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I resisted the urge to his as Law removed the I.V. from my arm and muttered, "I'm never getting this badly hurt again."

Law chuckled in amusement prompting me to glare at him. He just smirked at me in reply as he took care of the I.V. and the other machines he had me hooked up to. I refused to look at them which seemed to temper Law's amusement much to my relief. He seemed to be in a good mood for whatever reason making me wonder what the hell happened after I fainted. Law spoke as he walked over to me, "How do you feel?"

"Other than irritated at you for laughing at my pain?" I bit out sarcastically earning an eye roll from Law, "My chest doesn't hurt as much as it did when I lost consciousness, but it's a bit worse than it has been,"

Law nodded as if expecting my reply and to be honest, he probably had, "From what I've gathered, your ability puts pressure on your heart which is why the pain is worse. Thankfully, it doesn't see to affect your lungs very much."

"How far back did it put me?" I asked feeling pissed off at Callen for pushing back my recovery.

"A few days," I groaned softly, "However," I perked up, "I have an idea that may speed up your healing,"

I look at Law warily and asked, "How so?"

Law left the infirmary with a smirk on his face thirty minutes later. He felt confident in his plan and with Maki working on his ability through trying to heal Callen, it was most likely going to succeed. As he walked towards his office, he recalled what he had told Ariun about her ability. He frowned as he entered his office as he thought of the implications. Ariun's ability was a danger to her health in more ways than previously shown. It puts pressure on her heart which made him realize why her other symptoms occurred. He had theorized before that the ability had to be putting pressure on her body in someway, but couldn't figure out what it was. One of the things that completely threw him off was the fact sugar helped her recover. Why exactly was that? He groaned softly as he sat down in his seat. He needed to reread the scientists book and hopefully find out if he had missed something while reading through it. He pulled out one of the drawers on his desk and moved around the stuff inside of it until he reached the false bottom. Carefully prying it up, he removed the journal from the slightly crowded space and set it on his desk. He sighed deeply as part of him rebelled at even reading the book again, "Let's hope this has the information I need."

Maki walked into the infirmary and smiled at me, "How are you feeling Storm?"

"Well enough," I looked at him curiously and noted the red tint in his eyes, "Practicing your ability?"

"Yup," He grabbed one of the chairs and brought it over before slumping against it, "It's tiring, but I'm pretty sure I've almost got it,"

I nodded as he smiled brightly. Smiles like that were rare when it came to Maki, he usually had no reason to smile like that. If finding out he could heal people through using his devil fruit made him happy like this, I wouldn't protest it even if I disliked how tired it made him. Feeling curious about the ability Law had helped discover, I asked, "So how exactly does it work? Law told me that you two had discovered some way to heal me, but not exactly what. I'm pretty sure we would have figured this out by now and abused the hell out of it."

"The healing?" I nodded and had the pleasure of seeing Maki's eyes light up, "You know how I can control blood and stuff right?" I noded once again, "You know how I've always stopped us from bleeding out or caused my opponents to bleed out through any wound no matter how serious?"

"Yeah which is still creepy," I shuddered as I remembered the last time someone had gotten what had amounted to a paper cut and Maki used his ability to make them bleed out.

Maki rolled his eyes, but didn't argue since even he realized how creepy it was, "Anyway, you know how I can slow or speed up a persons blood flow right?"

"Maki please get to the point," I ran a hand through my hair.

"I'm getting there," He grumbled making me realize that he had a how speech about this planned, "I've never combined the two together,"

"Combine them together?" It sounded ludicrous, "How the hell can you combine them?"

"By stopping the blood flow at the top of the wound, I can make the blood under the surface circulate at a faster rate," He explained which still didn't explain how the it would work, "By doing that, I can fool your body into thinking days are passing which would make it heal the wound faster,"

"I can somewhat see how it would work, but wouldn't I need to sleep and eat a lot since my body would be using a lot of my energy to heal itself?" I asked gaining a nod, "How exactly will that work?"

"We're going to wait a few days which will give me better control of this ability," Maki began to explain, "After which, I'll begin using my ability on you. We're going to space it out to make sure it isn't causing any problems,"

"So it's a guessing game for the most part?" I felt both irritated and drained, "And why didn't you two ask me about this?"

"When have our lives no been a guessing game," Maki asked with a slight laugh, "As for why we didn't ask you, you were unconscious and it seems like a good idea,"

"Fucking males," I groaned softly wondering if Law would get another female crew member if only to give me someone without a dick to talk to, "I swear..."

Maki laughed at me and I glared at him response.

Law was glaring at the book once again and wondered just how sick in the head someone had to be to do all this. He'd been rereading the damn thing in between doing his captainly duties and checking on Ariun all day, yet no answer had come. He leaned back against his chair and ran a hand through his spiky obsidian hair. He was sure that the writer had something on what was happening to Ariun, yet it wasn't written in the book. Vaguely, he wondered if there was a second book written by the man. If so, it probably had what he wanted in it, but the question is: where would it be? He knew the marines didn't have it or else it the two would have been together. Law's eyes narrowed as he recalled something Ariun had said sometime ago...

"He sold me to the scientist..."

Law's jaw clenched as he realized where the second book likely was. Law mentally groaned at the thought and glared at the ceiling. If that book existed, he was going to have fun getting his hands on it. Fuck!

"Hello Ariun-ya," Law greeted Ariun as he walked into the infirmary, "How are you today?"

"Irritated with you," Ariun's tail swished behind her as she glared at him, "I thought I was only going to be in here for three days not four!"

Law chuckled in amusement as he felt himself relax and watched Ariun growl at him with her teeth bared. He noted with some amusement that they had been transformed into those of her leopard form, "Ariun-ya that's rude," She just continued to glare at him even as her teeth returned to normal and her tail seemed to still slightly, "I suggest not doing it."

Law wondered why even as she asked, "Why did I get stuck in here for another day?"

"Maki-ya needed the extra time to verify that the idea will work," He informed her gaining a curious look from her.

He watched her head tilt slightly which gave him a good view of her pale neck. He immediatly imagined all the marks he could leave on the pale column as Ariun moaned beneath him. He pushed those thoughts away as Ariun asked, "How exactly is he training this ability anyway?"

"Callen-ya has graciously offered his services," Law smirked as he remembered his last session with the green haired man, "After all, he has to make up for what he's done to the crew and attempted to do to you,"

"You haven't killed him?" Ariun looked surprised which made him happy, "That doesn't seem like you,"

"I've been torturing him for information and using him to test some new substances I picked up," He explained watching Ariun shudder, "Does that bother you?"

She shook her head with a slight frown, "No...It just gives me unpleasant memories."

"You can't torture people can you?" He asked making her snort.

"I can torture people easily," She looked at him with a smirk that made his inner sadist grin manically, "I just can't do it in the setting you do. Remember Lee?"

Law suddenly remembered the aqua haired beauty and that Ariun had gotten the information from her. Ariun suddenly frowned prompting him to ask, "What is it?"

"The inn keeper saw me leaving with Lee," She explained making him curse inwardly, "I was too distracted by the information she gave me and what it would mean for us, so I didn't try to find alternatives,"

Law disliked that, but couldn't fault her. He was slightly pissed that it had happened, but it was too late to change it.

I was about to continue speaking when Maki walked in. He nodded to me before looking at Law, "So how are we doing this?"

"We'll start the process today," Law informed him, "We'll be going into theater one and I will monitor the situation with one of my abilities. Once Ariun-ya is at the point she was before the attack, we'll stop and wait two days before continuing,"

"Alright," Maki and I agreed.

Law picked me up and I squeaked softly earning a snicker from Maki. I glared at Maki and mimed slitting his throat. He snorted and rolled his eyes as Law carried me to the pair of double doors on the other side of the room. Law set me down on the metal bed, "Ariun take your shirt off."

"Right," I unbuttoned my black button down and took it off.

Maki took it from me as Law began undoing the bandages on my chest. Once I no longer had bandages or gauze, Law nodded to Maki as he created a small version of his room, "Room."

Maki had me lay back as he activated his devil fruit. A small jolt of irrational fear went through me as Maki looked down at me. He placed his hands over my chest, "Close your eyes Storm. I need you to be completely calm."

Doing as he said, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to calm myself. My ears twitched as Law said, "Scan. Maki-ya proceed."

I felt no diffrent than usual after a few minutes making wonder if it's even working when I started to feel something warm on my chest. Was I bleeding? Before I could start panicking, Maki spoke softly, "Storm relax, the heat your feeling is from how quickly your bloods moving."

Nodding slightly, I took another deep breath. As time went on, I began to feel tired and hungry. I ignored the two feelings until my stomach began to grumble and staying awake was hard. Law spoke a few minutes later as my stomach began to cramp, "Enough Maki-ya."

The warm feeling faded and I suddenly felt a little cold which pushed the sleepiness out of my mind. I opened my eyes as Maki asked, "How do you feel Storm?"

"Tired and hungry," I answered as he reached out and helped me sit up.

"Good that means it's working," Maki smiled at me as Law began inspecting my injury.

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