Chapter 7: Reunion

Billy eventually landed on an island far away from our destination, looking very queasy indeed.

"Ne, what's wrong Billy? Do you need meat?" Luffy questioned the bird.

"Not everything can be solved with meat Luffy." Nami sighed. "There might be something wrong with him."

"Nani!? Billy's gonna die!?" Both Luffy and Billy got a terrified look on their faces.

"It might be because of the Daft Green plants." Florina spoke up.

"Daft Green plants?" Nami asked.

"Yeah, my mummy always said that animals don't like the smell of them, so they keep away."

I crossed my arms. "That would explain why your village hasn't been attacked."

"Hold on a second..." Nami fished in her pocket until she pulled out a tissue, which she then ripped in half, scrunched up, and stuck in Billy's nostrils. "There you go Billy, that should solve the problem." Billy quacked his thanks.

"Hey Mr Ellix? If your pirates then what's your flag?"

I pointed at Luffy. "It's basically a skull and crossbones with his hat on."

Luffy puffed out his chest with pride. "It's so cool Flori! I'm gonna be the Pirate King with it!"

"Oh yeah!" I dug into my own pocket and pulled out a scrap of paper, after unfolding it it revealed our nakama's personal jolly rogers. "Me and Usopp drew jolly rogers for each of us!"

Florina pointed to one wearing a blue and white bandanna with orange hair sticking it's tongue out that had a single arm pinching it's forefinger and thumb together. "That one looks like Mrs Nami!" She then looked at the one in the middle, It had long dark brown hair and was smiling, a blue scarf was tied around it's lower jaw with it's two ends fluttering behind it like a sash. "This one is yours Mr Ellix!"

"You got it dead on!" I laughed, then noticing Luffy's depressed aura. "But your's is still the best Luffy!" I called over, he seemed to perk up a bit after that.

"Alright! Come on you two! We need to drop off Florina and then find everyone!" Nami stated.

We got up to leave when a large rustling was heard from behind us. "Oh god no..." I murmured as a huge yellow gorilla appeared behind us, it had two arm joints, making it resemble a member of the long-arm tribe. "Your new." I deadpanned.

Luffy however was up immediantely. "Yosh! Ellix! Let's do that combo thing!"

I got up with a grin. "Ohhhh...that one huh? Okay then." I slammed both my palms into the side of my head.

"Daydream!"

My head pulsated to twice it's size before going back to normal, like a heartbeat. Then my body was completely wrapped in a rainbow aura, with thick slivers of mulitcoloured thread emanating from my body, flicking against the air like flames in slow motion. Florina obviously loved it. "Mr Ellix is all pretty now!" I secretly sweat-dropped. 'pretty' was not what I was going for. I pumped a load of energy down my arm, similar to Luffy's Gear Second, except the pumped energy remained tensed up underneath my fist. Both me and Luffy stretched our arms several feet back.

"Gum-Gum!..."

Dream-Dream!..."

We both brought our fists slamming into the creatures stomach, the pumped energy travelling through my fist and smashing into it's gut with scary verocity.

"Tension Pistol!"

The impact sent it shooting off, smashing every tree in it's path until it fell off the island completely. "Sugoiii! Mr Ellix can stretch too!" She danced through the rainbow threads and proceeded to pinch my cheek in an attempt to stretch it, only to find it stayed firmly attached to my body.

"Ow!" I yelped rubbing my cheek.

Florina was now confused. "Huh? Mr Ellix your arm can stretch like Mr Luffy's but your face can't? Why?"

I smiled. "Florina, with the Dream-Dream Fruit I can dream up anything and I mean ANYTHING, with Daydream I drag all my dreams from the Dream World to the real world. But there are two exceptions; 1, I can't copy Logia or Zoan users, and I can't fully copy Paramecia's. For example I can only make my limbs stretch, I can't become completely like rubber like Luffy. And 2, Whatever I dream up it will always match my own strength, for example if I turned my arm into a giant arm, it would still have the strength of my regular arm. So if I want to make it more powerful I need to add...rockets or something to it (I've gotta try that sometime...). Also, the dreams have to stay connected to my body, any projectiles just vanish. Do you understand?"

She seemed confused for a second, but then her face lit up. "I get it!" She said with a smile.

Meanwhile Luffy had his head tilted and his face scrunched up, finally he hit his palm with his fist. "Ah! So it's a mystery Devil Fruit!"

Me and Nami comically fell over. "You're dumber then a five year old!" We yelled in unison.

I disengaged Daydream, the rainbow veil and threads fading away, and that's when the drawback hit. "OOOOOWWWWW! My heeeeaaaaddd!" I yelled rolling around on the floor clutching my head in pain. My brain was throbbing and bashing against my skull.

"Mr Ellix! Are you okay!?" Florina called desperately.

"Hold on." Nami said calmly. She bent over and rubbed my head, numbing the pain. "Better?" She asked with a smile.

"Better." I smiled back.

"You'd be dead without me you know." She giggled.

"Yeah, I know." I sat up and turned to Florina. "Dragging dreams out of the Dream World causes you to take a large chunk out of your own dreams. Replacing them can be...painful, but Nami always makes them better, otherwise it goes on for another five minutes!" I looked at Luffy with half closed eyes. "Everyone else just hits me..."

Luffy put on his pouting face. "It works for me."

"Please be careful Mr Ellix." Florina mumbled biting her lip.

"Okay, I promise." I replied as I hoisted her up onto my back. Luffy and Nami climbed back onto Billy. "Ready Billy?" I called, he quacked happily as we set off again.

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We finally landed in the village, where understandably a bunch of people who had wings on their arms like Florina had gathered.

A womans voice suddenly called out. "Florina? Florina!?"

"Mummy!" I let her down so she could run to a tall blond woman with a blue dress and wings, who hugged her close, followed by a seven year old with light brown hair (also with wings).

"Oh god Florina, I thought I'd lost you..." The woman whispered while crying.

"Little Sis! I was really worried about you!" The boy cried.

"I'm sorry mummy. I'm sorry Niko." Florina replied biting her lip with tears streaming down her face.

It was then her mother noticed her arm. "Florina you're hurt! Did these people...?"

"No mummy, they helped me. This is Mr Ellix, Mr Luffy and Mrs Nami, they helped me get home!"

"Don't forget Billy!" Luffy called pointing to said duck, who smiled. Yes, he could smile.

Florina's mum stood up and nodded to us. "Thank you so much for bringing my daughter home, I can't thank you enough."

"Thanks so much!" Niko spoke up with tears running down his face.

"Nami-swaaaaan!" A familiar voice called, it was then that our blond chef and cowardly sniper dashed over to meet us. "Nami-swan! I'm so happy you're okay! I was so worried I haven't slept for days!" He then promptly fell backwards onto the ground, snoring loudly.

"He wasn't kidding about the not sleeping part." Usopp sighed. "It's so good to see you're all alright!"

"Usopp! Sanji! You're okay!" Luffy yelled happily.

"Didn't doubt you for a second guys!" I laughed. My nakama always came through for me, and they're the best nakama I could ever have.

Flashback

"YOU BASTARD!"

I dodged the incoming kick. "W-Wait Sanji! Just let me explain!"

"How dare you take Nami-swan away from me!? You shitty dreamer!" Sanji roared as he attempted to kick me again.

"It was really difficult for me to do! Show a bit of compassion!" I desperately looked over at Nami. "Nami! Back me up! Please!"

Nami just smiled. "Well if you really want to be my boyfriend you'll have to deal with Sanji sooner or later. Might as well get it over with."

"Nani!?" I yelled as I dodged another kick.

"You heard her shitty dreamer! Take it like a man!"

"It'll still hurt!" I yelled with shark teeth.

"Then get ready!" He roared as he jumped at me.

"Tekkai!"

I was subjected to at least ten minutes of kicking, afterwards I had a bruised...everything.

Nami bent down and patted my head. "Ok, ok, if you can take that many kicks for me you must be commited."

"Thank you." I groaned.

"Waaaaahhh! Ellix! Please don't die!" Chopper yelled frantically, beginning to bandage me.

Sanji began walking over to me, I tried to scramble away using my one good arm, but to no avail. He lit his cigarette (God, I hated that.) and blew out a long trail. "Alright Ellix listen, Nami seems happy and that all that matters. So you'd better treat her properly." He then glared at me. "If you don't, I'll kick your ass twice as hard."

I could only smile, wincing at the movement. "If I treat Nami badly, you can beat me up FIVE times as hard!"

He smiled back. "Good." he then walked off.

"Please don't die Ellix!" Chopper wailed.

"You really are a noble baka aren't you?" Nami laughed.

"Sanji just wants what's best for you, and I do too."

She just smiled at me. "Thanks. And well done."

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Me and Usopp sat on the deck of the Sunny, putting our finishing touches on our personal jolly rogers. "Alright! There we go!" He said triumphantly as he finished Zoro's. "Now all we need is yours Ellix! What do you want?"

I crossed my arms. "I dunno..." I leaned my head back and hummed a tune to myself before turning to him. "Make mine have my hair!"

He sweat-dropped at me. "That's it?"

I thought a bit more before answering. "Make mine have a blue scarf as well!"

"Okay then a blue scar-...hey wait a minute! you don't even wear a scarf!"

"I know I don't! It's in memory of Marcus!"

"Who? Oh right, that captain you talked to when you were a kid." He then seemed to stop for a minute, and turned to me. "That guy really inspired you to become a pirate?"

"Yeah! Before I met him I hated all of them."

"Ohhhhh the irony."

"I know...I owe him more then I could ever know."

"Nani? Why's that?"

I smiled at him. "Because if I hadn't met him, I'd have never become a pirate. And I never would have met you or Nami or Luffy or Zoro or Sanji or Chopper or Robin or Franky! I never would have beaten Baroque Works! Never have been to Skypeia! Never declared war on the world government! I don't regret a single second of all that because I did it with my nakama!" I laughed. "Thanks for helping us at Enies Lobby by the way!"

He crossed his arms and held his abnormally long nose high in the air. "I don't know what you're talking about. That was Sogeking."

"Right, right. Just...thanks Usopp."

He smiled. "No problem...for whatever it is I did."

Sanji suddenly called out. "Hey everyone! Dinner's ready!"

"Hooray! Sanji's food!" We called out together. We ran to the door only to be blocked by a certain chefs leg.

"Nami-swan and Robin-chwan go first! Respect the woman you love dreamer-boy!"

"Jealous." We both said plainly.

"Shut up!" he yelled as we just laughed like a bunch of schoolkids.

Flashback End

"Your Mr Usopp! Your Mr Usopp!" Florina sang happily to the sniper.

"Ah! I see you've heard just one of the many tales of the infamous Captain Usopp!" He said with pride. "Do you wish to hear the tale of how I defeated several Sea Kings with one cannon shot?"

"No thanks, Mr Ellix said you told fibs."

"Ellix!" He called over to me while crying a small waterfall. "Don't corrupt the youths minds!"

"Your the one doing that!" I called back laughing.

It was then that a certain reindeer and green haired swordsmen appeared. "Luffy! Ellix! Nami! Your okay!" Chopper called over to us with relief.

"Hey Chopper!" Luffy chuckled. "Look at all the mystery people!" Luffy had been staring aty all of them the whole time.

"Chopper? You're affected by the Daft Green plants too?" Nami said. I looked at him to see he had two tissues sticking out of his nostrils as well.

"Yeah. It only works on animals." Chopper sighed.

"Good to see you guys." Zoro stated.

Flashback

Me and Sanji dashed through the forest until we finally came to the thing I feared most. Zoro was standing still with his arms crossed, surrounded and covered in his own blood, with too many wounds to count.

"W-What the hell!?" Sanji yelled, he looked at Zoro. "Moss-head! What the hell happened here!?"

"Nothing..." He replied plainly. "...at all."

I just stared at him. This man had risked his own life, his own DREAMS to protect Luffy, our captain. He had risked EVERYTHING, put his life on a platter just so that the man who will become Pirate King could live! What about his own dreams? The man who will become the World's Greatest Swordsman? He was willing to throw away all of that without a second thought! In that single second, my respect for Zoro grew tenfold.

"Zoro..." I whispered. I slowly walked in front of him and sat down.

"What are you doing Ellix?" Sanji asked.

"He needs to stay standing up, if he allows himself to faint now the shock could kill him, normally this would take at least a day, but this is Zoro we're talking about. So I'm gonna wait with him until he's ready." I then just sat and stared at him.

"Me too." Sanji said with a nod. He then came and sat beside me, we stared at Zoro for ages, not moving, not speaking, while I played over the recent events in HD (That's my own definition for it) in my head with my Devil Fruit powers.

Eventually he collapsed, and me and Sanji were there to catch him.

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I first noticed him when Nami had woken up, he was trying to hide behind the door...poorly.

"Huh? Who are you?" Nami said to it.

"Stupid human!" It yelled back. "You need to rest some more!"

Now that I got a better look at him, he looked like a reindeer, except he was walking on two legs, very small, TALKING, had a pink top hat with a white cross on it, and a blue nose.

"Hey, are you a friend of Doctorine's?" I called, unfortunately I had woken up to see the old hag with a 16 year olds body staring down at me.

I almost had a heart attack and didn't stop screaming for ages.

"No!" He yelled, he then tried to hide some more...poorly. "I mean yes."

"So, you helped Nami, Luffy and Sanji too?"

"Those other humans? Yeah, what's it to you?"

I then stood up, walked over to him, and got on my hands and knees and bowed as low as I could.

"Ellix!?" Nami cried.

"Thank you." I whispered. "For saving my nakama, they are the most important people in the world to me."

"S-S-Stupid human! What the hell are you talking about!?" I looked up to see he had a huge grin on his face and he was doing a weird little dance by waving his arms around. "Don't think for one second that makes me happy you bastard!" He obviously didn't take compliments well.

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"Ouch!"

"Hold still Ellix! I need to get rid of them as soon as possible!"

I was lying in Sunny's medical room after our battle with the Accino family, unfortunately I had been burned all over.

"You and Luffy are lucky you didn't get any permenant burn marks!" Chopper proclaimed with his vast medical knowledge. I sat up and he instantly pushed me back down. "You both need to rest until your fully healed."

"Awwww! This sucks!" Luffy whined. "Can't we have any meat?"

"I'll get Sanji to bring you some soup, and I'll be sure to add some medicine to it to get rid of any possibilities of internal damage."

"Damn iiiiiiit!" We both whined.

"It's good for you!" Chopper yelled.

"Okay. Thanks so much Chopper!" I said.

He started looking a bit uncomfortable. "For what?"

"For always helping us. Thanks for always fixing us up, your a really great doctor and nakama."

"Shishishi! Thanks Chopper!" Luffy said.

The compliments were too much for the little reindeer to handle. "Your both bastards! I'm the doctor! I'm supposed to heal you!" He was doing his little dance twice as fast. "Think those words will make me happy you jerks!?" He danced his way to the door. "Oh and Ellix, Nami says she's gonna kick your ass for getting burned so badly!"

I groaned while Luffy laughed. "It's not me!" He happily called out.

Flashback End

"Florina!" Another voice called out, this time it was a red-headed girl around Florina's age, and when I say red-headed she actually did have red hair, like everyone else she had wings, and her mouth was curved ever so slightly so that if you squinted REALLY hard it looked like a beak.

"Xiao!" Florina called. They ran into each other adn embraced, then started spinning around together.

"You're okay!" 'Xiao' cried, she then reduced to a whisper. "Did you fly off again?"

"Yep." Florina whispered back, she beckoned to me and I knelt down beside the two girls. "Xiao is my bestest friend Mr Ellix, she is the only, only, ONLY one who knows I can fly. Xiao, this is Mr Ellix, I crashed into a tree and he helped me get home."

"Thank you so much Mr Ellix!" Xiao said.

I smiled. "No problem, but we'd better do something about your arm, Hey Chopper! Can you help my friend Florina?"

The little doctor walked over. "Sure! What's the problem?" Florina held out her arm, allowing Chopper to undo the bandages and check the wound. It looked a little better since I bandaged it up. "Hmmm...it's good it was covered up to prevent infection, if I just put a covering on it, it'll heal over in no time!" He reached into his doctors bag and pulled out some new bandages, smearing some ointment on it before applying it, Florina winced and bit her lip, but kept as still as possible until the bandage was on.

"Thank you Mr Chopper!" Florina and Xiao called together, both hugging him.

He obviously started dancing. "You don't have to thank me! Stop hugging me!"

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I could hear Luffy, Billy and Zoro sleeping outside, everyone else was playing, including Florina and Xiao. Me and Nami were invited inside Xiao's house by her mother, where we met her grandmother, lying in bed with green splotches all over her skin.

"What's wrong with her?" I feel I had to ask.

"She has a disesase known as 'Daft'." Xiao's mother asked. "It's caused by the Daft Green plants, they keep the animals away, but they can also make you very ill. Xiao went out to look for some plants for a cure, and that's when your friends, the reindeer and swordsmen, found her."

"Poor Xiao." Nami murmured.

'Did Florina fly out to look for a cure too?' I wondered.

I sat down with Nami while Xiao's mother tended to her own mother. "We're still missing Robin, Franky and Brook..."

"If they're smart they'll probably come here as soon as they find it." Nami said.

"We still have to get Shiki as well." I muttered.

"Ellix...that guy seemed like bad news..." She turned to me. "...maybe we should stay out of his way."

"Nami...he kidnapped you and seperated all of us." I was as serious as I could get. "I will never forgive him, and neither will Luffy. I won't ever let him take you away again!"

"Ellix..." She looked at me sadly. "If you have to...please...be careful."

I smiled. "I promise that I'll be careful, and protect you."

"Okay. You'd better keep to that promise." She said with a smile.

Florina and Xiao suddenly ran in frantically wavinng a newspaper, followed by Florina's mum and Niko. "Mummy! Mummy!" Xiao yelled happily. "Daddy is coming back!"

"Really!?" Xiao's mum asked. Xiao handed her the newspaper.

"What? You have a dad?" I asked, to be honest, I hadn't seen a lot of fathers and older boys around the village.

"Yeah Mr Ellix!" Florina cried happily. "Xiao's dad was working far away for Shiki! But now he's been let go and every daddy and big brother is coming back!"

"All men in the village are taken away to work for Shiki when their old enough." Florina's mum explained, holding Niko close to her. "But apparently Shiki is moving away to East Blue! And he's taking all of his animlas with him!"

My eyes widened as soon as HIS name was mentioned, but the other news made me gape.

"Shiki...is going to East Blue?" Nami asked hesitantly. I felt her begin shaking.

"This is wonderful news Xiao! Your father is coming home!" Xiao's mother cried hugging her daughter.

"Daddy's coming home!" Xiao cheered.

"Hooray for Xiao!" Florina and Niko called.

Me and Nami just sat there. 'Shiki is taking all of those animals to East Blue? He'll destroy everything!' I looked at Nami, she was touching the golden ring she got from her sister, Nojiko. 'Oren, Nojiko, Makino, Kaya, Zeff...' I remembered all the amazing people my nakama had told me about. 'All of them..are in grave danger!'

Suddenly Nami grabbed my wrist and dragged me out the door. "N-Nami!? What's wrong!?"

She looked at me with pleading eyes. "Ellix, I think our nakama are in trouble!"

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