A prank

All of them were tense and on guard. Ready to attack at a moment's notice.

They didn't forget that they were most likely going to be meeting dragon, and this could very well be him, or at least someone working under him.

Stella had her chains around her waving as they moved around her ready to protect her if needs be, or attack if it came to that.

Robin no longer needed to cross her arms to use her ability, giving her more subtly when using her ability, but she still liked to point at the place she was about to attack. So she had her arms both in a fighting stance, ready to use her ability in a second.

Meanwhile, Elene, who was the only one able to detect this person, was concentrating on his place… trying to get more about him.

Bert had his hand on his sword, as he turned briefly to look at Elene.

But as he was about to ask a question, they were suddenly attacked.

Multiple air blades were launched from where Elene had said the person was hiding. The blades were huge in size and would require from Bert, the most adept person with a sword in the crew, to concentrate a bit to be able to send even half that number. Of course if one was as strong as Ian physically, then that would be quite easy.

The Crew hurriedly dodged the attack, as they became vigilant immediately. Apparently, this person was an enemy.

The air blades went on to leave devastating damage on the ground where they impacted.

But Elene suddenly talked.

"I lost him." She said a bit frustrated as she was supposed to be the one who can hide and no one can detect her, not the opposite.

From their backs, as they were still staring at the tree where their enemy was supposed to be, came another attack suddenly, similar to the last one, except the air blades became even larger in size.

And just as they prepared to dodge them, another furious wave of air blades came from the other side intent on dissecting them into pieces. Followed by another from the side they were about to dodge to, and it continued to rain from every side leaving them surrounded with no place to dodge.

'Shit' Bert cursed under his breath. He had realized that for a person to be able to shoot those air blades so easily, would mean this person was as strong as an emperor.

He didn't know if it was Dragon, however, as he was not known for using a sword. Perhaps it was Mihawk who wanted to test them or something, but Bert thought this to be farfetched as no one knew they were going to Alder Island Apart From Dragon.

Stella seeing the predicament they were in took a deep breath before she used her ability to make huge chains appear around them. She made them appear in a circular shape with each one next to the other until they met at the sky forming a dome shape. Then she made another layer and another one before she felt a bit exhausted. After all, she had made a triple-layered dome of huge chains with a diameter of 8m.

Then Bert who saw this hurried to instruct her just as the blades had impacted the first layer.

"Change them to diamond now!" He yelled.

And even if she felt a bit tired it was not something that would have her stop fighting anytime soon. So she did as asked even if she didn't know why he wanted her to.

But after she did as he said she understood instantly why.

The blades had moved unhindered through the layers until they started struggling with the last layer of chains, which she turned to diamond. Before eventually failing to cut them and dissipating.

"Elene, do you know where he is?" Bert asked Elene.

But she just shook her head. Still feeling frustrated at not being able to detect him or her.

And then Stella made the chains disappear as she noticed Robin ready to attack.

From outside the dome, huge gashes on the ground surrounding the dome of chains were apparent. But the bluish chains held their own as the air blades failed to cut through. And just as the dome started falling, huge giant arms appeared in the place of the dome, each pair crisscrossed and ready to attack. Which they did as soon as the chains cleared.

All of the pairs sent huge 'X' shaped air blades in every direction, dissecting the trees in their ways in a circular fashion until they crossed a distance of close to four hundred meters before dissipating.

This brought the crew a bit of breathing time, for them to prepare to fight this person seriously and at the same time to get rid of his hiding places.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps was heard around the new clearing of the forest made by Robin as a person stepped up for them to see.

It was a young man of around twenty years of age. His height reaching as much as 209cm. With hair tied into a ponytail reaching his neck. A couple of strands fell on his face but failed to hide his very light brown eyes.

His features were well defined with a sharp jaw, and angular cheekbones, and overall would place him as one handsome young man.

He was wearing black shorts reaching past the knees, along with a normal white t-shirt. All of which failed to hide his robust and lean figure.

Currently, he had one hand in his pocket, with the other one holding a sword and pointing downward, as he looked with a smirk at them.

This was Ian Louis. and he had just pranked the shit out of his own crew.

He sheathed his sword at his waist in its scabbard, before he made his way forward towards them.

And just as he reached them they all came closer.

"You idiot! Do you know how tense and frustrated I felt?" Elene yelled at his face as soon as she reached him. Before she grabbed his ear with her hand and started admonishing him.

All the while Ian just laughed nervously.

"Ahaha… haha"

Bert sheathed his sword with a small smile.

It all made sense right now. Who but Ian can send that much air blades, and can completely hide from Elene's senses.

The girls giggled at what was happening before Elene finally released him and he started talking.

"Alright. Let's go back towards the ship. When we reach there I'll tell you what happened before we start sailing again." He said as he led the way back to the shore of the island.

[A/N: Alright you can check my P.atreon page for some pics of the crew I'm going to put. although they would be pictures of known various anime characters, I chose the ones that would be similar to how I picture the crew. anyways you can check them, as they might help you to better imagine the crew in your head. I don't own those pics, credit goes to their owners :)]