You hear unknown voices chattering excitedly. Something on your shoulder is teasing you. It doesn't hurt - on the contrary, it feels very gentle and careful. You are very hot and you wonder if this is all just an extraordinarily strange dream. The wind gently tickles the tip of your nose and a few small grains trickle onto your face.sand?, you ask yourself. Your eyes blink open. A big face lies in front of you, you are frightened and hit the boy's forehead with your head. He is sitting in the sand.A desert?, you ponder confused. You put your hand on your forehead and look around in amazement. Besides the black-haired man in the straw hat that you accidentally knocked over, you are surrounded by a few other people. A long-nosed man with a headscarf, a blond man with a charming smile and curled eyebrows, a dwarf, a girl with long, beautifully shiny blue hair, a green-haired man with crossed arms who looks at you sternly, another black-haired man, also with a hat, who grins crookedly at you and an orange-haired woman. According to her position, she was the one who touched your shoulder.

"Who are you?" Asks the guy who landed in the sand.
"I could ask you that!" You counter him sternly, "where am I here?"
The black-haired man gets up and brushes the sand off his clothes. Like everyone else, he wears an unusual cloak, which is supposed to protect them from the heat and the wind that stirs up the dusty sand. "My name is Monkey D. Luffy and I'm going to be the pirate king!" He grins cheekily.
"Pirate King?" You mumble in amazement.

"Exactly!", He confirms with a proud smile and introduces you one by one. Since they all seem to be very nice, you finally wrestle yourself to reveal your name: "My name is Cenith and I have come to Alabasta to deliver a message. Actually, I help my mother out in her business, there I clean and sell now and then weapons. "
"Your mother owns an arms shop?" Interjects Zorro, "are there swords there too?"
"What kind of message?" Asks Vivi suspiciously.
You ignore Zorro and turn to the pretty girl: "I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to tell you. I was entrusted with the utmost secrecy. I would be killed." You smile deceptively and turn to Zorro: " To get back to your question. Yes, we have one too, including one of the 21 king swords. "

"That reminds me," you say when you have just finished your previous sentence, "when I was kidnapped by these sand pirates, I lost the slip of paper with the directions. Could you perhaps help me to the capital of Alabasta to get?"
"Sure!", Luffy yells with a broad grin and puts an arm around your shoulder, "we have to go there too!"You smile when he lets go of you again and puts his arms on your hips, then you mumble a simple "Thank you, nice of you."

You start your journey and march through the endless desert for an eternity until you are completely exhausted. Vivi gives you suspicious looks from time to time, but you ignore them all the time and just keep going on your way.
"Guys," mumbled the captain with his tongue hanging out, "are you guys as hot as me?"
Most of them only answer him with a simple nod, which seems exhausting enough, but you say straightforward: "Oh yes."
"This is the fire of love !!", Sanji chuckles and runs madly in front of you in a circle.

"Hey, look! There's a shadow up there," interrupts Zorro.
Suddenly an arm wraps around your back, you are suddenly pressed against Zorro and Ace next to you and take off. You all hurl like lightning into the shadows behind a rock the top of which you almost touched.
The orange-haired girl pinches Luffy in anger in the cheeks and pulls her 30cm long while she scolds him: "Never do that again, you idiot !!! We almost turned to mud, do you even realize that, Luffy ?!"
"What was that?" You ask yourself in surprise.
"He does that more often," explains a rough voice just a little behind you. You turn around and discover Zorro with folded arms and an annoyed look.
"I don't mean that," you say ignorantly, "but how can he make his skin so long? Doesn't that hurt?"
A loud laugh can be heard. Ace walks up to you and says: "Hahaha! Well, you might be one!It doesn't hurt, hahaha! Luffy is made of rubber, he has a devil fruit, to be more precise thegum -Gum fruiteaten. "
"Hey, don't laugh at me!" You scold irritably and slap him.

Wait a minute,you suddenly realize,that must be the Monkey D. Luffy to which 30 million berries are exposed. If I got the news and then manage to ambush him, I could grab a total of 80 million berries. He doesn't look very smart. How did he get such a high bounty?
Ace rubs his cheek with one hand while he has put on a suffering look and pouts: "Ouch, that hurt."
"Well," you remark and take his hand from his face. Then you gently push his hat back a little with your own and place it barely noticeably on his forehead. He looks at you in surprise while you speak sensitively: "You are really hot. Do you have a fever?"
"Waaaaaaas", Luffy yells in between and pushes you into the sand before he squeezes his brother's cheeks tightly with both hands, "Chopper !! You have to get him well again!"
"Yes, let me see," replies the moose jumping wildly through the sand, but Ace gets ahead of him and pulls Luffy away, pulls one over his hat and yells at him: "Take the tentacles away, Luffy! !I'm not damn sick! "

He takes a few steps towards you, puts a hand on his hat to adjust it again and explains: "I also ate from a devil fruit. My body is made of pure fire." Flames blaze up from the fingertips of his other hand, whose dance movements you are impressed with.
The sun has just set and Ace has lit a campfire around which you have all gathered.
"I'm so hungry!" Luffy wails and Usopp agrees.
"Pull yourself together! We're all hungry, right?" Nami explains with an angry hiss.
Vivi giggles and calms the group: "You just have to be patient a little longer. I'm sure we'll be there soon."
You rummage in your bum bag and take out three large pieces of bread, which you hand over to the captain with a smile and the words "Here, I took this from the sand pirates".
While Usopp, Chopper and Sanji are excitedly following the straw hat so that it doesn’t feed everything alone, you, Vivi, Nami, Ace and Zorro are still sitting around the warmth of the fire.

"Tell me, Cenith," the orange-haired woman interjects, "where are you from?"
"From the East Blue. I live in a pretty small village, well, more like a settlement near a town. My mother's gun shop is in town, so we want to look for an apartment there now," you say.
"Did you make the way here all by yourself?" Asks Zorro suspiciously.
"Yes," you answer proudly, "I traveled on merchant ships and later on the Grandline I got a cleaning service on a naval ship. I can't fight, but I can work. I often take odd jobs, including this one. I'm getting paid pretty well for the message I'm supposed to convey, which is why it's worth the long journey. And when I get home, we can finally afford an apartment in the city! " just accidentally shared a lot when you see Nami's eyes sparkling with money and quickly throw in: "Not that I would get that much Berrys for it. You know, just a few bucks, but we need the money . "

They all look at you speechless for a moment, when a strange hum wakes you out of your silence. You all look up and see Zorro lying on his back snoring, he was tilted backwards and just like that, nothing to you, fell asleep. Shortly afterwards, Sanji, who has the bread with him, Chopper, Usopp and Luffy appear with several bumps on his head and sit down with you. The blonde hands you, Vivi and Nami each a bread and mumbles with joy, singing: "Hieeer, my Engelcheeen! They are only for you!"
In the end, however, you divide it up fairly among everyone, with the exception of Zorro, because he has been sleeping for a long time and you also decide to finally go to sleep.You lean against the rock, pull your knees close to your chin, cross your arms and squint your eyes with a trembling expression. It's really cold.This heat during the day and this icy cold at night, you wonder dissatisfied, how can one live in such a country.
Suddenly you feel a warm aura next to you and open your eyes in amazement. The man next to you has taken off his cloak and sat down next to you, you are almost touching each other. "You are sure to be cold without a cloak. You can lean on me if you want, I will warm you", Ace offers you with a friendly smile. You hesitate for a moment in which you look uncertainly into his dark, sparkling eyes in the moonlight and move a little closer to him, carefully place your head on his shoulder and feel the warmth that emanates from him pass onto your skin. He carefully puts his cloak over you like a blanket and lowers his head so that he touches yours. "Good night," he whispers and closes his eyes.

"G-good night", you answer him embarrassed and close your eyes while you bite your lower lip. You are shaking, not because you are cold, but because you can now feel this closeness between you and this pirate. You can't explain to yourself why your heart is suddenly racing and you just hope that he can't hear your heartbeat. Finally you fall asleep.
The next morning you wake up as one of the last and give way in shock to Ace when you realize that it really happened last night. He laughs and asks what's going on, but you don't answer. You feel strangely uncomfortable when you also realize that Ace was one of the first to wake up and didn't move an inch not to wake you up.
A while later, when you are about to move on, the black-haired man with the funny hat suddenly says: "Well then, folks, I have to move on."

"Move on?" You repeat in surprise.
Luffy intervenes and goes to his older brother: "Do you really want to leave us, Ace?"
Ace puts a hand on his hat and says with a smile: “Yes, I have a job to do after