Chapter 2: Chapter 2
"Is it too late to go back to the ship?" Rose questions her decision, because after five minutes of exploring the island, she finds herself standing with her back against a tree, and staring face to face with a T-Rex that's taller than the tree behind her.
She gulps when she sees her reflection from the dinosaur's large, golden, eyes, and tries to stay as still as humanly possible. *Holy freaking shit, this is nuts! As long as I don't move he won't see me and go away... Right?*
She holds back from trembling until the dinosaur starts baring his fangs which only confirms one thing for her. *THAT THEORY'S A LOAD OF BULL CRAP!*
Just when the dinosaur tries to bite her, Rose jumps out of the way. The reptile misses his prey and bites into the huge tree that was behind her, lifts it from its roots, and bites through it like a toothpick.
Rose pales at the sight before she runs like a bat out of hell with the dinosaur in pursuit. *Of all the dinosaurs to meet it had to be one of the deadliest ones! What the hell am I gonna do now?!*
She keeps running until a giant triceratops comes charging at the T-Rex from the side. The T-Rex takes the blow from his opponent, but stays standing to use his thick skull to headbutt him.
Rose stopped and turned around to see the two dinosaurs fighting with dread. *I'm gonna be lucky to survive the island before I meet anyone...*
She makes a run for it while they're distracted until she completely lost sight of them. When she knows for sure that she's at a safe distance, she leans to the side against a papaya tree and sits down to catch her breath. *Wow, this really is the One Piece world. Don't think I could run for my life like this in any other anime.*
She softly chuckles at the joke she made in her mind, but loses her smile when she realizes that she has no idea what she'll do if she meets the Straw Hats. *Maybe I can ask them for a ride to Alabasta, and try setting up shop as an astronomer after the craziness dies down. Drum Island wouldn't be good since the winter clouds block the sky too much, and spending time with the crew a little longer would be awesome too.*
She nods to her plan as she grabs the papaya tree to get up, which accidentally shakes it. The shaking makes one of the fruits fall from the tree, and hits her head before it hits the ground.
Rose groans from the hit as she rubs her aching head. "Ouch, what the-?!"
She cuts herself off when she takes a closer look at the papaya, and sees that it's light blue with black swirls decorating the entire fruit. "A DEVIL FRUIT?!"
She quickly picks it up and looks it over to see that it's the genuine article. *Holy shit, what kind of power is it?!*
She stares at the fruit, and silently wonders if eating it would be worth the bad taste until her stomach starts growling. She stares at the fruit blankly for a second before she sighs. "Right, I didn't eat today… I'm not much of a swimmer anyway, so whatever power won't be a bad trade off."
The second the Rose took the first bite of the devil fruit, she placed a hand over her mouth to stop herself from throwing up. *EW! THESE THINGS REALLY ARE GROSS!*
She forces herself to eat the rest of the fruit then she gives the tree a strong side kick, so that it drops a normal papaya. She grabs the fruit, and starts munches on it as quickly as possible to take that rotten taste out of her mouth. *Ugh, that's the grossest thing ever! What kind of devil fruit was it anyway?*
She finishes the fruit then waves her arms around for some kind of reaction, but nothing happens. *Oh well, I'll find out later. I'd better-!*
She freezes when the T-Rex, that was chasing her before, comes running towards her again. "WHAT THE HELL'S WRONG WITH YOU?! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I'M NOT MUCH OF A MEAL?!"
She runs away with the dinosaur in pursuit, then looks back to see him gaining on her. *Shit, shit, shit! How am I-?*
The brunette comes out of her thoughts when she sees the dinosaur stop and look at her in utter shock.
She raises an eyebrow at his stop, but she doesn't take any chances as she keeps running. "What's the matter with-?!"
She cuts herself off when she realizes that her feet aren't hitting the ground anymore, but she's still gaining distance. She snaps her head down, and widens her purple eyes when she sees that a gust of wind is picking her up, so that she's now flying away from the dinosaur!
"What the hell?! Wait, I ate the wind wind fruit?!" Rose's shock changes to pure excitement as she looks down with stars in her eyes, and flies five feet into the air throughout the jungle. "THIS IS SO AWESOME!"
The smile on her face refuses to go away until she breaks through a few branches, which makes her remember one important detail: she has no control over her ability!
"How the hell do I stop this thing?!" She continues flying out of control, with no idea on how to stop, when she sees that she's heading a group of people that are coming into view.
She drops her jaw when she gets a closer look to see that, if she keeps her course, she's going to crash into a boy with a long nose and curly black hair, a boy wearing a straw hat, and a giant duck from behind. *Oh crap, Luffy, Usopp and Carue?!*
The pirates don't see the girl that's flying not too far behind them as they keep running.
Luffy keeps his hands into tight fists as he looks around furiously. "Where are those Baroque Works bastards?! I'm gonna make them pay for taking Vivi!"
Usopp nods in agreement as he tightens his hold on his slingshot. "I won't forgive them for messing with the giants' honor either!"
Carue quacks in agreement as he looks like he's ready to fight someone at any moment.
"HEY, GET OUT OF THE WAY! THERE'S A RUNAWAY NERD FLYING BEHIND YOU!"
The three guys stop at the feminine voice behind them, and turn around to see Rose flying towards them.
Usopp and Carue froze at the sight as their eyes bug out of their heads while their jaws fall to their feet.
Luffy however, looks at the flying girl with stars in his eyes, and smiles from ear to ear. "Whoa, she's flying?! That's awesome!"
Rose was not amused when she sees them not moving, and grits her teeth in anger. "QUIT STARING AT ME AND MOVE! I DON'T KNOW HOW TO STOP!"
Usopp and Carue jumped out of the way in time, but Luffy grabbed onto her shoulders and hugged her from behind to join the ride!
Rose turns her head in utter shock to see Monkey D. Luffy's smiling face an inch away from hers.
Her face immediately erupts into a blush from the closeness as her wind continues to take her through the jungle with a passenger. "What the hell are you doing?! I told you to get out of the way!"
Luffy laughs in excitement as he keeps his arms around her and rests his head on her shoulder. "Shishishi, I'm glad I didn't, this is awesome!"
Rose groans at the crazy situation as she keeps flying while Usopp gets on Carue's back and starts riding after them.
When Usopp starts catching up to the flying pair, he starts yelling to his captain. "LUFFY, DON'T JUST TAKE RIDES FROM RANDOM FLYING PEOPLE! THAT GIRL COULD BE ANOTHER BAROQUE WORKS AGENT!"
Luffy widens his eyes at the possibility before he glares at Rose as if she's an enemy. "You're not working with Baroque Works are you?"
Rose shakes her head while being unfazed by the rubber man's hard gaze. "No, I'm not with those assholes. I wound up on the island by accident. My name's Rose by the way."
Once Luffy heard the honest explanation, his face quickly changes back to a cheerful smile. "I'm Luffy! Hey, did you see a gross booger guy and an annoying girl in yellow anywhere? They took one of our friends."
"Sorry, haven't seen them." *He must be talking about Mr. 5 and Ms. Valentine. Guess that means we're heading to the fight between his crew and Mr. 3.*
She looks around then sees a giant wax figure, with lit candles spinning on the top of it, appearing over the trees in the distance. "I think I know where those jerks are though. I can give you a hand if you want."
Luffy nods while he raises a fist in the air. "Yosh, let's go!"
Usopp widens his eyes at seeing the mysterious brunette flying off with his captain before he and Carue rush to catch up to them. "AT LEAST WAIT FOR US DAMMIT!"
In a large clearing of the jungle Mr. 3, Mr. 5, Ms. Valentine and Ms. Goldenweek watch Mr. 3's giant half dome base, hold spinning lit candles on top of a large pole on a large wax birthday cake in amusement.
Nami, Vivi and Zoro, who have their feet trapped in the bottom layers of the wax cake however, don't share the feeling as they look up to see melted wax flakes from the candles falling towards them.
Mr. 3 smirks at his prisoners, as he steps forward, and watches the spinning candles create the white mist that's showering over the pirates. "I hope you like my candle service set. The candle mist, that's falling from those candles above you, will slowly turn you into candles! You'll become my best artwork, so die for the sake of my art!"
Nami widens her brown eyes at what will happen as she tries to pull her feet out of the wax, but it's no good. "No way! Why do we have to die for your art?!"
She turns to the blonde giant, whose wrists and ankles are pinned to the ground by giant rings of wax, right next to the candle. "Don't just lay there Broggy! If you don't do something, you'll turn into a candle too!"
Mr. 3 laughs at her cries while he crosses his arms over his chest. "It doesn't matter what you say, it won't work. My wax is too strong for him to break. He was so distracted from his victory over his opponent that it was easy to take him down. Along with the giant Dorry, who he killed thanks to the bombs I placed in his rum, their bounties will be easy to take."
Vivi glares at him as she struggles to free herself. "YOU MONSTER! YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO MESS WITH THEIR FIGHT!"
Mr. 3 scoffs at the princess' complaining. "I did him a favor by making him the winner. You should have seen him before. He was so happy that he cried over his victory. Well, either that or for the loss of his friend."
The wax man starts laughing at the irony. "If it was over his friend, he must be really stupid! He killed his best friend for hundreds of years and during that fight he didn't even realize that Dorry was injured! Hahaha, in any case we can't change anything now."
Broggy grits his teeth as he glares at the Baroque Works agent. "I knew since we started the fight that something was wrong with Dorry…"
Mr. 3 chuckles at that. "You knew? You must be lying. If you knew then why did you still fight? You didn't show him any mercy towards him."
Broggy grunts as he starts struggling with the wax rings. "You don't know the meaning of this battle! How can you understand what my tears were meant for?! A person like you won't understand! Dorry fought with pride in his heart, how can I disgrace him? YOU THINK I CAN DESTROY THE PRIDE OF A WARRIOR WHO WAS READY TO RISK HIS LIFE IN THIS FIGHT!?"
The four agents widen their eyes when they see Broggy starting to break the wax rings holding him down while continuing his speech. "I completely understood his pride. That's why I had to fight him with these hands! It was the best thing I can do for him!"
Before Broggy could escape, Mr. 5 picked his nose to create a bomb, then flicked it at the giant just before it blew up.
Nami and Vivi widen their eyes at the injuring blow. "BROGGY!"
Mr. 5 clicks his tongue at the view. "He was getting on my nerves."
Ms. Valentine laughs at the sight of Broggy's charred body that's still struggling in the rings. "Kyahahaha, how stupid! He's still trying to get up!"
Ms. Goldenweek stays silent while Mr. 3 steps forward. "Seems I underestimated the giant's strength. I never thought he could destroy my wax."
He turns his arm into wax to create four giant knives made of wax. "Let's see if you can do anything now!"
Before the giant can escape, Mr. 3 stabs both Broggy's hands and feet with the giant knives. "Hahaha, if you try escaping you will completely destroy your arms and legs!"
Broggy writhes in agony while Vivi glares at Mr. 3. "That was low even for you."
Mr. 3 ignores her statement as he uses his wax powers to speed up the spinning candles. "It doesn't matter as long as it gets the job done! Now, be good and become my artwork!"
The wax mist starts showering over Vivi, Zoro, Nami, and Broggy which causes Nami to cough.
"I-I can't breathe!" She freezes when she sees that their limbs are slowly turning white from the wax. "It's starting! Zoro, do something!"
Zoro unsheathes two of his swords. "If you lose your arms or legs it's better than dying right?"
Vivi and Nami look at him in confusion as he starts smirking. "I'll cut both my legs off then fight them!"
When Nami sees the swords, she looks at him in utter shock. "Are you crazy?! This isn't the time to joke around!"
"Who said it was a joke?"
Vivi widens her eyes at this. "You can't be serious! If you do that you'll only be caught again!"
Zoro shrugs. "You never know if you don't try. I don't want to lose to these pieces of trash."
Mr. 5 quirks an eyebrow at the swordsman's statement. "Is he really going to do it?"
Mr. 3 scoffs at the escape plan. "He's just boasting. No one's crazy enough to do that."
Everyone freezes when they hear Broggy laughing while he's getting ready to try to escape again. "Gabababa, you're a very brave man swordsman. I was about to give up too, but I'll fight besides you."
Nami groans in frustration of their recklessness. "Quit joking already! If you cut off your legs then how are you going to fight them?!"
Zoro chuckles as he gets ready to cut his legs off. "As long as I don't give up then I'll find a way."
Vivi stares at him in awe before she nods to the plan. "Once you're free, do the same for me. I'll fight too!"
Zoro nods in agreement as he gets ready to start cutting. "You got it."
Mr. 3 glares at them as he turns his arms into wax. "Let's see if you can do anything when I-!"
"WE'VE COME TO CRUSH YOU BAROQUE WORKS!"
The group freezes at the sound of Luffy yelling, and looks to see Usopp riding on Carue while Luffy flies on Rose's back. Vivi, Zoro and Nami are completely slack jawed at the sight of Luffy, and the mysterious girl, flying towards them.
Rose sees that she's flying towards the spinning candles, then grabs Luffy's arms. "Alright Luffy, joy ride's over! Get off!"
She flips in mid air to throw Luffy off of her back, and at Usopp and Carue. The sniper and duck freeze at the throw, but before they can get out of the way, Luffy crashes into them.
The guys get up and see Rose crash into one of the spinning candles, which stops her wind from holding her up. The candle went out as the top half broke off just before Rose fell off the wax and into a large, plush, bush.
Mr. 3 widens his eyes in utter horror of the broken candle that completely shatters his vision for what he wanted his artwork to be. "MY ART!"
Ms. Goldenweek sits on a picnic blanket, while casually eating some rice crackers, and stares at the candles blankly. "Can't you just replace it?"
"It won't be as beautiful as the original piece no matter how hard I try!" He whines before his sorrow turns into fury as he faces Mr. 5 and Ms. Valentine. "I thought you told me that you killed Straw Hat and his friends!"
Mr. 5 flinches at his rage before raises his hands up defensively. "I thought we did with my bombs. The flying girl wasn't there when we kidnapped Ms. Wednesday though!"
Ms. Valentine looks at the bush Rose fell into in confusion, when she sees that the newcomer hasn't come out yet. "Did the brat die from the fall or something?"
"I'm ok!" Rose slowly gets out of the bush while rolling her arms to ease some of the pain from the crash. She brushes the debris off of her body and looks up at the broken candle. *Being able to fly like that's awesome, but I gotta work on my landing.*
Zoro sweat drops at the freckled girl's crazy entrance while he sheathes one of his swords, without trying to cut his legs off. "Who the hell is this now? Another Baroque Works agent?"
Vivi looks down at Rose, while thinking hard on if she ever saw her in Baroque Works' ranks when she was working for them, but she doesn't recognize her. "I'm not sure; I know she's not one of the higher numbers."
Nami looks up to see that the mist isn't coming down as hard, because of the broken candle, then turns to Luffy. "We can worry about her later! Luffy, hurry up and beat them!"
Luffy nods as he gets in a stance along with Usopp and Carue. "No problem, I'll kick their asses!"
Usopp nods as he puts his goggles on. "Don't worry Broggy; we'll get you out too!"
Mr. 3 twitches an eyebrow in irritation as he gets ready to fight. "These kids are really annoying. I'll take care of the leader while you take care of the other filth."
Usopp glares at him. "You guys are the annoying ones! Don't worry, I'll kill you all!"
Carue quacks in agreement as he and Usopp back away into the jungle.
Usopp clenches his slingshot while hiding behind a tree. "Luffy, we'll cover you from behind!"
Luffy nods while Broggy turns to Zoro. "You're not going to try to escape now?"
He nods as he raises his sword up in a pose. "We'll be out of here in a bit. If not, I can at least get a good pose. You guys should pose too just in case."
Nami looks at his carefree attitude in irritation. "This isn't a joke!"
Vivi looks at Zoro in mild shock, but understands that he has faith in his captain, so she grins in assurance. "Right, we'll be out of here soon."
Mr. 3 begins attacking Luffy by creating a bar of wax and locks Luffy's feet in them. Before Mr. 3 could encase Luffy's body, he stretches his arms to grab onto the hilt of one of the wax swords and swings around until he slams the wax bar around his legs to destroy the pole holding the candles, along with the wax around his legs!
Nami, Vivi and Zoro look at the candles in horror as the base holding the candles falls towards them, but it lands on the top layer of the cake just above their heads.
Nami sighs in relief that she wasn't crushed by the structure. "We're still alive."
Luffy looks at them in confusion. "That's dangerous, why didn't you run?"
Zoro, Vivi and Nami look at him in disbelief of him not knowing that they're trapped. "WE CAN'T MOVE!"
"Why didn't you tell me that?"
Broggy widens his eyes at Luffy's ignorance. "ARE YOU SURE WE CAN TRUST THIS GUY?!"
Zoro remains silent which causes Vivi to look at him in disbelief. "MR. BUSHIDO!"
The swordsman sighs when he tries to move his white arm, that's holding his sword, but it won't budge. "We don't have a choice. I can't move my arms anymore."
Mr. 3 creates a clay harpoon from his arms and shoots at Luffy, but he jumps to dodge.
Usopp keeps his distance as he aims his slingshot at the wax man. "Taste my exploding star!"
He fires the exploding star at Mr. 3, but before it could hit him Mr. 5 ate it.
Usopp widens his eyes at what he just witnessed. "What the hell?!"
Mr. 5 swallows it and lets it explode in his stomach before breathing out smoke. "Bombs won't affect a bomb man like me. Especially ones with low quality gunpowder like yours."
Usopp and Carue freeze at this while he walks up to face them and Luffy continues fighting Mr. 3.
Rose widens her eyes when she sees that most of Vivi, Zoro, and Nami's bodies have turned white from the wax. She looks up at the candles while deciding the the best course of action is to put out the candles with her newfound power.
She jumps to try to get herself flying again, but it's not working. "What the hell?! Come on!"
"Kyahahaha! Looks like your little flight was just a fluke bitch!" Rose looks up to see Ms. Valentine floating, with her open umbrella, right above her.
"I hope you enjoy being driven into the ground!" She closes her umbrella and uses her kilo-kilo devil fruit to make herself weigh a thousand kilograms.
Rose widens her eyes at the attack and runs to dodge the falling woman. She manages to avoid the attack, but stops running when her wind picks her up and almost makes her lose her balance.
Ms. Valentine gets up and starts floating after her. "Kyahaha, you really don't know how to fly can you? Crushing you is going to be fun!"
Rose glares at her before she beckons her to come forward. "Come and get me then, Ms. Yellabitch!"
Ms. Valentine immediately loses her smile from the insult as she goes higher. "IT'S MS. VALENTINE!" She quickly glides far above her, then closes her umbrella. "Let's see if you can dodge a ten thousand kilogram weight!"
Rose tries to move around, but her wind's keeping her in the same position. *Shit, I'm a sitting duck!*
Rose raises her arms up to brace herself for being crushed by the Baroque Works agent, but it never happened! Rose looks down in shock to find that the blonde fell straight through her, and pile drove herself a few feet into the ground.
Ms. Valentine groans at the fall as she stays in the hole to recover.
Rose widens her eyes at what just happened while her power keeps her flying ten feet in the air. *She went through me?! Looks like I really am a logia user!*
"GUM GUM PISTOL!" Rose snaps out of her thought to see Luffy punch Mr. 3 in the gut, and send him flying into the jungle. She blinks at the awesome punch as she starts feeling ecstatic of being here to witness Luffy's fight in person.
Nami smiles in relief of that they won't need to deal with the wax man now. "Great job Luffy, now get us out of here."
Luffy looks at her blankly before he shakes his head. "No."
Nami widens her eyes in shock of her captain's refusal to help. "What are you talking about?! Hurry up and help us!"
Rose looks down to see Luffy looking at them blankly while he's standing on top of a black crossed out circle. "I don't want to help you."
The brunette groans in frustration when she realizes that he's in Ms. Goldenweek's color trap. She looks at the candles and focuses on her goal of trying to blow out the candles as she waves her arms to try to create some wind.
Usopp looks at his captain in confusion as he keeps riding Carue to dodge Mr. 5's bombs. "What's the matter with Luffy?! AAAAH!"
Carue and Usopp were sent flying by the blast from the bomb they barely dodged and crashed onto a tree. They start getting up while Mr. 5 walks up to them.
"You should be more concerned about yourselves. He's already fallen into our color trap. With your leader trapped you're all going to die!" He tries blasting them with another bomb but they dodge again and continue running. Mr. 5 clicks his tongue at his fleeing opponents as he goes after them.
Vivi glares at Ms. Goldenweek, who's eating a rice cracker in one hand, while holding a paint brush with the other. "What did you do to him?!"
The little girl lifts her paint brush that's holding black paint at the tip. "I placed him in my black color trap. Black is the color of betrayal. If someone is painted with it, he won't listen to a person's orders and not care about his friends."
Vivi groans at the explanation before she shouts to the captain. "LUFFY, DON'T STEP OUT OF THE PAINT SYMBOL!"
"You're not the boss of me. I won't listen to you." Luffy takes a step back to get off of the paint symbol, then blinks in surprise when he snaps out of his trance.
"What the-?! What happened?! Hang on guys, I'll get you out now-" He stops what he was saying before he starts smiling. "But first, I gotta laugh! SHISHISHISHI!"
Nami looks at the laughing man in utter shock. "WHAT THE HELL'S WRONG WITH HIM NOW?!"
Ms. Goldenweek lifts her paint brush that's now holding yellow paint at the tip. "Color trap. Yellow is the color of fun. He can only laugh now."
Vivi starts groaning in frustration of this endless cycle. "Luffy, take off your shirt!"
Luffy ignores her and keeps laughing which causing Zoro to scowl at this mess. "This is bad, we don't have much time left."
Usopp and Carue run past Luffy from behind, and accidentally smear the paint off his back, before they run into the jungle with Mr. 5 chasing after them with booger bombs.
Luffy immediately he snaps out of it and jumps away from Ms. Goldenweek. "Hey kid, that's enough!"
The child tilts her head in confusion. "Yellow's supposed to be the color of fun. You must have had a good time right?"
"SHUT UP! ARE YOU CRAZY OR SOMETHING?!" He runs to the wax and pulls his arms back. "I'M DESTROYING THAT THING RIGHT NOW! GUM GUM- Bazooka..." He hits the red target on the ground that Ms. Goldenweek made.
The little painter looks at him blankly while she picks up her pallet. "I can't let you destroy that thing or Mr. 3 will be mad at me. You can hit that sign just like a bull always wanting to hit a red target."
"SHUT UP! NO I WON'T! GUM GUM-" He hits the red target again. "Pistol..."
Ms. Goldenweek looks at her pallet and starts mixing the colors. "I'll mix a color just for you. Yellow, the color of fun along with blue which is the color of sadness. Together they create green which is the color of peace."
She slabs the green paint onto Luffy's back, which forces him to sit on the picnic blanket with Ms. Goldenweek, and drink some tea with her.
He takes a sip of his tea before sighing. "This tea is delicious."
Nami tiredly sighs when she feels that they're not making any progress in escaping. "What now?"
Zoro chuckles at the situation as he looks at his pose. "At least I get a good pose. I feel bad for you."
Vivi looks at her carefree friend in irritation. "This isn't funny!"
Rose groans at how everything's turning out as she keeps trying to use her wind while flying, but nothing's happening.
*Dammit, why isn't it working?!* She snaps out of her thoughts when she starts sniffling.
Ms. Valentine recovers from her fall, furiously gets out of the hole, and starts floating up behind her. As Rose tries to hold back her sneeze, she doesn't notice the blonde woman that's about to ax kick her to the ground. "I'll teach you to-"
"A-ah-ACHOO!" Rose couldn't hold back anymore and sneezes, which accidentally creates a gust of wind in front of her that blows out the candles! The sneeze also sends her flying backwards, into Ms. Valentine, and slams her into a tree!
The Baroque Works agent was knocked out from the blow, and changed back into her normal weight. The kilo woman quickly falls from her height, but safely lands into the large bush that Rose fell into.
Rose sighs in relief Ms. Valentine won't bug her anymore, as she wipes her nose with the back of her hand, and looks at the unlit candles. *Of all the ways to put out the candles, I had to do it the Last Airbender way... At least it got the job done.*
Nami, Vivi, Broggy and Zoro widen their eyes when they see that the candle mist is gone and try to look up, but they can't because the wax has trapped every part of their body except for their faces.
"What the?! Did that girl put the candles out?!" Nami asks as strains her eyes to look up at the scrawny girl, but she still can't see her.
Zoro tries to turn his head, but he can barely move an inch. "Looks that way, but we're still stuck here."
Usopp and Carue run back to the scene, and look in shock to see Nami, Vivi, Broggy and Zoro are almost completely turned into wax while Rose is stuck in the air.
The sniper groans when he sees Luffy struggling to not enjoy the tea Ms. Goldenweek has given him. "What do you think you're doing, you idiot?!"
Mr. 5 runs to the edge of the clearing with a rifle in his hand, then he breathes into the barrel of the gun to use as bullets. "Just one hit with my power, and you're through."
Usopp sees the paint on his captain's shirt, and aims his slingshot at Luffy. "This should snap you out of it! Fire bullet!"
Ms. Goldenweek watches in shock when Usopp fires his explosive at Luffy and sets him on fire.
Rose widens her eyes when she sees Mr. 5 about to fire his gun. *Shit!*
She tries to fly over to Usopp and Carue, but it's no good, so she takes a deep breath. When she releases her breath, she creates a gust of wind that blows towards Usopp and Carue, to push them a few feet away just before Mr. 5 fires his gun, and creates the explosions. *Alright, I think I'm getting somewhere now!*
Mr. 5 groans at the miss as he walks into the clearing and looks up at Rose. "Looks like Ms. Valentine couldn't take care of her after all."
Usopp widen his eyes at the explosion, that was where he and Carue were standing just a second ago, then stands up. "Whoa, that was close! You ok Carue?"
Carue nods causing him to nod, before he turns to Luffy who's lying on the ground shirtless. "Hey Luffy, you snapped out of it right?!"
Luffy nods as he stands up. "Yea, I'm completely awake now! That sign won't bother me anymore!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?! WHY ARE THE CANDLES OUT?!" Everyone freezes to the sound of Mr. 3's voice when the candles light up again.
They all look to see Mr. 3 walking into the scene while wearing a giant suit of candle armor.
Usopp and Carue jump back in fear while Luffy tilts his head in confusion. "What's that?"
Mr. 5 turns his head to his comrade. "It's Mr. 3's best artwork that was used to kill a 42 million beli pirate. The Candle Champion."
Mr. 3 turns to Ms. Goldenweek, and grins at her. "Ms. Goldenweek, I need you to paint my armor. As long as it's cool it's fine. Afterwards, you can take a break since this will be all I need to kill them."
Ms. Goldenweek nods as she paints his armor while Rose takes a deep breath and blows the candles out again.
Mr. 3 twitches an eyebrow at the candles going out before he lights the candles again. "QUIT BLOWING OUT MY ARTWORK!"
Rose flips him off before she blows out the candles again. "NO WAY ASSHOLE!"
Mr. 3 grits his teeth in anger, but he lets the candles stay unlit after seeing that it's pointless, because of Rose's wind. Besides, he can take care of them easily now that Ms. Goldenweek finishes painting his armor. "Once I take care of Straw Hat, you're next brat!"
He turns to Luffy and gets in a stance. "Let's go Straw Hat! My armor is stronger than steel! I don't have any weak spots!"
Luffy looks at him with stars in his eyes. "Cool!"
Usopp widens his eyes at his captain's admiration for the armor. "DON'T ADMIRE HIM! FIGHT HIM!"
Rose chuckles at Mr. 3's threat while she casually flies over them. *Can't wait to see Luffy kick his ass!*
Luffy glares at the wax man as he pulls his arm back. "GUM GUM PISTOL!" He stretches his arm to punch Mr. 3, but the agent deflects his punch and pushes his arm to the side.
Luffy tries to pull his arm back while Mr. 3 runs up to him. "CHAMP PUNCH!" He slams his fists down, but Luffy jumps back to dodge while he finishes pulling back his arm.
Luffy jumps towards him, and kicks his stomach as hard as he could. "GUM GUM STAMP!"
Mr. 3 was pushed back but he barely felt the blow which causes him to chuckle as he and Luffy continue clashing.
Vivi widens her eyes at what she's seeing. "Luffy's really going head to head with Mr. 3..."
Zoro chuckles at the scuffle. "I give the art freak five minutes."
Nami sighs as she tries to move, but the wax is too strong. "The only question is how do we get out of here?"
Usopp looks away from the fight and stares at the giant candle in thought of how to free his crew mates. *That mist stopped because the top candles weren't lit anymore. The mist was melted pieces of the wax, so...*
He widens his eyes in realization of how to get rid of the wax. *YOU CAN USE FIRE TO FREE THEM!*
He grabs his slingshot and aims at the wax cake.
Rose looks down to sees Usopp about to fire, while Mr. 5 aims his gun that's full of his explosive breath at him. She tried to blow Usopp out of the way again, but her wind wasn't fast enough when Mr. 5 fired his gun and his explosions managed to hit Usopp.
Nami, Vivi, Zoro, and Luffy widen their eyes at the explosion. "USOPP!"
The smoke from the explosion clears up to see Usopp knocked to the ground with scorch marks all over his body.
Mr. 5 sighs at how stubborn everyone is being as he looks at Usopp with disappointment. "I hope you see now that you have no chance of winning."
Luffy glares at Mr. 5 while running to punch him. "YOU BASTARD!"
Before Luffy can punch him, Mr. 3 slams him to the ground. "Stop being stupid!"
Mr. 5 scoffs at Luffy's failed attack, before he sees Usopp giving Carue the end of a long rope that's coming out of his belt. "What are you doing now?"
Usopp widens his eyes at getting caught before he yells to the duck. "GO CARUE!"
Carue quacks in agreement before he makes a run for it with the rope trailing behind him.
Mr. 5 sighs in frustration before he loads his gun with his breath. "Whatever you're doing won't work you know?"
The duck ignores him and keeps running towards the wax cake. Before Mr. 5 could fire at Carue, Rose blows her wind to send him flying, and slams him against a tree. "Leave him alone, you booger bastard!"
Mr. 5 growls at the nickname before he fires his explosives at her which she deflects with her own breath.
Luffy escapes Mr. 3's hold, but Mr. 3 goes off to punch him. "Just give up and become my art!"
Luffy dodges his punches and jumps onto his arms. "You're not turning my friends into art!"
He jumps off of his arms to grab Mr. 3's hair, that's lit on top of it, then jumps to the ground. He ignores the wax man's whines about his hair being pulled as he runs to the wax statue. "Fire melts wax right? Your fire can do it then!"
Mr. 3 stumbles to follow Luffy so that his hair doesn't get pulled off him. "OUCH! QUIT PULLING MY HAIR!"
Usopp slowly stumbles up before he disconnects the rope from his belt. "Luffy, Carue is wrapping the wax with my rope! It's a special rope that's covered in oil! Light it on fire!"
Luffy looks at the wax to see Carue wrapping the rope all around the wax cake then he nods at the plan. "Got it! It's time to get you out guys!"
Mr. 3 widens his eyes in fear as Luffy pulls his hair towards the rope. "STOP! LET GO OF ME!"
Luffy lights the rope on fire, which causes the entire wax figure to go up in flames! Carue jumps off the wax just before he could get burned and joins Usopp to watch Mr. 3's creation melt away.
Mr. 3's wax body went up in flames and melts away the armor before he runs away from the fire. He pats himself to put himself out, and tears up when he sees that his art's completely ruined. "HOT! HOT! HOT! HOW COULD YOU DESTROY MY ART?!"
As soon as he puts himself out, he sees that Luffy's distracted from the fire, so he makes a run for it with Ms. Goldenweek.
Luffy and Carue turn around to see Mr. 3 and Ms. Goldenweek running, so they go after them.
"HEY! DON'T RUN AWAY FROM A FIGHT!" Luffy yells as he and Carue go into the jungle to pursue the Baroque Works agents.
Mr. 5 grits his teeth in fury of all their plans going up in smoke. "I'm going to kill you all!"
He aims his gun at Usopp, but before he could fire Vivi, and Nami jump out of the wax and send him flying backwards with their kicks.
Mr. 5 recovers, and glares at the girls as he picks his nose for a new bomb. "I'll take care of you first."
"Killing evil…" Mr. 5 looks up to follow Zoro's voice then flinches when he sees the swordsman's demonic stare. Zoro barely cares about the fear as he jumps off the wax with the flames following him. "FIRE SWORD!"
Zoro strikes Mr. 5 and sets him on fire for a moment before he falls unconscious.
The fire from the wax starts dying down, as Nami looks down to see that her shirt was completely burnt off, and leaves her in only her bra and mini skirt. "Aw man, my clothes. Couldn't you have gotten us out in an easier way Usopp?"
Usopp groans at the complaint as he gets up, and brushes himself off. "You should be grateful that we got you out of there before you turned into candles."
Nami nods as she grins in gratitude. "You're right, thanks."
Vivi looks down at her charred clothes in disbelief of how they only received mild burns. "I can't believe we managed. How are you Mr. Bushido?"
Zoro nods as he barely cares about the pain as he sheathes his swords.
The four friends continue to talk to one another while Rose remains unnoticed in her spot on her gust of wind. She doesn't care though, because she's too busy admiring the amazing people with a soft grin. *So these guys are the real Straw Hats huh? They really are amazing.*
She looks at the path Luffy and Carue went while remembering what she knows about Little Garden. *I'm sure Luffy knocked Mr. 3 out by now. I'm not exactly sure if Carue knocked the kid out, but it looks like everything's going by the manga. That means she should be able to escape with Mr. 5 and Ms. Valentine...*
She continues to ponder on it, until she and the others freeze to the sound of thumping. They all look to see Broggy's wax swords, that were holding him down, have melted away and he's getting up.
Zoro grins at the giant while he sits down. "So, you're happy to be alive?"
Broggy nods before he looks behind him to see that his old rival, Dorry, has been lying face down on the ground ever since the start of the fight. "Yea, I am…"
Usopp looks at the fallen giant softly before returning his attention to the blond giant. "Broggy..."
Luffy and Carue run into the clearing just when Broggy starts crying for his fellow giant. "WAAAH! I'M GONNA MISS YOU DORRY!"
Everyone cringes to Broggy's loud crying while the giant starts crying waterfalls.
Nami covers her ears to block out the noise. "Even his crying is energetic!"
Luffy widens his eyes at the large tears when he sees lights shining behind the salty water. "Whoa, you can see a rainbow!"
Usopp tears up for the mourning giant. "I completely understand Broggy!"
Rose looks at him softly while she tries to fly up to him, but she's stuck in place. "Don't cry Broggy! It's ok!"
"HOW IS IT OK WHEN MY FRIEND-!"
"Ugh, seems I passed out for a bit." Everyone, but Rose, freezes and turns in shock to see Dorry sitting up next to his fellow giant.
Broggy couldn't believe his eyes at the sight of his best friend alive and well. "DORRY, YOU'RE ALIVE?!"
Dorry nods as he looks down at their weapons. "Yea, I think it's most likely because of our weapons."
Usopp wipes his tears before looking at the giant, worn out, sword and axe. "That's right, you guys have been fighting for over a century! Those weapons had to have worn out."
Broggy pulls his friend into a hug while he cries tears of joy. "What a splendid day this is! I'm so happy you're alive Dorry!"
Dorry nods while he tears up and hugs his friend back. "Thank you friend."
Nami grins at the giants when she feels a sting on her stomach. "Ow."
Vivi looks at her in confusion. "Are you ok Nami?"
Nami nods as she looks down to see a red bug bite on her stomach. "Yea, it was just a bug bite."
The princess nods while Zoro looks up and notices the mysterious flying girl, who's been helping them, is still floating above them. He looks to his captain, that flew here with her, and tries to get some answers. "Hey Luffy, who's the girl you flew here with?"
Luffy freezes when he remembers his new friend and grins at him. "That's Rose!"
The others stop the happy reunion, and see Luffy smiling up at Rose while he waves his arms. "HEY ROSE, COME DOWN!"
Rose jolts at her name being called before she looks down to see everyone staring at her. She looks away from them, as she remembers her situation.*Right, time to introduce myself. I'd better be careful with what I say or I'll sound crazy. How the hell do I get down from here though?!*
She flails her arms and legs to try to get down from her gust of wind, but nothing happens.
Everyone else sweat drops at the brunette's actions before Luffy tilts his head in confusion. "Hey, what's the matter? Can't you come down?"
She stops flailing around, and shakes her head. "No, I've been stuck here since-! WHOA!"
Her wind finally fades away, and sends her free falling. Before the giants could catch her, Luffy stretches his arm around her small waist and pulls her to his side.
Rose lightly blushes at the embrace before she pulls herself away. "T-thanks."
Luffy nods while he and the others curiously stare at the brunette.
The otaku does the first thing that comes to mind, which is to politely bow to them to hide her nervousness in introducing herself to the famous pirates. "Hi there, my name's Catone Rose. It's nice to meet you guys."
The others blink at her politeness before Nami steps up. "I'm Nami, what exactly are you doing here?"
Rose straightens up and keeps up a smile. "I'm just passing through, I kind of landed here by accident today. I searched around to see if anyone was here, but I wound up getting chased by a T-Rex, and finding a devil fruit."
Usopp widens his eyes at the mention of her devil fruit. "Wait, you ate that devil fruit today?! What fruit was it anyway?!"
"It was the wind wind fruit. After I ate it, the T-Rex tried to eat me again, but I managed to fly away before he could take a bite out of me."
She remembers her crazy arrival into the fight, and points to the rubber boy with a small frown. "That's when I flew into you guys, and when your captain thought it would be a fun idea to take a joy ride on me..."
Luffy laughs at the memory of flying with Rose. "Yea, and it was awesome!"
Vivi and Nami whack him on the head for his reckless attitude. "DON'T TAKE JOY RIDES ON PEOPLE!"
Vivi turns to Rose with an apologetic look on her face. "Thank you for helping us, and I deeply apologize for dragging you into our mess. My name's Vivi, and the duck is my friend Carue."
Rose grins while she waves dismissively. "Don't worry about it. I'm glad I could help."
Vivi starts smiling at her friendliness, but widens her eyes when she sees the bandages on Rose's arms, neck, and face. "What happened?"
Rose looks down at her bandages then chuckles. "You don't need to worry. It's just a few scratches and bruises that my foster family gave me as a parting gift before I ran away."
Zoro quirks an eyebrow at her story. "Ran away from where exactly?"
Rose loses her smile at the mention of her homeland before she rubs the back of her head, and avoids his gaze. "I'd rather not talk about the place if that's ok with you. At least not now."
Zoro nods at the request when Nami speaks up. "Where exactly are you going?"
Rose grins at the topic change and makes her request. "That's actually something I'd like to talk to you about. If it's ok with you, can I please get a ride to Alabasta? I don't have a boat and it's more fun travelling with people."
Everyone widens their eyes at the request, except for Luffy who's nodding with a toothy grin. "Sure, sounds like fun. What are you going there for?"
"For the stars."
Usopp tilts his head in confusion. "The stars?"
She eagerly nods as she points to the sky. "Yea, I heard that the starry nights are awesome in Alabasta. I'm looking to go there to study astronomy and research on comets."
Nami pulls Vivi to the side and starts whispering to her. "What do you think Vivi?"
Vivi nods before she whispers back. "It's true that Alabasta's night sky is perfect for astronomy. Father even has a royal astronomer in the palace. I know she's not in Crocodile's top numbers, still..."
She looks back at the innocent looking girl before she returns her attention to Nami. "We owe her for helping us, but we should keep an eye on her just to be safe."
Nami nods in agreement before she turns to Rose. "Ok, we can take you to Alabasta."
Rose brightens up at the agreement. "Thank you very-!" She cuts herself off when her wind starts picking her up again, and groans in frustration. "Really?!"
The others laugh at the sudden flight before Luffy stretches an arm around Rose's waist to keep her from floating too far.
Luffy keeps chuckling as he pulls her down next to him. "Shishishi, you're pretty funny. Oh yea!"
He points to Zoro and Usopp with his free arm. "The green haired guy's Zoro, the long nosed guy's Usopp, and-!"
He blinks in surprise when he finds a crew member missing and looks around for him. "Hey, what happened to Sanji?"
The others blink at the question before they look around to find that the crew's chef hasn't been there this whole time.
"Haven't seen him since he left the ship." Usopp says.
Luffy nods at the answer. "I'm sure he'll come back soon."
He walks to the side with Rose, Usopp and Carue to eat some rice crackers while the giants start laughing.
"Gabababa! You little ones are great. Thanks for helping us out there." Broggy says.
Dorry happily relaxes as he remembers how they got in that situation. "Those agents were a shock, I completely forgot about that we had bounties."
Vivi looks at them sadly as she feels guilty for having them follow her here. "Even with your bounties, it's my fault that the Baroque Works agents came here..."
Nami pinches Vivi's cheek to get the sad look off her face. "That's enough of that."
Luffy nods as he eats a rice cracker with one hand while he keeps his other arm around Rose to keep her from flying off. "Want a rice cracker?"
Nami sweat drops at his, Usopp, Rose, and Carue's attitudes as they keep eating while she lets go of Vivi's cheek. "Why are you having a picnic now?"
The group shrugs as they keep eating.
Nami sighs before she smiles at Vivi. "See? No one blames you."
Vivi nods while softly smiling at her.
Zoro sighs in relaxation as he takes a seat. "How long do we have to wait until the log pose is ready?"
Nami widens her eyes when she remembers what the giants have told her before she looks at her log pose. "That's right, the log pose won't be set for another year."
Luffy turns to the giants. "Can't you guys do anything about it?"
Dorry shakes his head at the suggestion. "Even we can't speed up the logs."
"NAMI-SWAAN! VIVI-CHWAAN!" The group freezes and turns to see a blonde man with curly eyebrows, and wearing a suit, noodle dancing to the group. "I'M SO GLAD YOU LADIES ARE SAFE!"
Luffy waves to Sanji with a toothy grin. "There you are Sanji!"
Usopp groans at his late arrival. "He shows up AFTER the fight?!"
Rose widens her eyes at Sanji's behavior. *Sanji really does act nuts around girls!*
She suddenly drops to the ground, and gets Luffy's arm off of her, before she sees Sanji staring at her with wide eyes.
"Is it just me or are the beautiful ladies multiplying?!"
Rose steps back in shock of the compliment before Sanji suddenly kneels in front of her with a red rose in his hand. "Never in my wildest dreams would I imagine finding an Amazon goddess here. My name's Sanji, and what do I have the pleasure of calling you?"
Rose keeps a nervous grin up while she waves at the flirting chef. "H-hi, I'm Rose." *Does he keep a supply of flowers in his suit or something?!*
Sanji looks up at her with hearts in his eyes. "A most fitting name for a beautiful flower such as yourself. Beautiful on the outside while strong on the-!"
He cuts himself off when he sees Dorry behind her, so he goes in between them. "Who the hell are you?! Are you Mr. 3?!"
Nami widens her eyes at the name. "How do you know about Mr. 3?"
Sanji turns to her before widening his eyes, when he sees her almost topless. "Nami-swaan! You're as beautiful as always!"
Nami twitches an eyebrow in irritation, but before she can hit him, Sanji takes his blazer off and wraps it around her shoulders. "This should keep you warm, dear Nami. As for your question, I impersonated Mr. 3 when I spoke to Mr. 0 on a den den mushi."
Vivi widens her eyes at the mention of Baroque Works' leader. "You spoke to Mr. 0?!"
He nods as he lights his cigarette and starts smoking. "Yea, he mistook me for Mr. 3, so I told him that we were all dead."
Nami widens her eyes at this. "Really?!"
Sanji nods to confirm it, so Usopp quickly tears up in joy. "Yes, we don't have to live in fear anymore! If only we can leave here!"
Sanji tilts his head in confusion as he digs into his pocket to grab an eternal pose to Alabasta. "Do we still have business here? Just when I got us this too."
Everyone, but Rose, are completely slack jawed that Sanji has an eternal pose which makes him sweat drop. "What's with you guys?"
The crew snaps out of it before they start cheering in victory.
Luffy jumps in excitement. "ALRIGHT, WE CAN SET SAIL AGAIN!"
Vivi runs up to the chef and hugs him. "Thank you so much Sanji!"
Sanji's eyes turn into hearts as a huge smile spreads across his face. "Y-you're welcome Vivi-chwan!"
Luffy grabs the last of the rice crackers. "Alright, let's party!"
Usopp sweat drops at the announcement. "It can't be a party with just one rice cracker."
Nami sighs at their carefree attitudes. "This isn't the time for that. Let's get out of here."
Zoro nods before he smirks at Sanji, since he remembers that he has a hunting game with him. "That's right, I caught a huge dinosaur."
Sanji glares at Zoro as he gently pulls away from the hug, and leaves to get his catch. "I also caught one that's bigger than yours."
"We'll see." The two pirates run off to grab the dinosaurs that they killed while Luffy waves at the giants.
"We're gonna head out now! See ya!"
Usopp grins in excitement as he waves at them. "I'LL BE SURE TO GO TO ELBAF ONE DAY!"
Broggy nods as he waves them off. "I hope to see you there."
Dorry waves at them with a large grin. "I hope your country is safe Vivi."
Vivi nods while she waves back and walks with the crew. "Thank you."
Rose turns to Vivi while they head to the ship. "What's the matter with your country?"
Vivi blinks at the question before she looks at her nervously. "Well you see, I'm the princess of Alabasta. I'm afraid you want to come into my country when a civil war is about to break out. In order to prevent it, I need to return home as soon as possible."
Rose nods in understanding of the situation. "In that case, can I help? I know my abilities aren't much now, but with some practice I think I can be useful."
Vivi widens her eyes at the offer. "You don't have to do that. I don't want to drag you into anymore conflict."
She shakes her head. "You don't need to worry about that. Since I'm thinking of staying in your country, it's only right that I help out."
Vivi blinks in surprise at her attitude before she grins at her. "That would be great, thank you."
"No problem." She stops when the group arrives at the Merry then smiles at the ship. *This is going to be one hell of an experience.*
She climbs onto the ship along with the others, except for Zoro and Sanji, who are dragging a dead T-Rex and triceratops to the coastline. She sweat drops when she sees the two dinosaurs that she saw fighting earlier today, and is glad she made the right call to leave the ship.
Sanji glares at Zoro as he points to the T-Rex he killed. "My kill is way larger!"
"Are you blind?! My animal is way bigger than yours!"
Luffy leans against the railing and looks at the dinosaurs with hunger in his eyes. "Who cares? They both look tasty."
Zoro and Sanji glare at him. "YOU STAY OUT OF THIS!"
Zoro turns to Usopp. "Mine's clearly bigger right?!"
"I don't care..."
Vivi looks at them nervously. "Isn't it ok to have a tie?"
Zoro shakes his head. "There's no tie in a contest!"
Rose's wind picks her up without permission again, so she decides to take advantage of it by looking over the dinosaurs. "I'll take a look."
Sanji looks up at her with a smile on his face. "Rose-chan, you can see my catch is bigger right?!"
Zoro glares at him. "No way, she can tell mine's bigger!"
Rose sighs when she sees that both dinosaurs look like they're the same size. "It's hard to tell. I think the T-Rex is meatier though."
Zoro groans at the comparison while Sanji smirks in victory. "See?! Mine's bigger moss head."
"You wish ero-cook! What your animal has in meat mine makes up in muscle!"
"I can cook more without muscle!"
Nami sighs at their arguing as she walks onto the deck, in a yellow short sleeved shirt. "Will you two quit fighting?! We can't carry that much meat anyway! Just pack up what we need, and let's go!"
Sanji nods with hearts in his eyes. "As you wish Nami-swaan!"
The chef packs up as much of the T-Rex meat as he can, while Luffy pulls Rose onto the deck just before the ship begins to leave the island.
Luffy grins when he looks back at the island to see Dorry and Broggy walking up to the coast. "Hey look guys! The giants came to see us off!"
The giants make it to the cove with their weapons in hand.
"As thanks for saving us we're going to make sure that you get off the island!" Broggy says.
Dorry nods in agreement as he clutches his sword. "No matter what, keep sailing forward!"
The crew looks at them in confusion while Luffy nods. "Got it! Guys, let's sail straight!"
The others nod as they sail forward when a giant sea king emerges from the water in front of them. The crew looks at it in utter shock while the giants smirk.
"So you've come, Island Devourer." Dorry says.
Broggy keeps his smirk as he grips his sword. "In the name of Elbaf, we'll clear a path for our friends!"
Nami looks at the monster in shock before she turns to Usopp. "USOPP, TURN US AROUND!"
Usopp shakes his head at the command. "No, we need to trust the giants. Sail straight right Luffy?"
Luffy nods in agreement. "Yea, keep going straight!"
"HE'S GONNA SWALLOW US!" Nami yells, but neither of them refuse to back down.
Zoro sighs in defeat as he hangs onto the railing. "Just give it up."
Sanji quickly turns to Luffy when the fish gets closer to them. "Are you sure we can trust this guy Luffy?!"
Luffy nods while Rose chuckles when she sees the fish opening his mouth to swallow them. "Relax, we'll be out in a minute."
Vivi turns to the nonchalant girl in utter shock. "HOW ARE YOU CALM?!"
Rose shrugs when the goldfish swallowed the ship, but the giants swung their weapons with so much force that it created a hole in the giant fish and sent the ship flying!
"WHOA! WE'RE FLYING!" Luffy yells in excitement as the giants yell to them.
"DON'T TURN BACK! SAIL STRAIGHT AHEAD!"
Usopp turns to them while waving at them with tears of joy streaming down his face. "THANK YOU!"
The ship safely landed in the water and sailed away while Little Garden continued growing further away.
Rose looks at the departing island with a smile as she puts a hand in her pocket. When she reaches in them, she pauses when she feels the quarter she got from the kid for street performing inside. She holds onto it for a moment before she leaves it in her pocket. *Huh, I didn't know I still had that. Hehe, nice to have a souvenir from that world.*
She gently touches her crystal necklace with a soft grin as she looks back at the island she arrived in. *So, the next stop is Drum Island. I can't wait to meet Chopper!*
"HEY ROSE, COME PLAY WITH US!" She turns around to Luffy's voice to see him waving at her along with Usopp and Carue.
Rose smiles at the invitation, before she joins in their games while secretly excited for what her next island journey will bring her.
TO BE CONTINUED
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