We're Sent Of With a BANG!

Recuit The Deer Doctor: Mission Complete

I was forced to sit back down in a bed that was put on the opposite side of Nami's bed. She was frowning at the fact we were stuck here for three more days. Vivi was at Nami's bed, keeping her company.

In the other room I could hear Sanji being operated on by Doctorine. Which was a mixture of Sanji screaming in pain and Doctorine cackling.

After she was done, she took a long drink of her wine bottle and asked, "Dalton, surely you would know where the key to the arsenal is?"

Dalton's guards were all looking at Dalton as he responded, "Why do you need to get in there?"

Doctorine just smiled and said, "That's really none of your business now is it?"

Dalton told her that Wapol kept it on his person at all times and that it was probably destroyed when he was sent flying.

Doctorine was about to give up, until I said cheerfully, "Oh Doctorine, I got a proposition for you."

Everyone looked at me curiously. I continued, "I want you to let us go, right now, for free. How's about it?"

She raised an eyebrow. "What?" She asked.

"You heard me," I said, "Discharge me, Nami, and Sanji from here without having to pay you a single berri. How's about it?"

She grit her teeth. "Are you really that stupid? Why should I let all you go without fully recovering AND without paying? What could you possibly have?"

I smiled and held up the silver key. "Why the key to the arsenal of course!"

Everyone gasped. Dalton asked, "How did you get that key?"

Doctorine smiled, "How do I know that's the real key to the arsenal?"

Michael, if you would.

Of course. He responded.

I pulled out the Dragonstomper and said, "Then how did I open the door and get this cool looking gun? Oh, and I'm taking this as well."

Everyone backed off and said in awe, "That's one of Wapol's strongest pistols!"

Doctorine was about to come in close to take the key from me, but I simply pointed the gun at her.

"Screaver! This isn't going to let us leave any sooner!" Vivi tried to pacify me.

"Now I'm going to ask you again, how's about it?"

She grit her teeth and said, "You got a lot of balls to threaten me like this boy."

"I'm not going to shoot you." I said, and I put the gun away, "And stop calling me boy!"

I tossed her the key. She grunted and said, "Fine, you don't have to pay my doctor's fee but that's as much as I'll agree too. As a doctor I can't allow you to leave in good conscious. Not for two days!"

She was about to leave when I shouted, "HEY! WE NEED TO GO NOW!"

Doctorine quickly turned around and pointed at me. "LISTEN HERE BOY!"

Everyone looked at her as she said, "I have to leave you all alone to take care of a few things. If you look in the back room you might find a few coats that will fit you all, and it's not like I'm posting any guards on you. And the young man with the spinal fissure is probably fine enough to travel by now. But boy, don't you think about trying to escape!"

She told the rest of the guys to come with her and left me, Nami, Vivi, and Dalton alone in that room.

"Well, now what? She said we still can't leave!" I said in agony.

Vivi and Nami hit their foreheads in frustration and said, "She just told us to take the coats, get Sanji, and sneak out!"

"Even I could tell." Dalton added in.

I looked at everyone and shrugged. "Oops?"

Nami looked at me and said, "Seriously, how did you get that key?"

I smiled at her, "What? You think you're the only one with sticky fingers?"


We got all buttoned up, got Sanji, and walked out the front door. I was carrying Sanji just like I did when I was carrying him up the mountain, slung over my shoulder.

We made it to the front gate just as Chopper was confronting Luffy.

"HEY!" Luffy shouted cheerfully. "You're gonna come to our ship and be a pirate with us, ok?"

Chopper was looking down and said, "I can't."

"Sure you can, reindeer! It's a whole lot of fun!" Luffy continued.

"That's not a very good argument!" Usopp shouted at him as he was building a snowman.

Chopper was looking downward in sadness. "I can't." He said again. He then shouted in anger, "I'M NOT A HUMAN, I'M A REINDEER! I have antlers and hooves don't you see? I EVEN HAVE A BLUE NOSE!"

"SO WHAT?" I shouted at him.

He looked at me in shock. "SO WHAT IF YOU HAVE A BLUE NOSE? Usopp has a big nose! Luffy is made of rubber! I'm the only one with brown hair! You won't find other humans like that! If you won't join us because you ain't human…THEN THAT ISN'T A GOOD REASON!"

He looked at me like he was in pain. "Ok, maybe I do want to be a pirate! BUT I CAN'T EVER BE ONE OF YOU! I'M NOT HUMAN! I'M A MONSTER! I can't become your friend and I can't become a pirate on your ship! You see?"

He was trying to act angry, but I could see that he was about to cry.

"I'm just here to say…thank you. I appreciate you asking me to join your ship. That was…really nice. So…thank you."

His voice was trembling. He was biting his lower lip. We all stared at him in silence.

"I'm going to stay here for now." He told us. He forced a smile and then said, "But if you wanted to…you can stop by here again…"

"SHUT UP! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!" Luffy shouted triumphantly, cutting Chopper off.

Um…ok…

We all smiled at our captain's response. Chopper began to cry in happiness.

"Most people don't make friends by telling them to shut up." Zoro grumbled.

"Well Luffy ain't most people." I told him.


We were all waiting outside for Chopper to say his goodbyes to Doctorine.

Usopp asked Nami, "Are really feeling ok?"

Nami just smiled at him and said, "Sure am! I feel great!"

I wasn't feeling that super special awesome. My chest was still sore from that massive blast of power that seemed to come the fuck out of no where.

"Are you ok Screaver? Did you use your Demon Hunter again?" Nami asked me.

I took a deep breath and forced a smile, "Nope. I'm just a little winded. All I need is to get back to the ocean and I'll be…huff…good as new."

They were still a bit cautious, but they seemed to let it go.

"I still can't believe you climbed that mountain yourself! Carrying three people!" Vivi said in shock.

Usopp just grunted. "I can believe it. It's just like I taught you Screaver!" He said in his courageous way.

-BAM-

I hit him over the head. He was thrown into his snowman.

"I'm ok." He said weakly.

"You won't be if you keep it up." I said to him.

A loud noise was coming from the castle. It was a bunch of crashing sounds, yelling, and Chopper's high pitched scream.

Chopper was running outside, in his deer form, pulling a huge purple sleigh.

"EVERYONE! GET ON THE SLEIGH! WE'RE GOING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN! HURRY!"

We also saw a crazy Doctorine chasing him slinging a giant mace around.

"YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL US TWICE!"

We all hopped on and Chopper pulled the sleigh down a giant rope that was connected to the mountain.

Wish I knew about that BEFORE I climbed the giant mountain and lost ten years off my life.

We were so high up I could see all the trees and towns bellow. We all didn't even fit inside the sleigh! Luffy was just hanging out of the sleigh in the open air as Usopp kept a hold of his arm.

It was a magical ride.


We hit the ground and passed by a group of curious people, not paying them any attention as we charged into the forest.

As we continued on we were stopped by…a heard of reindeer.

A group of reindeer were blocking our path too the shore.

Chopper freaked out.

"What is it Chopper? Are they your friends?" Luffy asked stupidly.

I hit him over the head for that.

One reindeer stepped forward. It was bigger than the rest. It had a claw mark across it's forehead, another scar across it's snout, and it's antler was partially broken off.

"F…father." Chopper said quietly.

Nami and Sanji gasped when he said that.

The reindeer seemed to say something, it was a weird grunting animal noise.

"What's he saying?" Usopp said.

"He says that…I can't leave here. He won't let me leave here after running away in a fight." Chopper said in a trembling tone.

The buck continued to grunt.

Chopper continued, "He says that…he's my father and…he decides if I leave or not."

The alpha buck clawed the ground, ready to charge at him.

Chopper was unresponsive. He was looking at his dad with blank, terrified eyes.

The buck charged at Chopper.

-BAM-

I intercepted the buck with my own forehead.

"SCREAVER!" Usopp shouted in terror.

The buck stepped back and shook it's head. I rubbed my forehead. The buck tried to charge again, but I kept meeting his head but wit my own.

-BAM-

-BAM-

-BAM-

My forehead was beginning to bleed. So was the other deer's head. I charged at him and grabbed the animal by it's neck.

"NOW YOU LISTEN HERE TO STUPID PIECE OF MEAT! CHOPPER IS NOT YOUR SON ANYMORE! HE WAS NEVER YOUR SON TO BEGIN WITH! CHOPPER IS OUR FAMILY NOW GOT IT? YOU MESS WITH HIM YOU MESS WITH ME! YOU BETTER BE GLAD I DON'T TURN YOU INTO A WALL DECORATION! NOW…GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"

I threw the deer back to his heard. He struggled to get back up and glared at me angrily. I glared even fiercer.

"Now...GET OUT OF HERE!"

He grit his teeth (if deer can do that) then turned around and led the blockade of reindeer back into the forest.

I turned to face Chopper. He was crying. "Thank…Thank you Screaver." He said quitely.

I smiled, wiped the blood from my forehead and said, "No problemo."

Everyone looked at me in awe.

"Screaver…you didn't have to go that far." Usopp said.

"That deer was a terrible father." Sanji said. "I'm surprised you didn't do worse."

I shrugged. "What can I say? He was Chopper's blood father."

Chopper shook away his tears and said, "Come on, we need to keep moving."


We continued through the forest. Vivi was wiping my forehead with a handkerchief.

We weren't even near the shore, but Chopper stopped and turned back around.

-KABOOM- -KABOOM- -KABOOM-

We all looked back up and saw the giant pillar shaped mountain. A long series of cannon blasts were echoing through the night.

The cannon blasts stopped.

And then…

-WHOOSH-

The sky around the top of the mountain lit up in a blinding light. None of us could see for a moment.

When the light died down a little, we looked up and saw…

Oh I don't fucking believe it!

The whole top of the mountain lit up with a huge, monumental, pink cloud. The snow that fell from the sky turned pink as it fell around us. The cloud grew bigger and bigger until the entire mountain looked like a giant pink tree.

So this is what the good doctor spent his life trying to do. Well I'll be damned. Michael said in awe.

Now there's something you don't see everyday.

I could almost hear the epic orchestra playing music over these scene. The cloud was growing even more bigger and birghter with each passing second. Even the snow that came down on us was turning pink.

I even cried a little.

Chopper cried so loudly that it seemed more like shouting more than crying.

Vivi was grabbing my hand as she looked up in amazement. Nami was grabbing my other hand.

I'm a lucky lucky guy.

It got even better. The whole area was beginning to turn a glowing shade of pink. It was a warm, beautiful shade of pink.

Well…I guess you had to be there…like me!

Nothing like in the anime, like I always say. The cloud was getting brighter as well. It really looked like a huge cherry blossom tree. It made me feel so warm and good inside.

If this couldn't cure a country of its sadness, I don't know what will.

This has been…another moment that make's me happy to be a strawhat.


We were all aboard the ship and were sailing away from Drum Island. The giant cherry tree was still beautiful even as we got farther and farther away.

Usopp whispered to us, "You think Chopper is doing ok? He seems a little down."

"Let's just give him some time to collect his thoughts." I suggested.

"It's his first journey out as a man. It's a rite of passage." Sanji said.

"And he's about to leave Drum Island for good." Vivi said with concern. "It's been his home his entire life."


In a matter of minutes, all the guys were laughing at Luffy as he stuck chopsticks in his nose and began dancing like a moron.

"COME ON CHOPPER! SNAP OUT OF IT!" Usopp shouted.

All the guys were acting all merry. Usopp grabbed Chopper and said, "Here, you want a drink?"

Sanji pushed him out of the way and said, "Come sing a song with us!"

Luffy came out of no where and said, "Stick these chopsticks up your nose!"

I was in my crowsnest, placing my new bazooka and gun next to my box-o-memories (that's it's name now). After I cleared out all the snow I covered the place with the tarp and climbed back down to the party.

The girls were arguing at Zoro for getting Carue frozen in the river.

I was happy just sitting quietly in the corner and just watching Zoro get hit over the head by Nami.

Ah, typical evening on the Merry Go.

My chest was hurting as usual, but I had gotten use to it by now.

My soul is still decaying. I need just 29 more souls and I'll become a death scythe.

You just need some rest Screaver. That pain came from your battle with Wapol. I have the ability to dull the pain for a while, but sooner or later the pain will come back. Just not as strong. Michael said.

How much of my live have I lost?

It's not looking good. So far you've lost almost fifteen years. And that's just an estimate! The decay has been stabilized at the moment, so your live span won't be dropping until you decide to use Demon Hunter again. He told me.

Could you explain that?

Well, using soul resonance is like plugging a cord into a socket, a miser being the cord and you being the socket. Well, thanks to me, you've been basically plugging the cord right back into your own socket, causing your soul to surge. Well, after you first used the Demon Hunter, you soul began to break down and decay. In order to stop that decay I have to put a sort of barrier around your soul to stop it from decaying. But when you use Demon Hunter, that barrier is knocked out until you deactivate it, and I have to put it back up to stop the decay. Understand? He explained.

Sounds kinda dirty, but I think so. And when I get the death scythe power, my soul won't decay anymore?

Exactly. You soul will become strong enough to handle activating Demon Hunter and will stop decaying. It's risky, but you've never feared those odds before right?

You know me well Michael-sama.

Usopp announced, "I PROPOSE A TOAST TO OUR NEW FRIEND CHOPPER!"

"Come on Screaver! Join the party!" Sanji said, handing me a drink.

I got to my feet and gave him a half crazy smile. "You don't even have to ask!"

"TO CHOPPER! YEEEEEEEEAAAAAH!"