We moved Nami back into the Girl's room. Vivi and I took shifts on who took care of her, Vivi had the first shift, I had a different thing to work on.

"Zoro," I shouted, "Get in here, I'm going to take out your stitches now!"

"Finally!" I heard the swordsman shout. He entered the room and sat down in Nami's chair. I grabbed the med kit and rolled his pant legs up. I went through the process of pulling on gloves and disinfecting the medical scissors, pliers and the wounds. "Could you hurry it up?" He asked impatiently.

I stuck my tongue out at him. "Unless you want me to mess up and end up giving you a worse infection of accident, no, I can't." I breathed out and slowly began cutting the stitches on his right ankle. "This healed nicely." I said more to myself than to him, "Maybe I was going to become a doctor of some kind..." I pulled the stitches out one by one, then moved to his other leg and repeated the process. After I was done I bandaged his legs again. "There. Now keep them clean, and please, please, please, keep the bandages dry."

"Yeah, whatever." He stood up and exited the room.

I sat back, cleaning up the medical stuff. "Who am I kidding, he's not going to listen..."

Vivi laughed, "You put so much effort into making sure he was OK." She looked at me, "And he doesn't care."

"Ppffhhh..." I looked back at the princess, "I really don't care if he cares or not." I stared up at the door, "What's important is that he keeps his promises and I keep mine. He can't keep his if he's dead..."

"And yours?" Vivi asked.

"Well... Frankly I can't keep mine if he's dead either." I shifted, changing the subject "Sailing blind on the Grand Line is a dangerous thing... We have to be very vigilant when doing look-out."

"Yeah..." Vivi agreed. She glanced back at me, "You should probably get some rest, you haven't slept much in the past few days."

I stared at the floor, Try, "You haven't slept at all in two days..." "I'm fine, I got plenty of sleep last night!" I smiled, my thoughts feeling a little muddled.

Vivi sighed, going back to tending Nami, "If you're sure."

It got colder, but the climate then remained stable, no freak storms. Sanji came down to inquire if Nami's temperature had gone down, which, "No, it hasn't."

Sanji began running around the cabin helplessly, "Ahh! Vivi, Leanah! What are we going to do! Nami's temperature hasn't gone down!" Carue warked in agreement.

"Guys. Stop! That behavior isn't helping!" Vivi said.

He and the duck skidded to a stop. With one look at Nami you could tell she was fighting off something bad. Her breathing was irregular and her face was now completely flush. I stood up, "I'm going to go outside and see how the others are doing."

I walked out, slipping my shoes on and going up to the deck, only to see them all staring at something. I walked over to Luffy, "What's going on?" The captain simply pointed out to the ocean, my eyes followed to where he was pointing to, "Whaaa-?"

I was staring at a man who looked like he belonged in a medieval court who also seemed to be standing on the ocean! I blinked, Surely I'm hallucinating! That can't be possible.

"Hello!" The man on the ocean called, "Sure is chilly today." Luffy and Usopp sneezed.

They sneezed again. "Yeah..." Luffy said slowly, "It is chilly today..."

"Definitely, it's very chilling, in fact I would even say it's freezing." Usopp said.

I nodded, "Yes."

"Really?" The man asked, sending a shock through everyone, even him.

Suddenly something surfaced from the ocean, "Usopp!" I shouted as I latched onto the nearest railing, "Hold the rudder steady!"

"Right." He weakly replied as he tumbled in that direction.

"What the hell is that?" Zoro asked staring at the thing that had surfaced in front of us. "Is that a ship?"

I stared at the tin ball, "Sub...marine?" The tin started retracting, revealing a very large ship, much larger than Merry. I blinked as a pirate flag unfurled from the top of the mast. I couldn't believe I wasn't dreaming.

"Oh crap!" Usopp said, "It's a pirate ship!"

I cursed under my breath, "This can't be good..."

"Ouwahahaha!" a voice came from the larger ship, "don't tell me our underwater raid ship, the Tin Tyrant, surprised you!" The voice continued laughing as his crew boarded our ship, training their guns on us. He boarded the ship last, the man- if you could call him that- was very, very fat, seemed to be made out of metal, and also appeared to be wearing animal fur. He had a large piece of meat screwed on a sword. What a waste of a good Sword. I frowned.

"Hey! What's going on-" Sanji ran out onto the deck, and stopped when guns were pointed at him. He calmly lit a match, then his cigarette, he took a drag. "So... What's going on?"

"Well, we're under attack. And it's still snowing." Luffy was completely calm.

"Well yeah... the guns pointing at my face kind of gave that one away." The chef said, "So what next?"

"You all consider yourselves a band of pirates? That's amusing. I only count five of ya." The fat man took a large bite out of the meat and the sword. Now that's a total waste of a good sword! I screamed in my head. "Sort of strange... that your group would have so few members." He said between bites before eating the hilt of the had-been sword.

"Kay, that's just weird, what kind of guy likes to eat knives?" Luffy stared at the odd fat man.

"Bleehh! My gums are bleeding just watching!" Usopp cried.

"What a waste of a good sword!" I finally moaned out loud.

The man continued eating, "Alright, I'll keep this simple, see my men here and I wish to travel to Drum kingdom, you wouldn't happen to have an Eternal Pose or a Log Pose would you?"

"Sorry, can't help, I've never even heard of this Drum kingdom." Sanji said coolly.

"Well," Luffy said impatiently, "Now that we have that all settled, would you guys just leave already? We're in a hurry and we don't have time to deal with this."

"You'll never enjoy life if you're always in a rush." The fat man said, "But if you have neither Pose, what can be done? I suppose I'll have to settle for your treasure on this ship."

"Huh?!"

"First thing's first, I'm feeling a bit hungry." The man turned his head slightly to look at the section of railing next to him. I twitched. He somehow managed to bite into that section and begin eating it.

"Merry!" I shouted. Now I knew I wasn't dreaming, I could never have had a dream that bad.

"He's a ship eating monster!" Usopp cried more.

"HEY! Our ship isn't your lunch!" Luffy shouted, glaring at the strange man.

"Be quiet!" On of the soldiers near Luffy said, "Wapol doesn't like to be disturbed when he's eating!"

Luffy pulled his arms back, "Shut up!" He smacked the two soldiers beside him.

"Damn pirate! We're under attack, shoot him!" I smirked as they began shooting at our rubber captain.

"Ah! Finally I can get some action!" I loosened my coat, drawing Ami and Ana. A few of the soldiers set their sights on the rest of us, I ducked from the gun fire almost getting hit with the bullets, my timing was getting slower. "Storming Blast!" That disarmed some and wounded others.

"Comin' down!" I heard Zoro shout, I rolled as he jumped off the mast, killing several mooks in his path.

I swerved through a crowd of lackeys, making minor cuts here and there, nothing too fatal. But they were beginning to try my patience, they just kept coming. I blinked, it was getting harder and harder to focus.

One snuck up behind me, I was about to get hit but Sanji's foot planted itself on the man's face, "Didn't anyone ever tell you it's impolite to sneak up on a lady?"

"Thanks for watching my back."

"No problem, Leanah darling."

We were surrounded again, I slid easily into another stance, running at the next group, "Ha-di!" That gravely injured quite a few of them, but I couldn't seem to summon the will to care.

The soldiers were getting worried now, "Hey! Um, Wapol! We need help!"

Wapol took another bite out of Merry, I twitched, it was taking most of my strength not to just go after him. Luffy charged at the tin man, "HEY! You still eating!?"

The soldiers started boasting about how now Luffy would fall pray to the Munch-Munch fruit powers, and I would have been worried when Wapol bit Luffy, had Luffy's arms not whipped by my face.

I smiled, "Oh, he's in for it now." I sheathed my swords.

"I prefer someone less chewy..." Wapol complained.

Then a very muffled, "I said..." Came from in side his mouth as Luffy's arms rocketed back towards us. "LEAVE!" The impact got Luffy out of Wapol's mouth and shot the tin man off of the ship. He flew so high and far it almost looked like he became a star.

Then the figure head on Wapol's ship opened as a ladder descended, all the remaining living soldiers ran back onto their ship. Two people from Wapol's ship swore that we would pay for what we did. We watched the ship sail away.

"That ass had it coming!" I shouted, then quieter I addressed the crew, "Hurting the poor Going Merry like that." I pat Marry's railing.

"Yeah." Usopp said, staring at the place where Wapol had taken a large bite of Merry. "But those guys were crazy... What did they call that guy? Wapol?"

"Who cares about what his name was. Don't worry about it. The guy is obviously a moron, best to just forget about him." Sanji said.

"How could I forget about him when there's no possible way I could forgive him for taking a bite from Merry!" I shouted, my trigger was going rapid fire, I was tired in more ways than one.

Usopp nodded. "True."

I sighed, "Someone better get up there and take watch until dinner."

Zoro was already half way up, "I'll take look out until dinner, Leanah you can take it after."

I paled, but nodded anyway, "Sure."

Sanji looked at me, "Leanah if you don't want to take watch, I'll take it."

I shook my head, "No, it's fine, I need something to get my mind off of things anyway." I could use some sleep...

Time passed slowly and it seemed that Nami was only getting worse. I curled up in the crow's nest with my coat and a blanket on. The sun was setting, this was getting very distressing.

"Leanah!" Sanji shouted up to me. "You can come down now! We're going to anchor the boat for the night and I'll take night watch!"

"Alright." I tied the blanket around my waist and slowly worked my way down, my fear wasn't getting any better, if anything it might've been getting worse. I sighed, I was too terrified for bed. Another night... without sleep... I said to myself. I got to my feet, I walked into the room, only to see Luffy passed out with the picture frame digging into his forehead, Carue passed out not far away, and Vivi asleep by Nami's bed. I sighed and walked over to the desk, sitting down. A little later Usopp came down with a blanket, I didn't need to ask. "Grab a spot on the floor. I'll move the table."

"Let me help." The sharp shooter, dropped his blanket and helped me move the table out of the way so there was more floor space.

After that he camped a spot on the floor, in front of the desk. I sighed, moving to the wall and sitting down, then ran a hand through my hair. I reached over and grabbed my suitcase, popping it open. I fished out Shanks's bandana and holding it close, it was oddly comforting knowing that he'd been bragging about me. I frowned, he really was the closest thing I'd had to a father.

"Hey."

I jolted up, hiding the bandana. A shifty, slightly pink Zoro stood on the stairs with a blanket draped over his shoulder. "Zoro, I assume you're here for the same reason Usopp came." I gestured to the floor, "Pick a spot, any spot."

The swordsman camped out by Carue, using the duck as a pillow. He stared at me.

"What?" I asked.

"That thing in you hands.."

"It's nothing."

"You were holding on to if for dear life, its not nothing."

"Bandana." Simple answer, he nodded cover himself in his blanket and promptly fell asleep.

Usopp talks in his sleep, a lot. It was almost fun hearing the many sleep stories he told to the people in his mind. A while later Nami shifted in her bed, she sat up, looking out at all the people in the room, she jumped when Usopp started into another talking bit.

"Nami?" I asked quietly.

"Leanah... Why aren't you asleep?" she whispered back.

"Can't. But you should go back to sleep." I waved her down and she covered her entire body with the blanket, dutifully falling asleep again. I rested my head against the wall, I was so tired, but my body just wouldn't let me sleep.

That night passed slowly, quietly, and peacefully. Usopp woke up at around 5 AM.

"Where are you going?" I asked as he pulled his coat and shoes on.

"I can't just sit here, so I'm going to go see if I can't fix up what that freak did to the Going Merry yesterday."

I stood up, pulling on my coat and shoes, "I'll come too, I can't get to sleep anyway."

We went to the hold, "Have you been up all night?" he asked.

I expertly lied, "Not all night." He shrugged and grabbed a huge armful of wood, "Wow..." I said softly, grabbing the tool kit, "Glad I managed to get as much as I did in Whiskey Peak."

"I am too." The two of us ventured out in the morning fog to the part of Merry that had been munched and began working.

Sanji must've fallen asleep because he woke up an hour later. He walked to the edge of the crow's nest and looked down at us, "You two are up early."

"How can I sleep when all I can think about is Nami and Merry?" I said.

"Can't jusht sit around doing nothing," Usopp mumbled through the nails he had in his mouth as he hammered in another wood plank, "We have to find a way out of this jam as quick as possible."

"You're right." Sanji said, "That's a good point..."

Another hour passed, Luffy and Zoro woke up, and subsequently so did Vivi and Carue. Then two more hours passed.

"I can do the rest of this." Usopp said as he hammered in the last board. "Go check on Nami."

We had taken to switching off on who went to check on Nami since everyone wanted too. Last it has been Luffy's turn, but he hadn't come out yet.

I entered the room and much to my horror saw Luffy attempting to get our sick navigator to laugh. I squeezed my eyes shut and hit him on the head, "I don't know what you're doing but I'm sure that won't help her get better!"

"Oww!" Luffy's hands protectively covered the spot I had hit. The idiot had written 'meat' on his forehead, somehow found Nami's make-up stash and taken the liberty of putting some on. "How could you know if you don't try!" He defended.

"I swear it's like I'm talking to a younger brother." I sighed and turned my back, signaling he could continue if he wanted.

I'm sure he had turned back to Nami, "Come on, Nami, why won't you look? This is weird, why won't you wake up and look?"

I honestly didn't hear Zoro come down until it was too late, "What's going on, Luffy?"

I whipped around, "No!" But it was too late, Luffy had turned around, mentally scarring our Swordsman for probably a week.

He fell back and Luffy stood up continuing it make his silly stretchy faces. "Quit it! You're freakin' me out!" Zoro said.

I closed my eyes again, "Please, Luffy, just stop!"

"Buh Nameh hashn't woken up yeh!"

"I think that might be a good thing!" I grabbed Luffy's hat and covered Luffy's face with it, dragging him out of the room.

When we got on deck Usopp stared at us weirdly, "Do I even want to know?"

"No." I said flatly, "You don't." I continued dragging a now kicking Luffy to the kitchen, I pushed him so he was sitting at the kitchen table and grabbed a wash cloth. "Honestly... I have no idea how your family dealt with you."

Luffy laughed as I removed his hat from his face and placed it on his head, then dampened the cloth. "Gramps left me with some really cool people after my 8th birthday!"

I frowned, trying to wash the word 'meat' off of his forehead, "What about your dad?"

"Never knew him. But I do have a brother!"

"Is that right?"

"Yeah!" Luffy crossed his legs, "He's really strong and cool, he left before I did to become a pirate!"

I laughed, imagining an older person who looked and acted like Luffy, then raised an eye brow, "Is everyone in your family a pirate?"

The captain laughed again, "Nah, Gramps is a marine!" He smiled, "What about your family?"

I paused, "Well... I don't remember my family..." I kept wiping the make-up off of his face. "But..." I couldn't help but think about Shanks. "My old captain was... kind of like a dad, I suppose. In fact... my old crew was pretty much like a big family."

"Hehe! Our crew is gonna be like that! We have lots of cool people, but eventually we'll have a huge crew! Like a musician!"

"And a doctor, let's focus on the matter at hand."

"Well of course a doctor! We'll get the one who fixes Nami up!"

And that was the end of that conversation. I finally got all the make-up off of his face and he sped back down to Nami's room I followed after him.

Zoro was still down there, I glared at him, "Zoro, shoes off when on carpet!"

"Eh."

I kept glaring at him and he kept not reacting. Eventually I sighed and walked over to my suitcase, opening it and getting out the plain black bandana, tying it around my head. Now I was ready for what ever was coming.

"Island dead ahead!" Sanji shouted from the crow's nest.

Luffy got excited at that, suddenly unable to sit still. "Are you serious! Oh, an island! We've found an island! Hey Nami did you hear that?! This means we can get you to a real doctor! He'll fix you up!" The captain then chanted 'wake up' to her, he obviously wanted to go see the mysterious new island.

Zoro sighed, "Just go look, we've got her covered."

Luffy sat there for exactly one second before he sped out of the room. "He forgot his coat."

"He'll be fine."

"It's freezing out there!"

"He'll be fine."

I stood up grabbing the captain's red coat, "I'll go give it to him."

"He'll be fine!"

"I don't care! It's freezing out there and he doesn't have a coat!" I left the room as Luffy rushed back in.

"COOOOOLLLLLDDDDDD!"

I sighed, holding out Luffy's coat, "I've got your coat here, Luffy."

He zipped passed me again, "THANK YOU, LEANAH!"

Zoro slowly sauntered out of the room, smirking, "Told ya."

I hissed at him.

We sailed inland a bit before Vivi found a spot that was good for us to anchor.

"Kay guys," Zoro said, turning to us, "Doctor's search, who wants in?" Then he added, "Guess we've got to find people here first."

Luffy threw a hand up, "I'm in!"

"Me too!"

"Count me in." I said.

"Bye!" Usopp said with his arms crossed, "Go have fun!"

"That's far enough, pirates!" A quick glance to where the voice had come from showed that we had been surrounded. But... These weren't marines, or even trained soliders, we seemed to be surrounded by villagers with guns and other forms of weapons.

"People!" Luffy shouted, then quieter, "Wull that was easy."

"Yeah, nice... but they don't seem too friendly." Usopp said, surveying them.

A large man in a odd looking green coat stepped forward, "I'll only say this once, your kind is not welcome here. Leave immediately."

"We only came here to find a doctor." Luffy said.

"We have someone who's sick!" Vivi shouted.

"You'll have to do better than that!" A different man shouted.

"This is our island! We won't let any filthy pirates land here!" Another man shouted.

Then another man, "Raise anchor and leave now, or we'll blow you and you ship out of the water!"

"That's great.." Sanji sighed, "We've barely said hello and they already hate us."

"This doesn't look to good," I mused, "We have to find a doctor here, we can't risk sailing any more."

"Get our of here!" Another man shouted, firing his gun at Sanji.

He dodged, then glared up at the person who shot at him, "That was a big mistake!"

I grabbed his arm, "Sanji, no! This isn't the time!"

Vivi ran in front of him, "Sanji, stop!"

A gun shot went off.

Bang!

Vivi fell.

Author's Note:

Drum Island, Ho! How will our dear sleep deprived Leanah fare on this snow covered kingdom? How might she possibly contribute to this next grand adventure? And more importantly (in my mind anyway), how will she react to Chopper? some of these questions may be answered in the next chapter, some may not! The world may never know... until I publish them that is!

Just a heads up though, I'm going to be using the next week or so to get a head in my chapters so don't expect any new chapters next week! (Shh, I'm not evil, I just like cliff hangers).

Also I dedicate this chapter to Shanks, Mihawk, and Franky, since it is their birthday today.

Your ever willing author,
Kari910