It's dark... meh...

Chapter 22

Everybody found the girls in the kitchen, trying to eat the food they had spilled out onto the floor, Sanji tried to be calm when he saw this.

"What did you do!" Nami chastised, walking over.

The girls looked at her. Did he (Zoro) imagine it or did it look like they were trying to hide smirks.

"Pick it up!"

Ia looked at Skie and she looked at Ia. They both looked at Nami and crawled out of the room. Whether he imagined it again or not but he swore that he heard them laugh a little.

"I'm going to get them." Nami said, leaving the room followed by Usopp.

"Why'd they try to get the food?" Sanji asked, picking up some of the stuff.

"They were hungry, like me." Luffy said.

"What's taking Nami and Usopp?" Zoro asked, a little annoyed, still holding Chey. Chey looked very happy and a (possibly?) little smug.

"Ya... where is Nami-san." Sanji asked, putting the stuff back getting the rest picked up.

"I'LL GET THEM!" Luffy yelled and ran from the room.

Several seconds later...

"Where is everybody?" Zoro yelled and left the room. Sanji followed.

What met Zoro's eyes he was not entirely ready for.

"What the hell..." Sanji muttered beside him.

They were looking at five little babies, sitting on deck. Two had black hair, one had a bandana on, and two had orange-ish red-ish hair.

"What happened?" Zoro asked, putting Chey down.

"MY POOR IA-SWAN!" Sanji yelled, running over to the black haird one and picked her up.

"What caused this?" Zoro asked, looking around.

G-R-E-Y-S-A-N-A-T-O-M-Y

Sanji collapsed into a chair and Zoro collapsed onto the davenport. All five babies were asleep on the floor around them.

"I can't do this forever!" Sanji yelled.

"Neither can I." Zoro said.

"What do we do?"

"Mawyke awn awntidote." somebody said.

"What was that?"

"Mwee!" they looked down, wide-eyed at Chey. She was sitting inbetween the sleeping Ia and Skie.

"You can talk?"

"I cowld tawlk. Sow can evwerbody ewlse!"

"Why didn't you?"

"I didwn't realize tiwll now." she said.

"What's the antidote?"

"Miwx miwlk wiff bwtter and chweese!"

"That it?"

"And rock tem to sweep wile feeding it tow tem!"

"Great." Sanji said as Zoro hung his head.

T-H-E-S-I-M-P-S-O-N-S

As they got the antidote ready, Sanji picked up Ia and took a bottle they had made with a ketchup bottle and fed her. As she drank the stuff, a huge puff of smoke appeared and Sanji dropped her. When the smoke dissapeared, standing where baby Ia had just been was the 16 year old Ia.

"IA-SWAN!" Sanji yelled and ran over and hugged her.

"What did I do?" she asked.

"YOU'RE BACK!"

"Was I gone?" she said. "Oh! Look at the babies! Who's are they?" she asked, picking up Usopp.

"Well, that's Usopp." Zoro said.

Ia looked horrified and stared down at the baby who was fidgiting with his bandana.

"OH my God...? WHAT DID YOU DO!?" she screamed at them.

"Just feed them this." Zoro said, handing her the bottle and she fed it to Usopp. Instantly, Usopp was himself again.

"I wike being a bawby!" Chey yelled as they came towards her with the bottle.

"You can't be a baby forever?" Ia said.

"Watch mwee!" she pouted and crossed her arms and turned around.

"Zoro, feed her."

"What?"

"Will you turn back to normal if Zoro feeds you?" Ia asked Chey nicely.

"YES YES YES YES YES!" she screamed and leaped into his arms.

"Uhg." he said and started feeding her.

"I'm me again! And I can talk right!" she yelled when she was her 16-year-old self again.

"That's everybody... Chey... what are you doing?" she asked as she saw that Chey was still in Zoro's arms. Ia took a glance at Skie, she was furious. Chey looked like she could die with happiness.