Chapter Ten - The Wedding Invitation

From the deck of the Going Merry, Nami looked out on the steam rising from the depths of the ocean as she explained how an island would form there in ten thousand years time. In turn the crew looked out at it in awe, the image soon to be ruined by a girlish shriek as Eve leapt out from the steam like a dolphin. She emerged on the deck pink-skinned and flapping like a fish-out-of-water.

Satan is still being a little bitch apparently because I had burnt my ass five times on my morning swim!

"Hey, Eve! Did you find something to eat yet?" Luffy called over with a wave, his other hand grasping his fishing pole.

I sweat-dropped.

"You forgot why you were out there, didn't you!" Nami growled, making Chopper 'hide' behind me as he tended to my burns with salve.

"Nooo. Hey Chopper!" I called, making the reindeer shriek as he tried to tip-toe away. "You forgot a vital part of my treatment!"

"I don't think so. Burns are better treated by running water, but this burn salve is the best I can do…"

Chopper cut off in his explanation as I extended my arms out to the sides.

"That's ridiculous!" Chopper spluttered, smushing himself into my chest as I snuggled into a super, special, awesome hug! "A hug isn't a valid medic- AH! SHE GOT BETTER!"

I beamed as my skin returned to its usual tone, Chopper looking down at his hooves as a miraculous light began to be emitted from them, the heavenly choir beginning to sing… or it might have just been me with a flashlight and my beautiful voice.

"WE CAUGHT AN OKAMAAAAAAA!" Usopp and Luffy bellowed, one in glee and one in pure fear as a splash could be heard over the side of the deck.

"I got it!" I called, diving back over the side to retrieve Mr 2 and haul him back on deck as he sprawled over my shoulder, before setting him down on the decking.

"Thank you very much!" Mr 2 thanked us, a flattened hand placed in front of his head. "You are swan-derful people!

I burst out laughing, making the rest of the crew turn to me with dead-pan looks.

"Swan- get it! Swan-wonderful! Swan-derful!" I cackled, wiping a tear from my eyes.

"We get it," everyone sighed, followed up by Luffy's, "I don't."

"My life has been saved by pirates I don't even know! I will never forget this! May I have a cup of warm soup?"

"NOO!"

While Mr 2 began to compliment Vivi (chuh… I was cuter) and revealed his ownership of devil fruit powers, I began setting up a stage, pulling my recent arts and crafts project of a cube with a white background and red curtains on either side. When Mr 2 punched Luffy in the face, I threw the cube over the top of the okama, pulling open the red curtains and bellowing 'TA-DAA!' as Mr 2 was revealed to one pissed off crew to have Luffy's face.

"Surprised? Surprised? Gahahahaha," Mr 2 laughed, jumping from foot to foot as the crew turned from 'just summoned Satan' to 'whaaa-' in a fraction of a second.

I applauded.

"Thank you! Thank you, and let's give a round of applause for my stage-hand in the wings!"

I blushed, clenching a fist to my pink-tinged cheeks as I pinched the edges of my yellow shirt and gave a gracious curtsy. Mr 2 began to head down the line of awaiting crew members, snacking his palm into their faces until I stepped in front of my senpai with a dark look.

"No one touches senpai," I growled, making the okama shrug and slam a palm into my own face to the point it became two-dimensional.

"If I touch your face…" Usopp's face declared majestically, dressed in Mr 2's clothing, prompting me to lift a scorecard with a '6' on it.

"With my right hand…" mine beamed, as I held up a '10'.

"I can imitate anyone…" Choppers growled, '10,000'.

"Just like this," Nami winked, before exposing her chest, my scorecards scattered in the air and sinking into the ocean as I prioritised covering senpai's eyes with the palms of my hand, "and your bodies too."

"Is your innocence intact, senpai?" I inquired, my body thrown over his, which was now sat against the wall, as I spread my fingers and allowed him to see once more.

"Would you get off!" Zoro scoffed, face fixed in a scowl as Mr 2 began to display the faces he had stored in his memory. "This is ridiculous."

"Yes, as senpai says, totally ridiculous," I nodded, joining in the conga line led by Mr 2 as we marched around the deck with a chorus of chants and a hearty jig.

"Hey! There's a ship coming this way. Is it yours?" Nami pointed out, prompting Mr 2 to zip up onto the railings.

"Oh me-my-me! Is it time to leave already? Too bad-"

"Awwww," the members of the conga line chorused as I blew my nose into a hanky and dabbed at my tears.

"-Do not be sad, my babies! Separation is inevitable! Never forget me! Length of time means nothing… to true friendship!" Mr 2 concluded, flashing us a thumbs up as the tears pooled in their eyes.

I waved my hanky in the air in farewell as everyone else cried and yelled their fond farewells.

"Let's go, lovelies!"

"Yes-sir, Mr 2 Bon Clay-sama, sir!"

"Goodbye, see you again!" I continued to call, as everyone's jaws either clenched or dropped open as I turned back to beam at them. "Such a nice person, don't you think?"

"N-Nami, can I ask you a question?" I gulped, my fingertips pressing against each other as I flicked my eyes to the side now we had arrived in Alabasta, new clothing to suit the desert being our priority (or food in Luffy's case).

"What is it, Eve? Why are you all…" Nami stalled, eyes taking in my form shifting behind an oversized cloak as my eye spasmed, "twitchy."

"WHAT?" Usopp yelped, springing up towards us. "You're scared? But you weren't scared of the evil butler-"

Chopper gasped.

"-or that giant sea cow-"

Chopper gasped louder.

"-or the man-eating dinosaurs!"

Chopper fainted.

"What's going to happen to us, Nami?" Usopp bellowed, tongue wagging as he grabbed Nami by her bare arms before earning himself a triple bump courtesy of the girl's fist.

"What is it, Eve?" Nami sighed, giving me a hesitant look.

"Does this look okay?" I blushed, dropping my cape to reveal the topaz blue dancers outfit Sanji had picked out for me as the man himself fainted, his body supported by a flurry of pink hearts as he floated on air.

"You actually put that thing on?" Zoro huffed, eyes narrowing at the bandage on my arm as if he suspected me to be an imposter.

"You look gorgeous, Eve!" Nami beamed, making me blush harder.

"Do you really think so?" I beamed, slamming my pom-pom hat onto my head, to make Nami's face drop.

"No, Eve, you can't wear that - it has our Jolly Roger on it," Nami sighed before turning to Vivi. "Help me with the hair, Vivi."

By the time they were finished, my locks had transformed into a braided golden crown which sat utop my head, my arms wrapped around my stomach as I attempted to cover up my bare skin.

"Really, Eve, you look amazing! Have some more confidence in yourself." Nami beamed, patting me on the back in support, before her grin turned feral. "With a body like that we could rake in twice the beli from now on."

"Err, thanks… I think?" I sweat-dropped, slowly turning my head towards Sanji, still floating on his cloud of pink hearts, before flicking my attention between him and Chopper. "Huh, didn't know you were into furries, Sanji."

"Whaaa-"

Sanji's bed of hearts popped, making him drop to the floor, body twitching as Brook filed yet another lawsuit.

I stood out in the open, beaming as I waved an arm towards Luffy to guide him towards the rest of the crew, a mass of Marines following in pursuit from the restaurant he had just visited to feed his bottomless pit of a stomach. Nami loomed over me, Satan firmly sided with her as she prepared to beat me into submission.

"Nami, are you sure I look okay?" I demanded, quite possibly performing an exorcism as her Satanic aura was dismissed.

"Wha- Eve, this is not the time for me to work on your body confidence issues!"

"But he's coming Nami!" I shrieked, grabbing the girl by her arms and shaking her in pure urgency.

"Who?"

Nami frowned as Eve let out a girlish babble, her face resembling a cherry red tomato as if it had been burned by the sudden torrent of heat that appeared behind Luffy.

"Who is that?"

"My future husband," I breathed, taking one look at that cheeky grin and doing the most eloquent move in my arsenal.

I fainted.

I spluttered as a bucket of seawater was poured over my head, taking one look at my disappointed sensei before slinking into my corner of shame. From there, I alternated between shame-dom and listening to Luffy as he explained the wonder that was my future husband.

"So Eve, are you really gonna marry Ace?" Luffy grinned from his seat upon the Merry's railings, yellow stars forming in his eyes. "Does this make Buggy and that huge dinosaur my parents too?"

"They're not-" I cut off, one finger suspended in the air before lowering it to tilt my head to the side, "you know what, Luffy? Yes. Me and Ace will become husband and wife, bringing together Pirates, Revolutionaries, Marines and prehistoric dinosaurs all in one beautiful ceremony."

I dabbed at my eyes, picturing what was likely to be the weirdest wedding to have ever taken place in this world of madness. The Strawhats on one side, and the Whitebeard Pirates on the other. I could picture Buggy crying, Ma's gigantic eye beaming at me, my velociraptor brothers and sisters were the ring bearers, and of course there was Ace in a tux-shorts combo with no shirt and a bow tie, promising to forever be by my side as the highest order on the sea, Whitebeard, said our marriage vows.

The crew stepped back as Eve began to drool, creating a puddle at their feet as Luffy was slammed into the now wet decking, replaced by his brother.

"ACE!"

"Yo."

The whole crew turned to Eve, her mouth open to spew nothing but an indistinguishable garble amongst a series of high-pitched titters and squeals, blue eyes brushing the ground as she grasped her wrist and twisted her body back and forth.

I was playing it… so cool. I was rather proud of myself when my body turned to goo as opposed to actually losing consciousness this time. It was rather hard to have someone admire your oh-so-obvious charms if you weren't even awake… oh. Ace's running gag might be a problem. Never mind, in Sanji's words: love will overcome all barriers!

"So, why are you here, Ace?" Luffy beamed.

"He- he-he squeee ah-"

Zoro's eyes flicked to the stammering Eve, her cheeks tinged pink before flicking them to Ace, who was scratching his head, politely waiting for the half-wit to speak. Deciding they didn't have all day, he grabbed Usopp's wrist, the sniper himself shrieking as he was pulled in front of Eve, obscuring her view of Luffy's brother.

"Don't you remember, Luffy?" I reminded him, prodding him in the cheek. "I told you he would be waiting for us in Alabasta. It was in the message he left for you."

"Huh, how'd you get my message?" Ace frowned, as Luffy rubbed his head and said 'oh right, I forgot'.

"I know the future," I beamed, wiggling my fingers in mystery as the entire crew's jaws dropped and hit the deck.

"Huh, makes sense," Ace nodded.

"I can't believe you just admitted that!" Usopp exclaimed before turning to Ace. "And you believe her? Just like that? Maybe you're more like Luffy than I thought."

"It's rare, but not impossible," Ace shrugged, peeking out from behind Usopp. "Although I've never heard of it at this sort of scale. Looks like you've got some interesting crewmates, Luffy."

I momentarily wondered if I had spontaneously combusted as my cheeks filled with a deep heat, as if I had eaten the Mera Mera no Mi myself. Meanwhile, Sanji had positioned himself on the railing next to Ace and glared at him. I snorted like a buffalo. Ace hadn't even noticed, proceeding to grin at me as I snorted in his face. How embarrassing.

"Well, I'm glad I found you. Since I'm here for a minor task I thought I'd try to meet up with you," Ace continued as I sweat-dropped, his eyes narrowing on us. "Luffy, will you come join the Whitebeard crew? With your friends, of course."

"Yes," I breathed, staring at him wistfully as my feet began to lift from the deck and I drifted towards him, Zoro having to yank me back.

"NO WAY."

"Just thought I'd ask," Ace laughed, his smile like a thousand suns as I tried not to flood the deck with my drool again.

As I was recalled from my internal fantasies, it looked like Ace had conducted his business to give Luffy his vivre card and was preparing to head off. Wow, I had missed everything staring into those dreamy ab- I mean eyes!

"Having a dumb little brother makes an older brother worry. He probably gives you lots of trouble too," Ace beamed at us. "Take care of him for me, alright?"

"Wait," I called, grabbing his wrist and flushing red when I realised I was practically holding hands with him. "Um- I have a- ah-"

Usopp looked at the bounty poster in Eve's hand, sighing as he passed it to Ace, along with a pen and what seemed to be a letter with his name on it.

"She probably wants you to sign it to put in her scrapbook," Usopp guessed, taking the blonde's hiccup as confirmation.

(And you know if you want to put your Den Den Mushi on there, yeah, that'd be fine too.)

"I'd be honoured," Ace chuckled, lifting an eyebrow at me as I realised I had completely spaced out and hadn't let go of his wrist yet.

I blushed furiously, practically hearing the grinding of Sanji's teeth. Ace scribbled across the bounty poster, his hand flicking with flames slightly so that it singed the edges of the paper. Any other person and I would have gotten mad, but on his bounty poster? Sooo cooooool! I beamed as he handed it back, clutching the thing to my chest as tightly as I could without wrinkling it.

"And what's this?" he grinned, waving my letter in the air.

"Huh, is that the wedding invitation, Eve?" Luffy inquired, reaching out his rubber hand towards the paper to prompt me to slap his hand away as I went from internal-combustion to supernova (and not the badass rookie kind, not yet anyway…).

Taking a deep breath, I opened my mouth, staring into those dreamy eyes, only to find my words had escaped me.

"Here, try this Eve," Usopp suggested, quickly crafting a mask made from a paper plate and a piece of string, and setting it over Ace's face.

"Thanks Usopp!" I beamed, looking into the paper plate with… was that panda-man? Oh you know what, forget it, we don't have time to dwell on this. "I know you're hunting down Blackbeard, but there's some… stuff in there that you need to know."

Like 'don't die'.

"All I need to know is that, as the second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, it's my duty to finish him off," Ace revealed, his eyes visibly hardened through the slits in his mask as he attempted to hand back my letter.

"Take it, or I will not hesitate to knock you into a kiddy pool of seawater and keep you prisoner, regardless of the Marines about to come down on our asses," I growled, channeling Satan (who was on my side for the pure fact he didn't want a rival in the underworld that could burn his ass) prompting a chorus of 'do it' and 'take it' from a quivering Nami and Usopp from behind.

"Heh, alright, I'll take it," Ace agreed, tucking it into the waistband of his shorts before removing the mask from his face and handing it back to Usopp.

With that I bobbed my head towards him, allowing Luffy and Ace to say their goodbyes whilst Ace prepared his boat, and the crew admitted their adoration towards my future husband. Even senpai approved! Guess who's going to be the maid of honour!

"See you later!" Luffy called, a hand extended upwards to wave goodbye.

I smiled, looking out into the ocean as Ace sailed away into the distance. I squinted my eyes as he seemed to take my letter into his hand. Seemingly ignoring the incoming Marines, he turned back, his eyes meeting my own… as his hand was ignited in a burst of flames and my letter turned to ashes before my very eyes.

Zoro looked to Eve as her eyeballs seemingly left their sockets, her back hitting the ground as the blue-pupiled orbs retracted back into her skull. She twitched on the ground, her face deathly pale as foam began to escape from her slack jaw.

"Shishishi, looks like Ace got cold feet," Luffy cackled, holding his stomach as he walked past my stilled form, unconcerned.

"Was it... important?" Zoro frowned, eyes narrowed as he crouched by my side.

All I could manage was a whimper in response, my body curling into a fetal position as I began to rock back and forth.

"Ahhhhhh."

I blinked, my vision beginning to clear as I took in the sun bearing down on my cloaked form to Tony Tony Chopper, who was clinging to my chest.

"Chopper, what's going on?"

I blinked at the sight of a huge lizard crawling across the desert floor… huh, when did we get to the desert? Luffy and a perverted camel were running away from it at full speed, prompting me to draw out a throwing knife.

"Gomu Gomu-"

"Tatsu-"

"Epaule-"

"Abracastabra!" I bellowed sending my knife in the open jaw of the beast just as Sanji, Luffy and Zoro delivered their own blows.

"-Maki", "-Whip", "-Shoot".

"Make sure you return the knife, Sanji. I can't afford to lose any more of them!" I bellowed, with my hand cupped around my mouth.

"Of course, my warrior goddess!" Sanji beamed as he began to hack at the lizard. "Err, I think it came out the other end…"

"Forget it, I don't want to touch that thing," I sweat-dropped, making the crew members turn their slack-jaws towards me which, oddly enough, sent them swinging. "What the hell happened guys? When did we get so far into the desert? And why does my back hurt like hell?"

I rolled by shoulders before beginning to slowly twist my head, frowning as my muscles felt like they were burning.

"You were in some sort of catatonic state," Chopper explained, rubbing his hoof to his chin. "I didn't think my miracle hugs could fix this too. I should probably conduct some research on the matter…"

"And the aching?" I blinked.

"Shishishi, we were trying to see how much we could get away with making you carry before you noticed," Luffy grinned.

"Oh… was it a lot?"

"We ran out of stuff," Luffy chirped.

I wasn't even mad. That was some pretty impressive display of human buckaroo right there. Damn, zombie me was a badass! Something to consider for Thriller Bark. I might end up killing myself.

"Were we still robbed by birds?"

"Yup."

"Oh, good," I beamed, losing a few brain cells in the process as Nami clomped me on the head.

"Great, just what we need - Eve back in full form," Nami sighed, pinching her nose before heading off to chat up a perverted camel.

That girl knows no shame! But then again, neither did I.

"Alright, who wants a ride?" I offered with a snicker, bending my knees as I motioned for someone to climb on my back. "Senpai?"

"I think you've got enough free-loaders as it is," Zoro scoffed, scowling at Usopp perched on my shoulders as I wrapped my arms around Chopper. Meanwhile, Zoro grabbed Luffy's ankle to drag him along the sand since he had been chomping hallucinogenic cacti. "Let's just get this over with."

"Aye, aye senpai."

"AH-CHOO!"

"YOU JUST SNEEZED INTO MY FACE!" Vivi fumed, looking like she was fighting her innermost instincts to not punch me, hands twitching.

We had successfully transversed the desert, learnt from a man named after a dog that the Revolution had moved on (to which I had to explain I fancied a stroll in the desert - didn't go down well), and were now bedding down for the night in the accommodation he had offered to us.

"Well sorry, but evidently Baroque Works are plotting against us," I huffed, folding my arms into my chest, "and I couldn't help but stare at your dopey expression as you reminisced about your boyfriend."

"What! I was not," Vivi pouted, mimicking my stance as I gave her a dead-pan look, knowing full well that she was thinking about her childhood friend who just so happened to be leading the Alabastan Rebellion at the moment, "and you have no right to talk after what happened to your-"

My eyes narrowed as Zoro clamped a hand over the Princesses mouth.

"I wouldn't finish that sentence, unless you want to die," he warned her, giving me a stern look of warning as I scraped the blades of my dual knives against each other menacingly.

"Fine," I huffed, rolling my eyes, picking up Chopper and clutching him to my side like a teddy bear as I climbed the ladder to my bed, and sat there with a huff.

"You sure like pillows, Eve," Chopper sweat-dropped, looking at the collection I had managed to gather as I pressed a finger to my lips and cackled.

I watched… I waited… and when the pillows started to be thrown around the room? I striked.

"FIRE THE CANNONS!" I called, grabbing the corner of the pillows and windmilling them over the side of the bed. "10 points, 10 points, 10,000 points!"

I whooped in celebration, watching as Usopp, Sanji and Vivi were whomped in the face with cushions, blinking as the fourth and final pillow hit…senpai.

"Minus 10,000 points," I meeped, using my form to shield Chopper as my back was assaulted with pillows travelling at the speed of light, every one like a bullet to my spine and the fourth like a bulldozer.

I crashed back into the bed, Chopper cradling my defeated form.

"Don't go into the candy floss clouds!" the reindeer sniffed as he bawled his eyes out.

"Avenge me!" I croaked, clutching a hand to my heart before slumping into the mattress.

"I would walk five hundred miles,

And I would walk five-hundred more,

Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles,

To fall down at your door,

Da da da-da!"

"Dahh dahhh da-d-ugh!"

I cut off in my singing, making a 'yuck' expression as Usopp wheezed back a reply, quite frankly sounding like a dried up old man. Yep, we were walking again. In the desert (mm, chocolate pudding).

"You know you could always drink your urine, Usopp," I suggested, making the whole crew turn to me and go 'bleh'.

"Alrighty then," I sighed, the silence stretching out with nothing by panting and dry whispers of 'water', "Luffy-"

"You worry too much, Eve," Luffy grinned. "What happens, happens, you know?"

"Oh I know, I just wanted to tell you your zippers down."

Luffy went bug-eyed, the sound of a zipper joining the silence.

"And remember: the number one rule to swing or get stabbed?" I added, casually strolling ahead in the ever-lasting desert.

"Swing, don't get stabbed!" Luffy beamed, oblivious to the sweat-dropping crew mates behind him. "I'm great at that game!"

"Should we really have let them do it?" Sanji frowned, looking into the direction in which Usopp and Luffy had headed into Rainbase to restock our water supply, now we had finally left the desert (mm, chocolate pudding).

"Hahahahaha-" I clamped my hands over my mouth, cutting off my laughter.

"That's a no then," Nami sighed, already heaving herself onto her feet. "What happened?"

I snorted like a buffalo.

"They-" I spluttered with laughter, holding my hands wide as if I was holding a barrel, tipping it back into my mouth- "then-" I mimicked a geyser coming from my mouth whilst going 'shuuh'.

"They ate someone and then regergitated them?" Vivi frowned.

"Did you just make a funny?" I blinked back, cracking out into a shit-eating grin as the Marines rounded the corner (again). "Ut-oh, run-run as fast as can be, you can't catch me, I'm SAVAGE T. EVE!"

I cackled, half-skipping, half-running along the streets of Rainbase with the Marines in pursuit as the crew decided to split up and meet back up at Crocodile's Casino. I turned a corner, my shaul from the desert catching to rip from my body just as I whipped around to face my opponents.

"Get ready for a but-" the mass of Marines in front of me fell like dominos, each, and, every single one, "-whooping."

I blinked, slamming my fists into the ground in a blind rage, creating craters in the street as the citizens began to scream and run away (#hulkingit).

"God dammit!" I snarled, picking up what remained of my ripped cloak and wrapping it around the dancer's dress. "What the hell does a girl have to do to get a decent fight around here?"

I closed my eyes as I threw out any sense of logic and reason when it came to direction, blindly running along the streets and pinning any stray Marines that had lost their comrades to the walls of the buildings along the way.

"Don't insult me by fighting me one-on-one, ya limp noodles!" I snarled at them, doing a rather impressive imitation of Ma as the Marines hopelessly tried to pull at the knives keeping them in place.

Rounding a corner, I beamed as I came across a mass of Marines, a very familiar spectacle amongst them. I sucked in my breath, meeting my senpai's eyes across the way as he clenched his jaw at me, both of us separated by their group.

"Don't-"

"HEY, SENPAI! LOOK! IT'S YOUR GIRLFRIEND!" I bellowed, eyes gleaming as I placed my dual knives into my hands and the Marines turned around to blink at me.

They charged. I cackled, spinning to knock five Marine blades to the floor as they slumped to the ground. I kicked up my foot to send another three flying, smacking into each other along the way before they hit the wall behind them, which crumbled into the ground and crushed a whole bunch more under the rubble.

"Wooo! Looks like you just found yourself in a... rocky relationship!" I beamed, a rather loud wind howling in the area as one of the Marines coughed into his hand, a tumbleweed bouncing across the street.

Note to self, don't use Sokka's jokes. I slashed my knife at a Marine's face (the one who coughed coincidentally). The Marine jutted back, his hat flying into the air as I stomped on his chest and made him hit the floor as his hat landed on top of my head.

"Hats off to ya!" I grinned, before setting my sights of the sea of Marines that stood between me and my senpai.

"We'll never let you pass!" One brave soul piped up, suddenly finding himself in a grey wizards hat and in possession of a staff instead of his sword. "What the?"

"Fly you fools!"

I jumped, a series of grunts coming from below me as I used the Marines heads as stepping stones, coming face-to-face with one very pissed off Tashigi. I used the last Marine's head as a springboard, launching myself into the air as she lifted her blade. Our blades struck, metal ringing out as I blocked her blow with my dual knives, practically doing a handstand during the clash. I pushed my arms back, landing on the ground in a crouch with my head directed to the floor.

"That was… TOTALLY WICKED!"

I flicked my head up to her, my smile so wide that I think it was about to drop off my face. Similarly, the Tashigi's head snapped up- oh fucking shit, I was dead!

"Err, cookie?" I offered, throwing it towards her so that the cotton-candy edition of my glorious baked goods was caught in the woman's hand to be crushed into nothingness. "Meep."

I turned around, sprinting at full speed to catch up to my senpai.

"Don't say a word," he growled through gritted teeth as we both ran towards the casino.

"Your girlfriend is scary, senpai!" I chirped, causing a vein on Zoro's head to bulge as he kicked out a foot towards me.

I dodged, resulting in some Marine gunners to take the hit in my stead.

"Zoro!" Nami called out in relief, having apparently been saved by my excellent dodging skills.

"What did I say!" Zoro yelled at me.

"Not sure, I was too busy running away from your scary girlfriend," I shivered before readjusting the hat on my head.

"Can you guys do this later!" Nami yelled, whomping us both around the head in one efficient blow as Luffy sprinted towards us.

"Let's go, everybody! Run inside!" Luffy yelled, not even stopping to join in the light banter (rude, but I'll forgive him, because it's Luffy). "Just you wait, Crocodile!"

A/N: So there you go... ACE! I hope I didn't build it up too high and then you got all disappointed that was it, but I must admit I liked the idea of the fact Eve tried to help and got royally screwed over ('cus I'm a cruel author). Also just to reassure you there will never be a couple in this. Just Eve's blatant fangirl obsessions, and other people's fangirl/fatherly obsessions with Eve. Weirdly I did think about this, and you know who I thought suited Eve perfectly? Penguin. Is that weird? I just thought they would be adorable together. Meh.

The-Killer40513 - Haha yeah, Eve is badass. They wouldn't worry about her. Probably more likely Nami and Usopp would worry she is about to get them into trouble with her eccentricity!

Iris my Beloved - Yes, yes they are in this Chapter. Also show me a person that wouldn't love Chopper. There is no one on this earth, I guarantee.

Armamaril - Luffy always understands! Eve is going to have an interesting part to play to bring down Crocodile. This will include both epic fails and legendary actions. I can't wait!

Lily E. Miller - Yeah, I thought the last chapter might be one of those that splits opinion! But we are now back to normal now, with more senpai than ever! She did not troll Ace... Ace trolled her XD