"Hey, wait a minute!!" Sanji gasped making Alice turn to look at him, wondering what's wrong. They were inside the candle house, they got to know since Alice licked it earlier. They were sitting on a chair and Alice sat on a seat beside him. Casually sipping on the tea.

"Maybe I shouldn't be sitting here sipping tea!! The girls might be waiting for me to save them!!" He exclaimed before standing up and walking towards the door.

"Let's go, Alice!" He called but she was sulking, not wanting to leave. When he didn't hear her coming, he turned to find her still sitting sulking and pouting.

"Alice~ come on. We have to go" He said while crouching infront of her. She huffed, looking away with a frown.
"I don't wanna!"

"What? Why?" He asked, confused as to why she didn't wanted to leave.

"It's nice. The candle is not edible but it's comfy here" She replied making Sanji sweat drop.

She reeeally doesn't wanna leave...

"It's strange tho....what's a nice place like this doing in the middle of a jungle anyway?" Sanji questioned and started to look around.

"You think it's marines pit-stop spot?" Alice asked to which he thought and let out a puff of cigar.

"There is a possibili-" He got cut off when there was a ring.

Alice sat straight, both of them looking towards the source to find a snail who was ringing.

"What the hell?" Alice mumbled before walking to it and examining it.

"Hey, a telephone snail." Sanji said, grinning at the sanil.

Alice gasped when she remembered what it was. She put her fist on her hand
"It's a den den mushi!" She exclaimed while pointing at the snail.

"A den what....?" Sanji questioned before Alice urged to pick it up. To which he did as the let out a sound to 'klak' indicating that the phone has been picked.

"Hello, this is restaurant le crap. Would you like to make a reservation?" He asked with a passive face making Alice grin at him. He smiled back at her, happy to see the smile reaching her eyes.

"Stop fooling around, you idiot." A voice came from the speaker while Sanji patted beside him, indicating Alice to sit down before leaned back in his seat. Alice plopped down beside him and turned her body towards him looking at him innocently.
"You're late with your report!!" He said which confused both the pirates.

"Report....?" Sanji mumbled, trailing off and looked towards Alice who tilted her head and mouthed 'Marine?'. Not so sure about it either.

"Er...Who is this?" He asked instead making Alice look at him giving a 'really' look to which he returned with his own. 'What else should I do!?'

"It's me," He spoke and paused for dramatic effect.
"Mr. Zero."

Alice covered the Snail's eyes before as Sanji and Alice had a surprised face before they started to communicate with their faces. Sanji started his question.

'Isn't he the leader of Vivi's enemies?'

'Yea! So that means the one on the other side of the line is-'

'One of the seven Warlords of the sea!!?' They both said with their expression and Alice than removed her hand from the Snail's eyes.

Sanji than looked back at the Snail with a scowl while Alice was just looking at it with intrest. After she knew who the leader was, she surprised that how good they were hiding the secret from the best of best spy team. And she was one of them.

"You've been gone a long time. Have you accomplished your mission, Mr. 3?" The Warlord asked as Alice pointed at the shell of the snail and looked at Sanji. He looked at where she pointed and saw 'Mr. 3' written on it.

Alice stood up from her spot and started to search around to see if they have something which would be beneficial for the crew. Sanji let out a loud puff from his mouth so Alice turned towards him and him looking at her. He tilted his head left as a way of indicating if she knew what this place was to which she nodded before mouthing.
'Enemy's camping site! Mr. 3 is on this island! He will kill Vivi'. She pointed at the door and mouthed 'We should go' to which he nodded but Mr.Zero started to speak again.

"Why do you hesitate? I asked you a question. Have you eliminated princess Vivi and the Straw hats?" He asked making Alice narrow her eyes at the snail before Sanji gave a smile, assuring her that he can handle this. So she turned back and started to look around again. There was a newspaper so she took it, reading through it quickly.

"Oh, yeah... Mission accomplished. Everyone who knew your secret has been eliminated. So you can call off the hunt." He replied with a relaxed smile.

"I see. Good work....." Alice tuned out when she saw a werid news in the corner of the paper. It was a picture of an island with people dancing around. It wasn't werid but the person in the picture was. She folded the paper and stuffed it inside her back pocket.

She turned back towards Sanji and froze when she saw two animal sitting on the window sill of the candle house. A beaver and a vulture to be specific. Sanji turned as well, since it was hard to miss two animals while one was wearing a costume even.

"Who are these guys?" Sanji muttered which caused Mr. Zero ask him what's wrong.
"Er...Nothing"

The animals took out their weapon so Alice jumped in between Sanji and them. The bird started to shoot bullets so the two pirates dodged them. As Sanji kicked the vulture, Alice took care of the beaver. It had a fan which had knives infront so Alice broke it with her kick and punched the beaver towards the wall as she watched it slump down making her sweat. 

Oh gosh....did I kill the lil bean?

Alice turned just in time to see Sanji kick the vulture while yelling 'overgrown chicken!!'

"That's a vulture, Sanji!" Alice whispered while cupping her mouth. He nodded in return and sat down as if nothing happened. She patted both the Vulter and beaver who let out a soft sound.

"Wait!" She let out whispered yell while holding the beaver, hugging it. "I'm sorry guys but can you keep this fight and meeting us to yourself? I.....," She looked around to see what she can give the two before spotting a basket in the house. She got up holding the beaver and brought the basket towards the vulter.

"Vulter-san, beaver-san. Here I got you some biscuits and tea!" She said with a delightful voice making them look up at her before looking at the basket.

They let out more sound together making her chuckle.

"Sure! I'd love to be your friend!"

All three sat together sipping on tea and eating biscuits.

When the call was ended Sanji turned towards Alice and sweat drop to find her sipping tea and eating biscuits with the same bird and animal who were ready to kill them few seconds ago.

She has strange sense of danger and strange ability to make friends....

But Sanji couldn't help but smile at the scene.

She also has an ability to make others calm and comfortable.

"Alice," Sanji called her. Looking back she saw Sanji standing near the door. She pouted before looking at her new made friends.

"I have to get going now" She said and got up but the beaver hugged her leg, looking at her with a face which screamed 'stay'

"I can't. I have to get back to my friends" she argued back so the vulture placed his wing on beaver's shoulder making him let go.

The beaver pulled out an sand timer....wait is that an eternal pose??

Alice took it and saw it was of Alabasta. She glared at it and was about to break when the vulter let out a screech.

"Huh? Why?" She asked before he said something making her gasp and turn to Sanji.

"Sanji! We should get to the others! Vulter-san said that there are gaints here!!" She said held his hand before running out but not before waving a goodbye to her friends.

"Bye, Vulter-san! Beaver-san!!"

Alice's friend Vulter was showing them the way towards her friends. When they could see an opening and people standing. Alice grinned when she spotted the signature straw hat of her brother.

They both entered the clearing and called out at the same.

"AHH!! NAMI-SWAN!! VIVI-CHWAN!!! and you guys!!"

"AHH!! LUFFY!!!"

"ALICEE!!" Luffy yelled before pulling his sister into a bone-crushing hug. Since she was still holding Sanji's hand, he tripped and fell and yelled at Luffy for being careless.

"Where the heck were you!! I was looking for you everywhere!!! I was so worried!! Don't leave me like that!!!" He yelled her making her eyes widen. She remembered the words Sanji told back than.

'Also, you can always come to me or Luffy if you feel down. You know we will always be there for you! Your idiot of a brother loves you too much to let you get hurt'

She grinned at him widely, extremely happy to see her brother. She laughed out loud.

"Hahaha!! I love you, Luffy!!" She said before burying her face in his bare chest, smiling all along. Luffy was confused at the random 'I love you' before grinning just like her and laughed.

"I love you too!"

After the siblings had settled down, Alice was now on top of Dorry. Who was surprised to see even smaller human than earlier and was more gentle with her. Like holding his palm out for her so it would act as a lift to let her see the whole island. She was so happy and excited to be in a place so high and she was literally bouncing with excitement.

"Your little friend is really happy to just see from a high spot!" Broggy said making them nod their head. "Yea, she is a curious and excited kid for almost everything. She is really adorable and lively!" Nami said and imagined Alice as her little sister.

After Sanji and Alice had explained what happened when they way, it made an unsettling air around making Alice tense but pout at the tension.

"You mean a little while ago....you two spoke with Mr. Zero?" Vivi asked them looking at them back and forth. Alice shock her head rapidly.

"Not me! Only Sanji did!" She blamed on Sanji when she thought they would yell at her. Nami and Zoro laughed at that thinking it was an adorable reaction from her.

"That's right. He thought I was Mr. 3." Sanji replied, smirking, feeling proud of it.

"And you told him we were all dead!?" Vivi asked him again.

"That's what I told him." Sanji replied patiently.

"Baroque works is off our trail, but we're still stuck on this island!!" Usopp yelled in frustration making Alice pull out her the eternal pose with a glare.

"I knew this thing was useless." She said and started insulting the eternal pose. Sanji swear he saw a sweat rolling down the eternal pose.

"HUHH!?!?" Everyone present other than Sanji and Alice and the giants yelled out in surprise. Making them both sweat at the startled audiance. Alice wrapped her arms around Sanji's waist who held her with his left arm, she thought they would yell at her again. Sanji glanced a concerned look at her before turning back to the group to yell at them (not Nami and Vivi) for making her feel like that but they started to cheer out.

"THE ETERNAL POSE TO ALABASTA!!!"

"YOU TWO FOUND IT!!!"

"WE CAN GOO!!"

Luffy hugged his sister and kissed her cheek and showered her with compliments making her blush at the affection. When he let go Vivi hugged both Alice and Sanji.

"Thank you, Sanji! Alice! I'd almost lost hope!!" She exclaimed making Sanji all giddy.

"Aww, it was nothing. Heh heh.....I didn't know you'd be so happy..." He replied while Alice smiled in the hug.

"If this made you so happy than I'll bring you more eternal pose!"

When she let go, Sanji hugged Alice, holding her tightly in his embrace.

What's up with them and hugging me today? I received like 1 2 3? Now 4 times!?

"Oh, Alice! I'm glad you got the eternal pose! Thank you for bringing it with you!!" Be said and rubbed his cheek with her's. She just giggled and hugged him back.

"All right! It's rice cracker party time!!" Luffy declared the party while Nami immediately disagreed.
"The party can wait. Let's go captain! There is no time to waste!!" She yelled back at him while usopp had a different concern.

"Hey, this won't work! We only have three rice cracker!!"

Luffy looked at his hand which had two crackers while Nami had one.

He sprinted to Alice and held the rice cracker infront of her mouth who let out a gasp and held it in her hands

"RICE CRACKER!!"

She ate it happily and thanked Luffy. Nami who saw the happy Alice while eating the rice cracker made her smile and offered her own rice cracker.

"Huh? You sure? You can eat it you know" Alice replied but her expression betrayed her. Which was looking at the rice cracker like it was the love of her life with a small drool.

Nami chuckled at her.
"Of course! It's for you!"

"Thank you, Nami!" Alice took it gratefully and ate it happily while Sanji mentally noted to make tons of Rice cracker. Looks like they found that Alice loves Rice cracker.

Sanji stood up when it was time to go and spotted a green moss and went towards it.

"Oh, by the way," He spoke and turned towards it.
"You haven't forgotten our hunting challenge, have you?"

"Oh that? I won. I bagged a huge Rhino." He said, grinning, while motioning with his hands to show the size of it.

"Rhino? I hope it's edible" Luffy muttered while Alice turned to Zoro.

"Is it really that big!?" She asked while shaking his pants. He grinned down at her and nodded.

"Yep. And I'll beat that cook!"

"In your dreams, Marimo!! Alice had already said that I'll win this challenge! Not you!" Sanji said making her freeze as Zoro turned to her with squinted eyes.

"Is that so?" He questioned making her fake giggle.

"No way! Don't lie Sanji!"

"Lying is bad, Alice"

"Yea I said that he would win not you...."

"I'll beat you to lump in our next spare"

"Don't you dare lay your finger on her, teme!!"

When they got back where the ship was docked. There laid a once alive rhino and giant lizard.

"Take a good look. My lizard wins!!"

"Are you blind? My rhino's bigger!!!"

"Who cares? They both look good to eat." Luffy commented which wasn't appreciated by the two challengers.

"YOU STUP UP!!" they yelled before Nami yelled at them to cut 'em and load as much as they can and that it's time to sail making Sanji immediately agree with her.

Zoro ignored her and turned to usopp.

"Right, Usopp? Mine's bigger, right?" He asked while Usopp let out a sound of confusion.

"I don't care"

"Can't you call it a draw?" Vivi asked, glancing down the feast they brought.

"There are no draw in challenge!!" Both of them declared when Sanji spotted Alice on crow's nest.

"Hey!! Alice!" He called her who was already looking at him.

"Yea?"

"Mine's bigger, right?!"

"What did you challenged for? Bigger or meat-er?"

"Bigger!"

"Than Sanji is the winner!" She announced with a proud girn making him smile so widely, she thought his lips would tear apart.

"You hear that Marimo!!!"

"She's probably taking a pity on you, cook!"

"Hahahah!!! In your dreams!!"

"Get on board you both!!!"

"Alice!! Give me a hug!!"

"Okay~♡"

"If we sail straight ahead that'll take us to the eastern side of the island." Nami said as Zoro gave an okay sign to Alice after he lifted the anchor so she unfurled the sails and yelled that they are ready to go.

"Hey, can't we carry any more meat?" Luffy questioned looking at the meat they left behind.

"That's all the ship will hold! Do you want us to sink?" Sanji sneered making Luffy sulk and leaned on the rails.

Alice opened the last sail after Nami gave her signal that they got the broken tree out of the way. The ship moved faster and she was called down by Usopp.

"Hey, Usopp! Did you have fun? You didn't wanted to come so how was your day?" Alice asked and wrapped her arm around his arm and guided him to the front near Luffy. He was taken aback by her attitude because few minutes he got his ass handed to him by Sanji.

"You and that shitty Marimo made Alice upset and sad! You better apologize you long nose idiot!" Sanji snapped at Usopp while shaking his collar. Others were having a Rice cracker party with only 1 cracker.

"Huh?! What did I do??"

After Sanji explained briefly, Usopp grew depressed and horrible for what he did and was determined to apologise to her as soon as he can have an alone time with her.

But she was now guiding him to Luffy so he stopped making her look at him confused. He was same height as Luffy so she came only upto their upper chest. She really looked like a kid in this crew. He felt like she is the person to forgive people easily and would find happiness in small things.

"Listen Alice," he spoke and held her shoulder, looking at her seriously.

"I'm extremely sorry for what I said earlier" he apologized making her eyes widen. She never blamed them. She can't forgive them when she didn't even blame them in the first place.

"I know a bit about what happened and I really do feel horrible-" he was saying when she tried to stop him.

"Usopp! It's got nothing t-"

"No! Let me have a say in this. My words hurt your feelings and I shouldn't have done that. Knowingly or unknowingly, I still hurt you so I should apologise as it is. So," he said and held her hand with his own clasped around her small ones.

"I deeply apologise you for everything I did"

Alice lips trembled slightly making Usopp panick and started to flap his hands in the air. Luffy's big brother instinct started to bubble up so he looked back at see his sister infront of Usopp looking up at him who was panicking while patting her head and hugged her. Luffy squinted his eyes before jumping down to see the situation himself.

"Alice! What's wrong?" He asked so she turned around with tears in her eyes and trembling lips.

He froze before engulfing her in a hug when she slightly moved her hands forward in an attempt to hug him.

"Usopp...he-" she said before sniffing which made Luffy give Usopp a dark, murderous look.

"EEKKKK!!!! NOOO!! YOU GOT IT WRONG! WELL MAYBE, BUT LISTEN I APOLOGISED OKAY! AHHH LUFFY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" He yelled and ducked down from the incoming gum gum punch.

Alice held his arm to stop him to which he pulled his hand back. She looked up and explained how he apologized for something which wasn't his fault and she got emotional because he cared for her feelings.

Luffy grinned at that and scooped his sister into a bear hug and placed her back down. He turned to Usopp.

"You should've told me, Usopp"

"YOU DIDN'T LET ME!"

In the end Usopp was clinging on to her for the rest of the way out for making up to the fact that she did get upset because of his words.

"Hey, look!! The giants! They came to see us off!" Luffy pointed who stood with their back to them with their capes flapping in the wind, while Alice had stars around to see the actual height of them because, before she was preoccupied looking at the island and sky.

"There's one big reason that you little people," Broggy stated

"-can't reach the next island" and Donny completed

"What?" Nami asked as everyone looked at them with curiosity.

"You risked your lives to defend out honour." Donny replied and Broggy continued.

"Now, no matter what"
"We will allow no enemy to trample on our friends pride!!"

"Have faith in us, and sail straight ahead!! No matter what happens, sail straight ahead!!!"

While others questioned what was happening. Alice was dead set on listening to them and flared her nose and spoke.

"WE ARE SAILING STRAIGHT AHEAD! luffy...say it too!" She yelled before whispering to her brother who nodded.
"YEA!! WE'LL SAIL JUST STRAIGHT!!"

"It's time to say goodbye." Dorry said making Alice frown and waved at them both who grinned widely and waved at her back.

"I hope we meet again." Dorry said which seemed like his gaze lingering on their little crew member who was still grinning at them. Admiring them, their height and words.

"Yes, I hope so too" Broggy said

"Somethings coming" Alice muttered and looked down the railing to see what was causing the rumbling.

"Look!! Up ahead!!!" Nami warned making everyone turn their attention ahead to see a fun coming out.

"There it is. The island eater"

"You will give way. The honour of Elbaph is at stake!!!"

The creature came out and was revealed as a gaint fish. Almost size of half an island.

"S-Something big came out of the sea!!!" Nami yelled before shuffling back towards lower deck. While Usopp left to stand infront of the galley if anything were to go wrong but Luffy and Alice and stayed still.

"S-SEA MONSTER!!"

Alice had a glint of excitement. She grinned at anticipation of what will happen now.

Are we gonna die? Or....

She looked back to see her new friends clutch their weapon tightly with the grin still on their face which was enough to make her feel more excited.

Her sense of danger was really messed up.

While others argued about their safety she kept her eyes trained on the gaints to see their every movements.

The fish was about to devour them, they lifted their weapons and the Alice's view was cut off when it snapped its mouth shut which she didn't appreciate and yelled at it to let her see them.

What? It's not like you see giants everyday!!

"STRAIGHT AHEAD! STRAIGHT AHEAD!!!!" Usopp yelled with tears in his eyes.

"IT'S TOO LATE! WE'VE ALREADY BEEN SWALLOWED UP!!" Nami yelled back with tears streaming down her face.

"STRAIGHT AHEAD!!!!!" Luffy and Alice yelled together making them grin at eachother tho Luffy had a sweat rolling down his temple while Alice was enjoying it.

Suddenly their was a strike blown from behind and the fish now had a hole in the middle and the ship had moved forward from the impact.

"We're flying out!!"

"Don't turn!! Go straight ahead!!!" The giants yelled making goosebumps run down her spine.

"MAY GOOD FORTUNE ACCOMPANY YOU!!!"

Without realising her hearing had got low, making her able to hear only loud sound/noise.

The last thing she heard from the giants were the laughing.

She felt something running down her ears so she touched and saw blood on her fingers so she wiped it from her scarf which was wrapped around her waist. She tried to open her ears by twisted her finger in there but it started to hurt so she used her ear monitors so she don't lose her hearing.