CHAPTER 299 LET IT HAPPEN

CHAPTER 299 LET IT HAPPEN

“Are you trying?” I asked for the 3rd time.

“I am,” the boy whined. He was currently a 3 foot long pink dragon that looked like a very tiny Shenron from DBZ. “I don’t know how to turn back.”

“Momonosuke, you ate a devil fruit. There are going to be complications,” I said, sitting next to him. Our relationship had gotten better after I started letting him watch what I could remember of Demon Slayer. “What did it feel like when you turned into the pink snake?”

“I’m a dragon,” he hissed.

“Whatever. Something in your mind has to be making the change. How did you turn into the dragon?” He had supposedly eaten one of the man-made copies of a Dragon Devil Fruit. Vegapunk had made it and left it in the basement where they were keeping the kids on Punk Hazard. Momonosuke had been smart to not eat the drug-laced food the other kids were, but he had become so hungry he ate a devil fruit.

“I sneezed,” he whined.

“Okay, that’s good,” I said. “Sneezing, that’s something leaving your body. Maybe you inadvertently made your power come out with your snot. So let’s try breathing in. Draw that power back in.” I picked him up and sat the unruly snake-like body on my lip. Breathing in and out loudly through my nose I waited for him to join me. “Breath in and out dammit or no show.”

“Fine,” he grumbled. Breathing in and out slowly.

“In through the nose. Out through the mouth. Nice and slow,” I mumbled. Sitting on the deck we let the wind blowing and other noises of the crew take all sound as we relaxed. Stroking his head I continued to have him breath. Then without warning his body shifted to that of a small boy. Peeking I noticed that he was asleep. Updated chapters at novelhall.com

“You’re good with kids,” Nami said. Watching me from the railing she rested her chin on her fist as she eavesdropped.

“Kids this age are easy. Before they can walk is when I have trouble,” I said. Picking up Momonosuke I set him on the grass. The boy continued to sleep. Being unable to control his devil fruit had worn him out.

It had been a few days since I came back to One Piece. I felt better about my loss, but it was still a shadow over me that I had to push away to ignore. I had done my best but made a mistake. A mistake I was lucky enough to get a chance to never make again.

The girls continued to practice their chakra elements. Both already on the 2nd or 3rd stage they were excited to work with elements. My clone that went to Hancock ended himself that morning. She too had freaked out when I disappeared from her senses. After calming her down by training her a little in her chakra element, which was Earth, she was finally better. She had demanded the clone stick around a couple of extra days to keep her company. Though he couldn’t have sex she still preferred my clone over nothing at all.

“How many kids you want?” I asked Nami out of the blue.

“What?” She asked, jerking up as she came to attention. Looking around she blushed a little.

“You know, if you were to find someone so inclined to provide you with some,” I said.

“Hmm those are rare to find,” she said. “Probably 2.”

“What about you Robin?” I asked.

“No idea,” she said, focusing. She had her hands hovering over the grass. An arm came out of the ground but she cursed and made it turn into flower petals.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“Trying to make a limb with Nen and my devil fruit. They aren’t mixing very easily,” she said.

“What do they feel like?” I asked, curious.

“My Nen feels almost physical,” she said. Sticking out her hand I used Gyo to watch Nen cover her palm. “My devil fruit is more....just there. I think of a limb appearing and it does.”

“Sugar?” Trafalgar asked, confused. “Monet’s sister?”

“Monet? That green haired bird girl back at Punk Hazard?” I asked. Trafalgar nodded. “Must be. Sugar looks like a little girl, but she is older than she looks. She has some kind of Doll Devil Fruit. If she touches you she turns you into a doll.”

“What kind of doll?” Luffy asked, turning around.

“Not the fun kind,” I said. “You can still move, talk, and think. Unfortunately if you are turned into a doll, everyone you know forgets who you are.”

“What?” Sanji asked, perking up. “How?”

“No idea. But it happens. Dressrosa will have hundreds of toys walking around. These are real people. So be nice to them.” I pulled out a stack of paper and began writing names on it. “These are the names of everyone here in this room. Before we disembark you will have a paper listing everyone. If you are approached by a doll. Read this list. If you don’t recognize one of the names. That means you have forgotten them, and they are probably the doll talking to you. Just assume they will help you and leave them alone. Taking down Sugar and Doflamingo should be paramount in our goals. There is no leaving the island if you forget any of these names.”

The crew slowly nodded. Worried as I tried to express how important this was. I had forgotten I left the One Piece world in the first place because I didn’t want to go to a Challenge as a doll. Now I was stuck here until I got my Haki back.

“Anything else we need to worry about?” Nami asked.

Unfortunately I couldn’t remember. It had been years since I read the arc. “I don’t know. There might be a tournament going on. Doflamingo will try to double cross us of course. So we will just have to triple cross him.”

“Great,” Nami whispered.

“I have a request,” Kinemon said, raising his hand. The samurai looked rather funny doing so, but I pointed at him. “We were on Dressrosa some time ago. Momonosuke was taken to Punk Hazard from there. We were being attacked by the Donquixote pirates. My friend Kanjuro held the pirates off while I chased after Momonosuke. I would like to try to see if Kanjuro is alive.”

I squinted my eyes. Trying to remember the name Kanjuro. I knew one of Kinemon's friends betrayed him, but I couldn’t remember the name.

“I don’t see why not. We can look for him while trying to find the Smile Factory,” I said. “Anything else? Alright, time to split up the groups. We gonna do the whole dodgeball team picking thing, or just volunteers?”

“What?” Trafalgar asked.

“Nevermind. I want to go to the island and destroy the factory,” I said. We started taking volunteers and making the teams from there. All in all I was excited to start. That’s when I received the quest.

One Piece Quest 12:

Defeat Doflamingo

Turn the Toys human again

Destroy the Smile Factory

Rewards:

Conqueror's Haki

Summon Choice

Pet Evolution

“Perfect, you know me so well,” I said to whoever made the quests. I wanted everything.