Dr. Heart Stealer

Ch19: Getting Back to the Sub

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?"

The supernova also blinked in confusion. Never before had her power caused amnesia.

"Hey, old lady, I'm talking to you… wait! I forgot to introduce myself! My name is Harmony Zepheron," she said. The girl once known as Kazue stood there for a minute, waiting for Bonney to give her own name. "Hey. I told you my name, now you have to tell me yours? Don't you know how this works?" she asked in annoyance. Bonney snapped out of her shock, and with a shake of her head, she responded to the younger girl standing before her.

"I'M NOT OLD!" Bonney yelled in rage. Her crew tried to calm her down, while the thirteen-year old-girl whistled then laughed.

"Okay, okay, I get it lady. You sure are an easily angered person, aren't you? You know, I have a friend that acts like that sometimes… wait that's me! Keh-chichichichi!" She laughed. "Just tell me your name and I can get going."

With a sigh Bonney gave her name:

"Jewelry Bonney."

Harmony smiled and grabbed her hand.

"Well, It's great to meet you Miss Bonney, hey… you know who you look like? You look like an anime character I saw online awhile ago. She had pink hair like you, it was really pretty. I wish I had pretty hair like you." Harmony pouted, then she brightened up like a light. "Well, it was good to meet you Miss Bonney, but I need to get home soon. Bye-bye!" she shouted as she began to run to the door. She closed her eyes and smiled, thinking to herself. She was a nice person, hope I can meet her again… Wait a moment, She slowed her run down to a walk and opened her heterochromic eyes, … Jewelry… Bonney… the One Piece character? No, that's impossible. Still in her thoughts Harmony bumped into someone. Someone with an irritated face, blood red eyes, and blond hair.

"Sorry, little girl." He apologize. The man crouched down to her eye level. "Hey have you seen a eighteen year old, blond hair, one red eye one pink eye, white shirt with… black… cherry blossoms…" he examined the girl, noting that she was wearing a white T-shirt with black cherry blossoms on the right side, as well as the same worn out short-shorts Kazue had worn when she entered the One Piece world, both articles of clothing were far to big for a person of her small size.

"That sounds almost like me… like a big me! Do you know who you look like? You look like a bigger form of my little brother. What's your name, old guy?" Harmony asked the man in front of her.

"My name is Jake. Have you seen a gir-" Jake was cut off by the little girl.

"That's my brother's name! Wow! You really are like a bigger him!" she said gleefully. Jake looked at her in shock, then he glanced behind her. Behind her was none other than the supernova Jewelry Bonney, who has the power to change the age of others and herself.

Realisation hit him in that moment.

Bonney had changed his sister's age.

Law was going to be beyond furious.

"Your name doesn't happen to be Harmony, does it?" Jake asked her, she nodded at him suspiciously. Jake glanced up and panicked a bit more, "You have to come with me, Your mom sent me to find you." he said looking back at her, knowing that Bonney was making her way over to them.

"Mr. Jake, you couldn't even tell me my mom's full name if you tried. Now if you'll excuse me I have to get going." Harmony said as she walked away and outside into the sun. Jake was about to go after her, but Bonney moved in front of him. blocking his way to his, now, little sister.

"Hey, hands off. I plan to have her on my crew," Bonney told Jake seriously. Jake looked up at Bonney with a barely contained rage shown clearly in his eyes.

"She's with the Heart Pirates. You keep your hands off, she was part of our crew first, before you… de-aged her!" Jake shouted angrily. "Now, if you don't mind I have to go find her before Law castrates me." with that he raced out of the expensive restaurant.

~X~ Third Person: Bonney ~X~

Bonney was very concerned because of the Heart Pirates being on this island; they were one of the highest ranking supernova crews. And, even worse, she tried to recruit one. In her panic she dashed out of the restaurant, looking for the other supernova staying on the island.

After an hour of looking, she found the fluffy hatted man she was looking for, seething in a bar. He was drinking shots, and looked like he was about to throw the next one when he saw Bonney. She walked over to the other captain slowly, using the most extreme caution around the third highest ranked supernova.

"Hey, Law… I'm sorry, but she ran off before I could change her back… Yeah, so it should only last two weeks or so." Bonney was about to turn around when Law's hand reached out and snatched her arm. She looked at his arm in fear that she might have made him even more mad.

"What do you mean? Who is 'she'?" He asked her in a confused tone. Bonney sighed and sat in the seat next to Law, though it looked like she was still ready to get up and make a mad dash away from him if anything went wrong.

"Sorry, but I may or may not have made your girlfriend five years or so younger… Anyway, gottogobye!" the moment that Bonney had finished her sentence, she was gone.

~X~ With Jake and Kazue ~X~

Jake sat on Kazue's bed. Well, it was really Harmony's right now. He looked at the sleeping child on the bed and thought back to what had happened after leaving Hailo.

~X~ Flashback ~X~

Jake raced out of the expensive looking restaurant, and into the walkways of the resort. The streets were crowded beyond belief, but he still managed to make his way around all of the people there. Looking for Kazue...err… Harmony would be difficult with all of these people around, especially when including the height difference between a short thirteen-year-old child and a fully developed adult. Then with the screams and cries from children along with the constant non-stop chatter provided by people of all ages, one could not simply single out Harmony's voice. In a desperate attempt to find the young girl, he began to call out her name.

"Harmony! Harmony!" he called into the wind, wishing that somehow the breeze would carry the words like it carried leaves along the crowded streets.

Soon he was in the shadier part of the city. And, finally, he gave up his search for his sister, for there never truly was a way to find one specific fish in a whole sea of the same kind without a tracker.

He lazily wandered into a bar, in search of some sake to drown his worries. He hoped his sister could fend for herself in a world of pirates and corrupt marines. He knew that she could easily do whatever she wanted, as long as she had her gun, and was her original age. He sat down and waved for the bartender, he ordered some sake and looked to the side, wondering if any of his nakama were in the bar with him. He ended up being the only one there, well, besides the shady looking men in the back corner of the room playing a, most likely, not so fair game of poker. He folded his arms and set his head on top of his makeshift pillow while waiting for his sake to arrive.

"Hey old man, how'd you get all the aces?" a girlish voice shouted from over in the corner. Jake picked up his head from his arms and looked over to the shaded area. A teenaged girl was standing over one of the old men, examining his cards carefully.

The girl was Harmony.

A few shouts were heard from the table, directed at the man in question. His face contorted in vexation. Harmony just walked away calmly, as if she didn't just anger all of the men playing at the table.

"Hey, brat! Get back over here! You ruined my game, I need to teach you a lesson!" He screeched. Harmony just looked over her shoulder.
"Isn't it nice to want? Let's both face it, with the way you cheat, I could beat you. And I don't know how to play this game." Harmony motioned to the cards in the man's hands as she finished her challenge. The man rose an eyebrow, and laughed.

"You're on, girly brat." He said with a smirk. Harmony walked over to an empty seat, she had to jump to get on it seeing as she was slightly too short.

"This will be a five card draw, aces high. Jokers will be being used as true wild cards." someone said loudly. The old man was the dealer, he used a complex technique to shuffle the cards, before distributing them between himself, Harmony, and two other people who wanted in on beating a child in the game. When she got her cards, Harmony looked at them intensely and her leg began to bounce with energy, a nervous habit she had picked up from one of her only friends, Vannie.

She had seen many people come and go while playing poker here. She had been watching them. People who had big hands, tended to fidget or have a nervous twitch. Harmony also had noticed that people with better cards tended to act weak and shy, as if they had a poor card set. And the opposite went for when they had a weak set of cards. She, as fast as a teenager could, stopped her knee from bouncing, and set her face neutral. If she couldn't deceive them, she'd have to win by keeping her face relaxed and emotion free, the perfect poker face. The only question was, could she pull off a poker face at all?

Once again, Harmony glanced down at her cards; the king of clubs, a joker, the king of spades, the ace of clubs, the queen of clubs.

People began to bid. Bid with money she had never seen before, besides the very few times she had seen it in an anime. One Piece. This confused her immensely, and apparently her confusion had been shown off like a peacock's feathers.

"Girly, you've gotta bet to you know. We could just kick you out now and be done with it." Said the old man looking at her evilly from across the table. Harmony grit her teeth, so she wouldn't yell at the man about the fake currency. With a twitch of the brow, she thought that she might as well check to see if she had anything of value with her. After some digging, she found a five thousand bellie bill, a ten thousand bellie bill, a thousand bellie bill, as well as about seven one hundred bellie coins. She decided to keep the coins, but put the five thousand bellie bill in the pot.

"Ehh? Looks like you ain't so poor. Are you really that confident in your hand?" the man asked. Harmony looked up and tilted her head to the side.

"Is that a lot of money? It looks like yen to me. That would be like… fifty bucks. Not your average pocket change for a teenager, but nothing to be amazed about." she said. The men at the table shook their heads in disbelief.

"What ever you say, girly brat." The old man said. Eventually the bids were set, and the two men who randomly decided to play, had to fold, due to not being able to keep up with the pot.

Now it was just Harmony and the old man, and the pot was at about ten thousand bellie, plus a silver watch and two gold earrings from the two who folded.

From her knowledge of the game, now was her chance to exchange any cards that she didn't want. she took the ace of clubs and put it down on the table, back facing up, to signify she was going to draw another card. To her luck, she got the king of hearts. Next the man got rid of two of his cards, Harmony spotted two in the sleeve of his jacket. She looked over to where the men who had folded sat.

"Excuse me, mister who folded. But can you take the two cards from his sleeve? They're very obvious, and I wanted a fair game. Actually, I think you can just take his coat, if he has two cards he most likely has others as well." she said simply, while pointing to the cards in the old man's sleeve. The other two people looked at his sleeve in shock and nodded. They swiftly walked over to him and removed his coat. Finding a full deck spread in his sleeve. The old man smirked.

"Quite the eye you have there. Mind telling me how you saw those?" He asked, Harmony shook her head in response.

"I was looking at your sleeve the whole time. I saw you cheat once, and had a feeling you would do it again. This is just my proof." she said with ease.

"Okay, I hope my luck doesn't start to go against me now. I won't lose against a rookie." he retorted. "How about we making this more interesting with another bet?" He asked, fully expecting her to not have anymore money left. She nodded in an okay. He put five thousand bellies and two five hundred bellie coins in the pot. Harmony looked at it and put the ten thousand dollar bill in the pot.

But the man across from her didn't fold. Instead he put his cards down faces up; the club, heart, and diamond aces down as well as two kings. He smirked, not thinking that a rookie like her could beat a full house. She smiled sweetly and put her cards down; the king of clubs, a joker, the king of spades, the king of hearts, and the queen of clubs. Four of a kind, with a high kicker. Harmony was the winner this round. She took all of the money and scooted it closer to her so she could stuff what she could into the pockets of her shorts. The old man who had been challenged had his mouth hanging open in shock, as did a few others who were watching. She put on the watch and put in the earrings as she didn't have any earrings in when she… was at the restaurant. She was confused for a moment because she had, had fake ruby ones in earlier that day, she was wearing clothes that fit then to, and she had been at her house, not a fancy restaurant. She shook her head believing that she must have changed at some point to go to sleep or something, and never changed back. She walked away from the people who had started yet another game of poker, and had completely forgotten how a thirteen year old with beginner's luck trounced a pro.

She walked out of the shade, where Jake could get a good look at her. It was the same girl from the restaurant. It was Harmony, he had found her. With a yawn the teen walked over to one of the bar stools and sat down. Copying Jake's earlier movement, she crossed her arms and used them as a pillow, falling to sleep.

Taking this as the opportune moment to grab the girl and run, Jake snatched her after her breathing became even and walked to the door calmly. No one made any move or comment on the fact that a girl was being taken, and possibly kidnapped. Jake concluded that it was most likely a common thing around these parts of the city, which, due to the area he was in, didn't surprise him at all.

He walked back to the sub, planning on just bringing her inside without trouble. And there wasn't any, unlike usual.

~X~X~X~

Jake got up and left the room where Harmony was sleeping.
Although when he came out and walked into the mess hall, to hang out and get some of his stress out by talking to people, chaos was the only thing he was greeted with. Penguin and Shachi were running around while holding their heads, yelling something along the lines of 'KAZUE-CHAN RAN OFF! LAW SCARED HER AWAY!' Hiro was complaining about the noise that the two hatted males were making, but also voiced his worries with Masanori. Logan and Hatzu were talking in hushed tones about the girl's disappearance. Itsuki, Sadao, and Mikio were all chatting about her disappearance, and the pros and cons that came with it.

Jake finally had, had enough of the talking.

"SHE'S SLEEPING IN HER ROOM, IDIOTS!" he yelled over the uproar. They all calmed down after that. with a calmer voice and a deep breath he said, " She doesn't want to be disturbed. She was really tired when I found her at a bar in the shady part of the city." with those words said, he walked away to where the men had to sleep.

But, Law stopped him half way there.

"Jake-ya, do you know where Kazue-ya is?" he asked Jake, looking him in the eye, his lies would be failures.

"Harmony's in her room sleeping, she doesn't want to be disturbed," Jake said politely. Law smirked at him.

"So she ran back to the sub, it's good to know she didn't just run off to that fancy restaurant like she wanted to," Law said, and Jake tensed at the words 'fancy' and 'restaurant', Law continued, "I think I'll go see her so I can tell her not to run off when I need her assistance." and with those words said, Law walked towards Harmony's room, with Jake to scared to move. He didn't want Law to find Harmony, but he didn't want to disrespect his captain.

Oh, what was Jake to do?

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A/N: Hi! I have the next chapter written! Yay! I'll probably come back and add more to this later. Until next time, keep being awesome!