Chapter 8

Logue town was certainly a bustling city, and I watched as we pulled into the port.

"Dante, you know what we need?" Dante gives a grin, before handing me a sheet of paper.

"I gave Sanji a list for food, utensils and of the like, yours is everything else! I didn't want to order around the old hag!" Since a rather hilarious incident involving a watermelon, Dante now labels Nami as the 'old hag', much to her displeasure. Over the past few days, I had helped Dante through the maturing ceremony, one that he should've finished by now, but was unable to. Because of it, he was now a head taller than me, at 6.2. He was obviously the tallest of all of us, I had been busy making him clothes, and now he wore a larger version of his original outfit. I remember when the topic of the maturing ceremony was brought up.

Flashback-

"So you have to go through a maturing ceremony?" I give Usopp a nod, he seems very interested in the ceremony.

"A hatchling takes the ceremony to, in other words, begin the road to becoming an adult. It's similar to puberty in a human's life." I get a few nods.

"Why couldn't Dante have just, done it sooner than now?"

"Nami has a point…" I ignore Zoro's remark.

"The ritual must be started by a matured dragon over the dragon age of 190. Therefore, I can give him the ritual, and he can finally be matured." Usopp looks over at Dante with a curious expression.

"Why didn't you perform it before leaving?" I wonder that too, though I think I know why…

"I…I didn't tell anyone I was leaving…I heard about dragons leaving to the sea, so…I wanted to see how it was like!" Aish~ this kid!

"Wait…Lizard, you're over 190?!"

"I'm 230, 23 in human years."

After that I promptly smacked Dante upside the head, and started the ritual.

"Adrian! Let's go!" I look up to see Dante jogging into the bustling market place. I jog to catch up, and we walk into multiple shops, buying the needed equipment. We were in a weapons shop, as Dante said he would need a weapon for emergencies. I watch as he picks out, surprisingly, a rope dart. It's connected to a gauntlet, which is adjustable to multiple hand sizes.

"Are you a quartermaster young man?" I look to see a small old woman walk up to us.

"Yes ma'am." Luckily I had taught Dante basic manners as well with his training. The old lady reaches into her small kimono, and pulls out a small bag of red leather.

"This was a bag used by my son, he was also a quartermaster. You remind me of him quite a bit, so I would like you to have it. It can fit anything in it, well, mostly everything." Dante looks at the bag curiously, before opening it slowly. It's completely black in the inside, except for a sparkle deep down in the bottom. Dante reaches in, and pulls out a royal coin!

"My son passed away from marines, a week before the execution of the pirate king. I have seen your bounty gold one, and I can see that you've been teaching this hatchling. You have an elder dragons blessing." I feel a warmth spread over me. An elder dragons blessing is a huge treasure to receive. Those who receive it are said to receive the powers of those passed in the elder's family once the one who blessed them passes. In the past, many elders were taken advantage of due to the blessings, so these days, getting a blessing is extremely rare.

"Thank you elder." The old lady smiles at the use of the old language, as it's called.

"Take care, fallen royal and wolf child." With that the woman walks off.

"…Amazing…we were just blessed." I can't help but laugh, before grabbing his wrist and sneaking out of the store, avoiding the payment for the rope hook, it was expensive after all! I look over to see Zoro standing in what looks to be another weapons shop. I grab Dante's hand, and prepare to head in before seeing a girl there, a marine.

"Dante?" He looks over to where I'm looking.

"What do we do?" I give him a grin.

"We do what I've done way too many times to those who know dragons, marines mostly." He gives me a questioning look.

"We go in blind. You don't have to, because you don't have a bounty, but I do. You would be surprised by the amount of people who will only recognize me by my eyes." I close my eyes, letting my other senses, and the new help of Dante, guide me into the store.

"Hey!" I hear Dante call out to Zoro, not using his name for obvious reasons. I let go of his hand, and feel around the store. I can sense the spirits of the swords. Zoro has one with that of a tainted spirit. I search through what I remember being racks of swords, and find a very…interesting sword.

"Excuse me sir! That sword is very expensive!" I hear the man's voice, but I ignore him, and gently unsheathe the blade. I run my hand down the side, feeling the spirit in the metal.

"How much?" I hear steps behind me.

"Be careful sir! You shouldn't be holding a sword like that!" I swiftly put the sword back in its sheath.

"Why? Because I am blind? I believe I am very much capable of wielding a sword. Now, how much is this mister?" The man eventually gives in, and I walk over to where I still sense the tainted sword and a royal sword, therefore, Zoro is there.

"Hey." I can hear the soft jingle from his earrings, and know he simply nodded.

"Let's go." I let Zoro and Dante lead me out of the shop. Once I no longer sense the girl, I open my eyes.

"What was that back there Lizard?" I look over to Zoro, who surprisingly hasn't got lost from us yet.

"People…they tend to recognize me only from my eyes. Therefore if my eyes are closed or covered I'm pretty much invisible." I hear a small scuff in the nearby alleyway causing me to pause, causing me to become separated from Zoro and Dante.

"Dammit…" I slowly back track my steps.

"Well….might as well look around a little more…" I mumble to myself. I walk around buying a few snacks, some extra wine even though Sanji is getting me some, and some more materials for sewing and of the like. Suddenly, I hear the scuffle that got me in trouble in the first place. I let my eyes instinctively dart towards the alleyway, and I slowly walk over, smelling a mild, familiar scent.

"Yuki? Yumi?" I hear a familiar soft mewl and out comes my best friends from back home, in a dash of brown and orange. I feel two wet appendages brushing along my cheeks.

"You guys! Stop licking, it tickles!" They both halt in their licking, and I finally look up at them.

The first is Yuki. Yuki is a winged cat, to put it bluntly. She was about twice the size of a normal cat so around the length of half my body. Her wing span was about 25 meters when fully spread out, though she only flies with them fully spread when gliding.

Yumi is exactly the same with size and wing span but is in the form of an ashen brown wolf. I lift each of them, shifting them onto my lap, ignoring the stares from people passing by.

"How are you two doing?" They both nuzzle my neck in response. I can feel warmth spread through my chest. These guys really brought out my inner mom, and I treated them gently, as if they were my own. Suddenly, I give the air a sniff, a dangerous damp smell fills the air…

"Hey you two, a storm is coming, give me a good sniff, and follow it to the port, our boat it the one with the goat figurine head." I receive two longing looks from a pair of red feline eyes and gold canine eyes, before the two nod, and fly up into the air, before flying off in the direction of the port. I continue walking along the streets. I smell them before I see them.

"ADRIAN!" I look up to see Nami and Usopp running towards me.

"LUFFY, ZORO, DANTE AND SANJI ARE AT THE MAIN SQUARE, WITH BUGGY ABOUT TO EXECUTE LUFFY! ME AND USOPP ARE HEADING BACK TO PORT!" They run by, and I realize I should probably tell them something…

"I HAVE TWO ANIMAL COMPANIONS ON THE SHIP, DON'T PANICK IF THEY TACKLE YOU AND LICK YOU!" Nami and Usopp nod to me, and continue sprinting down the alley. I need to get close to the three and marines are probably already there….I let my eyes flutter shut and I quietly run to where I smell a strong scent of marines.

"Excuse me kid." I pause, and take in a scent I had missed before. The smell of a weed all dragons know….dragons bane. The weed is deadly to a dragon, but only if ingested. I lift my head, and know that this is a hunter.

Hunters are a side part of the marines that hunt dragons, though they are mostly undercover, they are still very deadly. Why one was here, I have no clue.

"Kid?" I raise my head, and tilt it to the side I hear him on.

"Hey old man you seen my walking stick?" I hear him shift, and I know he had thought I was a dragon before now.

"Nope. Hey, I'm not an old man."

"Sorry, your voice must be deeper than I thought."

"No problem."

"Hey kid….you know it's dangerous over there right?" I shift impatiently, I need to get to the group!

"I know, now can I go?!" I hear him huff.

"What's your name kid?" Damn it….

"…Mythril…"

"Wait…you're a girl." This guy pisses me off…

"Look! I just want to get going to find my walking stick! So can you bug off!" I hear him walk away, and I let out a sigh. I continue to jog towards the main square, tripping over various objects that I failed to smell through the rain. Suddenly, I trip on a bad part in the sidewalk only for warm arms to reach around my waist.

"Hey, watch yourself kid." It's him! What does he want? I feel a long pole be put into my hand.

"A walking stick, you must need one in this weather."

"…what are you mister? You seem to be looking for something."

"I'm looking for dragons." Well, isn't he blunt?

"Why would you hunt dragons?" He's silent and this time I'm willing to wait.

"…they took someone special away from me." This guy…he's different from the others…he actually has a reason.

"Well….when I was little, a dragon saved me and my brother's lives. So, if you're going into this for revenge, don't kill any innocent dragons on the way."

"I won't, I only kill when I have to, or if they hurt for no good reason. I met a small black hatchling in the town, but I left him alone." I let myself smile. He didn't hurt Dante….good.

"Well, I guess you're nicer than I first thought. Thank you for the stick mister, my sword wouldn't have worked very well, but I was just about thinking I would have to use it." I hear a chuckle, and I stand there for a little longer, before I hear a huge crackle of thunder.

"What the hell!" I feel the rain splatter on my head and shoulders, before it starts to pour.

"Got to get going, before boss has my head See you later Myth."

"Wait! What's your name?"

"Regis, Regis Kane." I let myself grin, as he runs off.

"No point in waiting for those idiots, I'll head back to the ship." I'll have to get that guy a present if we meet again…this is a damn good walking stick.

I have now added in the OC of tartanarmygirl! I probably won't add in as many OC's as close together as I have, but I'm still taking whatever you throw my way!

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From: S.W.K.