Drum Island & The New Addition! Who's the mysterious man?
{No POV}
After getting approval by who they learned was a man named Dalton, Luffy picked up the sick now dressed in warm winter clothes Nami and Zoro picked up Mia who had been re-dressed by Vivi in the same fashion up and they unboarded the ship leaving Usopp, Caroo, and Rena on the ship.
Sanji, despite his love and his desire to always protect his shorty of a girlfriend, went with the others onto the Island in order to help out in getting the girls to a doctor should they require it at any given time during this particular journey.
After arriving at Dalton's house and learning of the Witch Doctor living on the mountain, Luffy spoke up grimly.
"We have no choice... Based on what Mia said and Rena read in one of Mia's medical books, we're quickly running out of time. They'll die if we don't get them to a proper doctor. None of Mia's books say of a way to deal with Kestia Viruses. If we have to climb a mountain or four or six to save them we'll climb thise mountains. So we'll climb." Luffy announced to them quickly rousing Nami and Mia from thier sleep.
"We're going to have to climb a mountain to get you girls to the doctor here...Hang in there... Okay?" He said gently.
The girls smiled.
"Of course..." Nami said with a warm smile.
"Of course... You remind me of him so i'll hang in there for both of you..." Mia answered shocking all of them.
Then Luffy picked up Nami and Zoro picked up Mia. Sanji standing up with them.
It's up on the tallest mountain. I wish you all a safe journey and I warn you to be careful not to mess with the Lappans." Dalton said to them as they all stood outside his house.
Luffy, Zoro and Sanji nodded gratefully and ran off towards the mountains as fast as they could go without endagenring the lives of the girls.
Zoro quietly listened as Luffy and Sanji argued, when Mia mumbled in her sleep.
"Ace..." She muttered so quietly that the arguing two didn't hear her.
But Zoro, who did hear her perfectly well smiled.
'So that's his name is it?' He thought amused.
Then he got dragged into the argument until they ran into the Lappans. Sanji quickly got to work giving them a window to move forwards but it was ruined when the Lappans caused an Avalanche.
Zoro and Luffy quickly found a way to not be burried in the snow, but Sanji wasn't as lucky so they quickly worked hard once the snow settled and dug Sanji out Luffy then carrying the passed out guy with his teeth as him and Zoro began to treck up the mountain barehanded.
Eventually reaching the top and collapsing from exhaustion, a strange creature approached them before they grabbed its hands tightly.
"Please..." Luffy gasped out.
"Save our..." Zoro gasped out.
"Our friends..." Luffy finished for them before joining Zoro and passing out.
The creature examined the side of the mountain and saw trails of blood. He then picked them all up and brought them inside before they could slip on the snow and die.
Once inside he spoke with a lady and began treating the boys while the lady got to work caring for the two girls that were dying.
As they were being treated, Mia awoke and smiled at the woman...
"Please...save their lives...they need to... keep living..." She said before closing her eyes as overwhelming pain hit her.
"Of course we will. But first we need to get you two treated." Said the woman.
Mia smiled through the pain and then spoke some words that only the woman caught.
The woman was shocked but smiled and said, "Don't worry girly.. I'll take it from here." Said the doctor.
Mia smiled in relief a tear going down her face.
"Thank you, Doctor..." She muttered before falling asleep.
The doctor began to work on the girl saving her life, immediately doing what the young woman had asked of her.
'Please...take out the dead fetus within my uterus...It was stuck there after it died... It wouldn't come out on its town... the town doctor of my home island didn't want to risk surgery... because he wasn't skilled enough to do that kind of surgery...Please... the guilt...' Mia had said.
looked at her sleeping figure after curing her from the Kestia Virus and picked her up gently taking her to the operating room knowing Chopper would be done by the time she got there.
Chopper approached her as she went in having finished with his patients and spoke up.
"Is something horribly wrong with her Doctorine?" Asked Chopper.
chugged some alchohol after setting her on the table.
"She's had a dead fetus stuck inside her uterus for some time. I'm guessing that's why she was doing so much worse than the orange haired girl. She asked me to take out the dead fetus. So that's what i'm going to do." Kureha said grimly.
Chopper nodded and got ready to help her as Kureha undressed the outcold Mia.
"Chopper put her under." She instructed.
"Yes Doctorine." He replied doing as told.
Then they began.
Kureha made the cuts necessary to open the uterus enough to extract the fetus and Chopper held the cut open with the necessary tools and handed Kureha the tools needed to extract the dead fetus that was already rotted and stinking. Kureha began by examining the fetus' mobility saw that it only had to be pulled out. So she put down on of the tools and used the proper tool to grab it out. Once it was out she discarded it properly and turned back to the girl examining her uterus for any damage. Spotting none, she disinfected the uterus and closed it up properly. Then she turned to Chopper.
"Patient Status?" She asked.
"All vitals show improvement after extraction." Chopper declared seeing the vitals.
Kureha then silently closed up the exterior cut and bandaged it.
Once done, she had Chopper take the girl carefully back to the female ward. Once Chopper was gone she cleaned herself up and chugged the rest of her bottle opening a new one after going to the female ward.
Now they had to wait.
~ 6 Hours Later ~
Nami blinked her weary eyes open and sat up slowly feeling a lot better.
"I see you're up girly." Said a female voice.
Nami turned to look at the woman and smiled gratefully.
"Thank you for saving us..." Nami said.
"No need to thank me girly. I was just doing my job. Besides, your friend over there on the bed next to yours already thanked me plenty." Said Kureha pausing before introducing.
"You can call me Doctor Kureha! And before you say anything I am not an old lady! I'm still in my late 130s." Kureha said.
Nami smiled softly and warmly.
"Well I'd still like to thank you myself Doctor Kureha. And I have to say, you honestly don't look past your late 120s." Nami said softly.
Kureha chuckled and took a large chug from her bottle emptying it.
"Will Mia-san be alright? She was worse than I was... She was hallucinating about an hour before I started feeling bad." Nami said.
"She'll be alright... If anything you two are lucky you made it here when you did. Any later and you would've felt all better in about three days." Kureha said pausing.
"It would've gone away all on it's own?" Asked Nami.
"No, you would've been dead already. If you came from somewhere like Whiskey Peak it's a miracle you girls
made it this far in two days. Because that's about 6 days from here. Without any complications, that is." Kureha said grimly making Nami realize just how closely they cut it.
"That's exactly where we came from!" Said Nami.
Kureha was shocked beyond belief before suddenly Zoro who had awoken minutes before walked in.
"We made it just in time because Mia used her devil fruit powers to creat a giant wave that shortened the trip by about 4 days." Zoro explained.
"I see... so she knew that it was Kestia didn't she?" Asked Kureha.
"Yes but she admitted she didn't know how to cure it." He answered.
"Of course she wouldn't not many doctors know it. Especially not someone who only guides themselves on pure medical knowledge and have not had to deal with such a strong virus in a patient." Kureha replied.
"Wait! Mia used her powers to get us all here?! Man, I owe my life to her..." Nami said.
When she finished talking Mia began to stir but didn't bother trying to sit up.
"Looks like you kept your word Doctor." Mia said softly as she smiled tears begining to stream down her face at her joy.
Kureha smiled.
"Yes, of course. I am a woman of my word after all." She answered.
"So will you tell your friends here what we're talking about?" Kureha said.
"I have to tell them. They deserve to know anyways. But i'll tell them after Luffy is up and about. You can listen if you'd like to as well Doctor. You were the one that did the procedure." Mia said softly as Kureha helped her sit up slightly and carefully.
Kureha shrugged.
"I've got nothing better to do girly." She said pulling out a bottle from a chest in the room.
Then Luffy burst in and stopped in his tracks from chasing Chopper around and Sanji stopping as well.
"You girls are all up!"
"Yes, and I've got to tell you guys about something important before you go back to chasing the Reindeer." Mia said softly but seriously.
They nodded and sat down on the ground across from her.
"When I was 15 years old I had a one night stand with the boy I told you about. But every single time we met again after that we kept relapsing into each other and spending the night together again. Eventually it all caught back up to us. When I was 16 years old, I ended up pregnant, and I decided to keep it, so I told him. He was as excited as I was and just as afraid too. When I was about four months into the pregnancy, a mob appeared at my cave while I was alone since he was going to go tell his family about everything. But the mob came as he was only minutes away from me and attacked the cave, they destroyed everything they could and kicked me in the womb several times before the boy managed to get them all off of me. But by then... It was too late." Mia said sadly but still fondly.
"Did it-?" Questioned Nami.
Mia nodded grimly but softly.
"Yes, the fetus had been brutally killed. After he ran off the mob from the Gray Terminal he rushed me over to the doctor of Fuschia Villege to try and save us both but the doctor was only able to save my life. The child had already been brutally killed. But the doctor couldn't extract the dead fetus from my body because i'd need to undergo surgery for that and he wasn't skilled in obstetric surgery. So the fetus had been stuck in my uterus for the last 4 yeas. When I woke up and saw the Doctor here treating the Kestia Virus I asked her to remove the fetus. I have been living almost haunted with the memory of the child that I loved even despite such a short time of carrying it. The guilt was too much. I tried to kill myself a couple of times from the pain the guilt caused me. The boy was depressed as well but he saved me both times I tried suicide. We then decided to separate for good. No sex, no kisses, no spending time together... It was what we thought best, considering we were starting to become toxic to each other. We needed to heal by ourselves before ever trying anything again. Time passed and we healed and on his following Birthday, we said our goodbyes and he left the island." Said Mia calmly.
Everyone was silent including Chopper who snuck in to listen as he had been curious.
"I see... that's pretty sad girly..." Kureha said handing Mia a bottle which she gratefully and happily took.
She was...surprisingly happy... after getting it all of her chest.
Everyone was in shock at the information. But Mia continued to smile happily as she finished the bottle and put her hands to her womb area and turning it to water for the briefest of moments and then turning it back to normal, causing for it to heal instantly.
Kureha was surprised but happy for the girl as she stood up and stretched. Then dowsing the boy with the straw hat with water before he ran off after the reindeer that was shouting at his chasers angrily and frightened. Then she froze in her spot.
"TALKING REINDEER?! AWESOME!" She shouted joining the chase shouting about giving a big long hug to the reindeer excitedly.
"She's certainly spirited!" Nami said.
~_~_~ And Then! ~_~_~_
[I'm skipping all the way through the fights with the chronies and moving to halfway through the fight with Wapol.]
As Wapol was begining to munch on himself to continue chasing Nami around inside the castle Mia grabbed his head and glared at him before dousing him in water and placing him on the ground as if his head was a ball.
"Don't bother my nakama when they're recovering! Go fight the captain like a man!" She shouted as she kicked him outside of the castle.
Where he landed and ended up facing Luffy in his skinnier form but was defeated regardless.
Mia then turned to Nami.
"You hold on to that key we can use it to leave ahead of time." Said Mia quietly.
Nami smiled and nodded eagerly before they helped each other get back to the infirmary. When they walked back to the infirmary, Mia heard a villager on the ground humming the tune of the song her and Ace had made and froze in place before gently putting Nami down and heading over to the villager.
"Where did you hear that tune?!" She questioned holding the man by the collar of his shirt.
"I I just heard it being hummed by a mysterious man that passed through here some time before you guys all came here! Please don't kill me!" The man said frantically.
"Did you catch his name?!" Mia questioned.
"N-no! Please don't kill me!" Sobbed the man.
Seeing this Mia let him go with a defeated but hopeful sigh.
"Don't worry I have no interest in killing you. Just please never hum that song again. It's for the strict use of myself and someone from my past." Mia said before heading inside.
"I'll be seeing you real soon..." She muttered to herself as she thought about Ace.
Soon after the dust settled from the fighting and all injured people were patched up thanks to Mia and Doctor Kureha who became instant best friends which thoroughly shocked Mia's crewmates they managed to corner Chopper, who had been avoiding them.
"B-BUT I'M A REINDEER!" He exclaimed when Luffy asked him to come join their crew.
All of them laughed.
"So? I'm a thief." Nami answered.
"I'm a thief, swordswoman, and devil fruit user that grew up alone in a cave with the wild animals of the Island i'm from." Mia added.
"I'm an ex-bounty hunter swordsman." Zoro continued.
"I'm a fighting cook from a sea restaurant." Sanji added.
"I'm an orphan jack of all trades from Loguetown." Rena said.
"I'm an orphan sniper from a small village on a small island." Usopp said.
"And I grew up in a tavern for about a year and then in a mountain bandit den being often thrown into deadly situations by my grandfather and have never met my father." Luffy finished.
Then they all laughed and smiled.
"B-BUT I HAVE A BLUE NOSE!"
"JUST SHUT UP AND COME WITH US ALREADY!" Luffy shouted causing Chopper to cry.
Then Mia stepped in placing a quick hand on Luffy's shoulder before crouching down in front of Chopper with a soft smile.
"To us, it doesn't matter if you are of a different species, have a different colored nose, or anything like that. We don't care about your past either. Because we all have pasts of our own, different dreams, different skills, all in all we're all different people. We could never judge someone for such trivial things when we've got our own things that shape who we are... That's what our nakama stands for. Which is why we want you to come with us and make your own dreams, whatever they might be, come true. It's as simple as that." Mia said to Chopper with a warm smile.
Chopper cried and nodded his agreement before running inside to get his things and say goodbye to Doctor Kureha only to come out pulling a sleight being chased by said woman as she threw weapons at them.
They quickly escaped and reached their ship and set sail for Alabasta.
As they partied and had fun Luffy asked a question that froze everyone in their tracks except for Mia.
"Hey Mia! When will you tell us the name of the guy your in love with? He must be pretty awesome! Maybe he can join our crew!" Said Luffy.
Mia smiled brightly.
"I can't tell you! But we'll meet him soon enough!" Said Mia.
Then Zoro smirked and threw a guitar at Mia who caught it effortlessly.
"So you found my secret stash of music huh?" Mia said with a matching smirk.
"Sing! Sing! Sing!" Chanted everyone else.
Mia shrugged and began to sing a bounty of songs until everyone got drunk and passed out except for her as she was on watch duty for the night.
When everyone else was out cold she used her water form to put away the instruments and move everyone except the still awake Vivi in their beds for the night since she had built all of them their own beds including Chopper.
"Etto... Mia-san?" Spoke up Vivi.
Mia smiled.
"His name was Ace-san wasn't it?" She asked softly.
Mia smiled brightly.
"Yes, and from what I suspect you'll all meet him soon." Mia answered.
Then Vivi smiled and headed off to the extra bed in the woman's quarters.
Hours later the sun rose, and Nami awoke and took over allowing for Mia to go to sleep.
TBC