Chapter 6-The Attack
It started out like a normal day. Sanji woke everyone up for breakfast, too early in De-Ji and Zoro's opinions, and they all ate and went their separate ways. Luffy went to sit on the goat shaped bow at the head of the ship, Chopper and Usopp were working on new medicines and concotions, Nami sat in her lawn chair, working on her tan, Sanji was cooking up a snack for Nami, Robin, and De-Ji. Zoro and De-Ji weren't in the crow's nest today, though. Zoro was working out, while De-Ji sat close by and watched.
All of a sudden, there was a deafening BOOM as a cannon was fired at the unsuspecting Going Merry. As soon as everybody picked themselves up from bieng knocked down from the aftershock, they all ran to the starboard(right) side of the caravel, and saw a large ship approaching. Then everybody but De-Ji ran to their battle stations, and waited for the foreign ship to draw near. De-Ji hadn't moved from the starboard side, though. Because she recognized the ship from earlier in her life, when it had attacked her town. That was exactly the reason why her town was so against pirates.
"Warumono…" De-Ji said to nobody in particular. As the ship drew nearer, Usopp started to fire cannons at it, practically deafening De-Ji in the process. Ears ringing, she ran over to Zoro, and tried to shout over the cannon blasts. "Zoro! That's Warumono's ship! He tried to attack my hometown about 2 years ago! He has the power of the gisou gisou no mi(camo camo fruit)! Be careful!" De-Ji tried to yell to Zoro. But Zoro just looked down at her, with a slightly confused look on his face, because for all he knew, De-Ji was just moving her lips. He couldn't hear her warning at all. De-Ji looked back up at him, wondering if he had heard her. The cannon firing was becoming too loud for De-Ji now, she had to find somewhere that was quieter, so she ran off in search of a room that had a good solid door that wouldn't let through much noise.
A little while later, the cannons had stopped firing. De-Ji thought the fight was over, and went outside to conragulate the victory to the straw hats. Unfortunately, the cannons had only stopped because the Going Merry was bieng boarded, and everyone had their hands full with fighting the opposing crew. As De-Ji poked her head out, Warumono saw her and caught her by her hair, De-Ji tried to scream to Zoro, but he was fighting too intently to hear anything.Warumono then seemed to dissappear, using his fruit power, and headed over to his own ship, after he got there, he sent up a blue flair motioning his crewmates to come back and leave the Going Merry behind. After his crew followed him onto his ship, he changed back so everyone could see him and De-Ji, his new prisoner.
"MUGIWARAS! DO YOU SEE HER? YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND ME AND TAKE HER FROM ME IF YOU WANT HER BACK!" Warumono screamed to the other ship. The straw hat crew watched as the whole ship turned invisible, due to Warumono using his ability to blend him, and other things in with his surroundings. All the mugiwaras could do is stare at the dissappearing ship and crew. As soon as they snapped out of their trance they were trapped in, they all set off to go find De-Ji. To their surprise, Zoro was the first to snap out of his trance, and set off to work on the sails to make little Merry go faster. But, they had no idea where they had run off to. Zoro racked his brain for an answer, and remembered that Chopper could sniff out things like a blood hound. Zoro ran up and said to Chopper, " Chopper, you can smell really good right, can you smell where they went?" Chopper at first was a little shocked at Zoro's intensity of chasing the ship, and finally replied, "yes, they went off in south-eastern direction."
"YOSH!"