OC Dimensional Journeys: World of One Piece Chapter 15

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FYI: This fic will follow most of the series including some of the extra mini arcs that I liked the best.

P.S: PLEASE IF YOU HAVE NOT YET, THEN PLEASE VOTE ON MY 'REAL' NEW POLL ON MY AUTHOR'S PAGE & I AM SORRY ABOUT THE WAIT AS I WAS HAVING SOME PROBLEMS LATELY, HOPE YOU ENJOY IT.

P.P.S: I have also been busy with family christmas parties and limited time due to organising and repacking all of our christmas stuff like the tree and whatnot along with being distracted by the new games I got recently for my consoles at Christmas along with all the mayhem of new year parties and myself returning to work and upcoming holidays being planned in advance with family.

B.T.W. - By The Way: I really wanted to do this chapter for New Years or at least a few weeks after Chopper's Birthday but it was not meant to be, I am really sorry.

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Underlined text: Titles of chapters, names of the notices and other places.

Underlined Italic: The text of Letters, Signs and Books in fic.

"Italic": Thoughts of characters and people.

Bold: Attack's of characters.

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Bold Italic Underlined: Musical Words.

Grand Line - Going Merry, Jack's POV - About two to three days after leaving Little Garden

I sigh as I rub my eyes while standing guard over Nami as she rests a little easier after a few of my special drugs and medicines that should help with her condition of late.

I want to be cautious over what I give her as I do not want to quicken the bacterial infection from the Kestia's parasitic bite and possibly affect the treatment of whatever the two people I know can truly help Nami with her sickness.

I shake my head as I remember the attempts by Nami to try and be strong for the others by acting like she was fine and not in danger of dying by trying to walk like she was not ill.

I smirk at how determined she is to help her crew especially when she sensed that freak weather attack when she tried to be useful to the crew and of Vivi's friendship and kindness at helping Nami even at the cost of delaying our journey to Alabasta what with her having read the newspaper article about the continuing bloodshed and terror sweeping her homeland from the paper Nami hid from her that time.

I am glad I was able to help as much as I could even though Luffy seemed to think I should be the ships Doctor of which I shot down quickly by saying to him about my skills as an inventor and scientist being more towards making useful gadgets and inventions than being the ships medical.

I blink as I hear a ringing sound and then check my pocket watch to see it ringing meaning my shift of watching Nami was over for the moment.

I click the watch and the noise soon stops as I head to the top deck to get Vivi as it is her turn to keep watch, I have one last look at Nami as she seems to mumble and turn in her sleep with her fever showing as her head heats up to a red and she sweats more.

I guess that I will have to up the dosage slightly to help combat her fever as I reach into my pocket and take the pill jar I use with the medicine for Nami inside.

I now reach the deck and spot Vivi besides Carue who both are sipping something warm to keep off the cold as the ship begins to head into a colder climate as snow begins to heavily fall on the decking.

I call out to Vivi "Hey Vivi!"

She looks up from her seat on the decking as she cuddles up to Carue to keep warm at my calling out to her.

She replies in question "Yes, what is it Jack?"

I point behind me to indicate where she needs to go as I say "Its your turn to keep watch on Nami and can you give her some more of the medicine I made plus some of the soup Sanji made to help her medicine go down."

I say this to her as I toss said medicine of which she soon catches and nods in agreement to my request.

I sigh and look ahead as Vivi and Carue head to Nami's room to keep watch and look after her.

I am glad that I could help Sanji pick out what to give Nami that would help her settle and feel more like herself.

I then spot something odd in the corner of my eye, it appears Zoro has too as he calls out not long after from his position on the crows nest.

It is a man or at least I think is one who appears to be standing on the surface of the water.

I think it odd until my memories catch up with me and I smirk slightly as I think on how if this is happening now then we are not far from where we need to be to help Nami.

I hold on as the ship rocks violently from the emerging of the giant submarine ship I recognise as Wapol's Submersible Pirate Attack Ship.

I watch in silent grimace as Wapol appears on the Merry and soon scoffs down a knife whole.

I think on this, "Man, if he didn't have those powers of his he would be in so much pain and agony."

I react quickly as Wapol is about to chomp down on a piece of the Merry.

I rush in with a small Aura Streak as I ready my special attack I have just for this glutton.

"Aura Manipulation: Aura Braced Trap"

My attack works very fast as I near him, his jaws which were about to widen to munch on the ship are now lashed and snapped shut very tightly by aura powered braces that keep the tub of lards trap shut.

He is very surprised at my move and is unable to open his mouth no matter how much he struggles to do so to voice out his displeasure.

I smirk and say to him as I stop near him "Having trouble moving those big chompers of yours, aww how sad; the baby can't have his numnums and now he's having his little tantrum."

I smile with a mischievous grin at my mocking baby voice which seems to make the munch munch fruit user even more mad as he redoubles his efforts to open his mouth as I spot Usopp and Luffy nearly on the floor laughing at my pranks and humour.

I also spot a semi-calm Sanji, who has just came up to see what all the ruckus is, who is also struggling and nearly failing to hold in his laughter at what is going on while Zoro is openly smiling at my handiwork.

I then react as the stunned troops of Wapol react themselves at the treatment of their leader as they aim all of their guns at me to which I smirk and concentrate my power.

"Aura Intimidation: Howling Aura Pressure"

My aura starts to rise up around me and take the form of a large golden werewolf above me as it soon howls into the air causing a sudden heavy downpour of fierce aura that stuns the armed gunmen and makes them fall over with some of them nearly passed out on the ground due to the crushing downward force of my intimidation technique as I notice also that Wapol appears to be affected somewhat also as he has stopped struggling and is now grimacing in pain as my attack pushes the large man to his knees by force.

I then control my aura made creature as I make it bark in a dark and threatening gesture as I then call out saying to them with a similar way.

"Get Out Of Here, Right NOW!"

I say this with a loud yell that speaks of terror and pain if they do not leave myself and the rest of my friends alone as my aura constructed wolf gives out a loud bark and howling cry of power.

This has an immediate reaction as the now terrified gunmen are scurrying away back to their own ship with a protesting Wapol who is still wearing the braces I gave him.

I smile now as the enemy ship beats a hasty retreat as I turn to face the stunned looks of my crewmates.

Usopp clearly words everyone elses thoughts as he says aloud "Jack, What The Hell Was All That!?"

I shrug and say "Its just one of the many ways I deal with small fry like those guys without having them damaging the ship or firing a single shot plus I knew that guy with the metal lower jaw, he's Wapol and is a Devil Fruit user that would have easily eaten the ship piece by piece with his powers which allows him to eat normally inedible things like metal and wood or even structures and cannons."

I smirk at the again surprised look on Usopp's face as he nods in acceptance at my explanation yet he again asks me "But what was that wolf thing you did?"

I shrug again and explain the basis of my two Aura Intimidation and Aura Manipulation Technique and what I did to those gunmen and Wapol as I explain that I wanted to stop Wapol from eating the ship so I shut his mouth up so he would not use his powers.

They accept this explanation as we continue our journey to find an island with a Doctor on it.

Grand Line - Going Merry, Nami's POV - Later that Night

I wake up with a hazy and dizzy feeling as I can vaguely feel the ton of sweat drenching my body as I breathe heavily from my fever affecting me.

I rub my head to wipe some of the sweat from my head as I also wince slightly at the heat emanating from my forehead, I barely notice my damp cloth having fallen from forehead.

I look around the room in surprise at seeing nearly all of my crewmates in varying places of slumber, Luffy sleeping without even seemingly feeling the edge of a fallen picture and frame digging into his forehead, Usopp sleeping next to the bookcase with Luffy's sandals and feet beside his head, Zoro lying on top of Carue the Duck; both of them snoring away and Vivi at the end of my bed resting her head silently sleeping unlike the rest of them as they all snore away like a foghorn.

I look around again with a faint smile at the care and wellbeing shown to myself by my crewmates and friends as they sleep with me, showing their worry for how I am doing.

I then freeze in shock as Usopp cries out in his sleep about his imaginary fame and fortune as he then falls back into deep sleep, I keep my body tense at the sudden surprise of this until I slowly my body relaxes at the quiet being returned to my room and cabin as I also think to myself of where Sanji and Jack are.

"I wonder what they are doing right now?"

Grand Line - Going Merry, Jack's POV - Same Time

I smirk as I see Sanji up in the crows nest and can hear his shivering and muttering about the cold weather being brought in from where I know we are headed, I then return to my work as I fix this piece there and that bit in there aaannnddd... done.

I call up to Sanji as I work on the deck, "Hey Sanji."

I hear the blond cook shuffle up in the crows nest as he looks down at where I am with him calling back in question.

"Yeah Jack, what is it?"

He is answered as I call back to him saying "Catch this."

I throw a small item up to the cook as he catches what I have thrown up as I then see his surprised look he soon has on his face as I explain to him when he looks back at me for said explanation.

"I made it from what I had of my heating device I showed you guys the other day as that is more of a useful thing when we are on a cold island and have no way of making heat or fire and when all of us are cold on really freezing temperatures while sailing."

Basically what I did was make a very miniature sized version of my lighted heating lamp that can be carried around your neck and warms your whole body to keep your temperature up while on a cold or icy environment when on a winter island.

I do plan on making a miniature and large version that instead of generating heat, it generates cold so when we get to Alabasta the heat from the desert won't be so bad for some of us but mainly Chopper when he comes with us.

I get a nod of gratitude from Sanji as he returns to keeping watch as I go back to keeping the ship steady as we calmly sail forward to where my Aura is directing me towards the energy of another island.

This is another small skill that I have been slowly developing after we left Cactus Island as I had my Aura scan the magnetic energy and aura of the island to possibly help track nearby islands if they all have the same magnetic signature and similar Auras.

This was so that if I am the one sailing and did not have the Log Pose on me then I can reach an island without assistance of Nami as is needed now.

I did a similar thing on Little Garden and have noticed that while the magnetic signature and energy output are different it is the Aura of the Island that remains the same.

So from this I can probably get us all to the island the fastest since the Aura is of the same feeling and output.

I do hope though that we can reach one soon.

Grand Line - Going Merry, Jack's POV - The Next Day

I smirk as I listen to Vivi explain to Usopp and Sanji the reason for the lately cold weather for the past day or so making me glad that I did not have to explain it, I smile as I soon hear Sanji confirm Vivi's deduction and guessing of the island we need to find is very near.

I can vaguely hear Luffy's loud cheers of joy at this from below as I turn to see a red blur pass by me and jump onto the ships figurehead at the bow of the ship exclaiming about the weather and the snow making me shake my head at Luffy's childlike nature being sent into overdrive as I can guess that since he grew up on a Summer Island like Dawn then he did not get very much interaction with Snow and this kind of weather until only very recently.

I do laugh though at Luffy just realising how cold it is by being told this by Sanji and Vivi making me shake my head as I dig into my pocket and toss something I made last night for this occasion.

"Here, Luffy; catch this."

He looks in surprise as he catches something Sanji recognises as he asks me "You made more of those?"

I nod as I say to Sanji and Luffy "I thought it may be useful as I can guess if Luffy wants to fight in the snow proper then he would be unable to wear a heavy coat to do so, Luffy just needs to put it around his neck and press the button at the top once to turn it on and press it again to turn it off."

I wait and see if it will work as it should for Luffy, it does as I can see the faint orange glow accompanied by a small amount of heat emanating from Luffy's now warm body as the rubber skinned captain sighs in relief at the welcome warmth.

With the mini heated lamp wrapped around his neck by some string it should last for a while before it needs repowering.

I then head off to my room to prepare for the chaos of what may be coming and the unveiling of something I have been saving for this trip and island in particular.

Grand Line - Going Merry, Jack's POV - Some moments later

I smile as I exit my Aura Gate with my little project having been completed and ready for deployment soon, I am excited to try it out.

My smile is turned to shock and surprise as I hear a gunshot followed by a flare of pain filled aura that comes from the one person I know has this aura.

"VIVI!"

Grand Line - Going Merry, Vivi's POV - Same Time

I grimace and refuse to yell in pain as I feel the graze of the bullet hitting my shoulder yet I force myself to move to stop Luffy from attacking the people of this land who were only defending their home from unknown pirates.

I am stopped by this as is Luffy and everyone else as a powerful and crushing feeling suddenly slams down on us from the air making me realise who could be doing this as my eyes widen in surprise as I think of him.

"Jack."

I turn in surprise, forgetting about my wound, as the door to Jack's room is blown off its hinges and sent towards a screaming Usopp as he is plowed down by it and smashed into the wall of the deck, a shadowed figure emerges from the room into the light making my jaw drop at the sight before me.

It is Jack but he is now massively muscled and standing at a height of near 9 feet but he has some features she recognised from his Wolf construct made of his own aura as they seem to have merged with his body in a glowing yellow shine but it's the eyes that are most disturbing and terrifying.

They have completely turned red with no iris or anything except a certain bloodlust she can sense from them.

His eyes look at her as she freezes in fear at the possibility of her being the target to the beasts rage until it is wiped clean as I hear a growling voice that sounds like Jack's only more primal and powerful.

"Vivi, You Okay?"

I nod yet grimace at the pain spreading from my shoulder, this seems to have caught his attention as his eyes narrow and his mouth opens in a snarl.

He nears me and looks at my shoulder closely and sniffs it, his eyes narrow to near slits as he turns to the now scared people of the island and calls out to them in his growling loud voice.

"WHO SHOT HER?!"

Grand Line - Going Merry, Jack's POV - Same Time

I feel my mind nearly clouded by rage at these people harming someone precious to me as I look at the gathering of armed villagers whom I know are merely defending their home but I can feel my anger and rage almost overtake my reason and logic.

I spot a particularly terrified villiger as I sense his fear and guilt making me realise who shot Vivi as I call out to him.

"It Was YOU!"

I give a wolfy grin at the squeal of terror and absolute fear from the man I look at from above.

I see his hand squeeze the trigger of his gun as I spot the bullet firing towards me.

I lazily raise my hand as the bullet nears me as if it just a small fly coming towards me.

My hands form red aura like claws of a wolf as I grab the bullet so fast that I hold the bullet between the claws of my hand/paws.

I raise my hand to show them what I have done as they all gasp in shock at myself having caught the bullet.

I call out to them all with a growling snarl and bark.

"Oh, you shouldn't have done that."

I then begin spinning on the spot as I activate my special gauntlets while I call out my attack.

"Shuriken Spin: Tornado Strike"

I release my mini shuriken as I spin in a red and yellow twister of power.

I can hear the clangs of metal being cut and yells of surprise as I soon stop to see my handiwork.

All of the barrels of the rifles or guns have been cut off leaving no room for the bullets as they just roll out one after another.

I then look straight at the man I know as Dalton and say to him especially "So are you gonna let us on the island to find a doctor or are we gonna have problems?"

I finish this by raising the pressure on the villagers and Dalton who all grimace at the power I am showing to them.

I hear Vivi's voice before I can get an answer as I look at her and my crew.

The rest are stunned as I spot Zoro and Sanji sweating to remain standing from my power as I then look at Luffy to see his stunned expression but it is Vivi that calms my bloodlust and rage.

She is looking at me in fear and horror at what I am doing making me feel very guilty at my rash actions, I slowly return to my normal form.

I watch now in silence as Vivi pleads for help along with a refocused Luffy who I can tell is thinking of Nami yet I grimace with further guilt as Vivi says about not everything being solvable with a fight.

I do feel better though as Dalton agrees to help us as he calls out to us, "Follow me."

I go with the others as I then spot Usopp who has a bruised face and shows he was harmed to my confusion.

"What happened to him"

Grand Line - Drum Island: Big Horn Village, Jack's POV - Some moments later

I smile slightly as I see the village yet hold back from interacting as I see some of the angry looks of the villagers I threatened earlier.

I do hold back a laugh at Usopp's actions earlier as we made our way to the village when we passed a Hiking Bear along with Luffy and Usopp's reaction to one of the Villagers looking like Hiking Bear.

I look and listen as Dalton describes the so called 'witch' that is the doctor of this island making me smirk at the rumors and legends surrounding her.

I have a thought and ask Dalton as he finished his explanation "Is there someone on this island called Hiluluk?"

Dalton looks at me in surprise as he asks "How do you know that name?"

I shrug and say "He's an uncle of mine who I know lived on the Grand Line and on a Winter Island but I did not know which one until now."

Vivi asks Dalton "Who is he?"

Dalton explains to them all as Sanji yells at Luffy and Usopp to get inside and stop messing about.

"He was a local quack that tried to help others but only ended up causing problems with his 'medicines' that were more toxic or dangerous than the illness or pain of his patients."

The others nod at this as I say "I thought that since he knew of medicine he might be able to help Nami."

Luffy then asks "Where is he then?"

Dalton's eyes close in sadness as he says with that same feeling "He died some years ago."

I close my eyes as I imagine the pain of Chopper having witnessed his sacrificial death and the vague memories I had of him which was not much besides some letters and a couple of chance meetings with him but that was only while he had his sickness affecting him and he needed help from the family to cure him.

I snap out of my reminiscing as Sanji, Vivi and Usopp argue with Luffy at how we are to get Nami up the top of the mountain known as the 'Drum Rockies'.

I call out saying to them "I may have something that will help us on how to get to the mountain safely.

I smirk as I see the confused looks of my crewmates and Dalton.

Grand Line - Drum Island: Big Horn Village, Jack's POV - A short time later

I stand in front of the crew as I ready my technique, "Aura Gate: Vehicle Deployment – Winter Beast!"

A portal soon forms and grows as a large vehicle is soon released and dropped into the snow, the sight of which shocks my crewmates and Dalton.

It is my vehicle 'The Beast' but designed in a very different way.

Instead of the gun on the back it has a secure and covered back so that Nami is protected and secured to ensure she does not get rocked about as she is strapped in while I drive, instead of the large wheels on the back they are changed to Tank like tire treads or snow treads more correctly.

The colour scheme is also now a white and grey design instead of the regular colours with additional protection for the engine and different parts of the vehicle with the final part being the large snow plow at the front of the hood.

I smile with pride at my work as I turn to look at the viewers of this vehicle as I ask of their opinion.

"Well, what do you guys think?"

I smile as I hear Luffy and Usopp's exclamation of it being "So Cool!" followed by Sanji and Vivi's exclamation of "Wow!" making me happy at having made this design.

(A/N: Basically it is a redesign of the Winter styled Warthog - M864 A [Arctic] - from Halo with the forward treads switched out for the Snow Warthog's ice-crusted wheel treads for use in the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack, 'Avalanche'.)

I get in as I tell Sanji "Strap Nami in the back for me will you Sanji and no Luffy you cannot drive it."

I smirk as I hear Luffy's childish whining at not being able to drive the vehicle.

I call out to Vivi and Usopp, "You two best just stay here as there is only enough room at the moment for three or four people to ride it and with nami taking up the back seats there's not much room left for you two."

They nod as I catch Vivi's eyes giving me a look of gratitude as I can guess I am forgiven for my outbreak on the ship earlier on.

I start up the engine as I look in my back mirror to see that Sanji has strapped in Nami securely in the makeshift gurney I had built up for Nami to rest on.

Luffy gets in beside me as I start up the engine as it soon roars out with power making me smirk as I say to both Sanji and Luffy.

"Hold on tight..."

I can see their confused expressions as they do not know what I mean as I quickly point to the seat belts of which the strap themselves in after a moment.

"...Cause Here We GO!"

I step on the pedal at full power as we streak across the snow at high speeds until we are not seen by anyone besides the faint screams being heard as we take off.

Grand Line - Drum Island, Jack's POV - Some time after leaving Big Horn

I smirk as I slow down a bit as I look at the frozen with terror expressions of Sanji and Luffy who are glued to their seats in fear.

I sheepishly rub my head and say "Oops was I going a bit too fast?"

They soon glare at me with annoyance as I say back "Yeah, I must have but we did have to rush to get to the mountain so we kinda had to go fast."

Their annoyance soon turns to frustrated acceptance as I continue watching out for any of the Lapahn's I know will soon appear.

It seems I was right as I soon spot a young one up ahead as it tries to jump on the vehicle but bounces off the hood with a whine of pain.

I continue on as I know that the other more powerful and older ones will appear next.

Sanji's voice breaks my thoughts as he asks me something.

"Jack, what was that thing you did back on the boat?"

I freeze for a moment as I slowly ask, "What do you mean?"

He clarifies as he says, "That wolf thing you did when we were surrounded by those villagers at gunpoint when Vivi was injured."

I hear Sanji end this clarification with a gritting of his teeth as he speaks the last part of Vivi being harmed of which understand as I reply with difficulty.

"Well... that was a emergency technique of mine that I really should only use when I am facing someone who is really really strong and it was triggered by my anger at Vivi getting shot at and harmed which made me so angry that I did those things."

Sanji nods as he can understand my reason for my near uncontrollable anger as I can see him doing something similar with his 'Diable Jambe' Technique and from what I remember of the later episodes of the Anime/Manga.

I am snapped out of my thoughts yet again by a rumbling noise as I look in my front of me to see a sight that makes me nearly speed out of where we are immediately.

It is a literal army of Lapahn's who has the baby one that tried to attack the vehicle is standing on the apparent pack leaders shoulder, with him easily distinguished by the scar over his left eye.

He attacks with a roar as he jumps high in the air and heads down like a falling rock.

I swiftly turn the wheel and manage to make our vehicle dodge the attack as I floor it soon after, making our way towards the mountain with the leader and his pack behind us.

I see another group of Lapahn's up ahead, trying to block us off, I yell out to them.

"I don't think so!"

I pump more power into the engine as I ram them out of the way as they go about like bowling pins.

I see a small cliff face ahead that I know will be hard to climb with the vehicle but I soon spot a small ramp like structure made of fallen trees and snow, I hope it can hold our weight.

I call out to Sanji behind me, "Sanji make sure to strap yourself and Nami in tight; same to you too Luffy.

I hear them strap in as I check my Mirror to see the Lapahn's gaining on us.

I punch it as I send to the engine into overdrive to make the jump we are about to do.

I hear the engine roar like the beast it is named after as it soon flies in the air and reaches the edge of the cliff which I push down on the pedal to push us up of which it does so after a few moments of struggle.

All of us sigh in relief which soon turns to surprise and shock not much later as I see the Lapahn's jump high into the air to catch us making me think.

"Well, they are Snow Rabbits after all."

I restart the engine after a few moments of trying and we are off again with the Lapahn's on our tail.

I am glad we did as they are now on our tails again.

I try to lose them as best as I can until I can no longer see them behind us at all.

I hear Luffy sigh and say, "You think we lost them at all?"

Sanji answers this by saying, "I'm not sure but lets keep an eye out as those things could be anywhere."

Luffy and I nod as we keep an eye out for any Lapahn's nearby.

This seems to pay off as after a few moments of driving we spot them up ahead, the sight of which causes me to temporarily feel unknown dread as I begin to remember what happened at this particular part with these creatures and what they did.

It seems I was right as they soon begin hopping up and down to Luffy and Sanji's confusion of which I fill them in on the situation.

"Guys, those things are trying to cause an avalanche with that hopping of theirs as with the amount of snow up ahead it is perfect for them to do so to bury us under tons of crushing snow."

This causes them to momentarily freeze, minus the cold weather that is already beginning to affect us with the heating system almost shorting out keeping us warm and Luffy's new heating pendant running almost on empty, in shock and horror at what is coming towards us now.

I have a single thought going through my mind as I ponder how to get through this not severely harmed or buried.

"OH SHIT!"

I act as fast as I can as I begin switching on back up systems and environmental defences while powering my aura up for an attack.

I watch as attachments on both sides of our vehicle pop out and soon form around us as they shoot down long and sharp metal poles into the ground to keep us stable as I watch the screen to see if they are deep enough for what I have planned, I warn the others of my plan.

"Guys, stay put and hold on as I'm making the vehicle unable to be moved with those poles which should stop us being pushed off a nearby cliff by the tons of snow that will be heading towards us; also make sure Nami is double secure in her straps and gurney."

I then check my monitor and see that the sharpened poles have reached the ground deep enough for the next stage of my plan to work.

"Aura Shield: Defensive Aurora"

My power is released as it soon covers the whole vehicle that is known as 'The Beast' in a colourful energy shield that is to help take the brunt of the power and force of the avalanche heading straight towards us.

I begin counting down in my head as it heads towards us.

"5"

The snow is building and growing in size as it nears us.

"4"

The snow is almost gigantic in proportion as it crashes down towards us in a wave of white.

"3"

I sense the fear and hope from Luffy and Sanji at whether we may survive this and if we can get Nami help.

"2"

I close my eyes as I finish my countdown hoping that my plan works.

"1"

Grand Line - Drum Island, Jack's POV - A while later after the snow settles

I open my eyes to only see a vision of white around me to my momentary confusion.

"Am I dead?"

I then hear a feminine chuckle in my head making me realise I am not as dead as I thought.

"No Jack, you were just knocked out from the avalanche smacking into your vehicle as are both your companions."

I also realise this as I can now feel the dull ache at the back of my head as I turn to see both a knocked out Luffy and Sanji with the blond haired cook using his body as a human shield for Nami as I see that she appears to be fine.

I then try to wake the two males up without success until I try something I remember working later in the anime.

"Hey guys there's a woman here holding two pieces of meat, she's naked and horny."

This gets an immediate reaction to my great amusement as they both wake up lightning quick and begin looking round calling out their questions.

"Horny Naked Woman, Mellorine?"

"Meat, where's the MEAT?"

I laugh as they look about and realise that there is no one else here besides myself and a conked out Nami.

They give me an annoyed look as I shrug back and say, "How else was I gonna get you two up?"

They seem to grudgingly agree with me as the look about and see the white surroundings all around us.

I think on what to do until I have an idea but it may be draining until I think of Nami and my determination to help her wins out.

"Guys, I'm gonna teleport us and the vehicle to try and get above all of this snow, so don't try and move as this will be tricky."

They nod as I gather my energy and generate enough as I call out and activate my move needed for this.

"Aura Port-Gate"

My aura powers surround us and the vehicle a second time only a portal begins to appear below us as we soon disappear in a flash of yellow light.

We soon reappear in a same flash of light further up, a few feet off the snowy ground.

We land with a thump as the snow under us takes our combined weight after some time and patience.

I sigh as I say, "That could have been worse."

I see Luffy and Sanji nod as I try to restart the engine with little success making me sigh and say to them in resignation.

"Guys we may have to walk there now as the engine is dead and we are not moving."

They have surprised looks on their faces as they both ask me, "Can't you fix it?"

I explain why after thinking on how to put it in simple terms.

"I could but with all of this snow and ice it would take too long and we need to get to the top of that mountain quickly so its best if we walk as fast as we can plus it will be better now as the Lapahn's think we're probably dead so they won't be hunting for us."

They nod in begrudging agreement as we make our way to the mountain.

Grand Line - Drum Island, Jack's POV - Much later on

I groan as Luffy, Sanji, Nami and I finally reach the base of the mountain.

I am glad we did what with our short scuffle with Wapol and his men and the surprising assistance of the grateful Lapahn's from Luffy digging out the snow buried leader who was the baby Lapahn's parent.

That gave us plenty of time to get here, the only thing is how to get up to the top.

I shift my back as I adjust Nami who was strapped to it after deciding who to carry her when I took her out of the vehicle and sent the thing back to be repaired later.

I was picked as I was our best chance of getting Nami to the top what with Sanji too injured from our scuffle with Wapol as Sanji got a surprise arrow in his leg courtesy of one of his men, of which I tried to treat as best as I could when we escaped, and Luffy being too tired from not having eaten at all since we got here so he would not have the strength to carry Nami and climb up the cliff face.

I think on what to do until I remember some stuff I had made a while ago if we needed to go mountain climbing, I cannot believe I almost forgot it.

I quickly use a mini Aura Gate to grab what I need as I bring it out.

It is some minor climbing gear with a few climbing ropes and other things.

I explain to a curious Sanji and Luffy what to do.

"We use these to get up the mountain safely but we still have to be careful as the cold will make our hands numb and quickly lose our strength so conserve as much of it as you can."

They nod as I help them get strapped in as I ready my grapple hook.

I give myself a short boost of strength with Strong Aura as I spin and throw my grapple up high until I feel it hit something, I give it a few tugs to check its secure and it appears so.

I begin climbing with Luffy and Sanji following, I make sure Nami is strapped in okay as we climb our way up.

Grand Line - Drum Island, Jack's POV - 1 Hour Later

I feel the deep cold seep in as I make sure again Nami is okay.

I look at Luffy and Sanji who are nearly frozen stiff by the harsh cold and winds that are blowing about as we climb up. I can see the top nearing.

I again look at both Sanji and Luffy who the latter is now wearing a spare jacket of mine as the necklace I gave him is not working anymore.

I give the rope a pull as I climb up with renewed determination.

I am just reaching the top of the mountain when I feel a tremble on the rope and a cracking sound above me making me freeze with shock and horror as I look and see that the hook of the grapple is slowly attaching itself from where it was sunk into.

I scramble to move as I can hear Sanji and Luffy doing so after looking at where I am looking, we are just able to grab the ledge of the mountain peak cliff face before the rapple comes loose.

I struggle to pull myself up and onto the flat summit of the mountain as does Sanji and Luffy.

I give a great sigh of relief as we make it but it is short relief as I can feel and hear the part of the summit we are now laying on is beginning to crumble.

I try to get up and help Nami up as well, I had let her off my back when I got up to this summit, but my body is exhausted from all of the climbing and hard work I put into helping the others.

I have a lasting thought as the ground beneath us falls away as we begin our plummet to the bottom of the mountain.

"Well I tried my best, only thing to do is let fate decide now."

I black out as we begin falling down.

Grand Line - Drum Island, Nami's POV -Some time later

I mumble as I toss and turn in my bed...wait bed.

I awake with a gasp as I look about at my surroundings with confusion.

Only to feel pain as I fall back into bed with a headache and slight fever, only it is not as bad as it was before.

I then see a bag of what looks like ice for my forehead, making me realise it fell off when I got up, I place it back on and try to get some rest.

This lasts for a short time until I am awoken in a haze of blurriness as I look at what has woken me.

It is a strange furry figure at a desk who seems to be doing something and finishing as it turns around, jumping off its chair it was standing on.

I see the pink hat and what seem to be antlers on its head with the creature wearing burgundy shorts.

I give out a calm greeting "Hello."

This seems to startle the furry creature as it jumps and turns around with a yelp and scream, crashing onto the chair with a bang as books and things fall around it; the creature looks at me with a frozen expression of fear and surprise.

I notice the blue nose for a second as it then rushes into another room with no door and tries to hide...note tries...as it appears to be facing the wrong direction as instead of its body and legs being hidden mostly it is the opposite with its head nearly hidden and its body sticking out for me to see.

I am bemused as I say to it with caution.

"I think you got it backwards, the hiding thing I mean."

It blinks as it seems to realise this, with the creature correcting itself to my slight exasperation as I say to it.

"Well that is better, but it's a little late at the point and I can still see you."

It appears annoyed by this as it yells out to me, to my extreme surprise and shock.

"Shut Up Lady, oh and can you tell me how your fever's doing?"

I yell out in shock as I realise what it has just done.

"Its TALKING?!"

My surprise and loud voice must have startled it as it begins panicking and falls backwards out of my sight, yet I can hear bangs and crashes going on in that room followed by yells of pain and cries of being hit by many objects that ends in a large dust cloud with a groan coming from the room.

I hear new sound that is the voice of a old woman yelling out, "Keep it down Chopper."

I blink as a figure appears from the remaining dust cloud that is very odd.

It is a old woman but she only has the face and hair of an old woman as the rest of her body is that of a young woman around her age.

She wore a navel ring, a short flower-printed shirt with a bare belly, a purple blazer and hipster trousers finished off with a belt on her trousers and a set of sunglasses.

She gives a cackle for some reason as she comments aloud to me.

"Your fever seems to have gone down a bit, thats good; you happy."

She says so with a grin as she points her index finger at my forehead, placing it on there for an unknown reason while she drinks from what looks like a wine bottle.

It soon becomes clear as she says aloud again to myself as I ask her, "Who are you?".

"Yes, its gone down by several degrees, should be alright."

She turns her face to me as she takes her glasses off as she answers my question.

"I'm the only doctor around here; I'm Doctor Kureha but you can call me Doctorine okay."

I say and ask in surprise as I turn my head and look out the window.

"Oh, then that means we're on..."

I trail off as Doctorine asks me a strange question.

"Looking to see how I stay so young?"

I deny this saying, No thats not it."

She just shrugs and continues gulping down on her wine bottle as she seems to get what I wondering as she says to me after finishing her drink.

"Anyway, yes you're in the castle on the mountain."

This makes me realise who possibly got me here as I ask her with small amount of urgency.

"Wait in that case there were three other people here with me weren't there?"

She says back with confirmation to my relief.

"Yes, they're sleeping in the next room, a deeply asleep; three real tough guys."

She sits on the bed I am laying on as she lifts my shirt to my confusion until I see a surprising sight.

It is a purple discoloration on my skin around my bellybutton of which I am confused why it is there until Doctorine explains for me what it is.

"This is what caused your sickness."

I am surprised as I ask with befuddlement, "Really?"

She confirms this as she says to me in further explanation

"Yes, You were bitten by a bug called the Kestia; its a poisonous tick that thrives in jungles with high heat and humidity and when it bites you it introduces a type of bacteria into your body."

"These bacteria lay dormant for five days therefore causing severe pain; it causes a high fever, severe infection, myocarditis and arthritis which is not pleasant but judging from the rate of infection and symptoms so far my guess is that you have been infected for about 3 days now."

"The pain you had endured must have been terrible, but still it would have eased up in two more days without any treatment at all."

I ask in surprise at this information, "It would have been gone in two days?"

She makes a noise of agreement as she says to me with a shadowed expression with a smirk on her face.

"You wouldn't have been feeling any pain at all, cause you'd be dead,"

I gasp at this information as it sinks in of how I could have died without having fulfilled my hopes and dreams.

Doctorine speaks again as she says to me, "This infection is known as the 'Five Day Disease', I'd heard that Kestia died out years ago but I kept the antibiotic just in case; where did you guys come from that you may have been exposed to this, where you walking around some ancient jungle with your belly showing."

She gives out a cackling laugh at this as she says to herself aloud, "No that's ridiculous."

I give out a guessing "uh..." as I remember to my embarrassment being momentarily shirtless after that encounter with the wax fruit guy of baroque works.

She says to me in an curious and befuddled manner, "Does this situation sound familiar at all; well what a crazy girl you are then."

She shoves me back down on my back as I am forced to lay down.

She talks to me again to me, speaking with a smile.

"Now stay in bed, the treatment for the disease isn't completely finished yet."

I feel gratitude for this woman as I speak to her with a calm feeling.

"Thank you so much, I'll be fine once my fever goes down; my body will take care of itself after that."

She smiles at me saying with amusement in her voice.

"Well aren't you an optimistic one, this disease normally takes a course of 10 days treatment to successfully cure; even with medicines as advanced as mine are your body will still need at least 3 days to fully recuperate so if you don't wanna risk more suffering or possibly death then get some rest girl."

This makes me sit up in shock as I try to explain why I can't just stay around here recuperating.

"I can't stay that long, we need to get Vivi home back to Alabasta!"

The doctor reacts so fast I cannot even move as she twirls her scalpel in her hand and has me pinned down soon after with the blade of the scalpel at my neck, making me grow fearful she will attack me as the bed bounces with our combined weight.

She speaks with a serious and deadly tone towards me as she holds her scalpel to my throat.

"When a patient leaves this castle its if she is cured or deceased so don't make yourself into the latter."

She gives a dark cackling chuckle as she speaks again.

"You aren't going anywhere girl, you'd better get used to it."

I eye the scalpel and her with a heightened nervousness and fear at the possibility of never leaving this castle and helping Vivi's home island in time.

Grand Line - Drum Island, Jack's POV - Around the same time

I groan as I wake up to the noise of a huge crashing sound from not far away.

I blearily open my eyes to see a blurred shape that soon becomes clear after a few moments which at the sight of it causes me great confusion and slight joy.

"Chopper?"

I blink my eyes rapidly to see if I am seeing things and when the image does not fade I slowly sit up as I know he is kinda skittish around new people especially strangers that are Human.

I try my best to speak without scaring him as I see him looking at Luffy who I see has just been freshly rebandaged, I quickly check to see if Sanji is okay which he is to relief as I see new bandages on him; this is evidenced by the huge pile of bloody used bandages I see sitting near a sink.

"Hello there."

This makes him jump and scream in fear as he turns quickly towards me as he lands.

I raise my hands in a sign of peace saying to him calmly with a smile.

"I won't hurt you, I'm just wondering if this is the castle on top of the mountain as the last thing I remember was nearly falling off the cliff after we got to the top."

He looks really nervous as he seems to be deciding whether to run or just answer my question...then possibly run.

Finally he does so as he says "Yes, you're inside the castle, Doctorine and I treated you four people; the girl and you three."

I think on this as I remember what happened when Nami first met him as I ask him in question.

"You've already met Nami haven't you"

He freezes as he asks in wonder at my correctly guessing what happened.

"How did you know?"

I shrug and say "It was not hard as you already told me with how you mentioned Nami first and then us last, as you would have just said 'you four people' instead you mention Nami after that."

Chopper looks at me in wonder as I can swear I can see stars beginning to appear in his eyes.

"Wow," he says in wonder and amazement at my deduction skills.

I have a small smile as I can see he is as cute as he is when I first saw him in the Anime and Manga.

That is turned into a stunned feeling I say to him warily.

"Um sorry to cut this talk short but you may wanna run, Like NOW!"

He has a confused expression on his face until he looks behind him and sees what is probably a terrifying sight, I can guess this as it disturbs even me.

It is Luffy, fully awake, with a expression of deep hunger and need for food as the rubber skinned captain shouts in joy and possibly insanity.

"MEAT!"

That is it for this chapter as I wanted to do a slight cliffhanger as well as the fact I am so darn tired with my fingers feeling like they are in so much pain at typing so much in a while and my brain just refusing to continue working for the moment.

I also will be going on a small trip soon to the land of leprechauns for a small party, so I will be unable to write up a chapter for the next few days.

I wanted to get a chapter done before I went on my trip so this is the result of nearly a week's work of and on again with my other obligations cutting my time to only a few hours every day.

Lastly I hope you will have enjoyed this chapter and I hope for a review real soon about what you thought about this chapter and my fic in general.