18. is a fusion of sorts: contains references to daemons which are part of Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Basically what you need to know is that daemons are physical manifestations of people's souls in the form of sentient animals and touching another person's daemon is an unimaginable breach of etiquette. Also, daemons are usually the opposite gender of their humans, but I have set both Luffy and Zoro's daemons to be male. 18. is a what-if the straw hats ended up in an island where your daemon manifests.

19. is referring to a missing scene from Turning Point chapter 2, specifically when they find Zoro.

11. Life

You try again because you're not sure she heard you correctly the first time: "Your captain's victory or your own life, do you understand?" The pirate only settles back in her chair, her smile sharp and bright as ice. "Of course, of course," She purrs, "Let's move on to your end of the deal."

12. Contempt

The first time Luffy almost drowned, he didn't get a chance to brace himself before he hit the water. The winter sea was unforgiving, utterly freezing,and he would have choked out in instinctive shock if it weren't for the way his entire body went slack and heavy, the price of his new devil fruit power. Shank's crew used to mutter cursed and doomed and despised by the Sea itself in worried undertones when they thought he wasn't listening, and as Luffy sank into darkness, helpless and hopeless, he wondered if this was what it felt like to be hated.

13. Wrong

Being an impulsive liar himself, Usopp doesn't claim to have the sharpest moral compass around – though he's certainly at an advantage when compared to a pathological thief, a deadly assassin, or an undead skeleton who asks to be shown panties. Even so, he doesn't pretend this is self-righteous honor or compassion, doesn't pretend it to be anything besides primitive instinct, namely self-preservation. Usopp lungs towards his hungry captain, screeching, "Not Sanji's cigarettes!"

14. Sweeten

Unlike his captain who can inhale poison and still ask for seconds, Sanji's other crew mates have particular tastes. That isn't to say they're picky – because, really, with cooking like Sanji's who can be? – but they have their own preferences (except for the moss head who has idiocy) and Sanji doesn't mind catering to such when he can. Chopper's chili shrimps are sweeter, Brook's spicier, Usopp's a tad more savory but all of them tell Sanji with a grin that it's perfect, never realizing they don't mean the same thing.

15. Hands

His crew mates have hands full of scars and cuts and burns, some of them old whereas some of them new and as a doctor, Chopper doesn't need to know beyond the technicalities of what and when, but as a friend, Chopper wonders who and why. One answer comes from an unexpected source when Usopp catches Chopper frowning at Nami's scar, the mark of a blade impaling her left hand. The sniper sits Chopper down to begin a grand tale about a beautiful girl who wielded lies as a sword and trickery as her shield, a girl whose bravery shone brighter than all the gold in the world.

16. Strangle

Sanji's hands are the second most important thing to him (first is obviously making sure his ladies are always happy and safe) because if he cannot cook the best dish with the best ingredients after finding All Blue, there is no real point is there? In this sense, it is a relief that the idiot is half comatose when they find him after Bartholomew Kuma disappears. If seaweed head had been awake, Sanji might have broken his own hands trying to strangle him.

17. Lullaby

"Don't be such a crybaby," Ace snarls as he pushes Luffy under his covers. "Or I'm not going to let you sleep on my side tonight." The warning has Luffy sucking in his breath but his sniffling doesn't stop until Ace has settled beside him, shoulder blades brushing against his own. He falls asleep listening to Ace's breathing, and Luffy will never know that his older brother does the same.

18. Untouchable

"HEY ZORO! THERE YOU ARE!" came the shout just as Igor finished explaining to the newcomer about the island's standard etiquette regarding daemons – probably unnecessarily, Igor admitted to himself, considering how the swordsman instinctively knew to sidestep Devona when they first met. Igor looked up in time to see a monkey leap off the shoulders of a boy in a straw hat; while the swordsman's only response was to grin, the swordsman's daemon picked himself up to meet the two halfway. Devona chuckled at Igor's surprise when the boy's daemon leaped on top of the tiger to chatter an excited hello but even she froze in utter shock when the monkey daemon proceeded to jump straight off the tiger daemon's back and land onto the swordsman's face.

(They both miss the tiger daemon looping around the straw hat pirate in silent greeting, and so they never see the daemon brush his shoulder against the pirate in lieu of a hello.)

19. Whispered

"'Bout time," was all Zoro murmured with a weak smirk when they finally found him, huddled in the corner of an unlocked cell in the marine base. Both Sanji and Chopper saw the unspeakable pain that had been inflicted on their swordsman, heard the unwavering belief that his crew mates would come for him and they realized-not for the first time-the depths into which they would plunge if that was what it took to live up to that faith. Chopper quickly dismisses the thought in favor of rushing to Zoro with his medical supplies but Sanji, muttering that he'll call for Luffy, slips out of the cell with darkness in his eyes.

20. Prayers

Luffy remembers every heart-stopping, breath-taking moment of the day his crew was separated by Kuma's devil-fruit ability. He remembers that before Akainu, there was Kuma; that before Kuma, there had been Kizaru; and that at Kizaru's feet, there had been Zoro, injured, exhausted and as good as dead. His swordsman was saved by the whims of a passerby but Luffy knows better than to consider that a prayer answered: it is a debt owed, a warning that Luffy must be stronger.