***Author's Note: I do not own One Piece, Oda does, I do own the characters I made up in this story (ex: Ivy, Cecily (Shadow), and any other made up characters throughout this story that I might create). Also, please do not copy this story and claim it as your own***

Chapt. 36: The Blue-Haired Lady's Shocking News, The Long-Nose Meets Arlong, and Nami Kills Ussop?

"Did you have a nice nap Mr. Tough Guy?" Nojiko taunted from her chair in the kitchen of her house upon seeing Ussop wake up, Cabo was sitting at the table as well, "It's nice to meet you, I'm Nojiko and I grow tangerines."

"I remember you," Ussop glared, pushing the pink blanket off of him as he got up from the floor, "You're the jerk who hit me on the head when I was about to save you."

"Stupid Outsider I saved you, because if you had actually gone through with attacking that Fishman you would have been killed for sure," Nojiko glared, turning towards Cabo, whacking him upside the head, "And you, why would you go and do something so stupid?"

"I don't care if it's stupid," Cabo declared with a glare, looking into his cup, "Those bastards killed my family and friends, I went to Arlong Park intending to kill them, but a Witch stopped me."

"Go ahead and die then." Nojiko frowned, walking over to the sink.

"Oi, Oi," Ussop stated, squirting his cup of tie like a waterfall, smacking his hand in front of him, "Why would you say that?"

"But know this, Kid," Nojiko cautioned, sitting back down in her seat, "You survived death twice now, if me and that so called "Witch" hadn't stopped you from attacking those Fishmen, you would've surely been killed. So just finish your tea and then go."

"Hey, don't you think your being too hard on him?" Ussop commented, raising an eyebrow over at her, "I mean, he is a kid after all."

"I really don't care if he's a kid or not, the world is cruel," Nojiko deadpanned, "If he wants to die then let him. He doesn't know what true suffering is."

"Eh." Ussop uttered tilting his head in confusion at Nojiko.

"Revenge is not an easy path to walk and sometimes you have to suffer for a long time in order to get your revenge," Nojiko stated, "If you don't have the patience to wait to get your revenge, then rushing head first and getting yourself killed is the coward's move."

"What am I supposed to do then," Cabo yelled out in frustration, "I'm tired of seeing those Fishmen kill all my friends and family."

"Go home to your mom," Nojiko smiled down at the boy, "She's alive right?"

"Yeah." Cabo nodded, getting up from his chair, setting his mug down before running out the door.

"I bet she misses you," Nojiko smiled sadly before turning towards Ussop with a frown, "Now tell me what you're doing here, Outsider."

"You know," Ussop grinned, setting his cup down on the table, "For a chick with tats, you're really sweet."

"Piss off," Nojiko glared, getting up from the table and sitting the cups into the sink, turning towards Ussop, "Now answer my question."

"Sheesh, no need to bite my head off," Ussop frowned, turning towards Nojiko, "I'm Captain Ussop and I came here to find a girl named Nami."

"Nami…" Nojiko muttered with wide eyes, before getting up out of her seat, walking towards a picture with a young Nami, a young Nojiko, and a another woman, "Why would you be looking for Nami?"

"Huh," Ussop puzzled, tilting his head in confusion, "You know her?"

"Everyone around here knows that cow," Nojiko smirked with fondness, "She's my adopted sister, we grew up here with our adopted mother only Arlong killed her right in front of us and after that Nami joined up with Arlong."

"He killed your adopted mother and she still went and joined up with him?" Ussop stuttered with shock, "Why would she do that?"

"I'm sure she had a reason for it or maybe she's just a Witch," Nojiko smirked, only to widen her eyes when she heard shouts coming from outside, running out the door towards town with Ussop on her heels, "What is he doing here? Don't tell me…Genzo."

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Back at Arlong Park

"You two better leave before Arlong gets back," Nami advised cutting the ropes off of Shadow and Zoro, handing Zoro his one sword, "And tell the others if they come, to get right back on their ship and get out of here."

"I won't promise that Nami," Shadow frowned, getting up and walking out of the cell with Zoro behind her, "But what I can promise you is that they're most definitely on their way as we speak."

"Yeah, she's right," Zoro smirked walking out of the cell, "You know how Luffy is. He will come after you."

"Just get out before I change my mind and kill the both of you." Nami glared, storming out of the room and marching up the stairs to her "room".

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Back at Cocoyashi Village

"Nojiko, why did you…" Ussop whispered from behind a building wall as they peered over it, only for Ussop's eyes to widen upon seeing Arlong, "EEEEK, WHO IS THAT?"

"SHUT UP!" Nojiko hissed, punching him on the head, "That's Arlong."

"NO WAY! THAT'S ARLONG? HE'S FREAKING GIANTIC!" Ussop sputtered, eyes bugging out of their sockets, only to have Nojiko hit harder on the head, snorting in laughter when he hid behind the wall again, "I bet Ivy would look so tiny standing in front of him."

*****(Ivy: ACHOO! I don't know why but I have the sudden urge to smack that damn Long-Nose for some reason…)*****

"Your weird," Nojiko noted, raising any eyebrow in the I-think-you're-crazy look, "Now I'm not gonna tell you again, so be quiet."

"We can't have hobbies now?" Genzo intoned, sitting on the cement bench in the center of town, looking up at Arlong, "Next you're gonna say we can't read books or play with our children."

Genzo was an old man with scares all over his body. He was wearing a dark brown suit with a brown cap that had a pinwheel stuck into the top.

"Having a hobby is fine, but hording weapons isn't," Arlong smirked, "I have to keep the peace and that means by collecting tribute money and making sure nobody is starting a rebellion."

"What does he mean by that?" Ussop frowned glancing over the wall, "What the heck is tribute money?"

"It's actually what it sounds like," Nojiko explained, glaring at Arlong from behind the wall, "Money we have to pay him in order for him to let us live. He doesn't care if you're a child or an elderly, if even one single person can't pay, he'll destroy that village to the ground, just like how he did to Goza."

"He'll destroy an entire village just because a single person can't pay him?" Ussop remarked with disbelief, "That's insane."

"That's how he works, to him we're just sub-species that can be replaced, so it's always been easy for him to kill us," Nojiko glared at Arlong, only to widen her eyes in horror as Arlong started picking up Genzo, running towards Arlong and Genzo, "GENZO!"

"Don't go out there Nojiko," Ussop warned, attempting to grab her shoulder as she ran past him only to fail, "He's gonna kill the both of you…"

"ARLONG, PUT GENZO DOWN RIGHT NOW!" Nojiko yelled, running towards them, stopping when she got in front of Arlong (he had Genzo in his hand), "WE PAYED YOUR TRIBUTE FOR EIGHT YEARS WITHOUT FAIL, SO WHY WOULD WE REBEL AGAINST YOU NOW? THINK ABOUT IT MAKES NO SENSE!"

"Hording weapons is a sign that he was planning a rebellion against me, Arlong smirked over his shoulder, holding Genzo, "I was planning on killing only him, but if all of you want to save him, then I'll be more than happy to kill every last one of you pathetic humans."

"Everyone just go home," Genzo ordered to all the villagers, "Do you want to waste all of our hard work over the last eight years? All we need to do is have patience, don't worry about me."

"A fitting end," Arlong smirked, raising Genzo up in the air and was about to smash him into the ground, only to have Ussop attack him from the roof of a building, "WHO DARES TO ATTACK ME!"

"TAKE THIS: EXPLODING STAR!" Ussop cackled, putting his nose high up in the air, his knees shaking, "I'm the great warrior of the sea Captain Ussop and I command over 1000 men."

"That's the guy that I was talking about.," the Fishman pointed up to Ussop.

"BRING THEM ON YOU REPULSIVE HUMAN!" Arlong roared, lifting up the house that Ussop was standing on, "WHAT CAN SOMEONE LIKE YOU DO TO ME?!"

"This isn't good," Kuroobi pointed out, grabbing Arlong, ordering Chew along with the some other Fishmen to go after the Long-Nose, while the rest bring Arlong back to Arlong Park, "If we let Arlong continue on this rampage, he'll destroy the village."

The exploding star didn't do anything to him and now he's pissed, Ussop thought-cried, jumping off the building and running away, Am I dead yet?

"He's not dead yet," a Fishman pointed towards Ussop, "GET HIM!"

"OH CRAP!" Ussop wailed running away, as a group of Fishmen started chasing him.

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Back at Arlong Park

"She tells us to run, but we can't go anywhere without a means of transportation," Zoro huffed in boredom, sitting on Arlong's chair with a pile of Fishmen lying around unconscious, "Where is Luffy anyways? Things have been getting messier around here."

"AND WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS GENIUS!" Shadow fumed, baring her teeth at Zoro (in her emo girl form), "YOU JUST HAD TO SLICE AND DICE THOSE FISHMEN DIDN'T YOU?!"

"That wasn't my fault," Zoro defended, putting his sword in its sheath, "They were the ones that came at me first."

"WHO CARES WHOSE FAULT IT IS!," Shadow shrieked, baring her teeth at him, "NOW WHEN THOSE FISHMEN COME BACK AND SEE THEIR COMRADES ARE LAYING ON THE FLOOR DEAD, WE'RE GOING TO BE SITTING DUCKS SINCE WE CAN'T GET OUT OF HERE, YOU DUMBASS!"

"THEY'RE NOT DEAD," Zoro bared his teeth back at her, hearing a voice over a wall, "Did you hear that?"

"Umm…" Shadow closed her mouth, listening for what Zoro heard, hearing the voice too, peering over the wall and seeing Hachi fishing, "Why is he fishing…himself?"

"I have no idea," Zoro sweatdropped, staring at Hachi, "Great, he's another nutcase."

"I happen to love nutcases," Shadow smirked, "They're the most hilarious people to have as friends."

"….right." Zoro sweatdropped, glancing back at Hachi.

"That was weird." Hachi stated.

"It sure was." Zoro and Shadow called, jumping down from the wall onto the ledge where Hachi was.

"Who are you? Who am I? Why I'm Hachi." Hachi smiled up at the two.

"You're a Fishman I take it?" Shadow grinned down at Hachi.

"Yup," Hachi grinned back up at Shadow, "Are you two guests of Arlong?"

"…Guests?" Zoro faltered, peering over the wall at the Fishmen lying around, a sweatdrop appeared on both his and Shadow's head, "You…can say that."

"Arlong isn't here at the moment," Shadow smiled down at Hachi, "Do you know where he is?"

"Yup," Hachi nodded, grinning, turning to look up at Shadow, "Apparently, there's a Long-Nose weirdo running around Cocoyashi Village and Arlong went to hunt him down, before he left though, he locked up two of the Long-Nose friends."

"…You don't say," Zoro faltered, sweatdrop appearing on his and Shadow's heads, "Do you know how we can get there?"

"Sure do," Hachi grinned up at the two, tying the rope around his waist, pointing to the jar, "You two are our guests, so hop in, I'll take you guys there."

Is this guy an idiot? Well whatever, we're not gonna tell him we're the two friends of Ussop, Zoro and Shadow thought with major sweatdrops on their foreheads as they climbed into the jar ad headed off towards Cocoyashi Village.

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Back to Cocoyashi Village: The outskirts of it

"All those in favor of leaving Ussop alone say I," Ussop's voice rang out, "I, I, I, I, I, I."

"Your dumber than I thought," a Fishman cackled, tackling "Ussop" to the ground only to find out it was a tree stump, "What the…"

"You agree with me too," Ussop laughed, pelting the Fishmen with eggs before running away, "EGG STAR SPECIAL ATTACK!"

"He went this way," a fishman shouted through the grass walking right past Ussop (he was behind the tree branches in a weird position), "Man that guy sure can run."

"I've made it down save and sound," Ussop sighed in relief, falling down the cliff, only to get a look of pure terror upon sensing someone behind him, turning slowly around to see Chew (***AN: Personally, I thought it was spelled Chuu, and maybe it's because he had huge lips, but I liked spelling it Chuu***), "EEEEEK!"

"You don't know how happy that makes me to know that you're safe," Chew spoke from behind Ussop, then dragging him by his nose to Arlong Park, "Let's go Long-Nose."

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Back at Arlong Park

"I'm fine, just leave me alone," Arlong roared, shaking the Fishmen off of him, walking into Arlong Park, freezing to a stop when he saw all the Fishmen laying on the ground, "WHO DID THIS?!"

"Arlong…," a Fishman wheezed, crawling up to him, "It…was…the pirate hunter…Roronoa Zoro…the man and that goth chick…we caught earlier…"

"Arlong, I found the…" Chuu called, dragging Ussop by his nose into Arlong Park, only to stop in his step upon seeing the mayhem that Zoro caused, "What the hell happened here?"

"Zoro is what happened," Arlong glared, smirking when he landed on Ussop, "Bring that Long-Nose over here Chuu."

"Right away, chuu," Chuu nodded bringing Ussop in front of Arlong, grabbing a dagger with him, handing Ussop and the dagger over to him, "Here."

"Alright, you pathetic human," Arlong smirked, sinking the dagger into the cement, inches from Ussop's nose, "Now tell me where Zoro is."

"I have nothing to do with Zoro," Ussop cried, curling his nose closer to his face as Arlong moved the dagger closer to his nose, "Why is it always my nose WAA."

"Enough of your cowardly lies, chuu," Chuu glared down at Ussop.

"Me and Zoro are like brothers," Ussop wailed, silent tears coming down his face as Arlong moved the dagger even closer to Ussop's nose, "You kill me and he'll come after you."

"So if I kill you," Arlong smirked, pausing the dagger, "Zoro will come here?"

"No, that's not what I meant," Ussop corrected, "I'm trying to say the opposite."

"What I want to know is, who let those two escape?" Kuroobi interrupted carrying two ropes, walking from the cell, "Someone had to let them escape, I think it was Nami."

"That is pure conjecture," Nami glared, walking into the open from the shadows, "How dare you call me a traitor after I've sworn my loyalty to you guys for eight years now."

He just had to go and do that, didn't he, Nami thought-irritated, seeing all the Fishmen lying on the ground.

"I'm sorry Nami, we're all a little on edge." Arlong smirked at Nami.

"How long will I be suspected of betrayal?" Nami demanded, walking towards the Fishmen, "I'll have the amount that me and Arlong agreed to, so it wouldn't make sense for me to betray him now."

"What I can't figure out is why you care about that puny little village so much," Kuroobi smirked, taking a map out from behind him, "But I found this suspicious looking treasure map in your room earlier and it seems to be pointing to the village."

"What happened here?" Hachi exclaimed, coming back into Arlong Park and seeing the chaos.

"Zoro did this," Arlong glared at Hachi, "Why weren't you here, Hachi?"

"I was giving a slightly suspicious swordsman and an oddly nice goth chick…." Hachi replied, only to gasp, putting his hands to the side of his face, "OH NO, I MESSED UP!"

"WHY DO YOU GUYS KEEP GETTING IN MY WAY WHEN EVERYTHING IS SO CLOSE TO WORKING OUT?!" Nami fumed, taking out her Bo staff and hitting Ussop when she saw him reaching into his bag, "ITS YOUR FAULT USSOP FOR GETTING IN THE WAY AND MESSING WITH ARLONG!"

"Nami, you really disappoint me," Ussop frowned up at Nami, with disappointing eyes, getting up, standing in front of Nami, "Even after stealing the ship our ship Luffy still believed in you, he put his faith in you and he still trusts you."

Don't look at me like that, it's only making this harder for me. Ussop forgive me, Nami flinched for a second, before glancing back up at Ussop with a dark smirk on her face, "The only thing that I trust is money, that fool deserved it."

"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?!" Ussop spoke in shock.

"Everything was going according to plan until you idiots had to show up and ruin it, well too bad because I'm not gonna let you and your friends ruin my 8-years of hard work," Nami smirked darkly, picking up the dagger, and turning towards Ussop holding the dagger in front of her, "So long Ussop."

"HAHAHA, like you can kill me…" Ussop laughed, only to die down when he saw the look in her eye, reaching into his bag and cocking a silver ball into his slingshot, shooting the ball into the ground, running away, "SPECIAL ATTACK: SMOKE STAR!"

"This is just like something you'd think of Ussop," Nami smirked darkly, blocking Ussop and charging at him, "stabbing" him with the dagger, and pushing him into the sea, "NOW GO DIE!"

"I'm sorry for doubting you, Nami," Kuroobi smirked walking up to Nami, "You truly are our friend."

"I am not your friend," Nami glared, walking up to her "room", "I only joined, so I could buy Cocoyashi Village, not to be anyone's friend. Keep your end of deal Arlong."

"She gives me the creeps." Kuroobi stated, shaking off the shivers he got.

"Of course," Arlong smirked, turning towards the other Fishmen, "She makes such good charts, I hate to see her go."

"What do you mean by that?" Hachi tilted his head towards Arlong with a confused face.

"I promised her that she could leave once she got the money to buy Cocoyashi village." Arlong mocked-sighed.

"She can't leave, she's the first human to be kind to me." Hachi exclaimed.

"I know," Arlong mocked-sighed, before smirking, "But I'm a man of my word. And the deal was when she got the money, we didn't agree to her having a specific period of time that she had to give me the money, so say if some Marines came to get all of her money, it wouldn't be breaking the deal now would it?"

"That's harsh." Hachi observed.

And their laughter could be heard as a boat sailed closer to Arlong Park.

TO BE CONTINUED…