Sorry for any grammar errors, I know it may turn some people off, but well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

DISCLAIMER: I don't know if I should do this or not but whatever, I don't own anything here apart from my OC's.

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Dragon Island, Grand Line.

As an island of medium size with warm temperatures and good climate basically all year, plus a unique name that came from the legend of the Lightning Dragon, Dragon Island is a very good place to settle and have a good and calm life.

The legend said that long ago a dragon that had the power to rule over lightning used the island as his dwelling place, and because of the dragon being present many hazards and disasters ended up being avoided by the island. This constant show of power and actions of the Dragon made the island dwellers see him as some type of Divine Guardian or Protector, he was even considered their Lord by many.

Their respect for the Dragon made them consider the act of going to the heart of the island, where the nest of the Dragon was, something forbidden that should be avoided at all costs.

With the passage of time, this legend became almost forgotten by the new generations of the island, with many treating the Dragon legend as just some sort of story created by their ancestors. But even so, many still don't go even near the heart of the island where the dragon nest was, all that do say they feel watched at that place.

What they don't know is that on this island the new journey of one lost soul will begin anew, a journey that will surely shake the life of many in this world.

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Life sure can be surprising, this is something that I have come to learn after I died.

In one moment there I was, walking back home one afternoon my first day on my new job.

I was nineteen and that was my first real full-time job, so I was very happy and feeling good about myself, a calm job at a book store in a very respected commercial district of the city, really good stuff. My normal life was really good at that moment, so good that apparently some type of cosmic force out there decided it was a good moment to screw me up.

There wasn't a single car in sight when I took my first step to cross the street, but as soon as I was halfway across the street a car appeared out of nowhere. Some would say it was one of those street racing cars, but to me it was more akin to a carriage from hell.

The envoy from the one below didn't even give me a second to properly react to the situation, and before I could realize I was already flying down the street. After bouncing a little, as just being hit by a car and send flying was not enough, I laid there with my eyes open while seeing the envoy running away as if nothing out of normal had just happened.

My body lost all its warmth and my vision started to darken.

All that I could really do at that moment was curse whatever wretched cosmic force out there decided to send that envoy from hell at me.

Really, what an unjust death.

But then after being engulfed by darkness, I discovered that just as there's a force out there that doesn't like me, there's apparently another one that actually does like me.

After spending God knows how much time floating across the dark void, that I think was the limbo, I started to feel a tug where my legs were supposed to be. It started lightly, but it soon grew in strength, out of nowhere light came and engulfed the darkness of the void, a sense of weakness overcame me, which was good! Because it showed that I had a body again.

With air touching my face I tried to gulp it down as if some type of rare delicacy, which I totally considering being after my time inside the void.

I wanted to shout out in happiness for being alive, but when I opened my mouth something that I was not expecting came out instead.

"Ungh! Ungh!"

A baby cry

"Ah! It's a boy!"

I could not fully open my eyes so I could not see much, but with the little I could, I saw the face of a woman with white flowing hair, blue eyes, soft skin, and a loving smile.

"My little boy" Said the woman to me in a caring voice that I only heard coming from my mother.

At the first I don't understand what was happening, my face probably was quite a sight as I felt gears turning inside my head, remembering the void of darkness that I just escaped and my death put a crazy idea in my mind. This crazy idea, along with the fact that now I felt my body being way smaller than I remember it, plus the smiling woman before me made me realize what was happening.

'I had reincarnated!'

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The first few months of my new life had been a little tougher than what I had initially thought they would be.

That was probably because my past life was still fresh in my mind, I still could not come to terms with the fact that everything I knew was gone!

To be completely honest each time that I thought about my past life and everyone lost I would cry sorrowfully like the baby I now was. Especially when I recalled the mother that I lost, at those moments I would really cry.

Luckily for me, every time that I cried my new mother would come to my rescue and comfort me.

"What's wrong honey? Why are you crying?"

"Hey, look at mommy, mommy will get you a cookie"

"Do you want to go out with mommy?"

"Look at the toy that mommy got you"

I could not understand what she was saying, but I could feel the loving care that emanated from her, the same love and care that my first mother would have for me, the same worry at seeing me sad, the same happiness at seeing me smile... in other words the same everything, if not for the fact she had white angelical hair, I would have long assumes she was my mother from my previous life.

Only a few months later when I saw her crying in sorrow because of my never-fading depressed mood, that I had finally come to realize and accept this one crucial fact.

My past life was gone!

I could not return to my previous life, and neither see my first mother, and that would fill me with sadness.

But my new life mother was here with me, and she cares about me, she love's me, her son, and although I could not fully forget the nineteen years that I lived on Earth, I should just accept that my last life was already gone and walk forward.

"My past life had ended, but my new life is just starting!"