Japanese Talking: "Moshi moshi!"

German Talking: "Moshi moshi!"

English Talking: "Moshi moshi!"

# Entry 5 – 12/21/2012

Dear Notepad, it is currently in the middle of the night, I'm probably drunk. After Rayray and me spoke in English, cause hell that man can speak English! Crazy stuff I know, you tell me. Sooo… after we spoke in English they offered me a place in their crew, I'm sorry for the scrawl my writing is right now, but I can't seem to focus all that well… too bad. Mah… what was I gonna write again? Oh! I know, pizza, I just love pizza! Huh…? That wasn't what I wanted to write let me read what I began with… ah! So I'm a Roger pirate now, you proud of me bum? Yeah I know, I feel proud too! So after all this stuff, whatever it was, was loaded onto the ship they decided to celebrate, I think my joining was only okay for them as a reason, as Rayray told me, don't tell him that I secretly call him that, that would be soooooo embarrassing!

However my dear little notepad, you look kind of cute tonight, so I thought I could… maybe.. ya know? Yo… me… the broom closet and a candle… Oh yes, we're going to have so much fun, but I have no means to protect, so I think we can't dear, plus, are you a girl? Hum, I don't know what gender you are, so we probably shouldn't do that… that the reason I'm currently only writing idiot glitch into you, eh? I love you dear little Notepad. I'll go get some more sake, it's tasting strangely good, one wouldn't think, hehe. So you wait in my bag again, kay? No running away with my pen, I know how he looks at you…!

Liza giggled to herself as she shut her notepad and put it back into her bag, suddenly an arm was flung around her and somebody talked with her in a strange gibberish-sounding something of words she couldn't understand, but she didn't really care right now. Her eyes caught the flask of sake and her hands were already reaching for it, as the hand held the flask away she pouted and tried again, only for the arm around her shoulders to slip down to her waist and pull her back onto her bum. Huffing she tried to get the bottle again. Something in her head told her to look at the rest of the hand and arm, so she did. Ah, so it was Shanks with her lovely alcohol at hand, literally. She smiled up at him and he suddenly ruffled her hair, she pouted.

"Shanksu~. Sake!" She tried to grab the bottle again and he laughed as he gave her the bottle, she happily took the last gulp before deciding to let herself fall back. She unknowingly pulled Shanks down with her and only registered the thud in the back of her mind, too occupied with the stars. The other red-head looked up and was surprised, he knew the stars and all, but it was incredible how bright they seemed at that moment, suddenly there was a hand in his field of view, he heard her say something as she stretched her fingers. It was as if she tried to reach the stars and he laughed, holding his own hand up, it really looked like they were only missing a little bit.

"Buggy! Come 'ere!" He shouted and the blue haired grumpy teen made his way over, watched the two idiot red-heads holding their hands up and then stared up into the starlight-sky.

"What do you want?"

"Lay down, we can nearly touch the stars!"

"I'm standing and I'm way closer to the stars than you idiots!"

"Buggy! Come lay down with us!" She smiled up at him and with a grumble he laid down, thought he hadn't understood her, it was kind of clear what she wanted. As he lay there and looked up a strange feeling of comradeship flushed him, he decided to ignore it and as he saw the two idiots waving their hands he suddenly felt left out, like he was the dumb one! His own hand was raised towards the sky, making the stars seem near and touchable, a smile slipped onto his face, replacing the usual frown. Suddenly he felt an elbow in his side and the smile slipped away. He turned to look to the side, only to see the stupid smiling face of the girl, Liza. Her eyes held happiness as she let out a bubbly giggle and he blushed lightly, pulling his hand down and feeling dumb. Before he could sit up he felt a hand pull on his sleeve, Liza took his hand and pulled it up to the sky again, drawing something until he saw the formation she probably meant… thought it was a bit more to the north than what she had painted.

The older ones of the crew smiled over the picture their three resident teens gave. Liza lay in the middle of the two boys, back to Buggy who had an arm leisurely wrapped around her while she faced Shanks, who in turn also had an arm over her. The long red locks were however tickling the blue-haired at his nose and thus making him pull his head back, which had pulled the shirt of the girl up a little. While one arm of Shanks was used as pillow she rest one of her own over the male red-heads side. It was kind of cute, the reason why Roger decided to take a photo and send it to Rogue, so she could also see how cute the little ships residents got along with each other. Well, they couldn't let them sleep all day, so he gave Rayleigh the task of waking them up, he had to write Rogue, because he finally knew what to write! Victory was finally his!

The blonde sighed as he watched his friend and captain walk to the door leading inside the ship before he took his sword and bumped each of the three onto the head with the sheath. The boys groaned, Liza let out a yelp and jumped up, glaring at him while holding her head. Well, she looked pretty tired, but the boys seemed off worse than her in the hangover department.

"We have no time to laze around, it is time for training."

"What?"

"We'll train now. Can you fight?"

"Not one bit." She deadpanned but saw the small nod of Rayleigh.

"You two, start with your chores to warm up." The boys groaned and held their heads but still went off to start.

"Do you want to learn? I can teach you how to fight with a sword, also Haki if you should be good enough with a weapon, if the sword isn't for you."

"I think I will try the sword… So…?"

"Warm up first, you could scrub the deck for that. It catches two flies with one stone."

"… you just want me to do chores…" She sighed but went on her way anyway after he pointed her to where she would find a bucket and mop.

# Entry 6 - 12/22/2012

Notepad… I'm sorry I wrote some crap into you yesterday, I'm sorry I accused you of betraying me with pen. I know you only love me, I trust you, so don't leave me. It's all my fault, I saw reason! You would too after fate decided, in the name of Rayray, let you scrub the WHOLE deck of this giant ship, twice! I was drunk, I will see that it won't happen in the future again, me wasting space inside of you, I mean. Ah Notepad… I'm sore, everything hurts. Training is fun, in a way. But then there is the fact that Rayray is a devil, I truly believe so! Shanks and Buggy seem to think the same, they had to clean up under deck. My poor fellow tortured, but I can't exactly tell them that I share their fate, because Rayray, that devil, is the only one who is able to even speak a language I understand. Why can't the idiots speak English too? Or German? Would make everything so much easier… ah but then again I think maybe they know what I feel, sometimes eyes say it all.

So, as you probably guessed, this is where I start with the training. Currently I have break from training for lunch, damn I'm hungry, but food isn't ready yet so I wait and write down what's on my mind. Shanks and Buggy are discussing something, whatever again… they seem to constantly be in dispute with each other. However, we both know they are actually friends, don't we?

Liza wolfed the soup down and seemed to devour the bread like she hadn't eaten in a few years. The boys stared at her, even more after she wanted seconds. The men smiled however and some woman pat her head, she just scrunched her nose. After lunch it was back to training, or torture as Liza liked to call it and she only had training for one half of the day. She didn't want to know how it had to be for Shanks and Buggy, but they seemed to be just great with how the training was going.

"Hey Rayleigh? Don't you think you could teach her our language? You can communicate with her, right?" Shanks asked and Rayleigh mustered her, she obviously had no idea what the other red-head was talking about.

"I don't see the trouble." He turned to Liza, "Liza, do you want to learn our language? I could teach you and it would surely make things easier."

"Really? That would be great! But when? You're training all day, right?"

"How about this, in the morning you do your chores, after lunch I teach you our language. If there still is time then, we can train more." She seemed to think for a bit before nodding, showing her agreement with this arrangement.

# Entry 7 – 12/24/2012

Notepad, merry Christmas! It's already that far, huh? I didn't write anything yesterday as I was busy, very so! Please don't think me a cheater as I got another notepad. But thou worry! It is only for learning purposes. As I now will learn Japanese, I have to learn the strange alphabet they have here too, because I'm sure it's not kanji they have, or any other symbol. It's totally new! If I ever get back I'll be the only one able to read it, that's kind of cool right? So don't you worry. Well, I don't really know if my date is correct, I guess I will still keep writing those dates in here to not lose track of time home, just in case it is possible. You never know!

Oh, what I also wanted to tell you! I always thought I wanted to try Sanji's food, because they say it's the best. I think if I ever get one of Sanji's creations in my hands later on I'll have a mouth-gasm! I nearly had one while eating soup, or the meat yesterday! It's all so damned yummy! I don't know how it comes, but damn I love the food here! Hum, my new appetite could come from the training too. As I already am with that point, training is doing pretty fine in my eyes. I still hurt everywhere, Rayray you devil! Ah, but yesterday I had my first lesson in Japanese, it's interesting to say the least. We will begin with easy things, like nouns, greetings and small talks. Oh, I have to go, time to start with my chores, I'll write, you again

The red-haired teen was a bit surprised when she heard that they were leaving for fisherman island. The sight was really to behold as they sunk into the depths of the sea and the light of the sun shimmered down through the water, in her mind there was the picture of people floating upwards and looking like jelly-fish, a giggle escaped her as she thought back to Zoro saying exactly that just after she had thought it. She smiled as the light drew figures into the sea and made her feel like she was in some kind of fairy tale, it was interesting to say the least, but also a bit frightening, what if the bubble burst? Literally? She heard steps and turned to see Buggy step over. He stood next to her and followed her stare. They stood calmly just taking in the beauty that was the sea from an angle they normally could not see.

"Buggy? Cool!" She pointed upwards, she knew no better word than cool at the moment, but hoped he could understand what she meant. A smirk stretched his lips as he nodded.

"Yep, Pretty cool, right?" She smiled back before turning to stare further into the sea.

"Time for chores! Liza, we'll start now." Those words she had fast learned. By now she would do her chores together with the boys, she had decided to imitate buggy, binding her long hair into a tail, thought she had it braided starting at the nape of her neck. It didn't get in the way as often but the short strands framing her face still aggravated her. For the time that Rayleigh would teach her Japanese they had decided to let the boys do some other shores Liza couldn't really help them with yet. So her lessons were always only a few hours she guessed and as there was only limited time for them to do chores with natural light they obviously hurried.

Rayleigh took her inside the ship, a bit more in the front of the ship there were a small library he had decided to use for her so she could learn faster. She felt like she was in pre-school again. But there was no helping it, she had to learn it somehow. So as the trip down remained surprisingly calm she learned a few more nouns and sentences. Rayleigh had assured her that most would come alone to her if a few weeks went by and as people were only able to speak Japanese with her, apart from Rayleigh of course, she would either learn it or remain deaf. She found the first option more to her liking.

# Entry 8 – 12/29/2012

Dear Notepad! This is incredible! I mean I had seen fisherman island in the manga and later in the anime but hell, nothing can even get close to this! It's just… I don't know enough words to describe how breathtakingly beautiful this place is, it's like one took the whole of beauty in the world and stuffed it here, so deep under the sea that nobody could destroy it like it could get up in the air. I can't stop staring at all those things, there are small snow-globes here, a miniature-fishman island inside. I asked Rayleigh if he could borrow me the money so I could buy one, he said it was a present as he gave me one. There even is a little button, when I press it there is light being emitted from the middle making it glow, it's so beautiful. Oh Notepad! Look at this! It's so… ah, I can't even describe. Buggy and Shanks just keep staring at me strangely, of course, they have already seen this, it is nothing new to them, but still!

Of all the things people could hate, why the fishman? They are really friendly, at least those I met, I try being friendly too, as much as I can with my broken and cracked up Japanese, but if I made a mistake Rayleigh doesn't let me walk around alone, he keeps tabs on me and the boys. The people here seem to understand my problem, some even gave me sweets. Last time I told you I would get a mouth-gasm if I ever were to try Sanji's food, right? Right! Well, I tried fisherman's candy, damned I even moaned when that sugary goodness melted in my mouth. The fishman laughed and ruffled my hair, giving me a whole bag full of that cool stuff.

Heh, I really like those people, I will try to get here again. Maybe I'll have a camera then? Because it wouldn't be enough to capture this beauty but it would held get a small grasp of how incredible all this is. The colors, the sounds, the laughs and friendly smiles, the architecture! Okay, maybe that is a bit much, but if you didn't see it you wouldn't understand. Ah… my dear, dear Notepad. I will make sure I'll get here again. Sadly I have lessons now, so I can't be amazed anymore by this incredible island. Though Rayray said something about a surprise to me…

Rayleigh waited until she had stopped scribbling down in this strange alphabet she insisted on being normal, he saw it like everybody else, it were hieroglyphs. However he had a little surprise for her, he would take her to the school of the island so she could learn there. It would also help the young fishman and mermaids to understand humans better and to see that not all were the same. She followed him down the streets and he could help but turn around again and again to make sure she really was there and following him, she did, she just was incredibly amazed by the town.

As he showed her the school she had a gleam in her eye, especially since she seemed to realize that it meant no lessons in the small library on the ship while she could be out here and staring at all those amazing things. He had talked with a mermaid who taught at the school and had agreed, so as he knocked on her door everybody turned to see who knocked. The mermaid smiled, expecting him and the girl.

"Welcome, please take a seat. Rayleigh, sit down too please." He motioned for her to go and take a seat with the students, most were younger than her by years, but she didn't seem to notice all that much as she asked without words if she could take one of the empty seats. The small fishman simply nodded, though his stare showed just how much he thought of humans. He watched the lesson continue. It seemed this was the right way to get her to learn the language faster, as she picked up and seemed to understand the lesson. Though when she asked a question her grammar was still wrong and she seemed unsure.

It was a bit strange to see the teen in between the young children, blushing when her sentence didn't really make sense as she had yet again gotten the grammar wrong and the kids had laughed at her. However she tried again until it was right. By the end of the day the kids were all helping her, asking her things or correcting her until she got a question right, it was a nice sight. Humans and fishman getting along so well.

"It was a nice idea to take her here, Rayleigh." He nodded, standing up as the kids crowded around Liza.

"Yes, she probably learned much more today than she would have had I given her a dry lesson in our ships library." The mermaid frowned shortly, turning her head to look at the crowd of kids chatting away with the older human girl. An idea formed in her mind before she turned to Rayleigh again.

"Say… would it be okay for her to join my class as long as you stay here? She would learn and the kids would learn more about humans. She seems to get along well." Rayleigh watched the red-head interact with the children, obviously enjoying to learn the language with so many others.

"I think that may just be a really good point. I will talk with her about it."

"Good, greet the other from me, yes?"

"Of course, it was good seeing you again Sheila. You have become quite a good teacher."

"Oh you! Go and take the girl so you can get clear if I have one more student for the week or not." He smiled.

"Liza." She looked up, she as well as the kids surrounding her all stared at her and he felt as if he had just dipped his foot into a lake full of piranha. The red-headed girl smiled and said her good-byes before walking over, he left with her in tow. Walking a little while in silence towards the ship he thought about the best approach of this topic.

"What you thinking?"

"What are you thinking?" he corrected without thinking about it.

"What are you thinking?" She asked again. He couldn't help but smile a little.

"Are you interested in joining that class?" she blinked.

"Again, slow?"

"Do you want to join the class?" She frowned slightly, having understood him now but still having trouble in deciphering the sentence. "Only for the time we are here."

"Lessons with the class, not you? Right?" She seemed to mull over it.

"Right." He answered her question, she was getting better really fast.

"Okay! It was fun!" She smiled and he ruffled her hair. Cute little thing she was. Would he ever have a daughter she hoped she would turn out like her. Oh but he of course couldn't know what that meant, because she had yet to be able to show them all her crazy side, the one none had yet seen, none but her mentally scarred Notepad.

# Entry 9 – 01/01/2013

Dear Notepad, happy new year! Tatü! Tatüüüüü! We are on fisherman island for a few days now, I get to go to school here, like the pre-school but it's fun, kind of. That was what Rayray meant with surprise. Thought that only was for one day he asked me afterwards if I wanted to take lessons there for the time of our stay, of course I said yes! I can get lessons from a MERMAID! A mermaid! She's really beautiful, and it's interesting and nice to listen to her warm voice while the kids all help me get my grammar right. It's nice. Who would have thought, eh? Me neither Notepad, me neither! So back home the year is round, bet they are all like "I knew the world would go down" now. Psh! Hypocrites.

I'm slowly getting friends in my class too, it's a bit strange because I'm so much older than them, but it's still fun. :D

There is this little mermaid who wants me to be her Onee-chan in honorary, I agreed, because she is just so cuddly and cute. Aw, you would love her Notepad! It's really late right now, because I was up reading things up for school, I'm getting really good at grammar now that I read more and talk more. I even get homework, a bit strange but okay. So I'll tell you good night now, dear Notepad. I just thought you would like a new update

AN: Nothing much to say, just: Finished! I won't always update this fast, it's just because I was in the flow of writing, kind of, you know? However, I hope you liked the chapter ^-^

I just noticed... the last sentence she wrote in her notepad is kind of ironic, right? xD