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When Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Vivi and Evie got back to the ship they were surprised to find two giants having a cook out and even more surprising was that Usopp was chatting with them and he was not afraid.

When Usopp noticed the crew he called them over

"Hey guys, how was the Island?" Usopp asked.

"Never mind that what's going on here?" Nami cried.

"Oh, I'm having lunch with these Giants. They live on the Island,"

"Amazing, I guess that's why this place is called Little Garden," Evie said in awe.

"Why aren't you scared? You're scared of everything," Zoro asked.

"I was at first but these guys are really amazing, they've been fighting a duel for over 100yrs,"

"Awesome," Luffy said with stars in his eyes.

"Aren't they? They showed up just after Sanji had dropped Connor off and asked if we had any beer. I was terrified so I gave them some of Zoros' and then they invited me to lunch. I thought they were going to eat me and told them that I was guarding the ship, so the set up here and they've been telling me about their home Elbaf," Usopp explained.

"Awesome I want to hear about it," Luffy declared.

"We don't have time, we have to get to Alabasta," Vivi urged.

"AAWWWWW," Luffy whined.

The straw hats boarded the Merry and set off Luffy was upset and jealous that Usopp got to spend some time with the giants. Usopp filled him in on what they had talked about and the two decided that they would travel to Elbaf one day.

Luffy introduced Evie to Usopp and told him that they would be giving her a lift to Alabasta.

Nami took the Eternal pose from Sanji and set the course, Zoro had decided to train by himself for a while, he felt guilty that he'd been caught in Mr 3's trap.

"I'm too weak, first whisky peak and now that wax trap. I need to be stronger," he muttered to himself, as he swung a long metal pole with serval heavy weight discs on it.

Connor had recovered from his paralysis and was watching Luffy and Usopp dance on the ships railing; he was wondering if the two were going to fall off when Evie approached him.

"Hi there, I never got your name," She said politely.

"It's Connor," the boy replied.

"So Connor sorry about earlier,"

"It's fine,"

"Yeah so…would you like to learn some self-defence?"

Connor looked Evie in the eye "I already know how to fight with and without a weapon,"

"Really? How good are you?"

"Good enough,"

"Show me,"

"What?" Connor asked in surprise.

"Show me how good you are," Evie repeated.

Connor didn't have anything else to do; he had hoped to train with Zoro but it didn't look like that was going to happen any time soon, so he agreed to Evie's request.

They started out with weapons and Evie assured the boy that she would only defend, Evie was impressed with the boy's level of skill with a blade. Then they moved onto hand to hand combat, it turned out that Connor knew various different types of Martial arts and he was incorporating different styles of fighting flawlessly.

"You're good, where did you learn to fight like that?" Evie asked when they stopped for a break.

"Zoro's teaching the blade," Connor answered.

"And the Martial arts?

Connor didn't answer.

"Well you don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I did notice you focus a lot on attacking though,"

"Is that bad?"

"It can be, if you leave yourself open, whoever taught you to fight didn't focus much on defence did they?"

"How do you know that?" Connor asked in surprise.

It was true his previous Master had taught him how to take opponents down quickly, his masters philosophy had been that if you got hurt then it was your own fault. Connor had only been taught the basics in blocking and that was it.

"I can see it in the way you move, you're less open when you use a blade then when you fight without one. I can show you a handy little move for dealing with any opponent it you like,"

"I wouldn't want to trouble you,"

"Connor if it were any trouble I wouldn't have offered,"

Evie showed Connor a technique that would work on any opponent no matter what the size, the technique was a basic counter that used the enemies weight and momentum against them; it was simple yet very effective.

Connor did not get it right away, after an hour of trying he still hadn't mastered it. Evie assured him that he just needed practice and decided that they should take a break. It was at this point that Sanji came out with some cakes he'd made for the girls; Luffy and Usopp instantly demanded some and ran into the kitchen to get their share.

Evie came over and tried one of the cakes and decided that it was the most delicious thing she'd ever tasted; she also noticed that Nami looked very exhausted.

"Are you all right?" Evie asked Nami concerned.

"Yeah I'm just a bit tired, I think I'll go lie down for a bit," Nami answered.

She struggled to get up, she didn't get two steps before she collapsed from exhaustion, and Evie caught her before she hit the deck.

"NAMI!" Vivi screamed.

The entire crew came running over to see what had happened.

"She's burning up," Evie said, feeling the navigator's temperature.

"Get her into bed quickly, Sanji I need a bowl of cold water," Vivi advised.

Evie carried Nami bridal style and followed Vivi into her room, once there she laid Nami on the bed. Sanji rushed in with the bowl and Vivi immediately began trying to cool Nami down with a damp towel. Usopp Luffy Connor and Carue came in and Usopp gave Vivi a thermometer.

"What's wrong with her?" Luffy asked "Was it something she ate?"

"Impossible, I only use the freshest ingredients when preparing Nami's and Vivi's Food," Sanji claimed "as a matter of fact anything that's over two days old or looks rotten goes to you and Usopp,"

"What? Are you trying to poison us?" Usopp panicked.

"Really? Well it all tastes good so I guess that's okay. Just don't feed me any bad tasting food," Luffy said.

Sanji instantly thought of Apis's attempts at Cooking and how Luffy was the only one who ate it.

"Do Zoro and I get old food too?" Connor asked concerned, not that it mattered to him.

"No, I was just kidding around. But as long as I'm on board this ship, no one will ever have to worry about nutrition or getting sick from any kind of food," Sanji said seriously.

Vivi pulled out the thermometer and freaked out.

"40 degrees, that's not good. Is there some on board with medical knowledge?" the princess asked.

Luffy, Usopp, Sanji and Connor all pointed at Vivi.

"Wait you don't have a doctor? How have you survived all this time?" Evie asked.

"I've never been sick before," Luffy, Usopp and Sanji said at the same time.

Vivi stared at them in shock, how was it possible to go your whole life without being sick. She looked at Connor hoping that he was at least normal and aware that not getting sick was not normal.

"Don't look at me, I can't get sick anymore," Connor claimed.

"There you go, I guess we're just lucky," Luffy responded.

"Well your lucks just run out, if she doesn't get to a doctor quick you'll be looking for a new navigator," Evie warned.

"WHAAAATTTTT? NAMI'S GOING TO DIE," Luffy screamed.

This of course sent Usopp and Sanji into a panic and ran around the room.

"WILL YOU THREE SHUT UP!" Vivi shouted at them.

"It's alright, I'm okay," Nami said weakly.

"No you're not," Evie said bluntly.

"No one can have a fever as high as 40 degrees," Nami continued.

"Yes they can,"

"Besides we need to get to Alabasta as soon as possible," Nami said getting up "it's fine, I'm fine really,"

Nami left the room.

"So she's all better?" Luffy asked.

"Idiot she's putting on a brave face," Usopp corrected him.

Evie shock her head and left the room "She's as stubborn as my brother,"

Nami made her way back on deck and checked the ships course; they were heading in the wrong direction.

"Who the hell is navigating this ship?" Nami muttered angrily "everyone was in my room, the only person who wasn't was…Zoro,"

Nami stormed over to were Zoro was lifting some weights; he took one look at Nami and commented on how sick she looked. Nami was about to yell at Zoro for his poor sense of direction, but suddenly noticed the air had changed slightly.

"Everyone get on deck now," she called out.

The rest of the crew along with Evie and Vivi came on deck.

"We need to move the ship, turn starboard and catch the wind," Nami ordered.

Everyone was quick to obey, Evie and Vivi went up to support the red haired navigator who was having trouble standing. Evie noted that Nami should be in bed and Vivi agreed, when the Merry had returned to its original course Nami sighed with relief and collapsed in Vivi's arms.

"We need to find a doctor quick," Vivi observed.

"HOLY S***, WHAT IS THAT?" Luffy yelled out pointing behind the Merry.

Everyone turned to see what the Captain was pointing at, there behind them was a massive cyclone.

"That's a Cyclone, it's huge" Vivi claimed.

Evie shot a wary glance at Nami, the weather on the Grand Line was impossible to predict. Storms and Cyclones even more so, yet this navigator had done it; Evie knew of various Devil fruits that gave control over the elements and minor weather control abilities but they had all been eaten and there was no known Devil fruit for complete control of the weather. A person who could predict the Grand Lines wild weather was possibly the most valuable person in the world and the most dangours.

"Vivi do you still have that other compass?" Connor asked.

"Oh, you mean this one?" Vivi pulled out the Eternal Pose that Miss All-Sundy had given her.

The compass was pointing west of their current location.

"Maybe there's a doctor on that Island,"

"Where'd you get that?" Zoro asked.

"We had a visit from Mr 0's Partner and she gave it to me," Vivi claimed.

"Then we shouldn't go there,"

"But Nami could die if we don't," Usopp pointed out.

"And if there are Baroque Works agents waiting for us. We will likely die," Sanji said seriously.

"Which Island is it?" Evie asked.

"Does it matter?" Luffy replied.

"I have contacts in the area, if you give me the name of the Island I can find out if there are any Baroque Works agents around that Island,"

"It's Drum, Drum Island," Vivi reading the name on the pose.

"Okay give me a few minutes alone," Evie requested.

The Straw hats decided to take Nami back to her room; they all went inside leaving Evie alone on deck. Once the Straw hats were inside Evie pulled out a white snail phone and called her contact.

"Hello?" the voice on the other end answered, it was a males voice.

"Jacob, it's me," Evie said.

The phone was silent for a second.

"Evie? WHERE THE B**** H*** HAVE YOU BEEN? DO YOU KNOW HOW WORRED I HAVE BEEN?,"

"JACOB SHUT UP!"

The phone was silent again.

"Listen I completed my mission and found the map fragment, but I had a run in with Mr 3 and Miss Goldenweek. She put me under her control for a short time,"

"Baroque Works…I'll kill them for that. Hang tight sis I'm on my way, Where are you now?"

"On a pirate ship,"

"Oh so it's okay for you to start your own pirate crew, but when I want to start a street gang it's and I quote 'the worst idea I've ever had',"

"I didn't start this crew. Also a Pirate crew and a street gang are two completely different things,"

"Not really. The main difference is one is at sea and one is on land. So have you killed them yet?"

"No not yet,

"Good wait for me and we'll kill them together,"

"That would be too easy besides I need you to check up on something first,"

"Fine I'll do your dirty work, what is it?"

"Are there any Baroque work agents near Drum Island?"

"Drum, why would you be heading there?"

"The ships navigator is sick and needs immediate medical attention. Drum Island is the closest,"

"I'll check hang on,"

The line went silent for a minute and Evie sighed, she missed her brother.

"Eve? You still there?" Jacob asked.

"Yes, that was quick,"

"Achilles was sorting out some data and you know how the old man gets,"

"You didn't annoy him again did you?"

"After what happened last time, believe it or not I like my manhood where it is,"

"So that Intel,"

"The latest report has all agents heading straight to Alabaster except Mr 2; he was just dispatched on a mission by Mr 0. And it looks like the Baroque works have never gone anywhere near Drum Island,"

"Great thanks Jacob,"

"Yeah just come home soon and be careful around those pirates,"

"Don't worry I can handle them,"

"I never said you couldn't. Oh and one more thing whatever you do don't mention the name Wapol in Drum, It's Taboo."

"Got it,"

"Hey I could meet you at Drum if you like,"

"That's not necessary,"

"Okay bye sis," Jacob said and the connection cut.

Evie put the phone away and headed into Namis room, as she approached the door she stopped.

"Do you always listen to peoples calls?" She asked.

Zoro emerged from the shadows, he was glaring at her.

"Only when they involve the safety of my friends. So are you going to kill us all?"

"If I was you'd all be dead by now also your stealth needs work," she said and entered the room.

The straw hats looked at her when she entered the room.

"Good news my source says that there are no agents near Drum, in fact they've never been there" Evie announced.

"Right then let go and find a doctor for Nami," Luffy declared.

The rest of the straw hats agreed, Luffy decided that Vivi should handle navigating the ship. Zoro decided that he wouldn't let Evie out of his sight but that was proving extremely difficult, one second she was in front of him and the next she was in a completely different part of the ship; all Zoro had done was blink and Evie had vanished from sight.

That night Sanji was on watch while the rest of the crew slept in Nami's quarters, Zoro was adamant that Evie sleep elsewhere and surprisingly she agreed. In the middle of the night Evie was wondering around the deck silently, Sanji had fallen asleep; Evie was quit surprised when she found Connor overlooking the ocean.

"Shouldn't you be sleeping?" Evie asked the boy as she approached him.

"Shouldn't you?" Connor asked back.

"I never sleep in places I don't know,"

"How come?"

"I just don't feel safe. So what's your excuse?"

"I have bad nightmares,"

"Really what about?"

"I don't like to talk about it,"

Evie nodded 'they must be pretty bad, what could of happened to him?' she wondered.

"So how did end up on a pirate ship?"

"Luffy can be very pervasive,"

"So he brought you on board, wonder how the captain took that bit of news,"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well no pirate in their right mind would make a kid part of their crew. I'm surprised Zoro allowed it,"

Connor stared at Evie blankly and blinked in confusion.

"Zoro's not the Captain, Luffy is,"

"Ha that's a good one,"

"I wasn't joking,"

"Seriously? That straw hatted kid is the captain, the one who spent the entire day making funny faces and dancing on the ships railing?"

"Yup that's him,"

They stood in silence Evie was absorbing this new information, the silence was broken when Nami staggered out on deck; she looked worse than before.

"Nami? What are you doing up?" Connor asked.

"Oh Connor here you are, you weren't with the others so I was worried," Nami said weakly.

Connor and Evie came over and helped Nami sit down, Evie felt her temperature and she was very hot.

"You should be in bed," Evie noted.

"I know but I thought the air might do me some good," Nami said "Connor could you get me some water please?"

Connor nodded and ran off to the kitchen, when he was gone Nami turned to Evie.

"He had another nightmare didn't he?" she asked.

"I don't know he was out here before I was but he said he suffers from them. Do you know what he dreams about?"

"It could be any number of things; he's had a rough life,"

"Oh, is it true that Luffy's the Captain?"

"Yes it's true,"

"Then why would he bring a kid to the most dangerous sea in the world?"

"He has his reasons and we won't abandon him,"

Evie was about to ask for further details when Connor came back with the water, he handed it to Nami and she drank it. Nami decided she wanted to go back to bed so Connor helped her, Evie wished them both a goodnight before she too headed back to her bed.

The next morning a heavy mist and dense fog surrounded the Merry it made Navigating difficult it was also very cold, the crew had to put on their winter gear; Luffy was the exception. Evie didn't have any warm cloths so Usopp gave her one of Namis coats to wear, shortly after the Merry had set of it started to snow lightly.

"Hey the snows back," Usopp pointed out.

"Why hasn't the weather changed? It always changes," Sanji stated.

"We might be close to a winter island," Evie stated.

"How can you tell?" Connor asked.

"On the Grand Line each island has its own climate range. Every Island will be set to one of the four seasons and that season never changes," Vivi explained.

"So if we land on a summer Island, that island will be in summer forever," Sanji clarified.

"Yup, the Island I live on is a spring island, so we get rain every now and then. That's also why the weather is so unpredictable this ocean has four different weather cycles all at once not to mention the amount of Islands that are out here. So when the weather stabilises that means you're close to an Island," Evie finished.

"So it's a mystery sea," Luffy childishly said.

Over the course of the next few hours the temperature dropped, Vivi and Sanji went to go take care of Nami while Luffy, Usopp, Connor and Evie remained on deck and Zoro was in the crow's nest looking for an Island. According to the Etranl pose they were very close.

Luffy and Usopp were playing in the snow and teaching Connor how to make a snow man when Zoro called down to them.

"Oi guys I see something," Zoro called down.

"Is it a doctor?" Luffy asked.

"Idiot, why would a doctor be out here?" Usopp scolded.

"Well maybe. Can people stand on water?" Zoro asked.

"Not that I know of" Evie answered.

"Then what is that ahead of us?" Zoro asked.

They all turned to the front of the ship and sure enough was a man standing on water.

The man was a bit taller than average, he had wavy lips and a sad expression. He wore a checkered jester-like green-blue costume with purple lining at the end of the sleeves, a white winter cape with purple lining, a light brown bow and a bag of arrows on his back. He also had dark green pants, and blue shoes.

The crew stared at the man not believing there eye.

"It's cold today, isn't it?" the man suddenly said.

"Yeah it is pretty cold," Usopp agreed.

Suddenly the sea began to rise up and a bigger much rounder ship surfaced, it flew a pirates flag. The straw hats were quite shocked that a ship had rose out of the ocean and before they could react they had been boarded by the other ships crew.

The invading crew quickly surrounded everyone on deck and pointed their guns at them, daring them to move. They even got into the crow's nest. Evie glanced around making note of the numbers and the positions of everyone on board; Luffy and his crew didn't fight back. Sanji at that moment came out side on the deck and lit a cigarette.

"Hey what's going on here?" he questioned as men surrounded him to.

"Were being boarded," Luffy stated.

"Thought so but just thought I'd check,"

An overweight man with an unusual appearance stood on the railing of the Merry; he was likely the leader of these men.

He had dark violet hair and a cylinder-shaped jaw made up of tin plates. He was dressed in tin-plate armor and a hooded cape made from White Walkie skin. He also wore brown thick gloves, purple and orange woollen shorts and a brown belt around his waist and a pair of thick boots.

The captain was on the railing eating a chunk of meat off a knife.

"Hmm only six people, are you guys really pirates?" the man asked.

"Yup," Luffy answered.

"You're hardly a crew with that number. Well I guess it doesn't matter, we're tring to get to an Island called Drum. Do you have an Eternal Pose leading there?"

"Nope, can't help you sorry," Sanji lied.

"Pity but if you don't have it then there's nothing that can be done,"

"Do you mind we're in a hurry," Evie said politely.

"Oh sorry, I don't want to leave yet," the fat man said and finished eating his meat and the knife it was on "I'm still hungry so I'll be taking your treasure now,"

The man took a huge bite out of the Merry this surprised everyone and set Luffy off.

"Don't eat our ship," He cried and punched two of the men guarding him knocking them out.

The other men opened fire on Luffy but the Bullets just bounced off his rubber body. The rest of the crew sprang into action Zoro sliced the men in the crow's nest and jumped down to the deck; Sanji began kicking anyone close to him and scolded them for making so much noise while Nami was resting. Connor fought off a few men with his sword before he was joined by Zoro. Usopp screamed and hid.

Evie didn't bother drawing her weapons as she quickly and skilfully took down several men at once. She knocked the first one down before jumping on another and two more bringing them down at with a single sweep of her leg. Using the first downed man as a step she stepped on his back and countered a punch by a fourth man breaking the man's arm in several places and kicking him into the two men that were slowly getting back up; all three landed on the lower deck.

The man she stepped on tried to grab her from behind but she flipped him over her back and grabbed his foot, violently twisting it the snapping of bones was heard. Finally the fifth man charged at her, Evie skilfully got behind him and kicked him in the back of the knees forcing him to the ground, Evie grabbed his head and quickly snapped his neck. Evie ten leapt over the railing and landed behind the three men, quickly placing her hands on their heads the two men fell down dead.

It was at this point that Evie noticed that the fighting had stopped and two very long stretched arms went fling past her and hit the invading pirate captain in the chest sending him flying into the sky. The invading crew quickly abandoned the merry to chase after their captain.

"Lord Wapol!" the man who stood on the water cried out "Quick after him he's a hammer in water,"

The straw hats watched them go, ounce they were out of sight Evie began dumping the bodies of the men she killed in the sea. One of the men was still alive, it was the man with the broken arm; he backed away from Evie as she approached him and dragged him into the men's sleeping quarters looking the room from the inside.

"What is she doing in there?" Connor asked.

"Maybe she's taking a nap," Luffy suggested.

"I highly doubt it, I'm going to check on Nami," Sanji said and left. He was followed by Luffy and Connor.

Zoro and Usopp stared at the entrance to the men's quarters. They had both witnessed Evie fight and it scared them. If she could do that without weapons they dreaded to think what she could do with them.