A/n: And another update! I'm thinking this will be about 17 chapters long, but we'll see. The last chapter will be the epilogue Leave awesome reviews please!

Chapter 16!

"Why are you so protective of this one girl?" The old man questioned, "I was taught to survive on yer own. Is she that special?"

"Yeah." Luffy paused before continuing, "I love her more than anything."

Little did the two know, Nami was up the whole time, pretending to sleep and ease dropping on the conversation. A smile spread on her lips.

"Bah!" The old man made a face, "Love isn't gonna help you survive through a thing!"

"Shows what you know." Luffy snickered.

In the morning Luffy and the old man had fallen fast asleep on the beach.

Nami sat up and yawned, breathing in the sweet morning air and the sent of the ocean. She stood up and stretched her arms and legs before noticing how sound asleep the two boys were.

She smiled warmly at the cute seine and then tip-toes past them and over to the place she remembered best. Where they found the orb.

She looked down at her chest and at the orb. Hazy blue.

She untied the necklace from her neck and placed the orb in the palm of her hand, maybe barring it would bring them back. But before she could do anything she was stopped by a voice. No, voices.

"What're you doing?" Luffy and the old man both asked in unison.

"Trying to fix this mess." Nami answered, not even bothering to look back at the two. She knew it was them.

"So you're barring the orb?" The old man raised his eyebrow.

"Sounds like an awesome idea!" Luffy kneeled down beside her to help.

"You two are just going to lose it and make this all worse!" The old man complained.

But there was something he wasn't telling them. Something big. The gateway to getting out of this mess.

Barring the orb back were you found it was exactly what they were supposed to do. He just didn't want to die, even though he'd already been around for over 100 years.

"Grr…." The old man clenched his fists.

"Didn't you, want to help us?" Luffy looked up at the old man pleadingly. The man was unfazed.

But when Nami looked back at him with those eyes of hers, it was almost too much to bare.

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…

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"Alright."

The old man kneeled next to Luffy and Nami and the three of them dug a whole and barried the orb together, and then they all put their hands over the buried orb and closed their eyes.

But after 5 minutes of closing their eyes and holding their hands over the orb, they felt no difference.

"Darn it!" Nami opened her eyes the same time as Luffy did and pounded the ground.

"Nami!" Luffy shouted.

"What?" She looked up at him, just about ready to cry.

"The old man, he's gone!" Luffy pointed to the spot where the old man was before.

"Wha-" Nami looked around the area for the frail old man, but found nothing.

"Check the town!" Both Nami and Luffy agreed and raced to the town, which they reached in 2 hours.

Nami smiled widely, "WOW!"

"It's all back!" Luffy cheered as the two headed down the crowded streets and gazed off into all the shops.

"I can't believe it!" Nami exclaimed.

"Yeah!" Luffy cheered continuously.

The two soon found their way back to the hotel and reached their room number, and slowly opened the door to come face to face with a tall man in a back suit.

"SANJI!" Nami hugged him quickly.

"SANJI!" Luffy joined in on the hug.

Sanji stared blankly, whatever the hell he did it sure worked.

"Jeez, I love you too!" Sanji was still taken back a bit.

"I never thought I'd see you again!" The two exclaimed in unison.

"I thought you were mad at me…" Sanji scratched the back of his head.

"NEVER!" The two gasped.

Sanji rolled his eyes, "Where were you the whole time? Zolo and the others have been waiting for you to show up so we can leave for 3 days!

"OHMIGOSH!" Luffy started, then counted all the things of on his fingers as he went, "First we found this orb that took us back in time, and then the big lion from before was back, and then there was this old man in an underground house who was really crabby but kinda neat, AND THEN we had to go back to the shack to fix everything before we dies, and then-" Luffy was cute short.

"Hold on." Sanji waved his hands around, "What? What's gotten into your head?"

"It's all true!" Nami tried to explain but was cut short also.

"They're still waiting for us at the ship. We'd better go. Maybe he'll listen to your insane story."

The two had gone with Sanji and tried to explain everything that went on but nobody would believe them. They ether called them crazy or told them they needed some sleep.

"All aboard!" Zolo exclaimed!

"Raise the sails!" Usopp cheered.

"Set sail!" Chopper and the rest cheered along too.

But… Before Luffy had sailed away with his friends, he couldn't help but notice something moving behind a near by tree. He took a moment to look back over his shoulder and saw a 100 year old man winking. And then he disappeared into nothing.

"Nami!" Luffy gasped.

Nami rushed up to his side, "What?" She asked.

Luffy shook his head, "Nothing….Nothing…"

"Come on!" She grabbed his hand and dragged him onto the ship, but Luffy stopped her and pulled her back and into his embrace.

"Luffy…" She laughed before he kissed her.

And that's how the adventure ended. Or, has their journey only began?

THE END!

A/N: Aw, that's the end of it… Leave a review to tell me what you think! I'll be waiting!

Next and final chapter: Epilogue.