Chapter 3- Unexpected

A week had passed and there was still no sign of land anywhere. Lucy became very ansty as time seemed to pass by slowly. The only silver lining, in her eyes, at this point was that the Vivre card hadn't changed at all with in the time they had noticed it burning.

She walked up to where Levy, Nami, and Robin were researching, trying to figure out exactly where they might end up.

"You guys found anything yet," She asked hoping that she wasn't bothering them.

"Well...," Nami said finally looking up from her map, "We should probably get everyone together to talk about this.

Lucy nodded, " I'll get everyone together."

A few moments later, everyone was standing around the mast, while Nami stood on the bench that was built into the mast.

"Okay, after some research, by me and the girls, it seems that there is only one place we could be heading...Impel Downs.

The entire crew froze for a moment which only led the wizards to worry.

"Levy, please explain," Erza asked of their friend.

"Right, Impel Downs is a tower type structure that is built all the way down into the sea bed of the calm belt, where there is no wind, and the waters are filled with giant sea kings, so going through the water would be impossible. They also have the front gate completely surronded by marine ships in order to guard the only entrance/exit of the building."

Erza nodded, as the other wizards took in this information.

"Well, this defiently won't be easy," Gray said rubbing the back of his neck.

"So how are we going to get inside," Wendy asked.

"Well I think we need to split up into teams," said Nami, "But I'm afraid there is little chance that you wizards will come out of this without getting recgonized."

"I might be able to help with some of that at least so they don't know that your associated with a guild," said Chopper walking up with some type of skin colored cream. He walked up to Lucy, " May I see your hand with your guild mark."

She nodded and stretched out her hand toward the little doctor, where he spread some of the cream on her guild mark. For a moment nothing happened then slowly the cream started turning the same color as her skin.

"Wow, that's amazing Chopper," She said looking at her hand closely, where she still couldn't tell there was cream or her guild mark there.

"Oh, that's not gonna make me happy you stupid head," he said doing his little wiggle dance.

Everyone gave a small smile knowing he was lying.

"Well that takes care of one problem, but I should let the master know so that he has a heads up," Erza said.

"So, you were saying something about us splitting up into two groups," Lucy said getting back to the subject.

"Yes, I think one group needs to be the distraction and the other group needs to be the rescue group. This will hopefully give us enough time to get in and out without incident."

Nami went on to explain the different levels , what they held and the different wardens that protected the building. They decided that the distraction group would be made up of Wendy, Levy, Carla, Nami, Robin, Usopp, Chopper, Brooke, Franky, and Zoro, and The Rescue team would be Luffy, Natsu, Gajeel (Not that they could stop them), Gray, Sanji, Erza, Happy, Lily, and Lucy (Who wouldn't stay on the ship even if she was asked.)

"How long until we get there," Lucy asked.

"I would say by tomorrow night, so everyone go and get as much rest as you can, your gonna need it," Nami said turning and walking away effectively dismissing everyone.

Everyone was heading to their sleeping areas, when Lucy felt arms come around her pulling her so her back was pressed up againist a firm chest that she knew instantly was Luffy.

"You shouldn't worry so much," he whispered in her ear.

She laughed, "Of course I worry, you and Ace are way to reckless for me not to worry."

"I guess you have a point," he said turning her around to face him, "But please try and worry less, it'll only make us all on edge."

"I'll try," she said putting her head againist his chest and wrapping her arms around him for a hug, which he returned.

After a long moment of silence Luffy realesed her and walked her towards the girls room.

"I'll see you tomorrow," he said leaving her there with a kiss on the forehead, and with that she walked into the room and slept all through the night.

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Meanwhile, in a dark cell, somewhere in a giant tower, their was a young man chained to the wall sitting with another man who was massive, blue and seemed to be sporting traditional Japanese clothing.

"I really hope they haven't noticed," the smaller man said, "Knowing those two they will come all the way here and try to save me."

"Who are you talking about, Ace," said the larger fish-man.

"My brother and sister," he said as all the memories started flying by, "I got to see my brother not to long ago, but I haven't seen my sister for a long time, I wonder what she has been up to."

"I didn't know you had siblings."

"I do, even though we aren't biologically related, I grew up with them and we claimed each other as family."

"I doubt they would just show up though, they would need an army to get past everything here."

Ace started laughing, "Jimbe,You have no idea what those two are capable of, and I'm sure they're not alone, their the kinda people who draw others to them."

Jimbe just looked at Ace as he was talking about his siblings. It was the first time in a while that he had seen a fire in his eyes since coming here.

"You must really care for them," Jimbe said cutting Ace off from his proud brother rant.

"I do, they are the best thing that has ever happened to me, they didn't care who I was or where I came from, they only saw me as their big brother."

Jimbe smiled, "Then I guess we should prepare for all hell to break lose, cause if they feel half of what you for them, then they'll be breaking the walls down to come get you."

"Yeah, your probably right," he said looking frustrated, "Those stupid brats."

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Hey guys,

Thanks for reading. I'm sorry I haven't updated sooner I've been really busy lately, but star82315 this ones for you. I hope you all enjoyed and I'll make sure to upload the next chapter in a more timely manner.