The smell of Chopper as your prey...made your mouth could feel the beast clawing at you to get out, to be released and allowed to shed blood once again. You could feel your heart beating heavily in your chest, Chopper, bless his innocence, could hear it too and gave you a concerned look. "Are you ok, (f/n)? Your heart rate suddenly increased and your sweating a little."

You scooted as far away as possible from Chopper, his scent; the smell of his blood pulsing through his veins, almost caused you to loose control of yourself. Your fangs grew in anticipation of the meal, you hastily covered your mouth with your hand to keep the good doctor from noticing. You looked away, ashamed. Chopper's eyes revealed genuine worry and a hint of hurt.

"I'm...fine...Dr. Chopper," you replied with your hand over your mouth. You inhaled deeply, desperately trying to subdue your primal urges. Chopper nodded silently and put away his medical tools. Having treated your minor injuries, he gave you permission to go outside and walk around if you were feeling up to it. And as if one cue; the captain of this ship, Luffy, busted through the door, a giant grin planted on his face.

"Oi! Sanji said you were awake! C'mon! I'll introduce you to the rest of the crew!" Luffy grabbed your wrist and pulled you along, ignoring all of your halfhearted objections. Getting away from Chopper, you had hopped, would help keep the beast at bay for at least another night.

It worked, the further away you became from Chopper, the less noticeable your fangs were. They had, thankfully, fully retracted by the time Luffy had paraded you in front of a gorgeous, yet half dressed woman, wearing a bikini top and jeans with extremely long orange hair and a tattoo on her shoulder of what looked like to be a pin wheel and a tangerine mixed together.

This must be Cat Burgler Nami. "Oi! Nami! Meet (f/n)!"
Nami looked up from the newspaper she was reading and gave you a friendly smile. "Hello, (f/n). Nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you as well, Nami-san."

And then just like that, Luffy dragged you off towards the library part of the ship, where a tall, dark haired with equally long hair as Nami's was reading what seemed like a very old book. This was Devil Child Nico Robin. Hearing our footsteps, Robin looked up from her reading and smiled at her captain's enthusiasm. "Hello, Captain. Is our friend finally awake?"

"Yosh!" Luffy chuckled. "This is (f/n)!"

"Hello,(f/n). Nice to meet you finally." Suddenly a hand popped up behind Luffy's back, extending it in a handshake. Taken aback by the sudden growth of an extra limb, you just stare at it, completely dumb founded. Finally after a minute or two you snap out of it and returned the handshake.

"Uh, nice to meet you, Robin-san."

It wasn't before long that you were introduced and acquainted with the rest of the Straw Hats. Usopp, seemed pretty cool, with his inventions and exotic plants. Franky was very eccentric, you had asked about him putting on some pants but he protested, saying it would be an insult to perverts everywhere. Then you met Brook, the living skeleton. He was also a strange one. The first thing he asked you was if he could see your panties. How odd, could he even see without eyes? Did he even eat? Did he poop?

It was now close to lunch as Luffy finished the tour of the Thousand Sunny. Sanji had made rice balls for everyone. Which happened to be your favorite food. "(f/n)-swaaaan~! Is it good?"

"It's delicious, Sanji-kun! Are your skills as a cook always this awesome?" Sanji went all jello at your compliment and his cigarette smoke took the shape of hearts again. You giggled at his silliness.

"Aww! (f/n)-swaaan has the cutest giggle!" The cook cooed and you blushed. No one had every describe your giggle as "cute". You thought it was rather loud and annoying yourself.

"Oi, shitty love cook, quit your fawning over the new girl. I want some questions answered." Sanji gave Zoro, who had managed to show up out of freaking no where and make you jump at his loud voice.

"What did you say, stupid Marimo?"

"Can it, love cook. Before I cut you." His face was serious. He didn't come here to make small talk, and it was obvious to the whole crew as well. He turned his piercing eyes towards you. An old newspaper under his arm, The page turned toward a picture of a burning village. The headline read; "Monster destroys entire village. No survivors, Creature still at large."

He tossed down the newspaper article for the entire crew to see. The atmosphere, once filled with high spirits, was now silent.

"Do you know anything about this? We found your raft sailing from the direction of that island. You seem to be the only survivor, yet the article says there were none."

You cursed Zoro's investigative abilities. You knew he was a pirate hunter before he joined the Straw Hats, so you already knew he wasn't stupid. It would only be a matter of time before he figured out something didn't add up. You looked around nervously at the other crew members, all of them were waiting for your response.

Dammit all...you thought to yourself. You looked back to the green haired swordsman and motioned for him to follow you to a more private area. The crow's nest. You knew he had already figured it out. But why didn't he openly confront you in front of everyone? He followed you then closed and locked the door behind him.

He folded his arms on his chest and waited for you to speak. You sighed heavily, feeling cornered yet..could he be the one to break the curse? He obviously had some idea about what happened, yet he didn't attack you.

"I...I am the monster from the article."