Author's Note: Ahh, sorry it has been awhile guys! I've just been busy with school and stuff...Anyway, hope you enjoy this chapter! :D
Nami ran her fingers through her hair in a panic state of mind. It wasn't until she and Robin made it to the ship where she had realized that she didn't have the log pose. Next to Robin she was one of the most RESPONSIBLE people on the ship. Just how in this good world did she managed to lose one of the most vital objects a ship needs in order to make it out on sea!? Without the log pose there was NO way they were to leave the island. Even with the sharpest of navigational kills it was vital that they have a log pose in order to sail the unpredictable seas of the Grand Line, especially if they were to plan on retrieving Gol D. Roger's famous treasure-One Piece.
"Don't worry Nami-swan your brilliant knight will find the log pose!" declared Sanji who was prepared to leap off the ship in search of his fair maiden's long lost log pose. Nami smiled a bit, but still felt massive guilt for losing the log pose. If by just any chance the marines managed to capture them, she would never ever forgive herself.
"Thank you Sanji-Kun" gloomed Nami just softly enough for only Sanji, who was in close proximity of her, to hear. He was heartbroken that Nami was feeling this way. In no time soon, he thought, he would find the log pose and restore Nami's happiness to one hundred percent.
"We should probably start looking at the store we were shopping at" suggested Robin, "I remember Nami-san having it at the store. Luffy-san, Navigator-san , Chopper-san, Cook-san, Long-Nose-kun and I can go out there and retrieve it while the rest of you guard the ship".
"But I want to go too and help Nami find her log pose!" Luffy complained as he unexpectedly hopped into the conversation. From the day he saved Nami and her village he had made a promise to never let Nami frown again to one of her closest friend Genzo. He wasn't intent on breaking that promise. Besides, seeing Nami frown like that had made his heart ache. If any of his crew was feeling the way Nami was feeling, he would go to the ends of the Earth to make them happy again. In return, he knew his crew would do the same.
"Luffy you'll just attract unwanted attention from the marines" Ussopp reasoned, "And besides you'll just wreak havoc and cause us more trouble".
Luffy pouted at Ussop's excuse. Nami just sighed and shook her head.
"Just let him go. He's going to ditch anyway. Sanji-kun would you pretty please stay to help Franky and Zoro guard the ship?" Nami had battered her eyes and looked at Sanji with an innocent look in her face. Sanji wanted to desperately help his maiden find her log pose. He also didn't want to stay in the same place as the Marimo, but one look at the pleading look in those cinnamon eyes only left him with a dumbfounded smile with hearts in his eyes.
"Yes my Nami-swan! I'll even have a snack prepared for you and Robin-chwan when you get back!" He gushed out while prancing about. Zoro frowned at the stupid sight of the cook.
She surely does have him around her finger Zoro muttered under his breath.
"You guys are alright with guarding the ship right?" questioned Nami
Said people looked at the navigator and nodded. After all, Franky had been eager to try out some of his new toys of his. To maybe his luck his test subjects might just survive with their sanity. Zoro on the other hand just wanted to be able to fight and see if there were any worthy opponents out there. The swordsman was getting bored. He frowned in dismay when he heard that Sanji started to recite his undying love towards the navigor.
"Then it's settled. Let's go and find the log pose and try to avoid the marines" Robin said while she, Luffy, Nami, Chopper, Ussop, Sanji and her walked off the ship in search of the log pose.
Meanwhile…
Benny wandered the streets of the small town with a log pose in hand. He looked amusedly at the movements of the needles not having a clue just how the device actually worked. He wasn't much a navigator so he ended up sailing the seas solely on wherever the heck the ocean took him. However, that path didn't really get him smoothly through the seas of the New World where his homeland was. He shivered at the memories of battling the tremendous roaring waves that would very much like to gobble an adorable ginger munchkin such as his self. In addition to that, the weather nearly killed him several times over. He deemed the weather to very much racist to red heads.
Sighing Benny felt his stomach rumble out loud. Several people looked at him with raised eyebrows. Shuffling embarrassingly to the side his bright blue eyes scanned his surroundings for a place to eat. To his utter relief he spotted a small diner that had a large donut on its roof. A sign hung by the window saying Limited Time Donut: The Pirate's Booty.
"Pirate's Booty…Huh, seems good enough to me" cheered Benny. With light, bouncy skips he headed towards the diner to partake in a well deserved donut.
Robin walked along with Nami and Chopper, who was in his reindeer form, throughout the town. They had decided to wear disguises so they can maneuver about without gaining attention from the marines. Robin wore a simple green blouse that almost showed some cleavage had it not been for the ruffles along the chest line and beige colored pants that hugged her legs tightly with white slippers. The archeologist had also tied her hair back a bit and wore dark shades to hide her eyes.
Nami on the other hand had worn something less conservative. Dressed in short shorts and a red thin strapped crop top with her bright orange hair wrapped in a red, silky fabric paired with knee high cowgirl boots she looked as if she was going out to party. Men who had walked passed them didn't pass up the opportunity to gaze up at Nami with eyes full of lust. The fiery girl looked at them in annoyance, but simply ignored their perverted antics.
Lastly, Chopper was dressed up as a horse. Usopp had got the idea that a horse would look better than walking around with a blue-nosed reindeer (chopper had gone into arm point and punched Usopp for that comment). So in the end Chopper was forced to wear a horse mask that had eyes that could stare into one's soul and shatter it. By far he was the c On his back was a saddle that carried supplies to make it seem that the "horse" was doing what it was expected to do. Usopp had suggested that Chopper should neigh instead of talk since it was unusual to see a talking horse.
"Neigh…" muttered Chopper miserably. Robin simply smiled and patted Chopper on the head. Out of the whole entire crew she had a soft spot for the reindeer. He was just too cute not to ogle after. Besides, as a child she wasn't expose to anything that was considerably adorable and missed the chance of being a young girl who ravished through anything that was fluffy, had big eyes, or was immensely fat.
"Don't worry once we find the log pose you can get out of that costume okay?" she reassured. Chopper dimly nodded his head.
"Neigh…"
Zoro clenched the handle of one of his katanas in his mouth and glared into his opponents' eyes. To his unfortunate luck the marines had finally located their ship. They had sent out several other navy ships to surround them.
"QUACK, Men do not underestimate these pirates! QUACK, Make sure you make a clean kill!" shouted a big, buffed marine who, for some strange reason, wore a mallard hat that covered the top of his head. Zoro looked at him, a little taken back by his appearance. He didn't know whether to laugh, or just straight out put him out of his misery.
"The duck guy sure looks funny" Franky commented, also a little weirded out by the marine's apparel.
"Well I'm looking forward into making him into a roast" Sanji said cooly with a puff of smoke. Dropping the cigarette, the blonde chef suddenly jumped up in the air and appeared behind the duck man. Slinging a kick from his right foot Sanji attempted to aim for his back. However, the duck man had quick reflexes and ended up grabbing the cook's leg with an incredibly strong grip.
"Shit!" Sanji spat out in pain at his leg now being crushed by the duck man's massive fingers.
"Damn it!" Zoro shouted. He raced toward them at a blinding rate of speed and was about to take a slash at duck man when all of a sudden, with a second demonstration of his perplexing reflexes, jumped up and swung Sanji towards the swordsman. Zoro took a simple step to the side, letting Sanji crash into several other marines behind him.
"Oi, damn Marimo why couldn't you catch me?" seethed Sanji through gritted teeth.
"You wouldn't have needed to be caught if you'd done your job right!" Zoro retorted mirroring the chef's anger. Both Zoro and Sanji now stood neck and neck at each other, sending out deafening ripples of hatred.
"Tch, are you saying I'm weak?"
"Your words, not mine"
"Dumbass Marimo!"
"Shitty cook!"
Before anyone could realize it the two suddenly started throwing punches towards each other instead of their enemies. The marines had suspected they could just easily come up from behind, but were soon proven wrong as the kicks, or slices that missed one another had hit them actually.
Franky face palmed himself. The Duck Man only stood there not knowing just how to process the scene.
"I'll handle the Duck Man then.." murmured the Cyborg.
"Erm Luffy…" ushered Usopp who was sitting next to Luffy in the small little diner that Luffy had decided to visit due to him starving, "That's quite a lot of food you know". He only got a muffled response from his captain that was in no way understandable due to the chewed up food. Rubbing his temple with his index finger he turned to the waitress who was gawking at the enormous amount of food his rubber companion was engulfing.
"Um don't mind him…I'll just have a glazed donut" muttered Usopp who seemed uneasy at the attention his friend was getting. Nodding her head, yet not breaking her gaze at the scene she quickly scribbled down the sniper's order and handed it to the chefs. Once she finally left, Usopp tapped his fingers lightly on the counter top. He hoped they could find the log pose before the marines caught up to them. He figured it wouldn't be too long before they stormed into the diner under the information that Monkey D. Luffy with a bounty of 300,000,000,000 was hogging all the donuts at the local diner.
Finally after about 5 minutes this time a waiter went to Usopp's and Luffy's table. In his hand was a simple glazed donut that also came with some hot chocolate.
"Ah, thank you sir" Usopp was just about to grab his donut when out of the blue Luffy had stretched out his arm, grabbed the glaze donut and gulped down in his mouth within mere seconds. The cowardly sniper looked on in horror as his meal was consumed by none other than his gluttonous captain. Pissed to no ends Usopp grabbed Luffy's neck and started to choke him while spitting out curses.
"You moron GO eat your own damn food!" screeched Usopp. Raged sizzled in his eyes, but Luffy just smiled it off.
"Shishishi! It sure was good!" grinned Luffy. This only made Usopp strangle him harder though it was in vain for the boy was rubber.
Benny wiped the last few crumbs of the Pirate's Booty off his lips. He grinned in satisfaction at the mere recalling of how absolutely scrumptious the donut was. Thinking he would have another go at the Pirate's Booty he was just about to call a waiter over when something from the corner caught his eye.
From the entrance of the diner a man who was clothed in a brown suit with an even darker brown hat that covered his eyes seemed to be looking directly at Benny with a hard stare. The man didn't seem to move a muscle. The only thing that didn't convince Benny that he was actually a really creepy statue was the gentle rise and fall of his shoulders. Still the unsettling gaze coming from him made the ginger boy uncomfortable.
I should really just skip seconds Benny thought to himself. Digging into his pocket then setting the money needed to pay the bill, he got up really quickly and started walking towards the back entrance of the diner in hopes of getting away from the creep's sight. Benny, however, didn't realize that the man kept a keen eye on him. Watching Benny go out the door he got out of his frozen state and began walking with calm steps in the same direction Benny went.
When Benny had made it outside, the sunlight hit him in the face. He flinched at how bright it had gotten from the time he went in, to the time he got out. Still, he was relieved that the man was out of his sight. He then looked at his arm. The log pose that was left behind by that Nami girl hung loosely at his wrist. Eyeing it for several seconds he wondered how the actual owner was feeling.
Was she mourning over the loss of a device that defined her very occupation? Did she miss her device? Was she even okay herself? These thoughts raced through his head to the point where he couldn't stand the accumulating guilt. Shaking his head to clear it he had declared that he would find this girl and return the log pose. After all, his mother had always taught him that if he were to find something that was lost by another person, return it. If he were to lose something, he would want it returned right away. Grinning at the thought of how his mom would be proud of him, Benny started to run in no particular direction in hope of running into the owner. Suddenly, a panicky voice had stopped him in his tracks.
"Wait!" it had shouted, "You have our log pose!"
Benny turned around, but the panicked voice from before had shouted something inaudible to him. He wondered what had made the voice freak out even more. But then out of nowhere he felt something slam to the side of his head and then all was lost just moments after hitting the ground.