Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks.

Steve's POV

After escaping the giant fish we headed towards Alabasta. Luffy and Usopp were as cheerful as ever about being right to trust the giants. I was at the front of the ship looking out to sea thinking of something to do. Rose was shooting darts at a little bullseye she drew while Zoro lifted weights, shirtless.

Just put a shirt on! It's like he wants her to stare at him. I thought he didn't like her?

"Everyone! There's an emergency!" I heard Vivi yell from the lower portion of the deck

I ran over to the railing to see what the problem was. Nami was on the floor panting and covered in sweat.

"Nami has a really high fever!" Vivi explained.

"Sanji help me carry her inside." The cook and I gently lifted the sick navigator and brought her inside to her room.

Vivi explained that people get sick very easily on The Grand Line because of the constantly changing climates. Since none of us besides Nami have any medical skills we were going to have to do something.

"She'll get better if she eats some meat!" Luffy said

I don't have time to deal with this.

I picked Luffy up and threw him out onto the deck "Go play or something. Let the adults talk."

"Her fever keeps climbing!" Vivi said worriedly.

"How much longer till we get to Alabasta?" I asked the girl.

"I'm not entirely sure, at least a week."

She doesn't have that kind of time.

"We're going to find a doctor first. I'm sorry Vivi I know getting you home is important but the health of my crew has to come first." I explained to the girl.

I know Vivi wants to go home but the people who are permanent members of this ship have to come first. I won't let one of them die just because one girl wanted a ride home.

"No…" Nami squeaked out "There's a newspaper on my desk."

Vivi went over to the desk and picked up the paper. She read through the headlines and gasped. Apparently, some of the royal forces changed sides and joined the rebel army.

"That paper is three days old. I didn't want to worry you since we were sailing as fast as we could." Nami told Vivi "Do you understand Steve."

"Yes it appears the situation has become quite dire. But frankly I don't care about Alabasta that has nothing to do with me. You're a member of my crew and that comes first." I told the girl.

"I'm fine I can get better on my own." Nami said getting out of bed despite my protest.

Damn her stubbornness.

Vivi was upset over her conflicting feelings of getting home and helping Nami.

"Time to grow up Vivi, you've already done more than most at your age. Accept the fact you'll have to make tough choices in life. Not everyone will be happy with them. If you ever plan to take over Alabasta you need to learn that lesson quickly." I told her "You need to understand you are a guest on my ship and not in a position to make demands of me, this isn't a charter boat for a pleasure cruise."

I left her to go and try and convince Nami to get back in bed. When I got on deck the others were running around and tying things down and turning the ship. Vivi wasn't too far behind me.

"I have a request." Vivi asked "We need to head for my country as fast as possible. In order to do that please let's find an island with a doctor. Nami needs to be in top shape if we want to go as fast as possible.

"You got it!" Luffy answered "As fast as possible."

"AHHHH!" Rose screamed and pointed out that there was a huge cyclone not too far away from us.

"Let's keep going south towards Alabasta and look for other islands along the way." I instructed.

LATER

We sailed for a whole day and there were still no islands in sight and Nami was getting worse. It had started snowing in the middle of the night too which might have been a blessing for keeping her fever down a bit.

"Think someone can stand on water?" Zoro yelled down.

"What are you talking about?" Usopp asked

"That." He pointed out to sea where a man was standing on the water.

I'll be. How's he doing that?

"Cold out isn't it?" The man asked.

It talked.

All of the sudden a ship erupted out from underneath the man sending our ship rocking into the waves.

"What the hell!"

"Has my submersible ship left you speechless?" A man covered in tin plates asked us from the deck of his ship.

An entire army of pirates stormed our ship and pointed gun barrels at all of us on the deck. Sanji came up out from the room Nami was in only to get ambushed himself.

"That makes six, there can't only be six people on this ship." The tin man thought as he bit into a sword.

What's with this guy.

"Let me ask you folks something" The man was talking with his mouthful "We're looking for Drum Kingdom, you don't happen to have an Eternal Pose or Log Pose do you?"

"No never heard of it." Sanji told the man.

"If you're done hurry up and leave!" Luffy yelled at the man.

"Hang on I'm a little hungry" The man said as he devoured a huge portion of our ship.

"What the hell is with this guy!" Usopp screamed.

"Don't eat my ship!" Luffy yelled as he charged at the man.

"Why didn't we do this from the beginning?" Zoro asked.

"This is the fun way!" Rose yelled

We easily took down the main force. Luffy on the other hand got chomped by the tin man.

"Luffy!" Usopp yelled in fear alerting us to Luffy predicament.

"Tough, way to chewy." The man complained as he ate my friend.

Luffy's arms were stretched out of the mouth and kept flying back.

"Get off my ship!" Luffy sent the man flying when his arms returned back to his body.

The man's crew returned to the ship to go and rescue their captain since he couldn't swim.

He ate must have eaten a Devil Fruit.

The rest of us went back to random things while Usopp fixed the damage caused by that pirate.

I think I heard his crew call him Wapol. Never heard of him.

By evening of the second day of Nami's illness and we still hadn't found an island.

"It's been so cold lately." Rose said putting on her heavy blue jacket.

"It's probably because we're near a winter island." Vivi explained how climates on the Grand Line worked, with each island having it's own little area of influence.

"She's right." Sanji said looking through binoculars "I see an island."

Thank God.

"Let's hope there's a doctor." I said.

AN

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