Chapter 26: Buggers and heavy lifting
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.
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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 33 voters, Zoro has 17 votes, ace has 16, and Luffy has 13. I got to say, I'm a little surprised that Franky only has 4 votes.
I've been trying to figure out why all the early arks flew by so fast and why this one already has 4 chapters in it and we're not even past Whiskey Peak. I finally figured it out, it's because the earlier episodes are all multi-point-of-view episodes, meaning you get to see what each person is doing at a different time, it also means that you have to sit through peoples back stories.
This means that the fic will probably start picking up speed again once we get to 'Little' Garden.
And just so you know, we will be seeing the missing numbers. I mean, in the anime and manga, there were 3 Mr. ?'s that we didn't get to see as well as 4 Miss. ?'s as well.
Mr. 6 : Miss. Mother's day
Mr. 10 : Miss. Tuesday
Mr. 12 : Miss. Saturday
and Mr. 11's partner, Miss. Thursday
Since we have no idea what they can do, send in suggestions. :3
Also, I'm sorry for not updating in 2 days, but my house lost power and then my PC crashed. . . OK, so it didn't crash, my house lost power and then I got lazy and just slept all day... but I updated it now, happy?
Oh, and 'CoughCough', since it is never actually stated that Carue was male, I did a little bit of gender bending, Carue is female in this. 'CoughCough'.
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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(A/M: OMG, my first fully continuing chapter, I wrote it as though it was a part 2 of chapter 25)
Everyone looked at me and then at bugger head, unable to believe it.
The pirates they were trying to kill were there to help them?
Mr. 5 and Miss. Valentine was there to kill them?
Shit.
"There are criminals here that merit the Boss dispatching us directly." Mr. 5 said, taking a step forward and toward everyone as me and Zoro join the small group. "The boss' exact words were: 'Someone knows my secret.', just what that secret is of course, even I don't know."
"It's that he's Crocodile." I said, causing everyone' jaw to drop as they turned to stare at me in horror, unable to believe what I had just said.
Everyone stared at me in horror, all of them horrified at the fact that I had just said the secret that crocodile was willing to kill over. If I had just told them, then even they would have to worry.
Vivi and Igaram were both horrified ans shocked for multiple reasons.
The first reason was they were shocked that I had known something that had taken them over a year to find out, and even more shocked by the fact that I was willing to say it as though it didn't really matter if Crocodile found out I knew or not.
Which meant that I was probably suicidal, or one of Crocodile's top agents.
The second reason they were shocked and horrified was because I was standing up to two of Crocodile's top agents, which meant that I was either crazy, or even higher up on the crocodile food chain.
"What?" I said defensively, a little annoyed at the fact that everyone was staring at me as though I was some kind of a freak.
Which I was, but that wasn't the point.
"I'm a witch for crying out loud! Most witches are psychic too, so of course I would know." I said, glaring around at everyone. "Anyway, since I just told you two as well, I think I should warn you, crocodile will now want to kill everyone in this area, including you."
"Crocodile?!" a voice from behind me shrieked, causing me to run my head and look at Nami, who was sticking her head out of a window and staring at us all in horror. "Are you crazy?! You're getting us into something that involves one of the seven deadly warlords?! I don't care if you are Mihawk's daughter, that's just crazy!"
"So, Crocodile, huh?" Zoro said thoughtfully as an evil grin made its way onto his face.
Clearly, the idea of going up against someone so strong was definitely a happy thought for him.
And Nami called me crazy!
"Sh-shit!" Mr. 5 said in horror as the Unluckies appeared out of nowhere and looked everyone over.
"What's with the otter and vulture?!" Nami demanded angrily with tear streaks down her face and evil fangs in her mouth as appeared out of nowhere and shook the crap out of me by my collar. "One of the seven deadly warlords of the sea's going to be after us now!"
"It means crocodile will know we all know." I said plainly, causing Nami to sink to her knees in despair.
"Ah!" She cried, covering her face with her hands. "We just made it into the Grandline and now I'm marked for death by one of the seven deadly warlords of the sea... Why me...?"
"We're pretty lucky we get to fight one so soon." Zoro said, causing almost everyone in the area's jaws to drop in horror.
Was he crazy? Was he suisidal? Was he stupid? These were the questions that were running through everyone's minds, well... except for mine.
"Shut up you!" Nami said angrily to Zoro, letting go of me and walking away, while Mr. 5 and Miss. Valentine just stood there in horror, knowing that crocodile was going to come after them now too.
I was a little surprised that they weren't trying to kill me for putting their lives in danger and ruining them for them. I would have thought that they would have instantly tried to blow me up, or crush me like a pancake.
Lucky me, they were to busy frozen in horror to do anything about it.
"Though it wasn't for long," Nami started, walking off in the direction of our ship. "it's been nice knowing you all! They don't know my face yet, so I'm out of her!"
Less then a second after her statement, Mr. 13, the otter, appeared out of nowhere and held up several hand drawn pictures of me, Nami, and Zoro, as well as a bunch of pictures of the millions members around us.
"Haha, you're good!" Nami said, clapping at the otters artistic abilities, only to freak out a second later when her brain started working again. "No! NOW I CAN'T EVEN RUN AWAY?!"
While Nami was having her nervous break down, a little piece of paper fell from the air above Mr. 5's head, dropped by Miss. Friday. Sticking out his hand, Mr. 5 caught it and read it aloud, and was clearly surprised by what it said.
"The two officer members of Baroque Works will be overlooked so long as they completely their mission and take out everyone else as well. Signed, Crocodile." He said, reading it through a few times before a smile bade its way across his face.
Looking up at everyone present, he and Miss. Valentine smirked at us, clearly thinking that it was their lucky day. They were going to kill us and that was all there was to it.
'Well, there went that plan.' I thought in annoyance, wishing the damn vulture hadn't screwed things up.
I had told everyone about crocodile's plan because I had thought that it would put their lives in danger and we wouldn't have to fight them and risk loosing Mr. 9 and Miss. Monday, but unfortunately, the fact that crocodile had thrown me a curve ball had screwed that plan all to hell.
"Guess that means I ain't out of a job just yet." Mr. 5 said, picking at his nose as Miss. Valentine laughed at our misfortune.
"Die! Igarappappa!" Igaram shouted, pulling on his neck tie and causing little guns to appear out of the massive curls on his head and start shooting at Mr. 5 and Miss. Valentine. "You wont lay a finger on the princess, on my name as Captain of the Arabasta Royal Guard!"
"Igaram!" Vivi shouted in surprise, having not expected the guns and also at the explosion that resulted from them.
The guns had set a lot of debri and smoke into the air, completely shielding Mr. 5 and Miss. Valentine from view. It wasn't until the smoke started clearing that we saw the damage the shot had caused.
Or rather the damage it hadn't caused.
"Captain of the Arabasta Royal Guard, Igaram, Princess Nefertari Vivi, and workers of the millions," Mr. 5 side, holding a little black dot in his hand that I knew was a bugger. "by order of the Boss of Baroque Works, you are to be eliminated."
While he held a little black bugger in one hand, he held a picture of Vivi in the other, one that showed her as the princess of Arabasta.
Everyone, excluding those that already knew, was shocked. None of them could believe it.
Miss. Wednesday was the same princess of the kingdom they were all working to destroy. Why hadn't the recognized her before? Was she there to spy on them?
It was during these thoughts that everyone finally realized the other thing that Mr. 5 had said. Captain of the Arabasta Royal Guard, Igaram, Princess Nefertari Vivi, and workers of the millions.
He was here to kill us. All of us, the millions and the rest of us.
Time to run.
In an instant, everyone took off running, trying to get away as fast as they could, the only ones not running were Mr. 9, Miss. Monday, Vivi, Igaram, Zoro and myself.
Meaning that Nami had taken off as well.
It wasn't exactly like she was abandoning us, she was just going to wake everyone up and get the ship moving so we could all get away without having to waist any time.
The moment everyone started running, Mr. 5 flicked the little black bugger at the fleeing people (GROUSE!), causing it to hit one of them and explode, taking that person out.
In retaliation, as well as an attempt to protect Vivi, Igaram pulled on the strings of his neck tie again and held onto them, causing the guns in his curls to continue shooting in a none stop onslaught of bullets.
"Hurry princess! Escape while you can!" He shouted, hoping that his attack would be enough to stop Mr. 5 and Miss. Valentine.
It wasn't.
"If she were to run, Miss. Valentine would single her out and crush her." I said, causing him to glance back at me while everyone else turned their heads toward me. "She's above us." I said, keeping my eyes on the floating figure of Miss. Valentine above us, having seen her take to the air while Igaram was shooting, using the smoke as a cover for her movements.
"Kaede." Zoro said simply, not bothering to take his eyes off of the cloud of smoke.
"Firstly, I'm the first mate, don't boss me around." I said mockingly while I pulled my broom out and didn't take my eyes of the floating woman that was laughing down at us, knowing that my little reminder that the marines thought I was stronger then him would annoy him. "Secondly, I'm already on it."
Swinging my leg over my broom, I took off toward the sky, flying straight at the umbrella-flying woman.
Just as I took off through the air, a bugger bomb was flicked at Igaram, exploding on impact. When the bugger exploded, it caused Igaram to get sent flying backwards through the air.
"Igaram!" Vivi shouted in horror, running over to her fallen companion.
"Don't even think about it!" I said angrily, snapping my fingers at Miss. Valentine as she started descending through the air, heading for Vivi.
"AH!" She screamed in pain, momentarily loosing control of her abilities as her body convulsed in agony.
She plummeted down and hit the roof of a building hard, crashing right through it as she did so. It obviously really hurt because she didn't get back up right away. She instead just lade there for a minute and then sat up, breathing hard and trying to shake off the feeling of being electrocuted.
Being struck by lightning while on the ground was one thing, but being struck by it in the air was completely different. You didn't have anything to ground yourself with when you were in the air, meaning that when you were on the ground, the fact that the ground was touching your feet or shoos aloud the ground to absorb a good portion of the electricity.
The fact that I hadn't even said thunder didn't register right away, but when it did, I ended up snapping my fingers a few more times just to see if I had imagined it.
I was lucky that I didn't hit anyone with the thunder as I wasn't exactly aiming it. The fact that I no longer needed to call out the spell to do it was taking up all of my attention because of what it meant.
I had mastered the thunder spell. (A/n: There, she mastered one, happy?)
"But because of our long relationship as partners," I heard, causing me to look away from my new found mastery and down at the fight below. "I'll buy you some time."
It was Mr. 9, and he was about to get himself killed by protecting Vivi, something I seriously didn't want to happen. He was lunging, or rather flipping, at Mr. 5 with a large rod in his hands, and while I couldn't remember what was going to happen, I knew that it would be his end if I didn't do something.
"Zoro! Stop him! If he fights them, they'll kill him!" I shouted, causing Zoro to jump up and grab Mr. 9 in mid flip, knocking him to the ground and out of the way of a bugger that was sent at him by Mr. 5.
the bugger missed Mr. 9 completely, but ended up heading straight for Vivi who had been standing several yards behind him.
Thinking fast, I snapped my fingers at the area in between Vivi and the bugger bomb, causing it to explode long before it got anywhere near her.
"You OK?" I asked her, floating down next to her on my broom.
"Wa-why are you helping us? What does Mihawk want with Arabasta?" She asked, taking a step back from me.
"Nothing, he might be my father but I'm a pirate on my own. And as for why we want to protect you," I said, smiling at her as I floated upside down over her. "That's just because I'm psychic, and I really don't like the future of your kingdom if you were to die."
she clearly wasn't sure if she should believe me or not, but it was clear to both of us that she didn't really have a choice. It was either take our help, or get killed.
And the fact that we had already saved Mr. 9 once, as well as her kind of gave us a few points that she couldn't ignore.
Smiling at her now that she seemed to be coming around to the idea of pirates trying to help her, I saw that there was a dark shadow that was starting to appear over her, causing her face to darken in the absence of light.
Not even thinking about it, I lunged forward and knocked her out of the way, cringing slightly when I heard the loud crash behind us, right where we had just been standing.
"Dang it, I thought I took her out." I said in annoyance, standing up and helping Vivi up as I glared over at Miss. Valentine. "Don't you ever give up?"
"Hahaha!" She laughed, causing my left eye to twitch.
'That bitch is so not laughing at me!' I thought angrily, annoyed by the fact that she obviously still thought I was just a pest to be brushed off, even after I had nearly fried her.
My glare turned into a smile as she then did something very stupid, something that all bad-guys seemed to do every now and then.
She started up a long speech.
Not even waiting to hear even the smallest part of her speech, which was probably going to just be about how weak we were, I instantly stuck out both of my hands, snapping my fingers with one of them, and simply holding the other one out.
"Blizzard!" I shouted, sending ice out of my left hand while thunder came out of my snapping fingers.
Both attack hit her dead on and at the same time, causing the ice and electricity to explode from the sudden change in temperature.
Now that was an attack I was going to have to remember.
"Get your ducky thing, Mr. 9, Igaram, and Miss. Monday to our ship, we'll meet you there once we take care of these two." I said, walking forward and smirking as Miss. Valentine struggled to her feet.
"No, I'll stay and fight." Miss. Monday said, picking up a large beam of wood and carrying it past us. "I'll gladly suffer to be a shield for a friend."
"Clonk!"
"Ok, now I guess that means your ducky thing is going to have to carry her." I said as I looked down at the unconscious Miss. Monday, who was laying on the ground after being hit on top of her head with my mallet.
'I said I was going to keep them alive, and I meant it dammit!' I thought in annoyance, smiling as Carue appeared out of nowhere at Vivi's call.
"Now, remember to stay at the ship and wait for us, we'll take care of these guys as fast as we can. OK?" I said, lifting Miss. Monday with all my strength, wandering if my arms were going to fall off because of it.
Damn, this woman was big! She had a very masculine body, and every inch of it was raw muscle, meaning she weighed a ton.
Carue's legs seemed to wobble slightly once Miss. Monday was His/Her back.
Vivi nodded her head at me, still a little surprised that pirates were trying to help her. She couldn't understand it and knew that there had to be something else going on. She decided that she was going to have to wait and find out, but that she didn't really have any other choice and was going to have to let us help her.
Once Vivi was gone, I turned around and found that Zoro had already beaten Mr. 5 and was now fighting a rather round and very angry Luffy.
I had just been about to take a step towards them when I saw that there was a shadow moving very quickly across the ground, following the same path that Vivi had just taken.
"Oh no you don't!" I shouted, hopping on my broom and taking to the air, glaring at the back of Miss. Valentine's head.
Hearing my angry shout, Miss. Valentine turned her head and looked at me, only to instantly eep in horror.
She had clearly been planning on killing Vivi and sneaking away as fast as she could so that I wouldn't be able to zap her again.
I don't thinks so.
"Get back here, bitch!" I shouted angrily, leaning forward as far as I could on my broom and shooting off toward her.
Shouting in horror at the fact that a psychotic woman was shooting like a bullet through the air toward her, Miss. Valentine quickly increased her weight and fell through the air, causing me to fly right over her.
Spinning around as fast as I could, I aimed the broom toward her again and went right for her once more.
"THUNDARA!" I shouted, snapping my fingers the same way I would have if it had been the thunder spell, hoping that I was right about mastering the thunder spell.
I was.
The largest bolt of thunder I had ever produced went flying through the air and zapped her, allowing me to see her skeleton for a moment as she was temporarily lit up from the inside.
Having just been hit by the Thundara spell, Miss. Valentine fell to the ground, unconscious. She wasn't dead, but I knew she wouldn't be getting up again any time soon either, and that meant that she probably wouldn't be following us to Little Garden.
Satisfied by the fact that she probably wasn't going to be bugging us again, I flew off in Luffy's and Zoro's direction, my steel mallet already in my right hand.
When I got there, I found that I hadn't needed to even bother as Nami was already there, chewing both of the idiots out. Carue and Choco were their as well, clearly meant to help her get back to the ship as fast as possible.
"Hurry up!" I shouted at them, turning around in mid air and heading off for the ship again, causing all three of them to stair after me.
I got back to the ship just before they did, smiling as Nami instantly went to work, but paused when I realized the Igaram wasn't there.
"Where's mister curly?" I asked, looking around for the curly haired man.
"What?" Nami asked, pausing when she saw I was right. Everyone instantly started looking around for him, but stopped when Zoro spoke up.
"There he is." He said simply from the back of the ship, causing all of us to run around Nami's tangerines, only to see that Igaram was sitting in a small boat, dressed up like Vivi and heading in the opposite direction.
"What the hell?" Zoro asked curiously, unable to believe his eyes.
Why the hell was that man dressed like the blue haired chick?
"No! You idiot! Get back here! They're going to kill you!" I shouted in horror, right as his ship exploded.
I hadn't been able to save him. (A/N: Please remember that she can't remember everything forever, because that would be boring, so I decided that it was time for her to start forgetting certain things. After all, it has been almost two months since she got to the one piece world. Also, she never saw the part where Igaram came back. :3, so she doesn't know.)
Everyone stared in horror at the blast as it was still lighting up the waters around where Igaram had been just moments before.
"It can't be!" Nami shouted in horror, unable to believe what she had just seen. "They've already come...?!"
While all of us were staring in horror at the scene before us, Luffy turned around and headed for the sails, knowing that we had to get moving as soon as possible.
"He was a great man!" He shouted in honor of Igaram for all to hear as he let down the sails, causing the ship to start moving.
As we started sailing away, Vivi sank to her knees, allowing a wave of tears to wash over her.
Feeling sorry for her loss, Nami rapped her arms around Vivi, and glanced up at me. Kneeling down beside them, I did the same.
"Don't worry, we'll get you home, and we'll save your kingdom." I said gently before letting go and standing up. "I know you probably need to take a minute, but we need to get to work now. You have a whole kingdom for us to save, and the longer we take sitting here, then the longer it's going to take for us to get there."
Vivi nodded her understanding, causing me to smile.
"We still have another kingdom to save and two worriers to protect before then." I told her, turning around and walking away. "In a few minutes, once we are safely out of here, then we can morn him, but until then, we need to hurry to insure that we can save your people."
Normally, I wasn't one for long, heart felt speeches, but this was one of the few times that warranted it. She was hurting, and she needed the comments to help her along.
I could hear Nami speaking to her as I left, telling her about how we had saved the whole east blue and that while we didn't look like much, she could trust us to stop Crocodile.
"How'd you get Usopp and Sanji here anyway?" I asked once Nami and Vivi finally joined the rest of us, noticing the unconscious forms of Usopp and Sanji next to Miss. Monday.
"Easy, I went and go Choco, then had him carry each of them on his back." Nami said, causing Vivi to look at her questioningly.
"Choco's my Chocobo. It's kind of similar to you're duck thing, only it's a bit larger and is more similar to a flying chicken instead of a duck." I said when I saw the look on her face, smiling when Choco came out of the storage room at hearing me say his name. "See, this is Choco... Huh?"
I was a little perturbed at seeing that Choco had slicked the feathers on his head back and was holding one of Sanji's 'flowers of love' in his beak.
The three of us then watched as he walked over to Carue, rapped a wing around the bird, then did one of those strange and romantic 'holding the girl in your arms while causing her to lean back' things.
"OH. My. God." Lil said, appearing out of nowhere on my shoulder and leting her jaw hit the deck of the ship.
"Choco's... a Sanji...." Nami said in amazement as Choco did his best to try and act romantic.
"Your ducky thing's a girl?" I asked in surprise, tilting my head slightly in slight confusion.
"Ah, yeah." Vivi said as Nami, Lil, and i continued tilting our heads back and forth, each of us a little surprised by Choco's actions.
Choco. Sanji. Love bird. Love cook.
Ack! Now there was two of them!
"Hay." Zoro called, getting all of our attention.
"Mr. Bushido!" Vivi said respectfully, still surprised at how strong he had been.
"Just how many hunters are we talking about?" He asked, wanting to know how many people would be coming after us.
Nami was kind of interested in this as well as she wanted to know how many people were going to try to kill her.
"I don't know, Baroque Works has about 2000 employees." She said, causing Nami's jaw to drop and Zoro to smirk.
"More, actually." I said, causing them to look at me. "I'll explain everything I know later, but for now, we have a stowaway."
at my last comment, I turned around and looked up at the roof of the kitchen area, looking at the woman that was sitting there and causing the others to look up as well.
Robin.
Normally I would smile at a future member of the crew, but I wasn't to happy with her at the moment. One of the people I had been trying to save was dead, and she had killed him.
"I'm impressed, there's not many that would have noticed me without me telling them." She said, smiling down at all of us with her head resting on her hands. "Nice ship by the way."
"Ng! Who's that?!" Zoro demanded, not liking the fact that someone had snook up on him.
"You.. You're...!" Vivi said in horror, unable to believe that she was really there.
"Miss. All Sunday Aka, Nico Robin." I said, looking up at the raven haired woman.
"I saw Mr. 8 not to long ago, Miss. Wednesday." She told Vivi, completely ignoring me in the process.
"You killed Igaram!" Vivi said angrily, comprehension making its way across her face.
"Even if you did," Luffy shouted angrily, cutting into the conversation. "Why the hell are you on my ship."
"She's here to poke at Vivi a bit and give us a Eternal compass to Vivi's country." I said, causing most of the people present to look at Robin in shock, with her looking at me in surprise.
"What number is she partnered with?" Nami asked, having already been updated a little bit by Vivi when she had gotten her to the ship.
"Mr. 0." Vivi said, while I said 'Crocodile' at the same time.
"So she's a bad guy?" Luffy asked, though I was pretty sure he didn't even know who Crocodile or Mr. 0 even was.
"Crocodile?!" Nami shouted in horror, turning to stare at Robin with wide eyes. "Kaede, are you sure about why she's here?"
"Yep, I'm sure." I answered, ignoring Luffy's question for the time being as I was pretty sure it wasn't a good idea to let Robin know I knew her secret.
She might 'clutch' me if she knew that.
"She's the only one that's aloud to know the boss's true identity..." Vivi said, not believing that she was only there to give us a compass to Arabasta. "We shadowed her in order to find out who he really was."
"Or to be more precise..." Robin said, smiling down at Vivi, though it was more of a smirk then that. "I let you shadow me."
"Oh, so she's a good guy?" Luffy asked, getting more and more confused by the second.
"I already knew that! And then the one who informed the Boss of his exposed identity... " Vivi said angrily, completely ignoring Luffy as she continued glaring at Robin. "Was you, wasn't it!?"
"Correct." the raven haired woman said, closing her eyes and smiling at Vivi's assessment.
"So she is a bad guy!" Luffy said again, still trying to figure that out.
"Just stay out of it." Zoro said, wishing Luffy would stop it already.
"Just what exactly is your intentions!?" Vivi demanded, ignoring Luffy like the rest of us.
If only she was going to be a part of the crew... she already fit in so well...
"Who knows?" Robin said, shrugging her shoulders slightly in answer. "Your friend seems to know a bit more about me then I think she's letting on, why not just ask her?"
I stiffened at her mention of me, praying that I was going to get 'clutched' to death.
Everyone turned to look at me, including Robin who clearly wanted to know how I knew so much about her.
"Well, she's planning to stab Crocodile in the back, she's only with him so she can get some... information, and she doesn't really want your kingdom destroyed, which is why she's stirring things up." I said, hiding behind Luffy and hoping he would be enough to keep her from killing me.
Seriously, I was way to young to die at the hands of bodiless arms.
"Maybe I am, and maybe I'm not, but if you're really serious about going on, then I guess it doesn't really matter to me what you know." She said, tossing the Eternal Pose to Luffy, which I quickly took away from him as I didn't want him to break it. "I'm not under any orders right now, so I don't have any reason to fight you, Monkey D. Luffy."
As she said this, Luffy's hat got sent flying to her by a pair of hands that had simply sprouted out of the top of his head, which disappeared as soon as the hat was in the air.
"So you're the famous Straw Hat Captain, hm?" Robin said, catching the hat and spinning it around on her right hand.
"OI! GIVE BACK HAT!!" Luffy shouted at her, unable to conjugate a full sentence as he was to angry that his brain wasn't even able to function properly. "YOU WANNA FIGHT?!"
"You're not wanted here, so get off our ship, jerk!" Usopp said from his hiding place behind the beam of our sail.
"What bad luck... You pirates picking up a princess that Baroque Works wants dead..." Robin said, causing me to smirk at her from behind Luffy.
"Yeah, sorry about that, I guess it just isn't your boss's day, is it?" I asked mockingly, causing her to simply blink at me, the expression on her face never changing. "Now give back the hat or I'll zap you, weather or not you're actually a friend or not."
"Hm," She simply said, smiling down at me as she tossed Luffy's hat back to him. "You seem to be just as short tempered as your captain seems to be. Would that be the rage of witches the marines are always talking about?"
"You of all people should know that you can't trust a thing the marines say, Nico Robin." I said, causing her to stiffen slightly.
She almost seemed as though she regretted her own comment, which she probably had when I had pointed out that it was the same as believing that the only reason why the marines were after her was because of some ships. We both knew the truth, and it was very different from what the marines were claiming about all of us.
The others didn't seem to notice the slight change in her expression, and she quickly acted like the change had never happened.
"Why are you giving us this pose?" Vivi demanded, her brain finally working again.
"It's obviously a trap." Zoro said, causing me to bop him on the head in annoyance.
Now that Luffy had his hat back and was able to think again, he quickly turned towards be to grab the Eternal Pose, only to be stopped when I waked him over the head with my steel mallet.
"It's not a trap, but we're still not following it anyway, we still need to save the two giants at Little Garden, then save a frozen country with no name." I said, putting the eternal pose into my froggy bag and bowing to Robin. "Thanks for your help, but we don't need it just yet. Now if you will, we need to set sail and I think Lil is two seconds away from eating your turtle."
"Hm, all of that and you plan to save the princesses kingdom as well? Are you sure you have the time? Well, I don't hate those with high spirit." Robin asked, ignoring my comment about her turtle as she got up and walked over to the side of our ship. "If you survive, let's meet again."
And with that last comment, she jumped over the side of the ship, causing everyone to run over to the railing and look over it, only to see that she was sitting on the top of a giant turtle that was now swimming away.
"What's that?!" Zoro demanded, having never seen a turtle that big.
"No, it's a turtle." I said, rolling my eyes at the fact that they had forgotten my comment that I had made only a few minutes ago.
(A/N: 4kids are idiots, a Tortoise, which is what they said it was, is a LAND turtle, is is probably a Terrapin, which is a turtle that lives on both land and in water. A sea turtle is a water dwelling turtle. These are the three main categorize of turtles.)
"That is one big turtle!" Luffy said in amazement.
"That woman! I can't understand what she's thinking!" Vivi said in despair as she fell to her knees.
"She's thinking that she can get one step closer to finding out why her mother and all her people were slaughtered by the World Government if she continues working with Crocodile." I said, walking over to her and kneeling down in front of her. "She is the only surviver of her people, and there is something in your kingdom that will help her get one step closer to knowing why she was left alone in this world. So please don't hate her, and trust me, she won't let your people be destroyed."
Vivi simply looked up at me, unable to believe that robin was really anything like that.
"Just trust me." I said, standing up and walking away from her.
Ten minutes later and everyone was sitting in the kitchen, including Mr. 9, Miss. Monday, Sanji, and Usopp, all of whom had been woken up thanks to Nami.
"So that's what's going on." Sanji said in surprise, still slightly drooling over Vivi.
I kind of felt bad for her, really, I did.... OK, so I was just happy it was her and not me, but I liked my shirt, OK?! Is it a sin to want to not get slobber all over it?
"I have done something inexcusable," Sanji started, only to stop when I whacked him over the head with my mallet.
"If you call yourself a sleeping night, I'll beat the crap out of you." I said in annoyance while Nami simply nodded her head next to me.
Neither of us could really stand it when Sanji did crap like that, but she usually used it to her advantage, but right now it was just annoying.
"Nami swan, Kaede sweet, are you to jealous?" Sanji asked hopefully as his eyes turned into hearts.
"Not in the least." We both said in unison, causing him to hang his head.
"You're both even more beautiful when you're angry!" He said, causing Nami to give him a whack with her staff.
"Is it..." Miss. Monday started, hanging her head slightly in shame.
"Is it really OK for us to be on your ship?" Mr. 9 asked, finishing her statement for her.
Vivi, it seemed, was thinking the exact same thing.
Nami had just been about to say something, but was cut off by Luffy.
"Oi! I'm hungry!" Luffy said, causing Sanji to stand up and start cooking.
"I don't think he cares." Usopp said, looking at them as Luffy popped a piece of bread into his mouth.
"And that's our captain, so if he doesn't care, then it's fine." I said, getting up and heading over to the sink. "Anyone want some water while we wait for Sanji to finish cooking?"
"How about some boozes?" Zoro asked, only to get zapped by me. "Never 'cough' mind."
"Well, I guess water will be fine for now." I said, grabbing a few glasses and filling them with water. "And now, onto Little Garden."
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By the way, am I the only one that realizes that robin has six moves that she hasn't used since before she joined Luffy and the others? It took me a while to figure out weather or not the explosion thing that happened to Igaram was really her arms like it looked like it was, or if it was something else. I eventually figured out 2 ways that would make it her arms, which means that it probably was.
Way 1: Have her arms appear inside of something, meaning the would blossom inside the wood, causing it to explode.
Way 2 (The most likely way): Have her arms constrain something to the point that it gets crushed and implodes, which would then explode when she released it. This is the most likely one because she has already proved (When fighting the round guy on sky island) That her blossomed arms are a lot stronger then her real once.
Basically, that is one BIG move and it's a little weird that she hasn't used it since then. It was also probably the move she used to destroy 7 ships when she was younger, the ones that were sent to capture her after Ohare(s?) was destroyed.
The pairing poll is now up, you can go and vote on it now. (37 voters, Zoro has 18 votes, ace has 20, and Luffy has 15. 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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