpered as it turned around and began to swim away.

"Mohmoo…" Arlong snarled in a dangerous voice as he glared at the sea cow. "The hell do you think you are going?"

I watched curiously as it froze at Arlong's voice. "Well, if you are going to run away I ain't gonna try and stop you, but… Well, Mohmoo?"

The monster seemed to have a sudden change of heart as it spun around, fury blazing it it's eyes as is roared, "MOOOOOOOO!"

"IT'S COMING FOR US!" Usopp screamed in fear as the sea cow charged at us.

"All right!" Cried Arlong's men. "Follow Mohmoo's lead! Let's show these inferior human's not to mess with us!"

Zoro, Sanji, Usopp and myself all slipped into battle positions but Luffy stepped in front of us and said, "Leave them to me! They're a bunch of time wasters!"

With a little effort Luffy smashed both of his feet down into the concrete so they were covered right up to his ankles.

"The hell's he doing?" Sanji muttered in confusion.

"I don't have a good feeling about this…" Zoro groaned and I agreed whole heartedly with him.

"NGHHH!" Luffy began to spin around in a circular motion so that his body became twisted and taunt while his arms knocked away the fishman attacks. He then stretched out his rubber arms and latched onto Mohmoo's horns.

"He must be a Devil Fruit user!" One of the fishmen called out.

"Hey! Let's get out of here!" Usopp yelled as he bolted.

"What!" Sanji cried in confusion amongst the chaos. "What's he doing?"

"Hell if I know!" Zoro snapped in reply and we all ran for cover before we got caught up in that idiots' attack too.

"Gomu Gomu no…" Luffy began to say. "KAZAGURUMA*!"

And with no further ado he allowed his body to be untwisted, taking the sea cow with him and knocking down most of Arlong's men in a whirlwind of fury. He then let go of Mohmoo, sending him flying and he then spun around to face Arlong.

"I didn't come here to fight small fry! The one I came to beat up is you!" Luffy yelled vehemently at Arlong.

"How excellent…" Arlong hissed, his mood seeming to change from angry to excited. "I was thinking of killing you myself just now as well."

"Seems like we have no choice but to fight," Sighed a fishman that looked like a stingray.

"How dare you hurt our brethren!" Cried the octopus.

"Looks like we need to teach these humans the difference between our races, Chu." Said the one that looked like... God knows what. He looked like a creeper though.

"Hehe!" Cried another creepy voice from a fishman that was orange and white striped. He had odd looking spines protruding from his spine and along the length of his arms. If I wasn't wrong, he was meant to be a Lionfish fishman. He was wearing a pair of leather short but no top. He also had a weird looking mouth, his bottom jaw was larger than his top one and poked out. "Fun, fun, fun!"

"Looks like the main force is out to me us," Zoro said with a smirk on his face.

We had slipped out of our hiding spot and made our way back over to Luffy; I was half-tempted to nip the idiot for that last stunt. Some warning would have been nice!

"That was dangerous!" Snapped Sanji as he kicked the back of Luffy's head.

"Are you trying to kill us!" Usopp exclaimed, gripping onto Luffy's arm. I just sent the captain a pissy look before slipping up to stand next to Zoro yet again.

"If this is how it was going to turn out we should have just fought from the start," Sighed the stingray. "Arlong, please just sit right there."

"If we let you fight while that much enraged, Chu, all of Arlong Park will be destroyed!" Said the odd looking one with a wink.

"Hehe! Let's have some fun with these humans!" Cried the Lionfish. He seemed like a psychopath to me... What're the chances that I get stuck with him?

"Take this!" Exclaimed to octopus and he bent over, taking a deep breath. "Shikai Zero…"

"That octopus is doing something," Zoro stated in a bored manner.

"First boil octopus in salt water, slice it up, and add some olive oil and paprika to make an excellent side dish whilst drinking," Sanji muttered as he took a drag of his cigarette.

I sent him a wide eyed glance. He wasn't serious was he? He would cook something that so closely resembled a human? Even if it was evil… I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that question.

"Umm, guys. I'm in a bit of a pickle..." Luffy said as calmly as he could.

"TAKOHACHI BLACK**!" I heard the octopus cry out as he shot a huge jet of black ink towards us. Oh, so that's what he was planning.

Zoro, Sanji, Usopp and myself all dived out of the way in time and turned back only to see our captain covered in ink. Oh God! WHAT NOW!

"You dumb-ass!" Zoro screamed at him, echoing my thoughts. "Why didn't you dodge that!"

"AHH!" Luffy cried, bringing his hands up to his eyes. "I can't see anything!"

"LUFFY WATCH OUT!" Usopp warned him as much to my amazement the octopus picked up a large piece of ceiling that had broken in Luffy's earlier attack. He held it up over his head, ready to throw it at Luffy.

"Yeah, that's the problem," Luffy said sheepishly. "I can't move… Or see…"

"What?" Sanji hissed in annoyance, his face scrunching up.

"For God's sake," Zoro said as he face palmed.

'Luffy,' I thought mentally in shock. 'You own stupidity amazes even me sometimes.'

"But you're the one who did that to yourself!" Usopp yelled back at Luffy.

"TAKOHACHI BLACK! ON THE.." The octopus cried, getting ready to bring down the ceiling on Luffy's head.

"Huh?" Luffy said dumbly.

"ROCKS***!" He cried as the ceiling impacted and shattered, revealing Sanji standing behind it, his leg raised from just kicking the stone. Phew, crisis avoided.

"Argh, jeez. Looks like I've chosen to follow a dumb-ass for my Captain," Sanji sighed, I was feeling much the same as he him at moment, although I wouldn't leave Luffy to join another pirate crew that currently existed. Luffy was my only Captain and it is going to stay that way.

"Nice one Sanji!" Luffy cried happily, throwing up his arms.

"My feelings exactly," Zoro muttered at Sanji's statement.

"He's amazing!" Usopp yelled.

"But it's still 100 times better than being in a pirate crew that would harm a lady!" Declared the ever chivalrous Sanji.

"For a human you're not half bad," The stingray addressed Sanji. "But a pirate going around shouting chivalrous lines? How half-assed."

"Heh," Was Sanji's only reply.

"Still not yet. My feet aren't budging one bit," Luffy said with gritted teeth. I finally noticed that Usopp had grabbed him under the arms and was pulling him back in an attempt to free him. The only problem though was the fact that all Luffy's legs did was stretch.

"Still?" Usopp cried.

"Would you like to test how half assed my chivalry really is Mr. Fish." Sanji challenged the stingray. "Despite what you may thing, I've spent half my life as a pirate."

"It seems you fools don't understand the level we fishmen are on," He replied. Really now? What about all those guys over there that are knocked out? By one person might I might add.

"What about now?" Usopp asked Luffy.

"Eh, you're only stretching it. My feet are as stuck as ever," Luffy replied lazily as he picked his nose. That idiot! Did he not realize the situation we were all in?

"ARE YOU EVEN TRYING!" Usopp screamed at him.

"You think you can just horse around at Arlong Park!" The octopus snapped at Luffy and Usopp as he picked up another large piece of rock. "I"LL KILL YOU ALL!"

"AGHH!" Usopp screamed in fear and tried to pull Luffy even harder. "Hurry up and get your feet out already!"

I would have stepped in but Zoro choose to do it instead as he suddenly appeared behind the octopus and said, "Hey, octopus. Those guys are busy right now. Why don't you play with me instead?"

"Nyu!" He exclaimed. "Roronoa Zoro! That's right, I forgot! How dare you device me before!"

And with that the octopus swung the rock at Zoro but he dodged it easily.

"Not only that, but you cut down my brethren too!" Octopus snapped at Zoro.

"I don't care about ancient history. It doesn't matter for what reason you want to kill me, the situation is different now…" Zoro smirked as he pulled out his sword. "You guys aren't going to be doing the killing. It's us that's going to be killing you!"

"Good Zoro! I'll let you deal with that octopus!" Usopp declared, sending Zoro a thumb up. My eyes widen as I noticed that he had forgotten something. "CRAP! I ACCIDENTALLY LET GO!"

"AHH!" Luffy cried as his body was flung back to the place his legs were trapped, managing to knock out the creepy looking fishman in the process. "Darn it, I'm back."

"My bad…" Usopp whimpered with tears of fear running down his face. The creeper fishman just climbed to his feet as he glared at Usopp.

"AHHHH!" Usopp screamed as he ran out of Arlong Park, the fishman hot on his heels.

"Looks like you really do want to be killed by me!" The fishman cried as they left the park.

Until this point I had mostly been standing silently, my calculating eyes darting around to watch everyone. I knew that they each had their own battles to do and that they needed to be done for their strength to go up. And that's why I hadn't interfered before now. But now I was standing besides Sanji, Zoro, and Luffy as Arlong stop up and started to advance towards us. We all seemed to be switching positions like some evil game of musical chairs.

"Arlong, I've already asked you not to fight," The stingray reminded him calmly.

"I ain't going to," He dismissed his subordinate.

"I'm gonna kick your…" Luffy started, bringing back his fist before flinging it at Arlong. "ASS!"

Arlong merely moved his head to the side to dodge the blow and then he brought up his hand to catch Luffy's wrist, "Do you honestly think you can win against!"

"And what if we do?" Sanji asked him.

"You bet I think so, you idiot!" Luffy yelled at Arlong. "Now let go of my hand!"

I let out a soft growl to echo Sanji and Zoro, if we didn't think we could win would we be here?

"Seems like he has something to say," Zoro smirked, referring to Arlong.

"No, no," Alrong replied before bending down before Luffy and digging his hand into the ground. He then lifted up Luffy, a huge slab of rock still attached to his feet.

"Why don't we play a game?" Arlong laugh evilly.

"W-What?" Luffy yelped.

"Devil Fruit users are said to be unable to swim. Well, in this situation, not even a non-Devil Fruit user would be able to swim. SHAHAHA!" He continued to laugh.

"Don't tell me!" Zoro exclaimed.

"He's going to throw him into the sea!" Sanji finished for him.

"Gomu Gomu no…" Luffy said as he drew back his hand. "PISTOL"

He brought it forward and Arlong opened up his mouth before closing it around Luffy's arm. I thought I was the only one that bit!

"GAHH!" Luffy screamed in pain.

"Fool," Arlong teased Luffy.

Luffy responded but bitting down on Arlong's own arm with a cry of, "Take this!"

"How futile," Sighed the stingray.

"AH!" Luffy's cry was muffled by his grip on Arlong's arm, but it didn't stop Arlong from throwing him into the sea. Shit on a monkey's aunt!

"LUFFY!" Zoro cried out.

"You bastard!" Snarled Sanji as he gritted his teeth in frustration.

At the same time Sanji and I charged forward, although I'm not sure what I planned on doing.

"I'll go s-" Sanji started to say but was cut off when Zoro interrupted.

"Wait! You dumb-asses!" He yelled at us and I froze. "Don't act so rashly! Going into the sea is exactly what these guys want! There's only one way to save Luffy right now!"

As much as I hated to admit it he was right…There was three fishmen, not including Arlong, that needed to be beaten. And there was three of us, myself included. They needed me here…Damn!

"You mean we have to beat these guys to a pulp on land first and then jump into the sea?" Sanji questioned as he took a drag of his cigarette. "Fine by me."

"LET'S DO THIS!" Zoro cried.

"Yeah!" Sanji answered him and I let out a bark as well.

"One of these games huh?" Asked the stingray. He was stating to piss me off at how carefree he seemed to be.

"Hey, wait!" Cried the Lionfish. "If you two have your opponents and the rubber guy is in the water who am I meant to fight!"

I took a step forward and let out a low growl, my lips peeling threateningly to flash my pure with teeth. Dear Lord help me, I've picked a fight with a Lionfish. When did I become this stupid? Maybe it was when I was hit by the boat and my brains got knocked around a bit...

"A dog!" He snapped. "Are you kidding me! I wanted to make someone scream and I get stuck with a dog!"

'Fuck,' I thought dryly. 'He really is a psychopath.'

"Oh well, I guess I get to see how well a dog can scream then," He said with a sadistic smile.

Isn't this one charming?

I stared up into the eyes of the fishman before me, my tail stiff as all my hairs on it stood up. I hated Lionfish. When I had been Braylie one of my Grandfathers enjoyed fishing and would take us kids with him sometimes. We used to catch Lionfish all the time; they weren't worth keeping. To my Grandfather they were a pain in the ass and he used to just cut the whole fishing line off so we didn't have to get close to one. And that was annoying because you couldn't go fishing without at least catching one Lionfish if not several! My Grandfather told us that he had got stung by one once, and that it was the worst pain he has ever experienced in his life. My grandfather is no sook either, he is about 6'1 and his wide set shoulders and lots of muscles from working hard for most of his life. He said that once they stung you the pain was almost automatic, and where it stung you starts to swell up like a balloon. Also there is nothing to counteract the venom, they only way to stop it would be to cut off the afflicted limb or put it in boiling water. My Grandfather had said he had considered actually cutting off his hand when he was stung because the pain was that bad, and that was a lot coming from him.

So the fact I was standing here in the One Piece world facing off with a Lionfish fishman annoyed me; Lionfish were like the things of my nightmares from the sea. I could deal with sharks, eels, jellyfish, stingrays, and so on. The only two things I hated were Lionfish and Blue Ringed Octopus, but I supposes it's better to face a Lionfish then a Blue Ringed Octopus.

Out of the corner of my eye I watched as Sanji and Zoro sprang into action without hesitating for a second.

"So, little Doggy, what can you do?" I heard the Lionfish purr at me in a tone that was not too friendly. I just kept my gaze on him, waiting to see what he could do. I wasn't about to make the first move just yet.

I heard him sigh and mutter, "Why don't I ever get the fun fights?"

Oh, indeed, why? You crazy bastard.

He took a step towards me lazily as he let out a sigh, flexing his fists as he went. He had a bored look on his face, he had no idea what he was up against though. I hadn't been sitting around lazily on the boat recently, before the whole Bartie incident I got some practice in.

*Flashback*

I watched with curious eyes as Zoro moved through some of his basic exercises, his sword neatly slicing throw the air as he swung it. I also watched as his feet danced over the surface of the deck fluidly with every move he made. He was here practicing right now, so why was I just sitting on my ass watching? I need to practice and train too if I am going to survive in this crew

But how should I train myself? I don't know what to do; all I do is dodge and bite. I can't really work on my biting so I should be working on my dodging. Oh ho ho, I have an idea!

I quickly crept up to Zoro as he kept moving through his paces, I'm sure he was glad to have more room on the Going Merry. I kept my mischievous lighted eyes on the bandanna that was tied up on Zoro's head, tensing up my muscles. When I saw the right moment I pounced straight at Zoro, my front feet touching down on his shoulder. I saw his eyes widen as he noticed me but I ignored him, my teeth lashing out in a flash of white. My teeth quickly snagged into his bandanna as I threw myself away from him. I narrowly managed to avoid a slice of Zoro's sword as I pushed away from him, my eyes widening. He was damn fast! I landed on the deck lightly and spun around to face Zoro, his bandanna in held prisoner in-between my teeth.

"Mamori…" He hissed at me, obviously not really sure what I was doing. I just danced back a few paces, letting out a muffled bark at him.

He took a step towards me and held out his hand, "Give it back."

Just gave him a look that all but said, 'Are you stupid?' and then darted cheekily past him before spinning around to face him again. He just turned and stared at me with an irritated face, his eye giving a slight twitch. I looked at him in the eyes before shifting my gaze to his sword in one hand and then back up to his eyes. He gave me another confused look and I just repeated the motion.

"The hell…" He muttered in a confused tone. Gah, this was like one fucked up game of charades!

I decided that sending glances wasn't working so instead I charged back him and he lifted up his sword and point it at me in annoyance. I just ran straight at his sword before ducking under it at the last second and dancing away from him again.

"Do you want me to attack me with my swords of something!" He snapped but his eyes widen after he said he. He finally got it! I hope anyway. I let out a loud bark but kept the bandanna in my grip. "Stupid mutt."

He then took a few steps towards me and hesitantly swung his sword at me, missing on purpose. I could have rolled my eyes at that point but instead I jumped away from the swing and threw my head into the side of his knee. He staggered away a step and then looked back at me with a look that said he did finally get it after all.

"You want to train with me?" Give the man a prize! I let out several more loud barks, throwing my head back as I did so.

He took that as a yes before smirking and stating, "I won't go easy on you then."

I never asked him to.

*End of Flashback*

That went on for a few more nights and let me tell you, Zoro is a slave driver! I did learn pretty quickly from him though. Before I had just been flinging myself around wildly but now I had learnt that there were much better ways to fight. And I had built on my endurance slightly; bloody slave driver.

The fishman continued to walk towards me and I kept a neutral façade on, my ears twitching. All I had to do was not get stung by his spines and I would hopefully be fine. I briefly considered using my new weapon that the cloak guy had given me, but it would be more of a handicap then anything at the moment. I had no idea how to use it, so I might as well stick to what I am good at.

He finally stopped once he was right in front me and I tilted my head up to look him, one of my doggy eyebrows quirking itself.

*Gum Gum Pinwheel

**Zero Visibility: Hachi Ink Jet (literally: "Zero Visibility: Octopus Hachi Black")

***Hachi Ink Jet on the Rocks (literally: "Octopus Hachi Black on the Rock