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Bold is for attacks

Steve's POV

I was shocked?

The rabbit girl jumped back, her paws still crackling with lightning.

"Real live human animals!" Lil cheered.

"Hey you!" Usopp yelled "Where'd you get those clothes?"

"Maybe they're cannibals and they ate Nami?" Robin pondered.

"Stop saying that!" Usopp yelled.

"HYAA!" the rabbit girl jumped up.

"What leg strength!" Franky said as the girl practically flew into the sky.

"So cool!" Lil jumped up "Just like Riven!"

"What do you see Carrot?" the dog woman asked.

"It's hard to tell!" the rabbit yelled "But we might be too late!"

"Damn!" the dog girl jumped back on the gator "Let's go Carrot!"

"Right!" the rabbit landed on the riding gator.

"I didn't say you could go." I growled.

"We don't have time for this." She said "Just do as I say, the right forest is behind you, go there and turn left at the swamp. That will take you to the right belly and the bodies of you dead friends."

"Bodies." I growled again, the air around me vibrating with heat.

"Wait there and I'll be there in a bit." She said riding off.

"Get back here and answer me!" I roared.

They ignored me and kept riding.

"Dammit." I hissed before Robin grabbed my shoulder.

"This way." Law said walking "We should do what she says, it's the only lead we have. Besides the Vivre Card for my navigator Bepo is still whole, if your friends are here, he wouldn't have let them be killed by the other minks, he's not like that."

"Wait a moment." Robin looked around "Lil?!"

"She's gone." Franky said.

"What is she doing?" I hissed.

Lil's POV

"This is so cool!" I cheered sitting on the back of the gator.

"WAH!" the rabbit girl yelled "Where'd you come from."

"I hopped on when you were talking with my friends." I told her "I was checking out this cool gator, I love animals, so this place is just the best. So, I have to ask, what do you eat, and how did you generate that lightning?"

"She's a bottle of questions." The dog sighed.

"I'm Carrot." The rabbit shook my hand aggressively "And I eat carrots!"

"You're going to meet Luffy right?" I asked "Can I come?"

"Can she Wanda, can see?" Carrot asked.

"No." the dog said.

"But." We both pouted "Please!"

"Tsk…fine."

"Yay!"

We rode all the way to the back of the forest where we found Luffy fighting with a bunch of Minks.

"Luffy!" I cheered jumping off "Don't go running off alone you'll make Papa angry, but then I did that too."

"Whoa a dog." Luffy looked passed me.

"I'm Wanda." She said "And I won't do anything to you so stop fighting."

"It's a country full of Choppers." Luffy said.

"I told you the Mink are animal people." I sighed.

"But I didn't start that fight." Luffy said pointing to the other guys he beat up "They attacked me first."

"It's because you came in uninvited." Wanda said kissing the top of Luffy head.

"How shameless." I blushed.

"I'll be looking after these ones." Wanda told the other Minks "Leave them be please."

"You're lucky Wanda was here." The Bull Mink said "Otherwise you'd be done."

"The rest of you beat it!" Luffy yelled.

I looked up and saw people in the trees.

There were more ready to ambush, wow I didn't see them at all.

"Hmm?" I groaned as my bag pulled.

"What's in there?" Carrot asked "It's like it's moving."

"Oh this." I reached in and pulled out one of my stones "These are some of my friends."

"Ha!" the Minks gasped when I pulled I out "You!"

"You're staring."

The all looked at me.

"The Conductor's will has returned." Wanda said "The warriors from long ago…"

The ground suddenly rumbled and Wanda pulled me onto the Gator.

"There's going to be an eruption, we're going to the belly where your friends are." Wanda said.

"What did you mean about me?" I asked.

"I'll explain later." She said as Luffy and Carrot got on and we rode off.

Later

Steve's POV

"Look at this place." Robin said picking up the lid on a pot "It's as though they left in the middle of dinner."

"And if there was soup this must have happened recently." Monet added "Strange."

We were examining a ruined town on the back of the elephant, unfortunately Lil wasn't here. This town was full of destruction, strange crosses and other signs of battle.

"These footprints." Monet said "Are far too large and animalistic for normal, even the Mink we saw were far smaller than this. Just what attacked this place?"

"A falling out amongst themselves?" Law pondered.

"Up until a week ago this was a country." Robin said "Now it's ruins, and just what happened to the others?"

"I can't make heads or tails of this place." I said "And we've gotten separated from Luffy, Lil and the others, we need to be careful, we know nothing about this place and it's teeming with secrets."

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