One piece
Lost
Chapter 3
Joe healed her to the best of his ability. Luffy ,liking the fact that he had new nakama , never strayed from her side except to get the occasional meal...well a lot of meal meaning a lot of meat...waking up Jessica looked around and saw the straw hat boy snoozing. Siting up she leaned toward him and poked him. After that didn't work she pushed him out of his chair making him sit up and look at her.
"NEW NAKAMA!!!"
she leaned back from his screaming and put her hands over her ears. The commotion got the attention of the crew who rushed in ace leading the pack
"well looks like my little sis is up and at them. I heard the story from pops something about being frozen, didn't understand it all but what matters is your here right?!"
He smiled and sat down on the bed next to her.
"whats this nakama buisness?"
she asked looking to her new found brother who just chuckled in response. Luffy jumped up and down in his chair.
"Ace told me you play piano! Brooke plays violin! Now I'll have another musician! We are on are way the thousand sunny now! White beard is giving us a ride shishishi!"
Jessicas mind wrapped around his words
"Wait, I know that name! Thousand sunny!?"
Something seemed to click 'one piece!' she fell back down on her pillows and looked up at the ceiling. 'i'm in one piece? What is going on and how am I just now noticing this?' some one walked in saying something making luffy cry out
"YOSH! Come on jess!"
Practically yanking her out of bed he dragged her onto the deck pointing at something. Looking toward where he was pointing she looked to see a ship with a lions head on it and to see people on its deck. 'People? Didn't they all get sent flying?' shaking her head she didn't want to bother trying to understand. Looking at the now waving crew she looked and took in all the figures. Franky brook robin chopper ussop sanji nami and....zoro
"Wow..."
she said breathlessly. She could hear her heart beating loudly. Ace smiled a little at her wide eyed expression knowing it wasn't just about the ship.
Jessica shook her head 'What the hell was that? He's just a guy and im not the fall in love at first site type!'
"isn't she a beauty!? Franky built her!"
I nodded and smiled just as wide. Jumping onto the railing of sunny and jumping down onto the deck nodding at the curious stares. She smiled wide turned in a circle and bowed.
"Hi i'm jessica and I'm the new musician!"
She said in the happiest voice she could muster knowing that if she didn't it would just be awkward. And she didn't want her real self out of the bag just yet.
It's best if people think your dimwitted as a defense mechanism so that they underestimate you and don't take things too seriously with you.
If it's one thing she hated more it was being serious all the time and believe it or not she didn't have the greastest life and if she didn't act happy she felt she would be pushing her problems onto others and so thats why she acted like she did most of the time.
She straitened and stood looking up at the crew who had the reactions she expected she knew she had fooled everyone into thinking she was just happy go lucky. except one . Zoro. He didn't look fooled he looked cautious. Luffy jumped onto the deck.
"Hello everyone! Did you see our new nakama!?"
Sanji looked ecstatic and did a noodle dance that jessica didn't even think was physically possible.
"Franky!! we need a piano for the ship!!!"
Franky did a pose
"SUPER!"
he said running to another part of the ship. Luffy introduced her to the crew. Nami hit him upside the head
"WE GET IT !SHES OUR NEW NAKAMA! NOW SHUT UP!"
calming down slightly she turned to jessica taking her in
"Well at least its not another guy right robin? Here ill show you to the room."
the navigator said motion for jess to follow her and robin. She glanced back to see the green haired swordsman still looking at her she frowned at him and rolled her eyes. Sanji noticed his stair and glared kicking him on the head. Zoro glared at the chef.
"What was that for curly brow!?"
sanji calmly lit his cigarrette.
"Don't glare at the new beauty!"
Ace came aboard and laughed
"I see you have met my newly found sister!"
The strawhats jaws dropped
"SISTER!"
Ace nodded proudly
"Yup saved our butts at the marine headquarters too don't worry zoro you can trust her"
He said smiling.
"It's not that I don't trust her its just that shes hiding something."
luffy walked up to him his hat covering his face and looked up smiling making zoros brow twitch
"It's ok! Ace trusts her!"
Zoro grunted making sanji glare at him
"SANJI!!!MEAT!!!"
Their captain yelled out his stomach demanding attention. Sanji made his way to the kitchen while luffy jumped over to ussop chopper and brook
"Yohohoho! So I have a fellow musician to play with!"
Luffy nodded his head faster than humanly possible. Choppers eyes lit up
"Is she really ace's sister?!"
Luffy nodded again. Ussops eyes lit up too
"Maybe she will play something during dinner!"
Jessica skipped up the stairs and toward her brothers back she told the wind to bring his hat to her. She jumped to the railing sitting down smiling as she saw him reach for his hat. It was kind offun having someone she let her smile slip a little. She never had anyone to tease in the orphanage or in college people tended to stay away from her. 'i'm not that strange am I?'
"Something wrong Jess?"
She looked up and smiled at ace
"Nope! Just thinking how cool it is to have someone to tease."
She said giggling and putting his hat back on his head.
"I'm leaving tomorrow with white beard."
Jess let her hair fall over her eyes. 'why do people always leave' She felt a hand on her head. She felt eyes on her knowing somehow that it was sanji and zoro she lifted her head and smiled at Her brother
"I feel like i've known you forever even though i've just met you."
The fire man smiled a little
"you know, it's ok to be sad, and you don't have to keep that facade up for ever. I can feel you inside just as you can feel me. these are good people."
She looked at him shocked
"You know?"
He nodded
"Told you we are connected and we are twins how could I not know? I don't know all the details but I know what you feel."
Jess nodded smiling
"Your not as dumb as I thought"
He scratched his head
"Neither are you. Better get down to the dining room looks like sanji made dinner and if your not quick luffy will eat it all."
She jumped off the railing just now noticing the darkening sky. She walked towards the dining room smiling at Zoro along the way who just raised an eyebrow. Giggling she opened the door and was met with the sight of luffy stuffing his face and a piano more beautiful than she had ever seen in her life. Noticing just now that she had her bag on her shoulder she shifted it to another position and walked toward the beautiful her stuff down she walked toward it not noticing the looks and the sudden excitement in luffy ussop brook and chopper. She sat her fingers lightly dancing over the keys.
"beautiful...you made this franky?"
She said seriously for once looking toward him.
"YES! It's yours! Isnt it super!!"
He said striking a pose. She looked shocked
"For me?"
The commotion that was in the room stopped when they heard the tone in her voice. Zoro's eyes narrowed a little in thought. And the rest of the crew looked surprised wasn't she just happy? Jessica sniffled a little
"Thankyou! This is the greatest thing anyones ever done for me!"
She looked up and smiled at franky. She looked back at the black and white keys and played the c note hearing it perfectly in tune making her eyes widen in surprise yeah he was a good carpenter but...to tune it so well?
"Yohohoho I tuned it! I see you have an ear to notice!"
Jessica nodded
"yeah I hae perfect pitch"
She said softly. Brook sat back in surprise
"There hasn't been a person with perfect pitch in...well hundreds of years, and those that do exsist were taken by the higher up military men with the excuse of them being from the void century."
That took her out of her thoughts
"Void century?"
The crew nodded looking to robin
"The void century is a forgotten time there aren't any records of it at all."
Ace took this time to speak up
"The century she is speaking of is the one where you were sent too"
Robins eyes widened. She stood up shaking looking to luffy
"Does he speak the truth?"
Luffy nodded his hair over his eyes
"That admiral man said something about a hitler? After jessica said something."
Jessica was confused
"i thought I was sent to another dimension not through time."
Ace nodded
"thats how it seemed but the man who sent you elsewheres power noone knew how it worked and you said something about that hitler and the admiral seemed to think void so how could you not be?"
Jessica looked shocked
"wait just a min you mean to tell me that something happened that made this world the way it is now and that something with the militatry most likely made the marines like this? I'm not surprised."
Jessica looked back at the piano
"I knew the world was going down hill but...i didn't know the marines would try to erase our awful history..."
Robin was shaking.
"Jessica san, can you tell me about the void century? And the past of this world?"
jessica gave her self a shake and smiled at her
"Well there aren't any pirates thats for sure and the country i'm from they talk of freedom but you have no choice really in what you want to do..."
She said looking at the keys
"and the only way to really escape is to get drawn into something...like music...when your in it you don't think about how children are getting left by their parents or about how there is so much pollution that it hurts to breathe a lot,"
she closed her eyes
"You emerse yourself so you don't think about all the bad things in the world...there are oceans that aren't as vast as these...and there are big islands not small ones spread out... There are too many factories and stores and cars and the seas are filled with filth there is a war that seems like it isn't even real...it's awful everyone is corrupt with greed and there is so much hatred... you can't get away from it...unless you emerse yourself...so much hatred and fear of things that are different and if you are different your tolerated..."
she looked up and smiled
"What matters is the now right!"
She looked at the piano and played a d chord. Then back to the shocked faces
"What! How about a song!"
she reached down into her bag and pulled out the sheet music for beethovens rondo a capriccio op129 and placed it on the piano stand. Ace looked sadly at her and poked luffy who caught on.
"YOSH! MUSIC!!"
She started to play the playful melody. Everyone except Zoro and robin were dancing around like idiots. Brook catching onto the song played his violin with it. Finishing the tune she awakened from her zone to clapping startled she looked around and smiled. Standing up she gave a dramatic bow and yawn. Robin stood up
"Well looks like its time for bed ill take first watch. Captain san can tell who has the next."
Ace stood and stretched as well
"I best be going! Take care of my sister!"
They all looked at the girl who sat with her head laying on the cover for the keys asleep.
"Your not going to say goodbye to jessica?"
Ace smiled slightly
"She will understand and be perfectly fine."
he walked out onto the deck and onto the already departing ship
"take care of our sister luffy!"
Luffy nodded and smiled wide
"YOU GOT IT !"
He yelled waving.
Back in the dining room sat Zoro Who studied their new member silently. He stood up and walked over to her sleeping form putting a strand of hair behind her ear
'What am I doing? I barely know this girl...'
She murmured a little making him step back startled he snorted and left the room walking out on deck watching ace sleeping face popped into his head 'what the hell?' Zoro shook his head. Robin smiled mysteriously.
"Something wrong swordsman san?"
he glared at her and grunted walking over to the mast and taking a nap. Robin smiled knowingly 'things are getting even more interesting'