SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 32 out, this is Chapter 33 of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors, myself included, sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Ace/Sasha, familial Luffy/Sasha, patriotic Law/Sasha (Might end up as a Law/Sasha pairing later if I end up killing Ace at Marineford and if reviewers don't mind the age gap)

Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC.

Chapter 33: Arc 3: A Raid! The Tin Tyrant and Tin Plate Wapol!

"Hey guys," Zoro voiced from the crow nest. "Do you think people can stand on the ocean?"

"Can people stand on the ocean?" Usopp echoed. "C'mon Zoro. What kind of question is that?"

"Then, what's that?" Zoro inquired, Luffy and Usopp turning to see Chess standing on top of the sea.

"Hi, it sure is chilly today." Chess greeted.

"Yeah, it is chilly today." Luffy agreed.

"Really?" Chess muttered.

"What is that?" Luffy exclaimed, the Going Merry rocking back due to the emergence of Wapol's submarine. "A watermelon?"

"Why are we rocking?" Vivi asked, holding onto the refilled cold water basin.

"Hold the rudder!" Sanji barked, bringing in another cup of basil tea. "If anything happens ot Nami, I'll gut you all!"

"Don't tell me this is a ship?" Zoro gawked.

"Crap!" Usopp stammered, seeing the Jolly Roger. "A pirate ship!"

"Just when we're in a hurry..." Zoro muttered.

"Did our jumbo, underwater raid ship, the Tin Tyrant, surprise you?" Wapol laughed.

"Vivi-chan, you're in charge here!" Sanji instructed, hurrying out to the deck.

"Hey, what's going on?" Sanji burst out from the men's quarters. "So?" he lit his cigarette. "What's going on?"

"The ship's being attacked." Luffy informed.

"Well, I figured as much from the looks of things." Sanji sighed, seeing that they were surrounded by Wapol's men.

"Are you really pirates?" Wapol questioned. "You're strange. Is it just you four? I find it hard to believe that a pirate group would only have four people."

"What is that guy?" Luffy wondered, seeing Wapol swallow the piece of meat, the dagger included. "He even ate the knife."

"Well, no matter." Wapol shrugged. "I'll start by asking this. We want to go to the Drum Kingdom. Do you happen to have an Eternal Pose or Log Pose?"

"Nope." Sanji replied. "Never even heard of the place."

"Okay, you done, right?" Luffy pressed. "So leave. We're in a hurry. We don't have time to mess with you."

"Don't rush life like that." Wapol sighed. "But if you don't have neither, then oh well. For now, I'll take this ship and your treasure. But first, I'm feeling a bit hungry." turning to the side-deck, he started chomping down on the wood.

"Don't eat our ship!" Luffy snapped.

"Fire!" one of Wapol's men ordered when Luffy slammed his fists on the head of the two guards in both his sides.

"Should've done that right from the very start." Zoro smirked.

"Oh?" Sanji grinned. "We can have at them. Don't do anything you can't handle!" he leapt over the gunfire and slammed a kick down on one of the guard's neck. "Reception!" his whirlwind kick took out another wave of guards as he continued his assault.

In the crow nest, Zoro had dispatched the guards around him. Running down the mast, he took out another wave of guards. "All bark and not bite." the swordsman tsked.

"Are you still eating it?" Luffy fumed, his punches taking down some more guards.

"Say, this ship doesn't taste half bad." Wapol remarked.

"Luffy!" Usopp warned, Luffy reaching his into Wapol's open mouth.

"What is this?" Vivi exited from the men's quarters, seeing Luffy's extended arms in front of her.

"Hey, Vivi-chan." Sanji looked at her. "Has something happened to Nami-san?"

"Why you...!" Luffy snapped, unleashing his 'Gum-Gum Bazooka' on Wapol. "Go flying!"

With their leader gone, the Bliking Pirates quickly retreated to retrieve their missing captain.

"What was that just now?" Usopp wondered. "They seemed to call him Wapol, but..."

"Doesn't matter." Sanji shrugged. "Don't worry about it. He's just a moron. That's the only possible explanation."

"Have I seen him somewhere before?" Vivi wondered.

"This isn't good, Vivi-chan." Sanji noted, Sasha having activated her 'Water Healing Dome' on Nami as a last resort. "The sun's about to set for today."

"You're right." Vivi agreed. "Let's drop anchor somewhere. We can't navigate at night without Nami-san's instructions."

"Say, doesn't this area seem kind of calm and cold?" Sanji wondered, having taken over Zoro's watch-out duty the next morning.

"Yeah, sudden strange calms." Usopp agreed, as he busied himself with repairing the ship. "I guess that's another thing that happens in the erratic Grand Line."

"That's not necessarily so." Vivi corrected. "It's proof that an island is probably nearby. Sanji-san, could you look carefully out at the horizon? A winter island is nearby. I'm certain of it. Climatically, there are four basic types of islands in the Grand Line. Summer islands, spring islands, autumn islands and winter islands; and each one generally has four seasons on its own. In short, when on the Grand Line, there are at least 16 seasonal levels you must conquer, from summer island summer to winter island winter. Of course, there are many exceptions are unknown climates."

"I get it." Usopp noted. "The Grand Line has all these different islands, one after the other, and that's why the seas between them have such unstable weather."

"That's right." Vivi confirmed. "Which is why stable weather means an island is nearby."

"Yeah, I see it." Sanji peered through the binoculars. "We found an island!"

"An island!" Luffy gawked as the island came into view, having left Zoro to watch over Sasha and Nami.

"Hold on." Usopp stammered. "Is this a good idea? If there's snow, couldn't there be snow monsters, too? Besides, we're not even sure if people live there or not."

"Guess I'll get us ready to land." Sanji sighed.

"This is really something." Sanji gawked at the snowy landscape at the ship sailed into the river. "What's with those mountains?"

"It's a waterfall of melted snow." Vivi peered over the prow. "We may be able to stop around here."

"So who's going doctor-hunting?" Zoro asked. "No, I guess people-hunting comes first."

"I'm going!" Luffy raised his hand.

"Me too." Sanji added.

"That's far enough, pirates!" Dalton barked, he and his men having surrounded the ship on both sides of the river bank. "Attention, pirates. Leave this place at once. This instant."

"We came to find a doctor." Luffy explained.

"We have a sick person on-board." Vivi offered.

"We won't fall for that trick, you filthy pirates!" one of Dalton's men retorted.

"This is our island!" another snapped. "We won't let any pirates land here."

"Raise anchor and leave now." a third man ordered. "Or else we'll blow your whole ship up."

"They really hate our guts." Sanji remarked. "And we've just met too."

"Don't talk back!" one of the men fired a shot near Sanji's foot.

"You didn't just do that!" Sanji growled.

"Sanji," Sasha voiced calmly, coming on the deck, her Holy Haki forming a solid outline of her body. "Stand down!"

SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.