Luffy rummaged through their remaining possessions searching for food.
"Sanji! Is there more meat?" he called. Sanji was talking to Chopper, and he didn't respond. Luffy continued scavenging, and then he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Oi, oi, Luffy, where's Nami?" Luffy looked up quickly at Usopp, then around the sand dunes. He didn't see the navigator anywhere.
"Nami?" he said quietly. Without another word he was off. Tearing through the empty landscape, dust and sand spraying out behind him as he ran. Usopp stared for a moment before hurrying after him, slingshot at the ready. "Nami!" Luffy called out, but he was met with silence.
"Over there!" Usopp shouted as he readjusted his goggles. Luffy turned his head and spotted an orange sandal, and a small path leading down into the valley.
As they reached the bottom, sand whipped around their heads, and Luffy could barely see. Usopp peered through his goggles and made his way over to a bump in the sand. He began to dig, but with every scoop he pulled away, more sand tumbled into the hole. Luffy soon joined him.
"Nami!" he yelled, frantically pushing the accumulating sand away. They worked harder and eventually they felt fabric beneath their fingers.
"Oi, a little faster!" Usopp shouted as he attempted to pull his nakama out of the pit.
Nami woke and tried to scream, but only coughed and choked as dusty particles filled her mouth, and her eyes stung so she shut them tight. She struggled, her arms and legs flailing against the pressure pushing down on her. She began to panic, and she tried to breathe without inhaling too much sand. She felt hands on her arms and torso. Assuming it was Ace she kicked out, and her foot connected solidly with what was actually Usopp's face.
"Nami!" She heard Luffy call, and she almost shouted back, but stopped herself. She sighed in relief as she felt the sand fall from her face, and she breathed in gratefully as she was lifted from the trap. Luffy set her down on the sand, and turned towards their camp. Nami shut her eyes, the sedative still working, and tuned out Usopp's shouts. As she drifted off to sleep, however, she could not help but hear Luffy's rage filled cry,
"Who did this to my NAKAMA?!"