Yo I had the whole chapter done and was supposed to edit it but forgot, just remembered today so here you go. Better late than never.

"Well this is a surprise." Arie laughed. "You're taking Nami's spot on this journey, way to go."

"Don't congratulate me." I coughed. "I didn't do this on purpose."

"Regardless of that, it means you get Chopper. I was hoping you wouldn't leave him behind."

"I was planning on faking it, but it seems I don't have to do that anymore."

"I'll stick around to help you get him, after that we're taking off. Gotta go find the captain, he's gonna kill me if I'm late." She laughed.

"He really changed, hasn't he, it seems you helped mellow him out."

"Who Buggy?" She scoffed. "He still only cares about treasure, I just helped him realize a more entertaining way to get it."

I thought back to how Buggy was originally when I remembered something. "You didn't allow him to go after that treasure that got him put in impel down, right."

"God no, that'd be annoying. Let me help out a bit, Aqua Relief." She placed her hand on my chest allowing water to circle around, soothing the pain.

The door to the captain's quarters burst open. "There's a problem on the de-" Vivi paused. "Am I interrupting something?"

Arie removed her hand. "Not in a million years, what seems to be the problem? Don't tell me there are pirates attacking the ship and holding everyone hostage."

Vivi seemed shocked for a split second before giving up. "Stop doing that, it doesn't feel like much of a journey if everything that happens is predestined."

Arie stood up and patted her on the shoulder. "Jay already messed that up, it was supposed to be Nami in his position."

As Vivi processed that Arie took a step outside. "Rice cracker?" Marianne offered from the corner of the room. "I'm not getting up to give it to you though." Vivi walked over and accepted the gift.

Arie questioned the group of false pirates. "So what's going on out here?"

"You!" Wapol pointed at her. "Are you the captain of this ship?"

"What? No it doesn't belong to me, the owner is bedridden, he's a bit sick at the moment."

"I don't care if he's sick, go get him." Wapol ordered.

Arie laughed. "It's alright, it's a bit of a joint ownership right now, you can just talk to me."

"Fine, where's all your treasure? Give it to me!"

"You guys really let this weirdo take over the ship?" She asked the others incredulously.

"Sorry about that Jay, the maintenance is over." Asobu apologized. "Though honestly, it was a bit hilarious seeing you bedridden."

I sat up from my bed with a groan. "Yea my body may be fine but it'd be great if I wasn't still in pain."

Asobu waved it off. "You'll get used to it."

"Anyways, what was this maintenance about anyways? You're really making this life a game with such a major inconvenience."

"Oh that, the higher ups were complaining about the constant endless messages about how much damage you do and the remaining health of your enemies." She explained. "I mean think about it, health and all that really only matters to you because for everyone else they're health doesn't need to hit zero for them to fall. Even in dungeons you can still make them bleed."

I sighed. "Right."

"Are you done talking to yourself?" Marianne asked.

"I'm heading out." I told her.

"Wait, you're still sick, you can't leave." Vivi protests.

"Don't worry about it, I'll be fine." As I walked to the door I heard Arie talking about the ship being taken over. "Of course they let it happen, Karue is a coward, Vivi and Marianne are eating rice crackers. Galdino can't handle confrontation, and Mikita and Gem aren't the kind to care if it doesn't involve them."

"You, where's all the treasure?" Wapol shouted.

"Yea no, I'm not dealing with this right now. I'm in a great deal of pain and this is starting to annoy me. Arie, do me a favor."

"I've been wanting to wash him away from the start." She smirked. "Crashing wave!" Water bubbled up around her rushing forward and washing away the king.

"You're majesty!" The others yelled as they retreated to save him from drowning.

"Let's get going, people!" I ordered.

A couple hours later.

"13 can you go get Jay?" Arie asked. "Tell him we made it." The otter pointed at himself. "Yes you, just go tell him."

The furry creature scurried off into the captain's quarters. "The mermaid No fur said we made it." The voice had rang directly into my ears.

I looked down to see the otter pointing towards the door. "So it's time, I hope I'm not walking out to an army of guns. Please tell me she took care of that already."

"What?" The voice said as 13 held up a piece of paper with a question mark.

"It's nothing important." I assured him.

As I moved to exit the room Marianne called out to me. "I'll stay here and watch the ship, I can't be bothered to move."

"Too bad, let's go. You can't stay here, my inventory doesn't support life and my dungeons are on the main ship."

"I'm not moving." She reiterated. "If you want me to move you're gonna have to drag me out of here."

I sighed heavily. "Fine, you asked for it." I picked her up, holding her over my shoulder like a sack of rice. "Dragging it is."

"More like carrying but I'll take it. Rice cracker?" She offered.

Once outside we were of course still surrounded by guns, it seemed Vivi was in the middle of bowing and urging us to follow suit. "Could you let us onto the island already?" I asked impatiently. "That good for nothing king of yours gave us a lot of trouble, also looking at my health I only have a couple hours to live. I'm already down to less than 10%."

"You've seen Wapol?" Dalton ordered his men to lower their weapons. "You may come, though I don't know about you being able to get a doctor. There's only one left on this island."

We were brought into a house where Dalton explained their problems with the doctors and their king. "There's only one doctor left on this island, Dr. Kureha. She's often called a witch for her cruel treatment, she comes into town on a whim to check for patients."

"Where does she live?" Marianne asked. She was intrigued by the title of witch.

"She lives on top of the huge mountain over there, a castle lies at the top." He told her.

"Yea I'm not heading up there." Marianne took a seat at the table deciding to drink some iced tea, with this weather she didn't have a choice.

"We have to try." Vivi argued. "Jay's gonna die if we don't."

"Don't worry about it." I told her. "I'm sure she'll come by the town soon, besides there is one way to keep my health up."

"How can I help?" Vivi asked. "The faster you're healed the better."

I smiled. "Nothing much, I just need to bash some heads as they say. I'll need one of you to come with me."

"Dying in combat, I like it." The otter held up a sign with a check mark.

"How are you going to find something to fight and how is that even supposed to help you?" Vivi asked.

"I heard there's a certain kind of rabbit that exists near the mountains, I'd like to have some fun over there for a bit." I told her.

Marianne declined. "I'll just stay inside."

"I'm not helping." Galdino stepped up. "I don't like you, you can die for all I care. If it wasn't for the fact that Crocodile would kill me, I would have informed him of you, annoying pest."

"Would he actually kill you though?" I asked. "13 is stuck here and Friday isn't getting away from Little garden."

"Whatever." Galdino scoffed. "I'm stuck with this bitch now."

Water built up in the area quickly forming around Galdino. "Aqua coffin." She stepped up to him. "You got balls for someone who's nothing but a portable candle."

13 flinched back from his scary new partner. "We're definitely prisoners of war."

"I- take- it- back." Galdino stood suspended in the bubble, unable to move.

"Good." The bubble popped, "you three are mine now."

"I for one don't mind helping." Mikita offered. "Another chance to bury another face into the ground."

"Shouldn't he be resting?" Vivi argued.

Karue raised his wing in support. "Fighting isn't going to help him."

"Let's do it." Gem let his palms explode. "I'll need some extra training if I want to blow up the old boss."

"I'll help, don't know what it's about but it's a strange world. There's probably someone out there who eats bombs." Dalton smiled. "It's the least I could do, you guys did give us news about our king. Now we can prepare in case he finds his way back."

"Thanks but like I said I only need one." I looked around the room for a bit before zeroing in on Karue.

Karue ducked behind Vivi. "Please don't choose me."

'This Voice of all things sure comes in handy.' I grinned. "Karue, how about we go have some fun, I need someone to carry me back after all. You can't expect a sick man to go through all that effort."

"Exactly you're sick, lay down and rest!" Vivi ordered.

"Come on Princess, we haven't made it to Alabasta yet. Until we get there, I'm in charge. My ship, my rules." I reminded her.

"Don't let him take me." The duck cowered behind his friend.

Vivi sighed. "Sorry Karue, for now we'll just have to listen to him."

I smirked, grabbing onto his wing. "Let's go." I have to admit, dragging someone through the snow was more fun than I'd like to admit… alright I'm lying I'd love to admit how much joy seeing a whining duck brought me. It warmed my soul, which was good since that annoying system of mine has yet to give me cold immunity. "Alright we're here!" Karue began shaking the snow from his feathers with an annoyed glare on his face, which I knew meant that he hated every bit of the journey here. "Don't give me that look, I hope he bites you."

"Who?" Karue squawked in pain as a baby rabbit bit into his leg. He glared down at the cute creature before shaking his leg free and kicking the rabbit away.

"Good work." I praised him. "You'll be excellent bait, I mean who better to outrun a bunch of rabbits than the fastest land animal I know."

Karue bathed in the praise for a brief moment before returning to the main point of that sentence. "Bait?" From all around us an army of giant rabbits appeared.

"Hey don't look at me." I pointed at Karue. "He was the one who kicked the little guy, I thought he was quite adorable."

The rabbits began closing in and Karue broke into a run, running up the slope towards the mountains. As the rabbits filed past me I took a few out here and there letting my leech work its magic and increase my health.

"Hey if you can defeat twenty of them without a single one noticing, I'll give you a free class skill." Asobu challenged me. "I haven't done the necessary paperwork so it's technically against the law but who cares, why make someone's life a game if you're not gonna have any fun?"

"Now that's a challenge." I ducked in and out of combat picking them off one by one as Karue continued to draw their attention, unfortunately even though the quest was completed quickly my good luck didn't hold. Karue suddenly vanished which was followed by what sounded like thunder, the slope began to shake as Snow began falling overhead growing more and more as it tumbled down the mountain. "Fuck."

Asobu began to laugh. "For this entertainment I'm almost tempted to give you an additional skill, I'm not gonna do that though. Try to survive, you're not getting your skill until then." The last thing I remember before passing out was a wall of white clouding my vision.

I shoved another bucket full of snow to the side finally freeing myself from its clasp. "Great, all that healing I built up from my leech has been deemed useless."

"I wouldn't say it was useless, you got a new skill and leech has leveled up dramatically." Asobu cut in.

'A skill that lowers the temperature of the area within five meters of me, I would've hated this skill if it wasn't for the fact that it's passive and doesn't affect me.'

I began searching the snow hoping to find Karue but all I came up with was Half dead rabbits. "Where the hell did he run off to?" A loud quack came from behind me, as I turned around I saw a saluting Karue. "Look who made their way back, next time don't cause an avalanche by breaking the sound barrier."

Karue nodded though the expression on his face showed confusion, his inner voice asking why it keeps happening. "Your devil fruit." I began. "It's the speed speed fruit, pretty self explanatory and very well suited for your species. You're already moving at the speed of sound but when you accidentally increase that speed you break through the barrier." As Karue processed the new information I walked up to him and hopped on his back. "When you're done with that, take me back to the village."

Once we made it back to the village we were greeted by an old doctor and a serious looking reindeer. "You let the patient leave the town?!" The doctor yelled. "Seriously Dalton, you couldn't possibly be more idiotic."

"He said he can handle it, that all he needed was a good fight and it'd prolong his life until you get here."

"In what world does a fight help an injured patient?!"

"This one!" Dalton argued. "I'm a bison! This one," he pointed at five. "Literally eats bombs! Is it really so crazy to believe that there's a possibility of there being someone out there who can heal by fighting?"

"Fine, it's not my problem anyway. I'm heading back to the castle." Kureha decided.

"Um, before you head up there, mind taking me along?" I asked, dismounting the duck. "I could've tried climbing the mountain like an idiot but that seems like a lot of work, figured it'd be better to wait."

Kureha's nature changed immediately. "Who are you? Another fan, curious about my secret on eternal youth."

Mikita began to laugh. "No one wants lessons on eternal youth from you old hag."

"Old hag?" The doctor turned on her, a needle flying from her hands and planting itself in her neck. Mikita fell to her knees, her strength leaving her limbs. "Listen girly, I'm 141 years young! What part of that makes me a hag?!"

"Probably the 141 part." Marianne answered for her. "I mean even if we reduced your age and sent you back a century you'd still be an old lady. That's how I see it at least." Marianne approached the older lady. "Rice cracker?" She offered. Another needle appeared from Kureha's sleeve but she was stopped in her tracks as a flash of paint struck her clothes. "I like this new palette, my hypnosis is so much stronger. Colors trap, Friendship white."

Kureha took another drink from her bottle of plum saké, a smile returning to her face. "You know what kid, you're not so bad. You are the one person I might actually share the secrets of eternal youth with, though you likely won't need it for a long time."

"I'm not a kid." Marianne corrected her. "I'm 16, an adult."

'Yea by this world's standards.' Arie and I thought in tandem.

"Oh, me and you are gonna get along nice, little lady." Kureha laughed before turning back to me. "Now, who are you?"

"Your patient, the one who went out for a nice fight to feel a little better." I smiled at Chopper. "Nice to meet you little one."

"My patient!" Kureha yelled, her rage returning.

"Karue." Vivi ran up to her feathered friend tossing a blanket over him. "You're half frozen! What happened to you?"

I took a step back from the group. "Right, I forgot about that. New skills can be a bit annoying, this cold environment definitely doesn't help things."

"So you're the idiot that left town!"

"Yes and you're my doctor, can we please hurry this along?" I asked.

"Who said I'll be treating you?"

"You're a true doctor, you wouldn't let anyone die when you can save them. Regardless if they're friend or foe." I took a short bow. "Please help me out, it's not much but I can offer all the money in my possession as payment."

"Fine, Chopper get the patient." Kureha instructed. "We're heading back home."

"You might want to be careful." I took a step back. "The area around my body drops in temperature drastically, you might end up with hypothermia if you stay around me for too long."

"Cold weather doesn't affect me brat, I've been on this island for far too long to worry about things like that." She turned to Vivi. "The duck is going to be alright, girly, so don't worry about it. His body is rapidly heating up to fight against the cold, he'll be okay in a minute or two."

"If you say it's alright then let's get going." I kneeled down in front of Kureha to get a good look at the reindeer standing behind her. "I'm sure a little cold could never hurt such a strong reindeer, especially one as intelligent as this one."

A small smile crept on the creature's face but it was obvious that he was fighting to hide it. "Hey wait, I'm going with you." Marianne called out. "I can tell there's a lot to learn from you, I'm not missing a single moment."

"Come on, I could use some good company." Kureha beckoned her forward, the four of us leaving the town.

"Can you stop talking while I'm trying to work?!" Kureha yelled.

"You're not really doing anything." I countered. "You're just poking me with a needle, I already told you, I don't bleed. Just make me an antidote and I'll be on my way, you want an explanation? Devil fruit."

"How am I supposed to find out the cause of the sickness if I can't take a blood sample or see any symptoms?"

"It's simple you old bitch, just give me the antidote for the five day disease." I told her. "Based on how I feel I'm pretty sure that's what I got, especially since it's nearly been five days and my Hp is about to hit zero. I'm about to die, can you hurry this along?!"

A tick mark appeared on her forehead. "Old?"

"Getting angry like that isn't good for the skin, it'll only make you more of a hag than you already are!" Now normally I wouldn't antagonize such a good woman but I was in a lot of pain, not giving me Gamer's mind was really a bitch move.

A needle flew from her hands only to be stopped by a wall of ice. "Yea not happening."

"Chopper, anesthetic!" Kureha ordered. Chopper transformed into his heavy point, attempting to knock me out but the hit on the head only served to drop my Hp into the single digits.

"I told you, that shit doesn't work! I got like an hour to live at most with that stunt you just pulled, hurry the hell up doctor! This game is not ending prematurely, there's nothing I hate more than a bitch who quits the game before even beating the story mode."

"The antidote for the five day disease is already ready but it's used in continuous doses, you won't be cured in a day." She argued.

"My body will make up for that, all I need is one dose."

"So you'll be healed? Just like that?" She smiled darkly. "Fine, I'll give it to you, but first I'm gonna watch you suffer just a little bit longer."

"I'm cutting your pay! Just give it to me, otherwise you won't be getting anything!" I yelled.

"Oh I'm getting paid, I'll make sure of that." She promised.

"Golden, can't you just use your paint or something? Help me out here."

She declined immediately. "Yeah, that's not happening."

"Why?!" I demanded.

She shrugged. "It's too much work to get up right now."

'So this is how everyone felt back home. I never thought I'd see the day where the so-called god of laziness was bested.' I sighed. "You're a bitch."

"My paint is only for myself, I'm not using it to help anyone but me. I'm unemployed at the moment and I'm definitely not looking for another job anytime soon."

"Alright, Asobu it's game over." I said aloud. "Might as well pull the plug on this adventure, next time I'm not choosing one piece."

"Yea no, you'll be good… probably, you'll have to die again if you want to start a new game. Don't worry though, a new event should be coming up, based on the story that is." She verbally shot me a thumbs up. "You got this, make it as entertaining as possible."

A voice in the background cut into the transmission. "Asobu, how many times have I scolded you about breaking the rules?!" A voice yelled.

"Shit, it's my boss. Later Jay." The transmission cut off leaving me in slight shock.

'Wait… boss?" Before I could wrap my head around what that could mean, my thoughts were interrupted by a screaming Chopper.

"Doctorine, he's here!"

Kureha turned to the small creature with a look of confusion. "Who?"

"Wapol! He came back, he's on his way up right now!" Chopper explained.

"Antidote! Please!" I demanded.

Goldenweek spoke. "What can you possibly do? Despite the weird fruit it's not like you're gonna magically be healed from one antidote."

I pulled the blankets off of me and walked up to Kureha, my hand extended. "I'm sorry but a little paint isn't gonna help either, I may be dead with a single hit but it's the same for the rest of you."

"I'm retired but I could handle a bunch of brats easily." Kureha laughed as she handed me the vile. "However, the future isn't meant for us anymore. I'll let you kids handle it. Chopper, make sure to help them out."

Chopper looked at me with fear in his eyes. "Talented at healing and dealing damage? Not even a prayer would grant me better support." I praised him. "We got it, don't worry so much."

Chopper nodded. "Okay, it's not like you're nearly dead or anything?"

"Exactly." I laughed. "Let's go greet our guest."

"Welcome to my glorious castle." I greeted.

"It isn't your castle though." Chopper said in confusion.

"Exactly!" Wapol yelled. "This is my castle and I'd like it back."

"Yea not happening, just got the lease on it yesterday. It's definitely my castle now."

"What?" Wapol and Chopper spoke in unison. "That's impossible."

"I mean it's a pretty cheap place, with how run down it is and the fact that it was owned by a corrupt king, it dropped the value significantly. That's the beauty of real estate."

Wapol grinned. "Whatever, it's good that I'm a pirate now, I'll just steal it back."

I laughed. "You're more than welcome to try, but it's gonna take more than three of you to take me on."

'No quest huh? What the hell happened to Asobu?' I blitzed the group of three, catching Chess and Marimo off guard, I coated my hands as I used the momentum to knock the two back. Luckily for me, Wapol didn't think to venture further onto the mountain, Chess and Marimo went flying off the side.

"Two down, one to go. Don't go making this easy for me." Wapol's jaws widened and snapped down on the air left of me as I dodged. I wrapped my chains around his foot, tripping him and following up with a hasshoken empowered ax kick that shattered a large portion of his steel teeth.

"You bastard!" He yelled, he opened his mouth and began stuffing himself in until all that was left was what looked like a strange bucket, in a moment it reformed into a tall skinny man with an abnormally long chin.

"It seems our fight can finally begin." I gestured for him to come forward, dashing in myself. His fingers shifted in an instant, turning into pistol barrels. The bullets that fired didn't even pierce my skin as I pressed onwards.

'System is down, hardening skill can not level up.'

I smiled. 'Since bullets have no effect it means it did level up, just no proof until later I guess.'

"H-How? If those don't work, how about these?!" Wapol yelled out as he fired off more rounds, his fingers now the barrel of revolvers rather than pistols.

I dodged to the side but my foot sunk deeper into the snow slowing me down, the shot fired had skimmed my knee.

'4 damage taken, remaining health: 1/450.'

'Close one.' I thought as I jumped out of the snow activating my cryo walking ability. 'Now I really can't take another hit.'

The bullets continued to rain down. I stomped my foot, causing a wall of ice to appear in front of me which I ducked behind as Wapol continued to fire.

I manipulated the vibrations around my finger and used it to stab a hole through the wall. On the other side, Wapol was still firing blindly. I used that opportunity to blink behind him, casting my chains into the wall as I teleported. Once behind him, I pulled on the chains dragging the wall from its position and dragging it flying towards us. At the last moment before impact Wapol turned on me and pushed me away in anger just as he got hit by the wall of ice. My fall softened from the snow. "Quite a lucky break, just when I needed it."

While he was recovering I jumped into the air and came crashing down with a frost rupture. Wapol's mouth opened wide as he devoured the wall whole and jumped out of the way. "What are you?" He growled.

I smirked. "Somethin you ain't never seen before."

"My bullet grazed your leg earlier, why aren't you bleeding?" He asked.

"Just one of my many skills." I responded. Wapol's armor cracked from being in my presence for too long, his iron jaw beginning to go with it. "It's such a cold day today, I don't know how you do it."

Wapol's frown deepened. "Fine, talk about your skills all you want, speaking on how great it is. I wonder how much fun it'd be to control such a fun element, oh wait…" His body shifted taking on a light blue shine but the looks remained the same. "Wapol Frost." A spear of ice rocketed at me, piercing my chest. "You should be proud, you inspired me to take on a new form. Now you can die by its hand."

[Hp has reached 0. The skill endure has been activated. Cooldown: 24 hours]

I stumbled from the pain, breaking the spear and pulling it out of my body.

[You have been affected by frost, Agility dropped by half.]

"A little merge? Is that all you got?" I smiled. "It's been awhile since I've been brought to this state, if you wanna take a skill of mine I'll show you something entirely new with a combination of my own."

[The skill Merge has been activated. Merging the skills snowball and chilling rain, result… Snow manipulation]

"I couldn't have asked for anything better." I glared back at him. "I can hear it, the voice of this very island screaming at me to save it from your wrath. Well it can rest assured, I promise you'll never be back."

The citizens back in town looked at the sky in wonder as the snow all around them began drifting, slowly at first before rushing towards a single area, towards the peak of the highest mountain. "This is true power!" I roared as a massive dragon made of snow circled the sky.

"No!" Wapol yelled. "I refuse to lose!" His body shifted as a cannon appeared on his side firing every last round of ammunition at me.

"Snow Passenger!" The dragon swooped down with its jaws wide, swallowing Wapol and carrying him off through the clouds.

What followed was celebrations from the citizens who came to see the spectacle. Chopper had apologized for not being able to help as he saw no opportunity to interfere. With a little bit of encouragement, definitely not something along the lines of kidnapping, I convinced him to join my crew. Goldenweek chose to stay behind with Kureha as the rest of us returned to the ship.

"It's time we get going." Arie told me. "I have to go find the captain, I'll take Wapol's sub, his lackeys won't be needing it."

I smiled. "Damn, and here I thought you were joining me for Alabasta."

"See you around Jay." She waved as she departed, as we turned to set sail the snow around us shifted, turning pink as it fell from the clouds. I manipulated it into a single message, something I know Kureha had wanted to say.

'Good luck, my son.'

New skills

Leach Lv.10(Health restores by 10% of the damage done)

Snow passenger(A giant dragon that carries its passenger far away.)

Snow manipulation(The ability to manipulate snow in any way I see fit.)

Responding to comments

Gamelover41592: Thanks for reading, as always. I'm just trying to flip things, make sure no chapter is a copy and paste of the original.

CMdkelley: Sanji is there just not in the current arc, go back to chapter 5 you should see his name pop up a lot over there.

Final thoughts

This chapter took a couple hours longer than expected. I'm trying out a new story and I was stuck on the details for that, don't worry though it's not one piece. On the down side you may not see it for a month or even a year, just messing around atm.