A/N: This didn't quite go as I was expecting to, but it's done. Another outsider to the crew, because I kind of like him and find him an interesting character but he also kind of took over. Next up into the arc that I have kind of been waiting to get to.
Thanks for the new favs and follows.
RRina: Thank you. Here is a little more.
ilovecartoongirl: Yeah, Chopper is adored, even when he doesn't realise it. There were vague plans about that, but then Wyper took over. Thanks.
Minecraft Guardiansaiyan: Franky should be soon…ish, but Brook may be a little while.


Wyper settled into a place near the fire as the chaos that had overtaken everyone as they realised the Blue Sea dwellers had left without a proper goodbye began to die down. He was still feeling the effects of the injures he had gained in the fighting of the previous day, though he was not happy to admit it.

He was still slightly in shock as to the fact that so many had survived the battle, its aftermath and the fact that he and the other warriors no longer had to fight for their heritage. Granted he was aware that it would take time for the Skypieans and the Shandians to truly leave all the little grudges of the last four hundred years, but the main issues about land and access had been resolved and he was hopeful that that would be enough to begin a new time.

Again, not that he would ever admit that he was hopeful of such a thing as peace.

Four hundred years of constant war and all it took for the true beginnings of peace to be felt was a small group of Blue Sea dwellers showing up at the right time, and not really seem to care about the war that they had sailed right into the middle of.

Wyper was still not sure what to think about them either and he had done some thinking about it while everyone else was partying the night before.

He remembers his first run in with them, and they had certainly not seemed to be anywhere near as strong as they had proved themselves to be during Enel's survival game. Him being able to take out the three who had come at him easily and them needing Gan Fall to save them.

Then there were the run ins he had had with the weird guy with the hat, the one that had eventually been the one to ring the bell that should have been his duty, the one that seemed to be the leader of their group of warriors. He was an odd one, not really seeming to understand what they had wondered into, for all that he seemed to go after what he wanted after making his decision, Wyper could not understand the guy.

But the swordsman, the one with the green hair, him Wyper could understand. He was a warrior of his people, one that seemed to have his own code of action, much like Wyper himself in many ways, at least of what he had seen of the man. And he had seen quite a bit after they had ended up on the same platform of the island with Ohm at the end of the main battle and couldn't seem to get away from each other until after it was all over.

The way they he had reacted to finding the small fluffy creature, that Wyper had later found out was a healer, was very much how he knew he would have reacted himself if it had been one of his own people's healers attacked like that.

After having time to think about the incident, he was very aware that they had both reacted exactly the same way to the girl on the waver showing up with Aisa, and then getting eaten. Wyper was a little annoyed at himself that because he didn't know then what he knew now, he had worked against the man instead of with him to try and save them. If he had known, he would have.

He should have known they were alike really after what had seemed to be an automatic reaction to catch the dark-haired woman after Enel's attack struck her. Something he will admit he would have done himself if he had been able to reach Laki when the same had happened to her.

Wyper knew that he had been harsh to his warriors, to his people during his leading of the warriors as his ancestor had, but he was a protector, always had been. He had been harsh in an attempt to ensure only those who were ready would be on the front line of the war they had been fighting for so long.

For all that he saw himself in the Blue Sea swordsman and believed he understood the man, there were things about him and his companions that he didn't really understand. The way they had understood the note on the leaf sent down as trying to reach the bell was one of them. The fact that they knew what the bell meant to the Shandians, to him, without actually caring to understand it in the way of their people but rather what it meant to a friend down on the Blue Sea. The descendant of the man that had been his ancestor's friend.

Wyper shook himself from his wondering, scanning the area to check on the rest of his people, his ancestor's greatest wish has been achieved, it was now time to move on and work out how the two peoples will learn to live together on the one island in peace.