AN: Here's the second chapter and hope you guys enjoy. Please do follow and review if you like my story.

Chapter 2 : Layla

It has been 3 months since I have been living with the Edelweiss family, and 3 months is a long time to discover a lot of things.

Namely such as discovering that I am now living in a fictional world that I knew that was not supposed to exist.

How I found this out? It's because I saw a map of the world in one of the store rooms when I went to get some tools Garmund asked me to. I found out that Garmund really is a smith and he goes on a week long trip to sell his crafts to Loguetown.

It would be a lie if I said I didn't scream like an idiot when I found about the map of the world. Because I can't wait to join Luffy's crew if...if they want me that is.

The rest of the house residents came rushing in to see what was wrong, only for me to tell them that it was a mouse. It was a little white lie but I couldn't help it.

It was also then that I found out about my devil fruit abilities. All of a sudden, my hair had turned silvery white with a light blue shine to it and my head adorned two fluffy ears. Wolf ears to be exact. Oh and embarrassingly, a tail too. Thank goodness I was wearing a knee length dress with tights though.

Both the adults then finalized it as the inu inu no mi*: model wolf. But being a zoan type doesn't change your hair colour. It's actually the opposite where the animal fur will have your hair colour.

However it wasn't only that, it seems that I can only change to a wolf partially, I couldn't change myself completely into a wolf. But since we couldn't figure much out, we left it be.

However I was stuck with the ironic fact that my name also meant wolf when I had a wolf devil fruit. They'll never let me live this one down will they?

Martha on the other hand seems to love growing fruits, apples being her favorite and also one of the best produces from the East Blue too,which reminded me of the oranges grown by Nami's and Nojiko's mother. They were sooo good!

I had lots of fun playing with the twins and their friends. Their names were Jess and Taro as I had found out.

Jess had short brown hair with a band to keep hair from her eyes and wore an orange shirt with a pair of green shorts and red shoes, while Taro had short dark blue, almost black hair and wore a white shirt with red pants and blue shoes.

While Jess and Ren were hyperactive, Rose and Taro were on the quiet side while Rose is a bit shy but Taro is just...Taro. Quiet and assessing.

Well, I say playing but it's them playing with my ears and tail most of the times.

Since the island is called Fauna Island, there were lots of different animals. Species that I have never seen before. Some were adorable while others were downright weird.
As the days pass by i got to know the Edelweiss family and the island residents better. They are such sweet people who cares and depends on one another, like a big community.

I was even famous among the village children because of my devil fruit abilities, so I often babysit when the adults have important matters to deal with.

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I woke up early in the morning and finished my daily routine. Have breakfast, help Martha to tend to her apple trees, help Garmund with his smiting and then play with the kids.

After having finished my chores as well, I went to my room to lie down since I had some free time. I thought about cleaning my room because I like to keep things nice and tidy.

As I was cleaning, I saw a corner of a piece of paper underneath the side table. 'What is this? I don't believe I have seen this here before'

I slowly pulled the corner and out it came. I dusted it off to find out that it was an old picture.

The picture had five people in total, a couple and three children . 'It's like they were celebrating some sort of occasion' All of them were smiling.

I recognize two of the people in the picture. One man had a familiar face with pale blue eyes and dark hair, he looked much younger than now with an arm encircling a smiling blond woman with bright emerald eyes next to him. It was Garmund. A bright smile was adorning his face.

'The woman with him must be his wife... Did she pass away?'. Then with them were two little girls and one boy.

One of the girls was Martha who looked very much like a mix of her parents with her blond hair and blue eyes. She was also smiling along with a boy with ginger hair and green eyes. They were probably around the age of 8 or 9 years old.

My eyes then stopped at last girl who had the most brightest smile, carrying a basket of apples, she was wearing similar clothes to the other females in the picture.

They were wearing a simple light green colored dresses that reached to the knees of Martha and the new girl while it was ankle length for Garmund's wife. The dress had a deep forest green color ribbon tied around the waist, while the males wore a white shirt with tan shorts.

As I was taking in the features of the last and probably the youngest girl in the picture around 5 years, I was surprised to see that she had stunningly white hair with emerald green eyes from the older woman.

However, the most surprising thing was that she was like a doppelganger of me except for the fact that I had brown hair and that I had tan skin unlike her pale complexion.

All of my features from my heart shaped face to my emerald colored eyes, they were exactly the same.

*CREAK* I jumped due to the sudden sound to see Martha looking at me with a solemn look noticing the picture I had in my hands.

"Hey Martha, what is it?" I asked. "Where did you find that picture? We have been looking all over the place and thought we lost it" Martha came and looked at the picture.

"I found it under the cupboard when I was cleaning". "Well isn't this nostalgic, this picture was taken when our first apple trees grew fruits, back when Mother and Denver, my husband was...alive, it was such a long time ago". Martha told me with melancholy.

"Oh so he wasn't a brother? Then who is the girl with the white hair?". I asked as we walked out of the room to settle down in the living room.

"She's Martha's younger sister and my other daughter... Layla, she looks a lot like you now that I look at you Levina" called out Garmund as he came into the house.

"She left the house around 30 years ago, well...more like forcibly taken away" Garmund said in a very cold voice. "She was around 4 years back then"

"If I may, who took her away from you?" as I asked carefully. Garmund looked away as Martha gave me a tearful gaze. "It was the marines"

The quiet and firm answer shocked me to the core. A little girl was taken from her family away at the tender age of 4, and not only that. She was taken by the one group of people who are supposed to protect the people.

"But….Why?" was the only thing that I could ask as my throat closed up due to the grief they had experienced.

"It was because she possessed some sort of power, as the government said. We don't know what it was but she was dragged away from us! All of us tried getting her back through the years, my mother passed away due to a bad heart and the government killed my husband 4 years ago as a warning!" cried Martha.

"But before all that, after 10 years of being captured, Layla had escaped from their clutches and has been missing, but has a bounty on her head. She was last seen 5 years later after that" Garmund turned towards me with a serious look as he stated.

"Then 17 years later you appeared on the beach. I don't think this is a coincidence, but I think Layla is still alive, and you Levina, are most likely her daughter" he ended.

All I could do was gape at them with my mouth wide open. 'My mother!? I never had a mother! I always lived at that crappy orphanage and then that accident happened. After that I met the voice and it said about living again and that I might need this! And now I get sent to the One Piece world only to find out that I might originally be from this world!? I feel that the voice hasn't told me some things'

"That's right, that's why I made you wear a big hat to cover your face when you went with me to Loguetown that one time" Garmund told me softly, pulling me out of my mulling.

"Oh by the way, you might be thinking about my age but I am around 40 years old while Rose and Ren are 12 years old" Martha revealed with a sly smile.

"YOU LOOK TOO YOUNG!" I was honestly surprised. She didn't have any wrinkles on her face either. 'This family has awesome genes huh?' I mused and realized that I am now part of it as well.

"So are you telling me that you are my grandfather while Martha is my aunt and Rose and Ren are my cousins?"

"Yes, even the twins know. But this is no time for idle chatter. Levina, you must not get caught by the marines. I don't think Layla would send you here without a reason. You also have exceptional skills with blades and your devil fruit skills after training here. You must look for your mother, and find out why the government is after her like they are"

Garmund grabbed both of my shoulders as he said this. I have never met my mother, nor did I know that I even had one.

As I was going to answer him, I was cut off with a loud set of banging on the front door. Ren and Rose had crept in from the back door their faces showing fear.

The words they whispered to us was enough to rush Garmund into action, while Martha pulled the twins and I into the spare room I was staying in.

The words the twins whispered were...

"The marines are here"

Aaand that's a wrap everybody! So how do you like the new chapter?

Inu inu no mi*: Dog dog fruit

Levi:...

Aiash: What's wrong Levi?

Levi: *evil purple aura comes out*

Aiash: Umm... Levi chan...? *gets nervous*

Levi: Oh, nothing is wrong, I just can't wait to skin you alive that's all. *smiles*

Aiash: That smile is too scary Levi chan... Sooo moving on, please make sure to review and follow okay? See you next chapter! *runs away*

Levi: GET BACK HERE YOU SHITTY AUTHOR! *runs after Aiash with every sharp object she can find*