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East Blue - Organ Islands
Gecko Island - Syrup Village
Going far back in time, to when the Straw Hats had just left the place where the fight against Kuro took place. Jango, who had fainted after being attacked by surprise by his deceased Captain, and whom everyone thought was dead since that attack should have killed him, wakes up in great pain, his torso pierced by five holes that already no longer bleeding, perhaps the dust, his clothes, and the dried blood somehow stopped the bleeding, effectively saving his life.
After getting up with great effort, Jango moves away from the site of the battle, giving a brief glance at the body of his deceased Captain.
Entering the forest, he soon manages to find a nearby village, where he is able to move around without drawing attention, breaking into and then stealing food and some medical supplies from an empty house before returning to the shadows of the forest.
There, he treats his wounds and patches himself up before gorging himself on the food he stole. Afterward, he quickly steals a fishing boat and flees the island, afraid of being caught by the Straw Hats, who he discovered were still on the island, as he saw one of them walking through the village he had just invaded from a distance.
And so, no longer tied to a pirate crew, Jango begins his journey to fulfill his dream of dancing professionally in a dance competition, eventually joining the Marines, just like in his cover story in the canon.
Now, how did the Straw Hats not realize he was still alive? Simple, they didn't care enough to check, not even minimally.
=Scene Break=
Back in the present time, in the Grand Line, more specifically on Drum Island, Luffy and Sanji finally meet at the foot of the mountain where the castle are located, or would it be better to call it a cliff already? It doesn't matter, after getting past the Lapahns, the rest of the journey went in a smoothly and quickly way.
"Well, race to see who gets to the top first?", Luffy asks excitedly.
"No, you idiot! We could hurt the girls if we do that. Let's just go up steadily at a moderate speed!", Sanji reprimands him before explaining what they would do.
"Aww! Fine, but just so you know, I'd beat you in a race easily!", Luffy, upset that he couldn't have his race, responds reluctantly, taking the opportunity to rub it in Sanji's face that he'd win in a race.
"Keep talking and I'll stop cooking for you!", Sanji says, threatening in the one way he knew would have an effect.
"Hmm, that's mean and you know it!", Luffy complains, but stops teasing him.
The two then ascend to the top of the cliff at a steady pace using Geppo, neither too fast nor too slow.
Landing in front of the castle, Sanji asks while looking at the imposing structure in front of them with a pirate flag flying from the highest tower, "So, what do we do now?"
"Well, there's no doorbell, so we'll have to clap!", Luffy says, coming up with a solution.
He then jumps and, while suspended in the air, claps with his feet, since he couldn't use his hands to do it as he was using them to hold Nami, "HEEEEY, ANYONE HOOOME?! THERE'S A BUNCH OF SICK PEOPLE HERE!"
"Seriously? That's your idea?", Sanji asks after watching his idiot Captain do that.
"What? You got a better idea?", Luffy asks mockingly.
"Honestly, any idea is better than this shit you just did!", Sanji says, letting out an amused snort.
At this moment, the two notice two presences approaching them from inside the castle.
"It worked!", Luffy says with a smug smile on his face, rubbing in Sanji's face his 'shitty' idea, that, look at that! It worked, isn't that right?
"Go fuck yourself", Sanji says in a dragged tone, with no desire to keep arguing with this idiot.
A few moments later, the two see an elderly woman dressed like a rebellious young person and a small bipedal reindeer with a blue nose wearing a red top hat with a white 'X' in the middle and burgundy shorts coming out of the castle and approaching them.
"Hey, Sanji! That cute raccoon is walking on two legs, right?", Luffy asks, already wanting to invite Chopper to the crew.
"I think it's a reindeer, Luffy! And it's wearing a top hat and shorts! Oh… now it's doing a funny little dance and... is it talking?", Sanji comments, surprised as he watches the reindeer perform a funny little dance while grumbling curses.
"What do you want, brats?", the elderly woman, Dra. Kureha, asks, raising her sunglasses as she watches the two boys in front of her, carrying four sick girls.
"Hi, my name is Monkey D. Luffy, future King of the Pirates. They need medical attention, no one's been able to cure them, but we were told you'd be able to", Luffy introduces himself with a smile before explaining the reason they're there.
'Are they pirates?', the little reindeer thinks, hiding not very well behind Dra. Kureha's legs, remembering something that someone very dear to him once told him in the past {I like Pirates!}
"King of the Pirates, huh? Bring the sick ones inside! Chopper, prepare the room to receive them, and while you're doing this, separate some benzenol, cardiac serum, and a few antibiotics, grab the strong ones, the way they are, they're going to need it", Dra. Kureha says, raising an eyebrow upon hearing Luffy declare he'll be the King of the Pirates before turning to the little reindeer and giving her orders.
"Yes, Doctorine!", the little blue-nosed reindeer, or rather, Chopper, says, turning around and starting to head back into the castle.
"He just spoke, Sanji!", Luffy comments as they approach Dra. Kureha.
"Yeah, the reindeer just spoke", Sanji confirms, intrigued.
"So cool!! Hey, old granny! What's that thing? Is it a monster?", Luffy asks enthusiastically as he reaches Dra. Kureha's side.
"BAMMMM!!"
"Don't call him a thing, let alone a monster! And this punch was for calling me old, can you believe these brats? Calling someone in the prime of their life like me old, a bunch of brats who don't even have hair on their balls yet!", with her fist buried in Luffy's head, Dra. Kureha reprimands him with a vein popping from her forehead.
"Okay, okay, sorry! But why can't I call it a monster? Being a monster is so cool", clearly not understanding why he apologized, Luffy says before asking in a childish way what the problem with being a monster was.
"Just go inside, brat! You want me to cure these girls or not?", Dra. Kureha comments, feeling like she's talking to an imbecile child.
"Okay!!", Luffy then goes forward, completely oblivious to how his words affected the humor of others, especially Chopper, who overheard the whole conversation.
The mood of the little reindeer went from apprehensive to scared, then angry, and finally surprised and shocked by Luffy thinking being a monster is cool, eventually calming down into a state of curiosity.
=Scene Break=
"Doctorine, the antibiotic is taking effect!", Chopper's cute little voice echoes through the environment, informing Dra. Kureha.
"Yes, it would be strange if it didn't work", Dra. Kureha says, completely trusting in her medicine.
"Now tell me, what caused their condition?", Dra. Kureha asks next, testing the little reindeer's knowledge.
"Kestia", Chopper responds with complete confidence.
"Very good, that means you were paying attention and were a good observer!", Dra. Kureha says, making the little reindeer blush from the compliment and do a weird little dance while firing off curses like a machine gun.
Some time later, entering the room where all the Straw Hat girls were bedridden, Chopper looks around to see if they were conscious or not before starting to work.
"Tok... tok... tok... clank... clink... clunk... grrrt... grrrt... tok... tok... tok... tonk... shuaa... shuaa."
Moving around the room, Chopper prepares some medicines before filling a basin with cold water and grabbing some new towels to replace the ones on the girls' foreheads.
And then, as he starts to move toward Nami's bed, she wakes up and sits up, removing the wet towel from her forehead and pushing the blanket a little away as she looks around, fixing her gaze on Chopper. "Who are you?"
Getting an enormous scare, Chopper jumps back, bumping into a chair and knocking everything over, staring in shock at Nami, like a deer in front of car headlights.
"?", Nami tilts her head in confusion, looking at the small, cute, and strange reindeer in front of her.
At this moment, the other girls wake up as well, fixing their gazes on Chopper, who finally snaps out of his trance and then runs out of the room, trying to hide behind the door frame.
However, he only hides half of his head behind the wall while the rest of his body is exposed for everyone to see.
"I think... you're facing the wrong way", Nami says, amused, raising an eyebrow as she witnesses the funny scene.
Chopper then realizes his mistake and quickly hides behind the doorframe, peeking from behind it.
"It's too late now, and we can still see you", Nami says with an amused smile.
"So cute!!", Kaya exclaims, her eyes shining at the cuteness of the little clumsy reindeer.
"I bet if Luffy sees him, he'll want to recruit him for the crew", Vivi says, amused, remembering how Luffy acted when he first saw Karoo.
"Chouchou, Karoo, and now a cute reindeer, I have nothing to complain about", Nojiko says, since, after all, she loved animals.
"C... shut up, you shitty humans! I'm definitely not happy with your compliments... is your fever better?", Chopper curses them while doing a strange little dance before asking, hiding behind the doorframe again.
"Oh! He talks too, at least now we won't have to rely on Luffy to understand him", Nami says, a little surprised, with Nojiko in the bed beside her agreeing with what she said.
"You're not very good at hiding your feelings, are you?", Nojiko adds, finding it funny how the little cute reindeer acted when receiving compliments.
"Awww! He's so cute and small, come here so I can hug you and pet you", Kaya says, having a cuteness attack, as she stretches out her arms, wanting to hug Chopper.
Intimidated, Chopper runs away from there while screaming in fear, "Ahhhhhhhhh!!"
"Guys! If Luffy doesn't invite him to the crew, we're going to kidnap him!", Kaya turns to the girls and says determinedly.
"Is this for real? It's bad enough that Luffy keeps saying all the time that if someone takes too long to accept the invitation to join the crew, we'll just kidnap them, and now you're also talking about this kidnapping thing too?", Nami comments, finding Kaya's sudden transformation from a kind, respectful, and caring girl to a kidnapper of cute animals quite surprising.
"Heeheeheehee! And who said you girls could kidnap my apprentice behind my back?", Dra. Kureha asks with a smile as she enters through the same door Chopper ran out of.
"I didn't know we needed permission to recruit someone interesting for the crew! By the way, who are you?", Nami comments with an innocent smile before asking in doubt.
"Heee heehee heehee! No, of course not! If you want him, take him! Do me that favor! But know that it won't be that easy, the little one has deep wounds in his heart that no doctor can heal!", Dra. Kureha says with a big smile on her face, telling them to feel free to take him with them, before continuing with a sad smile, speaking about the problems they would have to face before they could take him with them.
The girls look at each other, but stay silent, waiting for the old lady to continue.
"Since his birth, he was abandoned by his parents for being different, and with his herd, it was the same, all because of a blue nose. He was forced into ostracism, always sad and cold, alone, away from the band", Dra. Kureha says, telling Chopper's story.
"What?", the four exclaim, horrified, furrowing their brows.
"He was just a newborn... and then one day, he ate an Akuma no Mi and was treated like a monster, his herd expelled him, and with violence, he was exiled", Dra. Kureha continues the story.
"How horrible", Nami whispers with a furrowed brow, while Kaya, with teary eyes, seemed on the verge of crying.
"He stopped being a normal reindeer in every way. But still wanted to have friends, so, in his human form, he went to the outskirts of a village, but his appearance wasn't perfectly human;it didn't happen as he imagined it would be, he was met with gunshots and violence, having to flee. He didn't understand what he did wrong.
He didn't know whom to blame or hate, just wanted to have friends, but was called a monster, he wasn't a reindeer anymore... but he wasn't a human either.
He lived alone, in absolute loneliness... well, there was a man to whom he opened his heart, Dr. Hiriluk, just a phony doctor, he was the one who gave Chopper his name, treated him like his own son... but life has a way of playing tricks on people sometimes.
The man was sick. Funny, wasn't it? When he got everything, an incurable disease came up.
He spent everything he stole in his years as a thief trying to find a doctor who could cure him, but he didn't find one.
It was when he had lost all hope of being healed that he saw the truth, and found a purpose. He wanted to heal this sick kingdom... sigh... he died... the only person Chopper ever opened his heart to was gone... taken from him... Do you think you can heal his heart?", Dra. Kureha finishes the story, looking down with a sad smile.
"... When my sister and I were children, our island was invaded by Fish-Man Pirates, we became their slaves, at their mercy of their will for eight horrible years, and then I met Luffy, my stupid and childish Captain! And my problems evaporated. If there's anyone capable of healing Chopper's heart, that person is Luffy!", Nami comments with a loving smile on her face.
"Hmmm! Heee hee hee hee! Well, with all this talking, it looks like your fevers have gone down a bit, you happy now, kids? Let me see... 'touch' 38 degrees... 'touch' 38.1... 'touch' 38.2... 'touch' 38.5... it's not so bad, much better than when you arrived. By the way, I'm Dra. Kureha, I'm a doctor, but you can call me Doctorine! Heeee hee hee!", Changing the subject, Dra. Kureha moves from girl to girl, touching their foreheads with her finger, measuring their temperatures with surgical precision.
"Doctor? So, we're in Drum?", Nami asks, relieved to have successfully brought them here.
"Do you want to know the secret of my youth?", Dra. Kureha asks with a smile on her face.
"No, thanks", Nami declines, looking outside through the window.
"No, thank you", Vivi politely declines.
"Yes, we're in the castle at the top of the central mountain", seeing that they didn't want to know something as important as the secret of her youth, Dra. Kureha answers Nami's previous question.
"Doctor? So you're the doctor those twenty gentlemen mentioned, please, teach me! I want to become a respectable doctor", Kaya, realizing who Dra. Kureha was, asks her to teach her, having heard about her skills from the group of twenty doctors who kept them stable.
"Twenty doctors? So those little brats are back, huh? Sorry, kid! But I don't take apprentices", Dra. Kureha asks, intrigued, before refusing Kaya's request.
"But what about Chopper? Isn't he your apprentice?", Kaya asks, feeling sad about the refusal.
"With Chopper, it's different! Besides, if the little one goes with you guys, he can teach you. I've taught him almost everything I know! Of course, he's not as good as I, but he has a very solid foundation, just needs experience to become a great doctor", Dra. Kureha answers, lifting Kaya's spirits a little.
"How did we get here? Who brought us?", Nojiko suddenly asks, after all, they didn't arrive here on their own.
"A boy with a Straw Hat and a boy in a suit brought you four here a few hours ago, they're in the kitchen now", Dra. Kureha responds while thinking about the boy who ate half of her food supply, only stopping after she and the boy in the suit intervened. The boy in the suit apparently argued that the girls needed to eat well and that the food was for them too.
At that moment, Chopper bursts through the door of the room, with Sanji and Luffy chasing after him, and with them comes the usual shouting that accompanies this noisy crew.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH! HELPPPP!", Chopper, desperate, crosses the room at high speed, exiting through the other door on the opposite side of the room that leads outside, with Sanji and Luffy following right behind him.
"GET BACK HERE, I WANT TO CHECK IF YOUR MEAT'S GOOD FOR A LOVE STEW!", Sanji yells, running after Chopper because he wanted to make a stew for Nojiko and the girls, but since he couldn't find any meat in the castle after Luffy had been through the kitchen, he got the idea to use Chopper as emergency meat.
"NO, SANJI! AND COME BACK HERE, REINDEER! JOIN MY CREW, LET'S TURN THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN TOGETHER!!", Luffy shouts, pestering Chopper to join the crew ever since they arrived.
=Scene Break=
Meanwhile, on the horizon, a large Marine ship appears, approaching Drum at a steady speed.
"Captain, we have Drum in sight ahead! We'll arrive soon", a marine shouts from the crow's nest.
"Finally, we've arrived. I hope you're worth my time, Straw Hat", Aramaki, at the bow of the ship, says as he watches the island approach on the horizon.
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(AN: 3,028 Words)
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