Icy Break

Chapter 2

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Light. I remember Light. I remember seeing the light, running towards the light, and being encased in the light. I struggled to open my eyes, they felt heavy and weary. I managed to open them a fraction and immediately slammed them shut. There was something bright preventing me to open my eyelids. I waited until I got used to it. Then slowly but surely opened my eyes. When my eyes were fully open I took in what was before me. I saw white walls and a hanging light bulb not too far away from me. I looked to my left and saw multiple beds. Surgical beds by the looks of it. Even further left I saw a window, outside displayed a magnificent scene. Fish were swimming everywhere with a wide range of colours and differed in sizes.

"Hello."

I was so engrossed with the fish that I jumped when I heard the voice. I whipped my head to the right and came face to face with a man. I instinctively recoiled. The man chuckled. The first thing I noticed was his stormy grey orbs, they seemed to pierce through me as if trying to read my soul. I saw wisdom in them. My eyes wandered a bit higher and saw he was wearing a white and black spotted northern-style fur hat with a thick bill. I then looked back down and saw he was wearing a dark blue shirt with even darker blue feathers warming his neck. A yellow, grinning jolly roger was sported on the front. An obvious sign of a pirate. I glanced down at his trousers and noticed it was light blue with brown spots here and there with a pair of matching black shoes.

When I didn't respond, his face showed concern.

"Can you talk?"

I opened my mouth to retort back at him for asking such a silly question when my mouth turned raw and I had a coughing fit. During my fit, the man pulled away and grabbed a glass of water, then proceeded to hand it to me. I looked at the glass cautiously then plucked it out of his tanned hand. I swirled the glass and took a cautious sip. It tasted just fine. I glugged down the water greedily and when not a drop was left, realized what I had just done and turned to the man with an apologetic face.

"You drink quite eagerly," He smirked in amusement, and then his expression turned into a serious one and said, "I think you're dehydrated."

I just nodded.

"It's not too surprising seeing as you can't talk, you were frozen after all." He stated.

I frowned a little, and then remembered, that's how I ended up in that horrible darkness.

He turned his back to me and grabbed a notebook and pencil, then handed it to me. I understood and wasted no time jotting down.

Who are you?

The man with blue feathers chuckled darkly, "I knew you'd ask me that. I'm Trafalgar Law, a doctor and pirate from north blue. Also a supernova." He added.

I frowned a bit.

Trafalgar?

Now it was Law's turn to frown, "Yeah, Why?

Never mind, I wrote, I think I've heard that name before

"I see." Was all he said.

My mind then processed the next bit, a doctor, I don't know why but it felt like I knew someone like that. The next part, a pirate, yeah nothing new. North Blue, I'm from there.

A supernova?

"A pirate with a bounty over 100million before or while at Sabody Arpilego." The man with the fur hat replied.

Ahh Sabody, I've been there before.

"So who are you?" Law asked, "I've told you about me."

I thought for a while to tried and recall my memories.

I don't remember my name, I wrote, but call me…Whitescar Vera.

"You don't remember your name?" He repeated.

I nodded.

"Do you remember anything, Vera?" Trafalgar asked.

I remember random bits, like I'm 18 and my birthday, and that I ate the Ancient Saber Tooth Tiger Fruit, I'm from north blue, and that's it.

"So you're a Devil fruit user…" He mused, "What were you doing in a block of ice?"

I scrunched up my face trying to remember, a little memory of being chained up by some weird scientists came to me.

I remember being chained up, and that I was being used as some kind of experiment, but that's all.

"Hmmm." Law mumbled, "An experiment. Do you remember what the 'experiment' was?"

I shook my head after seconds of hard concentration.

"I think they wanted to preserve you for something. Freezing people in ice are a common way of preserving the body with minimal damage to the body." Trafalgar explained his theory.

I just shrugged, I didn't know.

"How old are you?" He asked, "Really?"

I raised a questioning brow, I already told him I was 18.

He caught my curious expression, "Your probably not lying, you are whatever age you were before you froze but It's clear that your body is years older, even if it was preserved, It hasn't stopped the aging process, Just slowed it down, very very slowly, but there are some tell-tale signs that you've been frozen for a long time."

What's the date? I'll work out my age.

"20th Saturday September 2014"

What the hell? 2014? I stood there staring at the doctors' face with a shocked expression.

"Are you alright?" He enquired.

I slowly nodded my head counting on my fingers. I held up 1 finger, then 2, 3, 4 and 5

October 21st 1496

518 years I wrote.

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