For Freedom We Fly

Chapter 35

Fate Whispered to the warrior 'You cannot withstand the storm' and the warrior whispers back 'I am the storm'

The crew walked about the newly fixed ship – it was crudely done but it was something – it would get them to the blue sea and hopefully to a shipyard to be properly fixed up. Dawnya stepped lightly looking at all the fixtures; eyeing the Handly work.

The crew happy now the boat had been fixed stood before Nami and her maps – plans, revised and ordered into motion.

She was going with Zoro, robin, Luffy and chopper on lands to hunt for gold while the others were getting the ship back to the white cloud sea, with the sky knight and his bird of course. They couldn't leave an injured old man behind.

Dawnya soon realised the reason she was tagging along with this group was to keep track of Zoro who had questionable directional skills and Luffy who you thought wouldn't be too bad... not almost as bad at Zoro in taking direction at least the captain couldn't get lose on a straight line unlike their green haired first mate.

She spent the start of her journey making sure the pair were following robin and chopper – she almost grabbed both by the hand to make sure but it hadn't come to that yet. YET. She was very tempted with Zoro...

Dawnya watched with amusement as Luffy picked up a stick and was chatting enthusiastically to chopper about it when she felt a shiver run down her spine. Though there was no wind and the air was thin, but there was something...

She stopped, looking about the forest around them.

"Something the matter?" question robin from the font of the pack.

"There something on the air..." Dawnya muttered turning on her heels scaning the green and brown forest around them. "it's..." she couldn't quite place the feeling. There was a hissing sound, a slither in the woods. It wasn't a small sounding creature like she was used to it sounded bigger.

Her head snapped forward as something moved in front of the group. Green and brown mossy scale glittered in the sunlight as a giant snake stretched out into ginormous fangs.

"AHHHHHHH!"

"RUN AWAY! ITS A SNAKE" Luffy yelled leading the charge away from the colossal creature as chopper scream in fear at the giant thing.

"So huge, is this also an effect of..." robin muttered studying the creature.

"Hey, big guy! I'll cut you in half" Zoro gritted his teeth as the snake lunged at Luffy and chopper. The snake moving faster than you would have thought possible.

It lunged again, this time aiming for Dawnya and robin. Robin quickly used her powers to get away while Dawnya waited last minute to let her body vanished into wind. Her body reappearing with the wind on the tree branch beside the older women.

The snake's jaws clamped on the wide bark of the tree instead of her body something she was glad of seeing the corrosive saliva of the creature. But would that really affect the wind? She didn't want to find out.

"Poison!"

"If it's like that running away it probably better"

"precisely"

"So scary~!"

She sent a quick glance to Luffy, why did it seem like he was enjoying it rather than being scared of the creature.

With multiple distractions and a rampaging snake, the crew manage to escape, be it separately.

Dawnya stood high in the trees – she couldn't see nor heard any of her crew. She pondered for a moment, should she look for her crew or head to their final destination.