Chapter 14
Flash Forward
Many weeks passed and Hawke found herself a trusted member of the crew. She had shown that she could hold her own in combat and she helped out around the ship in any way she could.
She used her link with birds to find out what the weather patterns were or if there were any small islands or threatening ships in their vicinity. She also enjoyed cleaning, which was greatly appreciated by Nami and Sanji.
Nami enjoyed Hawke's ability to store items on her wings to hide them. There were many times when she would make Hawke hide treasure and money when they were visiting a city so no one would steal it.
Nami and Hawke became very close friends. Since they were the only girls on the crew, they formed a strong bond.
Hawke often slept in Nami's room, much to Sanji's delight, when it was too cold to stay in the crow's nest. There was more than one time when they had caught him trying to peek in under the door at them. Once, Nami had opened the door and dumped a bucket of water on his head. That didn't deter him much though and Nami suggested that they fix up another room in the ship to be her own room.
The Strawhat pirates had had quite a few adventures in the short time since they had crossed over Reverse Mountain.
They had helped out a whale named Laboon, who had been ramming his head into the Red Line, trying to break it. After learning Laboon's story, Luffy had fought the whale and made the fight end in a draw. Luffy had then promised to return for a rematch and had painted the strawhat symbol on Laboon's head to keep him from hurting himself.
While this was going on, the crew had also captured two strange people called Mister 9 and Miss Wednesday. They had been trying to kill Laboon for food.
While they were with Laboon, the lighthouse keeper, who was friends with Laboon, had given them a logpose. The logpose was an instrument which would allow them to navigate the Grand Line.
To the crew's dismay, Luffy proceeded to break the logpose. But then Mister 9 and Miss Wednesday had given them theirs, since they wanted to reach the next island safely.
Unfortunately, the island that their logpose directed the crew too was a trap.
They had been lured in and then attacked by Baroque Works, a company that had a huge network of spies that were controlled by one man named Mister 0. They influenced events all over the world and were responsible for trying to cause a war in the kingdom of Alabasta.
While they were trying to escape the Baroques Works employees, Miss Wednesday had given them a surprise. She had ended up being an undercover agent, trying to uncover the identity of Mister 0. Which she had: he was a man named Sir Crocodile.
It turned out she was the princess of Alabasta Kingdom and her real name was Nefeltari Vivi. Luffy had decided to help her return to her country in order to stop the civil war.
On their way to Alabasta Kingdom, they had landed on an island inhabited by ancient dinosaurs and two giants. The giants were locked in a never ending dual to see who had caught the larger sea king fifty years ago.
The crew had run into more Baroques Works employees there: Mister 3 and his partner, Miss Goldenweek. They had been sabotaging the giants dual to make it end and to collect the bounties on their heads.
Mister 3 had wax-wax devil fruit powers and had trapped Nami, Zoro and Vivi. And Luffy had been a victim of Miss Goldenweek's powers of colour that influences a person's mood.
Hawke and Sanji hadn't been directly involved in that battle. They had found a small white house and had been investigating it when a snail phone had gone off. Sanji had answered and had a conversation with Mister 0. This had made Hawke nervous, but Sanji had called himself Mister Prince, so she thought it might be safe since his real identity wasn't revealed.
After that, two creatures had come to the white house. One was a vulture and the other looked like a cat. They had attacked Hawke and Sanji, but the crew mates had easily defeated them and then went to find Luffy and the rest of the crew.
When they finally found everyone, Mister 3 and Miss Goldenweek had already been defeated. So the crew said goodbye to the giants and left the island.
They were then eaten by a giant goldfish. But the giants shot the goldfish through its head, making a path for the Going Merry to sail through the fish to the sea.
Once they were at sea again, Nami had fallen terribly ill. The crew was in a panic and Hawke and Vivi worked tirelessly to try and bring down Nami's fever.
They had anchored at a winter island and begged the inhabitants to bring a doctor to help Nami. The people on the island had denied them and shot at Luffy. But Vivi had refused to use violence and kept begging. Eventually, they had been allowed onto the island.
Hawke had stayed behind on the Merry with Zoro and Vivi's duck, Carue.
Zoro had been showing her some more one-sword techniques and left her practicing while he went swimming in the icy water for his own training. Hawke had been watching him and when she saw him start to swim away from the ship, she had gotten out and followed him on land, bringing his clothes and a towel with her. She had been feeling a bit put out because Zoro seemed to be being very terse to her, not as friendly as he had been before. But she thought it was probably just the cold.
They had found their way to a village that was in the middle of a fight against some soldiers. Hawke and Zoro joined in on the side of the villagers and Hawke had done some impressive knife throwing. She'd even saved Zoro's back a couple times. After the fight, they had helped dig out people who had been buried in an avalanche that had come down from the mountain.
A man with a huge mouth had arrived with more soldiers and gone up the mountain to a castle. Zoro thought they should follow him up, but they had to wait for the lift to return to the bottom of the mountain to take them.
When they finally got up to the top, they found Luffy, Usopp and Sanji had defeated the man with the big mouth. Nami was being treated by a lady doctor who lived in the castle and Luffy had invited the doctors' assistant to join the crew and become the Merry's doctor.
After a little persuasion, the assistant finally accepted and suddenly Hawke wasn't the newest crew member any more.
The new doctor was an interesting creature.
He was a small, blue-nosed reindeer who had eaten a human-human devil fruit and so had human characteristics.
His name was Tony Tony Chopper.