Xomniac

Chapter 7 Nami jerked herself awake, pulling her head up - and immediately regretted it as her neck screamed in protest. Her cheeks felt sticky, too. Blinking blearily, Nami stared uncomprehendingly ahead at the blurry mass before gasping as it came into focus as Raijax's prone, bandage-wrapped form. "Chopper, how-?" "He's stable, but he hasn't woken up yet," Chopper said flatly as he stepped onto a stepladder beside her, fiddling with the IV drip that was in the sharkman's arm. "He shows signs of extreme exhaustion and some long-term malnourishment. As far as I can tell, his body has undergone extreme stress on account of an overdose of ad

Chapter 6 Once Nami calmed down, she started pacing back and forth before the front of the crew, fingers rubbing her chin in thought. "Alright, first things first. Sanji, can you tell where Raijax is?" The cook closed his eyes and concentrated for a second before sighing out a cloud of smoke. "He's about a mile underground and climbing towards us fast. He'll probably get out by sundown. And he's..." His eyes snapped open in shock. "Almost completely recovered!? It's only been ten minutes! How can someone get back from one of my kicks, Luffy's Rifle and a freaking cave-in that fast !?" "Because you barely did any damage to him to begin with

Chapter 5 - Part 2 Early one morning, a somewhat nervous fishman swam up to one of the underwater caves under Arlong Park, which were being used as living quarters for most of the Pirates, and rapped his fist on the stone wall. Floating back a bit, the fishman settled in for a wait - and promptly wheezed in panic when his windpipe was nearly crushed. “They will never find your body.” Raijax snarled as he floated over the fishman, lingering fatigue evident in his apoplectically-ticked-off voice. “H-Hachi sent me!” The fishman managed to gurgle out, his eyes bulging out of their sockets. “Said he n-needed to talk

Chapter 5 - Part 1 “The first thing you need to know...” Nami sighed heavily as she wrung her hands. “Is that unlike a lot of the Arlong Pirates, Raijax wasn’t a Sun Pirate who defected with him. He wasn’t there when they invaded Cocoyashi Village. He wasn’t there when...” Her voice nearly caught in her throat, but she forced herself to power through. “Arlong killed my mother. He joined after all that.” The Straw Hats had relocated to a patch of grass a little ways away from the sealed cave’s mouth. Nami was sitting on a medium sized rock with the rest of the crew arrayed before he

Chapter 4 There was no sense or logic to the shark fishman’s charge as he barreled towards the pirates, a fact that Raijax’s senseless howl attested to. It was little more than a barbaric attack, a savage, brutal, predatory rush with only one purpose: kill. However, for all his ferocity, Raijax’s attack lacked one crucial factor: any semblance of skill or forethought whatsoever. This was demonstrated with brutal efficiency when Sanji let Nami go in favor of catching Raijax with a vicious kick to his gut when he came within range, immediately reversing his momentum and slamming him into the wall of the cavern once anew. Th

Chapter 3 The first thing Nami took notice of as she slowly regained consciousness was the smell. Salt and water with a dank overtone of moss and seaweed invaded her sinuses, prompting to scrunch up her nose and groan. The second thing she noticed was pain, enough to cause her to hiss in shock as it made its presence known. Specifically, the pain in question was a rampant throbbing ache behind the back of her skull, almost exactly where she’d hit her head before. Finally finding motivation to put her motor functions to action, the navigator painstakingly worked her way up into a sitting position and gingerly brought a hand to the back

Chapter 2 “Ow! Alright Chopper, that’s tight enough!” Nami winced as she half-heartedly swatted the reindeer’s hoof away from the bandage he was tying around her head. “Geeze, my skull is throbbing, not about to fall to pieces...” Chopper winced slightly as he hastily loosened the bandage a bit. “Sorry about that. I’m not really at my best.” Nami eyed the doctor worryingly, noting how he seemed to be swaying ever so slightly on his hooves. “Is it anything serious?” “Eh... not really, just... well...” Chopper scratched the back of his head sheepishly. “Last

Chapter 1 The story opens, as it so often does, upon the sunny deck of the Thousand Sunny, home and primary, secondary and tertiary methods of transportation of the globally-infamous Straw Hat Pirates, as it sailed through one of the ever-rare peaceful stretches of ocean to be found in the New World. The Sunny had reached said stretch about a day prior after leaving the blazing area of water it had surfaced in after leaving Fishman Island, following the course of the steadiest of the three needles in the ship’s Log Pose. The reason as to why the Straw Hats were following such a course, despite their captain’s frequent and vigor