One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda
Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Square Enix and Disney
OCs belong to me.
-Chapter Two Hundred-
"Listen up—if you've hurt that sweet angel or even plan on hurting any of these lovely ladies, you have to go through me to do it!" Sanji growled.
"He said I still haven't played my trump card yet!" Chopper suddenly exclaimed, causing me to raise an eyebrow before quickly concluding that he must have been translating for an animal because there was no other reason for him to say something so villainous himself.
"Hey, Luffy, maybe we should pick up the pace a little" I suggested as my ears perked up to the sound of a seahorse nearby.
"Should we?" he blinked, tilting his head in a questioning manner.
"What do you mean? You're the one that wanted to find Zoro" I frowned. He was starting to become much more lax now compared to mere seconds ago when he was frantically acting like we needed to find Zoro right this instance after being freed from that boulder. I couldn't help but now wonder if his frantic behavior from earlier was a direct result of adrenaline after being crushed underneath half a boulder...
I wouldn't doubt it.
"What's he saying now?" I heard Usopp nervously ask.
"Cut them to pieces, Roronoa Zoro!" Chopper translated. "That's all" he said.
"See, I knew it! He's being—he's being controlled by that thing!" Usopp wailed.
"Somebody better do something and fast!" Nami fearfully cried as I quickly rushed ahead of Luffy when I saw that he had no plans on picking up the pace. I couldn't tell if his lack of concern was just him being his usual self and not really seeing a need to worry about whatever was happening or if being crushed underneath that boulder actually had messed with his head in some way. If he was in some kind of disorientating daze now that the high of nearly being crushed to death had worn off, then he was doing a pretty good job at hiding it because nothing about him seemed that off as far as I could tell.
"Geez, it never fails" Sanji scoffed. "Stupid swordsman, he always has to make everything so damn difficult..." he irritably grumbled.
"Sanji, be careful!" Usopp cried as I finally reached the top of the hill, coming to a halt as I watched Sanji rush toward Zoro.
"Skylar, you're alive!" Nami gasped the second she spotted me hastily coming toward her and the others.
"Are you guys alright? Do you have your memories back?" I asked,
"We're fine, but shouldn't we be the ones asking you that?" Nami questioned as I raised an eyebrow. "What the heck happened to your neck?" she worriedly frowned, suddenly grabbing my face and tilting my head so she had a better look at the massive bruise on my collarbone.
"N-nothing!" I choked, face instantly flushing as I quickly avoided all eye contact the minute she brought attention to my hickey.
"Skylar, my sweet, your—did that idiot swordsman do that to your neck?!" Sanji snapped the second he also caught sight of the hickey. "You perverted bastard!" he growled, kicking his foot out, only for it to be instantly stopped by one of the swordsman's swords.
"Stay out of my way! You got that, dumbass cook!" Zoro snapped right back.
"There he is!" Luffy brightened as he finally caught up, now stretching himself as far back as he could before flying toward the two that were fighting. "Zoro!" he shouted as he crashed into them—a bored expression on his face that made me laugh as the three went flying by and into a nearby rock.
"Nice, Luffy!" I whistled as we rushed over to the three after crashing to make sure they were alright.
"Are you guys okay?" Chopper worriedly asked.
"Luffy, what the hell?! Why'd you do that?!" Zoro snapped as he angrily smashed the rubber man's head into the ground.
"Zoro, did you just call him Luffy?" Usopp blinked.
"You got your memory back!" Nami gasped as the swordsman stood, picking up our captain in the process.
"Of course, I did" Zoro huffed.
"Then stop looking so creepy!" Sanji snapped as he angrily grabbed hold of Zoro's face—digging his fingers into the corners of his mouth as he forced the moss-haired man to smile. "If it really is back then act like it, okay?! Put a big smile on your face—like this!" he sneered.
"Hey, stop it!" Zoro snapped as he used Luffy to knock the blond away.
"My head! Hey, who am I?" Luffy asked in a daze.
"Don't make this any more complicated than it already is!" Usopp snapped.
"Oh, yeah! Zoro, you got a lot of nerve for what you did" Luffy scolded as he quickly came back to his senses.
"I don't know why I even bother..." Usopp dejectedly mumbled. Quietly, I made my way over to the swordsman—not uttering a single word as I calmly approached him with a neutral expression.
"Skylar!" Nami flinched when I suddenly and harshly slapped Zoro across the face.
"Ow! What the hell?!" Zoro snapped, holding his cheek as I huffed.
"Apologize right now, pervert!" I scolded, and though I pointed toward the hickey on my collarbone as the source of my frustration, I knew there was more to my demanded apology than just embarrassment. I wanted him to overall apologize for scaring me—for putting me into an unwanted state of distress with his odd behavior despite knowing that such a demand was irrational due to it not fully being his fault.
"Hey, did I do that?" Zoro asked, looking almost proud of himself as he now examined the bitemark he had left behind. "Not bad..." he grinned as if impressed with how prominent the hickey was against my pale skin.
"Don't look so smug!" I embarrassingly snapped, blushing as I swatted his shoulder.
"Okay, okay" he chuckled before pulling me into a tight hug and pecking my forehead. "I'm sorry...for everything..." he softly mumbled as if he just knew there was more to my demanded apology as he comfortingly rubbed my side.
"Apology accepted..." I muttered, huffing as I crossed my arms and looked away with a slight pout.
"Good" Nami smiled, pleased as she looked around. "Now we're all back to normal" she happily sighed.
"Yep!" Luffy nodded.
"Realizing that that seahorse horn was the real culprit was brilliant, Robin my love!" Sanji praised as he swooned over the older woman.
"What?" Luffy blinked, tilting his head. "So that was it?" he asked.
"Yes, Luffy, that was it" Usopp nodded. "You were the first one to get your memories back and you didn't notice?" he frowned as he realized that the answer should have been obvious when the captain got his memories back after accidentally kicking the seahorse the kid had been carrying.
"How rude, at least I'm better than Zoro" Luffy suddenly giggled, angering the swordsman.
"Yeah, at least he's better than Zoro" I agreed, causing the captain's giggling to worsen.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Zoro glared.
"Exactly what it sounds like, bozo" I grinned. "Not my fault our captain is just objectively better than you" I playfully teased, laughing as he irritably huffed in response.
"So where'd that thing go anyway?" Sanji asked, now wondering where the seahorse had gone.
"Did it escape?" Usopp questioned as we started to look around for any signs that the seahorse the kid had been carrying was still around.
"No" Zoro shook his head, pulling away from me as he slid down the bank so that he could be closer to the water. "It's obvious where it is" he said, motioning toward the bubbles appearing on the water's surface as if there something was breathing underneath it.
"He's right, it just turned itself blue!" Usopp gasped.
"So it camouflaged itself?" I tilted my head. "That's actually pretty smart of it."
"It could have easily gotten away by now" Sanji frowned. "Did it really think it could—"
"Bastard!" Zoro suddenly snapped, unintentionally cutting the blond off as he jumped into the water. "So you think you can try and manipulate me, huh?! I'll cut you up and serve you for dinner!" he snarled.
"Huh—really got to him, didn't it?" Luffy questioned.
"Yep, sure did" I nodded, crossing my arms. "Bet he's feeling really embarrassed right about now" I hummed.
"Ha! You won't catch me!" Usopp laughed in a high-pitched voice, already starting to act out a little scenario as he assigned voices to both Zoro and the seahorse.
"Oh yeah? Just you wait!" deep voice.
"Hahaha! Too slow, jerk!" high pitch.
"Jerk? How about this?!" deep.
"I'm over here!" high pitch.
"What the—how?! I'll slice you to shreds—there, I got you!" he started to wrap up his silly little scenario with that deep voice. "You won't get away!" he proclaimed as Zoro finally emerged from the water—triumphantly holding the seahorse as the rest of us burst out into a fit of laughter.
"You're next, Usopp! Just wait!" Zoro irritably growled.
"Aw, come on now—I thought he did a pretty good job" I giggled, causing the swordsman to grumble.
"Now, for my last resort" Chopper suddenly translated for the raging seahorse as he wiggled out of Zoro's grasp, now blowing a billow of purple smoke from his mouth as he flew higher up into the air.
"No, it can't be!" Nami gave a startled gasp as figures suddenly started to appear in the smoke. "Is that you, Bellmere?" she asked, looking at the young woman grinning back at her with a cigarette clenched between her teeth.
"Doctor!" Chopper cried as he looked at an older gentleman with oddly styled silver hair.
"Kaya! Are you feeling better?!" Usopp sobbed the moment he spotted a young woman with long blond hair.
"Is that...?" I mumbled as Zoro silently stared back at Kuina's youthful and smiling face while Sanji's cigarette dropped from his mouth in shock upon spotting a blond-haired man. I could only assume that what was happening was that the seahorse was showing images of the other's loved ones based on the memories it had stolen from them...
I wonder...who would I have seen if it had stolen my memories earlier? Would it have only shown my brothers to me or would it have possibly shown...Mary? Would I have even been able to withstand seeing those gentle honey-brown eyes of hers staring at me once again after everything that happened?
I'm not sure.
Part of me felt joyous at the thought of possibly seeing her again after so long...but a stronger part of me only felt pain and guilt at the thought of seeing her again. A stronger part of me felt it wasn't my place to see her...that I didn't deserve to see that sweet face of hers smiling at me after what happened...
"How are you guys doing?" Luffy brightened when he caught sight of Ace alongside a redheaded man. Despite the warmth that now surrounded everyone upon seeing their loved ones once again, the air soon shifted as the illusions disappeared and were replaced with equally familiar yet not-so-friendly faces. "You jerks—you want to fight? Bring it! I'll kick your asses at the same time!" the captain snapped before the images of our past enemies disappeared and were quickly replaced this time with blinding, bright light. "What's it saying now, Chopper?" he frowned.
"Thanks to the interference of you meddling pirates, I lost all of the memories that I collected from the villagers! But the delicious memories that I've gathered from you are enough for me to transform, behold! I will become…" Chopper translated.
"Become what?" Sanji asked when the reindeer suddenly trailed off.
"I have no idea" Chopper admitted with a shrug.
"I'm not going to miss this opportunity!" the seahorse proclaimed, emitting another bright glow as a large cloud of blue smoke was sucked right out of our bodies and into the seahorse that was now slowly starting to increase in size...
I blinked.
"Uh..." warily, I looked around—confused and frightened as I now filled with many questions. The first was about the ever-growing seahorse in the air while the second was...
Where...where exactly am I?
Nothing about this clearing or these people was familiar. Frantically did my gaze flicker about in search of some sort of familiarity or even a hint as to where I was and how I had magically ended up here in what appeared to be the middle of the woods.
"What the...? What's that?" a young man wearing a straw hat blinked as he peered up at the still-growing seahorse. "And...um…who am I? And who are you guys?" he asked as everyone now exchanged wary glances with one another. Hesitantly, I took a few steps back—uncomfortable with suddenly being surrounded by this many strangers while out in the middle of nowhere.
Who were these people? What exactly's going on? How did I end up here?
So many questions and yet no answers to be found. I flinched when a man with oddly colored hair suddenly emerged from the water.
"Green...?" I blinked, slightly taken aback by the color of his hair. Curiously tilting my head, I found myself almost tempted to walk right on over and touch it—maybe even ask him if it was real or not.
"Hey you, Mr. Drowning Guy, do you know who I am?" the man with the straw hat curiously asked.
"No, dumbass..." the moss-haired man grunted, curiously looking around himself until his gaze locked with my own. Tensing, I warily took another step back—cautiously grabbing the handle of my sword in silent warning the moment I saw the way his gaze flickered as he curiously eyed me.
"At last, I'm a Millennium Dragon!" an odd-looking reindeer suddenly proclaimed, causing me to owlishly blink back in surprise. Reindeer didn't usually talk...did they? I don't recall them ever talking before nor do I remember ever reading anything about them being capable of human speech...or ever looking the way this particular reindeer looked. If it wasn't for the antlers, I wouldn't have even realized he was supposed to be a reindeer in the first place.
"No way!" a man with an absurdly long nose gaped.
A/N: Enjoy
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