Chapter 13 – Vivi's Surprise Visitor

All right, I want to start off with a small note... I have suddenly realized that this fic could be considered a big Arabasta arc spoiler. I am SO sorry that I have not put up a spoiler warning, and I hope that no one who has been reading this is angry about that. I will give you a warning here: If you do not want to know how the Arabasta arc ends, do not read this chapter. : P Again, I am sorry for not putting up a spoiler warning earlier. : (

And now, for the review answering.

karen12 – You are the best. Thank you so much for taking the time to review all my chapters; they were all meaningful reviews, too. : ) I cannot tell you how happy that makes me. And I am glad that you think it is cool that it is a guy who is writing this. Honestly, I have been thinking that it is kinda pathetic; I mean, this is much more of a girl thing. But who cares? It is fun anyway! –lol- And yeah, if more people keep trying to correct my fic with how things are in the DUBBED One Piece, I am going to kill them. : P Just kidding, of course... We should pity those people, really. And Zoro did not know how tight of a grip the rock had on her, or exactly how thick it was. He would not have wanted to accidentally cut Nami, too. Besides, Zoro is not one to interrupt his captain's battles. : )

sara haruko takenouchi kamiya – Wow... good "comeback"? I did not realize that the previous chapter was so poorly done. Well, thanks for the compliment.

WildGamer – Do you know what bittorrent is? It is a special way of downloading stuff, and it is the only way to get One Piece episodes. Go to That is where you will find the Japanese episodes 1-156, all subtitled, of course. If you do not know about bittorrents and need help, tell me.

Nintendo Guru – Hee hee... quality fic? (blushes) Aw, do people really think this is a quality fic? I am glad to hear that! Just wait until the sequel... That will be a true quality fic. At least, I hope. ; ) And it is lung cancer, definitely lung cancer. : P

Realsmartz – Wow... is that the reason? That is kind of a shame... I have tons of fics on my alert list, and I review every single update, and I always find something different to say. Well, almost always. I did not realize it was such hard work for other people. Okay, then. : )

Mars Cutie – Wow, only two episodes? Then you must really love One Piece if you are already reading fan fiction for it!

Aztec Goddess – Lol, "Nami's so fat". You are so funny. And do not worry; you will be seeing Vivi's reaction soon enough.

Dust-in – Oh, do not worry, my friend; I have not forgotten that this fic is also LuffyxVivi. ; ) And as for my opinion on 4Kids... DEATH. They deserve DEATH. That is right; with the capital letters and everything. : P

Whew! Now we can finally get to the story!


Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Nami, Chopper, and Vivi all arrived at Alubarna Square much more quickly than planned. They were helped by various friendly desert animals. The crew thought that the helpful animals were kind of strange, but Vivi was perfectly happy with them.

However, they arrived too late. The civil war had already begun.

The Straw Hats needed to get Vivi to the palace in the center of the town as quickly as possible. They divided into different groups and they all ended up fighting the top Baroque Works agents. Usopp and Chopper were barely able to defeat Mr. 4, Miss Merrychristmas, and their freakish dog Lasso, who was actually a gun that had somehow ate a Devil's Fruit and turned into a dog. Sanji went against Mr. 2, the crazy ballerina man. It was almost a perfectly even match, but Sanji won in the end. Zoro almost died in his battle against Mr. 1. Mr. 1's body was made of steel, but in the end, Zoro was able to kill him; he figured out how to cut steel. Nami used her new weapon, the Clima Tact, and its ability to call upon the weather to kill Miss Doublefinger.

After their battles, they were trying to find their way to the palace. Zoro, of course, had tons of trouble finding his way; he had no navigation skills whatsoever. When he found someone who was willing to help him, he sincerely wished he had stayed lost.

He ran into Tashigi.

"W-what the hell are you doing here?" Zoro spluttered, half in rage, half in fright. (Why her? Why now?) he thought wildly.

Tashigi made no move to capture the swordsman. She looked very grave. "Roronoa Zoro..." she said softly. "I know what's going on here. For now, I have no intention to fight you. I'll make you pay one day... but not now." She pointed behind her. "The palace is that way. You better go help Princess Vivi as quickly as you can."

Zoro just looked at the Marine in shock. He still couldn't get over how much she looked like Kuina... (Is there... some sort of meaning to their likeness?) he thought. (No. It's all in my head. Just coincidence.)

"Go!" Tashigi said loudly, interrupting his thoughts. "Before I change my mind!"

He walked up to her. They were only inches apart now. Tashigi gasped. "W-what do you-?"

"Who are you?" Zoro demanded quietly, staring intently down at her face. "I don't know what you're talking about..." she breathed. She turned her face away from him, feeling rather uncomfortable under his intense stare. Or was it the fact that she felt the heat rising to her face...?

Zoro finally started to walk in the direction Tashigi pointed in earlier. He turned around and looked at her briefly. "I'll never be able to fight you... not now, not ever. You're the only person I can't bring myself to raise my swords against." Surprised by this, she was about to ask why, but Zoro turned back around and answered her before she could even state the question.

"You look so much like her... It's almost like the feelings I had for her got transferred to you or something." Without turning to look at her again, he ran off to find the others.

(Feelings... for her?) Tashigi thought, bewildered. She realized that she was curious as to who this girl was... the one that reminded Zoro so much of her... She immediately shook off the feeling. "No," she firmly told herself out loud. "Your only connection to Roronoa Zoro will be capturer and prisoner. The next time we see him, there will be no holding back... no matter how much he refuses to fight me."


"Your precious Luffy... is dead."

Vivi could not believe her ears. She and Crocodile were on top of the palace. He was telling her that he killed Luffy. "You're such a liar," she whispered fiercely.

Crocodile laughed harshly. "Am I? Well, whether you want to believe it or not, he is buried beneath the sands of Arabasta... forever!" He started laughing again as he grabbed Vivi by the throat. "No!" her father, King Cobra, cried. His arms were nailed to the stone wall of the palace. He watched on helplessly as Crocodile lifted Vivi up by the throat and held her over the edge of the palace roof. She looked down as she struggled. It was a very long drop down... but what bothered her the most was the sight of her people fighting each other directly below her.

"Join your precious citizens... in death!" Crocodile laughed as he let go of Vivi.

The Straw Hats were gathered at the foot of the palace. They could see a body dropping down...

"Oh, my god!" Nami gasped. "It's Vivi! We won't be able to catch her!"

All of a sudden, Luffy came flying out of the sky. "CROCODILE!" he screamed.

As a large falcon swooped down and caught Vivi, Luffy pulled his arm back and sent his fist flying at Crocodile's face. Crocodile smirked as his face started to turn into sand. "Haven't you learned yet, Straw Hat Luffy? You will never be able to hit-!"

He was interrupted by Luffy's fist colliding with his jaw. He went flying back into the palace wall. Luffy landed next to him. His hand was dripping with water, and he was armed with a large barrel on his back. It had a hose coming out of it, and it was dripping water.

Crocodile got up, rubbing the spot where Luffy punched him and warily eyeing the water barrel. "So... you found out my weakness..." he breathed.


"Yeah! Go Luffy!" cheered Usopp. The falcon came down with Vivi on his back. Vivi got off and the falcon turned back into a man. His name was Pell, and he was a guardian of Arabasta. A Zoan Devil Fruit gave him the ability to turn into a falcon.

"This is no time to be celebrating!" Vivi cried. The Straw Hats all looked at her. "There's a bomb... It is set to go off in the middle of the Square in 15 minutes! The Rebel Army and Royal Army will both be annihilated! That was Crocodile's plan the whole time! We have to find that bomb!"

Soon, the group was divided again as they all started to comb the huge city square Alubarna.


While Luffy and Crocodile fought, Miss Allsunday took the king and told him to bring her to the ancient tomb of the Arabastan kings. She wanted to read an ancient artifact there. Apparently, it was part of Crocodile's plan...

Soon after they arrived, Miss Allsunday found the giant stone tablet and read the strange markings on them. Soon after, Crocodile appeared. He was bruised, bloody, and soaked with water, but he was alone.

"You defeated him?" asked Miss Allsunday casually. "Of course," he replied. "Now tell me... what does that stone tablet say?"

She told him that it did not contain the information he was after. She told him it only contained the history of Alubarna. King Cobra silently watched as a deadly quiet ensued. Eventually, Crocodile sighed. "So it doesn't have what I'm looking for, huh? Well..." He glared at his closest companion. "I no longer have any need for you... Nico Robin."

Robin gasped, stepped back, and took out a small glass vial of water. "I'm not stupid," she said angrily. "I knew you would do this in the end. But I know your weakness!"

He turned into sand to as she threw the vial at him. It passed through him harmlessly. He reformed behind Robin and impaled her with his giant golden hook. She collapsed onto the hard, stone floor, the gaping wound bleeding profusely.

Crocodile was laughing again, but he was once again interrupted by Luffy. He came running into the tomb and landed a Gomu Gomu Pistol on Crocodile's face.

"How...?" Crocodile hissed, getting back up. "You don't have water..." Then he noticed that Luffy's fists and bare feet were dripping with his own blood.

"Blood will work just as well as water, won't it?" Luffy asked quietly.

The battle began. It was very short and very intense. In the middle of it, Crocodile took off his golden hook, revealing a smaller, silver hook underneath. It was dripping with purple poison.

"I don't understand..." he said. "Are you honestly willing to die for this country? You could have lived longer!"

"No..." Luffy said very quietly. "It's for Vivi." He started yelling. "She's my nakama! You would never understand! As long as she keeps fighting for this country, as long as she keeps putting her life on the line for this country, I will do the same!"

"All for that girl?" Crocodile chuckled sinisterly. "What, do you love her or something, Straw Hat Luffy?" He laughed. "What happened to that orange-haired whore of your-?" Luffy screamed and punched him hard in the face.

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK LIKE THAT!" he screamed at the top of his lungs. "VIVI IS MY NAKAMA, AND I LOVE NAMI! I WILL NEVER LET YOU TALK ABOUT NAMI LIKE THAT AGAIN! EVER!"

As he started to pound on Crocodile, he couldn't help but think... (But does Nami love me?) He couldn't stop thinking about how she had pushed him off of her when they were on that crab, how she had often been ignoring him lately. The thought just made him hit Crocodile even harder.

During the fight, Luffy was scratched by the poison hook a few times, but in the end, he killed Crocodile. He launched Crocodile into the air and shouted, "GOMU GOMU NO... STORM!" It was a lot like Gomu Gomu Gatling Gun, except he was throwing punches upward at Crocodile. He was literally punching Crocodile upward through the ground. The stone ceiling broke... Crocodile's limp body kept going further and further up through the ground... He was long dead, but Luffy didn't stop punching him...

Eventually, Crocodile's body broke the surface of the ground. His body went flying into the air and landed in a bloody, broken heap in the middle of Alubarna Square.

The Straw Hats had found the bomb by now and taken care of it. They saw Crocodile's body go flying into the air and fall back down.

"HE WON!" they all cheered at the top of their lungs. Vivi, however, was still silent. Her people were still fighting... Silent tears were streaming down her horrified face.

Eventually, members of the two Armies started to notice that Crocodile, their hero, was laying dead on the ground. The whole battle came to a slow stop. "Crocodile-san..." some started to whisper in disbelief.

Vivi grinned and wiped her tears. The battle was over; Luffy had come through for her, just like she knew he would.


"Vivi!" a familiar voice called excitedly.

Vivi was sitting in the throne room with her father. She was very happy indeed. The country still needed to be rebuilt, but the Crocodile was dead and the fighting had stopped. It has been three days since that faithful day.

Vivi's caretaker, Igaram, came running into the room. "Vivi!" he called again. "Luffy-san is awake!"

The two of them ran to the infirmary. Luffy was sitting up in bed and looking around in despair. "My hat, my hat!" he cried. "Food, food!" Sanji handed him his hat. Zoro sighed and shook his head. "Why do you have to be so damn loud when you wake up?"

Luffy was shocked when he found out he had been sleeping for three days straight. "THREE DAYS?" he exclaimed. "I've missed 15 meals!" Everyone laughed.

They had a huge feast in the grand dining room. The Straw Hats were extremely rambunctious and noisy. The members of the royal guard were appalled at first, but soon they joined in the fun and laughed with everyone else. After all, it was a day to celebrate.

After dinner, the King, Igaram, Vivi, and the Straw Hat Crew went to the royal bath to... well... bathe. The boys were on one side of the giant wall and the two girls were on the other.

Vivi was scrubbing Nami's back. They had temporarily forgotten about Luffy and were happily talking to each other again like they used to before their feelings for Luffy had developed.

"We're gonna have to leave soon, Vivi..." "What!" Vivi gasped. "So soon?" "Well, yeah," Nami replied. "The Marines are still after us. We have to stay on the move." She smirked. "We are pirates, after all." They were silent for a moment. "Okay, let's switch," said Nami happily, taking the wash cloth from Vivi and getting behind her. Nami unwrapped the towel from Vivi's body, threw it out of the bath, and started scrubbing her back.

They heard an urgent voice from the other side of the wall. It was Igaram. "Vivi!" he called. "You have a visitor. He says you know him." Vivi got up and looked at Nami in surprise. Nami shrugged. Vivi started to walk out of the bath when Nami suddenly giggled. "Uh, Vivi... you might want to get your towel first..."

Vivi blushed the deepest crimson Nami had ever seen and hastily wrapped her towel around her body again and hurried out of the huge room to get dressed and meet this visitor of hers.

However, as soon as she closed the door behind her, she saw him already waiting for her in the hallway. She gasped and pulled her towel more tightly around her body. She took a step back...

Who is it, who is it, who is it? Ha ha, you will have to wait until next time! Man, I sure feel stupid about that spoiler thing... Oh, well. I will not make that mistake again. : P