Present Day ( 2 months after Straw Hat's arrival in the New World)

"AIIIEEEEEEE!" Nami released the most blood churning scream the woman could summon from her lungs. She spun on her heels and sprinted, stumbling over a tree root, trying to put as much distance between her and the creature as possible.

Behind the orange haired woman, a seven foot tall beast with eight beady red eyes and an equal amount of hairy legs- each longer than it's height, leaped from it's spot on the forest floor. It landed between the trees just in front of the terrified woman, making her fall on her rear. Shaking, she scooted backwards, feeling the ground for anything to use as a weapon. She felt a rock touch her fingers and she clutched it, hurling it at one of the spider's many eyes. "LUFFYYY!" She cried and got to her feet, running again in the opposite direction, towards the harbor. "HELP ME!"

On the other side of the island, the woman's captain was having quite a bit of fun. Along with his first mate and sharpshooter, Monkey D. Luffy was wrangling a nest of giant squirrels. "Meat!" Luffy drooled, punching one of the over grown rodent's in the face, imagining what they would taste like once cooked up by his trusted chef.

Said chef was pacing the beach near where their ship was docked- well, not exactly docked seeing as there was no dock, but it was on the beach and anchored to keep it from sailing away with out the majority of the crew. Sanji, puffed from his cigarette, pondering what to make Nami and the resident archaeologist, Robin, for lunch. Then he heard the scream.

A woman, no not any woman, was in trouble. "NAMI-SWAN!" He ran off into the forest as fast as his famously strong legs could take him. Thoughts of what could have frightened his favorite red head flashed through his mind, were there navies here? Savages who would defile a woman in a horrid way? Did some manner of animal make her it's food? His stomach knotted, fearing what terrible fate might take his beloved female companion.

"SANJI!" He heard her exclaim- tears in her voice- as she came into sight. Relief washed over him upon seeing her alive. He opened his arms wide to welcome her embrace- but she wizzed by him, "Please take care of it!" She waved behind her, continuing to the safy of the ship.

And then he saw the creature. A spider larger than he'd ever seen. With a smirk, the cook took his fag from his lips, dropped it to the dirt and ground it with his foot. "Shall we dance?" He jumped in the air, swinging his right foot right into the side of the beast's head, sending it flying into a tree trunk.

The spider let out a mortifying cry of pain, before shriveling up. The cook landed and blinked at the carcass. Well that was anti-climactic. He shrugged, walking out of the forest, to the ship. Now he could cook for Nami and Robin!

Back to the lovable dunce of a captain, who- though a dunce- was quite capable, as he displayed by taking down the 30 foot beast you could loosely call a Squirrel. Well, Luffy- his captain- called it a Mystery Squirrel to be precise. "Whoa! Zoro!" He looked to his green haired first mate in awe, as a squirrel twice the size of the one the rubber-man just took down out fell to the ground and rolled down the steep hill- in many pieces- where the long nosed sharp shooter leaped back from it, shaking. "Think we've got enough?" Luffy grinned at his friends.

The rest of the pack of bruised and battered humongous squirrels cowered, backed up then sprinted deep into the forest in the opposing direction. "Doesn't matter, the rest of 'em just got a way." Zoro grunted, grabbing the tail of Luffy's kill and sliding down the grass covered cliff.

Franky hung from the side of the Merry Go, kept up by a swing type contraption as he repaired some of the damage caused by Doflamingo. Robin lay in a sun chair beneath him, reading the latest news paper, as Brook stood on the deck of the ship, tuning his violin. In a flash of orange, a figure ran past the two on the outside of the ship. "Welcome back Nami, did you find anything?" Robin greeted.

"Yeah. Don't wanna talk about it." The redhead panted, leaned against the exterior of the large ship. "Oh, is that the news paper?" Having calmed herself, the white bunch of papers in Robin's hand caught her attention. "Anything important?" She knelt down, getting a look at the page Robin was reading from. It showed two hooded figures, in a setting of docks at night.

"It seems there are some new, strong rookies. The Arashi Pirates." Robin flipped the page. "I doubt we need to worry about them just yet."


2 months Earlier, 6 weeks before the arrival of the Straw Hat's in the New World. On an island near the second half of the Grandline.

"You're quite the fool." The taller of two hooded figures chuckled. He brought his hands out of his pockets, empty and palms up. "But, I suppose you couldn't know who I am." The only visible feature on this man's face was a malicious grin.

"Jean, try not to char them too bad." The other hooded figure, a young woman by the voice, sighed. Jean, the man, nodded and stepped towards the blockade of Marines, who stood in the duo's path to their small fishing boat.

The apparent leader of the group of Marines scoffed, folding his arms. "And just who are you?" A sarcastic to the man's previous jab. It was so annoying how every pirate seemed to have a complex. Best if they exterminate these annoying ones before their heads got too big.

"Thunder Bird Jean. Captain of the Arashi Pirates, nice to meet ya." Jean, cocked his head to the side and his hood slid down, showing medium length windswept hair and excited hazel eyes.

"Kuina. First mate." The young woman smiled, pulling down her hood to show shoulder length black hair and piercing black eyes. Her hand loosely clutched the white sword at her side. An ominous chuckle escaped her mouth. "Pleasure meeting you. Pity though."

Then, as the Marine Captain laughed mockingly, there was a flash of blue light, originating from Jean's hands, and the whole two rows of soldiers fell to the ground, twitching. Electric sparks flying this way and that from their bodies.

"Please tell me you didn't kill them." Kuina groaned, throwing her partner a glare. "I kind wanted to slice a few, ya know."

"Heh, sorry." He scratched the back of his head, then exclaimed, flashing a look of pretend hurt; "Of course not! We need them to tell the world about us, after two years of preparing for this day do you think I'd seriously foil everything at the start?" Grinning, he pulled up his hood. "They'll be up in an hour or so." Jean skipped off to the fishing boat with the jollyroger, a skull that looked like a rain cloud, and two thunder bolts in place of cross-bones. "Now, to collect our crew!"

"About that, are you sure you want him? I mean, how are you even going to convince him to join?"

"Simple." Jean zapped on to the wooden deck and swung over the railing to blink at his 'sister', as he liked to call the short girl. "Remember the plan?"


I'm sorry I put an OC in here, but if it's an consolation his only love interest, as the great Oda says, is the Sea!