Holy crap. We're already this far into the second book of my series? Well, that was quick. Thank you for over 80 reviews! This chapter starts the Drum Kingdom Arc, and unfortunately I don't really have any enemies planned for this arc... so if you can think of someone, just go ahead and say it! Here are my replies to reviews on the previous chapter:

Kakusei: Ah, thank you! And I definitely will! It's my goal to get done with this fanfiction some time. XD Although it'll be pretty hard to do since One Piece isn't even done yet... Ah, well! Heh, thought you guys would like the Miss Holy Saturday twist! That was pretty legit, eh?

DarkLord98: Sure! I already have something planned for where he's gonna go and what he's gonna do, but I'm still open for suggestions. If I like yours better, I might use it!

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Chapter 20 start!

Nami is Sick?

Encountering a Sea of Snow!

Previously on One Piece Full Blast:

If my neck had been going crazy before, now it suddenly tingled with the force of a volcano explosion. Red and blue light shone behind us, illuminating the inside of the fish, and as we sat there, gaping, a wave of pure energy ripped a hole through the goldfish behind us and tore ahead of us. It smashed into the opposite wall of the monster, bright light flooding the stomach of the fish. The force of the attack pushed us into the air, making Lucy whoop in excitement and the rest of us scream in terror.

We were flying out of a hole in the fish's stomach!

Just past the western edge of a prehistoric island known as Little Garden, an enormous fish sat in the sea with a giant tunnel of a hole ripped straight through it. The Going Merry, our ship, sailed forth, pushed by the wind created from the Giants Dorry and Brogy's attack. The wind buffeted me, whipping my long, brown hair back as I desperately clung to the edge of the crow's nest and tried not to fall out. My treasure, the precious black leather jacket that my mentor and teacher, Cracked-Up Kane, had stolen for me, rippled behind me. Below, the Straw Hats all had various expressions of terror, except Zoro, who smirked, and Lucy, who was ecstatic.

We were flying, soaring through the air.

And it wasn't the first time this had happened to us, either. We'd done this once before in the Calm Belt, when we were getting away from the massive Sea Kings that resided there. I'd pulled the nose hair of the Sea King our ship was on, it had sneezed, and we'd been sent flying.

Now we were experiencing that exact same sensation.

Let me just say that flying is not fun, although you do start to get used to it after a while. It feels like you left your stomach back down in the ocean far below, and the wind stubbornly tries to pull your face off.

Fun times, fun times.

Not.

"WOOHOO!" Lucy cheered, her soft black hair flying back in the wind crazily. My brown hair was mimicking hers, and locks of hair would fall in front of my face, too, forcing me to brush them aside or be left with an unfathomable itchiness. "We flew through!"

"How the hell can you be so calm!?" I shrieked.

As we were blasted across the sea, which had been cut and was splashing upward in a long, continuous wave, droplets of water were flung onto our ship like little flakes of snow. It was beautiful... or at least, it would've been if we weren't moving at about 150 miles per hour.

"No turning back!" Lucy shouted over the wind and sea. "We're going straight ahead!"

I turned around and my jaw dropped. It had only been a couple of minutes since the Giants' attack had blasted us out of the island-sized goldfish, but Little Garden had already dipped below the horizon. Just how fast were we flying, anyway?

Our captain had long since placed a hand on her straw hat to keep it in place. "Huge!" she approved. "They were so huge!"

Usopp was crying... though whether it was tears of awe or tears of fright, I couldn't tell. "They even pierced the ocean itself! This is the true strength... *sniff* ...of an Elbaf Warrior! It's sugoi~!"

The Merry finally slowed down and lost a lot of its momentum, gravity once more acting on our ship. We were pulled down to the Grand Line, smashing into the ocean so roughly it was all I could do to stay in the crow's nest, though I was bashed against the main mast hard enough to feel like I broke every bone in my body. How the hell I had survived this far, I had no idea, but as we sailed ever farther from the prehistoric island, I couldn't help but feel like life was only gonna get crazier from here on out.

Sore and exhausted, I dragged my weary body off of the main mast and knelt on the floor of the lookout post, gripping a spyglass shakily and peering out around the ocean. Zoro must've seen my pain, though, because he offered to relieve me of my job for the day, hefting some weights up there with him and beginning one of his intense . I quickly accepted and took a nap. Or tried to, at least. The every day antics of the crew started up not long after we landed.

"Ne, minna, guess what? Someday, I'm definitely gonna go visit Elbaf, the Village of Warriors!" Usopp declared, posing proudly on a barrel.

Lucy grinned. "Oh yeah!"

They hooked arms and danced around the ship like the lovable idiots they were, singing, "Gi, Gi, Giants! Gi, Giants! El~baf, baf! El~baf, baf! They're all huge, 'cause they're Giants! Big ol' Giants! Huge kaizoku!" As they sang and danced, Carue raced around them, quacking happily.

I sweatdropped. "That's one screwed up kick-line."

Nami, leaning against the bottom of the main mast and looking wiped out, shook her head in wonder. "Those two sure are energetic," she muttered. She had changed into a baby blue shirt.

Suddenly, Lucy and Usopp, who had jumped onto the railing of the ship and continued their thing there, slipped and almost fell off of the Merry, though our captain grabbed onto the edge of the ship just in time. They climbed back up hastily, looking comically panicked. Carue slid into view below them, quacking an admonishment and sweatdropping, too.

I nodded sagely. "You said it, Duckzilla."

"That whole ordeal really tired me out," the redheaded navigator mumbled, letting out a ragged sigh and rubbing her temple. She lifted up the Eternal Pose to Alabasta and handed it to the local princess, who had been sitting next to her. "Vivi, can you keep an eye on this for a while?"

Vivi, who had changed into some dark blue pants and a magenta hoodie, smiled and accepted the makeshift compass, smiling softly.

"Now you can finally go home to Alabasta!" Nami proclaimed, grinning slyly. "Well, if we don't run into anything else on the way there, of course."

I got up and walked over there, bopping her on the head lightly. "Don't jinx us, Nami."

Vivi nodded and smiled at us. "Yes, I must return home. Now, the only way to save my country... I just have to make it to Alabasta alive." Her smile faded a little and her expression turned hard. We all looked at her worriedly. Just how much death had she seen to give her that look in her eyes? She suddenly seemed much older and maybe a little more fragile, too. I knew she couldn't take much more.

I gritted my teeth. That Crocodile bastard was gonna pay.

Sanji walked down the steps from the kitchen smoothly, carrying a dish of some kind of dessert and saying, "Don't work yourself up so much, Vivi-chan." I sighed in relief. For once, the ero-cook had great timing. The tension was broken... but of course, he had to ruin it. He pointed to himself and smirked. "I'm here! How about sampling some of today's lovely relaxation snack, petit fours? And for beverages, we have coffee and tea, whichever you prefer."

The princess smiled. "Sanji-san!"

"That looks delicious!" I moaned hungrily, drooling. Fighting off a demigod of winter, getting frozen, and being stabbed by some shitty icicle spear really works you up an appetite.

"Looks goooood!" Usopp and Lucy gasped, a really strange look on their faces that made me wonder if they were human or some weird kind of drooling creature that had previously been undiscovered. Carue also popped up beside him with almost the same expression.

Sanji tic-pulsed and glared at the duck and sniper. "Yours is in the kitchen! But you can eat as much as you want, Lucy-chan~!"

I frowned, my eye's twitching increasing. For some reason, when he swooned over Nami and Vivi or even me, it didn't annoy me as much as it did when he started hitting on Lucy.

Usopp and Carue raced for the kitchen, and after a moment of hesitation, Lucy tore after them. I blinked, wondering why she had chosen to go for those when she had some right here. I shook my head and shrugged it off as more Lucy craziness. I smiled and selected one petit four that looked like a little piece of cake with chocolate icing, taking a cautious bite of it. My eyes lit up. It was delicious! I popped the rest of the dessert into my mouth, grabbing for a few more greedily.

"Arigatou, Sanji-kun," I said, putting emphasis on the -kun and smirking at Nami, who was looking even more tired than she had a moment ago.

The stupid love cook swooned.

On a small ship in the middle of the Grand Line, a man dressed in a black suit, a green dress shirt, and a checkered tie frowned. He felt like his old subordinate wasn't faring well at the moment. She was a bit messed up on the head, and had accepted help from one of them. Still, over the many months he'd known her, he had started to see a better side to the girl, behind those strange eyes. He felt like even if her goal wasn't accomplished, meeting him again might help her heal somehow. Perhaps she could even start to move forward... but only if she survived the meeting.

The well-dressed figure's eyes flashed dangerously, and his hands were suddenly bathed in golden light.

Damn that Aeso, always complicating things.

I misjudged him before, thought Mr. 6. Digger D. Damon... let's meet again, shall we?

"Vivi, Diamond-chan... gomen, but I need to go... to my room."

The simple, choppy sentence from our navigator brought the desert princess and I out of the silent reverie we'd fallen into. Vivi had clearly been thinking of her country as she stared at the Eternal Pose, and I'd been remembering my mom, Cracked-Up Kane, and Jason. The petit fours had long since been consumed. As Nami suddenly collapsed, her cheeks tinged an unhealthy red, I suddenly remembered that the whole reason the Straw Hats had went to Drum Kingdom and recruited Chopper at all was because Nami got sick.

Vivi fell to her knees beside our navigator, shaking her lightly. "Are you okay?" she gasped.

Nami was unresponsive.

"Oh my gods..." I said, horrified at the mapmaker's pale face. "N-Nami!"

"Minna, come quick!" Vivi called worriedly to the kitchen, where Zoro, Lucy, Usopp, Sanji, and Carue were finishing up their desserts. No, wait, I take that back. Zoro was still training in the crow's nest. "There's trouble!"

"Get your asses down here now!" I added.

The sounds of Zoro's training stopped abruptly and the door to the kitchen open, revealing Lucy, Usopp, Sanji, and Carue with food stuffed in their mouths. "Why?" asked the captain. "What's wrong, Vivi, Diamond-chan?"

"Nami-san's come down with a high fever!" the princess reported.

Sanji let out a dangerous howl and shoved Usopp and Carue aside to make his way through the door. "EH!? NAMI-SWAN HAS WHAT!?"

Everyone crowded around Nami, who wasn't doing well at all. The pink tinge was getting pinker and her face otherwise paler. Her breath was coming out in ragged gasps. She was laying haphazardly on the lower deck. Even her ears were red, like an embarrassed Ron Weasley.

"Na...mi..." I murmured.

Vivi and I, being the only ones who could be trusted with the task of moving Nami safely (Lucy and Usopp were so stupid they'd probably bash Nami's head against the door, Sanji was a pervert, Zoro was still keeping watch, and Carue was a duck) hefted our nakama through the trapdoor in the storage room and into the girls' cabin. I'd only been in there long enough to change clothes before - - though Nami and Vivi had insisted that because I was a girl now, I'd need to do make up and my hair and shit like that, and they'd promptly spent almost an hour playing with my face - - so I got my first real good look at the place, now that I wasn't distracted by clothes, make up, or other girly stuff.

The girl's cabin was about as large as two average college doors. The room had a minibar, a bookshelf with random novels shoved as tightly as possible onto the shelves, a bed, a couch, a table, a desk covered with Nami's maps, and a little bookshelf-like thing that had a bunch of random surveyor tools. Not that I'd know anything about that.

Vivi and I set Nami on the bed carefully and covered her with sheets. Sanji, Lucy, Usopp, and Carue followed us down soon after, all with morbid expressions.

"Is she gonna die?" moaned Sanji miserably, sniffling as tears poured out of his eyes. "Well, is she, Vivi-chan? D-Diamond-chan?"

I put on my most confident smirk. "She ain't gonna die. She's a Straw Hat! Although we will have to get a doctor if we want her to live."

Vivi soaked a rug in cold water and squeezed it, then placed it on Nami's forehead. "The sickness is probably due to the climate," she guessed. "One of the obstacles seafarers invariably face upon entering the Grand Line is the threat of illness due to the unnatural climates. It's not unusual for fearless kaizoku, even those with great reputations in other seas, to succumb to the climate and pass away. Even the slightest of symptoms may lead to death if they are not treated immediately."

Sanji's crying resembled a mini waterfall.

"Good guess, but I'd say it's the cause of that bug bite Nami was complaining about on Little Garden," I amended. "Remember how she was itching a red spot on her stomach?"

The bluenette frowned as Sanji's bemoaning increased. "That could be it, too... Is there anyone here with even the slightest medical knowledge?"

Blinking, Lucy, Usopp, and I pointed to Nami while the ero-cook continued to sob.

Our female captain grinned and shrugged. "But she'll get better if she eats some meat! Ne, Sanji?"

I sweatdropped. "Not everyone's like you, Luce..."

The cook sniffed again and wiped his eyes. "Well, I am going to prepare her food that should help with her recovery, but all that amounts to is nursing. Just feeding her the right food won't be enough." He looked at the navigator like he was seeing her grave, lighting another cigarette to keep him company. "And besides, while we're at sea, I make Nami-san's, Vivi-chan's, Diamond-chan's, and your food with a hundred times more care than the rest of those chumps', including that bastard Damon before Konton killed him. I give you all the freshest meat and vegetables. And then all the rotten shit - -" he pointed at Usopp and Carue with a slightly bored expression "- - is what I feed you guys."

"Oi!" Usopp complained, drawing his hand across the face.

I grinned. "But even that tastes good!"

"Eh? How would you know, Diamond-chan? I don't give you any rotten stuff..."

Lucy blinked. "What are you talking about? Damon didn't die on Swap Island. She's right here."

Sanji frowned. "What are you talking about? You're not making any sense. Since when was Damon a 'she?'"

"Since Swap Island."

"Eh? That can't be right..."

I sweatdropped. "Oi, Lucy-chan, I'm right here, ya know..."

Blondie shrugged and returned to examining his beloved Nami. "In any case, as long as I am this ship's cook, there will never be a problem with nutrition. But when preparing food for a sick person, you have so much to consider. What her symptoms are and what they require nutritionally... I can't make that diagnosis."

"Ne, then just feed her all of them," Lucy said dismissively.

"What sick person's gonna have the energy to do that?" I deadpanned.

Vivi took Nami's temperature and gasped as she looked at the thermometer. "4-40 degrees Celsius!? Her fever has gone up!"

"There'll be doctors once we get to Alabasta, right? How much longer 'til we get there, Vivi?" Usopp demanded.

"I'm not sure, but I don't think we can possibly get there within a week."

I frowned. "She won't last that long at this rate. If her fever gets much higher, she could die."

Lucy blinked. "Die? Is being sick really that painful?"

Sanji, Usopp, and I folded our arms across our chests and tilted our heads, saying in unison, "I dunno, I've never really been sick before."

Vivi rounded on us with shark-like teeth. "JUST WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE?! DIAMOND-CHAN, YOU SHOULD'VE GOTTEN SICK AT LEAST ONCE! YOU WERE ON THE STREETS FOR PETE'S SAKE!"

I shrugged. "My world has really good doctors. We get shots as kids that strengthen our immune systems against bad diseases and we retake them when we're teenagers."

She sighed. "I know you can, but can't the rest of you see what kind of situation we're in!? A 40 degree fever is a dire matter! Like Diamond-chan said, that means this sickness could be life-threatening!"

The three of them freaked out.

Sanji's crying went from waterfalls to geysers, Usopp and Carue raced around the room in full-out panic mode, and Lucy's rubbery jaw literally dropped to the floor as she shrieked, "NAMI'S GOING TO DIE!?"

I hit them over their heads, tic-pulsing and shouting with shark teeth, "WHY DO YOU BELIEVE HER, BUT NOT ME!?"

Vivi tic-pulsed, too. "PULL YOURSELVES TOGETHER AND QUIET DOWN!"

"We've gotta find a doctor!" Lucy declared, her face blue. "We gotta have him save Nami!"

"I know, just please calm down! You're going to disturb her!"

Nami's voice came out almost deathly quiet. "No... no." Everyone froze and moved in closer to hear what she had to say. She sat up slowly, clutching the damp rag on her head and taking it off. Lucy stated happily that she was cured, which Usopp shot down quickly with a sharp jab to the back of her head. Nami panted some more and said, "In my desk drawer... there's a newspaper."

Vivi and I blinked at each other and raced to her map desk, throwing open the drawer and pulling out the paper. The article on the headline made our eyes widen.

"N-No way..." Vivi whispered.

"Oh my gods, Vivi..." I said in a small voice.

"Nani?" Lucy wondered, trying to look over our shoulders. "Ne, what is it? What's wrong?"

"Is it about Alabasta, Vivi-chan?" Sanji inquired seriously.

The desert princess clenched her fists, wrinkling the paper. "'300,000 Imperial Soldiers have defected to join the Rebel Army,'" she read. "At the outset, there were 600,000 Imperial Soldiers suppressing 400,000 rebels, but in one stroke, the odds have...!"

Nami panted and nodded, wearing a dark expression. "Now the rebellion in Alabasta will start to gain momentum. That paper's from 3 days ago. Gomen. Even if I'd showed it to you, it wouldn't have changed our ship's speed. I thought that it would only cause you more stress, so I hid it. Do you understand, Lucy?"

The future Pirate Queen frowned and hummed. "Hmm... well, I get the impression that things are very bad."

"Good, you picked up more than I thought you would."

"Even when she's got a fever of 40 degrees Celsius, Nami is very cold," I observed.

Usopp raised his hand. "Um, but if we don't get you to a doctor soon - -"

"I'm fine," she insisted, smiling weakly. "That thermometer's just broken. No one can have a body temperature of 40 degrees Celsius." She shoved the bedsheets off of her and swung her feet off the bed. Vivi and I scrambled away from her bed to make room for her as she stood up and walked to the stairs up to the storage room. "It's probably just a little heatstroke. I don't need to see a doctor. It'll go away by itself. Let's just go straight to Alabasta like we planned, okay?" She turned and grinned. "Arigatou for worrying about me."

She stumbled up the steps and opened the hatch.

"Oh, she's cured?" Lucy concluded.

"Baka, she's just putting on a brave face," Usopp informed her.

"And you'd know all about that, wouldn't you?" I pointed out, smirking slyly.

"Oi!"

There was a slight pause, then Vivi decided to speak up again, her voice hard. "At this rate, there will be major bloodshed in my country. It will become a war! If I don't stop this, Alabasta will crumble! Crocodile will seize the throne!" She hid her face in the paper, crying softly. "Just getting there alive isn't enough anymore! I have to get there as soon as possible! If I don't make it in time, one million of my people will engage in meaningless slaughter!"

Lucy very nearly choked. "There's 1,000,000 people!?"

"That's not very impressive to me," I cut in. "The total census of my world is seven billion, and there are over three hundred million of those in my country alone."

"3-3-300,000,000!? 7,000,000,000!?"

"Just how big is your planet, anyway?" Usopp demanded, gaping.

"What a terrible burden for you to carry, Vivi-chan..." Sanji murmured, totally ignoring us.

"OI!" came Zoro's sudden shout. "GET YOUR ASSES ABOVE DECK, NOW! WE'VE GOT WORK TO DO!"

We sighed and raced upstairs. "Nani?"

"What the hell?" Sanji complained, glaring at Zoro, who was leaning against the railing above the storage room casually. "I ain't gonna take any orders from you."

"Just shut up and get to work!" the swordsman spat. "Pivot the sails to catch wind from port."

"What's happening, Nami-san?" the ero-cook asked. Said navigator was in the same part of the ship as Zoro, except she was leaning over the ocean. "The waves are calm and the weather's fine."

"The wind..." Nami panted.

"...Wind?"

"A large wind... is going to hit us head on... I think." She turned to see that Lucy had leaped up there and was now reaching out and putting a hand on her forehead. Suddenly she pulled back and blew on it.

"Hot!" she screamed. "You're burning up! We need to stop the ship and get you to a doctor!"

"Just mind your own business! This is my normal temperature! Quit fooling around and man the ropes!"

"Normal temperatures don't burn rubber peoples' hands, or any hands for that matter," I told her, glancing at Lucy's steaming, slightly swollen hand.

"Nami-san," Sanji tried, "I know that this is for Vivi-chan's sake and everything, but you don't have to work yourself so hard..."

Carue quacked in agreement while Usopp put his hands on his hips and nodded sagely.

The navigator sent us an annoyed glare. "I told you that I'm fine!"

"Oi, Nami, you really - -" the local liar started.

"I DON'T CARE! Just move the ship!"

We jolted and ran to our storm posts, as Nami had dictated us thousands of times before. Even Carue jumped to action, attempting to help Usopp at the steering rudder. Zoro, Sanji and I secured the ropes while Lucy turned the sails. Once the ship started turning to the right, a certain straw hatted girl jumped onto her special captain's seat.

"Ne, minna!" came Vivi's voice as she walked out of the storage room.

We turned to her.

"I realize that this is a lot for me to ask after being allowed to ride on your ship, but..." She paused. "Right now, my country is falling towards a terrible fate. Therefore, I want us to hurry forward! I cannot afford the slightest delay! I need this ship to continue on to Alabasta at it's fastest speed!"

Nami gave a feeble smile. "Of course. We promised you, didn't we?"

We stared at the desert princess, waiting to see what she had to say next.

"Well, then, " said Vivi, grinning, "let's go find an island with a doctor!" Nami blinked as she continued. "We must get Nami-san cured as quickly as possible, and then head to Alabasta! That's this ship's 'maximum speed,' isn't it?"

We nodded, smiling.

"That's right!" Lucy agreed. "Doesn't go any faster than when Nami's healthy!"

"You sure about this?" Usopp asked her. "As the princess, you have a million people to worry about, right?"

"That's right! And that's exactly why we must get Nami-san well as soon as possible!"

Sanji smirked, his cigarette smoking. "Well said, Vivi-chan! I'm in love all over again!"

"You were never out of love in the first place," I deadpanned. I appeared to be doing a lot of that lately.

Zoro smirked, too. "She's got guts."

Nami stumbled to Vivi. "Gomen. I'm sorry about this." She almost collapsed on the railing but Vivi caught her just in time.

"Please don't strain yourself, Nami-san," the bluenette begged.

The redhead smiled at her and repeated her previous words. "Gomen... Vivi... I think I might be in a little trouble here." She sank into Vivi's arms.

"Nami-san, hold on!"

"She's got a fever of 40 and she says she might be in a little trouble?" I echoed, wondering whether I should laugh or worry about our navigator's sanity. She was really resembling a tsundere character right about now. Come to think of it, there aren't really any tsunderes in One Piece... huh. Kinda weird.

But enough of my ADHD.

I mean, seriously. Enough.

Suddenly, Lucy let out a panicked scream and pointed back in the direction we'd been headed in before, her face blew and her jaw dropped in shock. "WHOA! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!"

We looked in the direction she was pointing in and ogled at the sight. There, swirling madly a good three miles away from us, was a gigantic tornado. And when I say gigantic, I mean that it looked like the darkened sky had reached down to the sea with unforgiving tendrils and eaten fifty packets of Skittles. That was how crazy and strong the tornado was. I could feel its pull from here, and we were miles away from it. ...Oh, so that was what the wind I was feeling was...

It was quite the humbling experience.

"OH MY FREAKIN' GODS!" I gasped. "IT'S THE MOTHER OF ALL TORNADOES!"

"It's a cyclone!" Vivi shouted.

"It's HUGE!" Lucy hollered.

"That's what she said," I snickered.

"Hentai," Usopp accused.

"M-MATTE!" the local princess called. "Wait a second! That direction is..."

"The same direction we were headed before!" Sanji finished.

"If we'd gone that way, we'd have hit it straight on!" Usopp declared.

Lightning cracked, thunder roared, and the wind threatened to rip our sails right off the Merry. How we ever made it out of that storm, I had no idea, but once a bolt of lightning struck the sea so close to us that I could swear I felt a small electrical shock.

"That was too close!" Lucy yelled over the storm, clutching the main mast and her hat desperately.

"What an amazing navigator..." Vivi murmured.

"YOSHA! Let's get a move on! We're gonna get a doctor!" our captain commanded.

We all punched the air, grinning. "AYE-AYE!"

Thirty minutes later, we had successfully evaded the cyclone and were sailing among calm waters once more. The only difference was that the temperature was rapidly dropping. In the span of a few seconds, I went from being perfectly fine to seeing my breath and feeling like I was moving through molasses. Sanji saw this and rushed to get me the pink fur winter coat that Nami had forcibly bought me back in Swap Island. I usually despised anything pink, but I was grateful for the extra warmth now. As I slowly recovered from my near coldtastrophe, I realized that I could see snow descending gracefully upon the Merry.

"It's snowing..." I whispered.

Lucy, still dressed in naught but her usual red vest and jean shorts (crazy girl), craned her head up to look at Zoro, who had returned to acting as lookout in place of me. "Oi!" she called. "See any doctors?"

"He's not just gonna see a doctor, baka," Usopp told her bluntly, wrapped up in a brown fluffy coat.

Zoro, swaddled in a a tan blanket, lowered his binoculars. "Hey, guys," he said. "You think people can stand on the ocean?"

I shrugged. "Unless they're Jesus or a demigod of the sea... nope. And Aeso told me that I'm now his last child in this world."

"You wanna know if people can stand on the ocean?" Lucy asked.

"Zoro, what are you talking about?" Usopp wondered.

The swordsman returned the binoculars to his eyes. "Well then, what's that?"

"What's what?" inquired Lucy as we turned around.

"What do you mean?" Usopp agreed.

A little ways in front of our ship, with snow falling all around him, a man dressed in a strange jester-like costume stood.

On the ocean.

"N-Nani!?" I gasped, my jaw dropping.

And thus starts the Drum Kingdom Arc! Next chapter holds an awesome battle aboard the Going Merry! Stay tuned for more epic Jackie Chan! Sorry that this took so long. I haven't had much time to work on this chapter. My weekend's been very busy, and I also 'discovered' an epic time travel anime, Steins;Gate. I know a lot of you won't see this right away because of the Super Bowl, but I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Diamond: Dammit! I'm missing the Super Bowl!? ...And how the hell's that guy standing on the sea!?

Lucy: EH!?

Zoro: What the hell's going on!?

Usopp: It's the g-ghost of Jesus! In a... jester costume...?

Diamond: Baka, Jesus went straight to heaven, as do all spirits. There's no such thing as ghosts.

Perona: *makes a Negative Hollow* Wanna say that again?

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