Arlong had heard the reports of a boat crashing on the island and immediately sent his free lieutenants to investigate the wreckage and discover where it came from.

Octron began going through the rubble. "That's really strange, I've never seen a ship fall out of the sky before."

Seablade nodded. "Yeah, me neither. It would seem as if we have some unusual visitors."

Chew looked at them. "The question is why are they here?"

Octron looked up and saw Hiccup walking down the road. "Hey, you guys, look! He's not from this island."

Hiccup kept on walking and then saw Arlong's three lieutenants blocking the road.

"They must be part of Arlong's crew," he assumed and kept on walking.

The three Fishmen just watched as he walked past them and noticed that he wasn't showing even the slightest bit of fear.

Octron then immediately turned to face him. "Hey, you there! Wait!"

Hiccup came to a stop and looked at them. "Can I help you with something?"

"Who are you and what are you doing on this island?" Octron demanded.

"Why does it matter to you?" Hiccup questioned.

Octron was taken aback by this response. "Well, it's just that we don't get many visitors."

"My name is Hiccup, I'm just passing through," said Hiccup.

Octron blinked. "Passing through?"

"Is that a problem?" Hiccup questioned.

"No, I suppose not," said Octron.

Hiccup then continued his walk.

"Hey, smartass, where are you going?" Chew asked.

"Wherever the wind takes me," Hiccup answered without looking back.

"Man, I've never seen a human like him before in the East Blue," said Octron.

"Indeed, but I would like to know who years," said Chew suspiciously.

"He walked right by us and wasn't even intimidated, I've never seen that before," said Seablade.


Meanwhile Ragnar on the others were listening to Astra's tale.

"Bel, so you're saying that she raised both you and Astrid," said Ragnar folding his arms.

"That's right, she did," Bel nodded. "I guess I should start at the beginning."


Back at Astra's house and Astrid had finally awoken.

"I guess I must've fallen asleep," she said.

"You been sleeping for about an hour," said Fishlegs.

Astrid then noticed Astra was gone. "Hey, where's Astra."

"I think she's gone to see Hiccup and the others, I told her where she could find them, I think she's gonna try and convince them to leave," said Fishlegs and he shook his head. "Though I have a feeling it won't do any good."

Astrid nodded and then her eyes turned to a basket filled with tangerines. 'Just a little more Bel. Just a little more and everything will be ours again. Leefside Village… The Tangerine Orchard… everything.'

Astrid then looked down at the chart Fishlegs had created and soon Fishlegs joined her.

Fishlegs smiled. "I remember when I first created that chart, back in happier times."

Astrid nodded. "I remember all the trouble I went through helping you out."


Back when Fishlegs was a 9-year-old boy, he and Astrid had been sitting outside on a bench as he began to draw a sea chart. He was looking through a book about navigation and he was so engrossed in it.

"It's done," he said holding the map out. "It's done!"

Astrid looked over the bench and looked at the chart. "Wow, I've never seen a more accurate sea chart in my life. You really have a natural talent."

"Hey, if it isn't tangerine girl and her boyfriend," said a voice.

Astrid immediately turned and saw a bunch of boys are few years older than they were. You could tell that they were bullies by just looking at them.

"We're just friends," Astrid snarled.

Fishlegs nodded. "Yeah, so leave us alone."

One of the bullies was shorter than the others, but twice as mean. "You hear that boys, he's telling us to leave us alone."

"Thinks highly of himself doesn't he?"

"Should we teach him a lesson?"

Astrid immediately jumped off the bench and approached them. "Take one step forward and you will regret it."

"I'm so scared," said their leader as he took a step forward.

Astrid had warned him and soon she punched him hard in the face, the two bullies then immediately went to intervene only to be knocked down by her in a split second. Astrid proudly looked at the three unconscious boys, who now had black eyes and clapped her hands together.

"I hope you learned your lesson boys," he said.

"Astrid," said a voice behind.

Astrid immediately looked up and saw Goodwin looking down at her, back then he didn't had the terrible scars across his body.

"Not again Astrid," he boomed.

Goodwin then immediately grabbed Astrid and began carrying her back home in the entire village shook their heads, because this wasn't the first time that Goodwin did this.

"Lost control again Astrid?"

"She'll never learn."

"Those boys had it coming," Astrid scolded at Goodwin.

"There are better ways than knocking three boys unconscious to settle an argument," said Goodwin plainly. "How many times do I have to tell you that beating anyone who rubs you the wrong way is wrong?"

"How else am I supposed to stop them?"


Goodwin soon made his way to the tangerine orchard and knocked on the front door.

"Bel! Bel, I caught her beating people up again! Now open up this door!" he yelled.

The door opened and a woman who could not have been more than 35 years with long blonde hair opened the door.

"What you want now?" Bel sighed. She then saw Astrid smiling at her. "You're back from Fishlegs, that was a quick trip."

"I had a ride," said Astrid gesturing to Goodwin.

"Listen you had better get control over her, before she lands in a jail cell," said Goodwin.

Bel folded her arms. "Are you saying that she should not have protected her friends from a bunch of bullies?"

"You're the exact reason why she acts this way!" Goodwin yelled.

Bel smiled at him and gave him a seductive look. "Surely you can letter off this once, because it sounded as if those boys had it coming. I'm sure you can look the other way and I'll make sure you're well rewarded if you do."

Goodwin felt uneasy and immediately backed away from her. "Bel, you can't say that!"

Astrid immediately laughed and Bel giggled.

"Look, he's as red as a beet," she chuckled. She then looked serious and looked down at Astrid, who then immediately stopped. "Now then laugh it up while you still can Astrid."


Bel then took her to the porch and began to slap her rear. "Do that one more time and you won't be able to sat for week."

"I'm sorry," said Astrid rubbing her behind. "It's just that those guys were being mean to Fishlegs."

"What did those boys do precisely?" Bel asked.

"They were being mean and it looked like they were going to beat up Fishlegs," said Astrid looking down at her feet.

"Saying and doing are two different things young lady, you should have waited for them to make the first move and then attack," said Bel folding her arms. "Now everyone you look like the aggressor, you need to control that tempo of yours as was that strong right hook of yours. Now I'm willing to bet that I have two give those boys parents some consolation money."

Astrid looked up. "Can we afford that?"

"Of course we can, there's still money over from the last harvest," Bel assured.

Astrid frowned. "But I heard in town that the harvest has been so good lately that everyone's tangerines will sell which means we can't raise our price and we might not be able to sell at all."

They don't know what they're talking about," said Bel.

Astra then made her way onto the porch and shook her head. "I heard the little scuffle in town, you really showed those boys who is boss."

"Don't encourage her," said Bel looking at Astra.

"She doesn't need any encouraging from me, she gets enough you," said Astra.

Bel then immediately laughed. "True enough. So how did Fishlegs' chart looked this time?"

"Amazing," said Astrid smiling. "It was probably his best yet, he made an entire chart of the island."

"So he can make detailed land of charts as well as sea charts now," said Bel sounding impressed. "No one would believe that a young boy could draw such a detailed map all by themselves."

"Fishlegs is looking to be a navigator," said Astrid.

"Then I say that he he's off to a good start on that dream," said Bel cheerfully. She then looked at Astrid. "Have you considered what you would want to be when you grow up?"

Astrid frowned. "I don't know."

Astra smiled at her little sister. "Maybe you become a marine officer, you've got the strength to be one and you are quite the strategist."

"You think so?"

"All right, girls, that's enough about the future," Bel laughed.


Later that day it was pouring down with rain and they were in the middle of eating their lunch. Though Bel seemed to be satisfied with reading tangerines and had prepared a small dish for the girls.

Astrid couldn't help but notice the difference in food preparations. "Hey, Bel, why haven't you been eating dinner with us lately?"

Bel was busy stitching some old clothing that used to belong to Astra. "I've been eating tangerines, I've just been on a diet that's all."

Astra looked at her adopted mother. "Then I don't want to eat either."

"What's with all the drama?" said Bel shaking a head at the two girls. "You need to eat because you're a growing girl."

"Why do you keep lying to us?" Astra demanded. "You're not eating because we don't have enough money to buy food. That's why!"

Astrid looked at Bel. "Really?"

"You're starving yourself so that you won't go hungry."

Bel looked at her. "Don't you worry about me, I'm getting enough vitamins with the tangerines. Now eat your food already."


A few minutes later, Bel finished stitching the small dress. The small dress looked as if it had a sunflower in the centre, but with a few stitches here and there she was able to make it look like a lion and had even add that the text 'I love lions'.

"All done," she said holding it towards Astrid. "Here you go Astrid, a Bel one-of-a-kind original."

"Oh, great, a hand-me-down," Astrid muttered.

"Yeah, that's true, but it suits you," said Bel placing the dress against Astrid's chest. "See look."

Astrid took it and looked at her. "But the lion used to be a sunflower."

"Quit complaining, you have to take my hand-me-downs or you won't get any new clothes," said Astra.

Astrid turned on her. "But it's not fair! You get new clothes all the time and mine are all used!"

"I get all close to you know! So just suck it up Astrid and take what you get understand?"

"We didn't come from the same parents anyway! We're not real sisters so who cares!"

Then to everyone's shock Bel slapped Astrid across the face so hard that she was knocked to the ground.

"Bel, please," said Astra looking upset.

Bel, herself, seemed shocked that she had actually slapped Astrid, but she maintained her composure and looked down at her as she rubbed her cheek.

"So what you don't have the same parents?" Astrid just remain quiet, clearly trying to hold back her tears. "I do not want you to say anything like that again!"

"I don't care," Astrid cried as she looked up at her. "You're not even a real mother, you're just some lady that is taking care of us! You wish that we never come here so that you could buy clothes and food for yourself! You'd be better off without us, wouldn't you? That way you can do whatever you want, I wish… I wish that someone rich had adopted us instead of a stinking loser like you!"

Bel just stood there clearly hurt for what Astrid had said and was doing her best to hold back her anger.

"Well, fine," she said with gritted teeth and then turned her back on her. "If you hated it here so much you can find someplace else to live if you want. I didn't sign up for this."

"Stop fighting, please! Please just stop!" Astra cried.

"I'm never coming back!" Astrid cried and immediately stormed out of the house.

Astra quickly went after her. "Astrid, stop! Astrid!"

Bel then sat down and looked at the hand she used to slap Astrid and she clearly was regretting that she laid a hand against.

Astra looked at her. "Bel, um, the three of us are a family. That's the truth and you know Astrid feels the same way no matter what she said."

Bel looked at her and then smiled. "Look who's being the adult here." She then patted Astra on the head. "I blew up and you're the levelheaded one. Why don't you go and find Astrid, I'll make something special for dinner and we can all make up okay."

Astra looked at her beaming and nodded.


In no time at all the rain cloud dispelled revealing glorious sunlight, Astrid had made her way down to the village and Goodwin found her. He then took her to his station when he immediately began drying her off as she explained that she ran away from home.

Goodwin laughed. "So you've run away from home and come to the village, now what's the plan?"

Goodwin had poured out some copy for himself and a hot glass of milk for Astrid.

"Drink before it gets called," he said handing her the mug.

Astrid looked to the floor. "Bel would be so much happier if she didn't have to take care of us."

Goodwin looked at her. "And why would you say that?"

"Well, you need a lot of money to take care of two kids and because of me the whole village hates her right now," said Astrid quietly.

Goodwin chuckled. "You know you may not be her daughter by blood, but you certainly act like Bel when she was your age. Bel was a complete nightmare when she was your age, she kept on terrorising the village."

Astrid looked up. "Is that truth?"

"Sure, she got into fights all the time and broke the arms of certain boys trying to woo her," Goodwin chuckled. "She was hot tempered, stubborn and forceful and so you can imagine the surprise everyone in the she announced she was going to join the Marines."

Astrid looked up. "The Marines? You mean Bel was in the Marines?"

"That's right. She said that she couldn't stand by and do nothing while pirates killed innocent people then she left the village. She was on the very urge of death when she…"


10 to 9 years ago, Bel was in the Marines and she took part in a gruelling battle against pirates that were raiding a village. She somehow lost consciousness and found herself in the rubble, there was no sign of anyone else so they must assume that she was dead.

"If this is the end, then so be it," she said weakly.

She began to close her eyes, but then she heard the cries of the baby girl. She opened her eyes and saw a young girl no more than five years old holding a baby girl in her arms, who couldn't have been more than a few months old.

With all her strength Bel rose to her feet and began linking her way towards the young girls.

"Your little sister?" she asked the young girl.

The young girl looked up and saw Bel limping towards them and then she shook her head. "I found her."

Bel fell to her knees and looked down at the baby girl, she then placed her hand against her cheeks. The baby girl immediately stopped crying and laughed when she turned to look at her.

"How did she survive?" said Bel as tears formed in her eyes.

Even in the wake of the destruction of the village and with all the dead bodies littering the place, they couldn't help but laugh and cry as the baby girl looked at them with a large smile on her face.


"That innocent child was you Astrid," said Goodwin.

Astrid immediately looked up and blinked.

"And seeing how precious you were, it gave Bel the strength to live again."


Bel then immediately made her way towards a small smooth sailing boat would survive the attack and began to sail back towards her island, which was the closest inhabited island.

Unfortunately, the two girls which way Astrid and Astra had caught a terrible fever and to make matters worse they were now sailing through a harsh storm. Bel had to tie herself and the two girls to the mast so that they wouldn't be thrown overboard.

Despite this she manage to somehow made her way towards the island against all odds and as luck would have it many of the villagers had seen the small ship sailing towards them including Goodwin and the Doctor.

"It is a ship, I knew it!"

"Who on earth would be out in such a terrible storm?"

Finally they reached the port and Bel stepped off the ship and everyone was surprised to see her, especially with two young girls in her arms.

She then immediately looked up at them. "Doctor, I need a doctor!"

"What's going on? What happened to you Bel?"

Goodwin and the Doctor immediately pushed their way through the crowd to get a good look.

"Bel?" Goodwin stared.

"Did someone call for Doctor?" the doctor asked. That's when they saw that you young girls shivering and looking feverish. "Who are these children?"

"Doctor! They're burning up, I'm afraid they might be really sick! Please help them!"

"Give them here," said Doctor bending down towards her. He then immediately took the two girls and then looked at her. "All right, we better mend up those nasty wounds of yours as well young lady."

"Never mind me! Please just don't let them die, you have to save them! I'm begging you doctor!" Bel pleaded.


A few days later, after the doctor had tended to Bel's wounds and managed to stop the fever from the two girls, Bel made a stunning announcement.

"Say that again," said Goodwin stunned.

"I said that I'm going to try to be the mother of these two girls, it's that simple," said Bel.

"No way!" Goodwin gasped.

"That's insane!" the Doctor yelled. "You are far too short tempered to handle this much responsibility!"

"You can't handle them by yourself," said Goodwin plainly. "Just hand them over to the orphanage."

"I've made up my mind!" Bel yelled scaring everyone in the room. She then looked at the two girls smiled. "You can't argue that I'm an adult and after what I've lived through as a Marine has given me the right to be treated with more respect. I'm perfectly capable of taking care of these two girls and nothing can stop me from raising them to be wonderful girls." She then pulled Astra into a hug as she held Astrid. "So now we're going to be a family together. Astrid and Astra have renewed my love and life."


Astrid was completely stunned by Goodwin story, the truth is she had no memories of her real parents and now she knew why.

"The bond between the three of you girls goes far deeper than any normal family," Goodwin smiled.

Astrid immediately felt terrible with what she had said to Bel.

Astra then suddenly appeared in the doorway. "Astrid, I thought I'd find you here."

"Astra?" Astrid blinked.

"Come on, Bel is waiting for us, she's making as a special supper," Astra smiled.

Astrid then immediately smiled. "Sure."

"I think she's making your favourite along with some tangerines sauce!"

The girls immediately laughed as they ran out of the station and everyone one in the village smiled as the two girls ran down the street.

"Time sure flies, it seems like it was only yesterday that they were fighting for their very lives," said Goodwin as he made his way outside.

The Doctor nodded. "I think it makes everyone in the village happy to see those girls grow up so full of life."

"That's true, they're family has suffered so much over the years, it's good to know that they've managed to overcome it right?" said a villager looking at everyone.

Mrs Ingerman merely cried. "Astrid has always been a close friend in my little Fishlegs, he's a bit timid and shy which is why am grateful he is such a strong friend."

However those smiles would soon vanish, as a villager immediately rushed towards everyone screaming.

"Pirates are coming everyone! Everybody run!"

Heading towards the shore was a pirate ship with a figurehead that resembled a sawshark, this was the ship that contained the Arlong Pirates and they had earned a fearful reputation on the Grand Line.

News soon spread of the identity of the pirates immediately struck fear to everyone in the village.

"The Arlong Pirates!"

"Arlong?"

"That's impossible!"

"Why would Fishmen from the Grand Line come here?"

"The rumour about splits between the Fishmen Pirates must be true."

Goodwin and the Doctor immediately rushed over towards Astrid and Astra.

"Astrid. Astra," said Goodwin.

"Goodwin?" Astrid blinked.

Goodwin then bent down towards the girls. "It's too dangerous for you to be here. Go hide in the woods."

"But what about—?"

"You must go now!" Goodwin yelled pointing towards the woods.

Arlong and his pirates were soon making their way into the village, to make matters worse Leefside had no military, no weapons whatsoever to fight back. Goodwin never really needed any weapons as the island had been peaceful for decades.

Arlong soon looked at the villages who was just too stunned to move. "Greetings and salutations you pathetic little humans. For this moment on this entire island and its inhabitants are part of my domain!"

His men immediately cheered.

"Listen closely, for now on, on the first day of every month you will buy your lives from me," Alrong continued. "100,000 Gil for adults, 50,000 for children. Those that cannot pay will die."

He then immediately laughed.

Astrid and Astra were hiding behind bushes listening to everything.

"What should we do, Astra?" Astrid asked looking at her older sister. "We don't have that much money."

"Maybe Fishmen won't be able to find our house," said Astra hopefully. "You can't see it from here."

Soon everyone in the village began paying Arlong and his men and in no time at all he had a large bag of money.

"Is that it?" Arlong asked. "So, what's the hollow?"

"25 million, give or take," said Seablade.

Arlong looked at the villagers. "You all shall live."

Understandably the villagers want exactly happy with this arrangement, but there wasn't exactly anything they could do about it.

"It looks like we each have to pay 100,000 Gil to these Fishmen every month just to stay alive."

"No, there's no way we can survive."

"We don't have a choice," said Goodwin regretfully. "We should just be happy that no one in the village has been killed yet."

Goodwin, however, was concerned about one thing. 'If all they want is money that an easy price to pay. I just hope they leave without noticing Bel's house. With two children, she would need 200,000 Gil, there's no way she has that much saved.'

"It's time to leave, come brothers," Arlong announced.

Soon Arlong and his men were leaving the village. Goodwin sighed with relief as did everyone else, but then…

"Arlong their smoke coming from outside the village!" said one of the Fishmen.

Everyone immediately looked up and indeed they saw smoke appearing just beyond the trees and it was in the direction of Bel's house. Bel was busy preparing the meal she had promised to Astrid and Astra, unaware that the island had just been invaded by bloodthirsty pirates.

"Okay, let's see," said Bel as she began to taste the sauce and smiled. "Delicious. There isn't anything quite as tasty as my special tangerine sauce. Astrid and Astra are going to love it."

"It looks like chimney smoke from someone's house," said a Fishman.

"Oh, we almost missed that one," Arlong smiled.

Astrid and Astra immediately began making their way through the bushes hoping to reach their house before the Fishmen.

"Bel," they panicked.

Arlong looked at his men. "All right, let's go guys."

Immediately all them began making their way into the direction of Bel's house.

"This is bad, the pirates are going to Bel's house," a villager panicked.

Mrs Ingerman looked horrified. "There's no way she has enough money to buy the lives of herself and those two girls."

A villager then noted that Astrid and Astra were gone. "Goodwin, Astrid and Astra are gone."

"What did you say?" the Doctor stared.


Bel was still preparing the meal, unaware of the danger that was soon approaching her house.

"I think the duck needs another 10 minutes and stew is almost ready, this is definitely going to blow my budget but sometimes you've got to live a little," Bel smiled.

Astrid and Astra were running as quickly as they could towards their house, hoping to warn her before it was too late.