Dr. Heart Stealer

Ch15: Off To Save The Damsel In Distress

'I can't wait to meet you... Miss Zepheron'it said, the voice was dark and frighting. It was very low and a hidden evil could be heard seeming to dance in it. I brushed it off as a trick of the wind and shivered, as I walked into the dark and foggy forest. Evil seemed to jump at you each time you moved. Then the voice spoke up for a second time.

'But can you make it through my forest?'

"A good challenge never goes unaccepted." I responded to the voice. There was a low crackling sound.

'Good, I don't get people who like challenges very much, often.' there was more crackling, like wood being stepped on. I laughed at the voice, and spread out my hands to my sides.

"Okay. But can you handle an illusion in your forest?" I asked the voice, only getting a raven's shriek in response. I let the illusion take over the forest. It was slowly beginning to take form as I walked through the forest. The dark trees that scrapped against my skin, became over grown cherry trees, that cried soft pink tears. A warm breeze swept by me taking my hair and playing with it, before running to leave with the cherry blossoms. I smiled and closed my eyes.

'It looks like you can play with my dark scene... but sadly for you, I hate the sun.' it said. I cracked open my eyes, but instead of the sunny area I had made before, I was faced with the gloomy forest slowly eating away at my illusion. My eyes snapped open as I tried to stop the darkness from interfering, but it easily overpowered me. 'Too bad you aren't as fun to play with as I thought you would be.' I stopped in my tracks when I heard footsteps from behind. My head moved to look back into the darkness, only to have my eyes widen at the person smirking behind me.

~X~Third Person: Jake and Law~X~

"Wait, Law!" Jake shouted. He ran to catch up with his captain. Law stopped, and only spared a single glanced back before he continued his trek to god knows where. Jake stopped right behind Law and grabbed the sick man's shoulder. "Law!" Jake turned him around to face him, "You're sick! Stay here, and get some rest! I can go get Harmony, now stop being so restless!" He shouted at the older man. Law looked down to him with a glare that read 'fuck off'. Although Jake didn't budge from his spot, he would get Law to go back to the sub and that was final.

"Jake-ya, I hate being given orders." With that Law shrugged off the shoulder constricting him and turned around to walk to the village they had found earlier. With a sigh Jake ran to catch up. "What are you doing? I can get Kazue-ya alone, I'll be fine. Go help Bepo with the sick crew." He told him, Jake shook his head.

"No, I'm going to get my sister. We'll get off this island with or without her, and I would prefer to be with her." Jake said, "But also to make sure you don't die of sickness. And Bepo can take care of the ship and the crew just fine, no need to worry, Law-kun" Law sighed and kept on walking, occasionally coughing. While they were walking a spring green mist surrounded them. Law wrote it off thinking nothing of it, but Jake was wary of the strange mist. He had his hand on his back, prepared to grab his scythe and fight if need be. They got through the mist without any problems, but Jake never relaxed. When the mist came to an end they could see the village. They walked there in silence, the only sound was the whispering wind.

When they got to the village perimeter, Aaron stopped them.

"Stop right there you filthy pirates!" He hissed. Law looked to Jake for an explanation. With a sigh Jake began to tell him that the people in the village didn't like pirates, and that they had Kazue in the village. Aaron laughed really hard when they said that they had Kazue in the village.

"HAHA! You guys are a funny bunch." he looked up to them. "But li'l miss Savior-to-be left this mornin'. She left to save us. A true act of bravery... not something a pirate would do that's for sure." he said. Law and Jake exchanged glances before looking back to the frail old man before them. Law slowly took his nodachi from it's sheath, and Jake did the same with his scythe. Aaron looked very alarmed by this and began to wave his arms about. The people who could see what was going on, were shaking like leaves.

"Hey now. We don't want any trouble... the Savior-to-be isn't here! She left for the cave outside of the town." he yelped. Law gave his best glare, as best as he could while being as sick as he was then. Jake took a step closer to the guard, his scythe still drawn.

"How long ago did she leave?" Jake demanded.

"Don't know, she left before anyone was awake." He said frowning. "We wanted to see her off... the forest can be dangerous when you're alone. We wanted to wish her luck." He said sorrowfully.

"Take us to that cave or whatever! I need to get my sister back!" Jake shouted. Aaron gave him a wary look and shook his head.

"I'm sorry Mr. Pirate Scum, but we don't think the cave would accept you. And as much as we hate pirates, we couldn't just allow you to die." He said shaking his head. "There is still a chance the cave won't even accept the Savior-to-be." He trailed off and looked away from the two men in front of him. Everything was quite for thirty seconds before Law spoke up.

"And that's why we need to go get Kazue-ya." He said. Jake looked up to Law, but Law didn't look at him. He continued to stare at the guard before him.

"Fine, fine. You win, pirate scum. We'll take you to the cave. But if you die, that's your own fault." He said, and began to walk into the village. The duo took this as a cue to follow the elder. So they did. Everyone in the small village looked at them in fear as they walked behind the man. Law and Jake sent glares to anyone who reached for a weapon, which was surprisingly quite a few. When they got to the center of the village Aaron stopped and turned around to face the pirates. Everyone else in the small town looked to them as well.

"Today, we will be testin' these two pirates to the green mist! If they get through alive they are going to go get li'l miss Savior-to-be. Let us hope they die a not-so-painful death." Aaron said, the town broke out into whispers before a few 'Here-here's were heard. When the town had once again gone silent Aaron walked off towards the forest, Law and Jake trailing behind him. They reached the outskirts of town, where the forest began to take over one's vision. The three men began to walk into the dark forest. Soon a light green mist began to play beneath their feet, slowly rising to their knees. At this point Law was no longer trying not to cough, as the mist seemed to nullify his sickness. Aaron stopped walking and turned around to the two people behind him.

"The cave is just up ahead... I'll be back at the village. Good luck, and let's hope the mist gives you a not-very-painful death." He said and walked back the direction they had come from. Jake began to walk in the direction Aaron had shown him, Law not to far behind. The only reason Law was behind him was because he was going slow on purpose. This place was striking a cord on his medical side. This mist was healing him, yet everyone was wishing them painful deaths. This strange mist was the cure to their illness. And it was just mocking Law, as he had to ignore it to find his seamstress. Jake stopped in front of him.

"What's wrong Jake-ya?" Law asked from behind him. Jake pointed in front of him and Law peaked out from behind. There in front of them was a cave. The cave had a wide but short entrance, but not short enough so that they couldn't just walk through, and seemed to go on in a eternal darkness. The green mist began to sparkle when it was at the beginning of the cave and illuminated the inside, though not enough to see the end. The sent of ill people and pure sickness seeped out of the cave mouth and spread like an infection. With a deep breath on Jake's part, both of the men walked into the misty cave.

The cave was dark, the only light was from the now sparkling mist. Not even the light from the cave mouth followed into the darkness. The faint trickling of water was heard from ahead along with soft foot steps. When Law heard the foot steps that belong to neither himself or his crew member he froze .

"Jake-ya," He whispered, "Stop walking, and listen." obeying captain's orders he stopped his movements entirely. Within the silence the quite foot steps echoed off of the rocky cave walls, making them loud enough to cancel out the sound of water droplets falling in the distance. Then the silence took over once again, cutting all sound short. It was only moments later when the sound of water falling could be heard again.

"Law-kun, I don't think we're alone in here..." Jake's voice said, cutting a hole straight through the silence.

"Let's hope that it's Kazue-ya." Law said in response.

It had been roughly ten minutes of walking before the twinkling mist became to thick to see through. Jake looked around to find Law, with no luck. But the sound of heavy coughing led Jake straight to Law.

"Law-kun are you alright? Why are you coughing?" Jake asked him, a slight hint of panic tucked in his voice. Law put a hand over his mouth to stifle the coughing.

"I should be fine, Jake-ya. Let's keep going, and get out of this place." He said with a frown, and continued walking forwards, deeper into the cave.

Thirty minutes later, that seemed like an eternity to the two pirates, they had come to a large cavern. The walls were covered in a thick pale green goo that looked to be the cause of the mist. Inside of the pale green goo was Kazue and other people that they didn't know, nor did they care about... but they all looked to be dead.

"Harmony!" Jake yelled and ran over to the gooey wall. But when he touched it a burning sensation went through his hand. He jerked his hand back in pain and fell to the ground. The burn rushed through his body. Law walked over to him to examine his aching hand.

"It looks like a burn... you'll have to wait for us to get back to the ship, I don't have anything for a burn wound right now." Law said seriously. He turned to look at the wall next to him and Jake. He store at it for awhile then activated his devils fruit power.

"Room." he said as a light blue dome formed out from his left hand. His room flickered off, as he fell down coughing. "Damn." He said aloud, the sickness coming from the wall that burned Jake drained his energy, and his sickness wasn't exactly helping him either. The foot steps from earlier were heard once again, only much closer.

"Hm? What the hell are the two pirate scums doing here?!" A voice yelled. Looking up, both men on the ground saw it was Keith. Well Jake knew who he was, but Law hadn't the faintest clue as to whom was standing in front of him.

"Keith! you bastard! What the hell did you do to Harmony!?" Jake yelled at the lanky man standing before him.

"You mean my bride? Nothing much... as you can see I'm making sure no one can hurt her. If no one can find her, no one can hurt her. Right? And preserving her body for the time being is just the way to do that!" He said, his voice full of glee. "She may be strong enough not to get sick, but fighting is a different story." he frowned at that last part, as did Law and Jake. "She's the first person to not get sick from my devils fruit ability. Isn't she amazing?" Keith smiled warmly, and shut his eyes like he was daydreaming.

"Um... well that was actually me. I was on the island before she got out of the sub..." Jake said thoughtfully, "And I'm just fine... Oh wait! Bepo was on the island first, he always is. He hates the submarine... but he's fine too. So that's two people before her."

He corrected himself. Keith scowled at that information.

"Well, I'm going to marry a guy! Guys are imbeciles!" Keith shouted. Jake sweat dropped.

"You do realize that you just insulted your self, as well as having said that in front of a doctor, right?" Jake said with a slight laugh. The words 'room' and 'shambles' was barely heard over the verbal battle between Jake and Keith, not that they payed it any mind.

~X~With Law~X~

Law tried his devils fruit powers again, ignoring the pain and tiredness that ran through his body when it did.

"Room." he said softly, the light blue dome forming inside of the cave once again. "Shambles." He murmured, and Kazue was replaced with a near by boulder. Law slowly crawled over to where she was now laying. He poked her cheek in hopes to get her to wake up. She stirred and cracked open her pink eye. She looked tired, as if she was just waking up and was still in a dream state. Which she was.

"Hm?" she yawned, "Master-sama, I thought you were still sick... where's Bepo he was taking care of you for me." She yawned again as Law smirked. She slowly opened both eyes and rubbed them with her hands. She blinked a few times before she registered what was going on. "I'm awake, aren't I?" She asked, her voice sounding slightly pissed off as well as embarrassed. Law nodded at her, and she blushed tomato red. "Disregard everything I just said." She said in a commanding tone. Law shook his head and smirked wider.

"No. I give orders, not receive them." he said playfully. Kazue's eye twitched, and she jumped up from her spot on the ground. She looked over to Jake who had just pulled out his scythe. She ran over to him.

"Can I be of assistance?" She asked her brother. He looked over to her shocked to see her not stuck in a wall of goo, as did Keith.

"H-how did you get out?" Both of them asked. Kazue simply jabbed her thumb in Law's direction.

"So can we get this battle started now?"

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A/N: Tell me, who started laughing when she woke up? I know I was. JUST SO YOU KNOW: I have thirteen more days until school is over. I am sooooo happy! Well anyways review, favorite, and follow. also I thank all of you guy, for you know, seven reviews! I know to most people that is a small number, but to me, it's like: 'Wait is this the right story? It...is... oh HECK YEAH! *fist pump*'. So thank all of you who reviewed (MsWildLuck, iiILurvePancakesii, 10th Squad 3rd Seat, Kairi-Ichimaru15, sweetsnakes, luckyknight13, TrafalgarLawren)! Until next time keep being awesome!