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Bold is for Attacks

Steve's POV

"Hey get up."

Who's shaking me?

I forced my eyes open and saw Nami looming over my body.

"Get up this place is full of bounty hunters."

Oh damn.

"Alright I'm up, relax." I stood up and walked to the window seeing a man in a trench coat and a woman in a bright yellow dress standing in the middle of the road.

And there was Luffy sleeping the road.

Idiot! What are you doing!

Gun shots rang out as Igarappoi shot at the man they called Mr.5.

What the hell is going on?

"For a town of Bounty Hunters there's no treasure here at all." Nami said walking over to me

"How tragic." I mumbled "What happened?"

"Rose clocked you with a mug and you got knocked out." She said.

"Right…" I paused.

Thanks sis…I owe you.

Now the woman in yellow was attacking Miss Wednesday.

"The name of the spy is Igaram, head of the Alabasta royal guard." Mr.5 said walking out of the smoke unscathed.

"The other is the Princess herself, Nefertari Vivi." Mr.5 held up a photo of a younger looking Miss Wednesday.

I saw Zoro and Rose run out and grab Luffy pulling him to safety.

What are they doing up at an hour like this?

The fight kept escalating but I was bored. This had nothing to do with me. I walked out the back door.

"Might as well see what Zoro and Rose are up to."

I heard footsteps behind me; I assumed Nami was following me. When I walked outside I saw Igarappoi…Mr.8…Igaram… whatever this guy's name is grabbing Zoro's leg and Rose was trying to pull him free.

"Please protect the princess. If you get her safely home I promise you'll be greatly rewarded." The man pleaded with Zoro.

"Rewarded you say?" I heard Nami speak.

Oh no. Oh No. OH NO!

"How about a billion Beli then?" Nami asked the man.

Crap.

The man was taken back at Nami outlandish request. He was just a guard after all he can't promise that kind of money.

"Come on without the help of these three your princess might die." Nami played with the man.

"It's highway robbery." Rose joked.

"If you save her you can negotiate with her yourself!"

"Are you asking us to save the girl first? Fine we'll take care of it." Nami told the man

"Alright you three go get'em" Nami instructed.

"Why us!"

"I'm not some part of your money-making scheme." Zoro told Nami.

"The money may be mine but the contract is for the whole crew, so get to work."

"What kind of logic is that?!" I yelled.

Nami and I had screaming match in the street for a while before Nami pulled out her trump card.

"You still owe me that money from Loguetown Zoro. Are you saying you can't keep a promise? If you do this we can call it even."

"Are you extorting my Zoro?!" Rose yelled

Zoro and Rose ran off to go help the girl, and wipe away the debt. I followed them, there's no point in arguing money with Nami.

By the time I caught up to them Zoro was screaming something about boogers and Rose was telling the princess we had come to save her.

"Doesn't matter why you're here you in our way." Mr.5 said

"ZORO!" I looked to the back of the street and saw Luffy screaming the swordsman's name.

"What is it? I don't need your help I've already got plenty." Zoro spoke back

"I'll never forgive you! FIGHT ME!"

"WHAT?!" all three of us yelled.

"Stop spouting off idiotic nonsense!" I yelled at my friend.

"You shut up!"

Excuse Me?

"Did Luffy just tell you to shut up?" Rose was slack jawed.

"That ungrateful little twerp." I gritted my teeth.

"That ungrateful Bastard needs to get his ass kicked! How dare you cut up all those townspeople? They were really nice and gave us food!"

He's an idiot. Doesn't even know the full story.

"Listen Luffy those people were actually…" Zoro tried to explain but Luffy punched at him instead.

Luffy and Zoro ran back into buildings fighting each other while Rose and I stayed with the princess.

"It appears those two won't be interfering. Let finish the mission. Move out Miss Valentine."

"Roger Mr.5!" The two charged at us.

"Back off!" I slammed my whip into the two sending them flying back.

When the dust cleared the woman was floating in the air.

"I'm going to crush you now, with my Kilo-Kilo Fruit powers. Right now I'm light enough to float on a gentle breeze, but now I can change my weight to 10,000 kg and bury you in the ground." Miss Valentine said from the sky as she slowly started to descend.

The woman was speeding right towards Rose, she looked up and right before the women landed jumped back with a handspring "You're too heavy your attacks easy to avoid, when you weigh that much you can't change direction in the air."

Zoro and Luffy were still fighting in the middle of the street, getting in everyone's way.

"I want to run but I don't even know if it's safe to pass." The princess mumbled.

"You can try and go if you want but I wouldn't recommend getting between those two." Rose told her "also we're supposed to protect you should stick close."

The girl ignored my sister and walked forward only to have Luffy and Zoro burst out of the walls and attacked each other barley missing the princess. I looked back and saw Mr.5 and Miss Valentine pulling themselves up and charging towards Luffy and Zoro.

Rose and I turned around "God you two are so annoying."

We both sent the two flying with quick attacks "You're in the way!"

"They're so annoying!" Rose said

"Who the hell are these people?" I asked still confused.

"Baroque Works."

"Never heard of them."

I looked back and saw that Nami had broken up the fight between Luffy and Zoro. She berated them for almost costing her money.

"Why did you save me? Who are you people?" Vivi asked us.

"Oh you don't know anything yet. How about you and I make a contract?" Nami asked dragging a still bickering Luffy and Zoro.

After sitting Luffy down we explained what had happened and he calmed down. Nami continued to pester the princess for a reward.

"I refuse. Thank you for your help but no." Vivi told Nami.

"But you're a princess a billion should by pocket change." Nami pleaded.

"I need to get home. I have to stop Baroque Works. They're the ones inciting a revolution in my country." the girl said with a sad face.

She explained she had gone undercover with Igaram to discover who was leading the organization trying to tear down her country. She wanted to get home to stop them and save her people. Nami understood why she couldn't offer her money and gave up.

"So who's the boss?" I asked.

"You mean his true identity! You don't wanna know. If you did know Baroque works would come after you." Vivi warned.

"Yeah best leave us out of it." Nami sighed.

"Yeah good. No matter how strong you may be your no match for Crocodile, one of the seven warlords."

Did she just?

"Did you just say his name?" Zoro deadpanned.

A bird and a monkey thing flew off after staring us down.

Nami instantly flipped out "We just entered the Grand Line and we're already being targeted by a warlord. Been great traveling with you. They don't know my face I'm running away. Bye!"

Nami barely got ten steps away when she saw that the monkey had drawn pictures of us.

"Now I can't run away!"

"Well then all five of us are on their hit list now." Zoro said.

"Well things are gonna get interesting." I smiled.

"This is so cool!" Luffy cheered.

Vivi was consoling Nami trying to make her feel better.

"Fear not" We looked back and saw Vivi friend Igaram.

He was dressed up to look like Vivi and was carrying five dummies. He said he was going to take a different route with the dummies to throw Baroque Works off our tail. He asked us to take Vivi home.

"Sure. We'll do it." Luffy told the man.

"Good alright then princess please hand me the Eternal Pose." Igaram asked Vivi.

He explained that an Eternal Pose was a log that had permanently recorded an island's magnetic field.

"Take care princess. May we meet again in our home land." Igaram said turning toward his ship.

"Aww he left he was such a funny guy." Luffy said waving.

"Sure Luffy come on let's get going." I tugged at his shirt.

When we turned to leave there was a huge explosion. The ship that had just left exploded leaving a huge flaming wreck and now fire illuminated the whole shore. Everyone looked pretty shocked. Luffy started screaming at the fire.

"We have to leave! Nami how's the log?" I turned and asked.

"It's set let's go!"

"Luffy go get Sanji and Usopp. Zoro, Rose we're getting the ship ready." I said running back to the boat.

When we got back the three of us were running around setting ropes and pulling up the anchor. It wasn't long before Luffy arrived with the chef and the sniper dragging them behind him.

"Luffy get on we're leaving. Nami let's go what's the hold up!" I saw Nami and Vivi were arguing on the beach.

"She says she won't leave without her duck." Nami explained.

"You mean this thing" Rose pointed out.

"He was here when we got back." Zoro told them.

"QUACK!"

We lowered the sails and pulled away from the island.

"How many people are going to be coming after us?" Luffy asked.

"I'm not sure. Baroque works is rumored to have 2000 people working for them." Vivi explained.

Sanji and Usopp woke up and started screaming about why we had left the island. Nami knocked the two out saying she would explain the situation to them later.

"You should be careful of the rocks along the shore. Congrats on escaping by the way."

We all turned to see a woman sitting on the railing. She was wearing a purple cowboy hat along with a skirt and vest, both of which were also purple. She had tanned skin and looked to be older than me and Rose, probably in her late 20's, about 28 or 29.

She's very pretty. She smells like a field of flowers.

"I just meet up with Mr.8."

"That was you…" Vivi started trembling "What are you doing here Miss All-Sunday?"

"Who's her partner?" Rose asked.

"She's Mr.0's partner. Igaram and I trailed her to find out the boss' identity."

"Actually." The women spoke "I let you follow me."

So she's an ally?

"Why are you on my ship?" I said looking at the woman with a raised eyebrow.

I looked up and saw Sanji and Usopp holding Weapons at the woman's face. No sooner did the two arrive then they were thrown over the railing.

"Please don't point such dangerous things at me."

A Devil Fruit?

"You still didn't answer me Beautiful. What are you doing on my ship?!" I said staring the woman down.

"Relax Handsome" She smiled at me "I'm not here on orders and I have no intention of fighting you."

The two of us just stared at each other for a few moments, my immediate instinct was to protect the others and fight her but…my hands wouldn't move.

"So you're the captain? Mr. Steve. How unfortunate your tiny crew has to babysit a princess." She sighed crossing her legs "The real tragedy is where your log is pointed. Your next destination is Little Garden."

She threw a device to Vivi "That will take you to an island just outside of Alabasta. No one will follow you if you take that route."

"It's probably a trap." Zoro said

Nami was excited about being able to skip most of the journey. Vivi was holding the Pose thinking hard about what to do.

"Give that here." I grabbed the Pose from Vivi and crushed it in my fist, glass dug into my hand.

Nami kicked me but I ignored her "I don't care how beautiful you are; you don't decide where this ship goes!"

The women laughed "I see… Well I do like bold men. I do hope we meet again Steve, if you survive."

Was she just flirting with me?

Miss All-Sunday jumped off the ship and landed on a turtle that swam away.

Who the hell was that woman…

Vivi was having a crisis on the floor with Nami and Rose consoling her.

Zoro walked up to me. "The lady was strange; I don't trust her."

Luffy walked up to us as well and laughed "I think she liked you."

I could feel the blood rush to my face "What are you talking about twerp go eat or something."

"Let's set sail, onward to Little Garden." Luffy yelled.

Robin's POV

I was my way back to Rainbase.

You are certainly very intriguing, Steve. Very cute too.

I looked out at the horizon and sighed "The sunrise…Thoughts like thinking someone is cute are just…a waste, someone like me doesn't have that kind of luxury."

AN

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