Ch 4 Nail-Nail Elevator

The next morning Morgan stood next to Zeff. They stared out at the sea.

"Thank you….. Crap-Geezer…" Morgan grinned and winked at Zeff.

"Crap-Baby-Carrot I know you don't have any weapons on your ship the Baratie has some… take a few." Zeff nodded to Carne who was carrying a arm full of guns.

"Thank you again!" Morgan clapped her hands. "Would you mind giving us some meat and other food?"

"No Way! You have enough food on your ship!" Zeff glared at Morgan.

"CRAP-GEEZER! HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THAT FOOD WILL LAST!" Morgan yelled at the older man.

"Relax Morgan!" Meih-Ling patted Morgan's shoulder "Chief Zeff already gave us som food!"

"WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY THAT!" Morgan pounced on Zeff and proceeded to try to bite his head off.

"CUT THAT OUT!" Zeff kicked Morgan off.

"Ouch…." Morgan closed her eyes. "I need to get stronger….."

"Don't worry… you will!" Morgan open her eyes and saw Justin bending over her. "Remember I believe in you!"

"Thanks," Morgan took the offered hand and stood up brushing off her bottom.

"Your new look is nice…" Justin nodded.

"Thanks." Morgan blushed a little straitening her dew rag.

"Crap-Baby-Carrot!" Zeff walked toward her.

"Yeah," Morgan turned to face him.

"Good luck… I met a fool just like you once… I'm sure you'll do great things." Zeff smiled slightly.

"Thank you Chief Zeff…" Morgan said teary eyed.

Morgan's crew set sail every one waving goodbye to their new friends.

"Captain I have a coarse set for Coco village is that alright?" Amanda called down from the wheel.

"Yeah! I wonder if there are any Fish-Men left…." Morgan laughed and did an impersonation of Arlong. "You smelly Pewmens!" Everyone laughed.

"What about Choo?" Katie pursed her lips "smeck I'm Choo! Smeck" Everyone laughed then as well. Then Katie chased after Sean making Kissing sounds, screaming "KISS ME!"

Sean ran away screaming.

Morgan laughed. Then when she stopped she sighed.

"I'd really like to go for a swim now… to bad I cant…." she looked at her nails. "Wonder what I can do with these…" she grew the nails out until they were 5 feet long. "Wow! Hey look everybody I'm Captain Kuro!" she pretended to push up imaginary glasses with the heel of her hand.

"What else can you do?" Justin asked.

"I'm not sure…" she pointed out to sea and thought about her nail breaking off she closed her eyes to concentrate. Then their was a clunk on the deck. She opened her eyes and looked down there was along curved piece of metal on the deck. Justin wrapped one hand in a clothe and picked the metal up. "I can detach them!"

"This would make a pretty good sword if I could make a handle for it…"

"In theory if I could grow them fast enough and detach them fast enough I could use them like a gun….." Morgan thought about growing her nails extra fast and then detached them. Her nails went sailing over the water for a length then splashed down. "Heh! Nail-Nail shot gun!" she shot off another nail.

"Try all of them!" Justin shaded his eyes

"OK!" Morgan held her hands up and repeated her new attack. "Nail-Nail Artillery!" All ten of her nails shot off. "Heh heh!" Morgan shot off more nails.

"I wonder if you could use them as a shield…" Justin watched as the metal nails went sailing over the sea.

"I'm not sure…" she grew her nails out and thought of them widening.

"Hey look!" Justin cried out.

Morgan opened her eyes and watched as her nails had grown to the width of a dictionary.

"A shield!" Morgan held her hand up in front of her face like a fan.

The pair of them laughed. Near night fall Morgan decided to climb to the crow's nest. She leaned on the railing watching as water splashed on the sides of the boat. She sighed and looked up at their pirate flag wondering why Justin had painted a crescent moon instead of a full one. She leaned back on the railing closing her eyes she leaned back a little further then she toppled head over heals screaming she plummeted toward the ground.

Her nails shot out embedding themselves into the wood of the crow's nest. She came to a sudden stop.

"Oh….. I thought I'd die… Ha Ha! Short drop and a sudden stop! That's what all pirates get!" She retracted her nails and climbed into the crow's nest.

Ch 5 Fishy-Men

A couple of days later the WarHammer pulled into Coco village port.

"LAND!" Bry ran down the gang plank and dropped to her knees kissing the ground.

"Aw poor Princess!" Katie laughed she was totting her drawing case intending to draw some of the people here.

"I will see if I con not get some food!" Meih-Ling said. Sarah held up a list of all the food that they needed.

"Good!" Morgan nodded. "Who's volunteering to watch the ship?"

"I will its much to sunny out there…." Death stood under her black umbrella.

"Alright! Everyone go about your business met back here at dusk!" Morgan walked off toward the village Justin followed her and the others went their own ways. Jossy off to find Belle-Mere's Tangerine grove. Amanda went with her. Sean was going to find the ruins of Arlong park. Meih-Ling and Sarah went off to find food. Katie went to find Nojiko, was probably at Belle-Mere's tangerine grove, so she went with Jossy and Amanda. Princess went to the beach to get a tan.

"Where do you want to go?" Morgan asked Justin.

"I'm not familiar with this place soooooo you choose!" Justin laughed nervously.

"I want to see the Giant SeaCow! Momoo!" Morgan grabbed Justin's hand and pulled him into the small village.

People stared at them as they passed but soon got used to the odd couple running down the road toward the meat shop.

"Your biggest piece of meat please!" Morgan leaned on the counter smiling at the butcher.

"Aye alright Me beauty!" the Butcher smiled and went into the back, coming back in a few seconds holding a giant piece of meat.

Justin licked his lips slightly a small barely even able to hear whine came from his lips.

"Thank you!" Morgan took the meat and slung it over her shoulder paying the man then turning to Justin. "Help me with this?"

"Er… Sure!" Justin took the other end of the giant meat and the two of them ran back down the road.

They stood at the shore, Morgan heaved the meat into the sea calling "Momoo! Time to eat!" They waited a few minutes then they saw a ripple in the water and watched as the giant SeaCow emerged out of the water.

"Momoo!" Morgan stared up at the sea creature.

"That's a lot of beef!" Justin stared up at Momoo.

"I LOVE YOU!" Morgan jumped from the deck and landed on Momoo's blubbery skin Hugging it.

"GHAA! MORGAN GET AWAY!" Justin yelled as Momoo went to bite Morgan.

"Uh oh…." Morgan stared up at the giant mouth.

Suddenly a furry body was next to her she saw fangs. She was too stunned to do anything as she watched the smaller creature bite into her shirt. Then it leapt off Momoo. They landed on the deck and Momoo went to attack them but Morgan came to her senses and shot a nail off at the giant SeaCow. After the SeaCow had retreated Morgan turned to stare at the animal that had saved her. It was a wolf. The wolf's pelt was black and its eyes were brown. They stared directly into Morgan's eyes.

"Justin…?" Morgan knelt before the wolf. Who wagged its tail slightly. "How?"

"Well…" Justin reared up onto his hind legs morphing back to human form. "I'm half werewolf…" Justin brushed himself off.

"You are?" Morgan stood up and stared at him.

"Yeah…" Justin didn't meet Morgan's eyes.

"PUPPY!" Morgan happily hugged Justin "I love werewolves!"

"I was afraid you wouldn't except me…." Justin looked relieved and blushed when Morgan hugged him. Feeling her body press against his.

"Heh don't worry!" Morgan drew away grinning "As long as you're a good guy I'll except you no matter what!"

"Good!" Justin said.

"Well now that we've done that lets go to the Tangerine Groves!" Morgan grabbed Justin's arm and dragged him along she slowed when she reached the groves seeing Katie sitting on the ground drawing one of the Tangerine Bushes.

"K-Kat!" Morgan ran up to her and threw herself down on the soft grass. "Hiya!"

"Whaz up!" Katie laughed and showed Morgan her drawing.

"Did you meet Nojiko?" Morgan sat back on her heels and plucked a Tangerine from the bush.

"Yeah she gave me permission to draw her groves!" Katie said happily.

"Cool!" Morgan rolled onto her back and started to peel her tangerine.

Justin went off to find Sean at Arlong Park, and Katie and Morgan sat for awhile and talked.

"CAPTAIN!" Sean ran down the Tangerine pathway. Jossy, Justin, Amanda, and Nojiko following him. "Captain, There are Fish-men at Arlong Park…"

"What?" Morgan leapt up Katie was up with her.

"They attacked me, but I escaped and ran here!" Sean gasped.

"How many?" Morgan was off running Jossy, Amanda, Justin, and Katie all following her.

"About 20 they really stink!" Sean started after them leaving Nojiko to warn the village.

Morgan ran all the way to Arlong Park hiding behind one of the destroyed walls. Her crew gathered around her.

"What are we going to do Captain?" Jossy asked quietly.

"Can any of you fight?" Morgan looked around at her crew.

"I can," Sean raised his hand. "You know that!"

"You wont be any match for the Fish men! None of us will…" Morgan's face fell.

"Captain! You are! You have the powers of the Nail-Nail fruit!" Katie pointed out.

"Yeah, but I cant take them all…." Morgan looked worried.

"You believe in me I believe in you, Captain!" Justin looked over at Morgan flashing a fanged grin.

"And the three of us can help take down a few!" Jossy looked at Amanda and Katie.

"I'll be fine by my self!" Sean clenched his fist.

"A-all right! But if we cant handle them we retreat ok?" Morgan looked around at her crew and held out her hand

"Right!" Everyone put their hands on top of hers.

Ch 6

The Big Fight

"Hey Smelly Fish-Men!" Morgan stood on a large rock her crew surrounding her.

"PEWMENS!" One of the fish men looked around at them.

"Your not Arlong!" Morgan blinked in surprise

"NO IM HIS SON! ABLONG!" The fish-man shouted

"Arlong has a son!" Morgan almost fell off the rock. "That was never in the show! No matter lets go guys!" she looked around at her crew then jumped off the rock "Get ready Fish-Men!"

She lead the charge at the 20 fish-men. Her nails grew at an alarming rate. Soon they were as long as swords. Justin was shifting in to his wolf form and he jumped on a fish-man snarling as they fought furiously. Sean ran at a smaller fish-man and soon they were caught in the middle of a brawl. Jossy, Katie, and Amanda were taking on two fish-men. Jossy pulled out her telescope and used it like a sword. Katie was using her paints and brushes. Amanda was manly distracting the other fish-man so the other two could finish its friend off.

"PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR ENEMY PEWMAN!" Ablong was charging Morgan who was watching the others worried about them.

"Ah!" Morgan fell back to avoid Ablong's punch at her. She took a wild swipe at him with her nails.

"NOTHING CAN HELP YOU PEWMAN!" Ablong punched the ground narrowly avoiding Morgan's head.

"I don't need any help to beat you!" Morgan rolled to her feet then lifted her hand "Nail-Nail Artillery!" she shot off all ten of her nails Ablong avoided them though instead they shot a Fish-man who was about to attack Amanda who had her back turned from it.

"DIE PEWMAN!" Ablong kicked Morgan full in the stomach blasting her back into a wall, which crumbled around her.

"Captain!" Justin looked around at Morgan.

"Don't worry I'm fine!" Morgan stood up and looked over at Justin then she smiled and winked. "Get back to work!" then she ran at Ablong. "I'll get you back for that!" Her nails grew again and she swiped them out at Ablong. One lodged itself into the Fish-man's arm. "Score!"

"AHHHHHHHHH! RWARRRRRRRRR!" Ablong screamed and then he went berserk he grabbed a pillar and wretched it away swinging it around killing most of his comrades.

"Guys!" Morgan called to her crew most of them dodging the giant pillar. "Over here!" she grew her nails and put her hands over her head. Her crew rushed into the embrace of the cold steel. She widened her nails creating a shield the pillar hit the shield full force Morgan cried out as the after shock of the impact reached her body she closed her eyes. Her crew were depending on her to protect them.

"Captain!" Jossy grabbed Morgan's arm and braced it. "You can do this!"

"We need to defeat Him!" Sean wiped blood away from his face.

"Look at the condition we're in!" Katie pulled out a bandage from her art kit "There's no way that we can possibly win!"

"We need to!" Amanda clutched her ankle which was swelling.

"Well it will have to be Captain and Justin!" Jossy held Morgan's arms up as the pillar hit again. "The rest of us are to badly injured."

"Your right…" Justin was half shifted into human form watching Morgan worriedly.

"I'll do it by myself this is my battle not yours!" Morgan snarled at them. "Now get out of here!"

"But Captain!" all of them protested.

"NOW!" Morgan took one hand down swiping at them with her claws. That sent them running, Justin carrying Amanda.

"Just you and me now Ablong!" Morgan held up one hand still using the shield while stabbing at the huge fish-man with her nails.

"I WILL KILL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE AND HANG YOUR HEAD AS MY BANNER, PEWMAN!" Ablong caught Morgan's nails which cut into his skin. Yanking her forward.

"Let go of me!" Morgan screamed at him her other hand lodging into Ablong's leg.

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Ablong grabbed Morgan's throat aiming to choke her.

"AHHHHHHHH!" Morgan's other hand shot into Ablong's other leg.

"DIE, PEWMAN!" Ablong's grip tightened on Morgan's throat.

"A…h" Morgan was gasping for breath her hands now detaching from her nails scrabbling at Ablong's hand. Her eyes began to go dark as she tried to scream her legs kicked wildly as she tried desperately to get away. Of its own self accord one of her nails grew and sunk deep into Ablong's wrist then yanked upward cutting through the bone and muscles then it went down severing the choking hand from the fish-man.

Morgan dropped to the ground. Sobbing as cool refreshing air filled her lungs. The Fish-man was screaming clutching his severed arm. Morgan looked around and saw Ablong's severed hand on the ground next to her. She stood up.

"This ends now!" She ran at him not expecting one of the fallen fish-men to jump up and grab her around the waist laughing in her ear, as his webbed hands groped her.

"Ablong I caught her!" the fish-man laughed again and grabbed Morgan's hands pointing the tips of her fingers into her chest. "If you want to stab me you have to go through yourself!"

"STUPID PEWMAN!" Ablong glared at her as his blood dripped on the floor. "YOU HAVE SEALED YOUR FATE" Ablong looked her up and down and smiled sickly "I MIGHT FORGIVE YOU IF YOU BEG FOR FORGIVENESS AND FUFILL MY EVERYNEED! I MIGHT EVEN LET THE PEWMANS LIVE IF YOU DO THE SAME FOR MY CREW" he looked around as his crew got up from the floor.

"I…" Morgan's heart pounded her black pants were covered in dust from the fight. "What choice do I have!" Morgan glared at Ablong "BUT IF YOU HARM A HAIR ON ANY OF THE VILLAGERS OR ANY OTHER HUMAN THEN SO HELP ME I'LL SEND YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE CREW TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA!" Morgan wretched herself out of the other Fish-man's grip glaring at them all.

"YOU'VE GOT TO BEG FOR IT, PEWMAN!" Ablong stood before Morgan.

"Fine!" Morgan dropped to her knees. "PLEASE FORGIVE ME! I AM YOUR HUMBLE SLAVE FROM THIS MOMENT FORWARD!" as she said this tears fell from her eyes.

"THAT'S BETTER PEWMAN!" Ablong grabbed Morgan's short hair and wretched her into a standing position then he put his arm around her shoulders raising his severed arm to his comrades "REST MY BROTHERS! FOR WE HAVE A NEW SLAVE TO SERVE US!"

Back at town

"Where's the Captain?" Bry looked around at the rest of the crew as they lay on the deck Katie tending to their wounds.

"She should have been back by now…" Amanda sat up and looked down the road at the village. "Hey somebody's coming!"

"Nojiko!" Katie looked at the woman as she ran up the gang plank.

"Your Captain! She's sold herself to the Fish-men!"

"WHAT!" Justin jumped up his eyes wild.

"It was to protect us!" Nojiko looked up at them. "All of the crew is alive and Ablong made a deal with her that he wouldn't kill any of us if she agreed to serve them."

"We have to save her!" Justin looked around at the crew.

"In our condition…?" Jossy looked up at Justin tears in her eyes. "We cant not now at least… we have to recover…"

"How long will that be? Two weeks! I cant leave her to those fish-men for so long!" Justin glared around at all of them.

"Fool, do you think you can take the Fish-men all by yourself? You'll be crushed! Then where will your Captain be?" Nojiko grabbed Justin's collar and yelled at him.