Luffyko smirked at the man before her as she drew herself up to her full height, "Get the picture now? This much space should be plenty for me. This much space will be enough to pulverize you!"

Krieg looked at the small girl in shock, "What?"

"That thing of yours, that spear is broken. It's nothing but a bomb on a stick now. It's power has halved."

Krieg smirked at the girl, "You think so?" She may have broken the spear tip, but she was weak now. She had lost too much blood and had been charred over and over again. There was no way she could defeat him. "Bomb on a stick, eh? That's not so bad. Its power is sufficient to blast you outta here. You're all battered up. Looks like you're barely making it."

Luffyko just smirked, "No, I'm not."

Krieg's smirk disappeared as he lifted his weapon, "Behold! Since you dared to defy the great Don Krieg, you are sentenced to death!"

"I'm not gonna die, so there!" Luffyko said as she stuck her tongue out at him. She watched as he lunged trying to bring the bomb down on her. She reached up and grabbed a mast that still stood tall. "Hey over here!" She yelled from the top of the mast.

"You little monkey, die!" He yelled as he swung again this time aiming for the mast she was on. He watched as she came back down with a mast in her arm, "Stupid bitch." He watched as she launched at him and he raised his arm and used a flamethrower to destroy it. "No use!"

Luffyko smirked and then began to throw punched, "Gum Gum Gatling Gun!"

Krieg smirked as her punches hit his armor. He stood there to show the slim girl his power, she would learn to fear him. "Useless! Against this metal armor, your punches are useless. It didn't even leave a scratch."

Luffyko raised an eyebrow and charged, "Gum Gum Pistol!" She yelled as she threw her strongest punch into his stomach, leaving the pirate hunched over her.

Krieg knocked her away with his bomb on a stick, sending her away in an explosion, "Enough of this!" He watched as she hit a wall and fell to her stomach, "Boring! Boring! This is absolutely boring! How could this armor possibly break with only a few hundred punches from this little girl?" He walked towards her and looked at her bent on her hands and knees, "Just stay like that girl, learn your place."

"I think I'm almost there." Luffyko said then looked up to where Krieg had been, "He's gone!"

"Over here." He taunted as he stood on top of the high mast. "Listen, with the best crafted equipment, the greatest power, and most powerful weapons; you'll be acknowledged to be strong. A very powerful person! The King of the Pirates!"

Luffyko smirked and charged the tilted mast, "And that'd be me!"

Krieg smirked and lifted his weapon, "Useless, you can't do much with persistence alone. He brought down the weapon in front of her and stared in shock when she continued running through it.

"Gum Gum Bazooka!" She yelled as she slammed her hands into his stomach sending him flying.

Krieg smirked as he went back, she was standing there in a daze, smoke rolling off of her. He threw his small bombs out with a grin, "It's no use! This is the limit of your strength." He heard a crack and looked down at his armor and saw it begin to shatter, "What?! My invincible armor is breaking?" He looked back at the girl and still saw her unmoving, "But it's too late. You're done for, little girl!"

Sanji watched in horror as he saw the bombs, "Luffyko, run it's a trap!" He watched her stay motionless as the bombs began to destroy the remaining part of the ship she stood on. He felt his heart tighten as he screamed, "LUFFYKO!" Seawater fell over him as he looked at where the girl had been. Suddenly he saw something shoot into the sky.

Krieg also saw it and screamed in shock as the slim girl appeared before him, "What?!"

"Gum Gum Bazooka!" She yelled with a smirk as she slammed her hands into the broken armor, shattering the armor into hundreds of pieces. She watched as he fell to the water and then she her limbs out in a victorious pose, "I win!"

Krieg awoke then, "You wish, damn brat!" He yelled as he raised a hand and shot a steel-net around her.

"He's still alive?!" She said in shock as the net inclosed her, dragging her towards the water, "Oh no."

Krieg laughed, he had captured the slim girl, "You can't run away from this iron net!" He looked below him and continued laughing, "The sea is below us! It's clear who the victor is, little girl! Start begging and I might decide to let you live. I could always enjoy a new pet. Give up girl, I'm always the one who has the last laugh!"

Luffyko smirked at him and pushed her hands and feet out of her net, "No problem, 'cuz my hands and feet are still free. She wrapped her feet around the net and down to him, "This time, it's really over! Gum Gum Sledgehammer!" She yelled as she spun him into the ground.

Sanji watched in amazement as he watched her crush Krieg into the ground, 'Having what it takes to survive, refusing to die…why all this?' He looked at the slim girl as she fell into the ocean, net still around her. He listened to everyone's shock as the truth became quite clear, Don Krieg, the strongest pirate in the East Blue had just been beaten by a small girl. He looked at the girl's hat that she had left by him during the battle, she had did it, she had defeated him.

Zeff looked at the boy and took a step forward, "If you've got the time to space out, why don't you go and rescue her? She's not going to resurface, you know." When he saw Sanji's surprise he continued, "Those who gain powers from the devil fruit are cast away by the sea, becoming deadweight in waters."

"What'd you say, old fart?!" Sanji yelled in horror as he began to take off his shoes and jacket, "Why didn't you say so earlier?! I'll hold you responsible if anything happens, to the lady!" He dove in and swam deeper and deeper searching for the slim girl who had defeated his enemy. 'Please be alright, I can not bear to live knowing it was my fault a woman died. Please…Where is she?' He swam farther down and then saw her on the bottom, captured in the metal net. "Hey, hang in there!" He yelled underwater as he brought her body closer to his. 'Please don't die, aren't you the one who refuses to die? Isn't that what you believe in?' He finally managed to pull her out, all the while thinking about her and her swordsman who fought for his dream, he began his ascent as he thought of the two 'All of 'em, where do they get their strength from?' As he looked towards the surface he saw the All Blue before him and realized the truth. He broke to the surface and looked to the girl, "Luffyko, don't you dare die on me now!" He made it back to the restaurant and laid the girl out, "You can't die, you hear?! You've got things to do, don't you?" He began to give her CPR and looked at the slim girl terrified he had taken to long to save her, "Hey, you can't just die! Say something already! Luffyko, don't die!" Then he saw her move, she was just asleep, with a sigh of relief he sat down and then messed with her hair, "Why you…" He looked down at the slim girl and gave a small sigh of relief; she was safe.

Luffyko woke up in a strange room. She reached up to check her hat and when she noticed it was gone she began to panic, "Where is it? Where's my straw hat!"

Sanji turned and saw the slim girl and handed her the hat, "There you go my dear!" He watched her put it on and sobered up a little, "Are you all right now?"

Luffyko looked around and noticed she was alone in the small room with Sanji, "Eh? Where'd they go?"

"They're gone thanks to you. 'We might meet again at the Grand Line,' was what Gin said."

"Gin, eh? He told you that?"

Sanji felt his eyebrow twitch but looked at the girl again and shook his head, "No he was talking about you of course, dear little Luffyko!"

"Oh ya, since I kicked 'em out, guess I'm off the hook with all the work here?"

Sanji turned to her with a frown, "Congratulations…"

"But, about you…"

Sanji knew where she was going and turned away to the sea, "I'm not going. As much as I would love to be able to see your beautiful face, I don't want to be a pirate. I'm staying here to continue being a cook, until that old fart acknowledges my cooking skills."

Luffyko looked down then, "I see…I'll give up then."

Sanji felt her hand grabbing him, "Your hand isn't giving up!" He said till she let go, "I know it will be hard to part for me too…but I can't go. They're all unreliable around here. But I'll go there someday, to the Grand Line."

Luffyko shot over by him and grinned, "Then, let's go now!"

"Not now. Hey, have you ever heard of 'All Blue'?"

"Nope."

"What? You haven't?!" Sanji's face broke out in a large smile, "It's a mystical sea! In that sea fish from all over- Eas Blue, West Blue, North Blue, and South Ble, can all be found there! It's like a wonderland for cooks like us and it's in the Grand Line! So, have you heard?"

Luffyko listened to Sanji till it was lunch. When they arrived in the room there was no where to sit, "Where's the food?"

Sanji glared at them, "Where do we sit?"

"We didn't save a seat for you, eat on the floor." One of the cooks said as they continued to eat.

"No seat? How can that be? This is a restaurant for crying out loud!" He got his food and sat on the ground, "Oh well."

Luffyko walked over with her plate and sat down next to Sanji, "They're acting weird."

"It's what they always do." Sanji said as Patty took a sip of his soup and asked whose it was. "Oh it's me! Me!" He said excitedly, "It's pretty good, eh? Today's is even more exceptional."

"I could hardly swallow this piece of crap!" Patty said.

Luffyko ate as she watched the cooks began to tell Sanji his soup was bad only to have Sanji yell back. She watched as the owner punched him and then as Sanji ran out the door upset. Curious of how the soup tasted she went over and began to try a bowl. "This soup's great!" She said as she began to get herself another bowl.

Zeff towards toward the slim girl then, "I know. Sanji's cooking is revered by everyone here." Luffyko listened as the other chef's agreed and supported what Zeff said. "If we didn't pull this off he would never leave, the stupid brat. Hey girl, you mentioned that you needed a cook on your ship, right? I'm not trying to force you or anything, but that brat of ours, care to take him with you? To the Grand Line. The Grand Line is what he's always dreaming about. How about it girl?"

"No." She took another bite of food as she listened to the chef's outrage, a number of them wondering if it was due to Sanji's affection towards woman.

"Didn't you say you need a cook on your ship?" Zeff asked the slim girl. "Or do you not like the guy?"

"It's nothing like that. I want to take him with me, but he said that he wanted to stay here as a cook. I can't take him along even if you guys insist."

"So you're saying that you can't do anything about it unless he says 'yes'?"

"Exactly. Seconds please!" Luffyko said with a smile. However, Zeff ignored as he thought aloud how to change Sanji's mind. However something burst through the door catching everyone's attention. She heard them mention merman and shark so she walked through the chefs, "Hmm what's going on…eh? Yosaku?" She walked forward and sure enough she found him in the jaws of a shark. She bent down closer to him, "Why are you the only one here? Where's everyone else, where's Nami?"

Sanji sighed and helped the man get dried off so he could undergo Luffyko's interrogation. "We didn't catch up with her. But from the direction she was headed, we roughly knew her destination."

"Why didn't you bring her back then?"

Yosaku looked away from the girls big expecting eyes, "Well about that, if her destination really is where we calculated, it'd be a dangerous place. Anyways, we need your help. Please come with me!"

"Okay! I don't really get it, but I get it!"

Sanji looked at the man and rolled his eyes, "Needing help from a delicate lady, pathetic." He watched as the girl and the man walked towards him and stopped him, "All of hold on to foolish dreams. I'm gonna do this for my own dream, for All Blue. As you wanted, I'll go with you, my fair lady." He said as he dipped down and laid a kiss on one of her slim hands. "On this road to be the Pirate King. Allow me to take up the position of cook aboard your ship. Also allow me the honor of being the lovely Nami's and your knight in shinning armor."

Luffyko gave a huge grin, "Okay!" Yosaku looked at the girl in surprise then heard murmor, "So cool he has shiny armor! I can't wait to see it!"

"Luffyko?" Sanji asked when she suddenly got quiet.

"This is amazing!"

Yosaku smiled, "Isn't this great, little sis Luffyko?"

"Yay! Yay! We got our cook!" Luffyko sang as she danced in a circle with Yosaku. "We'll always have something to eat now!" Luffyko said as they danced in a circle. She allowed Sanji to talk to the chef's before being lead to Sanji's ship, "Oh nice ship! Are you sure we can use this?"

Zeff smiled down at the slim girl, "It's Sanji's, so of course you can." He watched as she held a bag open and continued to take more of their food, even after they asked if it was enough. He then pulled out a his log book, "Girl, you want this? It's my journal during the year I ventured the Grand Line."

Luffyko just grinned, "I don't need it."

"Thought so."

She watched him leave then hulled the food she had managed to take to the ship. She put it away then went out to watch Sanji come out with his belongings. She smiled when two of the cooks attacked him for revenge over the years only to be easily beaten by a single kick. When he told her they could go she looked at him, "You sure? No goodbyes?" He replied no, but then Zeff called out to him. Luffyko gave a gentle smile as she listened to their goodbyes and watched their tears. With everything said she grinned, "Let's go!"

"Till we meet again you damned bastards!" Sanji yelled as they began to sail away.

Luffyko grinned then looked forward, "Alright men, let's go get Nami!"