A/N: I'm back! Sorry for the wait, I was dragged of the computer all week! But I'm updating now! Uh-oh! School's coming up again! 'cries' that means homework! But I guess I'll find the time to update anyway! Okay, back to the story, where'd all my reviewers go! 'gets angry' Y'know, the updates would be SO much faster if all of you just took 2 minutes to review! Please?

Alright, for the review that asked about the orb, yes, it is magical; but not in a good way. That's all I'll give ya!

Kay, on to chapter 8! And this time, if you review, I'll write back!

CHAPTER 8

Under Attack

The next morning Nami woke up on her side, and Luffy wasn't there, as usual.

As Nami yawned she noticed it was late afternoon. Like normal, Luffy had let her sleep in. But when she thought about it for a while, it didn't seem right. It didn't feel right. She could sense something was wrong.

She turned over on her back and closed her eyes, trying to think for a moment. The silence that filled the air seemed deadly, it was too quiet. Especially if Luffy was there, he wasn't exactly a very quiet person.

She sighed in relief when she head foot steps slowly heading over to the shelter she was in. But she still kept her eyes closed, and listened carefully.

She wasn't too sure it was Luffy heading her way, no…It didn't sound quite right. Whatever was coming her way was heavier than Luffy, she could tell every time it took a step in the hot sand. And to top that, there were too many steps.

Then it stopped, she could feel it hovering over her head, breathing deeply.

Her heart pounded faster and faster ever second that went by. Whatever was towering above her was big… and smelly too.

The smell of whatever it was, was the foulest smell she had ever smelt in her life. It smelt worse than Zolo after he had been training all day, or worse than Usopp and choppers experiments, and way worse than Luffy when he thought it was cool to go without bathing for a week.

It smelt of rotting flesh and blood. It smelt like death.

She could feel air around her face get heavier and its breaths got deeper. Her skin cringed as the objects warm breath touched her skin.

It started to lower its head slowly, its breath getting deeper against her skin. The closer its face got, the more Nami didn't want to open her eyes. The thought of what might be above her terrified her.

As she listened closely, she could almost hear It…growling. Every time it breathed in and out a small growl escaped with it. It sounded as if it were really angry or just had a throat problem.

All thoughts of whatever this thing was being human were quickly gone. It couldn't be human; it smelt worse, felt worse, and sounded worse than a human. The only possibility of it being human was if it were a 120 year-old man slowly dieing on top of her.

She tried to scream for Luffy, but when she opened her mouth the words wouldn't come out. It was as if she had no voice; the harder she tried to scream his name, the more impossible it became. She was surprised she wasn't so scared she couldn't breath.

Then she felt it… a hot drop of saliva landed on her forehead and only had Nami thinking, Oh my god! Gross!

Then another hit her forehead, and another. She wanted so badly to slap whatever was over her head but her hands wouldn't move. She was stricken with fear and couldn't move anything.

Then she did the last thing she thought there was left to do…She opened her eyes.

( Back on the ship )

"I can't believe it!" Zolo sighed and slapped his forehead. He sat in the men's quarters on one of the hammocks they all slept on every night.

Zolo was so angry he could destroy the room within seconds; he realized he had forgotten Sanji back on the Island with Luffy and Nami. He couldn't believe how stupid he had become at the moment.

He slouched over on the hammock and sighed deeply again. Oh, he was never going to hear the end of it from Nami. She would be mad at him for weeks without end.

He laid back in the hammock with his hands behind his head trying to rid the thought of what Nami would do to him out of his head. He decided turning the ship around to go get Sanji was a bad idea, what was done was done and it would help if Zolo just stayed away from Nami for the rest of the two weeks.

Then the thought of what Sanji might look like when they came back made him laugh. Before Nami would even get to him she'd get to Sanji first. The next time Zolo saw Sanji again, Sanji might have a black eye, swollen face, a broken arm maybe. The image of it all made Zolo laugh so hard he feel out of his hammock.

The more Zolo thought about it the better it sounded. Sanji not there on the ship to bug him, Nami getting to take out her anger on Sanji and not him, he could just relax for two weeks.

Usopp and Chopper never bugged him, they stayed on the dock most of the time thinking up new stuff they could experiment with. He wouldn't have to go to bed every night with a headache from all the fighting they did and wouldn't have to deal with his never ending talk about his so called "Nami-swan."

Life was good.

The his stomach growled and the thought smacked him in the back of the head; They had no cook!

Zolo had no idea how to cook for himself, and only god-knows-what Usopp and chopper would do to the kitchen.

Looks like it was going to be a long two weeks after all.

( Back to Sanji )

Sanji strolled around the small town, totally bored out of his mind with nothing to do. His hands where in his pockets as he slowly walked down the street peering into window after window of the shops and such thinking of ANTHING there was to do.

He wanted oh-so-badly to go to one of the high class restraints there were around town, but he had stupidly spent all his money on cooking supplies. He was down to 50 berries.

He would be flirting non-stop with pretty woman at the time, if there were any out. It was late evening and everyone was in their hotels or eating in the restraints. Surprising enough as it was, nobody was at the beach.

Sanji sighed and whipped the dangling hair out of his left eye. It was enough to have his hair covering is right eye all the time, the last thing he wanted was to not be able to see anything and end up walking into a pole, or something stupid like that.

He stopped at a cheep food stand and examined the food. The look of the greasiness of it all almost made him want to barf, but he was hungry as hell.

He took out his last 50 berries and stubbornly set in on the counter, but was soon stopped by a figure behind him.

"What do you think you're doing, eating here?" A woman's voice questioned, "A fine young man like you should be eating at the restraints over there."

Sanji turned around to see a beautiful woman just under his height standing behind him with her hands neatly placed on her hips.

Sanji drooled at the sight of her; she had long black hair that fell to her hips and amazing violet eyes. Her face looked as if it were carved by angels; the same went for the rest of her body.

"Hello, gorgeous." Sanji said smoothly trying to just look at her face and not the rest of her good-looking body.

She smiled seductively and grabbed his tie and pulled him closer to her, "I asked you a question, what's a handsome devil like you doing here? You look like you're loaded with cash."

"I spent it all on cooking supplies…" He muttered looking away for a moment.

"Oh!" She seemed happy, "A handsome cook?"

Sanji winked at her, "You got it! 5 star cook, baby!"

The lady let go of his tie and smirked, "Well, since you're so broke at the moment, and I'm so hungry, how about you come over to my house and cook me a 5 star meal?"

Sanji smiled and danced happily in his thoughts, but still managed to keep that cool look on his face, "Sounds good."

And with that he held out his arm and she grabbed it as they walked back to her house. Sanji couldn't be any more pleased with himself.

( Back to The Island, with Luffy this time)

Luffy had woken up as he was being harshly dragged by his leg away from the shelter.

He jerked away from the Large animal that had it's fangs in Luffy s leg, dragging him away, and sat up, Holding his leg in pain. He couldn't believe he haddent woken up before, the pain that was in his leg was almost too much for him to handle.

He looked at the large animal that had been dragging him off and gasped, never had he seen anything like it. It was the ugliest, most gruesome animal he had ever seen in his life. And there wasn't just one, there where ten. All of them growling and stepping closer and closer to him.

He quickly forgot about the pain in his leg and stood up. He was surrounded. He quickly thought of a plan to get away; he quickly stretched his good leg back and spun it in a circle, knocking all the animals to the ground.

"Gum…Gum…WHIP!" He shouted before his leg swing in the circle, hitting all the animals as it went. The ugly, horrifying animals scurried away in fear after they had gotten back up. It was surprising; you'd think animals as ugly and terrifying as they were would at least give him a good fight!

Then he felt it again, the pain from his leg shot up his whole body sending him back down to the ground. He creamed and fell to the ground, grabbing his leg as the blood seeped out of it.

But he had to stand again, he knew there had to be more of those animals around; and he knew exactly where they'd be: At the shelter where Nami was. And the worst part was: she was weaponless.

The sheer thought of Nami ever getting hurt gave him enough drive to stand again. But the bad news was he was in too much pain to run, he could only hastily walk.

He had to get to Nami before any of the other gruesome animals did. If anything happened to Nami, there would never be a day when he'd forgive himself.

TO BE CONTINUED!

A/N: Yay! Just because I haven't been updating lately, I made this chapter a little bit longer! Yay! It's a pretty good chapter too huh? I'd say so far the best chapter in the sequel! And even with all that I wrote, I still got to leave a cliff hanger! Well, if you review, I'll try my best to get back to you! REMEMBER TO REVIEW FOR A FASTER UPDATE! I know you want to know what happens next!

Next chapter pep talk: What will happen to the weaponless Nami? Will Luffy get there in time? What will Zolo do for food? What about Sanji?- Nah, I think Sanji's okay for the moment! XD well, until the next chapter! Buh-bye!