Little Garden

We are well on our way to Little Garden, and we're all sitting down, watching the ocean. Luffy, for once, isn't sitting in his favorite spot and instead is sitting on the rail. Zoro is sitting on the ground below him, leaning against the rail with his hands behind his head.

"Aww, no snow," Luffy complains. "Too bad."

"Snow in this climate?" Zoro says, looking up at him.

"Why not? Already happened once," Luffy says.

"You missed it because you were asleep," I say.

"Hey, what about you? Do you think it's going to snow?" Luffy asks the princess.

"I wouldn't rule anything out, but the sea in the first time it snowed was special," she responds. She goes on to explain the reason why and all this technical stuff that nobody really cares to hear. "Never underestimate the sea."

"Hey guys," Sanji calls out, bringing a tray full of drinks out. "Anyone care to sample my special drink?"

The duck comes running down from the top deck to get some. "Rah!"

Luffy jumps off from the rail to the lower deck. "Woohoo!"

Zoro and I jump over the rail, and we all circle around on the floor to get a drink.

"Hey, you guys wanna get out the fishing gear?" Luffy asks.

"Fishing? Hell yeah," Zoro says. "I'm in."

"Sounds good to me," Usopp says. "I'll even make you one of my custom fishing rods. You'll love it!"

Sanji shows how to drink from the glass with the straw to the duck, who then slurps down many of the drinks really quickly.

"Wow, somebody's sure thirsty. Have another," Sanji says, switching to a refilled glass.

Luffy laughs. "Wow!"

"Look at him go!" Usopp cheers. "Give him another one!"

"Haha," I laugh. "You guys are dorks."

The duck eventually gets overwhelmed and passes out. We all begin to laugh. Eventually we all move and a dolphin leaps next to the ship in the distance.

"Hey, look, it's a dolphin," Sanji points out. "Pirate's best friend."

It then takes a leap, heading right over the ship.

"It's huge!" all of us shout.

"Let's go!" Luffy shouts.

We all begin running around the ship to prepare for the big wave that's about to come hurtling towards us from that dolphin. After things settle down, we eventually make it to Little Garden.

"Here we come, Little Garden," I whisper.

"I can see why they call it Little Garden," Luffy says.

"I can't," Zoro says. "What's so little about it?"

"Yeah, this island looks pretty harsh if you ask me," Nami says. "Why the cute name?"

"Yeah, i-it looks like a jungle out there," Usopp stutters, legs trembling. "Maybe we'd be better off skipping this one."

They all begin freaking out about monsters, as usual. Sanji almost gets snatched up by a giant bird, who flies off after missing him. A loud crash is heard and fog rolls in. We all look to the island to see a giant tiger walking up beside the ship, looking as if it's about to pounce at us.

Usopp screams.

"A tiger?!" Nami screeches.

"It's gigantic!" Usopp shouts.

"I smell blood," I say. "The tiger's hurt."

The tiger roars and blood comes out his mouth then he topples over.

"Someone explain to me why a mammoth tiger can just keel over covered in blood?!" Nami shouts.

Usopp goes off and shouts about there is no way we're stepping foot on this island. We throw anchor and remain in the river.

Luffy begins to laugh creepily. "Sanji go make lunch."

"You want lunch?" Sanji asks.

"Yep and one more thing," Luffy says, turning to him. "Make it a great big pirate lunch with lots of meat and no veggies. I'm gonna need some more energy."

"Energy for what?" Nami shouts. "What are you doing? You're not leaving here!"

"You wanna come along?" Luffy asks with a big grin. "Sanji! I'm starving!"

"Right. Be patient. I'll get it to you as soon as I can," Sanji says.

"Say, Luffy, would it be alright if I came with you?" Vivi asks.

"Sure, sounds great," Luffy responds.

"You can't be serious?!" Nami shouts.

"It's better than doing nothing around here," Vivi says. "This'll keep me busy till the log sets."

After Sanji finishes cooking lunch and packing it up, Luffy, Vivi, and Carue leave onto the island.

Zoro walks down the steps. "I'm bored. I'm gonna take a walk," Zoro says, popping his neck.

"Take a walk?!" Usopp fusses.

Zoro leaps over the rail onto the island.

"Hey, Zoro!" Sanji shouts, rushing to the edge he jumped off. "Wait up!"

"Hmm?" Zoro grunts, turning to look at him.

"You know we're kinda low on food, right?" Sanji says. "If you find any animals that appear editable. Bring 'em back."

"Okay, that's easy," Zoro says, turning away. "I can see why you would wanna send me cause I can bring back something you can't catch yourself."

"What the hell does that mean?!" Sanji shouts. "I won't let that remark go unchallenged. You're saying you can catch bigger game than I can? Like my hunting skills are inferior?"

"Yeah, that's right," Zoro growls.

"Challenge accepted," Sanji says, leaping off the ship too. "Okay, winner brings back most pounds of meat."

"What do you mean pounds?" Zoro asks. "Cause I'll bring back tons."

"Hey!" I shout, grabbing their attention.

"What?!" they fuss.

"I wanna join in on this competition!" I shout.

"What?!" Nami and Usopp shout at me.

"No! You need to stay here in case any trouble comes to the ship!" Usopp cries. "You're our last hope for protection!"

"Then let's begin!" Zoro shouts.

I leap over the rail down between the two. "The one with the biggest game wins!"

Zoro goes left, Sanji goes right, and I go straight, knowing exactly where to get the biggest dinosaur.

"Are you really participating in this stupid competition?" Emerald asks, flying beside me.

"Yeah, it's something fun to do," I admit, changing into my wanted form.

"What are you doing?!" Emerald shouts. "What if someone sees you?!"

"They won't, don't worry," I say. "I wanted to give Dorry and Broggy a visit." We fly up high into the sky to look down at the island. Before long we find out where everyone is at.

"I think your friends have already met them," Emerald says, pointing out where the two giants are.

"Well, damn," I complain and sigh. Luffy and Vivi have met Dorry. Usopp and Nami are trembling at the sight of Broggy.

The volcano erupts and the two giants begin their fight that they've had for more than 100 years. They end in a tie and separate to go off back to before they began their battle.

"Don't you have a competition to get back to?" Emerald asks.

"Oh, yeah," I admit and fly back down to the ground, hovering over the ground. "Now, where is that giant behemoth."

"The giant of all dinosaurs?" Emerald asks.

"Yeah," I admit. "It's time for that asshole to be killed."

"He's just a big bully," Emerald grunts.

"Yes, and he's the perfect size to win the competition," I grin. "He's the size of five normal t-rexes combined." I smell the air, trying to center in on the scent of the beast. "Ah, gotcha."

"You got the scent already?" Emerald asks surprised.

"Why are you so surprised?" I ask. "I'm a demon. My senses are incredible. You should know that."

She chuckles. "I know, I get ya. Let's go!"

I begin to head in the direction of the giant lizard. We arrive at the destination, killing a few dinosaurs thinking they could beat me along the way.

"Come out, come out, you giant beast!" I shout.

The beast roars and comes from the large cave.

"Have fun!" Emerald says, flying back.

"You're not going to join in on the fun?" I ask.

"No, I'm fine," she responds.

"Alright, suit yourself," I shrug, turning back to the beast. "Come at me, ugly!" The giant beast roars and begins to attack me. I take out my four swords and slice him down in under a second. "Wasn't even worth my time..." I sigh.

The beast topples over and Emerald comes back out from behind a tree. "That was easy."

"Too easy," I scoff. "Well, let's go back and show Zoro and Sanji who's boss!" I pick up the beast with my tail and fly back toward the ship. I drop the beast a little ways from the ship and transform back so nobody will see me. I drag the beast the rest of the way to discover nobody on the ship. "Where did they go? Are they really not back yet?"

"I don't know."

I sigh and let go of the dinosaur. I decide to lay back on the beast and watch the clouds for a few hours. I groan. "They're taking way too long. I already got their smell. Follow me." We arrive at the same time Sanji apparently does to the party to see everyone worn out looking.

"You're all still okay! I'm so happy!" Sanji cheers.

"Is this where you all have been hiding?" I ask.

Sanji finally takes notice of the two giants. "Ah! What the hell is going on!" he shouts, running up to the giants. "Is one of you guys Mister 3?!"

"Mister 3?" I question. "He was here?"

"And just how do you know about Mister 3 anyway?" Nami asks.

Sanji casually goes on to tell us that he talked to Mister 0 over a transponder snail and the whole conversation that he had with him.

"Zoro, Fia, so, you forget about our hunting contest?" Sanji asks after everything.

"Nope. Hate to tell you this, but you lost," Zoro says.

I laugh. "Wait till you see what I caught. It'll blow your catches out of the water."

"Something about that sounds familiar somehow," Broggy says.

We head to the ship.

"You just wait and see," Sanji says. "My catch is way bigger than yours."

"Heh, we'll see," Zoro responds.

Everyone heads off, and I remain with the two giants.

"Aren't you going to head off with them?" Dorry asks, looking down at me.

"It's nice to see you two again after so long," I say.

"Are we supposed to know you?" Broggy asks.

"Yeah," I say, transforming. "You should."

"Captain Demon!" they exclaim. "It really has been quite a while."

"What are you doing with them?" Dorry asks. "Don't you have your own crew?"

"My crew all died many years ago," I say. "I've been out of business for those years and decided to have a little fun with this crew, even if I'm not the captain this time."

"I didn't know you could shapeshift," Broggy says.

"Only this form and the other one," I lie, shiftingback to the pink hair. "Helps protect my identity."

"I bet," they say.

"Well, it was nice seeing you two again," I say. "I should be going. Oh, and the reason you two are fighting is because you had a contest to see who had the bigger catch. That's what these hole rocks are. They aren't rocks but the skeletons of your catches."

"Oh, right!" they say and laugh.

I roll my eyes as I head back to the ship.

"See! I told you mine was bigger than yours! I win!" Zoro shouts.

"You should look closer! My lizard is much bigger!" Sanji retorts.

"Ha!" I laugh. "You're both wrong! Mine is much bigger!" I exclaim, lifting my giant beast over my head.

"Holy crap!" Usopp shouts. "How the hell did you take down a beast that big!?"

"Whoa ho ho!" Luffy laughs.

"Where the hell did you find that thing?!" Zoro and Sanji shout.

"The better question is how is she lifting it?" Nami exclaims. "Cut up what we need and let's get outta here!"

We set sail and at the end of the river, we enter into the mouth of a giant island eater goldfish, only for the two giants to shred it into bits.

Then we are on our way to Alabasta Island!

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