The coating expanded forming a dome over the ship, then they finally left.
It had to be a half an hour later, when Mayura was startled by two warm arms.
"It took you guys long enough." A voice said in amusement.
A tick mark formed and Mayura punched the person in the face, "As happy as I am to hear you, no cuddling without asking!"
"Two years and just as violent, Mayu."
She turned around and bopped him on the head before kissing him, "Only to you, Fire-baka."
"They got bigger." He said while poking her exposed breasts, "Since when did you wear bikinis?"
"Felt like it." She shrugged lazily.
Ace smiled and the rest of the crew finally noticed him, "What're you doing here?!" They yelled.
"I was here for a week." He answered while trying to cuddle Mayura who punched him.
"Stop that." She stated with more tick marks.
"You're violent." He said, his warm breath tickling her ear.
"And you're inappropriate." She pushed his face away with an annoyed look.
Ace's appearance changed over the two years, his hair grew out and had a more untamed look. His hat was the same, but it had royal blue beads on top of the red beads. He had gained a scar on his chest over the two years that seemed to draw you to his amazing chest. He still didn't wear a shirt, but he wore long black pants with black boots to match. They were held up by a blue belt that had a pouch attached to it.
Luffy jump attacked him into a hug, "Ace! Does this mean you're also joining my crew?!"
Ace untangled himself from the boy and laughed, "Still no, Luffy."
Luffy deflated with a frown, Mayura smacked Ace on the arm, "Why not?" She asked.
He shrugged his shoulders, "You already know."
Mayura frowned, "Fine. But, you won't just be sitting around doing nothing, got it?"
He didn't answer her due to the fact that he passed out, "WAKE UP, IDIOT!" She yelled while smacking him.
He woke up and looked at her before promptly pulling her into a hug, "Y'know, I've missed you these two years, it only got worse when someone told me they saw you." He whispered causing her to blush.
"H-How did they know it was me?" Mayura whispered back in surprise.
He grinned, "I described what you looked like to the entire crew."
"Oh…" She mumbled, "Stop groping my boobs." She said and promptly head butted him in the face.
"Sorry, I just wanted to get a feel of 'em." He said lazily causing her to roll her eyes.
"Try not to do that in public, or around Sanji-kun, he might attack you." Mayura calmly stated before stealing a kiss.
She jumped to her feet and ignored the stunned looks from the pirates, "Sorry, he's a little grabby."
As if to confirm her statement, he grabbed her by her hips into an embrace, "What? You're just fun to hug. What other human is this cold?" He said into her ear.
She phased through his hold before folding her arms, "Did you get clingy?"
He stood up and grinned, "Well...you were gone for two years."
Before she could answer a crash sounded, "We'll discuss this later." She muttered before turning in the direction of the sound.
The originator turned out to be another pirate ship that was being pulled by a sea cow of all things, "Is that another pirate ship?" She asked.
The supposed captain of that ship, pressed the ship against theirs before hopping on. He had an evil look on his face before saw Mayura, Ace and Zoro all staring at him. Mayura already had her bow out, Ace's fingers were replaced by fire while Zoro had his hand on one of his swords.
"Oi! What do you want?" Mayura asked with a threatening glare.
"You could've popped the bubble." Ace said with an overall bored look, but there was intimidation in his voice.
The pirate gulped as Franky picked him up while walking to the railing, "Wait! D-Don't throw me into the water! I-I'll do anything!" He yelled frantically.
Mayura smirked, "Then we'll just tie you up. What we do with you afterwards is completely up to Luffy over there." She said with a sadistic look that completely terrified the man and reduced him to a shaking mess.
"Don't scare him too bad, you've probably scarred a few people for life." Ace said with a grin causing her to sigh.
"Listen, I had to impersonate a captain, I can't go around acting all kind and giggly if I want people to take me seriously." She stated causing the crew to jawdrop while Ace shrugged.
"You probably made a few people shit themselves." Magnolia said and revealed herself to the crew.
"Oh right, I forgot about you. Guys, meet Magnolia or Asshole, she a spirit that's been stuck in my sword for a couple centuries." Mayura said casually while Usopp screamed at the sight of it.
"Stupid, wanna-be queen!" Magnolia said with a tick mark, "How many times do I have to tell you, treat me with respect, peasant!" She yelled angrily.
Mayura merely glanced back at the ghost before shrugging, "That exorcism I promised you is still up for grabs. I would be able to sleep at night and you would finally be able to go to your humble homeland of hell." She said causing the spirit to jawdrop and growl furiously.
"Why do you think that I'm going to hell?!" Magnolia yelled.
"Eh, you're an Asshole that killed innocent beings in her youth merely out of fear, or do you not remember telling me all that?" Mayura replied with a raised eyebrow.
Magnolia was shut up by that, "Don't bring that up, bastard." She muttered lowly.
Mayura blinked in surprise before nodding quietly, "Right, I'm sorry." She mumbled.
She sulked away with Magnolia disappearing back into the bow, Ace walked after her before grabbing her into a hug.
She blushed while glancing at him, "H-Hey." She said softly.
"You okay?" He asked while burying his face into her long hair.
She nodded, "Yep, I...I just forgot...Magnolia told me not to mention that and I did." She explained while rubbing her nose, "But, it's okay now."
The duo walked back onto the deck with Ace keeping a close eye on the woman, that and keeping his hand on her waist.
"So, what have you been doing?" Ace asked as the two sat on the floor, with the woman on his lap.
She shrugged, "Nothing much. Been training with my sword and been honing my haki. It was really boring that first year and a half." She stated, "The remaining half was spent traveling around until I hijacked a marine ship to get here."
He smiled, "Sounds like something you would do." He laughed causing her to smirk in reply.
"What have you been doing, besides looking for me, of course." She asked, catching a light blush on his face when mentioning his search for her.
"Same as you, nothing much." He said while scratching the back of his head, "Just got into a fight with someone and I ended up with a scar."
"Oh. So that's how you got it." She said with a face resembling that of a goldfish.
She tilted her head upon seeing Nami put a coat on, "Eh? We're already that deep?"
"Yep. It's gets colder the deeper we go." Nami answered causing Mayura to nod while punching her open fist.
"Okay! But, it's not like I would notice anyway!" She joked causing Ace to smirk while the others sweatdropped.
The crew were nearing what Mayura dubbed "The underwater falls", when Mayura jumped up and skidded across the deck, "Wowee! Does anybody else sense that?!" She yelled in excitement causing Ace to walk up beside her.
"Probably not. You can sense things a couple miles away, remember?" Ace reminded her causing her to facevault.
"I forgot about that...Anyway, there's a giant creature below us!" Mayura declared causing the crew to jawdrop while Usopp and Chopper hugged each other in fear.
"What kind of creature, eh, Mayu?" Ace asked with a grin.
"Hmm…" She hummed while unconsciously bouncing her massive cleavage, sending the resident chef into a nosebleed. "It kinda feels like a squid or an octopus." She stated with a head tilt.
A loud groan sounded and a decapitated head floated in front of her, she reached through the bubble and grabbed it, "Yep! This is how we're all gonna end up apparently!" She announced happily causing all, minus Ace, to believe she had lost her marbles.
Ace sweatdropped at her, "Stop doing that, you're gonna cause someone to die of shock one of these days."
Mayura deflated before chucking the head out of the bubble, "You're no fun." She pouted, "But, for real, there is a giant sea monster under us."
Before she could react, Ace picked her up like a potato sack, "Hey! Put me down!" She yelled while punching the air.
"Nope, you can just stay there." Ace said without a care in the world.
"You better not be holding me like this so you can just look at my ass, idiot!" Mayura yelled with a neon red blush.
He blinked, "I never thought about that...maybe…" He grinned.
"Wahh! No!" She yelled and punched him with a haki infused fist.
He faceplanted into the deck, "Don't do that, inappropriate idiot!" She screamed and continued to deck out punches, "I swear, you're one of the biggest perverts I've ever met!"
If he's only one of them…then who's the biggest? The crew thought before a few of them glanced at Sanji, who was fuming, Oh right...it may be him.
She stuck her tongue out at him before drawing her bow, "Ne, I know how to tame it! I learned a secret technique when I fought off a marine warship!
She grinned and grabbed a pink arrow while arming her bow, causing Usopp to scream, "Oi! You'll pop the bubble!"
Mayura tilted her head, "Nope! It's only one object and it's not even that big! There wouldn't be enough pressure to pop it!"
She fired the arrow and once it left the bubble, they heard a ticking, "What's that sound?" Luffy blinked.
"Wait for it…" Mayura said in excitement.
The ticking stopped and in a matter of seconds the arrow grew to ten times its original size, then the arrow split into several smaller ones before hitting the Kraken head on.
"Woah!" Chopper exclaimed with stars in his eyes.
"Hehe, those arrows were made by the craziest mechanic. She was a nutjob, but her insanity finally paid off! Mk-98 is our lucky number!" Mayura explained with a joyful look.
Franky looked at her, "Mk-98?"
"We made 97 different models, they all failed. We spent a few months testing them out and they all exploded one way or another. Mk-98 is the only one that didn't blow up in our hands, rather...it blew up at the end of it's timer." Mayura explained with a calculative look. She twirled another pink arrow in her hands, "This is chocked full of machinery, yet we designed it to have an innocent look leading the enemy to believe it is harmless."
"Mayu, you've gotten more intelligent." Ace stated after his brief state of unconsciousness.
Mayura twitched and punched him in the face, "Still not forgiven!"
Another loud groan sounded and the Kraken stared Mayura down, who merely stared at it response.
What is she doing? The crew thought as the two had a massive stare down.
She armed two more arrows while a layer of ice settled around her, "So, you wanna do it the hard way?" She said calmly while allowing a layer of fire to coat her bow. "Well, then let's do this the hard way!"
The arrows flew through the bubble at light speed before making contact with the Kraken, causing an explosion to occur and one of the arms to be frozen.
"Oi! Don't do too much damage to it! I want it to be my pet!" Luffy yelled.
Mayura nodded and drew a black arrow, "Sure thing, Captain." She mumbled before letting the arrow go.
The arrow hit the Kraken and electricity was heard before two more arms fell, "He's merely paralyzed in those two arms, otherwise he's perfectly fine." She stated before securing her bow back onto her back. "He's all yours now."
Luffy grinned and was walking towards the railing when the weirdo from the other pirate ship offered them some sort of bubble suits. It allowed them to fight as much as they wanted to without popping the ship's bubble.
"Oi, you do know that you need that rope, right?" Mayura deadpanned and nearly screamed when all three just ignored her.
"They're gonna drift away! Those idiots!" She yelled.
"They'll make it back here...somehow." Ace said with a slight pause.
Mayura frowned and crossed her arms, "Sure, after the sea kings get to them."