Wishfull-star: (*´▽`*)

Caimie shouted at them to get onto the gondola that belonged to the princes to bring Sanji to the place with the most humans. The four got onto the ship, Sanji still bleeding. Luffy wanted Zoro already. The mermaid said she'd donate in a minute if she had the same blood type.

"I'm sorry I can do nothing," she said in shame as the eel took them where they wanted. It didn't seem loyal to the princes much. Luffy stood and looked and listened to the fishmen pirates that were clearly enemies. They were still out cold. Though one of them was moaning in pain. He hadn't pulled his punches. The guys were annoying. As if they would join them!

Luffy didn't care who the hell Hordy Jones was. He didn't care.

"Seeing the whole thing on Sabaody two years, and now here, the racism problem runs deep, huh?"

"I don't get why they took it out on us. We aren't bad!"

"We did take out some of their people. The Arlong guys. Those fishmen had their tattoos, right? They might hold a grudge on us because of that, too," Usopp explained. "Donating blood… well that was annoying." Luffy wished he could donate his blood. "We don't know what that would do to anybody. Your blood burns people, remember?"

"Only enemies. But I won't do that," Luffy replied. Caimie looked surprised. "It's another weird thing," the captain said simply. The mermaid didn't ask again as they headed towards the city, though she was worried about how things would go.

"I don't know if we can find a donor fast enough. Pirates haven't been coming down in the past month or so. You guys are the first for a while," she said in concern. The other three were worried, too.

Luffy said finding humans would be hard for him scent wise because it had been awhile since they came. Some fishmen smelled differently than humans, but he found the mermaids mostly smelled human. "It'll be hard to sniff humans out," Luffy summed it up. Usopp and Chopper looked at Sanji in worry.

"Who knew a nosebleed would cause such a big problem," Usopp muttered.

Chopper was very worried with how much blood he was losing. After Luffy had not fully healed from Marineford, it made him feel less dependent on only blood to heal, and would get actual medical treatment, too. He was still happy it could heal many wounds, but he no longer saw it as a cure to everything like he had before.

He looked down at his arm, absolute proof of that.

"Why has nobody come in awhile?" Luffy wondered.

"We don't know, but there's rumors that somebody or something is stopping new ships from arriving on the island." Luffy wondered if it was Surume. "Who's that?"

"Luffy tamed the kraken," Usopp said, still sounding disbelieving. Luffy told the mermaid he'd gotten better with animals over the last two years.

"That's amazing, Luffy-chin," Caimie praised. Luffy liked not scaring them away automatically. And not making the fishmen and merfolk worried with his presence. "You would be unwelcome if you still gave off that feeling," she commented. Luffy smiled, but it was due to Rayleigh's help the most. He was a great tutor.

The captain said, "I even found somebody like me after the Sabaody mess. She was from Amazon Lily and seemed to be just like me." Chopper tried plugging Sanji's nose, but it was still lightly bleeding, turning the gauze red. He was very worried. Luffy was a bit, but knew Sanji wouldn't die like this. Hopefully.

They found two willing men who were glad to help with just a single question. They both donated quite a bit, since Sanji had lost a lot of blood with that nosebleed. Almost all the blood in his body! Through his nose, how… gross?

The two men reminded Luffy of new kamas. A few hours after the blood transfusions started, Sanji woke up. They were all so relieved. "Where… am I?" he asked, confused after he passed out with the mermaids and made a fool of himself, even though the women were worried about his health. It was very nice for them to try and hide the four of them.

None wanted them to get arrested when they did nothing warranting it. They were not causing trouble here, humans already looked bad enough as it was. They would all know that. "You're in the house of some friends of mine in the port town! Sanji-chin, you almost lost all of the blood in your body!" she said in concern and shock. And a bit of disbelief.

Chopper cried in relief that they'd found donors in time, while Luffy frustratedly complained about not getting any help from fishmen or mermaids. Well, not donating blood. Luffy was laying on the couch, limp, both arms hung over the back of it. "We ran all around town but got no help at first!"

"It was very lucky they were here! I thought you were a goner for a while," Usopp said.

Sanji looked surprised that they went through all of that. "Don't do that again," Luffy said. "Even if you gotta avoid mermaids. Don't even think about them!"

"No way! I need to remember that heaven for the rest of my life. It would be so convenient to have Luffy's ability," he complained.

"Sanji-chin, you won't be so lucky next time!" Caimie said, almost scolding. He sighed, but looked very bothered. Usopp went to show the donors, and Sanji hoped it was a beautiful woman. But when Usopp moved the curtain beside, Sanji freaked out about the people who saved his life being crossdressers, or okama. Either one was more than possible.

"Think nothing of it, silly~!"

"You can have more if you'd like!"

Sanji screamed and Luffy laughed at his face. Now that the more pressing issue was over, Chopper asked to look at Luffy's arm. He put his left arm out, but Chopper asked for his right. There was a dot of purple on it. He inspected it and said there was a toxin in it. "Well, I'm fine," Luffy said. "Though I felt a nasty sensation, it passed."

"Well, you were also immune from the jellyfish!"

Luffy lightly said it was probably after Magellean poisoned him. That was much worse than this was. "Hey, so I was immune kind of after something. The smell of one of the gas poisons was so strong that it burnt up my sinuses, so I thought I was fine without it."

"Stop talking about it so casually!"

Luffy waved his hand. "I've nearly died a lot of times!" he said dismissively.

"I hate how true that is," Usopp sighed, Chopper nodding in agreement. Sanji asked if it was Ivankov that had helped, and he nodded. Sanji sighed, and muttered that he couldn't really hate the guy anymore.

"Neehee, he was a funny guy! He could even change a man into a woman," Luffy said brightly, making Sanji and Usopp's face go white. "I wonder what it would like to suddenly have boobs," he mused curiously.

"Stop talking about that!" Usopp begged.

"Shishishi!" Luffy giggled in amusement. Caimie looked amused but mostly awkward about the subject.

"Anyways, are you sure it doesn't hurt? You don't feel numb anywhere besides your other arm?" Chopper asked. Luffy nodded, feeling fine. He saw no reason to worry about him. Though it had to be from one of the fishmen he'd punched. He'd bet on the octopus one. When he went fishing once during the two years, he picked up an octopus that nearly poisoned him. Then he didn't know he was immune to poison, so it was kind of worrying.

"I wonder why fishmen would want humans on their crew? They can't really do anything in the water. And four of us were devil fruit users. Weird," Luffy commented.

Sanji fell back asleep eventually, and the boys took this opportunity to look around the mermaid cafe some more, without him as he'd probably spew out all that blood again, which would be a pain in the butt. They didn't tell him where they were going. Chopper wouldn't allow him to come even if he found out and threw a fit about it.

Luffy wanted to see Zoro, and wondered where he was. He was probably lost if he got separated from the others.

They met the owner of the cafe, a large shark mermaid. That was much cooler than the normal mermaids with fish tails. He and his crew looked around, seeing a large crystal ball. "Neh, big mermaid, what's that?" Luffy asked. Caimie didn't like the disrespect and firmly told him to call the shark mermaid "Madame Shirley".

"Don't go touching that, boys."

"That's Madame Shirley's crystal ball which she uses to see the future! She's famous for her accurate prophecies." But the shark mermaid had quit long ago. Seeing the future wasn't always the best thing to do.

"And life would be boring if you knew all about what would happen next," Luffy pointed out. "Neh, Caimie never answer but do mermaid's poop?" Luffy asked the question he'd made two years ago and never got an answer.

He wouldn't be getting one here either, as he offended the owner thoroughly, forcing Luffy to apologize. But she was a nice person, and gave Caimie the day off to show them around. "Sightseers haven't come in awhile, and business without them is not doing well," she said, smoking more of her pipe. "The girls from the cove will be here soon, and they're more than enough for business to continue," she pointed out, her voice soft and graceful somehow. Despite her being a shark mermaid.

Fishman Island was interesting so far, but it would be better with his boyfriend. "Neh, can you use the crystal ball to find my boyfriend? He's probably lost." But the shark mermaid said that wasn't how it looked.

"I also gave it up." Luffy frowned but nodded and didn't push anymore. They left the mermaid cafe to go look around.

"Oh, I forgot! I had to go bring Pappag his clams!" Caimie said. "He must be really hungry," she added.

"What's that? I heard Pappag is making quite the scene, reuniting with an old friend." The smaller mermaid wondered who it was. They left, though, without an answer, and headed up to the surface with the turtle elevator again. It really was cool underwater.

On their way, Caimie told them about the visions the shark mermaid had made that had come true. "She predicted the great pirate age, and also predicted Whitebeard would die," she said, the last part sounding a bit sad. "She also predicted Marineford. She's tired of seeing terrible things." He asked if she saw anything about him, but she hadn't. They were all upset about Whitebeard passing away. Things were better with him protecting their island. Luffy felt sad for it, too. Ace had loved him so much, and didn't even get to say goodbye.

"Whitebeard was a good man. I ended up yelling at him and then working together! Shishishi, everyone was so surprised."

"You yelled at Whitebeard?!" Chopper and Usopp asked.

"Yeah! I told him that he wasn't gonna be the Pirate King, I was. He wasn't bothered much. But that might'a only been cause I'm Ace's brother," Luffy said brightly. Usopp shook his head, thinking his captain was insane. Caimie was also shocked that somebody would show such disrespect to someone of that caliber. "Well, I don't know. I just did it."

Usopp wondered what it would have been like if they'd joined the yonko crew when Ace asked them back at Alabasta two years ago. Luffy shrugged, but said, "It would have been very different. Their crew was huge! We only have nine. I like a smaller crew, though."

Chopper agreed. He liked being close to everybody like they were. Luffy giggled, glad they were happy. He was happy if they were happy. "And now you've become an even better doctor from before. I think you'll be able to help me with the thing."

He didn't want to mention the PTSD to anyone but his crew. Chopper blushed and vowed to do his very best. "It's so cool you survived that war and saved Ace," Caimie said. "He's a nice person! We met him three times here. I didn't see him at first. Well, the first time he burnt down the Whitebeard flag here to supposedly get his attention."

The three Straw Hats were shocked that he'd do such a thing. "The Ace we met would never have done that!" Chopper exclaimed.

"Neehee! Ace told me he also tried to kill Whitebeard 100 times but never could hurt him! He wanted to prove he was stronger than Roger by offing a yonko!" Luffy laughed. Usopp said he was definitely Luffy's brother. "But they were all accepting of him anyways. He said it was rough at first, but he eventually was very happy."

Chopper said he was happy Ace had been happy. "He still is, just missing their dad. But the crew is still together, even if they aren't as powerful anymore," Luffy said. He was happy Marineford was a distant issue for Ace. Luffy was the one with the more long lasting issues. Ace was super strong! He was proud of his big brother. Really proud.