Yay! A new story from me 'My Skydream'! Hope you like it. I have worked on this for some time now.
I danced around in my room while I listened to Jack Johnson - Good people. Actually I was cleaning my room, but that is boring. So I made it into a dance.
"Where did all the good people go~?" I sang while picking up some clothes.
I hate to clean up and I love to have my room messy. It made it home.
I really wanted to read the next chapter in my favorite manga, One piece, but I couldn't do that before I was done with my room.
"Stupid mama" I pouted and picked up one of my paintbrushes, I looked up at the white wall I was painting on. I had not actually permission to do that, but heck I'm living in this room for god sake. It was black branches that had red flowers on it, it was bending itself around on the wall and surrounded the text I had put there.
"Live long, Laugh often, Love much … Paint Now!" I loved it.
I looked around in my room. It was better, clean compared to some hours ago.
"OI! NIVEA! CAN YOU GO TO THE CONVENIENT STORE FOR ME?"
I sighed "YES MOM!" I never fight against my mom if she had a foul mood. She can be pretty scary if she want. Don't misunderstand me, I love her, and she have never harmed me in any way. She is just scary sometimes.
I walked down and got some money from her.
"I need some salad and tomatoes. Can you do that?"
"Mom! I'm seventeen, course I can do that!" She smiled at me. She loved to tease me just because I have a childs mind sometimes.
I went down to our road, just some three hundred meters away was the convenient store. I hummed the song while I was walking down. It was may and the warm wind was blowing my dark blonde hair in my face.
"Off.." The hair had taken my eyesight a second and I slammed into a person. I fell on my butt. "Ow... that hurt" I looked up and saw a woman in a black cape. It looked really hot. After some second I realized that I couldn't take my eyes away from her captive eyes. One was storm gray and the other was ice blue.
"You have some beautiful olive eyes" the woman said with a smooth voice. It gave me chills, what was with her?
"Um.. thank you... I think..." I put one foot under me and did a movement I always did to get up when I danced.
"You are very flexible." she complemented
"Thanks... again..." She was weird and her stare was creeping me out.
"You have to excuse me, but I have to go to the convenience store for my mom." I tried to apologize and backed a step away from her.
"Ah~, I'm so sorry" She said and stepped to the side so I could get pass. I nodded to her when I passed with an awkward smile. When I was some steppes from her I began to run. That lady was not good news, I could feel it.
When I got to the store I shopped quickly and got fast home. Looking around me for the lady, she wasn't anywhere. I sighed in relief.
"MOM! Here are the stuff! I'm going up to clean some more!" I put the bag on the kitchen table and ran up to my room. When I got up I closed the door quickly.
"That was scary." I sat down heavily on the bed. I caught something in the corner of my eye. It was a fruit beside my computer.
"I don't remember that I put a fruit there.." I walked over and picked it up. It looked like a kiwi but it was slightly smaller than an normal one. It looked like it had some marks on it.
"It must have been mom" I smiled. I piled it for skin and took it in one bite. It tasted horrible.
"Nasty!" I yelled and ran out to the bathroom. I gulped some water and spitted the taste out.
"That was horrible! What is my mom thinking?"
I grumbled my way to my room. I opened the door and closed it again, I looked up and yelped in surprise.
"What are you doing here?"
It was the creepy lady. She was standing in the middle of my room with a scary smile on her face. Her hood was taken off and I saw that she had long silver hair tied up in a ponytail.
"Did the fruit taste good?" She asked creepily.
"It was you? Wait! Devil Fruit?" I whispered and took a step back, but the door stopped me from going any further.
"Yes, I put the fruit there." Her voice was slick and she stepped a little closer. I pushed myself to the door as much as possible. Trying to get away from the creepy lady. Why had the door to open inwards right now!
"Who are you?"
"You don't need to know my name, Nivea. But what you need to know are that you are going on an adventure." she stepped little bit closer again. She was just one feet away.
"How do you know my name? What was that fruit?" I whimpered.
"I know you. The fruit was a devil fruit. You will soon find out which one."
The lady lifted her hand and reached for me. I tried to yell, but my voice wasn't coming out. When she touched the middle of my forehead, an explosion of pain filled my whole body. My eyesight blacked out and my mouth was open in a silent scream. At some point I felt that I was laying on the floor throwing my self from side to side. My whole body was in a violent twitching.
I could hear the lady far away saying "An advise for you. Whatever you do, don't reveal yourself to early." when I heard that I lost consciousness.
My whole body was sore. I had one hell of an headache. What did that bitch of an lady do to me?
I opened my eyes slowly to let them adjust to the light. I realized that I was laying in a bed, but it wasn't mine.
I clutched my head and hissed in pain when I tried to sit up. The door opened and a small girl come in. She had brown short hair and was wearing a blue and purple striped dress. Why do she look so familiar?
"You are awake" She smiled at me. I gave her a small smile in return.
"Yes I am. Can you tell me where I am? And I am Nivea, who are you?"
"You are in my moms bar and my name is Rika."
I just stared at her. Ri..ka...? hold on a second... WHAT!?
"Um..." this is too good to be true. "Am I in East blue?"
She gave me a weird look "Yes, you are. You are on Captain Morgans marine Island."
Now my mind when in full gear. I'm in east blue? In ONE PIECE? Hold on! Hold on! when time is this? Is it before or after Zoro and Luffy saved this Island? Suddenly my belly began to grumble.
"Ah~ I'm hungry~" I moaned and rubbed my belly. Rika laughed.
"You can come down in the bar for some food. My mom have it ready."
"Thank you! But is it okay? I don't have any money on me."
"It okay." She smiled and walked out the room.
I shake my head in disbelief and got painfully up on my shaky feet.
"Okay... I'm in one piece, I have eaten a devil fruit and I don't know which one, my body is very sore for some reason. And I don't know if this is before or after Luffy have visited the Island. Is that it?" I thought for a second. "Yeah, I think that's it"
I worked my way out the door and down the staircase. When I got down the mom waved at me to come and sit down.
"Thank you for taking care of me." I said while I sat down.
"Don't be silly. You were laying out in the rain with a high fever. We found you behind our house." Rika's mother smiled at me and put a plate of warm food on the counter "What was you doing there anyway?"
"Um... I actually don't know myself." I said while scratching the back of my head. The lady's voice played of in my mind.
'An advise for you. Whatever you do, don't reveal yourself to early'
So I have to make up a lie? I mentally groaned. I'm never good at lies.
"I don't actually remember what happened. What I do remember is that I sailed into a storm. After that it is sorta blank" I said while trying to look like I was lost in thought.
"You sailed into a storm!? Be glad you are alive." Rika's mom said. "You can call me Ririka if you want?" She smiled at me.
When I thought about it I really never catch her name in the manga. I don't think it was ever mentioned.
"Nice to meet you Ririka. My name is Cheshire Nivea, but just call me Nivea." I began to scuff down on the delicious food she had prepared. "Aaa~ Delicious!" I moaned in delight.
"Glad you liked it."
"Ne~ Nivea?" Said Rika from the chair beside me.
"Rika! Don't disturb her while she is eating!" Ririka looked strict at her daughter. I just waved at her.
"I don't mind! Food taste more delicious if you are having fun or share it with others anyway." I smiled "So what was you wondering about Rika?"
"Are you a pirate?" I blankly stared at her.
"Rika! What are you saying?!" It looked like Ririka wanted to shell Rika out.
"Phss- Hahaha" I broke out in laughter and dried a tear away from the corner of my eye.
"You really got me there!" I said while laughing. When I calmed down I took another bit from the food. "No, sadly I don't have enough guts to be a pirate on my own. But I would more call myself an adventurer. The sea is big and you never know what you can meet out there. It's my dream to explore it."
"Why do you think it sad to not be a pirate?" Rika questioned me with a confused look
"Um... How should I say this?..." I thought for some seconds "Well, you seen. Not all pirates are evil, some of them are actually good people. It's like saying not all marines are good and that some of them is evil. Nothing is totally black and white. I met on of this good pirates a long time ago and he had so many histories from adventures from the time he was sailing the seas. It was incredible to listen too."
I looked down on Rika to see her reaction, what I saw made me want to laugh even more. There she sat and had small sparkling stars around her eyes. She looked like Luffy for a second.
We were disrupted by Ririka how wanted Rika to clean the floor. While Rika was doing this I looked lazily around the bar. It was quite some people, and one of them made me choke my food. Ririka hurried with some water so I could get it down.
"Are you okay?"
"Huh? Ah, Yeah, Sorry to make you worry. I just was a little distracted." I said with again my hand behind my head.
I CAN BELIEVE IT! I screamed in my head. Roronoa Zoro is sitting by the same counter as me! I peeked at him again. He was much scarier now before he met Luffy. But just as awesome. My inner fan girl screamed in delight. I had to use all my concentration on not to show it in my face.
Suddenly a growl was heard and a annoying voice crept in my ear. I half turned and saw Helmeppo and his 'cute dog', it was a wolf for crying out loud. I felt my face formed itself to a frown, he really was a bastard.
I saw Rika trying to chase the wolf away with the mop. Then it hit me that I was witnessing the fateful event of Roronoa Zoro giving himself to the marines to protect Rika and her mother. I felt anger flowing up inside me. I knew that this had to happen or Luffy never finds Zoro. But it was really hard to watch Zoro drop his precious sword to the ground on the promise that Helmeppo never intended to hold. I grumbled quietly to myself.
After Zoro was taken away and I had finished my meal, I went to talk to Rika who had run up stairs sobbing.
"Rika? Are you in there?" I knocked on the door of the room I was borrowing. I opened the door and found her hiding under the blanket.
"Rika." I said with a soft voice "You want to talk about it?" I sat down on the edge of the bed, holding a bit of distance so she wouldn't be uncomfortable. She shakes her head.
"You think it was your fault?" She nodded her head
"It's not your fault, he saved you on his own record. If you go around feeling sorry for him and yourself than his saving was pointless. A man has an honor you know. Even if I don't really understand that myself, I respect him more than I feel sorry."
Rika peaked out of the blanket and looked at me, I smiled warmly back at her.
"Can I get a hug?" I asked and opened my arms. She nodded and threw her arms around my neck.
"Now dry those tears and get a smile on your face. I would like you to show me around the town, I have never been here before you see. And from now on you can call me Sis, okay? Come and ask me about anything, I will help you." I stroke her gently over the hair.
She rubbed her eyes and smiled back at me "Okay!"
"Now that is a strong girl. Let us go!" I standed up with a fist in the air and my other hand holding Rika's. "Adventures here we come."
"You are weird." Laughed Rika.
I cathed Ririka in the corner of my eye. She bowed her head in gratitude. I just smiled widely back.
When I come back from our trip it was evening and Ririka was waiting for us with dinner. After we was finished she wanted to talk to me. She sent Rika to bed and served me some warm milk with honing.
"I really can't say how happy I was when you cheered up Rika like that."
"It was nothing. I can't sit by when somebody is crying. It falls me completely natural."
"But I have to ask, How old are you? You sound like you have a wisdom like a old grandmother."
"Huh? Do I really?" I scratched my chin with a sweat drop. "Um... you see... I'm seventeen."
"Seventeen? So young!" She looked shocked and thought for some seconds.
"If you want you can live her for some weeks. You can help me in the shop to earn you some money too"
"Are you sure? Wouldn't that be a burden?"
"Are you kidding? You have helped me a whole lot"
I sweat dropped again. "I wouldn't actually say that"
"and I feel like you really are Rika's big sister, can you just watch over Rika for me a little when this man is captured by the marines?" She continued
"Zoro?"
"Yes. I have a feeling that Rika have plans to sneak in to the base to help him."
I mentally sweat dropped. She doesn't know how right she is.
"Sure, I would be happy to, but also I have some plans for myself. I have to train so a little time of the day I will be gone for some hours."
"Thank you so much. I don't see anything wrong with that. Here are some cloths I found. They are a little old but I think it will fit you quite nicely."
Ririka got up, got a bunch of clothes from the counter and gave it to me. It was a black singlet, a black hooded training jacket, a orange scarf to have around my waist like a belt. It also was a brown shorts cut of in the knees, The fabric was light and thin. I think it was cotton. It had some white spot from paint on the side.
"I love it!"
"I'm sorry about the paint but..."
"Don't think about it. I love paint and it makes me happy that it has been used to something like that."
"Are you sure?"
"I positive. Thank you again, I think that I will say goodnight know." I finished my milk and went to wash it, but Ririka took the cup out of my hands.
"I will wash it for you ,you just go and rest for now. I have some work for you tomorrow."
I nodded and went to the stairs with the clothes in my hands. I found Rika in the stairs out of sight. She really didn't go to bed, huh? I smiled and put a finger over my lips. I winked at her. She stifled a giggle. I pointed at my door and we both went inside.
"You want to sleep with me tonight?"
"Yes! I brought my blanket" She giggled
"Okay, pretty girl! I'm going to tuck you to bed and then I'm going to change. Whit me on that?"
"You have to catch me first." She ran over to the other side of the room. I in took my ninja posisjon.
"Okay little girl. I'm going to catch you in fifteen seconds." I said while doing some ninja moves with my hands.
"You are funny" she said and tried to escape my grip but I catch her easily and carried her over my head to the bed. I tucked her in and showed the tongue at her in a smile.
"I was wrong. Ten second."
"It's no fear, you are older and bigger than me!" She pouted.
"Then become stronger." I winked her. "and sometimes it's good to be smaller, think about that next time you are in trouble." I ruffled her hair and changed. Turning the lights off I went back to bed and found Rika sleeping already.
"She must be really tired, huh?" I whispered and stroke her over her hair. "Tomorrow will be a ruff day. So plenty of sleep" I crawled over her, humming a lullaby and went to sleep myself.
Um.. I didn't know what Rika's mother name was so I just used a name I come over in another fanfiction.
So review you guys. Peace off.