TML: ….. What?

Seiko: ….. -_-#

TML: ..What?!

Seiko: YOU, smart one, haven't written more than a year! (Translation: lazy ass)

TML: I was… busy… ;;

Seiko: Suuuurrrre…

TML: Just… get to the disclaimers, will you?! D8

Seiko: *sigh* Fine…

Disclaimers: TheMagicalLibrarian does not own One Piece. Anything that is not One Piece related is hers unless she claims otherwise.

TML: Enjoy! (*whispers* Sorry about the wait… ^^;)

"You know… Beating on me is not required, right?"

"And I'm telling you that I don't care."

Antonio received major damage from our heroine after his comment. Seiko was fuming after that and only gave curt replies or glares towards her new partner. She began to stroll around again and started looking for anything useful for her journey ahead of her. Unfortunately, nothing came to interest her. She saw normal townsfolk, rogues, marine soldiers, and pirates but she was less impressed. But unbeknownst to her, someone is following her and Antonio spotted the person.

"Psst, Seiko… Someone has been following us for awhile…" She began to turn but Antonio told her to stop,"Don't let them know that you saw them. Play cool and keep walking."

Seiko faced in front of her like her partner told her even though she doesn't like to be told what to do. As she continues to walk, Antonio keeps his eyes on the mysterious person to make sure he doesn't try anything. But their stalker disappeared without warning.

"What the-?!" The book was left in surprise and he looked frantically around them,"Where did he…?"

"Maybe you were just seeing things, though I'm woundering how a book ca-"

*SMACK*

Seiko made a face plant with a persons body, both he and the teen grunted on contact.

"Oh! Pardon me, miss." The man steps back and rubs the back of his head sheepishly. He looked around his late thirties, he had slicked back black hair that had some grey hairs; wearing a buttoned up white shirt with a black tie loosely around his neck, tan suit pants with black shoes, and a brown overcoat. His face seem to be calm yet welcoming to Seiko, but Antonio doesn't seem to trust him.

"I didn't see you and I seemed to have ran into you. My apologies." Seiko only waved her hand in front of herself.

"Don't worry. You weren't the only one that bumped into me today." The man chuckles nervously,"I'm just lucky that you didn't knock me to the ground like the other guy today."

"My! Glad I didn't do that!" He smiles which causes Seiko to feel a little uncomfortable.

That's when they started to hear a crowd forming over where Seiko was unintentionally heading to. 'Whoa… what is going on? Is there a fight?'

Taking the opportunity to get away from the man, she ran towards the crowd that was forming in the middle of town. She slipped through some people so she could see what they are seeing and what she saw seemed all too familiar.

'Ah… I see we are seeing the part where Luffy pronounces his goal to everyone.' Seiko crosses her arms, looking uninterested.

"I AM THE MAN WHO WILL BECOME PIRATE KING!"

'And everyone will be disbelieving and/or disapproving.'

And of course, she starts to hear the crowd comment how 'it is foolish' or 'unbelievable' it is for Luffy to say that. "Geez, Seiko. You really got this memorized." Antonio comments.

'Of course. I've read this part a thou- WAIT A MINUTE, DID YOU JUST READ MY MIND?!' Seiko's partner simply nods to confirm it,"It will keep people from thinking you are completely ma- OW!"

She slammed him to the ground (and picking him back up), livid on the thought that he is able to read into her mind,'This is bullshit!' After her little tantrum, she starts to focus up to the sky and wait for the lightning to occur. She listened in on the talking, the approaching strawhat crew, the war cries of the crew, but the one thing she couldn't hear is the thunder rumbling. She thought that maybe it will eventually catch on but the longer she waited, the more she began to realize…

'It's either the lightning is late to strike, or it's not going to strike at all!' She began to panic, trying to figure out what is wrong,'Wait! I should focus on saving Luffy, not wondering why the weather decided to not help!'

Picking up Antonio, she ran to the scaffold while evading the crowd and pirates in order to reach her goal. Right when she got too close, some of the pirates started to charge at her,"So your helping Strawhat, huh? Well, we're not gonna- ARGH!"

"Excuse me, gentlemen!"(Translation: OUT OF THE WAY, BASTARDS!)

Without hesitation, she unsheathes her lance and starts slashing at them just enough to knock them down. After overcoming the obstacles, she positions herself at the scaffold.

Luffy's POV~

"GYAHAHAHA, JUST WATCH FROM THERE AND WITNESS THE FALL OF-"

*CREAK*

"WH- WHAT THE-"

Luffy began to feel the scaffold shift just barely but enough to throw the Clown pirate off track. He started to wonder why it started doing that. Then he heard one of the crew members scream,"CAPTAIN, SOME GIRL IS TRYING TO CUT THE SCAFFOLD DOWN!"

Luffy began to stretch his neck out enough to see the bottom and what he saw was surprising. "Ah! It's you!"

It was the same girl he just bumped into today; short brown hair, casual wear, and different eye colors(one green, one blue). He doesn't know why she's helping but he doesn't care, she's trying to save him! "Hey! If you can hear me, thanks for trying to save me!" He grins from ear to ear,"Hopefully it isn't all for nothing!"

It seemed like she didn't hear him or was ignoring him because she was still slashing at the scaffold. Unfortunately, Buggy seemed to have regained his footing,"NO MATTER WHAT OR WHO, I WILL MAKE YOU PAY, STRAWHAT!" The clown raised his sword one more time and brought it slashing down. Then, out of nowhere, Luffy began to call out his nakama's names and says with a grin,"Sorry! Guess I'm dead!"

Seiko's POV~

'Come on! Fall! FALL DAMN YOU!' Seiko used all her strength and her precision into every slash in order to make it fall or at least delay the clown pirate as much as possible,'At least give out a lightning strike like in the manga, you damn weather!'

It began to rain, but no sign of the lightning which made Seiko's strikes more desperate. Then she heard,"Zoro! Sanji! Usopp! Nami! Sorry! Guess I'm dead!"

Seiko felt her blood turn cold, fearing it was too late. However, she was not going to give up that easily. With all of her might, she swung her lance at the scaffold screaming,"YOU WILL NOT DIE!"

Then, without warning, a burst of pure energy exploded after her lance collided with the scaffold causing her to fly back. It knocked the wind out of her and caused her vision to blur a little, but not enough to not see what she did. The execution scaffold was in flames and it tipped over with a crash. Seiko sat up, shocked at what just happened.

'Did I… do that?' Then a strawhat landed near her feet which was picked up by Luffy moments later. He offered her a hand up, which she took this time, and he laughed happily,"Shishishi, looks like I survived! And I have you to thank!" Everyone, minus his crew, stood there stunned.

"Hey… do you think there is a god?" Sanji asked in astonishment.

"Don't be stupid. It was this girl who did the rescuing." Zoro stated.

That's when they started to hear the marines charge into the square.

Seiko could only groan,"Great… Now I'm going to be wanted by the World Government now."

That's when she felt Luffy touch her shoulder,"Hey! Be part of my crew!"

"Wha-?!"

Before she got the time to answer, he grabbed her hand and started running away from the square along with Sanji and Zoro.

? POV~

"It seems you were right after all, Professor. There is another person with those sort of abilities, though she seems to have only discovered her talents."

The same man whom bumped into Seiko was having a conversation with someone while talking into his baby den den mushi. The person on the other line of it seem to be deep in thought yet quite fascinated of the info the caller provided. "Anything else you care to enlighten me with, detective?" The said detective only sighed and answered,"Nothing that will help with your research I'm afraid. However, her eyes color is pretty unique… One green and one blue." The professor only answered with a 'hmmm' and said,"I suggest you keep tabs on her, see if she progresses at all. Update me each time until I give the word to obtain her."

"Yes, Professor Perron."

With that, the detective hung up and went on his way, pondering how he'll do this. "Hrmmm, knowing what happened with the last one… this might turn out quite troublesome indeed."

Seiko's POV~

"Hey! Hey, wait a minute!" For the past ten minutes, Seiko has been trying to get Luffy's attention but to no avail. What is worse, the weather is getting worse and they are currently being chased by the marines.

"Hello?! I'm trying to-"

"Man these guys are persistent." Luffy looks back then turns his head to the two older men,"Should we fight them off?" Sanji shook his head,"No, they'll be no end to them. Besides Nami-san says to get to the ship as soon as possible."

'Did they just ignore me?!' Eye twitching, Seiko tries to break out of Luffy's grip yelling out,"Look! I just met you and I don't want to join your crew! I don't want to be a fugitive of the law!"

"Aren't you already?" Zoro smirked.

"Who asked you, sir?!" (Trans: Shut up, asshole!)

"RORONOA ZORO!"

Blocking there path was none other than Tashigi and all that was going through Seiko's mind was,'Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!' Zoro and Tashigi started to exchange a few words to each other which didn't interest Seiko one bit because she trying her dead level best to escape the strawhat wearing boy. She then heard a clashing of swords, probably when Tashigi and Zoro crossed swords with one another. Zoro gave out a curt 'Go on' in which Luffy complied, dragging a confused Seiko and a ballistic Sanji with him.

"What did I just say?!"

"That Marimo dares to harm a lady?!"

After that, Seiko took the opportunity to ask Luffy,"Why do you want me to join your crew?! We just met!" Turning to face her, Luffy grinned and responded with utmost astonishment,"Because you saved my life even if we just met and your ability was so cool! How did you do it anyway?" This took Seiko aback; she didn't know how she did it herself.

'I was just as surprised as everyone else at what I did…' furrowing her eyebrows in deep thought, she concluded that Antonio would know, hopefully. "Well your in luck, partner! It just so happens I do!"

'Y'know, I hate it when go into my mind like that.' She mentally tells him irritably.

"It's better than you and I talking to each other loudly for people who pass by to hear you and start thinking you are an escape psyche patient, yes?"

Sighing in defeat, she began to explain to Luffy of her powers,"I really don't know about them. It just spontaneously did that…" Then an idea sprung within her mind which may give her a chance to not join his crew.

"And thus, I have no training with it. So that means I'll only be a burden to you so I can't join your crew! Sorry for the bad news, and may you please let me be on my way, bye!" Shaking his head in defiance, Luffy gave her a determined look and stated,"Nope, you are joining my crew! Besides we'll help you train your powers so that you can do even cooler things!"

An exasperated sigh escaped her lips, realizing that once Luffy sets his mind to it he will not budge. EVER.

Speaking of which, they were about to run into someone whose determination is as bad as Luffy's… only this time, it's for the opposite side. Standing in the middle of the street, stood none other than Smoker and all it did was make Seiko panic. 'Sssssshhhhhiiiiiiiiit! Why does my life suck?!' she mentally shrieks while all that time trying to escape from the dark haired teen's grasp again.

"Who are you?"

"I am Smoker. Major of the main marine base," then Smoker lunges his arms toward Luffy and Seiko which turns to white thick smoke,"and I won't allow you to escape!" Once he got a grip on Luffy, the teen released Seiko. She fell back with a grunt which gave her the chance to escape. Jumping up and grabbing her partner, she begin to run away from the fight. 'I gotta stay out of trouble! If I involve myself with any of the main characters, who knows what will happen!' She turns her head around to assess the situation and it is not looking good. Sanji was blown back by Smoker's attack and now he has Luffy on the ground, unsheathing his weapon.

'They can handle it. They were able to escape in the manga,' then something began to bother her which made her stop running,'But… if this story was supposed to follow with the manga, then why didn't the lightning strike when it was suppose to?'

That's when it clicked: reason why things have not been going along with the story line is because she is now involved in it. She is now part of the story and it has now thrown things off track. 'So… if the story is changing because of me…' Turning her head toward the group,'Does that mean there maybe a chance for something to go horribly wrong?'

With a 'hrmph', the brunette turned around, unsheathed her lance and charged at the logia user. "The hell with it!" She leapt into the air and swung her lance downwards towards Smoker, but he just simply threw her back with an attack while stating,"I don't know what your affiliation is with Strawhat, but anyone who helps a pirate shall be treated the same as one." The attack knocked the wind out of her; she rolled over groaning in pain,"Ouch…"

As the marine went to unsheathe his weapon again, a tall cloaked figure stopped him.

"I don't think so, young man."

A gasp escaped Seiko's lips once she saw who it was: Monkey D. Dragon. "You!" is all she could hear out of anything due to the rain pouring. Then the tall cloaked man lifted his head slightly to look at Seiko dead in the eye and he grins,"So another one has come. It has been many years." Confused, the teen looks at him and asks,"Another one of what?" His grin widens and answers,"You'll see."

Suddenly, a great gust of wind came bellowing past them, along with a few marine troops which gave Seiko a chance to escape the madness and this time, without turning back.

She took her partner and yelled as loud as she could,"Antonio! Take me back before something else goes wrong!"

With a 'yes ma'am!', he began to flash a bright light and then, they disappeared.

TML: Well, there you go and I will make up for the delay by working on the next chapter ASAP!

Seiko: You better, because if you don't… they'll be repercussions. :3

TML: Oo;;; W-well um… See you soon~! ^^;;;