A/N: Partial credit goes to EvanderAdvent.
It's been two days since Fang came back after he found an island close to our current destination, and we haven't seen it yet. The season of the island that Fang found seems to be a winter island. Everyone, excluding Luffy, were wearing something to keep them warm. For some reason, though, I don't feel cold at all, and I'm just wearing my black coat. As for Luffy, I don't know how he's able to withstand the cold in only his vest, short jeans and sandals.
Not that I'm trying to jinx it, but I hope we can get to the island's doctor before Nami dies from her sickness. Speaking of the poor girl, her fever hasn't gone down. In fact, it just slowly gets worse. And I don't know why, but seeing her right now in bed, it reminds me of someone. Did I take care of someone who has the same disease that Nami has? I wish I knew.
"Vivi-chan, Xion-san, what are we going to do?!" Sanji asked, panicking. He's been like this for quite a while and making my head explode! And the princess even kept telling him to keep quiet! "Nami-san's fever isn't going down!"
'She's going to die! I can just tell that she's going to die!' I seem to have forgotten to mention that Carue is also panicking about this.
"If you two aren't going to help out, then get the hell out!" I shouted, kicking the two annoying beings out, hard. "God, those yahoos."
"Feeling like a mother again?" the princess asked.
"I guess." I noticed her confused face. "Seeing Nami right now, I feel like I'm watching over someone else. Someone close to me."
"Maybe another one of your memory is coming back."
"That's what I'm starting to think. But that memory is a little blurry. I can't remember who it it that I was watching over."
"It will come to you. At least, I hope so."
Hearing those words, I smiled a bit. I know she's trying to cheer me up, and for that, I'm happy that she is. "Thanks for looking at the bright side for me," I said.
All of a sudden, the ship was shaking. I held Nami down on her bed to prevent her from getting any minor injuries. Princess Vivi noticed what I was doing and helped me hold her down.
"Where is all this shaking coming from?!" she asked.
"Guys! What's happening out there?!" I questioned.
"Maaahahaha! Surprised, aren't you?!" a voice that I don't know asked. "This is my Giant Diving Ambush Ship: The Bliking! Maaahahaha! Maaahahaha!"
Becoming a little worried about the situation, I ran out of the room. "Princess Vivi! Watch over Nami!"
"Sure," I heard her say.
"What's going on here?!" I asked. Somehow, I wasn't surprised with the scene before me. Everyone, and I mean everyone on deck and on the crow's nest, were surrounded by men with guns pointing at them. I couldn't tell if they were pirates, until I saw a ship in front of ours. "Say... How did these guys got on Merry?" I asked.
"Don't know," Luffy replied. "It just happened." The moment he answered that, I got in the same situation as my crewmates.
"Are you lowlifes really pirates? You're just a bunch of weirdos. Looks like there are five of you," I turned and faced the source of the voice, assuming that it's the captain of the opposing crew's ship. When I did, I saw a really fat man eating meat on a knife! And he's even eating the knife itself! Here I thought Luffy's appetite is weird.
"No matter how you look at it, that's just not enough for a pirate crew," the fat man stated, eating the rest of the knife. And yes, I was serious about the knife. Just watching him eat it and hearing the sound of him eating the knife is enough to bring pain in my mouth. "Ah well... Might as well ask," he said. "We're heading to the Drum Kingdom. Would you happen to have an Eternal Pose or even a Log Pose on you?"
"Are you saying you lost your Log Pose?" I asked. "Sorry, but I'm afraid we don't have an Eternal Pose to Drum Kingdom." 'And yet it sounds familiar,' I mentally added. I can't help but feel like I've heard of that place.
"There! That's all, right?" Luffy asked. "Now get out of here already. We're in a hurry here. Ain't got time to waste with you."
"Ah, don't rush your life so much," the guy said. "If you don't have one, that's that. However, I'll be taking your treasure and you ship."
'I can't believe how calm he is when he's saying that,' I thought.
"But before I do, I'm feeling mite pekish." The moment he said that, he turned to one side of the ship, AND STARTED TO EAT IT! WHAT KIND OF A HUMAN EATS A SHIP?!
"What kind of human is he?!" Usopp voiced out half of my thoughts.
"Don't eat our ship!"
"Don't you dare move! Wapol-sama is enjoying his meal!" one of the guy's crewmates warned.
"I don't care if he enjoys eating Merry," I spoke. "However, you are all wasting our time here!" As I said that, I summoned Warrior's Pride and attacked the pirates around me with a spin attack. Sadly for them, it didn't matter which way I spun, the results will be a slash in the chest. Soon, the rest of my crewmates out here joined me in this fight.
While Zoro, Sanji and I were fighting the weaklings, Usopp trying not to get involve with the fight, Luffy went after the captain, known as Wapol. The least expected thing that happened, WAS THAT HE WAS EATEN! However, his arms were stretched away. By the looks of the position, it seems that he's going to attack him with his bazooka while he's still in Wapol's mouth.
A second after Princess Vivi came out to see what's going on, Luffy sent the guy flying, forcing him to spit the rubberman out of his mouth. Knowing that the job here is done, I walked back in the girls room and continued to watch over Nami. The only words I heard from the opposing pirate crew as I walked in were, "Wapol-sama is a Hammer in the water!" "We shall return for retribution!" and "Remember us!"
'Speaking of which, I feel like I heard of the name Wapol,' I thought. 'And as for Drum Kingdom, why do I have a feeling like I know that place?'
"Xion..." I heard Nami speak. "What happened... out there?"
"Nothing really," I told her. "We just ran into a pirate ship. Luffy blew their captain away, so they all retreated."
"Heheh... I see..."
"You need to rest, Nami. Don't worry about what's happening; worry about yourself." The navigator nodded her head and continued to sleep.
As much as I want to watch the sunset, Nami's condition is getting worse. She's breathing hard and her fever is getting even worse. I read the medical books about her situation, but none of them tells us about the disease that she has right now. I feel so useless!
"I bet... she's real hungry," Luffy guessed. "How about if she eats 100 helpings of meat!? If she eats some meat, she'll get better in no time!" Him thinking that food are cures already made me pop a vessel and kick him out of the room, again! I swear, I will lose my mind if someone doesn't do anything to help me and Princess Vivi help Nami get better! Why didn't they recruit a doctor on their ship again?!
"Xion..." I heard the said princess call. "I understand how you feel, but please know that Luffy's trying to help."
"Yes. I know that, but he should know by now that meat isn't the solution for everything. We told him hundreds of times that it isn't. And I can hardly sleep with this going on. I just hope we get to that island soon. Here I thought we can get there in less than two days. But Fang came back because of the cold weather. Than again, it is a sign that we are somewhere close to the island."
"But man, the sun's going down, girls," Sanji told us.
"We should drop the anchor somewhere," Vivi suggested.
"No. We'll keep sailing," I said. "I'll switch Lapin with Wyvern again. Out of everyone in this crew, my Dream Eaters don't seem to mind being at the helm all day and night. And out of all my Dream Eaters, Lapin and Wyvern are the only two who can steer the helm. Besides, Fang is leading us to the island that he saw, even though he should be tired by now, he doesn't seem worn out. At least, that's what I heard from Usopp."
"Well, if you say so," Sanji said, as I left the room for a moment. I looked up at Fang to see that he's still leading the ship.
"Fang! Aren't you tired?" I asked. My bat Dream Eater flew down to me at the moment and shook his head no. "You sure? We can stop here after all."
'No...' I heard a voice say. I turned to find the source but saw no one. 'Must... Nami... doctor...' I turned to Fang and wondered if I'm starting to understand Dream Eaters, because being a non-devil fruit user and still understand animals is a little weird.
"Well, if you insist," I said, having Fang to continue leading Lapin. Speaking of the said creature, I walked into the helm and swap the Majik Lapin with the Ryu Dragon. "Steer the helm and follow Fang," I told Wyvern, as he begun to have Merry follow Fang.
Night fell and everyone was in the girls' room, sleeping. I was the only one awake and switched the towel on Nami's forehead with a colder one. Once I did, she was awake.
"Hey there. You should stay asleep," I said. "Don't want your condition to get worse, do we?"
She looked behind me and saw the guys, except Sanji, who's not in the room, snoring.
"Oh, is that right? You really want my autograph that badly?" came Usopp's voice. His sudden question scared me and Nami.
"He's just sleep talking," I said. "Anyway, you're far from recovery, Nami. So you should go back to sleep."
"Yeah," she nodded, closing her eyes. "Say Xion. What did you remember? Back in Little Garden, I mean."
I was slightly caught off-guard when she asked that. Then again, I had a feeling that someone on this ship would ask what I remembered. "I remembered a boy. Two of them, actually. Everyday, the three of us would sit on top of a clock tower to eat ice cream and watch the sunset. And to me, each day were the best day of my life."
"Is that all? Because, after Zoro defeated that bombman, you acted like you're remembering a lot of things."
"Yeah. That's all," I lied. I can't tell her that Axel and I once fought or that I'm a replica. In fact, I don't know if I really am one, or if Axel was joking.
"Do you remember their names?"
"One of them. And his name is Axel." Satisfied with my answer, Nami went back to sleep.
The next morning, I was out on deck to see if there's an island in sight. According to the clear weather, unfortunately, it seems that we're no where near it. Disappointed that we have to wait a little longer to get to the island, I went back to the girls' room to continue watching over Nami.
"You're early," I said, as I saw Usopp carrying some woods to fix Merry.
"Not as early as you are," he said.
"I didn't wake up early; I just didn't sleep at all last night."
"Mother habit?"
"Guess you could call it that right now." After that conversation, I walked back in and saw that only Luffy and Nami are in the room. The said rubberman seems to be doing some drawings on his own face. After he was done, he stretched his face.
"What are you doing?" I asked. When he looked at me, HIS FACE BECAME A LITTLE CREEPY WITH ALL THE MAKE UP ON HIM! I lost my balance at the sight and scolded Luffy. "Just what are you doing?!"
"I'm trying to make Nami smile," he simply told me.
"Look here..." I spoke, feeling that another blood vessel of mine would pop. "THAT FACE WOULD SCARE PEOPLE INSTEAD OF MAKING THEM SMILE!" With that, I kick the boy out, AGAIN! At this rate, I'll probably turn into Sanji.
"My god. Once you're all better, I'm going to need a lot of sleep," I told Nami.
"ISLAND HO!" came Sanji's voice.
"Now we're getting somewhere." I walked out of the room and saw that the island is white. I then saw some strange images. There were only a few and were a little blurry so I don't know what they were about or who were in them. I can make out what the background of those images were, however. And they seem similar to the island ahead of us.
'What were those images just now?' I wondered. 'Can it be that... I've been to that island before? Or is it that... that island is... No. I can't be so sure about it. I'll find out once-'
'This presence...' came a voice in my head, interrupting my thoughts. 'Finally... You've come back...'
'Come back?' I mentally repeated.
'I've been waiting all this time for you to return... And now the wait can end...'
I decided to find out what the voice meant once we get to the island. I then turned to Fang and called him down.
"Thanks for guiding the ship all the way over here," I said. The Komory Bat seems embarrassed at the comment. "Go back in your card and get as much rest as you want." That said, the bat Dream Eater went back in his card.
When we arrived on the island, it's all covered in snow. Luffy was really happy to be here because the island is covered in snow. One thing that bothers me about this island are the mountains. They're extremely tall and looks a lot like pillars. How can anyone climb those mountains?
"Xion!" came a voice, snapping me out of my thoughts. The voice came from Usopp. "Are you all right? You've gotten all spacy."
"I'm okay, Usopp. I was just thinking," I assured him.
"Okay. But are you sure that you should be out here?"
"We're here on the island that Fang found, aren't we? So it won't be long until we find ourselves a doctor for Nami. And hopefully, we'll have him or her join us."
"Why?" Usopp, Sanji and Luffy, the two who listened to our conversation, asked.
"Shouldn't the answer be obvious?" I asked back. They got the hint when I asked that question. I walked to the bathroom to splash some cold water on my face. "Why do I have a bad feeling about what's going to happen while we're on this island?" I asked myself. I splashed some more water on my face to get myself out of the negative world and look at the bright side.
'No, Xion. Look at the bright side. Whatever your instincts are telling you are either lies or false alarms,' I convinced myself. My mind then automatically went back to what the voice said. I still wondered what he meant when he said that. Placing the thought on the back of my head, I wiped my face and was about to walk outside, when I heard voices out there.
They all sound unwelcoming. It made me wonder why. Then again, we're pirates, so this should be normal. I then heard a gunshot and slammed the door open. "What's going on here?!" I demanded. I then heard another gunshot and, out of instinct, leaned my head to the left to avoid getting my heat shot. "What the hell?! I understand that you hate pirates, but you can't shoot us if we didn't do anything wrong yet!"
"Sh-shut up, you filthy pirate!" one of the snipers shouted.
"Idiot! Take back what you just said!" ordered a man with a goatee and armor plates on his arms. It made me assume that he's the leader. Many people looked at him in confusion.
"What are you talking about, Dalton?" "That girl is a pirate like them!" "Why do you want him to take back what he said about her?!"
"Hey, girl..." he spoke, ignoring the islanders' words. "Aren't you... Xion?"
All the people that resides on this island had a shock look on their faces when he asked that. One question from me: how did he know my name?