Meeting
Neo hummed to herself as she watched the ship in front of them sail forward. She could sense the island they all were heading for coming closer and closer. She could also feel him on the ship. Her mind followed along the wood from the back of the ship up to the room he was in. Her heart strummed inside of her chest. They were finally going to be able to meet up with two of their friends. She swallowed. Her fingers fiddled with the ring on her finger uncontrollably. Her husband was on that ship, the man who gave her this child that was growing inside of her. And they were also going to meet soon.
"If you don't stop worrying so much you're going to make yourself sick," Hoshi said.
Neo looked at him as he jumped up on the railing. "I'm sorry. I'm just so nervous. Though I don't know why. Despite not remembering him he's still my…"
"Husband," Hoshi said.
Neo nodded.
"How far off are we from the island?" Nami called from the helm.
"Not too far off," Neo replied. She walked away from her post, Hoshi jumping up on her shoulders, and went over to the helm. "We should be there in about fifteen minutes."
"Do we have any idea how we're going to approach these two?" Nami asked.
"I don't think we have to worry about that," Neo said. "Law wants to come see me."
"Oh. I still find it very odd that you two can communicate like you've been doing," Nami said.
"I find it hard to believe as well," Neo said. "But it's possible."
"Don't worry about it. You'll remember why that's possible when you get your memories back," Hoshi said.
"You know, you haven't mentioned where we're going," Nami said. "I mean after we gathered up all of our friends. I know you've said we need them all to get our memories back, but will that happen automatically?"
"I'm not really sure," Hoshi said. "It really depends on what happened when you lost your memories. I'm sure we'll get answers if we go to Selene, the capital of the Star Line."
"Selene, huh?" Neo asked.
"Well, first things first," Nami said. "We have to get our friends, or whoever, back."
Neo and Hoshi nodded.
…
Law stood with his arms crossed over the railing of the ship. He stared out at the ship behind them. They had been sailing there for a long while now. And she was on the ship. He had felt her there some time ago but only recently came back here. He wished she could contact him, but she hadn't. He wanted to contact her but he couldn't bring himself to do so. Besides in just a few short minutes they would be on the same island together. He would finally get to meet her in person. His heart jumped at the thought. He was ready to meet his mysterious dream girl.
"So what are you doing all the way back here?"
Law glanced back over his shoulder to find Laden walking over to him. "Nothing much. Just waiting to arrive at the island."
"For any particular reason?" Laden asked.
Law twitched. He couldn't figure out a reason the captain would ask that. Perhaps all it was casual talk. Or maybe not. Things didn't seem right since he's been speaking with Neo. He found it odd that they hadn't run into any trouble yet while being on this ship. "I'm going to check the local bookstores for more books on memory loss."
"I see," Laden said. "That would make sense." He looked at the ship behind them. "That ship's been following us for a while."
Law's heartbeat sped up.
"We must be heading for the same island," Laden said.
"You don't think it's an enemy ship?" Law asked.
"If it was they would be more sneaky than this," Laden said. "I've known they were there for thirty minutes now." He looked at Law. "Do you think it's an enemy?"
"I wouldn't know," Law said. "I'm still new on your ship."
"That you are." Laden walked away. "So don't worry about it. When we met up with my enemies you'll know."
"Right," Law mumbled. He was ready to get off this ship. His eyes went back to the ship following them. He proceeded to watch it until the ship he was on pulled into the docks. The crew chattering brought him back to his own ship. He headed towards the front just in time to catch Luffy before the rubber man could get off the ship. "Straw Hat, you're coming with me."
"Huh?" Luffy looked at him. "What for?"
"I'm going to need your help with something," Law said. He eyed a few of the crewmembers as they looked at them. "It's about our memory loss."
The crewmembers continued descending down to the dock.
"Oh, okay then," Luffy said.
"Just be sure to be back at the ship in a few hours," Laden said. "I don't want any of my crew getting left behind."
"No problem," Luffy said.
Law and Luffy crawled down the rope ladder. Law paused when he reached the dock. His eyes wondered to the other ship that was pulling into the docks. His heart thumped then skipped a beat. She was so close.
"So are we going or not?" Luffy asked.
"Sure." Law turned and walked slowly towards the town. He kept his pace slow. Despite guessing she could sense him as well, he didn't want to get too far away from her.
"Wow," Luffy said bring Law's attention to him. The rubber man was scanning his eyes around the town.
Law then looked for himself to fine the buildings were all made of some form of white stone. And the windows appeared to be made from some kind of light blue crystal. He noticed they were unable to look inside of the windows and wondered if they were windows at all.
"So where are we going?" Luffy asked.
"There." Law pointed to the bookstore.
"Aw." Luffy's shoulder's dropped. "We're going to another library?"
"It's a bookstore not a library," Law said.
"Same thing," Luffy said. "It's full of books. And very boring."
"We won't be here for long," Law said heading for the building. "We're just meeting up with someone here."
"We are?" Luffy followed after him. They entered into the building. The smell of books mixed with the fragrance of some orange flower, which was draping down from the ceiling, met their noses. "Who? Some of the crew?"
"No, it's someone else," Law said.
"Tell me who it is," Luffy said.
"You'll see in a minute they're almost here." Law walked down an isle then paused to pretend the books caught his eyes while also keeping an eye on the door. And as he knew, she walked into the building. His heart skipped a beat. She was unmistakable. It was her. She noticed him too. Her eyes locked with his for a split second before she shyly dropped them down to the floor. He watched as she turned and spoke to someone. At that moment he realized she wasn't alone. She was with a long orange haired woman and had some white furred creature draped over her shoulders. Reading their body language he could easily tell his blue haired dream girl was too shy to come directly over to him even though she knew he knew she was there. The orange haired girl linked her arm through hers and pulled her over to them. He turned to them when they got closer. His eyes stayed on her until she looked at him. When she did he smiled. "Hi."
"Hi," she said.
"Okay, we're not going to, well I'm not going to beat around the bush here," the orange haired girl said. "We need to talk to you two. So come with us."
"Hm? Who are you?" Luffy asked when he noticed the girls standing there.
"We're going to tell you that," the orange haired girl said. "Let's go outside though. It's probably best if no one else heard this."
"Okay." Law nodded not taking his eyes off his girl. A smile twitched on his lips when she blushed and ducked her head.
"Come on."
The two men followed the girls outside. The orange hair led them away from the town and to the edge of a small forest. She leaned back against a tree and crossed her arms.
"So what's this about?" Luffy asked.
"For starters my name is Nami," Nami said. "She's Neo and the little fur ball is Hoshi."
"Hey! Don't call me a little fur ball!" Hoshi said.
"If the fur fits then wear it!" Nami said.
"Did that creature just speak?" Luffy asked.
"Of course I did, you simpleton," Hoshi said.
"That's so cool!" Luffy stepped up to the creature and bent down to his level. He poked Hoshi on the face multiple times. "I'm Monkey D. Luffy! It's nice to meet you!"
"Will you stop poking me?!" Hoshi swiped his claws at Luffy, striking the rubber man on his hand.
"Ouch!" Luffy pulled back. "What was that for?!"
"Oh, yeah. He doesn't like anyone," Nami said.
"That's not true," Hoshi said. He rubbed his cheek against Neo's. "I like Neo."
Nami rolled her eyes. "Okay, shut up and listen. We all actually know each other."
"Huh?" Luffy looked over at her.
"Neo, show them the photo," Nami said.
Nodding, Neo pulled the photo out of her pocket. She unfolded it and held it out for them to see.
"What?!" Luffy screamed. "That's us?!"
"It is," Nami said.
"But I don't remember you all!" Luffy said.
"We don't remember anything but for our names," Nami said.
"That's odd! We only remember our names, too!" Luffy said.
"Will you stop shouting?" Hoshi said. "We have a lot to talk about."
"If you two would, we really need you to listen to what Hoshi has to say," Neo said.
"Well, here goes," Hoshi said before telling them the exact same thing he's told the girls. "And that's basically it."
"So we're going to Selene, huh?" Luffy asked.
"I believe that's where we need to go," Hoshi said with a nod.
"I guess that would explain why I never could find anything in those medical books." Law took the picture from Neo's hand and flipped it over. After reading the information on the back, his eyes shot to Neo's stomach then to her flushed face. "You're…"
Neo nodded, unable to look at him.
"What is it?" Luffy looked at the back of the picture. "What?! Is this real?! I'm the captain of my own crew and we have a ship?!"
"Apparently so," Nami said.
"That's amazing!" Luffy said. "I knew I was meant to be the captain!"
"I guess that would explain his obsession with wanting to guide the ship," Law said. "But how have you been able to survive all this while being pregnant?"
"I don't know," Neo said. She tapped her head. "Memory loss and all."
"Right." Law lowered his eyes back to the words. "And we're married. I guess that explains the ring I'm wearing around my neck."
"Ring?" Neo brought her eyes up to his.
Law pulled the ring out from his shirt and showed it to her.
"It's identical to mine," Neo said lifting her hand to him.
"So who exactly is this Kuro guy?" Law asked. "And why do we have to fight him?"
"As already stated, I don't know all of the details. All I know is I was sent to find you all. Kuro must have made a move on the royal family at some point," Hoshi said. "It was either him or Tsuki that caused your memory loss. And since she has no reason to erase your memories my bet is Kuro did it. You all were probably in a fight with him and he erased most of your memories and scattered you all to different clusters. I'm not sure how you two ended up together." He looked at the men. "Dumb luck I guess. Or maybe it was fortunate. With you two this close we don't have to spend extra time looking for one of you. If we're lucky some of your other friends landed in the same place too."
"So do you believe us?" Nami asked. "Are you going to come with us? We really need to get going."
"Sounds like an adventure!" Luffy smiled. "I'm in!"
"What about you, um, L-Law?" Neo asked.
"It's okay," Law said. "You can call me that."
Neo smiled and nodded.
"I'm going with you as well," Law said.
"Hold it right there," a voice said.
"Who was that?" Nami asked looking around for the voice.
"Crap," Law cursed when Captain Laden and his crew walked out from behind the trees and bushes.
"That the crew you were sailing with?" Nami asked.
"That's them," Luffy said. "They're great guys." He waved. "Hi, everyone! These are our new friends! Or, well, old friends I guess I should say."
"So we noticed," Captain Laden said. "We heard everything that you said."
"I don't like this," Hoshi said his fur standing on its ends.
"But, unfortunately, you're not allowed to leave the crew unless you have permission from the captain. And I haven't given you permission to leave," Laden said.
"Then just give us permission," Luffy said. "We need to get our memories back."
"I will not be giving you permission," Captain Laden said. "You belong to me."
"Huh?" Luffy tilted his head.
"We don't belong to you," Law said.
"You agreed to join my crew. So you can't leave without my permission." The captain smiled and pulled out his sword. "And you don't have my permission. So we're not letting these vixens take you away from my crew."
"Actually, Captain," Law said with a smirk. "I never said we would join your crew. I said we would sail with you for a while."
"What?" Laden frowned.
"You heard me. We're not on your crew. We have the right to leave whenever we want. And we want to leave now," Law said.
Neo grabbed onto Law's sleeve. "Who is that man? His voice sounds familiar."
"That's Captain Laden," Law said. "We've been sailing on his ship for a while now. But that ends here."
"I told you, you're not leaving my crew without my permission," Laden said.
"And I've already told you that we never agreed to be on your crew," Law said.
Laden frowned. "Such a pity. If you had I could have spared your lives."
"What are you talking about?" Nami asked.
"Crap! Don't tell me!" Hoshi said.
"That's right, flea bag," Laden said. "We work under Kuro. He ordered us to find you two." He lifted his sword and pointed it at Luffy and Law. "He said you two flew off in the same direction. He told us to kill you when we got the chance. Personally, I see that as a waste since you two don't remember anything. And you two can still live if you swear loyalty to me as your captain. Your powers would be such a waste."
Law felt Neo's grip tighten on him. He said, "We're not going anywhere with you now. And to be honest, we were going to steal your ship soon anyway. This way you can keep your ship."
"I'm keeping my ship and you two," Laden said. "Attack!"
Swords swished as they were pulled from their sheaths, bullets clicked into place, and the pirates chuckled with joy at the fight they were about to have.
Nami twirled her baton. "Why do we have to fight?"
"Oh, this isn't going to be a fight, little girl," Laden said. The blade of his sword started cracking. The steel fell off to reveal the same material as the Astro Unit's spears. "It's going to be a massacre."
"Oh, crap!" Hoshi said. "He's an Astro Unit!"
"You got that right, kitty," Laden said.
"I'm not a kitty!" Hoshi snapped. "I'm a guardian!"
"Nova Flash!" A bright light erupted from Laden's sword.
"No! Close your eyes!" Hoshi said. But it was too late. Laden's attack blinded them.
"I can't see!" Luffy said.
"What do we do now?!" Nami asked.
Neo gritted her teeth. Her heart took a sharp jolt. She had to do something to protect her friends and their child. Then she remembered she was connected to nature. Slowing down her heart with a few deep breaths, she ignored the fact she couldn't see and connected to nature. She felt them. Their footsteps vibrated through the ground and to her feet as the moved in closer to them. A couple to her right brushed against a bush. One behind her stumbled over a small rock. She pulled Law closer to her. "Everyone listen to me. Just stay closed. I'll take care of them."
"How? We're blind," Luffy said.
"Trust her, Luffy," Nami said. "She can handle this. Do as she says."
"Well, all right," Luffy said.
"Be careful, Neo," Law said.
"I'll be fine. Though I don't know how long I'll be able to hold them back," Neo said.
"We only need two minutes before our eye sight is back," Hoshi said. "Can you hold them off for two minutes?"
"I think I can," Neo said.
"Then go for it," Hoshi said.
"Right." Neo nodded. She summoned her crystals. The wind started to blow, putting up a barrier around them.
"What's going on?"
"What is this?"
"Is this a star flake?!"
"No, it's not! No star flake can do this! It's something else! A devil fruit, maybe?!"
"Never mind that! Our attacks can still go through air! Attack!" Laden ordered. "Razor! Push through it!"
Razor roared and pushed his way through the wind. His heavy footsteps shook the ground beneath them.
"He's getting closer!" Hoshi said.
"I've got it!" Neo shifted her earth crystals to form a circle around them. She lifted the ground and formed a dome over them just before the man brought his fists down on the top of the dome. Flakes of dirt and small rocks fell from the dome ceiling.
"What happened?" Nami asked. "Why do I smell dirt?"
"I put an earth dome around us," Neo said. "It'll hold for a while. I hope. I can keep reinforcing it with my earth crystals but I'm not sure how long it will hold."
"You can do all that?! Wow!" Luffy said. "What are you?"
"Something called an elemental," Neo said. "I can manipulate and create the elements around me. That's how I knew where everyone was. I felt them through nature."
"That's so cool!" Luffy said.
"This is great but how are we suppose to know when our sight is back if we're inside of a dome with no light?" Nami asked.
"Uh, her fire crystals?" Hoshi said.
"Oh, I forgot about that," Nami said.
"I have one lit right now," Neo said. "Once our sight comes back we'll be able to see it."
"We need a plan," Law said. "We've fought guys like this before and was pretty much useless."
"It looked like Laden was the only one to have an Astro Unit's power," Hoshi said. "Neo, you should take him."
"What?" Law asked, his voice low and dangerous.
"Right now she's the only one powerful enough to face up to him," Hoshi said. "Most likely we're going to have to run from this fight anyway. We should have done that from the start. You all are too weak to face the Astro Units."
"He's right," Nami said. "We fought one on the way over here. We had to run. We weren't strong enough to fight them."
"What? We can't just run away," Luffy said.
"We might have to, Straw Hat," Law said. "Neo shouldn't be fighting anyway. Not while she's pregnant."
"So we're all agreed?" Hoshi asked.
"Yes," they all said.
"Then we'll escape as soon as we can," Hoshi said. "The most trouble we're going to have is with the gravity being deleted around us."
"I can get us out of that," Law said. "I can use my powers and move us away from them."
"Hey, I'm starting to get my eye sight back," Nami said.
"So am I," Luffy said.
More pounding on the dome caused larger chucks of dirt to fall down on them. Neo pushed more ground around them. She said, "I can almost see too."
"So can I," Law said. "Let's get ready to move. Room." He leaned closer to Neo. "You ready?"
"Yeah." Neo nodded.
"Then lower the shield," Law said.
Neo did. As it lowered a blade flew right at her. It glided through her skin on her upper left arm. She flinched.
"Neo!" Law flinched at the same time. He shot his eyes over to Neo. Rage flared up inside of his chest.
"Law, the plan!" Neo said.
"Right!" Law warped them as far away from them as he possible could. He grabbed Neo's arm. "You okay?"
"I'm fine," Neo said. "It's just a cut."
"We'll take care of that later!" Hoshi said. "We need to get back to the ship and get out of here before Laden and his crew come to their senses and come after us!"
"He's right!" Nami said. "Let's go, Neo! Fly us out of here!"
"Right!" Neo lifted a gale around them and pulled them into the air.
"Yahoo! We're flying! This is so cool!" Luffy said.
"Must you be so loud?!" Nami asked.
"Says the one who's always yelling," Hoshi said.
"Just shut up," Nami said.
"So which is your ship?" Luffy asked looking down.
Neo lowered them to the deck of their ship.
"Wow! This is amazing!" Luffy ran all over the deck like an excited child.
"You should get that cleaned up," Hoshi said looking at her wound.
Neo nodded.
"There's a first aid kit in the kitchen," Nami said. "I guess the former cook of this ship was a klutz."
"Let me get the ship out to sea. Then I'll take care of this cut," Neo said. Walking over to the side, she looked down to the rope that bound them to the dock. Using a couple vines, she untied it then lifted the anchor with the vines, and finally pushed the ship out to see with her winds.
"I think we're far enough away," Nami said once the island was completely gone. "Get that wound taken care of. It needs to be cleaned out. The kits in the cabinet on the right side of the sink."
Neo nodded and headed for the kitchen. Passing by the table, Hoshi jumped off her shoulders and sat on it instead. Pulling the medical kit out of the cabinet, she walked over to the table and sat down. Her eyes when to the door when she sensed Law there.
"You better let me take a look at that. I have doctor experience," Law said. Resting his sword against the table and sat down and reached for Neo's arm. Upon contact an electric spark past through them. Their eyes locked. "Sorry."
"You did nothing wrong," Neo said.
"How are you feeling?" Law asked. He opened the kit and pulled out a bottle of antibiotics. "How's the…how's our baby?"
"Fine," Neo said cradling her stomach. "We're both fine."
"That's good." Law looked into her eyes again before forcing himself to look at the cut. He started cleaning it. "It doesn't look bad at all. We're lucky he was a lousy shot. I just need to disinfect it and wrap a bandage around it."
Neo nodded. She sat patiently as he worked on her injury. She knew she could heal it with her solar crystal but she couldn't bring herself to mention it. Mostly because she wanted him to touch her.
"There. All done." Law ran his fingers over the bandage one more time to make sure it wasn't too tight. Then his let his fingers drop to her stomach. Brushing the back of his fingers over her baby bump, his eyes met hers once again.
"Oh, will you two just kiss already?" Hoshi asked.
Neo and Law jumped and pulled away from each other.
"Hoshi," Neo said, flushing. "Don't sneak up on us like that."
"Sneak up on you?" Hoshi gave her an innocent look. "My dear, I came in here with you, remember?"
"Oh, right." Neo's cheeks darkened.
"So, about these star flake things," Law said. "Where do we find some?"
"We should be able to pick some up on our journey," Hoshi said. "They're not all that rare. Most just don't want to deal with them."
"Are they hard to use?" Law asked.
"Yes." Hoshi nodded. "But I'm sure you all will be able to handle them just fine. Hopefully, we'll find some that will suit the powers and abilities you all ready have. And, if we're lucky, we'll find some soon. They're not all that hard to find. We just have to find them."
"Tra!" Luffy busted into the room. "You've got to check this place out! There're so many rooms!"
"There's not that many rooms," Hoshi said. "Never mind. Let's just get sailing. We'll need to stop on a couple of islands to see if we can find any star flakes."
"Hey! You all better get out here!" Nami called from outside.
"What is it?" Luffy asked as they all ran out on the deck.
"What are those things?" Nami pointed ahead of the ship.
They all turned to see several large rings floating around over the sea.
"Hm? What are those things?" Luffy asked.
"Oh crap! Those are annular fields. They're ring like objects that are portals of sorts and can get you lost if you don't notice the mist around them," Hoshi said.
"Mist?" Neo asked.
"Nami! Get the compass on! You should be able to see a mist around the ring! We need to know what color it is! Someone else take the helm!" Hoshi said.
"I got it!" Luffy flung himself up to the helm and grabbed a hold of it.
"Let's see." Nami adjusted the compass over her eyes. "It looks like it's an orange mist. Should we go around it?"
"We can't," Hoshi said. "These things pop up randomly all over this sea. With their gravitational pull we're going to get sucked right in. Once we're on the other side you'll need to look fast and figure out where the other ring is that has an orange mist."
"What? Why?" Nami looked at the guardian.
"Because if we don't go through the same mist we could wind up weeks away from this spot," Hoshi said. "Like I said they're portals. If we go through the one that match this mist then we'll only get moved a few days away from this spot. And most likely your friends will be in this area since you all were."
"Okay, I think it get it," Nami said.
"You and Luffy will have to be fast," Hoshi said. "The sea always moves really quickly once we're caught in the gravity field."
Just then the ship started sailing fast towards the ring.
"Neo, you might have to help steer the ship into the right ring," Hoshi said.
"I'm ready." Neo summoned her wind crystals.
"Here we go," Hoshi said as they moved closer to the ring.
They passed through it. Nami scanned her eyes over the dozens and dozens of rings on the other side. "There! Three over to the left! Luffy!"
"I'm on it!" Luffy spun the helm. The ship turned.
Neo kept her crystals ready. Feeling the water pulling them in a different direction she wrapped a gale around the ship and pushed it toward the correct ring.
"Keep going! We're almost there!" Nami said.
The ring became bigger and bigger. They passed through it. The ring disappeared, leaving them near an island.
"We made it," Neo said.
Law nodded, running his eyes over her.
"And we're in luck," Hoshi said.
"Why's that?" Luffy asked.
"Me might be able to get some star flakes on this island," Hoshi said. "Take us ashore."
"You got it," Luffy said.
"Luffy, head for that little cove right there," Neo said pointing to it. "The water's deep enough for us to pull right up to shore."
"Okay," Luffy said.
Once Luffy had the ship in the cove, Neo pushed the winds away until they could tie up the sails. She then lifted the group and set them down on the ground. "So what now? How do we find the star flakes?"
"Give me a minute." Hoshi ran his eyes over the island. "I should be able to see their energy. There!" The group followed him as he ran forward. He stopped underneath a tree. "Bingo! There's one right here! And if I'm not mistaken it's an electric type."
"That's a star flake that gives everyone their powers? It looks so normal," Nami said staring that the white six pointed star laying on the ground.
"So cool!" Luffy picked it up and looked at it. "Do you want this one, Tra?"
"No, you can have it," Law said. "It might work better for you since you're rubber."
"Maybe," Luffy said. "So how does it work?"
"Just press it to your skin," Hoshi said. "It'll stick automatically."
"Okay." Luffy placed the star flake to his upper left arm. It sparked and hung in place. "Yeah."
"That's it?" Neo asked.
"That's it," Hoshi said. He turned his head around. "I think there's another one here too." He ran over to it. "There is. It's a meteor one."
"Tra, this one's yours." Luffy picked it up and handed it over to Law.
Law took it but didn't put it on.
"What's wrong?" Nami asked.
"This won't hurt Neo and our baby will it?" Law asked.
A storm of butterflies set of in Neo's stomach. Her heart pounded. His words sounds so natural and right to her. She wanted to hear it again but couldn't bring herself to ask him to say it.
"It won't hurt at all," Hoshi said. "I'd never do anything that would hurt Neo."
"You don't have to use it," Nami said. "We can always figure out another way."
"It'll be fine. As long as it gives me the power to protect Neo and our baby," Law said.
Neo's head became light.
"You okay? You're light headed," Law said.
"I'm fine," Neo said.
Law smiled at her.
Shifting awkwardly, she smiled and dropped her eyes to the ground.
Law placed the star just inside of his shirt collar. If he didn't like it there he could remove it later. "Is it going to take long to get control of them?"
"It varies from person to person," Hoshi said. "Let's get back to the ship. You can start working with them."
Neo wrapped her winds around them and flew them back to the ship. While Nami took over sailing the ship again, she sat down and watched Luffy and Law work on their new powers. Her hand stroked over Hoshi's soft fur. "Do you think they'll be all right?"
"Beats me," Hoshi said. "I guess we'll know soon enough."
"So how do we work these things?" Law asked.
"Sense out its power," Hoshi said. "And it happens."
Law held up his hand. A faint glow appeared in his hand before a small meteor appeared. Before he could react, the meteor shot out of his hand and shot through the side of the ship.
"Well, let's just hope they get enough control over them to not sink us," Hoshi said.
Law glared at the guardian.
Neo turned her eyes to Luffy. The young man was focusing so hard his face was turning red. Then suddenly a spark gathered around him.
"Yeah! I did it!" Luffy screamed. A loud crackle snapped around him. His body shot backwards, hitting the mast.
"Well, we're certainly in good hands with you two around," Hoshi said rolling his eyes. "I feel so safe now."
"Give them time, Hoshi," Neo said. "I know they can do this."
"Confident, aren't we?" Hoshi looked up at her.
Neo nodded. "I guess so."