Meanwhile, in the East Blue a young boy barely seventeen was beginning his journey. He quickly got a green haired second in command, a liar, a cook and a navigator… well, the navigator has just fled to who knows where, but he didn´t think she wanted to leave them by will. She was his nakama after all. Meanwhile, Namie was back in Cocoyashi. She went straight to her sister´s house after a talk with Arlong, where the blue haired woman should be tending to her tangerines. She was a bit disturbed when she found the villagers a little bit happier than before.

"What happened here?" asked the orange haired girl, trying to decipher their thoughts. Besides, the fishman tyrant was a bit upset. He even tried to raise the price she should pay for her village, something she was only able to talk him out of via a new map.

"Someone arrived a few months ago, Genzo said she defeated a few of the Arlong pirates" Nojiko put some dinner in front of her sister´s face. "I have only seen her once. She always carries a white fan and controls the air. They called her the princess of the winds. For all I saw, she could be one."

"A princess? No way in hell" Nami got up, ready to find whoever it was that think that she could make such a riot in her island and kick her ass back to whatever place she got out from. She nearly lost her chance to buy the island, for God´s sake! Walking towards the place she was surely staying in. when the orange haired girl arrived, she found a raven woman she has never seen before with the children of the village. "You have no right…"

"Excuse me?" the princess looked at her, her fan still in her hand. The women faced each other with different emotions in their faces, desperation and sadness.

"You have no right!" the navigator finally screamed. "You have no right to arrive here and starting act like a heroine! You are just putting them in danger, can´t you see?!" the younger walked towards her. "You have no business here, you are not form here like I am. Leave this place, leave the people alone, let them… let them live" tears felt down her face. "If you continue… if you continue, Arlong is going to kill everyone. Is that what you want?"

"No, I want to make the right thing for this country, to help this good people against those pirates that enslaved them. They gave me shelter, it´s only right to give them something in return" the raven lowered her head a bit. "I had all the intensions to leave this place…"

"Then leave! Leave and let my people live!"

"I can´t, not without assuring that those foul people are not going to return to make their lives misery" explained the general with all the poise of someone raised in a royal court. Nami took a step back, this stranger surely knew how to talk with authority.

"Hakuei-sama…" a little girl approached her and hugged her. The princess answered with a smile, gently carrying the girl. The navigator felt uneasy, no one in the island had that kind of attention with her. Even the children stayed away from her. She clenched her fists, this was no time to doubt. She had to buy her island to save everybody.

"Hakuei" the orange haired girl started talking, using her name. She pulled out a wood stack to use as a rod, her weapon of choice, and advanced towards her. "Leave this island right this instant or I will make you" she smiled cruelly. "Believe me, I have much experience with this kind of baby and I´m not afraid of using it on someone."

"Lower that weapon"

"You will have to force me!" Nami advanced. She didn´t want to do that, she didn´t want to hurt someone that wanted to help her people, that apparently was so nice… but she didn´t have another choice! She had to protect her village! Suddenly, the raven moved her fan and a sudden wind cut her rod in many pieces. So she could indeed control the wind. "What are you? A devil Fruit user?"

"I do not know what a Devil Fruit user is, but I can assure you that Paimon is not one of those. She is different" the navigator glared at her. What kind of person gives it´s weapon a name? Not even Luffy… well, Luffy doesn´t exactly have a weapon, just attacks. And he named them. Well, at least the name was not Paimon.

"Your fan is called Paimon?"

"The one that lives inside of it has that name" Hakuei turned. "I won´t do anything against your people, be assured of that. I only want to put an end to the reign of terror of that man, not to harm them. I will finish this mission, then I leave."

"Why?" she asked, getting to her knees. "Why are you fighting for them if you are going to leave it soon?"

"Because I´m acting the way I was taught… the way I would act for my own country" Nojiko came to interrupt them on that moment, alerting both girls about the intruders on the island. Nami, knowing exactly who they were, ran to stop her friends from getting caught the fishman madness just for her. The princess just stayed there, recognizing the look on her eyes. "You should be relieved for her… to have friends like that…"

"They made her worried" the blue haired woman lowered her head. "But surely, I´m relieved. She is the most important person in my world. Up until now, I was upset that she never seems to have friends… she should… she should have…."

"I know" the raven walked to her, a calming smile on her face. She was reminded of Hakuryuu for a moment, the way he was before being emperor and then exiled. When he was full of revenge for their mother. Without friends, without companions… until he met Aladdin, Alibaba and Morgiana he wasn´t even capable of opening his hearth to anyone except her. "Be relieved, she is in good hands"

"I hope so" Nojiko returned to her house a little bit more calm. Hakuei continued with her things until she heard a scream coming form said woman´s tangerine house. She ran, thinking that the fishmen attacked her, but she found a rat like man with some men in white and blue uniforms tearing the place apart.

"What are you doing?!" screamed her in outrage. This was not the work of some pirates, she was sure, as these people acted as if they had some right to do this.

"Don´t get into this, woman!" the leader of the thieves got in front of her, his disgusting breath hitting her. "Anyone who dare to stand up to Captain Nezumi from the Marines will face the fury of the central!"

"Marines? Central?" she asked, then it finally felt on it´s place. They were officers from the Government, corrupted officers who instead protecting the people they should, were stealing from them out of greed. "Can´t you see that pirates have taken this city? You should be fighting them, not pursuing Nojiko!"

"Silence! We do as we pleased! We have the authority to do it!" he glared at her. "And just for saying those words, I´m going to take your fan and your jewels, woman. Give them to me."

"You want my metal container?" she raised said fan to the high of his face. Then moved it with a fluid movement, sending him flying towards his men. "The power of Paimon should not be underestimated, fool."

"Restrain her! She is a Devil Fruit user!" he ordered, signalling the woman.

"Should have known that corruption existed here too" she moved her fan again, with more determination than before. And the people in this land expected the marines with such an illusion, as if they were some kind of heroes that will take care of Arlong. "Waiting time is over by much" she said, signalling the retiring marines. "If this is what the marines are going to do… then there is no case in waiting for them. They are not going to save us"

"Hakuei-sama is right!"

"Time to take the weapons!"

"Time to fight!"

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

"Genzo-san" she muttered to the police officer, that was among the people that wanted to fight for their rights. "I know what I said, but… starting a revolution is not easy, specially against someone in power for so long. And their species" she sighed, realising just how difficult this was going to be. "We need more than weapons"

"We have you, Hakuei-sama"

"There is only little I can do, I have been bested in combat before" she looked at Paimon with a frown, remembering when she was ambushed in the Kouga territory. "We need some important allies…"

"Are you telling us to ask for help from the Marines after what they just did to us?" Genzo was without speech. The doctor was just fixing the injuries his surrogate daughter had, there was no way he could ask those bastards for help. He will first make them swallow his fists, something Bellemere would surely have enjoyed to see.

"No, I´m telling you I´m not invulnerable as you might think" the princess walked to a cliff, breathing in deeply. She then released a scream that shook them. "KOUEN! KOUMEI! KOUHA! HAKURYUU! KOUGYOKU! JUDAL! COME TO ME!" there was no answer, no one appearing. "They can´t listen…"

"Who were you calling, Hakuei-sama?"

"My family" she answered, trying to keep a neutral voice, despite being worried sick, and not only for her brother. "My dear family whom I was separated from" she sighed. "What would I give to have them with me again…"

"Hakuei-sama…"

"Don´t mind me" she turned, the look of determination again in her face. "Time to bring this era of suffering to an end. Let´s bring Arlong down!"

-Later-

"What happened here?" asked Hakuei when she found the reminders of a fight on the floor. Apparently she has gotten there late, someone was already making Arlong´s life hard. She guided the people a little bit more towards the Arlong Park and found a blond and a green haired man fighting with the pirate´s right and left hands. "Need any help?"

"Mellorine!" Sanji got distracted for a moment from his fight by the appearance of a beautiful woman. She smiled at him, avoiding a direct hit from his opponent via a gush of wind from her fan. "and strong too!"

"Stop talking to her and fight, Ero-cook!" screamed Zoro, trying to best the octopus swordsman. He was really enjoying the fight, the tako was not bad. And after his fight with Mihawk he was craving some serious training to get stronger. The princess just smiled, liking them already.

"You must be Nami´s friends" she said. Using her wind against some other of the remaining Gyojin. "Her sister mentioned you came to this island for her. Nice to meet you"

"Yeah, give us your thanks when our captain finished with the shark man over there" Hakuei looked to the front, where Nami laid on the ground with a straw hat on her head. Covering part of her face. She was worried sick, she could say. Worried sick for the person that was fighting on her behalf on the tower, to make her dream come true.

"I truly hope your trust isn´t misplaced" the princess continued protecting the people. She was already over when Arlong´s body felt through a window and landed near the people he terrified for so long. They were about to take vengeance, but she stopped them. She wouldn´t let them stood to his level. She was about to…

"All stop!" Hakuei turned with a fearful expression, knowing that voice. The Marines were back. "Everything in Arlong Park and the village belongs to me right now, including the treasure! To captain Nezumi!"

"You…" she wasn´t fast enough. Before she could use Paimon, Luffy punched the corrupted Marine in the face, sending him to the water. He resurfaced to breathe and latch on the border, but Nami was already there, ready to give him punishment. She grabbed his ridiculous moustache and started pulling it. The princess laughed a bit, thinking about how it would be doing something like that to Kouen´s beard.

"First, you are going to give back everything you stole" the navigator started stating her demands before letting Nezumi go in a very rude way. Nojiko thanked her, winking. Then the orange haired girl walked away with the doctor to get the tattoo of Arlong´s crew removed. The rest of the village cheerfully started preparing a party for their saviours. Even the children were helping with the preparations. In the middle of that, Sanji approached the Dungeon capturer with hearths in his eyes.

"We weren´t introduced before" he danced around her, making the princess feel a little bit uncomfortable. "May I have the honour of knowing your name, my sweet wind rose?"

"Hakuei… Ren Hakuei…" she smiled awkwardly.

"Hakuei-chan!" he started to act even creepier, offering her various dishes prepared by himself and calling her mellorine, making her want to escape. In her efforts, she bumped into Nami, who helped her escape.

"I´m sorry, he gets a bit excited when he sees beautiful women" explained the now Strawhat pirate. They looked at each other, the younger a bit ashamed. "Ehhhh… Hakuei-san, I… apologize for being so mean to you before. I know you only wanted to help, but I really thought you were putting my town in danger and…"

"It´s okay" smiled the noblewoman. "I recognized your will to defend your people since the first time you talked to me. You became a thief to save them, if that´s not a proof that their wellbeing was the only thing in your mind, I don´t know what it is" she grabbed her hand. "You are a true heroine, Nami-san."

"I… I think the hero here is Luffy" she sighed, smiling when she remembered the young pirate. "He did most of the work beating up Arlong."

"Luffy-san did all for you" the raven lowered her gaze. "And here I said that I would help the villagers to reclaim their island… it was you and your friends who did all the work bringing down those tyrants"

"Hakuei-san" the navigator felt something strange. That smile…so full of understanding… much like her own mother´s. "I… anyway, thank you for everything you did to protect them while I was away. I hope you find your friends, the ones you are looking for."

"My siblings" corrected the princess. "I have many, but I practically had to raise one, much like Nojiko with you. We… lost our parents early in live" she explained, trying to synthetize everything that happened to her and Hakuryuu since Arba appeared in their lives. "We got separated, but… they are somewhere out there. I have to search them."

"Yes… maybe I can give you a little help" Nami pulled out her nap of the Great Line, showing it to the raven. "Perhaps you should start your searching in the Grand Line, it is where most of the people in search for adventures go" she stated. Hakuei frowned. Looking for adventures… yes, it´s a good place to start searching. And even if the other Rens were not there, they surely were going to the place. It was the obvious place to begin searching for Sinbad. And where Sinbad was, the would be… "Maybe you should come with us."

"Come with…"

"Luffy wants to enter the Grand Line right away and I think, after beating gyojin, that we are ready. I don´t know what kind of think are going to be waiting for us, but…" she signalled the entrance. "We are going to Louge Town first, then we will go through this passage and…"

"Why are you taking the long path?" asked the princess, signalling the open sea between the East Blue and the Grand Line. "You can sail through this waters"

"Hakuei-san, that´s the Calm Belt, there is no way we can get through it in a ship" Nami looked at her as if she were crazy. "The waters in that place doesn´t make currents and are full of Sea Kings that would eat any ship that dares to cross their territory. And, to make things worse, there are no wind currents either."

"I can make wind, it´s not problem for me" she sighed. "But if I pushed the boat, my magoi… I can´t push you through the Calm Belt, but alone I can cross it."

"Don´t do it, it´s too dangerous" the orange haired girl put a hand on her shoulder, trying to convince her. "Come with us, we will help to find your siblings. I´m sure we can do it."

"I…" Hakuei was about to accept when she had a strange feeling in her hearth, something that happened to her before only a couple of times. When her little brother was at live threatening problems. Like the Zagan dungeon. Or the Revolution… "I can´t" she stood up, grabbing her fan with more force. "I have to leave right now and start searching, the fastest, the better"

"But…"

"Nami-san, I appreciate your concern, but I am a warrior. I promise you that I will survive this, no matter what, there is no need to worry" she hugged the other. "and now I must leave" she chanted some words, her clothes and hair colour changing. "Thank you for everything again, I will always remember you."

"I… I will too" Nami said awkwardly. "Goodbye, Hakuei-san. I hope we meet again"

"Me too" she launched herself, using Paimon´s power to propulse herself through the air. True to Nami´s words, the Calm Belt was a dangerous zone without wind, really hard to cross even with the power of a djinn. The princess stubbornly continued to force the air to her bidding, trying to enter the Gran Line in the worst way. "Hakuryuu… I will never let anything wrong happen to you again… so… so… wait for me… wait for me… HAKURYUU!"

-In the Florian Triangle-

"RUN!" Hakuryuu told to his companions, facing the big fat bat of a man that was chasing them, putting Zagan before himself. Gecko Moria didn´t feel intimidated for a second, not even after the prince used his djinn to create monsters from the thin air. In fact, he was curious and exited. He finally found a person with enough power to put his new creation to motion…

"Kishishishi! You are surely a good specimen, boy!" he announced, making the raven got into battle stance again. Unfortunately, he was caught off guard by some other zombies that emerged from the ground. They made him trip and fell to the ground, where the Shichibukai caught him. Moriah grabbed the shadow, stretching it before pulling out his scissors and cutting the prince´s shadow. "Thank you! Now I can have a stronger zombie in my army!"

"Stronger… what?"

"Hakuryuu-san…" Lola came in slashing the arms of the undead still grabbing him, giving the raven a hand to help him up and continue running. They put a big distance between them and the madman before she finally released him.

"I have to leave" he panted. "The sooner the…"

"You can´t leave"

"What?! Are you going to force me to stay?!"

"You don´t understand!" the woman looked at him with stern. "You can´t leave! Without your shadow the sun will kill you! You are one of us victims now!"

"What?" he felt to his knees. What was he going to do now?

Hello! I´m back and now I bring you... Hakuei meeting Luffy! And Hakuryuu caught by Moriah! What should I do for the Lougetown scene? How will they meet Sharrkan and Yamuraiha? Review!