'Where could they be?' Alisha asked herself when she momentarily paused at the top of a rather a large sand dune that stood possibly three times her size but she managed to catch a glimpse of some figures moving along the desert floor.
'That's got to be them, if it's not then i just have to deal with whoever it it.' she thought inwardly before she tightened the reins in her hands from excitement before giving a whip like motion and the bird shot forward with its long stalky legs as it was closing the distance between them and her.
When she finally reached the shadowy figures she completely forgot that with a fast running object moves across a movable surface, such as sand for example, then it would leave something trailing behind, the result for her was a rather large dust cloud.
"Vivy, I thought you said that we weren't going to encounter any type of sandstorms on her way to your kingdom." a feminine voice sounded horribly agitated when she noticed that a supposed sandstorm was heading their direction.
"I'm sure. I have traveled these trails for sometime when I was younger." Princess Vivy's voice was almost trying to reassure the feminine voice that she knew was right. That is up until the sand cloud was uplifting before it even reached them.
"Is it me or do we have an angry storm cloud that just stopped in front of us." the woman with short orange hair stated as she was about to reach for her staff.
"It's nice to meet you Portgas D. Ace and Monkey D. Luffy," Alisha annouced as she saw the dust about to clear when a visible silhouette of a female was apparent and familiar to Ace.
Everyone watched as Ace walked inside of the cloud briefly disappearing from their sight except for his shadow when their eyes saw Ace approach the figure and what happened next surprised them...the two embraced each other.
"Are you feeling alright Ace?" Luffy shouted into the cloud hoping that his eldest sibling would hear him and give some type of response to his question.
"So you forgot about me already, Luffy." The teenager answered in a tone that sounded hurtful but in a teasing manner.
"Who are you?" he asked still confused on why Ace was hugging a stranger inside of the most peculiar looking dust cloud.
"Little brother, you hurt my feelings," she said and the dust cleared completely and they saw Ace hugging a teenage girl who looked around the age of eighteen or nineteen years old.
She had short to medium straight black hair that was tucked underneath a yellow straw hat with a white ribbon that was wrapped around and tied in a butterfly style with the two short strands hanging off. She wore a red halter top with no straps that revealed the young woman's tone stomach, a red pleated skirt with golden tips around the edges and stop around her ankles. A similar color cloak that would cover the body was pushed behind her arms which revealed a sword that was being held in place with a red sash.
"Big sister?" Luffy stated as he had to reassure himself that he was now looking at his older sister, who was currently standing in front of him.
"I'm shocked you don't remember me little brother." She continued to speak when she tilted her head to get a better look at her little brother's image from the last time she saw him.
"What have you been up to stealing, collecting bounties, what?" Ace question cut through the conversation that Alisha was having with her younger brother.
"No, I have been doing nothing but taking it easy, oh by the way, are we still up for the hamburger challenge?" she asked her older brother who only had a smirk on his face while her younger brother answered the question for him.
"Never miss it for anything in the world." Luffy answered her question with some kind of hidden pride within his tone.
"I will win again this year." Ace stated before Luffy interuppted his sentence with his own statement,"Yeah you always said that and lose."
"Ohm, Luffy aren't you going to introduce me to your crew?" Alisha inquired when she saw the confused look on their face as they observed their little tirade between siblings in front of a public crowd.
Luffy and Ace had turned and immediately remember that they did not quite know who they were talking to and that she was their sister.
"Crew this is Alisha, Alisha meet Zoro, Copper, Usopp, Sanji, Nami, and Princess Vivy." Luffy introduce one by one his crew members, as well as pointing to them when he say their respective to his older sister.
"Well it's nice to meet you guys, I hope my two brothers did not cause you too much trouble." She claimed when the orange haired girl, Nami, opened her mouth and responded.
"No, we have our ups and downs, as a team," replied Nami as a sweatdrop appeared behind her head as she scratched the back of her with her eyes closed and a smile on her face.
"First with the older brother, now with the older sister, are there anymore?" asked a confused Usopp as he did not understand his captain, Luffy, family tree.
Alisha started to giggle at Usopp's statement. "I assure you there are no more." Ace reassured the pointed nosed boy as he held his arms folded across his chest.
"Well sister, are you going to cook one of your best dish for me?" ask Luffy causing a blanked out Sanji to come back down to earth and noticed that they had company and a rather beautiful young lady at that.
"You're a cook?" inquired Sanji as his interest suddenly peak as he wanted to see how she handles herself in the kitchen.
"Well I don't think I am good at it but I do enough for him to scarf it down." she said pointing to Luffy, whose mouth was drooling from his dream of Alisha's cuisine.
"I like to try some of your dishes sometimes." He stated to her after he shifted the lollipop from one side of his mouth so that he could speak.
"Sure," she answered before continuing on, "So what brings you all the way to Alabasta?" she questioned her brothers' prescene as she placed her hand on her hip shifting her weight to the other foot as she still held on to the reins of the bird.
"Luffy's crew is here for Crocodile, I'm here for you know who." Ace replied with a hidden kind of venom in his tone.
"What you are talking about, nii-chan?" she questioned as she did not know who specifically her older brother was talking about when he had answered her previous question.
"That's right, I only told Luffy." He replied a little quieter than his usual normal of speaking, as this seem to put Alisha's alertness of her family on high alert but decided not to speak on it... at least not yet.
"So little sister have you settle down now?" he questioned about her current living arrangements.
"You know what, I stayed in Alabasta for about a good two years but I'm leaving in a couple of weeks." she replied as she pets the bird's head to keep it from getting agitated by not being able to move around.
"That sure was a long time for you to stay in one place, isn't." stated Ace with some type of disbelief that his little sister would stay that long anywhere.
"You got that right." she answered all while hitting Ace on the back of the back and he fell flat on his face.
"Oops, I guess I forget my own strength." she giggled before seeing her older brother roll over with shock written on his face.
"But I have one question why do you three like wearing hats?" Zorro questioned the three siblings as their conversation came to a immediate halt and their eyes turn to see who asked them that question.
There was silence in the group as the others wanted to ask the same question but never would have thought to be rude enough to ask it since they knew about how their leader received his.
'Leave it to Zorro to be rude,' were the thoughts of the crew except for Luffy and Ace thought while Alisha had a different thought in her head, 'Who is he to ask us that question?'