Chapter 29: shortest chapter yet.
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
Sorry it took me so long to update, but for some reason, as soon as I got about half way through the third chapter of my book, I got writers block... it still hasn't gone away, but I am trying!
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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Cold air.
Wonderfully cold air brushed across my face, moving the long strands of white hair that were clinging to my forehead thanks to the perspiration that had sprouted there.
Though I was still walking through the land of sleep, I could hear the faint sound of a fire, a sound that didn't really fit the green and red forest I was standing in. The cold breeze might have fit, but the sound of a fire definitely didn't. There was nothing on fire and no smoke in the air, so I shouldn't have been hearing what I was hearing.
'Tap tap, tap tap.'
'Who's there?' I demanded, spinning around in the green and red forest, trying to find the source of the sound.
'Tap tap, tap tap.'
The sound was odd. It was like tapping, but had a more natural feel to it. Like the sound of hooves moving across stone, though the rhythm was slightly different. It was like a horse with only two hooves.
'Tap tap, tap tap.'
Whatever it was that was off about the sound, a small voice in the back of my head told me it was a good thing.
'Good thing?' I asked mentally, wandering how a strange tapping sound could be a good thing when I was stuck in an unknown forest, where a huge red and green dress that seemed to be part of the forest itself. 'How could it be a good thing?'
'Because you're asleep.' a strange voice said, causing me to spin around to face whoever it was that had spoken.
I never finished my spin as half way through it I started falling, sinking right into the huge dress and then right into the forest floor.
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Cold air.
The cool air brushed across my face again, causing my eyes to slowly flutter open in surprise.
It was really cold, almost as cold as one of my blizzard spells.
Almost but not quite.
Blinking stupidly, and wandering what it was that my mind was telling me I shouldn't forget, I was startled slightly when I heard the sound of hooves walking across stone.
Turning my head to see where the sound was coming from, I was a little surprised to see a raccoon-bear walking upright, holding a round tray f plants and berries as it carried them over to a desk.
"Huh?" I asked dumbly, sitting up slightly, causing some sheets that were covering me to rustle slightly.
The sound made me blink as I hadn't been expecting to find myself in a large bed, covered in warm white sheets.
Looking around, I took in the room I was currently laying in. it was a stone room that was covered in paintings and bookshelves, as well as a few hunting trophies that I wished would disappear as they were kind of creepy. It also had three doors that were leading out of it, and a large window on the wall next to the bed.
As I continued looking around the room, my brain finally decided to start working again, telling me that I was probably in Kureha's castle.
It then caused my neck to snap painfully as I instantly turned to look at the 'raccoon-bear', who turned out to be one of my favorite one piece characters.
At the risk of sounding like a fan girl, kawaii!
Chopper's instincts must have told him that there was something very evil and very dangerous around, because he instantly spun around, which caused several books to fall from the nearby bookshelf, and then saw that I was awake.
We simply stared at each other for a few seconds before he managed to get the ability to move back, at which point he promptly took off for the nearest door, which must have lead to a medical room of some sort.
Saying that it was a door was a little off as it was more of a doorway and didn't actually have a door.
Chopper was staring at me from around the corner of the door frame, which was funny because he was doing it backwards.
Most people would hide behind the doorway, but he was standing with his body in the doorway where I could see him and was trying to hide his head as much as he could.
It was definitely caused by the fear of humans he had, but he clearly wasn't thinking properly at the moment.
"Um, you do know you're supposed to hide your head and your body?" I asked, causing him to jump and run around the door frame so that he was completely hidden, except for a single eye and his antlers. "You know, it's a little late now that I've seen you, there's no point in hiding anymore."
"Shut up human!" Chopper said, pausing when something occurred to him, something that had been bothering him for a while. "Why do you have a tail? You know doctors can remove it for you."
"Huh?" I asked stupidly, wandering what he was talking about.
It took me a minute to figure it out as I sometimes forgot that I even had a tail as I usually kept it hidden and never really thought about it. Once I glanced over my shoulder at it, a brilliant idea popped into my head.
Nami was supposed to have been the first person on the crew to meet chopper, and she was also supposed to be the one to get him to start thinking about being a pirate again, but as she wasn't here, I was going to have to do it my way.
"But why would I want to have my tail removed?" I asked, moving into my best 'cat' position, the same one I usually landed in when I was forced to jump out of the way of an attack. "Then I would look like a human."
"Wh-what?" he asked in surprise, having not been expecting me to say something like that.
"I said, if I had my tail removed, then I would look just like a human." I said, trying to keep my face straight even though I felt like the Cheshire cat. "And who wants to be human?"
"You aren't human?" He asked in surprise, sticking even more of his head out from behind the doorway.
"Nope. I'm a Ctarl-Ctarl!" I said happily, giving him the biggest grin I could manage as I jumped onto the headboard of the bed, perching on top of it like a cat. "Have you ever seen a human that could move like this? I haven't. And I've never seen a human with cat eyes, a tail, and claws before either!"
OK, so it was kind of a lie. I did see a human with those traits all the time, all I had to do was look in the mirror, but he didn't need to know that.
"So you aren't human then?" He asked, coming a little bit farther out from behind the doorway after thinking about it for a minute.
The answer to all of my questions were obviously no. he hadn't ever seen a human like me.
"Nope." I said, hopping down onto the floor and standing up, only to fall over a second later.
"Hey, you should move around!" Chopper said, running over too me and helping me into bed again, though he didn't take off running afterwards like I though he would have. "You smell kind of like a human."
"And you smell kind of like a human and a reindeer, but I take it you're neither, am I right?" I asked, smiling at him as I yawned slightly.
"I am a reindeer!" He said defensively in that all too cute voice.
It was amazing how cute he was. Like a strange stuffed animal that I just wanted to snuggle, which is exactly what I ended up doing.
In my half dazed stated, I reached out my arms and picked him up, ignoring the fact that he was kicking and struggling like a maniac, and pulled him into the bed, using him like a second pillow.
"Ack-k-k-k-" He choked, staying incredibly still from embarrassment.
"Good night fuzzy, blue nose." I sighed, finally drifting off to slip while ignoring the fact that chopper seemed to be frozen in horror.
He would get over it, eventually.
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Waking up several hours later to the unmistakable sound of people running and sharp implements being thrown, which made an odd whistling sound as they went whizzing through the air, I slowly crawled out of bed and headed for the door to might right, which turned out to lead to the hallway.
"What's going on?" I asked sleepily, looking around to see what was happening.
Turning my head to the right, I was forced to dive back into the room again to avoid getting chopped in two by an Axe that had been set whizzing though the air at my head by what could only have been described as wrinkles personified. It was as if everyone in the world had gotten together and donated a million wrinkles each and then turned them all into one living creature. It was so horrible. It was so terrible, it was...
Doctor Kureha.
"OH MY GOD!" I shouted in horror when she stuck her face around the door frame to look at me.
The nightmares I would have after that moment...
"Now, now, you should be in bed, we wouldn't want anything to happen, now would we?" She said in the high pitched elderly voice that was sure to give any grown man nightmares.
"DOCTOR K! THEIR GOING TO EAT ME!" Chopper shouted as he ran past the old lady and into the room.
Reaching out my finger without thinking, I snapped them just as Luffy and Sanji came flying into the room. While the thunder spell had had no effect on Luffy, it hit Sanji with full force and threw him back into the rubber man, sending both of them skidding across the floor.
Chopper and Kureha were both shocked, though Kureha's shock only seemed to be mild at best.
"I am to tired and feel way to sick to deal with you two right now." I said, standing up and dusting myself off, then bending over and picking up the still stunned chopper. "Sanji?" I said in a falsely sweet voice while batting my eyes at the blond haired man.
"Yes, Kaede sweet?" He asked with hearts in his eyes as I continued batting my eyelashes at him.
"You weren't trying to hurt chopper, were you?" I said, slowly walking over to him, ignoring the raised eyebrows Kureha was giving me. "Because if you were, I think you should now something."
"And what's that, Kaede sweet?" he asked, piratically drooling now.
Nami would be so proud of me if she saw me.
"If you were to hurt this little guy, then he wouldn't be able to make me better." I said, my face only and inch away from his now. "You see, he's my doctor for while I'm here, and if he gets hurt, then I wont get better, got it?"
"Docta'?" Sanji asked in a confused tone, looking down at the still petrified reindeer man in my arms.
"Yes, and by the way, I've had a vision recently that involves you." I said, still acting way to sweet to him, something he and Luffy hadn't seemed to notice.
"Really, my sweet? Does it involve you and me and a moonlit dinna'?" He asked, starting to get a little over excited.
"No, it's more of an instant vision, one where you get hit in the face with a mallet."
"A mallet?" He asked in a confused voice, only to understand a second later when I bashed him in the face with my handy-dandy-wooden mallet, which I pulled out of nowhere.
Seriously, I can't even figure out how I managed to get it into my hands, I didn't even have my froggy bag with me.
The force of the impact sent him flying right into Luffy, and then sent the two of them flying back out into the hall. Kureha raised both of her eyebrows at this, and chopper simply gaped at the two fallen idiots that were currently laying on the floor just outside the hall. He seemed to be completely shocked at seeing what had just happed, and was unable to say or do anything about it.
Which made it all to easy for me to turn around and get back into bed with him as my second pillow again.
Lucky me.
"Good night." I said out loud before I let sleep roll over me yet again.
The thing about being sick is, no mater how much you want to fight it, you never really can stay awake for long.
Another sad thing about being sick, is that you tend to miss all the big stuff. For instance, I was completely out cold when old king mettle mouth of the eat-everything-in-the-world fruit attacked, and then I was still out cold when one of his men entered the castled, and to top that off, I was still out cold when that same man barged into the medical room that I was sleeping in.
the only thing that woke me up in time for me to do anything about the idiot was doctor Kureha running after him and throwing axes and spears at him while shouting for him to leave her patient alone.
To say the least, I was not happy when I woke up and found what had to be the only man stupid enough to dress up like a court jester standing over me.
I fried in less then a second.
"THANDRA!" I shouted, snapping my fingers at him and sending him flying for through the open door.
"Well, that's one way to take care of a pesky pesk." Kureha said, narrowing her eyes when I started to get out of bed.
"Don't look at me like that, I can't sleep without my fuzzy pillow anyway." I said, smiling at her as I walked past her. "Besides," I added, grabbing a broom that was sitting against the side of the wall near a mop and a bucket. "I don't plan on walking around, so I'll still be staying off of my feet like the doctor ordered."
"And how, might I ask, do you plan on doing something like that?" she asked, causing me to grin at her.
"Easy, they all call you a witch doctor, but I'm a real witch." I said happily, swinging my leg over the broom and lifting up into the air. "And everybody knows real witches can fly."
At least being sick hadn't screwed up my ability to fly.
One in the air, I zoomed out of the room and into the hall, which turned out to be more of a landing of the main area of the castle. I flew toward the ugly jester looking dude and frowned when I realized that he was very much OK after getting hit with my Thundara spell, which made me very annoyed.
What was the point of having a super strong spell if all anyone ever does when they get hit by it is get back up? … I was going to have to fix that some how.
"Hay, flying is cheating." He said in that annoying whiny voice when he realized that I was above him.
"Yeah, and getting on top of a girl while she's sleeping is sick, jackass." I said, taking my mallet into my right hand, though once again I wasn't sure how I had gotten it. "Now say goodnight, pervo."
'BAMB!'
I whacked him as hard as I could in the face with it and sent him skidding across the floor and then right over the railing of the balcony.
"AH!" He shouted in horror as he plummeted towards the ground.
"THUNDARA!" I Shouted, sending a Thundara spell at him just in case the fall wasn't enough to do the trick.
I REALLY didn't want to have to deal with him for any longer then was absolutely necessary.
Lucky for me, it was a really far fall.
Looking over the railing while not getting off my broom, I cringed slightly at the sight of the weirdo's half flattened body. It wasn't exactly a pretty site and I was already starting to wish that I hadn't looked. He was definitely in some serious pain, but was otherwise alive, though the amount of blood that was surrounding him made me worry slightly.
'Well, if he is near death, then chopper or someone will take care of him.' I thought, though I wasn't really sure if I could count on it.
Most of the people of this island really didn't like this guy, him or his weirdo friend and psycho king.
"Why does my castle smell like old people!?" And annoying voice demanded from somewhere way to close.
Not even thinking about it, I shot off though the air, knowing that he was right behind me. The sound of his voice had been so close, I was almost sure that he was going to open that giant mouth of his and swallow me up, something that I really didn't want to happen.
As it turned out, I was right. He had been right behind me when I suddenly shot of through the air, and I was barely lucky to get away. His snapping jaws actually DID get a piece of me, but luckily, it was only my hair.
Did I say luckily? Well, let me rephrase that. It ate some of my hair, successfully giving me a hair cut that I would never have tried, and I wasn't to happy to have had it forced on me. My hair was now shoulder length, which meant that he had eaten at least a foot of it because it had been down to the middle of my back before.
…
Old lock-jaw is SO going down.
"MY HAIR!" I shouted angrily, spinning my broom around in mid air in order to look him in the face, only to find that he was no longer there.
After a minute of looking in every direction possible, I finally found that he was now laying on the floor of the large area below the balcony.
Apparently, he had fallen when I had taken off, which meant that he was in a lot of pain, though like all devil fruit users, he wasn't in nearly as much pain as he should have been, because no less then half a minute later, he was getting up.
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Yeah, I know, you're all used to my sixty bajillion page chapters. Sorry, but this one was only meant to update it. I'm trying to do as much as I can, but I've got a bad case of writers block. It took me two weeks just to write the first chapter of my new book, and I don't plan on making it take that long anymore. So short is the best you'll be getting for a while, sorry. T-T
I have decided on what the pairing is going to be, (And no, you don't have to worry, it isn't chopper, I just think of chopper as a cute, walking talking stuffed animal sometimes, that's why she keeps snuggling him. So cute! :3)
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