Luffyko watched as the pirates prepared to attack and grinned, "They're finally here! Here they come! And here I go!" She grabbed onto the railing and pulled back, "Gum Gum Rocket!" She cried as she launched herself forward twisting around so she could see her enemy, "Gum Gum Scythe!" She yelled as she knocked men off the floating pieces of their ship into the ocean. She grabbed onto a piece of the mast and swung over to it and watched the men swimming in the water.

Sanji looked at the men, "What is she? And the Grand Line has more of these kinds of people…"

"Sanji, watch carefully how she fights. Watch her until the battle finishes."

"Who else would I watch?" Sanji said as he looked towards the slim girl, "I just hope they don't cut her soft silky skin!" He then watched as she taunted Krieg.

"They gave you food to eat, but instead you attacked them! You don't even know how to be grateful! I'll send you to the sky!" She said with a grin as she looked at her enemy.

Krieg looked at the slim girl clinging to the mast, "You've chosen to fight on the sea where there is nowhere to stand. I know people who posses the power of the devil fruit are afraid of the sea. You little anchor."

Luffyko smirked in return, "But I can stretch instead!" Then the water began to flow making the two stop and turn to see as a platform come up around the ship. "Wow! That's so cool!"

Sanji stepped forward onto the fins, "Why don't we fight to our hearts content, pirates?"

Krieg looked at him and smirked, "Oh I see. The restaurant won't be harmed. How convenient for since we're going to take it. Now I want this ship even more."

When the cooks protested a small fish ship detached and began to move powered by two of the cooks. Luffyko looked at it in amazement, "Cool! I want one too!" She watched as it fired and grabbed on to the mast tighter as it moved from the force of the attack then turned to watch it fire again, "Not bad." She watched as it rammed Krieg only to have him stop it with one hand.

"I'm Don Krieg, the man who will conquer the world's seas!"

Luffyko glared at him, "I've told you before that I'll be the one to do that."

"I don't have time to play these games!" Don Krieg yelled as he picked up the small boat and tossed it.

Luffyko watched in amazement as Sanji jumped into the air and kicked the heavy metal boat away before it hit the restaurant. "That was awesome!"

Sanji landed and gave a small dance, "Did you see how amazing I am Luffyko?!"

Luffyko grinned and gave him a thumb up, "Way to go, Mr. Cook!"

Sanji's grin vanished when the pirates boarded the ship and then they began to beat the cooks. When the pirates continued to advance, Sanji stepped forward, "You won't step one foot inside here." The other cooks agreed and told Krieg why they wouldn't give them the restaurant. With renewed determination they attacked again this time defeating many of the pirates. Then a man wearing a large shield with pearls appeared and climbed up onto the deck of the ship and knocked away the chefs.

"What are you doing?" He stretched and grinned, "I am Iron Wall! Also known as Krieg Pirate's Invincible Iron Wall Shield Man. It is I Pearl!"

Zeff looked at the two main cooks that were now beaten, "Patty, Carne-are you okay?"

Pearl laughed, "How can they be okay? They were defeated by my killing punch, 'Pearl's Present'."

Another pirate grinned then went over to Patty, "Hey, this knife's not bad. I'll take it." He said as he grabbed the kitchen knife Patty had, however the unconscious Patty would not let go, "Let it go, give it to me!"

"Leave it." Sanji demanded as he walked over, "You bastard, leave it!" When the man looked up he received a quick kick to the face sending him flying back, knocking over three other of the pirates into Pearl. He caught the knife as it was falling from the air and glared at them.

Luffyko was amazed, "He really knows how to kick! I'm definitely interested in him…"

"A knife is a soul of a cook, an outsider doesn't deserve to touch a cook's knife." Sanji heard Patty groan out his name and handed him the knife, "Hold onto it and lay there. I'll finish these guys off." As the pirates charged him saying useless cooks couldn't beat them, he vanished appearing in the middle of them and then kicked them in a whirlwind fashioned as he supported himself on his hands. "What do you mean by useless cooks? I'll gut you like a fish!"

"Are you so arrogant that you only kick them?" Pearl asked as his fellow crewmates lay defeated around them. "Is this your principle?"

Sanji looked at the man uninterested, "A cook's hands are his life. He cannot injure them in battle." He raised his one foot and smirked, "So I'll finish you with these feet."

Pearl looked at Sanji in disbelief, "Finish me? Impossible. In my last sixty-one battles, I have one them all completely unharmed. I have never spilled a single drop of blood in a battle. Not a single drop, this justifies how strong I am! I'm the strongest of the strongest! I'm strong huh?" He bragged.

Luffyko looked at the man in disbelief, "Is he joking? It's not very funny."

"Hey straw hat!" Krieg yelled as he swirled a heavy chain, "If you look somewhere else, you'll get hurt!" He said as he swung the chain with the spiked ball at the mast she was on breaking it then sending it back sending it into the part of the mast she was clinging too sending her towards the restaurant and into pearl.

Pearl was finishing saying how strong he was when Luffyko hit him in the back of the head, hitting his face against the iron shield he held, "Are you alright my dear?" Sanji asked as she rolled over by him.

Luffyko grinned and started brushing herself off, "He scared me! I nearly fell into the sea.." She looked up and saw blood drip down Pearl's face and then watched as his crewmates began to panic and try to reassure the pirate it was only a nose bleed.

"This…this…this is dangerous!" Pearl said as he looked up nervously.

"He looks strange, what happened to him?" Sanji wondered aloud.

"Something about the nose bleeding?" Luffyko wondered as she began to pick at her ear.

Krieg also tried to reassure his subordinate, "Calm down Pearl! Don't get mad over a nose bleed!"

Sanji watched as Pearl began to bang his two shields on his hands together, "What the hell is he doing?"

"Bodily harm! Bodily harm! Bodily Harm!" As Pearl yelled his shields caught fire. "Fire Pearl! Special favor!"

Suddenly fire spread out from around him causing Luffyko to gasp and jump back, "Ah! It's hot!"

"With these shields of fire, I'm indestructible!" Pearl yelled going into an insane rage.

Luffyko ran around on fire, "Hot! Hot! Hot!" She repeated as she ran around trying to extinguish the flames.

Sanji caught her and put the flames out, "Shit he really plans to burn this restaurant down." He turned to Luffyko and pushed her back gently, "Don't worry I'll handle this." With that said he charged Pearl and all the fire, "Bastard! Don't you dare burn this restaurant!" He leaped and brought down his leg on one of Pearl's shields on his shoulder. When he landed in front of Pearl he listened as the other pirates wondered in amazement how he could withstand the fire Pearl was releasing. "Idiots. If I'm afraid of fire, then how can I call myself a cook?"

Pearl looked down at him in horror, "What an annoying guy!"

"Get this!" Sanji said as he flipped to his hands and pulled a powerful kick down into Pearl's chest and face, knocking him to the ground.

Pearl stood up holding his face as blood gushed out, "What kind of cook is he? This isn't good! Damn! Damn! Damn it! Fire! Fire! Fire Pearl keeps on burning!" He yelled as he launched tiny balls of fire towards the restaurant.

Zeff was able to extinguish them with one kick of his pegged leg. The small balls pounced harmlessly around him and everyone stared in amazement, "This is nothing." He said as he focused on the fight on hand.

Luffyko grinned at the man, "The old man is strong!"

Krieg glared at them, "If that's how it is, then I'll sink you and your 'fin' into the sea before the fire burns the restaurant." He swung his heavy chain with the spiked ball and aimed it at Sanji, who was surrounded by fire.

Luffyko ran through the fire complaining about the heat before jumping up, "Gum Gum Bazooka!" She cried as she launched the heavy chained ball back at Krieg. "Hot! Hot! Hot!" She yelled as her clothes began to catch fire.

Sanji looked at the slim girl in amazement, 'She shot back that spiked ball?" He looked over to see the spiked ball had broken another mast and that it was falling in their direction. He quickly picked up the slim girl and ran out of the fire as it came down onto Pearl's head. "My dear are you okay?" He asked as soon as they were in the clear.

Luffyko grinned and nodded and looked at Pearl, "What is he doing? This guy is stupid."

Krieg glared at them, "Every single time, I have to do everything myself."

Gin knocked Zeff over and pointed a gun at him, "This time you can end it, right?" Gin asked, hoping Sanji would give up and leave.

Luffyko looked as he put his hands in his pocket ready to give up, "Are you crazy you could die!"

"Maybe, but I'm glad you would care if a man like me would die." He said as he looked at the slim girl, then turned back to Gin ready for what was to come.

Gin clenched his jaw, "Sanji, why?"

"If you're so eager to die, let me do the honors." Pearl said as he stood back up, glaring at both the chef and girl. "I owe you one for my nose. Don't you dare move, if you don't want to get your boss's head blasted. He lunged then, "Ultimate Technique, Pearl Present!" He made contact with Sanji's face sending him into the ground and into the restaurant with a loud thud.

Luffyko went wide-eyed in terror, "Sanji! Why didn't you dodge that?"

Sanji tried to keep himself in control, he couldn't let Luffyko get involved and he couldn't let Zeff get hurt, "If I did that, he'd pull the trigger."

"Why are you doing all this? If you'd just abandon this restaurant, everyone will be saved! It's that simple!" Gin said hoping they would leave.

"This restaurant is that old man's treasure. I'm the one who took everything from that old fart. His power, and his dreams." He forced himself to stand up, "That's why, now…I don't want that old fart to lose anything, anymore!" Then he heard Pearl scream out an attack and Patty telling him to watch out, but before he could do anything he felt the shields crush into both sides of his head.

Luffyko clenched her jaw as she watched Sanji fall his eyes rolling back into his head. "Sanji…"

Sanji thought back to his past and clenched his fist and forced himself up, "He gave up his leg so that I could live. I too…if I don't place my life on the line as well, I won't be able to repay that old fart!"

"Why…why are you standing up, Sanji?"

"Even if I can make this restaurant last for just one moment longer."

"Yet another refined speech. But now, this restaurant will be out of business. From now on, it will be a pirate ship!"

Luffyko couldn't take it she lifted her leg high into the air, "Gum Gum Battleaxe!" She brought her foot down and shattered the fin, extinguishing the fire.

Krieg stared at the girl, "Is she trying to destroy the ship? Gin! Blow his head off! Hurry up!"

Gin looked down at the man, "But…he's the one who gave us enough to feed our men!"

"Gin, you bastard!"

"I wasn't fighting back at you." Luffyko said as she turned towards the man, "I only destroyed the fin."

Sanji looked at the girl, "What do you think you are trying to do?!" Was she trying to destroy the boat or was she trying to pick a fight that she had no chance of winning, no matter how strong she was.

"Sink it. I'm going to sink the ship." Luffyko said calmly.

Sanji walked up and grabbed her, "I thought you were going to say something else. Are you for real?"

"But if I destroy the ship, they can't get what they want."

"Ad what do you know about this!? What do you know about the immensity of my debt to this place?!" Sanji demanded no longer seeing Luffyko as a woman but instead of as someone endangering his goals.

Luffyko glared at him, "So you're going to die for it? Are you stupid?"

"What did you say?"

Luffyko slapped his hand away, "It's not about death!" She then reached out and grabbed his collar, "Dying isn't paying him back! That's not what he put his life on the line for! He save you so that you could live, yet you want to die?! Only a weak person would act like that!"

"Then what the hell do you suggest!?"

"Oh both of you stop arguing." Pearl said as he smirked at the two fighting, "Fighting amongst yourselves at a moment like this is just laughable. But you can't do anything regardless now that we have a hostage in our hands. How unfortunate for you, that you have to face us, the Don Krieg Pirates." He laughed and then clapped his shields together, "Now let my Fire Pearls burn you down!" He lunged at them only to be defeated by Gin in one blow. "Why? Gin…"

"Sorry Pearl, just stand aside."

"Gin, you're betraying me?!"

"Forgive me, Don Krieg. This person saved us. I don't want him to die like this. At least, let me finish him with my own hands."

"Have you lost your mind? My pirate fleet 'Battle commanding officer'?"

Sanji looked at Gin then, "Battle commanding officer-"

Luffyko grinned and struck a pose, "Look! Did you see how successful my 'decoy strategy of threat' was?"

"Stop lying! Do you really want to destroy the ship?"

"Sanji, I wanted you to get off this ship so that I wouldn't have to hurt you. But it doesn't look like that's gunna happen." Gin said as he looked at the two.

Sanji nodded, "Ya that's right. I won't go. This restaurant, I won't give it to you even if it costs my life."

"Then at least, let me kill you with my own hands. I can't make this right or wrong."

Sanji lit his cigarette, "Thanks. Eat shit."

Gin sighed and turned to the girl, "It's the same for you, Miss Straw-Hat."

"Not necessary, because I won't lose to a bunch of weaklings like you." Luffyko said seriously as she put her hands on her hips. When the men yelled at her for calling them all weak and said they were the strongest. Luffyko gave them a disbelieving look, "Don't you mean, the one with the most people?"

Sanji took a hit of his cigarette, "Looks like you hit 'em where it hurts."

"Yeah, definitely."

When the men began to charge Krieg called them off, "Back off! When a guy gets flustered because someone calls him weak, it's proof that he recognizes he is weak. Let the outcome determine the weak and the strong. I'm still here so don't make a fuss. Gin, you're responsible for killing that cook. That insolent wench, leave her to me."

"I understand, Don Krieg."

"Hey girl, I'll show you the power that conquered East Blue. I don't care if you've eaten a devil fruit. You will come to understand such a thing is meaningless."

"You never shut up." Luffyko said seriously as she looked at him from under her hat. "I want to kick your ass. That's it." She grinned then, "Shall we start then? You just wait right there for me."

"You're arrogant when I'm done with you, you will be an obedient lap dog, that is, if you don't die from your training."

Luffyko smirked and cracked her knuckles, "I won't die, and I'll be sure you will learn how to be gracious when I'm done with you, if you don't die from your training."