The sound of water hitting wood could be heard, the waves gently causing the boat to bob. A cloudless and darkening sky was allowing a calm pleasant atmosphere to grace the passengers of the vessel. Despite the seemingly perfect day, among some of the voyagers a group had a subtle uneasy feeling that one could miss if you were not paying attention. A dark haired woman sat in a chair on the deck reading, seemingly unaware of her companions on said deck, across from her was a dark haired man with a long nose,who was sitting next to a large robotic man discussing tools and an odd contraption between them.

"Franky, what else should we do to improve this?" the dark haired man asked the cyborg. "I don't know usopp-bro, I'm not really sure how you improve a mixer more then we have, it's pretty super already." he answered honestly. Looking at the contraption you would not think it was a mixer, it seemed to look more like kids stuck whatever they could on it. Off to the other side you can hear a scoff from a green haired man doing leg exercises with weights. "Why are you messing with a mixer anyway?" he asked voice slightly strained from the effort of lifting "Not like shit cook will want to use it anyway."

Usopp and Franky turned to the man "Well Zoro, if you must know, we thought it would be nice to give him a gift when he came back." Usopp explained. Zoro doesn't look at them, but he rolls his eyes. "If you missed ero cook that much you should have gone with them.". "It was because of your idea that we split up in the first place." Usopp argued back. Zoro let his weight fall down at his feet with a loud thud, "What was that?" Usopp started to hide behind Franky as Zoro approached the pair. "Whoa sword-bro, just calm down." Franky interjected trying to calm down the swordsman.

"Now boys this is no time to be fighting, we all miss Sanji." a smooth female voice cutting through the tension. Franky and Usopp looked absolutely relieved she joined the conversation "Thank you Robin!" they sighed. Zoro made a noise in the back of his throat and had a look of disgust "Who said I missed him?" he retorted. Robin merely chuckled, looking up from her book for the first time. "I recall that today was an arm work-out scheduled, not a leg one.". Zoro made a face that let her know she was spot on, despite the fact he would never admit it.

"I know we're all seem tense but we should trust our super friends." Franky interjected. Robin looked at him and raised an eyebrow, "Oh, and what makes you think I'm worried Franky?" she asked curiously. Franky pointed one of his fingers towards the book resting in her lap, "Those are fairy tales from the North Blue, right?" he asked raising his sunglasses up. She nodded in response "yes, you are correct." a thoughtful expression on her face. An uneasy silence followed, but before it could get awkward, "Franky's right, shit cook and the rest are fine, I'm sure he's fawning over the witch right now." zoro interrupted and crossed his arms. The other Strawhats looked at Zoro and smiled, act as he might he cared just as much, but he had full faith in his friends, "right!" They cheered, spirits lifted. As they were about to go back to their tasks, a black and white butterfly fluttered onto the deck, and landed on Usopp's long nose.

The group looked to the butterfly puzzled, "That's odd butterfly's don't usually come out this far to sea,it's a death sentence." Robin informed the group calmly. "Must you be so morbid?" Usopp asked weakly looking to the archeologist with despair, Robin merely gave a small smile. The butterfly fluttered to Franky resting on his hair, which was styled in his old slicked up hair. "Do you think it was inside the cabins and got out?" Franky asked. "No way, we would have noticed it sooner." Usopp said watching it flutter towards the swordsman.

Zoro watched it land on his sword,

Wado Ichimonji, to be more precise. "Well however it got on isn't going to matter, it's like Robin said, it's basically dead now." As he watched it leave and flutter to the mentioned woman. Robin held out a finger and it landed on it.

"Whoa How'd you do that?" Usopp asked admiration in his voice. "Lucky guess." She replied, admiring its beauty.

The butterfly was fairly large with black lines filled with white, a small black body. It fluttered it's wings a few more times then took off into the sea sky. Leaving the curious Strawhats to watch it go. "Well that was something." Robin said after a few minutes. The group nodded and went back to their previous activities before the sun fully set on their relatively quiet day, and they went to bed. letting the strange incident go, thoughts of concern wondering how their friends were doing.

~Meanwhile on Whole Cake Island~

(Night before the wedding)

An orange haired woman sat looking at the chocolate rain that fell from the mirror that was outside. She had a deep contemplating look on her face. "Nami-san I think you need to get some rest." A voice broke through her thoughts, she looked over to see a skeleton with an afo crouching down and sitting next to her.

"I know Brook, it's just, I can't stop thinking about earlier." She told him hugging her knees to her chest. Brook placed a bony hand on her shoulder "I can hardly imagine what it must have looked like to see such a brutal attack if what you say is true." and gave a companionate look, despite not having facial features anymore due to being all bone. "It must of been hard to watch."

Nami nodded tears welling in the corners of her eyes, she was so confused emotionally, logically she knew why he did it, but it didn't hurt any less. A gentle touch was placed on her leg, she looked over to see a reindeer, who was trying to comfort her, she gave a smile. "Thank you chopper." Placing a hand on his head as a thanks. "I'm ok guys, it'll turn out alright, Luffy will handle Sanji.".

The other two nodded and settled down to get some rest for an hour or two, Nami and Chopper together, while Brook was off to the side. "Nami-san?" Brook asked out of the blue "can I perhaps see your panties as a goodnight gift?" Unfortunately, he wasn't able to say More because the the navigator punched him "Hell No!" She screamed at him angrily. A quiet pained"yohoho" could be heard from the skeleton.

As Brook was getting up he saw something black and white enter his view and land on his afo. He tried to reach up and feel it when a high pitched voice stopped him. "Wait brook you'll hurt it if you do that!" Chopper told him. Right as he set his hand down he saw a butterfly enter his view and land on chopper's nose. "What is a butterfly doing here?" Nami asked getting up from her spot, where she had laid down. Chopper giggled as the butterfly moved a bit tickling his nose, before flying off and landing on Nami's left shoulder.

Nami stared at the creature, it was really pretty. "I'm not sure perhaps it came with us by accident" Brook offered. The butterfly flew off Nami's shoulder fluttered over their heads bit before flying through the mirror and out of view. The group was a bit confused about the Random butterfly encounter, but brushed it aside, they've experienced weirder.

Nami yawned "I'm going to try and get some sleep." She told her two companions. Chopper nodded and rubbed his eyes. "I think I'll join you."He told her. Almost as soon as they laid down they were out, not that Brook blamed them, they had a rough time and needed the rest. For his part he felt refreshed, but something kept making him want to sleep. Eventually he lost the battle and was soon asleep.

~Elsewhere~

A butterfly landed delicately on an outstretched hand, through the shadows, a smile could be made out on the figures face. The butterfly flapped its wings 7 times the disappeared. Letting their arm drop to their side the figure turned to his further in the shadows.

"Good Luck Strawhats, you'll need it."