A/N: Ta da! Isn't this nice, I released a chapter when I actually planned to release it! Hope you enjoy it, read on!

Suspicions Start to Arise

With a start, Nemo sat bolt upright and the glass doors to the balcony exploded in green flame, showering the floor with glass and wood. He was breathing heavy and sweat was covering his face, close to dripping off in droplets. What in the world…I nodded off for a second there, but that was one of the most intense nightmares I've ever had and so soon after my previous one. Something is strange here… He thought as he used a pillow to dry his face off. He stood up, picking up his pipe as he did so and holding it loosely in his hand, and made his way over to the demolished door.

The flame looked odd, with the core being a violent green and the extremities being a dull red with electricity running through them. "I've never seen this before…" he muttered as he crouched down and reached his hand out to the flame, which jumped away from him. Nemo's eyebrows furrowed down as he tried to catch the flame again only to have it scuttle across the floor like some beach crustacean. "What the hell?" This time he reached out without moving forward and attempted to disband the fire with his mind but nothing happened, except the flame got a little bit larger.

"Why the hell can't I control it?" He said through clenched teeth. The flame then reared up, taking the form of a stallion and charged towards Nemo. Nemo's eyes grew wide but he dived to the side and the horse passed by him burning a path into the floor. It turned around by the wall and charged once more, Nemo formed a Katana in his hand and sliced through the flaming horse as it passed, slicing it into half, each half falling either side of him. He exhaled and spun around to see the flame taking a form of a man who was standing in the centre of the library area.

"What the hell are you?" he said, not really expecting an answer and wasn't surprised when he didn't get one. The figure raised both of its hands and the flame spewed out of them like water and caught all the books in the library alight, the smoke pouring out of them and gathering at the ceiling. Nemo cursed under his breath and rushed forward, the katana in his hand morphing into a large war fan. With a mighty swing the air in the room swirled around like a cyclone, extinguishing the flame and causing the books to fly across the room, making one hell of a mess.

As Nemo started forward, deciding that leaving it in such a mess wouldn't go down well with Lin, he suddenly stopped and looked around at the books on the floor. Some of them had blown open but the pages inside were blank, he bent down and picked up the nearest book that was in this condition and flicked through the pages; all of them were blank. When he closed the book he also realised that there was no title and the only writing on the spine was gibberish, not making any sense. He threw the book aside and picked up another one, only to get the same result. He threw that book aside and moved back to the sofa area, picking up the Devil Fruit book and opening it only to find it was also empty.

"What the fuck…" he said as he dropped it and then booted it across the room. He was still holding his pipe loosely in his hand but when he heard knocking on his door he gripped it tightly and walked slowly towards the door. The knocking continued and as Nemo reached it, his hand slowly reaching out to the handle to open it, the person on the other side started shouting.

"Oi, Nemo! Open the door before I kick the bugger down!"

Nemo opened the door and stood there was Lin with Mayo next to him. "What took you so bloody long?" Lin asked but didn't wait for an answer before pushing his way past and into the room.

"I'll explain the mess in a minute…" he said as he turned around, only to see the room exactly as it had been before.

"Mess…?" Lin said, looking around the room at it all. "If this is what you call messy, I don't think I want to see what you call tidy." Nemo looked around, nothing in his face to give away his confusion, but decided not to say anything. "Anyway, we're leaving the island now. Something bloody odd is going on and I don't want to get into a fight here, not with all the marines so close to us. So we'll have to skip the Spa day and head on over to Supaida Island now."

Lin moved past Nemo again, heading out the doorway and turning right, heading back the way they had come. Nemo put his pipe on his back and followed him out the door, walking side by side with Mayo. "What happened?" he asked without looking.

"I don't know exactly but I think one of the nurses in the healing centre tried to give him something he didn't what." She said while glancing across at Nemo's bagged eyes, which seemed more prominent then usual. "He got angry, claiming the nurse was lying to him and stormed out, I happened to be passing and he told me we were leaving the island."

"Something strange is definitely happening here; Lin is right in that we have to leave the island." Nemo replied before dropping into silence, thinking about what had happened in his room. He decided that it could have been a strange daydream that had been vivid enough that he had believed it to be real; it happens sometimes.

They continued down the corridor, following Lin's lead as he seemed to know where he was going, until they came across a set of double doors with 'dock' above it in the familiar black lettering. As Lin walked through the door, with Mayo close behind, a door to the side opened up in Nemo's face suddenly and closed just as quickly. Nemo was temporarily blinded and when the door had closed, Lin and Mayo had already passed through the doors to the docks.

Nemo followed them threw only to come out in a long corridor with a single door at the end but no sign of either Lin or Mayo. "Lin?" he called out walking forwards, his hand creeping towards his pipe. "Mayo?" but there was no reply. Where'd they go, this hall is too long for them to have passed through it in the short time I was delayed. He thought as he walked forward.

He got to the door at the far end, seeing as that was the only exit, and looked back the way he came to discover that the double doors he had entered through no longer existed. They had been replaced by a sign that read dead end. He turned back to the door before him and opened it, bright light burst through and for a second he was blinded, but he recovered quickly as he stepped outside and looked around.

"So much for the Dock area." He said. Nemo was outside, but it was a swimming pool area with 3 circular swimming pools' two conjoined together at different levels and the third a small but very deep looking one.

He walked past the pools and over to the edge of the area, which was fenced off with a stylish wire mesh like fence. Nemo leant on his elbows, leaning them on the top bar, and looked over the side which revealed a large cliff face with the waves face below him, crashing onto vicious looking rocks at the base. From the height he was at he couldn't see for sure but he thought he could make out the shape of a wrecked ship.

His eyes narrowed, his suspicions of the island and hotel at a high, when he was grabbed by behind around the throat. The thick arm wrapped itself around his throat and locked its elbow with the other arm in a chocker hold that Nemo knew was meant to knock him unconscious. However, he wasn't new to these kinds of things and knew exactly what he needed to do to escape the situation.

He twisted his head so that his throat was in the crook of the elbow, allowing him to breathe, and attempted to bite down hard on the arm only to find it having no effect. He forced himself backwards, pushing the figure with him; until he was clear of the edge then he used his strength and lifted the person off the ground. The figure was not perturbed, however, a kept a tight grip around his neck. Nemo figured he was aiming for the arteries in his neck to stop the blood flow to his brain to knock him unconscious.

Nemo arced his body forward, to keep his foe in the air, and charged towards the single swimming pool, diving off the edge and plunging both himself and his assailant in what turned out to be freezing water. Nemo's breath was taken away from him with the sudden cold and he hoped that the same had happened to the person round his neck. The figure was still there but Nemo felt the grip loosening and took advantage by ramming his fingers into the gap between the arm and his neck and levering it free from dangerous area's.

It worked and Nemo felt the blood rush back to his head, but he was quickly running out of breath and he knew it. For a second Nemo thought the attacker was going to die killing him but the hold suddenly disappeared and he saw the figure swimming towards the surface. Must have run out of breath before me. Nemo thought as he righted himself in the water and started towards the surface, his lungs screaming for oxygen.

In what seemed like eternity he finally broke the surface, with a deep ragged inhalation to get the oxygen back into his body. He floated for a second to get his breath back and then swam over to the side, pulling himself out of the water and sitting on the side. He took in another couple of deep breaths before looking around to see if his assailant was going to have a second ago. By the fleeting image Nemo caught of a man running around the side of the building he guessed not, jumping to his feet and sprinting off in the direction the man had gone.

Nemo rounded the corner on a skid, using his hand on the floor to stop himself falling over and started chasing after the man. He wasn't particularly fast when running but the other person wasn't either, they were about the same speed because although he wasn't loosing Nemo, Nemo also wasn't catching up. The man crashed through a set of doors with Nemo in tow and started sprinting down a long straight corridor. Nemo was staring at the man in front of him and missed the fact that the doors down either side seemed to be dancing.

As the two of them sprinted in a straight line, Nemo could see that the guy had shaggy blonde hair and was wearing some sort of black suit; razor like creases could be seen in the back of the trousers. The man hung a left and jumped through a window, the glass shattering around him as Nemo came round the corner and came to a stop at the window ledge, watching as the man dropped down a floor, to another corridor, and started running again.

"Mother fucker…" he said before he too jumped down, a little less gracefully as he landed with a thud and rolled forward onto his backside. Without hesitation he pulled himself up and started running again until he came to a 6-way junction with no way of knowing which way his prey was running. "A fucking mother fucker." He said as he bent over and rested his hands on his knees and he tried to catch his breath.

Nemo thought he had lost the man when a strange laugh filled the halls and a voice echoed down the 3rd corridor on his right. "Come and get me, if you can!" the voice said before it disappeared.

Nemo growled slightly under his breath and started off in the direction the voice had come, the hallway furthest on his right, being more cautious this time as he moved with a slow jog and pulled his pipe into his hand. He followed the corridor for about 5 minutes before he came to one exit that read 'Bar' above the door and when he entered he found himself in a fancy bar with a figure standing behind the counter.

"Welcome to California Bar my friend, what can I get you?" the man said and Nemo instantly recognised it as the one he had been chasing. Nemo looked around, noticing that there were no other patrons in the bar before moving up to the counter and slamming his pipe into the surface, cracking the glass like spider web.

"Friend my ass, you just tried to kill me!" Nemo said ferociously.

The man laughed and lent forward, bringing his head into the light. "Who tried to kill you?" he said as Nemo looked on, dumbfounded.

"What…the…fuck!"

A/N: Dum dum dum, oh I do like my cliffhangers…is that a good thing? Oh well, hope you enjoyed reading the chapter and keep senses peeled for the next to head your way.