I'm so sorry about that wait! But hellllo! It's almost been a year, and I'm terribly sorry. :( I'm back though! And I've missed you guys.

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**Jamie**

I opened my eyes to darkness; I could barely see my hand in front of my own face. I gulped, and I could swear I heard it echo across nothing. I bit my lip, a bat slowly forming from my hand. Then to my right, the sound of footsteps caught my attention.

"Who's there?"

No one answered me, I bit my lip harder. The footsteps turned into running, and my heart beat start racing. They were getting closer and closer and my feet wouldn't budge. No matter how hard I tried, I could not move my feet. I looked up just as the steps stopped in front of me.

The bat was shaking in my hands. I couldn't stay still. I heard a very distinct laugh, and I felt my heart race even more. "Mom?"

"Hello, Temperance."

I jolted awake. My breathing was erratic and my heart beat was beating so hard I swear it was going to pop out of my chest. I looked around the room and found the comfort of the Merry. I was able to slow my breathing, and stand, my feet were shaking but I could move.

I started making my way to the deck quietly; no one else appeared to be awake. I walked towards the railing, the sun now just starting to lightly peek over the horizon line. The weather was much warmer after moving farther away from Chopper's home island.

I felt someone move beside me, I looked up and saw Zoro. He looked back at me, "What happened last night?"

His voice was a low mumble, "Who said I'm scared?"

I glared at him, "You may be the calm twin, but even I know when you're scared!"

"I'm not."

"Yes you are!"

I growled slamming my fist into the table hearing a rather define snapping sound, "Just admit it Ryan!"

"Why? Why do you need to know I'm scared! Why do I have to show you I'm scared!"

"Because, I want to know I'm not alone!"

I smiled, "Nothing, just a sibling fight."

"Sanji said it was worse than that."

I shook my head, "Nope!"

I looked back out at the water and could still feel his eyes on me. "I know it's none of my business, but I'm going to guess this has something to do with your mother."

I looked back up at him, "Zoro… You'll understand soon enough, let's just drop it for now, kay?"

He nodded, "As long as you promise to let me know."

I put my hand on his shoulder, "I promise."

In my head, I felt bad for saying that. I'll be letting him know in the form of leaving. I frowned and look down at the water; I don't want to hurt these people like that. I'm making too many promises lately.

I looked at him and tilted my head, I earned a weird stare back, "What do you want, brat?"

I glared at him, "Is that the best you got, cabbage head?"

I grinned at the memory of me first using that insult.

I got a good grasp on the bat before turning to Zoro with a glare, "You… You cabbage head swordsman!"

With one swift movement I hit Zoro on top of his head and he fell to the ground. "What was that for brat?"

He just glared, "Don't call me that!"

I skipped away towards the sounds of pots and pans, time to bug someone else.

**Ryan**

I walked towards Vivi and Nami, my sister nowhere in sight, and looked over the maps they were glancing at. Nami smiled brightly at the princess, "We're heading straight for Alabasta!"

I watched Vivi smile to herself, looking out into the sea. I hugged both of them, "Time to be badass heroes!"

Sanji's loud voice caught all three of our attention, "Luffy! Don't you lie to me!"

Luffy shifted his eyes, "I have no idea what you're talking about!"

Sanji glared at him, removing his cigarette bending down to his level, "Alright, then I'll get straight to the point, how come all of the food that I have prepared and saved for the way to Alabasta has mysteriously disappeared?"

Jamie sat next to a sleeping swordsman laughing silently. I moved silently, and quickly next to her, watching the show. Sanji glared at the boy grabbing his face, "You're a terrible liar!"

Then suddenly, placing the sigarette back in his move, he moved away, "What's that around your mouth?"

I heard Jamie say 'shit' under her breath, she turned to me and pointed to her mouth. I laughed, "You have nothing on your face."

She grinned, "Sweet."

Luffy fell for what the cook said, "Crap! Leftovers!"

He quickly covered his mouth wiping at it, Sanji glared for a moment. Then suddenly his leg lifted, "SO IT WAS YOU!"

With a swift kick to the head Luffy was sent across the deck, he landed in wood hard, with tears running down his face, "It wasn't just me! Jamie helped!"

Sanji looked over at Jamie and she had the most innocent face she could muster on, "I did no such thing!"

Sanji chased after Luffy, "Don't you blame my Jamie! She would do no such thing!"

I quickly moved back up to Nami and Vivi, "You should buy Sanji a fridge with a lock."

Nami grabbed at her chest, "Don't do that!"

I laughed, "Sorry I didn't mean to!"

**Jamie**

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

Luffy and Usopp glared at me, "Stop laughing!"

I tried to cover up my loud laughter with my hand but failed miserably. "You guys aren't gonna catch shit without any bait, which reminds me, why the hell would you eat that?"

Luffy sighed, "I was hungry."

I shook my head, and walked away. I heard some noise coming from Carue but ignored it. About 10 minutes later I heard Vivi yelling, I quickly ran over to see Vivi desperately pulling up Carue (who Luffy and Usopp thought would make wonderful bait) over the side of the boat.

I heard Ryan yell at the front of the boat, "There's some kind of ship heading our way!"

Everyone stayed silent, as the ship quickly road past us, without a single glance from the crew members all of them seemed to be focused on getting to where they were going. "We caught something!"

I ran over, "Can we eat it?"

Luffy lifted the catch over the railing, "Uh.. It's weird."

Zoro, Nami, Luffy, Usopp, Chopper and I all looked at the weird man in front of us. He was tall with long hairy exposed legs. He had a pink jacket with swans on the shoulders, I shivered. This guy was creepy.

Luffy glared at him, "He's weird, let's through him overboard and go fish more."

I glanced at Luffy, "All though it's kind of morbid coming from your mouth I agree."

The mystery man panicked, "No! I can't swim!"

Luffy tilted his head, "You can't?"

"I ate the Clone Clone fruit!"

Luffy gasped, "Show us!"

He spun once on his foot, and shrugged, "I might as well put on a show before my ship returns!"

He quickly stood and shoved his hand harshly into Luffy's face sending him back onto his back, "Prepare to see my ability!"

I tensed my bat forming in my hand, Zoro drew his swords, "What are you doing!"

The man raised his hands, and it was no longer him but Luffy in front of us, "No! I'm showing you!"

Luffy jumped up, "It's me!"

The man jumped up and down, "Surprise!"

The man laughed, "When I touch myself with my left hand", I quietly interrupted with a loud 'that's what he said', "I go back to normal! That is the ability I gained from eating the Clone Clone Fruit!"

He went around and tapped everyone's forehead with his hand, "There's no need to really hit anyone though!"

Then we watched as he tapped his own face and changed into everyone, "And when I tap my face with my right hand, I can transform into anyoneeee!"

Lastly, he transformed into Nami, "Even my body!" and with that statement he opened up his shirt, "See!" and was quickly knocked out by a red faced Nami, "Knock it off!"

I joined Vivi at the top part of the deck, and watched as the man preformed more for Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp. I heard her gasp, and looked at the shocked look on her face, "Vivi?"

The main moved away from the boys and moved towards the railing, "There's my ship!"

He jumped on the railing, "My time has come~ I must leave."

Sounds of protest came to the three entertained boys on deck. He started with a dramatic goodbye and I rolled my eyes, "Get off the boat you creep."

And as if he heard my mumble he leaped onto his own ship and left. He ordered his crew to leave, and they all shouted "Aye, Mr. 2!"

I gasped, "Mr. 2?"

Vivi joined me, "Mr. Bon Clay!"

I glanced at her, "Didn't you recognize him!"

She shook her head, "I've never meet Mr. 2, or the Mr. 1 pairing."

"I've heard rumors though. Mr. 2 is a very loud, flamboyant ballerina that wears a pink coat with two swans on it."

I glanced over with a sweat drop, "You should have noticed."

Luffy looked up at Vivi, "What's wrong?"

"Just then, when he was showing you faces from his memory for his 'show', one of the faces were my father's! The face of the King of Alabasta."

Zoro crossed his arms across his chest, "If you could impersonate the king, you could some very bad things."

I gripped the railing, "We just let a very dangerous man leave."

Chopped looked up at me, "He was an enemy?"

"If he turns out to be, then he will be a very dangerous enemy to deal with. He could use any one of the impressions of us; we won't be able to trust our own crew mates."

"Now, now." All eyes moved towards Zoro, "I think we're very fortunate to meet him, now we can take countermeasures."

**Ryan**

"Uh guys, more ships."

Everyone looked over to where I was and, Zoro pointed at them, "I'm guessing this means were getting closer to Alabasta."

Vivi glanced at them, "They're all Baroque Works ships, those are 200 of the best small agents."

Luffy stopped Usopp from shooting the cannon, "No, it'll be easier to just go over and kick their asses!"

Usopp started to tear up, "No, let's get them well we can!"

Zoro shook his head, "We don't need to worry about them, we have a much bigger objective."

I nodded, "Zoro's right for once, we can't lose sight of our biggest objective."

"Did he really look that much like you guys?"

Jamie nodded, "He didn't just look like us he sounded like us!"

I sighed, and finished tying the cloth onto Jamie's upper arm and she did the same for me, "I'm glad I went to tell Sanji about it and didn't bother staying on deck."

Usopp joined in, "You should have seen it, we were dancing with him and everything!"

Sanji blew out some smoke, "I'm glad I didn't see it, I'm not interested in male ballerinas."

Luffy started to jump, "I can see the Island!"

Vivi quickly added, "We have to move away from the port and hide the boat."

Luffy nodded, "From now on, this cloth on our left arm is a sign of friendship!"

We all put our left hands in a circle and nodded at one another, "Now let's go eat! I mean let's go to Alabasta!"

I laughed at Luffy, and looked at Ryan. He smiled lightly back at me, he was fidgeting at his band. I looked at mind with a smile, no matter what, these friendships will always be with us.

I used a lot of break lines today... Uh, hi! It's offically early morning and I'm tired. I just spent a few hours looking over this, readin past chapters, ect. I had to remind myself what was going on in my own sotry, that's a sign that it's been far too long!

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