Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece, if I did, Sanji'll be the only character.

Christmas vacation rocks, seriously.

Chapter 1: Limb for Limb

"Would you know my name?..."

"Eric Clapton?" Morgan thought quietly, her eyes had barely opened and the sight of the blond man made her jump out of her position on the floor of a kitchen "Daddy!"

"If I-dad?" Sanji asked bluntly while turning around. "Oh, you're awake, can you tell me....what's your name?" He turned back to his tea that was on the table, Morgan slowly crawled out of her bed and walked over to him.

"Morgan, that girl over there..." she indicated Mary who was beside him. "Is my sister Mary and...where's Gabriel and my mom?"

"The guy, he's out on deck already annoying Zoro and you mother.... I have to admit...he's pretty go-wait." he paused while holding the spoon and pointed at Mary. "Mary? I thought she's Luna!" Morgan sat next to him, shaking her head and taking his cup. "No? She's out on deck too...you look so much like Luna..." she raised an eyebrow then began to leave the cup and the kitchen. The teen opened the door to see her step brother getting beaten down by a swordsman and another teenager that looked like Mary trying to separate the two.

"Zoro, stop that!" shouted Chopper. "He's just recovered!"

"Yeah, what'd your mom teach you?!" gasped Gabriel, he looked up to see Morgan trying to suppress giggles. "Shut up, punk-bitch! Not like you're-"

"Kids, stop fighting, now!"

"Psh, you're young enough to be my sister, lady-"

"I'm your legal parent and I shall not be disrespected that way!" Luna chided him with a screech, she spotted Morgan and gave a weak smile. "Oh, hi, sweetie...is Mary awake yet?" Morgan gave a wide eyed look at her, then turned to the kitchen where Mary was at; she took several glances at bot the mother and daughter with Sanji shrugging modestly,"Don't look at me, I'm just here for the ladies..."

"Morgan?" Luna called out.

"Wow, that's not my mommy..." the youngest stated, Gabriel was released from Zoro's grip when Sanji yelled,"Lunch! Eat before our stupid captain beats you all to it!" Within in nanoseconds, Luffy was already sitting at the table, Chopper and Usopp falling behind him as they scramble around to get a good seat. Luna and Gabriel arrived last, Mary hadn't woken up yet as Morgan asked,"Who's Luna?" The table froze, Sanji was bent over with a tray in hand, wanting to place it in front of Robin, he adjusted his black tie,"Erm, isn't she your mother-"

"Nuh-uh, mom's name's Rebbecca, not Luna, who is she anyway-"

"AHEM! Sir!" Morgan's mother said to Sanji. "I need to speak with you a tiny bit...could we...?"

"Anytime!" Sanji smiled, he lid down the tray and escorted her out the door, outside, she said,"Where have you heard that name before?"

"Name? Isn't it yours? Luna de Sable Morgan-" she covered his mouth with a forceful to hush him.

"Don't EVER utter that in front of my children. I don't know how you kids manage to get a hold of my identity,maybe you were a student of mine, but never say that in the future, understand?" he gave a nod, a false nod. No, he didn't understand a damn thing she said. Walking around from him, he wondered why she acted like a...like a....a....

"Mother?" Sanji whipped around to see a little girl sitting on the rails, she wore the same outfit as Leo did months ago; gray and messy, yet a smaller version. "Uncle Leo told me what happened, God ordered me to come here..."

"Hold it..." he held out a hand to silence her. "Let me guess, you're Luna's guardian angel..."

"Yes, yes, I'm her little sister, Sammy!" there was a long pause, Sanji turned away and scoffed,"Leo, if it's you, stop this. I don't know how but God has, this time, sent an entire family here...."

Sammy made a buzzing sound,"Wrong! Ever noticed how Luna's been acting? She's a mother, dead mother....with children, dead children. Catch that-"

"No, and before you manage to fuck up everyone's lives and sanity, I suggest you jump off this ship or I'll make you-"

"Oooo, is that a threat? Try telling that to Luna, after all..." Sammy started fading away in the same style Leo did. "She's the one who started all this..."

In seconds, the angel was gone, Sanji found himself all alone, the little flame that accompanied him left too; he tossed it into the water and proceeded to the kitchen. Sammy suddenly appeared and waved to Sanji, he glared at her, saying,"Who here remembers Leo?"

"Sorta..."

"The angel?"

"The mental guy?"

"The idiot?" Zoro said last, the chef nodded. "I'm not surprised-"

"Well...be surprised, he sent an apprentice-"

"I ain't no apprentice! I've been dead for..." Sammy counted her fingers. "Thirty-one years! And all because of that stupid British man. Listen here, the Seven Cardinal Days is starting now; Luna has seven days to fix up her life using you guys. See that wall there?" she pointed at the wooden space, he nodded. "That's where the fun starts tonight. I suggest someone stays awake to see what happens, of course, I won't help-"

"Could you excuse me for a moment?" Sanji asked, Nami gave a nod and he walked out, dragging Sammy by the collar, he carried her to the craw's nest and plopped her down. "I'm going to count to ten and you go away from me and never appear again....one."

"Sorry, but I can't just pack up and leave-"

"Two..."

"I'm Luna's sister..."

"Three..."

"The children's aunt..."

"Four..."

"And..."

"Nine-ten!" he said quickly, skipping the last six numbers, he took her by her waist and was ready to throw her overboard.

"They're all dead! If I don't help, Luna's mortal-life would be screwed! Then, after that, she'll be sent to hell!" Sanji paused, holding her above his head; rolling his eyes, he placed her down and sat besides her, legs crossed.

"Explain." she gave a smirk at his request, but was obligated to do so,"First things first, the Seven Day Rule is simple: Live for seven days, die in seven days. Really easy to remember.. Second, if the child were to bond with the Cardinal Sins within their minds, they stay forever in their minds to be tortured for the rest of eternity. Mindless idiots like Nazis never wander heaven, God keeps it that way. Third, the Guardian Angel is to be related to the child by blood and must never reveal themselves to anyone-"

"Aren't you braking the rule already?"

"Yes...that was the greatest mistake Leo could ever do; giving her a zoan fruit, the stupid geezer! Animals see things way too easily. I break this rule because it's not really a rule, the Morgan and De Sable families see them more as...guidelines-"

"There're more of you as Angels?"

"Those who suffered from a religious/voodoo/dark magic deaths of some sort are legible to be one; only one from a single generation are angels, we keep getting murdered so often that France calls us cursed! However, there's a catch..." Sanji knew it, there was always a catch. "Each, all of us, lose our wings; they're sliced off. You know the saying 'Eye for an Eye'? It's Limb for Limb this time; example, the man who murdered me decapitated my arms, when I arrived in heaven my wings were clipped off easily and the next thing I knew, I'm guiding my dead cousin!"

"That explains Leo..."

"Uncle Leo lost both legs to some Nazis, a machine gun shot it off him when they were in a church. The same thing happened, God removed his wings and there you have it, the first guardian angel. Of course, there are other families that do the same thing as us, in fact, everyone does. It's just that my family always play on the line between life and death like an everyday matter."

"Then what about Luna?"

"Her? Those who impersonate the dead are judged to join them (1)...in other words, don't give her a reason to stay, it won't help anyone. Would want the corpse of a dead mother walking around you all the time? I bet my nieces and nephew would be oh-so sad-"

"I'm getting the feeling that you're lying to me."

"Lying? To you?! C'mon, that's just ridiculous! Of course I never lie!"

"Well you are right now."

"Damn, that's right. Anyway, that's only three of the seventy-seven rules of a guardian angel. I only say what to tell...oh wait, there's one last one that's my personal favorite....never fall in love with the child...that's why guardian angels are always family members. Our boss is Uncle Leo, it's normally the person-"

"What does this have to do with Luna going to hell?"

"Nothing, I needed your attention. so ha!"

"Now I know why you were sent to me."

"Why?"

"To annoy the shit outta us."

"I can be serious at times!"

"At times...." he repeated while getting up. "Let's go, we're burning sunlight and already it's night-"

"Amazing, how time works!" the angel exclaimed as they climbed down, Sanji stopped swearing that he heard that quote somewhere before; it was something Leo would say. "Something off?"

"No..."

"There's a lie! I can smell it!"

"It's the garlic bread." he jumped and landed on deck, Sammy put her hand to her mouth and breathed on it, she made a dirty look.

"Oh, it's just me-false alarm!"

"Stupid...I didn't even serve that..." Sammy ran up from behind, grabbing his hand, he turned around and to see that she was gone. He rolled his eyes,"She's going to be worse than Leo...at least she doesn't ask for sugar-"

"Hey, do you have sugar cubes?" she asked out of nowhere, Sanji was about to explode like a parent but too late, he already did,"YOUR STUPID OSSAN DEPLETED MY ENTIRE STOCK THE LAST TIME HE WAS HERE! WHAT KIND OF FREAK NEEDS THIRTEEN SUGAR CUBES IN ONE SERVING?! IT'LL MAKE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR SKY-ROCKET!" he went on yelling for what seemed to be an hour until Luna came to the scene to shut him up, saying,"Can you shut the fuck up already?!"

"NO, I WILL NOT-oh, it's you..." with a closed fist at his throat, he cleared it and apologized,"Sorry for my sudden outburst-"

"Outburst? More like a war-cry, the ocean can hear you scream..." she gave him an I-don't-like-you look and walked away. Man was she different, more (to put it delicately) firm towards him than the others; perhaps she didn't realize she's in a teenager's body and not an adult's. Just said she went down the stairs, he reached for her, clutching her wrist.

"Are you sure you never saw me before?"

"I shall only see you as a student, nothing else. Now please, to bed with you; it's half past twelve." wrenching her hand back, she continued her path through the door and closed it shut. Maybe he should have paid attention to Leo's psychotic rules. He mentioned something important, but it slipped from the mortals' mind. Damn, if he knew, he'd understand why Luna was acting the way she was.

The chef gave a sigh and began loosening his silk tie until the scent of smoke was caught in his nostrils. It was coming from the back, where the mikan groove was. Curious, Sanji crept up the stairs and looked around. A girl around seventeen sat against the wall staring at the ocean; her features were hardly distinguishable, but he definitely knew she wore a black outfit. On her left shoulder blade was a black cross, possibly representing the same religion Luna fallowed. She smoked a cigarette, exhaling easily, and glanced up.

"What do you want?" her tone was deep and forbidding, sending shivers down his spine. Yes, he did dare to join her. Sammy appeared to introduce her,"That's Mary King, Luna's middle child, be careful, though." She quickly faded away in fear. Sanji slid down next to her and took out his own pack of cigarette and asked for a light. She obliged and remained quiet.

"So, you're Mary-"

"Raven, my name is Raven." she corrected him.

"Raven, hai, hai...what's your brand?"

"Prince..."

"King Ground here." his cool was slipping away quickly; she was intimidating him with these one word answers. He had to think of something he could land a bite on...quick. No, can't talk about that subject, he felt that she murder him or something...no, wait, yes! It may tick her off but it might just work for an anti-social. "How's the weather for you?"

"What the fuck?" his heart slammed into his throat, shit! Wrong subject. Before he could think of anything else, she quiet;y murmured,"It's fine, I prefer dark places like Seattle though."

"I used to live in a basement when I was a kid, never saw the sunlight until I ran away." as fast as it came, the two dropped the weather subject and resumed the silent hour. She finished her cigarette first and tossed the last of it into the ocean. Searching through her pockets, she began cursing until Sanji offered her his pack. "Here, there's loads more of where I get these." She took it without another word and stuffed into her back pocket. Sheesh, not even a sign of a thank you. "You hate taking, don't you?"

"No really?" she said in a sarcastic tone while getting up. Not even a compliment, farewell, goodnight, nothing! Was this how Luna raised her children? Rude, arrogant? Now that's not the old Luna he knew and love. Sammy materialized next to him and he grabbed her by the collar as Mary strode out of sight.

"Who's Rebbecca and what have you done to Luna?!" Sanji nearly shouted.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Careful with the robes, just got 'em on ebay!"

"And what about Leo? He explained things better!"

"I'm sorry, Abel Nightroad's in Rome, I can't do anything to contact him!"

"What's up with Mary, why's she creepy?!"

"Even though I'm the aunt, I'm dead; I was never there to help raise the kid!"

"Such a helpful angel you are!" there was a hint of mockery.

"Thanks!"

"Do a favor for everyone and jump in the ocean and never return."

"I shall NOT do that! Sanji..." she grabbed his own collar as he placed her down. "I may be dead, but at least I'm not brain-dead. Nice try though, credit goes to you. Now get some rest, tomorrow might be interesting since it's the first day of the seven...G'night, Sanji and remember what Uncle Leo said: Luna didn't come back just to see Sanji and you kids. She came to fix her life, not enter yours." and with that said, she faded away in purple smoke. Now that was a new image...perhaps he could try to talk to Luna agin tomorrow?

A plan started to form in his head until he felt a sharp pain in his heart. It was the emotional kind, not the physical kind . Yet, he grabbed it tightly as if it were a heart-attack though it was a love-attack as he would call it whenever a lady at a random island rejects him. He tried to rub it off while climbing down the steps on the main mast, down to his hammock. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, a small stuff-toy like doll with button eyes sat in solitude on the table, its golden hair and curly eyebrow resembled the kitchen's owner. In it's small chest was a pin with a tiny slip of paper on it reading,"Love."

Review or I'll crawl out of your television...

(1) "Those who impersonate the dead are judged to join them..." -Alucard to Rip Van Winkle

And yes, Abel from Trinity Blood was mentioned.