Law and Nami
Law clenched his fists as the image of their captor disappeared from their sight. The light the monkey was giving off dimmed, leaving only a light glow that barely lit up the small area they were in. His fists trembled before he ran over to a tree and punched it. The trunk of the tree shattered causing the tree to tumble over. "You need to calm down."
"Don't tell me what to do!" Law hissed as he turned to Nami and glared at her.
Nami flinched at his harsh glare but held her confidence in her voice as she spoke back to him. "Normally I wouldn't tell you what to do because, quite frankly, you scare me. But in this case I have to tell you to chill. You have a tendency to get a little crazy and unfocused when Neo isn't by your side or with a member of your crew. She needs you to focus right now. You're not doing it for me, you're doing it for her. Obviously you want to get her back, we all do. And we will get her back. Besides, you've trained her well enough. She knows how to take care of herself and she knows we'll come for her."
Law turned his back to her. He knew she was right, but he wouldn't admit that to her. "We can't do anything until the sun comes up. I'll start a fire. Who knows where we are? Or what creatures might be stalking us at this point."
Using what little light she had, Nami gathered up as many sticks as she could. Once she had enough she pulled out her weather staff, thankful she had it with her. She twirled it and used it to create a lightning bolt, lighting their much needed fire. The two eventually sat down. At one point Nami looked over at Law. He was staring directly into the fire. She knew he wasn't actually seeing it. His mind was on Neo. She wanted to tell him everything would be fine and that she was okay, but she just laid down and closed her eyes.
A few hours later the rays of light pierced through Nami's closed eye lids. She sat up and stretched. Law was already up. Nami wondered if he even went to sleep. She turned her attention to the monkey with them. It was still in the same place as it was last night. "So, you gonna show us where we're supposed to go?"
The monkey respond to her by forming a holographic map. It showed them their location and the location of the shard. Nami rubbed her chin as she studied the map. "If I'm reading this thing correctly the shard isn't too far off."
"Then let's get it and get out of here," Law grumbled, he loosened his tie and rolled up his sleeves as they began to walk through the forest.
About forty-five minutes later the small group of three began to see signs of a house peaking through the branches and bushes of the forest they were in. Nami let out a grumble sigh of relief. "Finally! I was beginning to think we were never going to get out of there. I need some water."
The two broke through the last of the forest and examined the scenery before them. Nami gasped. "Wow! It looks like Alabasta, minus the desert."
Down the hill from where they stood was a large mansion surrounded by a high stone fence with two large iron gates and soldiers lined up along the sides. On the sides of the mansion, but for the forest side where they were standing, was a city. They descended down the hill and made their way closer to the mansion. When they got about a hundred yards from the stone fence their monkey companion started to malfunction.
"What's wrong?" Law asked as Nami kneeled down to look at the monkey.
"I don't know. It just started going berserk," Nami grabbed the monkey and moved it back a few steps in the direction they came from. It went back to normal and tried to move forward again. But when it got back to the hundred yard mark, it when berserk. "That's odd. It looks like the monkey can't get any closer. But the shard is in that place."
"Then forget the stupid monkey," Law took a step forward to the mansion. "Let's get the shard."
"Halt! State your name and purpose for being here!" A voice demanded. They turned to see a couple guards walking up to them. When they got closer the two pirates noticed the two guards weren't human. They looked like dragons with human features. One of them had green skin while the other had blue skin. The color of their hair was hidden under their hats, but there eyes were solid black with only a small fraction of light glinting off them. The one who spoke before spoke up again after releasing a puff of fire from his mouth, revealing his sharp teeth. "Speak! What is your purpose for being here?!"
"At easy, Uther," The blue guard held out his hand, revealing his two inch long claws. "They are obviously not from this sector. Must have gotten separated from their tour group."
Uther let out a disapproval grunt. "This tourist drive is a bad idea. I've always said that. You'd think they would have learned by now."
"Tourist drive?" Nami questioned.
"Forgive Uther, he's on edge. We all are," The blue guarded turned back to Law and Nami. "See, the family that lives in this mansion, their daughter has been almost kidnapped twice."
"I see," Nami smiled at the guards. "Well, I'm sorry we gave you the idea we were up to something no good. I assure you we are not here to kidnap anyone."
"I can see that. You are much to pretty to be a heartless kidnapper," The blue guard smiled and Uther rolled his eyes. "My name is Volos. Welcome to Adalinda."
"Adalinda? Where in the New World is that?" Nami asked.
"New World?" Uther laughed. "Are you ill or something?"
"What's so funny? All I asked is where in the New World we are," Nami raised an eyebrow at the laughing dragon like person.
"We have never heard of this New World," Volos shot a disapproving glance at his fellow guard before turning a smile back to Nami. Nami looked over at Law. He didn't return her glance as he looked around. His eyebrows were kneaded in confusion and worry.
"Are we back in the East Blue? The Grand Line?" Nami asked without thinking.
"East Blue? Grand Line?" Uther laughed again. "You come up with some of the craziest names, little girl."
"Then where the heck are we?!" Nami demanded as panic began to settle into her stomach.
"I already told you, you're in Adalinda," Volos was now giving her a concerned look. "Hydra Sector of the Serpent Dome."
"Come to think of it, neither of you look like or smell like serpents," Uther said as he rubbed his chin and looked Nami and Law up and down. He then took notice of the monkey on the ground. He poked it with his security stick. "What manor of creature is this?"
"It's my pet," Nami stated carefully. She picked up the monkey and look a few steps backwards. She looked over at Law. He finally looked at her and nodded. They had the same thought. They needed to get away from this area and find out more information on where they were and what they were really dealing with. "Well, it was really nice to meet both of you, but we really have to go."
"If you wait a few minutes another tour will be coming by. You can catch a ride with them," Volos called to them as they started to walk off.
"That's okay," Nami called back to him. "We'll walk!"
The two rushed towards the city. It was about a half a mile from the mansion. Nami held on tightly to the monkey as they quickened their steps. "Okay, where the heck are we? They've never heard of the Grand Line or the New World. Where did that blob thing bring us? Another planet?"
"We'll just have to ask," Law said.
"Ask? After the looks those two gave us back there? Let's just find a library," Nami said as they entered the city.
Law ultimately agreed with her. They had to be careful with what they revealed to the people living here. It took them a couple hours to find the correct building they were looking for. Apparently the word 'library' didn't exist in this culture. When they finally did find the correct building, their growing hope was soon dashed. The books were written in a language that was unfamiliar to them.
"We're just going to have to ask," Law said as he slammed the book he was holding closed. He stood up and headed for the exit.
"And get thrown in whatever constitutes as the looney bin here," Nami grumbled as she stood up and followed after him. "I can't think anymore. I'm too hungry. Let's eat first."
"With what money? I highly doubt they use the same currency that we do," Law said as he looked around the city at the serpent people.
"Oh, I've been working on that since the first step into the city," Nami grinned as she held up a sack that jingled. She then led the way over to one of the restaurants. They sat down at a table and a young waitress walked over to them. Since the menus were in the same language as the books Nami asked the waitress to bring them something that tourists would love.
As Nami sipped on her drink, which she couldn't figure out what it was but thankful it was good enough to drink, her eyes wondered up to Law. He was staring down at the table, his mind where ever Neo was. She didn't say anything as she turned her attention back to her drink before letting her eyes wonder over the room. They were very busy. So their food probably wasn't going to come anytime soon.
"I am so sorry about your wait," The waitress said as she sat down their plates. "We've been short handed lately."
"Not a problem. We understand," Nami smiled. The two dug into their meal. Even though they couldn't place the food they were eating it was at least eatable and decent.
"Is there anything else I can get for you two?" The waitress asked when she walked back over to them some time later.
"You can tell us where we are," Law said bluntly.
"Trafalgar!" Nami hissed and dropped her head to the table, thinking they were going to get locked up.
"I know it might sound like strange thing to say, but we were in a battle and can't remember much," Law added calmly. Nami looked up at him and blinked. She wondered why she didn't think of that. Amnesia was a perfect cover for why they didn't know anything about the area they were in. And they were recently in a battle.
"That's horrible," The waitress gave them a sympathetic look.
"We talked to some guards before and they said we were in Adalinda, Hydra Sector of the Serpent Dome," Law said. "Where is that exactly?"
"In the Time Stream," The waitress said as she sat down with them.
"We don't mean to interrupt your work," Nami said.
"Don't worry about it. I was about to go on break anyway," She smiled at Nami. "The rush hour is now over. We won't have many customers for a while. Oh, my name is Bindy."
"His name is Trafalgar Law. And you can call me Nami," Nami shook Bindy's outstretched hand.
"It's nice to meet you both. Now, back to what I was saying, you're in the Time Stream. This dome we're on is home to the serpent people. From your looks my guess is you're from another Time Dome. You must have arrived here after the Time Spheres stopped working," Bindy pushed her chair back on two legs.
"Time Spheres?" Nami asked. "What are those?"
"It's how we travel from Time Dome to Time Dome. I was only a kid when they stopped working five hundred years ago," She was staring up at the ceiling so she didn't see the concerned glances passing between Nami and Law. Nami mouthed to Law 'Five hundred years?' "Although, I don't believe I've ever heard of people who look like you living in the Time Stream. Then there are a lot of Time Domes so it's not impossible. What are you exactly?"
Bindy scanned Nami and Law.
"We're humans," Nami said carefully. She wasn't sure how much she should reveal.
"Humans, huh? Definitely never heard of you," Bindy said.
"Like you said, we're not from around here," Nami chuckle nervously. "So, what happened to cause the, um, Time Sphere's to stop working?"
"No one really knows for use. All we know is some guy is trying to take over the Time Stream," Bindy looked around the room to see if anyone needed anything.
"What guy?" Nami asked.
"Pendulum," Bindy said, once again not catching the concerned glances passing between Nami and Law. They carefully glanced over at the silent spider monkey sitting in the other chair with them. "He's been in constant battle for centuries with Time Empress Futura. People assume one of their battles must have knocked out the Time Spheres. It's kinda strange. You'd think, that after five hundred years, Empress Futura would have gotten them fixed by now. We've all been stuck in our own Time Domes sense. Some people had to relocate here when the spheres stopped working. Some are fine with it, while others are upset and want to go home. I sure hope this mess gets cleared up soon. I'd like to take a vacation to Desert Dome. They have such a nice and relaxing atmosphere there. I'm going to need it if I'm ever going to pass my entrance exams to get into the brainery."
"I thought you worked here," Nami said.
"I do, but I'm supposed to be studying for the entrance exams," Bindy sighed. "This is actually my families establishment. For some reason people keep quitting working here within a couple weeks of starting. I don't have much choice but to help out. We can't loose this place. It's my families only source of monetary. Plus, my papa would be so broken if he had to close this place. And to put an even bigger strain on things, our biggest client is hosting another ball in a few weeks."
"A ball?" Nami asked.
"I'm sure you noticed that big mansion just north of the city, that's the client. Their daughter is having her coming out into society party. They've hired us to supply to refreshments. It's such a strain on papa, especially since we can't keep anyone on our staff," Bindy sighed again.
"We noticed all the security around that place and a couple of the guards mentioned a kidnapping?" Nami said.
"Yeah, no one knows who keeps trying to take her. Probably just some low life punks who want to ransom their daughter off," Bindy dropped her chair back onto it's four legs. "They've got some serious security there now. It's impossible to take any type of machinery within a hundred yards of the place without it malfunctioning."
Law and Nami looked at their monkey. Now they understood what happened earlier with it. Bindy stood up. "Well, I should get back to work. If you have anymore questions I'd be happy to help you folks out. Must be rough not remembering anything about yourselves. If you need a job, or a place to stay, we can set you up here. We really could use the help too."
"Thanks. We'll think about it," Nami waved as Bindy walked off.
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Author's Notes: Am I imagining things or has anyone else noticed in the anime, English version, during the Sabaody episodes the Straw Hats park their ship on 'Grove 41' but later on the keep saying their ship is at 'Grove 1'?