Sanji was looking out the back of the ship onto the sea that they were leaving behind for the Great one of Adventure; the Grand Line. He knew he would miss East Blue.

A snore could be heard behind him. Sanji gritted his teeth together, and his cigarette burned up all at once. There are so many idiots on this ship, well, save for Nami-swan of course.

He sighed and his head dipped down. If only there were more girls on the ship… he thought morosely.

As if on cue, 2 females dropped out of the freaking sky and dropped onto the deck behind him. He whipped his head around and blinked three times to rid himself of any hallucinations he might have been happy, but to no avail.

2… 2 more lovely LADIES! Steam burst out of his nostrils and a faint whistling sound could be heard.

He looked at the females again and drunk in their appearance. One female was a bright blonde, with a peach face and soft features and a splash of freckles across her face. She was shorter than the other, probably only able to rise till his mid-chest, with a distinctly innocent look about her. She had a stunning figure, just bordering on hourglass, but not quite, and a slender frame. She was the very epitome of beauty. Almost more than Nami-swan he thought in awe. Almost.

He turned is gaze to the other one lying on the ground, and what he saw was almost the polar opposite of the other. She stood about 2 inches taller than the other female, with sharp, defining features and long, pitch black hair framing her face in a down ponytail. Her face was sun-kissed and she had a slim figure. Beauty was there on her, but she wasn't flaunting it. She was that cold, higher level of beauty and admiration. And that isn't even counting the amount of muscle on limbs, Sanji observed A lot more than a female generally should have.

It was true, the black-haired girl was literally made for combat, and it seemed that she entirely used that to her advantage. To any trained eye, they could see, the only fat there was on her was either on her chest or her butt, otherwise, everything on her bones was pure muscle.

He calmly picked both up in his arms and quietly walked out to deck.

Luffy was fishing with Usopp without a care in the world and Zoro was sleeping. Just like the Marimo to do that, Sanji snorted. He gently set the two beauties down and lit a new cigarette before walking towards the Marimo.

"WAKE UP!", Sanji roared before delivering an axe kick to Zoro's head.

"What the hell, Swirlybrow?" Zoro roared in turn.

"Shut up! You'll wake the beautiful ladies!", Sanji yelled.

"The hell do you mean, 'beautiful ladies' Swirlybrow?! The only lady here is that witch!", Zoro yelled, but he was quickly cut off by Sanji levelling a flat glare at him before pointing at the ground next to him.

Zoro stiffly turned his head to where the finger was pointing and was not-so-pleasantly surprised.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE TWO GIRLS DOING HERE?!"

As evidenced by that.

Nami was not happy.

She was busy drawing out a map and going through some of her old ones when she heard one of the monkeys above deck yell so loud glass could be shattered. That didn't happen, though. What did happen was that her ink spilt. All over her precious maps.

All in all, Nami was absolutely livid.

She was going to march up there, deliver 4 good strong blows right to their skulls and yell and berate them into submission. Resolved, she stepped out on deck and got her fists ready.

Then she stopped, confusion taking over her anger.

One… Two… Three… Four… she counted FIVE, SIX?! Nami panicked and inwardly broke down. Could they have already come to us for Luffy's bounty? THAT IDIOT! I'll slug him for that, she thought, her anger flaring.

When one of the females stirred, everyone on deck jumped, including Luffy and Usopp who decided to get involved in the equation sometime in between.

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When I woke up, I let out an involuntary groan and clutched my head. My head was throbbing.

What the fudge just happened? I internally whined. GOD MY HEAD HURTS! I looked up and let out an intelligent, "hmmrgh…", before looking settling my blurry vision on… a cinnamon roll?

OHMYGODWAITASECOND—

My vision instantly cleared up and I was met with a clear image of that arsonist. Right next to me. Sleeping…

Then everything hit me like a sack of bricks.

DRAGON, THAT IDIOT!

He—what—why—, while my inner thoughts were in turmoil, I settled on one thing.

I'm going to castrate him next time I see him.

I stretched a hand over to the arsonist and gently touched her cheek. She leaned into the touch and gave a cute whimper. She looked so peaceful…

Too bad.

I gave her a strong down-punch, not unlike the ones Nami gives generally, and dubbed that, 'The Wake-Up Call'

It is an awesome name. Very practical too.

"Yaaoowch!"

Her scream was equally as sweet. When that sweet, sweet sound stopped, I found an icy glare being shot at me like a speeding locomotive. I almost staggered back. Almost.

Instead, I ended up doubling over in laughter. Katrina wasn't amused. Not at all. But she knew there was no point in fighting me, because I can overpower her easy. The only upper hand she used to get over me back on Earth used to be the fact that she had a surreal number of supporters that would love her unconditionally because she's a cinnamon roll.

I, however, had my fists and genetic strength, and sheer stubbornness to get me through the day. I turned around to my impromptu audience and decided to negotiate a deal in order to stay alive and on this ship for a while.

"If you let me stay on this ship, I'll tell you about adventures."

Luffy already had stars in his eyes and was shaking Usopp who looked slightly uneasy with my deal.

Sanji was… Sanji, he shouldn't even be included in this.

Zoro was skeptical, and Nami?

Nami was—

"NO!"

Yeah, that. Looks like I'll have to sweeten the deal.

"I have information on a few treasure deposits in the Grand Line."

"Welcome aboard."

Mission Accomplished.

"WHAT THE HELL, WITCH?!"

Okay, maybe not quite.

"Listen, listen," I said, only slightly condescendingly, "If you all calm down, I will tell you everything I know of which you must watch over in the Grand Line,", I carefully watched Zoro's face for a change, and when I detected none, I added, "Including all the strong opponents,".

Zoro's hand clenched on Wado's hilt, his breath hitched, his pupils dilated, and a bloodthirsty grin spread across his face.

The arsonist looked at me and uttered one word which I allowed to stroke my ego to unimaginable levels.

"Whoa".

What? It takes a lot for that one to swallow her pride, and it takes even more so for me.

My attention was once again stolen by Nami who fell down to her knees and grabbed me by the shoulders, "Please," her voice quivered. I could tell it was borderline desperate, "Tell us about what's on the Grand Line!".

I leveled a flat glare at her before saying, "No.".

She tried to seduce me into doing it.

"No."

She tried to force it out of me.

"Don't touch me unless you have a death wish."

When she finally gave up, I decided that I wanted to psyche her out.

"Fine, I'll tell you what to watch out for, BUT—", I hastily tacked on when I saw Luffy's cold glare being snapped to me, "I won't tell you a thing about the islands on the Grand Line.".

When Luffy's glare softened, I let out a breath I didn't even know I'd been holding.

"So that's how it feels… Haoshoku.", I whispered to the arsonist. All I got in return was a confused stare.

Oh. Right. She only knew up until Thriller Bark. How useless. Eh. Maybe not totally useless. I forgot most of Thriller Bark. Maybe she can help us when we get to that point…

I let out a long-suffering sigh.

"Cuddle up already. We're going to be here for a while.". I launched into the tedious explanation of the structure of the government and pirates and revolutionaries, but when I realized that Luffy wasn't paying attention, I decided to make things a lot more… appetizing, as to say…

"…and then Shanks got his famed Straw hat from—",

"You know Shanks?"

Hook, line, and sinker

I gave a devilish grin.

"Maybe I will tell you how I know Shanks and a few things about the Pirate King himself if you pay attention to what I have to say,", I replied.

I had his full and undivided attention after that.

"Okay, listen up! So, we're going to start from the beginning. There are 3 main factions in the Grand Line. World Government, Pirates, and Revolutionaries. World Government wants to kill Pirates and Revolutionaries, so they created 2 things. Marines, and Cipher Pol. Marines created the Shichibukai in order to scare rookie pirates away from the Grand Line. Cipher Pol, however, is divided into 10 factions. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 0 serves directly under the Celestial Dragons, who are at the top of the World Government, and with full power of the Marines, and 9 serves directly under the World Government, doing all their dirty jobs,"

When I saw that attention was waning again, I decided to add offhandedly,

"including wiping entire islands off the map,"

And everyone's attention was back on me again. It was so hard not to smirk.

"The Seven Shichibukai are Crocodile, Gekko Moriah, Bartholomew Kuma, Donquixote Doflamingo, Dracule Mihawk, Jinbei, and Boa Hancock. Out of all of them, only three are at least halfway decent, and they would be Kuma, Jinbei, and Hancock, although… Hancock is at the bare minimum…", I added as an afterthought.

"Hey, wait!", Usopp interrupted with great bravado, "Jinbei is a bad guy! He let loose Arlong!".

Nami clutched her shoulder and a burning hatred wafted through her eyes. I chose my words carefully,

"Jinbei never let Arlong loose on East Blue. Whatever he did to you, I don't know, but Jinbei's exact words were, 'ARLONG! I never want to see you anywhere near Fishman Island again!', Jinbei would've killed Arlong, for his idiocy and racism had it not been for the fact that Arlong was his sworn brother, so he exiled him instead." I finished tactfully.

By the end of that, everyone was looking at me like I grew a second head.

"What?"

Sanji was the first to break the silence, "OHHH! MY PRECIOUS… what's your name?", he asked sheepishly.

"Shivani Aika," I said curtly, before jabbing a thumb in Katrina's direction.

"The one that was neglected for a while now is Katrina Mota.", I finished. Katrina gave an uneasy wave.

Sanji sucked in another breath and started again, "OHHH! MY PRECIOUS AIKA-SWAN AND MOTA-CHWAN ARE SO SMART AND BEAUTIFUL!"

"Hey! What do you know about Shanks?", Luffy demanded to know, after we got everything sorted out. It was night already and they were having a party.

"Well,", I began, gaining a devilish grin, "I know where he got his straw hat from,", I said offhandedly.

"WHERE?!" the kid was just bursting with excitement. Kid? He's probably the same age as me if not older… Oh well.

"He got it from the Pirate King, Gold Roger.", I said nonchalantly, drinking in the various reactions around me.

"SHANKS KNEW THE PIRATE KING?!" Luffy thundered happily.

"Yeah, was even Cabin boy on his crew with Buggy.", I added on.

Luffy was satisfied after that, going into a corner to look at his hat in a new light.

Zoro came to me next. "How do you know all these things,", he asked, not-so-subtly flicking Kitetsu's sheath open to catch the light off of it. I glanced at the sword and then at his face before finishing my water and walking out towards the railing to look out at the sea.

"Do you really want to know?", I asked faux-solemnly, but he didn't need to know that.

"Well…", in the little light there was I could see his resolve wavering, before it, unfortunately, steeled again. "Yes, yes I do want to know.".

"Hm… Your captain is a lot like Gold Roger," I commented offhandedly, gauging his reaction.

It went from surprise, to suspicion to downright anger. He looked to where Sanji was unconscious on the floor due to alcohol before flicking his sword fully out of the sheath and resting it against my neck.

"What do you mean?", he asked, eyes shadowed.

Katrina saw what was going on and decided to pay us a visit.

"What's happening," she asked, or well, it was more of a statement anyways.

Fast as lightning, Zoro flicked out Yubashiri and rested it against Katrina's throat.

"What do you know? How do you know what you know? Answer those questions and I might consider trusting you." He stated.

I looked at him and sped out of the way of the sword before appearing right in front of him.

"I know a good number of things, Roronoa.", I spat out, "I know what will happen exactly two years from now, but after that, I can only guess. How I know these things is for us to know and you to never find out. I simply want to make things right before the world goes to hell and back.", I sighed, "Of course, if you want to see someone you promised something die, granted, not in front of your eyes, but in front of your captain's in his arms with tears and a mark marring his chest, then by all means.", I sneered.

"Kill me."

AN: OOH! And the plot thickens! Let's see where things go, no? Also, sorry for not updating last week, here's an early update to compensate, my readers! Also, when I first posted this story, I asked you all to REVIEW. Please, review, otherwise I won't get better, and even then, if there's nothing you see that can get better, then please, tell me that it's at least a good chapter that I'm posting. More of Katrina will be showing up later, and a little more of her past will be revealed, so be patient, Katrina isn't always a stone-cold dog with no sympathy or empathy, she's more of a complex character, and we'll delve into Shivani and Katrina's hatred soon. Until then, my readers, bai.

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