Dr. Heart Stealer
Ch18: A Place To Relax - Finally!
~X~Kazue~X~
I wandered about the sub as Bepo's voice rang out through the den den mushi above me.
"WE WILL BE SURFACING IN TWENTY MINUTES. PREPARE TO DOCK. KAZUE, DON'T BREAK ANYTHING. THAT IS ALL." His voice said, and my eye twitched.
"When did I break something?" I pouted at the loud speaker. I walked to Law's quarters, to check to see where we would be going this time before surfacing. I skipped along the surprisingly large hallways, hoping to go to a place less... depressing, than the last island. When I arrived at Law's quarters I knocked three times... then three more times... then three more, waiting for Law to answer his door. I furrowed my eyebrows, frowned, and knocked yet another three times, only a bit harder this time. With twitching eye brows I began to pound on his door.
"Captain-Taffy! Open your door!" I yelled like a childish brat. Immediately, I stopped. I was acting childish, something strange was going on with my mind. I set my hand over my mouth in thought.
"Boo," a voice said behind me, and due to being the scaredy-cat I am, I jumped and let out a small scream. I looked up to see Law smirking at me. I frowned again.
"That wasn't nice! Stupid Traffy!" I pouted. I smacked a hand over my mouth. "Why the hell have I been acting so childish?" I muttered to myself in anger. Law rose an eyebrow.
"I don't know, why?" He asked me casually, I glared at him.
"Well, I don't know... hey, Law, where are we surfacing at?" I asked, remembering my original purpose of finding Law.
"Wouldn't you like to know? All I'm telling you is that we're staying for six hours and are only stopping for supplies. So no running off like last time - unless you want to get kidnapped again of course," he told me seriously with his arms crossed. I pouted again, and damn was it making me feel like a little kid all over again. What the hell had gotten over me? I turned around and crossed my arms, and just as I was about to walk off, I saw Shachi and Penguin running around in swim trunks, with dorky, perverted faces.
"Girls in bikinis!~ Girls in bikinis!~" They both shouted in a sing song voice. I gave them strange looks.
"Are they okay?" I whispered to Law, who hadn't moved from behind me. He just laughed and went into his quarters.
I guess Traffy's laugh was enough for them to notice me. Because when my captain's door was shut, they rushed over to me.
"What swimsuit are you going to wear? Will it be a bikini? Please tell us!" They said in joy. I put my hands on one of each of their shoulders.
"Guys... what are you talking about? Why would I wear a swimsuit?" I asked in confusion. They both looked at me in shock.
"You don't know? We're stopping at a resort island... You didn't know!? Law told everyone at the end of breakfast!" Penguin yelled. I just held my hands up in a surrendering manner.
"Hey, I left right after I made breakfast. Now if you don't mind, I need to go find my swimsuit. And yes, it is a two-piece, Shachi," I told Shachi warningly as he opened his mouth to ask. He shut it right after and ran off with Penguin, giggling like a teenaged girl. I shook my head and walked to my room.
I opened the door to my room and walked inside. I dawdled to my closet to take my duffel bag out.
I really need to unpack this, I thought to myself, ...But I don't want to... whatever, I'll do it later. I nodded my head in agreement with myself. I shuffled through all the various objects in my bag looking for my bathing suit. I furrowed my eyebrows when I couldn't find it.
"Where is it?! It's my favorite swimsuit!" I shouted in frustration. Suddenly, I heard a knock at my door. I flopped down onto my bed, and with a pissed-off face I said, "What? Come in, but I am pissed off, just so you know," I warned the person standing outside of my door, wait to come in. They opened the door. It was Jake.
"Hey... I heard you shouting about your swimsuit... I may or may not have found it, and... edited it..." Jake said shyly. I stood up from my bed and paced over to Jake, he went back a step. And I got two steps closer. I took a fist full of his jumpsuit in my hands and brought him up to my eye level.
"What did you do to my swimsuit? If you damaged it in any way... I don't know what I'll do yet, but trust me, when I think of something, you'll wish you had never touched it!" I growled. He laughed nervously. That was enough for me to know he had done something to it, that I wouldn't like. I shook him a bit. "Tell me what you did!" I shouted at him.
"Well... it isn't bad... I-I didn't hurt it at all... I think..." he mumbled.
"You think? What the hell did you do to it?!" I screamed.
"Let me down and I can go get it to show you! Just let me down already!" He started to flail around like a fish out of water. I glared at him, and let him fall to the ground. He scrambled to get back up and ran out of my room. I stomped over to my bed and waited for Jake to come back.
It felt like an hour before he had come back with my swimsuit, but it had probably only been five to ten minutes.
"I'm back!" he said cheerfully, although he may have cowered a bit under my glare. I held out my hand, waiting for him to give me what belonged to me. "R-right..." He muttered as he handed me my swimsuit.
It was the same as before, a bright yellow bikini that tied into a ribbon in the back, small ruffles were on the bottoms and on the top as well. The only change was... well there was a strange smiley face that looked like a virus, that filled the left side of the top and smaller ones were lining the hem of the bottoms. I smiled.
"I thought you broke it or something." I laughed. "You should have just said that you put embroidery on it." I looked at him and smiled. "You're not to bad at it. I like it." He turned around and waved a hand in the air as if swatting away the compliment.
"It was Law's request awhile back. He said that you needed to have some kind of proof that you belonged to him," Jake said as he walked out of my room. I stared at the door before shifting my gaze to my swimsuit. I really liked the new look of the swimsuit. Who knew Jake had been so good at embroidery?
But I hated the fact that the jolly roger was there, not for style, but to show I was property. I had told Law in the past that I was nobody's property. While that's true now, it certainly wasn't before I killed Keith on Byoki Island. I shook my head, as if to shake away the thoughts like water after a shower. I put on my bikini under my short-sleeved shirt. The shirt was white and had black cherry blossoms on the right side, along with my short-shorts I had worn here originally, and began to get ready for the upcoming island.
~X~X~X~
The island we had just landed on was beautiful. It was covered in palm trees, the water was as clear as cloudless sky above, and the pearl-like sand around everyone's feet was soft and warm as it squised between our toes. It was like the tropical beach in Hawaii I never found time to go to.
The sub was docked at a boardwalk, but not just any boardwalk - there was a carnival! And being that one person who goes to any carnival near myself, I bolted off. Well almost. You see, Jake had tripped me, and I fell. Not a very interesting way of stopping me in my opinion, but I was still on the deck of the sub, so, I guess it didn't end too horribly.
"Kazue-ya, where were you going?" Law asked me. I looked back to him and glared.
"To where there is food, that has been fried," I said simply. He shook his head.
"Well, you will have time for that later, for now we need to restock the sub," Law told me sternly. I huffed and turned away from him.
"Okay let's set up teams for supplies. Group one: Shachi, Penguin, and Mikio, you three are to repair the sub. The sub has been slower than usual, look into that." Law said, I looked to the group he had just made to see three men. Two of the three had golden eyes and pitch-black hair, they looked to be the same age, although one of them looked happy and the other looked pissed off about something. And then of course there was Mikio with his spiky dark green hair and red eyes that seemed to be always sadistic and looking for a fight.
"Group two: Masanori, Hiro, Logan, and Hatzu you three are on food. Make sure it can last for at least two months, we almost ran out last time," this group consisted of the two people I worked with in the kitchen, and old man with slicked back gray hair and crystal blue eyes, small round spectacles sat on the bridge of his nose, a teenaged boy with crazy brown hair that could never be tamed, his eyes were a chocolate brown. The other two had golden eyes and pitch-black hair, they looked to be the same age, although one of them looked happy and the other looked pissed off about something.
"Group three will be Bepo, Kazue, and myself. We will be scoping out the island for marines, as well as getting medical provisions." I groaned when Law said that I would be in a group with him, he looked at me with a smirk.
"And finally group four will be Sadao, Itsuki, and Jake, I need you three to get information on this island." I took a peek at their group, Sadao had neat, but quite long reaching his shoulder blades at least, white hair and light pink eyes, he also wore a black choker that had a silver cross. It was something obviously dear to him, as I had never seen him without it on. Itsuki had neck length purple hair and his piercing green eyes were gleaming behind his glasses. Jake's hair was the same length of Itsuki's, and his eyes were the same deep blood red of my left eye, the color was very uncommon in our world.
"The rest of you will stay here to guard the ship. We'll meet back here in five hours." Law finished. He walked away with me a Bepo scrambling to catch up with him.
We walked for half an hour, there was no sign of medical stores, and I had sneakily grabbed a map from one of the island's many booths along the road, when Law and Bepo were looking the other direction, as well as a pencil. I started circling everything I wanted to do before we left. I squealed in delight when I found out that a five-star restaurant named Hailo was having an all-you-could-eat buffet for five hundred belli. Bepo and Law both turned to me as I triple circled it.
"You found a map?" Bepo asked me, I nodded. "Why didn't you tell us?" he asked. I looked at his furry face and smiled.
"You guys would have taken it from me. I needed to find a place to eat," I responded cheerfully. Law glared at me and Bepo gave me a confused look. Law snatched it out of my hands. "Hey! Give it back!" I shouted at him, but he shook his head in response. He glanced down at the map with circles all over it.
"What have you been doing to it?" Law asked. I looked into his eyes that were glaring at mine.
"Finding places I want to go," I responded plainly. "Also, I couldn't find any medical stores on the map. So, can we go eat or something?" I asked hopefully. Both of them shook their heads, and I frowned. "Why not?" I complained.
"Because we need to find some kind of hospital on this island. We can just take what we need from there," Law said. I continued to frown as both Bepo and Law looked at the map they had taken from me. I huffed and turned around as they continued to converse about where a hospital might be located.
Then an idea struck me.
This was my chance to get away. To go to that fancy restaurant.
As quietly as I could I made my way away from the two, and towards the area where I could find Hailo.
It took me a good ten minutes to find the five-star restaurant. The building was shaped like a massive red and gray dome, the area around it was like a moat that would surround a castle, a wooden drawbridge was laid out on top of the clear water. I moseyed along the bridge, taking note that the moat was connected to the beach.
I soon reached the front door, which was red, but was stopped by a waiter standing behind a stand with a book, most likely for reservations. He was wearing a white button up shirt under a tailcoat. How he survived the warm weather was beyond me.
"Excuse me, madam, but do you have a reservation?" He asked me kindly. I walked up and nodded, I pointed to a random name on the list and morphed it into my own name using my devil fruit powers.
"Yes, Zepheron Kazue." I smiled when he let me in.
the inside of the restaurant was even more impressive than the out side.
The floors were white marble with red and gold flakes, the walls were made out of glass and had marine life swimming about, the tables were silver and they had the most comfortable looking chairs I had ever seen!
I swiftly found a place to sit. The crowd around me were murmuring words that I couldn't hear, but I had a feeling what they were about. There was one table, a table or two away from mine, that had food being rushed to. The waiters and waitresses all looked exhausted from the running from the table to the kitchen with their next order, and it just continued on like that in an endless cycle. Out of curiousity I wandered over to the table.
Bonney of the Bonney Pirates was sitting there, chowing down on some kind of meat. In my shock, I froze in my place. She was on the list, the list of supernovas I had to meet to go home.
This was my chance, and probably the only one I would have.
"Miss Bonney, my name is Zepheron Kazue," I began, "What do you have there? It looks good," I said. The pinkette looked at me annoyed. "Sorry, if I have troubled you. I didn't mean to interrupt your meal. May I sit?" I asked in hopes to kick it off with her. She looked me up and down, judging my appearance. Bonney gave me a small smile and waved a hand at the seat in front of her. Taking that as my cue to sit, I did just that.
We began to chat about various things, ranging from the meal she was devouring to the sunny weather of the island we were currently on. Laughter rang out from our table as strange jokes were made. Sometime during our little fit of laughter, the mention of Bonney's Devils Fruit was heard from my mouth. That sure did shut her up, and was I glad. Her laugh was high pitched and obnoxious. The girl sitting across from me hummed and placed a finger on her chin in thought.
"Yeah, sure, I can demonstrate if you want me to," she said. She stood up from her seat and walked over to me. I looked at her for a moment, before turning my head to the side to see a woman in a very fancy dress walk by. I wanted to find out the pattern her seamstress used for the dress, as it was very complicated. I closed my eyes to think of how the dress could have been put together.
I passed out.
~X~Third Person: Kazue~X~
Kazue wasn't out for long. Possibly enough time for one to walk from one side of the room to the other, but no could really know as everyone was glued to their spots as they watched the eighteen-year-old woman be morphed into a thirteen-year-old girl.
Kazue blinked. Once. Twice. With a look of shock intended for her surroundings, she looked up to the pink haired supernova hovering above her now-short form. The younger teen cocked her head to the side and asked a question no one had really seen coming from her:
"Who the hell are you?"
~X~X~X~
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A/N: Well, I had this authors note all written out and amazing, and the internet crashed... So just to inform you people of the internet, I do not have any more chapters written for this arc. I only got the plan (more like half of the plan) for this arc finished yesterday. So while I freak out about the next chapters deadline, you can reread this chapter or something... well I don't know what you'll do after you read this authors note, but you shouldn't just stare at this end bit I have here. Also I have a question, did anyone pick up on the foreshadowing in the beginning of this chapter? When she was acting childish? I don't really know the extent of Bonney's powers, but I thought that maybe she just influences people to act childish... I don't know... Well, anyways, until next time, keep being awesome!