James (Andrew) and Robin are watching the boat. I still love him, and while he's taking a break from the story I gave him plenty of cookies to eat, and pie. Alter is age in German.
Luffy's eyes were as big as saucers he gazed down at what looked to be a big brown blob. Nami was saying something about how many shoes she could buy with a diamond this big, no matter that the diamond was bigger then a house. Zoro and Sanji were fighting again, so shouts of 'Shit-head' and 'Ero-cook' echoed in my ears.
Ussop wasn't wasting any time telling Chopper how he knew what was down there all along but it's so dangerous he wanted to protect us from the knowledge. Which doesn't make sense, but Chopper would believe Ussop if he told the reindeer he was a cow. "What is it exactly?" I asked my captain, trading Ace's company for his.
He grinned, "It's a devils fruit." At first I nodded, but then it hit me. "Why would Davy Jones want a devils fruit, he's already eaten one." Ussop, having run himself into circles with his story, turned his attention from our small doctor to our conversation. "Yeah, if he eats another one he'll die, right."
Luffy seemed pleased with himself at knowing something the rest of us didn't. "What fruit is it Luffy?" Asked Ace, who was standing behind me, as he laid a hand on my waist. He seems to have forgotten boundaries so I reminded him by hissing and elbowing his gut. "The Alter Alter Fruit, he wouldn't have to use it himself for it to work on him." Luffy answered, though Ace didn't hear him as his newly bruised stomach held his attention. "A fruit that controls aging? That'd be useful, I suppose he was going to use some willing fool to continue his rein of terror on the Grand line." I said.
"Yep," Luffy nodded, "He wanted Ussop." The sharpshooter took a sharp intake of breath before exclaiming the injustice. He was shortly muted by Nami's fist in his face. "That still doesn't explain why you killed him Luffy." Said Nami. "He would of just gotten somebody else to do it if he lived." Snapped Zoro in a tone that screamed 'your stupid', he was holding his head, which was sore courtesy of Sanji's foot.
"So, " Ace drug out the word till I smacked him upside the head, "What now?" All seven pairs of eyes were on Luffy, awaiting our captain's orders. "Davy Jones said that other pirate captains are after it too. It's kind of a race but," Luffy smacked his hand over his hat, "We're going to get it first!" Nami rolled her eyes, "How are you going to do that, you better not be planning to damage my diamond. Even if that is what you were planning, how?"
I poked Nami in the shoulder. "It's not yours, not yet anyways. Stop being greedy, you'll be the ruin of us all." She gave me a glare, trying to stare me down and establish superiority. "I want that diamond." I was only slightly shocked about how greedy and stubborn our navigator could be. "Don't worry my beloved Nami-swan, I'll retrieve your diamond!" The blonde cook proclaimed, not caring that his beloved was ignoring him. "We won't have to break the rock. There's a secret entrance to a tunnel that will take us to the Devils Fruit." Luffy said keeping his distance from the angry redhead.
"It's a diamond not a rock, idiot!" She yelled, but seemed calmed that it would stay intact. I was about to point out that if she intended to keep her precious diamond, she'd have to break it, but arguing with her would be dangerous so I stayed quiet and followed Luffy with the others.
"One of these trees is fake," started Luffy, "that will be the entrance." I briefly gazed about the forest and wished I'd stayed with my brother. While lost in thought I stumbled over a stray root. As the ground became parallel with my face, I shot out my arms to protect it, but impending collision didn't occur. Ace pulled me upright, arms wrapped around my waist. Inwardly I cursed the man and his utter existence.
I pushed myself immediately from his hold and yelled at him to keep his paws off of me. Looking up at his hurt face, I cursed again and muttered a thank you, which brought his mood up. Nami drug out a long 'Aw' while Luffy and Ussop made kissy noises. Before I could induce bodily harm on them Zoro yelled at us for playing around. Then Sanji yelled at Zoro for yelling at Nami and me. Then Nami yelled at them for fighting, so the rest of us got to watch a three-ring circus of Nami, Zoro, and Sanji snapping at each other with Sanji landing kicks on Zoro for daring to argue with Nami.
It took a total of five minutes, in which Ace thought he'd get snuggly again, I have to give him points for being persistent. After I pushed him off we all started knocking on trees and such to weed out the fake one. It didn't take long; the fake tree didn't even look real. What's with that, I mean wasn't the guy who made it trying to hide it, or why would he make the entrance a tree. If that's what it was supposed to be.
"This is stupid." I grabbed Ussop's hand and made him hit himself, "Stop complaining long-nose." Nami pushed Luffy aside and opened the door that was clearly there on the front side of the 'tree'. "So do we just jump down there not knowing if it's our impending doom?" Sanji asked lighting a new cigarette. I raised my hand; "I say we throw Ussop down there to test it." Ussop tried to protest but could only point at me with his jaw hanging open.
"That's a good idea," Nami started, "We could tie a vine around his waist then send him down, if everything's okay he'll pull on the rope." Ussop, having found his voice, stuttered out a protest of what if something goes wrong. "Just pull on the rope anyways, we'll bring you up then you can tell us what's down there." Luffy said grinning like the Cheshire cat.
It took about an hour to convince the sharpshooter to go down the tunnel. He mainly agreed because Sanji threatened to feed him only leeks for the rest of his life, which would be short. Giggling, I pushed him into the seemingly never-ending darkness. "Bye bye space waster!" I shouted after him, earning me glares from the more compassionate crewmembers, meaning everybody but Nami and Sanji who have no hearts. Well Sanji loves woman.
"Your mean Jen-chan!" Yelled my captain accusingly. "My heart was made of ice, then it shattered." I stuck out my tongue. "We all knew she was evil when she shaved the cooks hair. Though it was an improvement, didn't have hairs in my food for a week." Zoro was making himself comfortable leaning on one of the real trees. Sanji unconsciously raised a hand to his grown in hair, while he made a face at the swordsman. "There are never hairs in the food I make!"
Zoro made some statement back but I tuned them out, I thought I saw something through the trees. "Hey, Ace-kun?" Ace, being a boy, wiped around at the sound of me taking a sweet tone with him. "Yeah, are you cold?" It was a bit chilly, but knowing he had nothing under his thin jacket kept me from taking it from him. "No, but what do you suppose that is?" I pointed towards the blur of black and red that was mixing with the horizon. It was getting pretty late we must've taken more time then I thought to find the lake, we had left in the early morning.
He squinted his eyes and stared in the general direction I had pointed in. "Don't know, hey Luffy!" His younger brother came bounding over to us like a hyper puppy. "Yeah, did Jen-chan finally kiss you-" Ace slammed his hand over Luffy's mouth, smiling sheepishly. "Um, no, what do you think that is?" Luffy slobbered all over Ace's hand to get him to let go, causing the man to reel back in disgust.
"Urgh." Ace began wiping frantically at his pants, and Luffy took his place by my side. "Pirates!" He bellowed, jumping up and down. "Get ready for a fight!" I inhaled and sighed, tired of all the fighting. "They could be friendly-" No sooner did the words escape my mouth did they open fire. On top of that, Ussop started to tug on his rope. "I'll get the space waster!" I shouted hopefully they wouldn't notice this as a cover up for being chicken.
"I'll help you." Called Chopper and looking up at the glory of how cute he was bouncing over stray tree roots, I accidentally let go of Ussop's lifeline. I muttered curses under my breath and dropped to my knees. The sharpshooter could be heard yelling from within the darkness. "Um, we've got a problem." Nami and Sanji ran over to me leaving Zoro, Luffy, and Ace as our defense. "What did you do?" Nami cried, raising a hand to pull at her hair. "I kind of dropped Ussop."
I looked down at my hands, awaiting Nami's wrath. "Luffy," She said, "Ussop's stuck." Zoro shot us an arrogant glare and continued to deflect shots from the rival pirates. "Well, go get him!" He answered, Nami and I collectively groaned. "I guess Nami, Chopper, and myself will go down there to see what's up." Sanji frowned "Then who will protect you and the lovely Nami-swan?"
Nami and I rolled our eyes. "We have Chopper, Sanji-kun, I'll be alright." She brushed off her skirt, took a deep breath, and jumped before the cook could protest some more. "Wait Jen!" I had just turned around when the pyro grabbed my arm. "I'll go with you, Sanji can take my place." Inwardly the word 'no' was sounding like trumpets before war, but I just nodded and said okay.
Walaa! Another chapter made for your enjoyment. This Saturday will be the start of the Funamation episodes of One Piece. I am most excited. I must now go sing the happiness song!
