Exulansis • One Piece

Chapter Twenty - (Whisky Peak Arc)

(These few chapters have not been throughly checked for mistakes like my other chapters. Please bear with it for a couple days, thank you.) (II)

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"So he fought the whale?" The snail asked, and even though I knew his side of the snail is dysfunctional, I nodded my head.

"Yup, but it was for the greater good so it doesn't matter." I puffed out a breath of cold air. Even downstairs in the girls room, a random cold front had me snuggled inside of a blanket.

I held the transponder snail close to my body under the blanket, making sure he doesn't get cold either since he is technically alive.

"Sounds like you're having fun... All I've been doing is waiting for land. Some guy came up to me and started asking me questions... It was so creepy..."

"Yeah, you should stay safe..." I look up, the deck seems to be covered with thick blanket of white

"...Need to go?" And I think.

"Probably, it suddenly started snowing over here."

"Snow? How?"

"That famous Grand Line weather, obviously." I scoffed, he laughed. "But I'll tell you more later, it's only the first couple of hours after all. We're gonna hit land, I'll call you before it gets dark." I speak into the snail, and I receive a smile.

"Yeah... I'll catch you later. Signing off, Bzzt."

I roll my eyes playfully, "Yeah, bzzt." And I shut off the snail, taking a second to bask in silence before turning around to tuck the snail into the blanket and to feed it a green lettuce leaf.

Its been only a couple hours since we left Reverse Mountain, and the moment after we hit open waters again, I ducked inside to have a talk with Marno. Which lasted long enough for it to suddenly start snowing outside.

I think today was officially my ninth or eight day here, and I would say I'm doing better then most. It was strange so far, seeing how this world works not that different from my own, if I'm being honest when I started to hear how magic powers wired it's way into this society, I expect gaints or other mythical creatures, or some part of these guys that doesn't fit my own description of "human".

And if you exclude the occasional giant creature and flying at top speeds through the air, and the magic fruits, I would not go as far to say that this place didn't fit far from an humane society.

I sit a second longer, I've been down for a while now, I know I should get upstairs to see what our plan of action is going to be.

I stretch as I stand up, only to immediately shiver. I was only wearing a causal dress shirt and some leggings shorts, plus the bandages that only covered the inside of my thigh and arm. I wasn't in a good outfit for this weather. I had again pulled out the jacket I had just put up a couple hours ago, and I zipped it up as I left the storage room to go outside.

As I feel a fresh wave of cold air hit my nose, Luffy's voice booms inside of my head.

"I've finished! The man who fell from the sky... Mr. snowman!" He proudly tells to Usopp, who I knew by his loud laugh.

I puff another breath of cold air as I squinted. It was hard to tell, but it looks like Usopp and Luffy were making snowman's with each other. The brightness of light reflecting of the snow kept my vision in a headlock.

"Juno! What are you wearing?" I turned around to see Nami holding herself in a shivering hug, leaning over the upstairs balcony. "You could've at least put some gloves on!" I look down at my hands, they weren't freezing yet, but feeling the cold breeze on my ears did make me think of her suggestion in a hat way.