Straw Hats Reunited

"Chopper!" Nami called out to him since we were at the boat. "What happened Chopper?! Say something! 

"Oi.. the Merry's mast is gone. What kind of changes did he make?" the swordsman questioned beside her.

I shook my head, "Zoro, it's clearly been attacked."

Nami called out to the reindeer some more, making sure to tell him that it was safe and that he could come out. There was still no response. I was kinda getting worried. "I wonder if he's been torn limb from limb.." Robin suddenly wondered out loud, causing the navigator to tell her to not say those kinds of things.

Zoro sighed beside me and took a step forward, yelling, "OI CHOPPER! ARE YOU THERE?! DID SOMETHING HAPPEN?! SAY SOMETHING!" At that, there was finally movement on the ship and I saw Chopper peak his head out so we could see him. He was bandaged, bruised and bloody. Oh gosh. I was hoping he really just did remodel the ship, but he did get attacked.

I chuckled and looked at Nami, "Looks like he listens to Zoro more than you." Her eyebrow twitched in irritation, but before anything could happen, I heard Luffy's voice followed by a loud splash. "Oh look! We found it! The Going Merry! And there's the altar!" the captain pointed out, then the three on the little boat saw us and started making a bunch of noise.

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Once we found out about Gan Fall helping Chopper, it was decided that we would be camping. To sum it up: Mantra, Ordeals, Fire Spears, Priests, Ball Guy, Guerrilla Guys, Possible Gold. Everyone was up for finding the gold city and fighting God Enel besides Usopp and Chopper, but Luffy didn't care at all. He stood up and threw his fists in the air with a laugh.

"Alright! Let's do it! Gold hunting!"

Before we did that, we had to make dinner. I went off with Robin to just go looking around, and we ended up finding salt. I used my devil fruit power to knock some of it out of the ground. "Oh, I have had yet to see your devil fruit. To think it'd have such properties," she hummed with her usual smile. I smiled back and put the crystal on my shoulder as we started going back towards the camp. "Yup! It took me a while to figure out how to turn my hands into tools, so I thought it was just meant for hitting things really hard or for defense for a while," I said, followed by, "I still have no idea what kind of metal I am though. I'm an alloy of some kind, I just don't know what. It has too much impact strength to be tungsten, but the- oh, I'm probably boring you out huh?" I asked, scratching the nape of my neck in embarrassment. She shook her head before saying, "No, it's quite interesting. How do you know so much about metals, may I ask?"

"Ah! I'm a blacksmith!" I replied as we got to the camp.

"Oh what's that you're carrying? Is it a gem?" Nami gushed, looking at us. Wait why is she wearing glasses? Where'd she get those from?

Robin shook her head in response to this, and Sanji answered verbally by saying that we found a salt crystal. "We brought it back because it seemed like it'd be useful," I said, looking to the cook with a grin. He gave a weird smile and said it was absolutely vital to survive in a strange tone while hacking at the fish. Gosh he is a weirdo. I turned around and put the crystal down so it could lean against a tree root. Looking back, I almost screamed. Zoro was holding a steaming rock with his swords above the pot, dropping it in when the blond said too. I didn't give a crap about that though as I ran to Zoro and activated my devil fruit to put my hands in front of the sheaths so I could stop him from putting them away. "Eh? What're you doing, (y/n)? And why're you silver?" he asked, quirking a brow at me. I grabbed his swords by the blades and looked at them, making sure that he didn't damage them. They were fine. I let out a sigh of relief and looked up to him, "I was just making sure your swords were alright. These are treasures, you know! And it's just my devil fruit power," I told him as I pushed the blades into the sheaths on his hip. "I don't really care if they're treasures. I have them because they don't break like every other sword I've had, and I've judged them as good swords." I facepalmed when he said this. "They aren't breaking BECAUSE they're so legendary," I said, my eye twitching. "Why do you know so much anyway? Didn't you also ask to see them earlier? You don't even use swords," he queried. 

"I'm a blacksmith, Zoro. So anyway, can that sword inspecting be now? I wanna see them," I asked, eyes shining in anticipation. He shrugged and took them off his hip, handing them to me and walking in another direction while saying he'd be back. I grinned and hugged the swords to me, running over to a tree root and taking a seat next to my bag that I took out of the ship. I pulled out a headband that had a magnifying glass attached to it, putting it on my head and adjusting it so I could look at the white sheathed sword up first in my inspecting time. I felt someone sit next to me but I just kept looking at the craftmanship of these things. I hope I can get to this point of skill in my life! Wado Ichimonji, a O Wazamono grade sword, Yubashiri, one of the Ryo Wazamono grade swords, and Sandai Kitetsu, of the family of the Cursed Kitetsu swords, but still being part of the Wazamono grades. How did he even get such great swords? He said he doesn't go looking for them, so clearly, it must be fate. 

I finally looked up and saw that it was Zoro sitting next to me. Well duh, (y/n), you have the guy's swords. I rolled my eyes to myself and gave him back his swords after cleaning them with the supplies in my bag. Then I had an idea. "Hey, can you try to cut me with your swords?" I asked him. He looked at me like I was crazy. "Why the hell would I do that? Are you going crazy?" he asked rhetorically. I activated my devil fruit and shook my head, "No I'm not crazy, just curious. Try to cut me! Look! I'm made of some kinda alloy! I could essentially not get hurt! Cut me now!" 

After some arguing about whether he should take a stab at me, literally, or not, we both stopped when Chopper came over to me with a bowl of soup. I deactivated my devil fruit a long time ago so I guess I should just stop asking to be hacked at for now. I smiled and took hold of it, saying a thanks. The doctor smiled back and headed off to hand out more soup. Looking down, I saw that it had.. a heart carrot? I tried to look around and see if anyone else had one. Oh! The bird thing just ate one. I heard a huff, making me look at Zoro with a raised brow. "That damn shit cook.." he muttered, rolling his eyes when he saw the carrot I had on my spoon. "What? Something wrong?" I asked. He looked at me, saying, "Yea, you're an idiot who wants to get sliced."

"Huh? Don't call (y/n)-chan an idiot! Stupid marimo," Sanji butted in, throwing a bowl of soup at the green haired swordsman who caught it before looking at the carrot I was about to eat. "Ah! You're the only one who got my love soup, (y/n)-chwan! This must be fate!" he swooned, sitting next to me dramatically. "Um, maybe. Anyway, what's this you say about Gan Fall, Chopper?" I asked the doctor, finally tuning into the main conversation to avoid another. I ate the soup and turned to Sanji, telling him it was super good while Chopper explained to everyone what happened. Chopper saying Gan Fall was called God by the South Birds caused a ruckus involving Luffy but he was quickly silenced. 

"Anyways, remember what Noland's log said about the city of gold?" Nami questioned. 

Luffy raised his hand immediately while he was in the middle of walking to a seat, "I know! He saw gold!" I giggled a little at him, laughing a little more when Usopp started scolding him on being a loud mouth who says whatever comes to mind. 

"I recall there being a giant gold bell, and that there were South Birds.." Sanji hummed as his captain took a seat next to him.

"It also said he saw gold in the skulls left eye.." Robin added.

"That's it! Look, I matched the size of Robins map to the size of the Skypiea map! It's just an approximation, but when you put them together.." by now, everyone was around the orange haired girl. We were all watching as she put the maps together, showing that it made a skull. "See! This is how Jaya looked 400 years ago!" 

"Then the 'skull's right eye' refers to.." Usopp started, being finished by Nami pointing to the map and saying, "Right here! Noland was referring to the entire island! But only half of it is down there so no one could solve this mystery!" Luffy and Chopper cheered and the navigator explained that tomorrow there would be a team of two, one for treasure hunting and one for the ship. 

I helped Chopper clean up after everyone finish their food, hearing him talk about how we would all be getting gold tomorrow. I patted his head, finding him too cute to ignore. That's when I heard Robin say that the fire needed to be put out. "How foolish. Did you hear that Usopp? She wants to put out the fire," Luffy chuckled, shaking his head. "It's not her fault, she's lived in darkness til now!" Usopp replied, also shaking his head. She was sitting there, looking puzzled as ever. She wasn't the only one either, they were confusing me too. "What do you mean?" she asked.

They looked at her with blank faces before appearing at her feet, hitting the floor with their fists and shaking. "You're always supposed to have a campfire!" "The feeling of having a campfire at night while camping, even when you're on your last legs, is what makes someone human!" they whined to her. I laughed and took a seat on a root, shaking my head. Nami started scolding them, but turns out that Sanji and Zoro got more wood to burn. "Are you guys serious?!" she cried out.

Wolves appeared right after that, but surprise, Nami hit the leader and now.. they're partying with us? Oh whatever. I grabbed my other bag of necessities and sat down, drinking from a bottle of my favorite booze. "Eh? Where'd you get that from? Gimme some of that," I heard a certain swordsman call out to me. I tossed him a bottle and continues to lean against my tree for the much needed back support. Seats with no back support don't deserve to be called seats. "This is pretty good. You've got good taste," he said, not even looking at me and just drinking it. I have limited alcohol... he could be a little more grateful...

"They even tamed the cloud wolves.." both of us turned around, along with Robin who was across the little clearing with us. "No one else living on Enel's land would have such a wild party." It was the old guy who helped Chopper.  Robin asked him if he should even be moving but he moved on saying, "I'm sorry for trying to help and causing trouble instead.."

Zoro smiled at him and said, "What're you talking about? You helped a lot. Thanks! I hear you saved Chopper and our ship."

He sat down and brushed off the thanks by saying it was nothing, and denied the offer of food from Robin, causing her to sit back down as well. She's super polite. Unlike someone..

"Oh! You're up, weird old man! Thanks for your help! Let's dance!" Luffy called for him, the small doctor of the ship cheering for Gan Fall to dance too. A wolf bumped into Luffy's back and Sanji stacked right on top of them, asking about Conis, who I later found out was almost killed by God Enel. Right after confirming she was good, another wolf stacked on Sanji and Usopp completed that weird little situation by cheering about how they should throw Chopper into the air for no reason but to do it.

I drank the last drop of my booze and jumped into their little dance circle, catching Chopper when the tossing finished and spinning around with him. After he got dizzy I set him down and he started doing a little wiggly dance since he couldn't see straight. In the mildest of laughing at his cuteness, I was swept up by Sanji who started twirling around with me as the cheering kept going. I didn't mind, though, it was fun. He looked super happy too. As long as he doesn't do anything weird, who am I to ruin his fun? "You're the only woman to allow me to dance with you, (y/n)-swan~! I asked Nami-chan earlier and got punched.. but she's beautiful when she's angry~!" he sang out. Well he shivered when he mentioned the punch, but it's to be expected. She's just scary. "No problem, Sanji! You always make us great food and get violently rejected by Nami, so entertaining you should be the least I can do," I said, taking my hands from his grip and clapping to the weird beat that Usopp was making, joining the rest of them in the little group dance around the bonfire. After making the full cycle around, I saw Sanji clutching his chest. I was about to ask him if he needed help until he shot up and said something about love. He's always like that, though, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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Ok another TED Talk. I just saw a girl with like SUPER LONG ACRYLIC NAILS earlier in the public bathroom and I just.. HOW?? What kind of skill did she have to master in order to use her fingers with those on? I can barely function with my regular fingers.