~Y/n pov~

I don't know where Nami and Usopp went.

Being on the same island for ages made my sense of direction worse.

I have no idea where I'm going. Only small islands are easy to navigate.

"Take it back, Luffy!"

Is that Chopper?

Oh.. it's those idiots again.

"Shut up!" The imposter (sus) swung his arm and smacked Chopper away.

"Chopper?" I called once I got close enough.

"Y/n!" He cried, running towards me and hugging my leg.

I smiled and bent down to pat his head as tears ran down his cheeks.

"Luffy's a bully."

The fake Luffy turned to look at me, "It's you again. You damn bitch."

Chopper gasped and looked at him with an angry expression.

I scooped Chopper up before he did anything.

"Unfortunately I have to see your ugly face again." I stated and turned around to walk away.

"What was that?"

I turned and glared at him harshly, "You heard me."

"What was that?" Chopper whispered harshly.

"They're pretending to be us, obviously. There's no way we'd all look so weak and scrawny like them." I sighed.

"Really? I'm so glad." Chopper cried.

"I went to check with Rayleigh again and I think the only person yet to arrive is Luffy. The others have arrived now so they should be here somewhere. I was the first." I told him.

"So where are we going?"

"Oh that? I have no idea." I replied as I continued to walk about aimlessly.

"Eh?" Chopper gaped at me.

~*~

I grabbed one of the straw hat recruitment posters and looked at the location it says to meet.

This will probably be interesting maybe I should go.

"Chopper! Y/n!" Usopp called.

I turned and saw Nami and Usopp.

Ah, they reappeared.

Chopper looked at them with a big smile, "Usopp! Nami!!"

They stopped their vehicle and got off.

Nami marched over to me with an annoyed expression.

I expected her to hit my but instead she slung her arm around my shoulder.

"Y/n, why'd you disappear? You're almost as bad as a certain swordsman." Nami huffed.

I smiled nervously, "You kinda disappeared."

"No it was you." Nami sighed.

"Well, at least no one died...?" I half stated half questioned.

"Let's just go."

I laughed as I watched Chopper and Usopp excitedly talking to each other.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

Nami raised her eyebrows, "Back to the ship, obviously."

"Really? That's boring." I showed her the poster, "I was gonna go here."

"Why?!"

I shrugged, "Seems fun."

"I doubt you'd even make it there."

"The groves have numbers. I'd find it eventually." I responded.

~*~

Nami dragged me back to the ship where we met Franky and Robin.

Robin smiled and gave me a hug, "I missed you. It was lonely."

"Yeah. I'm glad to see everyone again."

Robin patted my head with flushed cheeks muttering something about cute.

Franky grinned and spoke loudly as he showed Usopp and Chopper his new inventions.

Chopper and Usopp talked back with sparkling eyes and just as much enthusiasm.

~*~

"Usopp! Nami! Y/n! Robin! Franky!!"

We heard Brook before we saw him.

He came flying down from the sky and landed on the ship.

"It's been a long time, everybody!" Brook grinned, "You three have become even more beautiful."

Brook walked over to a barrel and sat down.

"It's been two years Nami so..." she started playing his guitar.

"Are you gonna play for us?" Usopp asked excitedly.

Brook took a deep breath before speaking, "Can I look at your panties?"

Nami kicked him, "What do you think?! Honestly, none of you guys have grown up."

Brook stood up, "Oh yeah. Everyone isn't here yet."

"Chopper went to pick them up." Robin told him.

Just then we heard loud yelling.

"Hey!!"

There was a massive bird flying towards us with the remaining members.

Everyone smiled as Luffy waved happily at us.

I noticed Sanji looking at us with wide eyes before blood shot out of his nose and he went flying.

He landed in the ocean.

I'm gonna pretend like that didn't happen....

Usopp dove into the water and pulled Sanji onto the ship.

"Usopp! Is Sanji okay?" Chopper asked with concern.

Blood was still dribbling out of his nose and he was laid in a pool of his own blood.

Zoro casually walked past as if nothing was happening.

He walked over to me and brought me into a tight hug.

I returned the hug just as tightly, letting my body melt into his.

"I missed you a lot." I mumbled.

"Me too." Zoro agreed, "Let's stay like this for a few moments."

We pulled away enough to see each other's faces.

I frowned, "Your eye."

"Ah this. It's nothing." Zoro responded nonchalantly.

I still clung to him as well talked.

Zoro leant down and placed a kiss on my forehead, "You've gotten a lot clingier."

"Shut up." I blushed in embarrassment.

"No. I like it." He mumbled quietly, his cheeks turning red.

I leaned closer to him, resting my head against his chest and taking in his familiar scent.

He ran his fingers through my hair delicately.

I watched as Luffy got excited over Franky's new appearance.

"The navy ships are here." Nami warned everyone.

I pulled away from Zoro and looked towards Sanji.

"Do you think he's gonna die?" I asked casually.

"Don't say that!" Chopper screamed, "Ahh! He's losing so much blood."

Come to think of it, my illness was practically non existent. Maybe because I've become so much stronger.

The ship rocked as the first cannonball hit our ship.

Usopp screamed as more came towards us.

They were all suddenly shot down with pink arrows.

A ship cut in front of the navy.

"Who put a navy ship in my way?" A black haired woman asked.

Was that Hancock? She's quite famous.

"They're strong amazonian pirates led by a pirate empress - a warlord." Robin stated once she saw the ship.

"A warlord?!" Usopp screeched.

"Her name is Boa Hancock." Robin smiled, "They say anyone who sees her will be attracted by her beauty and be turned to stone."

I stood beside Nami and Robin as we stared at the ships.

Brook was looking through a telescope.

"Wow! She must be a goddess!" Usopp called after he snatched the telescope off Brook.

"Y/n!" Luffy suddenly called as he stopped paying attention to Franky.

Before I could turn around, there was a sudden weight on my back.

I let out a huff of air as I was slightly winded.

Luffy smiled and clung to me, his arms wrapped around my neck and his head resting on my shoulder.

"I missed you."

"Yeah. I missed you too."

He clung to my back for a few moments before letting go off me and going to stand beside me.

Then, he clung to my arm with a smile.

"Goddess?!" Sanji shot up and ran over to us to take a look.

Sanji turned to stone.

Usopp gaped at him.

"Oh, that's Hancock and the others." Luffy told us.

Sanji stopped being stone and turned to him with a surprised expression.

Hancock turned to face us and winked.

"Let's set sail." Nami started instructing everyone.

I turned my attention back to Luffy as he tugged on my arm and pouted at me.

I pulled him into a hug which made him stop pouting as he buried his face into my shoulder.

"Are you okay?" I asked quietly.

Luffy shook his head.

It's about Ace... isn't it?

"Don't blame yourself." I said quietly before trying to pull away from the hug.

He held onto me tightly, "Just a few more minutes."

I patted his back to comfort him.

I knew he wouldn't cry in front of the others.

The coating on the ship started to rise as if created a bubble around the ship.

Luffy pulled away from the hug and looked at it in amazement.

"Listen up everybody." Nami spoke, getting our attention, "A coated ship has the ability to reduce any kind of pressure. So once the floating bag at the ship bottom which keeps it on the surface has been removed, it'll be less buoyant and start to sink. That's how it works."

No information seemed to go into Luffy's head as he nodded and pretended to understand.

"The floating bag is removed." Franky called.

Luffy grinned and walked to the middle of the ship, "You guys! I've got a lot of things I want to share with you but in any case, thank you for going along with my selfish decision for two years!"

"That wasn't the first time." Sanji stated.

"He's right." Usopp laughed, "You've always been selfish!"

Luffy just laughed in response to the obvious insults.

He threw his arms up in the air, "Set sail!"

The ship dived under the water and we started to sail.

It was so strange.

We were on a ship underwater and we weren't dead.

"Let's go to the Fish-Man island!!"

~*~

"Y/n. I have something to show you." Franky spoke.

I raised an eyebrow, "What?"

"Follow me."

He led me to one of the spare rooms that's not being used.

We have a few rooms that have no use yet.

Franky opened the door to reveal a bedroom.

There was a massive bed and close go that there was also a hammock.

There were wardrobes and desk space.

It was the same size as the girls room but it only had one bed so there was more room.

"Is this for me?" I asked with a confused tone.

"Yeah. So you Luffy and Zoro stop sneaking in and out of rooms at night." Franky joked.

I smiled, "Thanks."

Franky ruffled my hair, "No problem."

I'm assuming that he's gonna tell Zoro and Luffy later.

~*~

The sun shone down of the ship as we continued to sink.

"Can we go back on the surface again for sure?" Usopp asked nervously, "It's not like I'm scared.. but..."

"Look at that!" Brook yelled.

Roots?

"Come to think of it... Sabaody Archipelago consists of giant mangroves." Sanji stated.

"I'm overwhelmed by the beauty of nature!" Brook yelled, "I'm so surprised - my eyes could pop out! I don't have eyes though."

"I've seen this already." Zoro said.

Sanji yelled at him in annoyance, "Yeah, because you for on the wrong ship! Shut up! Everybody's having a great time!"

"I can't believe these roots are running down to the sea bottom." Robin exclaimed in disbelief, "They're enormous and magnificent."

I laughed as I watched Chopper puff his cheeks to look like the pufferfish.

"Hey... there's something behind that tree." Usopp walked towards us as he trembled.

There was a massive fish.

It was way bigger than our ship.

"Fish!" Luffy exclaimed as he tried to catch them.

He just got stuck on the bubble.

"The fish here look delicious too." Zoro stated.

Usopp whacked them both on the head, "Stop it!"

"What if the bubble pops!" Chppper added, "Don't ever do that again or I will kill."

"Nami, give us dos and don'ts on the coated ship." Sanji instructed.

"Alright, everyone listen.." Nami smiled and turned towards Sanji.

"She's moving! A real, beautiful woman!" Sanji screamed as blood shot out of his nose.

He was sent flying and he hit against the bubble.

The section he was against created a small hole and he popped out of the bubble and into the ocean.

"Ahh! Sanji flew out into the water." Luffy, Usopp and Chopper screamed.

"The bubble doesn't break even under tremendous pressure in this deep water but things can pass through it like that. It's amazing." Robin smiled, her arms crossed over her chest.

"Sanji!" Luffy stretched his arm through the bubble and grabbed onto Sanji, "I feel weak."

His legs looked wobbly as Usopp and Chopper held onto him.

We managed to get Sanji safely back inside.

"At this rate he'll bleed to death when he meets a mermaid." Brook sighed.

"If there are too many holes at once, it will break." Nami told us, "For example, if we are bitten by a Sea Kings' fangs, it'll be trouble."

"There's something I have to tell you about." Franky mentioned.

It was silent for a few seconds before Luffy, Usopp and Chopper started to rant excitedly.

"I'm afraid it's not." Franky told them after a few seconds, "This is what I wanna tell you about. Hachi told us that he would show us the way to Fish-man island but he got severely injured at Saobody so he's under medical care at Fish-man island. He was protecting the Sunny."

"Then how did the ship remain undamaged after that?" Usopp asked.

"Batholomew Kuma protected it. I couldn't believe my eyes." Franky trailed off.

"It's getting darker and darker." Usopp stated, "There is some kind of ship coming towards us."

I glanced back and saw the ship getting bigger and bigger.

~*~

"Go, sea cow!"

The other ship was crashing into us, our bubbles colliding.

They had a cow pulling their ship along.

Isn't that the cow Luffy beat up?

"Momoo!" Nami yelled, "Don't you recognise me?"

The injured cow turned to her with a confused look before it's eyes glinted with recognition.

"Hey Luffy, doesn't he look familiar?" Sanji called.

"Yeah." Luffy agreed.

Momoo's eyes widened when he saw them and tears built up in his eyes.

The pirates ran towards our ship and one of them started to climb through the bubble.

"Kill then all!" He jumped onto our ship.

Momoo swam away as fast as he could in fear before the other could come onto our ship.

We all turned our attention to the pirate who had gotten onto our ship.

He laughed, not realising his men had left.

It was silent for a few minutes before he realised and started to sweat nervously.

Franky walked up to the man and lifted him up before throwing him on the ground.

"Don't throw me in the water." He begged, "I was forced to be a slave on that ship!"

"Aren't you the captain?" I raised an eyebrow at him, "You're a wimp."

He looked up at me and smirked.

"What's that look for?!" I glared at him, "Wanna be burned alive? Or perhaps you'd prefer to freeze to death?"

I heard Usopp squeak and mutter something like 'scary'.

"Don't stare at them like that!" Sanji kicked the man in the face so he would stop staring at me Nami and Robin.

Sanji turned towards us and froze, blood shooting out of his nose again as he crashed into the bubble.

"I wanna find a sea monster." Luffy grinned.

The current pulled us along as we went deeper and deeper under water.

"A monster!" The hostage yelled.

Zoro looked at him with an uninterested expression, "I forgot about you."

"What are you taking about?" Usopp frowned, "Quit that. These are myths made up by someone."

"Then what's that?"

Usopp turned to where I was pointing and screamed.

A few members went out of the ship using bubble so they could breathe.

~*~

The monster trio easily beat the giant squid.

"A monster." Nami muttered, "They're all monsters..."

She then turned to look at me.

"What are you looking at?"

"There are four monsters..."

"Hey! Something is in there." Chopper called as a shark emerged from within the squid.

The shark was wearing a shirt.

Strange...

The shark nodded its head and then swam away.

The current began to get stronger as the squid was pulled away.

The monster trio started to get pulled away as well.

"Follow them!" Franky yelled as we sped after them.

Nami tried her best to navigate us.

I caught Chopper as he was flying around.

"Thank God." Chopper sighed in relief.

"This is fun!"

I could hear Luffy laughing.

Not much has changed...

Usopp fell unconscious.

~*~

Usopp woke up and turned to us, "Why so glum?"

"Luffy and the other two got separated." Robin stated.

"They're probably alive." I reassured them.

"It's too dark." Usopp complained.

"I told them to attach the safety rope." Nami sighed in exasperation.

"Let's look for them. I have a search light." Franky told us.

"What?!"

"Franky... nipple light."

"Why there?!" Usopp yelled in annoyance as Franky's nipples lit up.

Why...

When the area was lit up we could finally see all the sea monsters surrounding us.

The eyes on the figurehead of Sunny lit up as Franky grabbed the wheel.

"They just be looking for us too."

"Even if they were looking... they'd never find us with that sense of direction." I laughed.

"Says you." Nami retorted, "I can't believe you got lost on Saobody Archipelago."

I looked out into the dark sea.

I couldn't see anyone at all.

A swarm of jellyfish surrounded us.

One of the tentacles came through the bubble.

Chopper smiled excitedly, "Do you wanna be my friend?"

"Don't touch it, Chopper." Robin called to try and stop him, "It's probably venomous!"

Chopper shrieked and backed away in fear.

"Coup de burst!" Franky yelled, propelling the ship to escape the jellyfish, "We have very limited air. Coup de burst makes the bubble shrink."

That's not good...

"I see. But it makes me nervous to see the bubble shrinking." Brook muttered.

The fish that bit the jellyfish died and the jellyfish swam away.

"Hey. Where did that strange man go?" I asked.

"You're right." Robin agreed, "He disappeared."

"Found him." Franky called.

"The barrel?" I asked.

I faced me palm towards it and the barrel set on fire.

There was loud screaming.

"Don't worry. That's not enough to kill you." I smiled.

"Scary.." Usopp backed away from me as I put out the flames.

"He'll probably be unconscious for a while. He'll wake up eventually.... Probably." I nodded to myself and watched as Franky hammered nails into the barrel, sealing it.

"His body melted like mud." Franky mentioned.

Smoke began to rise from volcanoes.

"Let's get out of here!"

~*~

There was a bright light that blinded us.

"Is that Fishman island?" Chopper asked.

"We're not deep enough." Nami responded.

Franky started using his nipple lights to send signals towards the other light source.

"Hey! What are you sending the flashing signals with?!" Usopp yelled as he violently smacked Franky.

"I don't think that's another person." I sighed as they tried to interact with it.

As it came closer, I realised it was a fish with a light dangling above its head.

"Oh no!" Franky yelled in surprise.

It was way bigger than us.

The fish opened its mouth and was about to swallow us whole.

"It's an angler! He tricked us!" Usopp screamed in fear.

We narrowly avoided being eaten.

An even bigger fish turned up.

It was creepily human looking.

It punched the other fish, "Don't do that. Don't eat ships! How many times do I have to tell you?"

~*~

A torn up ship came towards us.

It said Flying Dutchman on the sails.

"The infamous Flying Dutchman." Brook gasped, "It shouldn't exist in the real world! It happened several hundred years ago. One stormy day, the captain of the pirate ship suddenly lost his mind and killed his crew by throwing them into troubled waters one by one! And he even cursed the Gods. The name of the captain was Vander Decken and the ship was the Flying Dutchman!"

"Calm down." Franky told the screaming Usopp and Chopper, "We thought Brook's ship was a ghost ship too but it wasn't. All we found on the ship was a funny skeleton."

Brook laughed, "So harsh."

"You're right... Ghost ships aren't something you see often." Nami smiled nervously.

I peered over Robin's shoulder to see she had drawn the ship with exaggerated skills with swords through them.

"That drawings actually quite good." I commented.

Nami shrieked when she saw it, "What the hell Robin?!"

"We just saw the Kraken which was believe to be an imaginary monster so it's not that surprising to see a ghost ship." Robin smiled as if this was a normal thing.

Everyone froze and it was silent for a few seconds.

"Please save me." Nami clung onto my arm with tears in her eyes.

"There there." I patted her head.

"Robin, you can't scare them for your entertainment." Franky complained but Robin only laughed in response.

The weird human looking ship brought his hand down and tried to punch us.

The Kraken punched him in the face with his tentacle, protecting us.

Why did he protect us?

The Kraken repeatedly punched the weird man fish in the face.

"Hey, that's enough." Luffy called.

Did Luffy somehow tame another monster?

The monster trio came floating towards us, all sharing the same bubble.

"We've been looking for you guys." Luffy called while waving his hand.

Zoro scoffed, "They're so high-maintenance. They got lost!"

Blood spurted out of Sanji's nose again.

All three of them came back through the bubble.

Luffy collapsed on the floor.

Luffy got the Kraken to pull our ship.

Of course he did...

~*~

"We're here!" Nami grinned.

The island was surrounded by a massive bubble.

It looked magical. Like something out of a fairy tale.

There were little fish swimming all around it.

"Let's look for the entrance." Nami suggested.

"What are they?"

We all turned to where Franky was pointing.

They were sea monster but they looked like animals you would find on land.

It sure is strange down here.

"Someone's riding it." Luffy mentioned on a shocked voice.

"Why are you obeying such fools as humans, Kraken?" Someone spoke.

The Kraken let go of the ship and ran away as fast he as could.

"What are you doing?! We were almost there." Luffy complained as our ship was dropped and we hit the seabed.

"You guys are the straw hats, aren't you?" A man spoke up.

"Who are you? How do you know about us?" Luffy asked with a serious expression.

"You are the one who foiled the plans of the Arlong pirates. That act was easy enough to understand." The Fishman spoke, "And then you stood up for Hachi, the former officer of the Arlong pirates two years ago and knocked one of the hateful celestial dragons. Just like Fisher Tiger, the hero of the Fishman island who we respect."

"Fisher Tiger?" Robin asked.

"Are you enemies or not?" The man asked.

Nami made her way over to Franky and whispered aggressively, "Use all the air we have in a coup de burst and shoot us straight into Fishman island. We all know no one is going to give in to this man. Hurry and fuel up."

Robin nodded in agreement, "It seems that's the only way."

The Fishmen just watched as we prepared the ship.

"Want to join?"

"No way, stupid." Luffy stuck his tongue out at them.

"Then, sink! Sea lion."

The sea lion raced towards us, letting out a roar.

Franky used the coup de burst right in time and blasted us out of the past of the charging sea lion.

We went flying past.

The ship creaked under the pressure the the bubble of air shrunk almost to the ground, forcing us all to lay down.

We got closer and closer to Fishman island.

The coating came off as we entered the giant bubble.

"What's that?" Brook asked pointing to the other bubble.

"It's a double bubble." Robin exclaimed, "Most boats would collapse after going through the first bubble because it's just air."

"Hold on tight." Franky warned.

Well, I'm screwed.

I'm pretty sure my body is gonna go flying.

I clung to the railing anyway.

I was startled when muscular arms wrapped around my waist, holding me in place.

Leaning my head back, I rested it on Zoro's chest.

A rush of water surrounded us as we entered the second bubble.

This is bad.

The current is really strong too.

My body felt heavy and I started to sink.

I felt Zoro's hold on me tighten.

My consciousness started to fade away as my vision turned black.

~*~

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A/n My exams started on Monday so I'm not sure how updates will be. I'll try my best to still update but it may not be as regular.