Dear Readers,
I hope everyone is good. I'm hope this chapter would be good. I can't believe I finish this arc. ^^. I can't wait to start the Sky Island arc. I came up with this idea. I have 64 reviews. If I can get ten more reviews, I will give the biggest scene on my nest update. Also, a hint on what will happen to Angelina when she is in God's Garden. Anyway, I must reply to my fans that left a review for thy others. I send my love 3 ^_^.
dark driex 07- Me too. I want to see what will Mihawk do when he sees Angelina hurt by his fellow shichibukai. Thank you for loving this story.
10th squad 3rd seat- I know that dream is hot just wait a little bit longer and you will see something so hot it will melt dry ice. lol
The moon lights up the desert with a silver light. We travel with the Duck Squad back to our ship.I'm riding the coolest of the bunch, the Viking Duck. I couldn't help but to stay quite. Not only did I left a good friend behind but my right eye is getting worse. Chopper ask me what happen to it, trying to get information, but I couldn't remember. Some parts of the torture I don't remember but I know that Crocodile did all these injuries to me. Everything is heal except for bruises here and there. I lightly touch my covered eye. Vivi made me an white eye was made of leather. Chopper decides to make this pill for my body. He said I need a lot of nutrition to repair anything inside my eye. In two weeks if my eye doesn't get better, Chopper might have to operate.
I look ahead of me and see the Merry Go. Then I see the famous Mr. Two, a relatively tall male cross dresser who wears flamboyant ballet clothes with a swan theme. He reminds of a drag queen. Well, only his personality reminds me of a drag queen.
"Why do you make me wait for so long? I hope you were thinking of me?" He said, twirling around. My left eye starts to twitch. I hop off and take the luggage from the duck. Sanji quickly helps me with it.
"I got it, Angel-chan!" Sanji said, happily. He stares a bit at my right eye. I look away in shame. I watch as Zoro and Sanji help with the luggage. We wave goodbye to the Duck squad.
"Goodbye! Tell everyone our thanks!~" Luffy and Usopp yell as the ducks runs off. I walk up the steps and on the boat. I smile. I miss the Merry Go.
"Back again to the seas, where pirates belong," I said, opening my arms. Then out of nowhere Luffy is right beside me celebrating. I laugh and join him in this dance. Not long Chopper,Usopp, and Bon Clay join our dance, singing about friendship and going back to the seas. What we didn't know is the battle that I'm going to be in later on.
I always wonder how determine can a marine be? Oh wait, I didn't ask anyone this. This morning somehow the Merry Go is surround by eight giant marine ships. I thought they might shoot cannons but no. They decide to shoot black long, and spiked spears at us. I'm holding up a board so Chopper can hammer it down. The water is spraying all over me.
"Hurry up ,Chopper, I can't hold it," I said, looking away from the wall. Some sea water went into my left eye. I close my eye for a second.
Bang! Ba-Bang!
My ears starts to ring a bit. I could feel something went past my head. I open my eye and see nothing wrong. The board is up. I let go but Chopper screams out though. I turn around and see another black spear so near to my face that if I stuck out my tongue, I'll touch it.
"Holy mother of Roger! We're going to die if we don't do anything!" I yell at Chopper. Chopper goes up and screams at the crew to do something. Then two new spears comes through the Merry Go and they pin me to the wall. They cross and almost pierce me at the neck region. I couldn't move.
"Chopper! Help me!" I said, struggling to move the spears. Chopper looks down and sees me. He goes up and brings Sanji and Zoro.
"Angel-chan, I'll save you," Sanji said, pushing the spear out into the ocean. Zoro cuts the spear in two. I drop to the floor, breathing heavily. Zoro, Chopper, and Sanji helps me up and we went to the deck.I said my thanks I see that Vivi and Carue came to see us. I wonder if they are going to join or not.
"...I can't go with you on your journey,but...when we see each other again can we still be friends?!" Vivi said,yelling through a speaker snailphone. I see that the Marines are on us. Luffy was about to yell back his answer but Nami and I stop him.
"The Marines will hear us and they'll see her as a criminal as well,"Nami said, releasing her hand. I release my grip as well. Luffy frown and starts to unwrap the bandage that we made for countering Bon Clay. All of us shows off our 'X' to Vivi. It is a nice goodbye. I start to cry a bit. I hate goodbyes like this.
Finally, we left the sandy kingdom and on the sea again. The day is beautiful. The sun shining like a giant fireball. 'Oh wait it is a fireball' I thought. The waves gently wave back and , I couldn't take in this scene. I feel like we are missing something. It is Vivi. She decides to stay home. The last thing Vivi, Nami, and I did together was shopping. Nami bought a lot of shorts and tank tops. I bought new clothes as well also something else. Yet, I miss Vivi.
"What is wrong with you?" Zoro asks us. Everyone is lying next to each other on the floor.
"We miss her~" We whine together. Tears come down like a waterfall on everyone.
"Just accept she decides to stay and get it over with," Zoro said. Everyone glared at him.
"Barbarian!" Chopper yells.
"Jerk!" I said.
"Evil basterd!" Nami mutters.
"Devil!" Sanji said, with a passion.
"Three swords," Luffy said.
"Luffy, Three swords is not an insult," Usopp explains. Luffy thought of another one.
"Four swords," he said. Usopp sighs.
"You just add a sword. Call him cabbage head. That can be an insult," Usopp said. Zoro waves us off.
"Go ahead and cry for all I care," Zoro said. Then the downstairs door opens.
"At last, we are at sea. Good Work," someone said. We look down to see Nico Robin. Zoro had his hands on his swords. Nami took out her stick.
"What are you doing here?" Zoro asks her.
"Why are you here?" Nami demands. I am beside Nami in full fight stance. I agree with her. Then Sanji has jelly legs and is all "pretty lady" on me.
"Enemy on Board!" Usopp screams through a megaphone. How the hell did he get a megaphone? More importantly how did she get on this ship?
"Ahh! Who is she?" Chopper asks us. He tried horribly to hide behind the mast. Luffy just tilt his head in curiosity.
"You're not dead?" he asks himself. Then Robin uses her devil ability. She disarms Zoro and Nami.
"Don't point these dangerous things at me. Didn't I tell you before?" she said to us. I growl and lunge myself to her. She makes more of her hands on my body and I landed on my stomach. Her hands pins my arms and legs together. I can't get up and I could see her since everyone is on my right side.
"Since when did you get on board?" Nami asks her. Robin smiles and grabs a chair out of the closet under the stairs.
"I was here in the cabin, reading a book," She said. Then her attention went to Luffy. I am still on the floor.
"Let me go," I said. She completely ignores me.
"Monkey. D. Luffy. You didn't forget what you said to me?" She said unfolding the chair. Sanji's eye twitches.
"What did you say to the beautiful woman, Luffy," Sanji said, shaking him. Robin decides to let me go. Slowly I get up and dust off my clothes. I glare at the back of her head.
"Please leave the ship!" Usopp said through the megaphone. I am wishing that I still have my sea-stone gloves.
"I didn't say anything to you," Luffy said. I doubt it. He always says something stupid. Robin sits down on the chair.
"No. I remember clearly. You better take responsibility," Robin says. Then she said something outrageous.
"Let me join your crew," she said, smiling.
That's it. I am staying here in my safe little cot. I am not going out there ever again until the next island. First, Luffy lets Robin be in our group which I am okay with. I am glad there is another girl in the group. Not only that but she kept my A-Shichibukai-is-my-friend secret and return my snailuphone. I completely forgot about that.
I need to call him a.s.a.p. I was about to go inside but there was a fallen ship. Then the monkey came along to play salvage the ship and 'this is my territory'. Then the sky went completely dark like the night and these giant figures appear. Finally, everyone thinks there is an island in the sky and we are going to Java to get information.
That is when I decide to stay where I am, in a safe place. I don't know why though. I should be out there helping my friends out on the ship but a heavy pain in my chest appears. I told Chopper about this and he said to get some rest. I sigh. That is what I need a break from this crazy adventures, the dangerous threat of dying at any point, the marines trying all their might to capture us alive or dead, and missing my family back home. It's too much. I just want to curl up in fetal position and cry my eyes out. Then I would cry some more but I need to be strong like Zoro, Luffy, and Sanji. I don't see them crying at all. I don't even see them flinch in battle.
Ring Ring
Ri-ring
Ring ring
"Hello," a voice answers the phone. I bit my lip.
"Mihawk," I said, quietly. I am afraid because it has been five days which marks today his birthday.
"Happy Birthday," I continue. I can hear his breathing.
"Are you okay? Do you know I was worry about you? Why didn't you answer the phone when I call you?" he asks me. What shocks me the most is that he cares for my well-being? I didn't know what to say.
"I'm okay. I just had a roller coaster of adventure. It seems that I forgot I had the snailuphone in my pocket. ," I said, telling some truth. Mihawk just said my name and I was about breakdown. I only cry when I am alone. I can't have him know that I am about to cry.
"I'm o-okay. I-I," I said, growing silent. 'Damn, I making him worry for nothing. I am fine. Just tell him,' I thought but the words never formed.
"Angelina, I am coming. Tell me where you are?" he asked. It took me forever to forms the words.
"About to go to J-java, but you can't come. T-the crew will see you. Zoro will see you and then he will want to fight you," I stutter my words.
"Don't worry. They will never know," he said. I wipe my tears away .I nod my head. I believe his words.
"Okay. I'll be waiting," I said. Mihawk said his goodbye and reassures me that he would be there. I hang up and curled into a little ball. I will not show this weakness. I will not let anyone know about this. I need to hold this feeling in and bottle it up.
"Miss Lifeguard," Robin calls out. Immediately, I wipe my tears and nose. I hop off the cot and look up to the door. Robin smiles as she found me.
"Miss Lifeguard, would you like to accompany to gather information on Java once we land," She asks. I answer quickly.
"Okay!"
My eye twitches a bit. The Grandline's weather is crazier than back home. I ask Nami how long does it take to get to Java? She said two days. So, I sit there in our room, watching her doing her stuff. I sigh loudly. Nami looks at me. I look away. Nami mumbles under her breath. I change my position on the chair. I put both my arms on top of the back of the chair. I put my head on them and sigh loudly.
"Are we there yet, Nami," I said, being bored.
"No!" Nami said, sharply. I tsk. I look where Robin is. She is reading one of those books about history. She really loves history. I know I couldn't bother her while she is reading in here. When she reads in here, it is a sign to me that she wants alone time. When she reads anywhere else, it is a sign to everyone to mingle with her. I went back to bothering Nami again.
"Are we there yet now, Nami," I ask.
"No," Nami said. I huff. I wait a bit more.
"How about now?" I ask, innocently. Nami turns her head slowly. Her eyes are dilate and twitching.
"Want to say that again?" Nami said, growling. I giggle nervously before running away. I went to the deck to see something unusual. I rub my eyes to get rid of the scene I see. I look back to see that he is still there.
"Zoro, why are you cleaning?" I ask him. He grunts as he puts the mop into the bucket.
"Nami told me to clean to pay off some of my debt to her," he said, going back to cleaning. I shrug. My mom didn't raise any fool. I do not ask money knowing that I can't pay them back. I decide to see what the three musketeers are doing. I open the door to the kitchen to only duck out of the way of a flying Luffy and Usopp. Chopper follows them.
"Stay out of my kitchen, you lechers," Sanji said. Then he looks at me.
"Angel-chan, I'm sorry. Please accept these fresh bake chocolate-"Sanji said, but I am already sitting down and eating the cookies. He knows me so well.
"Sanji, you are sweeter than cookies," I said, eating a cookie. 'Oh god, this is so good. It melts into my mouth' I thought. It is so soft and chocolaty. The way it swims to my stomach to be digest.
"Angel-chan~" Sanji said, twirling around. He goes back to cooking in a good mood. Until there is a familiar pitter patters sound.
"I didn't know it was going to rain," Sanji said, looking out his little kitchen window. I lick my lips to wet them. I look back to see Sanji in such a peaceful face. I smile.
"That's the Grandline for you," I said, eating the last cookie.
"Those were good cookies, Sanji," I complement him. Sanji smiles and turns to me.
"Thank you, Angel-chan that means a lot from a beautiful woman like you" Sanji said, stirring the soup. I blush.
"Thanks," I mumble. Usopp, Luffy, and Chopper come in from the rain.
"Oi I thought I told you not to come in here," Sanji said frowning. Usopp and Chopper went behind Luffy.
"But there is nothing to do," Luffy, whined a bit.
"Sanji, stop frowning. You don't look cute anymore," I said, pinching one of his cheeks. I let go and put the plate in the sink. I turn around to face them.
"I'll be entertaining you guys until dinner is ready? So let's play," I said smiling. 'And I know the perfect one' I thought to myself.
"Hooray," Luffy exclaim, glad that he was not bored.
"What game are we playing, Angelina," Chopper said, shaking on my pants. My smile turns into a full demonic grin. Chopper went behind the shaking Ussop.
"We are going to play Truth or Dare," I said, sitting at the table. Luffy sat down across of me calmly. Usopp and Chopper sat next to Luffy just in case. I guess I scared them by accident.
"How do you play that," they said, getting interested.
"Well, you ask someone Truth or Dare. Then that person decides either Truth, where you must answer truthfully, or Dare, where you must perform the task given to you," I said. I look at them and they were just nodding. I sigh. They didn't get it.
"Um… Usopp ask me Truth or Dare," I said, ready to give an example.
"Truth or Dare, Angelina," Usopp ask me.
"Truth. Now ask me a question," I said, without hesitation. Ussop thought about it.
"Do you like my brother?" Luffy ask. Usopp is mad. He turns around to Luffy. Sanji stop cooking and is listening to the conversation. I lift my eyebrow. 'Note to self: ask Luffy why he ask such a question' I thought.
"OI, it's my turn to ask the question here," Usopp said. Then he looks at me.
"Do you like Luffy's brother?" He said. 'Wow great creativity' I thought.
"No, I don't like Ace like that. I see him as a friend," I said. They nod, getting the Truth concept. Sanji went back to his cooking. I can tell he is smiling due to the reflection of the window.
"Now, I am going to pick Dare. Usopp, tell me to do something," I said. Ussop went back to thinking. Then he smiles.
"Call me Captain Usopp the Great," he said. I sigh. This is going to boost his ego a bit.
"Yes Captain Usopp the Great," I said, finding the loophole. He said to call him only one time.
"I like this game," Chopper said.
"Now it is my turn. Luffy, Truth or Dare," I said. Luffy grins.
"Dare! DARE!" he said, getting excited. I smile. 'Right into my trap' I thought.
"I dare you to bark like a dog whenever someone says Salt n Pepper," I said, smirking. Usopp and Chopper looks and grins.
"Salt n Pepper," They said. Luffy barks like a dog. We waited a bit.
"Salt n Pepper!" Sanji said, joining to the game. Luffy barks again. All of us laugh.
"Ussop, Truth or Dare,"Luffy said.
"Tch, Dare,"Usopp said, without thinking. Luffy grins.
"When I bark like a dog, I dare you to meow like a cat," Luffy said. I grin. It is on when dinner is ready.
When dinner came around, it is very entertaining. Zoro, Robin, and Nami didn't know why Luffy was barking like a dog or Usopp meowing.
"Nami, could you pass the salt n pepper," I said. Nami glares at Luffy and Usopp. Luffy barks like a terrier while Ussop meows.
"Could you stop doing that," Nami said. I giggle. I can't wait for more Truth or Dare games.
Everything was going so smoothly yesterday. I don't know what happen but I am having a heart attack.
"Enemy in Sight! Enemy in Sight!" Usopp screaming, around the deck. I woke up with a fright and fell off the cot.
Thud
"Ow," I said, getting up. I grab my pink gloves and ran to the deck. Everyone is looking out into a fog on the right side of the ship. Usopp is looking with his binoculars and shaking. Nami, Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy are next to him. Robin is leaning against the mast. I know Chopper must be sleeping. My eye lids barely stay open.
"Where's the enemy?" I said, yawning. I did not get enough sleep. I look around to see a lot of fog around our ship. I look at the direction everyone is looking at and saw nothing from the entrance to the lower part of the ship. I see nothing at all. Then something caught my eyes. A green light is lit. Someone is there. Zoro grip his katanas harder. I could see that he is tense. Sanji drop his cigarette. Luffy squint his eyes. He tries to see who it is.
"It-It-It's Shichibukai Dracule Mihawk!" Usopp screams.