The house itself is very huge. It had a basement but with a larger scale, and they had an underground bath. Samuel and Sofie were running for the beds since they were still tired, dropping their bags on the chest that they saw. RinSlayer prepared some food for the others knowing that they might be hungry. The others were bringing all the other crates and bags inside, while Pops was just watching everyone do so. He wanted to help but Marco had told him not to overwork himself knowing that he is still sick. Thatch also said that there might be a way to heal his disease using the stuff in this world, but Pops decided for RinSlayer to find out for herself. Jozu and Vista were bringing in the last of the crates while Izo and Haruta brought in the last of the bags. Thatch Ace and Marco were already wandering around the house curiosity took over them. Ace liked the armory since it had different type of armors and the fact that it had more swords and what-nots. Thatch went to the kitchen in the back of the fireplace and was he happy, it was chef's dream of having every ingredient in the kitchen. Marco went upstairs and began to read some of the books on the shelves. Vista and Haruta plopped down on one of the chairs in the dining area happy that they accomplished what they needed to do. Jozu was now looking at the shields in the armory also, Izo was trying to look for any ordinary clothing, even one would satisfy him.

"RinSlayer, where are your everyday clothes?" he asked the lizard woman, who looked at him with a blank face. RinSlayer sighed and went over to the bedroom changing into her everyday clothing. She came out with her daedric armor.

"what? that can't be..." Izo trailed off since he didn't know what to say. That armor was her everyday clothing? Even sleeping? This woman is crazy. RinSlayer took her helmet off and nodded her head.

"it is, i'm an adventurer, a soldier, leader, and mage. This is my everyday clothes considering what i do all the time" she explained to Izo who was thinking of something else.

"well then i would need some fabric."

"for what?"

"why my dear, you can't keep wearing those armor forever now, so i will make some clothing for you" Izo said making his mind up. RinSlayer's eye twitched in annoyance. She didn't like any other clothing besides the armor. She already got used to wearing it so much that she didn't even bother taking it off when she's gonna go to sleep. This annoyed her because she doesn't exactly want anymore clothing, she had enough!

"fine, there's some fabric downstairs in the basement, but i will tell you right now i might rip it apart. I already got used to wearing armor all the time." RinSlayer hissed at Izo who nodded his head. RinSlayer pointed on the door that was on the floor. Izo nodded his head and went over to the cellar door. RinSlayer sighed knowing that the man won't listen to her, she went back to the room and changed back to her pirate outfit before grabbing for an apple on the table. Pops laughed at her attire.

"gurarara, it seems that you have your own pirates here! Tell me how do they act?" curious at how the pirates here acted around the people, and the cities. RinSlayer took a huge bit out of her apple, she thought about it, she didn't actually have any encounter with pirates so much. Swallowing what she had in her mouth "well i met some pirates like 2 or 3 times, but they acted how everyone would think about them. Raiding, destroying, and how do you say this- loot treasure" she told the team without any hesitation. What? Meeting pirates out here is pretty rare but if you do, you might need a lot of weapons and magic for that, since pirates played dirty in her world. Pops nodded his head in acknowledgement, he knew that already but wondered him was why did she met pirates in a minimum scale?

"how come you met pirates the least?" Jozu asked her before taking a bite out of some pie. RinSlayer hummed and wondered also. It maybe because of the fact that the seas were on the border.

"well no one usually ventures out near the borders, but people like me, which is pretty rare will dare themselves to cross the border" RinSlayer tried to explain through the knowledge she learned throughout her time with the imperials. She blinked, once, then twice then she panicked.

"crap! I need to go! I forgot that i need to be in Fort Amol!" RinSlayer ran back to bedroom to change...again. Ace blinked, now that he remembered RinSlayer must really be needed, ne? Thatch laughed a bit and Marco had to whack him on his head to stop him. At that time Jozu and Vista left saying about telling the crew where they were, Haruta stayed so that she can look over Pops. Izo came out from the cellar with a dumbfounded face.

"you didn't say that there was a giant statue of a dragon down there!" he complained, but when he noticed how RinSlayer was still dressed and looks to be running for the door. RinSlayer forgot about that but she had no time at the moment.

"can you do me a favor? Take care of Samuel and Sofie while i'm gone! I might not be back for a few days! I'll explain everything when i come back! Thanks!" she didn't even wait for an answer when the door slammed shut, and the sound of a horse neighing was heard outside.

There was silence for awhile until Sofie appeared. "mom left didn't she?" she asked with blank eyes. All they could do was nod, this made Sofie sigh and she sat down next to Pops. Pops ran his hands through hair fondly, trying to get her to stay calm or whatever is happening to the girl. Samuel came not a moment sooner and examined the dining room only to find that his mother isn't there. Samuel sat down next to Sofie "hey come on don't be sad, she's gonna come back like she promised!" he tried to cheer his depressed sister at the moment.

"but! You never know, what if mom doesn't come back?!"

"she will and you know that already!"

"last time she came back she got sick for, god, 3 weeks! No one knew what to do that time!"

"that doesn't mean she won't come back, Sofie!" Samuel screamed loudly at his sister this time, frustrated at the fact she didn't have any faith on their mother. Mom had been back from worse situations and not once did she lose any limbs or her life!

"what's wrong with you?! Mom already went through more than what we can imagine! Besides we don't even know what it feels like!" Samuel continued, Sofie stayed silent not liking the fact that she was getting scolded by her own brother. Izo went back down not wanting to hear more about this, Haruta's eyes were wide she didn't expect a fight to break out. Thatch dropped his bread that he was about to eat, Ace was looking around to see if there was something to distract the kiddo's. Marco however just crossed his arms and put a serious face on.

"you know, you did experience that Samuel, that time when you got injured by a wolf-yoi" he pointed out, he noticed how Samuel's shoulders sag a bit before he turned around a gave a glare to Marco.

"but that's all i got! Mom went through dungeons before meaning theirs traps and probably undead things there! I just got bitten!" he yelled before going to the back room. Sofie sighed and placed her head on the table.

"it's ok this always happen when mom leaves without telling us..." she explained to them playing with her fingers. Pops nodded his head and can't help but smile at the children that were worried about their mother's safety. He ruffled the girl's hair.

"gurarara you remind me of a certain person when he's worried about someone" he glanced at Marco who scoffed at him, this made Pops laugh louder. Thatch, Ace and Haruta laughed along with Pops, while Marco was giving his brothers a nasty glare. Izo came back up with a few rolls of fabric. Sofie eyes grew wide before she broke out in a cheer. Samuel appeared also with wide eyes looking at the fabric like he never saw it before.

"you found it!" Sofie cheered before running over to Izo completely forgetting about what happened it amazed Haruta for the girl literally went from depressed to joyful when she saw the fabrics. This got the swordswoman curious.

"why are you so happy just with fabrics?" Sofie and Samuel looked at each other before looking at the commander, giving her a smile that promised mischief.

"well mom never wanted these and whenever we ask her for them she just keep telling us that it was in the basement! But we didn't know which part of the basement, but look at these mom tricked us and placed the fabrics here in this house!" Sofie said with happiness ringing through her voice. Samuel nodded his head also and took the black and red fabric. Izo didn't even notice him taking it until the fabric smacked his face. Thatch choked on the juice that he was drinking when he saw it happening. It was just sad that the 16th division commander got smacked by a mere fabric.

Izo's face was priceless, he looked like he didn't eve know what hit him! Izo snapped out of his trance and looked at the rascals. Samuel was playing with the fabric while Sofie had gotten some scissors to cut it. Izo's eye widened before he smiled fondly. He began to tell them how to make clothing the right way, since Sofie was doing it the wrong way. Samuel said that he wanted the blue fabric so Izo helped him also with making his own clothes. The 2 kids were just excited to try out their own way of making clothing so that mom doesn't have to keep buying them clothes and probably dolls. Haruta wandered around a bit before leaning on a wall that seemed out of place. She frowned a bit before scanning the wall with her hands, that's when she felt a chain. She grinned and tugged on it opening a hidden room that led upstairs. Haruta called for her brothers and Pops but she noticed that Pops was too big for the entrance way. Pops laughed and sat back down saying that he will wait for them. Ace was the first one to climb up making Thatch and Haruta complain. What he saw first was fire flickering, he looked around to see that it looked to be a new living space. Ace grinned and leaped out of the way for the others, he instantly went over to the chairs that surrounded the fire. What amazed him was the fact that the place was in top shape even though it looked like no one had been in the room for ages. Maybe RinSlayer had been taking care of the place? No one actually knows. Thatch came in second and tackled the 2nd division commander on the ground while yelling about not to explore without him. Ace just laughed and pushed his best friend away earning a whine from Thatch. When Marco came up he first noticed 2 doors that the other 2 men failed to notice until he pointed it out. Marco went over to one of the doors and opened it cautiously not knowing what to expect. The room amazed him for it may be small but it had everything that a normal bedroom needed except a skull head...quite unusual.

The window that allowed light in the room actually made it look huge but in reality it was small. Marco sat on the bed and noticed that it was softer than any bed that he had ever sat on, maybe even lay on. However why was this room hidden? Was it a get away for RinSlayer once she finished a mission or did she made the room for someone? Marco will get his answers once she comes back, but for now he needs to wait for any news that might tell him about what's happening wherever she is. Ace on the other hand was looking at some banners in the living area, it had a picture of a dragon, and 3 people what it seems to be yelling at it. He wasn't sure but does the picture look great! Haruta was looking around if there was any swords that she can examine, there was a couple but she wasn't exactly interested in it for it looked boring. What she wanted to see was the swords that RinSlayer used. She wanted to see if there were more, but so far her luck was horrible but then she saw something shining by the corner of her eye. Haruta grinned and started to make her way through the shining object, what she saw amazed her. It was a sword, but made out of glass! She never heard of a sword like this! She wanted to keep it but knew better, it was RinSlayer's afterall. She placed the sword down and pouted upset that she can't have the sword...unless she asks for it! Happiness began to flow in Haruta's mind when she thought about it. Thatch looked at Haruta weirdly since from where he was she looked like she was thinking of something else. Thatch however was trying to see if there was a recipe book, he wanted to learn some recipes. He found a couple of books but it didn't say anything about cooking...well not the cooking he wants to know, he felt a shiver run his down spine thinking about what he last read. He noticed a book by the fireplace and noticed that there was a cooking pot also. Now he hopes that it had recipes that talks about actual cooking, not necromancy! For once in his entire pirate life, he couldn't believe that he got what he wanted. The book got everything, from cooking meat to making pastries! Of course there were some ingredients that he still had to know before making some of these. As a chef he knew that having substitutes will work but it won't have the same effect as it would with the original ingredients.

They were all in their own world when a sudden bang echoed throughout the house. It was coming from downstairs, so they all hurried downstairs only to see a dead, huge rat in top of the cellar door. Samuel and Sofie were huddled next to Pops. While Izo on the other hand looked like he just saw a ghost, well the rat is massive so yea. Izo fixed his hair since it got ruined. Sofie however let out a few sniffles signaling Samuel that she's about to cry. He hugged her while caressing her hair. That did it, Sofie cried loudly, all she wanted was mom. Izo closed the cellar door placing a have crate on top of it just in case any other rats might come out. Sofie cried her heart out and Samuel didn't even know what to do no one did. That was when a knock echoed throughout the house, Haruta went over to the door to answer who it was.

To her surprise it was Aela, who was holding a doll and Gurio was next to her. The dog instantly went inside and shakes off the snow that got stuck on his golden fur. Aela came in also shivering a bit, even though she had a jacket. Gurio went to the backroom where Sofie was, said girl stopped crying for a bit when she saw Gurio, then she reached her arms out for the dog. Gurio instantly went to her and laid down next to her. Aela on the other hand tossed Ace the doll, who barely catches the doll.

"give it to her, it usually helps her calm down" she said before sitting down on one of the chairs and reaching out for an apple pie. She took a bite out of the apple pie before pointing towards the hidden door.

"i see you found it, i guess you're pretty observant then. It took me a while to find it but it only took you like 2 hours i guess, oh i see you found the fabrics also...and the rats." she made a disgusted face when she saw the dead vermin's. Honestly it was very disgusting but it's not like they know where to bury the damn thing. Aela sighed before walking over to the dead rat. Thatch noticed that she picked it up by it's tail, a ring fell out of it's mouth. Pops noticed Aela smile at the sight of the ring, the gem did look valuable.

"great an emerald, oh this is yours" she tossed the ring to Izo who threw it to Marco. Marco caught the ring and began to examine it, he gave a low whistle.

"seems like it's worth a lot-yoi" he stated pocketing the ring away for safekeeping. Aela nodded her head and began to explain of how you can collect valuables from all of the animals/creatures that you killed. Haruta was already planning to kill a bunch of giants, since she saw the amount of gold that it dropped or held. Thatch asked if there was any store that sells some ingredients since he wanted to start cooking.

Aela laughed and gestured around the whole kitchen "as long as RinSlayer left you here, it's yours to use!" Thatch smiled and ran for the pantry. His eyes were clearly excited since he can start cooking, Ace on the other hand wants to know what other powers this world had. Marco and Pops wanted to know also. Meanwhile Samuel and Sofie were taken by Izo to the room so that they could sleep, they had a fun day, Gurio was right behind them.

Aela began to name all the powers that Skyrim held. From Vampires up to invisibility. Ace's jaws were hanging, vampires something he never expected. Hopefully RinSlayer wasn't one, if she was then they might have a bit of problem with the blood sucking thing. Aela laughed at his expression and reassured that RinSlayer wasn't a vampire as far as she knows. Marco and Pops sighed in relief, then something good filled their nostrils. As expected Thatch made something good. Ace hurried for the kitchen when he accidentally tripped on the dead vermin. Aela sighed and excused herself, she picked up the dead rat and headed for outside. On the other hand Thatch had to kick Ace back to the living room since the pyro didn't know what he meant by not yet! Ace pouted and rubbed his back, he hated it when Thatch used haki on him. He plopped down on one of the chairs grumbling about roasting a certain cook. Pops laughed out loud and ruffled Ace's head knocking the orange hat down. Ace whined a bit making Marco smile. Haruta decided to explore the house a little bit more, so she went upstairs, not the hidden area though.

Marco on the other hand went to the trophy room that was after the kitchen. It had a few statues in place. Marco stopped in his tracks while looking at a certain statue that reminded him of his first encounter with the dead head. However this time it had the whole body with it, and boy did it look horrifying. Marco walked over to it and touched it making sure it's not alive...what was he thinking of course it's dead! Marco sighed and looked at his left. He noticed a door slightly opened and couldn't help but feel curious. He cautiously walked over to the door and opened it as quietly as he could. He was expecting like a storage room but when he opened it he was met with a cabinet, he had enough room to get in but the cabinet was in the way. Marco deflated a bit thinking it was something cool, but he was met with a cabinet probably filled with clothing and other materials for the statues no doubt. He sighed, he turned but his feet didn't budged where it was. Marco raised an eyebrow and tried again, another fail. He tried a third time only for the door behind him to close on him.

Marco was starting to get irritated he wanted to use his phoenix powers but not while Aela was here, he can trust RinSlayer but he wasn't sure about Aela that much. Marco sighed in frustration and decided to open the cabinets in front of him, it did look huge enough for him to walk in...oh god. Marco didn't want to believe his own thought but at the moment it seemed to be the only logical thing, this door was another gateway to something else! Marco did not like the hidden things/objects they were finding at all. He opened the doors to reveal stairs that led underground. That was when his legs decided to allow him to move them, it seemed that the area had some magic in them...hmm nice but at the moment he was annoyed.

~Marco's POV~

I official dislike the magic that is trapping me or supposedly leading me somewhere, why does this happen to me all the time?! I swear i think something is playing with me! Probably with the whole crew and this dimension but come on i just need to get out of this damn cabinet thing or whatever.

'why in the world do i get in trouble even though i'm not Ace-yoi?!" i grumbled while i headed down the stairs. When i got there, another door was blocking my path, and this time it's made out of some weird metal. It was a metal i never saw before so it must be from this world. I sighed once more before continuing hoping it was an exit. Instead i was now in a room filled with untold treasure.

There were chests everywhere! Haven for robbers out there but i won't take any, all i want is an exit was that hard? As a matter of fact why did this place even exist? That was when i saw a glowing white ball on a table, it had a beam going straight up. I decided not to go to it at the moment since i wanted to explore the room a little also. I noticed a few swords here and there but what caught my attention was the statue of a golden dragon. I pressed my hand against the cold surface and smiled a bit when i noticed that it is made from pure gold. Maybe this is what she do in her free time? Another question to ask for so little time since i don't know if she will survive their war. Back home it's basically our routine, but it gets borings since most marines are pretty weak unless you add Garp in the fight. That man seriously gave Ace a beating, telling his stupid grandson to stay in the Moby Dick. He helped us get Ace back from any harm so it was good, the man got the other marines to say nothing about the matter which was another plus.

When i was walking away from the statue I heard something cracking behind me. I cautiously turned around and saw that the statue itself was cracking like an egg. The floor trembled and i turned into my phoenix form for safety. Hopefully the noise wasn't that loud for them to hear, ah wait they should have noticed that i was gone by now, ne? Crap i'll be in big trouble when i get back that's for sure. I examined the cracked statue from a distance, that was when i noticed a claw. I frowned and swooped down a bit to see it closer, i however did not expect for a baby dragon to jump on me. The damn thing was tiny compared to the dragon we fought today, but for a child yea this baby dragon can probably crush the kids. The little lizard sat on me with it's tongue sticking out, I don't actually know what it is thinking at the moment but whatever it is i have a feeling i won't like it. I transformed back in my human form.

"oi get off of me-yoi" i told the damn dragon, the damn thing just continued to relax. It seemed that it like me being it's chair! I sighed before using a bit of force to get it off. The dang thing whined but shook it's whole body. I stood up and walked away hoping that it won't follow me, tough luck i have.

The dragon needs to find its mother before it finds me with it...wait, the dragon is in RinSlayer's home...was she expecting to have a baby dragon? Nah that can't be it, why would she foster one if she kills dragons...Another question that needed to be asked later. I forgot that it was following me until it tackled me once again, this time however i managed to stand on my ground. The dragon clung onto me like a child would do...

"~sigh~ can you get off-yoi?" i asked it again, however it did nothing but flap it's tiny wings. I didn't even bother anymore, and began to walk around once more. The silence was actually good for me since i can think once again, but what annoys me is that fact that it won't let go! I have no clue how to explain this to the others.

I search for possible exits, i found a spiral staircase that led to another room upstairs. I used my observation haki to sense for the others, but something kept blocking it, i know that i'm still under ground which is unlucky for me. I sighed once more before observing the room that i was in at the moment. The room was way tinier than the other room, but huge enough at the same time since it had a bed and a desk, a few shelves here and there. I felt somewhat trapped in here since there wasn't any windows but there were paintings which was barely larger than a piece of paper. Wait paintings? Those weren't there before. Thinking if it was magic or not i still readied my haki in case anything jumps at me or worse. The paintings up close looked like there were people moving...oh god Pops! How the hell can i not sense Pops if he was this close?! This wasn't a painting it was a damn tiny hole on the other side! As far as i can see Pops was just there right in front of me but i was down under the damn wall! Now all i have to do is find a way to get out before Pops finds out...that may be late already. The tiny dragon decided to use my back as a bed since it clawed me in a tight grip and started snoring. Damn thing more troubles i swear this place is just a magnet for creatures! Why in hell would she even have a dragon under the damn house?!

I looked around the room once again looking for possible exits. Then again i entered closets but there's no closets but there were shelves- that's it! I went over to the shelves and barely noticed the tiny space that showed another room on the other side. Good thing i'm observant, now all i have to do is find some sort of lever or chain that opens the thing up. I started grabbing onto the books trying to see if there was a book that may open the shel-bingo! I pulled a red thick book and the whole thing started moving, a slight gateway opened for me. Finally it was a passage way, but it was turning left rather than right the way that i want to. I groaned and followed the passage way trying to ignore the snores that the little beast was emitting. I was somewhat confused when i arrived to a room, to be exact a bathroom and boy was it huge. I approached the water cautiously thinking it's the same liquid as the one in the island back home. Luckily for me it wasnt, so i started stripping since i needed a bath badly. The little dragon stayed on the ground while i was walking towards the water.

The water felt so nice being the temperature was hot enough and even had a seat! I sighed in relief it had been way too long since water covered me like this, well at least i wasn't drowning or sinking. I looked around for some soap or something, bingo. There were some on a small table back in the grounds. I swam back, now that i noticed it i missed swimming. I grabbed the soap, and shampoo as fast as i could and jumped back in the water, if Thatch or Ace see me they might yell at me for being stupid. Well i did jump towards the water, and i am a devil-fruit user, well the water was probably freshwater considering i can swim easily. It surprised me that i can still swim the last time i swam was like 20 years ago. I poured the shampoo on my head and began scrubbing, i was sitting down.

~20 min later~

I may have taken too long since the little creature was asleep once again. I shrugged and went back to the dry ground, i used my phoenix flames to dry myself off since i couldn't see any towels. I dressed once again carefully heading for the ladders that i just saw, hoping that the little dragon won't wake up. Tough luck of mine, the thing latched onto me once again! I moaned in annoyance but didn't even bother prying it off since it never did before. I climbed the ladder and i finally saw a familiar ceiling. I grinned and jumped out.

"finally-yoi!" i yelled at the top of my lungs, catching the attentions of the others. Ace ran up to me tackling me down to the ground. My eyes widened a bit, and i tried to turn around in time to try and protect the little vermin, my instincts was the one that made me act like this. Then i noticed the position i was in...damn it! Ace blinked before staggering backwards his face slightly red, mine was too but i looked back down hoping that no one caught me and Ace. Unfortunately Izo saw us in time his smirk visible enough for me to see.

"sorry Marco!" Ace apologized way too quick, which earned me looks. I groaned, before my attention went over to the dragon that was engulfed in my arms. It looked at me with those huge sharp eyes, that reminded me of Hawk-eye for some reason. The thing stuck it's tongue out at me before licking my face. I was startled no shit, but i was kinda used to it because of Stefan. Stefan loves to lick someone when he wanted to play. I forgot that i had company, i only noticed them again when i heard the gasps. Aela was the first one to come to me.

"is-is that a dragon?! an offspring none the less!" she roared at me accusingly. Oh fuck i just got into deeper shit didn't i? Everyone stared at me and Pops had a frown on his face, what the hell did i stumble upon anyway?!

To be continued~

A/N: ok the offspring thing is made up by me once again, but there were mods that made those other spaces in the house. What? I love house mods! Don't get me wrong i am very impressed with how they programmed everything in the mods! Anyway till next time! This will be the last chapter posted for now!