Luffyko was enjoying her lunch when Sanji heard a noise, "Shh quiet." He demanded as he leaned over the boat.

Luffyko watched as the large cow like monster appeared, "It's a cow!"

"Not a cow, cow's don't swim…a hippo?"

Yosaku glared at the two, "Who cares! It's obviously from the Grand Line! What is it doing all the way out here?"

Luffyko looked at the monster, "Why is it staring at us?"

Yosaku looked at the cow then at the food, "It wants the food! Give it to him before he sinks the ship!"

Luffyko punched it sending it back into the water, "Bad sea cow! Stay away from the food!" They watched as the sea cow reappeared and Luffyko got ready to punch again, "Want more?"

Sanji stopped her, "No need for violence, it's just a baby and can't feed herself yet." Sanji picked up a plate and offered it to the monster, "Don't be scared, I won't hit you." Right before the cow could take a bite Sanji kicked it under the jaw sending it back into the water.

"What the hell are you doing?! Damn jerk!" Yosaku yelled at him.

Sanji shrugged, "It was going to eat me too, what else could I do?" Luffyko watched as it reappeared again, madder than ever. And got ready to fight. "Stand back, let your knight in shinning armor take care of this." He ran up and at the monster and sent a powerful kick knocking it out into the sea then sat down beside Luffyko and began to pour her drink for her. "That was refreshing."

"Food!" Luffyko cheered as she continued to eat. "What if we tied a rope to the monster and had it swim us to Nami's village?" She wondered as she ate another sweet roll.

Sanji and Yosaku looked at her in surprise then quickly set about tying their small ship to the massive sea monster. "Great idea, lil sis Luffyko."

Sanji nodded and then began to wake the great beast. "Alright you big Hippo go in that direction, or else."

Luffyko cheered as her ship began its quick journey toward the island. "We will be there in no time!" She let a small smile creep to her face, 'Zoro, Nami, Usopp, soon we will be reunited under the same flag.' She thought as the wind rushed past her face. "Let's go!"

Meanwhile…

Zoro sat in his cell and thought about his encounter with Nami and Arlong. There had to be a reason Nami was working with him. She wouldn't be just anyone's navigator, and her relationship with Luffyko had been that of sisters. No Arlong had something over Nami and he would figure it out and get Nami back on their ship. Luffyko had told him to bring her back and that was what he would do. He heard someone enter the cell and looked up to see Nami. She cut his ropes and left him his sword; "Get out of here while Arlong is gone."

Zoro looked down at the ropes then picked up his sword. "Well might as well prepare to take Nami back." He walked out of the cell and found the fish men waiting around. "Well hello, fish freaks. Let's take care of business." He easily took care of them and then sat in the seat Arlong had sat in earlier. "She told me to run. But there's just nowhere else to go but here. Besides Luffyko told me to bring her back…I wonder what she's up to…it's starting to get messy around here." He watched the sky for a bit longer and sighed, "Luffyko where are you…five more minutes of this and I will keel over from boredom." That's when he heard a fishman over the wall of the park. He watched three poles moving and listened as the fishman was attempting to catch a fish only for it be himself. Zoro walked over and got over the wall so he could look down at the fishman.

"That was weird." The octopus fishman said as he climbed back up the ledge where he had been sitting.

"Sure is." Zoro responded catching the fishman by surprise.

"Hey! Who are you? Speak up now!" He then paused and gave him a questioning look then pointed to himself, "Who me? I'm Hatchan, but all my friends call me Hatchi!"

"Are you a fishman too?"

"Of course, of course! I'm an amazing octopus fishman!" He waved his arms to show off the six arms he had. "It looks to me that you are just a human."

"Um…yeah."

"A marine, or possibly a guest?"

"A guest?" Zoro looked back and looked over his work, the beaten fishmen littering the courtyard of Arlong Park. "I guess you could say that."

"Arlong isn't here is he?"

"No, I thought you might know where he is."

"Apparently, there is some long nose guy causing trouble. So Arlong locked up the long nose's friend inside here and went to Cocoyashi Village to hunt down that pesky trouble maker."

Zoro helped back his groan, 'Usopp…well I guess I better save him.' He jumped over and stood next to the fishman, "This Cocoyashi Village, how do I get there?"

Hatchan pointed to a floating pot, "Get in. You are a guest; hop in, I'll take you, swordsman.

Zoro kept his guard up as they made their way to the village, while Hatchan talked the entire way there. 'Hopefully I find Usopp soon. Luffyko won't be happy if he gets killed.'

"We're here." Hatchan announced as Zoro jumped out of the pot, "Cocoyashi Villlage, Arlong should be somewhere around here."

"Oh, great. Thanks."

"No problem! Bye now!" Hatchan said as he jumped into the water, "Oh one more thing! I completely forgot to ask you your name!" Zoro froze, then Hatchan continued "What do you mean? We've been over this, I told you my name! Hatchan! Nice to meet you."

Zoro sighed as the fishman swam away, "That was strange." He slowly made his way into the village when he heard one of the villagers talking about Usopp. He walked over and slammed his hand beside the man's head, "What do you mean he's been captured?"

"Ya they took him back to Arlong Park just a little bit ago."

"That courageous young man stood up to Arlong and the fishmen. He's probably dead by now."

Zoro looked down at his hand, "This is bad…they won't be forgiving after my little visit." He quickly turned around an quickly started to run, "Osopp, hold on!" Zoro clenched his teeth, where was he? Where was Arlong? He continued running till he heard a boom and the birds began to fly away. Then the forest began to shake. He looked where the noise was coming from and saw a ship. His mouth dropped in amazement, then horror as he realized it was heading straight for him.

The ship with Zoro, smashed to the bow hit a cliff and stopped. "Whew, we're here guys!"

"What the hell were you doing?!" Zoro yelled as he pulled himself out of the wreckage.

Luffyko stood there and tilted her head, "What do you mean? We are here to pick up Nami, duh. How come you haven't found her yet? Oh ya what about Usopp and Johnny?"

"Usopp! Oh no, come on we have to hurry!"

"Why what's going on?" Luffyko asked.

"That dumbass has been captured by Arlong! We have to hurry before they kill him!"

"He's already dead!"

Zoro turned and saw Johnny, "What?!"

"We are too late, Big Bro Usopp is dead. Nami murdered him!"