One Piece: Water Seven 34-35-36, Vol. 12 (Omnibus Edition), Paperback

As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, an enchanted Devil Fruit that gave him the ability to stretch like rubber. Its only drawback? He'll never be able to swim gain--a serious handicap for an aspiring sea dogYears later, Luffy sets off on his quest to find the ``One Piece,`` said to be the greatest treasure in the world...

Against all odds, Luffy and his Straw Hat crew make landfall on Water Seven, a wacky maritime wonderland where the world's best (and worst) shipwrights gather. When the pirates learn that their trusty vessel, the ``Merry Go,`` has sustained irreparable damage, the decision about what to do next rends the crew apartIn the meantime, mysterious archaeologist Nico Robin's dark past as a double agent is catching up with her, and the Franky family--a nasty clan of ship-scrapping bounty hunters--seem bent on the Straw Hats' destruction