ONE PIECE

Two Worlds, One Family

A young woman struggling to find her place in the world wakes up to find a bunch of cats in her room...cats that turn out to be the characters from her favourite TV show, One Piece! Bound to each other, whether they like it or not, and trying to figure out a way to find a certain somebody's lost Nakama and get everyone back to their home, what follows is bound to be chaos, friendship, tears, romance - and, adventure! (Kind of a re-write of Straw Cat Pirates).

CHAPTER FIVE

Compass, Part One

Garp stretched happily, waking up slowly and blissfully from a dream about Donut Land. He opened his eyes, and came face-to-face with a huge black dog.

Garp stared at Ranger, as the big black dog began to wake up.

Ranger sniffed the air, and then became aware of the big tan and grey cat lying next to him. He opened his eyes, and growled.

"Oh..." Garp blinked. "Hello..."

Finally able to sleep in her own bed again, after kicking out Ace and Luffy who were currently sleeping on the spare bed, Emma woke up at the sound of hissing and barking.

"Huh? Huh?" She sat up and looked all around her, and her eyes fell on Law, who was lounging at the end of her bed...how long had he been there for?

"Dig the morning look, Emma-San." Law mocked.

"Oh, shut up." She fell back down and, ignoring the various sounds of warfare and things breaking in the living room, muttered: "What time is it?" She closed her eyes, feeling hung-over even though she hadn't been drinking.

"Time you learned to tell the time."

"You sound like my Father." Emma sighed, and then opened her eyes again, because Law was moving.

The blueish-black cat calmly walked across the bed, and walked onto her stomach and then onto her chest.

Emma blushed.

"Did you have any strange dreams last night, Emma-San?" Law asked her.

Emma wasn't sure why Law was suddenly calling her -San, but she wasn't about to question it. She also wasn't about to lie to him. "Yeah...something bad has happened..."

"What?" Law gazed intently at her.

Emma swallowed. "It...it might be better if I tell the others at the same time..." She mumbled something that sounded to Law like 'I need to find that scary lady and get some answers'. "Well..." She said, as the sound of breaking glass could be heard. "I'd better go out there and do some damage-control...Law-San, get off..." She then realised her mistake. She had told him what to do.

Law smirked. "No, I don't think I will." The black cat replied, walking further until he was looking right into Emma's eyes.

"Law-San?"

"Hmm?"

"That's sexual harassment."

"I know."

"I'll tell everyone."

"No, you won't." He lay down with his head resting against her throat.

They just stared at each other, that is until another black cat sprung onto the bed.

"Emmy, I'm hungry..." Luffy whined, and then he paused. "Law, what are you doing?"

"...Resting."

"Resting in a Zoro-way, or resting in a Sanji-way?" Luffy wanted to know.

"Sanji." Emma muttered, sitting up suddenly as Law jumped off of the bed.

"Oh." Luffy nodded his understanding, which wasn't really much.

After cleaning up and serving breakfast (more bacon and eggs - she was going to need to go shopping soon), Emma was about to go outside and train, when Luffy reminded her of her promise.

"Emmy, you promised we could go outside today!" Luffy whinged.

"Don't whine, Luffy." She told him scathingly. She hadn't had her coffee yet.

"So-rry..."

Emma rolled her eyes, and started up the coffee machine. "Coffee, Grandpa?" She asked the newest occupant of the house.

"Mochiron." He replied, grinning.

"Me too." Law and Ace said in unison, and Emma sighed.

"Okay, fine." She got out some cups, and then three bowls for the cats. As she waited for the coffee machine to sort itself out, she asked nobody in particular: "Is it weird, waking up to suddenly find yourself as a cat?"

"Hai." Said Ace, springing up onto the bench next to her. "But, at the same time, it feels natural."

"What if...what if it's reversed?" She said suddenly, turning to face him, and resting her back against the bench. She put her elbows up on the bench behind her. Today she was wearing black bathers shorts (not board-shorts) with a blue band, and a blue bikini top (that had just happened to have matched the shorts) underneath a black singlet. Ace wondered if she ever wore brighter colours, aside from her nightie, that is. "What if you guys are cats in my world, and I'll turn into a cat in your world? How do we get you back to your world? Do I get to go with you? Are the Marines going to attack us on sight if we do?"

Everyone was staring at her by now, except for Luffy because he was eating his breakfast.

Ace made a suggestion. "Why don't you make the coffee, and then we can all go outside and talk?"

"And explore!" Luffy chimed in.

Emma smiled slightly. "Okay. I'll bring the dog inside while we're all out there. Just don't you get lost, Luffy."

"I won't."

Once outside, Luffy took off running.

The others sat on the outdoor furniture, and drank their coffee.

"Now," Garp looked up at Emma. "There's a number of things I'd like to know. For starters, I've been stuck in this body for two days, and in a strange and hostile world where everyone wants to eat me - where are we?"

"Umm, planet Earth," Emma replied, wondering how she was going to explain this to him. "Which is another dimension from yours but, here, there's a comic book series about your world. Plus, a cartoon show."

"What's a cartoon show?"

Emma explained it to him, and then went on: "I don't know how you all got here...but, I think it may have something to do with this." She touched the necklace around her neck.

"How is that?" Garp wanted to know.

"This necklace was given to me by a weird lady at a shop, along with what I now am pretty certain was a Devil Fruit." Emma told him. "I came home and went to sleep, and that was when I had a dream that turned out to be real - I know because my feet were clean when I went to sleep, but then they were dirty when I woke up. Also, I had Luffy's hat with me."

Garp nodded. "Makes sense. Tell me more about this dream that turned out to be real."

Ace suddenly stood up. "I think I'll go see what Luffy's doing." He said, and dashed off down the path that led to 'the wilderness'.

They watched him go, and then Emma said to Garp: "Well...it was that battle at, umm, Marineford...you know the one, and...oh my God..." She put her head in her hands. "Oh my God, oh my God, that was way too close...how the Hell could you just stand by and let them nearly kill Ace?!" She glared at Garp, who flinched.

"If there was anything I could have done, don't you think I would have?!" He asked her.

"Grandpa Garp...Sakazuki nearly did kill him...he was about to punch a fist of molten lava straight through Ace's stomach, painfully and brutally killing him, and then he was going to go after Luffy's, whose mind would've been shattered and spirit broken." Emma said quietly, staring down at her hands. "I...I'm sorry for what I said just then, but...it gets me so emotional...I mean, I know I haven't known them for very long, but...through the anime and manga, I feel like I have..."

Garp sighed. "I see. Yes, my grandsons have that effect on many people. I cared for them in their childhoods, as I'm sure you're well aware of, and I always hoped that they would become Marines so that...so that I wouldn't have to go through this. Perhaps...I should have been able to choose between duty and family."

"Nobody can ask you to do that, Grandpa." Emma replied, looking up at the ceiling. "War tears lives and families apart...people - like me - look for someone to blame when things go wrong, or else - like me - they wish desperately for a way to fix it...I don't know what I did, but I did something...and, I'm glad I didn't have to be so conflicted when doing whatever it was that I did. I don't envy you, Grandpa."

Law was watching all of this quietly, but he was thinking: She tends to get riled up or upset whenever she thinks of how Luffy's brother nearly died...I also didn't realise how deep she can get...this one's just full of surprises now, isn't she?

"What did you do?" Garp asked her.

"Umm, it was really weird but, when I got attacked, I think my Devil Fruit power activated on its own, and sent all these red and gold ribbons out..." She began, but Garp cut her off.

"That was you?!" He yelled, jumping up, and startling Emma - she spilled her coffee down her top. "The one who attacked those men and broke all their spines, the demon of war?!"

"I broke those guys' spines?!" Emma screamed, horrified. "Oh no, I'm so sorry Grandpa, I didn't mean to! They attacked me first!" She was flustered, Law noticed.

"That's not the point!" Garp jumped up onto her lap, startling her. "What happened next?!" He demanded to know.

"Umm, well, I saw Sakazuki heading for Luffy and Ace, so I kind of...umm...accidentally transported them here." She said meekly. "And...umm...transformed them into...cats?"

Garp was shaking slightly, with the air of a man-turned-cat whom is trying to keep his temper. "Anyone else?"

"Umm, yeah...you...and, umm...Law-San and, apparently, some other Whitebeard Pirates, so probably Edward Newgate himself...and...yeah..." Emma was whispering by that stage.

"And, did anybody see you?" Garp asked.

Emma could only nod.

"Who?"

"S-Sakazuki...?"

Garp lost it. "What?! The one person who will hunt you down across ANY dimension you happen to be on, and he was the one who SAW you?!"

"And how is that my fault?!" Emma cried, standing up suddenly and grabbing Garp by the scruff of his neck. "I saved your grandsons' lives! It's not my fault Sakazuki's a freaking Nazi!"

"What in God's name is a Nazi?" Garp demanded to know.

"Never mind." Emma set him down again. "But, you're right about one thing - Sakazuki's persistent. I know because...well...I keep having dreams, dream that turn out to be real, every time I fall asleep. Sakazuki and his fellow Admirals are aware of my existence...my dreams always seem to take me to where they are, except for the one where I saw you, but that was more like a vision...strangely enough, you couldn't see me in that, could you? When the dogs tried to steal your donuts the other night?" He shook his head, no. "Also, last night, I saw Sakazuki, but he couldn't see me, which is good, because there was someone else there..."

"Who?" Law's ears pricked up.

"I don't know who she is, I've never seen her before..." Emma turned to stare out at the pool, feeling chilled all of a sudden. "She's young-looking, but is apparently nine-hundred years old...she called herself 'Little Death' and...she's the goddess of the Underworld...or, so she says..."

"Goddess of the Underworld?" Law repeated, sensing familiarity in the name.

Emma nodded. "Uh-huh. I wouldn't have believed it, but...she killed a man just by touching him...well, she kissed his forehead, so it was the Kiss Of Death. She also cut off his hands before, without even touching him..." She shuddered, remembering the way the severed and bloodied hand had slid down the wall.

"And, she made contact with Sakazuki?" Garp sat back, absorbing the information.

Emma nodded. "Yes...she said...she wants to kill me, Ace and Luffy...that is what she said..."

"Why?" Garp wanted to know.

Emma shrugged. "No idea. That's why I want to find the lady who gave me my necklace...I think she can answer some of these questions better than I can..."

Garp nodded, and then blinked as Emma began to take her top off. "Umm, what are you doing?"

She gave him an odd look, as she stripped off her top to reveal her bikini. "What's it look like I'm doing? I've got to train." She threw the top down on the chair. "And, I can't do that in a top that you made me spill coffee onto! I could've drank that." She mumbled, before heading off down the back.

She found Ace and Luffy by the chicken coop.

"Hey guys, how's it going?" Emma asked, smiling. "What're you...? Hmm...?" Her smile faded, as she looked at Luffy, who had one black paw stretched out, to the top of the chicken coop, across the roof, and then through the wire, to where he was... "Whaaaa! Hedwig?!" Emma screeched, seeing the white chicken with the black speckles - her favourite hen - dangling off the ground, squawking madly. "Awaaa...?"

"Think it'll taste good char-grilled?" Luffy wanted to know.

"Only one way to find out." Ace grinned, setting both his paws alight. "Hurry up and kill it, little bro."

Emma was not amused and, grabbing both the black cats, clonked both their heads together. "Stop strangling my chicken!" She yelled, as Luffy let go of the hen, and Emma hurried in there to make sure she was alright. "Baka..." She muttered.

Law trotted down the path, the sunlight gleaming off his body and making the blueish-black fur look even more blue. Following the path, he came to the fence-line, where he turned left, and came to a small woodshed.

He could hear music coming from there and, curious, he peered around the side, to see that the music was coming from Emma's I-Pod - that small pink and white thing that she seemed to love so much.

Emma herself was standing on a narrow plank suspended between two stumps and, Law realised, she was balance-training. Sunlight shone through the gaps in the trees, striking the patches of her skin where sweat glistened. Her eyes were closed, and she seemed totally focused on what she was doing, as the song played. But, as Law watched, Emma opened her mouth and began to sing and, suddenly, the high soprano voice that she'd seemed so unsure of made sense.

"So baby come to me

Baby, Show me who you are (yeah yeah yeah)

Sweet to me

Like sugar to my heart (oooh baby)

I'm craving (I'm cravin) for you, I'm missing you like candy (missin you like candy)..."

Law's eyes widened slightly. He wasn't surprised that they hadn't heard her sing before - she was shy, that much was for certain. But, with a voice like that, she could be mistaken for a sea siren.

Also, the way she was moving right now was quite alluring...Law suddenly had to shake himself off, to stop himself from thinking these thoughts. She was practically a stranger to him, and he was the feared Surgeon Of Death. She was his host, nothing more, nothing less.

Emma suddenly opened her eyes as the song finished, and caught sight of Law standing there and staring at her. "A-waaaah!" She screamed, and fell of the beam, much to Law's amusement. As she toppled into the bushes, he heard her mutter: "Damn you, Law-San..." Then: "Hey, what's this?!"

No sooner were the words out of her mouth, when a beam of pinkish-purple light shot directly into the sky from where Emma was lying (at the moment, since most of her was in the bushes, all Law could see was her legs). The beam of light stayed in the sky for a moment, before disappearing.

Yup, there was nothing suspicious about that, at all.

At the Perth City train station, through a doorway marked Police Rail Unit, two men and one woman watched a second woman put a security tape into the player (how old-fashioned, but they liked to do things that way).

"Why are we here, again?" One of the men asked. He was in his late twenties, with dark brown hair, and went by the name of Jacob Blaxley. "It's Collingwood VS Sydney."

His partner, an older gentleman named Robert O'Grady, sighed, and rubbed his temples. "Yes, Carmilla, this had better be important enough to call me away from my son's birthday."

"I had a date I had to cancel." A slightly plump brunette by the name of Penelope Owensby added, adjusting her glasses.

Beautiful raven-haired, blue-eyed Carmilla Brown spun around, her eyes flashing. "Nobody cares about your football, your parties, or your hopeless love-life!" She snapped, making each of her colleagues flinch. "This is actually rather important!" She turned back around, and so didn't see when the other three rolled their eyes. Whoever had made Carmilla in charge of security should be demoted. "Now, I need you three to watch this carefully..." She said quietly, and pressed the play button.

The scene showed a young girl wearing a straw hat and sunglasses, boarding the train on the Fremantle Line yesterday.

"Straw-Hat-Wearing-Cat-Girl?" Penelope guessed, as a cat poked its head out of the girl's bag, and then jumped onto the seat, followed by two more cats. Those cats are so cute!

"Couldn't you have told us this on Monday?" Jacob wanted to know.

"Yes, so far, this girl hasn't done anything wrong, save for bringing cats onto public transport, but that's hardly a hangable offense." Robert added.

Carmilla pressed her lips together, and then hit the rewind button. "Here's the audio-version." She said softly, as the video began to play.

The girl sat down on the train as they watched, and then she cheered and relaxed. "Yes! This hardly ever happens!" She said.

"What hardly ever happens, Emmy?"

Jacob, Robert and Penelope stared in shock at the screen, wondering where the voice had come from, as the girl spoke up again.

"You hardly ever get a train with nobody on it, Luffy." She appeared to be talking to the black cat, which had bandages on its side.

He hoped up onto the seat and put his paws onto the window. "Sugoi..." He breathed.

"But...who...?" Penelope stuttered, taking off her glasses and cleaning them, as Carmilla hit rewind one more time, and then zoomed in.

"Yes! This hardly ever happens!"

The cat poked its head out of the bag and, as they watched, it opened its mouth and spoke. "What hardly ever happens, Emmy?"

"That's...not possible..." Jacob whispered, as his co-workers looked shocked.

"That's what I said but, well, here we are." Carmilla stated, clasping her hands. "Now you see why I called you all in."

They all nodded.

Emma sat in the recliner, watching the evening news as the cats and dog ate their dinners. She was half-watching the news, that is, and half-looking at the item in her hand.

It was about the size of a pocket-watch, and it was a rich rose-gold colour with a blue face. It was a compass, but only half of one - one half was still missing. As soon as Emma had touched it that morning, however, a beam of light had shot into the sky. How, or why, she knew not.

She had a feeling that this compass meant something to them all, but she didn't know why. She just had a feeling that she was supposed to keep it with her, like her heart necklace and Luffy's hat.

As she sipped a cup of tea, she happened to glance up at the TV.

"...an unexplained beam of some sort of light was shot into the skies above Perth today, interrupting the Prime Minister's tour of the city." Geoff Parry was saying, and it caused Emma to nearly spill her tea, as she set down her cup and hurried to stare at the TV a bit closer. There was that beam of light...there was a picture of it but, thankfully, no bird-eye-views. What happened next, however, stunned Emma. "A second beam of light was reported to have been seen above the skies of Dunsborough at exactly the same time, coming from the strange ship that appeared covered in ribbons a few nights ago just off the coast."

A picture was shown of a massive ship, with an abundance of red and gold ribbons decorating it haphazardly. The strangest thing about it, however, was that the front of it was designed to look like a whale.

"The same ship that appeared to be destroyed one minute, but then whole the next," Geoff Parry was saying, as Emma was frozen to her spot on the floor. "And which appears to be deserted but, as of yet, the police have not sent anybody to explore it. Whether these two incidents are connected or not, we have yet to find out. Geoff Parry...ssseven news." He always said it like that. There was a Face-Book page about it, and everything...

Emma, meanwhile, had managed to swallow and start breathing again, before she calmly rewound it and then called Ace into the room.

She played the news bulletin for him again.

Ace sat on the coffee table, staring silently at the screen, until the whole thing had played, and then he turned to Emma, unable to say anything.

The other cats came into the room, curious to see what was going on.

"What's the matter?" Law asked Emma, seeing the staring contest that she was having with Ace.

Neither of them replied, so the other three cats turned to the TV screen for help.

"Depressed Trucker Drives-Self Crazy?" Garp guessed.

Emma shook her head, wordlessly.

"Angry Pig Goes Hog-Wild?" Luffy suggested.

"No!" Ace snapped, finally finding his voice. "It's Whitebeard...no, it's the entire Whitebeard Crew! They're here! In this world!" He was practically quivering with excitement. "Emma..."

"I know, Ace." Emma said softly, leaning back slightly. "I'll have to make arrangements...get my sister to stay here tomorrow night...I may have to miss out on a few days of TAFE, which is bad, but I guess it can't be helped." She shrugged. "I wanted to meet Whitebeard, too...he's awesome..." She couldn't help but say. But...TERRIFYING! She added, in her mind. "I wonder what I'll say to him...to Whitebeard-Sama...I wonder..."

Ace suddenly leapt into her arms, nuzzling up against her neck. "Thank you!" He said, with such fervency that it took Emma completely by surprised. "Domo arigatoo!"

Eek, I made Ace go OOC! Emma panicked slightly, but she didn't mind too much. After all, she got a free hug from Fire-Fist Ace!

Meanwhile, Luffy was smiling, but Garp and Law were glowering, for very different reasons, though...

Carmilla spoke on her mobile phone to her little sister.

"Yeah, sorry Georg, I got a lot of work to do this week, so maybe next weekend we can hang out?"

"Don't call me Georg."

Carmilla laughed. "Yes, sorry, I forgot. You're my little sister, though, so it's my job to tease you. How's TAFE going?" Even though they lived in the same city, they hardly ever saw each other because of work and schooling. They might as well have been on separate planets.

"Fine. We've got a comic that we're doing, which is fun." Carmilla could hear her sister shrugging. "How's work?"

Carmilla sighed. "Same as usual. I can't tell you about it, though."

Georgia laughed. "Oh well. Have fun with whatever it is that you're doing, okay?"

Carmilla smiled. "You too, sis. Love you."

"Love you more."

"Love you most." Carmilla hung up the phone, and pocketed it, sighing. As she walked through Northbridge which, ironically, was where her sister's TAFE was located, she muttered out-loud to herself. "Damn you, Straw-Hat-Wearing-Cat-Girl...why won't you ever show your face around here?" They hadn't been able to find her anywhere, because she never showed her face due to that straw hat and those sunglasses!

Carmilla was suddenly stopped by seven or eight men, who surrounded her so suddenly!

Carmilla raised an eyebrow. "What?" The police officer snapped.

The men suddenly pulled out guns.

"Oh, puh-lease." Carmilla sighed. "You think you're the first people to do this to me?"

"No, but we'll be the last." One of them told her, just as he was struck from behind by something - something fiery.

A man, whose arms appeared to be made of molten lava, made short work of the armed men, much to Carmilla's shock - and, she was not a lady that was usually shocked by anything.

The man turned to face her - he was very tall, and appeared to be in his late fifties. "I couldn't help but notice that you mentioned a girl wearing a straw hat, is that correct?"

Carmilla straightened herself up, her training at the police-academy kicking in. This man was dangerous - Carmilla had seen with her own eyes, in a matter of about twenty seconds, just what he could do! She had to play it cool. "I did. Do you know something about her?"

"I might do." The man appeared to be weighing her up just as, to Carmilla's second surprise of the night, a little girl appeared floating in the air beside the man.

She giggled and, Carmilla thought, it was the most chilling sound that she had ever heard. Her red hair and eyes, along with her black dress and pale skin, made her look like a China doll...an evil China doll, Carmilla decided.

"This is Carmilla Brown - she's a police-lady in this world, Mr. Akainu! And, guess what - Monkey D. Luffy and Portgas D. Ace have been turned into cats!"

Author's Notes:

So, the two Governments have crossed over! What's going to happen now? You'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out, because I'm about to fall asleep...it's, like, 2:05AM here...

The song that Emma sings is called Candy, by Mandy Moore. watch?v=DygNDb11X5w

MsWildLuck - why, thank you! *Shines* The next chapter will be exciting.

tanakaL - thank you, I'm glad you found the chapter funny! ^^

Akanekurochi - I'm glad you were hooked, and love my story so much! :) Emma is loveable? I'm glad you think so, I have fun writing about her! ^^

Chieko Namikaze - ah-ha, more irony! I love it! XD I'm glad that you're enjoying my story. By the way, did you get your username from Naruto?