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Chapter 13: Devil Fruit
Her breathing was erratic, and twice, within the five minutes they stared at her, she vomited blood. Coughing, she looked up and Kidd. "That wasn't fun." She voice cracked harshly.
"How are you alive?" He voice was laced with disbelieve. He unsheathed his sword and pointed it at her again. Valerie just stared at him with tired drooping eyes. Her mouth hung slightly open and her clothes and body were a bloody mess. Her arms trembled and looked ready to plant her head back into the ground.
"That will have to wait for another time, Eustass-ya." Law said then walked back over to them and scoped Valerie up in his arms. "Now, I much attended to my increasingly interesting crew member. Good-bye." Without another word he turned and left.
He was walking Valerie stomach started churning. 'Law stop."She said holding a hand to her stomach. "Please." she adding quickly. Law stopped and set Valerie on her feet. Immediately the world started spinning and again she fell to the ground, except this time she started vomiting blood. When she was done she wiped her mouth on her arm. "That was disgusting."
"It's to be expected. You did just get stabbed."Valerie shook her head and shakily got back to her feet.
"Ugh. Don't remind me." She said and started swaying. "Hey, Law."
"Hmmm?" he hummed in reply.
"Catch me please." Valerie's eyes rolled up into her head and she started to fall. Law caught her and held her in his arms again as he made his way to the sub.
When he got there, Shachi was waiting for him and helped him get Valerie onto the deck. Shachi looked her over. He nodded to her bloodied form and with a smirk asked "Why does it seem like every time you two leave together, Val comes back half-dead?"
"Because that's exactly what's been happening." Law said then climb up the rope latter and picked Valerie up off the deck. Shachi walked ahead of him and open the heavy steel door. Law nodded his thanks and walked in step. After closing the door, Shachi fell into step beside his captain.
"So what happened this time?"he inquired.
Law sighed and said, "Eustass-ya stabbed her through the heart with a sword."Shachi looked surprised and eyed Valerie's chest as they turned a corner.
"That accounts for the blood. Where's the wound?"
"Healed."
"Healed?" Shachi repeated flabbergasted.
"Yes. It healed a few seconds after Eustass-ya pulled his sword from her chest." They arrived at the infirmary door and Law pushed it open with his shoulder and placed Valerie on the first bed. Shachi looked her over again and saw that there was a hole in her shirt but no wound.
"How?" he asked.
"I have the same
"But she said she woke up at the bottom of the ocean. I doubt there was a Devil Fruit down there, though it wouldn't surprise me if there was."
"There must have been and she had have eaten it in order for her to survive the water pressure, the lack of oxygen, severe blood lose, and a fatal stab wound."Law said then pushed a needle into one of Valerie veins.
"Any idea what fruit has those abilities?"Law shook his head.
"No, but I intend to find out." Law checked a few more things then left the room.
Before he left the room, Shachi said, "Captain, could you call me when she wakes up?"Law gave him a questioning look but nodded.
"Thanks."Shachi said gratefully and stayed behind when Law left. He glanced over at the bed and a small smile form on Shachi's face. "You get more and more interesting as the days pass." With a shake of his head he left to return to the control room.
Law walked into his room and went straight to his bookshelf. He pulled a book down from the top shelf and took it of to his desk. On the spine of the book were the words, "Encyclopedia of Devil Fruits."He sat down and started flipping the pages, scanning the summaries of each for anything that was similar the powers Valerie was displaying. It wasn't until his was nearly halfway through the book that a smirk appeared on his face. "You definitely prove it be a great source of entertainment."Law said then left his room to place the book in the infirmary for when his sleeping recruit awaken.
Valerie slept soundly for the rest of the day and all the next day. It wasn't until five minute after Law had gone to sleep, which was past midnight, that a horror movie scream dragged him from his sleep.
"Why the fuck is there a needle in my arm?!" Valerie's voice pierced through the whole submarine. Multiple groans and shouts followed it.
Law got up and immediately when to the infirmary. A smirk appeared on his face when he arrived to see Penguin and Shachi trying to restrain Valerie.
"Get this fucking needle out of my arm!" She screamed.
"We're trying to, but you need to calm down!" Penguin shouted. Valerie glared so hard at him Law was actually surprise Penguin didn't pee his pants.
"Calm down? Calm down?! You try calming down when there's something under your skin! Don't tell me to fucking calm down!"Valerie started thrashing about again when Shachi, who was on the girl's left, noticed his captain smirking in the doorway.
"Captain, please help us." He pled. Immediately Valerie stopped moving and turned her glare on him.
"You!" She said pointing and accusing finger at him. Law's smirk widen at her expression. "You put this, this, this abomination under my skin! Didn't you?!" She shouted at him. Law nodded his head.
"I did." Valerie's anger rose.
"Take it out! Now!" A Scowl appeared on Law's face and Valerie whispered a "Please."
Smirking once more, Law walked to the left side of the bed and shooed Shachi and Penguin away. They both saluted and scurried off to the control room. In one fluid movement, the IV needle was out of Valerie's arm and Law was walking over to his desk chair. Valerie pouted at him and held her 'injured' arm against her chest.
Ignoring her, Law picked up the encyclopedia up and flipped to the page he'd marked. "Does this look familiar?" He asked holding up the book. Valerie continued to pout but looked at the picture of the green apple shaped fruit with swirls covering it. She squinted.
"It looks like a green blob. I've seen a lot of those before."Law sighed in frustration.
"Put you glasses on idiot."He said irately. Valerie stuck her tongue out at him but did as she was told. When she looked at the book again her eyes widened.
"That's strange. I know I've never seen this fruit before, but I feel like I have." Law hummed in response.
"I thought you'd say something like that. This," he pointed to the picture, "is the Survive-Survive fruit.' Valerie's brow furrowed in thought.
"That sounds awfully like Brook's devil fruit." Law raised a questioning eyebrow.
"Brook is the musician/second swordsman on the Straw-hat Pirate crew. He is currently a living skeleton because he ate the Revive-Revive fruit, which allowed him to come back to life. However, when he died, he and his ship had been lost in the Florian Triangle. So when his soul returned to the world of the living, it was unable to find his body before it decayed."Law nodded in understanding.
"This fruit is a sort of variation of that. Instead of being revived, the eater of this fruit can instantly regenerate any part of the body that has been damaged, and 'survive' the attack." Valerie stared and him for a second before throwing her arms in the arm.
"I'm awesome!" she exclaimed triumphantly. Law smirked.
'You mean your power's awesome." Valerie stuck her tongue out at him.
"To-may-toe, to-mah-toe." She replied and continued her celebration, completely ignoring the unanswered and unspoken question of how she came to posses these powers. After a few minutes she calmed down and swung her legs over the side of the bed.
"Where are you off to?" Law questioned.
"To the same place you should be going. Bed. Yelling and screaming and fighting is quite tiring. " Law raised an eyebrow once more as she walked to the door.
"The dark spots under your eyes are darker than usual. Which means you haven't gotten much sleep." She said then walked out the door. Law sighed at how right she was. He picked up the book and followed her out, flicking the light off as he went.