Chapter 3: Arriving

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(P.O.V. Jade master (Jade)/ Zarah)

We awoke the next morning to screams of panic and cries for help. We quickly grabbed our weapons and when rushing out of our tent we were met with a hideous site. I saw many bodies of villagers littered across the ground mostly men who tried and failed to protect their village, loved ones and friends, I saw among the villagers' dead our comrades, the best Nomad fighters laying alive, but barely breathing, I saw our Chieftain trying to protect the women of both our tribe and the village and failing miserably for there was many bandits against one old man and then I saw the thing that will set my temper a boil, three men were trying to chain my dragon and hurting her every time she tried to escape into the air and about 8 or 9 men surrounding Grettir as he tried to desperately help Icefire.

I charge at the bandits that are holding my dragon down. I draw my two katanas out and hold them with them being positioned parallel to my arms. I fun faster and slice the head of the oncoming bandit with a slight flick of my wrist. I then block a down ward striking sword with my left arm while my right arm swung back towards me enough for me to stab the bandit right into his heart. While turning I hear a noise and suddenly feel a sting on the right side of my face and from my shoulder down my arm when I moved to jerk my sword out of the dead body while escaping the third bandit's blade. I then turned to the bandit with both swords in hand and with my left hand did a downward stroke and when the bandit used his blade to block my left never being on guard for my right hand which came across in an arc and decapitated him. Looking around I see Breezy fighting the last of the bandits around Grettir.

Brianne was fighting with 'Courage', ducking and dodging every blade swung at her and counters attacking with her own two-handed slashes, finally only two bandits fighting her remained conscience. One decided to be the honorable and attack from the front swinging his blade down right where she had been, when his blade hit the ground Brianne wacked him with the head with the flat of her blade. When she was busy dealing with the honorable bandit the other one decided to sneak up on her, but unknown to this bandit her dragon saw his movements an in travel mode went over and stomped on him until Breezy turned around and yelled at him for killing a bandit. 'Too bad' I thought 'She finally has enough courage to fight them, but not to kill them.'

Breezy and I run up to the final three bandits who are fighting our elderly Chieftain. I take care of two of the bandits with the flat of my blade by breaking their collar bones, thinking 'they really shouldn't have turned around when Brianne announced us coming with a war cry.' Breezy took out the other as he turned around to slash at her but her sword completely broke the bandit's sword even though it was the flat of the blade; she continued its swing until the flat of the blade connected with his temple causing him to pass out.

Slowly after the last of the bandits were taken care of, the women and children went to the wounded. 'Wait children! How did I miss them? Oh the women were in a tight circle to protect them.' Amazingly all the children and most of the women were safe and whole. Our Chieftain came over to us as our healer went about using her knowledge and magic to heal all those still alive and breathing. Once the Chieftain came over to us I started to sway back and forth from the blood loss of my wound. Finally I just sat next to Icefire resting against her as the elder started to speak. "Breezy and Jade master thank you for saving these lives and making this death toll be in the single digits and preventing a massacre. I think that it's time to give you a gift. Here is one of our well kept secrets." While he says this our healer comes over and starts healing my face and my shoulder down to my wrist with her magic to let it scab over and then bandages my arm and shoulder, but doesn't bandage my face. The healer then checks Brianne over for wounds and only finds some minor cuts and scrapes. The healer then heals our dragons completely of any wounds inflicted by the bandits. "I give you this piece of paper from a journal that should hopefully get you back to your own dimension. I only give you this gift because you willingly sacrificed your own lives to fight these bandits who attacked us for no reason." Breezy slowly reached out for the paper and the Chieftain handed it over to her. "I will warn you if both of you were not as strong as you are I wouldn't have given you this paper, because it could easily transport you to a dimension with many dangers and it will only work once." "Thank you, Chief." We both said in union. "I think we should leave right after we finish packing our tent and clothes back into their packs, and with your permission we would like to try to go home." I said in a respective tone of voice. "Of course, you may leave as soon as possible."

Slowly we made our way through the carnage and bloodshed to our ten happy to go home, but bitter in the way we finally proved we were ready to go home. While I packed the clothes lost in my thoughts Brianne packed up our tent. She then placed the tent on Grettir in his speed form, while I placed the clothes on Icefire's saddle. Finally we thought that we were going to be able to go home. We used the paper to open a vortex.

The swirling spot of energy opened high above us. Breezy jumped on Grettir as I jumped onto Icefire. Both dragons spread their magnificent wings and soared towards the vortex. We enter the vortex, but just before it closes a strong gust of wind enters right behind us. We flew forward towards the opening light feeling the bone crushing pressure when suddenly a gust of wind causes our dragons to crash into the sides of the vortex, causing them extreme pain and anguish. We continued flying forward and exited the vortex, when suddenly Brianne cried in pain. I looked at her and saw her right leg completely bent in an odd angle. 'Crap.' I thought 'She passed out! Oh, double crap Grettir's unconscious too!' I thought in a state of panic. "Icefire please help me and catch Breezy and Grettir and land them…" I pause while looking around for the nearest landing area, I see nothing for islands but I do spot a small ship, I guess that will have to do. "Icefire we will land on that ship there!" So Icefire grabbed Grettir and slowed their descant. While we flew closer to the ship I noticed Brianne was starting to slip out of her saddle. I slowly unlatched myself from my saddle and then climbed down to Grettir to fix Brianne back onto the saddle slowly to hopefully stop further injury. Unfortunately I slipped when Icefire jerked up more to keep a hold of Grettir I fell the few feet to the ship below. When I hit the ship a sickening crack was heard in the silence of the afternoon. I passed out in pain as soon as I heard to thuds on the ship.

(P.O.V.: Normal)

A normal ship to a person inexperienced with what the skull and cross bones on a flag meant. Breezy and Jade master along with Grettir and Icefire just landed and passed out on a pirate ship. The ship being quite small with a ram head at the bow of the ship and tangerines in the middle part of the ship. The occupants of the ship investigated the heavy thuds heard through put the ship. An ebony haired teen arrived first to the scene of the two girls one tallish, brown-haired, muscular girl with a scar on the right side of her face and a bandage from the sleeve of her shirt down to her wrist. This girl also had two swords on her left hip and weird clothes on; a blue multi-layer top and long black pants and boots. The ebony haired teen then shifted his attention to the other girl. She was on the short-ish size; a little shorter than the teen in his red vest, shorts and straw hat, she has long brownish-blonde hair, a sword across her back, she wore similar clothes as the other girl, this girl had no visible scars, but the teen noticed that her leg was at an odd angle. While this teen noticed and analyzed the girls, another teen with olive skin with a long nose similar to Pinocchio, bandana across his curly black hair, his big lips and overalls and boots walked up to this scene and instead of noticing the girls he noticed the dragons. "Ahhh! Luffy hurry and get away, don't you see the huge lizards!" said teen shouted in fright and ran behind the mast of the ship. The teen known as Luffy finally noticed the lizards (cough, dragons, cough).

"Cool!" shouted Luffy so loudly that the rest of the ship occupants came to see what Luffy was shouting about. The next teen to arrive was a blonde haired man with on blue eye visible on his face under a swirling eyebrow, smoking a cigarette in a black tailored business type suit. "Luffy, why the heck were you shouting!" said teen shouted kicking Luffy in the head with his dress shoes. The teen noticed the two teenage girls. "Mellorine! What sweet beauties! Who injured such sweet angels?" He shouted all of these while noodle dancing.

This woke up a three-style swordsman with green hair, three earrings, a white shirt, black pants, black boots and a green haramaki. "Ero-cook shut up! I was taking a nap!" "What was that moss head?" Ero-cook stated while instantly snapping out of his noodle dance. "You heard me Ero-cook!" snapped back the green haired teen. The two teens then started a fight of swords and kicks. The teen called Luffy finally broke their fight when he begged the blonde haired man for food. "Sanji, I'm hungry can you cook the lizards over there?" Another teen then walked up to the commotion a blue haired young woman who held an air of royalty. "Guys why are you fighting and who are they, and are those lizards and why do they have wings?" said the blue haired beauty. "No clue Vivi, we just found them." stated Luffy. "Sanji, I wouldn't recommend cooking the lizards because they could be the teens pets and they could hurt us for hurting their pets." Vivi stated to the blonde haired chef. "Hai! Vivi Swan!" Sanji exclaimed while heading to the galley of the ship to make dinner for the rest of the occupants. "Ero-cook." muttered the swordsman who then walked over to the lizards (cough, dragons!, cough)and the teenage girls. "Zoooroo you should… stay away… from the lizards…" said the Pinocchio nosed teen. " Usopp, have I ever listened to you before and how could they be dangerous they're unconscious." Zoro stated while walking closer. Due to all the commotion one of the dragons awoke with a cry. The black dragon 'lizard' looked directly at the swordsman and she growled in warning before she curled closer towards the girl with the curly brown hair and went back to sleep to conserve her energy and heal her wounds. "Well that answers if they're pets." Vivi stated and continued "Let's leave them alone until they wake up."

(Next Day, P.O.V. Jade master (Jade)/ Zarah)

'Too much noise, pain, shooting pain.' I thought in a groggy sleep induced mind. I heard a voice shouting for food, and another shouting for someone to get out of the kitchen. "Oh, my arm." I groaned out as I woke up. "Ahhh! She's awake! ZORO HELP ME!" a shrill voice yelled. I opened my green eyes to see a long nosed teenager running around like a chicken with his head cut off. 'He's a worse chicken than Breezy!' I thought. This yell of course brought a lot of people running to see what is wrong. First to show up was a black haired teen with a scar under his left eye in a red vest, sandals and shorts. "She's awake, she's awake, she's awake…" said the teen while jumping up and down. 'He's like a kid on a sugar high!' I thought.

Then a second teen arrived holding his head. "Usopp yell that loud again and I'll kill you." The green haired teen stated threateningly. ' I like him, he's so good to look at and I love how threatening he just was.' I thought in my mind. "…but Zoro, she's awake and she could be dangerous!" shouted the teen I assumed to be Usopp. "Usopp I know you got scared, but I thought you said you beat a merman." Stated a blue haired girl. "Your right Vivi, I shouldn't be scared because I'm the Great Captain Usopp!" shouted Usopp. ' She seems to be a sensible one.' I thought. "Wait did crap liar say she's awake?" said a masculine voice. " Mellorine, your awake my sweet angel." He said as he fawned over me. "Are you okay my sweet Mellorine? If not I can throw these idiots especially the shitty swordsman away from a delicate angel!" 'How dare he insult a fellow swords wielder, especially one who takes good care of his swords.' I thought as I hit him across the deck. "Oops, I didn't think he angered me that much!" I said in a sorrowful tone of voice. "Sanji are you okay?" the blue haired girl asked with concern. "Hai, Vivi Sawn." The blond said. "Hey, why did you attack our chef?" the straw hat teen asked . "I'm sorry, but I do not tolerate womanizers who invade my personal space and he should consider himself lucky my right arm is broken or he would be unconscious." I stated matter of fact-ly. "Oh, well I'm Monkey D. Luffy and I'm Captain of this ship, The Going Merry." stated Luffy. "Nice to meet you. I'm Zarah but prefer to be called Jade master of just Jade."I stated. "Roronoa Zoro, swordsman and first mate." stated the green haired teen. "I'm Blackleg Sanji, cook of this vessel and your willing servant." Said the blond haired cook that I punched. "Would you guys hate me if I killed him?" I asked in a serious tone. "Yes, I would he's our chef." Luffy said just as serious. "Fine, but he better stop the special treatment crap!" I said. "…but, Mellorine I love you." Sanji said. "No you don't and get away from me before I dice you to bits." I said while I slowly reached my left hand towards my katanas. "Ha-ha, crap cook got rejected by a girl. Zoro said while laughing. "Before they start fighting, I'm Nefertiti Vivi. "stated Vivi. "Nice to meet you all, oh where are my manners? The dragon behind me is Icefire my partner in flight and blacksmithing. Over there is Brianne who prefers to be known as Breezy and her dragon Grettir." I said introducing my unconscious and sleeping friends. "Wait, dragons?" Usopp cried "There dangerous!" "They're only dangerous if you anger them, if they're injured or if you hurt their flying partner." I stated "Which reminds me I better see if they are injured. Excuse me, I'll be right back to our conversation." I said while going to check on Icefire. "Great you broke your wing, Icefire." She woke up to my gentle prods with my left hand. 'Yep' she said with a look. "Thank you for flying us down here even with a broken wing." 'No problem' she said with another look. I walk over to Breezy and see she's trying to gain consciousness, but was in major pain. "Sorry friend, but I can't let you remain in pain." I say as I lightly punch her causing her to lose consciousness again. I walk over to Grettir. "Just great, you majorly hurt! Icefire get over here and help me nock Grettir out before he goes on a rampage!" I shout to Icefire. "Roar," she shouted as she pounced onto Grettir with all her weight, while I drew my sword and hit him in the head with the flat of my blade.

"Sorry about that, but those two would have either whined or tried to kill you all in their pained state of mind." I state with an air of superiority. "What do you mean try?" asked Vivi. "Well, I can tell that about three of you are stronger then you should be, while the other two are regular strengthened people. I wouldn't want either my friends or your friends to get hurt." I said seriously. "Oh, well. Thank you, would you like to join us for breakfast?" asked Vivi. "Of course, but could I also bring something out for Icefire?" "Of course, but let's hurry before Luffy-san eats all the food." Vivi said while running after the hyper Captain. I walk after them slowly hit carefully always aware of who was ahead of me (Usopp) and the swordsman behind me who always had a hand on his swords.

Breakfast was a lively event; they all waited for me to take food for Icefire and came back before we started to eat. I found out quickly that I must defend my plate from the Captain, or he would eat it. It was surprisingly shocking to see that he was stretching like a rubber band, but I regained my composure enough to eat. The mountain of food was gone quickly due to the rubber-like Captain. Luckily I was able to eat my fill even with a broken arm.

"Well I'm full," I said "Thank you baka cook for the good meal." "Oh, Mellorine, I love hearing your sweet voice," Sanji said while noodle dancing. "Baka cook I will give you this one warning. Hit on myself or Breezy again and you will end up in a coma for a month!" I growled out while giving the cook my must intimidating glare. "Oh and Luffy don't hurt me for doing anything to your cook, I'll cook if and only if I damage him to the point of him not able to cook. Okay?" I quickly stated towards the teenaged Captain. "Alright, but only if he deserves it." Luffy said while grinning from the knowledge that someone would still be cooking even if Sanji wasn't.

"Quick question, where did Breezy and I end up at?" I asked seriously. "You're in the Grand Line!" shouted Luffy. "Great another world that's not ours." I muttered. "Wait did you say another world?" asked a very observant Zoro. "Yes, and we're just trying to get home." I said and recounted all that had happened to us for the past eight months. "Wow, you're a blacksmith and a swordswoman!" Luffy shouted "You have to join our crew!" "You said your friend can read air currents and such and tell when a storm was coming?" Vivi asked. "Yeah, she can." I said. "Then we just found a navigator!" Luffy shouted. "Wait you didn't have one?" I asked. "No, we had one, but she died in a freak storm that she said wouldn't come near us, but she was wrong and when she thought it would hit the ship she jumped over board and the storm followed her. She died." Luffy said somberly while talking about a crew mate's death. "Oh I'm sorry." I said automatically. "Don't be. Almost all of us except Ero-cook over there didn't like her money hoarding, violent and weak attitude and disposition." Zoro stated in a mono-toned voice. "Question is there a doctor on this ship? Oh and why does he stretch like a rubber band? I ask. "Nope, there isn't a doctor, yet and I stretch because I ate the Gum Gum no mi devil fruit." Luffy said. Which lead to a talk about their world and devil fruits. "Well we could find a doctor at the next island hopefully, especially if your fried is as good at weather conditions as you say she is, it could help me get home faster," Vivi stated in a hope filled voice. "Alright, next island here we come!" Luffy shouted. We all went to different parts of the ship. I went over to Icefire and started to take a nap.

I awoke from my nap to find everyone surrounded by men in green coats. 'Great, someone had to wake me up from my nap' I thought angrily. I gingerly got my feet to see an angry Luffy about to hit a fat guy chewing on the ships rails. I draw my sword and start attacking the guys in the green coats with my left hand. I knock about twenty out off the ship and see the others doing the same. That's when I noticed it snowed and getting cold out, but 'oh well weather is weather.' I thought. Everyone in the green coats ran when the fat hippo went flying in the air "Walpo-sama" etc, etc.

"You fought really well for someone only using their left hand." Zoro commented in the impressed tone. "Thank you; you didn't do so bad yourself." I said with an admiring tone of voice.

A few hours after my conversation with Zoro we arrived at a snow covered island and entered a small indent of land, and were surrounded by people with guns. "Go away pirates! Leave or we will shoot." A tall man who looked and acted like a leader said. "We have four injured on our ship, two dragons and two people; can we please see a doctor?" Vivi asked. "No, leave now." Some of the men shouted and one fired a bullet. However Vivi didn't get mad she went on her knees and asked again. This time the leader said "Fine, follow me and bring your injured."

His was the last thing I heard because Sanji in his excitement to help me to the cliff grabbed my right arm. I pass out from the pain thinking 'I'm going to kill him.'