Nami looked around to see that she wasn't alone. There were a few others with her, but not enough to be her crew. There was a monkey with tan fur and a scar under it's left eye and beside it was an armadillo curlled up in a ball. Nami growled at the witch. "What'd you do to us, and where is my crew?" she asked. The woman laughed.

"I only used my Maho Maho no Mi." she said (1). Nami glared, that wasnt' much of an anser. Suddenly the monkey woke up.

"AHHH! I'm a monkey! Hey you..." it yelled in Luffy's voice, looking up at the woman. She gace him an amused look. "...did you do this to me?" he asked. She nodded.

"I did." she said. Luffy glared at her.

"Fine, then give me back my hat!" he yelled.

"THAT'S NOT THE PROBLEM HERE!" she yelled, bashing him hard with her large paw. Luffy fell to the ground. Then she turned back to the witch. "Just who the hell are you anyway?!" she yelled.

"My name is Arikura. (2) I am an assasin sent by the world government to eliminate the strawhat crew." she explained.

"ELIMINATE!" Nami cried in worry. Suddenly a huge scream belonging to Usopp erupted from the currled up armadillo.

"I will just close my eyes and when I open them I will finally be in my happy place." Usopp whinned. He then looked up to see Nami. "AUGH! A LION!" he screamed.

"It's just me Usopp." Nami growled.

"Nice try lion, but I won't fall for your tricks." Usopp cried. Nami rolled her eyes and Luffy laughed. "Wait, Luffy?! So you really are Nami!" Usopp said. Nami and Luffy went to turn back to Arikura only to see she had vanished.

"This is just great! Now I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere in the body of a lion with you two idiots!" she screamed in anger. Luffy gave her a curious look, then his face lit up as a fact just dawned on him.

"Oh yeah, where are the others?" he asked. Nami and Usopp looked around, not seeing a sign of any of the others. Luffy then laughed. "Oh well, they'll find us eventually. Hey lets go towards that big rock, it looks exciting!" Luffy laughed, pointing to a huge rock in the distance. It had a large stone piller that went stright up into the sky, with a second rock piller that jutted out at an angle.

"Luffy! We're animales in a strange place! We can't just wonder around where ever we want, we need to find the others first!" Nami hissed.

"Hold on Nami, Luffy's got an idea there. That's the only actuall structure for miles. The others might just all head there figuring that we would too!" Usopp said, crawling up to the enormous lion. Nami thought about it for a second.

"That does make sense, but we have no idea of what animales they are." Nami said.

"We'll find out by their voices." Luffy said. Nami then nodded.

"Alright, let's head to the rock!" she said.

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A large tiger streached out on the desert plane. He had a scar across his chest and scars on his hind legs. "Well that was a nice nap!" Zoro said. He looked around to see Chopper laying next to him with a crane beside him that had a purple color to it. Zoro gave them both an odd look, then looked down at himself. "WHAT!" he roared, waking the crane and Chopper. Chopper looked up and screamed.

"OH NO! A TIGER!" he cried.

"Relax Chopper, it's just me!" Zoro growled. Chopper looked at him with huge eyes.

"Zoro!? Your a tiger!? AUGH! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!?" little Chopper screamed. The crane looked down at her body.

"I don't know, but I think we have all been somehow turned into animales." Robin's voice came from it. They both looked at the crane and acknoledged it as their archaeologist.

"Damn witch, stealing all my swords." Zoro growled. Robin smiled softly. "I see the others got themselves lost, now what?!" Zoro growled. Roin looked around. She could see a beautiful oasis just off to the distance.

"Well, we're in the middle of a desert with nothing around by a huge oasis. If you ask me the others would have headed there, it looks like the only place around that you could surrive in." Robin said. The others nodded.

"Alright then, I guess we have no choice." Zoro said, starting out.

"Zoro! Your going the wrong way!" Chopper called. The tiger let out a low growl before turning back towards the oasis. Robin tock flight above them and with Chopper ridding on his back, Zoro started running to the oasis.

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A beautiful goldan ram with curled horns got to its feet and looked around. He could see a zebra's skeliton next to him and a large blue rhino with a red star across it's back next to him. "What hapened? And where's my crew?! ROBIN-CHWAN, NAMI-SWAN!" Sanji's voice rang out from the ram.

"Sanji-kun?" Brook's voice called. Sanji looked over at the skeliton of the zebra where the voice was coming from. The head was raised off of the ground. Sanji screamed and Brook followed suit. The screams woke up the rhino.

"I'm trying to sleep here!" snapped Franky's voice from the rhino. Both Sanji and Brook screamed again, and Franky screamed as well at talking animals.

"What is going on here?!" Sanji asked looking around. He could clearly see that they were in a graveyard of somesort, elphant he would have to guess from all the bones.

"Where are the others?" asked Brook, worried for his crewmates saftey.

"We all probibly got seperated. We need to find them." Sanji said. He sounded worried, but they could tell he was mostly worried about Nami and Robin.

"Do you think they all got turned into animales like we did?!" Franky asked. Sanji nodded.

"Yeah, so finding them might be a little bit difficult. Let's see, where would they go?" Sanji wondered. He looked around and could make out a large skull of a nearly compleatly intact elephant. "We'll start searching over there and see what we come up with." Sanji said. The others nodded.

I hope you like this chapter, thank .3 for the animal designs as they choose them, they are rather good! I hope you enjoy reading this and I have the biggest thanks .3 to who get's the credit for the story idea. Also thank you to Generalhyna, Sanasuke, avatoa, and feral wolfskin for reading and taking an interest in the story so far! If anyone ever has any requests don't be afraid to ask. Next chapter will be longer!

(1) Maho Maho no mi- the magic magic fruit.

(2) There is a japanese legand about a woman named Arikura-no-baba who was said to have magic powers. I called the woman Arikura after her.