My life in One piece

by Fuyutaro son

I decided to try my hand at a 'girl falls into one piece' fic, may my readers never be sane again...

24. Do we have to be the dinner?

Chapter 24: Do we have to be the dinner?

Summery: I may never know how it truly began, but I do know that I never truly had a choice in the events that led me here. I am in one piece now, and have unwillingly left my own world behind. That is all that matters, and all I need to know.

Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with any legal rights to one piece in any form, I do not own one piece or any part of the merchandising, gaming, manga, anime, characters, or anything of the sort. Please do not sue me as I do not have any money. The only things that I own from this fic are my own original characters.

Note: You can look at artwork for the story by going to my profile and clicking on them the links.

Status: Season two 10/39 complete. (OMFG, the actual second season only had 16 episodes, and season tree was only 15 episodes long, but they aired as though they were the same season, so I'm counting them as the same one here. I'm also adding the Apis ark to this season's count because the funimation first season didn't have it in it.)

1) The pairing poll now has 31 voters, Zoro has 15 votes, ace has 14, and Luffy has 13. I got to say, I'm a little surprised that Franky only has 4 votes.

Dthehalfdragon : Here's your answer. :D

OMFG! 100 reviews? Now if only I could get a few more per chapter on average...

'thoughts'

"Words"

(inner Kaede)

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While I knew that Laboon wasn't a bad whale, and that we would get out of him eventually, that didn't stop me from nearly shitting my pants when we were eaten by him.

The fact that Luffy had hit Laboon and then had gotten sucked inside of him after I had specifically told him not to do anything stupid to the whale before Laboon had even shown up was incredibly annoying. You would think he would listen to me when I told him not to do something as he had told the crew to trust my abilities in Logue town.

The fact that he hadn't taken his own advice on the matter just went to show everyone that he was probably going to be our biggest problem in the future, regardless of the enemies we my face.

It also showed that he was probably going to be my biggest headache as I had a feeling that anything I told him not to do, he was probably going to do the exact apposite just because I had said not to do it.

The only one that was actually happy about us being eaten was Lil, as she was convinced that this meant she could 'get to the good part of the fish without dealing with the scales'.

Cats, all they care about are fish and 'pet mes'.

It had all started when we were heading down Reverse Mountain and through the twin capes, looking down at the path ahead of us in excitement. We had just entered the clouds again when a loud call of a whale sounded out through the fog like white mass of the clouds.

I had barely made my statement about not hitting the whale that was going to show it when it had appeared right out of nowhere, bashing it's head against the side of the mountain just below us with then the we cleared the clouds.

Everyone had started screaming in horror when they saw him, even though I had just gotten done telling them about him. It was as if everything I had said to them had gone in through one ear and out through another. They hadn't seemed to have listened to me even a little, and I wasn't to happy about that.

Luckily, since we hadn't broken the helm and were able to steer, we ended up steering the ship to the left of it without a problem, but it had then sank into the water and nearly dragged us down with it by the sheer volume of water it displaced in it's movement, which had caused the sheep head shaped front of the ship that Luffy loved to sit on so much to go flying off like it had never been attached in the first place.

Luffy hadn't been to happy about that and had instantly done something very rash, and very stupid.

Shouting something about his special seat, he had gotten up and hit the whale right in the eye, causing everyone to yell 'idiot' at him, and causing the whale to look down at us in annoyance.

The moment it made eye contact with a rather irate Luffy, it instantly opened it's mouth up and did the unthinkable.

It started to swallow us whole.

"Luffy! You idiot! WHAT PART OF 'DON'T HIT THE FUCKING WHALE DIDN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?!" I demanded in anger as the ship moved closer and closer to the whales mouth, clearly about to be swallowed.

While we were getting swallowed by the whale, I had nearly fallen overboard but had been saved by Choco as he grabbed the back of my shirt by his beak.

Luffy wasn't so lucky.

Not only had he fallen overboard, but he had gotten stuck outside of the whale like he was supposed to in the anime.

It was annoying, but it wasn't like I could change it now that it had already happened. The fact that it had been so long since I had seen these episodes that I hadn't even remembered Laboon until he was singing his sad whale song on the other side of the clouds wasn't exactly comforting.

It meant that I was finally out of the part of the series I was most familiar with and wouldn't be able to 'make predictions' for very much longer. It was also a whole new ballgame as I knew that the fact that I was a witch had already reached all the marines, and that wasn't exactly going to keep things the same.

Meaning that I could expect a lot more things to change from now on.

It also didn't help that I knew that the whole 'Statue of Liberty on Momoo's head' thing had somehow effected the Grandline to as it was the only place to get the replacement Seaking and the extra pirates from.

What had Kongo and his girlfriends been doing before they had become Arlong pirates? Was their change in locations going to cause it's own set of ripples to deal with? And if so did that mean that we would have to deal with even more problems then the Strawhat pirates had in the anime or manga?

All of these questions had been on my mind right before Laboon had showed up, and all of the questions had been emphasized when I found that we weren't the only pirate ship inside Laboon's stomach when we got there.

Damn all the fates for their evil jokes. In all the worlds and in all the oceans, this was the one thing that I wished I didn't have to deal with.

It was ear-boy.

The one with the stitches all over his body.

And the flying body parts that had a tendency to hit her in the face.

Like his ear.

Which was what made him ear boy.

Ick factor level 1,000,000,000!

I had to blink several times and shake my head just as many in order to make sure that I wasn't imagining what I was seeing.

I wasn't. He was there an there was nothing that was going to change that little fact. He was standing on top of the same bar boat had been working on before. The one that his uncle owned, which was the same one that Nami had dragged me, Luffy, Zoro, Lil, and Choco to.

The bar boat, as well as our ship, were sitting next to a small island with a strange man on it that looked like he had flower petals growing out of his head, but that wasn't what I was paying attention to. The thing that I was staring at was the creepy stitch guy that was now grinning down at me and Nami like the cat that swallowed the canary.

"Wow, I'm starting to think this whale might have a good taste in women." He said, grinning down at us and making me wish I could meet whatever deity existed in this world and give her a good kick in the ass for her poor since of humor.

(A/N: Actually, I'm a guy, but she doesn't need to know that :3 Muhahaha!)

it took me a few minutes for my brain to finally start working as the ick-factor had caused it to overload in an attempt to protect itself from the damage of seeing the stitch guy again. One my brain finally decided that it wanted to function properly again, it seemed to simply delete Mayat from the scene before me and act as though didn't exist.

Almost as though I was a robot that had been pre-programed to take evasive actions to get away from anyone that had an ick-factor that was greater then ten, I turned my attention from him and to the old man sitting in a lawn chair on the small island, staring at all of us.

The part of my brain that was still functioning properly was able to tell me that the little island that he was sitting on wasn't actually an island at all, but was instead some kind of metal ship, though I wasn't able to remember what kind. All I could really tell for sure at the moment was that it was made of metal and that it was able to stand again the corrosive chemicals that made up the whales stomach acid.

While the others started up a conversation about how none of this could exist in side a whale, with Mayat throwing in his own bit of information while they continued talking, I simply stared at the old man and let my mind work on its own as I was pretty sure that any conscious thought that was made by me was probably going to involve the word 'ick' somewhere in it.

The others had been talking for only a minute when I systematically turned around and started digging through my backpack for my half finished sub.

While I wasn't to happy with being eaten by Laboon, I had to admit that there was on good thing that could come from it. It meant that I had a chance to test out the front half of my sub, which was sort of ready for testing.

While it wasn't even near being finished, it did have an engine that worked, as long as I continued pumping electricity into it, and it also had a fully built front compartment with a close-able door behind it that would later be removed once the whole thing was finished.

This meant that, while it was only the front half of the sub, it could act as a completed sub and would probably function properly for the most part. It wouldn't be able to make deep dives, but it would be able to do what I currently needed it to do.

It also had a collection arm that came out of the front of it near where the front light was located.

So while it still needed a lot of work before it would be able to make any deep dives, it was probably capable of diving into Laboon's stomach acid and gathering things from the remains of the pirates that he had eaten before, which I was sure would still be there as I was almost positive that gold wasn't able to degrade at the same speed as flesh and bone was.

It also helped that I remembered a picture of the contents at the bottom of Laboon's stomach that had been shown when the old guy had been explaining to the others why the Going Merry probably shouldn't stay in Laboon for very long. A ship made of wood was going to disintegrate pretty fast in stomach acid.

Knowing that we were only going to be in here for a short time, I quickly grabbed the sub and started pulling it out of my froggy bag before turning the bag over and simply dumping the sub out onto the deck of the ship,

I kept the sub in my froggy bag when I wasn't working on it because I knew that I should probably have it around me to use at any time, especially now that I knew that anything could happen at any time. It was better to keep it with me when I didn't need it, then to need it and not have it with me.

The old man, along with everyone else, seemed to notice my movements. They all turned to stare at me as I used the wheels on the bottom of the half built sub to push it to the side of the ship where I had modified the railing so that it could be pushed out of the way once you unlatched it.

"Hey, what are you planning to do with that thing?" The old guy asked, catching my attention for only a few seconds as I answered him truthfully.

He clearly thought I was going to try to hurt Laboon, which was understandable as I was pretty sure that the only other sub in existence was the shark sub that Franky was going to build in the future, and that hadn't even been built yet. So, since he had probably never seen a sub before, he probably thought it was some kind of strange weapon.

"I plan to go to the bottom of the whales stomach and get some of the gold and treasure that has been left down there from the other pirates he's eaten." I said plainly, opening the hatch of the sub and letting Lil and Choco get in before me. "Don't worry, it wont hurt him." I added as I started stepping into the sub.

"Treasure?!" Nami exclaimed, her eyes lighting up at the words 'gold and treasure'. "Hey! Wait for me!" She shouted, running over to the sub and stopping me from closing the hatch behind me.

"Nami, are you sure you want to go? I'm not even sure if the whale's stomach acid won't destroy the sub while we're in it." I said, causing her to pause for a second to think about this, only to shrug a second later and to get into the sub.

On the one hand, Nami was kind of my partner in crime, on the other hand, I wasn't sure if the sub was going to get destroyed by Laboon's stomach acid or not and I didn't want to risk other peoples lives in the process of testing it out.

It was bad enough that I had to take Lil and Choco along as they wouldn't let me leave them behind. I wasn't really sure if I should take the chance that I might get someone else killed to.

Sighing heavily, I used the arm of the sub to flick the latch on the side of the railing of the ship and then started pumping electricity into the sub, causing it to roll forward on it's wheels.

We had been in the... water, for less then a second when a giant squid appeared out of nowhere that was headed for the Going Merry. It was at least twenty times the size of Merry, and I wasn't at all happy about seeing it down in the water with us when we didn't even have any weapons to hit it with.

Shit.

"EAK! Big SQUID! BIG SQUID! " Lil shouted in horror as the squid moved past us.

"KWEH!!!" Choco kwehed in horror, flapping his wings around franticly.

"EEK!" Me and Nami both screamed when we saw it, unable to believe the shier size of it.

I should have been expecting it as I knew that whale back in my world sometimes ate giant squid, so I should have known that there would be a giant squid for island whales to eat in this world.

The squid didn't even seem to notice us as it instead went after the Going Merry and the Bar Ship, and if it wasn't for the fact that I already knew that the others could take care of themselves, I would have been worried.

"Ok, it didn't notice us." I said in relief, trying to catch my breath now that the damn thing was already past us.

"Maybe I should have stayed on the ship." Nami said, sinking back into her wooden chair, giving a sigh of defeat.

"Maybe I should have stayed in bed." Lil said, hanging her head as well.

"Kweeeeh..." Choco said, hanging his head just like the rest of them.

"Well, if I remember correctly, I did tell each and everyone of you that you should stay behind, but noooo. You just had to come with me." I said sarcasticly, turning my attention back to the six inch thick glass window in front of me and looking out it, trying to spot some treasure as bones and the remains of ships finally started to appear before the sub.

'How many pirates did that guy have to take out to protect Laboon?' I wandered in amazement as I saw that there were literally thousands of pirate bones at the bottom of Laboon's stomach.

"EEK!" Nami shouted when it finally hit her. "We're really inside a whale!"

I guess it must have taken her brain a few minutes to catch up to the fact that I had said that we were going to get the gold and treasure at the bottom of the whales stomach. It must have been because the words 'gold' and 'treasure' were the first things to register, causing everything else to be temporarily blocked out.

"Yep." Lil said plainly, looking around around as we slowly made our way over the remains of pirates past, scanning for anything that even remotely looked like it might be worth something.

Nami seemed to be at a lost for words, unable to believe that we were being so calm about being eaten by a whale. It wasn't until the sub started rocking back and forth slightly that her brain started working properly again.

"UG!" She shouted as a violent jerk caused her and Choco to get dislodged from their seats. "What was that?!"

"Nothing, just Laboon trying to commit suicide by bashing his head against the Red Line." I said calmly, completely ignoring her as Lil explained that 'Laboon' was the name of the whale.

"Why is he trying to commit suicide?" She asked as the choppy water started moving the sub off course.

"Because he thinks the old pirate crew that he was traveling with abandoned him. They haven't actually abandoned him, they're all dead." I said sadly, looking at the one gage that I had built into the sub, realizing that it was a complete piece of shit.

It was supposed to be a speedometer, but it was saying that we were moving about 300 mile per hour, and I knew for a fact that we probably weren't even move a tenth of that.

"Now that you mention it, this whale had some scars on it's head." Nami said, remembering what she had seen of the whale right before we had gotten eaten. "And it was bellowing to the sky... It's in pain!"

as she said this, the water and stomach acid in Laboon's stomach carried the sounds of yet another bellow of agony to us. She was right, Laboon was definitely in pain, but the only one that could help him now, was Luffy.

"The old man must be trying to kill the whale from inside its body!" She exclaimed in horror, reminding me how little she actually knew about what was going on.

Laboon... the last thing I would be able to say anything defentivly about. The last strange of true, unbending knowledge from my old life. It was sad to think that this whale's existence was probably the last thing I could ever really say I knew for sure about from my old life.

"No, he's not. He's the whales doctor." I said, explaining the story of Laboon to her as I was sure the old man was probably doing above us.

Nami listened intently to my story, unable to believe what I was telling her. It was hard for her to believe that this whale had been waiting around for the past fifty years at the twin capes, waiting for his friends to come. The friends that he didn't know were dead.

She also had a slight problem trying to rap her brain around a walking talking skeleton who's only goal in existence was to try to find Laboon again to give him the message that his crew members had left him as they slowly died from poison.

Shells that could record sound? Impossible! A talking skeleton thanks to a devil fruit, even that was hard to believe.

"Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,

Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,

Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,"

I sang, starting to sing 'Binks Sake' as we finally started to find some gold and little trinkets in Laboon's stomach.

I didn't know the words in English, but as an avid one piece fan, I knew them in Japanese very well. (A/N: Please note that I took these from .com)

Binkusu no sake o, todoke ni yuku yo
Umikaze kimakase namimakase
Shio no mukou de, yuuhi mo sawagu
Sora nya wa wo kaku, tori no uta

Sayonara minato, Tsumugi no sato yo
DON to icchou utao, funade no uta
Kinpa-ginpa mo shibuki ni kaete
Oretacha yuku zo, umi no kagiri

Binkusu no sake o, todoke ni yuku yo
Warera kaizoku, umi watteku
Nami wo makura ni, negura wa fune yo
Ho ni hata ni ketateru wa dokuro

Arashi ga kita zo, senri no sora ni
Nami ga odoru yo, DORAMU narase
Okubyoukaze ni fukakerya saigo
Asu no asahi ga nai ja nashi

Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,
Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,

Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,

Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,

Binkusu no sake o, todoke ni yuku yo
Kyou ka asu ka to yoi no yume
Te wo furu kage ni, mou aenai yo
Nani wo kuyokuyo, asu mo tsukuyo

Binkusu no sake o, todoke ni yuku yo
DON to icchou utao, unaba wo uta
Douse dare demo itsuka wa hone yo
Hatenashi, atenashi, waraibanashi

Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,

Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,

Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,

Yo-hohoho-Yo-hohoho,

Shortly after I started the song, Laboon seemed to calm down and stopped banging his head against the Red Line. I was pretty sure he couldn't hear the actual words, but that he could only hear the melody of the song as I sand it.

Seeing that it was calming him, I continued singing the song, smiling when I noticed that Choco was enjoying it to.

By the time I finished the song, the collection net on the side of the sub was full and the collection arm was already holding all it was going to be able to.

"Ok, time to head back up." I said, steering the sub to head for the surface of the stomach acid while Nami simply looked at me.

The fact that the song calmed Laboon enough for him to stop banging his head against the Red Line was proof enough that the story of Laboon and Brook was true. Everything had really happened, and were were eventually going to have Brook, a walking-talking-skeleton, on our crew.

"What language is that?" Nami finally asked once her brain had sifted through and stored all the information I had given her.

Her question made me stop pumping electricity into the sub in shock, which caused us to stop moving.

Considering I already knew that he whole of the one piece world all spoke the same language, I should have known that they Japanese in this world, and Japanese in my world were two different things.

The Japanese they spoke here was actually English, and they didn't know anything about the Japanese from my world.

"Huh? Oh, it's Nihongo." I said, instinctively saying the Japanese word for Japanese.

If they didn't speak Japanese, then she wouldn't know what that word meant.

"Nihongo?" She asked, clearly having never heard of it. "Is that you're mothers peoples language?"

Lil and I both sighed in relief, glad that she hadn't seen through my half-lie and glad that she didn't know that word.

"No, my fathers, I guess you can say it's the language of witches." I said, already playing into the little lie.

God, I'm such a lier.

We all sat in silence for a few minutes as we neared the surface of the stomach acid, it wasn't until I glanced down at the fucked-up speedometer again that a thought occurred to me.

"Nami, you're a navigator, how fast would you say we were moving just now?" I asked her, pulling a piece of paper out and putting it over the speedometer, writing the word 'thunder' on it and preparing to right the speed Nami thought we have been moving at next to it.

"Um, I'd say about seven, maybe eight knots." She said, estimating it as best as she could and causing me to do some quick math in my head.

A knot was approximately 1.15 miles per hour, and 8 x 1.15 is 9.2 miles per hour.

So the maximum speed I got when I used a thunder spell to power the sub was 9.2 miles per hour, not exactly a great speed. I definitely needed to work on the engine, or master thunder so I could move onto Thundara and then onto the Thundaga spell, which would probably make the speed of the sub move much faster as the engine was built so that it's speed was completely dependent on the amount of electricity it got.

"Ok, just over nine miles per hour." I said as we broke through the surface of the acid. "Not a speed I'm happy with."

Once we were on the surface of the water, a small problem that I hadn't even considered pooped up.

How the hell were we supposed to get the sub back onto the ship? The hatch was on the side of the sub, so we couldn't exactly open it to tell them to help us out.

"EEH?! Why didn't you think of that before you dragged me into the stomach acid?!" Nami demanded, shaking me around like a rag doll for my stupidity.

"I'm sorry! It never occurred to me!" I moaned in horror as I realized we were completely and utterly stuck in the sub.

It was just as we were all about to give up hope that we were rescued.

Laboon must have decided that he needed some air, because he suddenly turned himself vertically in the water and headed straight up, causing everything inside of him to get sloshed around slightly, including the sub which went flying out of the water and landed right on top of the Going Merry's deck.

Unfortunately, it landed on it's back end.

The same back end as the hatch as the hatch.

The hatch was block because it was on the same side that the sub had landed on.

We were trapped because the hatch was blocked because it was on the same side that the sub had landed on.

We were frozen in horror and shock because we were trapped because the hatch was blocked because it was on the same side the the sub had landed on.

Lil pissed on my leg in horror as we were frozen in horror and shock because we were trapped because the hatch was blocked because it was on the same side the the sub had landed on.

My legs were wet because Lil had pissed on my leg in horror as we were frozen in horror and shock because we were trapped because the hatch was blocked because it was on the same side the the sub had landed on.

Shit.

"We're trapped!" We all shouted in horror as we ran, or rather clambered, over to the hatch and tried to force it open, only for it to prove that here was no hope as it was stock thanks to the subs position.

Nami seemed to think of something else a second later, and her attention seemed to turn from our situation and onto something that REALLY mattered.

"The gold! Do we still have the gold?!" She shrieked, realizing that the collection bag had probably gotten jostled around when we had to.

"Yes, my gold is probably safe, either that or the collection bag got ripped off." I said, causing her to turn and stare at me as though I had just said a taboo.

And I kind of had.

"Your gold? What do you mean 'you're gold'? It's both of ours!" She said, causing me to roll my eyes at her.

"Um, I do believe that you didn't even have a part in the collecting." I said, causing her to glare at me.

"What?!" She yelled in horror before coming up with a twisted reasoning to get some of my gold. "Hey, I got hurt in here when this thing got flipped around, and with the bills and fees, I think half of the treasure should be mine." She said, smirking at me as though she had won.

Bitch, dem be fightin words.

"Oh, you mean you got hurt in a sub that you got in of your own volition after when I told you that we were probably going to get hurt in this sub? I do believe I warned you and you chose to come along anyway." I said back, smirking as she realized I was right.

And that was how the great treasure wars was started. It was a battle that was fought long and hard and it lasted many years and many genorations. The scars it left behind would probably never heal and the limbs that were lost were gone forever...

OK, so that's all a bunch of bull, but we did grit are teeth at each other and have a screaming match, as well as started whacking the crap out of each other with our respective weapons while Lil and Choco sat on the sidelines, cheering for the one they wanted to win.

And in Lil's case, that was a stupid thing to do as she wasn't cheering for me.

Back stabbing bitch... see if I ever scoop your litter box again...

It wasn't until we both realized that the light that should have been coming from the front window above us wasn't shining down that we stopped our fighting and looked up.

Sanji and Mayat were both drooling, looking down at us from the front, or rather in this case as it was currently sitting on it's back, the top of the sub.

"SANJI! STITCH BOY!" Nami and I yelled angrily, causing both boys to wave down at us in a 'Vash the stampede' sort of way, opening and closing there hands oddly at us. "GET US OUT OF HERE!"

our last shouted seemed to have been enough to scare the living shit out of the two as they had instantly flown off the front window above us, and had disappeared from sight.

"They better be about to knock the sub over, or they're going to regret it!" I said angrily, turning my annoyance from Nami and onto them instead.

"Yeah, but at least we can get more money now." She said happily, before turning her attention back to me. "But that's only if you're willing to split the treasure with me." she added, a smile coming onto her face that let me know exactly what she was thinking.

The guys were in trouble for their peeping on our cat fight, but we would let them off the hook if they paid us for it.

Nami rules, end of subject.

"Deal, but only this once. From now on you pay a fee to come on my exploration expeditions if you want to take a share in anything we find." I said, sticking my hand out and waiting for her to shake it.

"Deal." She said, shaking my hand right as the sub was suddenly set back onto it's stomach like it was supposed to be.

"Nami swan! Kaede Sweet!" Sanji said happily as he and stitch boy opened the sub, smiling at us from the hatch.

"THAT'S 100,000 BELI EACH!" We both shouted in unison, holding onto each other in a 'sister love' sort of way and causing both men to pass out from nosebleeds. (A/N: 'cough' one of my friends had me put this in... He likes the scene in Alabasta where Nami makes all the guys pay her 100,000 beli each for glimpsing at her in the hot springs... 'throws a sideways glance at Tsudo-Tobi, who doesn't even read fanficton in the first place')

"Score." I said, letting go and stepping over Sanji and stitch boy and out onto the deck.

Just as we were stepping out of the sub, a loud bang of a door being slammed open and three shouts could be hear.

"AH!" a feminine shout rang through the air, accompanied by the shouts of two men, one of which was definitely Luffy.

Looking up from the ship as Sanji and Mayat, Aka stitch boy, stood up, we all saw that Luffy, a girl with blue hair, and a guy wearing a crown, were falling out of a small door that was on a huge door and were flying through the air, shrieking in horror.

"Huh, Miss. Wednesday, Luffy, and Mr. 9." I said as the three of them continued to fall.

"Oh no, Miss. Wednesday!" Mr. 9 shouted as the continued to fall. "Below us is a huge sea of digestive juices!"

'who on earth talks like that?' I wandered, wandering in what world anyone would think that sentence was normal.

Most people wouldn't say 'below us is a huge sea of digestive juices', What most people would say is something like 'We're falling into stomach acid' or something, and even that would sound weird.

"Luffy?" Zoro asked stupidly as he saw Luffy flying through the air.

"Yo! You guys are all OK!" Luffy said happily, momentarily forgetting he was about to fall into stomach acid.

That was if he even realized that at all.

"You, I doubt you can swim in stomach acid if you can't swim in water." I said stupidly, still a little surprised at seeing them flying through the air horizontally.

Most people fell DOWN, not ACROSS.

Luffy must have hit them at a really fast speed because he and them were actually moving in a horizontally line as they went flying through the air, meaning that they were actually flying or gliding for a few seconds before they actually began to fall.

It was kind of weird because I was pretty sure that it was humanly impossible for someone to run at the speed you would need in order to cause something like that, but I couldn't exactly point that out as I was kind of an impossibility myself.

"By the way." Luffy said, kind of off handedly as he and the other two started to lower in altitude. "Save me!"

the three of them hit the water... acid hard, causing it to splash slightly on impact.

"Oh, I am so not going back into that stuff." Lil said putting a paw into the air as she and Choco came out of the sub.

"Same here." I said, raising my hand as though we were saying 'everyone that isn't going in, please put your hand up'.

"Me too." Nami said, raising her own hand as well.

"Kweh." Choco said, mimicking us as well.

"And I can't go." Stitch guy said, sticking his hand up as well and pointing out that he was a devil fruit user.

Zoro simply glanced back at all of us as we were unable to meet his gaze before walking over to Sanji and grabbing him by the shoulder.

"Come on, let's save Luffy." He said, heading over to the railing and diving in with Sanji following him closely behind.

A few minutes later and the three idiots that had come flying out of the door a few minutes ago were all on board the ship, with Mayat back on his uncles ship now that we had left him go after he had payed the fee for spying on me and Nami.

It had cost him 200,000 beli all together, 100,000 beli for both Nami and me.

As soon as Sanji was back on board and everyone was OK, Nami went after him and forced him to cough up the money, meaning that we both had 200,000 beli each in our pockets.

Plus the gold and treasure we had found in Laboon's stomach, but that didn't count as we hadn't even looked at it all yet.

A few seconds later, bellowing from Laboon could be heard again, alerting us to the fact that Laboon was no longer calmed down by the song.

A second later, Laboon calmed, signaling that Crocus had given him the sedative.

"It's calm!" Nami said in surprise, wandering why Laboon had calmed down all of a sudden. "The whale calmed down."

"Looks that way." Zoro said, looking around as well as I walked over to the pile of treasure and started digging through it, trying to see what we had managed to get

it might have taken us only a few minutes to find it, but there was a lot. Once I had picked out all the things in it that should probably not be mentioned, I threw them back into Laboon's stomach acid and started dividing it up into two piles, one for Nami and one for me.

"So," Zoro said, turning his attention to the two people he and Sanji had saved that we didn't know. "We saved your asses, now who are you?"

Sanji was to busy staring at Vivi with hearts floating in front of his eyes to even comment about Zoro talking like that to a lady. He was clearly off in lala land and wouldn't be back until dinner or something.

You would have thought that a cat fight would be enough to tide him over for a while, but not Sanji. He can handle whatever perv-ishions he gets.

"Mr. 9" Vivi said, turning to whisper to the crowned man beside him. "These are pirates..."

"I can see that, Miss Wednesday." He whispered back to her, not realizing that we could here them. "But I think we can convince them... Probably..."

"Are you two scoundrels still here?!" An angry voice called out, causing the two Baroque Works members to jump slightly.

Looking up from the deck of the ship, all of us saw that Crocus had come back and was now standing on the little landing in front of the same door that Luffy, Vivi, and Mr. 9 had come flying out of.

"Don't make me repeat myself!" He said angrily, glowering down at the two Baroque Works members. "As long as I'm alive, you won't lay one finger on Laboon!"

"Oh, he's back." Usopp said, getting Luffy's and Nami's attention.

"Who's the old guy?" Luffy asked curiously, wandering if the old guy was a friend of the other two new people. "Ewww! When did you get here, Mayat?" he added in surprise when he realized that stitch guy was there too.

"That," I said, getting everyone's attentions. "Is Crocus, Laboon's doctor and lighthouse operator of the twin capes of revers mountain."

"The whale's doctor?!" Everyone exclaimed, not including Nami and Lil as they already knew this.

"You mean that's the doctor you were talking about?" Nami asked ,recalling everything I had told her when we were in the sub.

"Hmhmhmhm" A giggling and feminine voice came, causing all of us to look at the blue haired member of Baroque Works. "You my say, but we won't retreat." she said, getting up from her position on the deck of our ship, holding a huge ass gun in her hands.

"Killing this whale is our mission." Mr. 9 said, getting up as well and also holding a giant gun that looked more like a small cannon. "We won't let you interfere with our whaling anymore! We'll rip a whole in it's stomach if we have to!"

the two of them then stood up and turned there guns to the side of Laboon's stomach, aiming at the same spot in order to take out as much of the whale as they could.

"Let 'er rip, baby!" Mr. 9 said as he and Vivi both pulled the triggers of their two guns, firing two cannon balls at the walls of Laboon's stomach.

So they were cannons, that would explain why they looked like them.

As the two cannonballs zoomed through through the air toward Laboon's stomach, Crocus took off running on the small platform and jumped into the air, intercepting the cannonballs and getting blasted in the stomach by them as they exploded.

"That old man... he stopped the shots himself!" Usopp yelled in shock and surprise, as well as a little bit of horror.

"He actually protected the whale?!" Sanji exclaimed in surprise, having been fully convinced that the old guy was trying to kill Laboon from the inside out.

"Like I said, he's the whale's doctor." I said, smiling as Luffy knocked out Mr. 9 and Vivi by slamming their heads together.

He clearly didn't like the idea of them hurting the whale, though I couldn't understand why for the life of me.

"I got Crocus." I add, pulling my broom out of my froggy bag and flying on over to him and grabbing his arm. "That was a very brave thing you did." I added to Crocus, ignoring all the gasps and sounds of surprise that came from the Bar boat.

Mr. 9 and Vivi were knocked out, so they didn't get to see my little flying act.

Once Crocus was back on his little island like ship, I decided that it was time for everyone to listen to Laboon's story, which surprised Crocus because he didn't know that anyone knew about it all in the first place.

"So, they're actually dead." he said, surprised by the fact that the same pirate crew that Laboon was waiting for was now dead. "I always thought that they had abandoned him."

"Sadly, or happily if you look at it from the friendship point of view, they didn't. They all died shortly after they entered the new world. They won the battle they had, or at least I think they did, and then they all died from the poison that was one their enemies weapons." I said sadly, causing the old man to shake his head in silent regret for hating them for so long. "The only one of them that isn't exactly dead, and I say exactly dead because he's a walking talking skeleton now thanks to the Yomi Yomi devil fruit, is Brook, and it will be a long time before he reaches here, though he's never stopped trying to come back to see Laboon."

Shortly after my explanation, Crocus showed us out of Laboon's stomach and out back onto the ocean. Everyone was a little surprised to find that there was a huge tonal in Laboon's stomach, but the good doctor quickly pointed out that he needed someway to get around Laboon's body if he was going to take care of the suicidal whale.

"I still can't believe he's been waiting around for them to return all these years." Nami said, looking up at Laboon from The lighthouse of the twin capes.

Hearing Nami's comment, Crocus explained to her and the rest of us about the first time Laboon had started bashing his head against the Red Line, telling us about how he had tried to tell Laboon that his friends had abandoned him, which he now knew was false.

He had just been finishing his story when we all heard Luffy shouting, causing me to hang my head in despair while the others turned their's to see what he was doing.

"What's that moron doing now?" Sanji asked, wandering what Luffy was up to.

"Can't take your eyes off him for a second!" Zoro said in exasperation, only for all of them to blink a few times, something I didn't even need to see to know that they were doing.

"Gum Gum Ikebana!" Luffy shouted, causing everyone to come out of their trances as he slammed gigantic piece of wood into Laboon's head.

"That's the mast, isn't it?" Zoro asked, seeing that our mast was now missing.

"Ye-es!" I wailed miserably, knowing that this meant that I was going to have to spend a few hours fixing it with Usopp in order to get to even work again.

Neither of us knew how to fix a ship, so it was going to going to take us a while to manage it.

"QUITE BREAKING OUR SHIP!" Usopp yelled angrily, finally realizing why I was crying.

Laboon, it seemed, was upset about this just as much as the rest of us were, though he might have actually been crying because of the fact that someone had just stabbed him.

The massive whale started flailing his whole body around in pain, trying to get the painful object out of his head. Wailing and thrashing around in pain, he sent our ship splashing through the water with the massive waves he created.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" everyone shouted angrily at Luffy, demanding to know why he had just stabbed Laboon after hearing both of the sad tales about him.

Luffy was to busy holding onto the mast for dear life to answer as Laboon was now flailing around so hard that he was only seconds away from sending Luffy flying through the air. Angry and in pain, Laboon leaped out of the water and bashed his head, and Luffy, into the lighthouse that was just a few yards out onto the rocky shore of the cape.

"Kid!" Crocus shouted, worried that Luffy was hurt.

"It's OK!" Nami shouted at him as both ships shook violently in the waves. "He wont die, even if he gets crushed!"

"Who cares about that?!" Me and Usopp demanded angrily, claws and fangs mashing at her in annoyance. "What about the mast?!"

The battle between Luffy and Laboon lasted about a minute, but it didn't really have a winner when it was over. Instead, Luffy ended the battle by standing up and speaking to Laboon.

"It's a draw/" He said as he stood up and look Laboon in one of his big round eyes, causing the whale to stop his charging. "Pretty strong, aren't I? You want to beat me don't you? Our battle isn't over, so we're going to have to fight again someday. Your nakama may be dead, but from now on, I'm your rival! We'll fight again someday to decide which of us is the strongest! Once we're finished sailing the Grandline, I'll be back! Then we'll finish our fight!"

Everyone smiled at Luffy's speech, all of us understanding why he had said it. Laboon and Crocus seemed to understand as well, because Crocus smiled at him, and Laboon stuck his head up in the air and called out, only this time he called out happily instead of calling out in pain and sadness.

I was also happy to see that the mast had fallen out of Laboon's head and was now floating toward us, which I quickly sent Sanji and Zoro after, much to Zoro's annoyance.

My two little servants, MUHAHAHA!

A few minutes later, the mast was back on our ship with Usopp and me fixing it and Laboon had a new tattoo on his head that was made of water proof pain.

"God! This is our 'Fight Promise'!" Luffy said happily, looking at his rather bad rendition of our mark.

'OMFG, that looks nothing like our flag!' I thought in horror, unable to even look at the horror that was Luffy's painting skills.

Seriously, it was as if Luffy had no idea how to paint, and seeing this, I was pretty sure he didn't.

"So until I get back, don't go hitting the wall and rubbing the mark off!" Luffy continued happily, causing Crocus to smile at him while Usopp and I growled in annoyance at having to fix the ship thanks to Luffy's stupidity again.

Why did he always have to break the ship? Especially when we didn't even have a shipwright to fix it?

Laboon simply made a small sound of happiness at Luffy's statement, causing Crocus's grin to widen.

It was as we were finally finishing up the repairs to the ship a few hours later that we realized that there were two people missing.

"Hey, where'd those two go?" Usopp asked, talking about Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday.

"Oh, the two weirdos." Nami said, understanding who he was talking about. "They must've run off. I wander who they were anyway..."

"Oh, they probably headed off back to their base or something, all I know is that I stole the Log Pose that they need in order to get back to it, so they'll probably turn up again sometimes soon." I said, smiling at them and pulling the Log Pose out of my pocket.

I had taken it out of Mr. 9's pocket while he and Vivi were knocked out, not wanting to leave it to chance for them to come back. If Mr. 9 didn't drop it, then Vivi and him would never jump back onto the ship, and that would mean that Vivi would get killed once the exploding bugger guy and the weight changing chick comes after her.

"Log Pose?" Nami asked, wandering what the strange, campus like thing in my hand was for.

As far as she could see, it was just a regular compass.

"Huh?" I asked stupidly, turning to look at her before realizing that the others didn't know yet. "Oh! That's right! You guys don't know!" I said, standing up and cupping my hands in front of my face so that everyone would be able to hear me. "CREW MEETING! EVERYBODY! GET TO THE LIGHTHOUSE! CREW MEETING!"

once I was finished making my announcement, Nami simply blinked at me, wandering what could be so important that I would actually call a crew meeting, as it was the first one I had ever called.

And I'm the ship's psychic, you would think, with all the horrible things that always seem to nearly kill us, I would be calling for a crew meeting every five minutes.

Once everybody, including Laboon and Crocus, were situated at the table in front of the lighthouse, stood at the head of the table while everyone looked up at me.

Except for Laboon, who would always have to look down to see anyone.

"What do you want to tell us, Kaede sweet?" Sanji asked, looking up at me as he set down a huge amount of food in front of us, all of which I was sure was made out of the tuna he had won in Logue town.

I kind of felt bad about dragging Nami away from seeing the cooking competition before, but it was in the past and there wasn't anything I could do to change it.

"Ok, firstly, Nami, please pull out your compass and put it on the table so that everyone can see it." I instructed, causing her to do as I asked and to gasp when she saw it was spinning around crazily.

"Huh?! It's spinning!" She said in surprise, unable to believe it.

If it was broken, it wouldn't be spinning like that, it would simply be staying still and not working at all.

"Yep, it doesn't work in the Grandline." I said, causing everyone to look up at me from the compass in shock, not including Laboon and Crocus, who already knew this information to begin with. "Each island in the Grandline has it's own electromagnetic field thanks to the strange minerals that can be found in this ocean. So a compass won't work here."

"Then how are we supposed to get from island to island?" Nami asked, wanting to know why I hadn't told them this to begin with. "And why didn't you tell us this before we got here?"

"So you came here without any idea of what you were getting into. Did you come here to throw your lives away?" Crocus asked in a tone that made me want to hit him with my mallet.

So I did.

"Sorry, I'll let you speak." He said as several huge lumps on his head started to form where I had struck him with my mallet.

"Good boy." I said before turning my attention to Luffy. "Unless you want to get several whacks too, I suggest you put that down, now."

everyone turned to look at Luffy, only to see that he was holding the huge plater of cooked fish and had just been about to eat it.

Knowing that I wasn't against bashing his pretty little head in for eating my food, as he had once done just hat, he set the platter down and waited until I was finished.

"Good, now wait until I'm done talking, or you aren't going to get to eat anything ever again." I said, not feeling bad about my scolding at all.

After having Luffy eat everything on your plate, you wouldn't be against smacking the shit out of him either, even if his big, round, pleading eyes were childishly cute.

"Good, now to answer Nami's second question first," I began, going right back into 'teacher' mode as they had come to start calling it. "I didn't tell you guys because you wouldn't have believed it until you saw it with your own eyes.

"Anyway, the only way to make it from island to island in the Grandline is to start at the Red Line with a Log Pose." I said, holding out the little round compass like bracelet thing that I had stolen from Mr. 9. "Every island has it's own magnetic field, as well as it's own weather system and currants system thanks to that magnetic field. This is a special compass that can 'log' those spacial magnetic fields and allow us to know where the next island is.

"And I didn't tell you about it because it wouldn't have mattered even if I did because Usopp's father gave him one, and I knew we would be getting this one." I said, looking at Usopp as I said the last part. (A/n: I know that Usopp only has one in the 4Kids version, but I added it in because I felt like it.)

"Huh?" Usopp asked raking his mind and trying to remember the event that I was talking about. "Oh yeah!" He finally said, digging through his little purse like bag and pulling out a log pose. "That's right! I completely forgot that my father gave me this right before he left to become a pirate! He said that I would need it if I ever became a warrior of the seas!"

"Right, and I think it's best if Nami uses that one and I put this one into a protective case in my froggy bag so that we can have it as a backup if that one ever gets broken." I said, pulling on the rope that was sticking out of my froggy bag, the same one that was tied to all the cases that I bought back in Cocoyashi Village.

I quickly stuck the compass into the last case on the rope so that I would always know what one it was in. I didn't want it to get lost or broken as I knew that it would probably be extremely useful in the future.

It always helps to be prepared.

"Now, I think I should also point out that it doesn't matter which of the seven paths that we take, all of them will eventually lead to the one piece, or at least that's how the story goes." I said, thinking about it for a second before shaking my head. "Anyway, I also think I should point out that, because all the islands have their own weather systems, the space between the islands always has an unstable weather pattern. It won't be that bad, but the weather system around the Grandline tends to be the worst as it's where all the unusual weather systems and the normal weather systems of the outside world collide, meaning that we will have to deal with REALLY chaotic and horrible weather phenomenons as soon as we start heading away from here and into the Grandline."

"Huh? You mean like the hurricane that took out Krieg's pirate fleet?" Sanji asked, remembering what Ghin had said about getting completely destroyed in the first seven days by a hurricane.

"Yep, the same one. It should only take us somewhere from a half hour to an hour to get through, which means that Krieg and his mean continued sailing around inside it for some strange reason." I said, wandering why they hadn't just sailed through it.

"If you mean Don Krieg, he came through here without a Log Pose, and he was such a rude scoundrels that I didn't bother to warn him." Crocus said, smirking at the memory of how Krieg's ship had looked when he was fleeing the Grandline.

Everyone stared at him for a few minutes, including me as this was something that I hadn't known before, but I should have figured out from watching the anime.

If it had only taken the Strawhat pirate a hour or two to sail through the hurricane, but had taken Krieg and his men seven days, then he had to have been lost inside it. And if he had come through Reverse Mountain, then he must have seen Crocus at some point in time, and Krieg being Krieg would have been an ass to him, and as Crocus could have given Krieg some helpful information that could help him through the Grandline, it only made sense that he hadn't as Krieg had gotten lost.

Crocus rules. Bow to the master.

"You know, that might just be one of the meanest, and coolest things I ever heard of." I told him with a smile, just as Laboon dove down into the water and came back up and spit out Mr. 9 and Vivi, causing Sanji to jump up and run over to the blue haired woman.

"Allow me, honey." Sanji said in his best seductive voice as he bent down and stuck his arm out for Vivi to help herself up on.

"Why, thank you." She said, just as seductively as she took his hand and stood up with him, leaving Mr. 9 to stand up on his own.

"Nice weather we're having, isn't it?" Sanji asked her, causing me, Nami, Lil, Choco, Laboon, Crocus, and Zoro to roll our eyes at him.

Nice weather? That was the best pickup line he could come up with? God, his skills must be dwindling or something, because that was just sad. (A/N: This part of the anime always made me laugh... hahaha)

"Hey," Mr. 9 said, getting everyones attentions. "I have a request."

Several minutes later, all of us were sitting around the table again, eating the lovely fish that Sanji had made for us with me sitting next to Luffy and acting as his watch dog to make sure he didn't eat it all.

'How the hell did I get stuck with this shitty job?' I wandered in annoyance, eating some of the fish and listening to Vivi's and Mr. 9's request while keeping a close eye on Luffy.

But that's what I got for stopping Luffy from eating everything the first time, and I learned my lesson from it.

Next time, let Luffy eat everything.

"Whiskey Peak?" Luffy asked between mouthfuls, though he wasn't actually refraining from talking with his mouth full. "Weird name."

"What is it?" Usopp asked suspiciously.

"It's the town we live in!" Mr. 9 said defensively, only to turn polite a second later when he realized that he still needed our help. "Erm... sir."

"Don't you have your own ship?" Nami asked, just as suspicious as Luffy.

Not wanting to deal with the long and dragged out questioning, I decided I would speak up.

"Crew meeting!" I said, calling for my second crew meeting and dragging Luffy away from the table and having the others follow. "Crocus, please make sure those two stay over there." I added indicating Mr. 9 and Vivi as I said it.

Crocus nodded his head to me and turned his attention to the two ' scoundrels' to keep an eye on them.

"Wha-at?" Luffy moaned in annoyance, wanting to get back to the food so that he could eat more.

"Sorry, but I don't want those guys to know I'm psychic." I whispered, glancing up at the two in question to make sure they hadn't heard me.

They hadn't.

"Why?" Nami asked, wandering why I would suddenly want to hid that little fact.

"Because, I just don't. I can't tell you why right now, but it's best that we go with them for now. Just trust me, two warriors and two kingdoms depend on it." I said, knowing that Chopper's home and Vivi's home were both in danger as it was. "Please Luffy? I mean, it doesn't matter where we start, any place will still get us to the one piece, but these people really need our help, even if they don't know it yet."

"Do you even know who these guys are?" Zoro asked, having already figured it out wit the 'Mr. 9' and 'Miss Wednesday' comments as he had once been offered a job by them.

"Zoro, I don't know if you've figured this little bit out yet," I said, my voice dripping with sarcasm. "But I happen to be psychic: I know your first girlfriends name, as well as the first time a pubic hair popped up on your body, so I'm pretty sure I would know about these two guys."

Zoro simply glared at me, clearly tempted to try to call me on my bluff, but refraining from it as he wasn't sure if I really knew those facts are not.

Which was sad, as I was only bluffing. I was pretty sure that Kuina could have been called his childhood girlfriend, but apart from that, nothing.

"Good." I whispered, smiling as I put down another 'one for Kaede' point in my mental score board of the fights and arguments me and him had.

As it was, the score was currently at : 347 Kaede, 13 Zoro.

I think I'm winning, how about you?

"Anyway, can we please help them?" I asked, getting a nod out of Nami and Usopp who agreed with me.

Luffy thought about it for a minute before finally agreeing to do it.

As long as we were still heading for the one piece, he was happy.

"Great, we'll do it." I said, standing up and telling the two Crocodile lackeys our decision.

An hour and a half later and we were heading on our way, and we also had yet another extra Log pose as Crocus had given one to Luffy in thanks for saving Laboon, which I had quickly put with the other spare one for later.

The fact that it had a large D on the bottom of it had made be blink at him several times, but I had quickly gotten over it when he had simply shrugged off my question. (A/n: 'Cough' Anime Spoiler: she doesn't know that it's Gol D. Roger's Log pose, which I only just figured out after watching episode 400.)

Now we were headed to Whiskey Peak, our first stop in the Grandline!

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OK, I think I should point out to all of you that the last I saw before I started writing this was the episode where the guy's caller killed him on that bubble mangrove island thing. With that being said, everything after that is going to be completely unknown to Kaede, while everything before that... she might remember bits and pieces from here on out, but not much.

I also might be throwing in a few islands here and there, but if you guys really want me too, then you're going to have to give me ideas for them. Make suggestions or give me a link to a island picture you or someone else drew. Anything, just give me ideas. OK?

The pairing poll is now up, you can go and vote on it now. (31 voters, Zoro has 15 votes, ace has 14, and Luffy has 13. I got to say, I'm a little surprised that Franky only has 4 votes. continue voting or you might not get who you want for the pairing!)

NEW QUESTION: Should Kaede catch the dingy dingy bug on little garden with Nami? Should she be the only one to get it? Or should she not get it at all.

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