They Finally Dock! Landing on Sabaody Archipelago!

"SOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOD!"

"This is AMAZING!"

"I know right!? Hacchin makes the best takoyaki in the world right!?"

Me and the rest of the straw hats minus Franky, Zoro and Robin on the Sunny were on the Takoyaki 8, Hachi's takoyaki ship, eating his DELICIOUS takoyaki! It had so much taste and sweetness! Oh man it was TOO GOOD!

"I can't stop! I can't stop eating! This takoyaki is too good!" Luffy garbled with a massive mouthful of takoyaki.

"HachiIcompletelymisjudgedyouthisissoamazingpleaseforgiveme!" I said frantically before piling more takoyaki onto my plate and then into my mouth, using as much of my table manners as possible.

"It certainly is good stuff...how does he get this depth of flavour into the sauce?" Sanji asked himself.

"There's just something great about a food stall at sea huh?" Usopp told himself.

"Mmgggghhhh mnghhhh nghhhhh nnmmmmggghhh!" Chopper tried to say with takoyaki swollen cheeks.

"I admit, this is my first time experiencing the wonders of takoyaki, it certainly is deliciooooooous!" Brook sang happily.

"Here! Have some with Dashi!" Camie offered, me and Luffy took loads.

"And these ones have Mochi!" Pappug declared, we grabbed lots of them as well.

"Nyuuuuu! You can eat all you like! This meal's on the house! It's the least we can do to thank you guys for saving us like you did!" Hachi said whilst cooking away.

"Hey Nami!" I called. "Do you want some-" I immediantely stopped when she fixed me with an icy glare. Unlike me, she hadn't forgiven Hachi. I looked down at my food awkwardly.

"And...what about you?...Ahh...Nami...?" Hachi asked nervously.

She did the same glare at him. "I hope you don't think this means I've forgiven you or anything."

"Oh no! Not at all! I didn't mean to imply anything of the sort!" Hachi replied frantically. "I was just wondering if you liked it...really!"

She paused for a minute before smiling at him. "It's really great!"

"Nyuuuuuuuuu! Really? Really?"

"Mmmm!" Luffy, Usopp and Sanji agreed.

"All riiiiight!" Hachi yelled. "You keep on eating until your faces are stuffed!"

"Damn right! You just keep on cooking! I'll eat anything you can throw at me!" The captain shouted with determination.

Meanwhile, I'd lost my appetite. Let's just say that even small tensions from the crew don't sit well with me.

Flashback

I sat on the edge of the Merry's back railing. I refused to watch. I refused to watch two nakama fight each other.

Usopp was our friend! He shouldn't be fighting us! It wasn't fair!

I could tell he knew the Merry was beyond repair, he just wouldn't give up his stupid pride!

I could still hear the battle raging on behind me, sometimes the ship rocked violently from their attacks.

Even Merry had to watch them fight. It wasn't fair on anyone! Least of all Luffy and Usopp.

I mean why...why...

I buried my face in my hands and started sobbing, I just wanted it to be over with.

By the time it had finished tears had completely stained my face, and I just sat there, curled up as if I could just block out what had happened.

"Elliiiiix?" A familiar voice called out, I heard footsteps behind me. "Ellix what are you-" The voice stopped when the figure presumably saw me. I heard more footsteps come and sit beside me. "Ellix..."

I didn't look up, this person had suffered enough tonight. It wasn't fair to be hurt anymore.

I felt some arms wrap around me and hold me. "It's okay Ellix." Nami said soothingly. "It's okay..."

Flashback End

"Elliiiiiiix? Hellooooooo?" I looked up from my daydream to see Luffy waving one hand in front of my face while the other still shovelled takoyaki in his mouth. "Ne, what's the matter? Don't you like it?"

"No, no! It's not that! And get your hand away from my plate!" I slapped his fist away and started eating again so as not to worry everyone.

"Hey, mermaid. Could I have some more over here!?" Franky called to Camie.

"Coming right uuuuuuup!" She said in reply.

"Oi, Octo-face. How the heck did you make this sauce?" Sanji rudely asked.

"Nyuuu? Now, now...this sauce...it's an ancient secret recipe handed down from a legendary takoyaki stand from long ago..." Hachi reminiscented, not answering the question.

"Heeeeeeey! You guyyyyyyyyys!" A familiar voice called out. "Young Masteeeeeeeer!"

"...Who's that?" I heard Zoro complain.

"It sounds rather like the people from back there..." Robin stated.

Still eating, I looked beyond the Takoyaki 8 at a bunch of figures fast approaching. "Wait up! Wait uuuuuuuup!" The voice called again. "You simply can't leave without saying goodbyyyyyyyye!"

The figures were close enough to see now, the leader had blond hair and a now broad face with weird features.

It was Duval after the effects of Sanji's 'Parrage Shot'.

"It's me! Handsome!" Duval cried, forgetting his own name. "Ah, I got it wrong! It's me! Duval!"

"Naniiiiii? That's...him? Tasty...tasty..." Luffy asked, still shovelling takoyaki in his mouth.

"I altered his bone structure, he's got nothing to complain about now." Sanji explained.

"Ahhhh! Black-Legged Young Master!" Duval addressed Sanji as he rode on his bull (which could apparently swim.) to us. "After you smashed my face up like that, when we came to, we were all stunned!"

'Wow, Sanji can perform miracles.' I thought to myself.

"You've made me just sooooooo handsome! I really can't believe iiiiiit!" Duval continued. "Now the girls won' be able'da leave me alone! My life's lookin' all peachy an' rosy thanks'da you! Ahahahahaha!"

"You said you hated him an hour ago." I muttered, still eating in case Luffy finished it off.

"Look who's talking." Sanji also muttered.

I began dozing off as Duval explained his plans to return to his countryside life, that is until: "You've never been around these parts before right!? If there's anything we can do to help you out...well just say the word, and we'll be there like...THAT!"

He did...the CREEPIEST...most DISTURBING wink...I have EVER seen...in my LIFE!

I cringed away from the abnormality with a disgusted "Uuuurrrgghhhh!".

Duval began admiring himself in a mirror as Sanji basically told him to leave us alone. When he had finished Duval turned away from his precious mirror. "Hmmm? Yes, what was that? I'm handsome?"

"I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING LIKE THAT!" Sanji shouted with shark teeth.

Duval then looked at Nami who was wiping her mouth with a napkin after eating some takoyaki. "It's a little embarrassing, but I shall accept it. Your fair maidens kiss!"

I spat out the contents of my mouth. "WHAT!?"

"I WASN'T BLOWING A KISS! I WAS WIPING MY MOUTH AFTER THE TAKOYAKI!" Demoness Nami yelled. "Ugh! How stupidly positive can you be!?"

"You stupid freak!" I yelled, trying to claw at him as Usopp and Chopper held me back. "Stay away from Nami!"

He turned to me after admiring himself in his mirror yet again. "Ah? Did you say I'm handsome?"

"I did NOT!" I retaliated.

"Handsome or not, a dumbass is still a dumbass." Usopp said after restraining me.

"...You're jealous?" Duval asked.

"LIKE HELL!" Duval was making a lot of my nakama grow shark teeth.

"Stop Usopp! Your no match for his crazy personality!" Luffy told the sniper.

After settling down we went back to stuffing ourselves with as much takoyaki as possible, until we finally fell down in satisfaction.

"Wheeeew...I'm stuffed!" Luffy said. Photo oppurtunity folks! "Good, good stuff! I'm in heaven!"

"Ahh...this truly was a wonderful afternoon..." Brook sighed, pouring himself a cup of tea. "My first ever takoyaki...I am simply filled with satisfaction."

He then let out a huge burp and fart. "Oh, excuse me."

This earned him a punch on either side of his bony face from me and Nami.

"You dirty beast!" Nami yelled.

"Where the hell are your manners!?" I shouted, manners are kinda a thing with me, I was raised by an ex-marine who WASN'T a jerk after all.

Hachi and Pappug were exhausted from all the cooking whilst Camie washed up. I walked over. "Arigatou for the meal. Do you need a hand washing up?"

"No thanks, I'm fine, we treated you right?" Camie said.

"Okay, arigatou again." I thanked her as I jumped back on to Sunny, patting my full stomach.

"Hey Octo, Starfish, and Camie-chwaaaan! If your gonna get some rest, do it up here on deck. You can join us for a spot of tea!" Sanji invited them.

And so we sailed on with three new passengers, enjoying some tea after some excellent takoyaki.

"Gomen again for getting angry with you Hachi." I apologised, sipping the last of my tea with a content sigh.

"Nyuuu, it's fine Rokush-...gomen, Ellix. I can understand why."

"Ellix actually has a reason for being a lot angrier then he usually would be." Chopper explained.

"Nyuu? What do you mean?" Hachi asked.

"Ellix and Nami are boyfriend and girlfriend."

"Nyuuu!? Really? Since when?"

"A while now."

"Nyuu! Congratulations!" Hachi said with a smile.

"I didn't know that! Well done Ellix-chin and Nami-chin!" Camie said.

"Hey, good for you guys!" Pappug also said.

"Doriririri! Arigatou you guys!" I laughed, then I gained a depressed aura. "Too lucky...too lucky..."

"Nyu? Did we say something wrong?"

"Nope." Nami said, lightly hitting me over the head. "He's just a baka."

I fell asleep again soon afterwards. Going into my Dream Dream Mirror cinema. Hachi and Camie said we needed to go to Sabaody Archipelago before Fishman Island. Brook came over to Nami for panties as per the norm, luckily I was sleeping next to her at the time.

"Dream Dream Puppet!" A load of strings extended out of my fingers, jerking one my asleep leg lashed out and kicked his face in time with Nami's. Then I made a loudspeaker descend from the roof of my inner cinema and I spoke into it. "Stay away from Nami, pervert!" Which was copied by my outer world, still sleeping body. I then thrust the loudspeaker back up where it vanished from sight.

Hachi, Camie and Pappug were kinda freaked out by how I could do all that in my sleep before the concept of my Dream Dream Mirror was explained by Nami. Pappug once again did the explaining for us in terms of the reason we had to go to Sabaody Archipelago before Fishman Island.

Apparently there were two ways to the New World, one for outlaws such as ourselves. A bloated Luffy questioned this, which the starfish detailed. The easier option was to ask permission from the World Government, pay some money, wait a while, leave their ship behind (which Franky was rightly annoyed at) and walk across the Red Line. Simple.

Our route, would be the 'Ocean Floor Route', Camie took over Pappug's explanation without permission. She said it was the most dangerous as us and our ship had to dive down to Fishman Island, meaning lots of sea monsters would want to make us our snack. Nami asked how the Sunny could travel underwater, let alone at such depths.

I pulled my loudspeaker down again to speak into it. "I've heard of this, it's a method called 'Coating'. It allows ships to sail underwater thanks to some kind of protective filter that can even withstand depths of the ocean floor." When everyone stared at my unconcious body I rolled my eyes. "Marcus told me." They all nodded in understanding.

Camie went on to explain how there was a small hole at the bottom of the Red Line where Fishman Island was located. Hachi backed up this point as Sanji swooned over Camie's knowledge, Zoro was getting himself muddled over the direction instructions, and Franky was still confused.

I woke up with a yawn and a stretch as something finally came into view. All of us gasped and exclaimed in wonder as we saw a large forest-like area filled with striped trees, houses, and...giant floating bubbles!

"This is the Sabaody Archipelago!" Camie told us.

"S-Soap bubbles!?" Usopp said in surprise and wonder. "What's up with those!? They're just floating on endlessly upwards, one after another! Are those soap bubbles coming from the island!?"

"Who's blowing them all!?" Chubby Luffy wondered aloud.

"Yes, they come from the island." Camie enlightened us.

"That's not really an explanation..." Usopp deadpanned.

"...How?" Luffy asked bluntly.

"...Ah, I'm sorry, but could I interrupt for just a moment?" Robin said, making us all turn to her. "Will the Log Pose be all right?"

"Oh..of course!" Nami exclaimed frantically. "Right now, it's pointing the way to Fishman Island, but won't it change its course if we stop here at this island!?"

"Nyu! You don't need to worry about that!" Hachi reassured her. "The Sabaody Archipelago is really just a huge growth of trees; it doesn't have any magnetic pull!"

"That thing's not even an island?" Sanji asked as he collected the empty cups.

Hachi was there to explain. "You know there's a type of tree called a mangrove? The one which grows its roots in the ocean, and they sink and emerge with the tide? Well these ones never sink under the water! The Sabaody Archipelago is a forest of the worlds biggest mangrove trees-the Yarukiman Mangrove!"

"Yarukiman is a pun on the phrase 'Yaru ki manman', meaning getting pumped up or motivated." I said to myself.

"A pumped up grove!?" A certain fat rubberman yelled. "It sure does look like it's got guts! I'm getting pumped up too!"

Hachi continued his explanation. "There are 79 trees in all, and on each one, people have built towns or other constructions. And it's those 79 'islands' which are known as the Sabaody Archipelago! And it's where people go if they want to head to the New World! The closest island, Grove 44, is the civilian entrance. So let's take the ship a little further in."

"Wow!" Chopper marvelled. "They really are all huge roots!"

We docked near a group of buildings next to a large striped tree with the number 41 on it.

"And the trees are really huge too!? And look at those stripes! It looks like candy!" Our doctor said.

"I miss sweets." I sighed.

Luffy, Usopp and Chopper waved their hands at me with half-lidded eyes. "That's not right, dumbass."

"Stop making fun of my pronounciation!" I yelled at them.

"Well the, let's drop anchor here, at Grove 41." Pappug said. "Make sure you don't forget the number everyone!"

"The islands are all linked together by bridges, so as long as you don't forget your number, you won't get lost." Hachi told us.

"I can think of one person who'd get lost anyway." Usopp mumbled, looking at a certain swordsman.

"I agree." I followed up.

"Yeah." Chopper finished.

"Stop looking at me like that!" Shark Zoro yelled.

I then happened to see one of the bubbles float out from one of the tree roots!

"Sugoiiii! A bubble just came out of the ground!" Luffy gasped, poking the new bubble.

"How does that work?" Robin asked.

Luffy jumped onto the bubble, which supported his weight. "You can stand on it!" He stated.

"Wow! That's so cool!" Chopper said.

I climbed onto one myself, carefully balancing on it. "It's all wobbly. But really cool!" I hypothesized.

"The roots of the Yarukiman tree secrete a special, unique kind of resin." I heard Pappug say.

I saw Robin pick up and examine some. "Oh dear, it's all sticky." She then proceeded to wipe it off on the closest thing to her, which was Usopp.

"Don't wipe it on me!" He yelled, face-faulting.

"Hey Ellix! I'll race you to the top!" Luffy said.

"You're on!" And so we began ascending, jumping from bubble to bubble to get higher and higher.

"Whooooo!" Luffy called.

"Luffy! Ellix! You're amazing!" I heard Chopper call to us.

I had climbed pretty high until I saw Luffy waving at me and pointing. 'What the heck is he doing?' I looked where he was pointing and gasped.

There was a giant ferris wheel spinning around in the middle of a theme park! 'A theme park!? This place is awesome!'

"Hey guys!" My captain shouted, almost making me fall off of my bubble. "I can see a theme park! Let's go! I wanna go on the ferris wheel!"

The others seemed to be discussing something as me and Luffy floated up above the trees.

"Woah! Check out the view!" I said, looking at the tree tops.

"Shishishi! It's really cool!" Luffy chuckled.

I then heard two popping sounds, looking down I realised both mine and Luffy's bubbles had gone, we were just hanging in midair.

"Oh...FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDGE!" I screamed as we plummeted down to the ground. Luckily I had managed to stop my fall and land slowly thanks to Geppo. Luffy was not so lucky.

"The bubbles have to stay in Sabaody Archipelago. They can't hold themselves outside the environment." Camie explained to me.

"Arigatou Camie." I thanked her, pulling Luffy out of the crater his fall created.

Me and Luffy walked in on Hachi explaining how he knew a mechanic who could coat the Sunny and was very good. "But in return for this, I'd like you to promise me one thing."

"Right, what is it?" Luffy asked without hesitation.

"Once we go into town we're bound to see World Nobles around the place."

'World Nobles?' I thought to myself. 'Now there's a conflicting argument.'

Marcus had always said World Nobles were...allow me to do this accurately: 'Selfish bastards who think they're better then common folk.'. But Oren had always said they were respected individuals who live in Mariejoa. the 'Holy Land'.

As Robin explained them to Luffy, Hachi continued. "No matter what might happen while your in town, you've gotta promise me you'll never defy the World Nobles! Even if people were to be killed right before your very eyes, you just have to pretend you didn't see anything!"

I was kinda leaning towards Marcus' view now.

"What!? Why!?" Luffy shouted.

"Just listen!" Hachi said, trying to calm him down. "They are a very respected group of people, if you assault one...you could have a marine admiral attack you!"

"An admiral just for hitting one person!?" I yelled. "They really are that important!?"

"Yes! So I need you to promise me! Otherwise you'll all be in danger!"

Luffy and I still didn't like it, but for our nakama, it was worth it. "Okay," Luffy agreed.

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"Oh dear." Nami sighed using perfect acting. "We have all this treasure piled up inside our ship. I do wish I had a dashing knight to protect it for me."

Sanji jumped at the opportunity with vigour. "Your wonderful knight is here Nami-swaaaaan!"

"Oh, arigatou Sanji!" Nami beamed, making him go as weak as jelly.

So soon the Straw Hats minus Sanji, Usopp, Franky and Zoro (obviously) went into town with Camie, Pappug and Hachi, who were all in disguise due to the areas discrimination against fishman. Seriously! That totally annoys me! Just because a person is different on the outside means you can treat them like FRIKKIN DIRT!? WHAT THE HELL KINDA SOCIETY IS THAT!?

"Ellix!" Nami's voice broke through my thoughts. "You okay?"

I smiled at her. "Yep, perfectly fine!"

Those World Nobles annoy me as well. Just because they are 'descendants of the greats' they think they're better then everyone else. They wear FRIKKIN HELMETS TO AVOID BREATHING THE SAME AIR AS US! HOW SELF-CENTRED CAN YOU BE!?

"ELLIX!" I jumped back at Nami's outburst. "Can you stop daydreaming for a second please!?"

"Gomen, gomen!" I said quickly, sighing afterwards.

To be honest, I was falling asleep again from Hachi's warnings. Don't do this, don't do that, don't tell anyone or frikkin NINJA marines will come after you with hellhounds...maybe I overexaggerated. But you get the point.

We stopped at a nearby shop that selled these awesome things called 'Bubble Bikes' which let you ride around in a bubble, it's so awesome!

Luffy was loving it as we watched him zoom around in his little bubble. I heard Hachi saying something about only renting them, which Luffy was annoyed at (and so was I) but he said he's explain later.

Soon we all had our own Bubble Bikes. Luffy and me rode our own individual ones, Nami rode one with a basket for Chopper to sleep in and Pappug to float in the bubble, and Hachi, Camie, Brook and Robin all rode a really big one.

"Sabaody Archipelago has a unique atmosphere, when the bubbles leave it, they can't stay together so they pop." Hachi explained to Luffy.

"Ah, so that is why we rented the Bubble Bikes instead of buying them" Robin elaborated.

I looked back at the seller with distaste. "Clever little jerk."

"Hmmmmm...I still don't get it." Luffy said with a stupid look. "I think I'll buy one anyway."

I face-palmed with one hand as Nami explained it in a simpler way: "When they leave the island, the mysterious bubbles burst."

"They mysteriously burst!? Damn...so that's how it is." Luffy said sadly.

"Ah, but Luffy-chin! You can use them down at Fishman Island!" Camie told him.

"I wanna go to Fishman Island sooooooon! Sounds so fuuuuuuun!" Luffy whined. "What's it like there? No wait! I don't want to know yet!"

"You wanna make sure you meet the 'Mermaid Princess'. She's a stunner! And I'm a starfish so you know that's the truth."

"Not as good as Nami." I mumbled.

"Ah! I would like to meet her, I truly do only have eyes for beauty...but being a skeleton I have no eyes! Yohohohoho!" Brook laughed.

Luffy, as usual, was distracted by food in the form of a stand selling 'Granju' a.k.a. Grand Line Manjuu.

So we did what any normal person would do, stuff our faces with the free samples.

After Luffy, Chopper and Brook bought some stupid souvenirs I rode over to Nami. "Hey Nami! You gotta try these free Manjuu samples! They're great!"

She turned and smirked at me. "Ah, Ellix. Could you please come and help me and Robin with some shopping?"

I immediantely started getting nervous. "W-Well um...you see...t-t-the thing is...ummmm...I was planning to-"

"Great!" She said, seizing my wrist to my horror. "I'm sure we can find something for you too!"

"No! Please!" I yelped as she dragged me off.

"Camie-chan wouldn't come even though we invited her." Nami spoke to Robin as she dragged me along.

"She does seem to have become more reserved ever since we landed." Robin replied.

"L-Luffy! Save me!" Unfortunately my rubber captain had flown off as I dug all my fingers into the ground. Making a long scrape mark.

"What do you think could be wrong with her?" Nami asked Robin.

"...There's always a chance that she might have...some kind of 'bad history' associated with this island..."

"NOOOOOOO!" I screamed frantically as we disappeared inside the mall.

xxxSummitxWarxxx

I dragged the heavy bags around with me as Nami and Robin STILL continued to shop! We had been here HOURS! I was sooooo BORED! Shopping is always boring! Especially when it's not YOU who's shopping.

Still, I didn't dare fall asleep in case I got hit on the head, which was quite likely.

"Are you alright Ellix?" Nami called back.

"M...y...sp...ine..." I managed weakly.

"I'm sure Ellix is well." Robin reassured her.

'I'm doomed...'

However we had finally finished and had stopped for a small snack. I was relieved and thanked every possible god for the break. I tucked into my sandwich hungrily, forgetting I had eaten a mountain of takoyaki and manjuu today already.

"Oh yes, Ellix." Nami said. "I got something for you too."

'Oh please no...'

She reached into one of the bags as Robin looked at me with one of her knowledgeable smiles. "Okay Ellix. Close your eyes and hold out your right hand."

I did as I was told and begged for it not to be pink. Oh dear Oda, PLEASE don't let it be PINK!

I felt something fall across my wrist. "You can open your eyes now."

I opened them and looked at the new thing on my wrist.

It was a black rubber wristband that dangled freely off of my wrist, but would have to have stretched to go over my hand. On it was the sentence 'Ellix and Nami' imprinted in gold writing.

"I thought you'd like it. Thanks again for distracting him at the time Robin." Nami said.

"No need to thank me." Robin said.

I felt tears well up in my eyes as I hugged Nami. "I love it! Thank you so much Nami!"

She smiled and hugged me back. "No problem."

I began blushing as I felt her chest against my own, so I went and picked up the mountain of bags with renewed energy. "So, are we going then?"

"Yes, yes." Nami giggled, allowing me to sigh in relief.

I kept glancing at my new wristband as we exited the store and hopped onto our Bubble Bikes, Robin riding on the back of Nami's and their bags sitting in the bubbles themselves.

"I've been thinking..." Robin said suddenly.

"About what Robin?" Nami asked.

"I remember learning that 200 years ago, fishmen and mermaids were degraded as nothing more then mutated creatures."

"N-Nani!? Really!?" Nami gasped.

"Yeah..." I whispered.

"Ellix, you knew about this?" The navigator questioned me.

"Yeah, Marcus again. But I thought that had all stopped by now."

"They were classified as 'fish' and were persecuted by people all over the world...everbody despised them..." Robin continued.

"Even those strong fishmen...!?" Nami asked, shocked by the news.

"Having numbers is a 'strength' in itself that no-one can stand against..." The older woman told her. "This continued until the World Government extended an olive branch to the Mermaid Island 200 years ago. Another evil remnant of history is the culture of 'slaves' and 'human trade', that is still tolerated on this archipelago. So I thought that maybe mermaids and fishmen were still descriminated against."

I gritted my teeth. "The fact that everyone is different is what makes the world unique. And just because fishmen and mermaids look different people think they can trade them and buy them like THINGS!?...Everybody on this archipelago makes me sick."

"Ellix..." Nami sighed. "I wonder if that's why Hachi and Camie hide who they really are."

"I hope I'm just overanalyzing things though." Robin finished.

'I hope so too...'

"Sleepy! Girl! Robin!"

The cyborgs cry could be heard clear as day. We looked up to see Franky riding on some flying fish down towards us.

"Eh!? Franky!?" Nami yelled. "And don't call me that!"

"Get on a flying fish! The mermaid got kidnapped!" Franky shouted.

"...kidnapped!?" Robin gasped.

"Camie!?" Nami shouted back.

"She's in danger!" I screamed.

xxxStrongxWorldxxx

So that is this chapter done! I hope you learned a bit more about Ellix from this chapter! Next time things start to get hectic.

To TheRealEvanSG, thanks for your review! Yes, Ellix is one to hold a grudge against those who hurt his nakama, as mentioned back in my first fanfic he considers his nakama his 'treasure' just like Luffy with his hat.

To ThiefofStealth, I'm so glad you like this story and I'm glad your following it now as well! I value you as a reader since your the first person to read my fanfics, so thanks for the review!

One Piece is Oda's, Ellix is mine, thank you for reading!