One Pice: The Straw Hat Adventure Reborn.

Everyone was sailing up the Sandora River doing various things. Zoro was swinging a giant weight around with Valerie on his shoulders acting as another weight while Chopper enjoyed the breeze he was making while Alvida was posing for Grace in a painting. Johnny and Yosaku were dueling each other while Gin was spinning his tonfa around while striking the air. Nami and Nojiko were watching out on the bow of the ship while Carue was aimlessly wandering around while Vivi started walking up towards them. Everyone else was in the cabin eating, relaxing, or goofing off. "DO NOT PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD!" Sanji shouted as he hit Luffy and Usopp. "If you idiots are bored, help Greg wash the dishes! I can't keep an eye on you guys and prepare food for the trip at the same time!"

"Would you like some help?" Ace asked.

"Nah." Sanji said with a smile. "You're a guest. Just sit back and relax." he said before he spotted Luffy and Usopp 'washing' dishes. "YOU DON'T WASH THOSE IN MOP WATER!"

"Greg is are already using the sink." Luffy said.

"THEN HELP HIM DRY THEM AND PUT THEM AWAY!" Sanji shouted, quickly losing his patience while Ace smiled.

-Up on Deck- "Nami? Can we anchor for a moment?" Vivi asked.

"Sure, but why?" Nami asked.

"I need Carue to run an errand for me." she said. Soon they stopped near the shore and got off the boat as Vivi told Carue to send a message to her father. She explained that the message explained all that she and Igaram discovered while undercover, that Crocodile was behind it all, and that she was okay and traveling with some strong-willed friends. Everyone smiled as Carue saluted while Vivi told him to conserve his water. She gave him the letter before he took off and they all got back on board. They traveled a bit farther down the river until they came to the shore where their journey to Yuba would start.

"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!" Sanji shouted in distress as he gapped at all the women with tears in his eyes. "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR DANCER CLOTHES?!"

"The desert heat will burn us if we don't wear this." Vivi said before handing Luffy a set of desert clothing. Sanji began rolling around on the deck and mumbling his sorrow as everyone else got into desert garbs. Before they could disembark, an enormous group of Kung Fu Dugongs appeared all around them. Chopper translated one of them talking and told them that they had to beat him to anchor here, or to go somewhere else before calling them chickens.

"Chicken huh?" Usopp said with a confident grin.

"We'll show you!" Johnny and Yosaku shouted before all three jumped onto shore.

"DON'T!" Vivi shouted right before the trio were lying on the rocks beaten and out cold. "Kung Fu Dugongs are very strong!"

"I WIN!" Luffy yelled after knocking a different one out.

"Luffy won against the dugong." Nojiko said.

"THAT'S EVEN WORSE!" Vivi yelled as the Dugongs all bowed to Luffy. "The code of the Kung Fu Dugong is that they become students to whoever defeats them." she explained as the dugongs all looked at Luffy with stars in their eyes. "HE GOT MORE FOLLOWERS IN MERE SECONDS!" Vivi screamed. Luffy didn't mind as he was now having them all punch like him.

"Don't just throw a punch! Put your spirit into every punch!" Luffy shouted before turning his fists black. "LIKE THIS!" he shouted. All of the dugongs shouted in agreement before they began to punch as well while the whole crew watched in bewilderment. Ace was staring in shock and awe however at the sight of his little brother.

'Haki?!' he thought. 'But how?!' His thoughts were broken however when Luffy shouted that they'd now be heading to Yuba.

"YOU'RE BRINGING THEM TOO?!" Zoro shouted as he saw all the Kung Fu Dugongs line up behind Luffy.

"No way Luffy!" Nami protested as Valerie laughed.

"They can't cross the desert." Vivi said before a few dugongs were holding onto Luffy's legs, begging him to take them with him. All three of them just stared at the scene with pity in their eyes. 'So cute.' they thought before whispering.

"Why do I feel like a bad guy here?" Valerie asked.

"Because we can't take them, even though they wish to come." Nami said.

"What do we do?" Vivi asked. Chopper had the answer before they could think of one as he reached into their supplies and pulled out some food. "I'll give you this if you stay." he said. The dugongs cheered before taking the food and Chopper away. "HELP!" After they helped Chopper, and left a good majority of their food with the Kung Fu Dugongs, the group began it's trek across the desert.

"Why couldn't we take them?" Luffy asked.

"The group is too big as it is moron!" Nami said. "Always causing trouble?" Ace asked with a grin.

"Every chance he gets." half of them groaned as they all reached the top of the sand dune and stared down at a ghost town.

"Is this Yuba?" Gin asked.

"No." Vivi said as she stared around with sadness in her eyes. "This is Erumalu, the City of Green."

"City of Green?" Nojiko asked as they all looked around. The whole town was half buried in sand with more sand blowing everywhere.

"This city is an example...of what Baroque Works is doing to this country and it's people." Vivi explained as they all began walking through the town. Everyone was staring around Vivi told them that it used to be a lively place with water and plantlife before the rain suddenly stopped three years ago. As they traveled further in while talking about Dance Powder, Greg, Valerie, and Grace were looking around the whole town. Each of them had been to Alabasta, but to places like Rainbase or the Spiders Cafe out where they would meet. But now that they were against Baroque Works, seeing all that they helped to do just felt like a giant weight was now pulling down on each of them. And it didn't really help that Vivi was now explaining about the scandal that began about the King using Dance Powder and using it to steal the rain from everywhere else in the country.

"What's this road Vivi-chan?" Sanji asked.

"This WAS the canal that brought water in from the Sandora River." she explained. "It was mysteriously destroyed however, and without it, the city slowly dried up and couldn't sustain itself anymore. Everyone left to other towns to find water until the City of Green...fell to ruin." she said as the wind picked up.

"It's just the wind blowing around the buildings." Ace explained as some of them began to freak out about hearing something moan. Vivi's hood blue off as she stared in dismay and sorrow.

"It sounds like...the city itself is crying." she said as a sandstorm blew around them. Everyone closed their eyes and braced themselves as the storm blew around them.

"Crocodile!" Luffy said in anger.

"What?!" Gin shouted. "Look!" Luffy said. Everyone tried their best to see through the sandstorm before some of them saw an image that made some of their blood run cold before the wind died and everything returned to normal.

"What...was that?" Usopp stuttered in fear.

"What did you guys see?" Nojiko asked.

"I saw it." Zoro said with his hand to his blade. "I saw a hand sweep through that storm."

"And a cape." Sanji said.

"A hand...and a cape?" Grace said in fear and understanding.

"It had to have been him." Greg said as Valerie gulped. "Crocodile!" Vivi said with hate in her voice.

"You mean the guy causing all this trouble in Alabasta?!" Chopper shrieked.

"Right." Vivi said before spotting a cloak in the sand. Everyone rushed over to it, only to find a skull there. Vivi fell to her knees before asking what right Crocodile had to do this to people who lived in the desert. "I...I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR THIS!" she screamed out as Luffy knocked over a nearby building in frustration. After she and Ace buried the skull, they kept on walking for Yuba. After some time though, the desert heat was beginning to get to some of them. Zoro had to pull Chopper due to his fur making the heat worse while Usopp used a stick to keep himself walking. Vivi was okay since she was born in this country while some of them women fanned themselves with their hand. Luffy still used a stick but kept quiet due to his time in Impel Down. Gin was taking a sip of water as Valerie shifted to one kilo and sat on the sled next to Chopper. Ace was watching everyone from under his hat before Usopp and Chopper began yelling at each other.

"Knock it off!" Zoro yelled as he shoved Chopper down to his smaller size.

"Hey Vivi. What's with all these hills?" Usopp asked with his tongue hanging out. "I thought that deserts were all flat."

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