*Sighs* this story might be the end of me...

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Luffy's POV

The world kept spinning and spinning around me making my vision look WAY weird and my head feel really light.

"Captain you might wanna see this!" I heard someone nearby shout, but I still couldn't understand anything right with how confused I was.

Finally after what seemed like an eternity, my messed up brain and eyesight pulled itself together, after a few deep breaths I opened my eyes to see where I wound myself to this time.

The mood in the air changed when I noticed I was completely surrounded on all sides, and I noticed they were human when I saw their legs, 'crap...that's not good, I can't use my abilities in front of them'

Then I noticed the weird jolly roger of a smiley face, flapping in the wind on the top of the small metal pole in the center of the boat, 'double crap they're pirates'

I tried to calm down before jumping to crazy ideas, like Robin said I did when I got stressed or excited.

Yeah, just because they're pirates doesn't mean they're ACTUALLY gonna hurt me or something..right? What's the worst that could actually happen?

I looked around and saw how everyone was standing away from the weirdly dressed guy in the middle, assuming he's the..whatchacallit?..Oh yeah! The captain of this weird ship.

The longer I stared at him the more warm I felt.

His face looked so smooth and cool giving him a grown up setting, but I could tell he was younger than that, while his body looked so thin yet strong giving him a dangerous eel-like appearance, and his dark blue hair..it looked so fluffy~

After I realized he was also staring I tried to start a hopefully peaceful conversation, hope they speak my language, "umm....sorry for crashing onto your ship?"

Law's POV

After the mermaid's head stopped spinning a bit, I carefully examined a little closer at his body.

His hair was wild and pitch black like burnt coal, and his eyes were wide and curious blending in with the cocoa brown shade they were, almost like they belonged to a child's, his soaked tanned skin looked so smooth, almost like a woman's, that huge X shaped scar on his chest only further complemented his toned chest, around his neck was an old worn out straw hat that seemed to have told a long tale of it's own matching the little stitches under the boy's left eye.

But what really caught my attention was that world famous tail of his, the one sailors always talked about during their tall tales of sea adventures and magical beings.

It was bright firetruck red with wide, blotchy golden spots and stripes along the lower parts of it, similar to a cheetah's and a tiger's but a bit bigger, and instead of camouflage, it was only shimmering up the already exotic body part, I then heard a small innocent voice call directly to me.

"Umm....sorry for crashing onto your ship?"

I looked up and stared into the boy's eyes, mine widened a bit in suprise when I saw no fear whatsoever in his eyes, yet I knew he must have realized we were pirates by now, "you are not afraid of us?"

I didn't mean for the question to slip but it just did, damn.

He just dumbly blinked at me as if that was the stupidest thing he's heard all day, brave brat, "why would I be afraid of you?"

I stared deeply into the innocent eyes of the creature and almost felt bad for how I was about to make him completely terrified.

"If you haven't noticed we're pirates" I expected his face to blow up in fear but to my suprise nothing happened, nothing at all, "So?"

The crew's jaws dropped and they started to mummer about at the sheer ignorance of this specimen as felt myself cringe a bit, this was highly unexpected.

"Aren't you afraid we're going to sell you or something!?" I ignored whoever it was who spoke up and continued to keep my attention on the curious little mermaid.

"No, because you won't" this time it was Sachi who yelled out this time, "how do you know that for sure?"

The raven haired beauty then looked straight into my eyes and slowly smiled in a mysterious way, making me feel a tingling sensation dart down my spine, "I can tell, you're not scum" his eyes softly shined blue for a quick moment gaining my complete attention.

'Hmm, there's so much I'd like to know about mermaids'

The sea creature then cleared his throat and stared at me hopefully with a plain expression, "Sooooo..can you toss me back into the water? Your rail-thingys make me slip so I can't get off alone"

Nobody moved, most likely because none of us knew what to do in a situation like this, but I decided to take action.

Luffy's POV

"Actually Mr. Mermaid, you'll be staying here with us~"

My mind froze in horror and confusion as I scrambed to come up with some sort of excuse.

"WHAT! WHY!? YOU'RE NOT GONNA SELL ME AND I DEFINITELY DON'T TASTE ANY GOOD! SO WHY!?"

I knew I probably looked really panicked and scared right now but I didn't give a damn, right now I was kinda terrified and I wasn't afraid to show it!

"After the pirate era started, mermaids have became quite scarce, so there is alot of information I'd like to know about your species that you could provide" he smoothly replied.

Okay now I was in full panic mode, "AHHHH! YOU'RE GONNA KIDNAP ME! YOU'RE GONNA EXPERIMENT ON ME!" The weird captain seemed to have frowned at the second accusation.

"No! We're not going to experiment on you baka!" He growled.

I continued to flop around the deck trying to jump over the railing and into the safety of the waves, dammit! If only I could use my powers.

"Bepo-ya, please go show our new...guest here, to the aquarium" I was then suddenly slung over a huge furry shoulder that I quickly realized belonged to the cool polar bear, I began to hit his back but the bear didn't even flinch as he brought me inside.

"NOOOOOO! ZORO! FRANKY! BROOK! ROBIN! HELP ME!"

I was thrown really hard into a huge tank in a dark room, this really spooked all the fish causing them to scatter away from me and quickly hide behind rocks and some coral.

After I was left alone in the tank, some fish started to swarm around me in curiosity, only to immediately widen their eyes in shock and horror.

"*GASP* it's the mer-prince!" "That fiend! Kidnapping the beloved royal highness is going too far!" "What is his majesty doing here!?" I looked around to see a bunch of shocked and angry looking fish.

"Ahh! Hello guys, what's going on? What's gonna happen to me?" One grumpy old looking red fish swam towards me.

"My prince! What are you doing here!? How dare that filthy pirate separate you from the ocean!" I smiled down at him, "calm down ossan it's gonna be just fine"

I did my best to calm him as a young pink and black fish started to mope depressingly, "That damn pirate...taking something so pure and precious from the sea...nothing short of a crime.."

Then I blinked at them all feeling a wave of rage and protectiveness ooze off of them, 'why does everyone around me care for me so much?'

I sighed as I noticed a small bright yellow fish with huge brown eyes, no doubt a kid.

"Why are we here?" I asked.

She blinked up at me in awe, like I was some all awesome god before swiftly snapping to her senses, "he observes us here, and does small tests on us"

I sighed, knowing exactly who the child was talking about, "why is he doing this?" The yellow one blinked at me in sadness.

"He's some kind of researcher...I think" I nodded my head to show I heard her.

"Well...I'm gonna have to find a way..to escape"