Locks was startled by the sound of an almighty explosion. Curious, she abandoned her stalking of a baby brachiosaurus and changed into her half-form, flying up until she was above the jungle canopy, just in time to see that the explosion had been an erupting volcano . . . she'd never seen a volcano before. She flew towards it to get a closer look.
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Back at the Merry, Nami and her fellow cowards watched in relief as the yellow-bearded giant left, explaining how the erupting volcano was the signal for a duel.
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Locks flew into the volcanic cone. It was very hot, so she commanded a wind to gust around and shield her. She watched the bubbling magma in fascination.
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Locks stared at Luffy, who was having a tea-party. She face-palmed. Locks stared at the giant . . . candle . . . thing that had trapped three of her friends. She face-palmed again.
Ace had only asked her to baby-sit Luffy, not his whole damned crew! To top it off, there was a giant of all people pinned to the ground by wax.
As she made rain fall from blue skies (to wash that weird paint off Luffy) and sent a giant fireball to knock over the candle, while smelling the air for signs of Usopp, Locks wondered what on earth would become of them all without her help.
She paused, blinked, and took another look at the situation. Didn't she blow that guy up back on Whiskey Peak? Ignoring Usopp as the unfortunate sniper ran by, she sent another fireball towards the man in the brown coat.
BOOM!
Satisfied that that problem was thoroughly dealt with, she sent a truly evil glare towards the lemon woman, who was getting very damp in the rain.
"Uh . . . Peace?!" lemon woman squeaked. Locks answered in the form of a lightning bolt.
Zap!
Then, exasperated with life in general, she went off to hunt. They needed supplies after all, and Luffy was a big boy now who could take care of himself (sometimes).
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Two warriors of Elbaf watched with an odd feeling of déjà vu as Zoro and Sanji fought over whose dead dinosaur was biggest. They had this niggling feeling in the back of their minds that this argument was somehow significant, though for the life of them, neither could figure out why.
It was right about then that a dino bigger than both Sanji's and Zoro's put together dropped with a thud onto the ground. Slowly, fearfully the humans looked up to see what new over-sized predator had come to threaten them.
The two warriors didn't see what was so scary. It was just a grinning, cute little dragon. A Thunder dragon, if the silver scales were anything to go by.
Broggy laughed.
"Ha! So it was you making all that fuss earlier! I wondering how it could rain from a clear sky!"
The dragon chirped cheerily at him, flapping over to land on his hand as he held it out.
The humans gaped as both the giants began to coo at Locks about "what a mighty little hunter she was!"
Sanji and Zoro drooped in depression. Outdone by a girl . . .