Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks.
Steve's POV
I watched the light fade away as we slowly sank down towards Fishman Island. It was incredible to watch the fish swim above the ship. On our way down Nami had explained how the bubble coating worked and how it was safe to pass through without popping it.. I don't know what she did but Sanji got a nosebleed so bad he shot through the bubble and out into the sea.
"What a dumbass." Zoro grumbled "He's wasting all the blood."
"How come you never do that for me Zoro?" Rose whined.
"Sorry I'm not a perv like him."
"We might have to get blood on Fishman Island." Chopper said "Do humans and Fishmen have the same blood?"
"I believe they do." Lil told him "I can't wait to meet some fishmen, I'm looking forward to studying them."
"No studying the fishmen Lil." I said "At least not without their permission."
"Yes Papa."
I felt a weight on my shoulder. Robin was leaning her head on my shoulder. She looked so stunning. Her jacket was unzipped pretty far down and she was showing a large amount of cleavage.
Chopper might need to break some blood out for me.
Robin grabbed my hand and laced her fingers with mine…but I couldn't feel it because of my cursed arms.
I looked at her and smiled "Something wrong."
"No." she smiled back "Just…relaxing."
I kissed the top of her head "I missed you."
"You already said that." She smirked.
"Well it's true." I said.
Luffy broke out his food from Hancock so that we could all eat while Sanji was out cold. I sat on the bench with Robin and we ate together.
"Yo listen up!" Franky yelled "I have something to say."
"Is it your robot secrets?" Luffy asked.
"No…Robo"
Is he just playing along or was that real?
"As you guys know Hachi originally offered to guide us to Fishman Island. But he was wounded and had to go back before us." Franky explained.
"That's a shame." I said.
"He was hurt for the same reason as Duval. In other words, in the process of defending the Sunny they got banged up…that was a year ago. The marines and other pirates had found the Sunny and the two were hurt protecting it."
We really owe those guys.
"But then what happened during the last year." Usopp asked "The ship looks fine."
"That's cause someone else was looking after it." Franky explained "The man who separated us, Bartholomew Kuma."
Franky explained that when he got back to the ship a few days ago he found a badly injured Kuma waiting for him.
"I assume by now you all realized it." I chimed in "What Kuma did back then…he did it to save us."
"Exactly." Franky nodded "After we vanished, he visited Rayleigh."
Franky explained that Kuma didn't have much time left back then. He was going to become a full machine. Kuma's last mission was programed by Vegapunk as a favor for his willing use as a test subject for the Pacifista program. Kuma's last wish was to protect the Sunny until one of us came back to get it.
Vegapunk…who is that man. He can invent these crazy things that are useful but he also used people like Kuma and I as test subjects…he's a Marine but even then he allowed Kuma a last wish…two years ago I wanted to kill him but now I want to meet him and get answers more than anything.
"It looks like in the end we really owe him one." I mumbled.
"One last thing." Franky said "You need to understand while we do owe him a great debt, Kuma is gone…next time we see him he won't be human anymore, he will be a machine whose sole purpose will be to kill us."
"A favor we can never repay." Wyper sighed "Doesn't sit well with me."
I was wandering around the ship. I was gonna take my bags to my bed when Robin grabbed my wrist.
"Where are you going?"
"Just gonna throw my stuff in my room." I said.
"Your room is that way." She pointed towards the girl's room.
"No…My rooms that way." I pointed to the men's cabin.
"You're awfully dense." Robin said "You-are-sleeping-with-me."
"Huh?" I said confused.
"We are going to share a bed." She said "I don't want to sleep alone anymore."
"I'd…I'd love to." I said "But Nami would kill me."
"She said it was fine." Robin said pulling me to her room.
I got in there and threw my things on the bed "Are you sure this is okay?"
Robin had her hands on my chest "It's fine Dear."
I put my hands on her waist as kissed her. Robin made little giggles as we fell back on the bed. Our kiss was getting more heated but our romantic moment came to a quick end when the ship got rocked.
"What are those idiots doing." I said going out onto the deck.
"So much for that." Robin sighed "That killed the moment…"
I got onto the deck and saw the ship was under attack by some other pirates. I was all set to pull off my bandages and fight back but then the other ship was pulled off and there was no need to fight. One pirate got stranded on our ship but Franky and Usopp tied him up.
Well that really was a waste of time…Robin and I were finally getting some private time…
After they tied him up, we drifted along the currents slowly going deeper and deeper. It was starting to get cold and everyone was putting on coats.
"Would you like a coat Papa?" Lil asked handing me a garment.
I took the coat and ripped the sleeves off.
"Hey!" Lil yelled "That was a good coat!"
"I only need a vest." I told her.
When you have arms made of fire like I do sleeves are more of a burden. I need to be able to quickly remove the wrappings and sleeves get in the way, besides my arms are warm enough from the hellfire.
We sailed forward until we came across some sort of undersea waterfall.
"That's our way down." I mumbled.
That guy we had tied up told us to turn back because of some monster. When we looked to the bottom of the fall there was a huge squid at the bottom.
"It's a kraken!" we all yelled.
"They are real." Lil said fascinated.
"Let's make it our pet." Luffy suggested.
"Yeah!" Lil cheered
"Are you two crazy?" I asked him.
"It can pull the ship." He suggested.
Obviously Usopp and Chopper wanted to put a quick stop to that. I watched Robin doodle in her notebook making some sort of sketch.
"That sketch ain't half bad." I said looking over her shoulder.
"Well it isn't every day you see a Kraken." Robin said.
"You're really good Mama." Lil said.
"How are you three so laid back?!" Chopper yelled.
There was a loud commotion and those guys from earlier were coming back. They were going to attack us but the Kraken killed them before they had a chance.
"It crushed that ship in an instant." Lil said writing down notes "It must be incredibly strong."
The mollusk swung at us and Franky moved the ship to dodge. In order to protect us from the Kraken Luffy, Zoro and Sanji got bubble suits to go fight the creature.
"Don't hurt it." Lil begged "Please be gentle…and if you do accidentally kill it bring the corpse back so I can dissect it!"
"What happened to my innocent baby girl?!" I cried.
"You coming Steve?" Luffy asked.
"My fire won't work well underwater." I reminded him "I'll stay here and watch the ship."
Those three went out into the water to fight the Kraken
"It's swinging at us!" Chopper yelled.
Franky stepped up and moved a panel on his shoulder "Franky Rocket Launcher!"
Franky shot missiles at the monster to slow it down.
"One's coming from the right!" Lil yelled.
"Guard Point!" Chopper puffed up like a big balloon and protected the other side.
"We're headed for an undersea mountain!" Brook called out.
"Air Bazooka!" Wyper fired his Bazooka to try and slow us down "We're still gonna hit it!"
"If it will only be for an instant…" Robin said crossing her arms "Mil Fleur: Gigantesco Mano!"
Two large arms sprouted from the ship and pushed us away from the rock. Robin leaned on me to catch her breath as the effect of the water hit her.
"Great job." I said holding her up "Will you three take care of that thing!"
Luffy tried to attack but the sea sapped his power too quickly. Sanji somehow walked on the water and attacked the Kraken with his fire leg. Zoro crossed his swords and cut a tentacle off.
"Stop cutting them off. How's it gonna carry the ship without arms!" Luffy whined moving his hands behind him "Gum-Gum Elephant Gun!"
Luffy knocked the Kraken out with a punch, some strange shark swam out of the Kraken's missing tentacle.
"Where did he come from?" Lil wondered "I've never heard of a parasitic shark that big."
"There are parasitic sharks?!" Usopp yelled.
The shark thanked Luffy for freeing him and then swam off. As soon as the shark left the current shifted and the three outside the ship got blown away.
"They got pulled away by the current!" Robin pointed out.
Nami gave us commands on how to steer the ship so that we wouldn't crash down here.
"Are you sure we should leave them?" Usopp asked.
"Those three will be fine." I told him "I hope…"
The bottom of the sea was dark, at this point we had almost no light from the surface above.
"Spooky." Lil said.
"Yeah." I nodded "I can barely see ten feet."
"Can't you start a fire or something." Usopp whined.
"My hellfire is not a flashlight!" I snapped "And Sunny isn't fireproof."
"I have a light function built in." Franky said.
"Well fire it up." Wyper told him.
"Franky~! Nipple Lights!"
"Why did you put them there?!" Wyper yelled.
We slowly descended looking for Luffy and the others. There were a lot of weird fish down here with big mouths and glowing eyes.
"Look at these jellyfish." Chopper said "They're as big as Sunny!"
A tentacle passed through the bubble.
"Does it want to be friends?" Chopper said.
"Don't touch it!" Lil yelled pulling him back "Those are Dark Jellies; they're stingers are poisonous."
"That was close." Chopper said "Thanks Lil."
I looked at the little girl as she put Chopper down. I starred at Lil…she was blushing.
"It…It was nothing…" she mumbled.
Hell no!
I picked up the deer and dragged him off.
"Wa! Put me down!" Chopper whined.
"Listen up Fur ball." I said looking him in the eye "You better not try anything with my little girl."
"Huh?"
"Lil is my innocent little angel." I told him "If I see you putting the moves on her again, I'll skin you and make you into a hat."
Chopper's teeth were clattering.
"Have I made myself clear?" I asked.
"Y-Yes Sir."
I put him down and he scampered off.
"Really." Robin said coming from around the corner "was that necessary?"
"What?" I asked.
"Poor Chopper did nothing wrong." Robin said.
"That little deer. Flirting with my baby girl…"
"Chopper doesn't even like humans like that." Robin said "And Lil is twelve!"
"Exactly far too young to be interested in boys!" I pouted.
Robin pulled me close and kissed me "Someday you'll have to accept that our little girl is growing up…and your right I don't like it either."
"Don't like what."
"I don't want her to grown up, I want her to be my little Lil forever. I don't want some boy taking her from me…"
"We missed two years of her life." I reminded her "Look at her, she's gotten so independent and confident, smart too."
Robin smiled "You know I worried about her every night."
"Me too." I said "Me too…"
"I saw her family while we were separated." Robin said "They joined up with the revolutionaries."
"Is that so?" I nodded "Were they happy."
"Very." She said "Well not about us losing Lil but that's a story for another time."
"MAMA! PAPA!" Lil yelled "You should come see this!"
We went to the front of the ship.
"WHAT THE HELL!" I yelled.
There was a huge sea…person? At the front of the ship, and he was about to throw a punch at the ship.
"Franky get us out of here!" Wyper yelled.
"We're out of fuel!"
"We're screwed…" I groaned
A tentacle came out and punched the Sea Monk…thing.
"That's enough!" Luffy yelled.
Luffy, Zoro and Sanji were riding the Kraken.
"They tamed it." Lil said "Awesome!"
Luffy called his new pet Surume, and it carried us to Fishman Island.
AN
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