Hey guys, hope you're excited for the second chapter this week. I wasn't planning on getting this out this early, but I was just so amazed by how nice the reviews to the last chapter were that I thought I'd work extra hard to get this chapter ready slightly early. I'm glad some of you guys kind of forgave me for being a little naughty last chapter as well with that Robin x Law moment as well. I'm even more glad that others quite enjoyed that scene ;)

"Tell us another story Usoland!"

Usopp looked up at the sky, taking a second to think, before grinning at Leo and the other children. "Say, did I ever tell you about the time I saved Namiland from Arlong?"

Leo frowned. "Arlong?"

Usopp made a scary face, making Leo and the rest of the children lean away both in disgust and anticipation. "Yes Arlong, the 10 foot bully that terrorised the corridors of One Piece High School! At least… he did until I sorted him out!"

"What happened Usoland?" Kabu, another one of the children, excitedly asked. "Did you break his teeth like you did to Crocodile?"

"Yeah, what happened?!" Bartolomeo, sitting right at the front of the crowd of children around Usopp, giddily asked. Nami rolled her eyes, yanking him up onto his feet by the ear.

"Aren't you too old to be hanging out with them? Why are you even here?"

Bartolomeo struggled in vain to get out of Nami's vice grip. "But I want to hear the story of Usopp's bravery too!"

Nami was about to retort with the 'startling revelation' that Usopp's stories weren't true, but luckily caught herself before she did. Not for Bartolomeo's sake of course, but for the children who practically worshipped Usopp.

It was Saturday morning and Nami was hanging out with Usopp, Chopper and Robin at the park. However when Leo and his friends, who were playing in the park, had spotted Usopp, they'd immediately flocked to the long-nosed teen, demanding to hear Usopp's famous tall tales, although they really thought they were true. Robin, not too interested in listening to Usopp's stories, offered to buy Chopper ice-cream, an offer he never refused, leaving Nami, much to her annoyance, with Usopp. After a few minutes Bartolomeo had seemingly appeared from nowhere to join the children in listening to Usopp. How he, a 16 year old teenager, believed Usopp's ridiculous stories was beyond Nami.

Robin giggled, her and Chopper returning finally. "Nami…"

Nami sighed, reluctantly releasing Bartolomeo. "Finally you're back. Can we go now? If we set off now we can spend the whole afternoon shopping!"

"… And then I threw Hatchi into Kuroobi, knocking them both out and saving Zoroland and Sanjiland!"

Leo cocked his head to the side. "Zoroland? But Robiland said he's really strong."

Usopp laughed. "So is Sanjiland, but who do you think taught them both how to fight?"

Leo's eyes lit up. "It was you Usoland?!"

Chopper smiled excitedly. "Oh, is Usopp telling a story? I wanna go listen!"

Nami glared at the shorter boy as he sat down cross-legged in-between the spell-bound Bartolomeo and Leo. She turned to Robin. "Well? Shall we?"

"I'd feel kind of bad about leaving Usopp and Chopper…"

Nami pouted. "Come on, they're clearly both enjoying themselves! Besides, you don't really want to spend the whole day listening to Usopp's stories, do you?"

Robin inwardly winced. Nami had a point there. "I guess… Alright then. I'll just wait for Usopp to finish talking and then I'll tell Chopper that we're going and then-"

Nami rolled her eyes and grabbed Robin's arm and yanked her away from Usopp and the children. "Usopp doesn't stop talking when it comes to this. Let's just go, they won't notice, trust me…"

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Sanji swung his leg upwards, blocking a weak attempt at a kick by Coby, who was sweating heavily. The blonde sighed, lowering his leg back down. The gasping would seem to indicate Coby had had enough. "Alright, let's take a break…. again."

"Yaaargh!"

Sanji turned around to see Helmeppo, Coby's slightly wimpier friend, pinned to the ground by Zoro, whose unimpressed look mirrored Sanji's. Garp groaned at the lack of progress whilst Luffy laughed heartily. "Haha… you suck Hamrio!"

"It's… cough cough… Helmeppo…" Said boy weakly objected, although Luffy didn't hear his weak gasps from where he was sitting.

A week had passed since Zoro and Luffy had first met with Coby again and, as Garp had suggested, it was the first day of Coby and Helmeppo's training. So the four, plus Coby's friend Helmeppo and Sanji, who had been forcibly recruited by Garp, had spent the whole morning in Luffy's back garden, trying to teach the two younger boys what they knew about fighting. No one had expected Coby or Helmeppo to be experts, but even so their performance had been underwhelming.

As Coby and Helmeppo laid down on the grass, resting, Zoro and Sanji made their way over to Luffy and Garp. The blonde glanced over his shoulder at the two 'apprentices'. "Maybe we should call it a day. This is going nowhere…"

Garp shook his head emphatically. "How can we call it a day? We haven't accomplished anything yet!"

"I don't think that's going to change regardless of how long we spend here…" Zoro grumbled. "Face it, this is a dumb idea."

Garp was about to say something when Luffy sprung up from his seated position and grinned. "Yosh! Let's have lunch!"

Luffy's grandfather smacked his grinning grandson in the back of his head. "Were you not listening? I just said no breaks until we actually makes some progress!"

"But Grandpa… I'm huuuuunrgy!" Luffy whined. "I bet Coby and Hapello are too!"

"H… Helmeppo…."

Zoro ignored the younger boy's weak correction. "Luffy's got a point. I don't think running 'em into the ground like this is gonna do anything."

Sanji smiled slightly. "Besides, this is their first day. What exactly were we expecting?"

Garp sighed. "Fine. One hour."

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"…. And then I grabbed Mr 3 and threw him overboard, into the Sabaody ocean!"

"Wow! You're so awesome Usopp!" Bartolomeo cheered. Leo nodded excitedly, clearly in agreement.

"What happened next Usoland?"

"We went back to the hotel, finally, isn't that right Robin?"

Usopp was pretty used to Robin playing along whenever he 'entertained' the children, however this time there was no response. He blinked and looked around. "Huh? Where is Robin? And Nami?"

Leo gasped. Given what Usopp had just been talking about, there was only one thing on his mind. "W… Were they kidnapped? Was it Arlong?"

"Or Crocodile?" Kabu suggested. Leo's eyes widened.

"Or maybe both?!"

The kids began to panic until they were silenced by Bartolomeo suddenly standing up. He grinned. "What are you brats getting all worried about? It doesn't matter if anyone's in danger because…"

Bartolomeo's eyes lit up as he turned to Usopp. "Usopp'll just save them! Like he always does! Isn't that right?"

Leo smiled. "That's right! Usoland will save Robiland and Namiland!"

"Yay Usoland!" The children cheered.

Usopp laughed nervously. "Come on guys, we don't know for sure they're in trouble. I mean, who would…" Usopp stopped mid sentence, Doflamingo and Vergo coming to mind. Or Gecko Moriah. He gulped, realising there were actually quite a few possible culprits. The long nosed teen remained frozen in his seat, the worst possible scenarios coming to his mind, natural considering his usual negative outlook.

Leo scampered to his feet and tugged Usopp's hand urgently. "Come on Usoland, let's go! We have to go find Robiland and Namiland!"

"Uh… I… uh…"

Usopp continued to splutter as Bartolomeo and Leo pulled him to his feet and pulled him away, setting out on a frantic search of the park.

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"Barto!" Chopper yelled, running over to the green haired boy. "Did you find Nami and Robin?"

Bartolomeo bit his lip, trying to hold back his tears. "No. I searched the whole park and couldn't find them anywhere. What would Luffy think of me? He'd be so disappointed! I.. I can't face him anymore! M… Maybe I should just end my life now…"

Chopper grabbed Bartolomeo's shirt and shook him. "No! Don't Barto! We'll find Nami and Robin somehow… Oh Usopp, what should we do?"

Usopp gulped. Everyone, Bartolomeo, Chopper and the children, were looking at him expectantly. "Well… I… uh…"

"We could go and search the areas around this park Usoland?" Mansherry suggested.

"Uh… I… "

Bartolomeo grinned. 'Great idea Usopp! Let's go! I bet if we split up we'll be able to cover more area too, right?"

"I… erm… "

Chopper nodded. "Right, great idea Usopp! You, me and Barto can all go in a different directions. We can each take approximately a third of the kids!"

"Uh…. I…."

Bartolomeo saluted Usopp. "Aye Sir! Let's go Chopper!"

With that, Bartolomeo, Chopper, and about two thirds of the children ran off, leaving a stunned Usopp and the other half of the kids, including Leo. He gulped as he watched them disappear from sight. 'Uh… what just happened?"

######

"So… something on your mind?"

Robin blinked. "Hmm?"

Nami looked worriedly at her from across the table. The two were sitting in a cafe, taking a break from the orange haired girl's shopping spree. "It's just… you've been kinda quiet. Plus yesterday in Math I noticed Law kept looking at you but you were totally blanking him. Is… there some kind of problem between you two?"

Robin bit her lip, pausing for a second before shaking her head, deciding against telling Nami about the incident earlier in the week. Besides, nothing happened, so there was nothing to tell. "No… there's nothing wrong. Sorry, I didn't realise I was ignoring him."

Nami didn't look convinced and was about to say something when she noticed a familiar face enter the cafe. It was Violet accompanied with a giant muscular man with wavy purple hair and shoulders as broad as probably two normal people put together. Robin frowned as she watched the two find a table, Violet not noticing her and Nami. They were at the other side of the room, so she couldn't make out what they were saying, however what was clear was that Violet was clearly uncomfortable.

"We have to get closer…" Robin muttered. Nami's eyes widened.

"Are you kidding? Look of the size of that guy! If they caught us-"

Robin stood up. "They won't catch me."

Nami was about to call out in protest as Robin walked towards Violet and her companion, but didn't for fear of alerting the two to her presence. Nami just watched, frozen, wondering just what Robin's plan was. It was then that she noticed Robin wasn't looking at Violet, but at someone sitting a couple of tables away from Violet. It was an average looking guy, probably about Nami and Robin's age, who was blushing bright red at the sight of Robin approaching him. Nami had noticed him staring at her and Robin a few times over the last twenty minutes or so, but she hadn't realised Robin had too. The boy looked away from Robin, fighting the blush covering his face.

Robin smiled as she reached the table, the boy having no choice but to look at her now. "Is this seat taken?" She asked innocently, knowing that even if it was the boy would have given an arm and a leg to have her join him.

He nodded. "Y… Yeah sure!"

Robin smiled once more at the boy before sitting down, quickly glancing back once. Violet was sitting just a few metres away from her, her back to her. If she listened carefully, she'd be able to hear everything Violet and her 'friend' said. The boy, who she hadn't been paying attention to, gasped suddenly, and stuck his hand out to her, almost knocking over his drink. "I… I'm Johnny! And you?"

Robin giggled as she took it. Even though she was only doing this to get close to Violet, she couldn't help but feel flattered that she was having such an effect on the boy in front of her. "I'm Lucy," she said, not wanting to give him her real name in case Violet heard. Sure, if she turned around she would see Robin, but her back was currently to her and if that remained that way she'd be fine.

Robin glanced at the book the boy had been 'reading' (He'd basically had it open whilst taking turns staring at Robin and then Nami). "I couldn't help but notice you were reading 'Canada'. It's one of my favourites. I feel so terrible for the poor boy…"

The boy's eyes lit up. Beautiful and smart, Robin had gone from a 10/10 to 11/10 in his eyes. "Oh yeah, I totally agree. You know, when I first read…"

With that Robin tuned out, turning her attention to the people behind her. The giant man stared at Violet. "So… how's progress?"

Robin's jaw dropped. Johnny blinked at the sight of Robin trying her hardest not to burst out laughing, something which was incidentally totally out of character for Robin. Said girl, noticing the boy's hurt expression, regained her composure and shook her head. "Oh no, it's not you, it's just something you said reminded me of a joke I heard."

The boy's face lit up. "Oh, so you like jokes? I've got a great one! What-"

Once again, Robin zoned out, turning her attention back to Violet and the man. Robin had to admit, she had been totally taken by surprise when the man spoke a second ago. It wasn't what he'd said, that had been a pretty ambiguous sentence. It was how he said it. Well, his voice to be exact.

It was the highest voice Robin had ever heard on a guy. Higher than her's, Nami's, honestly Robin was struggling to think of girls even who had such a high voice. The fact that such a giant, threatening looking man had such a voice was truly unbelievable.

Violet, however, didn't seem affected. She paused for a second before answering. "Fine."

The giant man didn't seem satisfied, merely staring coldly at Violet. She sighed. "What exactly is it that Joker wants to know Pica?"

Pica maintained his neutral expression. "SMILE."

"What about it?"

Pica lowered his gaze slightly. After a small pause, he spoke. "You should know better than to talk to me like that…"

Violet gulped, something which Robin caught. The teacher was completely terrified. Just what was Violet's relationship with Doflamingo and his subordinates? What would Law make of this? "I… I'm sorry. Tell Joker that the first delivery will be sent out by the end of the week."

Pica nodded. Robin couldn't help but notice that he seemed to say as little as possible. Not that she blamed him considering his voice. Pica stood up and turned towards the exit. Without another word from him or Violet, he exited the shop. Out of the corner of her eye, Robin could see Violet visibly relax as the door shut. After a second, seemingly to just calm down, she too got up and left. Robin tensed, deciding she was going to follow her.

"-So what d'ya think?"

Robin blinked. It would seem Johnny, after talking for ages, had asked her something. "Uh… pardon?"

The boy blushed, embarrassed that he had to ask again. "W.. Well, I was wondering whether you'd like to maybe.. uh… hang out again? I… I… uh… I really enjoyed the… uh.. this. I really liked this… Lucy."

Robin bit her lip, feeling bad now. Nami watched as Robin said something to him before getting up and walking out of the cafe, setting off after Violet. Nami expected him to looked rejected, but he was actually smiling widely. He suddenly gasped and pulled out his phone, typing something quickly into it. Nami's eyes widened. Did she give him her number?

Just then, Nami's own phone buzzed. She blinked and took it out of her pocket.

"Hey Lucy, it's Johnny! Just texting you so you get my number."

Nami glared at her phone. Nope. Robin had given him her number.

######

"Usopp!"

The long nosed teen turned around to see Chopper running towards him, his group of children close behind. The short teen looked terrified. "Ch… Chopper?"

Chopper skidded to a halt in front of Usopp. After needing a couple of seconds to catch his breath, he looked up at Usopp, his expression the definition of panicked. "Usopp, back there, I just saw… I just saw…"

"Chopper?"

Chopper gulped once, before crying out. "Arlong!"

Usopp's blood ran cold. He stood there frozen as the children around him began to react. Before the long nosed teen knew it, Leo had grabbed his hand and was beaming up excitedly at him. "Usoland! This is great! If he has Namiland and Robiland, all you have to do is beat him up again like you did before and you can save them!"

"Uh… about that.. I…"

Before Usopp could finish he was already being pulled away by Leo, the crowd of kids close behind, Chopper in front leading the way.

Usopp gulped. This wasn't good.

######

Robin stopped, taking a second to look over the apartment building she'd just seen Violet enter. She was in a rough area of town and the building was pretty grubby looking. Was this really where Violet lived? "So what now? Do I go in? But… I don't know in which room she'll be in, or whether she'll be alone or not…"

Robin frowned, not really knowing what to do now that she'd gotten this far. She had to do something though…

She reached into her pocket and dialled Zoro's number. The phone rang for what seemed like ages before going to answer. Robin bit her lip, before dialling the next number that came to mind. Law's.

Said boy immediately picked up. "Robin."

"Trafalgar. Please, I need your help."

There was silence for a second, much to a panicking Robin's annoyance. The last thing she wanted was for Violet, or worse, one of her 'colleagues' to catch her here. "What's wrong?"

Robin was about to reply before stopping. She figured she shouldn't say everything out loud in case anyone was listening. "I have to show you something. It's about… That woman," Robin finally said, using Law's 'nickname' for Violet.

There was silence for a second, before Law's voice spoke again, his tone cold and steeled. "OK. Where are you?"

######

Usopp gulped. He could see Arlong and Kuroobi on the other side of the street, their backs to him as they walked into an alleyway. Next to him Chopper was shaking. "Th.. there they are…"

The children, on the other hand, were pretty relaxed. Excited even. Leo grinned. "Man, I can't wait to see you kick this guy's ass Usoland!"

Usopp gulped, looking around frantically for the hundredth time, hoping Bartolomeo would appear with his group of children. But for the hundredth time he was left disappointed. It was genuinely up to him.

He couldn't do this.

The long nosed teen's mouth was dry. What should he do? He couldn't just run away… could he? Suddenly Usopp gritted his teeth, an idea coming to mind. Maybe, just maybe…

He turned his head to the side to face Chopper and the children. "Wait here. I'll take care of this…"

"Usoland!" The children cheered.

Usopp flashed them one smirk before crossing the road, knowing after he did what he was about to do he'd never be able to face those children again. His plan was simple, but risky. He'd start by going into the alleyway. At that point one of two things could happen. The first thing that could happen, and this was what Usopp wanted to happen, is that Arlong and Kuroobi wouldn't recognise him and he'd be able to walk past them and run home. Of course the alternative was that they would recognise him. At that point he'd have two options. Try to run past them and not be seen running away by the children or, if that was not possible, turn around and run away with the children who idolised him watching.

Either way, he'd have to run away and so lose the respect of Leo and the others. Usopp shook his head at that thought. His safety was more important than their respect.

Usopp was about to turn into the alleyway when he noticed someone walking towards him. It was an absolutely giant man with wavy purple hair. He turned into the alleyway, much to Usopp's shock. "Wait!" He called out, running into the alleyway after the purple haired man. He would have ran into the back of the now still giant man had he not skidded to a halt in time. Pica glanced back at Usopp once, before turning to face the two grinning men in front of him, Arlong holding a knife to him.

"Do I have to ask again jackass? Give me all your shit, now!"

Pica just stared evenly at the two men in front of him, his expression completely at ease. Usopp was stunned. How could he be so calm when he was being robbed? Just then, Kuroobi noticed the long nosed teen and grinned. "Hey, I remember you! Nami's wimpy friend! Long time no see! We'll be taking your stuff too then!"

Usopp glared at him, feeling a little safer stood behind the giant man. At least with him in the way he'd definitely be able to run away. "Where are Nami and Robin? What did you do to them?"

Arlong blinked. "Huh? Nami? I ain't done shit to her. Haven't even seen her since that bitch got me kicked out."

"H.. huh?"

Pica, clearly bored at this point, continued walking forwards. Arlong glared at him and held his knife up. "Oi, I ain't playing games! Give me your shit now! I want your phone, your wallet, everything!"

The giant man continued walking forwards, seemingly unfazed. Arlong gritted his teeth, genuinely freaked out by how unthreatened Pica seemed. He jabbed the knife forwards, but Pica easily evaded it and grabbed his arm. Whilst Kuroobi stood frozen in shock, Pica flung Arlong into the alley wall, before finishing him off when he was lying groaning on the ground. Kuroobi stared wide eyed at him as Pica turned his attention to him, incapacitating Arlong's henchman in a similar way. With that Pica continued on nonchalantly, glancing back once at Usopp before exiting the alleyway on the other side.

Usopp stared wide eyed at the unconscious Arlong and Kuroobi, unable to comprehend what had just happened. Who was that man?

"Usoland!"

Said boy turned around just in time to see Chopper, Leo and the rest of the children enter the alleyway. Leo smiled excitedly at the two unconscious men. "You did it Usoland! You beat Arlong up and saved Namiland and Robiland!"

Usopp blinked. "But the other guy…?"

Chopper frowned. "Other guy? What do you mean Usopp?"

The long nosed teen paused. Did they not see the giant man enter the alleyway before him? He shook his head, before grinning. Looks like this had worked out well for him. "Nothing. Man, you guys should have seen what I did to Arlong… "

Leo groaned in disappointment. "I wish we could have. Next time can we watch Usoland?"

"Maybe. Although…" Usopp froze, remembering what Arlong had said before he'd had his ass kicked. "Wait. Arlong said he didn't do anything to Nami or Robin, so that means…"

"Usopp! Chopper!"

The two teenagers turned around to see Nami standing in the alleyway entrance. Chopper smiled. "Nami! You're safe!"

Nami blinked. "Huh? Why wouldn't I be?"

"You… You weren't kidnapped?"

"Kidnapped? No, why would you think that?"

Chopper frowned. "Well you disappeared, so we thought…"

Nami rolled her eyes. "I just couldn't be bothered to listen to Usopp's stories. Anyway, we have bigger problems now. We have to find Robin!"

Usopp groaned. "What, was she kidnapped?"

"No, at least… I don't think so… She left without telling me, so I don't know where she's gone…"

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Robin stared at Law, wide eyed, the male's back to her. "What do you mean? You can't just go in!"

"Yes I can… This isn't school. I can do what I like to her…"

Robin frowned. She really didn't like this Law. He didn't see her expression however and began to walk towards the building. Robin stared at his retreating figure before gritting her teeth and going after him. "Wait!"

Law didn't, simply continuing on his way and not looking back. "No. I'm going in whether you approve or not."

"I know…. But I want to come with you."

Law stopped. "No. This has nothing to do with you. Go home."

Robin's heart sank. 'Nothing to do with her', it really stung that Law thought their friendship was only worth that much. Nonetheless Robin steeled herself. "I'm going. You can't stop me."

Law shrugged. "Do what you want. I'm going after that woman. I won't be responsible for whatever happens to you."

Robin gulped, that statement really hurting her. What had happened to Law? He would never have said something like that before…

The raven haired girl mentally scolded herself. Right now she had to focus on the task on hand. She followed Law into the building. Upon entering, Law sighed, seeing a problem. "Which one does she live in?"

Robin was about to say something when out of the corner of her eye she noticed someone walking towards the front door of the complex from the outside. "Someone's coming…"

Law turned, able to make out Vergo's features from through the partially transparent door. He gasped and grabbed Robin, pulling her into the stairway. He listened as Vergo entered the elevator. He smirked. "Vergo…"

Before Robin could ask him what was going on, Law set off sprinting up the stairs. When the elevator stopped, he'd be there waiting for Vergo. He could hear the elevator going up as he passed each floor. Eventually, on what was the penultimate floor, the elevator stopped. Law grinned widely, totally out of character for him. This was it.

So yeah, probably not all that exciting a chapter, but hopefully you guys liked the introduction of Pica, who is actually one of my least favourite members of Doflamingo's crew. I was never really a fan of Oda's whole high voice quirk he gave him.

But anyway that's besides the point. Thank you all for reading and, as always, please leave a review if you can. Your reviews for the last chapter were amazing.