Chapter 30: Updated for Halloween.
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.
Well, Halloween is my favorite holiday, so I decided to do something kind for all my readers, like updating this fic. XD
Please note that Kureha's personality in this chapter is more like the Funimation and Japanese version of her, while her personality in the last chapter was more like the 4kids version. I had never watched the Japanese version of the drum island episodes, so I didn't know 4kids was that off when it came to the way she acts. I'll try to fix chapter 29 some time, but at the moment, just enjoy the chapter.
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
OK, I decided to update again thanks to two reviews from Fyrflame. So if you want to thank someone for it, he's the one that got me to start writing again. :3
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
Evil old women. That's all I can say. Evil old women. If it wasn't for the crazy old sack of wrinkles that was sitting on my back, pinning me to the floor, I would have been out in the hall, fighting like hell to take old-metal-mouth down.
Almost as soon as metal-mouth had gotten back up, Luffy had coming running into the castle and promptly started kicking his ass. The instant Luffy was there, the crazy ding-bat of a doctor of mine lassoed me, dragged me off of my broom, and dragged me back into the room on tossed me back onto the bed.
"Let me go, damn it!" I shouted angrily, trying to wiggle my way out of the ropes that were tied around my arms.
"If you move around to much, you'll die." Kureha said, walking over and sitting on my back, keeping me from moving. "Now, let you're friend handle Wapol and his men. You should stay happy and in bed."
Growling at her for sitting on me, I decided tat a spell would probably be able to get me out of the situation without a problem. So with that in mind, I said the first spell that I thought of.
Unfortunately for me, I had never used the spell before, so it didn't exactly go the way I wanted. The moment I said 'float', I found myself floating upside down with my shirt down over my head, leaving my breast bare for all the world to see. I was still tied up at the waist, but sadly, my shirt was a belly shirt, so it hadn't been tied down by the rope.
As for Kureha, my little spell had caused her to fall off of me when I started floating, though she didn't seem at all to mind that little fact and instead looked as though she found my new situation very amusing.
"Are you happy? You're happy, good." She said with that big annoying smile on her face, though I couldn't actually see it through my shirt.
After a minute of silence, I heard the sound of foot steps leading away and then I heard the sound of a door closing, which alerted me to the fact that she had just left the room. Once she was out of the room, I started formulating a plan to get myself out of the rope and back into the battle, though I had to wait for my little levitation spell to stop working.
Unfortunately, like always, I didn't think everything completely through. The moment the spell stopped working, I fell out of the air and right onto my head, much to my annoyance.
I was stuck inside and was unable to help the others fight, and now I had a massive headache that was threatening to split my head open.
My life sucks.
I had just been about to give up on trying to fix my shirt and get out of the rope when I finally realized that my tail was completely free. Usually I wouldn't even consider using my tail for anything as it was pretty much just a piece of junk that never wanted to do anything but cause me pain, but as I was tied up, I didn't really have much of a choice.
I know Kureha tied me up for my own good, but I didn't want to just lay there and let the others have all the fun, so I was going to get out of there one way or another.
Well, that and I had just remembered that I had completely forgotten to steal Wapol's key like Nami had in the anime, so I kind of had to get it if I ever wanted to get out of the castle in time to save Vivi's country.
Moving my tail around as best as I could, I finally managed to fix my shirt so that I wasn't flashing the world, once that was done, I then tried to find something that would be sharp enough for me to use to cute the rope with. It took me a few minutes to pot it, mostly because I had to roll around on the bed in order to face the right direction, but once I finally spotted the little medical scalpel that I was sure was choppers, I made my way over to it, wrapped my tail around the handle, and started trying to cut the rope off of me. The entire time I was cutting the rope, I held my breath, fearing that I was going to cut my arm off with it or something.
It took me a few tries, as well as three nicks on my wrist, but I finally managed to cute the rope off of me, swearing to what ever god existed that I was going to zap the crazy old sack of wrinkles the moment I saw her again.
Sighing heavily, I made my way out of the room, picking the broom up off of the floor on the landing when I came across it. Looking around once I was out on the landing, I looked over the railing of the balcony to see if the weirdo from hell was still laying in the main part of the castle.
He was.
He hadn't moved even an inch, which probably meant that he was either dead, or just unconscious. I wasn't sure where Wapol was, but at least one of his men had been taken care of.
"That will teach you to work for a guy that would screw with a girl's hair." I growled angrily, no longer caring that he was probably close to dieing anymore.
If Wapol hadn't eaten some of my hair, I wouldn't have been so cold about taking out one of his men, but as it was, NEVER FUCK WITH A GIRL'S HAIR!
Throwing the unconscious man one last dirty look, I swung my leg over the broom and took off into the air, trying to find where Wapol was.
It didn't take me long to find him as I remembered seeing him stuck in a tower in the anime, but when I did find him, I found that I was to late to steal the key from him.
Oh shit.
If I didn't get the key from him, then I wasn't going to be able to make the deal with Kureha, and that meant I would be stuck in the castle for another few days, which would be very bad. It meant that we wouldn't get to save Arabasta or whatever it was called. Vivi's people would die, and it was all my fault.
Sinking to the ground on my broom in a depressed state, I collapsed in the snow, mumbling something about evil-rubber men and old women, though I seriously doubt anyone will ever know what I actually said.
It was while I was laying in the snow and mumbling that Zoro, Lil, Choco, and everyone else appeared.
Unfortunately, that included the crazy love cook, and as he was just a teensy bit over protective of all the women on the crew, that meant a whole new headache for me.
"Kaede-Sweat!" The blond haired cook shouted in panic when he saw me laying in the snow, nearly knocking everyone else over in his attempt to get to me. "Kaede-sweet! What happened?! Who did this to you?!" he demanded, sounding way to worried. "Luffy!" he shouted angrily, catching sight of the rubber man as he slowly got out of the snow, having just catapulted himself into Zoro, thinking that he was one of Wapol's men."This is your fault, isn't it?! What the hell did you do to her?!"
"Huh?" the rubber man asked stupidly, completely unfazed by the fact that he had nearly killed Zoro. "What are you talking about?"
"Don't lie, damn it! You-" Before Sanji even got the chance to finish his sentence a large lump appear on top of his head, nearly knocking him out.
"He didn't do anything, moron." I growled, wishing he would stop doing stupid things like that.
I know he's the ultimate perv, apart from Jiraiya from Naruto I mean, and it usually makes me laugh, but sometimes it can get really annoying really quickly.
"Sorry Kaede-sweet!" He said apologetically as he sank into the snow, the large bump becoming the only visible part of him.
The snow was really, really deep.
"Kweh!"
"Kaede!"
Looking up at hearing the shouts, I barely had time to move out of the way when a large feathery thing and a black cat suddenly blocked out the sun, heading straight for me. When the two of them landed, in an instant, they were on me holding on to me as tightly as they could.
"We thought we were going to loose you-hu-huhu!" Lil cried while wrapping her little kitty arms around my leg as best as she could, ignoring the fact that Choco's giant tears were freezing in mid air and hitting her in the head in the form of hail.
The two of them wouldn't let go of me, no mater how hard I tried to get away, Choco's wings and Lil's paws were iron tight and impossible to get away from. It was as if the jaws of life themselves were clamped onto me.
Looking down at the two of them, or rather looking down at Lil and straight at Choco as he was only partially bent over which made him almost my height where as normally he was even taller then me, I couldn't help but feel bad about worrying them. I hadn't meant to get sick, and I had taken every precaution possible in order to not get infected by that damn bug, but I had ended up burning most of my clothes off in my attempt to get out of the giant pumpkin, and had gotten sick because of it.
I had really worried them.
"Sorry guys, I didn't mean to worry you guys." I said apologetically, hugging the two of them back.
"Oh, by the way. Why were you laying in the snow? Are you stupid or something?" Lil demanded worriedly, pulling her face away from my leg to glare up at me with giant tear filled eyes. "You're sick! If you are out here to long, you could get even sicker and die!"
"Sorry, I just kind.... stopped when I realize I had forgotten to get the key." I told her, rubbing the top of her head in an attempt to make her feel better. "Besides, it's not actually all that cold to me, remember?" I said, smiling down at her and trying to make her less worried.
I wasn't lying either, it didn't feel that cold to me. Most people probably would have been freezing their asses off, but not me. I had some cat in me, and that took care of the heat without a problem.
"Huh? The key? Oh! The key!" Lil exclaimed as though she had just remembered something.
Putting one of her paws into her ear, which caused me to want to throw up again, she pulled out a large metal key and held it up to me, causing my jaw to hit the ground... or rather the snow.
"Where did you get that?!" I exclaimed happily, taking the key out of her paw and practically kissing it, only to remember that she had just pulled it out of her ear.
After I was done spitting and wiping my tongue and lips off in the snow, Lil started talking, explaining to me just what had happened while I was unconscious.
As it turned out, the moment I had collapsed everyone had freaked out, especially Lil because Nami hadn't gotten sick nearly as fast as I had in the anime, which was a really bad sign. It probably meant that I had less time then she did before it would kill me, which was really bad. As soon as I collapsed, she had told them that they needed to get me to the next island as soon as possible, saying that they needed to follow the regular Logpose and move as fast as possible.
The moment she told them all of this, saying that I had less then five days because she remembered Kureha telling Nami that it was the five day fever in the anime, they all started getting the ship to move as fast as they could. They even paddled some of the way using Luffy to help them move faster in an attempt to save me as soon as possible, sadly, it hadn't really worked.
In the end we had gotten to the island at about the same time as in the anime, had nearly gotten shot by the towns people like in the anime, and they had barely gotten the town's people to let them land on the island, just like in the anime. Again, just like in the anime, Carue and Zoro chose to stay on the ship while everyone got me to a doctor as fast as they could, the only difference was that Lucian and Nichi both decided to stay on the ship with him.
Everything after that had happened just like in the anime, or at least that's what Lil kept telling me anyway. It wasn't until Luffy and Sanji had been about to run off toward the mountain with me that anything actually changed, which only happened because of Lil's quick thinking.
As soon as Luffy and Sanji were about to head up the mountain, Lil remembered that the pulley system was actually working which she quickly told the others. She told them that it was something I had had a vision about a while back and that Kureha was the one that had fixed it. When Dalton heard this, he had been incredibly skeptical about it and a little confused about how I could have a 'vision' about anything. Once they explained that I was both a witch and a psychic and was never wrong, he told them where the pulley was, though he still hadn't been convinced. In the end, Lil had to correct him, saying that I had said that it was either by Kureha's old place, or by Hiluluk's place. (A/N: Wow... 4kids messed his name up so bad that I actually thought it was Hirolack... o.0, thank god for one piece wiki)
Not really all the convinced, Dalton led them first to Hiluluk's old place, which was about half way between Bighorn, which was the town they started in, and a town called Gyasta, which wasn't that far away. As soon as they got to his house, the realized that they didn't have to even bother with checking Kureha's old place because the rope way was hooked up to the giant tree that made up the house.
Just as everyone was about to get on, Lil remembered that Wapol was going to attack Bighorn and informed them of this, telling them that Sanji and Luffy should go on ahead but that the rest of them would protect the town. For some strange reason, Nami didn't seem to trust Luffy to make sure I got better, and was a little afraid of letting Sanji go because she wasn't sure what Kureha looked like and remembered what I said about witches not aging like other people, so in the end, she forced them to take Zoro with them.
Sadly, that meant that Dalton got shot, and Wapol and his men got away, which wouldn't have happened if Lil had used her brain and told them to keep Luffy or Zoro or Sanji down there with them. Any one of the three would have been able to take Wapol and his men out without a problem, but of course, she hadn't thought about that.
Then again, she was kind of worrying about me at the time, so I can't exactly yell at her for it.
In the end, no one had had to dig up Dalton because the bunnies never made the avalanche in an attempt to get Luffy, Sanji, and me. That meant that they had all been able to let the doctors see him almost as soon as Wapol ran off, which he only did because Choco had gone bird-crazy on his ass while Lil stole the key out of his pocket, and then Lil used the impact mallet on him...
This part of her tale surprised me. I knew she was strong enough to use the wooden one, but I had never even considered that she might be strong enough to be able to lift the impact one, though she did say that it was a very weak boom and that she had been barely able to hold it even though it only had a few cat punches in it.
Anyway, in the end Wapol ran off with his two main idiots, heading for the mountain, and the doctors to care of Dalton. When they were done and Dalton was awake, everyone headed to the pulley, which Lil had told Sanji to send back down once they were at the top of the mountain. When everyone was on it, they headed up and arrived just in time to see Wapol go flying off the tower and to see me laying in the snow.
"So that's how I got the key." Lil said before pulling my froggy bag out of her ear as well, causing me to cringe slightly.
My poor froggy bag...
"Ew! Gross! Don't put my froggy bag in your ear!" I gagged out, taking it out of her paws and wiping it on the snow.
I shell wash it and wash it, but it shell never be truly clean again.
Hooking the now snow covered froggy bag to my belt, which I was a little surprised to find still on me as most doctors in my world had a habit of stripping you and putting you in a paper gown, I picked Lil up and stood up, rubbing the side of Choco's head.
"Good boy." I said happily, causing him to kweh excitedly now that I was standing.
Once I was standing, I turned around to head back into the castle, knowing that Kureha would kill me if she caught me outside. Sadly, I didn't get very far before a sudden pain on top of my head alerted me to the fact that I was to late to sneak back in, and my world suddenly went white.
Luckily, I was only out for about fifteen minutes or so thanks to Lil smacking the crap out of me over and over again the moment Kureha left me in the medical room. Lucky for her, I decided to forgive her for smacking me around as she had done it for a good reason.
Blinking lazily at my surroundings instead of beating her to death, I found that I wasn't the only patient in the room this time. In a bed just a few feet away from mine was a rather large looking man, a man I recognized almost instantly from the anime.
It was Dalton, and just like in the anime, he was all bandaged up, though considerably more so then he had been in the anime.
'Sheesh, I guess something will never change...' I thought, wandering how some things could change a lot, like in Arlong park, and other things could go without changing at all. 'Well, at least I have the key.'
Moving into an sitting position, I looked over at Dalton, wandering just how bad his injuries were and how he had gotten them. Lil hadn't really gone into much detail about that part, which made me think that it had something to do with her, but I wasn't really sure if I should as or not. There was definitely something odd about his injuries.
Mainly the fact that he shouldn't have most of them.
Apart from a single arrow wound, he shouldn't have been hurt at all as there hadn't been an avalanche to injure him more then that, and yet, he was covered from head to toe in large bandages. It kind of made him look like a mummy. Oddly enough though, I was almost sure that there weren't any mummies in the one piece world as there wasn't any Egyptians or Mesopotamians to start the practice of mummification, so I seriously doubted anyone would understand me if I commented on it.
Then again, there were a lot of other things that I wouldn't have expected to see in this world, and yet, I had seen a lot of them, so it was very possible that mummies could be found, though I wasn't about to ever try to find one.
That's just a little two far beyond my 'creepy-limit'.
Noticing that I was staring at him, Dalton turned his attention toward me, causing me to realize just how much he looked like a military man.
'Which he is.' I thought, realizing that he was technically a military man.
The army and kingdom he used to be in under Wapol might not technically exist anymore, but that didn't change the fact that he was actually a general of some sort.
"Ah, I see that you are awake." He said formally, once again making me think of a soldier.
Way to freakin proper.
"What did you expect? With a gentle touch like mine, I can wake anyone." Lil said deviously, putting one of her paws against her chest in a very 'country madam' sort of way.
'Bamb!'
While I had refrained from beating the crap out of her for hitting me, I wasn't about to let her get away with calling it 'gentle'. She was strong enough to use my wooden mallet, as well as my impact mallet, so her hits were anything but 'gentle'. She was a freakishly strong cat, and her hits showed it, so there was no way she was going to get away with the 'gentle' remark unscathed.
To say Dalton was shocked at what I had just done would have been an understatment, though I didn't really notice this at first as I was too busy dealing with Lil.
Setting my wooden mallet on the bed, and ignoring the fact that I had once again pulled it out of thin air, something that was really starting to confuse the hell out of me, I turned my eyes to glare down at the little fuz-bucket.
"What was that, fur-ball?" I asked evilly with my eyes doing that weird 'flowing evil glare' that the others' eyes did when they were about to force Usopp to use the impact dial in the anime.
Seeing my eyes, Lil almost went to the bathroom right on the floor, knowing that I was very close to making her life a living hell.
"Um- meow?" She said nervously, giving me the biggest 'pet-me, I'm cute' kitten eyes she could muster.
Knowing that that was probably the closest I was going to get to an 'I'm sorry' from her, I rolled my eyes and turned my attention to Dalton, finally noticing the shocked expression on his face.
"Hi, sorry you had to see that. So, how are your injuries doing?" I asked him, trying to sound as friendly as I could.
Coming out of his shock, Dalton opened his mouth to answer my question, only to fall silent before he even started talking when the door leading to the hall suddenly opened and in walked several people I didn't recognize as well as several people I did.
In front of the group was Nami and Vivi, though everyone else seemed to be villagers from around the island.
"Kaede!" Nami said happily, walking over and sitting on my bed with Vivi.
Both her and Vivi seemed extremely relieved to see that I was OK. They had both definitely been incredibly worried about me, which suddenly made me feel like crap. I hated worrying people, and here I was worrying everyone on the crew. I had always thought that Nami was over reacting about worrying everyone in the anime, but now I kind of knew how she felt.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to worry you guys." I said apologetically, leaning in and hugging Nami and Vivi while I said it.
"Don't worry about it, it's not like you could have done anything about it." Vivi said as we all pulled away, pointing out that I hadn't exactly gotten sick on purpose.
"Yeah, you did try to keep all of us from getting bitten, and you had to use that spell to get out of the pumpkin. So don't worry about it, if anyone's to blame, it's those Baroque-Works agents. If they hadn't put you in that wax pumpkin, then you wouldn't have ended up burning your clothes." Nami pointed out, reminding me that I had actually tried to keep everyone from getting sick.
They were both right. I had actually tried to keep everyone safe, and there was nothing I could have done differently, so there was no real reason for me to be blaming myself.
"Thanks guys." I said after a minute, finally admitting that it wasn't actually my fault.
"Don't worry about it." Nami said, though when her eyes suddenly changed into dollar signs, I knew I did have something to worry about.
"Nami-?" I started, only to have my question interrupted by doctor Kureha when she suddenly walked in.
"You all happy?" She asked, looking from me and the girls to Dalton and his men before speaking again. "You're happy, good." She continued, turning her full attention to Dalton. "So Dalton, you would-"
Just as she had interrupted me, I decided to interrupt her in order to get her back.
"No," I said loudly, causing her to turn slightly annoyed eyes on me, clearly not liking the fact that I had cut her off.
"I beg your pardon?" She said, turning her full attention on me now that I had prevented her from finding out something she really wanted to know.
Feeling the slightly annoyed vibes coming off of the old woman- I mean, the young and vibrant woman, everyone turned to look at me, wandering if I was crazy. In their opinions, I would have to be nuts if I was actually willing to interrupt the crazy 'young and vibrant' witch doctor.
Deciding to act as though I was incredibly bored and hadn't noticed her reaction to me cutting her off, I started speaking again.
"Let's see. If you wave the medical fees and let me out of her today, I might be willing to give you the item that you're looking for." I said calmly, looking at her evilly before continuing. "After all, Dalton doesn't know where the key is, and I might just know exactly where it might be."
I could almost feel the sense of pride that was rolling off of Nami. Her little girl was all grown up and was cutting deal with people, she had never been so proud of her little apprentice before now.
While Nami seemed proud of me, Kureha on the other hand seemed... skeptical.
"If that's the real key, how do you have it?" She asked with a skeptical look on her face.
"I'm a witch and a psychic, how do you think I got it? Do you think I saw it in a cartoon and had my cat steal it out of metal-mouth's stomach?" I asked sarcastically, laughing slightly at my own question, though not for the reason they all seemed to think.
"Psychic witch? Huh, well I haven't seen a psychic or a witch since the marines took them all out years ago." She said mater-of-factly as she made her way over to me, clearly not really believing that I was a psychic or a witch.
A few days earlier, and I would have had to admit that she was right about the psychic part, and just a month earlier then that, I would have said the same thing about being a witch, but as it was, I really was both now, so I was able to just sit there and smirk at her statement without feeling guilty at all.
Though I almost never felt guilty about lying to people anymore anyway, so that wasn't saying much.
"Kaede," Vivi said, turning to me and looking at me as though she thought I was crazy. "You need to finish your treatment, you can't really be asking her to let you go before you're well again!"
"Don't worry about it, I feel fine, really." I said happily, waving off her worried comments. "Besides, Ctarl-Ctarls heal a lot faster then humans, even if we do sometimes get sick a lot faster too."
"Now listen here, girl. If you think I'm going to fall for that 'I'm psychic' stuff, you've got another thing coming." Kureha said, completely ignoring everything that Vivi and I had just said while poking me in the chest.
Smiling up at her evilly, I pulled the key out of my pocket and spun it around on my finger, smirking deviously at her.
"Fine, but I guess you wont be needing this." I said in a voice that was a little to happy as I started spinning it lazily right in front of her face.
The moment she saw the key, her eyes, along with everyone elses, went wide with shock. Dalton recognized the key instantly as the one that opened up Wapol's armory. He had seen it many times, though he had never thought that he would see a little girl holding it. The last time he had seen it, Wapol had been running off with it in fear of Blackbeard. He though the key was gone forever when he saw the large metal mouth get set flying by Luffy, and he had been happy about that, but now, it was sitting right in front of a woman that he was pretty sure was crazy.
"Where did you get that key?!" Both he and Kureha demanded in unison.
"My cat stole it off of the metal mouthed bastard earlier." I said proudly, smiling down at the little fuz-bucket when she jumped into my lap. "She is after all my cat."
"Pet me." said cat demanded, tapping her paw against my leg in an attempt to get me to rub her back.
Turning my eyes back to Kureha, I started petting Lil with my free hand while sending the old witch doctor an evil smile.
At this rate, the evil smile was going to become permanent.
…
Creepy thought.
"Face it, you thought my body temperature was above normal before, and it's normal for a Ctarl-Ctarl." I pointed out, ignoring the fact that I didn't actually know what the hell my normal body temp was now.
I might not know my normal temp either, but I wasn't about to tell her that.
"Ctarl-Ctarl? Never heard of it." She said glaring down at me. "Besides, no doctor in worth their bandages would let a patient leave before they're cured."
"Firstly, a Ctarl-Ctarl is a cat person, like how a mermaid is a fish person." I explained, glaring at her for trying to argue with me.
I was pretty sure that Nami hadn't had this much trouble dealing with her in the anime, though I couldn't really know as I didn't exactly have the ability to watch the episodes.
…
Maybe I need to give her a loophole with the 'no doctor worth their bandages would let a patient leave before they're cured' thing.
"Secondly," I continued, still spinning the key around on my finger. "You are a doctor of people, how the hell do you expect to know how to take care of a Ctarl-Ctarl?"
glaring at her and complaining was the only thing I could think of doing in order to give her the loophole, I wasn't exactly human, and I was pretty sure that the cat crap wasn't just superficial because if it had been superficial, then I would have had a normal human reaction to the bug, which I hadn't. The bug had taken less time to work on me then it had with Nami in the anime.
That meant that there was something very different about me compared to everyone else, and while it could have just been because I was from a different world, I wasn't so sure that was the reason. Some of my family members seemed to live in this world, so it had to be something about me specifically. If that was the case, then there was a good chance that I would have different reactions to other crap them most normal humans.
Which was the loophole. If I wasn't human, then Doctorine couldn't exactly expect to be able to treat me, now could she?
With a weird, and incredibly creepy, twinkle in her eye, Dr. Kureha snatched the key out of my hand and started heading for the door..
"Fine, I'll wave the medical fees for you and your friends and I'll let you go." she said, pausing when she reached the door. "I'm not a vet, and cats give me rashes anyway, but listen girl, there is a closet on the-"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ctarl-Ctarls are winter creatures anyway, the snow doesn't effect me." I said, hopping out of the bed and stretching slowly, smirking when I noticed the look she was giving me. "What? I'm a witch, remember? I said I was psychic."
For some strange reason, she seemed to want to say something but decided against it and simply turned around and exited the room instead. If I hadn't know any better, I would have said that she had been rethinking her 'witch? Yeah right.' statement from before and had been about to ask me something, though I seriously doubted that I would ever know what.
"What just happened?" One of the villagers asked with a wide eyed expression on his face.
"I don't know." Another said, the look on his face matching that of his friend's.
"I've never seen her let a patient go before..."
"Yeah, me neither."
"Well," I finally said, cutting into their conversation and getting everyone's attention. "like she said, she isn't a vet. I may look human, but I'm not, so she can't exactly know how her medicine is going to work on me anyway. For all she knows, I could keel over in the next five minutes, or live for the next billion years." I pointed out, making sure I had all my stuff before continuing on with a small joke. "Besides, who wants to deal with a humanoid's hairballs anyway?"
It was a bad joke, and everyone's reaction to it just proved it. Not a single one of them laughed, though I hadn't really expected them to.
"Anyway," I said, turning to Nami and Vivi. "Time to go." I said happily, grinning at them from ear to ear. "I wander if Luffy has talked Chopper to join the crew yet or not?"
Vivi and Nami glanced at each other before turning back to look at me with curious looks on their faces.
"Chopper? Do you mean that little talking reindeer guy we saw when we got off the rope-way?" Nami asked, wandering what a reindeer could do on the crew.
As she hadn't been the one that had gotten sick this time, she had no idea that he was a doctor, and therefor had no idea how much help he could actually be to the crew, or how sad his story was.
"Yep, he's supposed to become our ship's doctor." I explained happily as the three of us made our way over to the door.
"He's a doctor? Really?" Vivi asked in amusement, shocked to find out that a little talking reindeer could be a doctor.
"Yep, doctor Kureha taught him everything she knows." Lil explained from her usual spot on my shoulder.
It was official by now, Lil owned my left shoulder, and there wasn't a thing I could do about it.
"What?! Really? That's great! That means we'll finally have a doctor on our crew!" Nami said, clearly happy that we wouldn't have to keep winging it whenever someone got sick now.
Which only happened twice before, but that wasn't the point. The point was that we wouldn't have to worry so much anymore, and that made everything a lot easier.
"Yep, and just like with Lil, he can speak to animals to, plus he can turn into a full reindeer, a monster, his regular form, and several other forms as well." I said, realizing for the first time that we would actually have three different animals on our crew.
Just as Vivi had been about to say something, we exited the castle, just in time for me to hear the last half of Chopper's 'I can't be a pirate, I'm not human' statement.
"You say you can't join us because you're not human, but that has never stopped any of us before." I said before Luffy got the chance to speak. "On our ship we have three crew members that aren't human, four if you count the fact that one crew member, our captain, is a rubber man."
"Huh?" Chopper said in a confused voice, not really understanding what I was saying.
"Yeah, I'm a talking cat, and I'm part of the crew. I'm the recon-specialist." Lil said, giving Chopper a giant kitty smile.
"Kweh-kweh!" Choco said happily, popping out of nowhere to stand next to me.
"And I'm a Ctarl-Ctarl, a cat girl! I'm half cat, have girl!" I said happily, striking a cat like pose for more effect.
"Yeah, and not being human never stopped us from becoming pirates." Lil pointed out, hopping off of my shoulder and onto Choco's back so that she wasn't so high above him and was closer to being at eye level.
Though not by much.
"Yeah, so let's go!" Luffy shouted, throwing his fists up into the air.
Just like in the anime, Luffy's shouting seemed to do the trick, causing Chopper to start tearing up. All of us simply smiled at him, including Choco, though I could only tell because of the way his eyes were closed in little upside-down smiles.
Crying in his usual cute and dorky way, Chopper nodded head, showing that he was going to join us before running into the castle to tell doctor Kureha.
"Told you he was going to join us." I said, smiling at Nami and Vivi, happy that I hadn't screwed things up so much that we would miss getting people.
That would suck big time.
While Chopper was inside the castle talking to Dr. Kureha, the rest of us were busy filling up the slay with stuff that we were taking with us, which wasn't all that much as we were pretty sure that Kureha would kill us if we took anything without permission and she was almost as bad as Nami... or me.
He was only in the castle for about ten minutes before he suddenly came running out of it, yelling for everyone to get on the slay.
"What's going on?" Nami asked, wandering why we were leaving like this.
Just as I was about to explain, Kureha came flying out of the castle like a bat out of hell, waving two incredibly large axes around and running straight for us. Not wanting to get hit by one of the axes if she threw them, we all jumped into the slaw and off we went with Chopper pulling the slay down the rope-way behind him.
It took us only a short time to get to the boat, thanks mostly to Chopper pulling the slay at an incredible speed, and once we got there, the sky suddenly went dark and the sound of cannon fire rang through out the air.
Wandering what was going on, all of us turned to face the large mountain that the castle stood up, only to stair in wander as the clouds around the mountain turned pink, making it look as though the mountain was actually a cherry tree that was blossoming.
And the snow, the snow itself looked like small sakuras, or Japanese cherry blossoms.
All of us simply stood there staring at the sight before us, completely mesmerized by what we were seeing. I had completely forgotten about it, though I shouldn't have as it was what Kureha had wanted the key for.
Chopper seemed to by struck by an entirely new wave of tears at the sight before us, which was understandable since the man that had invented the formula to make the snow pink had been the closest thing Chopper had ever had to a father.
After an hour of watching the pink snow fall, all of us slowly boarded the ship and set sail, though not before saying good bye to the island itself.
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