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).
Parental-Warning:
. This chapter contains infrequent course language.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Boom-Shakalaka
"Emma, are you sure you're okay?" Chopper asked her.
Emma sighed. "Chopper, I don't want to talk about my complicated relationships right now."
"No, I mean your head - you're lucky that those two knocks didn't kill you." Chopper pointed out.
"Oh." Emma nodded. "Right. Yeah, I'm fine - Law-Cha...I mean, I got given some pain killers this morning, so I'm fine."
Chopper nodded, and left her alone - he could tell from the tone of her voice that she wanted to be by herself.
Georgia, unfortunately, didn't get the message, or else she just didn't care.
She came and sat down on the grass in front of Emma, who was sitting on the swing, and said: "I need to talk to you."
"About what?" Emma asked, not making eye-contact - she still wasn't sure if she could trust Georgia or not.
"About your quest." Georgia said.
"What would you know about our quest?" Emma glanced at her. "What did Faith tell you?"
"It's not what Faith told me." Georgia shook her head. "It's what the Government is doing. That Akainu guy?" Emma nodded. "Who, by the way, is a fucking bastard." Emma was a bit taken aback for a second, before she smiled slightly - Georgia certainly hadn't changed. "Well, he was saying that Vivi - you know, the Princess of Arabasta? She's gone missing, but she's been sighted at various places in the East Blue."
"Have they been hunting her this entire time?" Emma wanted to know, sounding worried.
Georgia nodded. "Yeah - they're pretty sure that she's the Princess that you guys have been searching for, so they're trying to get her first. That way, you guys can't harness that ancient power thing."
Emma gasped. "That's terrible! Poor Vivi-Sama..."
"Okay, what does -Sama mean, anyway?" Georgia asked, rolling her eyes. "And -Chan and -San and -Kun and all that?"
"You didn't ask Google?" Emma blinked. "I thought you did some research before coming here...?"
"I was a bit busy finding out about Monkey D. Luffy and this weirdo crew!" Georgia rolled her eyes.
Emma grinned. "Yes, well, they are a bit strange, aren't they?"
Georgia shrugged, but chanced a smile. "Yeah, whatever. So, those suffixes?"
"They're honorifics." Emma replied. "-Sama is a respectful one and, well, Vivi's a Princess, so...yeah. -Chan is a cutesy one. -San is standard. -Kun is for boys."
Georgia nodded. "Makes sense. I've been wondering why the Hell that cook keeps on calling me -Chwan all the time."
Emma giggled. "Yeah, Sanji-Kun's like that - I think he uses -San or -Swan for Nami because he likes her the best." She added.
"You're such an expert on relationships?" Georgia raised an eyebrow, and Emma blushed. Georgia sighed. "So, tell me, what is going on between you and those two guys? Portgas D. Ace and Trafalgar Law, right? They both like you, or you both like them, or...?"
"I...I don't know." Emma muttered, staring down at her hands. "I mean...I know, they both like me...Ace-Chan proposed to me (sort of) but Law-Chan said he wouldn't give up, and I don't know what to do..."
"Well, which of them do you like the best?" Georgia wanted to know.
"Both of them." Emma mumbled.
"Ah." Georgia nodded. "Like Kelsey and the Princes from Tiger's Curse?"
"You read that?" Emma sounded surprised.
Georgia nodded again. "Sure. So, my next question is - which of them do you love?" Emma didn't say anything, as she swallowed, and stared down at her hands. Georgia went on: "Because, that black sea dragon thingie, Yin I think her name was, said that you loved both of them - she said that you'd find out why, soon enough."
"Hmm..." Emma stared up at the sky, and then said: "Georgia...do you...have a boyfriend?"
"Yes." Georgia replied, playing with a few blades of grass. "Back home..." She added, almost wistfully.
"Have you ever had a really big fight with him?" Emma asked. "Like, you weren't talking to him at all?"
"You mean like you're not talking to Ace and Law?" Georgia asked, and Emma nodded. Georgia sighed. "No but, then again, Reagan and I have known each other since we were little kids."
Emma looked at her. "Really? Wow, that's so cool. I'm jealous."
Georgia rolled her eyes. "Don't be - he's a wimp. I could always beat him up when we were kids."
"Georgia, next to you, anybody looks like a wimp." Emma pointed out, and the two girls laughed.
They lapsed into a comfortable silence, broken only by Georgia saying: "Emma, seriously, ignoring the problem won't make it go away. You need to take control."
"Hn."
"Marine ship off the starboard side!"
"You'd think they'd have learned by now not to attack us." Sumi said, as she and Marco stepped up onto the railing of the Moby Dick. "It never ends well - for them, that is."
"Confident, aren't we, yoi?" Marco smiled at her, as the two of them unfurled their wings, and flew towards the ship.
"Just enjoying my work, Marco." She replied, before arcing towards the right, and Marco went left.
The Marines fired on them, but the two Mythical Zoans just dodged.
As Marco unleashed a wave of fire at the Marines who were shooting at them, Sumi angled her body downwards, towards the sea, and veered up at the last second, skimming along the top of the waves.
"Tenshi No..." She shouted, as wind whipped around her, and she tucked her arms and wings in. "Gyorai!" She hit the side of the Marine ship at full speed, and the strength and speed of her attack tore a hole in the side of the ship. She burst into the cargo hold, smiling calmly as the Marines in there froze, and then water started pouring in. Sumi ran, dodging past Marines, and ran up a flight of stairs, looking for a second weak spot in the ship.
Before she could find it, however, she saw something that made her stop. "What the...?"
There, chained to the wall of the ship, and looking weak, was a young woman with blonde hair, that fell across her face as she looked up. "..."
"Kaya-Chan!" Sumi gasped, just as the ship rocked, due to the water pouring into it from the outside. Sumi gritted her teeth, and then ran to Kaya, destroying the chains binding her to the wall with one punch, her Zoan powers increasing her strength tenfold. Kaya couldn't seem to speak, as Sumi picked her up easily, and the young doctor wrapped her arms around the nurse's neck. "Just hold on, Kaya-Chan." Sumi mumbled, kicking aside a random Marine as she ran for the stairs. The angel burst out onto the deck, and immediately unfurled her wings, leaping into the sky as bullets flew all around them.
Marco was waiting for her in the sky, and did a slight double-take at the sight of Kaya, before he and Sumi glanced back down at the doomed ship.
"Kaya-Chan, is there anybody else onboard the ship?" Sumi asked the injured girl.
Kaya understood what she meant - was there anybody else who was innocent onboard the ship. She shook her head, unable to speak.
Marco and Sumi exchanged a glance. They nodded.
"Hakai No Aohono!"
"Tenshi-Fū!"
Blue flames, fuelled by the power of the air around them directed into one spot by Sumi's powers, barrelled down in a twister towards the ship and, in a second, there was nothing left of it.
Kaya looked shocked, as Sumi and Marco flew with her back to the Moby Dick, and she tried to speak. "Y...ou...tho...se...pe...pe..."
"The people who were onboard?" Sumi asked her, and Kaya nodded. "We're pirates, Kaya-Chan. It's what we do." I just wish I knew what the Government was doing...
"We should reach the island in the next day or so." Nami said, consulting her maps. "God, it's nice to be able to use these things again - I missed them." She hugged a bunch of rolled up maps to her chest.
"So what's this place like, Zoro?" Usopp wanted to know, and Zoro glanced at him, before sighing.
"It's a quiet place." He said. "It's very peaceful."
"Like Syrup Village?" Usopp asked, just as Emma's Baby Den-Den Mushi (wearing bandages after its encounter with Doflamingo a week ago) rang.
She answered it. "Moshi-Moshi?"
"Emma-Chan?"
"Sumi-Chan!" Emma cried, sitting up and nearly upsetting her cup of coffee. "Where are you?! I've tried to ring you!"
"I have some news." Sumi said.
"So do I." Emma replied. "You go first."
"No, you." Sumi said.
Emma grinned. "Okay, but I warn you..." Her smile faded. "You might not like it..."
"Emma, what is it, yoi?" Marco was there, too.
"Well..." Emma glanced at everybody (Usopp, Zoro, Nami, Sanji and Johnny, who were enjoying drinks in the dining room), and they were looking at her. "You see...I found out...Oyaji's daughter?"
"What about her?" Sumi and Marco asked at the same time.
"She's still alive."
"WHAT?!" Screamed about twenty voices, and Emma realised that the rest of the Whitebeard Pirates must be listening. There was a sudden scuffle for the Den-Den Mushi, which Emma suddenly envisioned being bounced upon many hands trying to grab for it, before a new voice spoke up.
"Give me the Den-Den Mushi."
"Here, Oyaji." Sumi said, and Emma gulped.
"Emma?"
"O-Oyaji..." Emma stammered. "H-hello...umm...you...heard all of that?"
"Hai." Whitebeard sounded serious. "Where did you get this information from?"
"Umm...the necklace I borrowed from my c-cousin..." Emma said, her voice shaking. "It...transported me...to a place, when I was sl-sleeping...and, Akainu was there...he...he said...he told Ino that she was a t-traitor, because your daughter is still alive."
"It's true." A voice said from behind Emma, and she turned to see Georgia standing there. "I was there, and I heard Akainu say it. He punched the woman across the face, as well."
Emma heard Sumi gasp.
Whitebeard said: "Emma, who is that?"
"Her name's Georgia." Emma replied, glancing at the other red-head. "She...she's that classmate, from my w-world, but she's on our side now, Oyaji. She...she's gonna help us find our next Ally, b-because we have to go to another world to do it." Even though she was stammering, she suddenly felt very comfortable telling Whitebeard everything that had been happening up until now. "Oh! Oyaji! I need to tell you something!"
"What is it?"
"Umm, well," Emma smiled slightly, feeling shy all of a sudden. "I...when I got captured...by the Shichibukai, Doflamingo, he...he tattooed me with his mark, but I...I didn't want it, so Ace-Chan fixed it up for me, and s-somehow made it into your mark...is that okay?! Am I allowed to wear your mark, Oyaji?!" She asked him.
"Emma..." Whitebeard began, but Sumi cut him off.
"Emma-Chan, that's great!" She yelled. "You're one of us now!"
Zoro, Nami, Usopp and Sanji glanced sharply at Emma, who cringed. "Umm, well...we'll see...Sumi-Chan, I need to tell you something."
"Well, aren't you just a well of information today, Emma?" Georgia rolled her eyes, and sat down. "Sanji, get me a glass of lemonade."
"With pleasure, Georgia-Chan!"
"What is it, Emma-Chan?" Sumi asked her.
"Umm...about Akainu...umm..." Emma nervously swallowed. "Umm...did you know...who he is?"
"...no." Sumi sounded genuinely confused. "What about him?"
Emma exchanged a panicked look with Nami. Sumi didn't know! "Umm..." Ace chose that moment to enter the dining room. "I...umm...can I tell you later, Sumi-Chan?"
Chicken. Nami thought, rolling her eyes.
"Okay." Sumi still sounded confused. "If it's Akainu, then it can't be too important. Anyway, Usopp?"
"Huh?" The sniper looked up at the mention of his name.
"Somebody here wants to say hello to you." Sumi giggled, and there was a pause.
Then, a new voice said: "Umm, Usopp?"
"Kaya?!" Usopp gasped, sitting up straight. "What are you doing on Whitebeard's ship?!"
"The Marines captured me, Usopp." Kaya said quietly, and everybody froze. "They're...trying to find all of the girls connected to you and your crew-mates...to find the Princess..."
Usopp had paled, and everybody else was exchanging horrified glances.
"It's okay, Kaya, you'll be fine." Usopp said, taking the Baby Den-Den Mushi into the corner of the room, and everybody left him alone to talk to Kaya in private (then again, the entire Whitebeard crew was probably listening in, as well).
They all went above deck, and split up, leaving Emma and Ace.
"Emiko..." Ace said, taking a step towards her. They had barely spoken two words to each other since the incident at the Baratie. Sentences like 'please pass the butter' and 'do you know where Franky is?' were not deep and meaningful conversations between fiance and fiancee.
"Ace-Chan...I'm so sorry..." Emma said, her heart pounding, and she wouldn't look at him.
That stopped him. "What for?" He asked her.
"For..." Emma rubbed the side of her arm. "For...not remembering you...for kissing Law-Ch...somebody else..." She swallowed, and tears filled her eyes. "I'm so sorry..."
"Oh, jeez..." Ace rubbed the back of his head. They seemed to have reached a critical point in their relationship. "Emiko...it's okay...you didn't remember..."
"That's just the thing..." Emma muttered. "How could I...forget? About you...about us? About how much you mean to me? This mark on my back...it doesn't just symbolise the Whitebeard Pirates. To me, it symbolises us. Our bond...it's something that I never want to forget. Even if, one day, we're separated, by some act of the gods or whatever...I never want to forget you, even if the memories cause me pain because we're apart. Because..." She turned to him, as the golden glow of the setting sun covered them in its soft light. "One day, I would hope, that by holding onto that, I'd overcome the pain. My memories are precious to me. Each and every single one of them. I'll never forget you again, Ace-Chan." She smiled, her lopsided smile. "I love you."
Ace stared at her for a second, before he lunged at her, grabbing her in his arms and kissing her for all it was worth. He stopped only long enough to tell her: "I am never letting you go, ever again!" He slipped the ring back onto her finger, before returning his lips to hers. They had a lot of catching up to do.
.
Emma and Ace took the night-watch, partially because it was Ace's turn to do so, and partially because Nami forbade either of them to sleep in the same bed if it was in the men's quarters or the women's quarters, so Georgia took Emma's bed, and Emma cuddled up to Ace in the crow's nest.
Nami didn't have anything to worry about, though. Robin, who had agreed to keep an eye on the two for a little while, soon reported back that Ace had fallen asleep, which shouldn't really have surprised any of them. So, one-by-one, the others fell off to sleep until, at last, only three people onboard the ship were actually awake.
Franky steered the ship, following Nami's course, but ready to wake her up if he needed to - he didn't think he'd have to, though, since he knew what he was doing.
Emma smiled, sipping on her coffee, as Ace slept peacefully beside her, and she listened to her I-Pod, which Georgia had given back to her, along with her wallet (when she got her hands on Garp, who had provided the Marines with her driver's licence photo for her Wanted poster, she was going to throttle him).
She hummed along to Ryuusei, and then she started singing softly.
She didn't realise that she had an audience until she looked up - and saw Law standing there, looking across at her from the opposite side of the crow's nest.
Emma's eyes widened, and she glanced at Ace who, thankfully, was still asleep - for now.
Emma got up carefully, and walked slowly towards him, the darkness of the night illuminating them with blue.
"What are you doing here?" She asked him softly, when she was a few feet away from him.
"You know." Law said, folding his arms.
Emma swallowed. "Do I?" She sighed. "Law-Ch...what is it that you want?"
"You." He said, looking right at her. She stared back at him, an unreadable expression on her face. "I want you. I have since the moment I saw you. Remember? In your room, when I was a cat? I jumped onto your shoulder. I couldn't help it - I just had to touch you, and I don't know why."
Emma's throat was dry, her hands held limply at her sides - the I-Pod was held loosely in her hand, and the earphones dangled from it, playing I Want You, by Faith Hill. "L...Law..." She closed her eyes, feeling slightly faint. "Law-Chan...I...I don't know...what I'm supposed to say...to you..."
"Say you'll be mine." Law said, calmly but, when Emma opened her eyes, she saw a fair amount of want in his eyes. "Emiko, please...I need you..."
Emma felt even more faint now, as Law used Ace's special nickname for her. Now she was in a whole lot of trouble. Yin had said that it was okay to love two people, but Georgia said that she should just choose one! Not only that but, if the fan-girls found out about it, then she would be labelled a real-life Mary-Sue...heck, she probably even was one, already!
But, even as she drew this conclusion, that perhaps she was not meant to have this at all, she felt something tugging at her chest - that same tugging that had pulled her in the right directions before. And, when she looked into Law's grey eyes, the tugging feeling was intensified.
I can't ignore this feeling... Emma thought, blinking a few times as she swallowed. Her fingers numbly stopped her I-Pod from playing - it really wasn't helping. I can't...right or wrong, Mary-Sue or not...this is what's happening...I always thought...this sort of thing doesn't happen, but...it would be worse for me if I tried to pretend that it wasn't...maybe...maybe that's what Georgia meant...
She took a closer look at Law, trying to place the tugging in her chest.
'This child...she's been blessed by the gods, hasn't she?'
Emma gasped, and looked around, trying to figure out why she kept on hearing that voice in the back of her mind.
"What is it?" Law asked her, taking a step closer to her.
"I heard that voice again..." Emma whispered, placing her I-Pod on a nearby table, and leaning against said table, frowning slightly. "It was Rouge, I'm sure of it...she said something about 'the child being blessed by the gods'..."
"Emiko..." Law began, reaching out to her but, just then, a hand grabbed his wrist, tightly.
Ace had woken up, and the expression on his face could've burned a hole through sheet metal.
"So, what do you want to do, then?" Vista asked Sumi.
"Well..." The blonde began, and then she sighed.
Vista, Marco, Kaya, Nojiko and Whitebeard all looked at her sympathetically.
They were sitting up on deck, discussing the events of things.
"Umm..." Kaya said quietly, and they all glanced at her. She looked nervous, and Sumi immediately softened her glance - poor Kaya must've felt like such an outsider, but she was now as involved in this as the rest of them. "S-Sumi...do...you know where your Mother is being held prisoner?" She wanted to know.
Sumi nodded. "Hai - it's Dawn Island, according to the information Haruta was able to get for us."
Kaya blinked. "Umm, well...it's just that...Usopp happened to mention something about that place...it's where Luffy and Ace grew up, isn't it?"
"Is it?" Sumi looked surprised. "I didn't know that - I only went there...once..." She glanced aside, remembering that darker time, when she'd been Jalmack's slave. For her, going back there would be painful, but she was going to do it, anyway. She had questions.
"Well...I heard Luffy say..." Kaya said. "That...there was a woman on the island, who took care of him when he was little...she owned a bar. Her name is Makino."
The others exchanged a glance, realising what this could mean.
"Then...she's in danger." Nojiko realised. "That's why the Government tried to capture me before, after all, and you too, Kaya..." She glanced at the blonde, who nodded.
"Mmhmm..." Sumi mused, and then looked up at Whitebeard. "Oyaji, what should we do?" She stood up, and walked along the railing towards him, staring up at him with her suddenly determined teal eyes. "I want to see my Mother...I have to ask her things and, if...if your daughter really is still alive..." She finished in a whisper. "Then I have to know what happened..."
"Sumi," Whitebeard said gently. "I know that you still blame yourself for what Ino did. My dearest daughter - it is not your fault." He gazed steadily down at her. "But, if you wish to see your Mother, then we will go to Dawn Island, as was planned. I heard Ace mention this Makino once, as well - we should check to make sure she is alright."
Sumi nodded. "Thank you, Oyaji."
Whitebeard smiled slightly, and then turned his gaze to the sky - the moon was waning, and it would soon be a new moon. Like on that night, twenty-two years ago...
Nami yawned, and walked up onto the deck, keeping a robe wrapped around her, because it was cold. "Franky, how's everything going?" She asked, going up to the blue-haired cyborg. "I got a feeling..."
"You were right, Nami-Nee-Chan!" Franky grinned. "We're about to make landfall! Suuuuper, isn't it?!" He posed.
Nami blinked, and rubbed her eyes. "Yes, it sure is, but...that was awfully quick, wasn't it?" She wondered.
Franky agreed. "Hai, but we managed to catch a good north-easterly breeze, so we can pin it down to that!"
Nami shrugged. "I suppose..." Things are getting a bit weird, lately...
They both heard footsteps, and turned, to see Georgia standing there, looking sleepy. "Hey, Nami," she said. "Get up to the crow's nest - Robin says there's a problem."
Nami cringed. "It's not Emma and Ace, is it?" Not on this ship, they don't!
Georgia nodded. "And Law." She added.
Nami gasped. "What?! All three of them?!" She was horrified.
Georgia shrugged. "You'd better hurry up - Robin says that it's getting kind of messy up there, or it's about to, anyway. Ace and Law are at it, and Emma's caught between them."
Nami was pale. "Wh-what? What do you mean?"
Georgia gave her an odd look. "I mean they're arguing, and about to start throwing punches - Ace and Law, that is." She raised an eyebrow. "What did you think I meant?"
Nami was face-palming, although she instantly relaxed. "Oh, never mind...Georgia, wake the rest of the crew." She headed towards the crows nest.
Georgia and Franky watched her go.
"What's with her?" Georgia asked the cyborg,
Franky shrugged. "No idea. But, we're about to reach land! It's suuuuper!"
This place is weird. Georgia decided, as she turned to go and wake up the others.
Nami stormed up to the crows nest, throwing the door open so hard that it nearly bounced off its hinges, and the three that were up there looked over at her.
Nami stopped, and stared.
Emma was standing, with her arms crossed, in the middle of the crows nest. Red and gold ribbons were snaking out of her arms and back, making her look like a many-tentacled alien. Many of the ribbons were wrapped around Ace and Law, binding their wrists and ankles, and wrapped around their mouths.
Nami blinked, and then looked at Emma.
Emma said: "I am tired. I have a headache. I want nothing more than to curl up in a pile of blankets and cushions, and fall asleep. I want to be able to do that, without worrying about the two men I love killing each other!" She threw her arms up, and the ribbons tossed Ace and Law onto opposite sides of the room. They landed gracefully, and straightened up, looking warily at Emma. Her ribbons waved threateningly around her. "Yes, I love them both! I won't deny it, and I don't know how to choose! So, right now, I'm not going to! I'm going to go and asleep with the fishes!" She grabbed her I-Pod. "And by that, I mean in the aquarium dining room!"
"Well duh." Nami rolled her eyes, as Emma vanished in a swirl of ribbons, and then the navigator glared at both Law and Ace. "You two..." She said, in a slow and measured voice. Ace looked wary, but Law looked calm. "You have one more chance...ONE." She held up one finger, to emphasise this point. "We're about to make landfall, and if there's any more trouble, then that's it!" She clenched her fists. "There's only so much one girl can take! I can understand that she loves the both of you! I really can! But look at this from her point of view, please!" She sighed. "You two work really well together, during battles - that's what she told me, and I agree. You should stop fighting, and be friends or, at the very least just stop fighting." She turned to go. "Otherwise, Luffy said he's not going to be able to deal with it much longer. He told me that this morning." It was true - Luffy had approached Nami on this very serious matter, much to her surprise. "One of you will have to go, and we all know who that will be. Emma won't like it if either of you two go, so, for her sake, please just call a truce." She exited the room, closing the door behind her, but she stayed where she was, paused, and put one ear to the door.
There was silence for a moment, and then Ace said: "Much as I'd like to get rid of you, Trafalgar, I have to agree with Nami - Emiko would be upset."
"I know." Law replied. "I don't want to hurt her."
"Neither do I." Nami pictured Ace crossing his arms, and staring defiantly at the doctor. "So, what are we going to do?"
"I don't particularly want to call a truce with you, Fire-Fist." Law replied. Nami imagined that he would have his hands in his pockets, and that his grey eyes would be staring coolly at Ace. "I consider you to be my enemy as much as Doflamingo."
"And I consider you to be my enemy as much as Blackbeard." Ace replied coolly.
Owch. Nami thought, flinching.
"However," Ace went on. "We have a mission to complete and, whether we like it or not, we're Allies."
"It's a business acquaintance." Law corrected him. "We both share a common objective - which is helping Emiko to save the worlds. Putting our feelings aside, for now, can we agree to do what's best for her by getting along enough so that I don't get kicked out?"
"Only until we finish our mission." Ace replied. "After that..."
"May the best man win." Law finished for him.
"I plan to." Ace informed him.
Nami heard the smirk in Law's voice when he replied: "As do I."
Nami waited, and heard nothing but silence. She suddenly envisioned them shaking hands on their truce, and trying to break each others' fingers. Boys. She thought, rolling her eyes as she left them to it.
"I'm sorry, Nami." Emma told the navigator, as they walked away from the shore and towards the forest-y, mountainous area.
"For what?" Nami blinked. "You mean snapping at us all earlier? Forget about it." She paused, and then added: "Of course, if you wanted to compensate me for the whole scenario..."
"Forget it." Emma replied, and then Usopp stepped up to walk between them.
"Nami, Emma, tell me something..." The sniper said. "Is it really okay to be following Zoro?"
"I should bloody well hope so." Georgia spoke up, overhearing. She was walking a few paces behind them, along with Franky.
Robin, Luffy and Ace were walking up ahead, and Zoro was in the lead. Just behind him was Sanji, and next to the cook was Chopper, who was in his Walking Form, and carrying all of their supplies for them. Law walked behind the whole group.
Emma dropped back to talk to him. "Hey, Law-Chan, about your crew..." She said, walking backwards.
"What about them?" Law asked, and then noticed that she was looking behind him. He followed her gaze, and saw Shachi, Penguin and Bepo following them. Law stopped, as did Emma, and as did the Straw Hat Pirates and Ace. Law calmly regarded the three members of his crew. "I thought I told you to stay in the sub."
"Ah, hai, C-Captain," Shachi stammered. "But...it's just that..." He glanced at Penguin, and then nudged him forwards. "Penguin will tell you."
Penguin looked shocked, and then stammered: "Uh, well...you see..." He glanced at Bepo, and then pushed him forwards, so hard that the bear fell onto all fours. "Bepo, tell him!"
"I'm so sorry, Captain!" Bepo wailed. "We've just been stuck on the sub for so long - we're getting cabin fever!"
Law raised an eyebrow, and that was when Emma decided to intervene. She shot forwards, as Bepo sat up, and latched herself onto the bear, hugging him around the neck. "Aww, he's right - they never get to come on adventures with us, Law-Chan! Let them come with us, pleeeaaase?"
The others watched, and waited to see what Law would do.
Law sighed. "Fine. They can come with us."
"Yay!" Emma cheered, hugging Bepo tightly, before she noticed something on the bear's jumpsuit, and shrieked, leaping up and landing in Law's arms. "Eek!" She pointed at something on Bepo's shoulder. "Kill it, kill it, kill it!" Bepo looked depressed. "No, not you, the centipede on your shoulder!" Emma cried. "Kill it - it's orange!"
A few of the others were laughing at Emma's fear of a tiny insect, as Shachi merely flicked the thing off of Bepo's shoulder, and into the bushes.
"I'm surprised you could see that, you know." Nami said dryly. "Considering your eyesight, and the fact that it was blending in..."
"Yeah, well, be thankful that it wasn't in your hair, Nami." Emma replied, just as dryly. Then: "Okay, Law-Chan, time to put me down now."
A few of the others exchanged glances at Emma's nickname for Law, but didn't say anything on the subject because, just then, it was Nami's turn to shriek.
"Now what?" Usopp sounded annoyed.
"Zoro's gone!" Nami pointed ahead and, sure enough, the green-haired swordsman was nowhere in sight.
"Oh, well that's just great!" Usopp complained. "I knew that it was a bad idea to let him lead us!"
"Okay, calm down, everybody." Georgia said. "This is a straight path, so let's just keep on going and, hopefully, there won't be any turns or anything, okay?"
The others exchanged glances, and then nodded.
They continued walking, with Emma walking at the back now, chatting to Law, Penguin, Shachi and Bepo. She was telling them about her thyroid cancer, and then about what she'd witnessed with her grandparents' cancers, as they reached Shimotsuki Village.
"Okay..." Sanji looked around him. "This is...quaint..."
"Sanji-Kun..." Nami said witheringly, glad that Zoro wasn't around to hear.
"I hope there's at least some pretty ladies here." Sanji, Penguin and Shachi said in unison, causing three out of the four girls present to glare at them.
"Okay," Luffy said, taking charge. "We need to find somewhere to eat, and then we need to find Zoro."
Nami whacked him upside the head. "Baka! We need to find Zoro, then we need to find somewhere to eat!"
Luffy rubbed the back of his head. "Ow, Nami...that hurt..."
"Good!" She snapped, and then she sighed. "Okay, so why don't we...?"
"Split up?" Georgia suggested. "Great idea - I've got some stuff to do, anyway!" She hightailed it out of there.
The others watched her go.
"I don't trust her." Nami said.
"It is possible that she means to betray us." Robin commented. She began walking. "I'll follow her for a little while, and see what's up to."
"Wait for me, Robin-Chwan!" Sanji dashed after her.
"I need to get some supplies." Chopper spoke up. "We definitely need more anaesthetic, after all."
"I agree." Law nodded. "I'll come with you." He glanced at Emma, who was talking to Bepo, Shachi and Penguin, and emphasising a point by extending her arms - it was an animated explanation.
Law watched as Emma laughed with the three of them, and he smiled as he turned to go. Just as he did, Emma glanced up at him, blinking, before she smiled at him, and waved slightly.
He just smirked, and nodded to her, before he kept on walking.
"I need to get some things, as well." Nami said.
Franky nodded. "We'll look for Zoro, as well."
Luffy had other ideas, though. "That's great!" He grabbed onto his brother's arm. "Come on, Ace, let's go and find a restaurant!" He began dragging Ace away.
The Whitebeard Pirate held onto his hat as he was dragged away. "Whoa, okay, hey, slow down, Luffy!" He glanced over his shoulder, and was pleased when Emma waved to him, as well.
Nami smiled, and turned to the others. "So-" She began.
Usopp suddenly zipped over, and latched onto Emma. "I'm going with Emma!" He declared. Bepo, Shachi, Penguin and Nami just stared at him. "What? Everybody else got to go on some kind of life-changing adventure with Emma."
Nami rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Let's just agree to meet back here in an hour..." The others just stared at her. She sighed. "I'll find a way to let you know. Just don't get lost!" She warned them, already knowing that she was going to have to round them all up again.
"Wow..." Luffy stared up at the sign on the restaurant. "Meat-Meat..."
"So great that they named it twice." Ace read from the sign. "Shall we try it?" He glanced at the spot where Luffy had been standing, only to find that his little brother had already commandeered the buffet table. Ace rolled his eyes, but then dove in as well, especially since it was an 'all-you-can-eat' buffet.
However, they had forgotten one, teensy-tinsy minor detail and, after they'd cleaned out the entire restaurant, they realised what that one detail was.
"Okay," the restaurant owner looked thrilled, despite being a large and very terrifying woman. "My little schnitzels, that's one hundred thousand Bellis."
Luffy and Ace froze, and then exchanged slow glances.
"Hey, Luffy..." Ace said quietly. "Did you get any money?"
Luffy shook his head. "Uh-uh. I thought you got it."
"No, I didn't." Ace replied.
The two brothers nodded, and then turned back to the restaurant owner. "Thank you for this meal." They said together, bowing in unison.
They then bolted, with the restaurant owner chasing after them yelling: "GET BACK HERE, YOU LITTLE BRATWURSTS!"
Nami sighed, and read the sign over the entrance to the dojo. "Isshin Dojo...hmm..." She said. Looks promising...
"Excuse me?" A voice said from behind her, and she turned to see an older gentleman, standing there with a pile of scrolls in his arms. "May I help you, Sir?"
Franky shook his head. "No, I'm just looking for somebody, but I doubt you've seen him."
"Tell me what he looks like, and perhaps I will be able to help you." The man replied.
Nami shrugged. "Well, he's about so tall," she held up a hand. "He has slightly tanned skin...oh! And his hair is green." She didn't notice the look on the man's face as she added: "His name is Roronoa Zoro." She finally noticed that the man had frozen, and then he dropped all of his scrolls. They tumbled to the ground. "Hey, are you okay?" Nami asked, hurriedly going over to help the man pick up his scrolls.
He nodded, and said: "Yes, but...may I ask that you two come inside the dojo with me? I have something I would like to speak with you about..."
"Umm...sure...okay then..." Franky and Nami replied, and followed him into the dojo.
Sanji and Robin met up with Chopper and Law, and they were soon joined by Shachi, Penguin and Bepo.
"Umm, where's Georgia?" Chopper wanted to know.
"She vanished." Robin replied calmly, although her eyes showed worry.
"I don't like this." Law said immediately. "Didn't you say that you sensed a possible betrayal, Robin?"
The archeologist nodded, and Sanji looked depressed.
"Poor Georgia-Chwan..." He said. "She's probably lost somewhere, along with that stupid swordsman..."
"Hmm..." Chopper suddenly sniffed at the air. "I think...she went that was..." He pointed towards the mountains. "Her scent is wool, like a sheep...but..." He closed his eyes. "Emma and Usopp are up there as well, and...somebody with a scent like cold steel...it's familiar...it's..."
"RUN, LUFFY!" Ace's voice was suddenly heard shouting, and everybody turned to see the two brothers charging down the street, with a scary-looking woman chasing after them and brandishing butcher's knives and meat-cleavers which she seemed to be able to produce from nowhere.
"Look, there are the others!" Luffy pointed, and he and Ace headed in the direction of their friends.
Sanji's eyes widened in shock. "No! Don't run towards us!" He knew enough about crazy cooks to know to never get on their bad sides! He started running, grabbing Robin's hand and dragging her along, and she grabbed Chopper under her arm and had multiple arms on her back carrying their supplies, Shachi and Penguin each grabbed onto one of Robin's hands, and Bepo grabbed onto their ankles as they were pulled along in mid-air, and Law sprinted after them, and then Luffy and Ace followed and, finally, the angry cook shouted angry things as she angrily ran after them all.
They were chased all throughout the town this way.
"So, I really like Kaya, but I just don't think that she'll ever feel the same way about me!" Usopp was saying, as he and Emma walked along the outskirts of the quiet village. Emma was listening to him, really, she was, but her mind was also on other things, as usual. In fact, she was so caught up in juggling multiple thoughts, thats he didn't notice that they were being followed.
"Emma," Usopp said suddenly. "I'm afraid I've been thinking..."
"A dangerous past-time." Emma pointed out.
"I know." Usopp sighed. "It's just...hey, hang on a minute..." He stopped, and looked around, his keen ears picking up the sounds of...something...
"What is it?" Emma whispered, feeling scared. "Marines? Centipedes?"
"Worse." Usopp said as, suddenly, ropes came flying out of the bushes at them, binding them. "It's an ambush!"
A net came flying out of nowhere, wrapping around Emma's wrists. "Sea-Stone!" She gasped, feeling the familiar strains of weakness envelop her. "But...why...?"
Their attackers came out of hiding.
"AAAAA!" Emma and Usopp screamed in unison.
Back in the village, Law and Ace stopped, and looked sharply at the sound of the screams.
The others stopped as well.
"That sounded like Emma!" Chopper realised.
"And Usopp." Luffy added. "I wonder what happened..."
Nami suddenly came running towards them, followed by Franky. "You guys!" She shouted to them, and then she stopped. "Umm, why are you...?"
"Never mind." Ace said quickly, as most of them (save for Robin and Law) were sporting bruises and/or mild cuts. "Did you hear...?"
"Yes." Nami replied, just as quickly. "I've got a bad feeling about this, you guys."
"Aww, now why did you have to say that, Nami?" Luffy asked her. "You know I hate it when you get bad feelings."
Nami ignored him, and faced the others. "We've just been speaking to a man from this village who knows Zoro - in fact, Koshiro was the one who taught Zoro swordsmanship."
Everybody was surprised, to say the very least but, then again, they realised that it made sense.
Franky said: "So, this Koshiro guy told us that, since Zoro left, this village has been - are you ready for this?" He paused for dramtic effect, and then struck a pose, proclaiming: "Haunted..."
Chopper looked terrified, Luffy looked thrilled, Robin appeared mildly interested, and everybody else just stared at Franky like he'd grown a third eye or something.
At last, Shachi repeated: "Haunted?"
Nami nodded. "Mmhmm. There's been weird things happening, unexplainable things."
"What, you mean like scary sounds and dark, shadowy figures?" Penguin didn't sound like he believed her.
Nami shook her head. "No. I mean that people have been disappearing, one-by-one." That stopped everybody. "Mostly girls, but some boys as well - all of them children. They all vanish without a trace, and are never heard from again. They can't find them anywhere. And, well...it's been happening for months now, apparently, since..." She exchanged a glance with Franky.
"Since what?" Luffy wanted to know.
"Since Zoro left the village." Nami said quietly, and everybody was silent for a few moments, considering this.
"So, what do we do now?" Ace asked finally. "Emiko and Usopp were up there in the mountains, and if they've been taken..." He trailed off, and glanced at the setting sun.
"We can't look for them now." Nami stated, and both Ace and shot her a fierce glare.
"Don't glare at Nami-San!" Sanji snapped.
"It's alright, Sanji." Nami held up her hands. "Look, guys, we're all worried, but we can't go up there at night - we'll wait until morning."
"I'm not scared of ghosts." Ace stated firmly, crossing his arms.
"No!" Chopper exclaimed. "You should never mess around with the supernatural!"
Nami nodded. "Chopper's right. If Emma, Usopp, Zoro and Georgia really have been taken by the...spirits...then we'll need to go about getting them back carefully." She pointed down the road, towards the dojo. "Come back to Kojiro's place with us - he says he wants to tell us some things about Zoro's past that we didn't know."
"It sounds important." Sanji commented, as they headed off down the road. "I wonder what that moss-ball did in his past that could be affecting us now..."
"I think it's more like what he didn't do." Nami replied, looking up at the dark sky. I hope they'll all be okay...
"Great." Usopp muttered, trying to look at something other than the awful predicament that they were in. "Captured by crazed wild pigs and sacrificed hideously before a pagan altar."
"Are we lucky or what?" Emma muttered back to him, never taking her eyes off the little pig-like gremlins that were dancing around them, and chanting...something...whatever it was, it sounded like cannibalism...
"Yeah, so how did you guys get captured?" Zoro wanted to know. He was tied to the post with them.
"How did we get captured?!" Usopp snapped. "How did you get captured, Mr. Supernova, Santoryu...Guy?!"
Zoro raised an eyebrow. "Really?" He mocked Usopp's lack of creativity. "You need to ask me that?"
"Oh, what, so this is somehow my fault?!" Georgia looked annoyed. "If it's anybody's fault, then it's miss Four-Eyes over there!" And she jerked her head in the direction of the Tashigi, who was tied to a table in the center of the grove (which was lit with torches like some kind of scary episode of Survivor) by ropes from all four corners. She looked terrified.
"This is neither my fault, nor my idea, before you ask!" The Marine called to them. "So, as you all stand around blaming each other, which is all very well and true, get me off of this thing!"
A Piggie-Gremlin (as Emma had now started dubbing them) stopped dancing, and jabbed Tashigi with the tip of her spear. "Kaeps ton od!" She said fiercely. "Ti tog?"
Tashigi paled. "Help me..." She whimpered, squeezing her eyes shut as the Piggie-Gremlin continued with her dancing and with her chanting.
"What's she doing here, anyway?" Zoro wanted to know, and Georgia coughed slightly. Zoro turned to glare at her. "You wouldn't happen to know anything about this, would you, Georgia?"
"No!" She snapped. "I mean...no...yes, but no!"
"Just answer the question!" Zoro told her.
Georgia sighed. "Okay, look, Garp told me that this might happen - I didn't ask them to come here, but I...well, you can call what I did running away." She shrugged as best she could. "They want me back, but I'm not going."
"Sounds legit." Emma nodded. She glanced over at Usopp. "Why are you shaking?" She asked the sniper. "You don't have to worry - we'll get rescued by our friends soon, I'm sure of it."
Usopp had begun to look nervous. "Well...who do you reckon's gonna get eaten first?"
Emma just stared at him for a a very long moment, before she flatly replied: "You are."
Usopp looked horrified, and began screaming, causing the Piggie-Gremlins to swarm on him. "Aaa! They're eating me alive!"
Robin glanced up briefly at the sky, and smiled.
"Why is she smiling like that?" Koshiro's wife, Sakura, asked Nami, as they unfurled two futons.
"Morbid senses." Nami replied, and Sakura looked like she didn't want to hear anymore.
They were staying at the dojo owned by Koshiro and Sakura - the boys were in one room, and the girls were in another. The room had a connecting slider door which, after Sakura had left, Nami and Robin barricaded with multiple chest-of-drawers and chairs, since there were three perverts sleeping in that other room.
The two pirate girls laid down on their futons, listening as a slight breeze made the wind-chimes outside chime.
"Robin-Nee-Chan, do you think that the others are okay?" Nami asked presently, rolling over onto her side to look at the archeologist.
Robin's gaze was calm and steady. "Yes, I believe that they will be fine, Nami-Chan." She drew the covers up to her chin, and closed her eyes. "However," she added, in a softer tone. "We best keep ourselves sharp."
Nami narrowed her eyes. She just had to say that last part now, didn't she?
The navigator sighed, and closed her eyes, trying to sleep but, every time she started to fall asleep, she would hear a noise, and immediately be jolted awake. Eventually, she decided that sleep was not going to come to her anytime soon, and so got up, sloping a yukata on over her shoulders, and deciding to go for a walk.
The gardens however, which were peaceful in the day time, now seemed darker and more mysterious, but not in a good way. Nami found herself drawn to a particular path, and followed it deeper into the forest, until she came to a small hill overlooking the dojo. She stared at the graveyard for a second, before entering it, and finding her way to a particular headstone.
The moonlight was dim, but Nami could just make out a name written on the polished rock. "Kuina." She read out-loud. Koshiro and Sakura's daughter? She wondered what had led her to this place and, just as she was envisioning hands stretching out from The Beyond, she felt a touch on her shoulder.
Ace awoke with a start, after a nightmare about Emma marrying Law and having four children with him, all of them boys who sang and lived in a yellow submarine. He sat up on his futon, looking around - and that was when he noticed that both Law and Sanji were missing.
Just as he realised this, he noticed the orb of blue light hovering over Luffy's sleeping form.
"LUFFY!" Ace started to shout, just as the orb of light expanded, drawing both him and Luffy into it.
His shout, however, woke up Franky, who stared in shock as the two brothers disappeared in a flash of light. "Luffy?! Ace?!" The cyborg was stunned and, just then, there was a clatter, and Robin came into the room.
"Franky!" She began to say, sounding slightly worried but, just then, she gasped, and looked at her hands, which had started to disappear - in fact, her whole entire body was starting to become transparent! "This is exceptionally strange and wonderful..." She mused, as she vanished.
"Robin!" Chopper screamed, sounding horrified, and then he looked down at himself, and realised that he was vanishing, as well! "Nooo! I don't wanna go!" He protested but, of course, he had no choice. Well, if he was gonna die, then he wanted his very last words to be: "Cotton candyyyy!"
Franky was too shocked to speak, after just seeing four of his friends vanish before his eyes, and then he looked up.
There, hovering above him, was a swirling black and purple vortex. "Oh..." He sighed, as the portal picked him up and dragged him into its depths.
In the room, Bepo, Penguin, and Shachi slept on, blissfully unaware.
"Oh, it's just you, Sanji-Kun." Nami breathed a sigh of relief, pressing one hand to where her heart hammered in her chest. "And the one beside you."
Does it ever end? Law wondered, just as he sensed that they were being watched. Which was why he was able to duck, when the rope came flying out at him.
Of course, he probably could've warned Sanji and Nami about it, but that just wasn't his style. So, he merely watched from the bushes as they were lassoed, and then rounded up by the strangest looking creatures that any of them had ever seen.
"What the...?" Sanji gaped, as one of the Piggie-Gremlins looked up at him, and then neatly took the cigarette out of his mouth, stamping it out.
"Sllik gnikoms." He said flatly.
"Umm...bless you?" Sanji blinked.
Nami was being picked up by the exceptionally strong little things. "Oh no, I'm being picked up!" She realised. "Hey, let go of me, pork chops!" She cried, thrashing about angrily. "Help! Sanji-Kun!"
"Nami-Swan!" Sanji was furious. "Hey, let Nmai-Swan go! Nami-Swaaaan!" His voice faded out, as he and Nami were carried off into the darkness.
Stepping out of the bushes, Law stared into the direction that they had gone, and then nodded to himself, deciding to follow. With a little bit of luck, they would lead him to where he wanted to go.
"Don't worry, you said." Usopp said sarcastically, glaring at Emma. "We'll get rescued you said." He switched his glare to Nami, Sanji, Robin, Chopper, Franky, Luffy and Ace. "Well, I dunno about you but, to me, this kind of looks like the opposite of that!"
"Well, excuse me for putting my trust in your cremates!" Emma snapped, and then narrowed her eyes at Luffy. "And how come he gets to sleep through this?"
"Because he'll be impossible to handle if he's awake, Emiko." Ace replied calmly.
"And you're not?" She questioned.
"Touché." Ace replied, grinning, just as the Piggie-Gremlins stopped their tribal chanting, and stared up at them.
One of them, who was slightly taller than all the others, stepped forwards. "Boom-Shakalaka fo htarw eht ecaf uoy won." He stated, pointing a spear at them all.
"Okay, these pigs are really starting to annoy me!" Nami said and, one by one, the Piggie-Gremlins gasped, and pointed their spears at Nami.
"N-Nami, don't make them angry!" Usopp whispered, terrified.
"Sevlesruoy eraperp!" The leader intoned.
"What...did the...little dears say?" Nami asked, through gritted teeth.
"Hold on, hold on, I speak backwards." Ace spoke up and, when everybody stared at him, he said: "What? I had to find a way to communicate with Sa...with somebody without Luffy knowing what we were saying." He cleared his throat, and called: "Sgniht krop elttil?" They all turned to look at him. "Boom-Shakalaka siht si ohw?"
"What is he saying?" Nami whispered to Robin.
"He either said 'Boom-Shakalaka sits how?' or 'who is this Boom-Shakalaka?'." Robin replied calmly.
"And what the Hell is a 'Boom-Shakalaka'?" Usopp loudly wanted to know, earning him a jab from a nearby spear.
"I think it's a basketball term." Georgia whispered back to him.
"Oh."
Ace, when he had finished conversing in Backwards-Language with the Piggie-Gremlins, turned to the others. "Okay so, basically, we're being offered up as sacrifices..."
"I knew it!" Usopp groaned, as Chopper looked terrified, and Franky began to cry very manly tears. "And, I never got to tell Kaya that I loved her!"
"I think she's going to live without that." Nami rolled her eyes.
"To their goddess, Boom-Shakalaka." Ace finished up.
"Hideously?" Emma questioned him.
"Most likely." Ace nodded.
Emma's gaze turned fierce. "Bring it on."
"Whoa!" Chopper and Usopp exclaimed. "Emma got serious!"
"It's strange, though." Robin mused, as the Piggie-Gremlins began to chant. "I don't sense any malevolency from them..."
"Really?" Usopp eyed the spears. "They sure seem pretty malevolent to me!"
"No, I mean that I don't believe that they're the real enemy." Robin stated. "Look at their size, and the shapes of their bodies - I think that they might actually be humans."
"With faces like that?" Zoro questioned, and a nearby gremlin jabbed him. "Owch! Would you cut that out?!" He snapped.
"Zoro."
The voice made him and everybody else stop, and he turned, to see that Tashigi had risen from her table, but she was also floating above it, which didn't seem normal at all. Her eyes, which were usually blue, had turned a duller shade of brown, making Zoro's heart nearly stop.
"Boom-Shakalaka liah lla!" The Piggie-Gremlins chanted. "Boom-Shakalaka liah lla!"
"Boom-Shakalaka liah lla!" Ace agreed. A few of the others gave him a weird look. "Sorry, I just got caught up in the chanting."
"Who is that?" Nami asked, staring the the woman. "It doesn't look like Tashigi anymore..."
"It's not." Zoro muttered, in a flat voice; his mouth had suddenly gone very dry. "It's Kuina."
"Kuina?" The others repeated, just as Luffy woke up.
"Huh? What's going on?" He asked, looking around him, and then over at the table. "Huh?" He repeated, just as Tashigi/Kuina raised her hands, and a sword appeared in them.
Zoro grimaced, and Nami gasped. "This is it!" She cried.
Chopper closed his eyes. "I can't look! Tell me when it's over!" He begged.
"It's over." Georgia told him, and Chopper opened his eyes, to see the woman with the sword standing right in front of them.
He shrieked. "She's not done yet!"
"Oh, I thought you meant the main parts." Georgia rolled her eyes. "Silly me."
"Boom-Shakalaka! Boom-Shakalaka!" The gremlins chanted, and Ace joined in. "Boom-Shakalaka! Boom-Shakalaka!"
"Would you cut that out?!" Emma snapped.
"Hey, if you can't beat em', join em'." Ace shrugged, and then he turned serious. "Hey, Emiko, since we're gonna die in about ten seconds, anyway, I need to tell you something."
"Like what?" She asked warily, her eyes brimming with tears.
Ace grinned. "You were..."
Law suddenly came flying out of nowhere, landing in front of Emma, grabbing her by the shoulders and kissing her full on the mouth, just as the sword came down, and a bright white light enveloped them all.
"Now, you shall face The Test." Tashigi said, in Kuina's voice, before she too vanished.
Author's Notes:
. A short chapter - the next chapter will be what I meant to tack onto this one but, if I tried to do that, then you'd be waiting another week or so for it.
. Ryuusei, by TiA. OoO www . youtube watch ? v = sZveFbw1HS8
. So, Emma's scent is a fabric store, Georgia's is wool, and Tahsigi's is steel. ^^ Makes sense.
~Japanese Lesson~
天使魚雷- Tenshi Gyorai - Angel Torpedo
Sumi tucks in her arms and wings to make her body torpedo-shaped, before diving; the winds whipping all around her and the speed with which she strikes can break holes in even the hills of Marine ships.
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天使風 - Tenshi Fū - Angel Style (Wind)
Note that Sumi uses the Onyomi reading for 天 which is Fū and means 'style', whereas the Kunyomi reading which is Kaze means 'wind')
Sumi creates a massive breeze that can be used to fan-force other things including heat-sources; how it differs from other wind-generating Devil Fruit powers is probably known only to the user and is why she says Fū instead of Kaze.
Decided to add this part in for convenience's sake.
~Backwards Talk With The Piggie Gremlins~
(Keep in mind that Boom-Shakalaka is ALWAYS just said normally)
Kaeps ton od!
Do not speak!
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Ti tog?
Got it?
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Sllik gnikoms.
Smoking kills.
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Sevlesruoy eraperp!
Prepare yourselves!
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Sgniht krop elttil?
Little pork things?
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Boom-Shakalaka siht si ohw?
Who is this Boom-Shakalaka?
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Boom-Shakalaka liah lla!
All hail Boom-Shakalaka!
Shingheart of ThunderClan - yes, it's always nice to see problems happening to OTHER people. Nami's probably one of the only ones who can get away with punching the Surgeon Of Death - I'd like to see somebody else try it! Thanks for the review! ^^
WindWhistle21 - lol, we're all horrible people for enjoying their suffering. OMG, I'm changing your perception of canon-characters?! That's a first! Try not to hate on Ace TOO much but, yes, Law needs some loving, too! XD
KaiF . Raphaella - yes, I've got at least seven assignments running at the moment. It's tough, but I can do it! *Determined* Thanks for the review!
Mugiwara Otome - that's so true. ^ _ ^ ; Don't worry, it's ALL a part of my master plan of doom.
MsWildluck - thank you so much! The amnesia seemed to spark something, didn't it?
Mugiwara Wolf Spirite - ha, yeah, Law CAN be kind of a jerk at times but, don't worry, he has a very good reason for it. XD Lol, Emmace...that's starting to sound very good, now. And, yeah, I could picture the scene with Patty rowing past them, randomly. :D Hmm...well, we'll see what happens when Brook shows up, aye?
Cocoa Liddell - Ace the hero! Sort of...and, in regards to the OC's, don't worry, they're being kept track of. *holds up check-list* thanks for the review!
Shinobi . Hikari . Ookami - *poses with you* Tell your heart to calm down though, okay? Then again, Law's sexiness may or may not be a problem. Yeah, the dragon came from the New World, from Punk Hazard. But...OMG, that scenario is hilarious! Somebody should do a You-Tube video of that! Get discharged from the hospital and start making me that video! Or else... - _ -