"Ace! Luffy! Watch out!"
"ERIS!"
"I'm sorry… but it looks like… we couldn't meet again… for awhile…"
"What the hell are you saying!?"
"Don't say that as if you're going to die!"
"Thank you everyone… for being my family…!"
"ERIIISS!"
XXX
"Eris!"
"Huh?" I turn my head to look at my friend, Eid, who seems a little annoyed.
"You spaced out again! I told you to help me do this assignment, didn't I?!" She scolds me. Oh right, assignments. I can only laugh nervously at that and start focusing at the assignment. But doing all of these assignments is such a pain in the ass, even though I have to do it.
But then after a while, I get tired of it. I stretch out as I stand up. I need to grab some fresh air. Thankfully the teacher isn't present, so there's still free time until the next subject.
"I'm going to the restroom, go continue it for a moment by yourself, alright Eid?" I ask as I stand up. I'm not really going to the restroom, but I'm not that bad of a bad liar, right?
"Yeah, yeah. Just don't take you time on it. We still got plenty left unanswered!" She replies.
I just grin at her as a reply as I walk out from the noisy classroom. It's still a wonder how there's no teacher to check on my current classroom because honestly, it's pretty noisy and too lively.
I start to walk around the school, walking down the stairs to the first floor. As I turn to the hallway, I see a weird looking door right next to the stairs. I raise my eyebrow and walk closer. Curiosity kills the cat, they say. But satisfaction brings it back, I continue.
But as soon as I open the door and mindlessly (which I'm pretty famously for) step into a bright light, I suddenly smell salt water. And just like that, I kinda have a feeling that I'm actually falling, as I can feel that there's nothing under my feet when I stepped in. But before I can fully process that feeling, I blacked out.
Eventually I wake up, but with salty taste in my mouth and a body soaked with water. I cough and breathe heavily. Slowly, I open my eyes and saw…guess what? Sand. And then, further in front of me, a jungle. I close my eyes to adjust to the light and the insane setting, and then open my eyes again to see an approaching pair of boots.
Hands wrap around me and gather me in their arms. I start focusing my eyesight at the person who rescued me. A straw hat on top of bright red hair, along with a warm smile. I can't see more than that because of the blinding sunlight. 'Damn you, Mr. Sun! And it's hot too!'
"Don't worry little one, you'll be fine…" the person says and smiles at me. I just nod and lose consciousness again.
Why did that person look so familiar?
Eventually, I wake up (again) with an uncomfortable throbbing in my head, especially at the old scar I got when I was younger. I try to sit up, but the throbbing got worse, so I just lay down on the bed for a while to lessen the pain. Wait, a bed?
"Ah! You finally woke up!" I turn and see an old man with a kind smile approaches me.
I groan and slowly try to sit up. The old man grabs a glass of water and gives it to me. My throat burns, reminding me that salt water is definitely not good for your throat. As I hold out my hand to grab the glass of water, I almost scream out in horror.
My hands are freakin' small! And also, the, erm, weights on my chest are gone. I panic silently. What the hell is going on?!
"Err, little girl? Are you okay? How are you feeling?" The old man asks in concern. I quickly regain my sanity and laugh nervously. I grab the glass of water and drain it. I wipe my mouth with the back of my hand and give the glass back to the old man.
"I guess I'm just shocked because the last time I woke up, I was lying on the sand and there's jungle in front of me. But now? I'm on a bed." I answer him before I remember that I somehow got saved by a kind Samaritan when I gained consciousness before, "Say, old man, can I ask who you are and who my savior is?" I ask, and the old man laughs (possibly on my misery or my frankness).
"I'm Pete, the village's doctor. The man who saved you is the Akagami Pirates' captain, Akagami no Shanks. You understand what I'm saying, little girl?" I nodded and blinked for a few times.
Shanks…? Akagami pirates…?
Like a ton of bricks falling onto me, I all at once realize who they are. The infamous Shanks from One Piece! Dammit, why didn't I realize it sooner that he saved me?!
Wait…
If Shanks is here, then… I'm in One Piece world now?!
My head start to spin at the information that's too much for my small brain and I actually black out. Again.
XXX
"Little girl?! H-hey, hang in there!" Pete exclaims as his patient suddenly falls unconscious. The doctor panics for a moment, but gets distracted by a certain red-haired pirate entering the room.
"Evenin', doc!" Shanks greets with wide smile.
"A-ah, Shanks! I didn't see you there!"
"Yep. So, any news from the girlie?" Shanks asks, glancing at the girl on the bed. The girl, Eris, is unconscious with bandages around the scalp of her head. She seems to be around 5 to 7 year old, but she's wearing such strange, obviously-too-big clothes, which is, unbeknownst to Shanks, her school uniform.
"A-ah, she woke up earlier, but she fell unconscious again," Pete explains. Shanks blinks and laughs at that, but Pete scolds him for being loud.
"I'll watch over her. You can go check on the other patients." Shanks tells him as he sit down next to the bed, pulling a chair to do so. Pete nods and walks out from the room.
The pirate decides to observe the girl, who is now sleeping softly. He chuckles and starts to poke the girl's chubby left cheek. He keeps poking and poking until he gets slapped in the nose by a small hand. And even then the child didn't wake up.
Shanks laughs in amusement, rubbing his nose. The girl stirs and turns her back to the soon-to-be Yonkou. Shanks smiles and ruffles the girl's hair, but not too hard to be considerate of her wounds.
"I hope you wake up soon, girlie," Shanks whispers, continuing to poke the girl's cheek, "Because I want to introduce you to a certain boy in this town."
A/N: HAPPY NEW YEAR AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR HOLEY BOY, PORTGAS D. ACE!
I decided to rewrite the earliest chapters of this fic and add more details into it, along with fixing grammar errors, and strengthen the plot I'm going for this story. Considering this story was written by my 15 y.o me and basically an amateur fanfic writer (still am tho, but better lmao), so there might be big revamp from the original one to fit the story better and maybe less cishet because apparently im not a cishet lmaoo
Thank you to those who are still following and reading this shit, despite I've been kinda abandoning it for *checks notes* years, and how awful the grammars are lol
I'm going to update the rewritings possibly once a week, because I only managed to rewrite like 17 chapters and there are like, almost 60 main plot chapters. I will also delete the special chapters, so this story will only have main story plot in it.
Other than that, I will also post the rewrites on Ao3 because let's face it, I spent too much time on it because the tagging system very good lol
(if you prefer to read it on ao3 because tags, feel free! Username is same as this one.)
(also f to those assholes who read it until chapter 22 to shit on it, or whatever bullshit you said on this old fanfic. This is my fanfic and im doing this for myself so your opinion didn't really matter and also f you haters lmao)
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