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CHAPTER 9

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.

When she opened her eyes she literally almost screamed. She would scream if her body would let her.

She was staring face-to-face with the ugliest thing she'd ever seen in her life. It had silvery like hair that had been covered in grease. It was missing an eye, and its other eye was colored a deadly shade of red and was glowing. In the place of its absent eye was webs, and the biggest black widow spider she'd ever seen. One of its ears was bitten off of, and looked like it was…rotting.

It had a huge jaw, which was growling at her, showing off its massive teeth that looked anything but clean. And they were sharp! Steaming drool continued to fall from its mouth.

When she saw its face, she quickly looked away and closed her eyes again. She swore if she had to look at that thing again she'd barf all day. She couldn't even describe have of its ugliness. But when she opened her eyes again, she was staring at its paw that was rested next to her face.

The claws on its paws were HUGE and covered in blood. Its silvery fur was also stained in blood. Whatever this thing was, it enjoyed killing.

Her breaths became shorter and shorter as she felt its face getting even closer to hers and its jaw opening.

Things couldn't get any worse. On top of being scared out of her freaking mind she started to feel sick again. It started to get worse than it was while she was on the mountain.

She could barely breathe.

She felt sick to her stomach and the pains in her head were killing her. She could admit, it wasn't a very nice wake-up call. She couldn't take it anymore; she couldn't stay still with everything that was happening.

She used what little strength she had left in her small body to lift her fist and pound against the animals paw, but she did it weekly and only irritated the animal.

It let out a loud roar, which only made Nami's head hurt worse and made her ears hurt.

This is it…she thought while giving up, I'm gonna die.

But just then, out of what seemed like nowhere, Luffy's sandal nailed the animal in the head. Then his other sandal too.

The animal quickly turned away from Nami and faced the figure of a boy standing just outside the shelter.

"Damn it! Get away from her!" He yelled as loud as humanly possible.

Nami took the chance to move away and huddle up in the corner of the shelter where she wouldn't be seen.

Luffy ran up to the animal from it's side, while stretching his arms back and plunging them forward, "Gum Gum…BLAST!" he screamed. The force sent the animal back 20 feet and it quickly ran away as Luffy continued to scream at it.

As soon as the animal was out of side, he hastily crawled into the shelter to find Nami curled up in the corner…Shivering.

"Nami!" He was relived to find her alive.

"L-Luffy…" she whispered faintly.

He crawled closer to her and examined her face as he crawled up right next to her.

"L-Luffy…" she repeated, her voice becoming even fainter.

As he got a good look at her face, he gasped. She was… crying.

"Nami!" he held her face in his hands, rubbing away her tears with his thumbs.

She didn't say anything, but continued to cry in his hands.

"We gotta get out of here." Luffy whispered, still trying to get over what just happened.

"I don't want to get up." Nami mumbled back weekly.

"I'll carry you." Luffy told.

"I don't like being carried."

"Too bad. We're leaving."

"Don't."

"I don't have a choice." And with that, he picked her up and carried her out of the shelter, despite Nami's struggling.

As he walked down the side of the Island with Nami in his arms, she continued to struggle and weekly punched his chest, until she got weaker and weaker, and fell asleep in his arms.

He smiled faintly at her, and then continued on back to the town.

( ON THE SHIP )

"NO!" Usopp and chopper yelled in unison," I'm NOT eating that for dinner!"

"It doesn't look that bad." Zolo frowned at then while setting the meal he'd made on the table for everyone left on the ship.

"Yes it does!" Usopp yelled with a sick look on his face.

"It could be harmful to our bodies. We should stay healthy!" Chopper informed.

"And what else are we supposed to eat, huh genius?" Zolo scowled.

"We could make sandwiches!" Usopp suggested while pointing his finger in the air.

"For dinner?" Zolo raised an eyebrow at him.

"Why not?" Chopper asked.

"Okay, whatever." Zolo gave up. Sanji was probably eating at some fancy restraint while they were all eating sandwiches.

( On the Island )

On the way to the town, Nami had been talking in her sleep. Luffy thought it was incredible cute.

From time to time she'd groan or yell some random word like, "GEEZ!" or, "NO, STUPID!"

He couldn't help but laugh. As she turned over a little, he could see the orb he put around her neck again.

But, it wasn't a sparkly dark purple anymore. It changed colors. It had become a disgusting color of green. He made a face at it, and then looked away. Nami wouldn't be happy with the way it turned out.

All of a sudden, a loud roar caught his attention, and even woke Nami up.

"Be quiet." She mumbled.

"That wasn't me." He informed.

"She looked up at him confused, "Hmm?"

TO BE CONTINUED!

A/N: Sorry it's a little shorter than the other chapters. I had a time limit! My dad's not too happy with the fact I'm on the computer a lot. But he'll have to live, right! Anyways, REMEMBER TO REVIEW!

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