A/N: I'm way sorry for bailing out on you guys, but keep on reviewing. All so, happy holidays, though i'm sure i'll be making chapters out by Christmas. I hope the fanfiction is not going about to quick, but i'm enjoying myself quite much and I hope you are too. This was supposed to be out by Thursday, but i've been super-busy. The next chapter is luckly also done, so stay tuned and review.

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or any items affiliated with it.

Yosh!

Travel to Aki Kingdom Part 2

The Flawless Battle; Enter the Second

Iolan started to drift back into conscious, right before he awakened his eyes. During this maimed action, he tried to feel his hands and arms. He discovered he was lying on a white bed with red and blue bedsheets, Iolan felt warm and possibly safe. Though, he had then felt a hand brush past his own. Jolting up and panting, he came face-to-face with Marianna Roux, quirking an eyebrow.

Who was this lady? He first thought and where am I?. Iolan was about to dip his legs outta bed, until Marianna suddenly held him back down. He looked over to an open window, showing it was still the afternoon(Though it was a bit hard with the mist in the way.). Iolan looked over to Marianna's face. "Where am I?"

"Aki Island, the Aki Kingdom is just a little further from here. This is a farm, my home or rather me and my famalie's home." she answered. Iolan snorted and turned his head around, to not look at her. Marianna took a long sigh and stretched her hand out, to take a cup of orange juice off the small table beside him. "Can you tell me your name?"

"My names Iolanthe Gered, but everyone calls me Iolan. Whats your name?" Iolan asked. Marianna looked down nervously and stared back into his hazel brown eyes.

"My names Marianna Roux. I'm known as the 'Navigating prestige' around here." Marianna replied, placing her hands on her lap.

"That means you know how to navigate and skilled in cartograph?" Iolan questioned. Marianna nodded. "Then join my crew?!" he jumped up, off the bed and landed before her, now noticing she was seating on a chair.

"Join your crew? Sorry buddy." Marianna apoligized, folding her arms on her chest and resting her eyes. Iolan began to pout, once Marianna saw this, she chukled. "I've got responsobilities. I don't have time for piracy, these days, the only ones who have time for that lifestyle are those who can only be careless and not observent of others safety."

Iolan shook his head and sat back down on the bed. "That's not true. A life of a pirate is the life of dreams. The Pirate King said so himself, my brother gave me an old article about his execution." Iolan explained.

Marianna nodded. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Shoot." he replied unfazed from his own happiness.

"What is your dream exactly?" she questioned. Iolan shrugged his shoulders and stared up to the blue ceiling.

"My dream. My dream is to be famous, to show the world how great I am and even make it in history as the greatest pirate to ever set the seas!" exclaimed Iolan, stabbing a fist into the air and looking up. Marianna made a slight giggle which jerked him to stare back to her. "What?"

"Thats an over zealous dream, don't you think?" Marianna asked, cupping her chin.

"No." Iolan simply put. Just then, running in, was Kami. The girl had stopped by the door entrance, stared at the two and gasped once she saw Iolan, lift himself up more. "Hi there." he greated, waving his hand at Kami. Marianna put his hand back down and under the blue sheets.

"What's going on here Marianna? Why dind't you tell me he was awake?" Kami suspiciously asked, placing her arms against her chest. "Your not hiding anything from, are you?" Kami pressed on and leaned her shoulder onto the side of the doorway entrance. She began to eye her abondoned sister.

Marianna stood up. "I sorta forgot. Besides, its no buggy, he seems alright." Marianna explained. She walked over to Kami, who looked the other way, feeling betrayed. Kami turned to see her sister smiling, so secure.

"He could be tricking you! Trying to take you out when your not looking!" cried Kami. She wiped a tear with her fist and lighly punched Marianna in the left shoulder. "Don't you get it?! Your just a tick in Vincent's riegn and now he wants someone to kill you! The villagers wouldn't even care though!"

Iolan looked over at the window. Marianna had then pressed her hands on both Kami's shoulders, the green haired girl gasped and looked into Marianna's eyes, noticing the trust in them. "You can't always be so cautious and not trust your instinct. I'm your sister, i'm here for you and your here for me. Right?"

Kami nodded. "Can you go get some things at the store. We've run out of milk, bread and eggs." said Marianna. She handed Kami the list and she took it in return. Kami turned away, facing the outside, while Marianna had turned her attention to Iolan. Unknowing to the two, tears had started to trail down her face.

(--)

Aimez and the old man had decided to sit close to a tree and drink a cup of sake. The two were clearly tired of the strides towards the castle and wanted to relax, for a while. The two men took a deep sigh and looked over at each other. "May I ask you a question, young man?" the old man asked. Aimez turned over to him and nodded. "Where did you come from?"

Aimez than, lifted his hands behind his head and leaned against the tree. "I came from a small village name Fuschia. But if you wanna be exact, i'm a prince, of another land. Though I can't tell you what its called, i'd have to kill you." Aimez spoke. He took a sip from his cup. The old man nodded and took another sip as well. "May I ask you a question?"

"But ofcourse." he replied.

"What is your name? You've never told me yet and its really bothering me." Aimez said.

"My name is only addressed to myself, but you could call me, Viejo." Viejo responded. Aimez raised an eyebrow, in question.

"Is that your last or first name?"

"Thats not of your business! All that matters is to find your friend as quick as possible." Viejo responded. Aimez nodded and gasped, which resulted in Viejo staring at him intently. Aimez, in a quick pace, stood up. "Now, what is the matter with you?!" Viejo impatiently asked.

"The fog...its slowly disspearing. Why is it leaving?" Aimez placed his arm out, waving it around to dismiss the thick frog. Though, he had failed as it started to leave the two and float somewhere else, behind them. The Aki Islands shopping district, Tienda central. Aimez's eyes grew large while Viejo began to walk further down the hill, heading back to the village. "Wait for me!"

(--)

Kami ran down the sidewalk ergently holding a plastic bag full of nesscisties and glaring daggers at anyone who passed by her. She had noticed the mist was starting to evaperate, which was not a good sighn. She had also noticed looking above, the pink clouds and mid-bright sun was being seen. She halted her running.

"Hey! Is the King here yet?" she asked a random passbyer. The man gave a sharp nod, which made Kami inhale her breath and gave the woman a glare. The woman had ran off once Kami turned her back on her and began walking away. Her steps began to echo across the street, since nobody was out anymore.

Kami had stopped and took a look back, to see the fog clear up behind her. Than, out of nowhere, a man had walked out of the mist behind her, startiling her to spin around. The man had black long hair and orange tinted eyes, he also had a thick curly mustache, for some odd reason he resembeled a dog. The man wore a red short sleeve shirt and dark green baggy pants, he also wore a white furry longsleeve coat that landed at his ankles.

"Well, what do we have here?" he sneered. He approached followed a bubble-gun pink haired woman, a darkskinned man with dreadlocks and another man plainly wearing a blue baseball cap. The four crowded the young girl, even though they can see she wasn't armored. "Where's that 'Oh so majestic sister' of yours? Usually, she comes with you into town."

Kami frowned at his words. About to reach into her pocket for a dagger, it was too late. The mysterious man had pierced her ribs, with a clean katana. Kami's mouth went agape, as she was stunned at the fact she was attacked. Kami toppeled towards the ground, once the man snatched back his katana. "Vincent?" the pink haired girl asked. Vincent turned to her and handed her his sword.

"Your a sick man, Vincent." muttered Kami, spitting blood out her mouth. She struggeled to make herself stand up and defend her own justice. Though, Vincent pressed a foot on her head, pressing her into the dirt and earning a grunt from the young girl. "You bastard!"

"Stop acting like your brave. The only one brave around here is me, your precious King Vincent." Vincent said, squishing her hand into the dirt. Suddenly, a flying object jabbed into his head, causing Vincent to lift his foot off Kami's head. The man stumbled, almost running into one of his crewmates. "Who the hell did that?! Show yourself!"

Stepping out to reveal themselves was Marianna Roux. The girl was wielding two strings, each attached to a wire, that she held in her hands. She was eagerly spinning it around aside her and grinning devilishly, actually intimidating Vincent a little. "Step away from the girl, Inu-hito." Marianna insulted.

"You!" Vincent shouted and directly pointed at Marianna, who was now smirking. "I've had enough of your rebillious actions! Kill her!" Vincent ordered. The first one to move was the man wearing the baseball cap, he took out a bat and charged at Marianna. Luckly, she dodged it with extreme grace and spun the disk from her right hand.

"Tori capture!" yelled Marianna. The right Tori was able to tie around the handle of the bat, making Marianna pull him along. Unexpectedly, the pink haired woman had crossed her arms and spreaded her feet apart, ready to use some attack. "Kiri Kiri imobolize!" the woman shouted, holding her hand out and spreading her fingers apart. A steam of thick gas, esscended from her fingernails, moving forward towards Marianna. Marianna had tried to throw the left Tori, but found out she was imobolized from her feet to her knees, which surprised her. The fog had gathered around her wrists and neck, slowly choking her. Vincent had the mind to walk up to her and he did. As soon as he was close enough, the fog griping her neck had dispersed in exchange for his hand to choke her. "Ugh."

"You little wench." Vincent threatened. He aimed a fist straight for her cheeks, though Marianna flenched, it never came. Vincent's face was bashed by a fist, a red hot sizzling fist and porpelled him spinning, to hit a tree. Marianna gasped at the sight before here as she dropped to the ground on her knees. It wasn't just her, anyone passing by had also stopped as well and Vincent's crew.

Standing in front of Marianna, was none other than a very pissed off Iolan, cracking his knuckels. "Iolan." Marianna said, standing behind him and about to rest her hand on his shoulder. Just then, Iolan looked back to her, grinned and gave her the thumbs up in return Marianna smiled. She rushed to Kamis side when Iolan directed his attention to a fallen Vincent.

"What kind of Leader attacks an innocent civilian?!" Iolan shouted. Vincent sat up, straigtning his shirt and fixing his eyes on Iolan's repulsive state. Iolan began walking over to him and lifted him up from his collar, frightning the man. "Tell me, what do you desire the most; Treasure or the sake of your villagers?"

"Treasure, ofcourse!" Vincent shrugged his shoulders.

"Wrong answer. Kora Kora Fist!" Iolan yelled while shaking his hand. After, he punched the man in the fist, which sended the man porpelling to a small pub and leaving red print of a hand, on the side of his fist. "You must be wondering 'what the hell was that'. I have eaten the Kora Kora no mi. Ever drank Cola, well, i'm like that, if I shake I could force that into an attack for my hands, feet, head or even to fly. But what makes it better, is that I could even repel an attack somtimes from my enimies right back to them. Its the carbon, unfortunetly I don't like drinking Cola much, but I do like cofee!"

"Enough of this! Lavender finish him!" Vincent ordered. The pink haired girl from earlier named Lavender, nodded and crossed her arms again.

"Kiri Kiri mirage!" she called out,raising her hands to the sky. Suddenly, a cloud of gas blocked Iolan's vision towards Vincent. He gritted his teeth and took no time to think this through, ran through the cloud succeding in finding Lavender, surprised to his 'wits'. "How did you figuer out?!"

"Figure what out? I only took my instincts." Iolan replied.

"Iolan!" someone had called out. Iolan jumped and looked around, only to stop to his left to see Aimez, Viejo, and Len(who's chest was fully bandaged.). "What the hell are you doing?! Dind't I say to stay out of trouble and find a boat so we could continue our journey!" Aimez bickered. Iolan dug his pinkie in his right ear, trying his best to ignore Aimez. Aimez than placed his hands on his waist, than sighed. "You never listen to a darn thing I say. You just do whatever you please, oh well, it's your probelm now. Do whatever you like and have fun!"

"I swear that gut has some sort of multiple personnility disorder." Iolan thought, reaching in his pocket to take out a red star.

"Alright lets do this! Hoshi punch!" Iolan shouted. He pushed the star onto Lavender's belly, unnoticed which made the woman shriek in pain. She collapsed on the ground and Vincent stood over to protect her, than Aimez noticed the fog dissapear and reveal the bright sun and pinkish clouds. He smiled and looked downward to Iolan.

"Gramps do you think this village will be safe again?" Len asked, facing Viejo.

"Gramps?! Crap-geezer! You're related to this angel!?" Aimez exclaimed which served him a whack on the head by Viejo. "Ouch!! What you do that for?!" he asked, rubbing his head to soothe the pain.

"Yes. Len here, is my Grandagther, her parents died five years ago due to this man." Viejo explained. Aimez nodded and looked back to Iolan. "It looks to me Kami is hurt. I wonder how well Marianna can take this any longer." Viejo spoke to Aimez, who nodded.

"Kami!" Len yelled and ran over to her two sisters. Iolan strolled over to Marianna and kneeled down to her lowered level,(She was busy cradling Kami's head on her lap.)

"Glad I could help you fix your probelm." He said and left without, getting to say anything to Aimez, who had than followed.

(--)

Marianna softly tip-toed out her house and silently sut the door, with out any effort. She spun around, lofting her red bookbag further on her shoulder and gripped her orange siutcase tighter. She was now wearing a short sleeve unzipped yellow hoodie, that was helping her crp top show off her bellypiercing and a Log Pose on her right wrist. Marianna sighed at the though of leaving her sisters without any saying of goodbye.

"Marianna?" Viejo asked. Marianna stared at him, forward and nodded. "So your going out to see and leaving this small farm all alone. Its a big world out there, for a small fish like you to be swimming with a bunch of clowns on the ocean." Viejo retaliated her indiffrent desicion.

"I don't care what you call them. I'm going to live the good life as full as I can and discover the secreat of the Sky islands!" she proposed. Viejo shook his head in annoyance and looked back at Marianna.

"Are you sure?" he asked. Marianna nodded. "When you do this, please promise me to achieve that dream and make it to One Piece, the legendary treasure?"

"Yosh!" she agreed and ran off towards the boys, who were kindly waiting for her. Upon running over to them, Iolan grinned and ajusted his eyepatch as Aimez shut his current novel he was reading. The two boys smilied for her greeting and Iolan swung an arm around her shoulders, showing her the dinghy. Marianna sweatdropped and Aimez laughed.

Now, a new member has joined the unnamed crew and adventure still awaits them, but what sort of travels will they embark next.

Current members:

Iolanthe "Iolan" Gered - 17 years, Captain

Aimez Autruche- 19 years, First mate/Log keeper

Marianna Roux- 16 years,Navigator/Helmsman

A/N: Well, that took longer than I expected, but i'm glad its finally out. Please review and i'm still excepting characters. I hope this isn't taking slow and i'm beginnig to update faster, the next chapter is coming on it's way, probably coming out on Monday or Sunday. Have a Happy Holiday!

Inglory-chan!