I was collecting a bunch of oranges from Nami's trees so that I could preserve them for later. If I didn't, they'd just go bad, and I absolutely hated wasting food like that. I couldn't stand to do it. I saw a rubber hand reaching for my basket. My infamous temper snapped, and my leg flew out and around, catching Luffy right in the face. "Don't touch those!" He went flying across the deck.

Usopp screamed as the pepper concoction he had been working on for the past few days went straight into his eyes as Luffy collided with him. "It's just one orange!" Luffy said sitting up and utterly ignoring the sharpshooter who was in clear agony if the flames coming from his eyes were any indication.

"I can't just give you food whenever you want, Luffy! You have to be disciplined! And these oranges are our primary source of vitamin C. Do you want to get scurvy?" I all but demanded. I had the distinct feeling Luffy wasn't listening to me, though.

I was proven right when he grinned broadly and turned away. "Well! That's ok because I am in a good mood now."

I rolled my eyes and looked over at Nami, who was reading her stupid overpriced newspaper. "Nami! Protect your own oranges once and a while would you? I have other crap to do today than sit up here and guard a few plants!"

"Yes, yes, I hear you," she said without even looking at me.

I growled a bit in annoyance and grabbed the basket of oranges that were about to over-ripen and started towards the galley. Usopp was still screaming and flailing about, but I was pretty sure he'd be alright. Unless he did something strange to those peppers I gave him, that is. If I had gotten some South Blue Phoenix Peppers, he might have been in trouble. Those could supposedly cause blindness if you got the juice in you eyes.

"Rinse your eyes out with water, Usopp," I said as I passed. "Rolling around won't help any."

"It burns!" he shrieked.

I sighed, and suddenly a piece of paper floated past. It must have fallen out of Nami's newspaper. "Eh? A flyer?" Luffy asked looking down at it as it landed. We all looked at it (minus Zoro who was sleeping in that adorable way he had) and quickly read what it said. I was a bit taken aback personally, but Luffy just threw his head back and roared with laughter. "Wow! Thirty million belli! We have become so popular!" he said holding up a wanted picture of himself.

I frowned a bit. 'We' wasn't quite right. Luffy was the only one mentioned on the Wanted Poster. Though, really, I don't think I minded much. The fewer fights I got in, the better. I didn't need to risk my hands any more than necessary, and any fight could risk them despite the fact that I used my legs. "Don't you understand anything at all?" Nami asked slapping her face with her palm. "This means that many people are looking forward to killing you! With this very high price, the marine base must do something for sure! This doesn't include those pirate hunters!"

Luffy just laughed and then Usopp noticed something. "See? My picture is on this wanted list too!" He held it up to point to 'his picture' almost proudly.

"Just the picture of your back," I said blandly. You couldn't even tell it was him if you didn't know that he always wore that bandanna.

"This is so exciting," he continued, utterly ignoring me of course. "I am not a captain but my picture is spreading around the world."

"We can't waste our time in East Blue anymore," Nami muttered thoughtfully. I could tell she was more than a little nervous about traveling with someone with such a high bounty but honestly, I was a bit worried she might turn us in and collect said bounty. I didn't remotely trust her yet.

Luffy seemed to hear her just as easily as I did, though, "We are going to the Grand Line!" Usopp and I joined in his cheer. I, for one, couldn't care less where we went but if it got me closer to my dream of finding All Blue than I was definitely for it.

"Hey!" Zoro called. When had he woken up? "I see an island over there."

"You see an island?" Nami echoed as she turned to look at where Zoro was pointing. I rolled my eyes. Zoro might not have the best sense of direction, but he did know what an island looked like. "This means that we are very close to the Grand Line now. This island is the location of Logue Town, 'The city of the beginning and the end.' The legendary Gold Roger was born and executed in this town."

"The place where the greatest pirate was executed…" Luffy repeated, never taking his eyes off the island that we were quickly approaching at several knots.

It didn't take long at all for us to dock and disembark into Logue Town. It was definitely a large city. It was famous and could afford to keep everything in tiptop shape. There wasn't even a speck of trash hanging around that I could see. Not to mention the ridiculous variety of people that passed by. "So," I muttered taking a drag from my cigarette. "The pirate era began here."

"I will go see the execution place," Luffy announced.

"There must be a lot of food here," I realized, already looking for signs for the market. Being the last island before the Grand Line, we had to stock up here or risk running out of food, and that was not something I was willing to do twice in one lifetime. We didn't have a lot of extra room to fill up since we just had at Nami's home island but I would fill the storage rooms to the brim whenever I had the chance.

We quickly split up. Each of us having our own agenda and agreeing to meet back up later, though I had a feeling we'd have to search for Zoro. He would wander around forever and not know where he was going if we didn't. There were hundreds of handsome guys that caught my eye and one woman that made me scoff in disgust at the horrible heart theme she had plastered all over her. How incredibly tacky.

I finally found the market and instantly went to the fresh fish section. My eyes widened at the sight of a huge somewhat rare fish on display. It looked vaguely familiar, but I wanted to be sure. "What kind of a fish is this? It looks really good." It was clearly fresh, and it had no signs of any diseases like fin rot that would be an instant reason to turn it down.

"It's an Elephant Trunk Tuna from the South Blue. I am the one who caught it!" the fisherman behind the counter said proudly.

"You caught it by yourself?" I echoed in amazement. The thing was as big as me, and it had to have been difficult to haul in. Not to mention that fish was only supposed to live in the South Sea. How did it get all the way here? "How did you catch a South Blue fish in East Blue?"

"Is this the first time you've been in this town?" the merchant asked. I nodded a little. "Since this is the place closest to the Grand Line the ocean currents bring fish here that are from all the other blues. It happens all the time. But, I swear on my honor as a fisherman it was fresh caught today. Do you want me to prepare a cut for you?"

I studied the fish for a moment. I could make some killer recipes from it. There had been some I had been dying to try but never had the right type of fish for. "No. I want to buy the whole fish," I said grinning widely at it. That much meat would probably feed us for all of…two days considering how Luffy ate. But still, it wasn't something I could pass up.

"Thank you! You are so kind!" the merchant said grabbing the fish from its display.

I turned to look for anything else I might want when I spotted a familiar bandanna and long nose. "Eh? Why is Usopp in the market?" I asked myself aloud.

Usopp didn't seem to notice me as he bent down to by the almost outdated eggs. "Wow! These eggs are so cheap!" I felt my eyebrow twitch. Why the hell was he trying to buy almost useless eggs?! Because they were cheap? That was the sort of thing a haggard housewife on a budget would do!

"Usopp, sweetie, what are you doing?" I asked lightly.

He looked up. "Sonya! What are you doing here?!"

"Where else would I be?" I asked back. "I'm restocking our supplies. But I'm glad you're here. I need some help," I said jutting my lip out in a slight pout. "Do you think you could be an angel and help me out, Usopp?"

He practically melted, "S-sure…"

"Good. Cause these Elephant Trunk Tuna are really heavy." I pointed to the freshly paper-wrapped fish and Usopp's eyes popped out a bit.

"Y-you bought that whole thing?"

"Yep! It's gonna be delicious don't you worry!" I handed the merchant the money Nami had given me for supplies (very begrudgingly, I might add) and grabbed the tail of the fish. "You can take the front end, Usopp. Come on, we need to get this baby back to the ship so I can butcher it up right."

Usopp groaned a bit but obediently heaved the front end of the fish over his shoulder. We started walking, though Usopp seemed to be having a harder time with the fish than I was. He really needed to work out more. It was only a few hundred pounds. "I'm so lucky I ran into you, Usopp," I commented looking around. I blinked at the glimpse I got of the next street over. "I just saw a lion with a guy who was wearing a teddy bear hat," I couldn't help but say. It wasn't every day you saw something that odd.

We came to an intersection right by the execution platform just as Nami and Zoro reached it. I blinked in surprise at our unusually good fortune. I was expecting to have to look all over to find the others again. But there was one key member still not here. "Where is he?" Zoro asked.

"He said that he was going to see the execution place," Nami said shifting the incredibly large bag of whatever it was over her shoulder.

"Execution place," Usopp echoed. "Isn't it right here?"

We all turned to look and instantly spotted Luffy. Really, it wasn't hard when he was on top of the platform pinned down with a wooden board. "What is he doing on that execution stake!?" Zoro demanded as Usopp just wordlessly freaked out.

"Oh, this so figures…" I muttered. So much for our good luck streak…

"Because this pirate, Monkey D. Luffy, has upset me, he must be executed!" Some weird clown roared from where he was standing on the board Luffy was on. His crew of equally clown-like pirates cheered and started shooting off their guns and creating a general ruckus.

"Hmm… it would probably be bad form to let our captain die," I commented tying up my hair and jabbing it with the chopsticks I always carried in my boot. Once again I was caught without pants on and had to fight in a skirt… maybe I should just suck it up and start wearing pants…

"You are the one who is going to be executed!" the clown roared at Luffy.

"What? Don't say something stupid!" Luffy screamed.

"You are stupid, not me!" the clown snapped. "And now, I would like to begin the execution in front of you all!"

I dropped the end of the fish that I was carrying. "Usopp and Nami get back to the boat. We'll handle stuff here," Zoro told them and they quickly dashed off towards the docks. We started weaving through the crowd that had formed. The civilians really didn't matter. Just those idiot pirates holding our captain mattered.

"I… am the person who will become the Pirate King!"

There was silence and then muttering. I wasn't able to be surprised by Luffy's shout anymore. He was so set on his goal I knew he would never give up on it. Not even when threatened with death. I saw the clown raise his sword high above his head. "Stop that!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.

"Sonya! Zoro!" Luffy shouted happily.

"Finally, you've come, Zoro, but you are too late!" The clown snapped.

I didn't have time to question how the clown knew Zoro as he started running for the stake. I was a few steps behind him, but I was faster and was soon right next to him. "We have to hurry and destroy that stake!"

"I know!" I snapped, weaving around people as best I could and still keeping on a straight (ish) path. Stupid people really needed to get out of my way. The pirates around the base of the stake rushed us. "Get out of my way!" I flung my leg out, knocking several pirates down as Zoro unsheathed his swords to cut through some others.

"All of you be prepared and watch! Because this is the end of your captain's life!" the clown shouted as he started his sword on its massive swing down towards Luffy's neck.

"Damn it!" I shouted leaping forward and swinging both of my legs around in a complex twister of feet before vaulting myself further. I had to destroy that damn stake!

"Zoro! Sonya! Usopp! Nami!" I looked up at Luffy's shout. "Sorry! But I don't think that I will survive this time," he said with an insane grin as the clown's sword sliced downwards.

"Don't say that!" I shouted desperately.

Suddenly there was a huge boom as a bolt of lightning split the sky and hit the execution stake dead on. I actually sprung back in shock. "Ouch." My eyes widened as Luffy got up from the wreckage. "My hat." He put it on his head from where it had fallen to the ground, laughing and completely oblivious to the shock around him. It was pouring rain, but nobody seemed to notice. "Lucky! I am safe now!"

I blinked as my mind struggled to process what had happened. Luffy looked perfectly fine while the clown was fried on the ground next to him. Suddenly, it clicked. Luffy was made of rubber and rubber was an insulator. He couldn't be electrocuted. I turned to Zoro. "Hey! Do you believe in God?" Because that right there was some miracle level shit.

"Don't say something stupid. Let's get out of this town before those Marines come," he said sheathing his swords. I noticed he had replaced the two Mihawk had destroyed.

"Surround and close all the streets! Let's arrest them!"

"Shit! Here they come! Let's go!" I turned on heel and bolted. Zoro and Luffy seemed to agree, and we were racing towards the nearest exit.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Zoro demanded.

"To the ship of course!" I snapped. "Where else do we have to go?! We're in a marine controlled town!"