Two Dreams, One Adventure

Wild Claims and a Hopeless Fight

"C'mon, give us a break for awhile, Luffy!" Usopp protested. Nami wondered if he honestly thought they could relax there. It wasn't leisurely anymore. To prove her point, a huge wave with sea monkeys came up behind them. Getting back to normal was not hard at all. They maneuvered the ship to ride the wave, and the sea monkeys ran away when Luffy showed up. "Hey, the animals are afraid of Luffy again."

They hadn't been in Upper Yard. It had been odd but also kind of nice, even if they attacked him. After things calmed down, no more monsters after them and the sea relatively calm, Nami went on the waver. After Luffy failed at it and needed to be rescued. He frowned on the railing as Nami used it perfectly.

After that, Usopp went through all of the dials. All of them worked but the cloud creating one. Robin was sitting and looking at the glass tube that now held the rock fragment. She was still amazed with it, but nobody touched it with their bare hands. Luffy sat next to her, wondering what would happen if he ate it. "I think it would be a very bad idea."

"Shishishi, me too! But maybe I'll try it one-"

"You will not!" Zoro said sternly, as if talking to a child. Luffy pulled his stretched out cheek away and promised he wouldn't.

"Hey, Luffy. What was that move you made when fighting Enel? Where you went super fast?" Nami wondered while Usopp was coming up with good uses for their stash of dials. Luffy remembered that time, and said he'd tried pumping his blood faster. It made him faster for a bit, but also took up a lot of energy. "It looked really promising."

He nodded. "I was thinking that, too," he agreed. "And other moves, too. But those are a secret for now! Shishishi..." Zoro smiled and sat next to him, pulling him into his lap and then falling asleep almost immediately. Even though Luffy kept talking, Zoro slept. Chopper came out of the infirmary and said he wanted to do a blood draw from Luffy. "Oh, ok. Why?"

"I want to draw directly from the new marks." Luffy let Chopper do it, even if he hated being poked and stabbed, and the reindeer hurried back inside.

Since they were out of blood bags, they would need to dock at an island with a hospital they could buy or steal blood from. Either was acceptable for them. They were pirates, after all. Nami sat over where most were gathered on the deck. Zoro was still asleep.

"So, we will now officially sort the money! Our treasure has to be worth a lot. Each one of us will get an equal amount. Don't look so shocked! We all deserve it after that. Being struck by lightning and burnt and stabbed and all."

"You went through the least pain, you know?" Usopp said sourly. "You weren't electrocuted!"

Luffy said, "Well, we all went through a lot there. It should be equal," he decided. Nami said they would divide it equally, but it wouldn't end up that much to spend actually. "Why?"

Sanji said, "The Merry is barely holding together. We need to have her repaired. In this shape, she won't last much longer." Usopp grew angry. "Which is why we need to pay for repairs," he said before he could get yelled at by an offended sniper. The others agreed. And they should get her lots of upgrades. "Maybe a remodeled kitchen," Sanji mused.

"We'll have to find shipwrights to do that, so we need to try and be gentle with her for now. We don't know when or where we can find someone that can repair her," Nami said calmly. Then they divided the treasure. They'd cash it in on an island for paper money. Luffy couldn't wait to get to another island. "Why?"

"I wanna go on a date with Zoro. We never got to ever go to a food place together. Cause a bunch of stuff happened at the Baratie." Nami said they went out at Louge Town. "Mostly shopping for Zoro's swords. We got some food and stuff, but I wanna go to dinner." Zoro was still sleeping, so he didn't hear any of this.