31: memories

The crew goes back to the old man for a visit before leaving and watch as he meets up with his grandson how burrowed out if the ground during his record of hole digging. The crew sailed away while saying goodbye to the old man and his grandson and leave ti the next island, where they stop for the night.

Alex was stuck with night watch on this island and when morning came everyone but robin who also stayed up for the night was confused about who the others where and where they were, so robin and alex gathered everyone to figure out what happened. Robin just tells them the fact instantly which alex agrees with, as the quicker they learn the situation the quicker they cam figure this out, causing the rest to be shocked about what they were told.

Alex seeing as they were gonna be difficult about believing them decided that she would rather train than deal with the idiot who lost their memory so she left robin to work it out as she grabbed her yoyos before jumping onto the island leaving robin behind to deal with the crew that had no memory. Arriving at the island alex started a quick routine that work on her flexibility, stamina and strength as all are essential for her to use the yoyos better, flexibility so she can move the yoyos without getting hit while also not having them caught or tangled, stamina as they need to me in constant movement when in battle, and strength as the yoyos are heavy and to make them move faster and with more power requires more strength.

As alex was training robin and the rest were visited by a little kid playing a seahorse instrument that steals memories, he made the mistake of playing when robin was awake and she woke the rest making it so he couldn't steal the memories. The guy also sat on the merry's head causing luffy to go into a rage and attack instantly as even if he didn't have his memories he decided that was his special seat and no one was allowed in it without his permission. Luffy then attacks the boy but misses and hits the instrument freeing his memories from it, which allows robin to understand what happened and how to maybe fix it.

As alex returns to the ship after an intense almost day long workout she is greeted by a sleeping crew so she decided to shower and change before also going to sleep. Waking the next morning luffy who had his memories back decided that they would go search for the kid responsible and get all their memories back, dragging everyone with him. Alex although reluctant went with them as her captain ordered her to so they followed robin to check out a place she found suspicious, along the way the found nami and dragged her along.

Along the way they met a stone that had ancient writing on it and robin was able to translate what it said and found out who the real culprit of their memory loss is, along the way chopper and usopp got separated causing alex to go looking for them. She found usopp amd chopper near a cliff, but she also found zoro with them. Walking up she asks

"Oh zoro! So this is where you have been luffy and us have been searching for you."

Which causes him to look at her woth blood lust as he asks with a voice filled with hate

"Where is luffy now?"

Causing alex to go in guard as zoro never talks like that about luffy like that as he respects luffy to much to do so. As alex amd zoro sqaure off usopp and chopper us the chance to sneak away and end up meetong with the group again. Alex and zoro stare at each other for a little bit and alex asks

"Hey, whats with the killing intent I'm feeling from you? Your not actually planning on doing anything are you? If you are them ill have ti stop you here as Luffy is busy with getting your memories back."

This causes zoro to get i to his battle stance and edge one of his swords out of the sheath with his thumb, alex reacts by pulling her yoyos out of her pocket. The rest such back with usopp and chopper who told them about what was happening and luffy emds up fighting zoro instead of alex as he says its his responsibility as captain to keep his crew in order, this causes the rest to leave with robin after the culprit of the memory theft.

As they travelled nami started sprouting off about how they can't trust alex and robin as they were pirates and they dont know their motives, as alex was starting to get pissed at nami robin brought out their side of the story causing the group to split as sanji and chopper were the only ones to continue with robin and alex until usopp went to catch up as he realized he needed his memories from sanjies reasoning about why he was going, nami went after them as well as sanji still had her gold, making the whole argument a waste of time in alex's opinion.

As they were about to rejoin the group the little kid arrived and tried to hypnotize nami and usopp, but robin used her devil fruit to cover their eyes so they were not affected. Sanji then rushes up tomkick the kid but robin yells out

"Its nit the kid!"

Causing him to quickly change targets to the sea horse and send it flying into a boulder spitting out memories. The boy got o]up from where he fell due to sanjis kick and ram away crying, leaving behind the seahorse as robin explained that the boy was being manipulated by the seahorse, causing it to try and run away before being stopped by sanji again. Sanji them threatens the sea horse inti giving the memories back but all he got was it replying that it wouldn't give back such tasty memories after all the trouble it went through to get them, but before sanji could argue further alex walked up to the sea horse and crouched down.

"Hey just so you know, I'm a huge fan of grilled seahorse. I especially like cooking it when its alive as the osin of it cooking gives it extra flavour. Can i try it?"

Alex asked with the brightest guy sensei smile she could muster while looking i to the now quivering seahorses eyes, as it sat there doing nothing but quivering alex got impatient and hit the seahorse as strong as she could into the ground causing it to spit all their memories out. Before she could do more zoro arrived and they couldn't tell if he got his memories nack yet or not as he looked murderous, as sanji went to steo forward to confront zoro, alex stopped him saying

"If tou feel where his intent is focused you'd have noticed it wasn't us, let him do what he want and only interfer if he get clode to the others."

Leaving sanji standing there in caution but then luffy come zooming out of the forest and crashes into zoro and sanji sending them flying. The crew watched as the seahorse trued to swim away before zoro jumped into the water after it in his rage for revenge on taking his memories, the seahorse after being caught releases a purple gas. Everyone in the crew then saw their most loved ones standing in front of them, amd robin relised they were after images of their memories thus leaving robin and alex as the only unaffected ones as they never had their memories stolen in the first place.

The sea horse them uses an ability that allows it to steal all of their memories claiming it mow has become a celestial dragon. Luffy launches himself onto it as he wanted to ride it, causing it to slowly leak the memories it stole. The rest watched confused as they dont have memories, as luffy punched the dragon yelling about how if it wants to be a celestial dragon it should make it own memories rather than steal from others, causing it to spit their memories out again.

As the crew was leaving they thought the villagers were going to celebrate them for returning their memories but they are instead greeted by all of them being hostile and the kid from earlier claiming they stole the memories, causing them to run away back to their ship. After setting sail again the crew was relieved as they wont have to worry about forgetting themselves anymore, and they settled in for the night faraway from the island.

As they were sailing the met foxy looking like he's about to sink on his ship causing them to save him y pulling him onto their ship just before a wave crushed their ship. They quickly make themselves at home on the ship and while fishing spot their main ship in the distance getting the strawhats to drop them off on their ship, where he is challenged to a fight by the new captain as he didnt want to give up his position as captain.

As the rest of the crew watched the battle alex went to snag the treasure of the pirates as she was still pissed at them for making her participate in a davy back fight, so she used her shadow travel to enter the treasury where she robbed them clean and proceeded to the kitchen for some food as all that heavy work made her hungry. After eating alex went amd and fell asleep on the mast of the merry as it had an excellent patch of sunlight that felt divine to lay in, and alex watched robin and chopper play cats cradle before falling asleep.