A Scarred Mind

"You can never escape my wrath, you know this. No matter how far you go, I will find you, even on the grand line." A mysterious voice suddenly spoke in a pitch black room.

"Just leave me alone, go away!"

A lone girl stood in this darkness, her heart pumping vigorously. She was running away from the darkness, towards a tunnel of light. But seconds later the light disappeared only to be swallowed by the darkness.

"I'm no use to you so why keep me?" The girl's knees buckled under her and she fell, bawling her eyes out.

"Why you might ask? Because I own you, you are mine."

"I DON'T BELONG TO ANYONE!" The girl barked with a rugged voice.

"Oh but you see, I might not own you officially..." A dark figure resembling a women appeared in front of her. "But, you can never run from my grasp, I will always be there to haunt you, you are mine."

Even in the dark room the girl could tell that the figure was surrounding her in darkness, to be devoured and never heard from again.

"No, stop it, please, STOP, GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!"

Umi shot up into a sitting position after being startled from her dream. She looked around to make sure she didn't wake anyone up. When the coast was clear she relaxed slightly. She then flopped into her pillow and started to silently sob uncontrollably. She was terrified after that dream, wait no, nightmare. She then tried to go to sleep, only to have the same occurrence happen again and again. She soon realized she wasn't gonna get sleep anytime soon.

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The next morning, Umi couldn't help but feel like shit. Her head hurt from not sleeping and jolting awake every 20 minutes or so, so after 30 or so attempts to go to bed, she stopped and waited out the long night. Also her eyes stung from crying, asleep and awake. But what hurt the most was her heart. No matter how hard she tried to remember the person hurting her in her nightmares, she couldn't remember the face or how the voice sounded, she only remembered the darkness, hurtful words, and fear. Not knowing who or what that was terrified her even more. She went to the bathroom to go freshen up her ugly face so her friends wouldn't worry about why her face was red and puffy. Nami and Robin weren't in the room when she woke up, so they must of gone up for breakfast already.

"Hey Umi, are you in the bathroom?" Nami spoke in the storage room just before the door to the bathroom.

Speak of the devil.

"Yeah, I'm just gonna freshen and get changed then I'll come."

"Ok but hurry or Luffy will eat your breakfast."

"Tell Luffy if he even thinks about touching my food I'll give him a third degree burn." Umi said it in a playful tone to hide her sorrow.

"Ok, see you in a little while!" Nami stated with a smile before she left.

"See ya."

When she left, Nami made sure to close the door so no pervs came into the storage room and bathroom to watch Umi change. Umi quickly got dressed in a pair of shorts that was down to her knees, and a blue tank top with a hole in the back, so her top won't tear if she needs her wings. She splashed water on her face so the puffiness and redness would go away. When she looked better, she ran outside and up the stairs to make sure no one ate her food.

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"Luffy, so help me you even lay a finger NEAR her food, no dinner for tonight or tomorrow for you."

"But Sanji, she hasn't even come up to eat and I'm still hungry!"

"Suck it up 'cause Umi needs to eat too."

"Oh yeah," Nami lowed her newspaper. "Umi told me if you even think about eating her food, she's gonna give you a third degree burn." Nami said with a sly and humorous smile on her face.

"WHAT, BUT THAT WILL HURT LOTS!!" Luffy was flailing his arms around and accidently knocked Zoro's bottle of booze out of his hand.

"Oi, quit running around like an idiot!" Zoro headed for the door with another drink at hand. "I'm gonna go drink outside peacefully."

He pushed the door open ,only to hit something behind it. He heard a loud thud and opened the door to see Umi lying on the floor. Her eyes were closed and her hand on her head where the door hit her.

"Damn it, I'm sorry Umi, here..."

Zoro reached for her hand to help her up. Umi felt a presence similar to the one in her dream so she started to freak out. Her eyes shot open, dilated and she transformed her hands into dragon claws and scratched Zoro. When Umi came to her senses, she saw a shocked Zoro with scratches on his hand. He hid his hand and Umi transformed her hands and eyes back as soon as everyone else was outside of the kitchen. They crowded Umi.

"Umi, are you alright, are you hurt anywhere?" Chopper questioned Umi.

"I'm fine Chopper, it's ok." She didn't realize that she had her hands around herself, holding her shoulders. She pulled her hands off her shoulders to revel deep claw marks on her shoulders and upper arms.

"IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL FINE?" Chopper scolded Umi.

"In all truth, I didn't even notice that I had these cuts." Umi spoke in an earnest voice.

"How, you didn't even notice when you changed?" Robin spoke after finishing her coffee.

"No, I don't know how though."

"Look, we can talk later but we need to get your wounds dressed before they become infected. Since you didn't notice them, we don't know how long they've been open." Chopper spoke in his serious doctor voice.

Umi remembered she cut Zoro hand, but he hasn't told them. "But wait, Zoro....." She pointed at his hand.

Zoro interrupted Umi before she could finish. "Oh yeah, it happened when Luffy was goofing off. He hit the other bottle and it cut my hand."

Umi didn't understand why he lied.

"Ok then, lets treat your guys wounds." Chopper said as he helped Umi up.