Hi, I am sorry that it have taken some time to write this chapter. But here it is at least. Hope its good. And I am sorry if it isn't what you expected.

But I wanted to make things move alone a bit, and well also show that its just not each other that they need to worry about. In the next chapter you will meet characters all over town, to see how they deal with the storm. Both characters you haven't met, and characters you have met.

And even if this chapter is a bit short, I am happy with it. I got to show a bit of what Kaido was doing, and how the SH handle it. I got to tell a bit of Choppers backstory, and don't worry, you will get more details. I am planing of giving every SH a flashback!

I got Usopp to move along a bit, and you will see more of him in the next chapter. And I got Vivi to move along too. I do not think you will met her in the next chapter too. But you will met her again. Can't say when.

You will also get more clues to what Robin is doing. But I wanted to show that she has to sacrifice somethings to get information. She does it in another way, compared to Sabo. But you will get more about that too.

And yeah Zoro and Nami has a complicated relationship. And well Zoro is a lot of an angrier character here, and instead of barking with Sanji as he does in the manga, all the time, he barks with Usopp instead. I also like to have a smarter Luffy, hope it doesn't ruin it for you.

I also wanted to show more how the SH are like a gang, how they care for each other, but also how they think. And in this chapter you got a bit more Robin and Chopper.

I think that's everything, otherwise I guess it wasn't important. But as always, thank you for reading, and commenting! Love you guys!

And enjoy!

"Robin, what happened?" Luffy asked when he got to see his friend. She was stumbling down, leaning against the wall. She was bleeding from a wound in the shoulder, and had cuts on her hands. "Chopper!"
"I ran into some of Kaidos men, when I was working" Robin said as she kept walking, wanting to place the bags she was holding, in the kitchen.
"I can take them" Usopp said and grabbed the bags with food, and Robin smiled towards him.
"Kaidos men?" Luffy asked, worried. "Do they know that you are in a gang?"
"No, they are celebrating that they conquered Hawkins district, and they got a bit too excited. I have met others that look far worse" Robin said, not wanting to worry her friends.

Chopper walked out from his room, and looked at Robin.
"Are you alright?" Chopper asked and Robin smiled towards the reindeer.
"I am alright" she said and stroked him over the head, but removed her hand when she saw how bloody he got.
"Robin, you aren't alright" Usopp said when he returned from the kitchen. "Let Chopper look at you"
"I am fin…" Robin started, but stopped when she saw the others looks. She was still surprised how much they cared for her. It was something new to her, no one had ever done that. "If it makes you feel better. Come Chopper"
Chopper followed Robin to her room, looking at the others.
"Take care of her" Luffy said and Chopper nodded.

Robin closed the door behind Chopper, and resisted to sigh. She wasn't too keen on letting Chopper see her wounds, but she knew that they needed care. She was used to getting hurt, it was a part of her work. She had scares and burn marks almost all over her body, that's why she was careful to cover them.
"Tell me where you are hurt, and I will help you" Chopper said and Robin nodded, and took off her jacket. She had cuts on her hands, and arms, from when she tried to cover herself from the man's knife, after his friend stabbed her in the shoulder. She had a few burn marks from cigarettes on her back, and her ankles was red from the rope. She was lucky that she had her devil fruit, without that, she was sure she wouldn't get away. Robin had hoped to get some information from a man, but he hadn't been alone, and she had walked into a situation she didn't handle. And she hadn't got any information, that was what made her mad, even if she didn't show it. If she had got some information, all this had been worth it. But now, she just got hurt.

Robin turned towards Chopper, who looked at her with horror.
"Sit" Chopper said and Robin sat down. "What happened?"
"Nothing you need to worry about" Robin said with a smile.
"You are my friend, and my family Robin, I will always worry about you" Chopper said and smiled towards her.
"Thank you" Robin only answered as Chopper started looking at the shoulder wound. Chopper saw a lot of familiar wounds from his time at the circus. He remembered every wound they inflected up on him. It was worth then what his herd had done to him. After the doctor died, he had sought shelter at Kureha, but she had her own problem, and she soon sold him to the circus. Chopper had tried to get away, but everything he did just made it worse for himself. Sometimes he was surprised that he even was alive, and what he had done to stay alive. When he looked at Robin, Chopper was wondering if Robin was going through something similar. He was sure that she wasn't with a circus, since he brought down every circus he could, one way or another, but he understood that something she was doing, gave her this wounds.

"I have something for the burns, something I used to use" Chopper said as he finished stitching her shoulder. He had been looking at the burn marks on her back as he did. Robin looked at Chopper, with a sad smile. She knew what Chopper had gone through before he joined, she had been at the circus a few time, when she was working. Robin wasn't sure about everything they had done to him, but she had seen that he wasn't treated well. Back then she had done nothing to help him, she felt bad about it today, but back then, she didn't care about anyone by herself. And she wasn't any different from anyone else, you cared only about yourself, or you died. It wasn't until she joined Luffy's gang, she understood that people actually could care about each other. That even in this city, some people was there for you.
"Thank you Chopper, that would be very helpful" she answered him and the doctor nodded and walked over to his bag and grabbed a salve, and some bandage for her hands and arms.
"I will help you, put this on" Chopper said and Robin nodded, she could do it herself, thanks to her devil fruit, but she didn't say anything.

Chopper carefully put the salve on her wounds, and at once Robin felt the cooling effect, and she closed her eyes. She hadn't thought of the pain from the burn marks, not until know. Chopper didn't say anything, instead he took care of her cuts when he was done. Robin looked at the reindeer, as he carefully took care of her, more carefully than any doctor ever have done. But maybe it was because he didn't know what she did, and didn't felt disgust over it. But she liked to think it was because he was her friend.
"All done" Chopper said and went to collect his things, before he went to the door. Just as he was about to open, he turned towards her. "If you ever want to talk, I am here for you Robin"
Robin looked as Chopper closed the door, and she didn't know what to say. There was so much none of them knew about her. And she didn't plan on telling them. She went to lock her door, before she grabbed a book, and started to write down, information she had got before she met the men. Information she should pass down to some people.

"Is she alright?" Luffy asked when he saw Chopper leave Robin's room.
"I have taken care of her" Chopper said and Luffy looked at him. That wasn't the whole answer, he knew, but he didn't press his friend. Luffy knew that Chopper must have seen more then he could see, but for Robin's privacy, he didn't ask Chopper. Luffy wasn't sure what Robin did, but this wasn't the first time she got home, hurt. But this time she was worse than before. Luffy wished she would stop doing whatever she did, but she refused, for some reason. And Luffy didn't want to force her, that wasn't how he did things.
"Thank you Chopper" Luffy said with a smile, and the other man nodded. Luffy returned towards the map and the others.

"So, you said that Kaido's men attacked you here Zoro?" Luffy asked and pointed at the map, on the border to the other man's district. Luffy had really preferred if Kaido wasn't so close to him, but he could do nothing about it, because he didn't want to start a fight with the other man, not yet at least.
"Yes" Zoro just answered.
"And you killed them?" Luffy asked.
"Yes" Zoro answered again.
"Why? Do you know how much trouble that will give us?" Usopp said and looked at Zoro. Zoro looked at the other man with cold eyes. Zoro often got irritated with Usopp, they didn't seem eye to eye in a lot of things, especially not when it came to killing.
"Because, you only give your enemies one chance to withdraw. If they keep attacking you, you kill them" Zoro said. "I did warn them, they kept attacking, and they died"
"You could have knocked them out or something" Usopp said and Zoro was about to answer.
"Enough!" Luffy said, looking at both of them, before he returned to the map.

"Franky said that he and Brook saw some of Kaido's men, here a few days ago. They didn't do anything, just walked around" Luffy said and pointed on a street near the neutral district. Luffy was thinking, Kaido's men could just be walking around, it wasn't impossible, but they normally never walked into this district.
"Do you think they will take over our district too?" Usopp asked.
"They can try" Zoro said, almost laughing.
"They could manage too" Luffy admitted. "They aren't one of the strongest gang without a reason"
"What will we do?" Usopp asked.
"I don't know right now. I don't think Kaido will try to do anything as it is now, not wanting to start something, knowing that the others will move their troupes too. And I don't think he is willing to have a full-blown war, not yet at least. I think he wants to show off" Luffy said and the others nodded. "What we can do for now, is patrol more, and be on our guard"
"I will talk to the people in the district" Zoro said, and Usopp nodded.

"Are there anyone we can ask for help?" Chopper asked as he walked over to the map, after returning from his room.
"I don't think so" Luffy said. He had been thinking about that too. "Sabo can't help us; he has his own things. Neither can Ace, since he is with… never mind. Shanks could maybe help us, but I don't want to ask him, fearing that he may want something in return"
"Aren't you friends?" Usopp asked.
"Something like that, but even friends may want something from you. And I have nothing to offer him" Luffy said. He and Shanks may not attack each other, but making a statement like supporting another gang, that wasn't something you did likely.
"Can't Sanji ask the surgeon?" Chopper asked and Luffy looked at him.
"I don't think he will do that. And I haven't seen him in a week. Neither of them. I am a bit worried about them" Luffy admitted. When he went to the hospital a few days ago, neither of them were there. Two men, told him to try later, and when Luffy did yesterday, he could still not reach them. He may need to search for them again.
"I am sure they are fine. Senguko can take care of himself, and Sanji." Usopp said, calming his leader and Luffy nodded.
"You are right. Anyway, I know that they wouldn't help us, even if I could get hold of them" Luffy said and he looked at Zoro when he was muttering something. Luffy didn't hear what it was, but he knew that it wasn't something flattering. Luffy loved his friend, he really did, but sometimes his temper could annoy him to death. And it often got Zoro into trouble, but Zoro rarely cared, as long as he wasn't on a mission.
"So all we can do is hoping for the best?" Chopper asked.
"Sometimes that's all you can do" Luffy said, hating to admit that. Luffy looked up from the map again when Nami got rushing down.

"A storm is on its way" Nami said, looking worried.
"So?" Zoro said, not caring "We are underground"
"If you listen before you speak, idiot, I will tell you why it's a problem" Nami said, giving Zoro a cold look. Luffy looked at his friends and sighed. Sometimes he wanted to tell them both to fuck each other, so they got along better, and was more pleasant to be around. But he never did, letting them think no one knew about them.
"It's going to be a heavy rain, hurricane winds, and it will be a risk of flooding" Nami explained and Luffy looked at her.
"When will the storm be here? And what do we need to do?" he asked, trusting her freaky power to predict the weather.
"It will be here in about five hours, and we need to make sure that the water don't reach the hill, and the entrance" Nami said and Luffy nodded.
"Let's get started" Luffy told the others, and they followed Nami, to do what she said.

After an hour of digging, Franky and Brook got back. They had looked at them, like they had lost their minds, but when Nami told them the same thing she had told the others, they started to help out. With both Franky and Chopper there, the digging went fast and effective, and Nami went underground, making sure that the lair was waterproof, not wanting to drown. Robin started to helping her, in any way she could.
"Do you think the rest of the city will be alright?" Usopp asked, looking towards the harbour where he knew his father was. Luffy looked in that direction, before he looked at his brothers directions.
"I don't know" Luffy said. He was almost sure that Ace would be safe in the palace. It was well built, and White Beards men, knew how to take care of themselves. Luffy was almost sure of that they had experienced something like this before. Sabo lived in a well-built building too, and as long as he was inside he should be fine, but Luffy thought he should call him, telling him to stay inside. Then he looked to the north, well he didn't know how well Sanji would manage, he could only hope that Sanji would be alright, since he had no way of contacting him.

"I must tell Vivi!" Luffy suddenly shouted, remembering that she and her family also lived underground. And since their entrance wasn't placed on a hill, it could easily be flooded, drowning them.
The others looked at Luffy who had stopped digging.
"Luffy?" Franky asked, not knowing who Vivi was.
"I have a friend, who need my help. It's a risk that she and her family will drown if I don't warn them" Luffy said.
"Go!" Franky said, understanding the worry Luffy felt. You always wanted to keep your family and friends safe. If you could have warned and saved a friend, and didn't, that will kill you. "We can handle the situation here"
"Can I go and tell my dad?" Usopp asked and Luffy looked at him.
"Do you know where he is?" Luffy asked.
"No, but if I tell someone, maybe they will do something and he will be safe" Usopp said and Luffy nodded.
"Ask for Shanks, if you can't find someone. Tell him that I sent you! Stay safe and be back here as soon as you can" Luffy said before he started running towards Vivi's hide out, and Usopp left for the harbour.

Luffy grabbed his den den mushi, to call his brothers, starting with Sabo.
"Luffy?" Sabo soon answered.
"I don't have much time" Luffy started "There is a storm coming in, Nami said it would be here in three hours, it's a bad one"
"I understand" Sabo answered. "I will be back home before that"
"Thank you" Luffy said, feeling better when he knew that Sabo would be safe, or somewhat safe.
"Be careful Luffy!" Sabo said before they hung up, and Luffy started calling Ace instead.

"Yeah?" Ace answered.
"I don't have much time, so listen carefully Ace" Luffy started, but instead of doing as Sabo, and staying quiet, Ace started talking.
"Are you alright? Do you need help? Where are you?" Ace asked.
"Stop it. I am fine" Luffy said as he was running.
"You sound out of breath" Ace said.
"It's because I am running, and it's not because I am in danger" Luffy added, knowing that Ace would ask that.
"Then what is it?" Ace asked.
"If you hadn't interrupted me, I would have told you already" Luffy said, in an irritated voice. "Nami said it's a storm coming in, it should be here in three hours. It's a bad one"
"A storm? Really Luffy? You called me because of that?" Ace asked.
"I did. I want you to stay inside and be safe" Luffy said and Ace laughed. "Ace, listen to me! You always tell us to listen to you, and do as you say! Do the same for me, for once!"
"Fine, if that's so important to you, I make someone else take my patrol" Ace said.
"No one should go out when the storms comes! Tell the old man that!" Luffy said "I need to go"

Luffy hanged up, not knowing if Ace believed him, but he hoped he did. Luffy stopped, looked around, making sure no one saw him, before he entered Vivi's lair. As soon as he stepped inside he felt a blade against his throat.
"Pell it's me" Luffy said, looking at the older man. The other man looked at him before he lowered his weapon.
"Luffy, why are you here?" The other man asked, a bit suspicious.
"I come to warn you. There is a bad storm. It will be here in three hours, and I don't think it's safe to stay here" Luffy explained.
"Luffy?" Vivi asked when she got out from her father's room, followed by Chaka and Carue.
"Hi" Luffy said, looking at them. "You need to move"
"Why?" Vivi asked, and Luffy saw how she got nervous at once.
"Nothing bad has happened" Luffy said, "But as I just told Pell, there is a storm coming, and I am afraid that there is a chance of your base being flooded, drowning you"
"How do you know that?" Chaka asked.
"I have a member in my gang that can predict the weather." Luffy said and the others looked at him, not sure if they believed him. "Vivi, do you trust me?"
"Yes" Vivi answered after a few moments and Luffy smiled towards her.
"Then you must get out of here! You are free to stay at my base if you want, or I can help you get somewhere else" Luffy offered. As long as his friend was safe, he didn't care to much about where she was going.
"Give me a few minutes to talk about it with my father" Vivi said, and Luffy nodded. "And Luffy, thank you for coming here and telling me"
"Anything for a friend" Luffy said and smiled towards her.

Usopp had got to the harbour in what felt like only seconds. He had as fast as he could have gone to the neutral district, then from there crossing Kaido's district, as fast as he could, and then entered Shanks district. Usopp rarely was here, so he had problem finding his way. He didn't know where to even search for a member of Shank's gang, not to mention his father. He looked at the clock, two hours. He needed to hurry, if he wanted to get back to the others before the storm. He preferred not to be caught out in the open when the storm came.

Usopp tried to locate a bar, or something that could hold members of a gang. He ran along the streets, but he saw very few people on them, and not one that looked like they belonged to a gang. Not that you always could tell, but at least they looked like people that tried to stay out of the gang war. So he kept running, until he got to the water. Usopp looked at the buildings here, well at least they looked like pubs. He needed to try one of them, before it was too late.

Usopp went to the one with most sounds, thinking it would be most people there, and hopefully a member of Shanks gang, or his father. In this moment, Usopp was glad that the adrenaline was flowing through his vanes, because otherwise he would have been too scared to enter.

The music was loud, just like the laughter, and talk. Usopp had never been to a pub before, feeling it was safest to keep away from them. Especially when people in this town often got worse when they were drunk. Usopp tried to get someone's attention, but most people walked past him, pushed him away or laughed at him.
"Someone?" Usopp said, as he walked further into the room. Here it was a bit quieter, since people in the middle didn't seem as drunk, but it was also smokier, and Usopp saw very little.
"There is a storm coming, you are in danger!" Usopp tried telling a man, walking past him.
"Run home to your mother" the man said.
"Listen to me!" Usopp tried.
"He looks thirsty" another man said, holding a glass of ale, before he laughed, empting the glass over Usopp, making other men laugh around him.
"Maybe he needs a woman's company" a woman said, as she walked towards him.
"I need someone to listen to me!" Usopp shouted.
"I will listen to you" The woman said when she was in front of him. "I will listen to everything you have to say, when you are screaming my name"

Suddenly Usopp felt a hand between his legs, pressing his cock. He jumped back, collide with a big man.
"What's your problem?" The man asked, lifting him up. Usopp tried to avoid the blow, but he couldn't. When the other man's blow hit him, Usopp heard how his nose broke, and he screamed in pain.
"What seems to be the problem here?" the bartender said when he walked up to them. Usopp was about to answer when the other man did.
"He was about to hit me, I only defended myself" the man said. The bartender sighed, pushing the man away.
"Come with me. You are too young to be here anyway" the bartender said, grabbing Usopp.
"Gno! I gneed to talgk to Shangs! Ugffy sent me!" Usopp said, as well as he could with the blood flowing from his nose.

"He says he needs to talk to you!" The bartender said and turned towards the smoke. Usopp tried to see something, but he couldn't. "Someone called Ugffy, sent him?"
"Luffy?" a voice came from the smoke.
"Don't know" The bartender said, in the same second as Usopp said yes.
"Send him over." The voice said and the bartender more or less carried Usopp through the room and the smoke.

When Usopp got used to the smoke he saw a few people sitting around the table, with glasses and cards. In the middle was a man with red hair, and scars over his left eye, Usopp knew it was Shanks, even if he had never seen the man. The bartender let go of him, making him fall to the floor. Usopp looked at the bartender with an angry look. He was mad, at all of them. Usopp hated them, and he wished he hadn't got here.
"Who are you?" Shanks asked as he leaned closer, and Usopp almost wanted to tell him to piss off, that it wasn't important who he was. He just wanted to give him some information, then leave them and never came back.
"Usopp?" a voice said behind him, and Usopp looked in the direction. At first he just stared at the man, almost not believing his eyes.
"Dad?" Usopp asked. He knew that his dad was alive, Vivi had told him, but it was still hard for him to believe. Usopp hadn't seen him since he was a kid.
"Usopp!" Yasopp said with a big smile, walking over and pulling him up. "Shanks! This is my son! The one I told you about! Remember?"

"Congratulations! This is amazing!" Shanks said with the biggest smile. "We need more to drink! And one for the kid too!"
"Had a rough day?" Yasopp asked.
"Rather a rough thirty minutes" Usopp muttered for himself, looking at Shanks. "I am not here to drink!"
"Of course you are. Let's celebrate!" Shanks said with a laugh.
"Do whatever you feel like, I don't care. I am here to tell you that there is a storm coming. It's going to be here in an hour" Usopp said.
"A storm? Well that doesn't sound too bad, maybe it will feel like being out on the sea again!" Someone said.
"It's a big one. How you act about it, I don't care. I came to warn you! Especially you, dad. Now when I have done that I am going home" Usopp said and turned away, when Yasopp caught him.
"You will not get home in time" he said, sounding worried and Usopp looked at him.
"I need to try. Better then standing here, especially if you are going to drink more" Usopp said when Shanks stood up.
"Thank you for telling us, we appreciate it. Even if it was only for Yasopp's sake" Shanks said, now sounding more serious. "How big is the storm?"
"Nami said it would be heavy rain, hurricane winds, with risk of flooding" Usopp said and Shanks nodded, turning towards his men.
"Go out, warn the people, hurry! Go to the base after that" he said and the men nodded, and started leaving the bar. "Your father is right; you will not have time to get back. Especially if you need to go through Kaido's district"
"Can't stay here. This isn't safe" Usopp said and Shanks nodded.
"That you are right about." Shanks said with a smile "Yasopp, take him to the base"
"Aye, aye Captain!" Yasopp said, before he looked at Usopp. "Come with me"

"It's already raining" Luffy said when he entered his base. His friends looked at him, and then the people behind him.
"It will only get worse" Nami said and the others nodded.
"I will turn up the heat some more" Chopper said, looking at the wet people.
"Thank you" Luffy said, and looked so everyone got down safe before he sealed the entrance. "Has everything gone well?"
"The base is sealed, so we will most likely not drown, if the moat does it work" Nami said and Luffy nodded.
"There is food in the kitchen" Robin told him and Luffy looked at her.
"Are you feeling better?" he asked and Robin only nodded, and Luffy didn't say anything else.

"So welcome to our home" Luffy said, as he turned towards Vivi.
"Thank you, it's very lovely" Vivi said.
"Lovely? What kind of world are she living in?" Zoro asked.
"A polite one. You should try sometime" Nami answered.
"We have guests, so you would do well in behaving" Robin informed them and they went quiet. Robin's word could often make them stay quiet, most likely since she often pointed out what they did wrong, and both Zoro and Nami, knew better.
"So everyone this is Vivi, her father Cobra. Her friends Pell, Chaka and Carue." Luffy said and pointed at them. "This is Robin, Chopper, Nami, Zoro, Franky and Brook"
"Nice to meet you. We are grateful to be here" Vivi said, but turned around when she heard her father cough.

"I will show you to a room, where he can rest" Luffy said and Vivi nodded, as she followed Luffy.
"What is wrong with him?" Zoro asked and the others shrugged their shoulders. "So not even you know Chopper?"
"A cough can point to more than one thing" Chopper just answered, not wanting to start a fight with Zoro.
"Well as long as he doesn't make me sick!" Zoro said, almost disgust.
"You do not need to worry about that" Pell said and Zoro looked at him.
"Good!" Zoro only said.
"Excuse him" Nami said and Zoro was about to answer her when Robin gave them both a look.
"Is there anything you need?" she asked Pell.
"You said there was food?" he asked and Robin nodded.
"This way" she said as she started walking.

"Is this alright?" Luffy asked Vivi, who smiled.
"It's alright. Don't worry Luffy. We are grateful that you welcomed us here" Vivi answered and Luffy nodded. "He need to sleep. Chaka will you stay with him?"
"I will stay" Chaka said and Vivi smiled.
"Thank you, I will bring some food for you"
"No need. I brought some for him too" Pell said as he got back. "And I will stay with him too. Keeping him company"
"Well glad he doesn't need to be alone. I mean my father isn't much of an entertainer this days'" Vivi said with a weak smile.
"Don't under rest me!" Cobra said.
"When you tell a good joke, I won't" Vivi answered as she left the room with Luffy and Caure.

"Is Usopp back?" Luffy asked when he got to the others.
"No" Zoro answered.
"Don't worry about it, Luffy. I am sure his father and Shanks thought it was better that he stayed with them" Brook said and Luffy nodded.
"I hope so" Luffy said as he sat down with the others at the table.
"Vivi?" Chopper asked and she turned towards the reindeer. "Does your father need any medical treatment?"
"He is our doctor" Luffy explained when he saw Vivi's wondering look.
"Thank you for asking Chopper, but he is as fine as he can be" she answered and the others looked at her, but she didn't say anything else.
"What about playing some games, or telling some stories, while we wait for the storm to pass?" Luffy asked, just as they heard the thunder roar in the sky.