Aki: *sips tea* It's so peaceful right now.
Happy: *having some fish* That probably because Autumn came.
Aki: I guess so.
Kingdom cure: Still, it's nice to relax every once in a while. *sips tea*
Aki and Happy: *stare at author*
Kingdom cure: *looks back at them* what?
Happy: Where's Xion?
Kingdom cure: *shows a battle taking place elsewhere*
Xion: *fights a boy in black* Out of my way!
?: Not in a million years!
Aki: Who's he?
Kingdom cure: Kirigaya Kazuto, otherwise known as Kirito, from Sword Art Online.
Happy: Then are you also starting a Sword Art Online story?
Kingdom cure: no.
Aki: Then how is he-?
Kingdom cure: a fellow writer/reader whose story I really like who likes this story just as much lent me him for this occasion. Aah, and thanks to him I can peacefully relax, not worrying about Xion biting my neck off. Until he wants Kirito back that is.
Aki: At this time, it will take a while then, won't it?
Kingdom cure: how right you are. Now then Happy, do you mind?
Happy: Aye! Disclaimer is the same as usual. Also, this chapter is a tribute for the late Robin Williams.
Kingdom cure: One of them at least. Rest in peace, Mr. Williams.
Last time:
"Now then, let's go back," Tashigi ordered, recieving the printed photo.
"Yes ma'am!" the grunts saluted, aboarding the ship.
"See you later!" Xion waved.
"Come back again some time!" Miki also waved.
"Sure! Bye!" Tashigi waved back.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
'Those were some weird times back then. Especially those traps,' Tashigi thought. 'Now that I think about it, where did they really get those stuff for the traps? I forgot to ask them before we left.'
*FEW DAYS LATER*
The war is finally over. Arabasta is in peace once more. Crocodile has been arrested and the people of Alubarna were all repairing the damages being done during the war. But what are the Straw Hat Pirates doing at this time?
*IN THE PALACE IN THE GUEST ROOM*
"Quite a fascinating mixture you're making. Quite original and yet so superbly logical," a doctor complimented, watching Chopper make some medicine. Said Devil Fruit user slowly faced him as he continued to mix the ingredients, jaw dropped. "Wherever did you learn such exquisite medicinal skills?"
"Tony-kun is a doctor from Drum Island," Vivi answered.
"My word! I see! A doctor from the Great Medical Country of Drum!" Chopper was taken back from the compliment. "Ho-ho. So they are still ahead of the rest of us. I've been a doctor for 40 years now, and I had no idea such medical techniques existed! My, this is truly exquisite! You're so young and I can't even help you in the slightest!"
Eventually, Chopper 'exploded' at the old doctor. "Shut up! Quit staring at me! Moron! Get the hell away from me, asshole!" so he says as he has on a happy face, prepared tea and moved a chair for him to sit.
"Can I take that to mean: 'Please, have some tea and observe all you like'?" the doctor asked the princess.
"I think so," she replied, walking over to a bed Luffy is sleeping on. She placed a wet towel on his forehead, all while her country's doctor is observing and complimenting Chopper's work, the latter 'telling him to go away'.
*MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE THE PALACE*
The residents of Alubarna are doing everything they can to repair the damages. Sanji and Usopp are both walking back to the castle from grocery shopping.
"This is a strong country," Usopp stated.
"Because their princess is so cute!" Sanji answered.
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Everything!"
"Dammit! Something broke through the walls between our houses!" exclaimed a random person, standing in front of a hole in the wall. Or rather walls. "What the hell made these holes?! It's like someone kicked their way through!" Upon hearing that and seeing the evidence, Sanji remembered that it was him who made those holes.
"Oi, Usopp! Look over there! There's something happening over there!" Sanji quickly spoke, trying not to look guilty about making those holes. It just so happens, there is something going on in the direction he's pointing at.
"What's going on over there?" Usopp asked. The two walked over to the comotion and saw the one thing they should've expected to see. "Oh that's right. She agreed to help out as well."
Xion and her Dream Eaters were helping out in fixing the repairs. The way they got the work done was somehow so elegant, as though they are dancing.
"Wow! That onee-chan is so cool!" complimented a child.
"The weird animals with her are awesome too!" added an adult.
"Look at how they move. They're getting work done faster than any of us," stated another.
"Just how do they do it?" asked a female.
"Xion-san is so wonderful~!" a certain chef complimented.
"Of course you would say that," Usopp said. "Though I can't blame you. I've never seen anyone getting work done as fast as her. And while she's dancing, too. I wonder if she got that from doing repairs back on Tanoshi Island, or from one of those good pirates who helped out while staying there."
"It's the latter all right," the pirate in question said out-of-nowhere next to them.
"WHOA! When did you get here?!"
"Since you began to wonder how I can dance and do repairs at the same time. And yes, it is from a fellow pirate."
"I-I see..."
"Xion-swan~! The way you suddenly appeared is so elegant~!" Here we go again.
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but it should be you to stay in bed, not Luffy," Xion muttered. "Speaking of, is he still asleep?"
"Like a log," the sniper answered.
"I see. Well, repairs are almost done. I'll be at the palace around sunset. You two go on ahead without me."
"Okay. See you then." With that, the two left.
*LATER ON*
"AH! WHAT A GREAT NAP!" awoke a certain rubber pirate. The next thing you know, he began to go on about his hat and breakfast.
"You're noisy as well when you wake up!" Sanji complained. "And it's not breakfast; it's already evening."
"And your hat is over there," Usopp pointed out. "A soldier found it in front of the Palace."
Luffy, using his Devil Fruit powers, grabbed his hat and puts it on. "Phew, great!"
"I'm so glad, Luffy-san! You've regained your strength!" Vivi said in relief.
"Regained my strength? But I'm always so strong," Luffy said in a confused tone.
"You idiot! You were really sick with a temperature, y'know!" Nami told him. "Vivi and Chopper have been nursing you back to health this whole time!"
"Really? Thanks!"
"Oh Luffy, you're awake," Zoro spoke, entering the room.
"Yo, Zoro! Long time no see!" When he said that, he got confused as to why he would greet him that way. Chopper then began to scold Zoro for training when he should be resting, as well as taking off his bandages when he should've kept them on.
"Well it's no wonder you feel that way. You've been sleeping for three days straight," the long-nose pirate told him.
"Three days!? I've been sleeping for three days?!"
"Yeah."
"... I missed fifteen meals."
"Why are you so fast at calculating that!?" Nami asked.
"And you counted five meals per day!"
"So the captain is awake!" came a voice as a woman slams the doors open. "Dinner will be ready in thirty minutes. Does he mind waiting?"
"WHA-?!" Zoro gasped.
"OOH! The Chikuwa-Ossan! You're alive!" Luffy happily said.
"I-I knew you were really into that kind of stuff!"
"No, everyone! This is Terracotta-san. She's Igaram's wife and the Palace's top chef," Vivi corrected.
"You all took care of Vivi-sama and my husband!" the Palace's chef said.
"You're kidding me! A couple can only be so much alike..." the swordsman muttered.
"I've heard you eat a lot. Do you think you can snack on those fruits until dinnertime?"
"Understood," the captain replied, devouring the whole cart in a millisecond.
"WAS THAT SOME TRICK?!" the other two of the Monster Trio demanded.
"Obachan, I'm gonna eat three days worth of food!"
"I was hoping you'd say that! I've been chef for thirty years! I won't lose to some youngster's sotmach, so eat all you can!" Terracotta challenged.
"Huh? By the way, where's Xion?"
"Now that you mentioned it, she said she'll be back around sunset," Usopp said.
"Ah, if you're talking about that young girl in black, she's quite busy at the moment," the woman told the crew and the princess.
"With what?" Chopper asked.
"Said something about searching for someone. Don't know who he is, but she said he's a weird blue guy."
"Weird blue guy?" Nami repeated.
"That must be Genie!" Vivi guessed.
"Now that you mentioned it, I haven't seen him at all since the war ended," Zoro pointed out.
"Where could he be, though? More importantly, why is Xion-san even looking for him?" Sanji wondered.
"I hope it's so she can have him join our crew! He sounds interesting!" Luffy assumed.
"Only you would want that," Usopp muttered.
"Sorry for being late," came a familiar voice.
*XION'S P.O.V*
I returned to the guest room after the search for Genie.
"Oh, Xion! Long time no see!" greeted Luffy.
"Luffy! I see you're awake," I greeted back. "How are you feeling?"
"I feel great! Just hungry."
"Should've known."
"So did you find him yet?! That weird blue guy that helped out! You asked him to join?! He said yes?! Woo-hoo!"
"I DIDN'T ANSWER YET, YOU RUBBER FOOL! Don't just decide things on your own!"
"So I'm guessing you didn't find him," Nami spoke.
"No. It's like he just disappeared," I answered.
"Huh?! So he's not joining?!"
"You just shut up, Luffy!" At that, Luffy kept his mouth shut.
"So why were you looking for him?" Usopp asked.
"I wanted to thank him for helping out. If it wasn't for him, the bomb would've killed us all. That and I wanted to know a little more about myself from him. If he knew me, he should know something about me."
"So that's why."
"Well, I hope we can see him again, though. When that day comes, I'm definitely demanding answers from him about me. Or rather about the boy he was talking about."
"You mean one of the boys that you remembered?" Sanji asked.
"Yep. Man, I'm hungry." The moment I said that, the whole room was filled with gasps. "What?"
"W-What did you just say?" Zoro asked.
"I said I'm hungry." More gasps came from my nakamas. "What?!"
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO XION(-NEE)?!" they demanded, except for the woman who looks like Igaram.
"JUST BECAUSE I DON'T EAT MUCH OR NOT AT ALL DOESN'T MEAN I'M NEVER HUNGRY! I THOUGHT WE WENT OVER THIS!" I yelled back.
"Ah! By the way, Xion-nee, I almost forgot," Chopper-kun spoke up. He took something out of his hat. "Here. I've been holding onto this."
Taking what it was that he wanted to give me, it turned out to be- "My seashell necklace! You kept it safe for me."
"That's because, it was what was left of you back when you separated from us."
I smiled softly at him. "Thank you, Chopper-kun. You're most likely the world's best younger brother."
"S-Shut up, asshole! Calling me the world's best younger brother doesn't make me happy at all, you moron! Dummy! Idiot!" And there goes his 'I'm-not-being-honest-with-myself-at-all' mode.
*LATER IN THE GRAND DINING HALL*
Most of us were eating dinner as fast as we can. For a certain someone, it's for missing three-days worth of meal. The rest of us... Why else? So the said person wouldn't get our food. Unfortunately, no matter how fast we are, they just get devoured by him anyway.
"Luffy! Quit taking food from our plates!" I scolded, managing to stop him from getting food off of Chopper-kun's plate. The food-greedy man shook his head in denial, all while keeping the food he took in his mouth.
"Don't stretch!" Nami punched him.
"Chopper-kun, you don't have to eat that fast. You'll choke if you do," I kindly told the human-reindeer hybrid, who was slurping a big amount of pasta in his mouth.
"There's plenty more," Vivi told him.
It went on for sometime, until the speed somehow increased, to the point where he took some food from Chopper's plate, surprising my younger-brother-figure, making him choke. Feeling in a 'good mood', I decided to be 'merciful'. "Luffy~" The rubberman froze, crazily sweating. The Grand Dining Hall became quiet, as I gave Chopper some water with my magic.
"Thank you, Xion-nee," he thanked. I smiled and nodded in reply, before returning my attention to the poor pirate.
"Luffy~" More sweats trailed. "What did you just do~?" He began to speak in gibberish, for his mouth was filled with food. "Swallow then talk." The boy did as told. "Now what were you saying?"
"I was only eating!" he shrieked in fear.
"Luffy took food off of my plate!" Chopper corrected.
"Chopper! You traitor!"
"That's what I thought~" I said, slowly getting up and making my way over to him. "I believe we talked about this, Luffy~" My captain shrieked louder and began to run off. "Stop~" The whole room froze as I made my way in front of him. Time began again and Luffy began to cower in fear.
"X-X-Xion... I'm sure we can talk about this like normal human..." he tried to convince me.
"How ironic coming from you." At that, I gave him my merciless glares. Before he could run off, I grabbed him by the helm of the shirt he's currently wearing. "You little FOOL!" And here is my assault.
A couple minutes later... let's just say dinner is as peaceful as can be.
"Mmm-mm! Mm m mmm mm-mmm! Mmmm! (Xion! Let me go already! Oi!)" cried the rubber human, or tried to. His mouth got tied up. And by tied up, I mean tied up. One thing to like about his powers: you can tied him up with his own body.
"Now we can eat in peace," Usopp said, as the rest of us were calmly eating.
"Mmmm! Mm-m-mmm! M-mm-m-mm-mmm! (Oi! You guys! Don't eat in front of me!)"
"Ah, if only we know what you're saying, Luffy," Nami said.
"Do you really have to be that cruel to him?" a guy asked.
"He should've seen it coming," I answered. "Besides, it's what he gets for eating other's food." That was when I realized something wasn't right. Because I remember sitting between Chopper and Sanji, and that voice sounded deeper than his. Slowly turning around, I came face-to-face with-
"Is that so?"
'GENIE!?' "Where did you come from?!" I yelled, getting everyone's attention.
"Whoa! Y-You're that weird blue guy from days ago!" Usopp pointed out.
"Oh come on, guys. I thought I introduced myself to you all. I'm Genie formerly-of-the-lamp!" he excitedly re-introduced.
"Still! It's not normal at all to see a blue floating man!"
"Except I'm not a man; I'm a genie! Or at least, I used to be."
"You know what I mean!"
"A-... A djinn?" King Cobra spoke.
"Digi?" Zoro repeated.
"Djinn!" a soldier corrected. "How can you not know that?!"
"They are said to be an extremely powerful race that are said to bend the powers of the cosmos to their will!"
"They're that strong?!" Nami asked in shock.
"That actually fits the description," Sanji agreed.
"Hey, it's not nice to talk about people behind their backs, y'know," Genie told them. "Besides, I'm no digiboobop. I'm just Genie!"
"How did you hear it as that?" I wonder. The next thing you know, he began his little introduction song like last time to the king.
"He is... unusual, so to say. He's not like the djinns we heard about," Cobra said.
"He just said that he isn't a djinn, though."
"And yet you're familiar with him?"
"We were friends, or so he says." That shocked him and all the soldiers currently in the room.
"I-Is that so?!" Igaram gasped.
"Yes! That is very true!" Where'd he come from?! "Xion and I were good friends back in the past. Well, not that good, we only met once and haven't been with each other for that long."
'How can you call me a friend then?!' I mentally demanded.
"Oh! And since this is suppose to be an after-war party, with all my friend's friends present, it shouldn't be this normal!"
'Don't tell me...' Before we knew it, Genie turned the Grand Dining Hall into a big party room. Everyone were in shock at the sudden changes in the room. 'It just told me...'
"What the-?! How'd he-?!" Zoro began to ask.
"Whoa! That's awesome! He does magic!" Huh? We all looked at the source of that voice and saw- LUFFY UNTIED HIMSELF!?
"When did you untie yourself?!" the rest of his crew demanded.
"I didn't."
"I did it for him! It's not fair for the captain to be left out of the fun," Genie reasoned.
"There's a reason for him to be tied up the way he was!" Usopp told him.
"Back to meal time!" At that, Luffy began to stuff himself again, taking everything from everyone's plate.
"Stop taking our food, will ya!?"
Around half an hour later, the whole room was filled with laughter, as the male pirates and Genie began to party all over the place.
'I guess it's nice to have a wild party every once in a while,' I thought.