Ok, sorry about the delay, placement and assignments galore! But had a bit of down time today so here is the next chapter! Hope you like it. If you have any ideas that you want me to incorporate into the story PM me and I'll see if i can work it in. Ciao!

"I'm worrying about what Miss. All Sunday said" Vivi said as the ship drew closer to the next island, Little Garden. The ship was manoeuvred into a narrow strip of water and continued into the island, surrounded by forestry. The crew were discussing the island they were about to make port on, but Yuzuki was lost in thought.

'If what Miss. All Sunday said was true I'm worried about this island. She seemed a bit suspicious, why would she help us? And to top it off, why does she seem familiar?' Yuzuki was so lost in thought that she jumped when a loud noise came from the jungle surrounding them.

"You're so cute Nami-chawan!" Sanji wailed, making Yuzuki smile at his antics.

"Is that a gecko?" Luffy asked as a huge bird soared above the ship. Suddenly, all sorts of sounds started arising from the jungle around them. While Nami and Usopp were persuading the crew to stay on the ship Luffy was busting with excitement.

"Prepare the lunch boxes!" he proclaimed, gaining everyone's attention "I smell an adventure" he finished gleefully before Nami yelled in his face.

"Hey! Wait a minute! Where do you think you're going?" she yelled, but there was no persuading him. Sanji went to the kitchen to get the supplies for the excited captain muttering about never changing his mind now that he had already decided.

"Can I come too?" Vivi asked Luffy as he bounced up and down in excitement.

"Sure, just come" was her reply from the eager captain.

"Don't worry, Carue will come with me too" Vivi said to a shocked looking Nami.

"How about you Yuzi?" Luffy asked, using his pet name for her.

Yuzuki scowled at the nick name he used. He had first used it when they were young in Fusha village, where they grew up, and once he found out she hated being called 'Yuzi' he used it to tease her. She didn't know why she hated the name, her brothers thought it sounded cute, but she found that whenever it was said she would get a weird sensation and it made her scowl.

"Actually Luffy I..." she stopped mid sentence as she was caught in a fit of coughs. She brought her hand to her mouth and covered it as she kept coughing, doubling over slightly and wrapping her other arm around herself for some support. Luffy looked at her with concern as the rest of the crew looked on in confusion. Just as quickly as it started Yuzuki's coughing stopped and she straightened up again like nothing happened. "Ah, I think I'll stay here. I wanted to research a few things too... about Baroque Works and... yea" she said, quickly walking to the women's quarters and closing the door behind her, leaving a confused crew in her wake.

Yuzuki took a shaky breath as she open up her hand that she used to cover her cough to find blood. She sighed putting her other hand to her head and massaging her eyes with her thumb and finger, walking to the bathroom to clean herself up. 'This is going to be problematic. I don't have any medication left so the symptoms are going to start showing soon. And we need to get Vivi to Alabaster as soon as possible, who knows what Crocodile is getting up to'

She was broken from her thoughts when she heard a commotion from outside. She went to investigate only to see Sanji and Zoro running into the jungle while Nami and Usopp were sitting crying by the railing. She rose and eyebrow in confusion at the scene before her.

"So I can't rely on you then?" Usopp asked Nami.

"I should be saying that!" Nami replied angrily making Yuzuki laugh. The two fearful crew members looked up at her and cried again.

"Our saviour! We are not alone!" Usopp cried as he ran to hug his saviour. Yuzuki promptly put her hand out to stop him while asking Nami where the others went.

"Zoro and Sanji went to get food" was her sort reply before falling quiet. Yuzuki leant against the banister looking at the sky while Usopp kept giving her weird looks.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Yuzuki asked quietly, still looking towards the heavens.

"N... n... nothing" he said quickly, looking away.

"But wait... it sounds familiar. I can't remember if I've read it before" Nami said to herself, spiking Usopp's interest.

"What is?" Usopp asked

"Little Garden" Nami replied, still thinking. She stood up abruptly, shocking Usopp, and ran to the bookshelf the ship had on the lower deck. Yuzuki watched as she did this, jumping over the banister and sitting in the spot Nami had just vacated. She heard the sounds of Nami quickly flicking trough books and discarding those that weren't helpful until she ran out yelling.

"Yuzuki! Usopp!"

"Wh... what? You found the book?" Usopp asked getting up from his spot.

"This island is..." Nami started, getting increasingly scared every moment and ended up just showing Usopp the page she read. Usopp dropped the book in fear and both screamed at the top of their lungs. Yuzuki looked at them weirdly as they clung on to her, Nami on the right and Usopp on the left. She glanced over at the page they were just reading

'...For the people who live here, this place is a little garden for them. Little Garden is an island for giants. From the pioneer, Louis Arnold...'

"Giants..." Yuzuki whispered inciting a scream from the two clinging to her for dear life. She rolled her eyes at them. Roars and growls started surrounding them and Nami and Usopp were frozen in fear.

Suddenly the trees in front of them parted and a giant appeared, towering above them.

"Do you have any rum?" the giant's voice boomed as he looked at them. The ship miniscule in comparison to the giant.

Nami and Usopp were frozen in shock and fear. Yuzuki carefully prised the two off her and stood up, looking at the giant.

"We might" Yuzuki stated simply, as Nami and Usopp cowered behind her.

"Oooh! So you have some, right?" the giant asked gleefully, coming down to their level. His face was directly in front of Yuzuki, but she stood strong, a thoughtful look on her face. The giant suddenly yelled, the smell of his breath making Yuzuki gag and scaring Nami and Usopp further. The giant looked behind him, while Usopp, Nami and Yuzuki looked around him to see what was there. What they saw shocked them all.

"What the?" Yuzuki muttered to herself.

"D... dino... dino" Usopp whimpered.

"Dinosaur" Nami said quietly. Tears coming forth as fear gripped the latter two.

The giant quickly turned around to face the dinosaur raising his huge axe. The poor dinosaur had no time to react when his head was neatly chopped off and flew into the air only to be caught by the giant.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Usopp and Nami screamed, hiding themselves behind Yuzuki who gripped her weapon ready to fight if the giant turned on them. Instead what they got was a proclamation from the giant.

"I am the strongest fighter of Elubabu! Brogy The Great! Haha!" the giant, named Brogy, proclaimed. "I have some meat now. I will treat you to a meal, my guests" Brogy said, showing them the dinosaur head. On the deck, Nami and Usopp were playing dead, holding an unconscious Yuzuki between them.

"I can't believe you knocked me out!" Yuzuki muttered, angrily glaring at Nami and rubbing the sore spot on the back of her head.

"We had to play dead! That giant killed a dinosaur like it was nothing!" Nami replied nervously. The giant was trying to get them to eat the meat he had acquired from the dinosaur he had killed and from the corner of her eye, Nami could see skulls. Nami and Usopp were thinking the same thing 'he's going to eat us, just like giants usually do' while the giant offered them the meat. Yuzuki shrugged her shoulders and reached for the meat offered by the giant, receiving fearful looks from her companions.

"Mr. Brogy, can I ask you something?" Yuzuki asked, holding the meat in her hands.

"Huh? What is it?" Brogy enquired as he ripped a piece of meat of the bone he was holding, causing Nami and Usopp to flinch.

"How long does it take for the log pose to lock on to the magnetic waves on Little Garden?" Yuzuki asked him.

"One year" Brogy replied causing the three to fall over in shock "So make yourselves at home" he said happily.

"So are you alone on this island?" Yuzuki asked him, unknown to her that her brother was asking the same of the giant he had met.

"I am originally from the village of Elubabu, somewhere in the Grand Line. We have a rule in our village, if a fight occurs and no one says sorry we will listen to Elubabu's god, because Elubabu is always right, and he will give the verdict. I am waiting for the result. This is the island where I'm fighting with another. The right person will become the winner and he will live." He told them "But it's already been one hundred years and we still don't know who has won! Haha!"

Usopp's eyes bulged "One hundred years?"

"Don't fret, our lifespan is three times that of a human" Brogo replied laughing. Suddenly the ground started to shake and smoke started wafting from the mountain nearby.

"Ah! The volcano is erupting!" Nami exclaimed.

"I have to go" Brogy stated as he stood up "The volcano signals the time to fight again."

"Why are you fighting? Surely after one hundred years you have forgotten about the reason you started?" Usopp exclaimed. The giant gave them a glance before thundering off into the jungle raising his axe as he went.

"Pride..." Yuzuki whispered. "It's about his pride. Even though he has forgotten the reason, he fights now for pride" she told Usopp as he looked on in awe. They could see two giants fighting over the treetops and heard the clang of their weapons as they fought.

"This is our chance you guys" Nami said, trying grab Yuzuki's hand.

"No, no, no. I'm not going anywhere with you. That's twice you've tried to kill me!" Yuzuki yelled, digging her feet into the ground.

"This is so great" Usopp said, causing the two girls to look at him "Fighting without cause. This is a real mans fight!"

"That's the most stupid thing I've ever seen" Nami told him, still trying to drag Yuzuki with her.

"Don't you get it? This is a fight about real pride and honour as a real fighter and a real man" Usopp told her

"I don't care about that. We'd better get out of here now" Nami said nonchalantly.

"I want to stay a while" Usopp told her, earning a smile from Yuzuki who sat down next to him. Nami have a disapproving sigh before joining Yuzuki.

"This is exactly what I want to be. A great warrior of the sea. I want to grow up to be proud and honourable just like them." He stated. Yuzuki gave him an encouraging smile.

"You want to be a giant?" Nami said ruining the moment. Yuzuki frowned at her while Usopp yelled that she hadn't been listening to anything he had been saying.

The clangs of fighting were still heard until a final clash and the two giants collapsed. After sharing some rum with the other giant, who went back to his side of the island, Brogy sat down to talk with his three Straw Hat guests.

Yuzuki tuned out the conversation Usopp and Brogy were having about pride and honour, she wasn't very interested in 'man fights'. Looking back on her own battles she had always had a reason for them and wondered what she would do if she ever forgot the reason she fought. The volcano violently started smoking again and the giant prepared himself for his next encounter with Dorry, the other giant.

"You're going to fight again? What about your injury?"

"Don't be silly, we both got injuries last time. Both of us risk our lives in this fight, don't use such lame excuses to postpone our fight!" he proclaimed as he went off to meet his companion for the next fight.

"Let's go back to the ship. If it takes one year for the log pose to set we need to find out how we are going to get out of here." Nami implored.

Nami dragged Usopp behind her as he was in a daze about becoming great one day. Yuzuki sighed at the two, why did she have to be stuck with them? She coughed twice before grinning and following them into the jungle. It wasn't long before the trio hit trouble.

"Ahhh! Dinosaur!"

Yuzuki huffed as Nami and Usopp ran off screaming, leaving her to deal with the incoming dinosaur. It wouldn't have been after them if it wasn't for the two making so much noise. Yuzuki unsheathed the hilt and transformed it into the scythes before running towards the giant dinosaur. The dodged the incoming hits from the head and manoeuvred herself close to the body of the dinosaur before slashing at its legs and aiming at the chest of the beast to impale it. She cursed to herself as she rushed to get out of the way as her giant opponent toppled over. She had no time to think about the dinosaur when she heard a scream. 'That sounded like Nami!' Yuzuki thought as she dashed off to find out what had happened.

As Yuzuki ran in the direction she heard Nami's scream she heard another yell, closer to her. She quickly changed course in the direction of the most recent in hopes of finding one of her crew mates. After a bit of running she slowed down, clutching her chest 'Damn, I can't over exert myself, or else it will just get worse' she thought as she coughed a few more times. She turned her head from left to right before doing a double take when she saw something white. Curious, she walked over towards the odd white object in the forest of green. As she approached she saw that the white object was in fact a large box looking house, if you could call it that. It only looked big enough to be one room, not enough for anyone to live in. As she got closer she realised that it looked to be made of wax. Yuzuki inspected the outside for a moment before she heard the sound of something running towards her. She instantly got into fighting stance with her weapon ready to be activated when out from the jungle jumped a large feline looking beast. The odd thing about the beast was that it had a large lump on its head, as though someone had hit it hard.

"Eh? Yuzuki-hime!" she heard a voice exclaim, coming to the conclusion of who it was before he showed himself.

"Oh, Sanji. How was your competition?" she asked as he leapt of the giant beast.

"Huh? Oh, the hunting competition? I'm sure I beat that marimo head" he muttered the last bit but Yuzuki still heard and sniggered at his competitiveness with the swordsman "But when I got to the ship all of you had disappeared." Yuzuki nodded at his explanation and was about to tell him what had happened but he still had something to add "I knew that you needed my help Yuzuki-himi, so I have come to rescue you!" Sanji wailed while Yuzuki sweat dropped.

"Actually, it's not me that's in trouble Sanji." Yuzuki told Sanji about what had happened since she had left the ship and he listened intently "An I came across this obscure thing" she said pointing at said structure "and was about to investigate when you showed up" she finished.

"Ah, I see. Shall we see what we have here then?" he asked, almost seriously "Ladies first" he said opening the door for her. She gave him a look and wondered if he even though about what he had just said.

"You know, letting a woman go first into an unknown place could be dangerous. What if there was a dangerous person in there just waiting to attack the next person to walk though?" she asked, faking distress as she walked through the threshold. Sanji's eyes widened as he realised his mistake and tried to get in front of her before she entered, but it was too late and she had already entered the structure.

"I'll save you Yuzuki-hime!" he yelled as he ran into the building after her. Instead of saving Yuzuki he seemed to have done more harm as when he barged in he failed to notice the chair near the door and immediately tripped in his haste to save her. In doing so he fell onto Yuzuki who also fell only to hit her head on the nearby table and then the ground. Sanji gasped when he saw Yuzuki on the ground, wincing and holding her head.

"Who did this to you? I'll kill them!" he proclaimed standing up and running over to Yuzuki to help he up. He helped her into a chair and preceded to rifle though the contents of the room to find things to help her, muttering about killing anyone who would harm his 'precious Yuzuki-hime'. She smiled at his protectiveness of her and becoming comfortable with him as well as the rest of the crew. She smiled at the thought of how she was comfortable with the crew and how they were turning out to be more like a family, helping each other in times of need. She was sure she would have never found nakamaship like this in the Marines. In the end Sanji found some tea that could help with the head injury and brewed some fore Yuzuki and himself.

"I wonder why this room is in the middle of the jungle" Sanji said aloud

"Did you notice Sanji?" Yuzuki asked, gaining his attention "This place is made of wax, the outside as well as the inside. On top of that, it looks quite fresh and new. Meaning that there are other people on this island"