Here goes the third chapter! It's really good I have got sort of a beta reader even though I doubt she will read the "hot stuff" at the end :_D She is not official but she will check my texts for stupid mistakes :D It's good to have someone "not-writer" to read my stories before publishing because the writer often doens't realise his/her own mistakes :) But please enjoy and reviews are appreciated!
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Everyone of the Strawhat crew got a room on their own. The pirate mansion had many underground floors and a lot more space than an average person with a fianceé and few servants would need. They had explaned that since they liked to organise parties, they had wanted to have more space so that they could give all the visitors a place to sleep. It seemed like they weren't short of money to affort this mansion and organize parties to every visitor they had.
There were eight rooms in every floor and there was a total of eight floors. All of the Strawhats were located to the same floor but one of the rooms had a leaking water pipe so one of them had to take a room from some other floor.
"Well, if other Strawhats are in the seventh floor then one of you could take a room in the sixth floor which is closest to the stairs?" Captain Dess suggested and everyone approved the idea,"The first two rooms in the floor seven would be fitting for your crew's beautiful ladies, I think!"
"The ones close to the stairs?"Nami asked,"What's so special about them?"
"They just have this...feminine touch in them. My lovely fianceé designed the rooms, that's why!" Captain Dess explained and Nami looked at Sara.
"That's amazing! I would love to sleep in that room!" Nami praised and Sara smiled.
"Actually, I noticed you watching those bookshelfs earlier, am I right?" Sara inquired and Robin nodded.
"I like reading and I am really interested in history," Robin admitted and Sara smiled.
"Oh that's right, I heard you were an archeologist! I can bring you some books from our library once you are settled, is that okay?" Sara suggested.
"That would be lovely," Robin nodded and smiled gently.
"Okay, I will give all of you a separate keys to your rooms. We wanted to keep those rooms sort of private so that our guests could feel at ease!" Sara explained and shared the keys, stopping in front of Sanji,"Is it okay if you sleep in the sixth floor?"
"For you, my lady, I could sleep anywhere,"Sanji bowed like a gentleman and took the key.
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Everyone went to check their own rooms. Even the rooms for visitors were humongous with humongous sized beds. Every room had a separate bathroom with king-sized bathtub. There was even a kitchen the same size as Thousand Sunny's kitchen with lots of food in every room.
When everyone had took their time to look around their rooms, they started to prepare for a proper night's sleep. They were given pyjamas from the mansion and Sara did her best to fulfill every request their visitors made expect Brook's request of showing her panties.
"Here are few books for you, Robin-san", Sara spoke politely,"These three are only copies so if you would like to, you can take them with you."
"Thank you,Sara-san", Robin smiled her gently smile again,"Would you tell me more about the history of this place?"
Robin pointed at the empty seat at the other side of the table and Sara nodded.
"Of course!" Sara almost laughed before she sat down,"What would you like to know?"
"Anything is fine for me. Just tell what you know," Robin said and offered some coffee for Sara who took a sip and relaxed to tell a story.
"Well, the man who built this place around 250 years ago was called Felix Dess",she started simply,"He was a pretty normal man with pretty normal dreams according to his diary: he dreamed of a family and a nice, big house in the countryside. Then he got these mysterious powers after a businesstrip and then one accident occured and he had to escape."
"An accident?" Robin inquired because she didn't want to miss some important part of the story.
"We don't know much about it because the page was ripped off from the diary..." Sara sighed but went on with the story,"Apparently he did something which angered the officers by accident and then, suddenly, he was a wanted criminal. He hated his powers which caused only trouble to everyone close to him and he decided to retire alone after he had built this huge mansion. He probably hoped that someone would live a normal life in here."
Robin took her time to think of the story,"Do you have any idea of his powers?"
Sara seemed to tense at the guestion but then she shoke her head,"I...don't know...there is no information about his powers...he probably hated his powers so much that he wanted to hide them as well as he could." Sara seemed to feel sorry for the poor man who couldn't reach his simple dreams.
"Could his powers be from Devil's fruit?" Robin asked because she was getting pretty curious about the missing pieces in the history of the mansion.
"What are those?" Sara asked as if she didn't know about the famous devil's fruits.
"You don't know about them even if you live in the New World?" Robin doubted her realisation.
"I have never heard of them. I have...lived in this mansion for a long time and I haven't really heard of the outside world", Sara sounded somehow depressed but looked at Robin with a hopeful smile,"What are those? Could you tell me about the world outside this island?"
Robin was confused by the sudden guestion but didn't mind explaining,"Devil's fruits are fruits which give you some extraordinary powers. There are three types of them: paramecia is the one who gives it's users some superhuman physical abilities or powers such as creating a shock wave or generating wax, then there is zoan type which gives it's user a power to switch into an animal or beast and then there is logia user's who can change their body into some other material."
"That sounds amazing!" Sara got excited all of the sudden,"Have you seen many devil fruits?!"
"Yes, I am devil fruit user myself," Robin admitted and saw the excitement in the young girls eyes.
"What kind of a power you have?!" Sara inquired and Robin could sense the genuine interest the young girl had towards the unknown.
"I have eaten hana-hana no mi", Robin said and made few arms appear on the table in front of her,"It means I can make a parts of my body blossom everywhere."
"That's amazing!" Sara praised,"Are there many other powers too?"
"Well, our doctor, the small reindeer, has eaten hito-hito no mi which gives him human-kind abilities such as talking or learning like humans. Then we have the skeleton guy who has yomi yomi no mi which brought him back from the land of dead. And of course our captain who is a rubber-person."
"Rubber-person? Does it mean he has eaten something like gomu-gomu no mi? Does it mean he can stretch?!" Sara asked and Robin nodded slightly,"Then what other fruits are there in the outside world?!"
"Well, there was Ener who had a goro-goro no mi and he was able to control thunder. Then there was one Marine officer who could change his body into smoke and then there was someone who could change himself into a leopard with his neko-neko no mi powers," Robin gave yet few examples and then a short silence fell between the two females.
"Ah! I have been sitting here for way too long!" Sara suddenly gasped and stood up,"Thanks for your time, it was really enjoyable!"
"May I ask you something before you leave?" Robin asked suddenly and Sara nodded after a while of hesitation,"Why are you so interested in these devil's fruits?"
Sara seemed to think of what to say for a while before he answered,"I just found it really interesting!"
Robin didn't quite believe her explanation but nodded anyways and let the girl leave.
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Meanwhile at Sunny-Go Franky was getting ready to sleep too before he heard some noises coming from outside. As if someone was climbing up the mast of Sunny-Go.
"Is somebody there? You better surrender yourself peacefully!" Franky threatened before he heard a long, ripping noise as if someone was tearing up a fabric. Then he realised someone was destroying their sails. He didn't hesitate to attack whoever was trying to destroy the sail but the enemy escaped as soon as he prepared to shoot him down.
"What the hell was that?!" Franky wondered and used his perverted searching lights to see the damage the enemy had made. Luckily the main mast's sail with the strawhat-logo hadn't suffered any damage but the other sails were in a pretty bad shape.
"This is just my luck...I am a man! I am not meant to sew sails!" Franky cursed before somebody stepped on the deck.
"What happened here?!" An unfamiliar voice with a torch asked,"I heard there some noises coming from here but apparently I wasn't fast enough!"
"Who are you?" Franky asked.
"Oh, excuse my bad habits! My name is Dennis, I am from the pirate mansion over there! Your friends send you a message that they will be spending the night in the mansion!" the man introduced himself.
"A messenger, huh?" Franky wondered,"How can I trust you?"
"I don't know...Ah that's right! Your captain didn't want to cross the desert again and he had eaten a little bit too much to move so they decided to stay there! Is that enough?"
"I think that's enough," Franky reassured and looked at the sails again.
"Do you need some assistance with those sails?" Dennis offered his help.
"I will fix them tomorrow, now I need some sleep," Franky said and headed towards the boys bedroom.
"Do you want to send a message back to your friends? I am heading back to the mansion," Dennis inquired.
"Actually you could inform them that the sail is pretty badly damaged after that weird attack and I need some time to fix it tomorrow!" Franky told and Dennis nodded before he vanished into the dark night.
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