Chapter 3: "Monkey boi arrives"

[Substory 4: Dame Dane Times: Navigator Edition]

Choking a bit when Isaac saw a pop up appear, he bumped his chest coughing.

"Are you alright?"-. Nojiko asked worried.

*Cough, cough* "Wheew, sorry 'bout that, please continue..."-.Wiping his mouth with a napkin, Isaac paid attention to the story.

"Haaah... well, long story short, her name was Bell-mère and she... she was the strongest woman i knew..."-. Nojiko said while looking at the pictures.

"Marine right?, she looks quite tough"-. Isaac said while looking at another photo that had bell-mère posing in her uniform with a rifle.

"Yeah... she saved Nami and me... took care of us and gave us a chance at life, we were a happy family.. then HE... came along-.Nojiko said reminiscing about the past and gaining a look of anger.

Standing up and pacing around the table she came to a photo of her, Nami and Bell-mère just after Nami had finished her first Map, they looked quite exhilarated.

"That's why i lashed out at you, you beat up those fishmen!!, if... if Arlong wants revenge, he will do the same as he did with my mother..., and Nami.... she has been fighting this battle for over 8 years and is so close now... to buy our freedom" Stopping her pacing around the room, Nojiko turned to see Isaac finishing his soup bowl.

"That's why.... you have to leave this island Isaac, get out of here while you still can!!-. Nojiko exclaimed looking at him.

Standing up and taking his bowl to wash it, Isaac shook his head.

"No can do Nojiko, not while you and your sister are fighting for your lives and the lives of the villagers, besides..." Putting the bowl down to dry it, he turned at her with a wide grin "I'm strong".

Getting angry she stomped up to him and locked eyes.

"No you dumb idiot!, don't you understand?!, you can't match up to a Fishman!!!-. Nojiko exclaimed.

Snorting Isaac puts a hand on her shoulder.

"Not even after i made those two look like clowns by myself without breaking a sweat?..."-.He asked still maintaining his grin.

That made Nojiko pause, he indeed handled those two fishmen so easily, almost like they were little kids... Maybe...

"E-even so Arlong is... Arlong is ten times as strong as any other fishmen, please, please don't try to fight him, Nami has endured so much, she has stolen.. she has suffered for all of us"-. Nojiko said pleadingly.

Giving her shoulder a squeeze, Isaac started heading to the door.

"This world is huge Nojiko... there's an ocean out there that hosts the strongest fighters this world is capable to dish out and Arlong... Arlong is an ant compared to them." Putting his Jacket on and shouldering his backpack he turned towards her.

"And also..." Closing his eyes he felt some powerful presences arriving at the island "I'm not the only one who has beef with that shark on steroids"

[Substory 4: Dame Dane times: Navigator Edition End] [Received 50,000 Xp]

'Nice! just like i thought, the substories and main stories will give more Xp than anything else, these are some nice and juicy 100 Sp, i think i can get another ability'-. Isaac tought.

One thing he noticed is that the abilities cost way more here than in the games, even the first ones cost already 85 Sp, while the max ones up to 1,000 Sp, that's why he had to grind real hard in his 3 year training to get as many Xp he could.

(AN: I left the convertion simple, 1Sp = 500Xp, in terms on why the abilities cost too much, well i want our boy Isaac to earn that power, to work hard and become OP)

Going out the house, Isaac started to run towards the prescences., Stunned for a moment but the regaining her composure Nojiko also started to run after him.

"W-what?!, He-Hey, wait up you stupid guy, where are you going?!, get back here!!!!"

With an excited smile, Isaac started to get tingly.. The strawhat pirates, had arrived.

Zoro was not having a good day, first being tied up by those two idiots after being attacked by the hammers they pulled out of nowhere, then being taken to Arlong and see that Nami witch pull a fast one on Usopp. Running trough the forest, Zoro stopped, hearing a heavy crash that startled him, he looked around with caution.

"Oi mate, i think you shouldn't stand there"

Turning towards the voice and seeing a man in a leather jacket next to a blue haired woman slighty out of breath he asked confused.

"Huh what do you mean by Tha-"

"Zooroooooo!!!"-. shouted a cheerful voice.

Suddenly a boat came crashing trough the trees and impacted Zoro, with a yell he couldn't do anything else than be pulled by it.

Looking at the ridiculous scene, Nojiko just stared, a chuckle brought her out of her stupor.

"Hehehe, c'mon Nojiko, let's go after 'em"-. Isaac said running towardams the direction the boat landed.

"Huh?!, these are the people you were talking about?, who are they exactly?-. Nojiko said while catching up to him.

"My best guess... Nami's crew hehe" Grinning Isaac said turning to look at her.

"Former crew is what you mean, Nami just used them and, if they want payback, Arlong's gonna take care of them"-. Shaking her head, Nojiko expected the worst.

"We'll see about that"-. Isaac just smirked.

In the rubble of a once boat, two men were seen, a blond haired one with a parted hairstyle that showed a swirly eyebrow wearing a black suit and blue formal shirt next to him was a young man of Black hair, a red vest and blue jean shorts with sandals (AN: The San. D. Als), he was fixing a strawhat on his head.

"You Bastard!... What the hell are you doing!?"

Going out of the rubble, Zoro shouted with shark teeth at them.

The straw hat wearing teen looked confused

"What do you mean?, we've come to get Nami back, you stupid?"-. The teen puts on a thinking pose while talking to Zoro.

Gritting his teeth Zoro focuses on the task at hand.

"There's no time for this nonesense, Usopp has been captured by Arlong, we have to get him out of there"-. Leaving the rubble, Zoro started to run but stopped when a tearful voice called.

"He's dead..."-. Said the weak voice of Jhonny.

Looking at them trough some bushes, Isaac tought on how to proceed from here, a nudge of Nojiko brought him out from his mind.

"See?, Nami will literally do anything to accomplish her goal, these people were just unlucky"

"Hmm i don't think that the one called Usopp is dead though, Nami didn't strike me as someone capable of doing that, not while having those feeling of regret that is..."-. Isaac said with confidence.

"Feelings? are you saying you can sense?...-. Nojiko stuttered.

"Hmm well, let's hear if from the mouth of the person itself shall we"-. Isaac said looking ahead at the distance.

From the path towards the crew, footsteeps were heard, it was Nami.

Watching the scene play before him, Isaac had to admit that, if it hadn't been from his previous knowledge of the canon and his observation haki, Nami did truly put up a good act, act that shattered when he felt her soul thanks to his haki, she was maintaining quite a cold and cocky facade but her emotions were so heavy with regret and pain that it just blew away her performance.

Luffy then made the power move of not doing anything and falling asleep on command.

Twitching a bit as her persona was sliping away, Nami then shouted back at him.

"f-FINE THEN, DO WHATEVER YOU WANT, GO AHEAD AND DIE FOR ALL I CARE"-. Turning around and sprinting out of there Nami quickly left the area.

Nojiko was speechless as she saw this, Nami lost her cool and really put on emotion for the last shout... maybe Isaac was right all along...

"Isaac was this what you wanted me to see?..." Nojiko turned to look at him.

"Not quite yet, there's an important part of this story approaching at a quite fast pace"-. Isaac said while looking at the other path.

With their captain sleeping right now, Zoro and Sanji decided to wait for him to wake up, establishing a discussion in which Zoro mentioned that "Nami is a small fry, with no control of her emotions, something that maybe prompt her to kill Usopp "

Sanji's brain the traduced that into "Flat chest Nami" and they got into a brawl, sadly a person once thought dead had a chance to saw those pearly gates once again as his head was caught between a scabbard and a foot.

"USOPP!"

(AN: I kinda get what Sanji was saying lol, pre time skip and pre Paradise Nami was quite petite, but god dayum if his food aint rich in proteins and the good shit because she gained quite some big badoonkers fast)

With the revelation that Usopp was alive and well, they were quite shocked to hear that Nami had faked his death, stabbing her own hand and pushing him onto the waters so he could get away.

Sanji cheered while Zoro looked quite surprised. Luffy had the biggest grin ever.

"See guys?, she is part of us after all! Shishishishi!"

"Hmm but if she really did that, then why is she a part of Arlong's crew?..."-. Zoro asked perplexed.

"I-i think we should hear her story first before making conclusions guys"-. Ussop said seriously.

"Or... you could ask her..."

Turning around they saw a young woman with tanned skin and blue hair and beside her, a tall man with dark brown hair and leather jacket.

"Yo... how we doin'?"