(Plip...plip...plip...)

Whats that noise? Nami opened her eyes. Red? Why red?

She felt something drop onto the back of her hand. What is it? She lifted her hand to her face. Blood?

It was coming down faster. A reign of blood? She squeezed her eyes shut and clasped her hands to her ears.

Open your eyes girl. You will never get through life if all you ever do is stair ad the back of your eyelids. The voice was raspy and rough, but...somehow...familiar.

Nami obeyed. Looking behind her she saw a man covered in blood. It was streaming down him and onto the floor. Nami looked down, stumbling back, she was standing in blood. Thick red fluid came up about half way up her calf. Then the smell hit her, making her turn around and puke through her fingers. More blood? Am I the one who is bleeding? Or is it him?

Are you scared? The man asked, wading towards her. He was in front of her now. Nami looked up, and couldn't comprehend what she saw.

Yellow and green eyes, elongated fangs, and a deranged smile.

"KEEYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Nami shrieked scaring herself in to a new room not filled with blood. The man was gone.

Where am I? Oh...i fell asleep...oops...what a nightmare...i guess seeing Zoro like that freaked me out more than I thought.

"OI! OI! NAMI YOU ALRIGHT?" it was Sanji's voice on the other side of the door.

"N-nothing. Its fine, I'm good." Nami opened the door. "See?" She faked a smile, "just a bad dream."

"Are you sure? You don't seem alright, not now, not when you first got back. What happened out there today?" Sanji didn't look like he was gonna let this go.

"Look, Zoro almost DIED today, I'm as fine as I possibly can be when one of my crew mates almost lost his life." Nami was angry now. "I'm gonna go see chopper and get an update on how Zoro's doing."

Pushing past Sanji she ran across the deck and thrust open the door to chopper's office. Chopper jumped as the door hit the wall, Nami smoldering in the doorway. She quickly turned and shut the door behind her.

"How is he?' She asked the now relaxing doctor.

"I had to give him some of the emergency blood, but now that the injuries have stopped bleeding he should be fine. What happened out there?" Chopper asked, he sounded stressed and tired.

"The Wranglers used some type of rod with sharpened edges to pin him to a wall." She said, voice shaking, head pressed agents the door, and eyes shut, trying to keep the events of that day out of her head.

You will never get through life if all you ever do is stair ad the back of your eyelids. She remembered what the man in her dream had said. Snapping her eyes open she opened the door, "I'll be right back with something hot to drink. Kay chopper?" She said as she left without even looking at Zoro.

Once she was outside, Nami stopped and looked up at the sky...

"Hey Nami! You see that big bright one over there! Thats Bellemere!"

"Ahhhha! really? is that really Bellemere?"

"Yep!" Nojiko smiled st her. "And all the little fireflies are all the common townsfolk! But the best people, no matter who they are become stars when they go away! Bellemere will all wase be watching us!"

"YAY! Bellemere! Can you hear me? I love you and we both miss you!" Nami yelled up at the stars...

Nami smiled at the memory. Looking up at the north star, it would all wase remind her of Bellemere. No matter how far from home she was. Nami sighed and started walking to the kitchen.

Chopper likes hot chocolate... she thought as she poured the milk.

"Chopper? Can you get the door I don't want to spill."

"Ya gimme a 'seck to finish these bandages."

Nami waited quietly outside the door, when chopper opened it she passed him his mug.

"Oh Nami, when you came in you woke Zoro up, he said he wanted to talk to you, alone. I told him we couldn't move Luffy and he sad that that was fine, but hes been waiting for you."

"Oh. Ok. Thanks chopper!" Nami said as she stepped inside and chopper stepped out.

"Ya. I'm gonna go to bed now. Ill see you in the morning." He walked off.

"What did he do?" Zoro asked quickly.

Nami twisted around, "He "took" from me." She said bluntly making air quotations.

"Shit. That means he marked you. Not good at all." Zoro said sinking back down to the bed. He covered his face with a callused hand. "So I'm gonna assume you and Franky want to know the deal? Like why I've kept him a secret? And who he is? Hell...more like what he is..."

Nami was silent. Am I sure about this? Do I really WANT to know?

"I'm gonna take that as a yes... here goes..." he paused... "everything." He whispered.

Authors Note: srrrrrr! I took a bit longer on this 1! I wanted to get it up last week... Thank you to the people who do reivew! Nxt chap we'll dive into the history of Dragaranaga! :)