Chopper's eyes fluttered opened. As his mind and sight refocused itself, he slowly became aware he was staring up at a big blue sky with a ring of trees surrounding the edges of his vision. Then he felt the aches and pains all over his body. "Oh...I'm alive...?"

"Welcome back."

He let out a gasp and leapt back at the sight of the guerilla woman sitting across the chest of the injured Sky Knight. Her skirt was hiked up and Chopper could see between the fringes the gleam of a blade strapped to her thigh. She had a dagger in hand and the sharp blade was pointed towards the fallen knight.

"Ah! No! Don't hurt him!" Chopper shrieked as he raced towards her only to have his way blocked by the sky sheep.

"Boo!"

Chopper blinked. "What do you mean she's healing him?"

The woman motioned for Chopper to come closer. When he did, he saw that she was mashing and smearing some leafy greens against the Sky Knight's hard chest plate. She then swiped up the paste with her free hand and smeared it against the wound in his chest. "I'm stopping the bleeding and helping the burn. Whether he pulls out of this is on him."

"Are...are you a doctor too?" Chopper asked as he leaned over the Sky Knight to get a better look at his wound.

"Too?," the woman asked. She reached into her bag, pulled out a handful of leafy greens and used the dagger to separate the leaves from the stem, "So you're a doctor? And you ate a Devil Fruit?"

Chopper nodded. "My name is Tony Tony Chopper. I ate the Human Human Fruit. I'm a reindeer human."

"I see."

"Y-you're not surprised by what I am?"

"Oh, I am but I can't dwell on it right now. There's no point in reacting to something when you have more important things to tend to. Like this," she said with a nod towards the Sky Knight as she continued to apply her paste.

Chopper's nose twitched. So...so that's why she didn't react to me when she first met me on the Merry....

"Did you save us?"

"You? Yes," she said, "Him and Pierre? No."

"Then...then who did?" Chopper asked.

She pointed up at the sky, still with her eyes on her patient. "Them."

"Yiouuuuuuuuu!" As if on cue, a South Bird flew down towards them and Chopper covered his hands with his hooves, fully expecting to be gobbled up. "Yiouuuuuu!"

Chopper peaked out from under the rim of his hat, "What? What? What? He's God?!"

The whole flock of South Birds joined the first one and they all flapped their wings incessantly. "Yiouuuuu! Yiouuuu!"

"Why...Why are these South Birds this huge?!" Chopper asked.

"So to them, you are still God," the woman mumbled as she got off the knight and pulled out a roll of bandages from her bag. She took the last glob of paste and smeared across a long strip. She went over to Chopper, "Alright. He's done. Now it's your turn. Stick your arms out."

"Wait...What?! What does this mean?" Chopper gasped. Since he was too surprised to do as she said, she moved Chopper's arms up and away from his body for him and began to bandage up his burnt torso.

"Who...Who are you then? Are you a priest?" Chopper asked with widened eyes.

The woman scoffed. "No. Far from it."

"Then...who are you?" Chopper asked, "Are...are you his friend?"

That made the woman pause and she frowned as she thought about her answer. "I am not his enemy and I'm not yours either," she said slowly and then she looked Chopper dead in the eyes, "But I can't say the same for the rest of my people so you better be careful."

"Your people? The guerillas?" Chopper asked.

She chuckled. "We are the Shandians, a tribe of proud warriors. Here to reclaim our homeland but you...You can call me Sid."

Kaboom!

The woman stiffened and then slowly looked up towards the sky. A faint trace of smoke started to rise above the treetops towards the western trees.

"What was that?" Chopper asked.

Sid shoved her bandages into Chopper's hooves and patted him on the head. "That's my cue to leave. Since you're a doctor, you'll know what to do with this. Just don't get yourself wet for a full day. Boo!"

"Boo!"

The sky sheep expanded and flew off the edge of the altar. Sid grabbed her bag and made a running leap to him. She landed on her knees and they sped off into the distance, leaving Chopper with more questions than answers and an armload of bandages.

"Thank you for the tangerines!," Sid yelled out.

"EH?!" Chopper raced back onto the Merry and he shrieked. She had taken all the tangerines from one of the trees, "Oh no! Nami's going to kill me!"

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The sky was starting to have a natural tint of orange to it but it also looked darker from the intense smoke that was billowing out of multiple explosions happening around the island. The Shandians had started an attack on Upper Yard without her. Without their healer.

What kind of death wish does Wyper have?!, Sid seethed to herself as she steered Boo towards the more concentrated area of smoke. Where there was smoke, there was fire and where there was fire, there was most definitely either a priest, Wyper, or both, He better have at least have my two assistants waiting on standby in the village.

When they got close enough to the trees, Sid leapt off of Boo and started to swing through the vines. It wasn't long before she spotted one of her people. "Braham!"

"Ah! Sid! Thank goodness you're okay!" Braham shouted as he fired multiple rounds of his Flash Gun at Gedatsu, one of Enel's four priests, "Go up ahead! They need support there with the other two."

"Ah!" Sid said as she slid across a tree branch and somersaulted off of it. She caught a vine as she fell and swung past the cluster of Shandians.

"So you're the pesky fly that buzzed around only after I left," Shura laughed as he came swooping down with Fuza, "I figured after you were done snooping around the corpses, you'd rejoin your swarm."

The fire bird opened up his jaws and let out a stream of fire. Sid let go and dropped to the ground just as the vine she was holding caught on fire. She threw her dagger up towards Fuza, who easily avoided it with the help of it's rider's Mantra. She rolled across the ground and to her feet. As she straightened up, she clicked the top of a dial and threw it up at the bird, who blew another stream of fire at it.

Buuush!

Shura jumped off the back of his bird just seconds before the Gas Dial ejected a stream of gas. The trail of fire became a ball of one and the ignition forcefully pushed him up into the trees.

"Why you..." he snarled as he steadied himself on the branch and glared down at Sid, while Fuza fell to the floor. The smell of burnt feathers wafted up into the air.

"You might know Mantra...but your bird doesn't," Sid said.

"Kamakiri!"

Laki's horrified scream got Sid's attention and she instinctively turned towards the sound.

Shing!

Wyper's bazooka blocked off Shura's Heat Javelin aimed straight for Sid's heart.

"Idiot!" Wyper growled as he pushed Shura off and aimed the barrel of his bazooka at him, "What are you doing looking away?"

"Sorry!" Sid gasped but before she could turn back, Wyper gave her a hard shove with one of his hands.

"Go! Go check on them!" Wyper ordered.

"G-Got it!" Sid said as she dashed over in the direction she heard Laki. When she got close enough, she could see Kamakiri sprawled across Laki's lap. The woman's face was paler than usual and she held out her blood covered hands in front of her. Sid slid on her knees down the tree root they were on and she stopped right at their side. From around them, Shandians fired their weapons at a third priest, Ohm, keeping him as far away from Laki as possible.

"Boo!" Sid shouted and her pet came flying down. He expanded until he was large enough for Kamakiri to lay across him, undisturbed, "Take him to the outer island. I'll be there in just a second."

"Boo!" Boo shouted and flew away.

Sid put her two hands on Laki's face as she tried to focus the woman. "Laki! You need to get out of here. You're in shock. Laki! Laki!"

Thwack!

Sid gave the woman a hard slap across the face but there still was no real response. Sid sighed and threw Laki over her shoulder. Despite Laki being taller than Sid, she was able to carry her as if she was nothing but a rag doll.

"Assist the wounded! We're pulling back now!" Sid heard Wyper order and she let out a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, Wyper was in front of her and he scowled at her feet. "Somebody carry Laki for Sid!"

"Eh?"

Sid felt someone pull Laki off and then suddenly she was also being carried.

"You don't have your wavers," Wyper growled as held her on his back.

"Oh...Oh, yeah..." Sid said as Wyper threw out a milky dial and skated them out of Upper Yard. To the surprise of both of them, the priests actually let them go without argument but it was something they were not going to question or linger on for the moment.

"So?" Wyper's grunt interrupted the otherwise silent retreat towards the outer island.

"So what?"

"So what were you doing in Upper Yard?"

Sid grimaced. "Well...If i told you, you'll drop me and leave me for dead."

"I won't. The wounded needs to be tended to," he said.

"Good point." Sid reached into her bag and pulled out a tangerine.

"I went to go get these," she said, deciding only to tell the partial truth, "The Blue Sea people had it on their ship. I couldn't get all of it this morning so I went back. These will help our wounded immensely."

She could feel Wyper's shoulders tense beneath her hands.

"And Gan Fall? And the other priest, Satori?"

"What about Satori?" Sid asked.

"So you didn't take down Satori?"

"Eh?! Satori was defeated?" Sid gasped.

"What about Gan Fall? Is he dead?"

"I don't know," Sid said, which was true in some ways, "Shura took him down and I used that opening to get to the tangerines."

Wyper's shoulders tensed up even more and his hands on her thighs stiffened as well. It wasn't the answer he wanted to hear.

Sid held the tangerine right underneath his nose. "Smell that? That's a powerful oil on the skin that I can use for the injured and the fruit can help the sick."

"Just heal them," Wyper grunted as they approached the outer island.

"So?"

"So what?" Wyper growled.

"So why did we suddenly attack Upper Yard?"

"Aisa heard Satori and Gan Fall's voices disappear. With Upper Yard rattled like that, it was a good opportunity for us to strike. She also told us she heard you there too."

"And you thought I took out one of them?"

"I considered the possibility, yes."

"You think that highly of me, huh?" Sid grinned.

"I have never questioned your healing nor your combat skills," Wyper said, "It's your priorities that worries me."

"Well, at least right now our priorities are aligned," Sid said and jumped off of his back. They had reached the outer island and she rushed towards the row of injured warriors that the others had laid out for her.

She went into her bag and threw bandages and small leather pouches at some of the warriors standing by. "You guys tend to the ones with non-lethal injuries on their limbs. Cover the wounds with the paste and then bandage it up. Bring them back to the village and I'll follow up with them there," she barked. Wyper's time to lead was over. This was her territory now, "Now, who is bleeding the most?"

"It's Kamakiri. Over here!" Braham shouted as he waved Sid over. He had a large piece of cloth pressed up against Kamakiri's wound. It was most likely someone's shirt but Sid had no time to dwell on it.

"Let me see the wound," Sid instructed and Braham pulled away the cloth. Now that Kamakiri was on his back, she could see the devastating gash that went across his stomach.

"The blood. It won't stop," Braham gulped.

"Braham, go away," she said as she rummaged through her bag and pulled out a green tinted bottle.

"What?"

"Go away!" she roared and shoved him off, "I don't want you to see this. You'll be sure to react to something and it'll only distract me."

She yanked the cork out of the bottle with her teeth and then poured the contents over the blade of her spear. "Now who has a Flame Dial?!"

"Over here!" someone shouted and she held out her hand.

"Toss it over!"

Once she got the Flame Dial, she clicked it on and put the blade right over the flame. The fire raged even more as soon as the metal hit and soon the blade was red hot. She took a deep breath and then pressed the flat part of her blade against Kamakiri's stomach.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Kamakiri roared as she cauterized his wounds. His hands instinctively reached up to grab her wrist but then released his grip as he fell unconscious from the pain. Even with that, it did not disrupt Sid and she kept on going until his entire wound was sealed.

"Boo?" Sid asked as she rested her spear next to her.

"Boo!" Her sky sheep turned black and he began to rain down on Kamakiri. It washed away the blood and cooled the skin.

Sid pulled out of her bag a towel and wiped Kamakiri's stomach dry. She took out another pouch and smeared the contents over the charred flesh. She wrapped bandages around him and then used the dampened towel to wipe the sweat and dirt from his face. "There..." she sighed and then looked up. Her face hardened, "Who's next?!"

When she was done treating everyone that had any serious injuries, they were carried back to the village. She watched the last person get transported with a wary eye before she returned to the front part of the island. The only people left were Wyper, Braham, Gendou, and Laki. Kamakiri was resting right where Sid had left him. She didn't want anyone to move him but her and Boo.

Sid wiped her blood covered hands on a towel as she walked over to the group.

"How are Kamakiri's wounds?" Wyper asked.

"He'll live."

"Was it deep?"

"Ah."

Gendou put his hands in his head. "Hard to believe he would be beaten..." he sighed, "Ohm really is formidable."

"It...it was my fault..." Laki whispered and she clenched her fists to her side. She lowered her head, "It...It was my fault! Aisa's bag..."

Sid sucked in a breath and her eyes went to the bag that Laki was holding. She hadn't noticed it until now.

Laki squeezed her eyes shut as she confessed. "Aisa's bag got caught on Ohm's sword and I couldn't get away. Kamakiri dove in and he took the hit for me."

Wyper reached out and ripped the bag away from her. She fell to her knees as she tearfully looked up at the warrior. He squeezed his fingers around the bag and streams of Vearth came pouring out of it's sides. "It's stuff like this that causes distractions in battle! Are you here to get in our way, Laki?!"

"I'm...I'm really sorry," Laki said softly.

"We're up against priests!" Wyper shouted, "If we lack any strength in battle, we'll never make it to God's Shrine!"

"I know apologizing won't fix anything but give that back! That's Aisa's treasure!" Laki replied as she made a grab for the bag but Wyper easily moved it out of her reach, "I promised...I promised I would get some Vearth for her!"

"Shut up! Enough with this nonsense!" Wyper shouted as he pulled back his arm with full intention of throwing the bag and the Vearth into the Sea Clouds.

"Throwing it away won't fix anything either, Wyper," Sid stated as she grabbed the strap of the bag and pulled it towards her with Wyper still clutching tightly to the other end, "Just give it to me. I need it anyways to grow my plants."

"Of course you'd take Laki's side on this," Wyper snarled.

"There is no side for this!" Sid snapped. Her fatigue was grating against her patience, "Do you not want me to have plants? Do you not want me to heal the wounded? Did you want Kamakiri to die?!"

"Of course I don't!" Wyper said but was still not letting go.

"I can still fight. Don't count me out just yet."

Wyper and Sid both let go of the bag as they whirled around to see Kamakiri walking over to them with an arm over his bandaged stomach. The bag dropped to the ground and a wind picked up the faint traces of loose Vearth that spilled out of it.

"Kamakiri, you need to rest," Sid said but her cousin ignored her.

"You're right, Wyper. Now is the time to take down Upper Yard," Kamakiri said, "With Satori gone, we put up a good fight during today's battle so let's attack again tomorrow, Wyper. Once we defeat Enel, we won't need to revere a single bag of Vearth. Right?"

Wyper's fingers tightened into a fist. "Ah. We will fight tomorrow." He turned his back on his friends and faced the moonlit silhouette of Upper Yard. "You guys go back to the village and rest up. Gather all the able bodied men and return here at sunrise."

"Ah," his friends said as they turned to leave.

"Sid!"

Sid stopped and looked over at Wyper.

"Don't bring your medical bag tomorrow."

"Wha...What?!" She ran around Wyper so that she could look him right in the face, "Are you crazy?!"

Wyper folded his arms over his chest. "Tomorrow is our final battle. Our last stand. If you aren't prepared to abandon anyone who falls during the fight, then you shouldn't come. The same goes to the rest of the men. This is not a battle we can win with the faint hearted."

"Wyper," Sid growled, "You are asking me to go against everything I was taught as a healer. Stepping over the fallen is not in my nature."

"What about what you were taught as a Shandian warrior? That is in your nature too!" Wyper snapped and glared down at Sid, "I saw you today. I saw you with Shura. If you hadn't been distracted by Laki's distress, you may have had a chance to take him down."

He grabbed her by the shoulders. "I know you don't want any more fighting. I know you want our people to live but don't you see that this battle is the only way we can survive?! If we don't take this opportunity and end this war tomorrow, we may never end it!"

Sid stared at Wyper. Maybe if he was saying this to anybody else, it wouldn't seem out of the ordinary but Sid wasn't just anybody else. She was the one person in the entire tribe that argued and fought with Wyper on a consistent basis. She knew when he was angry. From the intonations and inflections in his voice, she could even tell at what level of anger he was at. However, there was no anger this time. Yes, he was shouting. Yes, he was glaring. He certainly looked and sounded the part but Sid could see right through him.

Wyper was asking for her help.

Sid closed her eyes and drew in a breath. To not tend to the wounded would probably be something she would never forgive herself for but to not end this war once and for all would be undeniably inexcusable. "Fine," she said softly, "Just do me a favor..."

"What?"

"If you're going to step over my body tomorrow, at least wear a loin cloth. I don't want my last memory of the physical world to be your manhood."