I yawned and sat up, rubbing the sleep from my eyes. We were still drifting in that little dinghy, but, it felt a bit more crowded than I thought it should have. I looked at Zoro who was glaring past me and turned around to see three beat up people rowing our boat. Luffy was nowhere in sight.

"What the hell's going on?" I asked.

Zoro sighed, "Luffy got carried off by a giant bird, and then these idiots made me lose sight of him."

"Where'd they come from?" I asked.

"Good question," Zoro said, looking at the three, "Why were you drifting in the middle of the ocean?"

They went on to tell us about how they'd been tricked by an orange haired girl who was drifting in the middle of the ocean, pretending to have been in a ship wreck. When they went to take a look at the treasure she'd offered, she jumped on their boat and sailed off, shouting back to them that there was a storm coming. And then nearly as soon as she said that, the storm hit and destroyed the boat they'd found themselves on. I shook my head at them. That's what greed gets you I guess.

"She can predict the weather?" Zoro asked, "She must be something special…wonder if she'd join us."

"If I find her, I'm gonna kill her!" One of the three said, followed by the other two.

"First we gotta find the treasure!"

"Yeah, if we go back empty handed, Buggy will kill us for sure!"

"Buggy?" I asked.

"You haven't heard of Buggy the Clown? The fierce pirate who ate one of the Devil Fruit's?"

"Ate a Devil Fruit?" Zoro asked.

"What's a Devil Fruit?" I asked.

"It's a special treasure of the sea that gives those who eat it special powers, but in return turns them into hammers in the water."

I raised an eyebrow at them, "Special powers? Right…"

"No, it's true! Buggy ate the Bara-Bara no mi! No blade can harm him!"

"Bara-Bara….hey, Zoro, you think that's what Luffy did? Ate one of those Fruits?" I asked.

Zoro shrugged, "Probably."

We continued on our way, finally arriving at a dock and tying up the boat. Zoro looked around and I noticed to that the place seemed abandoned. "Where is everyone?" Zoro asked.

The pirates replied, "Well you see, we're currently raiding this village and all the villagers ran off."

"What do we tell Buggy about the treasure?"

"We'll just have to tell him the truth."

Zoro placed a hand on his katana, "We'd better meet this Buggy guy then. He might know where Luffy is."

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As we were making our way toward where Buggy supposedly was, making small talk, we suddenly heard the sound of a cannon firing and were thrown backwards as a row of houses were obliterated. I sat up amidst the cloud of dust and yelled, "What was that?"

"Shit," Zoro said, "That's the direction the Buggy's supposed to be in, hey you three idiots, what…"

He stopped talking and I turned to see all three of them, knocked out cold. I scrambled to my feet and dusted myself off before looking at Zoro, "We'd better hurry."

"Yeah," he replied with a nod as we took off running.

It wasn't long before we reached a large building and heard the sounds of a large number of people. They were chanting and ten suddenly things went quiet. It didn't stay that way as we heard a nasally voice shouting, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING NAMI?"

"I'LL NEVER SINK SO LOW AS TO BE A PIRATE!" A girl's voice responded.

Zoro and me gave each other a look and then rushed in to the building, running up the stairs to get to the roof. We burst through the door to the roof as a pained yell went up. My head snapped around while Zoro started sprinting to the source. My eyes widened at how fast he went, grabbing two swords and using them to stop the three pirates bearing down on an orange haired girl, hands gripped around a fuse that was still smoking lightly. She put it out? Why would… I followed the aim of the canon to see Luffy sitting in a cage. He shouted, "Zoro! Dante!"

"Just how many of you are gonna charge one girl?" Zoro asked, his swords smashing the faces of the pirates who slumped to the ground, out cold. He asked the girl if she was ok and then turned to Luffy, "Is this your idea of fun? You get carried off by a bird and now when we find you, you're in a cage? Idiot!"

I started making my way toward Luffy as I saw a…clown? A clown. That must be Buggy. He stood next to Zoro and started talking to him.

"You're definitely Zoro. Are you here for my head?" Buggy asked.

Zoro sighed, "No, I've got no interest in you, I'm not a pirate hunter anymore."

Buggy drew a knife and spun it in his hand, "But I have some interest in you. Killing you would make my name more widely known."

"If you don't want to die, then just leave me alone," Zoro said.

Buggy turned and started toward Zoro, "If you don't show your skills, then you'll soon be dead!"

Zoro drew his swords, "Fine! If that's what you want!"

Zoro cut through Buggy and the clown dropped to the ground in multiple pieces. Luffy was saying something about it, but I wasn't paying attention. I was frowning…there was no blood, and his crew was chuckling. Then I remembered what those three had said. No blade could harm him!

As Zoro walked away toward Luffy I narrowed my eyes and kept my eyes on Buggy while his crew laughed, and then I saw it, his hand start moving and start floating. I knew it. I ran toward the floating hand and shouted, "He's not dead! He's got that Devil Fruit power!"

His crew stopped laughing and Zoro and Luffy turned to me. The hand shot forward and I suddenly found that it was coming at me now! I tried to twist away and then felt the stinging pain of a blade slashing through the skin on my arm. I yelled and grabbed the wound, tears forming in my eyes as I looked at the gash.

"His hand!" the girl shouted.

"The Bara-Bara no mi, that's the name of the Devil Fruit I ate! No matter how many times you try to cut me, you can't! I'm a Sectioned-Man!"

I grimaced and looked at Buggy with a glare. Luffy said loudly, "A Sectioned-Man? That guy's a monster!"

I glared and bared my teeth, growling as Buggy walked toward me and started talking, "You disrupted my plan to stab Zoro and managed to avoid a deadly blow. Impressive, but pointless."

"TRYING TO ATTACK FROM BEHIND IS DIRTY!" Luffy shouted, "YOU STUPID BIG NOSE!"

Buggy turned toward Luffy, enraged, his hand shooting toward Luffy, "Who are you calling a big nose?"

"Luffy!" Both Zoro and I shouted as the knife entered the cage and hit him.

I gawked as Luffy looked up, the blade clenched tightly in his teeth. He bit down and the blade broke and then he said, "I'm gonna kick your ass!"

"Kick my ass?" Buggy said, "PUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You're gonna kick my ass? That's hilarious! You four are gonna die right now! PUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

I frowned and looked toward Buggy, but could hear Luffy laughing. Why was that idiot laughing? He was tied up in a cage, I'd been stabbed, the girl looked too scared to fight, and Zoro wouldn't be able to beat Buggy.

"Just how do you plan to kick my ass while you're in this situation? Boys! Laugh at him!"

I turned to Luffy and he shouted, "Run away! Zoro! Dante!"

I frowned and looked at him. He wanted us to what?

The girl spoke to Luffy, ""Hey…your friends came to rescue you and you're telling them to run away? What about you?"

"Ok," Zoro said.

I looked to him and saw the smile. I looked at Luffy and saw the smile. Then I looked toward Buggy and his crew, the same smile coming to my face. I saw it. The cannon! Zoro and I both ran toward it, Zoro blocking Buggy's attempt to stop us. I dove for the matches while Zoro put his weight into the canon and lifted it, flipping the direction it was facing. I struck a match and lit the short fuse while Buggy and his crew panicked now that it was facing them.

"STOOOOOOOOP!" Buggy yelled.

KABOOM!

The explosion was massive, and they were all caught in the blast. Zoro and me both went to Luffy.

"This would be a good time to go," Zoro said, looking to the girl, "Who are you anyway?"

She stammered out a reply when Luffy interjected with his own, a big grin plastered on his face, "That's Nami! She's our navigator!"

She turned on Luffy and yelled, "You're still on about that? Why don't you think about a way to get out of that cage?"

"Good idea, I'll do that!" Luffy said.

I shook my head and placed the hand of my uninjured arm on my face, "How simple minded can you get?"

"That's alright, just stay in the cage," Zoro said with a smirk, "Dante, help me with this."

I nodded when I saw him start trying to lift the cage. I got around to the opposite side and grabbed the bars, trying to lift. I screamed out when a spurt of blood suddenly shot out of the gash in my arm. Damn that had hurt.

"Hey, maybe you should let Zoro-…" Luffy started.

"We don't have time for that!" I shouted back, straining more and then finally getting it up enough for Zoro to position it on his back. We took off after that, jumping to a neighboring rooftop and moving away from Buggy.

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