Author's Notes:
So here's the third part! Sorry it took so long, but had some other fics to get finished.
Hope you'll like it and consider it worth some reviews!!
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"Briiing us baaack!!!" Luffy screamed, his feet kicking into thin air. "Let go of me, you damn parrot!!"
"If the bird lets go of you, you'll fall into the sea and drown."
Pursing his lips and throwing some death glares at the eagle's belly, Luffy fell silent. Unfortunately
for him, Robin was right.
Right now, the eagle's two large talons were holding him tightly by his shoulders. His arms were
tied around him like a rope, a knot preventing him from getting his limbs free and, to top it all,
his rubber-legs dangled currently 400 meters above the sea...
If Zorro didn't wake up any time soon or Robin got her powers back, he saw no way out of this
situation.
"Hey, Robin! Zorro awake?" Luffy yelled, hoping the woman would hear him where she was sitting on the eagle's back, holding tightly onto an unconscious swords-fighter.
"No, he's still not awake... but the girl said, he should be able to move within the next ten/fifteen
minutes... and I still can't use my Devil Powers. She seems to have neutralized them for much longer than yours..."
Suddenly, without further warnings, the eagle pressed its large wings against its body and started
to drop down towards the sea. Robin had a hard time keeping Zorro from falling off the bird's back, while Luffy appeared to have the fun of his life!
"Woohoohoooooo!!!" He was screaming out his lungs, eyes shining bright with excitement.
But just as suddenly as it had started, the manoeuvre stopped, extended wings catching air and breaking the fall within a fraction of a second.
"Hahaha!! A roller-coaster-parrot!!"
"There's the Going Merry, captain..."
But Luffy didn't hear Robin anymore. He had already fallen onto the ship's deck, head banging with a loud thud against the mast.
"Ahhhhh..."
The eagle had dropped him unceremoniously onto the ship, having cleared its talons for a smooth landing.
"ARGH!!!!! A monster!!!"
Blinking a few times to get the chirping birds out of his line of view, Luffy had just time to watch
Usopp collapse, foam forming around his mouth.
The pirate just wanted to start laughing when a gust told him, that the eagle had left them alone
on their ship, probably flying back in order to get the rest of the crew... which brought him back to the topic!
"Robin!! Untie me!!!"
Visibly tired, the woman dragged her body over to Luffy, who was by now rolling around on the deck, screaming and yelling as if he was burning alive.
With all the strength she could muster, she let two arms grow out of the deck in order to hold him tight. She then loosened the knot in the rubber-arms and watched as they snapped back into their original length.
"Alright! Now I get back and kick some asses... you coming with me?"
Inhaling deeply, Robin shook her head no. She had to rest for a moment... afterwards she could still follow him and drag him out of danger.
"Ohh boy... my head..."
"Zorro!! You're awake!!"
Bewildered, the green haired man's forehead ceased into a deep frown.
His head hurt as if somebody had dumped a house onto him... but he was quite sure no such thing had happened... well, at least not within the last few days! And then there was this unnerving tingling in his body!
"What the heck... Hey Luffy, how did we get here?"
"Oh, the parrot brought us here... you ready to get back and rescue the others?!"
"LUFFY!! ZORRO!! ROBIN!! Where have you been? Where are the others?? And what did that monster bird want??"
Usopp, having made sure said monster bird was gone and that every part of his body was in one piece, dared to stand up and run over to where Nico Robin was leaning heavily against the side of the ship.
She still felt as if she'd been running a marathon for days.
"We wanted to get new supplies in town when the marine found us... on our way back to you, we met this girl who was intending to kill me..."
"I'm gonna get her and then she'll be sorry for this mess!!" Luffy interrupted Robin mid-sentence. His hands were clenched into tight fists, anger rising within the captain... he really wanted to get going!
"We tried to escape but Sanji, Nami and Chopper got caught by the marine and the girl wanted to rescue them on her own and told us to get back to the ship. Luffy and Zorro wanted to follow her, but she disabled Luffy and me by neutralizing our powers and after a short fight with Zorro, he suddenly broke down, unmoving... apparently she had done something to his neural system by using some old fighting technique."
"Right... I remember. That brat pressed some spot on my neck and suddenly I couldn't move... I'm going to kill her!!" Zorro hissed through gritted teeth, still not entirely able to move every part of his body. Especially his fingers tingled as if they had been lying in ice water for hours.
"I don't understand a word, but if that girl is really that dangerous, we should probably forget the
others and leave this island right now! If Sanji hasn't been able to fight off the marine, then they're probably already dead by now... so why stay here and wait for our safe deaths?!"
Luffy turned towards Usopp, regarding him with one hard, determined look.
"Ohh dammit... alright, lets get 'em..."
"Guys!!!"
Frowning, the four friends turned into the direction where the voice had come from and were surprised to find the huge eagle heading straight for the ship, barely a hundred meter away with Nami and Chopper sitting upright on its back.
Luffy ran up to the bow of their ship, starting to wave his arms wildly and grinning brightly up at them as the bird got ready to land gracefully on the deck of the Going Merry.
It sat down as carefully as possible, obviously minding Nami's and Chopper's attempts to carry down an unmoving Sanji. His suit was partly ripped open and the white shirt underneath was stained crimson.
"I need my emergency stuff!! NOW!!" Chopper yelled over to Usopp, who immediately sprinted inside the ship to get Chopper's medical instruments.
"Luffy... "
The rubber-boy turned towards Nami, who was still holding onto Sanji's neck for dear life.
"On our way to the ship, we saw the marine soldiers running to the cliffs!! We gotta get the heck
away from this island!!"
Glaring into the general direction where he supposed the town to be, Luffy's eyes then roamed over his friends sitting around on deck. They were all in no condition to fight off the marine troops. And he wasn't going to risk the lives of his friends just to get back to that girl.
"Weigh the anchor!! We're outta here!!" He yelled, making his way over to the bow of the ship,
where he immediately sat down on his favourite place.
Zorro, Nami, Usopp and Robin started immediately to get the ship ready. Chopper was still attending to Sanji's wounds and could only listen to the sails catching the wind and to the sea sloshing around the bow. In the corner of his eyes he saw the last smaller rocks rising out of the sea, before everything around the ship turned into the bright blue ocean.
Deciding that Sanji was stabile enough to get moved around, he ordered Zorro to help him carry the still unconscious chef inside, where he could finish the compresses and dressings that would
hopefully stop the bleedings and cool some haematomas.
After some minutes, Luffy turned around on the wooden head of the lamb.
"Hey, Nami! Did you see what happened to the girl?"
Averting her eyes from the lockport around her wrist, Nami turned towards the captain.
"All I remember, is that that captain Spear got her once with his strange weapon, but then she ordered the bird to fly us to the ship and I couldn't see what happaned afterwards... why? And why did she help us anyway?"
"I dunno... "
Turning back to the wide peaceful sea, Luffy laid back and looked up into the blue sky.
It was dotted with little white clouds and some seagulls accompanied the ship on their way across the ocen of the Grand Line.
They had been sailing for about twenty minutes, nobody having said much in that time, when Nami heard something in the distant... she had heard that noise before... a shrill noise...
"Hey guys!! There's that eagle again!!" Usopp yelled down from the crow's nest, where he was keeping watch. "It's coming straight for us!!"
Within seconds, the huge eagle had reached the Going Merry and landed in the middle of the
deck. It sat down and carefully dropped the person lying on its back onto the wooden planks.
Around it, the strawhat pirates minus Sanji and Usopp (who preferred to keep some healthy
distance) had taken position. They were more than surprised to find the girl from earlier lying
motionless beside the eagle.
Though the fact that she was bleeding severely out of three wounds worried them most.
Chopper immediately sprinted over to the girl, Nami and Zorro already on his heels to offer their
help if needed.
But as soon as the little raindeer touched the first deep wound on the young woman's shoulder, her eyes snapped open and she tried to get into an upright position, her shaking arms giving her only enough support to allow her to lean heavily against the eagle behind her.
"W-why am... I here?" Her breathing was ragged and uneven and blood was dripping out of the
corner of her mouth. She had lost already a lot of blood and could barely hold her eyelids open.
"Your bird brought you here."
Coughing, she wiped away some of the blood with her arm and glared at the eagle.
"Kyra, get me... off this sh-ship..."
"No."
Bewildered, she turned towards Luffy. He was standing in front of the sun and the girl could barely see him with the bright light surrounding him.
"W-what?"
"No... You're injured badly... Chopper will attend to your injuries. Until then you stay here... Oh and I still have some bones to pick with ya."
"Whatever."
Turning onto her side, she pushed the eagle away from her. She gripped the mast beside her, nails digging into the wood to get a better hold of the material. Inch by inch she dragged her body upwards until she was standing more or less upright. With her legs shaking violently and blood oozing out of the wounds on her shoulder, belly and leg, she had a hard time keeping her footing. Black and white dots danced in front of her vision and the pirates were not more than
indistinct shadows.
"Kyra... last time... get me off this ship." She mumbled.
But the eagle didn't react. Its head lowered and sad eyes stared at the deck as she appeared to
whimper.
"She says, that she can't bring you away from here. You're wounds are too severe and she fears
you will die." Chopper translated the bird's lamenting.
"Kyra... please." The eyes of the girl filled with tears, making her vision even more blurred.
She had to get off this ship! She'd rather die alone on the sea, than stay here with 'that' woman,
the murderer of her family and friends.
It almost seemed, the eagle had understood its friend's plea and started to advance towards her,
where she was still leaning against the mast. But before it had reached her, Luffy suddenly stepped into its way.
"I said 'NO'! You can leave this ship if you get past me, but only then..."
"If that's all." She hissed and pushed her body away from the mast.
At first it seemed, as if she'd fall over, but after a moment, she took the first insecure step forward.
Luffy was standing merely two meter away from her, arms folded across his chest. He watched her more than poor attempts to get to the eagle behind him without any emotions displayed on his face.
And that she had a hard time breathing was apparent to everyone on board and Nami asked herself when the girl would finally succumb to the exhaustion and collapse.
But she didn't.
No, she had already reached Luffy's side, eyes hard, when the rubber-boy suddenly lifted his arm and touched her shoulder with his hand.
Shocked, Robin stepped forward, intending to pull his hand away from the girl. After all, she could still put him out of action with her powers. But before the archaeologist had reached him, he winked her off.
The girl had already taken hold of his shirt, but appeared not to be intending to use her powers... maybe she was already too tired.
"I won't stay here."
"Then I have to make you stay..."
With that Luffy lifted his other hand, clenched to a tight fist, and hit her square across her face.
As a result she fell to the side, pulling Luffy with her in the process.
Mouths agape, the other strawhat pirates watched in disbelief as Luffy hit her again. This time, she let go of his shirt, hand falling limply onto the deck. Her eyes were closed and everybody could tell, that she was unconscious.
"LUFFY!!" Chopper was more than unpleased how the captain had treated his new patient! As if the deer hadn't already enough work with the injured smutje!
"Well, now she stays, right?"
He was grinning widely, eyes following Zorro and Chopper who were carrying the girl inside the ship.
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FINIS!!
Noooo!! Hopefully, Chopper gets Sanji back to his healthy self!!! And what about the still nameless girl?? Friend or foe? Find out and read the next part!! Reviews desired... ;-D
So here's the third part! Sorry it took so long, but had some other fics to get finished.
Hope you'll like it and consider it worth some reviews!!
/()/()/()/()/()/
"Briiing us baaack!!!" Luffy screamed, his feet kicking into thin air. "Let go of me, you damn parrot!!"
"If the bird lets go of you, you'll fall into the sea and drown."
Pursing his lips and throwing some death glares at the eagle's belly, Luffy fell silent. Unfortunately
for him, Robin was right.
Right now, the eagle's two large talons were holding him tightly by his shoulders. His arms were
tied around him like a rope, a knot preventing him from getting his limbs free and, to top it all,
his rubber-legs dangled currently 400 meters above the sea...
If Zorro didn't wake up any time soon or Robin got her powers back, he saw no way out of this
situation.
"Hey, Robin! Zorro awake?" Luffy yelled, hoping the woman would hear him where she was sitting on the eagle's back, holding tightly onto an unconscious swords-fighter.
"No, he's still not awake... but the girl said, he should be able to move within the next ten/fifteen
minutes... and I still can't use my Devil Powers. She seems to have neutralized them for much longer than yours..."
Suddenly, without further warnings, the eagle pressed its large wings against its body and started
to drop down towards the sea. Robin had a hard time keeping Zorro from falling off the bird's back, while Luffy appeared to have the fun of his life!
"Woohoohoooooo!!!" He was screaming out his lungs, eyes shining bright with excitement.
But just as suddenly as it had started, the manoeuvre stopped, extended wings catching air and breaking the fall within a fraction of a second.
"Hahaha!! A roller-coaster-parrot!!"
"There's the Going Merry, captain..."
But Luffy didn't hear Robin anymore. He had already fallen onto the ship's deck, head banging with a loud thud against the mast.
"Ahhhhh..."
The eagle had dropped him unceremoniously onto the ship, having cleared its talons for a smooth landing.
"ARGH!!!!! A monster!!!"
Blinking a few times to get the chirping birds out of his line of view, Luffy had just time to watch
Usopp collapse, foam forming around his mouth.
The pirate just wanted to start laughing when a gust told him, that the eagle had left them alone
on their ship, probably flying back in order to get the rest of the crew... which brought him back to the topic!
"Robin!! Untie me!!!"
Visibly tired, the woman dragged her body over to Luffy, who was by now rolling around on the deck, screaming and yelling as if he was burning alive.
With all the strength she could muster, she let two arms grow out of the deck in order to hold him tight. She then loosened the knot in the rubber-arms and watched as they snapped back into their original length.
"Alright! Now I get back and kick some asses... you coming with me?"
Inhaling deeply, Robin shook her head no. She had to rest for a moment... afterwards she could still follow him and drag him out of danger.
"Ohh boy... my head..."
"Zorro!! You're awake!!"
Bewildered, the green haired man's forehead ceased into a deep frown.
His head hurt as if somebody had dumped a house onto him... but he was quite sure no such thing had happened... well, at least not within the last few days! And then there was this unnerving tingling in his body!
"What the heck... Hey Luffy, how did we get here?"
"Oh, the parrot brought us here... you ready to get back and rescue the others?!"
"LUFFY!! ZORRO!! ROBIN!! Where have you been? Where are the others?? And what did that monster bird want??"
Usopp, having made sure said monster bird was gone and that every part of his body was in one piece, dared to stand up and run over to where Nico Robin was leaning heavily against the side of the ship.
She still felt as if she'd been running a marathon for days.
"We wanted to get new supplies in town when the marine found us... on our way back to you, we met this girl who was intending to kill me..."
"I'm gonna get her and then she'll be sorry for this mess!!" Luffy interrupted Robin mid-sentence. His hands were clenched into tight fists, anger rising within the captain... he really wanted to get going!
"We tried to escape but Sanji, Nami and Chopper got caught by the marine and the girl wanted to rescue them on her own and told us to get back to the ship. Luffy and Zorro wanted to follow her, but she disabled Luffy and me by neutralizing our powers and after a short fight with Zorro, he suddenly broke down, unmoving... apparently she had done something to his neural system by using some old fighting technique."
"Right... I remember. That brat pressed some spot on my neck and suddenly I couldn't move... I'm going to kill her!!" Zorro hissed through gritted teeth, still not entirely able to move every part of his body. Especially his fingers tingled as if they had been lying in ice water for hours.
"I don't understand a word, but if that girl is really that dangerous, we should probably forget the
others and leave this island right now! If Sanji hasn't been able to fight off the marine, then they're probably already dead by now... so why stay here and wait for our safe deaths?!"
Luffy turned towards Usopp, regarding him with one hard, determined look.
"Ohh dammit... alright, lets get 'em..."
"Guys!!!"
Frowning, the four friends turned into the direction where the voice had come from and were surprised to find the huge eagle heading straight for the ship, barely a hundred meter away with Nami and Chopper sitting upright on its back.
Luffy ran up to the bow of their ship, starting to wave his arms wildly and grinning brightly up at them as the bird got ready to land gracefully on the deck of the Going Merry.
It sat down as carefully as possible, obviously minding Nami's and Chopper's attempts to carry down an unmoving Sanji. His suit was partly ripped open and the white shirt underneath was stained crimson.
"I need my emergency stuff!! NOW!!" Chopper yelled over to Usopp, who immediately sprinted inside the ship to get Chopper's medical instruments.
"Luffy... "
The rubber-boy turned towards Nami, who was still holding onto Sanji's neck for dear life.
"On our way to the ship, we saw the marine soldiers running to the cliffs!! We gotta get the heck
away from this island!!"
Glaring into the general direction where he supposed the town to be, Luffy's eyes then roamed over his friends sitting around on deck. They were all in no condition to fight off the marine troops. And he wasn't going to risk the lives of his friends just to get back to that girl.
"Weigh the anchor!! We're outta here!!" He yelled, making his way over to the bow of the ship,
where he immediately sat down on his favourite place.
Zorro, Nami, Usopp and Robin started immediately to get the ship ready. Chopper was still attending to Sanji's wounds and could only listen to the sails catching the wind and to the sea sloshing around the bow. In the corner of his eyes he saw the last smaller rocks rising out of the sea, before everything around the ship turned into the bright blue ocean.
Deciding that Sanji was stabile enough to get moved around, he ordered Zorro to help him carry the still unconscious chef inside, where he could finish the compresses and dressings that would
hopefully stop the bleedings and cool some haematomas.
After some minutes, Luffy turned around on the wooden head of the lamb.
"Hey, Nami! Did you see what happened to the girl?"
Averting her eyes from the lockport around her wrist, Nami turned towards the captain.
"All I remember, is that that captain Spear got her once with his strange weapon, but then she ordered the bird to fly us to the ship and I couldn't see what happaned afterwards... why? And why did she help us anyway?"
"I dunno... "
Turning back to the wide peaceful sea, Luffy laid back and looked up into the blue sky.
It was dotted with little white clouds and some seagulls accompanied the ship on their way across the ocen of the Grand Line.
They had been sailing for about twenty minutes, nobody having said much in that time, when Nami heard something in the distant... she had heard that noise before... a shrill noise...
"Hey guys!! There's that eagle again!!" Usopp yelled down from the crow's nest, where he was keeping watch. "It's coming straight for us!!"
Within seconds, the huge eagle had reached the Going Merry and landed in the middle of the
deck. It sat down and carefully dropped the person lying on its back onto the wooden planks.
Around it, the strawhat pirates minus Sanji and Usopp (who preferred to keep some healthy
distance) had taken position. They were more than surprised to find the girl from earlier lying
motionless beside the eagle.
Though the fact that she was bleeding severely out of three wounds worried them most.
Chopper immediately sprinted over to the girl, Nami and Zorro already on his heels to offer their
help if needed.
But as soon as the little raindeer touched the first deep wound on the young woman's shoulder, her eyes snapped open and she tried to get into an upright position, her shaking arms giving her only enough support to allow her to lean heavily against the eagle behind her.
"W-why am... I here?" Her breathing was ragged and uneven and blood was dripping out of the
corner of her mouth. She had lost already a lot of blood and could barely hold her eyelids open.
"Your bird brought you here."
Coughing, she wiped away some of the blood with her arm and glared at the eagle.
"Kyra, get me... off this sh-ship..."
"No."
Bewildered, she turned towards Luffy. He was standing in front of the sun and the girl could barely see him with the bright light surrounding him.
"W-what?"
"No... You're injured badly... Chopper will attend to your injuries. Until then you stay here... Oh and I still have some bones to pick with ya."
"Whatever."
Turning onto her side, she pushed the eagle away from her. She gripped the mast beside her, nails digging into the wood to get a better hold of the material. Inch by inch she dragged her body upwards until she was standing more or less upright. With her legs shaking violently and blood oozing out of the wounds on her shoulder, belly and leg, she had a hard time keeping her footing. Black and white dots danced in front of her vision and the pirates were not more than
indistinct shadows.
"Kyra... last time... get me off this ship." She mumbled.
But the eagle didn't react. Its head lowered and sad eyes stared at the deck as she appeared to
whimper.
"She says, that she can't bring you away from here. You're wounds are too severe and she fears
you will die." Chopper translated the bird's lamenting.
"Kyra... please." The eyes of the girl filled with tears, making her vision even more blurred.
She had to get off this ship! She'd rather die alone on the sea, than stay here with 'that' woman,
the murderer of her family and friends.
It almost seemed, the eagle had understood its friend's plea and started to advance towards her,
where she was still leaning against the mast. But before it had reached her, Luffy suddenly stepped into its way.
"I said 'NO'! You can leave this ship if you get past me, but only then..."
"If that's all." She hissed and pushed her body away from the mast.
At first it seemed, as if she'd fall over, but after a moment, she took the first insecure step forward.
Luffy was standing merely two meter away from her, arms folded across his chest. He watched her more than poor attempts to get to the eagle behind him without any emotions displayed on his face.
And that she had a hard time breathing was apparent to everyone on board and Nami asked herself when the girl would finally succumb to the exhaustion and collapse.
But she didn't.
No, she had already reached Luffy's side, eyes hard, when the rubber-boy suddenly lifted his arm and touched her shoulder with his hand.
Shocked, Robin stepped forward, intending to pull his hand away from the girl. After all, she could still put him out of action with her powers. But before the archaeologist had reached him, he winked her off.
The girl had already taken hold of his shirt, but appeared not to be intending to use her powers... maybe she was already too tired.
"I won't stay here."
"Then I have to make you stay..."
With that Luffy lifted his other hand, clenched to a tight fist, and hit her square across her face.
As a result she fell to the side, pulling Luffy with her in the process.
Mouths agape, the other strawhat pirates watched in disbelief as Luffy hit her again. This time, she let go of his shirt, hand falling limply onto the deck. Her eyes were closed and everybody could tell, that she was unconscious.
"LUFFY!!" Chopper was more than unpleased how the captain had treated his new patient! As if the deer hadn't already enough work with the injured smutje!
"Well, now she stays, right?"
He was grinning widely, eyes following Zorro and Chopper who were carrying the girl inside the ship.
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FINIS!!
Noooo!! Hopefully, Chopper gets Sanji back to his healthy self!!! And what about the still nameless girl?? Friend or foe? Find out and read the next part!! Reviews desired... ;-D