A.N. I own Nothing.

The Devil fruit competition is now closed, thank you to all who entered the winners will be posted in the next chapter.

Connor rubbed his now sore bottom he'd landed on it after the fall, which thankfully wasn't that far. He looked up at the hole he'd fallen through and wondered how he'd get back out. Connor looked around to see if there was another way out but couldn't see much because it was dark.

He switched to his second sight and saw a door not too far from where'd he fallen, oddly it was glowing.

"That's new" he said, switching his eyes back. Doors weren't alive so he'd never seen one glow before.

With no better ideas he pushed it open and thankfully it wasn't locked.

Inside was another dark room but as soon as he entered the candles on the walls lit up. Looking around he spotted a desk at the other end of the room with someone dressed in a hooded white robe hunched over it, next to a bookshelf and a large cupboard.

Along the walls were racks that were lined with all sorts of swords, daggers, axes and guns and hanging down from the ceiling above the room were four flags; they all had the same emblem on them. An A, that was missing the stroke through it. Connor recognised it from the hilt of his sword.

Connor walked past the weapons looking at them wishing he could keep them, sadly he had no way to carry them; he noticed that every one of them also had the A emblem inscribed on them. When he got to the desk he tried to get the figures attention.

"Excuse me, I'm lost,"

The figure did not respond so he gave the figure a poke; again no response. Connor pulled the chair out and the figure collapsed reliving a skeleton.

Connor frowned, 'should have known' he looked over what was on the desk and found folded bits of paper that he assumed to be letters as well as some rolled up maps. Finding nothing of interest he moved past the bookcase and opened the cupboard.

In the cupboard there were several sets of white robes, all in various sizes. Connor found the smallest size and tried it on. It did not fit but he liked the way he looked. At the bottom of the cupboard there was a back pack. He opened it and found a locked chest with numbered dials on it. Curiosity got the better of him and he looked around the room for the key but could not find it.

Deciding that there was nothing that could help him he took off the robe and turned to leave but just as he reached the door he stopped and looked back at the room. Connor had a feeling that some of this stuff was important, he sighed his feelings were usually right.

Going back to the cupboard he grabbed the bag with the chest inside, he then took all the bits of paper he could find and finally the white hooded robe.

He was about to leave again when he noticed a brick out of place. He removed the brick revealing a hidden compartment inside were three small well rapped balls; putting them in the bag with the other stuff he left the room.

It took a bit of effort but Connor was able to climb back out, 'now if I could find a non-destroyed village everything would be perfect' he thought.

"Let me go, I'll kill them all," a voice said.

"And how are you planning to do that?" a different one asked.

Connor followed the voices to their source. He saw an average-sized young woman with light blue hair and tanned skin. Her right arm and chest was heavily tattooed - wearing a beige sleeveless top, blue trousers and purple sandals. She was scolding a small boy probably no older then himself. He wore a green beanie, an orange jacket with pale green shorts and brown shoes.

Connor took a deep breath and approached the two.

"Excuse me, where's the nearest village?" he asked.

Zoro sat quietly in his cell eyes closed and breathing softly, he was listing to the two guards outside his cell's door. At first they had laughed and sneered at Zoro for Usopps death and made fun of him for being an inferior human but Zoro had not reacted in anyway so the Fishmen started a conversation between themselves.

"So did you here, Gezo from Cocoyasi village has been hording weapons," the first guard said.

"Yeah shame really they always pay their tribute on time," the second answered.

"Speaking of weapons did you see that sword Nami had?"

"Yup I wonder where she got it,"

"Who cares as long as she gets rid of it and soon,"

"What are you worried about? It's just a Sword,"

"Did you not see the emblem on the hilt?"

"No, what was it?"

"It was their emblem,"

"Wait you mean them?"

"Yes, and I have no intention to cross blades with that group. I bet even Arlong wouldn't pick a fight with them,"

"What are you worried about? They only operate in the Grand Line,"

"We found one in Gosa village remember what if there are more?"

"That's impossible,"

'So the Kid's sword belonged to someone who was part of a larger group and this group has the Fishmen scared. That's interesting' Zoro thought.

"Hey you two is the human giving you trouble?" a new voice asked.

"None. Is that Namis sword?" the second one responded.

"Yeah I thought I'd test it out on our guest,"

"Arlongs orders were to keep him alive for Nami to deal with,"

"Don't worry I won't kill him,"

"Well okay knock on the door when you're done,"

Zoro heard the lock click and the door was opened, another Fishman walked in and the door was closed again. Zoro noticed the sword in the Fishmans hand; as the Fishman walked slowly towards him, a sinister smile on his face. The Fishman stopped in front of Zoro and pulled him to his feet by his neck, he brought the sword up to Zoros face.

"I'm going to make you bleed and then you'll beg for death," the Fishman said.

"Your breath stinks," Zoro said simply.

"What?"

"Your breath, it stinks,"

"Filthy human, you dare insult me" the Fishman said, angrily.

He lifted the blade up above his head and brought it down intending to kill Zoro, but stopped right above him. The Fishman tried to push down but his arm wouldn't move, he looked down to see what had stopped him and found Zoros hand had grabbed his arm.

"What? How?" the Fishman asked, he was not expecting the human to have such strength.

Zoro smirked and twisted the Fishman's arm forcing him to drop the sword, Zoro caught it before it hit the ground and in one swift movement Zoro was behind the Fishman in a crouched stance; the Fishman collapsed on the ground a large cut across his throat.

Zoro straightened up and looked at the fallen Fishman.

"You killed my friend and made fun of his death, so now I'll kill all of you," Zoro said, he had a very scary look on his face and one eye was glowing red.

Zoro went over and knocked on the door, it opened and he left the cell, any surprise that the Fishmen may have had was quickly replaced by their screams and the silence that followed.

Connor sat at the table sipping a mug of hot Chocolate.

The woman he'd met had introduced herself as Nojiko. She had been surprised that Connor was in Gosa village but was happy to help him when Connor had told her that he was lost. She brought the two boys back to her house to sort them out, the other boy had introduced himself as Chubba and he was a Survivor from Gosa village. Apparently the Fishmen killed his dad last month because he could not pay the tribute and he was heading for Arlong's base to get revenge when a witch had stopped him.

After a scolding and some advice from Nojiko Chubba agreed to return home to his mother Connor had witnessed the whole exchange and when Chubba had gone Nojiko turned her attention to him.

"So, what made you come here?" Nojiko asked, sitting down in the opposite chair.

"I was with my fri…these people I know. There was a fight and one of them got injured so myself and one other helped him to our ship, but our navigator Nami stole it while we were on board" Connor explained.

"Nami? Nami was with you?" Nojiko asked, in surprise.

Connor nodded.

"Yeah, she stole all of the treasure as well,"

"And you came to get it back from her, I suppose,"

"I don't care about the treasure. We were on board when she stole the ship and when she found out she made us her prisoners. When we arrived she handed the other two I was with over to the Fishmen,"

"So this about revenge then,"

"No it's not. I was told to wait for them in the nearest village. Nami can keep the gold but we need the ship back,"

"I see so you're the latest victims then,"

"What do you mean?"

"Nami steals from pirates and only pirates. Sometimes they come here to get their stuff back and when that happens, Arlong gets involved and kills them. As much as I hate to say it but your friends are probably dead already,"

"No, there not,"

"What makes you say that?"

"Because Nami's a good person,"

"She's a witch who'll do anything for money. Even turn her back on her own people,"

"How do you know so much about her?"

"Nami's my younger sister,"

Connor looked at Nojiko in suprise, Nami had a sister but they looked nothing alike. He looked around the house 'So this is her home then' he thought. Nojiko showed him a photo with a young Nami and Nojiko with an older woman.

"So how does she know Fishmen?" Connor asked, curiously.

"Well about eight years ago this island was invaded by Arlong and his crew. He demanded that we pay him enormous amounts of money to live and our mother could not afford it, so she paid for Nami and myself, then Arlong killed our mother and kidnapped Nami. She came back later that day but she told everyone that she had joined Arlong's crew willingly in exchange for money," Nojiko explained.

Connor processed this information but something seemed off. He thought about everything he knew about Nami and how she had acted on the ship.

"Oh, so why'd she join this Arlong?"Connor asked.

"I just told you, for easy cash,"

"No what's the real reason?"

"Why do you think that's not the reason?"

"It doesn't make sense for someone to join up with the person who killed their mother; if it was me I'd want to kill them. So now I'm worried about her,"

"Why would you be worried about someone who conned you? She's been acting the entire time,"

"It wasn't an act, not even Nami could fake her smile," Connor claimed.

Nojiko stared at Connor, he was right there was another reason but Nojiko had promised to keep it a secret from everyone. Nami had stolen from him and brought him here against his will but he still cared for her. She wondered if this crew was different from the others; after all Connor had said that Nami had smiled and that was something that hadn't happened in eight years.

"Tell me about her adventures with you," Nojiko requested.