Chapter 2. A bunch of freaks.
Law's eyes snapped open.
Trembling, he clutched the blanket which had been covering one of his legs, although the other one was exposed to the coldness of this room.
His left hand released the blanket from its tight clutch, the other one went from his chest to his stomach, which was covered with bandages.
The blood leaked through, though.
He tried to remember how he got here, and why he was lying on a hospital bed; why was he bleeding, and who were the many other kids who lay on similar hospital beds spread over the huge room.
He was scared. Yes, even someone like Law has emotions.
He tried to get up, but he realized how terrible his wound was as soon as he felt his stomach howling in pain and the blood started dripping on his legs and feet.
He threw himself on the bed again (which caused the pain level to increase), and started to inspect the big room - was he in a hospital?
Than this would be a pretty pathetic one, since there wasn't any doctor or nurse - there wasn't even anyone conscious except for Law!
The room was dark, the curtains were closed, he couldn't tell whether it was early in the morning or just midnight, but either way, Law felt like he hadn't slept for ages.
He looked around, and recognized the girl with the orange colored hair and the guy with the tinted skin and the long nose.
They lay opposite from Law, but next to each other, in similar hospital beds.
For some reason, Law thought they were cute and wondered if they were a couple, but rough flashbacks haunted his thoughts away and took over his vision ...
He started to remember what happened that afternoon, but the memories were vague ...
Until his eyes spotted the round straw hat, lying on the chest of the person he saw before losing consciousness.
Luffy ...!
He stood up, ignoring the pain, and as out of character it was, Law walked to Luffy's bed. His eyes were glued to Luffy's closed ones.
Before he realized it, his hand went through Luffy's hair.
The sound of an opening door shocked Law out of his trance. He hasted towards his bed again, and would've managed to fake his sleep, if something ... Or someone, hadn't tickled him.
It was a hand.
A hand grew out of Law's chest and tickled his neck.
He screamed, but it was a soundless sort of scream.
He was about to touch the hand, when it disappeared and pink petals remained.
What the hell just happened ...?!
The sound of high heels tapping on the floor came into his direction.
The lights turned on, and a young woman - not older than 18 - stood in front of him.
She had raven black hair, partially covering her forehead. Small glasses were perched on her thin nose, and she carried a dusty, yet heavy looking book under her arm.
She smiled affectionately, and raised a hand.
"Hello."
Her voice was deep, yet feminine. Her brown eyes inspected Law, as if he was the model and she was the judge. When her eyes abandoned Law, he felt like he was freed from some sort of pressure.
"My name is Robin," she said, whilst offering her hand. She had to lower a bit, since she was quite tall and Law's bed was placed pretty low on the ground.
He just glared at her.
She chuckled.
"Hasn't anyone taught you that it's required for a man to introduce himself to a woman first?"
Law frowned.
"And it's really impolite to ignore a woman when she introduces herself to you?"
He never thought of that. Law grew up in a boys-only orphanage. He was used to fighting, scolding and yelling, hence he almost couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He felt stupid.
"What sort of feminist are you?" Law grunted as he had found the right words to throw back at her
"Feminist?" She asked, with a slight hint of amusing, "I would be a feminist when I'd let you pay the bills on our dates, right?"
He felt intimidated. Even though he knew she wasn't serious, he felt like every word that came out of her mouth should be considered as serious.
He didn't like her, and they only knew each other for two minutes.
She grabbed the chair next to Law's bed, sat down and crossed her legs. She started reading her book, totally ignoring Law's existence.
"Where am I?!" He asked as he lost his patience, "And what was that hand just now!"
Screaming hurt. He felt like the wound in his stomach was at the edge of ripping his entire body open.
She looked at him, her smile was lopsided.
"I'll explain everything if you just remain calmly, what I have to tell you may shock you, but that's totally common."
Law frowned. He didn't know what was coming, but he was sure he wouldn't like it.
"You're currently in our hideout, you're no longer in Japan anymore. We're currently in one of our Boss's mansions in Australia."
"What?!"
"I told you to remain calmly. Perhaps Sabo or Ace should tell you, they always explain things properly to our newbies. Yes."
She stood up.
"No, wait!"
His eyelids grew heavier, as two familiar, male voices appeared.
His vision became black.
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"He's awake, he's awake! Chopper-san~!"
Someone pinched Law's cheek.
"Luffy, you shouldn't do that! Can't you see how terrible injured he is?!"
"But Koala, his face looks so funny!"
Law slightly opened his eyes.
At first, the light that fell on him stung, but the longer his eyes were opened, he got used to it. He couldn't get used to the screaming and laughing children he heard on the background though.
He was still in the same hospital bed as he was before.
He wondered how he fell asleep again so fast, though. It was as if some strong energy had forced him to close his eyes; he fainted.
Before he realized it, six big eyes stared at him as if Law was some rare animal they were about to examine. It was utterly uncomfortable.
Two of them were round and dark blue. They were glued to Law's revealed tattoos. The girl's hair was caramel brown, she looked really neat.
The black eyes were the eyes Law was familiar with. Those were the eyes of the one who had saved him from the gunshot. Luffy. But wasn't that guy shot in his chest?! He looked like nothing has happened to him at all!
Luffy stared, he suddenly looked much more mature ... What was wrong with this guy?
The smallest eyes were the eyes of ... What was that?!
It looked like a stuffed animal, its nose was blue and it wore a pink hat, with on the centre of it a white cross. Its white coat resembled a doctor's lab-coat... Was that thing a doctor?!
"A ... A tanuki ...?" Law asked in utter disgust as he glared at the ... Whatever it was.
"I'm a reindeer, you moron!"
It talked. It was alive.
Law felt his heartbeat raising speed.
No pain could stop Law anymore. He was done with this place; women who could grow hands out of you, kids who can survive gunshots as if they were nothing, talking reindeers.
He stood up, pushed the crowd (which was way bigger than the three people who stared at him) away, and shuffled his way to the big port: the exit.
People attempted to drag Law bed into his bed again, they told him his wound was too serious; it didn't help at all, though.
"Don't touch me, you freaks!" He had screamed at them, not knowing he wasn't any different from them.
It sure was impressive, Law did reach the exit of the hospital-like room, but when he took sight at the huge hallway he entered, he fell down.
His hands went to his head, his eyes widened.
"What the ...?!"
The hallway was a huge area.
The floor was made of some sort of transparent stone ... It looked and felt like a thick layer of ice, but it was salmon pink and it shimmered.
This hallway led to a beautiful staircase, a winding staircase which was made of the same material as the pink floor.
The white walls were decorated with beautiful paintings, and in the walls and doors, similar to the door of the hospital-room, were glued.
And this was only one of the many corridors.
Next to the stair that went down, there also was one which led to an upper level.
This must've cost millions!
Law was about to stand up, when a tall man in front of him pushed him down again. He smirked.
"So, you're the newbie I saved wednesday afternoon, hmm?"
For some reason, this man seemed familiar to Law. He had seen the many freckles on his mature face before.
His hair was as black as Luffy's was, but he wore no shirt, hence it was revealed how muscular he was.
His body was perfectly built, as if he was the statue on which a sculptor had spent the half of his life on.
He grabbed Law's hand, shook it enthusiastic and said: "I'm Ace, Portgas D. Ace. The guy you met wednesday afternoon was Luffy, remember, he is my brother. You were attacked by those CP9 bastards, you were lucky I was close!"
Law was shocked. Luffy had an older brother?! And he was the one who saved him and Luffy that day? What?
"You're Law, hmm? Trafalgar Law? So, has Sabo explained you everything? What was your bounty before you died, hmm? Mine was 550 million beli! And what Devil Fruit did you eat? I ate the-"
"What the hell are you talking about?!" Law interrupted the enthusiastic Ace.
"Ah, so no one explained it yet, hmm? Well, I'm sorry. I was a bit too happy when I found out we've located another one of us! There hasn't been a newbie for three years! Oh, I got carried away again, I apologize ... Well," he lifted Law with one hand as if he weight as much as a pillow did, and carried him into the hospital-likely room again.
"I'll explain everything to you," he whispered in Law's ear as he had put him down on his bed again, after they'd passed the many enthusiastic children.
"So, where should I start?"
A/N: yes, I updated it rather fast! I'd like to thank the ones who followed, favorited and reviewed the story! It really cheered me up! Well, I found a great beta who has checked this chapter before I posted it, so there won't be grammar mistakes in my story anymore.
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