Those who move in the darkness III

The sky was darker. With no warning, total darkness prevailed as clouds thickened and the sky was stricken, blotting out the moonlight and stars. The wind arose to push the still waters to choppy, which morphed into mountains of angry waves. The ocean seemed to have disappeared into the darkness as the rain was pouring down on the city.

The wind slammed the rain into their faces like tiny stones and pushed the hood back that Usopp was wearing,

''Dammit!!! You're the worse sword rider ever!!!'' Usopp screamed out in horror as he held tightly onto Luna for the life of him, it was difficult to hang on for him.

''I'm the only sword rider!!'' Luna yelled back at him as she tried to balance her speed, ''And I just learned this! I will get better!'' as the speed of the sword suddenly increased,

''Gyaaaa!!'' Usopp screamed in fear as he hugged Luna more tightly, ''I'm sorry!! Don't get angry!! You're just losing control!!'' His head was popping out from the right side of Luna as the head of her mallet could be seen on her left side.

While Usopp and Luna were rushing at the Blue Station, all of the streets on their path were almost sank, so noticing they would be only getting slower by foot, Luna used her Reverse Gravity. So, at the moment, Luna and Usopp were standing on Naraka as Usopp was on the back, hugging Luna from the back. He was practically strangling her as he was scared way too much because Luna was either so slow or incredibly fast, and they were pretty high up that they could see all over the city.

''I wonder how everyone is doing...'' Usopp murmured as his eyes suddenly glanced at the certain building that was engulfed with fire. ''I hope they are not there...'' he had fearful eyes,

Even though it was quite far away for them, he could see the fire in the darkness that shined with all its glory.

''They are fine,'' Luna stated as she looked ahead, not turning to look at where Dock #1 was before as she already could guess what happened there. ''I'm sure they will also come after Ro.''

''How do you know? Are they close? Can you sense them?!'' Usopp asked non-stop, looking actually relieved that they are far away from that fire that was looking like even the rain wasn't enough the put it out,

''Nah,'' Luna waved her hand as the salty air washed her face, ''I can't sense them at all, so they probably not in my range.'' crushing Usopp's theory,

Usopp was about to yell at Luna before he suddenly pointed out the place below them that was just a little bit far away, ''There!! The entrance to Blue Station!!''

Luna looked towards where he was pointing at before she made a big smile and increased the speed of her katana, ''Alright! Let's go!''

''Gyaaaa!!!'' Usopp let out another terrified screamed as they suddenly dive towards the big building, ''You don't have to hurry up this much!!''

xxx

The shipwrights were trying to control the fire, which was not easy as they were losing to the wind. They were worried about the safety of Iceburg, and the three leaders, Paulie, Kaku, and Lucci, not aware of anything.

Just as they were worried, someone found a girl fell from the upper floor, and she was none other than Nami, who's left lying on the ground, unconscious with some injures on her. Shipwrights were waiting around her, for her to wake up so that they could learn where the other members were.

However, not long later, a reindeer came from the flames with two familiar men on his back and a katana in his mouth, looking like he was at the brick of collapsing any given moment. The reindeer saved Iceburg, and Paulie's life was the pet of Straw Hats as the shipwrights recognized, and Chopper lost his consciousness after the one-step he took towards Nami as he wanted to heal her.

Shipwrights ran towards Iceburg and Paulie as they were hurt badly, and they tried to save the life of Chopper as he was the one who saved them, yet they had no idea what to do with Nami.

Soon, Iceburg woke up, and Nami was just after him.

She was confused as numerous shipwrights were surrounding her and trying to decide what to do with her when Iceburg suddenly came towards there and wanted to talk with Nami, alone.

The fire was swallowing the building as the harsh wind blowing mercilessly as the shipwrights were running around, trying to put out the fire and save the people that might still be inside and alive,

Nami and Iceburg sit a little far from everyone,

''First.. Nma... I'm sorry...'' Iceburg began to talk, even it was little, his wounds were taken care of, but he still didn't look good, ''I accused you of a horrible crime. I'll take care of it somehow, later...'' then speak point-blank, ''It's about Nico Robin.''

''Do you know something?'' Nami asked, looking interested now

''You believed she had been taken away, right?'' Iceburg asked, causing Nami to nod her head, ''Why did you think that? How much do you know?''

''We know that the world government wants Robin for something, and we thought that they had taken her for that.'' Not saying anything about the weapons, Nami began to tell what she knew, ''We were even coming to ask help from you as we thought that maybe it would be easier to find her, but then suddenly she became the assassin of you. We thought there was something suspicious about it as we didn't believe it, so we came to found you. Then when my friends found her, she said she wasn't coming back.''

As Iceburg listening to her quietly, Nami suddenly looked down with a deep frown, ''We thought she was forced all of this, but she said she didn't, we really didn't understand whats going on, so we came here to ask Robin why she had to leave...''

'To make my wish come true... A wish that won't be granted if I stay with you.'

As Robin's voice echoed in Nami's ears, ''What's the wish that won't be granted if she stays with us?''

Iceburg stared at the girl in front of him, who's looking down as she looked at the ground, ''I'll tell you what I know...'' Iceburg began to talk about his thoughts on the government's plans started to the moment they first came to the town, ''Of course there is a reason for her actions but before that... Do you know the reason why the government wants her?'' causing Nami to lift her head and look directly in the eye

'She knows.' Iceburg could see the eyes of Nami that were looking at him, the knowing eyes and the determined look that made clear she wouldn't talk. He wasn't sure as to what extend she knew, ''I see... Nico Robin and I have the ability to awaken a weapon that has the power to destroy the world.''

''The world?!'' Nami asked in surprise. She knew the weapons had the power to cause mass destruction and apparently had enough powers to end the pirate age, but they didn't know what these weapons were or what they were actually capable of, and she didn't really want to know. Nami then blinked, ''Wait...! You too?!'' as she asked in shock,

''That's right,'' Iceburg confirmed her as he thought about the talk he had with Robin. He told Nami that once he had the blueprints of one of the weapons that have the power to destroy the world, and the very first and the original one was built up on Water 7 centuries ago as the blueprints of it passed down for generations.

Iceburg wanted to get rid of them, but the mere thought of someone who has evil intentions awaken the weapon, another one might be needed to stop it. This thought alone always prevented him.

Nami frowned at him with a thoughtful glint in her eyes as Iceburg went on, ''For years, I had two people I scared. One was a king rumored to have the knowledge of weapons who had already died a year ago, and the other was Nico Robin, who's the only one left who has the power to awaken the weapons.''

'A king who died a year ago?' Nami thought's drifted on Luna and her father for a moment as she silently listened to Iceburg's story, ''That was why I was able to recognize Nico Robin. She seemed so hateful towards the government, and when I asked about then why she was helping them, she told me because she wanted her to wish to be granted, even if she had to throw everything away.''

Nami looked at her with curiosity now, waiting to hear what is it, ''She said CP9 gave her two conditions.'' Iceburg went on with a slight frown, ''First, to arrange for the assassination to blame on you, then she would give herself over to the government, and obey them.''

''But... why would Robin do that?'' Nami asked with a frown. From the beginning, Nami was utterly confused at everything going on,

''I asked the same,'' Iceburg calmly responded, closing his eyes for a moment, ''She said the CP9 has the permission to put the buster call in motion, only once, as Admiral Aokiji gave permission, and It was against you.'' Nami's eyes got widen as Iceburg went on, ''If she didn't agree, you would get the buster call.''

''Robin's wish...'' Nami's voice sounded like a whisper,

''Her wish is for the seven straw hats, excluding her, to get off this island safely. She didn't care if she had to resurrect the weapon and cause the destruction of the world. I wanted to shot at her,'' Iceburg said as he remembered the moment he pointed his pistol at her, ''I couldn't pull the trigger. Of all the things, she chose you seven... over the lives of all the people in the world.''

'For us...!' Nami seemed shocked with her enlarged eyes

''Even when I'm about to have the blueprint taken...'' Iceburg said with a sigh, looking down, not noticing Nami's situation, ''I've got no right to blame her...''

Nami let out a long sigh as she suddenly collapsed on the ground,

''Hey!!'' Iceburg called out her in worry, ''What's wrong?!!'' but the opposite is thoughts, Nami was fine, even better.

''I'm so glad...'' Nami let out a relieved sigh, ''So, Robin really didn't betray us...'' a smile made on her lips.

After listening to Iceburg, all the pieces she missed on the puzzle were completed now.

Why they left yesterday night even with the order to kill Luna,

Why they didn't even try to fight with them,

Why they attempted assassination on Iceburg,

Why Robin worked with the people she clearly hated,

Why she said her wish can't come true with staying with them,

Nami suddenly got back on her feet, ''I have to tell everyone!!! Thank you, Iceburg-san!!!'' she shouted out with an energic tone as she began to run towards Chopper to wake him up,

She stopped on midway though, as Iceburg told her that Luffy and others were done for and what they could do after all this.

However, Nami seemed offended by this. ''After all?'' as she glanced at Iceburg as if asking what he was even asking, ''You mean from on! Luffy's okay! He won't die from just that! We're going to get Robin back! Everyone becomes weak when they're undecided...'' Nami then made a huge smile as she had burning eyes, ''When they find out that they can save her, their strength will have no limit!!''

Leaving behind an astounded Iceburg, Nami went on to run towards Chopper.

xxx

Sanji hid behind one of the huge columns of the entrance of the Blue Station as he gazed at the crowd of people around there from the shadows.

'Government officials, some marines... And Robin-chan...' he glared at the official that was ordering around Robin to hurry up and get on the train as he was cocky about Robin's surrendering was only natural.

''Now... how do I get on board...'' Sanji took a drag from his cigarette and exhaled the smoke as he thought about the conversation he had with Robin earlier that day. ''No matter how you look at it, it seems like she's just being taken away...'' he looked thoughtful, ''If those people are the only enemies, she should be able to get away easily... I don't think the assassins also could be able to really catch her... Is she aiming at something...? Or does she have a reason for not running away...?''

As Sanji kept thinking about Robin, he suddenly got into his pink world, where he saved Robin on his white horse as Robin returned his love, saying she was waiting for him, for her only prince, ''Is it because you want to save by me? Buh hoo hoo~~'' Sanji's face morphed into a weird smile with a scarlet blush as he fell on his knees with a creepy laugh,

That was when he heard the familiar voices,

''Hey, I hear some voices... It's somehow creeping me out...'' a familiar teens shaky voice heard, ''Maybe my disease acting up... You know... I will die if I get on that train...''

''Wasn't that supposed to be an island...?'' The voice of another familiar was the one that made Sanji jumped on his feet and furiously search for the source of the voice, ''Besides... the source of that creepy voice feels familiar...''

Sanji's love detector acted up as his eyes fixed on the column just beside his. The first thing he saw was a long nose before Usopp completely could be seen. He was wearing some colorful cloak along with a golden-colored sun-like mask with some doddles painted on it.

Sanji completely ignored Usopp as the next one was the one who made his heart pound. Luna, who's wearing some black sunglasses, some white mask, and a yellow-blue cap that showed only a little of her white hair, came out. Her bandages around her body were painted with a lot of colorful doodles, looking like a child's work. There was a revolver that Robin was carrying on her, and a hip flask with her red dragon drawn on it as they were tucked into her sash.

All three of them gasped at seeing each other,

Sanji gasped as his eyes turned into hearts in a matter of seconds as his love powered eyes were able to see right through Luna's disguise, ''Lu-...''

Luna and Usopp gasped with a mix of surprise and happiness before it turned into horror as they saw the hearts on his eyes. Knowing what's coming, in a matter of seconds, Luna and Usopp were on top of Sanji, covering his mouth and shushing him for not to be found after all this time.

''You're going to expose us, you idiot!!'' Usopp silently screamed at him

''Yeah! We'll find out!!'' Luna also silently screamed at Sanji as Sanji was beyond happy that Luna was close to him as she was covering his mouth,

Just then, they heard the astonished murmurs,

''Kougi-san!! It's Knight-san and CP9!!'' one of the government officials shout out at his superior who's beside Robin, causing Luna, Usopp, and Sanji, who came back to the world and glanced towards there.

''Whaa... It's Knight...''

''Such strength and fame at this age...''

''I heard she's only seventeen...''

''And she is already a CP-0 member...''

''And... is that Rob Lucci...?''

''Yeah... I heard he is too strong...''

''So that's the CP9...''

As the marines were lined up and talking themselves,

''Who's she?'' Usopp asked after seeing the first person who came walking in,

''She is that Goddess of War... Known as Knight.'' Luna calmly answered, opposite how she was feeling

''She is the Goddess of War?!'' Sanji silently screamed as his eyes turned into hearts.

The girl, who's named Knight, was now wearing a short, white dress with tight, long sleeves that were showing her collarbones along with white high heels. Her soft-looking light brown hair that was coming over to her waist was free. She had nothing to cover her face now, showing her delicate features as she looked graceful more than ever.

Sanji, who's lying on the ground on his face, clutched his hands that were squished between his body and on the ground, onto his chest as he was literally having a heart attack. His hearted eyes were on the girl as he could feel Luna's body on top of him, clutching his vest in her fist.

Luna, who's lying on top of Sanji's back, grasped at the fabric on the back of Sanji's black vest over an orange, pinstriped shirt as every wound on her body throbbed for a moment as soon as she saw the girl. She glared at Knight as she focused on hiding her presence from her. It was the first time Luna clearly saw her face since they had come across again on this island.

Usopp, who's lying on top of Luna's back, gripped Luna's jacket with shaky hands at the sight in front of him. He was too scared to get on that train as he wasn't even sure if he could do anything to help. However, as his eyes sild to Robin, who's walking inside the station, towards the train, with government men surrounding her, he made his resolve.

With the next ones they saw,

''Hey!'' Usopp let out a silent shocked noise, ''They are the shipwrights I saw yesterday! So, they were the assassins?!''

''Seems like they were inside all this time...'' Sanji mumbled as he looked at the CP9 members, ''They don't look like shipwrights at all...Hm?!'' Sanji's eyes enlarged before they transformed into hearts again at the sight of Kalifa

''That's Rob Lucci...'' Luna gazed at Lucci for the first time, ''He is the one who mastered all of the Six Powers that I talked about before...'' shocking Usopp as Luna went on with a murmuring, ''He is looking good...'' causing Sanji to come back to the world with broken-hearted eyes, unable to utter a word as he furiously stared at Lucci,

However, their intense gaze broke with the fury shouting they heard,

''Let go, dammit!!! Let go!!!''

The person who's made of literally a package and tied around while carried over Blueno's shoulder was non-other than Franky.

As Franky was furiously yelling and trying to get off of Blueno's holding,

Luna and Usopp gasped in shock,

''FRANKY?!''

They silently screamed in shock, causing Sanji to also gasp,

''FRANKY?!''

Sanji silently screamed in anger as he still saw him as an enemy,

Sanji's hands clutch into fists in anger this time. 'So, this thug with a punk hairstyle is Franky?!' Sanji then made a face as if he realized something before he looked like the world just collapsed on him as he thought about Luna's shocked voice calling his name. The voice reached his ears sounded upset and concerned, 'Wait...!!! How Luna-cwan knows that punk?!!'

Luna's hands clutch into fists in a mix of shock and anger. 'I can't believe it...' she looked devastated as she noticed that her mind entirely ignored Franky's kidnapping as she was focusing on Robin, Knight, and CP9 all this time. She felt sorry to forget about their future crewmate's kidnapping like this as she was also angry at herself, 'Shit...!!! I'm such a bad friend!!!'

Usopp's hands clutch into fists in a mix of surprise that turned into a huge shock, 'How...? Why...?' He was surprised the owner of the bar was also an assassin as he was questioning how Fanky got caught as he thought he was really strong and trying to understand why they would want to catch him. However, his confusion disappeared the second he remembered what Franky was doing, 'Wait...!!! What happened to Merry?!!!'

In the midst of their thoughts, everyone was finally inside of the station as Luna, Usopp, and Sanji get out from the behind of the column and gaze towards the middle entrance that leading to the stairs down to the train.

''Due to the impending Aqua Laguna, we will be moving the schedule forward. We will be departing soon.''

The trio frowned at the announcement they heard,

''Shit,'' Sanji let a puff from his smoke out of frustration, ''It's leaving already...''

''Yeah...'' Usopp murmured, ''I wonder how the others are faring...''

''I don't think anyone can make it here in time...'' Luna said with a thoughtful expression,

''The final train will leave soon.''

Hearing the announcement again, the three of them glance at each other before they began to run towards the entrance at the same time.

As soon as they got inside of the station, they saw all of the government officials get on the train already as the train was getting ready to leave any given moment now.

''We should give some information for the rest...'' Sanji murmured as he glanced around,

''Usopp,'' Luna turned to Usopp, ''Give the transponder snail,'' as she reached her hand,

''Oh, okay!'' as Usopp began to search for his bag for Luna's transponder snail they took before they left the ship, Sanji was writing something to the papers he pulled out, ''What are you gonna do with it?''

''I'm gonna leave for others so that we can call them later on...'' Luna said as Usopp finally found the snail and give it Luna,

''Luna-cwan!!'' Sanji twirled around Luna before he extended the papers to her, ''This is for you!'' giving one of the papers separately, ''And this is for Nami-swan! I will make sure Nami-swan finds these, so if there is something you want to add, I'm leaving to you~~!!''

''Oh...'' Luna eyed at the love letters before she made a smile, ''Thanks, Sanji!!''

''Anything for you~~!!'' before he ran towards some wall with a big smile and hearted eyes,

Luna ignored Sanji's love letter to Nami as she tucked hers into her sash without even reading as she wasn't even sure how did he write this fast before she studied what other he wrote. Sanji said the three of them getting on the train as Robin was on it along with the thug with a punk hairstyle. Also, he said they would be leaving Luna's snail, and when they found a transporter snail onboard the Sea Train, they could contact them as soon as possible as there were a couple of other love confessions between the lines.

''It looks perfect, Sanji!!'' Luna spoke with a big smile as she folded the letters and looked towards Sanji and Usopp before she sweatdropped,

One of the columns now had a redpointing mark on it with the large words over the wall that was saying, 'Nami-swan~ Read this!' along with a lot of hearts and a little note that said, 'People who are not Nami don't read it, you idiots!'

Sanji, who's looking annoyed at Usopp as he was hitting him because of Sanji's absurd warning on the wall, seemed happy to take Luna's approval.

With the steam whistle of the sea train, they all turned to each other and with a fast pace, they put the letter and the snail just in front of the column, under the large, red, pointing mark before they run towards the Sea Train.

xxx

The back streets of Water Seven were now almost completely bare of water as the rain was heavily pouring down now from the dark sky. The ground seemed to shook, and the people of Water Seven knew this rumble well enough to know what it could be... Aqua Laguna has finally arrived.

Nami was running and jumping across the rooftops as she tried to be fast. She couldn't catch the train in time and only found the letter and the snail, while Chopper couldn't find either Luffy or Zoro in time, even with the help of the shipwrights.

It wasn't until the last moment both Nami and Chopper found Luffy and Zoro.

The streets below Nami were empty as if there had suddenly been a drought. The ocean couldn't be seen clearly, but in the distance, shipwrights who had been helping them until now could see the form of the ocean and knew that it could be coming any moment now.

They tried to stop Nami and Chopper, but they didn't listen to them as one ran towards Luffy and the other towards Zoro.

Nami finally came as close as she can and stand on top of the roof, breathing hard and gulping down air as she looked ahead of her. Right between two tall bıildings, there was a crevice, so thin that no one could hope to slip through... However, jammed right in that small space was a familiar figure.

Nami looked at trapped Luffy as his head turned around the other side. He was clearly conscious, struggling to move around and trying to find some way to get free. Seeing him wiggling around there, unable to move, made her only angry.

Nami took a deep breath before she screamed out at the top of her lungs, ''LUFFY!!!'' Luffy stopped moving at the sound of Nami, ''YOU MORON! WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE?!''

Luffy tried to move around to see her but couldn't, so instead, he yelled back in a muffled tone, ''Nya... Nyomi?! You behin' me?!!'' as his face was squashed together, it was really hard to really understand his words, ''Jeez, hey, pleash lissen t' me!! I was flung 'ay dat pigeon guy... An' sho I flew an' kin'a got shtuck in thish conven'nt plashe...!!'' he continued to cough and grunt as he tried to pull himself free again.

Nami wasn't happy to hear his excuses though. Her eyes filled with tears but also narrowed before she furiously screamed out, ''Don't joke at a time like this!!! While you were screwing around, Robin's been taken away!!!'' causing Luffy to froze as Nami panted for breath under the heavy rain, ''For all of us, Robin...!!'' as more tears were streaming down her face, Nami screamed loudly, ''She is going to die for us!!!'' as she began to cry with loud sobbings,

''Robin sacrificed herself for us!! She protected us from being attacked by the government!!'' Nami shouted again, her voice was broke from her sobbings, ''Even with knowing she might be killed!!!''

Nami knew the sacrifice for the loved ones as she had done that for years for her family and people in her home. She couldn't let Robin do that for themselves.

As Nami continued to cry under the heavy rain and harsh wind, ''So, Robin... Was really lying after all...'' Luffy asked with his barely heard voice,

''Yes!!'' Nami answered between her sobbings

''Thank goodness..!!'' Luffy's voice heard again as it sounded like he was smiling.

But just then, the arrival that everyone was waiting for began to come. The ocean was coming back. A tidal wave, surrounding the entire island that looked big enough to sink half of the island. It rose up until it was over their heads, ready to crash down on them.

''Don't worry!!'' Luffy suddenly shouted out as his hands were pressing on either side of them. ''I won't let Robin die!!''

x

''You won't come out!!'' Chopper yelled out in worry as he had tears in his eyes, ''How would you get in there, Zoro?!!'' as he looked at Zoro's legs since he was stuck into a chimney up and down, looking like a sea anemone's coming out of the chimney.

''Ouch!!! Owowow!!'' Zoro made painful sounds as Chopper was pulling his legs in his 'Heavy Point', ''You're tearing them off!!!''

''What should I do!!!'' as his tears were flowing down more, ''The tidal waved are already coming!!''

''Guh! What should I do, you ask...'' Zoro talked as he tried to move before he suddenly felt something familiar, ''Wait a second! By any chance... Are you carrying my Kitetsu?''

''Eh? This katana?'' Chopper seemed surprised at the sudden question as his hand moved towards the katana behind his back, ''I've got it! How did you know that?''

''I understand... That's the only one... It's a cursed sword after all.'' Zoro said as he furiously began to wave his squished hand, ''Thanks for holding onto it. Put it in my hand! Hurry!!!''

x

There was a strange aura around Luffy as the tidal wave continued to rise up and come in closer by every passing second.

Luffy continued to press against the two buildings on either side of him, and finally, it began to shake as Nami looked at the tidal wave hovering over them with a fear-filled expression.

The sounds of the buildings over crashing water could be heard, they seemed to tremble as if a giant was walking around and shaking the ground. With a loud battle cry, Luffy's muscles stood out on his arms, and with a great heave, he was finally able to push so hard that the two buildings he trapped between pushed right over the sides, cracking and breaking apart until they burst open.

At the same time, another destructive sound could have been heard as another building with a tall chimney was cut clean in half.

Just the moment of their freedom, Aqua Laguna had arrived. The waves were right over their heads, and they were all feeling fear in the pits of their stomachs at the sight of it. Sometimes, even the strongest had no chance against Mother Nature like that all at once.

Luffy spun around in midair as the two buildings crumbled to dust and fell to the ground as his eyes were gained back the glint of fire. He stretched one of his arms out to grab Nami as the other grabbed one of the taller buildings before he pulled her and himself up to the building. They had barely touched down as Luffy jumped and began to cross the other buildings.

When they were just neat the stairs, the wave crashed around them, so violent that the entire island shook. The ground was shaking as the buildings and the back streets were all crumbling from the waves.

Luffy was forced to hold onto one of the buildings and could feel the building was quaking and slowly move. But Luffy didn't give up. As Nami desperately clung to him with terror, he gritted his teeth and held onto the building as the waves continued to rise up around them. For a brief of a moment of chance, Luffy sent himself forwards over the building and was forced to keep running and jumping around from building to building as the roaring waves were just after them, destroying everything on its way.

With a last stretched out to the large bridge, they fell to the ground in exhaustion just as Chopper and Zoro came out of nowhere and crashed right beside them.

As they were sitting on there, gasping for breath, citizens that helped Nami and Chopper until now were all screaming in joy, cheering for them, and crying out how amazing they were.

Nami and Chopper looked at each other with big smiles on their face, looking proud and relieved that they found Luffy and Zoro. But their happiness was short-lived as another wave rose up like a mountain just up above them.

Before they got even a time to reacted, the enormous wave that was hovering over them, mercilessly crashed on them.

For a moment, all four straw hats could see was dark waters. All could they hear was the muffled sounds of the waves, yet, as soon as it came, it was over.

All four of them were suddenly pulled by the ropes around them, all the way outside on the stairs.

Paulie was on the stairs with ropes coming out of his sleeves, each one wrapped around the straw hats as he pulled them out as a fisherman would. All of them were gasping for air and coughing, but there wasn't time for them to catch their breath. The water was receding, but it was coming back.

They were all forced to run as fast as they could. The stairs beneath their feet were starting to crumble and fall apart. Luffy heaved Nami over his shoulder, and Chopper was clinging onto Zoro's face, frozen with fear as Zoro looked stuffed.

Every single second seemed to take an eternity as they ran with a huge wave just behind them. Just as it crashed, they all jumped to the safe ground. The water nipped at their heels as it practically exploded behind them, completely destroying the bridge and the stairs.

The rain continued to fall as they all gasped on the ground. Luffy was panting as he lay on his back. Nami was on her knees, still shaking from the fright. Zoro, on the other hand, was struggling to pull Chopper out of his face before he dies with the lack of air.

Paulie pulled out one of his many cigars as he was trying to find his lighter, ''You're all crazy!'' he hissed as he finally found his lighter but utterly gave up since it was way too wet to light up, ''You're lucky to be alive. The Aqua Laguna is abnormally strong this year.''

''Even I was scared for you!'' suddenly a familiar voice of a drunk woman heard, ''You're very lucky to have survived that...'' she talked as she gulped down a bottle of rum in one go.

''Ah!'' Luffy looked at the voice and saw Kokoro, Chimney, and Gonbe walking towards them, ''Monster Grany!! You're here too?''

''Of course! If I would stay at sea, I'd have drowned and become fish bait already, Nagagagaga!!'' Kokoro laugh as Chimney came running up to stand next to her, saying he was so cool as Gonbe yowled happily next to her

Just then, they suddenly heard Zoro's voice, ''I almost suffocated!!'' he finally pulled Chopper out of his face, gasping for air before he yelled at Chopper in his hands, ''You idiot!! Don't grab onto my head and then pass out!!''

''Ah, Zoro!?'' Luffy looked at him as if he just realized, ''Why were you swallowed by the wave? Were you down there too?'' looking mildly curious

Zoro suddenly seemed awkward, ''Ah... Not exactly...'' he clumsily began, as if he didn't want to answer this,

However, Chopper was woke up just at that time and innocently said that Zoro was stuck in a chimney. As Zoro began to strangle Chopper, Luffy was laughing his ass off while Nami was yelling at him that he was no better.

''But, where are the white-haired pirate big sister and pirate long nose brother?!'' Chimney scanned around as if she could see them any moment now,

''Hm?'' Kokoro also looked around, ''That's right... Didn't you kids have a friend to save? What were you doing, almost dying like that?''

''Eh?!'' Luffy looked at them in surprise, ''How did you know?''

''We were at the bar, and pirate big sister said they would save a friend, and we draw doddles!!'' Chiney excitedly said with her arms in the air, looking happy,

Luffy looked confused at Chimney's words as he blinked a couple of times before he suddenly gasped in shock, ''Right!!'' he turned to Nami, ''Where is Luna, Usopp, and Sanji?!''

Zoro had another problem though, ''Bar?! They were gone to drinking at a time like this?!'' actually looking like he was sad that he wasn't there as Chopper was now hitting Zoro's arm as he tried to get him to let go,

Nami suddenly hit him on the head, causing him to let go of Chopper, ''They went after Robin!!'' she yelled before she suddenly looked calm, ''Oh, yeah... I have to tell you everything... You should all listen.''

As four of them huddled together, Nami told them everything she heard from Iceburg, and then how Paulie informed the other about them not being the real assassins and how they all looked around for them. She then told them how she missed the train but found Sanji's letter saying that three of them get on the train as they left a snail to call them later.

The other three didn't say anything as they listened to Nami in silence, and as soon as Nami finished, Luffy got up and was standing in front of the wall that was overlooking the back streets.

''So it was buster call...'' Zoro murmured with a slight frown

''Yeah...'' Nami somberly said, looking like she was in a mix of anger and sadness, ''That thing must be a nightmare for Robin... No wonder she did this.''

''And the cook, Luna, and Usopp are also on the train with her, huh?'' Zoro said before turning towards Luffy, ''Well, what should we do, captain?''

''What's there to think about?!'' Luffy slammed a fist into his palm, ''Let's set sail and go after them!'' causing all of them to stand up, ready to go

The waves continued to crash the city behind them as Luffy turned to Paulie and asked him if he could lend a boat or if there was another Sea Train. Paulie gave him a hard stare before he told him that the Puffing Tom was the only Sea Train in the world, and it's a miracle that the legendary carpenters spent ten years in cooperation to create.

Luffy then asked for a ship, the strongest and the fastest one, only making Paulie angry as he yelled at them that can't they see how rough the sea is as others also agreed with him. He then looked calmer as he explained that it was the roughest Aqua Launa ever, and even with the biggest warship they would give to them, it'll shatter into pieces against those monstrous waves.

He wouldn't give them a ship just so they could die out there. So, he told them to wait till morning, and once the tides subside, he would give them a ship as he also told the rest of the shipwrights to go to the shelters.

However, Straw Hat's couldn't wait.

''If we wait until morning, won't it be too late?'' Nami spoke up, causing all of them to turned to her, ''I know what kind of place Enies Lobby is. I remember you'd say that it's the government's island. Isn't that where the 'Gate Of Justice' is?''

Nami's question startled both Paulie and Kokoro, ''What's that?'' Zoro asked, looking confused along with Luffy

''The judicial island of the government, Enies Lobby, is where the infamous criminal court is'' Nami explained, looking serious, ''The fact that someone is being taken to Enies Lobby is evidence enough for the crime. The accused would simply be taken through an empty courthouse to a giant, cold, iron gate. After the criminal passes through that 'Gate Of Justice' they will never again see the light of day because there are only two places that you can go to from that island.''

Nami sounded serious, yet upset as she explained, ''One is the heart of 'Justice' The Marine Headquarters. The other is an island covered with interrogation chambers and an execution room, housing all kinds of dangerous criminals from all over the world. The great underwater prison, Impel Down.'' Nami then stared right into their eyes, ''Enies Lobby has no sympathy for criminals. They're sent directly to jail. It's a place that's judicial in name alone!! Am I right?!!''

Nami demanded, and seeing Paulie was just silently looking at her, Nami's eyes hardened as her hands curled up into fists while the other three had emotionless expressions, ''Robin is a wanted criminal!!! No matter where she's taken, only hell awaits her!! While we're wasting time here, she's getting closer and closer to the gate of Justice!! How can we possibly wait until morning?!!!''

As everyone was silent for a moment, ''If you're finished, let me remind you of something...'' Paulie calmly said, ''Even if the sea calms down long enough for you to sail away... You shouldn't go there! Don't forget that you're pirates yourselves!'' as he suddenly looked serious, Paulie went on, ''Enies Lobby is the front door to the center of the world government. There have to be very strong military forces defending it. No matter what kind of pirates you are... There is no way you can go and get your friends out of there successfully... Knowing what will definitely happen if you go... ''

Paulie seemed to be having a hard time controlling his anger and stepped forward and looked at their emotionless faces before he shouted at them, ''Do you still plan to wage war in the center of the world government??!!''

The rest of the shipwrights behind him also began to back him up, each saying similar things about Paulie being right,

Luffy's eyes shadowed as he stood in front of Paulie in silence for a moment. Nami, seeing him silently standing there, anxiously called his name at the same time one of the shipwrights was saying they would never make it.

''In that case...'' Luffy suddenly stepped forward, ''We'll take the ship by force!!! We're leaving now!!! Our friends are waiting for us!! Don't get in our way!!!''

At those words, a massive wave hit just close to them, a wave strong enough to sent the men near to the side to fly into the air. Luffy's eyes were looking angry with a deep frown as he looked ready to fight with any one of them.

As several others were on the ground and shaking with fear, ''Even the waves are angry!!'' Chimney cried out behind Kokoro, and for the first time, both Chimney and Gonbe looked scared. Kokoro gulped down her bottle as she merely watched them, almost looking serious.

''Fine.'' Paulie pulled his ropes out of his sleeves, looking annoyed as he was ready to fight, ''Then you'll have to get through me first.''

Shipwrights looked shocked as they called his name in worry as all of the straw hats looked ready to fight, each holding their weapons or getting into position to fight, but just then,

''Hold it there!!'' Kokoro yelled out as she stepped forward, and despite her dazed expression and red face, her eyes didn't seem drunk as they clearly stared at the straw hats, ''Paulie is right. You're not thinking straight, Straw Hats.''

''Shut up, Granny!!'' Luffy yelled at him with an annoyed expression, ''It's not like you know-...''

However, Kokoro's words cut him off, ''You think I don't know?'' her eyes shadowed with her hat, ''You should hear me out first. If we let you go like this, you'll just end up dead in a flash.'' She let out a short laugh before she firmly talked, ''Listen carefully, is there's anything that can survive this unprecedented Aqua Laguna, it's the Sea Train made by in the legend.''

''Yeah,'' Luffy angrily said as Kokoro turned her back, ''But we can't do anything about that! It's already left! We have to use a ship...''

''If you're determined to put your lives on the line for this...'' Kokoro looked at him over her shoulder, ''Then follow me. I'll start the sea train for you.'' before she turned around again and drank the whole bottle in one gulp.

xxx

The Sea Train, The Puffing Tom, passed over the tracks on the surface of the sea despite the harsh waves, moving towards its destination, Enies Lobby.

The sharp wind was still blowing, as the waves were smashing the sides of the train while the three straw hats were at the back of the train, huddled together on the little spot at the end of the train, just in front of the door.

''So, should I just burned down the train...?'' Luna asked, staring at the door with a slight frown on her face,

''If you burned down the train... What are we gonna do? Can you carry us all?'' Usopp asked as he was trying to get dry as Luna was unsheathed her sword just a little and giving off some heat for them since they were all drenched with cold, salty seawater.

''I don't mind Luna-cwan~~'' Sanji said with hearted eyes as he was stuck to Luna with the excuse to get dry, ''You can burn them all~~ Let's just take Robin-chan any we three can fly away~~~'' as he was imagining a soft ride between Luna and Robin on top of a sword, that would be clearly cramped. Sanji loved this idea.

''What about me?!'' Usopp hit him in annoyance, ''There is also Franky... We have to find him and ask what happened to Merry...''

''I can't believe you let him take care of Merry...'' Sanji said as he pulled out a cigarette. Usopp and Luna shortly informed Sanji as to what they were doing until now as well as their talk with Robin too,

''Well...'' Usopp made a weird face, not that they could clearly see due to his mask, ''I told you we somehow become friends... He is not that bad.''

''He is a cool cyborg,'' Luna said with a big smile, not showed as she still had her disguise, as she sparked a little flame for Sanji to lit his cigarette as his lighter didn't work.

''Cyborg... huh? It's still unbelieving, but I guess it's not impossible...'' Sanji murmured as he finally took a calming drag from his smoke,

''Maybe I can let a part of the train, and we can use it as a boat...'' Luna said with a thoughtful look,

''But we still don't have a log pose or eternal pose...'' Usopp also talked with a thoughtful look,

''We can follow the tracks...?'' Luna suggested as she glanced at the tacks from the railing around them,

''In this weather...?'' Usopp asked, sounding unsure, ''This could be the bad luck you jinxed us. We would be capsized or lost in the storm.''

''So...'' Sanji let out a cloud of smoke, ''Should we sneak in, or barge in?''

Just the moment Luna and Usopp were about to open their mouth to talk, the door in front of them suddenly opened, revealing a government official in a suit,

''Oh man,'' he held the hat he was wearing so that it wouldn't be blown away with the wind, ''There's a mean storm outside...!''

As soon as he talked, four of their eyes met each other and looked at each other in shocked silence, and in a matter of second,

''Collier,'' Sanji held up his right leg,

''Luna Super,'' Luna held up her right punch,

''Metallic,'' Usopp help up his slingshot,

As startled as they were, the poor man came at the wrong time,

''Shoot!'' Sanji's powerful kick landed on the man's neck, snapping it,

''Puch!'' Luna's sea stone supported punch landed on his ribs, breaking them,

''Star!'' Usopp's lead ball bearing shot right into his forehead, cracking it,

The man flew all the way through the last, seventh, wagon of the train and fell after he hit the wall, bleeding dangerously as he seemed like he was at the brick of dead,

Everyone in the wagon got up, startled before they looked towards the door, ''Who are you, assholes!!!'' one of them shouted out as he pointed out a pistol at the three of them, causing everyone to also do the same as all of them pulled out their weapons,

Luna looked at the crowded wagon that had contained at least thirty or more men, ''Guess we happen to be barged in!''

''Well... done is done,'' Sanji shrugged as he puffed a smoke,

''Nooo!!!'' Usopp seemed to be this wasn't his choice, ''We are so done now!!!'' as he held his head in fear as if he just didn't do anything.

As the fight was about to broke in the seventh wagon, Franky was struggling to et free at the sixth wagon as he began to hear the yellings.

x

At the first wagon of the train were two people were sitting,

Robin looked out of the window in silence as her eyes seemed to be they were looking far away. She briefly saw the happy moments while she was with the people she trusted and cared about more than her own life as her heart ached at remembering the moment she turned her back to them. It was already too late.

''Seems like we will have an interesting time while we are here.'' Knight suddenly spoke as she was sitting a little far away from Robin while facing with her, calmy drink some tea in a white porcelain cup.

Robin's emotionless, yet, cold eyes turned to her as Knight's amber-colored eyes also turned to her, ''You do know that, the deal you have, made between you and the Cipher Pol 9, not me, right?'' causing Robin to slightly frown. ''I have no interest in the weapons, you or the rest of that pirate crew of yours... No matter what they promised you, I have nothing to bound me.''

Robin silently stared at her for a moment as she clearly understood what she was implying, ''Then why didn't you do anything at Water Seven and stop that night?''

''I do not want to kill Luna.'' Knight talked as she took a sip from her tea with a lingering small smile on her lips

Robin eyed at her warily, she could never be too careful, ''Do you want me to believe this?''

Knight stayed silent for a moment as if pondering on something. She even took the chance to sip her tea before she placed her teacup down its saucer, which she was holding with her other hand. A smile curled on her lips as she chuckled with a melodic sound, ''Oh, I don't. At least, not before I show her my own hell.''

xxx

At the inner garbage disposal area of Water Seven, Straw Hats were at the brick warehouse.

There was a large gray locomotive with a large shark's head on the front, and unlike the many wagons attached behind like the Puffing Tom, this had only one. The other Sea Train, Rocketman.

Rocketman was a Sea Train that couldn't control no matter what, and waiting in the darkness for years, yet, Iceburg prepared it for them way before. It has water and coal, and it was gathering steam now as it looked ready to leave any moment now.

The Rocketman wasn't the only one ready to go. Luffy and Zoro ate and drank the meats and sakes Nami brought as she also stored some chocolate and whiskey as she guessed that they could be needed for later. Just they were about to get on the train, the doors burst open all the way, and Franky Family came bursting through, looking soaked from all the rain,

''Straw Hat!!'' Zambai shouted out as he in front of all of the others as they were all looking beaten up pretty bad.

''These guys...'' with a mouth full of meat, Luffy gazed at them with narrowed eyes,

''The Franky Family?!'' Nami gasped as she thought that it wasn't a good time to deal with them,

And as if speaking Nami's thought aloud, ''At a time like this...?'' Zoro talked with an aggravated look on his face,

However, the Franky Family were not just looking beaten up, but they were looking scared and desperate, like they were close to broke into crying at any moment, and then unexpected to anyone there, ''Please!! Take us with you!!!'' Zambai suddenly pleaded with tears flowing down from his eyes, ''We heard from the guys at Galley-La that bro's going to Enies Lobby!! He is being escorted by the government!! We want to go after them, but... We can't get past Aqua Laguna!!''

''You would be going against the world government though...'' Kokoto casually informed him from the window of the train

''We don't care who it is!!!'' Zambai shouted out as he stepped forward

''We're getting our bro back!!'' Another member cried out as he also stepped in

''We'd throw our lives away for our bro!!'' Kiwi shouted, standing beside her sister Mozu as she also pleaded along with her

Luffy didn't say anything as he listened to their pleaded, just looking at them blankly as Nami suddenly stepped in, ''You've gotta be joking!! Do you realize what you have done to us?!'' as she was still angry at them for what they had done to Usopp and stole their money.

Zambai shook like a leaf as he fell onto his knees, ''We're begging you!'' tears flowed down on his cheeks as he bowed down his head, ''We want to save bro!''

Luffy didn't say anything as he casually turned his back and went up the stairs without even looking back. Franky Family looked scared as all of the hope they had were fading off from them before Luffy suddenly turned towards them with a serious expression, ''Get on!!'' as he jerked his thumb to the wagon, ''Hurry!!''

Franky Family looked stunned for a moment before all of them broke into tears, ''Straw Hat!!'' As they all sobbed,

''Hey, Luffy!!!'' Nami barked at him with an angry face, but Luffy just laughed and said it's cool.

Zambai, getting over his crying, slammed his forehead on to the ground again, ''Thank you!!! We'll remember this!!'' After that, he suddenly got up, and fastly explained that they didn't have to get on as they would be just following them by using their King Bull. They just need to get it attached to the back of the train.

With a last heartily thank you later, Franky Family left with happy faces and fired up eyes now.

As the last preparations were ready and the steam was built to full, ''Nagagagaga!! Then, let's go!!'' Kokoro laughed from inside of the engine room, causing Luffy to beamed as he stretched out and jumped on top of the train, standing right onto the very front as the others were aboard.

As the train began to move, the wheels cracked, still covered with rust and moss from the years that it had been left down there, but still moved forwards. ''You pirates better no get thrown off!!!'' Kokoro's voice was heard just before she eagerly blew the whistle.

Luffy widely opened his arms and cheered from the front, ''Yeah!! Full speed!!'' he screamed out along with the whistle, punching the air as the train was picking up speed while the wind was blowing around wildly. ''We're gonna get everything back!!!''

(A/N: Hey guys, sorry for the waiting! I wanted to say that currently, the story is going under editing, and if you want to see the changes, you can reread them when they are ready and I have them updated, so if you got a notification and there is no new chapter, I probably updated. Hope you enjoyed the chapter and leave me reviews!)