It had been several days since Chopper was recruited. Luna and Nami made a full recovery from their respective ailment. They were currently closer to Alabasta that the weather was warm once more. Luna was dressed in a short sleeve belly shirt that was dark blue and a pair of blue knee high jeans. The woman decided against shoes as she moved across the ship. Usopp, Chopper, Karoo, and Luffy were currently fishing as they had a late night snack of all the food on the ship. Nami and Vivi were in the kitchen with Sanji.

Luna moved to the bow to find Zoro working out. "Ah Zoro I was hoping to speak with you."

The swordsman looked up from his push ups in acknowledgment. Luna sat down next to him, "I was wondering if you could assist me with some training."

This caught Zoro's attention more, causing him to sit up and face the woman. "What kind of training?"

Her face lite up and she clapped her hands together, "okay so I've been trying to figure out if I could manipulate gravity. I want to focus the gravity on a single person or object before moving out to increasing on multiples. I've also heard that increasing gravity could assist the individual with speed as once they are accustomed to the new weight, the original gravity feels like nothing."

Zoro had crossed his arms while listening Luna, his eyes closed in concentration.

"So you would apply the weight on me, which let's you practice and gives me a heavier weight training."

Luna smiled happily, "precisely."

A smirk spread across his face, "sound interesting I'm in."

"Ah thank you so much Zoro," the white head shocked the swordsman with a hug knocking him over.

"Oi what are you doing?!" Zoro's face was red from the affection.

Luna stood with a small laugh, "sorry Zoro it has been awhile since I had someone to train with so I was overly excited. I believe we should wait until we've made landfall. I'm worried about effecting the Going Marry."

Once Zoro recovered from the sudden hug he nodded at the woman. Before he could say anything else a yell from Vivi, "STOP FISHING WITH MY DUCK!"

Luna looked over her shoulder with a concerned look, "please excuse me I believe I should go help with this."

With that Luna left the bow towards the yelling princess. The white haired woman takes noticed of the steam they are approaching. The princess also noticed the steam, "what's that?"

Nami walks out to see what the commotion was about, "oh its just an underwater volcano."

Luffy becomes highly excited about the volcano, while Usopp reacts fearfully. Chopper turns to the navigator, "there's volcanos underwater?"

Luna walks up behind Luffy as the boy looks over the edge to see the volcano. While grabbing the captain's shirt so he doesn't go overboard Luna peeks back at Chopper, "there are quiet a few. Underwater volcanos are how islands are formed."

Luffy jerked up at that, "WE GET TO SEE AN ISLAND BE MADE!!"

Luna chuckled while shaking her head, "no Lu it takes thousands of years, we won't be alive when this island forms."

The young captain deflates with a pout, "now I'm hungry and can't even see an island be made."

"It's going to get worse as the steam will smell of sulfur."

Just as Luna said this they entered the steam. Everyone quickly was disgusted by the smell. Making their way out of the steam Usopp noticed Karoo was heavier.

"Hey I caught something!"

As the steam cleared fully the crew looked over the edge to see a man wearing; swan shoes, a headband, and a swan jacket embroidered with 'the okama way' on the back. "WE CAUGHT AN OKAMA!"

The man loss his grip on Karoo and began falling to the ocean. Luna waved her hand using water to push the man on the the deck. The man looked around shocked just slightly damp, "what happened?"

Luffy jumped in, "Luna saved you with her powers."

The okama looked over at the woman, "thank you my lady. I can't swim, I would have drowned if I fell in."

His stomach growled he looked over at the others, "may I bother for a cup of soup?"

The others yelled back at him, "No way! We're hungry too!"

Luffy had a questionable look on his face, "you can't swim."

Luna bent down to Luffy's level, "I believe he mean to say he's a devil fruit user." Luna's blue eyes landed on the man, "am I correct?"

The man sprung up twirling in a pirouette, "why yes you are my lady. Since my ship is still looking for me I shall reward you by giving you a show. This is my power."

Without warning the man all but punched Luffy back, Luna moved by Zoro as the crew became defensive. Zoro growls through his teeth as he go to unsleath his swords. "What the hell are you-"

The okama raised his hands defensively, "hold on now. This is part of the show."

The man's face changed to be a perfect copy of Luffy. He starts to pose as Luffy took him in, "whoa its me!"

Nodding the man changed his face back, "I can change my looks with my right hand and change back with my left. That's the power of the clone clone fruit."

The others began to comment about the devil fruit while Luffy had stars in his eyes as he applauded, "that's awesome!"

The okama chuckled at the boy's excitement as he move to touch the others faces, "it's not necessary to punch you either."

Before he could touch Luna's face the woman ducked behind Zoro, "please excuse me I am uncomfortable with strangers touching me."

Zoro allowed the woman behind him as he made himself bigger to the okama. Said man blinked before smiling again, "no problem my lady."

Turning back to his audience he placed his right hand on his face changing into the faces he touched, "if I touch your face with my right hand. I can imitate anyone just like this."

He stopped on Nami's face before grabbing his shirt, "along with your-"

He was cut off by a sphere of water pouring over him. Dark blue eyes glared from over Zoro's shoulder, "it is ill-mannered to reveal a woman's body without her consent."

A shiver ran down everyone's backs at the tone, though Nami was grateful for the woman interference. The okama gulped before nodding, "yes ma'am."

Recovering from the water he turned back to the others, "I'm sorry that's all I can show you."

Chopper, Luffy, and Usopp urged him on to continue the show. Ever the thespian the man obliged, "very well if you insist."

Zoro scoffed next to Luna, "he changed his mind quickly."

Luna allowed a giggle to escape her as she kept her eyes on Vivi. The okama started shifting though past faces he's copied. A familiar tan king made his appearance, Luna saw Vivi tense as she moved away from Zoro. She stood next to the princess as the okama finished his show. He began twirling again.

"Now how do you like my super talent? I don't normally show people so you should feel honored."

While the youngest members cheered at the man Nami groaned quietly, "please just kill me."

Nami took notice of a large swan ship sailing towards them, "hey is that your ship?"

The okama turned before his face lite up, "oh me, oh my! Is it time to leave already? To bad, but I must depart."

The youngest whined that their fun was leaving. Luna ignore the showy goodbye he does, waiting instead for his name to be called. She didn't wait long as his crew called him, "yes sir, Mr. 2."

It took a minute for the others to pick up on the name, "MR. 2?!"

Vivi's face was covered in terror, "that was Baroque Works' Mr. 2 Bon Clay!"

Luffy turned to her in surprise, "you didn't recognize him?"

Vivi let her head fell into her hand, "I never met Mr. 1 or Mr. 2 before. Though I heard that Mr. 2 was a huge okama, and wore a swan coat that said 'the okama way' on his back."

Luffy, Usopp, and Zoro sweatdropped at her explanation, "you should have noticed..."

Vivi's knees gave out from under her, before hitting the ground Luna caught her. "One of his faces was my father. Why does he need my father's face?"

Zoro crossed his arms, "if you have the ruler's face you can do a lot of things. Luckily he didn't seem to know we are enemies. But once he does he can change into anyone of us."

Nami spoke up, "except Sanji and Luna."

"He explained his fruit in detail so we have an advantage."

Zoro nodded at Luna as he smirks, "she's right meaning we can make countermeasures against him. I have an idea. Someone get the love cook, Ill be right back."

Luna watch Chopper run to get Sanji, while Zoro disappeared below deck.

"What's going on?" Sanji walked out wiping his hands on a towel, Usopp filled him in on all his missed about the okama. Zoro returned with his plan to have two precautions against the okama.

"Huh pretty smart are you sure you're not the okama?"

"SHUT IT CURLY BROW!"

Luffy smiled, "yeah that's Zoro."

Sailing on a calm sea the next morning their peace was interrupted by a large sea cat. This got Luffy energized to have food. The other boys were ready to join him when a broom handle swatted the back of their heads. Vivi stood behind them angerly, "you can't eat him. Sea cats are sacred animals in Alabasta!"

Luffy pouted, "the food..."

Vivi smiled at the young captain, "you'll be able to eat soon."

This perks Luffy up, "really? What kind of cat?"

Luna appeared behind Vivi with a chuckle, "no cats Lu. Vivi means the sea cat shows we should be arriving at Alabasta shortly."

Vivi smiled back at the woman with a nod. Zoro looked out to the sea, "those ships should be even more proof."

The group looked to see a flet of Baroque Works ships. Chopper looked on in shock, "are those really Baaroque ships?"

Luna's previous smile faded into a serious look, "the next step of Crocodile's plan must be coming to flourishion. He's calling all the troops back."

Zoro hummed in agreement not taking his focus off the ships, "those are the grunts. No point in wasting our time with them."

Nami had Chopper pull out his bandages, "we focus on getting ready for landing."

They started prepping their precautions as Sanji finished trying off his bandages he looked over at Usopp, "was this okama really able to look that much like you?"

The sniper nodded, "not only look like, but it was like he actually was us. You should have seen it."

The cook face scrunched up, "I'm not interested in okama."

"Though I'm glad we were able to discover about his power before our confrontation. To know Crocodile has this man in his arsenal is a plus for us. The only unknown is now Mr. 1 and his partner."

Vivi looked away from the crew, "I'm sorry I couldn't get more information."

Luna's dark eyes landed on the princess, "I wasn't stating that to place the blame on you. This group is based on privacy, I would be much more worried if you did know their identities. It would be an obvious ploy. We'll just need to proceed with caution."

Luffy breaks the tension, "alright no matter what happens from here on out these bandages will be a sign of our friendship!"

Everyone grins at the captain's declaration holding their own arms out with pride, but Luna raised an eyebrow, "you're planning on running off for dinner."

It wasn't a question rather a statement. Luffy being the terrible liar let out a weak, "no."

This caused Zoro's eyebrow to twitch at the reminder of their hunger. He, Usopp, and Chopper gained up on Luffy for being too carefree. Vivi smiled at the chaos quietly.

Once they made shore Nami tried to gain order for the group. Luna shook her head as the navigator turned her back on the captain. She turned back only to see Luna leaning against the railing, "where's Luffy?"

The white head pointed over her shoulder to the retreating figure of the captain. Nami's mouth dropped, "why didn't you stop him?"

With one eyebrow raised, "have you ever gotten in between Luffy and food?"

The orange head sigh in defeat as the woman continued, "Sanji, Chopper, and I should obtain the supplies."

"Why only you three?"

Luna turned her head down the shore, "isn't that one of the agents you've faced?"

They followed her gaze to see a ship with Mr. 3's insignia.

"From what I understand you met him on Little Garden. Sanji wasn't present, Chopper hadn't joined yet, and I was on the ship near the end of your time there. If he were to see us, he wouldn't recognize us as crew members."

Vivi nodded, "but what about Luffy?"

Luna sighed before smiling at the princess, "you will learn that no matter what planning you do Luffy will always find trouble. What we need to focus on now is gathering the supplies for our journey. Luffy will be fine for the time being."

Nami nodded in agreement, "she right Luffy will be fine, but with Mr. 3 here how are we gonna get into the city?"

Usopp spoke up pointing a finger to his chest, "leave that to me."

Usopp's idea was a crafted paper dragon. The only one not onboard was Luna after stating, "he's never seen me why shall I hide?"

After that she disappeared into the crowd to start gathering supplies. She was able to collect a deep purple robe to cover herself in the desert, five water containers, and some jerky in a medium backpack. Once finished she was able to find the others without issue, Sanji and Chopper had returned as well.

"Ah Luna-swan you've returned. You must try the outfit I got you."

Luna looked over the lavender dancer outfit he held out, "I apologize Sanji but that outfit isn't suited for desert travel."

She moved past the deflated cook towards Nami, plucking the perfume out of the navigator's hand.

"Please refrain from incapacitating our doctor." Tossing the bottle to Usopp she knelt down to the immobilized reindeer. Pulling out a small vile out before rubbing a small amount of the cream on the tip of his noise.

Chopper sat up slowly confused, "peppermint?"

Luna gave the doctor a close eyed smile, "I've heard people use this successfully to over power other stronge scents. Hopefully it will help until we leave."

Luna handed to vile over to the doctor as she stood, "Lu's has not returned yet?"

Zoro shook his head at the woman as he peeked over the wall, "no but looks like the marines are chasing someon-"

Luna closed her eyes as she pinched her nose, "it's Luffy isn't it?"

The first mate sighed, "yeah."

Luffy's voice shouted from behind the wall, "Hey Zoro!"

Luna tossed a barrel to Sanji, "that's our cue to escape."

"It's the Straw Hats! Get Them!"

The crew wasted no time rushing for the ship, their captain trailing behind before catching up to them. "Hey guys."

Nami ran next to the boy so she could smack him over the head, "Why didn't you wait to lose them before finding us?!"

Sanji looked over his shoulder, "these guys won't quit, even Smoker's here."

"Stop Straw Hat!"

Luna looked over her shoulder just as she saw Smoker getting ready to attack. The smoke was coming for Luffy but before reaching him the smoke was engulfed in flames.

"That's Enough!"

Everyone stopped to see a shirtless man with black hair standing in front of the flames, "that's as far as you'll go."

Smoker narrowed his eyes at the new pirate, "you should have escaped when you had the chance Fire Fist."

'Fire Fist' snickered as he fell into a fighting stance, "smoke can't beat fire."

Luffy stared in shock at the freckled man, "Ace!"

Ace smirked at Luffy over his shoulder while the others looked on in confusion, "you haven't changed a bit. Get going, we'll catch up later."

Luffy nodded as the group started running again. Luffy was running backwards to watch the fight between the two devil fruit users.

"Man I can't believe Ace is here."

Chopper looked over at the young captain, "who exactly is he Luffy?"

Luffy smiled wider, "he's my big brother!"

"Brother?!"

Luffy nodded happily not taking his eyes off the fight, "yeah he's a pirate too so he should be fine against those guys."

Zoro looked over at Luna, "he's your brother?"

Luna nodded as she continued running, "yes, Ace is Luffy and I's older brother."

Nami turned to the woman, "why didn't you tell us?"

Luna just shrugged, "never asked."

Nami sighed giving up understanding the siblings, "take a left up ahead."

Luna followed the direction knowing Luffy would get separated. They quickly made it to the ship, minus Luffy. While the others placed down the supplies, Luna took stock of the shore. It took several minutes for the others to notice Luffy was missing.

"Why do I feel like somethings missing?"

Luna casually called back, "because Luffy became separated from us."

"What?!"

The ship sailed down a river that cut through Alabasta looking for their missing captain. Usopp took point scooping out for the boy, while Nami tried to make Luna feel guilty about not point out Luffy missing earlier.

"Nami please cease the guilt trip. I have never had control over Luffy or his decisions and have never claimed to have control. He's done what he has wanted since childhood. All I'm able to do is try to encore him in the right direction. But you will not make me feel guilty about letting his live his life."

Nami shrunk at the disapproving tone from the older woman, and stop hounding her. The orange haired girl moved to help Usopp look for Luffy in the crow's nest. It didn't take long for Nami to spot the rubber boy waving happily from shore.

"I found him!"

Luna stood by the railing as the boy slingshot himself towards the ship. Just as he was about to tackle Luna a shield of water appear between them. The rubber boy landed on the ship with a huge grin, "thanks for the catch Luna!"

Luna smiled down at her younger brother, "you left Ace ashore."

Luffy looked around in confusion before realizing she was right, he turned back to her with his ever present grin, "he'll be fine."

Nami climbs down with a scowl on her face, "can you not cause us trouble? You scared us half to death with all those marines chasing us."

Luffy just snickered as he rubbed his head, Usopp catches his attention, "you left your brother behind?"

"Yeah he'll be fine. Ace is pretty stong."

Chopper looked up in confusion, "how strong is he?"

"Let's put it this way. Long before he had a devil fruit, I was never able to beat him in a fight."

Nami was shocked by this, "there's actually a person you couldn't beat?"

Usopp sweatdropped, "the big brother of a monster is an even bigger monster."

Luffy leaned back against the railing with his large grin, "I guess so, because Ace kicked my butt all the time. I bet I can kick his butt though."

Chopper tugged at Luna's pants to gain her attention, "Luna how strong are you?"

Before Luna could answer Luffy chimed in laughing, "Luna was the strongest out of all of us. She used to push Ace in the river if he pissed her off."

Usopp, Nami, and Vivi took a step away from the woman horror written on their face. All the while Chopper looked up at her in amazement.

Zoro scoffed, "who would have guessed Luffy having a water and fire sibling?"

Luffy continued laughing when a voice cut though the air, "who's butt will you kick?"

Luffy turned to see Ace on the railing behind him, "oh hey Ace! This is the crew I was telling you about."

Ace's dark eyes scanned over the crew before landing on his younger sister. She was standing with her arms crossed, her dark blue eyes glaring back at him.

"Ace."

The older man gulped at his sister's tone, "hey Luna long time no see."

The woman sighed breaking eye contact, "continue."

Ace's grin slipped back over his face as he turned back to the others, who looked between the siblings in confusion. The interaction went unnoticed by the youngest, who was happy to have both his siblings on one ship.

Ace bowed his head to the crew, "pleased to meet you all. Thank you for taking care of my little brother. I know he can be a handful."

"Not at all." Everyone robotically bowed to him.

Ace chuckled, "you don't need to be modest, this is Luffy after all. I know he can be a lot to handle."

Bowing again, "not at all." This makes the eldest sibling grin softly.

"You're good people."

Sanji steps forward with his cigarette in hand, "feel free to relax. I'm sure you three have a lot to catch up on. I'll go make some tea."

Ace shakes his head, "don't worry about it. I appreciate the offer, but I don't want to impose." Ever the show off Ace lights Sanji's cigarette.

Sanji's eyes widen at the lite cigarette, "wow, this is unexpected."

Usopp nods as he looks over at the brothers, "yeah he's like the exact opposite of Luffy."

Nami looked over at them, "one of them focuses on stuffing his face..."

"While the other two only cares for their brother..." Zoro finishes her statement as his eyes drifted to the female sibling. The others nodded at his statement, remembering how they met Luna.

Chopper eyes start to well up at the siblings, "I wish I had older siblings like that..."

Sanji shakes his head at Chopper, "I wish I had a captain like that."

Vivi looked shock at everyone's rudeness then looked back at Ace nervously, "I'm sure they don't mean that!"

Luffy laughed happily before turning back to Ace, "told you they were great."

Luna took notice of some encroaching ships, "we have company!"

Vivi looks back at the ships in the distance, "those are the Billions' ships!"

Luffy gave a pouty glare, "those are the guys that messed with me earlier."

Ace eyed the ships, "Luffy let me handle them."

Everyone watched as Ace dropped down into a smaller boat before activating his power. They watched the boat speed towards the ships. Luna watched with a bored expession as the others heard Ace scream, "Fire Fist."

A huge explosion of fire sliced through the ships easily. The heat from the blast reaching them in seconds. The fire user made his way back to the Going Marry, "see, nothing to it."

Luffy laughed loudly, "that was awesome!"

"Care to stay for lunch Ace. I insist." Sanji offered.

Ace nodded with a smile, "that would be great. Thank you."

Luffy, Usopp, and Chooper gathered around Ace happily cheering over the party. When Luffy starts questioning why Ace won't join his crew Zoro notices Luna's expression. The usually motherly woman had a sour look on her face not making eye contact towards her brothers. He notices when Ace mentioned Blackbeard she pushed off the railing and walked toward the bow of the ship. Her body radiated anger, his eyes moved back to Ace to see his own eyes following his sister.

Luna breathed out heavily trying to calm her anger. This was why she told Ace about the attack on his crew mate. She didn't want him to go after Blackbeard. Her nails gripped tightly on the railing as she noticed the sea reacting to her anger. Closing her eyes she tried again to calm down.

"Oi."

The familiar call broke her of her thoughts, turning her head slightly her blues eyes landed on the first mate.

"Oh Zoro, what may I do for you?"

The swordsmans' eyes narrowed, arms crossed over his chest, "you can tell me why you're angry."

Luna cursed herself silently for allowing her anger to show, "I apologize Zoro it's from an event before I joined the crew. I visited Ace prior and told him something that he obviously didn't take heed."

The man's posture relaxed slightly, "you don't need to apologize for feeling anger."

Luna's eyes softened into it's lightly blue color, "thank you Zoro. I believe I needed to hear someon say that."

Zoro's eyes strayed from hers as a light pink crossed his cheeks, "just don't be so mopey."

With that the swordsman turned back to the party. Luna smiled at the embarrassed man's retreating form when another voice broke the silence.

"So you're not gonna beat me up?"

A groan was the only response Ace received as his sister turned to him. Her eyes were dark blue once more.

"I informed you about him to stop you from chasing after him."

Ace sighed as he moved closer to her, "Luna I have a responsibility as his commander."

She turned her head away before peeking back at him, "how is he?"

Ace's grinned, she was still such a mom, "he lived thanks to you. He sends his thanks."

Nodding as she looked back at him with the same look she gave him that night.

"You and I will be having a discussion before you're allowed to continue on."