Chapter 27: Giants, giants, and more giants.
Summery: I may never know how it truly began, but I do know that I never truly had a choice in the events that led me here. I am in one piece now, and have unwillingly left my own world behind. That is all that matters, and all I need to know.
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with any legal rights to one piece in any form, I do not own one piece or any part of the merchandising, gaming, manga, anime, characters, or anything of the sort. Please do not sue me as I do not have any money. The only things that I own from this fic are my own original characters.
Note: You can look at artwork for the story by going to my profile and clicking on them the links.
And just so you know, we will be seeing the missing numbers. I mean, in the anime and manga, there were 3 Mr. ?'s that we didn't get to see as well as 4 Miss. ?'s as well.
Mr. 6 : Miss. Mother's day
Mr. 10 : Miss. Tuesday
Mr. 12 : Miss. Saturday
and Mr. 11's partner, Miss. Thursday
Since we have no idea what they can do, send in suggestions. :3
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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The diaries of Kaede Tsuda Burnett, day 48
Three days and we haven't even scene the damn island yet. You would have thought that we would have at least seen something, but no. Not a thing. Maybe we'll get lucky and come across Little Garden sometime soon.
It doesn't really help that I have to listen to Luffy's antics, which are now accompanied by Lucian's, aka Mr. 9's, antics as well. And if I hear the crowned pain say 'Baby' one more time, I'm going to shove my mallet up his ass, and I don't mean the handle.
Miss. Monday's name turned out to be Nichiyoubi, which means Sunday in Japanese... I thought it was funny, but apparently, it doesn't mean that in this world... No one understood why I was laughing until I pointed out what it meant in my fathers language, then they thought it was hilarious.
Anyway, she prefers being called Nichi instead, so that's what we've been calling her by.
Lucian isn't so bad though, because he usually just sits around and fishes with Luffy. He's a little weird sometimes, and like I've already said, if he says 'baby' one more time, I'll fry him, I really will.
Vivi is a bit of a worry wart, but she seems to be calming down a little bit. I keep having to tell her that I know we'll saver her people, but the sad fact is, I'm not really sure anymore. We almost got eaten by a Seaking right after we left Whiskey Peak, and that wasn't supposed to happen.
I also have a feeling that something bad is going to happen, or at least, something I'm not expecting, which is never a good thing. It's like there's something on it's way that I should be running from, but instead I'm just walking towards it.
I don't know, maybe I'm just being paranoid... but I swear... Something is going to happen that I'm not going to like, I just know it.
Anyway, time to get off of the depressing and creepy ass topic and onto something a bit different.
I've been practicing my fire spell in preparation for Little Garden, but I can't control the fire like with thunder and blizzard, so the spell ends up going haywire right after I cast it, and it's usual effect ends up being that it sets me on fire.
I guess that's why it said you should learn blizzard before you learn it. You need to know blizzard to put the damn fire out. It's the hardest spell I've had to deal with so far, and I can't wait to move on to others, I just wish I didn't have to deal with all the destroyed clothes.
Anyway, the others are planning on fishing, and I kind of want to join them. I'll write more later.
Signed, The diaries of a Mad Cat Woman.
Closing my Diournal (My Diary Journal), stood up and put it back into its usual spot in the bookshelf and headed upstairs and out onto the deck, stopping only for a second to grab the extra bucket of bait I had hid so that Luffy wouldn't eat it.
Really, you wouldn't believe what that boy could eat.
"The winds stopped again..." Nami said in a worried ton, causing me to look up at the landing in front of the kitchen above my head. "And when we're in such a hurry to get to little garden too..."
"Well," I started, getting her's, Vivi's, and Nichi's attentions. "That's to be expected. Little Garden and Whiskey Peak are both summer islands. The winds between most of the islands are extremely strong because the islands have two opposing weather systems, but since the two were heading between have the same kind of weather system, the wind tends to die down every now and then. It's not the same if they're both one of the other three systems, but summer systems usually have very little wind, but not always."
"That makes sense. That would mean that we could be anywhere between them. " Vivi said, thinking about everything she knew about her own summer island.
While her's tended to have a lot of wind, not all of the summer islands had desert like plains. They usually had giant forests on them, which would block the wind from flowing through, or giant cacti like on Whiskey Peak. Either way, the wind didn't travel through them very well, and usually got dampened to the point that there wasn't any wind at all.
"So how much do you know about Little Garden? Do you know what we can expect or how long it will take for the Log Pose to set?" Vivi asked, with Nami nodding her head beside her, clearly wanting to know the information as well.
"Well, I know we all need to be wearing shirts while there because there's a parasite on the island that can get into your stomach through a bite on it, so we should cover up." I said, walking over to where Sanji was currently lecturing Luffy about eating the fishing bait. "And I also know that it normally takes a year for the log to set, but we'll only need a day or so."
"A year?!" Nami and Vivi shouted in horror, hanging their heads in despair.
"Yes, but like I said, it should only take us a day or so. Don't worry, I'm sure of it." I said, only to stop when I heard what Luffy was saying to Sanji.
"Then how 'bout we fish using him?" Luffy asked, pointing over his shoulder at Carue, not realizing that the bird was a girl.
"Yeah, that might work." Sanji said, clearly thinking it was a good idea.
Hearing their words, Carue freaked out and took off running, only to be chased by them.
As soon as Sanji and Luffy started chasing Carue, Choco appeared out of nowhere and started pecking the two idiots to death.
"Sanji, Luffy. Carue is a female Spot-billed duck, and Choco likes her." I said, walking past them as they continued twitching on the ground. "So it's probably best if you don't attempt to hurt her, because I'm pretty sure that Choco will kill you. Besides," I added, turning my head to look at Sanji evilly. "Only a jerk would try to hurt a girl."
Evil, me?
Why thank you.
As Sanji started apologizing profusely to me, I grabbed one of the fishing polls and put a piece of bait on the end of it, causing him, Luffy, and Usopp to pause and look at me.
"Yeah, I hid some of the bait so Luffy wouldn't eat it." I said, grabbing Luffy's hand as he started reaching for the bait. "Eat it, and I'll throw you overboard."
Luffy hang his head at being told that he could eat it, which caused me to sigh and tell him that if we used them as bait, it would get us way more food and he could eat as much fish as he could.
This made him perk up instantly.
"Kaede sweet is amazing!" Sanji said happily, doing the wiggle wiggle dance like always as Luffy and Usopp sat down and started fishing with me.
While the three of us started fishing and Sanji went to cook, Nami started telling Nichi, Lucian, and Vivi about the things we had done in the past in order to reassure them that, while we might look like idiots, we were actually really strong. She went through each name in revers order, starting with Don Krieg and moving all the way back to Buggy.
When Zoro heard her mention Buggy's name, he perked up slightly and spoke up.
"That's not all." He said, surprising Nami slightly. "There was this Marine bastard brandishing a huge Axe for a hand."
"Ah," Nami said in comprehension, recognizing the description instantly. "That must be Axe-hand Morgan."
"Axe-hand Morgan? I've heard of him." Vivi said, remembering what she had heard about him a while back. "He was a Marine Captain feared throughout the East Blue for his cruel supremacy. You defeated someone as strong as him?"
Vivi's question caught Luffy's attention and caused him to look up at her from our fishing.
"Ah, Axe-hand ossan?" He said, remembering everything that had happened back then when we were traveling with Coby. "Oh yeah, I wander what happened to that guy we were with."
"You mean Coby?" I asked, smiling at the memory of the episode about what he was going through. "He's here in the Grandline now, he was taken to the marine headquarters as one of the two apprentices of Vice Admiral Garp."
My words caused Luffy to stiffen slightly, but I ignored it as I was pretty sure he didn't want to talk about it at the moment. His grandfather probably wasn't a topic he was happy with talking about.
"THE Vice Admiral Garp?!" Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Vivi, Nichi, Lucian, and Sanji demanded in unison, unable to believe their ears.
"Yeah, but that's all I'm saying about it." I said turning my attention back to the fishing.
It took us another three days to get to Little garden, which had nearly driven me insane as Lucian was still saying 'Baby' every five minutes. At the rate it was going, I was going to kill him by lunch time.
"If you don't stop saying 'Baby' all the time, I'm going to zap you." I said, glaring at him angrily.
"Sorry, baby!" He said apologetically, giving me the thumbs up as he did so.
Vivi seemed to understand my problem with the 'baby' thing. I guess she would as she had been his partner in Baroque Works.
"Please forgive him, he was always like that when we were working together." She said, coming up behind me and smiling as Zoro had to restrain me from zapping the hell out of the green clad man.
"Hmf." I pouted, silently demanding to know why I had been restrained and unable to murder the idiot that made Luffy look smart.
Crossing my arms and looking away from them, I tried my hardest to ignore them all as I wasn't to happy with them at the moment. If they wanted to apologize in any way shape or form then they were going to have to let me zap Lucian, and that was all I was going to accept.
Oh, I wasn't about to stop trying to zap him, I had given him a warning and it was his own fault that I was now out for his blood. A simple zap was all he was going to be getting from me, and I was more then happy to use him as a test subject for one of my newly thought up moves... though I had a feeling he wasn't going to enjoy that even one little bit.
Muhahaha!
um... I mean...
Pretend you didn't hear that.
"Hey, you louts!" Sanji called, drawing everyones attention as he walked out of the kitchen and onto the deck with a plate full of some fancy looking drinks. "How about a round of my special drink?"
Everyone was instantly standing around him, having moved at such a speed that it was impossible to have seen them, and me, move.
Only an idiot past up one of Sanji's special drinks.
Well, you'd have to be an idiot, or on of Vivi's friends. They didn't look at all happy with the fact that we were all acting so calm and easy going. For some reason, it really seemed to bug them. It was probably because of Baroque Works, the Grandline, and the marines or the thought of other pirates.
"How can they act like this?!" Vivi demanded, unable to believe the fact that we were all extremely calm when there were so many problems coming our way, or that we were all calm when a storm could hit at any time.
"Precisely what I want to know! They seem so calm, so easy going! Aren't they pirates? Don't they know what's waiting for us on our journey?!" Lucian demanded as well from his position in front of the kitchen door as he, Vivi, and Nichi all watched us drinking our drinks and having fun.
"To be this calm in the face of danger, they must not know what's in store for all of us. What if a storm hits? Will we be able to handle it?" Nichi asked, piping in her own thoughts about it.
"Just let them be." Nami said, coming out of the kitchen and handing each of them one of the drinks she was carrying. "If a storm does come, they know what to do. They don't want to die either, you know."
"Well, I suppose..." Vivi said, still looking disapprovingly at us as I stood up and started walking up the stairs towards them. "But it seems like they're not even trying to be alert!"
"I agree, this lax attitude is strange, I've never heard of pirates that acted like this." Nichi said in agreement, causing me to roll my eyes at her as I walked up to them.
"What if a storm hits, or an enemy attacks, baby? It would be very bad to have them all off guard!" Lucian said, making me wish I had better restraint as I was extremely tempted to zap him.
I was really starting to hate that damn word.
"You shouldn't worry like that." Nami said, winking at them. "Not on this ship."
"She's right, we are pirates after all." I said as I moved to sit on the railing. "And you guys couldn't have been bounty hunters for very long and have probably been listening to way to many marine stories if you don't think more pirates act like this."
"Huh?" Lucian asked, lucking slightly offended.
"All pirates, no mater how cruel or how kind they are, are laid back and easy going when there isn't a fight to be won, or a job to be done. They simply sit back and relax, even if they know that there is something dangerous heading there way at any time. We're pirates for crying out loud, we always have the marines or other pirates to worry about, and if we worried about it all the time, then what would be the point?" I asked smiling when I saw that each of them understood what I meant. "Besides." I added, slurping through my straw and trying to get the last of my drink. "We have three different detection systems on board, so even if we don't watch for something, we'll know before it even happens."
I was half tempted to add 'even if one of the systems seems to be failing' to the end of it, but I didn't want to worry the others. I knew I would have to tell them that I couldn't actually see the future, and would have to come up with some story about how I knew everything, but I was putting it off as long as possible. It wasn't a conversation I wanted to have.
"Detection systems?" Vivi asked, looking at me while Nami smiled happily.
Nami knew what I was talking about, as we had made a joke to each other about it once before, saying that if I could see the weather, then she'd be out of a job and we'd only need to detection systems.
"Yep, I'm one of them." She said, slightly striking a pose in pride. "I'm the weather detection system. I've always been able to tell what was going to happen with the weather simply be taking a look around, so I can tell everyone if a storms coming."
"Right, and I'm the second system, the Danger detection system." I said, striking a slight pose next to Nami as well. "I'm a witch, but I'm also a psychic, so I can sometimes see when something dangerous is coming our way. I might see something a month from now, or I might see something only minutes from now, but I'll be able to warn everyone of anything dangerous if it's heading this way."
"Ok baby, and what's the third detection system?" Lucian asked, once again proving that he was an idiot.
Was he really that determined to get zapped? Because if that's the case, I'm more then willing to do it...
"That would be us!" Lil said happily as she, Choco, and oddly enough: Carue jumped up onto the landing and stuck a pose as well. "Choco, Lil, and temporarily, Carue! The Backup detection system. With our abilities to smell and hear things a lot better then humans can, as well as our abilities to sense changes in the atmosphere, we can pick up anything they miss!"
Choco, Lil and Carue looked overly pleased with themselves at having been able to show how useful they were to the crew.
Everything froze in an instant, slowing down until nothing was moving at all. The colors of everything faded slightly, and the backdrop of the ocean turned a gold color, so bright that it nearly burned my eyes.
'achachachha!" the sound of a dolphin called, causing me to turn my head toward it, though my movements were in super slow motion.
'achachachha!" It called again, right as a giant dolphin appeared out of nowhere and jumped over our ship, barely missing us at all.
In less then a second, everything started moving again and the colors quickly returned.
Shock. That's all I was able to feel. Shock. What ever had just happened had never happened before, and I wasn't to happy with it either. It had made me feel sick, like I was going to throw up. My head was pounding and I was pretty sure I was no paler then paper, a complete contrast to my normally very tan coloring.
"Kaede? Are you OK?" Nami asked, causing me to blink up at her slight, surprising me even more when I realized that I was now on the ground.
'How'd I end up on the floor? And what about that huge dolphin? Shouldn't we get out of here?' I wandered, still too dazed to think straight.
"Dolphin, big..." I said stupidly as she tried to help me up.
"Huh?" She asked, unable to understand what I was saying. "Dolphin? A big one? Huh? What are you talking about?"
Her question made me blink at her a few times. The dolphin had been huge, how could she not have seen it.
It took me a few minutes to realize what had happened. I had seen so many weird things lately, and I've become something completely new, and yet I hadn't even considered this possibility.
A real vision.
"Huge Dolphin! Run away! Now!" I shouted, bolting upright and surprising everyone. "Move it! Move it! Move it!"
In an instant, everyone was following my shouts, knowing that whatever it was that was bothering me, it wasn't going to be good for any of us.
Just as we got the ship moving and out of the way, a huge dolphin appeared out of nowhere and jumped over the spot where we had just been, causing everyone's jaws to drop, including Lil's.
"Run away!" Luffy shouted, causing everyone to work even harder to get the ship moving.
When we were finally as far away from the giant dolphin as possible, Lil padded over to my spot on the ground where I was currently stuck, unable to move a single part of my body as my head was pounding to hard.
"Did what I think happened really happen?" Lil asked, her tone clearly saying that she was worried.
"Yes, a real one, and it made my head feel like it was going to explode." I said, still waiting for someone to realize that I wasn't moving as I was only able to whisper.
Anything louder then that would hurt my ears.
"So it was a real one?" Lil asked, still shocked by this little bit of information. "And you're in pain? Want me to get something?"
"Yes, ice, lots of ice, and a pillow and something to stop the damn pain." I moaned out, still wishing my head would stop pounding.
The pain. The horrible, horrible pain. If this was what it was like to have visions, then I really didn't want it. It was way to painful. My head still felt like it was going to explode, and I wasn't able to move an inch. It was as if my body had had a system overload or something. Everything that should have been working fine wasn't, and everything that didn't need to be working was.
My stomach was growling, when I had just eaten only a few minutes ago. My extra sensitive cat like hearing was working overtime, meaning that I was able to hear the opening and closing of all the thousands of little fishy mouths below our ship, as well as the swooshing of there fins. I could feel everything that was touching me, even though I couldn't move, and I was still having trouble seeing right as everything seemed to be a thousand times to bright.
The vision had sent me into a hyper sensitive state, and it wasn't exactly fun and painless. The fish I was hearing below the ship were way to loud and the light was almost blinding.
Being a fake psychic that just happened to know things was fun, being a real psychic that had painful visions sucked ass.
In the middle of my attempts to shut everything out, Lil, who I hadn't even notice was gone, came back and brought the others with her.
"She's in pain. The vision she had that told her about the dolphin caused it." Lil said, causing everyone to instantly start asking me if I was OK.
In very, very, very loud voices.
"Ug, to loud, hyper sensitive! To loud!" I moaned out in pain, trying to cover my face with my arm, but finding that I wasn't able to move it. "Sleep... Downstairs.. Quiet..."
Hearing my pain filled moans of agony, Zoro bent over and scooped me up into his arms and instantly took me to the bed in the girls room with everyone following.
The moment I was laying in the bed, Nami rushed over and put all the pillows in the room under my head, trying her hardest to make be feel comfortable.
"What happened to her?" Nichi asked the others, only to get shrugs from all of them as they tried to make me comfortable.
"We don't know, she's never done this before." Sanji said in a worried tone, causing Vivi, Carue, Nichi, and Lucian to get more worried.
"To loud. Talking to loud! Fish swimming to loud! Bird chirping to loud!" I moaned out in pain, wishing I could shut it all out.
"Fish swimming? Birds chirping?" Sanji asked, the information taking a minutes to set in.
"Does she mean the fish swimming below the ship?" Luffy asked stupidly, probably thinking that he could just have Lil go tell them to be quiet.
"Must be, but I can't even hear them." Lil said, surprised at how sensitive my hearing was at the moment.
Hopefully it didn't last long, or else it was either going to drive me insane, or kill me.
"I guess that means we should probably whisper." Lucian said, earning seven or eight points for his consideration.
One good idea just saved his life. If he's that smart, then it would be a really stupid idea to kill him for saying baby, men like that were rare.
I wasn't really sure what happened after that as my body chose that moment to give out, causing me to fall into darkness.
Six or seven hours later, probably around 3:00 pm or 4:00 pm, I found myself slowly drifting out of a rather nice dream about green hair and a bunch of fire, which was an odd combination, but I wasn't going to complain.
(A/N: Still haven't decided which man is going to be her man, but it's definitely going to be either Ace (The fire) Or Zoro (The green hair). I'll decide once they see ace)
Sitting up in the bed, I was happy to find that I was no longer suffering from my hyper sensitivity and was able to function properly.
It took me a minute to realize that the ship wasn't moving, though I only noticed because I had gotten so used to the feel of it moving through the ocean. It was kind of easy to tell when you actually payed attention to it, and I was a little surprised that it took me a full minute to figure it out.
I guess I could just chop it up to being a result of nearly getting killed by visions, but that didn't mean I was OK with it. If I was going to survive with a new dis-ability, pun intended, then I was going to have to compensate for it.
Meaning I was going to have to learn to pay more attention to my surroundings if I didn't want to get killed after waking up from one of my newly discovered visions.
And speaking of my surroundings, the moment I stood up I found that I was surrounded by a bunch of books that had been thrown all over the place.
Including my journal, which meant that there was an idiot out there with a death wish.
"Who threw everything all over the place?" I called out as I started putting all the books back into the bookshelf, only to find that no one was listening.
"Hello?" I called out, wandering where everyone was as I walked up the stairs to the storage room and then out onto the deck. "Where is everybody?"
"Most of them went to have a look around, but Usopp, Nami, Lucian and Choco got carried off by a giant." A feline voice called out from behind me, nearly causing me to jump out of my skin.
"Don't do that!" I said, turning around and picking Lil up. "How many times do I have to tell you not to scare me like that?"
"It's not my fault if you don't bother to listen for people." Lil scoffed, not liking the fact that I had gotten annoyed with her when she was just trying to help.
"Sorry, anyways, you said Nami, Usopp, Choco, and Lucian got carried off by a giant?" I asked, making sure I had heard her right. "So that means they've already met Brogy or Dorry."
"Yeah, it was the one with the short yellow beard." Lil said, hopping onto my shoulder as I headed back into the storage room and down the stairs to the girls room to get dressed.
"Don't know which one that is, I just remember the names." I said, walking over to the dresser and opening it up. "Hopefully they remembered what I said about parasites and covered up. It's going to be really warm, but I think I'll go with the long sleeved black top Nami got me."
About five minutes later, after I finally managed to get me hair uncaught in the neck of the top, I headed out and into the forest, determined to find everyone else.
It took me about fifteen minutes of walking to realize that I was following the same path that Luffy and Vivi had taken in the anime, and I only realized it because of the small pond I found that was filled with ammonites, a squid like creature with a large shell on it's head that went extinct well before the dinosaurs did.
"Fishies!" Lil said happily, jumping off my shoulder and padding her way over to the pond were she then started batting at the surface of the water, trying to get one of them to come over and bite her claw so she could catch it. "Fishies!"
"Ok, it's official now. You really do need therapy." I said, walking over and picking her up.
"NO! MY FISHIES!" she wailed, trying to get out of my arms and back to the pond.
"Fine, if you want me to catch you one, then I will." I said, bending over and picking one of the shelled squids up and causing Lil to purr happily. "Actually..." I said as a thought occurred to me. "It might be a good idea to catch a few of them.. ammonites are extinct and there shells would probably sell well... and I'm sure Sanji will want to try to cook some..."
by the end of my attempts to convince myself that it was a good idea, I had already picked up a good twenty or thirty of them and popped them into my ever present froggy bag.
"Yey! Lots of fishies!" Lil said happily, causing me to roll my eyes at her.
"You are such a do-"
I never got the chance to finish my sentence as a large tyrannosaurus-rex appeared out of nowhere and tried to bite my head off, something that I wasn't to happy about.
"EEK! BIG LIZARD!" Lil shouted in horror as I took off running. "Run! Faster! Faster!"
"Shut up! I'm trying!" I shouted back, jumping out of the way as it lunged at me. "WHY THE HELL IS IT CHASING ME?!"
"Duh! It obviously thinks we're lunch!" Lil shouted, annoyed be the fact that ii was too busy running and dodge to jump on my broom and fly away. "Zap the damn thing already!"
Pointing over my shoulder at it while not bothering to take my eyes off of the path in front of my, I snapped my fingers at the T-Rex.
Still hearing it behind me, I didn't stop my chasing to see the damage I had caused, knowing that it was still after me.
"It didn't do anything! The thunder didn't even hurt it!" Lil shouted in horror, unable to believe her eyes. "Must be the thick scales!"
"You thinks?!" I shouted, making a hard left and hoping the T-Rex couldn't swim as I dove into the rive that ran through the island and started swimming as hard as I could.
The t-rex, as it turned out, could swim, though not very fast.
"It's still chasing us?!" I demanded, wishing it would give up already.
"It's not the only one!" Lil shouted, alerting me to the fact that there was something else in the water, something that made me want to swim much much faster.
Luckily, since the T-Rex wasn't able to swim very fast, and the thing that was already in the water was very far away, I was able to get on my broom and zoom out of the water just in time.
Just as we flew out of the water, the large fin that Lil had spotted off in the distance finally reached our location and followed us up, reveling that the large fin was on the top of the head of a long necked creature that was probably related to a Plesiosaur, an aquatic version of a long neck.
And as if that wasn't bad enough, the damn thing started chasing us too.
"What the hell?!" I shouted in horror, flying as high as I could with it's damn head staying close behind.
How tall was this fucking thing? I was well above the trees and yet it was still stretching out it's neck in an attempt to eat me and my furry passenger. If it wasn't for the fact that the T-Rex chose that moment to do something very stupid, and lucky for me, the head-finned Plesiosaur like dinosaur would have snatched us right out of the sky with it's big gaping mouth.
The stupid thing that the T-Rex did, that was lucky for me, was bite the Plesiosaur like dinosaur. It bit right into the back of the Plesiosaur's neck where it met it's body.
In pain, the Plesiosaur turned it's head and instantly bit the tyrannosaur tail, then swung its head again and sent the T-Rex flying through the water. Not being one to take a hit for no reason, the T-Rex got back up, or rather swam over, and started biting the Plesiosaur in retaliation.
The fight between the two Dinosaurs gave me the chance I needed to get away, but there was a problem with my escape.
As soon as I was over the forest, I nearly got knocked out of the sky by a huge ass gust of wind that was accompanied by a loud banging sound. Just as I had righted my self and made sure Lil was OK, another one hit, and this one was accompanied by an even louder banging sound then the first time.
"What the hell?!" I shouted in horror as a third gust that was accompanied by more banging sound nearly knocked me out of the sky.
"I think we need to get out of the air!" Lil shouted just as a fourth one hit.
Not needing to be told twice, I instantly aimed my broom for the trees and quickly got off of it, still wandering what was going on.
"What was that banging sound?" I asked, putting my broom into my froggy bag and pulling out my steel mallet just in case I needed it.
"I don't know, it sounded like metal on metal." Lil said, her ears doing that cute little flattening thing they did when she didn't like something.
"Metal on metal?" I asked stupidly, trying to remember if there was anything that would cause a sound like that. "Oh! The giants are fighting!"
"Huh? Oh! That explains it. It was happening back on the ship a while ago, so I'm guessing this is there second fight since we've been here." Lil said, causig me to rake my mind for any information I could remember.
"Hey, didn't they only fight twice in the anime before one of them got 'killed'?" I asked, remembering that this was where we were going to run into Mr. 3 at.
"Yeah, but that would mean that we're running really behind." the black fluff ball said, sighing when we heard yet another bang of metal on metal.
"Right, I guess that means we need to find the others." I said, only to realize that I couldn't search from the sky as the gust of wind would knock me off my broom. "But we'll have to do it on the ground."
"Cool, hey! I think I see Nami!" Lil said, catching my attention as she pointed off to my right.
"Huh? Really? That was quick." I said, walking off to the right in search for the red head she said she saw.
As soon as I saw what she had seen, I took off like a bat out of hell. What she had seen was Nami leaning against a tree with her arms crossed and a smirk on her face. I didn't even need to get close to know that it was a fake, there was just something about it that was screaming that it wasn't Nami.
It also helped that I had just remembered the wax guy only a few minutes ago, as well as the little girl that worked with him. Knowing what they could do, and how they did it, I wasn't willing to ignore instinct when it was telling me that something was wrong.
When I was several yards away from the wax statue, i heard someone yelling that she was getting away. It was enough to let me know that i was right.
It had been a trap.
"Get back here girl!" A voice from somewhere behind me shouted as I continued running, a voice that I kind of remembered.
Bugger guy was chasing me.
"God, not you!" I said in despair, glancing over my shoulder and making a hard left just as a bugger bomb came flying at me.
Why did god like playing with the ick-factor? Why? Why? Why? Why? A million times, why?
"Eek! He's flicking another one!" Lil shouted, causing me to make a hard right to dodge it.
Left, right, left, right. That was what my life had come down to: Making sharp turns in an attempt to not get hit by exploding buggers.
Was this really what my life was going to be about from now on? We'd only seen two Grandline islands, and on both of them, I had to deal with exploding buggers.
Kill me.
Please?
Pretty please?
Pretty please with sugar on top?
And no buggers...
But unfortunately, a lot of wax.
As soon as I thought I was far enough away that the bugger guy wasn't going to get me, a huge amount of wax came flying out of nowhere and completely covered my body, leaving only my eyes and nose uncovered.
I was trapped.
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Ug, tired... (Heads off to sleep)
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NEW QUESTION: Should Kaede catch the dingy dingy bug on little garden with Nami? Should she be the only one to get it? Or should she not get it at all.
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