"Talking"

Thinking

On a boat a few yards away from the island, Mikael lived. There was a pirate, who is the fourth division commander and the head cook of the Whitebeard Pirates. He wanted to find out why Shanks was in Paradise, for such a long time. However, before he could get to the island Shanks had stayed on often, and a storm hit him hard. Now he was wishing he hadn't volunteered to take the job.

Thatch's POV

"God, what was I thinking, taking this mission!" I yelled, trying, to prevent my ship from capsizing.

It was all going great 'till I got close to the island a few days ago.

"I still don't get what's so great about an island, that doesn't have people on it, to make Shanks come back and stay so long each time!" I yelled into the rain.

I was deck running back and forth when a huge wave knocked the ship almost on its side. I lost my footing and hit the dark waters below. The ship fell back right side up, but I found myself drowning, deeper and deeper into the ocean. When I re-surfaced, my ship was a few yards away from me, but I was closer to the island. I was close to pulling myself out of the sea when another wave hits me and I blacked out.

Mikael's POV

I woke up in the aftermath of the storm. I had to get supplies to fix the house; the roof was messed up and everything was wet.

I hate storms, all they are is loud and they mess everything up. I thought, walking to find wood to fix the holes in the roof, instead I find a man passed out on the beach.

He was wearing what looked like a cook's outfit with a sword at his side. I walk over to him and see blood on the sand.

"Hey, are you okay?" I asked, shaking him.

When he didn't wake up, I made a stretcher so that I could pull him to the house. I finally get him in the bed after a few tries. I also might have made his head worse.

"I'm sorry about hitting your head, I didn't mean to," I say getting the stitching equipment Law taught me to use. I fixed him up and waited 'till he woke up.

While I was waiting, I fixed the roof, and I called Law.

Puru Puru Puru "Hello Mikael, I'll get the caption," said Penguin as he left the room.

I think he's scared of me now, which is great; it might stop him from hitting on me and being a pervert.

"Hello, sister-ya what happened now?" Law asked in his emotionless tone, but I could hear the worry in his voice.

"I can't call without something being wrong, brother?" I questioned.

" Mikael-ya, last time you called I was ready to turn back cause you were having another panic attack," Law said as I walk into the bedroom to check on my patient. "So, yes when you call, I think something is wrong. However, that doesn't mean you can't call whenever you want."

"Okay, so something did happen. I had a guy wash up on the beach after the storm and I don't know who he is or what he's doing here." I said a little hesitant.

"Portgas D Mikael-Ya! What have I told you about taking strangers into the house!" Law yelled at me sounding really worried.

"Not to, but Law, he's hurt and he looks harmless. Plus ain't this how I met you?" I exclaimed.

"Sister-ya, not everyone you save is going to be nice no matter how nice or harmless they look," Law explained.

I was regretting calling him now.

"Law, he was out cold when I found him. he was worse off than you were." I started, waiting for Law to talk.

I heard Law pacing back and forth.

"Mikael-ya, what is his condition now?" Law asked, knowing it was pointless to argue with me.

"He's stable, but his temperature is up a little. I gave him the antibiotic plant I read about in your book." I told him as I walk back into the kitchen.

"Mikael-ya, I've got to get going, Bepo-ya is getting us ready to go on our first island in the East Blue. I love you sister-ya." Law said, looking sad.

"Love you too brother. bye, I'll see you soon," I said, "and thank you."

"Bye see you soon," Law replied as he hung up the snail.

Thatch's POV

One Week Later

I woke up not knowing where I was, or how I got here. However, I saw a girl about 16 or 17 walk-in.

"Hey, brat where am I? How did I get here? And who are you?" I asked as she walked over to the bed.

"First off I'm not a brat! Second, you're in my house, and I carried you here from the beach. Also, my name is Mikael and that's all I'm telling you for now," she told me as she puts food in front of me.

"Well Mikael, do you know where your home is located, and do you have parents?" I questioned.

"Yes, we are in the Grand Line. No, I'm the only human living here, now that my brother has set out to be a pirate," she explained.

"Okay, so I'm lost," I said calmly.

Great now what is Pops going to think I took another unannounced vacation. I thought to myself.

"Sir, I still don't know your name, and I told you mine," Mikael said in a weirdly innocent voice

"Oh right sorry, I'm Thatch, fourth division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates." I introduced myself.

"Wow! That's so cool! Shanks told me and my brother about Whitebeard. I never thought I would meet anyone from that crew let alone a commander." She said with excitement in her eyes.

"Yeah, I know we are...Wait! did you say, Shanks?" I explained/asked

"Yeah," She said, looking confused, "oh I wasn't supposed to say."

"Hey, you didn't suppose to say what!" I yelled until I noticed she was asleep.

Then out of nowhere she sat back up and started talking again as if nothing happened.

"Mikael, did you just fall asleep talking to me?" I asked, watching her rub the sleep out her eyes.

"I do that a lot, my brother said I got it from my family. He said that I could be fighting and fall asleep and then finish the fight as if nothing happened," She explained

"I know a man who had this same problem, apparently called narcolepsy," I stated

"Anyways, Thatch, do you know what happened to you, and why you landed here? Oh, and by the way, I took wood from your ship," she explained.

"What!? Why!?" I wailed

"I had to use it to pull you here and fix the roof," She started casually like she did nothing wrong.

"I got stuck in the storm the other day and was knocked off of my ship. Then a wave hit me, and I passed out to wake up here," I answered, still a little out of it from blacking out.

"Well at least you didn't lose your memory, the book says that's good. Does anything hurt other than your head, because I had to stitch your head up?" She exclaimed as I sat up.

"No girly, I'm good. Just a headache. Anyways, how do you know Shanks?" I asked, feeling the back of my head.

However, before I even have time to feel it a fist hits my head.

"'What the hell was that for!?" I asked/yelled.

"I don't like being called girly," Mikael stated, looking at me with a scary aura only women get.

"Sorry, now can you tell me how you know Shanks, and why he came here so often?" I wanted to know.

"Yes, I can. He was here helping me and Law, I mean, my brother. He would bring us books and teach us how to fight. He was like a father to us, but we meet him after he lost his arm so. I know how and why he lost it, but you will have to ask him, that it's not my story to tell." She explained.

"Wow, how long have you lived here?" I wondered out loud.

"I've been here since I was 11. I meet my brother when I was 12, he was 13" Mikael said, sitting down beside me.

"Why were you left here alone?" I asked out of curiosity.

"I got a bounty at 11 so Jiji thought it would be better to leave me somewhere nobody could find me, but that didn't seem to be so true, now that I'm getting older." She told me, looking sad.

"Yeah, he didn't plan on Shanks showing up, did he?" I asked as I moved to the side of the bed.

"No, he's a marine so if he found out pirates were here let alone one of the Four Emperors and one of the other Emperors' followers. He would give us all fist of love, and then yell at us that we need or needed to be marines like him," Mikael said, getting up to leave. "However I can't see the kids of Dragon or Roger, and two others that, one run away from being a noble and the other wants to kill a Shichibukai, being marines."

Mikael's POV

(One Piece AMV - SUNRISE [HD])

I think I'm telling him too much. I thought as I was walking to the door.

"You should go to bed, Thatch, you just got over your fever today and woke up," I told him, opening the door.

"But, I'm fine now, and you really interesting to talk to," He replied, getting out of bed. "Plus this is kinda what I was sent here to do. I was sent to find out why Shanks was staying here so much."

"Well, he was just here for us, and to party. However, he was only on this island when he trained us, so did get close to the island he was at most," I said, pointing out the window. "It's just next to this island and they often get mixed up a lot, which is how he found us."

I walked out of the room after telling him that and looked for the bracelet Shanks gave me, for some reason I had a feeling I needed to put it on.