We were running down a long corridor, trying to reach Robin. Usopp started yelling and I heard the sound of rushing water. Zoro seemed to hear it to, because he tensed up, still holding Usopp with Sanji. Then I heard screams. They sounded like Nami, the old lady, and Chimmeny. "Set Usopp down...GENTLY!" I said as Nami came running into view, the other two close behind her, Chopper draped over the old lady's shoulder, along with a massive wave. "RUN!" I yelled, and we were all running in the opposite direction.

I felt as the water crashed down on us, now surrounded by cold. Crap, I can't breath, and I feel so weak. Stupid devil fruit making the ocean so deadly! I felt pressure on my arm, but I was to busy shutting my eyes and holding my breath to see what had grabbed me. I crashed into one of the walls and the remaining air that I had left was knocked out of me. My eyes snapped open and I saw Zoro grabbing onto my arm, trying to make sure I was Ok even though he could run out of breath soon.

IT BURNS. I tried not to flip out as I got a better grip on Zoro. I grabbed his hand, blushing that possibly drowning was the way that we were going to hold hands for the first time. My vision started going hazy when I heard a voice and looked up to see a mermaid's tail. I followed the tail to see the owners face... THE OLD LADY?! I watched as everyone lost their breath in surprise. My vision was starting to get worse when we broke the surface, but I had so much water in my system that I couldn't breath.

Once we were on deck of a ship that I didn't recognize, the old lady set us down, and everyone except me spit out water and started breathing again. Sanji started going off about how the old lady had ruined his vision of the beautiful creatures that mermaids were. Zoro and Sogeking soon joined him. I can't move, all I feel is burning and my vision is really crappy now. Even the voices are starting to fade a bit. Am I dying? Crud, I can't die, not now, not when Robin still needs help.

I felt the floorboards shake and then pressure on my chest. The water finally left and I breathed in deeply. I coughed and opened my eyes, coming into contact with the swordsman's silver-gray eyes.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"I'm fine, thanks for saving me, I thought I was going to die. I got really pissed at myself for a bit there for being taken down so easily." I laughed as I sat up. Zoro stood and took my hand, helping me up. Chopper was awake, but he was so beat up that he couldn't move.

I looked over at Nami and saw Robin. I launched myself at her. "ROBIN!" She laughed and thanked us. I let go and turned to Franky, who was standing to the side and looking a bit awkward. I walked up to him and hugged him, trying not to make him feel left out, "Thank you for saving Robin." I said. Zoro told us that we needed to get the ship ready and hold off the Marines until Luffy got back. We fought for a while and Luffy ended up winning against Lucci! TAKE THAT YA STUPID CAT!

I heard an explosion and turned to see our get away ship had been blown up. Then I heard it. A voice. I knew it, but I couldn't place a name yet. It said go to the ocean. I looked at the others and they seemed to be hearing it as well. I looked over the edge and smiled. My nakama is friggin awesome. "TO THE SEA!" I yelled and jumped into the water below, the crew not far behind, The Going Merry awaiting us. As the ship sailed away, I helped Nami search the ship for our rescuer, but we couldn't find anyone. We went back to the deck to find a teary-eyed Usopp... *cough* I mean Sogeking.

As I listened to Franky and Sogeking talk, I felt like crying myself, but I forced it down. They said that there was a tale that sailors who had ships that were cared for deeply would see the ships spirit appear. According to Usopp, Merry had appeared in Upper Yard and fixed herself, saying that she would try to carry us a bit longer. We were out of the battlefield and heading towards Water Seven when they finally finished. A cry was heard and a massive ship appeared in front of us with Iceberg-San at the front.

We were almost to them when I felt a bad feeling develop in my gut. Then the ship shuddered and split in two. I yelled out Merry's name, backing away from the crack and tripping over a broken board, falling on my butt. Instead of jumping up like I usually do, I just sat there and mumbled, "board there...don't trip" as I stared at the ship. We all realized that we were going to have to say goodbye, but we did it properly.

We all stood on a few boats while Luffy went out and set the boat on fire. "It's dark at and lonely at the bottom of the ocean, so we're going to make sure that we see you off"Luffy said in a serious tone. That's when the voice came back.
"I'm sorry. I wanted to travel with you a bit more..."
"You shouldn't be the one apologizing! It should be us! I always would beat you up, even if it was an accident. Plus, Sanji, Zoro, and Luna are idiots. Usopp would always try to fix you up, but he isn't a shipwright."

"I"M SORRY MERRY!" I yelled, tears stinging my eyes. Although I kept them from escaping, it still hurt.
"MERRY!" Chopper and Nami yelled, tears streaming down their faces. I looked at Zoro, who had a stern look on his face, and realized how much harder it must be for him, Luffy, Nami, and Usopp, who had all been with her from the beginning. I looked back at Luffy, tears in his eyes as well as the Merry left us forever. I felt something warm and looked up to see glowing orbs.
"Goodbye. I enjoyed sailing with you." and then she was gone, her spirit flowing around us was the last thing we could see.

Luffy had been asleep for days, along with a strange visit from his grandfather, who happened to be a Marine general that acted EXACTLY like Luffy. We all spent the day relaxing while we waited for our new ship to be made. Franky felt bad for beating up Usopp and wanted to use a special wood that he had bought with our money to make us a dream ship. I was walking down a street, thankful for the friends that I had and enjoying the scenery when I saw Sanji with a bunch of food along with Chimmeny. Farther down I spotted Zoro with a bunch of kids and a lady that I didn't recognize.

He saw Sanji and hid. I watched curiously as Sanji walked past the swordsman's hiding place. I strode up and poked my head around the corner and said in a mocking tone, "Sooooo, who are we hiding from?" Zoro looked scared, and as I took in the sight of him wearing an extremely small shirt that was exposing most of his stomach and three babies in a blanket wrapped around his neck I realized why he looked as if I was going to kill him.
"I see, we are babysitting." I said as I placed the rest of my body around the corner. His expression moved from scared, to puzzled, and then it softened.

"You really are something Luna." he said as he patted my head, a blush forming on my face.
"I'm guessing you don't want the others to know about this." I said as we walked back out onto the main street. He nodded as we made our way over to the lady and the kids. He introduced me before quickly giving the babies back and started dragging me away from the now sad group.

We walked around for a bit, telling funny stories about my life before the crew and his adventures before I came. It was a lot of fun, walking around town with Zoro, just talking. No crew members to bother us, no enemy to fight, no terrible event to brace ourselves for, just walking around town and having fun. I sighed when I looked at the beautiful sunset, going over how great my day had been. I looked at Zoro and realized that he still had the extra small shirt on, so I took off my sweater and gave it to him to wear.

We heard a shout and turned, Zoro now in my bright green sweater, matching his hair, and saw one of the boys from earlier. Apparently his foster mom was in danger and we were off. Zoro had the kid on his back as he directed us to a roof of one of the buildings. Sure enough, there was the foster mom with the rest of the kids, a sword pointed her. We got there just in time. A battle had started and she was about to lose when Zoro stepped in and sent the man flying.

I easily took care of the rest with my whip/knife, not wanting to freak out the kids with my wolf abilities. We walked the family home to make sure they were safe. We started leaving when the lady shouted "WAIT!". Zoro quickly grabbed my hand and started running. I looked behind us and saw his shirt in her hand. What a dork! We ended up getting the shirt back and ran so that we wouldn't end up with another reason to stay, not even realizing the grip that the swordsman had on my hand until the place that we were staying at was in sight, a blush appearing on both of our faces.

We were running along the rooftops with a black pair of speedos. Chopper had thrown me Franky's pants and I was supposed to get them to Luffy so he could lead him to Zoro and Sanji where they would stop him and get him to the shipyard where our amazing new ship that were later going to call The Thousand Sunny was docked. Although this was Luffy's plan to get Franky to become our nakama, I wished that we could have taken something that wouldn't involve him chasing us without any pants on... he was practically naked!

I saw Luffy and threw as hard as I could. When the speedos were safely in his hands, I changed direction and headed toward the dock. I got there before the others, so I went inside to get a better look at the ship. I was about to open a door when I heard a yell and went back onto the deck. Robin was using her powers and Luffy didn't seem happy about it. As I got closer I looked down and saw Franky, Robin's victim, writhing in pain. OUCH, that has got to hurt!
"Oi, Robin! I still want him to be a man when he becomes our nakama!" Luffy yelled.

Zoro, Sanji, and Chopper boarded as Franky finally agreed and Robin let go. He was officially a part of the crew now. I have another nakama. Unable to contain my excitement, I tackled him with a hug as soon as he boarded, "This is going to be awesome! Although it's a strange one, welcome to what I call the pack!" I let go and turned around as Zoro quickly explained that we needed to leave because Luffy's grandpa had decided to come back.
"SET THE SAILS!"

"Wait, Luffy, we're missing a member!" I yelled.
"We need to wait for Usopp!" Chopper joined in. I received a cold glare from Zoro.
"I won't accept him back into the crew unless he begs for our forgiveness, and right now, we don't have time for that". I nodded as I slowly backed away, hoping that he would stop looking at me as if I were a piece of trash that landed in front of him.

I looked away from the the swordsman, the anger leaving his eyes as he realized that he had hurt my feelings, and walked towards my point on the ship. Luffy's grandpa had rounded the corner and started firing at us as we sailed away. Then I heard a voice and looked over, Chopper quickly following suit, and saw Usopp yelling at us from the shore, which was getting farther away by the minute.
"It's Usopp! He came! We need to go get him! Can't you guys hear him yelling for us?!" Chopper exclaimed.

When the boys answered no and kept holding off the cannon balls, I felt both sadness and anger as I helped them, listening to every word from the sniper. Then the words, "I'M SORRY" caught the whole crews attention rang out throughout the entire area as he begged us to let him continue sailing the seas with us. Luffy reached out to Usopp, who looked at Luffy's hand in amazement, and said (obviously crying like a dork) "Hurry up and grab on you idiot!" The sniper gladly did as he was ordered and slammed into Luffy.

We managed to get away and we all sat down to celebrate.
"To the return of our nakama Usopp, and the addition of our new nakama Franky and The Thousand Sunny!" shouted Luffy.
"KAMPAI!" we all shouted in unison. On to our next adventure!