"No!" I ran to her side, "Vivi!"

"VIVI!" Luffy shouted, looking back at her, then turning to the men surrounding us, "WHY YOOOU!"

"Ready! Aim!"

I helped the princess up, checking her gun shot wound, it was minor, but that didn't mean she wasn't going to need to have it checked, "Vivi, are you alright?"

Luffy ran passed us, ready to attack, but the princess latched on to him, "No, stop it!" She said, "Fighting is not going to help anything! I'm fine, Luffy, it only grazed my arm." She turned, getting on her knees, "It's alright, we won't land," Vivi bowed so her head was touching the deck, "But can you please call us a doctor? Our friend is dying from a serious illness, I'm begging you, please help us!"

Luffy watched her, "Vivi..."

"You are not fit to be the captain of this ship, Luffy. Not everything can be fixed by rushing to start a fight!" She was right, fighting in that situation would've only made matters worse for us. "We can't get into a fight here, think about Nami, what would happen to her?"

There was a moment of silence, "Yeah, you're right. Sorry about that." Luffy turned to the people around us, "Please help us," Luffy dropped to his knees, bowing like Vivi was. His hat fell off of his head, "Call a doctor. Our friend needs you."

Another silent moment. "I'll show you to our village." The first man said, "Follow me." He turned and I realized he had a large weapon strapped to his back. He was most definitely trained as opposed to most of the others.

I sighed, "That could have gone a lot worse..."

Vivi looked at Luffy, "See? Just ask politely."

"Yeah, you're incredible, Vivi."

The princess smiled then stood up. "Well, let's get going, the sooner we can get to the village the better."

"I'll stay here with the ship." Zoro crossed his arms.

Sanji, Usopp, Luffy, Vivi and I all went down into the room, I grabbed my suitcase and the medkit.

"Why are you taking that?" Vivi asked.

"I want to at least bandage your arm before we get into town." I said, smiling at her, "We don't quite know how long it will take the doctor to get done examining Nami, and we can't have your wound get infected either."

Luffy grabbed onto my shoulders, "Leanah is right, we have to make sure you heal too!"

"You can't save your kingdom if your arm gets infected." I opened the kit and took out some bandages tore off a reasonable strip and tied it over Vivi's gun shot wound.

After that I walked out on to the deck and waited for the others. They came out very carefully with a bundled up Nami and exited the boat one by one, I got off last, turning to Zoro, "Keep warm, be safe, keep your bandages dry, if you leave Merry make sure you know your way back, don't do anything stupid!" I hopped off before he could say anything.

We trudged through the snow, I kicked it up with every other step, it felt so much better enjoying the snow on land, but, I couldn't muster up much energy, my lack of sleep was getting to me.

I felt like I had been drinking, but I know I hadn't, I hadn't had even a drop in three days. It was amazing I had even lasted that long, but I suppose the coffee I had been drinking had helped a little.

The large man leading the group turned to address us. "There is one thing I feel I should warn you about though, the only doctor we have here is actually a witch."

"Huh?" Usopp's eyes narrowed in disbelief, "A witch?"

"You've gotta be kidding me, everything about this island is messed up." Sanji moaned, walking carefully so as to not jostle Nami so much. "What do you people call this weird place anyway?"

I stared at the snow. My mind starting to wonder to other places.

"Actually this land still doesn't have a name." The man said.

"An island without a name?" Vivi questioned, "I didn't know that was possible."

"D..." I muttered to myself, "Teach..." Then I stumbled slightly.

"Are you alright?" A villager caught me and everyone came to a stop.

I smiled up at them, "Yeah, I'm fine, just lost my balance in all this snow, is all." Sanji narrowed his eyes at me, and I could tell he didn't believe a word I had said. "What are we waiting for?" I asked, pushing myself off the villager, "We need to find that doctor."

"AHHH! A BEAR!" Usopp screamed suddenly, "Hurry everyone! Pretend to be dead!" He keeled over into the snow. I looked at the large white bear, it was carrying a pick ax, I'm not dreaming this either am I?

The man leading us looked at the bear, "A hiking bear. He poses no threat to us. Don't forget to bow, it's proper manners."

As the bear crossed our path we bowed to it and it bowed to us and we continued on our separate paths. I got a shiver down my spine, glancing back the way we came, my idiot detector was going off, but I wasn't about to head back to the ship.

We arrived at the village not long after that, "This is the village where we live, its name is Big Horn."

Luffy and Usopp looked around with great interest, I crossed my arms, closing my eyes for just a second.

I swear, it was supposed to be a second!

"Leanah!" Luffy shook my shoulders violently. My eyes snapped open.

"What?" I looked around, Vivi and Usopp were looking at me with great concern. And that's when I realized... I'd fallen asleep. "Oh... Um..." There was really no way explaining around what had just happened, I just smiled, "Rough night last night. That's all. I'm fine. I swear."

Still Vivi walked over and led me to a house, "This is Dalton's house." She opened the door, "Rest in here."

I turned to the princess, "I don't need to rest! I'll be fine!" I was ushered into a chair by Sanji.

The chef turned to the man I assumed was Dalton. "We need to find a doctor for Nami as soon as possible, where's this 'witch' of yours?"

"The witch?" Dalton said, turning away from our navigator, "You see those mountains outside?"

Sanji slowly turned to the window, "Yeah.. I noticed them earlier." The window view was blocked by two monstrous snow creations.

"Super massive snowman!" Came Luffy's muffled voice from outside.

"And the feared snow beast Snowzilla!" Came Usopp's voice.

"GET IN HERE BEFORE I KILL YOU!" Sanji shouted.

"NO!"

The chef growled, exiting the house. Loud kicking noises and Usopp's (girly) screams were heard, and Sanji dragged both Usopp and Luffy back inside.

Dalton gave them tea to warm up and I simply smiled, politely refusing his offer to give me some. He nodded and put the tea away, "Those mountains out there are called the Drum Rockies." Sanji and Vivi had gathered at the window. "Look closely, do you see the castle on top the one in the middle?"

I can picture it perfectly in my head, the three tall cylinder like mountains, the tallest and proudest being the one in the center, with a grand little castle atop it. A kingless castle, but a castle needs not a king to be grand. But of course, that is now. Then I could barely keep my focus on something.

"A castle?" Usopp questioned.

"That castle has lost it's king..."

"Yeah, I see it up there," Sanji said staring up at it through the window.

"What's so important about that castle?" Vivi asked, turning to Dalton.

Dalton crossed his arms, "That Castle is where our land's on doctor lives. Doctor Kureha. She's the one who the people here call the witch."

I frowned. Of all the names to sound familiar... I picked through my brain, spacing on most of the conversation, Doctor Kureha... Ace...I know none of these people... yet I know their names. I wonder...

"Hellooo." I blinked, that voice from inside Laboon was back. "Ah! I have a connection again! Hello Leanah. It's Aziraphale again."

I sat back in my chair. Am I dreaming you?

"Far from it." Aziraphale replied. "I've been having trouble tracking your movements lately, I never expected you to cause so little of a disturbance in this world."

Disturbance? I asked.

"Yes, You see, you are, for lack of a better term, displaced. Someone went on a journey and you, my girl, were made a very unwilling passenger."

You know who I was?

"I do, but I am afraid that I cannot provide much help in getting your memories back. What has happened, is that your brain has created a completely natural block due to the pressure put on your body from arriving in such a rough manner as you did." Aziraphale paused.

Aziraphale, I was found on a boat.

"I did have some time last minute to at least make sure you ended up here safely. I'm afraid though... the boat was all I could do. It took your body quite awhile to acclimatize to the energies in this world, you may have found yourself able to unlock powers it would take others their entire lives to use."

My Haki, you mean. I said to him.

"Yes, your Haki, that would have put an enormous strain on your body, it would have caused you a great deal of pain had you used it to often and to much, but those problems are behind you know, as you have finally acclimatized. You see, your body never had time to acclimatize during the travel unlike the other person sent here with you." He paused, almost as if in thought. "I do hope you two will never cross paths though, that would be detrimental to you both."

I jolted forward, There's someone else like me here?! Someone who knows who I was?

"Er..." Aziraphale seemed much more tight lipped about this topic, and for a good reason. "You wouldn't want to meet her in the condition you are in, and simply the necessary effort it would take for you to meet, it would be much better if you continued on as you are."

I was snapped out of the conversation with Aziraphale (and the connection, what unreliable service he gets!).

"LUFFY, YOU IDIOT WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HER?!" Usopp, Sanji, and Vivi shouted at our captain who had been trying to rouse Nami.

"Hey look, she's awake!" Luffy looked at Nami, "Here's the thing, the only way to see the doctor is to climb the mountain. So we're gonna have to climb the mountain."

Short and simple. But... that was Luffy.

"Are you crazy?" Sanji asked, "What about Nami, how do you expect to get her up there?"

"Easy." Luffy said straightening up, "She'll ride on my back."

Vivi frowned, "That's only going to make her even more sick!"

"What's the problem?" Luffy wasn't seeing the many possible downsides to his plan... like always.

"But you'll never make it up there," the princess pointed out the window, "Look at how steep and tall that thing is!"

"Maybe you can," Sanji argued, "But climbing that thing would be way to hard on Nami!"

I turned in my chair slightly, looking at Nami, "Nami, what do you think?" I asked her.

Nami made obvious efforts to speak, "Ah... ahh.." Everyone looked at her, "I.. need to get over this thing... and quickly." She took a labored breath, "We need to hurry... for Vivi." She pulled her hand out from under the covers holding it out to Luffy, "Come on... Captain!" She smiled, "Let's go."

Everyone was amazed by her, Luffy just matched her smile and clapped her hand, "That's what I'm talking about, leave it to me!"

I sighed, sitting back and relaxing as everyone fretted over Nami and Luffy. I felt so tense even when I was relaxing, I just couldn't get the feeling out of my head that something was going to go very wrong. I pushed myself up from the chair, gaining most everyone's attention. "Sanji... you should go with Luffy, just in case."

The chef nodded, a look of grim determination on his face, "Right, I'm going."

The group moved outside Dalton's house, Vivi made sure Nami was secure on Luffy's back, then Dalton began telling of the dangers they might face on the road there. The Lapins sound far to much like large bunnies of doom for my taste.

Luffy assured Dalton they would be fine against said Large Bunnies of Doom.

"You can't be serious! Do you know how easy it would be for them to kill you?" He asked.

"We'll be fine!" Luffy said again before running off, "Hurry up, Sanji, before Nami dies!"

The chef glared at Luffy, running off after him, "Don't say stuff like that you idiot, do you wanna jinx us?"

We watched them run off into the distance, "Are you sure they'll be alright?" Dalton asked.

"Luffy and Sanji can handle themselves..." I said.

"Yeah, but they're not the ones we need to worry about." Usopp frowned.

"Nami's the one in trouble. I just hope her strength can hold out long enough," Vivi clasped her hands together, "She's getting sicker by the minute."

A spark of tensity shot through the air and jolted something out of my system.

Dalton walked towards his house, he got to the door and turned back to us, "Why are you standing there?" He asked, "Come on inside, it's cold out here."

Vivi held up her hands, "Oh no, that's really OK, we want to stay out here."

"Me too." Usopp said, shivering from the cold.

I nodded, looking around the village, there was something... something pricking in the back of my mind. God, I desperately just wanted to sleep but something in my brain that wouldn't let me.

The door to Dalton's house shut, "I see." We all looked over at him as the guard captain settled down, cross legged in the snow. He smiled up at us, "Well in that case, I'll join you."

We smiled at him, then focused on the mountains again, staring at the faint outline of the castle. After only a few moments my mind began to wander.

"We did once have some here on this island, you know." Dalton said suddenly.

"Huh?" That got my attention.

"Some doctors, however all of them left some time ago for certain reasons. They were very good at what they did while they were here." I nodded, crossing my arms for warmth. "We were even well known for the advanced medicine that was practiced here on this island."

"So what went wrong?" Vivi asked.

"A few months ago... We suffered a vicious attack." I bit my lip, hard. I just knew what was coming. "And our country was destroyed, destroyed by pirates."

"Oh man!" Usopp exclaimed, "The whole country?!"

"God... that's terrible." I rubbed my arms, staring down at the snow.

"So that's the reason you acted that way when we showed up!"

"Yes. After the attack, the word pirate still terrifies everyone on this island. I'm sorry about the way we treated you." Dalton apologized. "Their group was small as well, only five people, their captain called himself Blackbeard."

Something seized in my chest, I didn't like that name, and I didn't know why.

"Their power was so incredible they destroyed our entire country faster than you would believe." He continued.

"And there were only five of them fighting?" Vivi was shocked, "That's impossible!"

"Blackbeard..." Usopp uttered.

"How horrible.." I said softly. That name sent an instant bolt of hatred through me.

"What's more," Dalton started, "There are some here who believe it was actually good for the country."

Vivi stepped forward, "What could possibly be good about that happening!?"

"That's crazy! Who would say something like that anyway?" Our sharp shooter shouted.

"What sort of terrible rule must they have been under?" I asked myself, "To feel the destruction of the country was best?"

Dalton smiled, "Thank you... I agree, but the people have their reasons. The man who ruled here was a horrible man, his rule was despised by all of the citizens. This country used to be named Drum kingdom and our king's name was Wapol. He was the worst king imaginable!"

Wapol... "Wait..."

The realization set in all three of us almost instantaneously.

"Yes, I remember him, I know that man!" Vivi said.

"Not Wapol!"

"He was a king?" I shifted in the snow, Maybe the destruction of the kingdom was best...

Dalton looked up at us, "What that? You mean you know who Wapol is?"

"Know who he is?" Usopp asked rhetorically, "We know more then that, he's the pirate who attacked our ship not too long ago." he crossed his arms, "But... I took care of him... and now that I think about it... I do remember him saying something about heading to Drum Kingdom."

"He wanted an Eternal Pose or our Log Pose. We didn't give him either." I said.

"Yes," Vivi said, "There's no question about it now. I remember it clearly, I'm sure I met him once at a monarch meeting my father took me to." Vivi looked at Usopp and me, "I was still very young then... But I remember it to this day."

Dalton looked at Vivi oddly, "A monarch meeting?" Vivi realized what she just said, "Who are you?"

"Oh!" She immediately went on the defensive, "No1 I uh... Mm..." beat, "The point is," She said regaining her composure, "We do know Wapol, we ran into him yesterday, when we were on our way here."

"Yesterday?" Dalton asked, "Are you sure about that?"

"But then... I don't understand what's going on here... He said he was a pirate, he didn't say anything about being a king."

"He's just calling himself a pirate as some sort of disguise." Dalton surmised, "In truth Wapol is wondering the seas trying desperately to return to this island."

".. So then.. Wapol and the people on his ship kicked off the island because they were no match for the pirates?"

"I doubt that's the reason..." I mumbled.

Vivi just barely glanced at me, "Is that what happened?"

Dalton's face grew dark, "No. That's not it. When it happened..." He began shaking with fury, "When we were attacked, Wapol's army didn't even try to fight!" Vivi gasped in horror, "If fact, "Dalton continued, "As soon as he learned how strong the pirates were, Wapol grabbed his cronies and ran like a coward! He was the first one to abandon the country and flee out to sea!" Vivi was shaking with anger, she had been fighting for her country for two years against a seemingly unbeatable enemy and Wapol turned tail and ran at the first sign of trouble, leaving his people to die. "After that, the country felt utter despair. We were left behind by our king!"

"What sort of king would do that to his country?!" She shouted, "A king abandoning his people? Just the thought of that makes me absolutely sick!"

I reached out and pat her shoulder, "Vivi..."

"You're exactly right," The man agreed, "The one good thing that came out of it though was the end of Wapol's tyrannical rule. The people who are left on this island have come together now, we're trying to create a new country... So what we fear most right now is the return of Wapol and his followers, the return of his horrible rule. We can't afford for him to come back now with the country so unstable, it would be the end of us. We want to build ourselves a new, peaceful nation on this island."

We all fell silent. Understanding the predicament this new place was facing. Every country went through hardships, and this place's hard ship was sailing closer and closer to the snowy country.

Author's Note:

Sorry about taking so long, I got busy. Also I explain a few more things about dear Leanah and how she got there, and I explain about her amnesia. I swear it all gets fully explained when she meets this other person from her world.

For anyone wondering, she gets all her memories back during the Ocean's Dream Arc.

Also, Age change again, Sorry guys, I realized you can't be 17 and living in your own apartment. I know, I know, I'm unbearable. She's just a year older than she was before. Age wise she's older than Zoro, but younger than Sanji.

Your ever willing Author,
Kari910