Gohan

[Sudden Quest Completed: Assist In Defeating Bounty Hunters. Reward: New Passive Ability Gained: Saiyan Fortitude: You Gain Increased Resistance To Drugs, Poison and Other Harmful Substances]

Gohan glanced at the window before closing it when he sensed two new people land on the island and based on the way their energy felt it meant they were devil fruit users. “What is it?” Zoro asked, glancing at him.

“…two devil fruit users have landed on the island.” Gohan answered glancing towards where it sounded like people were screaming.

“Looks like the night isn’t over.” Zoro muttered, holding his hand out to help Gohan stand.

“Thanks.” Gohan said, accepting the hand and standing up, “Let’s grab the others and leave.” he added, shaking his head trying to clear the fog clouding his mind. Especially since it seemed that the drugs were affecting his sensing abilities, he could sense when the two devil fruit users arrived, but now he couldn’t.

“Good idea, the Log Pose should be ready now.” Zoro replied, “Are you sure you’re, ok?” he asked as Gohan grabbed a barrel to steady himself.

“…Yeah, I will be.” Gohan answered, taking a few deep breaths, feeling the effects of Saiyan Fortitude working. “I’ll recover more on Merry.” He said, nodding at Zoro and standing up straight.

“Alright...” Zoro nodded, after looking at him for a few seconds.

They had only taken a few steps when someone spoked from behind them, “This is a pathetic sight.” A male voice said, “Over one hundred bounty hunters lost to two people.”

Gohan and Zoro quickly spun around hands going to their weapons as they saw two people standing behind them one was a tall black man with short, spikey dreadlocks, wearing sunglasses and a brown trench coat, with the number ‘5’ written in white on his coat. Next to him was a young slim woman, with short blond hair, bright green eyes, wearing a yellow dress covered in lemon patterns, she had on lemon shaped earrings, and was holding a green parasol with black stripes.

“Mr. Five! Miss Valentine!” Mr. Eight exclaimed, turning around to look at the two new people.

“You guys bring shame to the organization.” Mr. Five replied, looking at his injured comrades with a look of indifference.

“Kyahaha!” Miss Valentine laughed covering her mouth with the back of her hand, “Don’t be so mean to them, you can’t expect them to be as good as us.”

“A-Are you here just to mock us!?” Mr. Eight asked, as he sat up.

“No, not just for that.” Mr. Five answered, with a smirk, “We’re here on business.”

“That’s great, with you two here these two wont stand a chance.” Mr. Nine said as he and Miss Wednesday slowly sat up.

Hearing that Gohan and Zoro shift their stances ready to defend themselves, but Mr. Five surprised them by laughing at Mr. Nine, “That’s a good joke. We’re not your back up.” He replied, shaking his head.

“T-then what are you here for?” Mr. Nine asked.

“We here because we got direct orders from the Boss, to eliminate someone who’s been digging into the boss’ real identity. Which we all know is grounds for execution.” Mr. Five answered.

“Our investigation, has led us to discover that an agent from a certain kingdom has infiltrated Baroque Works.” Miss Valentine said.

“W-Wait I’m not a real King!” Mr. Nine shouted, standing up in fear holding his hands in front of him, as he shook his head.

“Zoro let’s get out of here while they’re distracted.” Gohan whispered to him, “You grab Luffy, while I wake the others, and head towards Merry. I won’t be of much use right now. I’m still feeling the effects of the drugs.”

“Alright.” Zoro replied with a nod. “See you back at Merry.” He added as they quietly split away, as the group continued arguing among themselves.

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Nami (During Zoro’s Fight)

Nami opened her eyes when she heard everyone rush out of the building they were partying in; she glanced around, seeing that the entire crew was asleep, including Gohan. Which was surprising, especially based on how he was slumped at the table, she tried to shake him awake but he wouldn’t budge. “Damn, it! They must have drugged him.” She muttered, glancing up when she heard fighting start outside. That’s when she noticed Zoro wasn’t in the room, “…That must be Zoro fighting everyone.”

Nami looked around the room again, noticing it was completely empty besides the sleeping crew, the sounds of fighting started growing in intensity outside, so she made her way towards the window to see Zoro effortlessly cutting through everyone. Nami glanced back at Gohan before coming to a decision she made her way towards him, stepping around Luffy who was passed out on the ground, she glanced at the other crew members thinking to herself they should be ok.

Nami grabbed a blanket, placed it on the ground and then pushed Gohan on it, “Oops…Sorry!” Nami exclaimed as Gohan landed with a thud, then she struggled to drag him to a hidden nook in the room to hide him just in case anyone came into the room, “I’ll be right back.” She whispered, kissing his cheek before sneaking out of the back window.

Nami peaked around a corner to see Zoro was still cutting his way through the bounty hunters, “Go, Zoro.” She muttered with a smile, “…Now where would they hide their treasure?” she whispered glancing around before picking a direction sticking to the shadows of the buildings as she snuck her way towards where she suspected their treasure was hidden.

Nami found a store house that had two bounty hunters standing in front of it, “D-do you think we should go see what’s happening over there?” one of them asked.

“No! Mr. Eight put us in charge of protecting the store house and that’s what we’re going to do.” the other one replied. “Whatever is happening over there, they can handle it. We have over one hundred people on the island, they can handle six pirates.”

Nami smiled a plan forming in her mind, when she saw an alley behind the two men, she went back the way she came, picked up a few pebbles from the ground and made her way through to narrow opening she saw earlier and ended up behind them. Then she tossed one of the pebbles she picked up earlier. “W-what was that!?” they both uttered, their hands going to their swords.

Nami threw another pebble on the opposite side of where she threw the first one making the men jump and look at the side, “W-what’s going on!?” the asked looking around as Nami threw a few more pebbles around making the men move forward away from the door. “Who’s there!?” they asked drawing their swords.

Once they moved away from the door, Nami left her hiding place, pulled out her staff and swung it with everything she had using what Gohan had taught her to knock them both out in one swing. “Yes.” She smiled at herself doing a fist pump, she pulled out some rope to tie them both up while taking any money they had on them.

Nami entered the building and found a decent-looking safe that wouldn’t be a problem for her to open, she quickly got to work on opening it and took everything inside, which wasn’t that much but she wasn’t going to complain. After clearing the safe out, she made her way back to the main building where everyone was sleeping, she didn’t hear any fighting which meant that Zoro probably defeated everyone already.

As she got closer, she heard something that made her grin, “… you’ll be greatly rewarded if help!” the mayor exclaimed

“Great Reward? Sounds Perfect!” Nami said stepping out from the shadows, to see the mayor injured on the ground holding onto a still sleeping Luffy’s leg who was being dragged by Zoro.

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Gohan

Gohan felt Saiyan Fortitude working as he was quickly feeling better, but he could tell he was still not one hundred percent, since one second he could sense a fight outside but the next he couldn’t. He shook his head as he entered the building, they had the party in to find Sanji and Usopp still passed out, “Come on guys wake up we need to leave now!” Gohan said shaking Sanji, before pausing to sit back and look around the room again, “…Wait where’s Nami?” he muttered, seeing that only Sanji and Usopp were in the building.

“Nami’s Missing!?” Sanji shouted waking up suddenly, startling Gohan, “Agh!” he cried out as Gohan punched him sending him flying into Usopp.

“Ah! What the Hell!” Usopp exclaimed waking up from Sanji crashing into him.

“Shit! Sorry!” Gohan exclaimed, “Are you guys, ok?” he asked rushing over to them.

“…Forget that! You said Nami is Missing!?” Sanji asked, standing back up to look around the room. “Where is she Gohan!?” he asked turning to look at him.

“Give me a second.” Gohan said closing his eyes to concentrate on finding her energy, he shook his head trying to concentrate on finding her, “…she’s with Zoro and Luffy.” he replied opening his eyes, after finally finding Luffy’s familiar energy.

“Really what’s she doing with them?” Usopp asked, “and where did everyone go?”

“Long story short this island is a trap, for pirates, entering the Grand Line. It’s filled with Bounty Hunters, they drug unsuspecting pirates to kill them, steal their treasure, supplies and collect any bounties. Zoro managed to stay awake, and he defeated them all but now it’s time for us to leave.” Gohan summarized.

“WHAT!?” Sanji and Usopp exclaimed.

“Yeah, now let’s get going, the Log Pose should be set, and Zoro is going to meet us at Merry with Luffy and Nami.” Gohan said, already walking towards the exit.

“Ok, let’s go!” Sanji and Usopp said following him.

“…you guys go ahead.” Gohan said stopping suddenly to look back.

“Why? What’s wrong?” Usopp and Sanji asked.

“Zoro, Luffy and Nami stopped moving and now there’s someone else near them.” Gohan replied.

“Is Nami in danger!?” Sanji asked.

“No.” Gohan answered quickly, “The fourth person isn’t strong enough to be a danger to Nami especially with Luffy and Zoro with her. I’m going to see what’s going on, while you guys get Merry ready to sail.” He added glancing at them.

“Ok, you got it Gohan.” Usopp said, nodding at him before leaving. Sanji just nodded at him and followed Usopp.

Gohan made his way to where he had felt Zoro, Luffy, Nami and the fourth person, “…I need to hurry back to my kingdom to stop the revolutionaries and tell them about Baroque Works, to stop the civil war.” He heard a woman say as he turned the corner.

“What’s going on guys?” Gohan asked, seeing Zoro resting against a wooden crate, Nami was leaning against a wall and Luffy was sitting on a wooden barrel they were talking with Miss Wednesday.

“Hey, Gohan!” Luffy grinned at him, Zoro nodded at him.

“What’s going on?” Gohan asked again, eyeing Miss Wednesday, who glanced at him as her hand unconsciously rubbed the spot where he chopped her earlier.

“Gohan this is Princess Vivi, from the Alabasta Kingdom.” Nami said, gesturing towards Miss Wednesday, “She’s telling us about a Civil War happening in her kingdom.” She explained.

“…ok, I feel like I missed an important conversation.” Gohan replied, before spinning around hand going to his Power Pole when he felt someone approaching. Gohan was left speechless by what he saw. It was Mr. Eight, but he was dressed in the exact same clothes Vivi was wearing for some reason. “W-what!?”

“Igaram!” Vivi shouted happily, rushing to hug him.

“Princess Vivi.” Igaram replied, smiling at her, as he returned the hug.

“Cool outfit.” Luffy replied laughing.

“Have you decided yet?” Igaram asked looking at Nami.

“Decided what?” Gohan asked.

“He wants us to take her home.” Zoro said pointing at Vivi.

“That’s fine with me.” Luffy replied, shrugging his shoulders.

“Hey! Wait we need to discuss our payment first!” Nami shouted.

 “Thank you, very much!” Igaram replied bowing to Luffy.

“Sure.” Luffy replied.

“Hey, we’re not doing anything without talking payment!” Nami exclaimed.

“Princess, Please give me the Eternal Pose to Alabasta.” Igaram said, ignoring Nami’s outburst holding out his hand out.

“Eternal Pose? What’s that?” Nami asked, her thoughts of payment momentarily forgotten, at the unfamiliar term. 

“Oh! I forgot you’re all new to the Grand Line. An Eternal Pose is a special Pose that will always point to the Island it was made for, no matter what or where you are.” Igaram explained. “I should leave now. I’ll act as a decoy, to attract Baroque Works, while you guys take the normal route. There should be only two or three islands you will need to land on before you reach Alabasta. Take care Princess and may we meet in our homeland.” He added, hugging Vivi again before making his way to a boat and sailing away.

“Is the Log Pose set?” Gohan asked, as they watched the boat sailing away.

“Yeah, it’s ready.” Nami nodded, glancing at it.

“Good. I told Sanji and Usopp to prepare Merry for sail.” Gohan said, as they turned around.

“Sounds….”

BOOM!!!

They all spun around to see the horizon now on fire following the explosion, as pieces of the boat Igaram was sailing came raining down on them as smoke quickly filled the air drifting back towards them.

“W-what!?” they exclaimed.

“IGRARAM!!” Vivi shouted, her eyes going wide in shock.

“W-What!? We’re already being pursed!?” Nami replied, looking at the sea on fire.

“We need to go now!” Gohan shouted, the others reacted quickly but he saw that Vivi was frozen in place, “Sorry, but we need to...” He started to say but stopped seeing her biting her lip hard enough to draw blood, “Sorry.” He added before picking her up, “Hold on guys!” he added picking Nami up and waiting for Luffy and Zoro to grab on to him as he quickly flew towards Merry.

Sanji and Usopp had questions when he landed on Merry like what that explosion was, why was there a large duck with a saddle waiting on Merry, but Gohan told them they needed to leave now, and to leave the questions for later. Sanji and Usopp got to work quickly, seeing how serious Gohan looked. They let Vivi have her moment to mourn Igaram with the duck they learned was named Carue, she was hugging Carue, kneeling in a corner out of their way as they moved about Merry trying to put as much distance between them and whoever blew up Igaram’s ship.

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“What can you tell us about Baroque Works?” Nami asked, Vivi who seemed to be doing slightly better, “How many people do you think they’ll send after us?”

“…I don’t know much, they say there are about two thousand members, and there are also plenty of trap towns like Whiskey Peak, nearby.” Vivi answered. “It depends on how many people the boss decides to send after us.”

“So, you’re saying we could have over a thousand people after us?” Usopp exclaimed shocked.

“I don’t know but it’s possible since knowing Crocodile’s real identity is a serious crime.” Vivi replied.

“W-What!?” Gohan replied, quickly looking at Vivi.

“S-sorry it just slipped out!?” Vivi said, covering her mouth with her hands.

“You know who that is Gohan?” Nami asked.

“…yeah, I came across the name while I was looking for books to buy before we left Loguetown” Gohan replied slowly. “If I remember correctly, Crocodile is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.”

“W-What!?” Nami, Usopp, and Sanji shouted.

“We have to face a Warlord of the Sea!?” Usopp cried out.

“Wow, we’re really lucky we get to meet him so early.” Luffy said, smiling with no care in the world.

“Hopefully he’s strong.” Zoro said, nodding his head with a grin.

“Can’t you guys act more worried!” Nami shouted.

“It’s fine Nami, I’ll make sure we’re ready.” Gohan replied.

“…Fine.” Nami sighed, shaking her head, “Ease the sails, we can’t see much because of the fog. I don’t want to run into anything.”

“She’s right because of the morning fog it’s hard to see the rocks that are closer to the shore.” A women said.

“You heard Vivi, adjust accordingly.” Nami replied.

“What!?” Vivi said looking at Nami, “I didn’t say anything.” She added, before she and everyone else suddenly turned around to look at whoever just spoke.

It was a beautiful, tanned women, with dark hair, clear blue eyes, she was sitting on the railing leading to the kitchen area. The woman was wearing a purple corset that was held together by strings tied in front, that partially exposed her cleavage, she had on a matching purple skirt that had white tassels on the bottom, with purple boots, and a matching purple cowgirl hat.

“M-Miss All-Sunday!” Vivi exclaimed, her eyes going wide in shock.

“Ms. Wednesday, I feel like I should tell you that I had a pleasant run in with Mr. Eight a little while ago.” Miss All Sunday replied calmly, resting her head against her hand, to look down at them.

“A-Are you saying you’re the one who blew up Igaram’s ship!?” Vivi exclaimed.

“Hey! What are you doing on our ship!?” Luffy shouted.

“Who is she?” Nami asked.

“She’s Mr. 0’s partner.” Vivi answered, “I recently figured out she let Igaram and me follow her to find out the Boss’ real identity.”

“So, she’s a good guy?” Luffy asked, tilting his head to look at Vivi.

“What are you planning!?” Vivi shouted. “I bet you’re the one who told him that his identity was leaked.”

Miss All-Sunday just chuckled, “I let you follow me because you looked so desperate and because I found it amusing. A Princess trying to save her country by going undercover in a criminal organization. That’s the stuff stories are made of.”

“D-don’t you underestimate me!” Vivi growled, reaching for her Peacock Slashers.

Seeing Vivi, draw her weapon the others did the same, Nami pulled out her staff, Zoro partially drew his katana, Gohan had placed his hand on the Power Pole. “Do you know what’s going on?” Usopp asked, standing next to Miss All-Sunday his slingshot drawn and aimed at her head.

“No, but I do know she’s a danger to Miss Wednesday.” Sanji said, surprisingly holding a pistol to Miss All-Sunday’s head.

“Please don’t point such dangerous weapons at me.” Miss All-Sunday sighed, closing her eyes.

“W-what!?” Everyone shouted as Sanji and Usopp were disarmed and thrown over the ledge onto the deck, alongside Vivi, Nami and Zoro all their weapon’s landing in front of them.

“Ah!” Miss All-Sunday gasped her eyes snapping open to look at Gohan who drew his Power Pole. She tilted her head to look at his weapon while she rubbed her hand, “I see…Sea Stone.”

“…Yeah, which means you can’t disarm me and that whatever Devil Fruit you just used is useless against me.” Gohan replied, shifting his stance slightly ready to act.

“Whoa! She’s beautiful!” Sanji exclaimed his eyes wide as he got a good look at Miss All-Sunday, who didn’t take her eyes off Gohan.

“Do you know what type of Devil Fruit she has?” Zoro asked, not taking his eyes off her.

“I don’t know exactly but I could have sworn I saw several hands sprout out to knock your weapons out of your hands.” Gohan answered.

“Oh! You saw that?” Miss All-Sunday replied, “Interesting.” She added, slowly waving her hand when Gohan nodded.

“W-what!” Luffy and the others shouted as a hand appeared on Luffy’s shoulder, grabbing his hat and tossing it towards Miss All-Sunday who caught it.

“Hey! Give me back my Hat!” Luffy shouted, “Are you trying to pick a fight with us!”

“I’m sorry but you’ve overstayed your welcome, I’m going to have to ask you to leave our ship.” Gohan said, staring at her, internally confused since he didn’t sense any hostile intent from her.

“Don’t worry, I’m not here to fight. I don’t have orders to.” Miss All-Sunday responded, as she placed Luffy’s hat on top of her own hat.

“Then why are you here?” Gohan asked, not relaxing a bit.

“…It’s unfortunate that such small-time pirates must look after a princess being targeted by the entirety of the Baroque Works organization and that same princess must put her life in the hands of a handful of pirates. But the most unfortunate thing is the island where your Log Pose is currently pointing towards. Little Garden. You will more than likely never reach Alabasta, so I won’t even have to lay a finger on you.” Miss All-Sunday replied not answering Gohan’s question.

“What do you mean?” Gohan asked. “What’s on Little Garden that makes you so sure we won’t survive?”

“Yeah, there’s no way we’d roll over and die!” Luffy shouted, “And give me back my hat!”

“…here.” Miss All-Sunday sighed, tossing Luffy’s hat back and tossing something else to Vivi.

“An Eternal Pose!?” Vivi muttered, catching it.

“That will lead you to the uninhabited ‘Vacant Islands’ that are located just before Alabasta. You won’t have to worry about Baroque Works either if you take that path.” Miss All-Sunday explained.

“Does this mean she a good person?” Nami asked, glancing at the Eternal Pose in Vivi’s hands.

“It’s probably a trap.” Zoro replied.

“…I wonder.” Miss All-Sunday answered with a smile.

Luffy placed his hat back on his head before glancing at the Eternal Pose in Vivi’s hands, “You don’t get to decide the path of our journey!” he exclaimed reaching out to take the Eternal Pose from Vivi who was looking at it conflicted. Luffy then proceeded to crush it in his hands, shocking almost everyone.

“…You idiot!” Nami shouted, kicking Luffy in the head knocking him to the ground, “Why did you do that!?”

“She blew up that Chikuwa guy, so I don’t like her!” Luffy replied, frowning up at her.

“Hmm…if you survive Little Garden let’s meet again.” Miss All-Sunday said standing up.

“I don’t want to.” Luffy replied, with a pout.

“Can you tell us anything about Little Garden?” Gohan asked, seeing that Miss All-Sunday wasn’t going to do anything.

“Oh!?” Miss All-Sunday uttered, glancing back at Gohan. “Why do you want to know?” she asked, glancing back at Gohan.

“You seem to know something about it, based on the fact you don’t expect us to make it off the island alive.” Gohan answered.

“Why, do you want to know?” Miss All-Sunday asked.

“I want to be a scholar. I believe that knowledge is power.” Gohan answered, “If there’s something on that island that I need to prepare the crew for I would like to know. Please.”

“Oh!?” Miss All-Sunday said, freezing for a fraction of a second hearing the word scholar before composing herself to turn around and get a good look at him, “A scholar, you say? That’s interesting. Fine, I’ll give you a hint.”

“No!” Luffy exclaimed, stomping his foot on the deck, “I don’t want to hear anything it will ruin the adventure.”

“Luffy, we’ve been over this, as a captain you need to do your best to prepare yourself and your crew for anything you may face, especially now that we’re in the Grand Line. We’ve already seen how unpredictable it is here. We need information, if we want to survive.” Gohan tried to explain.

“No, I don’t like her.” Luffy said, crossing his arms and shaking his head.

“…fine.” Gohan sighed, shaking his head knowing that when Luffy got like this it was almost impossible to change his mind. “Sorry, to bother you.”

“…your name is Gohan correct?” Miss All-Sunday asked.

“…yes.” Gohan answered, “Why do you ask?”

“Why do you want to be a scholar?” Miss All-Sunday asked, her blue eyes looking at him with an intensity he couldn’t place.

“…It’s what I wanted to be when I was a kid before…circumstances forced me down a different path. But I’ve recently gained a new chance to purse my dream and I’m going to chase it no matter what.” Gohan answered after thinking it wouldn’t hurt to tell her.

“Hmm…interesting.” Miss All-Sunday hummed before smiling at Gohan and, jumping onto the top of a giant turtle that was floating next to Merry.

“Whoa! What a huge turtle!” Luffy replied watching the turtle swim away with Miss All-Sunday.

“…I have no idea what that woman is planning!” Vivi replied falling to her knees.

“There’s no point in wasting time thinking about it.” Nami sighed, shaking her head.

“A-are you sure it’s fine for me to be on your ship?” Vivi asked looking up at them, “I’ll be putting you guys in danger.”

“It’s too late to worry about that now. They already know you’re with us. Plus, we’re pirates so we’re already in danger.” Gohan replied giving her a small smile, “Sanji will you please cook us a good breakfast.”

“Yeah.” Sanji sighed lighting his cigarette before heading towards the kitchen.

“Thank you.” Gohan nodded, at Sanji. “Ok, guys listen up, since we have no idea what we’re going to face on Little Garden and based on how Miss All-Sunday was talking about it, it will be dangerous so we should be prepared for anything. That means starting tomorrow I’m going step up your training, to prepare us for whatever is waiting for us and whatever we may face.” He said looking at the crew, who all groaned.

“…what an interesting man.” Miss All-Sunday muttered as the ear she left behind vanished when Merry disappeared into the horizon. “From one pursuer of knowledge to another I wish you luck Gohan. I hope we meet again. There’s too few of us out on these seas.”

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Vivi

“Alright Vivi, since this time you’re riding with us as a guest and not a prisoner you can take one of these beds for yourself.” Nami said gesturing towards the four beds that were in the women’s quarters.

“Thank you, Nami.” Vivi smiled, “Wait! You don’t sleep here?” Vivi asked, noticing Nami picking out a bed as well.

“No, I don’t. I normally sleep in the Captain’s Quarters, with Gohan.” Nami answered. “But since you’re going to be traveling with us for a while I don’t want to leave you to sleep here alone.”

“W-what!?” Vivi exclaimed, her face turning red.

“Yeah, Gohan is my boyfriend.” Nami replied smiling brightly. “If you need privacy to change clothes, you can use this accordion wall.” She added pulling the wall slightly to show Vivi.

“…right.” Vivi nodded her face still red, before glancing down at her clothes, “I don’t have any spare clothes.”

“Oh!” Nami exclaimed before looking Vivi up and down while walking around her. “Hmm…we seem to be similar in size. You can borrow some of my clothes until we can get you some more.”

“R-really!” Vivi said.

“Yeah, but if you really need new clothes, you could ask Gohan to make you some.” Nami replied, showing Vivi some clothes.

“Gohan can make clothes!?” Vivi asked surprised.

“Yeah, do you remember him creating shovels when we left Reverse Mountain?” Nami asked.

“I thought I was seeing things.” Vivi said.

“No, he can create things out of thin air including clothes.” Nami replied, shaking her head with a smile.

“That’s amazing!” Vivi replied, surprised.

“Yeah, I should warn you, although he can create certain objects and men clothes just fine, he’s still working on creating decent clothes for women.” Nami explained.

“…well, that’s not too bad.” Vivi shrugged, “…thanks for this Nami.” She added with a smile.

“No problem.” Nami smiled back, “Now let’s go up and eat Sanji should be done with breakfast by now and I’ll need my strength for training.”

They headed upstairs after changing clothes to find the crew were all eating breakfast, Sanji was busy in the kitchen humming to himself, “Here you ladies go!” he said, smiling as they entered the kitchen, he brought them food while kicking Luffy’s hands away from the plates.

Vivi sat with Nami, where she took the time to watch the crew that were going to take her home. Gohan and Zoro were sitting next to each other talking about something, Gohan had a large pile of food in front of him. Vivi found herself laughing despite herself as she watched Usopp fighting a losing battle to keep his food away from Luffy, she did notice that Luffy tried to steal food from the other members of the crew and even Carue but not from Gohan.

After they had all eaten, Gohan stood up, “Ok, guys. Now that we’ve eaten, we’re going to do our basic training for today and then tomorrow we’re going to step things up. Let’s go!” he added walking outside as the crew followed him a few of them muttering.

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Vivi watched as Gohan led the crew through some stretching exercises, then he had them do a few basic exercises like, running laps around the deck of the ship, jumping jacks, push-ups, sit-ups, squats and more. Then they moved on to induvial training, she watched in awe as Gohan created individual training instruments for each member of the crew so they could practice on their own.

Usopp practiced his sharp shooting on moving targets, Nami practiced with her staff following instructions from a book, Sanji practiced his kicks on a dummy that had different targets at different heights and angles, Zoro practiced with his katanas on a training dummy, and Luffy was currently sparring with Gohan. After a set amount of time Gohan had Luffy spar with Zoro and Sanji while Gohan walked towards Usopp and Nami and began to teach them some Martial Arts that she didn’t recognize.

Watching the crew train like that gave Vivi a flicker of hope that maybe her quest to save her kingdom would succeed.

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(AN: Here we go the last chapter for the year, I’m honestly glad I was able to get it out before the year ended, I hope you like it. My original plan was to have Gohan fight Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine with Zoro, and maybe have Miss Valentine join the crew or develop a crush on Gohan but I decided to let things happen like they did in canon. With Gohan away waking the others up while Zoro went to get Luffy. This way the others can have their moment while not letting Gohan take the spotlight away from them.

I do plan on having Gohan play a more active role in the Little Garden Arc, especially since they have dinosaurs there, something Gohan hasn’t seen since his original world. Thank you for reading and if you spot any mistakes, please let me know. Until next time, have a Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.)