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Most characters might be OOC and there might be some grammar errors but I'm trying my best. Also, it mostly follow the cannon for now so there won't be a lot of scenes until either Groot or Akeno take part in it.
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Chapter 3: Island Hopping
"There will be no more snow." Vivi said after several days of shipping, "The first sea that you've passed is just special. Because seven magnetic fields caused it to become chaos. But you still need to be careful. Even through, you won't face any more forces of nature. There still are many obstacles in this sea. The only thing that you need to remember is not to underestimate this ocean." She looked up to the crew before her eyebrow twitch out of annoyance.
"Hey!" Sanji dished out his drinks with a beaming grin, "Anyone wants my special drink?"
"Just brink it!" Luffy and Zoro hollered out, following by a loud quack before the blue-haired girl thrust her index finger at them as she turn to Nami as soon as she stepped out of the cabin with glasses.
"Is this good?!" She shouted.
"There's nothing wrong with that." Nami sipped her drink, "If something happened, they can surely work hard because no one wants to die." She handed second glasses over to her, "Here's your drink!"
"That may be right." Vivi sighed out, "But they are too happy." She glanced at the merry crew.
"Staying on this ship can make you stress-free, right?" Nami laughed and Vivi slowly form a smile, she was about to reply to the navigator before Nami shout at someone, causing her to jump up. "Valentine, hand off Akeno!" She snarled at the said woman as she attempt to lead Akeno somewhere away, "Where are you thinking you're taking him to?!"
"I'm just going to give him a bath." Valentine replied, "Nothing wrong with that." A tiny trail of noseblood does not match to her comment.
"I am Groot!" Groot snatched his son away from the shotacon, he barely take his eyes off his son for few seconds and that just happened.
"What's bath?" Akeno asked him curiously.
'Wait, what…' Nami stared at them blankly and she was about to say something but Sanji spoke up suddenly.
"Everyone, look at the dolphin." The cooker pointed at a dolphin.
"That's so cute." Nami said absentmindedly as the crew gather around to see the dolphin before they notice something odd…It was a giant dolphin, nearly fifty time larger than a usual size. "BUT IT'S TOO BIG!"
"Let's run away!" Luffy laughed and several members scattered to steer their ship away from this giant creature.
After they managed to escape the giant dolphin, Nami peek at something through her log pose. "Our next destination after Cactus Island must be this island." She nodded before she look up to a giant island, "So that is the second island of Grand Line." The Going Merry float into a river from the ocean.
"Be careful." Vivi whispered softly, "I'm just worrying about what Ms. All Sunday said."
"There will be monsters here." Usopp gulped.
"Ooh, I want one for a pet!" Akeno said with sparkly eyes.
"A-A monster for a pet?!" The sharpshooter choked on his saliva, "God no!"
"We have to find more food because we didn't by anything from the last town." Sanji puffed some smoke out with crossed arms before he glance at their surrounding, "But this place looks like a tropical forest."
"This is Little Garden." Vivi answered.
"How come it's not as cute as its name?" Nami asked before she squirts her eyes at giant trees, "And it's not even little. I've never seen these kinds of trees before." She jumped up in air by a sharp screech, "What's that?!"
"You're so cute, Nami-swan." Sanji grinned at her before he jab his thumb over his shoulder at a bird in distance, "Don't worry. It's just a bird and this place is just a normal forest. Don't worry…"
"Is that a gecko?" Luffy tilted his head, the bird have a reptile head and scales. Suddenly, there was a roaring explosive in distance.
"Is this supposed to be a sound from a normal forest?!" The navigator cried.
"It sounds like volcano eruption!" Usopp wailed before they hear a growl in opposite direction as they turn around, "A tiger?" A said giant creature toss out from the shadow, covered in blood, and it land next to river dead.
"WHY DOES THE TIGER FALL DOWN WITH BLOOD!" Nami shouted, "THIS MUST NOT BE A NORMAL FOREST!"
"I've decided that we will not go down here." The sharpshooter nodded with shakily knees.
"I will stay here until log pose can memorize the frequency, and get out of here as soon as possible…" Nami recompose herself, "We have to hurry up and go to Alabasta."
"Sanji, prepare the lunchbox." Luffy grinned widely as his cooker glanced at him questioningly, "I smell the scent of adventure!"
"Hey, wait a minute!" The navigator turned sharply to her captain with a snarl, "Where do you think you are going?!"
"Adventure." The grinning strawhat captain laughed, "Do you want to come?" The navigator drop her head in defeat with tears running down her face.
"Can I go with you?" Vivi asked and Luffy give her a nod.
"YOU TOO?!" Nami gasped, her eyes widened at the princess and she told her about relaxing.
"Do you think we can find a pet here?" Akeno asked Luffy.
"I-I am Groot." Groot waved his hands around with shaking head behind Akeno's back as if he tell him to say no but…
"Of course, we'll find a big one!" The captain barked out with roaring laughter and the little boy lifts his hands up in air with a cheer as the tree creature drop his head dejectedly. Luffy receive the lunchbox from Sanji before he hop off his ship onto the grass with Vivi, her duck and Akeno.
"Let's go!" Luffy ran off with Akeno.
"We will be back." Vivi hollered back to the crew, following them into the woods.
"Hold on, I'm com…" Valentine was about to go after them but Groot toss her back on the deck with his vines.
"I am Groot." The creature drilled holes into her head with his eyes and the shotacon just pout childishly.
"Look!" Luffy pick a creature up to Vivi and Akeno with an exciting grin, "This shell looks like an octopus. I will call it Octopus Shell."
"That's stupid!" Akeno pointed at the captain, "It would be A-Shell!"
"No, this is an ammonite." Vivi looked closer to the creature with widened eyes.
"So it is Octopus Shell, right?" The captain wiggled the creature in his hand before they hear a loud quack from Carue and they turn to the duck until they see a…
"DINOSAUR!" Vivi screamed at the sight of a brachiosaurus.
"DINOSAUR?" Luffy gasped with starry eyes.
"PET!" Akeno suddenly ran toward the creature with raised fists, "I WANT HIM!"
"NO, AKENO, COME BACK HERE!" The bluenette shouted, "LUFFY, DO…" She turned to him, only to see her captain climbing up on another brachiosaurs' neck. "WHO TOLD YOU TO GO UP THERE?!" She glanced between her captain and Akeno who have disappeared into forest, 'What am I gonna do?!'
"Pet, pet, pet!" Akeno jogged through the giant forest with exciting grin before he suddenly halts in middle of forest as he glances around confusingly, "Where did dinosaur go?" A rustle draw his attention and he turn his head to see a Rex, charging toward him with a savage roar. "REX!" Akeno ran toward the charging dinosaur with starry eyes as he spread his arms open, "MY PET!" The predator suddenly scoop him up into its mouth in one chomp and the dinosaur somehow give out an smug smirk before its' upper head snapped all way back to its neck with a loud pop, killing it immediately. A little boy climbs out of the lower jaw of decreased creature with a childish glare, "Fine! Don't be my pet, you meanies!" He raced off into the jungle again, "I'll find a better pet than you!" What he doesn't know is that the rest of different sweating widened-eyed creatures just witness the whole thing and they stay in same spot with trembling bodies for a good amount of time.
Groot really doesn't know how he end up sitting with his fellow pirates in front of a giant man named Brogy. He wonders where his adopted son is now but he wasn't really worried because he was with Vivi, who seems to be responsible person, and Luffy. It's not like he'll run off by himself to look for something that he want…Right? The living tree creature slumps into his hands with a groan, "I am Groot."
"Aw, another one runs away." Akeno pouted at fleeing giant tiger, he don't know how long he have been looking for pets in this forest but he don't care because he just want a damn pet and he want it so bad! He wander around for a bit before a fleeting shadow fly past him, causing him to look up in the sky and for a moment, he caught a sight of a pterodactyl flying toward a nearby mountain. The young boy imagine himself flying in sky on pterodactyl's back with a cheer before he snap out from his daydream. "That's it! I'm gonna have it as a pet!" He ran toward the mountain with an exciting shout, plowing through trees and creatures as if they were a paper to him.
It took him about one hour to reach the base of a mountain and he has been climbing up the mountain barehand for a good amount of time. "Almost there!" Akeno laughed giddily as he shimmy up with few hops, any mistake could kill any ordinary person but no one have his ability and he actually had fall down to ground from a fatal height several time before he shrug it off and try again.
If he looks at the landscape behind him, the super boy would witness a battle between his crew and several baroque workers or see his father freaking his head off over his missing son, also failed to notice that his son was climbing up a mountain behind him.
Akeno reach a cliff near top and he climb up to discover that he was standing on a ledge in front of a cave. He tilt his head slightly in puzzled manner before he tiptoe inside, glancing around the cavern until he spot a sight that cause his eyes to lit up. It was a nest of five giant eggs, size of average adult, and Akeno race over before he examines them. "Which one, which one?" He chanted over and over, he want to take one egg back with him because they said they will get him one pet and that's it.
"Eenie, meenie, miney, mo." He pointed at each egg, "Catch a marine by a leg. If he yell, break his leg. Eenie, meenie, miney, MO!" He pointed at a middle egg before he hug it with a cheerful cry, "You're my new pet!" He lift it up over his head before he run out of the cave, jumping off the ledge then he land on the ground with a booming crash and he race back to Going Merry with egg over his grinning head.
What he doesn't know is that the egg he took does not belong to pterodactyl but to something else.
Valentine rest her elbows on rail grumpy and bored out of her mind, her new crew forced her to stay behind to watch after Going Merry while they went off with a giant warrior and that was about couple hours ago. Sanji just stop by and tried to hit on her before receiving a swift kick to groin from her then the cooker hobble off into the jungle to look for the crew. "I wonder what Akeno is doing now." Valentine sighed into her hand and speaking of devil, the grinning boy burst through a bush with giant egg over his head.
"Look, I found a pet!" Akeno ran up to the ship's deck, presenting his stolen egg to cabin girl proudly.
"…What animal does it belong to?" Valentine asked with a corked eyebrow.
"A flying dinosaur!" The super boy put his egg down gently, "You know the one with wing and beak, ptero…Um…Pterod…"
"Pterodactyl?" She said.
"Yeah, this one!" Akeno nodded before he looks around, "Where's everyone?"
"They're still out in jungle." Valentine replied, "Where's princess and strawhat? Wasn't they with you?"
"I don't know." He answered with innocent shrug as he turned to his egg, "I want to show them my egg."
'…We're alone now?' The shotacon stared down at his back before she has a wick…Eh, a good idea that would work in her favor and that's to build a relationship between them without any perky pirates interrupting her. "Oh, I wouldn't do that if I were you."
"Why?" Akeno turned to her with a blink, "Why can't I show them my egg?"
"Because what if they tell you to take it back then punish you by not giving you any pet for stealing an egg from a nest." Valentine said.
"No, they can't!" He hugged his egg, "It's my pet! I found it first! It's mine!"
"I know, but lucky for you." She crouched to him with a smirk, "Onee-chan will help you hiding it from everyone until it hatch."
"Really?" Akeno's eyes lit up at her happily, "Onee-chan will?"
"Yes, I will." Valentine smiled with a nosebleed, "Let's find a place to hide it so no one can find it."
"Okay!" The boy nodded happily as she stood up before he take her hand, "Come on, let's hide the egg!"
"I know a good place." She smiled widely as she tremble in pleasure mentally, 'I'mholdinghishandhishandhishandhishand!' Valentine's thought processed too fast as she led Akeno around the Going Merry, it's quite a shame that she can't do anything to him…Yet.
"Is it good enough?" Akeno glanced at Valentine as they reorganize everything in cargo hold two floors below, placing giant egg in warm blankets within a corner in back.
"Yes." Valentine nodded, "No one will find it if they come down here and it'll be our secret."
"Yeah, our secret." He nodded happily, "Thank, Onee-chan!" The boy's eyes shift to bundled egg with a curious expression, "But why do we have to wrap it in blankets?"
"Ah, because we need to keep it warm." Valentine sat down on floor, "It needs heat to grow inside before it hatches. Without heat, it will die from cold and lonely."
"Why would it die from lonely?" Akeno asked.
"How can I explain?" She placed her index finger on her cheek with a tilted head before she suddenly smirk, "I know! Let me show you." She patted her laps, "Come here." The boy sit on her laps before she hug him, "Do you feel warmer?"
"Yeah." He nodded.
"That's because I'm embracing you with my love." Valentine snuggled closer, "If a baby does not feel any love, it will die lonely. Without love, there's no heat so that is why we need to cover our egg and shower it with our love together."
"Ah, I understand now." Akeno nodded happily as he stared at his egg, "We will raise it with love!" If he looks up, he should have seen Valentine having a massive nosebleed with flooding drool and unfocused eyes.
'Hehehehehehehehehe, my plan is working!' Valentine slurped her drool up quietly, 'Since I can't do anything to him right now, I will work to make him love me then…Then…We'll get marry and be together forever and ever!' She have set up a long-term plan and she'll get her reward in long-run. They just sit there for a while before Akeno want to go up and see if anyone come back yet.
"Can't you see?" Sanji's voice was first thing Akeno heard when they exited the ship and he peek over the rail to see the cooker arguing with Zoro. "My rhinosaurus is bigger!"
"Then you must be blind because mine is definitely bigger than yours!" Zoro pointed down on his trophy.
"You don't need to argue." Luffy chuckled, "Both of them look delicious, anyway."
"SHUT UP!" Both first mate and cooker snarled at him.
"What are they fighting about?" Akeno turned to Luffy.
"Whom brought a big meat back." Luffy chuckled again.
"Oh, like mine?" Akeno pointed at something ahead of them and they look behind to see the very same decreased Rex that he killed a while ago. "I brought it back after I got…Oh!" He clamped his mouth before he speak again quickly, "Mine is way bigger than their meats!" It was truth, his rex outsized both Sanji and Zoro's trophy. "Do I win?"
"Yeah!" The strawhat captain laughed to his mates' chagrin, they can't believe they just lose to a little boy.
"I AM GROOT!" Groot suddenly fuss all over his son as soon as he notice him.
"I'm fine, pa." Akeno lobbed his head back with a wide grin as Nami ordered the crew to cut parts of meat to bring with them and to get back on the ship for a department. "I have a blast day! I played with many animals but they all run away from me…Oh, and Onee-chan was teaching me some things about love!"
"…" Groot stared at him for a moment before he suddenly charge toward Valentine with a roar, "I AM GROOT!"
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Valentine smiled at him innocently as the Going Merry set off.
"I AM GROOT!" He throttle her angrily.
"Pa, what do these words mean?" Akeno tugged his pa's leg innocently, "Why are you mad at Onee-chan?"
"I am Groot!" Groot looked at his son.
"Huh?" He tilted his head, "We just hugged. Why does she want to take me to bed? It's not bedtime."
"…I-I-I am Groot…" The tree creature paled with widened eyes.
"But I'm old enough to know!" Akeno whined, "Tell me! Tell me!"
"Hey!" Luffy pointed at something from the sheep's head with a loud shout, catching everyone's attention to Groot's relief. "Those are mister Giants!"
"They're coming to send us!" Usopp grinned and Akeno look up to see two giant men in armors.
"The small humans who came to this island…" Brogy spoke.
"They have a big reason to go to the next island." Dorry finished his sentence.
"Wow, giants!" Akeno's eyes lit up, he don't know anything about the battle and no one have told him about it yet.
"You have protected our honor with your lives." Dorry said.
"So, no matter what will come…" Brogy said.
"We won't let anything happen to your flag." The long-bearded giant said.
"Trust in us, no matter what happen, we want you to keep heading straight!" The short-bearded giant said.
"I got it!" Luffy cried out to crew's confusion as Going Merry head ahead of two giants, "I will! Head straight!"
"We shall meet again…" Dorry lifted his giant sword.
"Someday." Brogy lifted his giant ax and Nami notice something in distance.
"Look at that!" Nami's eyes widened in horror as an giant sea creature rise from underwater.
"So, you've come out!" Dorry gritted his teeth, "Shima Kui."
"In the name of Elubabu, we will risk our lives to open the way for you!" Brogy's muscles tensed as most crewmates freak out at the sight of giant goldfish and no one notice Akeno walking over to something and he pick it up. It attempt to shallow Going Merry up as Nami tried to talk her crewmates into changing the course and the giants was about to unleash their mighty attacks but something happen…
"CANNON TOSS!" Akeno threw an cannonball and it suddenly blew through the goldfish, the force behind his throw shred its body apart into million pieces as it rain everywhere. "Smoky uncle, can you make sushi?" He smiled at gaping cooker, most pirates also share Sanji's expression.
"…W-W-Who was this boy?" Brogy's eyes bugged out with his weapon froze in midswing.
"I-I-I dunno…" Dorry replied shakily, "D-D-Do you think he ate Devil Fruit?" The giants watch on as Going Merry sail farther and farther, still in shock of a little boy's strength.
After a while, Going Merry was sailing through the sea at night in peace and Akeno listen to Luffy and Usopp's song about the homeland of giants. "And try my food." Sanji's voice spoke as the mentioned food caught the trio's attentions, "Do you want coffee or tea?"
"It looks good!" Luffy drooled.
"It looks delicious!" Usopp licked his lip.
"I want meats!" Akeno drooled.
"Your portions are in the kitchen." Sanji grunted out with a sweatdrop and he gain a tick as the trio ran up stair to the gallery.
"THEY'RE MINE!" The boy's voice cried out, following by a screaming sharpshooter and captain as they flew out of the gallery before they run back inside.
"GIMME!" The captain's voice shouted over Usopp's whimpering voice and after few moments, Vivi's shouting voice rang out.
"EVERYONE!" Vivi yelled alarmingly, "COME HERE QUICK! SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED TO NAMI!"
"What is it, Vivi?" Luffy ran out with stuffed mouth, Akeno and Usopp was right behind him as his crew gathered to see downed navigator.
"NAMI HAS A HIGH FEVER!" The princess answered and they quickly carried Nami to her room.
"IS NAMI-SWAN GOING TO DIE?!" Sanji wailed as he bit a towel, "HMM, VIVI-SWAN?"
"Maybe it's because of the weather." Vivi muttered, "One of the toughest obstacles in Grand Line that everyone has to face is the sickness that is caused by the constant change of weather. No matter how strong the pirate are, there are many that die because of the weather change." She apply cold towel to Nami's forehead, "Even though, it's just a cold. If you're not careful, you might die." She glanced at the boys, "Don't you have anyone on board with medical knowledge?" Everyone pointed at sick navigator and Vivi can't believe how far they have survived without a doctor.
"If you're sick, just eat some meat and you will feel better." Luffy turned to his cooker, "Right, Sanji?"
"Actually, I'm going to prepare some healthy food to cure Nami-swan, but medical treatment is also needed." Sanji puffed his cigarette, "Eating meat doesn't mean that you can cure a fever." Akeno glanced up at Vivi as she take Nami's temperature, ignoring the rest of Sanji's explanation.
"Forty degrees C?" Vivi's eyes widened at the result, "Her fever is getting worse!"
"We can find a doctor in Alabasta." Usopp crossed his arms, "How long does it take to get from here to Alabasta, Vivi?"
"I don't know, but I don't think we can make it there in one week." The princess downcasted at her knees.
"Does a fever make you feel that bad?" Luffy asked.
"I never get sick before." Akeno raised his hand up.
"Most of people can't survive through a whole week." Sanji and Usopp answered together with tilted heads.
"Hey!" Vivi snarled comedically, "Are you really Nami's friends?! You can see how much suffering she is in!" She gestured at Nami's heating face, "Forty degrees C is serious! If we can't find a treatment for her, we will lose her!" The three pirates stared at her for a moment before they cry out in shock and Akeno just stare at her confusingly.
"NAMI IS GOING TO DIE?!" The captain cried.
"WHAT, ONEE-CHAN IS GOING TO DIE?!" Akeno's head jerked to Luffy.
"PLEASE DON'T DIE!" Sanji wailed with clasped hands and behind him, Usopp run in a circle with Carue as they scream their heads off.
"WOULD YOU GUYS CALM DOWN AND SHUT UP!" Vivi snarled at them with a tick.
"WE HAVE TO HURRY AND FIND A DOCTOR TO CURE NAMI!" Luffy shouted.
"I know!" Vivi held her hand out to him, "But you'd better calm down. The loud noise can make her get worse."
"We can't wait any longer." Everyone sharply turned around to see Nami sitting up shakily.
"Nami?" The princess leaned closer worriedly.
"Yeah, she's cured!" Luffy cheered.
"It won't be that fast!" Usopp smacked him upside head.
"I think you'd better read the newspaper in my desk's drawer." Nami panted and Vivi search for papers in Nami's drawer until she find it then she read it with darting eyes.
"W-What is this?" Vivi whispered in shock.
"What happened?" The captain asked curiously.
"Is it about Alabasta, Vivi-chan?" Sanji guessed.
"How could this thing happen?" The princess shivered, "Three hundred thousand royal troops have switched sides and joined the rebel. There used to be six hundred thousand royal troops and four hundred thousand reobellions. This is totally opposite!"
"There will be a civil war in Alabasta soon." The sick navigator muttered, "I got that newspaper three days ago. Sorry, I didn't show you because there's no way to make our ship go any faster. That's why I hid it. I just didn't want you to worry." She glanced at Luffy, "You understand, Luffy?"
"Yes." Luffy nodded with crossed arms, "You're a very kind person."
"It's better that I told you because the situation is worse than I thought." Nami said.
"But you have to see a doctor." Usopp said worriedly, "Will you be ok?"
"I think that thermometer must be broken." The navigator tossed her blanket away as she get up, "Who whould have a fever that high. I just got a cold. I don't have to see a doctor." She moved over to other side of her room, "Anyway, don't change the plans. Let's head to Alabasta." She turned her head over her shoulder with a smile, "Thank you for worrying about me."
"Um…" Luffy blinked, "Is she really fine?"
"Nami's a really strong person." The sharpshooter muttered to him.
"I-If I can't stop them, Alabasta will come to an end and Crocodile will conquer my country." Vivi tightened her grip on paper before she bury her face in it, "Right now, all I can think about is how to get to Alabasta as soon as possible. If I'm late, a million lives will be wasted with no cause."
"A million people?!" The captain gasped.
"Vivi-swan, you are carrying a tough duty." Sanji muttered.
"HEY!" Zoro's voice barked outside, "Get your asses out here!" Everyone ran out of the room, leaving behind Vivi and Akeno. The little boy look up to Vivi as she sit by herself in deep thought with biting lip, her body trembling under some stress that he don't know about. He climbs up onto the bed and he suddenly gives her a hug.
"Vivi, don't be sad." Akeno nuzzled into the nape of her neck.
"Oh, I'm not sad." Vivi slide her arm around his torso to return his hug with a faintly smile, "I'm just stressed by important things."
"Like princess stuff?" He asked.
"Yes, princess stuff." She repeated with a smile before she stand up and head out with Akeno, finally making up her mind on something. "I would like to ask all of you for a favor." Vivi spoke out loud to the crew as soon as she lean against the rail above the deck, "Maybe it's not right to say this since you're kind enough to bring me back to my country. But my country is now in great danger and I want to go back there as soon as possible. I can't waste even one second. So, from now on, I would like everyone to head to Alabasta with the fastest speed."
"That's right." Nami grinned weakly, "I've promised you that we're going to make it."
"So, let's start finding a doctor." Vivi continued to Nami's shock, "And cure Nami as soon as possible then head to Alabasta. When Nami is cured, we can go with the fastest speed, right?"
"…That's right." Luffy grinned widely as he nodded in approval, "There is nothing that can this ship faster than with Nami in good health."
"Are you sure?" Usopp glanced up at Vivi, "You should worry about your people because you're the princess."
"It's true." The bluenette replied, "That's why we have to cure Nami as soon as we can."
"Very good, Vivi-swan." Sanji chuckled, "Your words make me fall in love with you all over again."
"You're brave." Zoro smirked.
"I am Groot." Groot nodded as Valentine simply shrug her shoulder, she don't care about anyone but her adorable Akeno.
"Let's make Nami feel better faster!" Akeno held his hands up.
"I'm sorry to put you through this, Nami." Vivi turned to the said navigator, "I think you'd better take a rest now."
"Sorry, Vivi, but I don't think I can go on…" Nami gave her another weak smile.
"WHAT'S THAT?!" Luffy's scream draw everyone's attention as he pointed at something and they look up to see…
"A CYCLONE!" Someone cried out.
"NAMI, HANG IN THERE!"
"IT'S SO HUGE!"
"Wait a minute!" Vivi carried Nami over her shoulder, "That direction was…"
"That was the direction that we were heading to!" The cooker shouted.
"We'll be dead if we get close to that thing!" The captain dropped his jaw.
"We were so close!" Usopp wailed.
"I won't die from that." Akeno laughed at the sharpshooter.
"YOU'LL STILL DIE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SWIM!" The sharpshooter jabbed his index finger at the boy.
"I-I've never seen a navigator like this before!" Vivi realized how close they were to losing their life if it wasn't for Nami.
"Let's hurry up, everyone!" Luffy barked out to his crew, "Head south and find a doctor!"
"YEAH!" Everyone ran around to steer Going Merry.
The next day, it was snowing outside and Nami lie in her bed, nursing by Vivi and Akeno as Sanji pace around worriedly. "What're we gonna do, Vivi-swam?" Sanji stomped as Carue ran around crazily, "Nami-swam is not getting any better!"
"Sanji, Carue, calm down." Vivi whispered to them as she wring some sweats out of Nami's towel and Akeno hold soup, waiting for Vivi's commend to give Nami some. Before they know it, the ship rock violently and there was collective of screams outside. "WHY IS THE SHIP SHAKING?!" She screamed out as the objects fall everywhere, "HEY!" She shouted out again as Sanji and Akeno push falling objects away from Nami, "CONTROL THE SHIP! IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO NAMI, I WILL KICK ALL OF YOU OUT!" The Going Merry stop shaking few moments later.
"Vivi-swan, gaki, please take care of her." Sanji ran outside to check on the situation then after five minutes, Akeno decide to follow him out of curiosity. When he step outside, several barrel of rifles point toward his face and he tilt his head at soldiers puzzlingly as he notice some big fat man eating piece of Going Merry for some reason.
"Who are they?" Akeno turned to the crew, pointing at the soldiers.
"I am Groot." The creature spoke with his hands up.
"Oh." The little boy turned back to the soldiers again before Luffy smash his fist down on a random soldier.
"He's going to fight!" A random soldier shouted out, "Let's…"
"We can start the fight, right?" Sanji grinned with Zoro as they prepare to fight while Usopp flee for his life.
"We're fighting now?" Akeno suddenly launch a poor unlucky soldier up in air with one punch and nearly all soldiers drop their weapons out of pure shock. "Let's go!" He launched several screaming soldiers up in air with one punch each.
"Luffy!" Usopp cried out and the little boy look around until he see the captain's arms stretching out from a weird fat man's mouth.
"What are these stretching thing?" The man munched puzzlingly and at same time, Vivi step out to check the situation before she realizes the weird man. "Hey!" He chewed faster, "This kid is really hard to chew…"
"GET THE HELL OFF MY SHIP!" Luffy's stretching arms snap back to launch the man off his ship, freeing himself in process.
"Lord Wapol!" The soldiers cried out and in just a jiffy, they retreat to rescue the flying man as the crew glance around.
"If we throw some water on her, will she be cured?" Luffy said seriously after they checked on Nami again.
"Are you out of your mind?!" Vivi and Sanji hit their captain.
"Stupid!" Akeno laughed at the captain as the cooker and princess discuss about something, "Everyone know that you have to cure them by boiling them."
"WHERE THE HELL DID YOU HEAR THIS FROM?!" Sanji dropped his heel on the cabin boy's head, only to hop around in pain as the boy kept laughing at Luffy.
Another day passed and Nami's fever have get worse as Luffy and Akeno sit in her room while the rest of crew either steering Going Merry or repairing the said ship from yesterday's attempted invasion. "Island?!" Luffy gasped happily after Vivi informed him of a island in distance, "We're lucky, Nami. They said that they saw an island! You will be better soon!" He stared at Nami, slowly squirming in his chair excitingly.
"If you want to see it that much, just go." Vivi sweatdropped at strawhat captain.
"Yosh!" Luffy ran out without a warning and the princess turns to Akeno.
"What about you?" She said, "Don't you want to see the island?"
"But I want to make Nami-onee-san better." Akeno looked up to her innocently as he waits for Nami to wake up so he can feed her the soup that Sanji made.
"I know you do." Vivi pet his head with a smile, "Nami is resting right now so we should go out for a bit."
"Okay." The little boy placed the soup on bedside counter then he follow her out as Going Merry float closer to the snowy cliff before they hear a voice.
"Stop right there, pirates!" A voice barked out.
"Hey!" Luffy squirted his eyes at the people ahead.
"But they don't look friendly." Usopp pointed out.
"Get away from this island." The leader stepped up with stern expression, "You're not welcome here."
"We are looking for a doctor." The strawhat captain told them.
"We have a sick person on board!" Vivi shouted.
"That trick won't work on us, you evil pirates!" A villager shouted back, "This is our village and we won't let you in! Just get out, otherwise, we'll shoot you!"
"They just met us but they act like they've hate us for hundred years." Sanji grumbled before he suddenly pull his leg back to avoid a gunshot, fired by a random villager. "Are you trying to mess with us?" The cooker glared at the gulping villager as his pistol clicked several times and he was about to charge but Vivi hold him back.
"Wait, Sanji!" The princess tried to calm him down before a bullet strike her shoulder and she hit the deck.
"VIVI!" Several pirates cried out to her before they turn to the villagers angrily as the villagers nervously aim their weapons at them and they were about to start until a voice speak up.
"We won't go into your village, our friend is in a serious condition." They glanced at Vivi as she shakily get up.
"Vivi…" Luffy muttered.
"You still don't understand the way of being a good captain, Luffy." Vivi panted, "If you do something right now, everything will get worse. If you fight them, what will happen to Nami? Think about it!"
"…" Luffy frowned before he nod, "I'm sorry. It's my fault." He suddenly bow down to floor, "Please call a doctor. Please help my friend."
"…I will show you the way to our village." The leader suddenly speak up to the villagers' shock, "Just follow us."
"See?" Vivi smiled at her captain, "They understood us."
"Yes." The captain said, "You've done a good job."
"But let me tell you something." The leader glanced over his shoulder, "We have only one doctor on this island, and she is a witch!"
"Why can't I come with you?" Akeno whined as he watch the crew get ready to go out, "I wanna go!"
"I'm sorry." Vivi smiled wearily, "After what happened at Little Garden, Groot seems like he doesn't trust us to watch after you alone…" She turned to a withered creature as he shiver under cold, "And beside, it don't look like he can go anywhere. Is he okay?"
"Pa is weak to snow." The little boy said, "I don't know why but he use many big words."
"I-I-I am Groot." Groot muttered.
"Yeah, what he said." Akeno pointed at his adopted father and several people sweatdrop at him, still wondering how can he understand the living tree.
"A-Anyway, we are going now." Sanji hoisted Nami up on his back.
"Carue, you stay here with Zoro, Groot, Akeno and Valentine." The princess told her pet duck and the creature quack out with salute before the crew departs to find a doctor.
"It's so cold, isn't it, Akeno?" Valentine turned to the said boy with a smile, "Do…"
"Don't think about it." Zoro deadpanned at her, knowing where it's going.
"Get your mind out of gutter, Mr. Swordsman." The shotacon giggled, "I wasn't going to ask him to share his body warmth with me." The swordsman stare at her with deadpan eyes, "I was going to ask him to check up on something."
"Like what?" The first-mate crossed his arms.
"Like making sure that the cold air can't get in cargo hold." Valentine smiled.
"Ooh, right!" Akeno suddenly head to the cargo hold, "My pet!"
"…Pet?" Zoro and Groot looked at the smiling shotacon.
"…You misheard him." Valentine lied with straight face and they stare at her blankly.
"So you found it at some cave from Little Garden and hide it here…" Zoro sweatdropped at the little boy.
"Yup, it's my pet!" Akeno hugged his egg to keep it warm, "It's a ptero…Um…"
"Pterodactyl." Valentine said.
"Yeah, pterodactyl!" The little boy nodded rapidly, "When it hatch, I'm gonna ride it!"
"…When it hatch, it won't fly right away." The swordsman said, "You know that, right?"
"…What?!" Akeno wailed with dropped jaw.
"I am Groot." Groot said.
"No, it's my pet!" The little boy cried to his father, "It's mine! I'll take good care of it, I promise!" It went on for a while as they argued until Groot cave in with his hands up and the boy cheer for his victory.
"…I'm going out for a swim." Zoro walked out with a shaking head, little did he know is that he will get lost and get buried under avalanche then reunite with his crew. Akeno turn back to his egg with a cheerful smile and he snuggle up with it as Groot exit the cargo hold with a mumble and headshake, sometime it's hard to raise someone like Akeno.
Two hours have went by and Akeno was about to go out until he feel his egg rocking with cracking sound before he look at it to see cracks forming on the surface. "…It's hatching!" Akeno lunged up on his feet with pumping fists and he watch his egg shaking several times as it slowly hatch. He don't know how long it have been trying to hatch because he was too excitingly and the egg finally break apart as a creature stumble out with small squeaks. The first thing this creature sees was Akeno and it tilt its head with a coo before it crawl toward him shakily and slowly. "My pet!" He scooped a large creature up with a wide grin as he studying his new pet at arm length, it has large wings, two claws, grey scales and… "You're a girl! What should I call you?" He hummed for a while before a name pop in his head, "Your name is Minerva!" Minerva squeaks happily at him as if it accept her name and he cuddle with her.
"Akeno, I bring…" Valentine enter the cargo hold with blankets and her smile drop as soon as she see them.
"Look, onee-chan!" Akeno turned to her with his new pet, "My pterodactyl hatched!"
"…Akeno, that's not a pterodactyl." The shotacon slowly back away from the creature, "That's…"
"I can't believe Akeno smuggle an egg in and get away with it!" Nami climbed onboard the Going Merry several hours later after the crew defeated Wapol and his men and at same time, cured of her fever…And gain a doctor for the crew in form of Tony Tony Chopper, a reindeer who ate human fruit. "When did he did that?!"
"After we leave the Little Garden." Zoro replied.
"That long?!" The healthy navigator cried.
"Um, who's Akeno?" Chopper asked.
"He's our cabin boy and there are other two that you haven't meet yet." Luffy grinned at him, "There's Groot, our ship's tree and Valentine, a cabin girl!"
"Oh, I see…" Chopper gulped nervously, he's still nervous around new people.
"I-I am Groot." The tree creature peek out of the cabin, greeting them with raised hand and shivering branches.
"AAAAH, A MONSTER!" The reindeer shoot back to the rail with widened eyes.
"No, that's Groot." Sanji puffed his cigarette before Valentine step out, "And Valentine-swan…"
"G-Guys, we have a little problem…" Valentine said to them with a shudder, "Um…"
"We know about the egg." Vivi said.
"Oh, is that so…" The shotacon muttered, "But that's not the real problem…It hatched and it's…"
"Look!" Akeno raced out excitingly as he held Minerva over his head, "My pet is hatched and she's Minerva!"
"…Is that a wyvern?!" Usopp cried out in fear, pointing at a giant wyvern, the size of human man, as it stare at them with its eyes. "…Wait, it's a baby?! This big?!"
"Hey, is he my new pet too?" Akeno turned to Chopper with a blink, "Can I feed him to Minerva?" The creature drools at the reindeer.
"I'M NOT FOOD, NEITHER PET, I'M A DOCTOR!" Chopper wailed and the crew stares at the boy's pet in shock, some in awe.
And that end the third chapter of HPG! Love it? Hate it?
So far, we just covered Little Garden and Drum Island arc. Only one thing that change is that Akeno just sneak a egg in from Little Garden and it turn out to be a giant wyvern! What the hell!
There are not a lot of questions…How will the strawhat crew deal with new pet? What else will happen? Let's find out in the next chapter!
Anyway, I think that's all I can say for now. Thank you for your time to read it.
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