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Chapter 7: Quick Retreat

Instantly, Franky caught Luna in his arms, and placed her down near the main mast, making sure she won't get caught in a cross fire of anyone willing to get into the fight between two powerful powerhouses. There were several thuds, and then Robin's yells of protests from the infamary.

"Sanji!" Robin nearly barked, it was the first time she said his name, so it'll be weird. Like a raging bull, Sanji came thundering out of the kitchen, down hte stairs, and then on to the lawn deck. He kept his left leg up as he balenced on his right. "You can't fight right now! Luffy, I tried to stop him-"

"So, shitty-geezer, Usopp says you wanna fight." growled Sanji, he glared daggers at the Marine. "Me and Luna solved this whole shitty game you're forcing us to play, and catch this..." Immediately, Sanji flew at him, and proceeded to give Horus a hard blow in the jaw. "I FUCKING HATE GAMES!" he roared savagely.

He flew across the deck and into the wall.

"That's a number." Franky muttered, he watched Luna as she started coming around. He bent over close to her and murmured something in her ear. She shook her head as if she didn't agree on whatever he said. Horus suddenly jumped out of nowhere, taking Sanji by surprise.

"Seeing how you are...in this state..." Horus stole a glance at Sanji's left leg. "I decide not to fight you for today."

"Change of heart already?" Zoro taunted, giving a mocking glare. Horus pulled out an ancient book, and then skimed through the pages in a flash.

"Our paths shall cross again on our journey to Yume Kado, and the next time it happens, your heads are all mine."

Pages from hte book flew all over th place, covering everyone's view of Horus.

"He...he just retreated." Luffy uttered as he watched the last page flutter to his feet before him. He reached out for it, then blankyly stared at it, the Marin's symbol was all that was there, front and back. Then, he crumpled it in his fist. "Luna, you're right, ossan-no, Horus is with the Marines."

"He's also the one responsible for kidnapping Nami-san and the others, Yume had nothing to do with this." explained Sanji, but before he can speak anymore, he collapsed.

"Too much time in the heat, poor mate." Richie had eventually showed up at the scene next to Robin.

"Where were you?" Robin asked, Chopper and Luna got on to the task of dragging their fallen friend back to his bed.

"Trying to calm Matt, he totaly flipped out when I joked about Nami being treated the same as Sanji."

"...how bad?"

"Extreme, by the way, Sanji's gonna need a hair cut, he's only seperated from us for only a day."

"I know how that happened, since cook-san's hormones are always raging, I'd come to hte conclusion that it also made his hair grow longer."

Richie fell to the floor laughing.

"...I guess my job with him is done."

(what job?!)

Chapter 8: New Allies

"Hungry, hungry! I need meat!" Luffy whined, they all hung around the kitchen around dinner time. "SANJI!"

"Mate, don't go all complaining, we hadn't had a piece of anything for over a week." Richie grumbled, he laid on the floor. Their food supply went out after three weeks. And without any maps or ideas on where to go next, they allowed the Sunny to drift in a strong current in the middle of the river. With this happening, they need not to worry about their destination. "But Robin...I have no bloody idea on how she manages." His belly growled. "Awwww..."

"What about Luna?"

"Wolves can last for months without food, so this ordeal must be easy for her." Robin answered for Luffy. "Just because Sanji isn't here doesn't mean we can't cook-"

"Sorry, Robin." Franky suddenly entered. "Last time I checked, the patry's totally empty. If someone doesn't do something, we're all screwed."

"Weren't we all from the start of this?" Zoro asked, he sat on the bench arms folded.

"SANJI!" they all turned their heads to see Matt pounding on the door to the infamary with his fists. "CHOPPER, open the damn door! I need to speak to the poor bastard!"

"Matthew, stop, he won't answer." uttered Robin, she laid on the couch next to Zoro. Too late, Matt pulled out the Jackal, and then started to open fire until he shot the lock off. He lifted his foot and kicked the door open.

"Open sesame!" growled Matt, he walked in, only to see Sanji sleeping soundlessly in his bed. "WAKE UP!" This caused the sleeping chef to flew out of his position and onto his feet. "Y-you have to make us something to eat."

"I won't make anything if there is nothing there to make, idiot!" Sanji roared at him, he limped out past him and into the kitchen. "I am sorry, but bare with me, I hadn't eaten anything except leather on my sickbed. We're all in a bad mood at th time, and I don't blame Robin-chan, Chehero-chan, and Luna-san...just you guys."

"US?!" the men shouted, Sanji gave the most modest shrug he could give."That's discrimination!"

"The world's full of it, get used to it. Aparently, I don't give a damn about it, ironic, huh?"

"You-you...you hypocrite!" exclaimed Richie and Usopp.

"Yeah, hypocrite!" Luffy mimiced. "What's a hypocrite?"

"A person who's against something they believe in or do daily...where's Luna?"

"Who cares, let's just use Chopper as an emegancy food supply."

"Where's he, though?"

"I dunno."

"Nada."

"Beats me."

"Hiding, per-"

The door flew open, turns out to be Luna with a pistol in her hand, she turned htem and aimed it at each person one by one. Usopp raised his hands to show mercy, along with Matt. Her back pressed against the door, then gave a sigh of relief aws she panted heavily,"Thank god, I though you were the sand freaks."

"Sorceress! Open the door!" the voice of Yume called out as he pounded on the door.

"Shit, it's these fucked up bastards." Sanji scowled in the background of everything as Zoro took out his katana.

"Good, we really need action around here." he walked over to Luna, who backout of his way, and opened the door. Immediately, ten 6 foot jackal head like minions carrying spears came at him, of course, he pwns them in two seconds. "Who's next?"

The other minions backed away.

"Like I thought-"

"Rankyanku: Peacock Blade Slasher!"

"DUCK!" Luffy shouted, the blades similar to the ones Akumu threw at them came hurtaling towards Sanji, who didn't seemed dazed one bit. He merely rocked to the right, letting them breeze pat his hair and shoulder, like as if he knew what was coming. Yume, Akumu, and the pirates stayed silent, none uttered a single word as th prince and his brother came walking in. Akumu and Sanji stole glares while passing each other. "You decide to bring your smart asses here, huh?"

"Such language from a kid." scoffed Yume, he took his seat at the bar. "I had not traveled east of my land to fight, but to ask for your help. And to proove you wrong of all your foul thoughts so far, we had lost our hostages."

"My brother?"

"My sister?"

"Nami-san?"

He gave a simple nod, the three threatened to spring at him. His voice was raised to catch their attention,"It was a mistake to be blamed by me, for I placed my country above all, even nakama!"

Luffy gave the signal for his friends to stand down. "Keep talking, or I'll change my mind."

"Five hundred years ago, the Marines came here, little did we know about their plans. They had strormed the capital, imprisoned its people, and started using htem as guine pigs for their ill-hearted experiments. I would like you to guess what it is."

Everyone kept quiet, they clearly did not tust him. Matt already had the Jackal out and its safety lock was unlocked, ready to go.

"No? Devil Fruits, they're making false Devil Fruit powers. Horus is the head of everything-"

"There's no such things as Guardians, is there?" asked Richie.

"There never was one, and if you seek their information in books, they're so called legends because it was made up by Horus himself to distract people from the real events."

Robin gave a frown,"That'd mean that we were supporting our enemy's doings. Devil Fruit power cloning is illegal, ever since eight hundred years ago-"

"Wait," Usopp interupted. "Since that law was 800 years old, and then Horus and his crew were doing this for 500 hundred years...that'd make the ossan 500 years also!"

"He was the only one to devour a fruit known as the Gami Gami no Mi. It allows the user to use mirrors or any other reflective surfaces to telaport from one mirror to another. The user also has access to another world, and they get to use mirrors as weapons. This would explain why Horus was able to climb through the mirror like a door as seen a month ago. But as for now, we have to get what we need dearly back. You nakama, and my country, would you agree with me, Monkey D. Luffy?"

"Before my idiot captain does anything stupid like drag us into a war between two powerful forces," started Matt after ten minutes of tough silence, but Luna covered his mouth.

"I agree...to help of Luffy does. I want my sister safe with me."

"You psyco's gave me a million reasons to want to kick the undead shit out of you, but, I'll go with Luna-chan on this."

"...fine, we'll help." Luffy said. "Is there any food in this?"

"You mean to say that you people were drifting upriver with no food?!" Akumu asked, shooked, they all gave nods. "Sorry, we do not have anything. We mostly grab our supplies from the reffuge camps on the North side of Yumegypt, but since Shuzan, our undercover Marine, bomb th only train to get there, we cannot go."

"What about the phoenixes? They fly." Chehero stated. "You can use them."

"Too noticeable." replied Yume. "And a winged horse isn't going to cut it either. These animals are from the Royal Family Guard-"

"YUME-SAMA! YUME-SAMA!"

The door burst open and in came a scrawny minion whose Jackal head mask was slashed off, revealing a young man. "What is it, and where's your mask?"

"..."

A look of shook and agony mixed in his eyes, he dropped to his knees and landed face first in the floor. Behind him, a blade was yanked out of his back, its user a freaky looking.

"MUMMY!" screamed Chehero, Luna, Usopp, Tsuki, Brooke and Matt, who immediately started shooting it. No anvil. Not even a bullet hole...Akumu, however, stood up to it, he took out a sword then walked past it. The sound of the sword going in the sheathe was all they heard before the creature fell into three pieces while a fountain of blood sprayed a bit on Akumu's robe, but dyed his boots red.

"Ouritsu Ittouryuu: Chi Yoku." the younger prince gritted between his teeth in a hiss, giving a glare at the fallen corpse. The decayed body laid there...dead. Matt bent over and prodded it with his gun.

"It's really inapporpriate to leave a dead body in my kitchen, especially a rotten corpse." murmured Sanji, who, for once, did NOT see this coming, unlike the other attacks. A low growl clawed its way up Luna's throat, she opened the back door of the kitchen, only to find more of the undead freaks. She slamed the door in their faces. "Who was it?"

"Who do you think it was? Nami?!"

"...is it?"

"Hell no!"

"Do not turn against each other, Horus must be realizing the real powers of the Bracelet of the Dream King, of whom Becky is wearing. We must hurry before he unleashes the Dream King and destroies the whole world!"

"How do you expect to get us all to your secret camp?" Usopp asked in a mocking tone. "Lemme guess, you-"

"There is no time to speak, hurry!"

Yume pulled out a book and flipped through the pages in a bink of an eye, then the yellow pages started to fly out of th book, surrounding them all like a tidal wave. The papers had the Yumegyptian's Royal Family coat of arms. Once hte hurricane of pappers stopped, the Straw Hats found themselves laying on some sort of carpet...on top of each other. Luna's head poked out from below the wolf pile (pun intended) and managed to squeak out,"You folks are heavier than a horse! Get off!"

Soon enough, everyone managed to get off her, except for Sanji, who sat on her back like a casual person, arms and legs crossed.

"Sanji!"

"Um, for once, I choose to reject your request."

Jaws hung open, given the fact that Sanji NEVER said no to a lady, especially his girlfriend...make that ex-girlfriend actually.

Chapter 10: The Chef and the Wolf

"Get off, or I'll-!" she threatened.

"You'll what, break up with me?" he taunted.

Usopp nudged Yume, and whispered in the prince's ear,"I think we should go outside..."

"Hai, who's up for food?" Yume asked clapping his hands together and rubbing them, Luffy and Brooke drooled. "C'mon, my cook's will prepare you a fine meal."

"Wait, I thought you-"

"Let's go Matt." Chehero said, grabbing his wrist and dragging him out of Yume's tent.

"Yeah- but-but." he protested, pointing at Sanji and Luna. "What if-if-if-"

"NOW, Matt." she raised her voice at him and finally pulling him out. "We'll catch you two later...just don't play horsies if you know what mean." She gave a wink and a smile before leaving. "OMIGOD! THEY GOT RAMEN! YIPPIE!"

Luna gave a sigh, then tried getting up. Even if she tried switching to her any other forms, he still would win, so she gave up on trying that tactic. Just like other girl that would be pinned to the floor by a guy, she struggled for several minutes, Sanji checked his wrist watch,"I have all night to do this, so try to work with me on this one."

A small growl issued from her throat.

"Aw, fine, I'll say this...I'm sorry that I dropped you at the train accident and I let Becky out of my sight." he apologized, she kept quiet and he frowned. "Just please be mine again?"

"No, I won't be yours." she snarled into the carpet. "I wanna eat now-"

"Not til you say yes to myrequest." she had the feeling that he was smirking, she didn't have to turn, in fact, she didn't want to turn to see him do so. "I know you din't mean what you said earlier, animals aren't the only ones that can feel a human's true feelings you know."

Luna had to admit to that, he was right. She instantly gave up on trying to fight him and decided to lay there on her chest. He tangled his fingers in her purple hair, weaving them in and out. Oddly, she liked it when he did that, being part wolf, she likes being stroked on the head. She shook her head to block out any thoughts of saying yes to him, then heaved out a great sigh. He suddenly got off her, she thought this as a break for it...but then she was flipped over onto her back, she found herself being pressed down again to the floor. His hands were firmly gripping her soulders, not giving her a chance at escaping.

Again, she tried getting up, Sanji still wouldn't let go. "Damn, why does this bastard have to be too strong?!"she thought while pressing her hands against his chest, attempting ot shove him off. Still wouldn't budge. Damn. Luna glared up at him, and Sanji stared back down at her, his eyes showed no indication that he was joking, he was serious about this. He really did need her back. Her glazing eyes sofened completely, along with her shoulders, then she was completely relaxed.

He was surprised by the fact that he didn't have to continue pursuading, he knew he won. Actually, he knew she'd loose in these types of conversations, given the fact that she never really liked talking about her feelings that much. Her actions were enough to show them, his actions were enough to make her feel better. You could say their relationship was...unique, it makes you wonder how they survived. (hey, it makes me wonder too).Again, she sighed, this time, she spoke,"It's just that...everytime I get into a serious relationship, someone gets hurt or killed. When I was with Matthew, my mom got ran over, when I was with Richiard, my dad nearly drowned in the lake, with you...I fell two miles."

A tear came up, he took his left hand off her shoulder to gently wipe it away while saying,"So all of your relationships never work out well."

She gave a nod.

"I'll bet you all of my best knives that I won't let anyone you cherish get hurt or killed, how about that?" he asked, she knew he was bribing her. He always bribes her when the situation calls for it. Luna laid there, silent. "That wasn't what you wanted to hear."

Silent.

"I still have to convince you."

Still silent.

Soon enough, Sanji lowered his head to Luna, then pressed his lips against hers...

"Ouritsu Ittouryuu: Chi Yoku."

It means:

Royal One Sword Style: Blood Bath

The attack is similar to Brooke's Hanauta Sanchou: Yahazu Giri.

At the begining of Chapter 7, Sanji says "I fucking hate games!" You have to admit, it's true, everytime they all get mixed up in a prophecy thing, he always tries to talk them out of it or something in my stories.

In chapter 8, when the corpse attacks, think of them looking like the Ra'zac from Eragon.

Chapter 9, uh...no comments.