Shayde's POV:

After what felt like seconds I regain consciousness to find I was hanging upside down in a tree in what appeared to be a lush forest. I was hanging by my feet that were caught in some odd looking vines.

As I hung there with my blood rushing to my head I tried to remember what the absolute fuck happened for me to end up in this predicament. All that came to mind was a dull ache from the back of my skull and nothingness. Deciding it'll come back to me eventually I do a, rather painful, sit-up grasping the vines holding my feet captive. I try to find some sort of leverage for my hands so I could release my feet without falling from the 50 some feet I was being elevated at. With some wiggling around I managed to latch onto an indent in a tree with my left hand then used my right hand to draw my tomahawk, that had somehow stuck with me this whole time upside down, using it to hack the weirdly colored vines off my feet. I half expected the vines to come alive and try to wrap around me again but they never did they simply fell limply against other vines and trees. Then the last vine snapped, twisting my legs so I was hanging there from one hand. It quickly started to burn my muscles screaming for me to give them rest. I couldn't help but think to myself how much improvement I need if I wish to survive 'I'm too damn weak.'

Scrambling to find some kind of foot hold before my left arm gave out I drive my tomahawk into the tree to relieve some of my weight from my left side to my right. I quickly found a foothold and tried to think about what I should do. Shift into a winged animal? Or think of this as training and find a way down in my human form? 'Hmmmm… I think I feel like absolute shit so how about I just get out of here.'

Making up my mind I tear my tomahawk out of the tree putting it back into it's leather holster and using my knees pushed off the tree letting myself free fall for a bit. Then about 20 feet above the ground I let the blue swirl of my liquid soul take over shifting into a little fiery red falcon. I quickly twist my little body over and start soaring on the momentum I had created from the fall letting my wings take me up and through the dense jungle.

I flew around for a few minutes before I heard the sound of a fight and screams of some human. I thought I was on some uninhabited island seeing how full of life this jungle is. 'Seems I was wrong.' Deciding to fly towards the sounds of people I change my trajectory to the right and quickly make my way towards where the sounds of battle were coming from. The noises grew louder and closer with each flap of my wings until I broke through the trees into a relatively clear area. There I noticed a rather pretty blonde, short haired woman yelling at something hanging from a tree flailing around to try to dodge the arrows she shot at the person from a… snake bow? 'What the absolute fuck… What kinda weird place have I gotten myself to now?!' Shaking my head lightly I decide to stop flying circles around the clearing and perch on a tree that gave me a great view of the action. Taking a closer look at the monkey like person swinging from the trees and shouting about how they 'didn't understand what they did wrong' I suddenly realized it was that straw hatted pirate, Luffy. I saw the straw hat bouncing on his head and his well known jean shorts and sandals paired with a red vest. 'Well… Now I see why there's trouble on such a quiet island… Stupid kid.'

Making up my mind and flying down to the ground I shift into my human form feeling as if something or someone was missing. 'What am I forgetting…. AHH shit! Winston and mother fuckin Quinn, that's what! God damnit…' Suddenly I relaxed myself and took a deep breath before taking out two silver capsule looking whistles, one in the shape of a war horse the other a wolf, I slowing blow into the one of a horse. A white shadow like substance seeps out of the whistle slowly taking the form of my companion and friend Winston. He snorts at me before making noises at me, aka commenting about how slow I was at calling him to my side. I roll my eyes at him before hesitantly blowing into Quinn's whistle, not too sure if I was ready to deal with the ass hole yet but figuring I'd have to at some point. Quinn's brownish black shadow came out in a rushed fashion forming the dire wolf who was making a less than amused face. Suddenly he growls before raising his right front paw leaning on his back legs to bring it down on my head.

"You stupid FUCKIN girl…. Don't ever do that to me again!" He roared out.

At this point the blonde girl had stopped shooting arrows at Luffy, noticing my presence, and openly stared at me with wide curious eyes whilst her snake coiled around her neck. Luffy used this time to try to regain his breath and sprawled out across a branch, he had yet to notice me.

I yet again rolled my eyes and responded with a sigh offering Quinn a simple, "Sorry… My bad."

"Whatever… I wouldn't have cared if you died anyway..." He mumbled out.

Winston throws his head up and snorts, "Yeah, that's why you were a blubbering mess when we got sent back into those damned capsules! As much as I hate being in that limbo like space I knew Shayde would never just leave us there. You however seem to be far too emotional whenever this happens."

Quinn sent a death glare at the grey horse before stalking away into the jungle to take his anger and frustration out of some poor animal or maybe a tree. I just ignored their bickering and let Quinn have his pissy teenager time. Winston decided to stick by my side which I appreciated immensely, he was so very comforting to have around. With his calm disposition and reliable personality I felt strong and it flooded confidence into my worn body.

I turned to look at the blonde haired lady and offered a small smile that didn't reach my eyes and was half assed. She just raised an eyebrow at me before glancing back to make sure Luffy hadn't ran away. Then turning back to me she seemed to have made up her mind.

"Are you a threat Miss..?" The blonde warrior who I noticed was barely wearing any clothes asked.

"Well… so long as I'm not given a reason to be put into action I won't cause any harm." I responded in a matter-of-fact way.

She looked at me in a suspicious manner before turning her back to me zeroing in on Luffy who was finally sitting back up with unfocused eyes. "So long as you don't cause any problems you may stay… However HE may not." She finished her statement with a point to Luffy who suddenly focused onto her then his gaze drifted over to me. His face lit up and he started to stand up but before he could say a word the blond woman cut him off with an arrow lodged at his feet.

Undeterred Luffy raised his arms above his head waving, "Heyy wolf girl! What're you doing here?!"

I stared at him with a blank 'What the fuck' look before sarcastically saying, "I came to vacation here."

Luffy laughed dodging more arrows thrown at him whilst saying, "You're weird… But you still need to join my crew!"

Letting out a hearty sigh I stare at him trying to figure out if he was being serious then I muttered out, "I don't get why you'd want a freak like me on your crew. Baka Strawhat…"

"Shishishishi it's cause you're interesting! Not to mention super strong. AHH STOP SHOOTING AT ME YOU CRAZY WOMAN!"

With that Luffy began swinging deeper into the jungle from tree to tree with the blondey trailing after him screaming at him to stop and let her shoot him. Giggling softly at their stupidity I walked in the direction they disappeared in at a leisurely pace with Winston clopping right next to me the whole way. I didn't know where we were going but at that point in time it didn't matter. I've always tried to live life in the present not the past. The past must stay the past. Even though I'm a bit of a hypocrite in thinking so since I too had a revengeful streak in my soul. Burning and festering there for far too long.

Sorry it's short but I'm just really trying to figure out which direction I wanted this story to go. I've re-wrote this about four times and the first two were six pages long and didn't like it soo picked this shit cause it's the only one I could develop this story from without cringing.