Clarity Island; Spectrum City
Crusoe POV
"Open your eyes." A soft, female voice said.
I felt myself laying on a soft bed. My head was laying on a pillow and my arms were bandaged. It smelled like vanilla and antibacterial disinfectant. The last thing I remembered was the pain in my eyes and...
Kuma
I stiffened. I needed to go help Blaze. As strong as he was, he couldn't fight Kuma on his own. I struggled blindly out of the sheets.
"Whoa there," The voice said. "You need to stay in bed. I promise I won't hurt you."
I reluctantly leaned back.
"Now, could you please open up your eyes for me?"
I slowly opened my lids. It was white. White everywhere. No shapes, no color, no nothing. Just white.
The woman hissed. "It's worse than I thought..."
I heard her grab something that clattered when she picked it up and then poked something sharp into my arm. I immediately felt limp and weak and sleepy. What had she done? She said she wasn't going to hurt me.
"I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to knock you out for a few hours." She said.
Knock me out? How'd she do that by just poking that thing into my...I felt my eyelids slowly close.
East Blue
Livia POV
I trudged in the knee deep snow up the hill where I'd seen a castle like mansion. I shivered, rubbing my arms and watching my breath show up in the air. The wind whipped at my face, tangling my hair and stinging my frozen face. My wounds from the fight with Kuma were screaming at me to stop, but I knew I needed shelter to survive. I moved my wings in front of my face to try and block the wind and ice flying at me, but it only knocked me over back into the snow.
I struggled to get up, my teeth chattering. My fingers had started turning blue. My numb mind slowly reminded me that blue fingers meant frostbite, which meant that I might lose my fingers. I slowly looked up the mansion. I...needed to...get there...now...
I squinted. There was a huge black form standing in the front lawn of the mansion. I blinked once and it was gone. I blinked again and there was a huge, black dog in front of me. It looked down at me with intelligent liquid brown eyes.
"Please," I croaked. How stupid was that? I was desperate enough to talk to a dog. "Help...me..."
The dog blinked once and it slid me onto it's warm back and trotted towards the mansion.
"Thank you." I whispered.
"No problem." The dog replied.
I let out an exhausted breath and burrowed into it's fur. Wait it had talked?! My eyes rolled to the back of my head and I fainted from exhaustion.
North Blue
Hoken Jima
Blaze POV
"Oi...Wake up..."
I felt a stick stabbing itself in my cheek.
"Is it alive?"
"It's a Haole!"
"No, it's a Kokujiin!"
"Same difference! Both mean stupid white man anyway!"
I blinked open my eyes to three boys leaning over me, all with long hair that they tied in some way or another.
"Where...?" I croaked.
"IT SPOKE!" The three boys stumbled backwards, landing on their butts.
My arms trembled with the effort of lifting my body up.
"Whoa, whoa," A boy holding a stick helped me up. "You've got some bad wounds there."
"Where am I?" I asked, rubbing the back of head.
"Hoken Jima." A boy with a brown spiky bun on the back of his head and squinty eyes said, with a smile.
When he saw my confused expression, he elaborated.
"Hoken Jima means Feudal Island." He explained.
I nodded. "Never heard of it before."
"We're in North Blue." The last boy, with spiky dark blue hair said.
They all had some type of headband on, with a jewel in the middle. The boy with stick, obviously the leader, tapped his leg impatiently. He had long purple hair that he tied in a high ponytail. His bangs came up around the side of his face and he had dark, intelligent brown eyes. He reminded me of someone, I just couldn't remember who.
"Are these yours?" The boy with brown hair asked.
He handed me my chains.
"Yeah! Thanks." I wrapped both of them around my waist.
"I'll take you to my mother so we can get you healed up." The leader said. "I'm Genta, by the way."
"I'm Kin." The brown haired boy said.
"And I'm Narazaki." The boy with the dark blue hair said.
I followed them into the gates past the beach. I studied their clothes closely. They all wore these baggy, robe like things, with gauntlets on their hands, and interesting, double toed boots.
"Okaa-san!" Genta yelled loudly as he slid open the sliding door to one of the houses. "Okaa-san!"
He scratched the back of his head, annoyed. "Where's my mother?"
"Oh, Genta!" A woman wearing one of the robes, but a tighter fitting one, rushed into the room.
When she saw me, her jaw dropped slightly. "Genta-kun...do you know who this is?"
He shook his head. "But he's hurt pretty badly, so we need to help him."
His mother stared at me and I returned it equally. She recovered quickly and turned to Genta.
"Alright. I'll help fix him up. Then we'll talk afterwards."
Crusoe POV
I slowly opened my eyes. One eye, my right eye, was dark, but my other eye, there was something strange with it. Everything was so clear, clearer than it had been before, but when I stared at something, it focused on it, and a bunch of numbers in black came up on the bottom of my vision. I rubbed my eye and sat up. There was a full length mirror by my bed and I looked into it. I received the greatest shock of my life.
There was an electric purple iris in my left socket, while my right socket, was a black eyepatch. I slowly raised a finger to both of my eyes. My finger slipped underneath the eyepatch, a hand on my wrist stopped me.
"Mm, mmm," The voice that I'd heard from before say. "Don't look under there."
I looked up at the speaker. It was a woman, about Blaze's age, with soft dirty blonde hair and brown eyes. Everything about her was 'soft'.
"My name is Maggie." She said. "I'm sorry, but I could only save one of your eyes. The other...well, it's not pretty."
She took off the mask that was hooked underneath her chin and tossed it onto the table. "What's your name?"
"I'm Cobalt Crusoe," I mumbled, and then sprung out of bed. "I have to go back, I-!"
"Not so fast," Maggie stopped me. "You need to get used to that eye of yours. And I didn't tell you, but we're currently in South Blue."
I widened my eye. "South Blue?"
Maggie furrowed her brow. "I've never seen wounds like yours before. Where have you been? I found you unconscious on the beach inside a ditch that looked remarkably like a huge paw print."
"It's best if you don't know." I said, darkly.
I made my way towards the door, but Maggie grabbed my shirt.
"You're telling me." She said.
After I explained what happened on Sabaody, a troubled expression came onto her face. She just sat there for a few minutes, with her chin in her hands, thinking.
As she thought, I studied the world with my new eye. I realized that my eye would focus on one thing if I stared at it long enough, and then start giving me characteristics about it, telling me how far away it was, how dangerous or destructive it was, or how much power I needed to break it. I also noticed that I could see farther away, and see things that normal humans couldn't see. There was a bit of movement on the bookcase, and my eye flashed towards it. My eye zoomed in and I found that it was small fruit fly flying around.
There was a sudden pounding on the door and Maggie jumped with surprise. She quickly stood up and slid her tools into a drawer and grabbed my blood stained sheets and threw them in the trash. She grabbed my arm and pushed me into the closet.
"Wha-?" I tried to say as she pushed me in.
"Hurry! Don't speak if you want to live!" She hissed urgently.
Maggie shut the door and I peeked through the cracks. She opened the door and a group of marines stood at the door.
"Dr. Hyde Magdelyn." The marine at the door said.
"What can I help you with?" She said, cooly.
"We've received reports that an unidentified human arrived here, on Clarity Island, at 6:30 AM." The marine said.
"And?" Maggie prompted.
"We have sources who say that you took the body."
"How absurd," She laughed. "You know I'm just a poor doctor trying to live in this world.
"Yes, but-"
"Don't come accusing me of something you don't even know about." She growled, reaching into her shirt.
"We...we apologize, Dr. Hyde." The marine seemed to freak out as she reached into her shirt and left with his group.
Maggie sighed and slumped into her chair. I slid out of the closet. I thought that that woman wouldn't hurt a fly, but my opinion of her had totally changed.
"Doctor, huh." I said.
She nodded.
"It looks like they don't take too well to them here?" I said, trying to lower the tension in the room.
"They don't," She sighed. "They treat us as they treated the historians of Ohara. Like devils."
She brushed her hair out of her face. "Because we've found out how to meddle with time."
A small gasp came out of my mouth. "Like...without a devil fruit?"
She nodded. "What're you getting so excited about?"
"I...I have a time based Paramecia Devil Fruit ability!" I exclaimed excitedly.
"What?" Maggie sat up. "Really? We've never met a time based User before! You could help us with our research and we could help you with expanding your power to it's fullest!"
I nodded, a wide grin on my face. I would be stronger than Blaze. I was excited. I could finally stand on the same platform as him.
Livia POV
I woke up in a large bed, with a towel placed on my forehead. My body ached, but it was warm. My throat ached. I turned my head to the side and saw the dog sitting by the roaring fire, watching me.
"How are you?" It asked me.
I sat straight up and screeched, which made my throat hurt even more. "IT TALKED AGAIN!"
"Please, don't panic!" It said. "My name is Boone, I don't mean any harm!"
"Boone?" I quieted down.
He nodded encouragingly. "I ate the Shaberi Shaberi no Mi. Talk Talk Fruit. It allows me to speak any language human and animal alike."
I stared at Boone closely, who started to have a nervous air about him. I smiled.
"You're cute."
"Boone, glad to see you're getting along with our guest." A man's voice rang through the room as he opened the door.
"Master-san!" Boone barked.
I saw his silhouette, and then his full face as he walked into the firelight. It was a tall man, a little taller than Zoro and a few inches shorter than Blaze, with a pointy goatee, long gray hair which he tied in a low pony tail and small, squinted eyes. He dressed very formally, with a black suit and black tie, with a long, thin rapier in it's sheath at his side. His face was kind and his beaming smile filled the whole room.
"I've wanted to meet you for a long time," He said. "Cobalt Livia-san!"
My breath caught in my throat. " 'Tact Composer, Cornello Ilbert. Former tactician of the Roger Pirates!"
"Hahaha," He laughed as he got closer to my bedside and patted Boone's head. "That's right."
He leaned down and looked at me. "It's been a while since those times."
I blinked. How many members of the Roger Pirates was fate planning for me to meet?
"We have more important matters to discuss," Ilbert turned, and grabbed something in a long, black case. "I hear you're in need of a weapon?"