Yay! Awesome, this is going so well. I do sort of have to apologize for the mention of food in just about every chapter. I'm a person who loves food. And from what I've seen in movies and real life, pregnant women love to eat.

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece, but I do own my characters.

The whole crowd gathered where the ship was docked, all waiting anxiously for the return Arlong's Pirates. Hachi had informed the girls that they would be introduced once the whole crowd settled down from their yells. So they just ducked behind the rail of the ship, staying out of eyesight of everybody. Arlong, Choo, Kuroobi, and Hachi all stepped out onto the ramp and waved their hands at everybody that caught their eyes.

"Ahoy, mates." Hachi smiled at his fellow merpeople. "Glad to be back." A mixture of 'we're happy to see you' and 'Hachi, we love you.' Was suddenly heard. The girls all shook their heads and giggled at this, so Hachi did have some love somewhere.

"Hm." Choo just turned his head away from the public, but continued to wave. The yells became louder.

Kuroobi and Arlong did the same as Choo, not interested at all at the crowd. They just wanted to get introductions done and over with so that they could go and get settled home.

"Everyone, We have an anouncement to make." Arlong held up both of his arms in the air. The crowd fell silent. "Kuroobi, Choo, and myself have finally chosen our mates." Gasps from men and swoons from the mermaids were heard. (A.N. All mermaid can switch between feet and fins. Don't ask how but…they just can. Lol)

"Is it me?"

"Please say it's me."

"I'll be the best wife ever."

"I'll be the best wife ever, not this piece of sh…"

"Watch your mouth missy." A catfight erupted from the crowd as about 10 mermaids began to fight and pull at each others hair. Nami wanted to get up to see but Rae and Sun held her down.

"STOP!" every action stopped from a yell. Arlong looked up and gasped at the sight. It was one of the most notorious mermen to ever be born on this island, his name feared throughout the entire seas, Jimbei. The whole crowd parted ways as Jimbei walked through. The great whale shark had anger written in his eyes as he got closer to Arlong.

"What did I hear from you? You've chosen a mate? Ha, don't make me laugh." The three girls in the ship went up a little, to where their eyes could see over the rail. Their eyes widen at what they say. This Jimbei guy was almost as tall as Arlong, by a few feet. They could only tell this because when Jimbei was standing right in front of Arlong on the ramp, Arlong had to look up to meet Jimbei's eyes. They also noticed the millions of tattoos that Jimbei had on his body.

"Geez, guy is brave to step up to needles." Sun whispered to her friends.

"Sun, not everybody is scared of needles." Rae remarked back.

"I am." Nami semi-raised her hand. "You guys remember." They were brought out of their conversation by the one going on by Arlong and Jimbei.

"So what if I went off on my own to pick somebody?"

"The rules of Mermen Island state that 'No mermen is to choose his mate on his own.'"

"My men were there when I made the decision."

"But I wasn't there."

"You aren't my father."

"But I knew your father. When he died, he left me in charge of you. Why do you think you're my First Mate on my crew?"

"I WAS your First Mate on your crew. Now it doesn't matter." Jimbei and Arlong engaged in a deep stare down contest. The girls were able to get a better look at Jimbei. His hair was a shorter versions of Arlong's except it had white streaks in it. His skin was a very light shade of brown, almost like a tan color. His eyes were small that only the pupil could show, which was a very very dark black. Overall, Jimbei looked very sinister.

"Show her to me. All of you, show me your mate." Jimbei turned around to face the crowd. "Wouldn't we all like to meet their mates?" The whole crowd cheered with this. Arlong did roll his eyes at this. He asked Hachi to go fetch the girls. All three gulped.

"I ain't going out there." They all grasped the ship as best as they could when Hach came over.

"Let's go girls." He grabbed each of them by one arm and started to pulling. Unfortunately for him, none of them would budge. "He won't bite."

"No way! Never!" Nami held onto the ship tighter.

"Let go of the ship." He told them. They each shook their heads. So this made Hachi decide to try something a little bit different. He took out all of his extra hands. "If you don't let go, I'm going to tickle you."

"You wouldn't dare." Sun remaked back. She was the first one to get tickled. "Ahaha, stop, stop, I can't breath, stop." She let go of the ship in order to take his hand off. He grabbed onto both of her arms with one hand.

"Unless you girls want to be tickled, let go of the ship." He told them once more. Nami and Rae gave a quick look at each other before they reluctantly did as they were told. Hachi grabbed onto them as well and led them out to be seen by everybody.

'HUMANS!' Was the thought that ran through all the crowds minds. The girls stood in front of the mermen crew, right in front of Jimbei. He looked down at him, a growl emitted from his mouth.

"Humans? Of all things you could have picked, you pick humans?!" Sun started to shake from the raise of volume in his voice. Rae and Nami hugged each other for support. "And they're pregnant?!" As instinct took over, the girls wrapped their hands around their stomach. This seemed to have become a very strong habit of this.

"Yes, we picked humans. And yes, they're pregnant. Anymore questions?"

"Watch your freaky mouth Choo!" Jimbei walked around the girls to face the big lip merman. "So which one is yours? Is it one of the ones with the eyes defect? Or is it the one with orange hair?"

"Eye defect? You trying to tell me that there's something wrong with my eyes?" Sun lightly shoved Jimbei. "Don't you be insulting my eyes." He turned around to look down at the seemingly crazy girl.

"Do you know who you're messing with?" She poked him in between the abs and lower stomach(she had to get up on her toes just to be able to reach that high).

"Do YOU know who YOU'RE messing with? Just in case you don't know, I'll tell you. You are messing with a VERY pregnant woman. And,I'm going through very severe mood swings and my feet hurt from standing and my back hurts from…also standing. So don't mess with me right now." She back away slowly. "And I was born with my eyes like this, thank you very much." She brushed right past him to stand next to Choo, who was smirking at the attitude she had just given to Jimbei.

"There you go. This one's mine." He wrapped his arm around her. 'I can't believe I'm letting him do this.' Sun looked down and shook her head. She then motioned her sister and close friend to do the same thing. They went to stand next to their merman.

Arlong didn't want the whole island to get involved in his private life and conversations. He made himself, Jimbei, Choo, Kuroobi, Sun, Rae, and Nami move to a place that was more secluded. Hachi and the other crewmembers all scattered around the island to do what they please.

Now, the small group is inside Arlong's own family home, which his mother left to him when she passed away. He claimed it was nothing really that special, but Nami begged to defer. This place was almost as big as Arlong Park, except that it didn't have 50 stories. It reached about 20 stories instead.

"So, have you actually had a marriage ceremony?" Jimbei sat on a chair in front of the couples. Arlong, Choo, and Kuroobi sat on the couch on the other side of the room, with the girls on their laps. They kept looking around the room with excitement. The design of the room was simple yet…elegant. The room was a pearl color, making the vibe feel calm. The tables were all made of a combination of sea glass and sea shells. All the windows were closed with pearl colored curtains, blocking off anybody who would want to see inside.

"No. We've proposed but they're refused." Arlong answered back.

"Refused? Now that's truly a shocker. When you were on my ship, everywhere we went, ladies would throw themselves at you and practically beg you to be your lover. And now you finally choose a girl and she doesn't like you back." Jimbei looked at the other two. "Is it the same with you two?"

"Yes." They replied in unison. Jimbei took a look at the girls in their laps. He did have to admit, they were very cute for a bunch of humans. Knowing that no matter what he'd say or do, those three pirates would run after the girls. He sighed. "Fine. They can stay. But I don't like it."

"We didn't even need your permission for this. We were going to keep them anyway. After all." They nuzzled into the girls' necks. "They're carrying our babies."

"Don't remind me." Rae smacked Kuroobi in the head with her hand.

"Ok, so now we have to make plans for marriage." Jimbei snapped his fingers and immediately, five servents came up to him. Nami gasped.

"There's servents too. WOW!" Arlong chuckled at Nami. "Wait, marriage?" Nami whipped her head around to look at Arlong. "We're getting married?"

"Yes."

"I am not getting married with a huge bump on my stomach. I don't want to get married."

"How many days have we been here again?" Nami sat on a chair in the rooms she shared with Arlong. The other two girls were in there with her.

"Who's keeping track? Not me. I'm too busy counting how many dirty looks I get on this island."

"Same here."

"Ok." Nami looked towards the girls. "I'm just going to guess it's been a month."

It wasn't up to the girls. They were now in Mermen territory now, so they still had to do everything they were told to do. Without fighting back. Jimbei was still very skeptic about having them there. Everytime he pass by one of them, he would give them the nastiest death glare ever. Sometimes they wished that his glares could actually kill, so they wouldn't have to be there anymore.

The whole island just added to the insult bowl. Not one mermaid was happy that they were there. Not ONE! That didn't really surprise the girls at all. They knew what kind of treatment they would get the first day they got there.

"Excuse me. You must get ready." The three were interrupted by some mermaid that had been hired to help them. See, right now, they were getting ready for their own Wedding. That's right, today was the day they were being forced to marry the monsters that have caused them pain.

"Whatever." Nami turned to face a mirror right in front of her. She sighed as the mermaid helper walked closer to her, a gown in her didn't even pay attention to the design or the color of the gown, she didn't care. Rae and Sun waited their turn. The helper helped Nami fit into the gown, the bump in her stomach showing fully. "Pretty." Was all Nami said once she saw what she fully looked like.

"Your turn miss." The helper turned to Sun. She got up in response and walked over to the helper. While watching her sister leave, Rae suddenly felt a strange pain in her stomach, a piercing one. Her breathing started to speed up.

'Am I going into labor?' She clutched over in her seat, the pain seemed to be disappearing. 'No, I'm not.' She stood from her seat. 'I can't be. Don't I have like..one month left?' The helper moved onto her.

The process of getting ready for the wedding went by very quietly. Nobody said a word. Each girl too depressed on what was about to happen. When they were finished getting dressed, the helper lead them out of the room and down a long hall. As they got closer to their destination, they heard the loud wedding music through the big double door. The helper made them stand right in front of the double door as she went to inform the people inside that they were ready.

'Daddy.' Sun started to remember her father. Her mind played back to a conversation they had had when she was just 5 years old.

Flashback:

"Daddy, when I grow up, I'm going to marry you."

"Sweetie, you can't marry me. I'm already married to your mother."

"She's going to have to share. I love you daddy, besides, other boys have cooties."

"When you get older, those boys with cooties are going to end up being hotties. And when that happens, I'm going to pull out my shotgun and threaten every one that dares to lay a finger on you. But then, a boy that you will deeply love will show me the courage needed to be with you. And I'll soon be hearing that wedding music and walking you down the aisle." He pulled his daughter onto his lap. "But don't ever feel like you need to depend on a man to keep you up. Don't ever let a man talk down at you. Don't ever let a man beat you. When you grow up, show them that you are a strong woman with your own feelings and strengths."

End of Flashback

'I wish I had shown that now Dad. And I really wish you were here with that shotgun.' The double doors opened slowly, letting a bright light shine upon them. In unison, they started walking in tune with the music, letting everybody see their beauty…yeah, and the bumps. The crowd stood. Rae started to feel the pain in her stomach again, this time, it got worse.

'There it is again, what's going on?' Rae cluched tighter onto the bouquet of flowers in her hands. She looked up straight, a blank cold face on. Kuroobi looked back at her, pride showing brightly in his face. Sun heard all the insults she was still getting from the mermaids.

'Geez, they don't even show respect at my own wedding. Shows how much I'm loved and…OW!' Now Sun was feeling pain in her stomach, except that was no doubt in her mind, she was now going into labor. 'it's gone. Wait for it….OW! it's back. It's ok, it's ok. As long as my water doesn't break, I'll be safe'. They reached the front, taking their place next to their right mermen. The crowd sat back down, letting Jimbei, who was leading the whole thing, start to speak.

"Friends, crewmates, disguisting humans…" The girls shot glares at him. "We gather here in this huge hall to witness a big mistake, oops, I mean, the union of love between two species."

'I feel my anger burning up inside of me…no wait, that's the pain in my stomach.' With one hand, Rae let the bouquet go to rub her stomach. Jimbei noticed this right away and stopped his speech.

"Got a problem?" He asked her loud enough for everybody to hear.

"No, it's just a little pain in my OWWIE!" She clutched over, dropping the bouquet of flowers in the process. She dropped down onto her knees, her hands once again craddling her stomach.

"I think she's going into labor." Kuroobi kneeled down next to her, completely clueless on what to do.

"Say what?!" Sun pushed past the others to get next to her sister. "Sis, dude, how long have you been having pain?"

"Since this morning, I think. And also, my water just broke now."

"And you wait till now to tell us?!"

"I thought it was just the butterflies you get when you're nervous or scared." Rae answered back innocently.

"We need to cancel the wedding." Sun yelled out. 'Thank goodness.'

"Hospital, medics, hot water, towels, move it people. We got a woman in labor here, and it ain't gonna be pretty. Audience, thank you for coming, leave all the presents on the table outside and have a nice day. Now OUT OUT OUT!" Nami pushed whoever was in her way out of the room, trying to make way for them to take Rae to the hospital.

Kuroobi carried Rae into the emergency room, where everything was prepared for labor. The rest of the crew: Arlong, Nami, Choo, Sun, and Jimbei- were waiting outside in a waiting room. Sun and Nami were sitting on a bench; Choo was leaning agianst a wall, his eyes closed and his arm crossed over his chest. Jimbei and Arlong were across the room, talking as quietly as possibly. Sun realized that her legs were shaking like crazy, bieng nervous wasn't exactly that good of thing for her own pregnancy.

"What do you think it's going to be?" Nami leaned over to whisper to her friend.

"I don't know. Truth be told, Rae always did want a girl. When we were little, we would always talk about our dreams and future. She said that she would get married to a tall, dark skined man with black hair and green eyes. And that she would have three kids, a girl and two boys." Sun chuckled.

"Well, the guy she is forced to marry is tall and has black hair. Not so sure about the eyes and the skin…well…you know. What did you say your future was going to be?"

"I use to say I would marry my Dad. Makes me realize that I wanted to marry a man who showed the same qualities as my father. But from what's going to happen, I doubt I'll get the future of my dreams." Sun felt the strong pain she had felt earlier. So thought it was just a regular kicking from the baby to show that it's still alive.. That was until she felt something wet.

"Sun, I'm nervous too; but man, you're sweating like crazy. Look, you're even getting the seat wet."

"Uh…that's not sweat. My water just broke."

"NO!" Nami stood. "Not you too."

"What?" Choo opened one of his eyes. "What's wrong?"

"Sun just went into labor."

"HUH?! Doctor!"

"He's busy." Arlong called out.

"But my woman is in labor too."

"Great." Jimbei rolled his eyes. "Get another specialist." He called to a group of workers that just happened to pass by. "We got another one ready to burst."

A group of nurses rushed over to the girl, pulling her onto a strapped bed. They rushed her into an available room, Choo right by her side.

"Hey, get this one in too." Jimbei pointed to Nami. "I don't want anymore surprises."

"But I havn't had any pains." Arlong went over to his girl.

"Just do what he says. Plus, Sun is a little early. So there's no saying what will happen."

They weren't kidding. As soon as Nami got into the room she was assigned, her water broke. Perfect, just perfect. All three were going to have the babies on the exact same day.

"Why can't I be in there again?" Choo questioned.

"Because you were running around like a maniac and they needed room. Stop asking, already." 'These guys are driving me insane, stupid humans for affecting the once strong team. Makes me wish I never disabled mine.' Jimbei held his hand to his head, a headache was well on its way.

"I wasn't acting crazy and they still kicked me out!"

"Kuroobi, just seat here, be normal, and shut up. Arlong, have control over your crew." Arlong was thinking too hard that he had blanked out all the other noises around him.

"What?"

"Did you hear any words I said?"

"Nope." Arlong answered back bluntly. Jimbei would have started to argue, if it wasn't for the doors that had just opened, revealing three nurses each holding specific bundles. One nurse had a bundle wrapped in….a pink blanket. Another had one wrapped in……a pink blanket. The third one had two wrapped in….a blue and pink blanket.

Each nurse walked over to the respected mermen, holding out the bundles.

"Congradulations, it's a girl." The nurse handed a baby over to….ARLONG.

"Congradulation, it's a girl." That nurse handed the baby over to….KUROOBI.

"Congradulation, you have twins. A boy and a girl." The nurse handed both babies over to Choo.

There you go. The long awaited birth of the babies. Read and review. Please????