"Isis!" screamed Paulie as the small group sat on the low to the ground, handmade benches, ""You immoral woman! How could you wear such brash clothing?!"

Manami sighed roughly at Paulie's reaction to Isis's choice in clothes. He and Iceburg had been here about a week and she had been dealing with his disgusted reactions the entire time. He had scolded Isis and Yuki the most since he saw those two frequently. She was extremely happy though because she didn't wear anything like them, so Paulie never had the chance to complain about her.

"Go harp on someone else, Paulie," Isis growled while setting her paper sack on her mostly exposed thighs, "I wear what I like and that's that."

"I will not!" he protested, going to defend his opinion, "You work in a place where men are working all around! You should not show off so much sk-!"

"Shut up, Paulie!" Manami screeched. Her arm was extended, holding her hammer firmly in her grip with the rounded, metal end where the back of Paulie's head was previously. "She doesn't even work in the field, so leave her alone!"

The blonde man groaned from the pounding and pulsing sensation going on in his skull as he pushed himself up slowly. Iceburg laughed, trying to keep the lunch that Yuki prepared him securely in his lap.

"What's so funny?!" Paulie hissed, his head snapping up, looking from Iceburg to Kaku, who was laughing as well. He would have glared at Jyabura also, but he didn't know him that well and he was sitting on the other side of Manami who was beside him.

"Nmaa~… I'm sorry Paulie," said Iceburg while calming down, going to say the reason as to why he was, "It just seemed like déjà vu, only it wasn't Lucci who slammed the hammer over your head."

Everyone there, Kaku, Jyabura, Ratchet, Iceburg, Isis, and Manami laughed. Of course Paulie didn't, seeing that he was the cause of it and Lucci didn't because… well… he was Lucci. He never did show much emotion.

Their laughter died down as Paulie sat back in his spot beside Manami.

"Just eat your lunch, Paulie," said Kaku in a lighthearted tone.

"Well what if I don't want to, huh?!" Paulie said back sounding much like a little kid.

"Then don't," cooed Hattori from Lucci's shoulder while he took a bite of his rice ball.

"Oi! I wasn't talking to you Lucci!" he yelled, getting flustered, "AND SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, YOU BASTARD! I know you're capable of it!"

Everyone's attention, even though most of them already knew he could, went to Lucci who just sat there, tuning everyone out as he ate. As he swallowed, he looked up and slowly scanned over all of the faces and then stopped at Paulie. His face was still emotionless.

"What if I don't want to?" said Hattori, imitating Paulie's earlier comment to Kaku.

Paulie leaned back, his eyes wide. He went to yell something else, but saw Manami grip the handle of another tool on her belt, although he couldn't see which one, and sighed heavily not wanting to be bashed over the head again. Manami released the "weapon" she was about to use and went back to her lunch.

They all sat there eating and talking, or at least most of them did, for about ten minutes when a high pitched scream came from inside the kitchen. Their attention, along with everyone else's who was out there, went to the front door or the building waiting for someone to come busting through the double doors and something did, it just wasn't what they were expecting.

"Get out of here, now!" squealed the clearly feminine voice and whatever was in there did just that.

An eight legged, dark chocolate brown arachnid with irregular blue splotches randomly placed all over the body, and was about the size of a large dog came stumbling out of the doors and down the steps. It got twisted up in its own legs, tripped, and tumbled in an unorganized summer salt until it collided with a pile of work wood. Everyone's interest went back to their lunches, making the two assassins assume that this wasn't something new, but it was something new to them.

Manami sighed after swallowing the mouthful of rice she had just bit off and looked over to the struggling spider that was underneath the wood.

"My god…" she trailed as she set her open-topped tray on the ground. She stood up and jogged casually over to it and removed the heavy planks from pinning it any longer. "If you were hungry, you should have come to your owner, ya stupid spider," she scolded, lightly kicking it in its abdomen.

It looked up to her, its four eyes staring back at her with an apologetic and hungry look. One of Manami's hands went to her hips and the other pointed over to Ratchet.

"Go talk to him. I'm not the one who feeds you."

It moved its gaze from her over to Ratchet and quickly crawled over to his side. Propping its two front legs on one of the few open spaces that were there, it looked up to him with hungry, glazed over eyes. Ratchet smiled at his pet and patted the top of its head while setting his lunch on the ground as well.

"Alright. Alright Hades," he said as he got up off the bench, "Lets go get you somethin' to eat."

"Nmaa~…" Iceburg grumbled as Manami sat back in her seat and picked up her lunch, "You were right, Mana. Hades has gotten big since the last time."

"Told ya!" she said with a smile.

Kaku and Lucci looked at each other since Ratchet wasn't between them at the moment. Lucci didn't say or show anything, but Kaku had curiosity written all over his face.

"Mana," he started as he went back to face her, "What was that?"

She looked up, just about to take a bite out of the rice ball that she had, but stopped in order to answer him.

"That was Hades," she explained, "Ratchet's pet arachnid."

He kept asking questions and she kept answering. She told them all about Ratchet and finding Hades a little after she had come.

She told that Hades had been the size of a grape fruit when Ratchet had first found him on a trip to a different island. He had taken care of the small spider and when it was time for him to leave the island, Hades didn't want to be separated from his chosen owner. It wasn't Ratchet that chose Hades though. Hades had chosen him and stowed away on the boat he was on. Ratchet had no idea until he got back to his home when he unloaded the new supplies he had received and found a dehydrated and starved anthropoid.

"And that's why we think Hades has always been as skinny as he is," she concluded.

"Well, that is interesting," Hattori said.

"Yeah," agreed Kaku, "Very interesting. I never would have thought that one of those spiders would ever have done something like that."

"Same as me, but hey. Hades was very small when he was found, so that could be a facto-"

"MANA!" came Ratchet's voice from inside of the main building.

She sighed and looked in that direction.

"What?!"

He looked out of the door of the main building with a wide smile and was holding a rolled up and tied packet of paper. Her face sunk as she stared. She definitely knew what that was and dreaded his next words...

"You have a skeleton to start on bright and early tomorrow!"

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ONE PIECE!!!

I had fun with this! :D It was very entertaining to come up with. And I'm sorry if you have arachnophobia or have something wrong with spiders. I just wanted a new kind of pet fom everything else I could have thought of and I wanted to use the name Hades for the name and well... A spider was the only thing I could think of at the time, but I'm thinking Hades won't show up very often... I just had to add something else in this chapter and that's what I thought of.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it! Please review and keep reviewing!! I appreciate it and it helps me keep writing!!

-Love Maruri