Title: Hell's Reign Saga: Ice

Chapter title: Rescued

Rate: M

Summary: Will the lost souls in the snow ever survive until the green summer saves them?

Rescued

It hadn't really sunk in yet. She had no hope of finding him. She hated herself for leaving him. Even now she was inside, warm by a fire. It was horrible to leave him. His face flashed into her mind, his expression grim. Frostbite was taking its toll as well. She knew his leg, if not fixed soon, would have to be amputated. I'm horrible. How could I leave him like that? No. he had been insisting that she leave. It pained her, but she left. She now regretted it, because if she hadn't gone, he wouldn't be alone. Maybe he knew and just didn't want her to see? She got up from her seat. She had to find him.

Torture. That's what this was. It was Kami's punishment for his piracy. He didn't remember what dry eyes felt like. He hadn't stopped crying since the cook and the navigator had been called missing. His nakama… gone. That's all he knew.

The captain kept crying. It drove the swordsman nuts. He missed the cook too. Well…his body anyway. Images of the cook flashed into his mind. Including one of him trying to take a shower. The moss-haired one remembered seeing the cook's thin body, his muscles thin and carved perfectly. He was built for endurance and flexibility. Speed as well. But what was wrapped up in curling gold pubic hair interested him the most. The cook was perfect. Golden hair, bright intelligent blue eyes, porcelain skin, lean muscles and a cock that had to have been 8 or 9 inches long. Huge. The cook was amazing. The swordsman was slightly upset that he had seen the cook like that. However, it was reaching out and touching his cock and tugging gently at the curling hair around it that set the cook off. He screamed and kicked the swordsman away. It had made him feel so guilty.

"What the Hell is wrong with you?" the blond man had shouted at him. Blushing, he ran before answering. The cook never looked at him directly. Not until the witch drug him off to a store. The look had been one that said "get yourself lost and I'll kill you, shitty gay marimo". Then they were gone. Two and a half weeks now. There was no way he could last any longer. So he looked at the map, discovering that only the outer rim of the island was summer and that the inside was winter. He grabbed a coat and left the Thousand Sunny and searched the island. That's when it hit him. They were in trouble. He put on his coat and started off into the frozen wasteland.

Soon he found what he had wanted to find. He saw the golden locks reflecting light. The marimo man ran to the cook. The cook was pale and shaking, only a thin blanket covering his freezing, naked body. His hair was dull and losing its shine. Zolo picked the cook up. He whimpered and shook. The cook was burning up. A fever had made its way into his body, burning him from the inside out. Zolo knew he had to get the cook warm. He felt the cook pressing into his torso. The cook was whimpering. He was in pain?

Pain. Cold. Heat. I was torn by these different feelings. My leg was numb, but I felt a radiating pain from my ass, strongly coursing up my back. I whimpered and snuggled into the warm thing holding me. I heard wispers of "It's ok" and "Just hold on" but I couldn't place them. I wanted to die. I wanted Kami-sama to let me go. To leave the frozen land I called Hell. I snuggled deeper into the warmth.

"Help…me..."

"Don't worry. I will."

"Shitty…gay…marimo?"

"Nice to see you too, ero-cook," he mumbled. I opened my eyes. Out of my right, I saw him. I hated being saved by him but it was better than freezing. I smilled.

"Thanks…" I said, drifting into the darkness behind my eyelids once more.

To be continued

…A/N: Hey guys. RickseriaStar here. Just thought I'd let you know that the story has been updated but it's in chapter 1. It doesn't seem like you guys knew that i would be doing this kinda thing. These chapters are really long and I typicaly don't have time to type them all at once. So I'll shoot for half and half at a time. Sorry if this bothers you but it's as fast as I can go.

-Thanks for reading,

RickseriaStar