I flew back to the alley I hid Chouchou and Mayor Boodle to find Chouchou beginning to wake up. 'Chouchou, I'm sorry I had to do that. But I found something.' I apologized floating down to him. 'What?' he asked. I placed the box at his feet, 'There's a blueprint for the store and there's old pictures of you and your owner. You can rebuild.' Chouchou was surprised to see the metal box and I could see the gleam of happiness in his eyes. 'I know it won't bring back the original Pet Food Shop, but at least you still have something of your treasure left.' With that I left Chouchou after ensuring that he'd keep an eye on the Mayor I went to find Luffy and the others. I had heard a bunch of explosions in the background when I was looking through the rubble of the old Pet Food Shop. I eventually found them just when they had sent Buggy flying a lot smaller than before. The rest of his crewmates went running soon after with what was left of Buggy's parts. 'Luffy!' Said person turned to me grinning ear to ear. "Nyx, how is Chouchou and the Mayor?" he asked waving to me.

I frowned removing his hat from my head, 'One of Buggy's crew destroyed Chouchou's treasure.' His grin dropped once he heard that and I could tell that he was pissed. 'I taught them a lesson and I even found a lockbox with blueprints of the Shop and family photos.' He nodded, smile thankfully returning to his face, "Good. Oh my hat! Thanks for looking after it." He took his hat back placing it securely on his head when Zoro and ...ugh, Nami walked up. I still want to know what Luffy was thinking having a Nyx hater on the crew. "You really did that?" Nami asked quirking her brow at me. 'Yes I did.' I said rather pridefully. She looked down deep in thought when we were suddenly surrounded by a group of townspeople. All of them were armed with various farming equipment and were brandishing them like weapons. The looked both confused, angered, and horrified. My guessing they were looking for the Buggy Pirates that had been destroying their village. "The pirates where did they go?" a partially bald man asked scanning around the area. "The Buggy Pirates are long gone." Zoro huffed crossing his arms. This seemed to relieve the group somewhat, but that only led to more questions.

"But where is the Mayor?" another one asked. I cringed remembering that I left him knocked out in an alleyway with Chouchou. Maybe I shouldn't be the one to tell them that. 'He's with Chouchou.' Speaking up was the worst mistake I ever made, since it shocked all of them. Eyes were boring into me now and I felt my whole body tense. "What is that thing!?" another gasped pointing at me. "Huh, you mean Nyx?" Luffy asked looking up at me. "She's my friend and crewmate." he said looking back at them. Nami looked at Luffy like he was insane and simultansily hit him upside the head. "IDOT DON'T TELL THEM THAT!?" Zoro only smirked and I was confused as to why he was smiling after being smack. "Then t-that means." half bald man stammered. "YOUR PIRATES!" all of them exclaimed. 'I think we should run now.' The group was practically oozing bloodlust. Not long after I said that they charged at us and off we went. While we were running in the direction of our boats Luffy was practically busting a gut laughing, which made me chuckle a little too. "It's not funny! Luffy sicked a whole towns worth of people!" Nami snapped.

I stuck my tongue out at her going even further ahead of them. "Makes sense to me." Zoro commented. The townspeople were catching up when we ran past Chouchou sitting there. 'Chouchou!' Chouchou barked, 'Get going I'll hold them off.' "Thanks doggy!" Luffy thanked giving him a grin. Chouchou baked again, 'Go!' Once we got fully past them Chouchou growled and began barking at the people who halted confused as to why Chouchou was stopping them. When we reached the boats we found that there were three pirates jumping out of one of the boats at the pier. The three were looking at us with huge smirks on their faces that only fell when they saw Zoro. Without saving another word the two let out a pathetic squeal before turning tail and running away. 'What's there problem?' Zoro shrugged hopping onto our boat. Shrugging I followed behind him while Nami and Luffy got on the other boat. We detached the boats and began to sail away when I noticed a few things. One was the huge bags full of something, two was that Mayor Boodle was standing beside it. "You four!" The rest of them drew their attention to the Mayor.

"THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!" he all, but screamed at us. My heart felt very warmed by those words. Anytime anyone thanked us I felt like there was some connection created between all of us. There's still a lot left to uncover on this journey and I can't wait to see it.