Chapter 11: KAZE- KAZE
The tides had just begun to shift when Akayla reached Mornmordre. She pulled the boat ashore and retrieved her belongings. She then saw something in the boat that shouldn't have been there. It was a sword with a black and red scabbard. It was the same sword she had been taught with. Apparently, Ben wanted her to keep it, so she took it as well. She looked around nervously. She hadn't been on the island even five minutes and she already felt like she was being watched from the shadows. Whatever this island had to hide, she would find it.
But first, she needed to construct a shelter. She picked up her bags and began walking along the beach. A few minutes later she saw an inward curve in the trees that she could work with. She set down her bags and quickly began gathering large leaves that were scattered along the beach. She had seen big leaves before, but these leaves were twice the size of the lifeboat. She put about twenty of them into a large pile and quickly climbed up with them one by one into the trees. She gathered vines and tied the leaves together, and then tied them to the trees. Then pulling on a rope, the leaves rose to make a roof above the clearing she had found.
She gathered many more giant leaves and spread them along the bottom to make a floor. She gathered many rocks, shells and sticks and lay them along the edges of the leafs to keep them in place. She then took what leafs were left over and used vines to tie them to the leafs hanging in the trees to make walls, and weighed these down with rocks as well. When she was done she stepped back to look at her work. It was great for a first timer. But night had begun to descend and she entered her new accommodations. She retrieved a blanket from her bag and began sifting through her bag for food. She looked in disappointed. She had eaten too much that day and all she had left was two loafs of bread, three wedges of cheese and two canteens of fresh water.
She reached into the bag and grabbed a loaf of bread. But then she felt something soft that she hadn't been able to see. She reached farther in and pulled out a light blue, exotic looking fruit with a thin, curly leaf at the top. Well there was no since in letting it go bad, so she put back the bread and took a bite of the strange fruit. It was sweet, like sugar and had as much liquid as a watermelon. The skin was tender and the inside hardly needed chewing. She put the canteen back in the backpack and finished eating.
When she was finished, she had a sudden sinking feeling, as if she had done something wrong. Then it dawned on her. A memory of the tavern in the village where she had met Luffy. " The Gum- Gum fruit was really cool. It was really watery but it tasted really sweet like sugar. Shanks had another one called Kaze- Kaze, or the wind fruit that was light blue." Oh no! Had she just eaten the wind fruit? She rubbed her hands together, praying. She thrust her hands in front of her and a huge gust of wind blew away from her and tore apart a section of the wall. "Oh… not good."
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