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The Merry sailed on all through the night. Vivi had been quite surprised to learn that Connor knew nothing of navigation; after all it was an essential skill. She gave him a quick instruction on how the Log Pose worked.

"The red coloured part of the needle always points to the next Island," Vivi said.

"So point the ship in the direction the needle is pointing. That's it?" Connor asked back.

"That's the simplest way to put, yes. Oh and you can't trust the sea currents or the wind in the Grand Line so be sure to keep a close eye on the compass," Vivi finished.

Connor nodded, he kept the compass with him all night and checked it every few minutes. A short time later Connor noticed Vivi was struggling to stay awake; her duck friend had already fallen asleep on the deck.

"You should get some sleep. It won't be light for another few hours," Connor suggested.

"Good idea, where should I sleep?" Vivi asked.

"Anywhere on the deck,"

"What? But don't you have a guest room or crew quarters,"

Connor narrowed his eyes "No guest quarters and the crew quarters is for the crew only,"

"But…,"

"After what you tried to do. Do you honestly think I'd let you anywhere near the crew while there unconscious,"

Vivi looked down guiltily, he was right not to trust her but it still hurt.

"You can use your friend as a pillow," Connor said.

Vivi sighed and lay down on the deck, she leaned her head on Carue. It wasn't comfterble but she eventually fell asleep.

Connor watched her while she slept, he switched to his second sight and both Vivi and Carue had a white aura around them.

Connor stayed up by himself for the rest of the night and keeping a close eye on the Log Pose and the sleeping princess. A chilly wind began to blow, Connor noticed Vivi start to shiver. He quickly went inside and came out with a few blankets and gently placed them over Vivi and Carue. The cold did bother him but he knew that it would not stop him from staying up all night, his brand would ensue it.

The next morning when Vivi woke up she was surprised to find blankets on her. She smiled when she realised that the boy must've covered her last night. 'Maybe he's not all bad,' she thought. Vivi wondered where he was. Connor came out of the kitchen a minute later munching on an apple, he noticed Vivi and threw her one.

"What's this for?" Vivi asked catching the apple.

"Breakfast," Connor answered.

"Oh thank you," Vivi said with a forced smile. To be honest she was expecting something more for breakfast but she ate it anyway.

Around an hour later her tummy rumbled and Connor looked at her.

"Sorry I guess I'm a bit hungry, I don't suppose I could have something more to eat,"

"You ate that apple right?" Connor asked.

"Yes, but it wasn't enough,"

"I'm not supposed to take food. I'll get into trouble, one or two apples will go unnoticed but anything else will be noticed,"

"Really, is your cook that strict,"

"Yup, he beats up anyone caught stealing food from the kitchen or if any goes missing," Connor claimed. Though he left out the part that it was mainly Luffy he beat up, as he was always the culprit.

Vivi didn't want to get the boy in trouble; he was probably going to be in trouble for just letting her on board. She'd have to wait until the captain woke up and ask him.

Soon the Merry sailed into a thick fog and Connor pulled in the main sail, slowing the ship down.

"This fog is going to make it hard to navigate," Vivi commented.

"But we can use it for cover," Connor said.

"Good idea, your enemies won't be able to see you in all of this," a new voice said from behind.

Connor and Vivi immediately tuned around to the source of the unknown voice, on the railing above them sat a woman looking down on them.

She wore a skimpy cowgirl outfit. It consisted of a purple cleavage-exposing corset and matching miniskirt, both with white ornaments hanging from them, and a white fur-lined coat with a white cowboy hat and white high-heeled boots.

"Hello little princess,"

Vivi froze and stared at the woman in fear.

"Y…Y…You what are you doing here Miss All-Sunday?" Vivi asked fearfully.

"All-Sunday? Is she part of Baroqe Works too?" Connor asked.

"Yes she's the bosses' partner,"

"You mean Crocodile right?"

"Oh how unfortunate you know his name, but I didn't come here to fight,"

"Then why are you here?" Vivi demanded.

"Truthfully I wanted to meet the captain,"

"Are you after his bounty?" Connor asked.

"No, I have plenty of money already. But it's rare for a pirate to have such a high bounty before entering the Grand Line,"

"Well he's still asleep so you'll have to come back later,"

"Oh well maybe next time then, here," Miss All-Sunday threw something at Vivi and she caught it, it was an Eternal Pose.

"You're on your way to Alabasta right? But with the entire Baroque Works after you, it will be difficult. If you go to that island and wait for the Log pose to readjust you can avoid all Baroque works activity,"

"Can't we get there by following the Log Pose?" Connor asked concerned.

"You can but it is impossible to reach. The next Island is Little Garden if you go there you will never be able to leave," Miss All-Sunday warned.

Vivi looked at the eternal Pose in her hand; it was for an Island called Drum.

"How do we know that this route is safe?" she asked.

"None of our agents know that Drum Island is one of the closest Islands too Alabasta," Miss All-Sunday answered.

"But you do," Connor said dangerously.

"Yes but right now I have no orders to stop you, so if you chose to take the route that our organisation doesn't know about. Then if the boss finds out, it won't be from me,"

"Why are you helping us?" Vivi asked.

"Well you seem so desperate to save a dying country, but even if you tell the whole country the truth the result will be the same," Miss All-Sunday finished, she got up and jumped over the side of the Merry on to a giant sea turtle.

"Good luck," she said before swimming off.

Connor ran over to the railing, and caught a glimpse of her with his second sight, she was glowing a mixture of white and red.

"Odd," Connor said; it was the same mixture that Zoro had been when they'd first met and he still had no idea what it meant.

"Why would she help us? What is she really planning?" Vivi wondered.

"I don't think we should trust her," Connor said. "But let's keep that Pose just in case,"

Vivi nodded and pocketed the Eternal Pose. "So, now what do we do?"

"I guess we head to Little Garden, any Idea why it's called that?"

"None,"

"Oh well we'll find out when we get there,"

In the late afternoon Nami was the first to wake up; at first she was confused about waking up in her room. She was sure that she fell asleep in the banquet hall. 'One of the boys probably carried me back,' she thought and hoped it wasn't Sanji.

"That is the last time I drink that much," Nami muttered to herself.

She got out of bed and changed her clothes; once she was done Nami lifted her wrist to see if the Log had set. Her eyes widened the Log Pose was gone; she checked the tables and draws in her room but could not find the Log Pose anywhere.

"This is bad we need that compass," she claimed "hold on, is the ship moving?"

Nami went to her window and peered out, the ship was indeed moving and to make matters worse the island of Whisky Peak was nowhere in sight.

"GGGGGYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!," Nami screamed.

Outside Connor and Vivi heard the scream and looked towards the door it had come from.

"What was that?" Vivi asked.

"Nami's awake, the others will be up in a few minutes," Connor claimed and sat against the mast, Vivi stood next to him.

Nami's scream was heard though out the Merry and below deck a certain blond cook shot up.

"That was Nami," Sanji whispered "She's calling me. HANG ON NAMI-SWAN, I'M COMING," Sanji yelled out.

"SHUT UP YOU STUPID COOK," Zoro yelled and threw a pillow at him.

"Yeah, some people are trying to sleep," Usopp yawned.

"IDOT MY SWEET NAMI'S CALLING ME," Sanji shot back.

Zoro suddenly remembered what had happened and looked around for his swords; he found them next to his hammock.

"Damn bounty hunters," Zoro hissed, he grabbed his swords and pushed past Sanji heading for the exit.

"Bounty hunters? BOUNTY HUNTERS ARE ATTACKING NAMI. OUT OF THE WAY MOSS HEAD, NAMI-SWAN I'LL SAVE YYYOOOUUUU!"

"BOUNTY HUNTERS RUUNNNN," Usopp cried.

"Hey why are you lot yelling?" Luffy asked, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

Usopp suddenly got an idea.

"LUFFY, ZORO SAYS THERE'RE BOUNTY HUNTERS ON BOARD. THEY COULD BE AFTER OUR FOOD SUPPLY," Usopp lied.

"NNNOOOOOOO, NOT THE MEAT. I"LL KICK THEIR ASSESS," Luffy responded.

Sanji Zoro and Luffy all ran for the exit reached it at the same time, each wanted to go through it first and tried to force their way through and wound up getting stuck.

On deck Connor waited patiently for the straw hats to emerge, suddenly the hatch to the men's sleeping quarters flew open and the top half's of Luffy, Zoro and Sanji came up arguing.

"MEAT!" Luffy cried out.

"FORGET THE MEAT, WE NEED TO SAVE NAMI-SWAN," Sanji yelled.

"NO THE BOUNTY HUNTERS COME FIRST," Zoro agued.

They continued to ague and struggle unaware of their audience. Connor was watching trying very hard not to laugh and Vivi could not believe what she was seeing.

"Are they always like this?" Vivi whispered to Connor.

"They've never gotten stuck before," he whispered back.

After another minute Sanji and Zoro had gone from wanting to save Nami and kill bounty hunters to wanting to kill each other, Connor couldn't take it anymore and burst out laughing. The three stuck pirates stop struggling and looked at him in surprise; they hadn't seen him laugh like this before he was almost rolling around on the deck.

Zoro's eyes narrowed when he saw Vivi standing next to him, she was too close to Connor for his liking.

"Hey you, back off," Zoro threatened.

Sanji's eyes had turned to harts and he immiedtly began threating Zoro for his bad behaviour.

"Don't talk to a lady like that," Sanji warned.

"Idiot she's the enemy,"

"She's still a lady and should be treated with respect,"

And another fight broke out, Luffy managed to wiggled his way out and as soon as he was free Zoro and Sanji fell back down to the deck below, landing on top of Usopp. They quickly came back up and yelled at Luffy who was not paying attainon to them as he was fascinated by Carue.

Nami suddenly came out on deck in full panic mode, in Connors opinion the whole situation was incredibly funny and he could not stop laughing.

Vivi approached Zoro and stood in front of him, Zoro was a few seconds away from attacking her.

"I'm sorry for what I did in Whisky Peak," Vivi said bowing, this had caught Zoro off guard.

"It was never my intention but I had no choice. The leader of Baroque Works is planning on taking over my country, so Mr 8 and I infiltrated them to gain information on them for my country. Mr 8 died trying to protect me, so please take me home to Alabasta," Vivi explained.

"Huh?" Zoro stared at her dumbfounded

"She's a double agent for her country," Connor said, he'd finally stopped laughing "she got caught and needs a ride home,"

"Oh, okay. But why are you on our ship? Who let you on board? Why are you asking me this?"

"Well like your young friend said I need a ride home, he also let me on board and you're the captain so…"

"CONNOR DID WHAT?" Usopp panicked.

"Please don't be mad at him. He was just trying to help," Vivi begged.

Vivi and Connor explained everything and the rest of the crew took it surprisingly well, Vivi was very surprised to find out that Luffy was the captain and not Zoro. Luffy wanted to know the name of the man who was taking over Vivis country but Vivi refused to tell him so he asked Connor instead.

"Hey Connor if you know this guy's name tell me," Luffy said

"Crocodile," Connor answered.

"That's a weird name," Luffy said childishly.

"Why would you tell him that?" Vivi asked in surprise.

"I told you, I can't go against Luffy's orders,"

"If you know the name of the guy in charge, why not contact the Marines?" Usopp asked.

"Because crocodile is one of the Shichibukai. Or as their more commonly known as the Seven Warlords of the Sea,"

"Shichibukai?" Nami asked.

"They're pirates who are employed by the world government. As long as they are working for them their bounties are negated and anything they do is considered legal no matter what," Vivi explained.

"So Connor's on his hit list…neat," Luffy said happily.

"How is that a good thing? He'll kill us all if he finds us," Nami pointed out.

"I agree with Luffy, we knew that there would be strong opponents in the Grand Line but one of the Shichibukai as our first. Things just got more interesting," Zoro claimed.

"You clearly don't understand the danger you're all in," Vivi started.

"Sanji I'm hungry, what's for breakfast?" Luffy interrupted.

"You do know it's late afternoon right?" Connor pointed out.

"But breakfast is the first meal of the day. So I have to have breakfast before dinner tonight,"

"I'll go see what we've got," Sanji said and headed off to the kitchen.

"So are we taking her home then? Usopp asked.

"Yup, it'll be fun," Luffy said "Hey Connor good job finding us an adventure early on,"

"Sure, I just love to get on a Shichibukai's hit list," Connor answered sarcastically.

"Any chance you could get on Mihawkes list next?" Zoro asked.

"If I see him again I'll ask," Connor answered.

Vivi could not believe that none of them were taking the situation seriously, the more these pirates found out, the more excited they got. Usopp and Nami were incredibly scared and protested to fighting anyone working for the government but knew that ounce Luffy had set his mind to it there was no changing it.

"Hold on we're not going anywhere without the Log Pose. Someone took it," Nami pointed out.

"Oh here you go," Connor said and gave the pose back to Nami.