A New Piece of One Piece Chapter 9
As I promised I'll be spamming you with chapters because I've been typing my whole cruise vacation. Yeah Lucy will get more reliant later on, right now she is just getting used to being a pirate. Of course she won't be a part of the Monster Trio, but she will be strong, I assure you! Oh yeah it's my iPhone notes again -_-
Lucy felt hot, wasn't she on a winter island she should be freezing. Instead of
feeling the frost nip at her nose she felt hot and suffocated. Every time she
gasped for air she felt like gagging. The humidity made her dizzy.
She felt a drop of sweat slide down her cheek, she moved to wipe it but found
her hands were bound in chains. They separated in opposite directions leaving
her chest wide open.
She wanted to scream but the heat made a every breath a challenge. Lucy was
sweating and shaking, she began to panic. She shut her eyes and with all her
power shoved her body forward.
She grunted in agony, her chest felt like it was on fire. Lucy clenched her gut
and touched not skin but gauze. She inspected her body and her surroundings.
Lucy found herself in a dark room, she rested on a dark green couch with a warm
wool blanket draped over her. Bandages were wrapped all the way from her chest
to below her belly button, she wore white shorts to cover her bottom.
She inspected the bandages, three faint red lines ran diagonally down her
torso. Images of her crew ran through her thoughts she looked around, to the
left was a half open door to her right, behind the back of the couch was... Her
crew. Both boys lay sleeping and white cots, both covered in bandages from head
to toe.
"Luffy did it" Lucy sighed crashing to the coach, she felt her skin rip as she
landed. A single tear fell from her eye, she moaned from pain. She felt a
presence and silences her cries.
She heard tiny clanks, similar to high heels or a horses hoofs. They got closer
and closer, Lucy fixed her blanket and closed her eyes pretending to sleep.
The clinks got very close until they came to a complete stop. "I-I know you're
awake!" The voice demanded in a shaking tone, it was almost cute.
Lucy opened her green eyes and looked at the boy before her. Only it wasn't a
boy, it was a reindeer with a blue nose. "Um where are you" I called out. The
reindeer must be the doctors pet, the pink hat made him look so cute.
"In front of you" the reindeers mouth moved, Lucy stared at the animal then fell
back to the couch, ignoring the pain of her sudden movement she chanted "I'm
going insane"
"Stop moving so much!" The reindeer spoke again, but at the same time he
transformed to a large shape. He looked like Bigfoot but the his menacing look
was shrouded away by his pink top hat.
Lucy gulped in air to scream but the beast clamped a hand over her mouth and a
firm hand on her chest "Please don't move anymore, your wounds will open, if
they haven't already!"
Lucy lay on the couch and kept panting, she stared right into the creatures warm
brown eyes and relaxed. He saw her acceptance and gently lifted the blanket.
Before the red lines were faint now they were even more defined. "You need to
be more careful of your body" the reindeer transformed to a child like form "the
whole lot of you arrived half dead for Sakura sake!"
"How many of us were there" Lucy's voice tensed, the reindeer flinched at her
tone "um you, the two boys over there and an orange haired girl" he said.
Lucy sat back and relaxed, they made it, Lucy was so happy that her crew was
safe. The beast stared at Lucy before opening her bandages, he had a sad smile.
In few moments, the doctor had all the dirty gauzes removed, Lucy did not feel a
little self conscious, she felt extremely self conscious. There was only a couch
cushion separating the blond's bare chest from two of her crew mates. She could
feel her face heat up at the thought.
"I've never done anything weird like this before." Lucy stated staring at the
frost covered window. The doctor immediately freaked out and almost dropped the
bandage "W-what do you m-mean" he rambled.
Lucy brought her hand to scratch her cheek, she just remembered that hand was
injured as well "Well I'm in a strange tower getting treated for rabid mountain
bunny scratches by a talking reindeer."
The reindeer continued wrapping Lucy's wound, it looked better than before...
Well when it was pouring blood that is! "My name is Lucy, what's yours?"
"Tony Tony Chopper, nice to meet you" The doctor said finishing Lucy's bandages,
he handed her a cardigan to cover up. She stood up and felt a little dizzy "it's
the blood loss" Tony said.
"Hai Hai Dr. Tony" Lucy immediately fell over but the deer transformed and
carried her to the other room. "Call me Chopper" he said setting her at a table.
Even though her vision was spotted she saw a sleeping red head in the bed by the
window. Nami looked stable and her breathing was even. She tried getting up but
a strong set of hands brought her down "Just wait will you!"
Lucy didn't feel tipsy but she felt disoriented, at times the room would spin.
She looked around the walls and spotted two coats dumped in the trash, they were
Lucy's and Luffy's coats both we a gruesome shade of red.
Lucy also saw a hint of yellow straw in the pile, absentmindedly she stood up,
but Chopper brought her down immediately. The blond only pointed at the hat she
never looked away from it. The deer strode over to the pile and pulled out the
straw, it was ripped and deformed but Lucy could fix it. Once done she wore it
for safe keeping it was surprisingly soft.
A bang sounded as Chopper set down a tall glass of a orange drink. Lucy just
realized that she had a terrible case of dry mouth. Without warning she grabbed
the glass and chugged it all. After finishing the drink did she realize how
disgusting it tasted, she fell to floor almost gagging.
Giant Chopper held her up and pinched a part of her neck. Lucy stopped gagging
and properly swallowed the liquid. The doctor set her down and gave her a yellow
candy "that drink might taste like sewage but it's all the vitamins and proteins
you need to restore a healthy supply of blood, you should try not to bleed for
the next day or two"
Lucy scoffed at Chopper "oh if that were possible" she ate the candy and looked
at the deer. "Your devil fruit is quiet interesting, it's a zoan I'm guessing"
"Where am I" a voice stirred, Nami sat up in her bed "Nami!" Lucy called as she
ran to the navigator. "Lucy you guys did it, I never doubted you"
Lucy explained the situation to Nami and introduced Chopper "he is our savior"
she announces. Chopper began to wave his arms in a sort of hula dance calling
both girls idiots, he blushed incredibly the entire time.
"Hey Chopper wanna join our crew!" Both Lucy and Chopper had the same reaction,
falling on their butts. But when Lucy processed the question she giggled.
Chopper was about to answer when two voices echoed "so hungry" and the other was
planning various recipes on cooking raw meat. Chills ran up Lucy's spine as two
figures lingered around the door. Luffy screamed "Meat"
"Nami I think we've finally lost 'em, they are too far gone" Lucy cupped her
cheeks in a worried way. The boys looked insane, our captain was frothing at the
mouth. "Lucy I think you may be right" Nami deadpanned.
And the two boys dashed for the deer, Chopper sensing the danger ran out a
different door. Luffy stopped for a second to say "Nami, Lucy, Hat." In seconds
they were gone without a trace, the door they left open let in freezing air.
Lucy ran to close it and shut it.
"I see you have an interest in my deer" A voice creeped from behind the tailor.
Lucy ran to The navigator to retreat under the covers. From the other room an
old women wearing teenagers clothes appeared. Lucy only wondered how cold she
could be in those.
"And what if I do, a girl always has the right to flirt" Nami batted her eyes,
the old women glared at the red head before responding with a deep cackle "I'm
doctor Kureha, my deer and I saved you crazy bunch from death"
She began mumbling about how we were almost dead when she got us. Lucy just
narrowed her eyes, she doubted the doctor cared about their well being.
"What..." Lucy began but was rudely cut off "one of you fractured their spine,
the other had a fatal case of frostbite, the other lost almost half of her blood
and" the witch stared to the red head as she lifted Nami's pajamas. Their was a
tiny red bump next to her belly button "this girl had an extinct bug's toxin
polluting her system! What I want to know is how that's possible"
"In my opinion" Lucy rubbed her temples "if your still looking for logic in the
grand line you might as well give up now." But Nami then answered "The second
island we docked at on the grand line was one with an extinct population"
Lucy stared in shock, dinosaurs still roamed the earth. At the academy she was
told they all died long ago. "Well I'll tell you a story, you both will listen
or am I wasting my life!" The doctor rasped "what's left of it" Lucy mumbled,
the old bat threw a book at Lucy, biting right in the head. She waved a white
towel in surrender.
Doctor Kureha told Choppers tale (I will not bore you with the details so I will
skip to when she finishes) "That's why the deer will not join you crew, he
thinks of himself as a monster." The old lady finished.
"Well it's worth a shot" Nami sat up "We need to get going, Lucy get all our
stuff that's not covered in blood."
The doctor dived at Lucy, a scalpel was in her hand "there is only two
conditions I release my patients. One, if they are completely healed. Two, if
they are dead" The blond grabbed the book that hit her before to block the
blade, the book was sliced in half. "What the" the next thing Lucy knew is that
she was on the floor.
"You got that?" The doctor gave an evil grin. Lucy shifted her body and threw
the doctor Kureha off, pain erupted in her chest. She held up her hands in a
defensive manner and sat next to Nami, "Chopper told me to avoid bleeding out."
"At least someone listens" the old women stood in the center of the room. From
the door a little kid sized reindeer ran through the room around Kureha and out
the door. Five seconds later two grown boys ran through the room, over Kureha,
and out the door. The doctor eyes glowed like a demon before she raced after the
bunch.
"Oh boy, they're dead" Lucy spoke dryly as she clenched her stomach. A few
seconds later both girls heard familiar screams. The blond and red head both had
similar expressions of fear. Lucy found a pair of pants and her boots, she took
Nami's coat and set off to find out what the hell was going on!
Lucy walked through the long castle hallways, why was it so cold if she was
indoors. Hugging her waist she stepped forward, on the floor she found a steel
mace, a few steps after she found sword. Lucy looked down to see a trail of
weapons, each sharper that the last.
Finding no better plan, the blond followed the trail down the hall, along the
way she found a blade similar to her axe. It was a bit too heavy but she needed
something to use since her wings are sealed by the bandages.
She swung the blade and rested it on her shoulder, Lucy then followed the rest
of the trail. She reached a tall spiral staircase and began her ascent. Half way
up what seemed a never ending spiral the tower shook, there was no railing so
Lucy clung to the stone. She braced herself and kept climbing and climbing. The
higher she climbed the colder a draft became. Soon the stone steps became
covered in frost, the blond wishes she brought a scarf, the strawhat provided no
heat.
The stairs finally ended with a door that was left ajar, snow covered the stone
floors, she exited the wooden door and found herself on top of one of the four
tall towers. She was so high up that there was snow clouds below her. She
finally realized that she was on top of that 5000 meter tower, the only
structure up here was this momentous castle.
She looked down to what she assumed was the front gates, she saw a group of
people standing out front, she recognized Luffy, Sanji, Chopper, and Kureha.
There were three other shadows but those were some Lucy didn't know.
"Luuuuuffy, Saaaaaaanji!" Lucy cupped her lips, but they didn't hear her.
Something must have been wrong, the shadows looked tense. They began attacking,
Luffy stretched his limbs and Chopper attacked.
Suddenly the plump shadow on the opposing side stared up Lucy, was she found
out. The blond bent down a peered over the edge. A small sphere came flying
towards her. "Oh shit" Lucy began ripping her bandages, surprisingly the
scratches were already superficial. She looked up and saw a black flag.
As usual her stomach sank and everything slowed down to a snails pace. Using the
axe she slit two holes in the back of her coat and unfurled her white
appendages. The feeling of relief similar to stretching a sleeping muscle
flooded her body.
Lucy flapped her wings and felt her feet leave the ground, she looked at the
flag and decided. She gave all her power to flying fast and up, on her way she
grabbed the black flag and kept flapping.
She heard a Big Bang and rush of air that sent her flying up. She finally ceased
her wings and turned over, she widened her wings and aimed down towards her
crew, never letting the black flag go. On her descent she unfurled the fabric,
it revealed to be a pirate skull with pink cherry blossoms.
Adjusting her feathers she landed perfectly on her boots next to Chopper and
Luffy. "Hey" she winked holding up two fingers in a piece sign. Suddenly Chopper
became teary eyed and Luffy gave his signature grin "Great timing I guess" Lucy
quickly stuck the flag into the snow, she hit ground and pushed further, the
flag stood on its own billowing in the cold breeze. The Sakura looked real in
the wind.
"So I'm ready to kick..." Lucy began but a rope hooked itself around her waist
trapping her wings and arms, and then it pulled her through the snow and to the
feet of Doctor Kureha. By chance Lucy rolled on the rope successfully tying
herself. "Don't get in the way blondie"
Sanji moved to protest but was silence by a kick, he collapsed to the ground and
was held there by the witches foot. "We are the good guys" Lucy grumbled
spitting out snow.
"What the hell is going on anyway!" The tailor asked, how long has she been
gone. She looked at the opposing figures and noticed it was the idiot who took a
bite of the merry, he was dressed as ridiculously as his minions. "Oh look the
circus is in town"
Lucy struggled to a sitting position, her arms and wings were still bound,
Kureha didn't look like the helping type. The blond settled with watching the
two fight. Chopper was holding a little golden candy, just like the one he gave
her earlier. He took a bite and grew taller, Lucy was disappointed that she did
not grow taller when consuming the candy.
Not only dig his body grow but his legs looked stronger "Jumping Point" is what
he called before he sprang into action. He was all over the field, he jumped
just in front of one of the minions and transformed. "Heavy Point" And his
biceps and fists became massive, he then clocked the enemy right in the face.
Lucy could her the crack from far away.
On a side note her butt was growing numb from the cold snow, would doctors
recommend against sitting in snow? But who am I kidding these are a couple of
quack doctors, Lucy began to sulk.
"Sugoi!" Luffy exclaimed as Chopper transformed to his kid form. The deer then
yelled "Brain Point" he locked his hoofs and stared at the enemies. My captain
started cheering "Beam it's a Beam, has to be a Beam!"
"Does he really think he will shoot a laser beam?" Lucy asked Sanji, he was
obviously in pain but gritted his teeth "Expect anything Lucy-chan"
Luffy was severely disappointed when the talking reindeer did not shoot a laser
beam from wherever he thought there would be one. But nonetheless he was still
amused over the fact that Chopper has seven different forms of transformation.
While Lucy who was also a Zoan type had two, jealousy engulfed the blond's
thoughts. Lucy shook her head and continued to watch the battle unfold.
Lets analyze the situation, it is Luffy and Chopper against two circus clowns
and a guy with a metabolism of steel. The strawhat boy has yet to do anything
productive while the doctor has transformed multiple times. At one moment there
was a stare off between the groups, then the fat one, named Wapol Lucy believes,
began eating the clowns. Stay tuned, maybe they will jump off the tower to their
deaths... A girl can dream can't she? All Lucy wanted was a bath, the cold was
making the girl cranky beyond belief.
After the enemy fully digested his minions he began to transform to something
less fat but twice as ridiculous, Lucy couldn't help but laugh, she dubbed the
transformation Circus Wapol. "Something funny little girl?" The Circus Wapol
asked.
"Gomen Gomen, carry on" the small blonde wiggled behind Kureha, no way was she
going to converse with this tyrant. Lucy crawled out of sight from the witch and
ran to the castle, unfortunately she was still tangled in the rope, her wings
were falling asleep.
She picked up on of the sharp weapons from earlier and cut herself lose. Lucy
spread her wings wide, four feet of feathers shot out to her sides. The blond
took off in search of Nami's room, the castles halls provided just enough space
to glide around with ease.
In no time Lucy entered the room and greeted Nami "Where are the boys?" She
asked "They are fighting a giant circus clown" Lucy said "might as well wait
till they are done"
"You mean that guy that eats objects?" The navigator guessed
"How do you know?"
"Earlier I met him in the castle when I was trying to escape, I swiped this key
from him and ran here" Nami said pulling a small silver key from her pajamas
"might come in handy"
There was a small explosion and the castle shook "What the hell is that, it
happened before!" The red head crossed her arms "Nothing just the boys fighting"
Lucy unzipped her coat and looked for more gauze.
When she caught Nami staring Lucy giggled "Rabid bunnies" The navigator only
narrowed her brown eyes. Once Lucy redid her bandages she slipped on the coat to
keep warm. "Oh shit" Lucy exclaimed touching her neck, without a word she left
the room.
Running back to the front she was given and evil glare by Kureha, she searched
the snow for her missing locket. "You seem very familiar girly, someone I used
to know who would always get on my nerves" the witch held out a golden heart
pendant to Lucy. "Arigato" Lucy bowed snatching the necklace. "Where is Luffy?"
She asked clasping the chain.
Everyone pointed up, towards the tallest tower of the castle. Lucy could only
wonder what was going on up there. There was noise coming from a metal shed near
the edge of the tower.
Which let me say that this tower would fail all safety tests. Lets begin with
the fact that there isn't any kind of fence or railing surrounding the platform.
So in case you slip on the ice and happen to be near the edge have fun with your
5000 meter drop of death.
But Lucy was not here to judge the safety of structures created on the grand
line... Actually Lucy was healed as well as the rest what was she still doing
here on this tower. Shoving here hands in her pockets she grabbed Sanji to help
him up.
"I need to fix his back later, or else he'll be in immense pain" Kureha
commented. Lucy let the unconscious cook lean on her. Anything was better than
forgot in the snow. His arms were draped over her neck, Lucy had a firm grasp on
his waist to make sure he didn't slip.
Every few seconds Lucy would here some grunts, Sanji was enjoying himself "He
must be in so much pain" the blond honestly thought. Lucy turned to the deer
sitting on the floor "you would have a lot of fun on our ship"
Chopper just lowered his head in response "I'm just a monster." Lucy rolled her
eyes "if your a monster than I'm a demon, at least your cute!" The deer blushed
lightly. "Being a monster isn't all that bad though" Lucy unfurled her white
wings "it makes you special" she giggled.
The deer jumped up and galloped away. "You won't change him by compliments Pa- i
mean Blondie" Kureha said, Lucy contemplated for a moment if she thought her
name started with a P. The tower shook again, "is that a shooting star?" Lucy
called staring at black shadow falling through the sky, "oh no that's the circus
clown. Dr-San please treat Sanji!"
The doctor rolled her eyes and strode towards the castle, Lucy was about to
follow when the noise coming from the metal shed oddly ceased.
The door opened to reveal the crew, one by one Zoro and the rest emerged from
the tiny metal box. "Lucy-chan! You are alright" Vivi called.
Before Lucy could respond a cry echoed throughout the castle "Gumo Gumo no
ROCKET" the blonde couldn't even process what was going on until Zoro collapsed
to the floor. Dropping Sanji Lucy ran towards the fallen swordsman, she was
ready to fight.
She unfurled her wings, clenched her fists, and jumped into the pile of snow.
Lucy landed on something human, but she couldn't see, the oversized strawhat
covered her eyes. The blond gave a powerful wave of her white appendages to
clear the snow. When the gust cleared she found herself planted on both her
captain and swordsman.
"My hat!" Luffy cheered crawling out of Lucy's hold, leaving the tailor fully
straddling Zoro. It took a full two seconds for the blond to realize the
position she was in. Feeling her face heat up Lucy threw herself to the side
screaming "Gomenesai!"
The swordsman brushed the snow off his coat "Oi Luffy what was that for" all he
got in response was "Wari Zoro"
Vivi came over to the sulking tailor to help her up "is Nami-San better?" Lucy
rubbed her aching butt and lead the princess to the castle. Sanji and Kureha was
gone and the boys decided to stay behind and play.
"I'm telling you, my crew and I need to leave as soon as possible" Vivi and Lucy
heard a voice from down the hall. "And I'm telling you, I don't release my
patients until they are fully healed!" The girls walked into Nami's room to find
them arguing, Kureha was a stubborn person.
"Ehh, I don't have time for you, I gotta talk to the straw hat boy and see if he
saw a key" The old witch waved off the girls, a malicious grin krept on the
navigators face. "Maybe this will help" Nami twirled a small silver key in her
slender fingers, oh she was evil.
Kureha looked over her shoulder and her eyes widened, she quickly tried to swipe
the piece of silver but Nami had a quick reaction. "I want to leave!" Her tone
was firm. Finally snatching the key Kureha spoke through gritted teeth "I am
about to take this key and leave for a certain amount of time, and there are no
locked doors in this castle. Behind that door is a coat closet, Bye now" She
left the room without another word.
Lucy was already at the closet choosing an outfit for the red head. The snow was
was now falling in delicate proportions. Once dressed the girls left the room,
Lucy grabbed the unconscious Sanji. As they walked Vivi commented on the sharp
objects lying about but Lucy just shushed her.
Outside everyone actually looked ready to go, something must be wrong. Luffy
screamed to hurry up before stretching his arm towards Lucy, grabbing her collar
she was thrown in the air. The blond hugged Sanji's arm, he would die if she let
go. Her back smashed into something hard, for a moment she saw stars.
Lucy opened her eyes and found herself in a sleigh, once everyone boarded, the
carriage took off, over the edge. The blond was speechless, this hunk of wood
was soaring through the air towards the shore. The sleigh shook and The cook
flew from her grip, Lucy sprang from her seat and caught his ankle, only then
she realized her body was weightless, she would fall.
A firm fist clenched her coat, preventing her from flying away. Behind her a
scowling swordsman had a death grip on Lucy, for the rest of the sleigh ride the
cook and tailor were flailing about. Once they landed Zoro let go of Lucy she
held the cook close and ran to the ship along with the rest. "Why are we
rushing" The blond cried.
There was a loud bang, similar to that of a canon. On instinct Lucy unfurled her
white appendages and threw Sanji on the merry. The rest followed up the ladder,
they all turned around and... Marveled!
That was no cannon, Lucy couldn't even describe the beauty of the blooming
Sakura in front of her. The whole crew was awestruck, a smile was found even on
Zoro. Beside her the reindeer was trying to hold back his tears, Lucy wrapped
her arm around the deer and stared in silence. Chopper blew his nose in Lucy's
coat arm.
Luffy emerged from the kitchen with a bang, in his hands were two barrels of
liquor. "Here we go again" Lucy muttered raising her mug. The whole crew brought
their filled cups as the captain cheered "To Chopper! Kampai!" They all screamed
in unison.
