One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Square Enix and Disney
OCs belong to me.

-Chapter One Hundred and Three-

"Well, the old kook didn't seem to think we'd have trouble finding one" Sanji noted right as a strange sound started to echo throughout the forest.

"Hey, that sounded peculiar" the men pointed out together.

"Great observation" I chuckled.

"Oh, you think?" Nami questioned as her eye twitched in irritation

"Yeah" Luffy smiled, oblivious to the ginger's annoyance.

"Well at least we now know what it sounds like, so that's good" I said as the others nodded in agreement.

"Well, we're here—let's do it and get it over with" Zoro sighed.

"Three nets, three teams—let's split up and bag that bird" Sanji suggested.

"Right!" he, Luffy, and Zoro nodded as they tapped their butterfly nets together.

"Let's go!" Luffy cheered as Chopper happily followed after him. "We're going to beat up a bird!" he laughed.

"Luffy, no" I sweat dropped.

"We're trying to catch it!" Usopp called back as he followed behind Nami and Sanji.

"Looks like that just leaves the three of us" I smiled, grabbing Zoro's hand and intertwining our fingers together as I looked between the remaining two crew members. Robin raised an eyebrow as her gaze flickered down toward mine and Zoro's intertwined hand before giving an amused smile. "It's so he doesn't get lost" I explained as we started to walk.

"I see" she chuckled.

"Hey!" Zoro embarrassingly snapped.

-Later-

"Wait" Robin halted as she tilted her head, one hand raised as she quietly listened for something. "That sounded like someone screaming" she said.

"Screaming?" I echoed, tilting my head as well as I tried to listen for the sound she had heard.

"Really?" Zoro grunted as he slashed down an overgrown bug that had been blocking our way. "A centipede and a big one" he remarked, picking and holding up one of the halves of the dead insect so he could examine it.

"Poor thing..." I muttered.

"You don't have to kill every living thing we meet, it's kind of rude" Robin softly scolded as she placed her hands on her hips.

"Well, he shouldn't have snuck up on me" Zoro argued.

"And exactly how could a bug that big sneak up on you?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Don't ask me, but he did!" Zoro huffed as he turned around and started to stalk off.

"Hey, wait!" Robin called out, quickly stopping him.

"Now what?" he asked, clearly irritated.

"You're going back the way we came from" she pointed out.

"Yeah, we're heading this way" I said, motioning with my head in the correct direction we were heading. "I told you not to let go of my hand, you'll get lost" I playfully chastised, causing Zoro's face to flush as he narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth as if ready to argue, only to quickly close it the second we heard the call of the South Bird.

"There is it again" Robin said, already walking off in the direction the sound had come from. "Come on—and be careful not to step in the quicksand" she cautiously warned just as I started to follow after her.

"Hey, wait up" Zoro said as I halted in my tracks upon hearing the startled gasp he suddenly gave. Peering back, I burst out into a fit of suppressed laughter upon seeing that he had gone and already gotten himself stuck in the quicksand that Robin had just warned us about.

"Looks like someone didn't listen" I teasingly chirped as he clenched his jaw.

"Just shut up and help me out..." he grumbled as I nodded, already setting off to work in finding something that could help me pull him out.

-Later-

"There's no end to them" Zoro huffed as the three of us found ourselves just surrounded by a swarm of very large insects. "They just keep popping up, stupid crickets—oh come on! You think you can beat me, do you?!" he frowned, hitting one of the crickets atop the head with his sword.

"Honestly, I'm more annoyed with that bird's call" I sighed, rubbing the back of my neck as I peered up at the treetops in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the South Bird that was continuously crying out from somewhere. It was a haunting sort of sound, one that became more and more infuriating the longer it went on without pause.

"Indeed, I wish those birds were easy to see as they are easy to hear" Robin frowned.

-Later-

"It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack" Zoro groaned once we regrouped. "We didn't even see one" he huffed, plopping down alongside everyone else as they sat or sprawled themselves out in exhaustion.

"Well, we did, but we could never get close enough to grab it thanks to all those stupid bugs" Luffy panted.

"All we did was run" Chopper wheezed.

"So eight people couldn't catch one bird? That's pathetic" Usopp sighed. "Come on, would you get it together, guys?" he frowned.

"You're one to talk..." Sanji grumbled as Nami fell to her knees.

"We've been doing this for hours, I don't think I can run anymore..." she dejectedly mumbled with a heavy sigh.

"We need a different strategy, running after it clearly isn't working" I said.

"Oh yeah, and what do you suggest?" she asked.

"I don't know, we could do the old bait and trap trick—set food out and trap it the minute it takes the bait" I shrugged.

"I doubt that would actually work—besides, we don't have any food" she said, rolling her eyes. It fell silent after that as we once again heard the South Bird's call with said animal now flocking onto a tree branch close by. Sitting there, it unhinged its beak and started to hop around—a sound like laughter emitting from it as it did so.

"I think he's mocking us" I said.

"He just said: You morons think you can catch us? Ha! Good one!" Chopper translated.

"Morons? What nerve!" Usopp frowned. "Hey, bird brain! I'll give you a good one right between your eyes!" he snapped, reaching into his bag and pulling out his slingshot. Just as he got ready to aim it, arms suddenly sprouted around the bird and wrapped themselves around it.

"Hey?!" everyone shouted.

"Oh...it was that easy all along..." I remarked.

"I can grab it if I can see it" Robin smiled as she tossed the bird down on the ground, causing it to start screeching as it now rolled around in frustration.

-Later-

"Hey, Pop's, we caught one of those birds!" Luffy called out once we finally made it back to Cricket's house. "Pop's? What happened?!" we were shocked to find the place a mess as well as startled by the sight of a bloodied and badly beaten Cricket, Masira, and Shoujou.

"Masira!" Usopp gasped once he took notice of the slash that ran down the monkey's back.

"Shoujou!" Sanji ground out as he looked at the green orangutan that floated passed out in the water.

"What the…what happened here?" Nami shakily asked.

"Who the hell did this?!" I frowned, cheeks flaring up in frustration at the sight.

"Skylar's right, the better question is who did this?" Sanji growled as he dragged the orangutan back onto dry land. "Hey, give me a hand!" he called over to Chopper who was already turning big so that he could easily help in moving the primate.

"Ahh! The Going Merry—what the hell happened to her?! Who did this?!" Usopp screamed in horror upon seeing the damage done to the ship. "When I find out, they're going to be sorry for even laying a finger on her—those savages! Dammit!" he angrily cried.

"Sorry, kid..." Cricket weakly coughed.

"You're alive!" Luffy cried out in relief, quick to rush over to the man's side and prevent him from moving any more than he already was. "Don't try to move, okay—just please" he pleaded, not wishing to see the man strain himself any further.

"I'm really sorry about this...we did everything we could to stop them, but it wasn't enough...it was pretty pathetic..." Cricket weakly sat up. "We got to get moving though, the ship's not going to patch itself up..." he mumbled, still attempting to move even as Luffy tried to stop him.

"Hold on, Pop's! Wait—tell us what happened first, who did this to you?" our captain asked.

"Calm down, it's okay—don't worry about it" Cricket tried to assure us. "It doesn't matter anymore, did you have any luck finding the—" he stopped when he finally noticed the bird that was being tightly clutched in Zoro's grip. "Look at that, you've got yourself a South Bird—nice job" he coughed with a grin. "They're hard to catch."

"Luffy..." Nami called out as she came out of the rubble of the ruined home she had been poking around inside of in an attempt to look for clues as to what had happened while we were away. "Cricket's gold, it's all gone" she frowned.

"That stuff? It's junk, just forget it—it doesn't matter" Cricket dismissively waved. "Your dream is more important, we have to get you to—"

"Forget it? How could you say that?!" Usopp interrupted. "Think about what it took to get that gold—ten years of diving to the bottom of the ocean, subjecting your body to all the pressures of the deep sea" he scowled. "Come on, you can't just—"

"Shut up!" Cricket snapped. "I'm serious—that gold and what happens to it is our problem, got it? Your ship is in no shape to make it to the Knock Up Stream, if we can get all the Saruyama Alliance Crew here, they'll have it fixed and reinforced by morning" he said, dead set on fixing our ship before the night ends.

"Zoro?" I quietly questioned as the swordsman made his way toward the ruined house.

"You'll still be able to sail tomorrow" Cricket sighed. "Listen, everything will be alright—we will send you to the sky, I promise that" he promised.

"Old-timer..." Usopp mumbled.

"Hey, Luffy" Zoro called from the ruins of the house, instantly catching the captain's attention as he pointed to the symbol of a Jolly Roger that had been painted on the wall.

"That's Bellamy's mark" Nami pointed out.

"You want any help?" Zoro asked as Luffy stood up.

"I'll handle this one alone..." the captain mumbled, turning down the swordsman's offer for help.

"Luffy, don't be stupid! We don't have time for this—we have to set sail in three hours!" Nami frowned.

A/N: Enjoy

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