Nami and Grace were both lying in the same bed as Vivi and Nojiko were keeping a damp cloth on their foreheads. Inside the room with them were Sanji, Luffy, Usopp, Carue, Johnny, and Yosaku.
"Tell me Vivi! Will they be okay?!" Sanji asked as tears ran down his face. Vivi then explained that their illness could've been caused by climate change due to the ever changing weather of the Grand Line.
"Is there anyone here with any medical knowledge?" Vivi asked. Usopp, Luffy, Johnny, and Yosaku all pointed at Nami.
"I do too, but only for things like cuts or colds." Nojiko said, her voice full of worry.
"What do we do?!" Johnny asked as tears fell down his face as well.
"Maybe she ate something bad?" Yosaku suggested before recieving a quick kick to the head from Sanji.
"Nothing she eats would do this because I cook all her meals!" he yelled before calming down and looking back at Nami. "I put extra effort in the ladies meals so that they'll stay healthy. Only the freshest ingredients go to them while you dumbbells get whatever looks spoiled or is close to expiring.
"HEY!" shouted Usopp, Johnny, and Yosaku while Luffy said it still tasted great.
"The point is, so long as I'm the chef, problems with malnutrition won't happen." Sanji said. "If they're still sick, then it's due to something else. Without the knowledge of what it is, I can't cook the right meals for them." Luffy just looked down at them in worry.
"Feed them everything?" he suggested, hoping something would work even if it was what he said last time.
"They're too weak to eat stupid!" Sanji said.
"104 degrees!" Vivi gasped in shock after looking at both of their thermometers. "They're both getting worse!"
"Worse?!" Johnny and Yosaku shouted while Nojiko started trembling.
"There should be doctors in Alabasta Vivi." Usopp said. "How much longer until we get there?"
"More than a week I'm afraid." Vivi said.
"This looks worse than when I had scurvy." Yosaku said. "Big sis must be in a lot of pain."
"I wouldn't know. I've never been sick before." Sanji and Usopp said in unison while tilting their heads.
"Are you all freaks or something?!" Vivi yelled out at them. "It's painful! A temperature of 104 degrees is dangerous. It's enough to prove fatal to them both!"
"WHAAAAAT?!" most of them shouted in utter horror. Soon Sanji was crying his eyes out, Luffy was shouting, and the other boys and Carue were running around the room like morons.
"THAT'S NOT HELPING EITHER OF THEM!" Vivi shouted at them all.
"We gotta find Nami a doctor NOW!" Luffy shouted before Vivi tried to calm them down.
"No." Nami mumbled quietly before sitting up. "I'm okay guys."
"Nami?" Vivi said in surprise.
"No you're not." Nojiko said, trying to get her sister to lie back down.
"In my desk...there's a newspaper." Nami said. After some quick searching, they found it and gave it to Vivi to read.
"This...this can't be!" Vivi gasped.
"Something about Alabasta Vivi?" Sanji asked.
"300,000 royal soldiers...have defected and joined the rebels!?" she said in horror before telling them all that now the war shifted into the rebels favor before Nami dropped a bigger bomb onto her.
"That newspaper...is 3 days old." she wheezed out. "I'm sorry for not showing you. I didn't want you to worry any further since we're sailing as fast as we can. Understand Luffy?"
"Things are getting worse." Luffy said with his arms folded across his chest.
"Right." Nami said. "Glad you understand."
"But we need to get you to a doctor!" Usopp stated.
"She's right big s- er Nami." Yosaku agreed.
"I'm okay. That thermometer's broken." Nami argued as she got up out of bed before blaming it on heatstroke. "No one can get that sick. I'll be fine, so we don't need to see a doctor."
"Nami, stay in that bed!" demanded Nojiko as she tried to keep her from leaving the bed.
"I told you guys, I'm fine." she said. "It's Grace who needs help, not me. We'll head to Alabasta as planned...but thanks for worrying about me." she said as she looked back at them all before heading up the stairs to the deck.
"She is so stubborn!" Nojiko said with a sigh before following her.
"Nami." Luffy said before Vivi started speaking again.
"At this rate, a lot of needless bloodshed will happen!" she said as she stared at the newspaper. "If I can't stop this, then it's all over for Alabasta! Crocodile will take over!" she said before crumpling up the newspaper. "Getting home safely isn't good enough! If I don't get home soon, a million of my people will kill each other for no good reason!"
"A MILLION!?" Johnny and Yosaku shouted in panic. "THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE!"
"And a huge burden." Sanji said before they heard a soft voice stirring.
"Hey." mumbled Grace as she looked at them all from the bed. "Why are you all yelling?"
"Oh Grace." Sanji said before forcing a smile. "Sorry for waking you up."
"It's okay." she said. "But can you all please yell somewhere else? I'm tired."
"Okay." Sanji said before glaring at the rest of boys. "You heard the little lady! Everyone out!" he said as he kicked them towards the stairs, leaving Vivi and Grace alone.
"Are they always like this?" Grace asked.
"Huh?" Vivi said after looking at her, not realizing what she said.
"Are they always likes this?" she asked again. "Loud and stupid?"
"Something like that." Vivi said with a force smile.
-Up on deck a moment ago-
"What were you looking at?!" Nami yelled at Zoro, who was put in charge of guiding the ship.
"What? We're going straight." he said in a bored tone as he pointed forward.
"We gotta follow the needle moron!" Nami yelled.
"I know where we're going since I've been following that big cloud." Zoro said.
"CLOUDS CHANGE DIRECTION!" Nami yelled.
"Stop shouting Nami and get back to bed!" Nojiko yelled.
"I'm alright!" she yelled back.
"Just let me handle this already." Zoro grunted.
"How can you do that when you can't tell one direction from another!?" Nami said as she complained her head was hurting from yelling before looking out at the sea. "The air...it's different." Nami said as the others were soon kicked out onto deck by Sanji. "Great timing guys." she said. "Turn the helm south, now! Lower the sails and catch wind portside!"
"Why?" Gin asked. "What about Alabasta?"
"Do what Nami says!" Sanji barked.
"Got it!" Usopp, Johnny, and Yosaku said before running off to follow Nami's orders.
"Nami?" Nojiko asked as Nami looked out at sea.
"I've got a feeling...a strong wind is coming from ahead." she said.
"Okay, change direction to Nami's liking." Luffy yelled out.
"AYE!" everyone yelled as they began to turn the ship around
"And Nami, get back to bed." Luffy said. "Captain's orders!"
"For the last time, I'm fiIIIOOW!" she yelped as Nojiko finally grabbed her by her ear and glared at her.
"Bed!" she yelled as she started dragging her back down stairs, finally losing her patience with her sister's stubbornness. "You heard Captain Luffy!"
"Ugh. Fine!" she said as she crawled back into bed next to Grace. "But make sure they turn south!"
"I will." Nojiko said as she left again to tell everyone Nami's directions.
"What's going on?" Vivi asked.
"Everyone's telling me to get some rest when I don't need it." Nami said as she covered herself. Vivi just looked at her like she was crazy before walking out out and above deck.
"Everyone." Vivi said. "I've got a favor to ask of you all. I'm only a passenger so it's not my place to ask, but I have no choice but I must get home as quickly as possible. The longer I'm away, the more homeland and people are in danger of killing themselves. We need to get to Alabasta immediately." Nojiko was walking out on deck and looked ready to have a few words with Vivi, but stopped when Vivi said with a smile "So let's please find a doctor for Nami and Grace as quickly as possible. It's only when Nami is at her best can this ship move at it's full speed."
"Exactly!" Luffy said with a grin as Nojiko looked on with a smile. "No one can move this ship like Nami can!"
"What about your home and all it's people?" Usopp asked.
"I need to get there, but we'll only get there quicker after Nami's okay. And I also wish to help Grace as well." Vivi said, which was approved of by everyone else.
"So we're hunting doctors now huh?" Greg asked.
"Looks like it." Alvida said before everyone noticed the weather getting a little choppy.
"HOLY CRAP?!" Johnny and Yosaku shouted. Everyone looked in their direction to see a massive cyclone.
"WHERE'D THAT COME FROM?!" Usopp shouted.
"WEREN'T WE HEADING IN THAT DIRECTION JUST A MOMENT AGO?!" Valerie shouted.
"YES!" Gin hollered. "MAN, THAT WAS A CLOSE CALL!"
"AND IT'S ALL THANKS TO NAMI-SWAN!" Sanji yelled.
"What?!" Vivi shouted.
"Nami said that the wind changed!" Nojiko yelled over the storm. "That's why she told us to change direction!"
'No way!' Vivi thought. 'Grand Line weather of this magnitude is almost impossible to predict...yet their navigator sensed it by the slightest change!'
"Alright everyone!" Luffy yelled. "It's time to find a doctor to heal our ill crewmates, so keeping heading South! YOU WITH ME?!"
"YEEEEAH!" they all shouted.
-The next day-
Nami and Grace's condition slowly worsened as they everyone kept looking for an island with a doctor on it as the weather became cold and snowy.
"Hey guys!" Zoro called from the crow's nest. "Do you think it's possible for people to stand on top of the ocean?"
"What are you talking about big bro?" Johnny asked as he and most of the boys were outside either playing in the snow, training, or bored. Sanji was with Vivi, Carue, and Nojiko taking care of Nami and Grace while the rest of the girls were trying to get warm in the cabin.
"Look out there!" he said as he looked in his binoculars. They all looked too and saw what looked like a jester standing on the ocean. Luffy looked on in thought as the rest of them rubbed their eyes as their ship sailed closer to the strange man.
"Cold today, isn't it?" he asked. All of them started agreeing before they looked at him again with sweatdrops on their heads.
'That guy.' Luffy thought before a rumbling beneath the ocean was heard before a massive dome rose up from under Chess.
"HEY?!" Sanji shouted from inside as he kept Nami and Grace's bed from recieving any shock. "Watch it up there! If they get sicker, you'll answer to me!"
"Is that a ship?!" Zoro asked as the dome opened to reveal a massive ship.
"MAHAHAHA!" came a laugh. Luffy's eyes narrowed as he remember this guy. His anger at this fraud of a pirate resurfacing as Wapol was bragging about his ship.
"What are you all doing?!" Sanji shouted when he ran outside to check things. He looked around before calmly lighting up a smoke. "So what's happening?"
"We're being invaded by other pirates." Gin said as their ship was now holding tons of men in similar uniforms who were pointing guns at everyone.
"So that's what caused the shaking huh?" Sanji asked as Alvida and Valerie joined them out on deck.
"They didn't get hurt down there, did they brother cook?" Yosaku asked.
"Nah, they're good thankfully." he answered as a fat man enjoying a slab of meat on a knife came onto their ship.
"Let's see." he mumbled through his chewing. "4...7...I count 10 of you." he said. "Seems like a decent amount for a ship this size." he said before biting down on the blade before chewing it as well. "Ah who cares. I got something to ask you all."
"Did he just eat a knife?" Gin asked in bafflement as a few crewmembers grabbed their mouths in pain from watching.
"We seek Drum Kingdom." Wapol said before eating the handle of the knife. "You wouldn't happen to have an Eternal Pose or Log Pose would you?"
"No." Sanji said.
"Never heard of Drum Kingdom anyway." Greg said. "Who are you?"
"Me?" Wapol said before grinning. "My name is Wapol."
"If you're done asking Wapol, then leave!" Luffy said. Zoro eyed him, not missing the hidden anger in his tone.
"Now now, no need to get so angry." Wapol said in a calm manner. "If you don't have either, I'll just take your treasure and sh-"
"NOW!" Luffy shouted. Faster than any of them could blink, Luffy appeared in front of Wapol before kicking him far away with a haki infused foot. Wapol kept flying until he was a star in the sky.
"LORD WAPOL!" his entire crew shouted before retreating to their ship and sailing off after Wapol. While they did, Chess and another man named Kuromarimo were shouting that they'd get their revenge and for them to please remember them. After a few moments, everyone went back to what they were doing as Luffy stormed off to the men's quarters.
"No one bother me!" Luffy grunted before slamming the door. All of them looked at each other in confusion at that statement, but left it alone...except for one.
"Luffy." Zoro said as he opened the door to the men's quarters. He saw Luffy lying in his hammock with his straw hat covering his eyes.
"I asked not to be bothered." Luffy said in low tone.
"I know, but this is important." Zoro said as he walked over and sat in his hammock. Both said nothing for a few moments as the ship sailed on. One had questions, and the other had the answers...hopefully.
"You sounded angrier than usual." Zoro finally said after a good 5 minutes. "Usually, you don't react like that. You wait until they do something before you decide to be their friend or kick their ass. What gives?" Luffy tilted his head to the side to look at Zoro from under his hat before looking back at the ceiling.
"If I tell you, then you have to promise me that no matter what happens, you will not tell anyone else." Luffy said in a rare, serious tone. "Understood?" Zoro looked at him for a moment before closing his eyes.
"Understood." he said as he looked back at Luffy. Luffy jumped off his hammock and sat in the hammock next to Zoro's.
"I will warn you though." Luffy stated. "What I'm gonna tell you isn't going to be good."
A/N: CLIFFHANGER BITCHES! MWAHAHAHA! Leave a review. Also, please remind me if I forget to mention anyone. With all the new crewmates, it's getting a little hard to keep track of who's there and where they are.