A/N: For all those asking what this is, this is the One Piece Movie called Dead End Adventure.
Morning came and the Straw Hats were up and getting the ship ready to race that was soon to start. Nami was staring at the Eternal Pose the bookmaker had given her, looking right through it towards the mountain in the distance. Everyone was now joining her on the deck as they were trying to figure out what they were supposed to do before Robin explained how the race starts. She told them about the rivers that branch in from the sea and meet at the main stream in front of them, the other ships were probably at the other branches, and that the ship would be going up the mountain like Reverse Mountain. She also explained that a strong back current and fierce gale arrives at the island once every few years, which is what they would be using.
"Robin-chwan is so smart~! You know everything~!" Sanji said with a goofy face and hearts for eyes.
"Well, I can understand the theory, but..." Nami said before Luffy took the Eternal Pose out of her hand. "Huh?"
"What are you doing Luffy?" Vivi asked before they heard something snap.
"YOU BETTER NOT HAVE BROKEN THAT LUFFY!" Nami yelled furiously with shark teeth. "I'M NOT GONNA LOSE 300,000,000 BERRIES BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPIDITY!"
"This thing is a fake." Luffy said. Nami blinked a few times while the rest of the crew looked at him in mild confusion.
"What do you mean it's a fake?" Gin asked. Luffy held up the Eternal Pose to see the nameplate removed, revealing the true location the needle was pointing at.
"That's the name of a Marine Stronghold." Robin said.
"WHAT?!" most of them shouted before Nami jerked her head towards the back of the ship.
"It's coming!" she said before she began barking orders and having the crew getting the ship ready. Everyone held there breaths as they waited for something to happen until Nami whispered, "Now." In an instant, the wind was blowing so hard that the back of the ship rose out of the water before they were all shot off into the tunnel ahead.
"ANOTHER TUNNEL?!" Usopp yelled.
"YAHOOOO!" Luffy yelled as the whole crew was grinning in excitement as the light at the end became brighter until they sailed out. They were immediately greeted by the sight of both sides of the river being packed with pirates, all of whom were cheering. The Straw Hats were looking around as the ship sailed on while they looked at the crowds of people before they saw the competition sailing up the other rivers.
"That's a big one." Sanji said while looking at a huge ship with the Marine's Insignia crossed out in red. "Never seen a steam powered ship." he said when he noticed the smoke stack.
"That's the top favorite, Gasparde's ship, the Salamander." Nami explained. She then told them that he was a former marine that turned pirate with a 95,000,000 berry bounty on his head.
"That's pretty high!" Valerie said.
"Higher than Crocodile's bounty!" Gin added.
"We have to be careful. He's eaten a Devil Fruit." Nami went on. "He's been dubbed 'General'. There are also some nasty rumors about him."
"He's also the one who rigged the race." Luffy said as he held up the fake Eternal Pose. "You can ask the stowaway about it when we get out to sea." he said before another ship came up next them, it's captain laughing his ass off at the sight of the Going Merry. Two other ships showed up next them, with Nami shouting who each of them were. They looked on ahead to see all the ships sailing up the mountain while they began a rapid incline. Some of the crew were standing on the wall of the cabin as they continued upward before they reached the top and sailed off. Everyone was looking out for a few seconds as the sun hit them. "YAHOOOO!" Luffy shouted as they began to fall. Luffy, Usopp, Carue, and Vivi were floating off the ship before Usopp tried swimming back to it, Luffy stretched back onto the deck, Carue flailed while crying, and Vivi began screaming in fear.
"I GOT YOU, VIVI-SWAN!" Sanji called with his arms held open before they hit the water. Carue landed on Sanji's face, earning a laugh from Zoro, Usopp landed on Johnny and Yosaku, and Vivi fell into Luffy's arms.
"Thank you, Luffy." Vivi said while trembling before Luffy set her back on her feet.
"No sweat!" Luffy replied with a grin before almost every ship began to either explode from fighting one another or crashing due to the strong currents. It was tense, but they had managed to get out to sea unscathed. They sailed on into calmer waters before they all gathered around Luffy.
"So what were you talking about when you said Gasparde rigged the race?" Johnny asked.
"And what's this about a stowaway?" Yosaku added before Zoro flicked a blade out of its sheath.
"They've got a lot of guts stowing away on a pirate ship." Zoro said.
"Either they're here to sabotage us for another crew to win, or to collect the bounty on our heads." Alvida added as she rested her mace over her shoulder.
"She's below deck in the bathroom." Luffy said with his eyes closed.
"She?" Sanji asked. "If she's here to take your heads, aside from Alvida-swan and Robin-chan," he said before he exhaled some smoke. "Then that's fine."
"ASSHOLE!" yelled the men before Luffy walked off inside the ship and opened the bathroom door.
"Come on out." Luffy said. "I know you're in here." Nothing happened for a moment before a little kid jumped out of the bathtub and shot at Luffy with a gun. Luffy only smiled as the bullet hit him and stretched out, making the kid freak out as the bullet came back before flying past her face, making her turn blue.
"W-w-w-what the heck?!" she stuttered as she dropped the gun. "What are you?!"
"I ate the Gum-Gum Fruit. I'm a rubberman." Luffy said before stretching out his cheek with his finger.
"R-r-rubberman?" she stuttered before Luffy walked over and picked her up. She protested the whole was as Luffy brought her into the cabin, where everyone was lounging around and talking before they saw Luffy walk in.
"That's the stowaway?" Gin asked as Chopper ran over to examine her.
"Yeah. She's the one." Luffy said as he put her down.
"How'd you know she's a girl?" Zoro asked. Luffy reached down and lifted her white hat off, letting her long brown hair flow to her back.
"Hey!" she yelled before she yanked it out of his hand and put it back on. "Okay, so I'm a girl. So what?!"
"You the one that fired that gunshot?" Zoro asked. "Not a very smart idea to shoot at a pirate."
"He's right." Nami said while Nojiko walked over to her. "If it was any other ship, you'd probably be dead now."
"Shut up!" she yelled as she glared at them all before Nojiko lifted her up by her overall straps. "Hey! Put me down!"
"Sanji, would you mind making some food?" she asked. "I'm gonna give her a bath. You still have some of those old dresses of yours Nami?"
"Yeah." Nami said as she stood up. "I'll help. Then we'll talk about that Eternal Pose." she said as she turned to Luffy.
"Food~!" Luffy sang with Usopp, Chopper, Johnny, and Yosaku.
"Let's just hope there's still some food by the time we're done." Nojiko laughed as the two sisters took the screaming little girl out of the cabin.
"Wait a minute!" Usopp yelled. "If it's a fake, then where are we going?"
"Follow Gasparde's ship." Luffy said. "He rigged the race, so he knows where to go."
"You know of Gasparde's plan?" asked the little girl in surprise.
"We'll talk about that after your bath." Nojiko said.
-20 minutes later-
Sanji had just finished making food before Nami and Nojiko walked into the cabin. Nojiko's outfit of a green top and pants had changed to a blue tube-top and shorts that were similar to Nami's shorts. And right behind them was Anaguma in a yellow dress with purple spots near the top, sandals on her feet, and a tiny red welt on her left cheek.
"What happened to her?" Chopper asked as she examined the wound, making Anaguma yell and point wildly at him, calling him a deer. "I'M A REINDEER!"
"EVEN WEIRDER!" she yelled.
"SHUT UP YA JERK!" Chopper yelled before Valerie bopped them both on the head to stop the screaming.
"She said something about not having any hope." Nojiko said.
"So I slapped her." Nami added.
"Was that really necessary?" Vivi asked as she feed Carue some food while Sanji began serving the women their food, with the men griping about him feeding them last.
"Ladies get top priority." he said before he walked over and gave Nami and Nojiko their meals. "Just a moment little lady. I'll get your plate."
"First a bath, then a dress, and now food." she said. "Is this all out of pity?"
"Hmm. Call it an exchange." Nami said as she walked the little girl to the table as Johnny and Yosaku stood up to let her have the table.
"An exchange?" she asked as Sanji placed a meal in front of her. "For what?"
"I believe our Navigator is hoping for some info on this Eternal Pose that we've been given." Robin said as she held up the Eternal Pose and nameplate that was on it.
"Luffy said that this Gasparde character's behind it." Usopp said. "That true?"
"Yes." she said as she took a bite. "It's good." she said.
"Tricking the other racers, along with us, isn't good!" Yosaku said.
"She meant the food moron." Grace said as Anaguma ate some more.
"How do you know Gasparde anyway?" Gin asked. "Are you in his crew?" Anaguma stopped eating and lowered her head.
"No. But my grandpa works on the ship, keeping the boiler in good condition, and I'm his assistant." she said. "But, the pirates on his ship don't see us as crewmates. That's why..." she said as tears threatened to fall. "That's why they won't give him any medicine, even though he's sick."
"He's sick?" Chopper asked. "What does he have?"
"I don't know." she said. "And we don't have any money of our own to buy medicine. That's why...THAT'S WHY I'M HERE!" she yelled with anger and tears in her eyes. "GASPARDE TOLD ME IF I CAN KILL A PIRATE, HE'D MAKE ME A CREWMATE AND HAVE THEM GIVE MY GRANDPA THE MEDICINE HE NEEDS! EVEN THOUGH WE'RE NOT BLOOD RELATED, I WANNA SAVE HIM! HE SAVED ME EIGHT YEARS AGO, AND I CAN'T EVEN SAVE HIM!"
"So that's why you're on our ship?" Alvida asked as she ate. "To prove yourself and to help your grandfather?"
"Yes." she said. "But I couldn't do it. Now Grandpa's never gonna get any better." she said with a sniffle. "Grandpa." All of them were looking at her with pity before Chopper looked to Luffy.
"You're stupid." Luffy said, making them all look at him. "The old man didn't save you so that you could do something stupid like that."
"I know that!" she yelled.
"If you get it, then live!" he said as tears threatened to fall from her eyes. "If your resolve is that strong. Go and rescue him from that ship! If you're not gonna do anything about it, then you have no right talking about risking your life."
"Someone like you," she said as her tears fell. "Doesn't have to tell me that!"
"Luffy. Can we help her and her grandpa out?" Vivi asked. Anaguma cried while Luffy grinned.
"Sure thing!" he said. "I already planned on doing that! Along with kicking Gasparde's ass! You all with me?"
"AYE!" they all cheered while Anaguma just cried.
"And you, Anaguma?" Luffy asked.
"YOU BET I AM!" she yelled.
"Good. Now," Nami said as she looked at the fake pose. "About our question earlier?"
"There were tons of Eternal Poses inside the cargo hold on the Salamander." Anaguma explained as she wiped her eyes.
"That lousy bookmaker!" Nami growled. "He's the one who gave us this pose! That bastard's in on it?!"
"If you got that pose from him, then yes." Anaguma said while Vivi and Valerie suddenly had dark clouds hanging over their heads.
"What's wrong with you two?" Zoro asked.
"I thought we could make a little more from winning." Valerie said.
"So we took my life savings, plus the money Valerie had on her, and we bet on us." Vivi added.
"If the bookmaker that gave us this pose is the same guy who kept track of the bets." Johnny started.
"Then kiss your money goodbye." Yosaku finished, both of them earning a severe bashing from the two women.
"We'll thut ub now." both men mumbled in pain.
"Why didn't you two say you had any money?" Nami demanded. "How much?!"
"I took along the 500,000 berries I had in my personal savings." Vivi said.
"And I had 100,000 leftover from some bounties Greg and I turned in." Valerie said.
"You two had 600,000 berries altogether?!" Nami yelled. "AND NOW THAT LOUSY BOOKMAKER HAS IT ALL?!"
"We're sorry!" they said as Nojiko held Nami back so she wouldn't throttle them.
"Alright, that's enough." Nojiko said in a calm voice while Chopper and Anaguma hid behind Alvida and Valerie.
"She's scaring me." Anaguma and Chopper said in unison.
-Some time later-
The Straw Hats kept on sailing as the weather changed a few times, with Usopp in the Crow's nest keeping an eye out for Gasparde's ship while the sailed on, despite the other pirates appearing from time to time.
"What a dinky ship!" yelled a pirate from their left. "We'll get rid of an eyesore like you!" The Straw Hat's only grinned as the other crew threw out grappling lines and began to swing across. Usopp, Nojiko, and Gin shot down a handful of them with their pistols/slingshot, while the rest of the crew easily dealt with any that managed to land on deck.
"This is too easy." Zoro said as he slashed another pirate. "Let's get rid of these flies quickly and find that Gasparde bastard."
"I agree." Nami said as the last pirate was flung off before Usopp had jumped down from the crow's nest and blew a hole into the enemy ship, sinking it. "If we can get control of his ship, we can find an Eternal Pose to Partia and get my 300 million berries!"
"And help Anaguma's grandfather." Nojiko reminded her.
"Right, right." Nami said with a smile as she waved her hand.
"Still, how are we gonna get there?" Usopp asked. "I mean, what if he's already going there?"
"We'll use Chopper's nose." Luffy said.
"Leave it to me!" Chopper said.
"Is that even possible?" Usopp asked in disbelief.
"Just leave navigation to me!" Nami said as the ship was now sailing off towards there new goal: Gasparde's ship, the Salamander.
-On the Salamander-
The clouds overhead darkened the sky as the Salamander sailed on, it's course readjusted so that it was heading towards Partia. Shuraiya was wondering the ship before stopping in the boiler room, where he talked to the old boiler stoker for awhile. They talked about the ship, how it reminded him of a ship he and his little sister went to see eight years ago before Gasparde showed up and set the town ablaze, leaving less than 100 people alive. The old man just looked at him in astonishment as Shuraiya said he'd finish himself off after dealing with Gasparde, claiming he couldn't live with all the blood soaked into him. He left the old man with his name before walking out of the boiler room, then headed towards the deck after hearing Gasparde's voice ring out. Gasparde was sitting on some stairs on deck, with Needles standing next to him. He told Shuraiya that he heard his story and that he'd done well these past eight years.
"All to kill you." Shuraiya said as with a shovel over his shoulder.
"I'd love to play, but Needles here asked to kill you himself." Gasparde said.
"Doesn't matter who's first." Shuraiya said as Needles lunged at him, making him jump up to the upper railing. "You're both targets!" he yelled as the two of them began to fight. The fight was intense for a few short moments before Shuraiya and Needles brought down one of the masts on the ship, despite Gasparde's orders to Needles not to break the ship. Gasparde sighed in boredom and irritation before he spotted a ship off in the distance. He watched as it got closer before smirking.
"Hope this little brat entertains me better then this kid here." he said as he looked to see Needles and Shuraiya fighting each other.
-With the Straw Hats-
"Here I come Gasparde!" Luffy said in anger as he twirled his arm around his circles while standing on the Going Merry's figurehead.
"Alright," said Zoro as he looked down at Anaguma. "You're sure you can take us to where your grandpa is, right?"
"I know where the boiler room is." she said as they sailed closer to the ship.
"Hey Luffy." Gin said.
"Yeah?"
"When we get over there, how about we see if there's anything worth taking?" he said. "Gotta be something worth plundering."
"I think some of the crew on his ship know if he's got any treasure." Anaguma said.
"Be quick about it." Nami said as she looked out at the sky.
"I thought you'd want them to search thoroughly." Nojiko teased.
"The weather's acting up. Something's coming." Nami said.
"Sure, but leave Gasparde to me." Luffy said before they started firing at them. Luffy stretched his arm over there, smashed it through the ship, and rocketed himself over and onto the deck. He walked out of the smoke cloud with his head down and his hat covering his eyes.
"Surprised you've made it." Gasparde said with a grin while his crew all ran to the deck.
"Straw Hat?" Shuraiya said as he and Needles looked at him. Both fighters were severely wounded, but didn't take their eyes off of Luffy.
"Who's that guy?!"
"Isn't he the rubberman from Hannabal?"
"He is! Get him!" They all charged at him with their swords raised, ready to gut him where he stood before they all felt a surge of power and fainted. Gasparde's eyes widened for a moment before he smirked, while Shuraiya and Needles eyes seemed to forget how to close.
'W-what the heck was that?!' Shuraiya thought.
"You're no ordinary man." Gasparde said.
"Just a run-of-the-mill pirate." Luffy said. "Unless I find the One Piece, then I won't be ordinary." he said with a grin.
"Pretty big talk." Gasparde said after he laughed. "Another dreamer on this boring sea."
"And another moron who only cares about getting more power." Luffy said. Gasparde's grin turned to a mad smile as a muscle stuck out on his forehead.
"Hey, Straw Hat." Shuraiya called. "He's my fight in a moment, so don't interfere." After that, Needles and Shuraiya began to battle once again, with more of the ship falling apart on the deck.
"I told Needles not to break the ship and he ignores me." Gasparde said before looking down at Luffy. "Still, he was here before you. I'll let you entertain me after I get through with him."
"Fine." Luffy said before a grappling line hooked to the side of the ship. Zoro, Sanji, Anaguma, Gin, Johnny, Yosaku, and Alvida all boarded the ship to see Luffy and Gasparde talking before they saw Shuraiya knock another men overboard with a shovel.
"Hey Luffy, what are you doing?" Zoro asked.
"I thought you wanted to kick his ass?" Gin said.
"He was here first." Luffy said just as Shuraiya walked towards Gasparde.
"So, how will you entertain me?" Gasparde asked with a grin just as a small door opened up on deck, revealing an old man crawling out.
"What's going on?" he wheezed before Anaguma ran towards him.
"Grandpa!" she yelled as she hugged him, causing everyone to look at her while she begged him to come with her.
"That sounds like the old man's assistant." Gasparde said to himself. Shuraiya took the opportunity to throw something inside his pocket at Gasparde, who brought his arm up to block it before he felt a searing pain in his arm. "What?!" he yelled as he looked down to see that his hand was now a bloody stump with white powder mixed in. "Flour?!"
"Hey! You guys get whatever you can from the ship!" Zoro ordered as he picked Anaguma up by her waist to take her back to the ship.
"Right." said the rest of the crew before they scattered.
"Tch. They wanna raid my ship when I'm still alive? Fools." Gasparde said before Shuraiya turned to see Anaguma yelling.
'That voice...Adelle?' Shuraiya thought while Gasparde noticed him looking away and smirked.
"She seem important." Gasparde said as he turned his remaining hand into a hardened point. Shuraiya looked up just in time to see Gasparde's arm shoot out towards her.
"NO! ADELLE!" Shuraiya yelled. He didn't know if she was Adelle or not, but right now he didn't care. Zoro noticed too late to move as the attack was closing in. Adelle face turned blank with fear as the point stopped just a few inches from her, with Luffy holding the attack back with a blackened hand.
"She's not part of this fight." Luffy said as he glared at Gasparde.
"Interfering little-" Gasparde said before his vision was clouded with white...then red...then nothing. The only sound any of them heard was Gasparde's flour covered head hitting the deck with a thud. Shuraiya was breathing hard with a bloody shovel in his hand while glaring down at Gasparde's dead body.
"Eight years." Shuraiya said before the shovel fell from his hand and he fell to his knees. "Eight long years...and it's finally over." He didn't move at all as Zoro jumped back to the ship with Adelle in his arms while Luffy walked over to Shuraiya. Shuraiya didn't even look at him as Luffy stood next to him. "Sorry Straw Hat. Guess I didn't leave any for you."
"You fought him and won." Luffy said. "That's all there is to it."
"Hey Luffy!" Gin called. Luffy looked back to see Gin hold a sack of something in one hand and the pink haired pirate covered in bandages in another. "We got what we could get. Come on! The old man's gonna sink the ship and a cyclone's coming." he said as he looked out at the raging storm in the distance while the others came back with some other bags in their hands and were now heading towards the ship.
"Alright!" Luffy said before turning to Shuraiya. "Come on. Let's go."
"I'm staying." he said. "My soul's soaked in blood. I can't be allowed to live." Luffy looked down at him before he smashed his fist into his face, knocking Shuraiya out cold before throwing him over his shoulder.
"You've got a family that you don't even know about, so don't talk about dying." Luffy said as he threw Shuraiya overboard onto the Going Merry before taking off into the ship until he found the old man staring at a boiler that was moments from blowing. "Time to go." Luffy said. "Everyone else is off."
"Right." said the old man as he looked at the boiler one last time. "Sorry old girl." he said before the Salamander exploded into a massive ball of smoke and debris.
"LUFFY!" called his friends from their ship that had sailed away. They were sailing towards a nearby island for safety until the storm blew over and most of them were panicking at the thought that Luffy didn't get off in time. Zoro just kept a calm face and looked out at the wreckage before he saw a small dot getting larger and smirked.
"There he is." Zoro said just as Luffy used he Moon Walk to get them over to the ship.
"Safe!" Luffy said as they all cheered before sailed towards the island.
-Later-
The storm had passed and the crew, thanks to the Eternal Pose supplied by the old boiler man, was now sailing towards Partia to claim their prize. The pirates that the crew forced to tell where anything valueable was were tied up to be let off at the next island while the old man told Shuraiya about a little girl of three that he had saved from the river at the town that Shuraiya lived in eight years ago. He didn't want to believe it, but his little sister was alive all these years. The two of them slowly accepted that they were siblings with the help of the old man as the island they were sailing to came into view.
"AHHH! THE MARINES!" Usopp yelled as he pointed out to the three marine ships that were sailing closer to them all.
"It's the same one's that were chasing us before the race!" Sanji said.
"We gotta turn back or they'll sink us!" Alvida said.
"No!" Luffy ordered. "You guys sail towards the island and get the prize." he said as he stretched his arms out and grabbed hold of one of the ships. "I didn't get to fight Gasparde, so I'm gonna take it out on them." And with that, he rocketed over to the three ships. The crew didn't argue as they did what they were told and sailed towards the island.
"You think he'll be okay?" Grace asked as a few small explosions and a small wave of Haki came from the ships, with Luffy jumping and bouncing around from ship to ship.
"He'll be fine." Zoro said with a smirk.
-Later-
Almost everyone was gathered around a table inside the cabin as the ship sailed away, with Partia long out of sight. The pirates that they had dragged off the Salamander got off along with Shuraiya, Adelle, and the old man, with the Marines too focused on Luffy's rampage to even think of anything else except capturing him. The crew were safely away from the Marines, but were now focusing on something else.
"Well?" Sanji asked as they all stared at it.
"Is that...what I think it is?" Johnny asked.
"It's so...small." Yosaku added.
"But powerful." Valerie said while Grace gently poked it.
"Looks different from mine." Luffy said.
"So," Vivi said as she picked it up and gently held it in her hand. "This is a Devil Fruit?"
"Yeah." Sanji said as they all stared at the tiny fruit. It was about the size of a lime with spirals all over it, was blueish-green in color, had a twisted stem, and had a glossy shine to it. "I found it when I was unloading the food I took from the kitchen. Strange thing though is that it was an ordinary fruit when I grabbed it."
"Well, they say that when a fruit user dies, the power that they had leaves the body and finds its way into the nearest fruit." Robin explained.
"And since we saw Gasparde's dead body on the deck, then it must be his power." Zoro said. "What did you say he had Luffy?"
"He said it was the Candy-Candy Fruit." Luffy said.
"Candy?!" Chopper said as his eyes sparkled.
"That's a Logia-type fruit." Robin said. "I've heard that it's a rare kind in that it lets the user turn their body between a semi-liquid to a hardened form of candy syrup."
"So what do we do with it?" Gin asked.
"One of us could eat it." Nojiko suggested.
"I'll eat it!" Luffy said with a grin as he took the fruit and put it towards his mouth.
"NO!" Valerie yelled as she tackled Luffy. "ARE YOU CRAZY?!"
"What are you doing?" Luffy yelled as the fruit rolled away.
"No one can eat two Devil Fruits." Robin said. "I've never seen what happens, but all the rumors I've heard end fatally."
"If you had eaten it, you'd have died." Valerie said as she got off Luffy.
"Oh." Luffy said. "Well, okay then. I won't eat it."
"We could sell it." Johnny said.
"They say that a single one of these things can sell for 100,000,000 berries easy." Yosaku said.
"Shh." Nojiko said with a finger up to her smiling lips. "Nami's already going crazy below deck with the prize money we got."
"And the treasure from Gasparde's ship." Vivi said. "And the winnings from our bet that we placed."
"If she hears that we could get more, she'll try selling it every chance she can get." Nojiko said.
"So what should we do with it?" Alvida asked.
"Well, having a Logia on our side would be nice." Sanji said, remembering Smoker's powers and how they couldn't fight him.
"But which one of us would eat it?" Usopp asked. "Anyone interested?"
"Why not you Usopp?" Chopper suggested. Usopp looked down at the fruit with a thoughtful expression before Grace giggled.
"What's so funny?" Valerie asked.
"I can see it now. WANTED: Dead or Alive. 'Candy-Man' Usopp." she said.
"Pass." all the men said while the girls laughed. None of them could live with being called 'Candy-Man'.
"Why not Carue?" Chopper said. "Animals can eat them too. Look at me." he said. Carue only shook his head in refusal.
"Well, most of us can't eat it." Robin said. "The only ones who can are Miss Navigator, Miss Nefertari, Miss Artist, and Miss Gardener."
'Why does she give us these weird nicknames?' Zoro thought.
"Well, Nami would sell it." Nojiko said.
"I don't want it." Grace said.
"So, it either goes to you or me." Vivi said as she pointed at Nojiko and herself.
"So what now?" Zoro said.
"Well, we would be a little stronger." Vivi thought.
"One of you eats it, the other does extra training?" Luffy suggested.
"Why not flip for it?" Gin joked. "Whoever wins gets the fruit."
"Hmm." Nojiko said. "Alright."
"Okay." Vivi said.
"I was joking." Gin said as Valerie pulled out a coin and flipped it in the air.
"Heads." Nojiko called.
"Tails." Vivi called. The coin spun in the air with everyone's eyes glued to it as it fell to the floor and landed. They saw the decision and let it be final.
CHOMP!