When they finally dropped anchor, the treasure hunter called Luffy to a race and sped off the ship, floating above the ground as her captain laughed and followed her. The rest of the crew stepped foot and wondered in awe as they witnessed the creation of the soap-like bubbles. Jiru, Chopper, Robin, Luffy and Usoppu all watched as the bubbles simply came out of the ground. Commenting on how similar the bubbles were to Jiru's own air-like powers, Luffy managed to jump on a soap bubble; laughing.
Following Luffy as he moved upward, bouncing on bubble to bubble, the treasure hunter was able to view more of the island and spot the huge Ferris-wheel. Luffy spotted the ride as well and went higher before falling. Fortunately, Jiru was close enough to catch Luffy when his highest-reaching bubble suddenly popped. Jiru pondered this as they descended to join the rest of the crew on ground.
The results of her descending caused an argument with Usoppu, as he approached her and commented on how nice her panties looked from below – as her foot injury made wearing shorts or pants difficult – a skirt was what she currently wore. As it was, the two barely heard the dialog Hachi gave about ship-coating mechanics and not-opposing the Tenryuubito.
After leaving the ship in Luffy's group – which consisted of Brooke, Hachi, Papagg, Camie, Robin, Chopper and Nami; Jiru remain seated on her air-pad, via doctor Chopper's orders. She didn't mind, however, as the Mugiwaras listened to more of Hachi's warnings about the lawless areas of Shaboady Groves.
The group of island-like trees had all sorts of people; including more pirates, marines, bounty hunters and kidnappers. Robin teased the floating treasure-hunter about being prime kidnapping material and laughed as Jiru struggled with an appropriate retort against the Archeologist. Nami joined in, mentioning the fact that Jiru has been captured in nearly every one of their adventures.
Jiru just laughed the comment off, saying, even though it was true, she had held her own and always returned in safety. Turning to Luffy, her comments about not worrying about her was ignored as her captain was playing – once again – with the constant bubbles that not only were part of the living background, but produced the 'white-noise' that started once they entered the island domain.
As such, it was a surprise to find Luffy inside the bubble; which inspired Jiru to change her own air-pad into a bubble. So it was a thrill to see the bubble-based 'bicycle' invention that moved the bubbles around; turning the soapy spheres into transportation. After hearing Luffy say he wanted to buy one, the others told him no and tried to explain why. The Straw-Hat pouted and pointed out that buying one for Jiru's new 'bubble' pad would work.
After pondering Luffy's point of view, and commenting that Franky might be able to make one, the group split up. Sticking with Luffy and others, Jiru allowed her own air-bubble to dissipate and sit on the Bon-Chari-mobile as Nami and Robin went shopping. It was an excellent choice, as Luffy's group was more entertaining; buying trinkets and food – Chopper and Brooke managed to convince Jiru to stay on the back of the larger bubble-wagon as they bought a soap-sphere hat and trinkets for the immobile treasure-hunter.
Thanking Chopper twice was enough to earn her the name of idiot. The hunter laughed as the overly-worried doctor relaxed enough to be his usual self. Riding on Hachi's bubble-bus next to Camie, the two females enjoyed themselves as the Octo-man raced Luffy in the Bon-Charis. The enjoyment lasted not long enough as the group came upon a doomed, desperate man. The collared man was insane, calling for somebody to remove the thing around his neck.
The enslaved 'pirate's' begging and hopeless tone of voice disturbed Jiru enough to move her to act; Hachi held her back, asking her to ignore the situation. With fists clenched in barely masked raged, she, Luffy and the others watched in horror as the collar around the man's neck exploded. The Golden Thief's attention was narrowed down to the horror of the scene in front of her. Hachi snapped her out of it, asking her to get off the bus; as he asked Luffy the same thing.
Not really understanding what was going to happen next, Jiru leaned on Luffy's shoulder as the pre-mentioned Tenryuubito finally appeared; precluded by their piss-spouting dog. Hachi made her lower her head as the disgusting humans made their entrance; kicking the fatally wounded man. Both she and Luffy stared as the male commented on how useless the fool was to escape. Then both her and her captain leapt into action after the 'Tenryuubito' shot the man. Fortunately Hachi and Brooke held them both back as the scene continued to unfold in untold horror. They couldn't do anything against the monsters; the Tenryuubito.
Later, after the group had distanced themselves from the scene, Hachi explained the consequences of striking a Tenryuubito – a swift response from the nearby Marine head-quarters. Voicing her ultimate disgust of the Tenryuubito and being rule-bound into inaction, Jiru vowed to never again to be within ten meters of the pigs; otherwise she wouldn't be able to restrain herself. Luffy agreed with her.
Suddenly, she alerted the group of incoming trouble, making them to move on. Ten minutes later, the fighting trio: Chopper, Brooke and Luffy, complained about the number of bounty hunters in the area. Behind confined to the sidelines; Jiru was still on alert when Hachi explained how the differently numbered areas of the groves functioned. Clinging to Camie in mock-fright, Jiru groaned when the Octo-man told them they were currently in the thick of a bounty-hunter area.
Finally, Hachi led them, safely, to Grove 13; which had been their destination: a place to start looking for the ship-coater that had started this adventure. Entering the bar called 'Rip-Off' the Mugiwaras met Shakky. After settling in, swapping stories and breaking the ice; Luffy, Brooke, Chopper, Jiru, Camie, Papagg and Hachi explained their mission: to find Raleigh and have him coat their ship so they could sail to Fishman Island.
When Shakky offered Chopper his favorite food: cotton candy and Jiru hers (mint-chocolate and shrimp), Luffy asked Shakky how she knew his nakama's favorite foods. Shakky informed them she had her sources. Then, asking Luffy how true the Enies Lobby incident was, the conversation managed to swing to Garp to Raleigh and then amusement parks. Luffy, of course, became excited at the prospect of looking for somebody in the Amusement Park. However, Shakky warned them that with the Mugiwaras in the vicinity, there were 12 Supernova Rookies on the island – all pirates with bounties over the 100 million Beri mark.
This bit of information caught Jiru's interest as she knew her bounty was 113 Million beri. Upon seeing her first ever 'Wanted-Poster' back on Water 7, the high bounty had surprised even Luffy, making him congratulate her on gaining such a price. After bashfully saying it wasn't much, the Golden Thief agreed with Shakky's comments on how powerful information was, she took out her self-made DF Users book to take notes on the other nine high-headed bounties. Three were accounted for: Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro and herself: Jiru, the Golden Thief.
When jotting down the valuable information, a certain name caught her interest and made her sneeze: Trafalgar Law. Luffy asked her what was wrong, and Jiru muttered something about funny names – it was probably just somebody talking about her elsewhere.
When all was said and done, Luffy and his group were ready to search the Shaboady Park for Raleigh.
However, as they sat talking to Shakky in the bar, the Mugiwaras' earlier encounters with the bounty hunters produced consequences; a few of the hoodlums managed to figure out that Camie was a mermaid, which were like diamonds on the market. Telling another group of hunters, the doom was imminent when the kidnapping group decided to act on the information and capture Camie. The greedy men began plotting.
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Meanwhile, Luffy and his group arrived at the Sabaody Park, in elation. Once Luffy picked the first ride; it was all over for the group's sanity. Having a blast despite her healing ankle, Jiru laughed so much she puked; and then kept on laughing as the good times rolled. The normally sharp-tuned hunter let her awareness slip as she went on ride after ride and finally got a chance to tell Camie and Luffy this was the most fun she had since re-joining the Mugiwaras. Luffy was happy to have his nakama smile full-heartedly again and Camie cried, saying riding the ferries wheel was a childhood dream of hers.
Jiru grew closer to Camie as Luffy and the others paused for yet more ice cream. Jiru, feeling the ache in her foot; chose to remain sitting on the bubble bus. It was a choice that proved disastrous, as the plotting kidnappers moved in for the kill; kidnapping Camie. The kidnappers couldn't very well have a witness to their terrible deed; so they overwhelmed the treasure hunter and took her too.
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Back on the Sunny-Gou, the remaining Mugiwaras were taking it easy – Franky, Sanji and Usoppu were debating on how many clothes would be bought between the three women. Their debate was interrupted by a Den-Den Mushi call from Hachi. A distraught Chopper told Sanji the terrible news: Camie and Jiru were missing, and most likely kidnapped. Sanji's focus sharpened into fierceness as he told Chopper and Brooke to wait there as he called in the favor from Duval.
Things became a race against time as Duval split his Fish-Riders to search for any leads on Camie or Jiru; then pick up the scattered pirates – Nami and Robin. Luffy, Papagg and Hachi had run off the first second they knew Camie and Jiru were missing, leaving Chopper and Brooke – with their recently acquired purchases behind.
In the midst of their frantic searching; Luffy, Hachi and Papagg began to dread ever finding the two kidnapped females. Papagg finally explained the underlying history of Shaboady Islands: the bigotry between Fishmen, mermen and humans. However, Luffy didn't care and told the starfish that Camie and Jiru were their friends and nothing would stop him from getting them back.
Elsewhere, Franky with a few of the Fish-riders, managed to locate Robin and Nami; just as the two females finished discussing Shabondy's hidden hatred that made Hachi and Camie so nervous. Franky told them the bad news as the girls joined the search.
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Camie and Jiru both were terrified when the large man, Peterman, captured them. Jiru was more afraid for Camie, than herself. Wincing in pain as the kidnappers used her injury against her; she was unable to fight her way free and experienced a dark-falling dread of terror as they were sold to the Human Auction house. Being collared as Camie was brought in, Jiru screamed at the idiots who carried the mermaid; earning a slap to the face.
The manager, Disco, used Jiru's life against Camie's fighting will as the men collared Camie too. It was too much for Camie to endure as Disco began beating Jiru for mouthing off. The mermaid watch in shock as Disco-baka continued to beat Jiru, as harming the money-maker mermaid wasn't an option. However, it was when Disco fainted that gave the girls their reprieve, Jiru looking around in pained curiosity while Camie cried and helped her to her knees.
The bruised and bleeding treasure-hunter spotted the other slaves behind the bars on their right and looked at the giant and the tottering old man next to the hulk.
'Hey, old man, this is your doing, right?' The giant asked as the idiotic slave-sellers had run off to find a doctor for the fainted abuser.
'Who, me? I'm just an old Ship-coater who likes young girls.' The old man said.
'Great, just great, we're stuck with an old pervert.' Jiru mentioned when Camie started crying again. The twelfth Super Nova told the mermaid not to worry; they would find a way out of the mess; but both of them were unable to move and escape themselves – because the collars held them hostage. Jiru wasn't sure if she would be able to use her powers to remove the exploding nooses – she wouldn't risk trying to either.
However, as the auction opened and time progressed, neither Camie nor Jiru saw any sign of Hachi or Luffy. Their hopes grew dimmer as the numbered slaves sold were whittled down to their own numbers – 21 and 22. Camie clung desperately to Jiru when the slavers came to take next slaves away – 19 and 20. Locking eyes with the man Jiru found awfully familiar and with an overwhelming aura, she nodded curtly and smiled. He was up to something; and she told him she was too.
When the slavers came to prep Camie for sale, Jiru resisted and ended up being injured further, as they kicked her foot. Screaming in pain and fury, the treasure hunter was helpless and now worthless as a sale. It was the old man that told her to relax as he'd seen and heard enough to decide to help her out. Turning to him, Jiru asked if he was Silver Raleigh and laughed, affirming her question. In turn, he asked why the 'Silver-Queen' was in a low-life place like a slave auction. Jiru ended up telling him and the eaves-dropping giant that she was indeed the 'Silver Queen' and circumstances that brought her and Camie here were beyond her Reiki-Reiki ability to manipulate.
Raleigh found her story amusing and promptly released himself, the giant and her from the ticking-timed exploding collars. Jiru, now free from the horrid restraint bristled to leap into action; however, Ray-sama – as she now took to calling him – suggested they wait and see what would happen next.
The treasure hunter's doubt (full) and patience (empty) grew to opposite ends as they listened to the crowd's uproar as Camie was unveiled.
Minutes later, doubling over on her air-pad; an outpour of intense emotions swamped her. Being tense and unable to speak; she experienced the waves of energy that poured from the front. Raleigh asked her what was wrong.
'The energy out there is….overwhelming.' She answered. 'I…can feel the tension in the very air. My DF power has never been this acute or strong before.'
Raleigh told her to relax and just flow in the currents of energy. He explained that she was experiencing the 'Haki' flow. Jiru argued that her DF was Reiki-Reiki no Mi and never heard of 'Haki' before. However, the woman straightened up and told Raleigh that Luffy had arrived. Smiling to Raleigh, she lifted herself off the ground and looked for a way to help. Raleigh asked her to wait as he carved her a path; they were nakama, after all.
Waiting was the hardest part; as the underlying emotions of her nakama proved to be a powerful force – her senses still receiving the 'Haki' that Raleigh mentioned earlier. She felt the shock from Hachi as he was shot; the angst from Nami and the others, the fear from Camie and the anger from Luffy. She experienced the crowd's panic and Luffy's seething fury as he punched the Tenryuubito for shooting Hachi.
'She's gonna shoot Camie, Ray-sama…I can't wait any longer…!' The treasure hunter was still stunned minutes later. Raleigh nodded to the giant and turned to the woman, asking her if she was ready.
'Ready to kill that bitch Tenryuubito for even looking at Camie, yes.' Jiru answered.
'That's not a pleasant thing to say, Gin-chan.' The Dark King teased the short female back.
Having the giant rip open the wall dividing back from front; Raleigh used the distraction to use his Haki to calm Jiru. Catching her on his back, Raleigh then pushed his willpower outward and disabled the World Noble that was about to shoot Camie.
The Golden Thief & younger Silver Queen proved more than Raleigh imagined, as she struggled off his back and use her air pad to move freely. Shaking off the effects of Ray's Haki, Jiru was right behind Ray as he made his grand, snappy entrance. The overwhelming relief felt from the Haki's absence and seeing Luffy and the others allowed her to breathe easy again. She watched as the Dark King make short work of the remaining morons in the stands; using the same wave of power he had used on her. She and Camie were going to be free in seconds and it was all thanks to the strange old pirate; a figure from the past.