Chapter 31: Fishing with men.
Summery: It's one of THOSE stories, you know, girl falls into one piece, and destroys all of existence… OK… maybe not that last part… but she does irritate the hell out of Zoro.
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.
A/N1: I KNOW ZORO IS ALSO CALLED ZOLO,
A/N2: I HAVE DECIDE TO LEAVE THE PAIRING UP TO THE READERS.
A/N3: Just so you guys know, I'm also editing some of the older chapters (Again), so they are why it is taking me so long to update now. (chapters 1-8 have been edited)
Since we have no idea what these guys can do, send in suggestions please:
Mr. 6 : Miss. Mother's day
Mr. 10 : Miss. Tuesday
Mr. 12 : Miss. Saturday
and Mr. 11's partner, Miss. Thursday
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
The diaries of Kaede Tsuda Burnett, day 55
Yeah... so... I don't really know what to write about this time. I mean, it's been three days since we left drum island, or whatever they plan to change the name to, but not much has actually happened. It's been oddly.... quite, apart from the party we had in Chopper's honor when we first got back on the ship that is.
It wasn't really much of a party, more of everyone just jumping around a lot and drinking one of Sanji's drinks, or drinking Sake like Zoro and Lucian. Everyone pretty much just had fun, but it wasn't all that great, then again, that might be because I was sick the whole time... When we left Kureha's castle, I thought I was OK, but I ended up throwing up a lot once we were on the ship... it was kind of embarrassing...
Anyway, Chopper has settled in OK, though he's still doing that 'do I deserve to be on the crew?' self doubting thing that I did when I first joined the crew. He also nearly had a heart attack when he found out what everyone does for the crew.
Nami's job as our navigator and 'weather forecaster' didn't seem to shock him that much since they are pretty normal occupations for anyone on the sea, but that and Luffy's abilities were two of the only three things that didn't surprise him. He had already seen Luffy's abilities, so they weren't exactly shcoking anymore.
As for Usopp, Chopper completely fell for his 'I'm the captain' lie at first, but Nami, Luffy, Lil, and I Lil set him straight after we explained to Usopp that he should stop doing that... OK, so we ended up hitting Usopp on the back of the head, but can you really blame us?
Anyway, moving on.
The reindeer man was a little surprised when he found out that Zoro used to be a pirate hunter, and he was even more surprised surprised when he found out that our chef wasn't just a chef, but was actually the world's best chef and one hell of a fighter too, though he had actually seen a little bit of his fighting abilities during the whole Wapol thing, so that part didn't surprise him to much. When we told him that Lil hadn't been joking about her job as a scouter, and when he found out that she could lift a huge ass mallet that was three times her size and five times her weight as well as her ability to hide things in her ear, he nearly fainted from shock.
Choco, on the other hand, didn't surprise him at all because the big feather duster kind of looks like he might be dangers thanks to his giant talons. They are all about six inches long now, so it was pretty easy for the reindeer to believe that he was a fighter.
Then there's me. Chopper almost had a heart attack when he saw me use a fire spell for the first time, and he was even more surprised when I hopped on to my broom and zoomed off into the sky above the ship to see if there was any land nearby.
When he found out that me and Luffy had huge ass bounties on our heads, he promptly fainted. That was funny.
The last thing that shocked him was the fact that Vivi, Carue, Lucian, and Nichi weren't actually part of the crew and were actually criminals that were on the run from their own crime syndicate in Lucian and Nichi's cases, and a princes and royal duck in Vivi's and Carue's cases.
After that, nothing really shocked him all that much.
Anyway, what else do I have to write about?
Oh, I have finally finished my damn sub's repairs. After the incident in Laboon's stomach the sub was pretty much totaled thanks to... well, mostly thanks to my own stupidity. I've finally fixed everything and have started adding stuff to it, including a way to get it back onto the ship once it's in the water, that way I wont have to deal with what happened last time ever again, though it isn't going very well. I've tried out nine different mechanisms, but none of them have really worked. I did it while everyone was asleep so that they wouldn't see what I was doing because I kind of want to make it a surprise, but that's making it even harder for me to do everything.
Anyway, one attempt actually almost killed me. Not because it was that much of a failure, though it was a failure. Nope, it almost killed me because I choose what had to be the worst time in the world to test it out. As soon as the sub was in the water, I found myself face to eye with a rather large, and incredibly hungry looking, Seaking. Story of my life, I swear. I try to do something to help everyone, and I nearly get eaten in the process.
When I ran away from the stupid thing, or rather propelled away from it, it chased after me, and when I tried to get back onto the ship, I found that I couldn't. If it wasn't for the 'Thundara torpedoes', I would have been eaten. The other attempts weren't so bad, but they still ended in utter failure. Each and every one of them.
I don't know, maybe I'm going about it the wrong way, but I will get it to work one way or another. I just know it.
Anyway, what else is there to write about... Choco seems to have gotten even bigger over the past few days, and Chopper has been keeping track of his health and growth rate. He seems to think that it's just amazing that Choco can grow so fast. If he only knew...
Lil's gone nuts and has been trying to eat the ammonites I had in my froggy bag from when we were in little garden, which I had to build a small tank for, sort of. I actually made the tanks out of the two large glass jars that I got back when were fight got Nami and fought buggy, the ones that are two feet tall and two feet in diameter and were filled with dried fruits and nuts when I first stole them. They each hold about forty gallons and the lids are really hard to get off, so they're kind of perfect for fish tanks.
When I first found that the ammonites were still alive, I was a little surprised. I would have thought that they would have all died over the three and a half days that they were out of water, but apparently, they don't mind being out of water that long, either that or the froggy bag just kept them alive or something...
Anyway, they are going to make great additions to my seashell collection when they die, plus Sanji seems to want to try to cook them or something, though I have decided to let them lay eggs or give birth or whatever they do before we eat any of them. Don't ask me why, it's pretty much just for my amusement, but I still made him promise to keep everyone away from them until then.
OK... so I lied, it hasn't been the quite. I just don't really want to write this down, it's way to embarrassing.
I almost burned the ship down. It was an accident, but I still almost got us all killed, so now I have to figure out some other way for me to be able to do my engineering, or at least the steel making part. It happened while I was pouring some melted steel. Apparently the stone slap I was using had a crack in it, which meant that the molten steel was able to seep through it and onto the wood below, which instantly went up in flames. We managed to put it out, but everyone had decided that it would be best if I didn't make anymore steel or glass while on the ship, which I couldn't exactly argue with. So now I have to figure out something to do, but I still haven't decided on what.
Let's see... what else.. hm. Oh! I almost forgot.
I decided that I'm going to have to let the whole 'Bon Kurei' thing run its course. I could stop him if we pick him up like in the anime, but then he wouldn't save our ship or I would have to put in in the froggy bag and take it with us through the desert, but if that happens, then Robin wont be able to sneak on board it. So the only option is to let him copy a few peoples faces and let him go.
Anyway, that's about all I can think of for the moment. I'll write more if I think of anything else.... Great, I'm starting to write in this stupid thing like I expect someone to write back.
I need help.
Signed, The diaries of a Mad Cat Woman.
Sighing heavily, I closed my journal and put it away before heading up the stares to the storage room and out onto the ship's main deck. It was a beautiful day and I felt like doing some fishing, which had to be a cat thing because I had always hated fishing before. I had always thought that it was boring, just sitting there for hours at a time... but for some reason, it didn't seem so bad now.
Pulling my newer fishing rod out of my froggy bag, I made my way around to the back of the ship where Zoro, Sanji, Lil, Usopp, and Lucian where playing cards. I had figured out a while back that it was much easier to fish behind the ship instead of off to the side of it. Don't ask me why, but more fish tended to bite when you fished behind the ship instead of off to the side.
"Hey, Kaede-sweet!" Sanji said happily when he spotted me, waving a hand at me to show that they were playing cards. "Want me to deal you in?"
"Why would you want her to play cards with us?" Usopp asked, looking at the blond cook as if he thought he were crazy.
"What was that?!" the blond demanded angrily, once again going overboard in attempt to protect a girl. "And why wouldn't we want her to play?!"
Firstly, I hate it when he does that, secondly, it was kind of obvious why Usopp didn't want me playing cards with them. I was a psychic after all.
"Calm down, I was just saying that her ability to see the future might give her an unfair advantage." Usopp explained, trying to pacify Sanji while Lil, Lucian, and Zoro simply watched the two idiots lazily.
"That's not the point!" Sanji growled angrily, looking as though he was about to strangle Usopp.
Lucky for Usopp, Sanji didn't get the chance to strangle him because Chopper chose that moment to come running up the that led from the main deck, screaming at the top of his lungs. Apparently, Luffy had been snatched up by a giant bird.
"Calm down, baby." Lucian said, turning his attention back to his cards, causing me to look over to see what he had.
Unsurprisingly, he had a royal flush.
"Did he ask for help?" Zoro asked, turning his eyes back to his own cards, which I also checked to see what he had.
I had expected him to not have anything, but as it turned out, he had four of a kind... that was a little surprising.
Hearing the sound of gigantic wings flapping, I glanced up at the sky, only to see a bird the size of Japan flying over us. The moment I saw it, I instantly remembered it from the anime and decided that it was time for me to find a new spot to fish.
"Um... Well, nice knowing you guys." I said in an overly happy voice, running past chopper and down the stairs that led to the main part of the ship's deck.
I had barely cleared the stairs when the bird came crashing down, landing right on top of the others and causing the ship to shake back and forth widely. It was almost the same size as our sail, which meant that it took up the whole back end of our ship. Luffy had done a Gum-Gum move on it, wrapping his arms around its entire body, which stopped the bird from being able to fly. Luckily, the bird's kneck had snapped when it hit the ship, which killed it instantly, which meant that it wasn't going to hurt anyone if they got to close.
Everyone that had still been on the deck had ended up getting dazed when the bird crashed into them. While the others had been daze, Luffy on the other hand had been riding half inside the birds beak and was completely unharmed, though I seriously doubted that that would be the case for very long.
"Hey, Sanji!" the rubber man called out happily, climbing out of the bird's beak and sitting down on the open space in front of it while I walked back up the stairs to rejoin him and the others. "I got some meat for us, look!" He said, pausing when he saw that everyone was just laying around, not moving. "Hey, why are you guys sleeping?"
The moment the words left his mouth, Usopp, Sanji, Zoro, Lucian, and Lil all moved into position to beat the living daylights out of him.
"We're not, you idiot!" They shouted in unison, hitting him over the head as hard as they could.
"And you!" Usopp and Lil shouted angrily as they turned their furry on me. "Why didn't you warn us?!"
Smiling at them innocently, I gave them the best 'I'm to cute for you to hurt' look I could muster, which I had learned from Lil and Nami, and spoke.
"Just wanted to see if you guys could survive it." I said offhandedly, keeping the 'I'm to cute for you to hurt' smile on my face as I started to inspect the bird closely.
"You owe me for this Kaede, I had a really good hand!" Usopp said angrily, glaring at me for causing him to lose, which I seriously doubted was really my fault.
I hadn't looked at his hand, but I seriously doubted that he had had a winning hand, especially not with Lucian's hand.
"And I had a royal flush, baby! How could you do this to me?!" Lucian demanded in the same overly dramatic way that he always does when he talks, practically crying over his now lost chance to win.
"Hey! Don't blame her for you guys losing!" Sanji said protectively, coming to my defense like always.
"Hey Sanji," I finally said, having been completely ignoring their conversation in favor of looking over the bird. "Do you think you can give me the beak, the talons, and the feathers from this thing? I think I might have a few things I can make out of them."
"Sure thing, Kaede-sweet!" he replied, doing his little wiggly-legs thing that he always does whenever Nami, Vivi, me, and Nichi ask him to do something for us.
"What do you need all of those things for?" Lucian asked, unable to think of anything that they would be good for.
"Yeah, why do you need the talons, the beak, and the feathers?" Chopper asked, sounding just as confused as as the 'king' was.
I'll never understand why Lucian always has to wear a crown and a green suit.
"Well," I said, thinking of the many different things I could make with them. "I can use the smaller feathers as pillow stuffing or lures for fishing so that we wont have to worry about Usopp, Luffy, Lil, or Choco eating the bate anymore.
"The medium sized feathers can be made into a new feather duster for Sanji since he's been complaining about the one he already has, and I can even make a new 'bird-feathered broom' for myself since I'm technically supposed to be using one that I've made.
"As for the larger feathers, I can use them to make Egyptian fans for decoration, a nest like thing for Choco, toys for Lil, hand fans for us girls, I might be able to use them in some magic or something, and and there are many other things I can use them in." I said, though I wasn't really sure if I could really use them in magic, though I was definitely going to try.
"Really?! You can use them in your magic?!" Chopper exclaimed in surprise, wandering what kind of magic I could do with them.
"I get the feathers, but what about the beak and the talons? What do you plan use them for?" Zoro asked, poking at the beak with his sword, which caused Sanji to become incredibly protective of it.
"Hay! Don't poke it you bastard! This beak is Kaede's!" He growled angrily, causing me and everyone else to roll our eyes at him.
"Actually, I have no idea. I just want to try." I said, answering Zoro and pretending as though Sanji had never spoken. "I might be able to make some weapons out of the talons for Choco and Lil, or even for Nami and Usopp. I'm not really sure. Anyway, I came over here to do some fishing, but with the bird in the way... I guess I'll do it on the side of the ship instead." I said, walking back down the stairs so that Sanji would have more room to work on the bird.
"Hey," Sanji called out to me, causing me to pause and turn to look at him. " Do you think you can use one of your spells to freeze this thing before you go? That way it will last longer."
Now that was something I hadn't even considered. We had always had food restraints because we couldn't keep the meat for very long. If I just used a Blizzard spell on the meat every once in a while, we could keep it longer.
Nodding my head at him, I cast several Blizzard spells on the large bird, silently wandering if I was ever going to be able to do a Blizzara spell, which I instantly tried and found that I still couldn't do it. Once I was done freezing the bird, I turned around and started heading down the stairs again, smiling when I heard chopper tell the others that we were all really incredible.
Just like with Usopp's dream of being a pirate, just like with Sanji's dream of finding the all blue, Just like with Zoro's dream of becoming the worlds greatest swordsman, just like Luffy's dream of becoming the king of the pirates, and just like Nami's dream of mapping the whole world, Chopper was finally on his way to achieving his own dream.
It was definitely something he had a right to be happy about.
Reaching the main deck, I pulled both of my fishing rods out of my froggy bag, along with some bait, and sat down on the ship's railing. Casting both of my lines and fishing double-handedly, I simply sat there staring out at the horizon, thinking of everything that we were about to do in Arabasta.
While I was deep in thought about what were were about to do, not realizing that iw as doing exactly what I shouldn't have been doing, all things considered, Nami came out of the kitchen and called for everyone's attention.
"Hey guys, I need to talk to you all about something." She called out, making sure that everyone would be able to hear her.
Wandering what it was she wanted to talk about, everyone made their way to the main deck to hear what she had to say, though I just sat there and continued fishing since I was already on the main deck to begin with. When everyone was present, including Carue, Choco, and Lil, Nami told us why she called us together.
"Listen up!" She said seriously, making sure that everyone was paying attention, though she let me off the hook because I usually already knew everything. "We'll be landing in Arabasta soon, so we all need to get ready and be on guard. Anything can happened from this point on. While it's true that Kaede can usually tell us if something bad is going to happen, there is always the chance that she wont see it, like her getting sick. She tried to warn us, but in the end, it just put herself in danger, so we can't really rely on her power of foresight as much as we used to."
"Yeah, why is it that?" Usopp asked in a thoughtful tone, turning his attention to me, causing me to look over at them and away from my fishing. "I mean, normally everything you see comes true, right? So why are your visions getting more and more unpredictable?"
"Yeah, come to think of it," Sanji said thoughtfully, thinking back to everything that I had seen since he join the crew. "Your vision was a little off back when we were in Loguetown too. Most of it was right, but you didn't see yourself being put out of commission for a while. Then, on Little Garden, you knew about the parasite, but you didn't see yourself getting sick, or the attack."
"Actually, I did see the attack..." I corrected, thinking about it for a minute in an attempt to figure out the best way to explain how I missed everything that happened to me as they should already know why I hadn't predicted the fight on Little Garden. "But, yeah, I didn't see everything that happened to me."
"What?!" everyone demanded, furious at me for not telling them about the fight on Little Garden before it actually happened.
"Why didn't you tell us?!" Usopp and Lucian demanded in unison, putting their faces incredibly close to mine.
"Yeah, what gives?" Nami asked, making it clear that I had better have a good reason for not telling them.
"Yeah, why didn't you tell us?" Nichi asked, sounding a little suspicious.
Everyone was looking at me intently, waiting for an answer. They all wanted to know why I would keep something like that from them when I was supposed to tell them about fights before they happened. It wasn't like I had meant to no tell them, I did actually have a very good reason, so it wasn't completely my fault.
"If you guys think about what happened shortly before we got to the island, you might be able to figure it out yourselves." I said in an annoyed tone, my right eye twitching madly.
It was one thing for them to wander why my visions kept getting crappier and crappier, but it was a completely different thing for them to claim I was withholding information like that. It was true that I might not mention things until just before they happen, but to actually assume that I wasn't telling them what I knew at all was just rude.
"Huh?" Usopp said in a confused tone as they all started trying to think of what could have happened to keep me from telling them about the fight ahead of time.
"I passed out, remember? Right after the dolphin thing." I pointed out to them, wandering how they could forget something like that.
"Oh, yeah. I remember now, you passed out after having a vision about that giant dolphin." Nami said, finally remembering it after I pointed it out.
"Oh yeah, I was so frightened that I would loose my Kaede sweet when that happened!" Sanji said emotionally, causing me to slowly start reaching for my mallet, though I somehow managed to keep myself from doing it.
"I completely forgot about that." Usopp said, nodding his head in understanding. "You had that vision and instantly collapsed, so you didn't actually have the chance to tell us about the guys following us."
"That does explain why you weren't able to tell us about it. I am ashamed." Nichi said, rubbing the back of her head while bowing at me in an apology.
"But that still doesn't explain why your visions have been a little off lately." Usopp said, gesturing at me slightly for me to go on.
"Actually, the more and more I think about..." Nami said, rubbing her chin thoughtfully while looking past me. "Every time you have told us about the future, it's always what happens to you that you get wrong."
That was one of the things I had always like about her. Nami always seemed to have the ability to connect the dots while others never did. It was probably the same ability that let her product the weather so accurately when it was supposed to be impossible in the Grandline.
"Huh? You mean she can't see herself in her visions?" Usopp asked her, looking at her with confusion in her eyes, instantly reminding me why he had always been one of my favorite people in any world.
I could always count on him to come up with a good excuse for me, even if he didn't realize he was doing it.
"Huh? That doesn't make any sense though." Zoro said, shaking his head at the very thought. "How can anyone see the future of the people they travel with, but not see themselves in it?"
"Yeah, that doesn't make any sense, baby. That would be impossible." Lucian said, and this time he didn't make me want to zap him with the 'baby' word.
Normally it was annoying, but at the moment it was actually giving me time to think of a good excuse using Nami's and Usopp's idea, so I was more then happy to let him say it for a while.
"Wait a sec," Nami said, cutting down on my time to think of an accuse. "Didn't you tell me that you see another version of reality in your visions a while back?"
'Note to self, steal some gold for Nami.' I thought happily, instantly remembering what I had told her before.
"Yeah, I don't actually see the future," I said, explaining it to them as soon as I had the idea in my head. "I saw the future when I was a kid."
"Huh? When you were a kid?" Usopp and Lucian asked in unison, realizing that that meant that I had seen really far off into the future when I was little.
The thoughts they were having were easy to see : if a small vision knocked me out, then what did a big vision do?
"And you've done things to change the future, am I right?" Nami asked, instantly understanding.
"Sort of, I only actually did one thing... well... sort of.." I said, trying to figure out the best way to explain it to them.
"Really?" Chopper asked curiously, surprising me slightly when he finally spoke up.
He had been quietly listening the whole time. He hadn't been with us for that long, so he didn't know that much about my psychic abilities. As far as he was concerned, the fact that I was a psychic was amazing enough.
"Just one thing? That's all you changed?" Nami asked, wandering what that one thing was and looking slightly amazed at the fact that it had only changed things a little.
"Actually, it wasn't just one thing." I said nervously, still unsure if it was going to sound right. "It was actually just one big thing, and a few small things here and there, like telling you guys the future sometimes."
"I'm gonna assume that the telling us the future part is the small stuff since you do that all the time." Sanji said, putting his cigarette out before pulling out another one and lighting it.
"If telling us the future are just small things," Vivi started, voicing the question that was on everyone's mind. "then what was the big change?"
"Simple," Lil said, crawling her way onto my shoulder, which surprised me slightly because I was still sitting on the railing, fishing. "We joined the crew."
Everyone simply stared at me and Lil for a moment, unable to believe that that was the big thing. It didn't seem like it was such a big deal, but they were wrong. It was definitely a big deal. I was changing things in their world, or and I had already changed some big events. If I am anything, it isn't stupid. I had already figured out what joining Luffy's crew had done, and I also knew that it wouldn't change a thing if I left. It would actually make it even harder for everyone if I did.
Joining the crew had, at first, seemed like no big deal, but at the time, I hadn't actually thought it through. When I decided to join the crew I had basically decided to change things that I probably will never be prepared for. The first major thing to change because of me joining the crew, which might not seem like much but is, was the death of Momoo. If I hadn't joined Luffy, then Momoo wouldn't have died. Momoo's death might not sound like that big of a deal, but it was, and still is.
Just like everything, Momoo's death had caused a small ripple effect, though it was actually part of a ripple effect itself. It had caused Arlong and his crew to have to get a new Seaking pet. That had also gotten them a few new crew members, one of which had nearly killed a little boy and had probably killed a bunch of other people as well.
And I was pretty sure that them getting the three new crew members and Krogon would have their own ripples as well. If Krogon was a wild Seaking, then a new Seaking would have to rise up to fill it's spot in the wild, and that new Seaking could be incredibly vicious for all I knew. And any number of things could happen because of what happened with the other three, to many to even count.
Then there was what happened to Luffy's bounty. Because I am on his crew, and because I am a witch, his bounty had ended up being a lot more then what it should have been, which could cause a huge load of problems as well.
In the end, the simple act of joining the crew had changed so many things that the ripple effect, which should have been slow, was probably going to turn into Speedy-Gonzales anytime now, and that was really going to suck.
"Does that mean," Nami started, being the first one to really grasp what I was saying. "you weren't supposed to join the crew?"
"Yep." I said, turning my attention back to my fishing, not really wanting to answer any questions about what would have happened if I hadn't have joined.
"So that means that all of your visions don't include you, that's why you can't see what's going to happen to yourself." Zoro said, fully understanding it now.
"But, what about the dolphin vision? You had that after you joined, does that mean you were in it?" Luffy asked, proving that he was actually paying attention.
"Yeah, I was in that one." I said calmly, still wishing that they would change the subject away from my psychic abilities. "But visions are incredibly rare, and the future is starting to change more and more, so anything I know about the future can't be trust completely, and I'll probably never have another vision anyway, and even if I do, it will end the same way as the last one, with me passing out."
"Huh? So passing out after a vision is normal! I had a feeling that was the case." Nami said in understanding before catching a gimps of the side of my face.
Realizing that I really didn't want to talk about my visions at the moment, she quickly changed the subject.
"Anyway, now that that is settled," She began, turning back to the others and getting their attention. "We'll, anyway, we'll be getting to Arabasta soon, so we should probably all get ready."
"What is Arabasta?" Chopper asked curiously, causing me to smile.
While everyone explained everything that was going on with Vivi's kingdom, I slowly let my mind drift to what I was going to do with the stuff from the bird, which I was only thinking about because I really didn't want to think about how I had thoroughly screwed up this worlds time-line. It wasn't until Vivi pointed out that we had to take try to stop the revolt that I actually rejoined the conversation.
"Actually, that isn't going to work." I said, getting everyone's attention. "We should still try to talk to them, but in the vision, it didn't work. The people didn't stop fighting until Crocodile was defeated."
"What? You mean we won't be able to stop the revolt?!" Vivi asked in a horrified voice, looking as thought she was about to have a heart attack.
"Well, like I said, we might be able to because a lot of things keep changing from what I originally saw, but since some things are still the same, there is still a chance that we won't be able to stop it until right after it starts." I explained, showing her how sorry I was for having to tell her that.
It was the truth, and they needed to know it. There was always a chance that it would turn out different, but they still had a right to know what I knew.
"How far into the future did you see anyway?" Usopp suddenly asked, which Sanji promptly kicked him in the butt for.
"Can't you see she doesn't want to talk about her visions? Just take the info she gives us and leave the rest alone." He growled, once again coming to my rescue, though this time I was grateful for it.
While Sanji was right that I didn't want to talk about it, Usopp and the others did kind of deserve an estimation on how much I could tell them, and for how long I could tell them about the future.
"Thanks Sanji, but he's right. You guys do kind of have the right to know." I said, thinking of the best way to estimate the amount of time from where we were to where the anime was when I had gotten sucked through the portal and into the crystal hall. "I'm actually not that sure how many months into the future I still know from this point on, but I think I might be able to come up with an estimation."
"Huh? Did you forget how long it was?" Luffy asked, sounding confused about how I wouldn't know something like that.
"Quiet, you." Sanji said, bopping him on the head with his foot for interrupting me.
"No, I didn't forget." I said, shaking my head at his question. " It's just that I only saw the big parts, I didn't see you guys sleep, or when you guys were just eating or fishing. I only ever saw the important stuff, like the fights." I explained, still trying to figure out how to estimate the amount of time it had taken them to get from Drum islands and the Arabasta ark all the way to the Redline again.
"Eating is important." Luffy said, causing Nami, Vivi, and Nichi to hit him over the head for his stupidity.
Eating and battles aren't even close to being in the same category.
"I think she just means she saw the stuff that we would want to know about, idiot." Nami growled, wishing he would get with the program.
"Well, I guess I can't estimate how long it was," I finally said, realizing that it was kind of useless to even try. "But I can tell you that I saw you guys get to the Redline again, so I guess I saw the first half of the Grandline."
"And since the One Piece is on the other side of the Redline, that means you saw the first half of our journey." Zoro said, doing the bath in his head.
"Wow, that's amazing!" Chopper and Lucian said, both sounding incredibly impressed with my abilities.
I was a little surprised that Lucian was being so quiet. The fact that Nichi and Chopper weren't talking much wasn't that shocking as Nichi tended to be quiet anyway and Chopper was still getting settled into the crew and was to eager to listen to everything that was going on to actually say anything. Lucian on the other hand was completely different. It was normally almost impossible to shut him up, so I was really shocked that he was being so... silent.
Maybe doing things that would amaze him was the best way to shut him up for a while...
"Wow, that's so cool." Luffy said, thinking the same thing that Lucian and Chopper were.
Lucian looked as though he really wanted to ask me something, and so did everyone else actually, but all of them decided that it was probably best to leave me alone for awhile, knowing that I really didn't want to be talking about my psychic abilities. If they wanted to know that badly, then they were just going to have to wait.
Deciding that asking me some more questions was out of the question, everyone started explaining the rest of the stuff about Arabasta and what was going on to Chopper, who seemed to be soaking in as much information as he could.
Once I was certain that they wouldn't be asking me any more questions and that I didn't need to tell them anything else, I slowly let my mind wander back to what I was going to do with the giant bird's beak, feathers, and talons, wandering if I would really be able to use them in some magic. I was hoping I would be able to make something or do something really cool with them, but I seriously doubted weather or not I would be able to even use them at all.
Just as I was about to start digging through my froggy bag in search of a book or something that might help me, one of my fishing rods was nearly yanked right out of my hand, causing me to instantly let go of the other one in an attempt to get a better grip.
"Wow! I got one!" I shouted, getting everyone's attention as I was nearly yanked off of the boat.
Was nowhere near strong enough to be a Seaking, but it definitely wasn't a small fish either. If it was a Seaking then it would have yanked me right off the boat without a problem with a simple twitch of it's mouth, but luckily, whatever this thing doesn't have that kind of strength.
"Wow, must be a big one!" Usopp exclaimed as he and the others ran over to me.
"Don't let it go, I want to eat it!" Luffy shouted, causing me to growl angrily at him.
"Can you wait until I catch the damn thing at least?!" I growled at him, holding onto the railing with my legs as hard as I could, nearly flying off once or twice as the fish tried to get away. "Don't just stand there, help me!" I yelled at the rest of them, wandering why the hell they were all just standing there while I fought to catch the fish.
Everyone instantly moved to try to help. Most of them grabbed onto me, but Usopp and Lil grabbed onto the fishing rod, which would have been fine if it wasn't for Nichi grabbing onto...
"MY TAIL!" I screamed in pain, all of my muscle tensing up instantly, causing me to let go of the fishing rod, which had a really bad side effect...
While the fish definitely wasn't a Seaking because a Seaking would have been strong enough to pull me off of the ship, it was definitely strong enough to drag Lil and Usopp through the water. The moment my hands let go of the fishing rod, Lil and Usopp got dragged into the water, making it look like they were water skiing on Usopp's head.
"WAHBLAHBA!" I heard Usopp scream in horror as he was dragged through the water upside down.
"Sorry. " Nichi said, letting go of my tail at the same time that everyone else let go of me, which caused me to fall forward, frozen in pain.
Which meant that I ended up falling right into the ocean, and as soon as I hit the water, the fish that was dragging Usopp promptly did a u-turn and started heading straight for me, though I didn't notice this as I was to dazed from having my tail pulled on by a giant muscle woman.
"Kaede! Usopp!" Nami, Zoro, Sanji, and Vivi shouted in horror when they saw what the giant fish was about to do.
"Hey?! What am I to you people?! A dust mop?!" Lil demanded angrily, holding onto Usopp's 'that-which-shell-not-be-mentioned' for dear life, not realizing what her claws were clawing.
While Lil was shouting at everyone for not worrying about her, which they weren't doing at the moment because she wasn't one of the ones that was about to get hurt, the fish was closing in, getting closer and closer. Once it was near me, it went right past me, much to Lil's surprise.
But not everyone else's.
Instead of the fish swimming right into me or trying to eat me, it swam right past me and hit me with Usopp's head, which caused both me and Usopp to go flying through the air, taking Lil and, surprisingly, the fish along with us. All of us landed on the ship, though we didn't land in the order that the others were expecting.
I had been the first one to land, mostly because I landed in the crow's nest. Usopp, Lil, and the fish however...
Well, the fish, which was a good three to four hundred pounds, landed right in front of Sanji's feet, which of course was ironic because I had a feeling that Sanji was going to kick it to death for hurting me. As for Lil and Usopp... well, about half way through the air, Lil had gone flying in a slightly different direction then Usopp, taking a good chunk of Usopp's pants with her. As for Usopp, he ended up landing in a barrel... upside down... which gave everyone, except me as I was lucky enough to be dazed, a good view of Usopp's 'that-which-shell-not-be-mentioned',
Lucky for Usopp, he was knocked unconscious when his head hit the bottom of the barrel, because he probably would have died from embarrassment if he had been awake to hear the screams.
Yeah, this chapter was just for my personal amusement... I think it went rather well, don't you?
I have decided that I will be ending part 1 of this story as soon as we get to Arabasta kingdom, and then I will start part 2 (why? Because that way I can write a Zoro version of part 2, and then an ace version of part 2, and any other pairings I want in their own versions. It makes it easier for me to decide on the pairing if I can do all of them, :D)
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