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I'm going to update more, so don't be surprised if you see two or three more chapters. It's for a grade, you know! Using fan fiction as practice really does help...

Chapter 12: Preperations

"Revolution it is." declared Yume, who placed on his bird mask. His younger brother wore the same, only a different color scheme.

"H-hey, you got a mask for me?" Usopp asked, poining at Yume's.

"Don't you already have one...Sogeking?" scoffed Richie, he and Matt laughed. "Where do we start this thing?"

"We get ready, gather your supplies, we strike at a quarter to seven." instructed Shuzan, a strong gust of wind blew in and the captain disappeared. "My men'll allow you to go."

Yume gave a bow with his head as a thanks to the open space before disappearing himself. Chehero stared at the empty spot, asking,"Where-?"

"Old habit, he was an assassin-"

"So...it makes him the Prince of Persia?" Matt snorted. "I can scope out the area easy with my powers."

Meanwhile, Sanji went off to the supply tent to find what he can and then came out with Chehero trailing him with a basket of food in her mouth. Within minutes, by himself, the chef prepared a whole freaken buffet, a buffet large enough to be considered a resturant. Richie and Zoro practiced their attacks on each other, but the main part that seemed to grab everyone's attention was Akumu's repetative assults on Luna from behind. Soon enough, she would get tired of the harrasement and lose her mind...like this...

"FUCK-OFF!" she shouted, Franky stopped on his drink of cola. Lifting her foot, she prepared to fight him head on, but then Akumu had his hands together, palms facing out. Immediately, he kicked his leg out and knocked her off balance. Losing her footing, she did a handstand, only to be knocked down again. "What are you-"

"Just testing." he shrugged casually before walking off to his tent whistling a merry jig. "Daa da da da, doo."

Luna stomped off to sit next to Sanji, who was pouring sake for himself, he offered her some, but she took the whole freaken bottle. He stared wide eyed at her in surprise as she handed the booze back to him after downing a quarter of it. Turning his head, he looked down to his shoes to fix them.

"You shouldn't be so mad."

"?"

"I told Yume that he can send you first to the palace." she gave a tired nod, but then snapped.

"YOU WHAT?!" she shouted, causing Luffy and Zoro to gander at her.

"Besides Matt and Chopper, you're the only one who can reach a dungeon in a fortress without getting caught. It makes perfect sense to drop you off, you are a Zoan, right?"

"How can you do anything so rash?! You actually agreed?! What the hell happened to 'I'll protect you, I swear with my best knives'?!" her voice went as low as his to mimic.

"Wait, wait, wait." Sanji's voice was firm. "If you want Becky-chan back, you have to make you way down. See, it's called the Dungeon of 1000 cells, 100 cells on each floor, there are ten. 1/1000 cells has our nakama in it. Who can sniff out their scents easily?"

"...me."

"Exactly-"

"But who's going to find me if they got all the other keys?"

"Don't worry, Shuzan's men will look out for you, they'll pass on messages...as long as you wear this." he pulled out a white sheet out of nowhere (three guesses where he kept it), and then handed it to her. "Put it on..."

(Anyway)

"...Sanji, I look like-"

"Whatever it is, that's what you're supossed to look like." Sanji said in a matter-of-factly tone. Luna came out, dressed in the white robe. A red sash was what stood out in the white cloth, a black belt went across her chest and back horizantaly, several daggers were strapped behind her and a large throwing knife was stored on her back belt. Finally, a sword attached to her right side occasionally tapped her boot. To top it all off, there was a hood for covering her face. Sanji gave a slight frown, but forced out a smile. "Y-you're perfect."

"Ya, perfect to be an assassin," she retorted, she moved her left wrist, only to have a hidden blade slide out, she moved her wrist again to slide it in. "What is this, Assassin's Creed?"

Matt passed her with Richie walking by, he paused to gander, Akumu arrived in time to explain,"That is what she must look like, you can't just send a belly dancer to the Dungeon of 1000 Cells, she'll be raped!"

The two gave a nod of agreement as Akumu and Sanji led her to the fire. Sanji took one of Luna's throwing knives and then pointed at a wood post staked to the ground several meters away,"See that?" She gave a nod as he took his right arm back,made a large thrust forward, then sent the flying knife through the air, only to impale itself in the wood.

"W-wait, you don't use weapons!" Luna exclaimed after witnessing Sanji attack without using his legs.

"I'm a chef, I had to learn how to throw a knife at some point of my life." he handed her a fresh one as Akumu retrieved the knife from the post. The prince handed it to her as Sanji started to instruct her by holding her hand. "Take the tip, make sure you don't drop it...yeah, that way..."

Luffy watched in interest, along with Chehero and Robin, suddenly, Usopp appeared by the campfire,"I don't get why they're teaching Luna this."

"Akumu-san told me earlier." Robin said, taking a sip of booze before placing it back down. "With okami-chan's speed, agility, strength, she's good enough to be an assassin, or a pretend one at least. You see, she'll be in the dungeons, there's little space in some places, and the guards are all around. With nowhere to run, she'll be forced to fight-"

"Oh, I get it, Loon needs to take down the guards quietly." Chehero guessed. "Or there'll be no room for a fight with a whole swam of them."

"Correct, long nose-san, those walls are more than several centuries old, and there would be a god chance that it'll collapse in some places. I read that the whole area is as big as a city."

They watched as Sanji let Luna's arm go out as if to throw, but it remained in their hands. He gave a nod, then allowed her to throw it: the knife was impaled into the wooden post. "That's pretty good for a first throw." he commented with a smile.

"Can't I use bow and arrows, like three years ago?" Luna whined a bit, Usopp suddenly got up as if to solve the problem.

"Do not fear." he proclaimed in a grand voice, he pulled out a bow and a quiver that was meant to be attached to her back. The bow was made of some type of rare tree and it was half th height as her, but strong and sturdy enough to support over 200 hundred pounds even though it looked thin. "I remodeled it to be even more powerful, you can shoot farther distances and take down those guards faster, go ahead, try it."

Slowly, she latched an arrow, then aimed at the post, one eye closed, the other opened. Her fingers clutched the feathers tightly, the string stretched back, then the arrow whized out faster than you can say 'Usopp rocks'. Right before their eyes, the post exploded from hte arrow's tip, Sanji, Luna, and Akumu fliched and took small steps back from the force. A wind blew in, causing even Luffy's hat to fly off his head.

"Whoa, shit, what'd you do?" Luna asked, taking another arrow and examaning the tip. Usopp took out four arrows, each of them had different colored tips, he showed her the red one.

"This one, it can burst into flames, similar to the Hisattsu: Fire Bird Star, it's the Phowenix Tail...then the blue one, it has holy water in it with a cross melted to the tip, this one's the Holy Arrow, it'll get rid of the vampires...the black one is the Explosive Tip...last, the white feathers are regular arrows." the marksman explained as he placed the arrows back in the quiver and took the bow from her. "This...can support 200 pounds."

"200?!"

"Made from Adam Wood, same as the Sunny Go's wood, I got some from Franky, go ahead, try it."

Akumu flung his two arms out at Luna, who grabed the bow and instantly pushed against his two arms with the wood. "TEKKAI!"

Her foot shot out from below, and sent the captain into the air. Sanji dropped his cig and lit a new one while commenting,"That Tekkai didn't crack it a bit, you?"

"It's perfect, Usopp!" she gave him a hug, then walked away, leaving the marksman blushing. Akumu landed on the ground with an almighty smack as Yume suddenly appeared, sitting next to Franky.

"What's the story here?" he asked casually, surprising the cyborg.

"Uh...long nose here made okami-kid a new arsenal, which is pretty SUPA! since I helped him." Franky proudly said. "The wood he used is very durable, so it won't break that easily, even at a sword's attack."

"Perfect, she looks just like the hero in the old stories father used to say! Come now, everyone, come, come, the clock in the old tower strikes the time for us to send Luna into a kamikaze mission-"

"Can I get drunk before that?"

"No."

"But-"

"The answer is NO!"

See Yume and Akumu's masks on deviantart.