« -Aaaaaarrrggg... We've been sailing for three days, and we've found no one. » I said tired.

Before I see a storm approaching.

« -Fuck, like that's what I needed. » I said annoyed.

I concentrated before I took on my volatile animal form.

Oh, yes... I'm certainly a cursed child, but hey, every child born on the island on which I was born, well we can take different forms of animals, but be careful, only one per category, for me, the wings: the peregrine falcon; Aqueous: the axolotl (but only used to heal me), yes that's what it's like to have a Devil Fruit at the age of 5. And many more of other categories.

But we also have an animal representing us, and that's the deer for me.

Thatch's voice brought me back to reality, and that there was a storm in front of me.

« -Yes, I can confirm that I have never seen you in battle... And to see you take an animal form, moreover. » Thatch tells me.

I gained height before continuing our search by flying.

After several hours, we arrived on a wintry island. « -Thatch, I'm tired, we're going to have to stop. I don't care which island we'll rest on. » I said calmly as I landed on the ground, gradually going back to my human appearance. As my peregrine falcon's appearance grew larger and more humanoid, I slowly reappeared as a human being.

I sat down on the snow, catching my breath. Before I lay down and blew all the air out of my body. I heard footsteps approaching me. As I closed my eyes, a voice appeared.

« -Well, tell me. You really land anywhere. » That voice tells me something.

I opened my eyes to face this person, covered with a hood, a smile could only be seen.

« -Hm? ... » I said, before leaning on my elbows, and thinking.

« -Hm... Oh! Ace, is that you?! » I screamed, surprised at his appearance, before smiling softly.

« -Fuck! I've been looking for you for a while! » I screamed as I let myself fall back into the snow.

« -Ace. I missed you! » I told him, before I got up and strained my legs, once I was standing up, they began to tremble.

I fell before I was caught by the man concerned. « -You shouldn't have to force it so much, well certainly with your birth gift, you can move forward at high speed. But you're going to get more tired than anything else. » He said.

« -Ahah... Very funny Ace, but you know how I feel when I'm like that, I'm used to it. » I said leaning on his shoulders, to help me stand.

He smiled at me before helping me walk to a hotel.

He laid me down on a bed before covering me with a blanket. « -Sit down and sleep, you've earned it. Little sister. »

I gently opened my eyes before facing a white ceiling. I looked around the room before getting up and looking for where Ace might be.

I sighed not finding him in the bedroom, I made my way to the living room before I saw him sleeping in his food.

I walked over to him before grabbing a few towels and putting some beside him, turned to the window and looked at the storm raging outside.

I looked at Ace who was still sleeping, I stood next to him before grabbing a few things to eat here and there, still next to him.

I smiled softly as Ace lifted his head and breathed, I giggled when he noticed my presence, took the towels and tried to formulate a sentence.

« -Oh awake? Slept well? Uh, I say... »

I looked at him before shaking my head from right to left, then smiling at him before standing up.

« -Wake up and eat, we might have to go ask questions for the people living here, to be able to find Blackbeard. » I said before going to the bedroom and changing my clothes.

Ace came knocking on my door 10 minutes after that little chat.

« -Uh, Eiya, I'd like to know, how do you know about Blackbeard and me... » He said through the door as I tried to put on a top.

« -I'll explain it to you later. » I replied before looking at a tattoo on my rib cage, I touched it before I felt it burn. I sighed before heading for the door. « -But for now, we have to do the research, I hope you'll understand me later. »

We made our way to the exit of the hotel before the newspaper fell and I caught it, smiling as I saw who was on the front page.

« -Hey, will it surprise you if I tell you he's still got on the front page again. » I say before letting out a chuckle. As we share a knowing look and a petty laugh together.

We then went to several bars and restaurants to which the clients were all surprised to see him fall asleep while eating. As I continued to ask the questions about our research. We had done about 11 bars, we were heading to the 12th and last bar on our list before going inside I looked around, smelling the scent of a nearby reindeer. Ace went in before going back out to look at me.

« -Are you coming or how's it going?? »

I shook my head before hurrying back inside the sign.

I walked beside Ace, as everything went silent.

« -Do you know a certain Blackbeard? If so, do you know where he could have gone, and more importantly where he might be? » I asked before I sat down across from the bartender, I smiled softly at him before he handed me a glass of rum. « -A gift offered on our home for a such beautiful creature as you are, my lady. » He said before giving me a glass of rum and a good plate of meat.

« -The same goes for the one who accompanies her. And to answer your question we all know Blackbeard, he burned a whole village to ashes on this island, but he left a long time ago. The most likely island would be Alabasta. »

That's when a drunk guy appeared, started screaming. « -There would be someone who managed to kill Blackbeard on Alabasta. He would be called Scorpion. » I sighed before watching Ace continue to eat in a serious way, which was anything but normal.

« -We have one last question. » I say before I look at Ace.

« -Have you seen that young man? » Ace said as he held up the poster of Luffy before smiling and doing a long monologue to say he was his brother. And how proud he was of it, and that... Anyway, you see, I'm not going to draw you a picture.

« -No, no young man like him has been seen, sir. » The bartender replies, before he turns his gaze back to me and smiles at me again.

« -We have a request to make to you before we leave. » Ace and I exclaimed at the same time.

« -This man will soon land on this island. You'll tell him we'll meet on Alabasta. » Ace said.

We'd get up before we heard the boss screaming, and so did the young bartender.

« -HEY, THEY DIDN'T PAY! COME BACK HERE! » Shouted a rather old voice, which was probably the bosses.

« -SIR, I PAID FOR THEM. PLEASE CALM DOWN. »The bartender's voice sounded, sounding one last time before the swinging doors closed.

We had decided to run to the harbour before I jumped into Ace's arms, and he quickly started his boat.

Yes, we must not waste any time.

We'll meet again, Luffy, my brother. After being separated when we had only just been able to seal our brotherhood. I look forward to seeing you with great anticipation. And my heart will remain open for you, young pirate.