Come undone,

surrender is stronger

i don't need to be the hero tonight

we all want love

we all want honour

nobody wants to pay the asking price.

~ undone FFH

Eve waited for them to call her a monster, or for them to attack her. It was something she was used to,so she was startled by the fact that the doctor looked at her in awe and Zoro-san simple raised his eyebrow in disbelief.

"A witch huh? So what? You use magic or something?" Eve blinked twice in her disbelief but nodded

"Can you fly on a broom? Oh! Can you turn people into frogs?" She could only lightly giggle at the excited reindeer .Zoro couldn't help but notice that the small smile made her whole face light up. Her laughter was soft, and the swordsman couldn't help but think that everything about her was breakable.

He took this moment to look at her in closer and noticed the small scar on her right cheek and he couldn't help but feel angry whatever caused such a wound. She just seemed too vulnerable for someone to hurt.

"N-no... I m-mean i don't t-think so. Ah here we are!"

It was an obvious attempt to change the subject but the strawhats went along with as they stopped in front of what appeared to be her house even though it was more like a shack.

Plain and empty it was a poorly made housem if it could even be called seemed unsettling about the plain building. It made out of wood, and almost seemed like it would collapse at any given point. It would of seemed dull, hadn't it not been for the bright graffti adorning the walls and the door. Glancing from the corner of his eye he noticed her expression hadn't changed when she looked at the house, as you would expect it would. On the other hand the pair of pirates were appalled at the sight before them .Zoro couldn't say he could look at the sight before him with a neutral expression like she was almost as if it was something mundane, an everyday was as if she was numb

"Eve... who did this?"The reindeer spoke in a calm voice, trying not to alarm the redhead.

Eve shrugged

"P-robably some of the b-raver kids in the village. They make a g-game out of it i think" she frowned slightly as she looked at the words. But then turned her attention to her fox.

"Snow how you keeping?"she asked softly

The small fox mewled and sniffled, a frown adorned her face as she stroked the fox's head in a soothing manner.

"Luffy you can't be serious!"Ussop exclaimed

Stomping through the town the crew were trying to decide their course of was insisting they find the girl so that she would was still nervous about the whole thing claiming he had come down with the "Do-not-search-for-strange-girl disease".Sanji as per usual was complimenting a thoughtful robin, whilst at the same time insisting they look for the redheaded beauty.

"Coarse I am usopp! I want her to be nakama!"

"Captain-san we must also search for chopper and zoro-san"Robin added

"Yeah that too!"

"Also Franky is probably wondering where we have gone."Nami added.

The shipwright had wanted to fix a few things on the ship so he had stayed behind to look after the thousand sunny

"We ain't leaving until she is my nakama!"Luffy spoke with a seriousness that surprised his crew, with his usual goofy demeanour nowhere to be seen.

"Luffy"Usopp began slowly "Why did you get mad when they talked about her?"

Luffy paused as he recalled what had happened after he had proclaimed his decision for the redhead to join his crew.

Flashback

"You really want that redhead as part of your crew?"Gato had yelled horrified "WE WANT YOU TO KILL THAT UGLY HAIRED GIRL!"

Luffy narrowed his at the man

"Ugly?"He spoke his words a slowly almost, as if he was giving the chief the chance to take back what he said.

"Yes! Red hair is evil! Its vile, i mean it looks like blood!"Chimed Shana

"Its uncommon too! Gato added "It makes her more of a fre-"A fist rammed into his face and he narrowed his eyes at the woman.

"There ain't nothing freakish about red hair..You bastard!"

End flashback

"Shanks has red hair"Luffy muttered and that seemed all that needed to be said.

They had insulted one of the most important people watched the boy lower the hat that had once belonged to the red haired looked up to shanks, so she understood that luffy wouldn't allow anyone to insult the girl's hair which was the same bright red as his role model.

Whilst Chopper gave the medicine to the snow coloured fox, Zoro looked around the inside of the walls that surrounded them, and he was surprised considering the fact she was a girl how little she had. A chest sat in the corner of the room but other than that she only had a small bed. It almost reminded him of a prison cell with its dull walls and confined space. He then noticed that near the edge of the bed was a set of heavy chains attached to one of the chain was so long that it seemed to be long enough to let whoever was chained to go outside a short distance.

"Who kept you here" He muttered watching as the timid girl tensed.

"Kept here?" She tilted her head in confusion and then noticed the chains that zoro held in his hand. Unconsciously she rubbed her ankle as she eyed the chains.

"…"She didn't respond and Zoro could see a pained look flicker in her eye, so he let the subject drop.

"You said you were a witch? What can you do?" she seemed to brighten up at his change of subject and she smiled

"I can use s-spell books, as long as I read the i-incantation I can do most things in the books.I don't h-have a lot of books so I-i can't do much" she frowned

"Ah gomen, I-I' t-talking t-too much, I j-just have n-not s-spoke to s-s-omeone f-for a v-v-ery l-long time, a-apart f-from snow!" Her stutter seemed to have gotten worse due to her embarrassment which cause his mouth to twitch in amusement.

Chopper, who was listening interjected

"Its fine Eve, but why is that? You're a nice person"She smiled at the reindeer, her cheeks flushing slightly

"A-rigato, demo i'm a monster t-though"

Chopper frowned

"I'm a talking reindeer, if anything I'm more of a monster then you"He chuckled slightly but was surprised when she grabbed him by his shoulder

"NO!You're Not!"Upon realising her outburst, she hung her head

"You're just different.I-I been t-told that i-im a monster s-some m-many t-imes. I-ts s-something i-ive a-ccepted"

"Shouldn't you follow your own advice red?" surprised at the nickname she looked at the mint green haired man

"You ain't a monster, and don't ya say otherwise" She would have attempted to argue with him, but she saw a look in his eye that dared her not to argue, so she just turned away.

"ano...arigato"Zoro just grunted and chopper couldn't help but smile .An embarrassed Zoro wasn't something you saw every day.

"Neh Eve-" A loud Crash came from the door her door slamming into the ground, Startled she Lifted her hands and squeezed her eyes shut

"Jaikan-Furīzu!"(Jaikan=Time Furizu=Freeze)

The stray wood froze and in front of them were the rest of the straw hat crew, frozen by the door,

"EH?! I CAN'T MOVE?"Luffy yelled. his eyes and mouth seemed to be the only things that could move.

Chopper and Zoro felt their eyes go wide and when they noticed Eve's hands shaking as she held them out it clicked.

"EVE?"

She paused and lowered her arms, and their nakama gained the ability to move

"Was that magic?" Chopper asked amazed

She shook her head

"I-it was a d-devil fruit i-I ate the jai jai fruit..i… I can control t-time"

….

"EHHHHH?"