Chapter 2: The Skypiean(?)

After running as long as I could I finally managed to get to the edge of the island. I sighed with relief and looked over the edge, only to see nothing but clouds beneath me.

"Great. Just great. Now what do I do?" I stared up to find loads of islands floating above me. "Ohhhhh...I'm on the lowest one." I crossed my arms and continued to glance over the islands. "Maybe if I use Geppo...".

I was once again interrupted by the crashing of trees behind me. Although this time it wasn't a member of the lizard family, I had to raise my eyebrow at the giant chicken/turkey hybrid with red feathers and a hummingbirds beak that stood before me.

I had to admit, it looked REALLY stupid.

It then poked the ground where I previously stood, leaving a deep hole in the ground and allowing me to find out it could skewer me. "Hey!" It then tried to stab me again. "Hey!" it persisted in trying to puncture me, its head going back and forth like a demented yo-yo. "Heyheyheyheyheyheyheyheyheyhey Kami-E!" My body suddenly flattened itself and swayed to and fro, avoiding the deadly beak and allowing me to get out of its range. "Shigan!" using just my forefinger I shot three bullet wounds into its crimson neck causing it to baa (yes, I said 'baa') in pain.

I stared at the bird/chicken/turkey/thing like it was the child of insanity and Buggy. The ungodly creation obviously noticed this and continued to thrust its weapon beak at me, forcing me into the air.

"Geppo!" I kicked off of the air itself multiple times to disorientate the thing. Finally I landed on its head and tugged on its feathers HARD. The creature let out its weird cry of pain and took off, thrashing its head around to make me let go. We crashed on the island above the one I was previously on and I finally fell off.

"Tekkai!" my muscles instantly hardened themselves to the density of iron before crashing into a tree. Pulling myself out of the bark onto the ground I looked at the now very angry bird. I instantly grew shark teeth to yell at it "Stupid thing! I wanna see Sanji cook you for Christmas dinner!" the thing did not like that at all, and began charging me. I bent my leg into a perfect 'V' shape and steadied my balance, narrowing my eyes. "Rankakyu Bumeran!" I then snapped my leg into a straight line causing a silver spinning 'V' to shoot past the creature, completely missing it. As the thing continued to advance I simply watched the letter in the in the sky turn around and headed back towards me.

At the last second I leaped past the red bird using Soru just in time to see the spinning technique slash its wing, making it baa again. As I landed again I saw the bird being rammed by a massive pink elephant with huge tusks on its head and under its trunk.

"Again!? How many of these things are there!?" I screamed as the bird was thrown off into the new jungle.

It then turned to me.

I began to glare at the behemoth. "Look, I'm really tired and hungry, lets get this over with." I murmured. The elephant lowered its head ready to charge as I placed both my hands on its head.

"Sleep Touch!"

The massive fighting machine was covered in a rainbow veil, before the multicoloured cover faded and the pink animal fell on its side, snoring contently.

I instantly began walking on again, deciding I'd wasted enough time. I kept stomping along until I came to what looked like a group of old ruins. The area was riddled with eroded stones and vine covered pillars. 'Robin would love this place.' I thought to myself.

Then I heard a noise, I started frowning, thinking it was another bloodthirsty animal. Until that is I saw a small girl, no older then 5. She had blonde hair that was thrown over her shoulders and reached down to her back, and was wearing an aquamarine dress that reached down to her knees. But the weirdest thing about her was that there were feathers growing out of her arms and she was jumping around like a lunatic.

I crossed my arms and stared at her in confusion. Was she a Skypiean? No...Skypieans had wings on their backs. So was she another monster? She didn't exactly look dangerous.

Before I could think further the ground behind her started to erupt, revealing a large grey mole with sword like claws and a large nose. It sniffed in the direction of the girl and dropped to all fours, slowly advancing on her.

My eyes widened in horror and I dashed forward. "Get out of the way!" I pleaded "Please! You have to run!" She looked at me in confusion just as the mole stood on its hind legs and raised its lengthened claws.

"Soru!" I yelled grabbing the girl just as the blind monster obliterated the ground beneath it. I placed her behind a pillar before placing a finger to my lips. "Stay here" I whispered, she nodded in response and I dashed out from behind my hiding spot "You over-grown rat! How dare you attack a kid!" the mole snuffled towards me and raised its arms.

"Shigan Koren!" I screamed as I brandished my fore finger, driving it into the mole again and again as fast as I could until it shot into the sky and vanished from sight. I stared at the place the mole previously stood, I really hated that thing.

"Um..." I turned around to see the child I'd just saved. On closer inspection I noticed she had clear blue eyes, just like mine, and a small petite nose, she was biting her bottom lip as her eyes became cloudy. "Th-Thank you for saving me." She sobbed. I smiled and knelt down to her "No problem. Are you injured?" she bit her lip harder and raised her right arm. I gasped in shock as I saw her arm was badly bruised and there was blood running down it.

I reached into my pocket and pulled out some bandages and carefully started wrapping her arm. "I'm so sorry!" I spluttered rapidly "I'm sorry I couldn't reach you in time! I'm sorry you got hurt!" I finished tying the bandages and looked at my sloppy work. Damn it if only Chopper were here! But still she smiled at me "No, the mole didn't do it, I did this myself." I almost let out a sigh of relief at her reply.

"You saved my life Mr...Urr.." a look of confusion appeared on her face and I smiled "I'm Ellix! Wodos T. Ellix!" Her smile grew so big I thought it wouldn't fit her face. "Thank you for saving my life Mr Ellix!".

I then felt compelled to answer the questions on my mind. "What are you doing out here all alone? And...why do you have wings?" I said nodding to her arms. She looked at them and smiled again "Everybody in my village has them! We're born with them so we can fly! Here! I'll show you!" She began flapping her arms before crying out in pain. "Careful!" I said not bothering to hide the concern in my voice. She smiled again. "But...I'm the only one who can actually fly." I crossed my arms "Only you? Didn't you say everyone in your village had wings?"

She smiled yet again "Well Mr Ellix, the thing is I haven't told anyone in my village." She began twiddling her thumbs nervously "I think it's my own special thing which only I can enjoy, that's why I like flying through all the beautiful clouds and the clear sky on my own.".

It was then she seemed to get a bit disheartened."But then when I was flying today I accidentally went too low and I crashed into a tree. That's when I hurt my arm."

She started biting her lower lip again as tears filled her eyes. "And now mum and Niko will start worrying about me and getting worried that I'll get eaten and I HAVE TO GET BACK NOW!" She then turned around and started to run off. "Wait!" I yelled dashing in front of her. She stopped and looked up at me with sad eyes. I knelt down so we could look at each other face to face.

"What's your name?" "My name?" she said with a sniff. "It's Florina." I stood up "Florina, I have some friends I need to find, and you need to get home to your village. So I reckon I might as well help you to get back!" She looked at me for a while, then she slowly stopped biting her lip and smiled with tears in her eyes. "You mean it Mr Ellix?" I nodded. "Of course!" she then jumped up and hugged me, catching me off guard. "Thank you so much Mr Ellix! You're the nicest person I've ever met!" I smiled. "No problem."

I then hoisted her up onto my back piggyback style, with her good arm wrapped around my neck and her bandaged one held close to her stomach. "Ready Florina?" I asked. "Yes Mr Ellix!" I then started dashing off as fast as I could. "Let's GOOOOOOO!"

Bumeran:Boomerang

Koren:Yellow Lotus

Hello everyone! I was really hoping I could get this chapter out at Christmas but I guess it doesn't matter. This chapters longer to make up for it though!

I just wanna say thank you to ThiefofStealth for being the first person to follow, favourite and review this story, good luck with your own fanfictions!

And also yes, this story uses standard English, but view it however you want. Lastly, I hope you enjoyed Christmas!

One Piece is property of Eiichiro Oda, Ellix, Florina and her family and other characters yet to come are property of me.