Half hot Half cold!

!!WARNING!!

If you haven't watched up to episode 578 and past, I highly suggest you go and watch before continuing. Lots of spoils for *Cough* previous *Cough* and current *Cough* one piece events waiting ahead.

!!WARNING!!

Waking up sometime seemingly around noon, the rough waves had tossed me out of my bed, making me feel seriously queasy. Stumbling out of the room onto the deck with my hand over my mouth as I heard something about a red sea and going to an island, before the presumptive confused shouts of "What?!" from the crew. Aizawa was holding onto the railing as he wore a concerned expression, the ship sailed towards said island as Nami exclaimed to Luffy that we shouldn't go to it because none of the log posts or whatever, were pointing to it.

Luffy simultaneously argued that it had a volcano and looked fun, so who wouldn't want to go to it. Which arguably, was not very convincing; although we were already sailing towards the island, and it seemed intriguing to say the least. The volcano erupted, drawing Luffy's attention to the island once again. To be honest, anything Nami said was going to go in one ear and out the other, considering Luffy was quickly convinced and determined to dock. Making my way towards him, I looked ahead at the wall of fire.

"That's interesting, a wall of fire on the sea, who knew."

Nami was going on about how different the sea was, before moving on to crying about the bones floating on the ocean surface. Studying Luffy's excited expression as he bounced in place; smiling softly when there was sudden, laughter? Everyone looked around a bit before staring in the direction of the noise.

"Wh-What was that?!" Ussop questioned as I followed Luffy into the room along with Nami, Sanji, and Eraser.

My brows furrowed at the crying snail when Luffy spoke up.

"Hey, what's this? The transponder snail is crying!" my brow raised.

"Transponder- snail?"

The thought was strange, a snail phone? Luffy continued his one-sided conversation with the seemingly upset snail.

"Hey, what's wrong?! You have a stomachache?"

Luffy seemed upset, while I snorted at the thought of a snail crying from a stomach ache, Sanji took the initiative and responded with an answer as to the wailing from the now red-eyed snail.

"Fool! That's an emergency signal. Somebody's calling for help."

Luffy looked back at him "If I pick it up, can we hear them?"

"Wait, Luffy! More than 50 percent of emergency signals are fake! It could be a Navy trap- one they use often. If the line is tapped, they will find out where we are."

Robin cut into the conversation. Usopp complimented her on the save before trying to talk with Luffy, but it was short-lived because he answered it anyway.

"Hello? My name is Monkey D. Luffy! I'm gonna become the King of the Pirates!"

Usopp smacked him on the head, telling him he picked up the phone too fast and said too much. The snail cried back as a voice responded,

"Help me!"

"What happened?!"

"It's cold...Is this the Boss?!"

"No, I'm not the Boss. Is it cold there?"

"My colleagues are getting cut one after the other! The samurai are going to kill us!"

"Samurai?"Zoro- who entered at some point- joined in.

"Hey you, what's your name?! Where are you?!" Luffy shouted into the transponder.

"Somebody please help me! I'm on...Punk Hazard!"

The snail cried before the person seemingly died. Usopp and Chopper freaked out as Luffy placed the phone/mic on the snail's back again, before putting his hand on his chin while humming.

"I smell trouble…"

Usopp and Chopper shouted their scared butts off.

"Maybe he was acting, and it's a trap."

Robin imputed, humming while shaking my head.

"No, it definitely didn't seem like acting."

I muttered as Brook started up his song.

"Speaking of samurai, Brook…"

Zoro spoke up and Brook said something about a Wano kingdom or whatever. I didn't really pay attention as we stood back outside looking towards the fiery island, to which Luffy decided was the best moment to declare our demise, whilst a few of the others despaired about the adventure. Luffy chuckled at their pleas and constant insists of going someplace else, of which were futile.

Sanji was discussing who would go to the island and who would stay onboard the ship, I wasn't paying much attention 'till Luffy said he was going by himself. Whipping my head around, I walked over and ruffled his hair.

"And who said I'd let you go alone, can't keep all the fun to yourself."

Grabbing him in a non-lethal chokehold as he chuckled and smiled, the rest picked papers on who else would go. It ended with Usopp begging for someone to trade with him, and us sailing on top of some clouds over the wall of flames.

Everyone was already eating their lunches as Usopp complained and tried to make excuses for us to turn back, you'd think he'd learn that whether or not he wants to, we're going to go. He looked at me for help, my shoulders simply shrugging.

"You're on your own here bud, I'm just happy to be off the ship and away from Eraser."

Closing my eyes, I stretched and relaxed in the seat.

"Does Eraser have a grudge against you or something?"

Zoro spoke up as I cracked open one of my eyes.

"I guess, I did kind of burn down a forest and kidnap one of his students. Though he really wasn't in any harm, even offered to give the brat some food and let him out of his restraints. Truthfully, he did more harm to us than we did to him, but who's keeping track?"

Usopp seemed uncomfortable, and the others seemed a bit confused but Luffy was completely unbothered.

"Really, that kid has quite the attitude."

Finishing the short conversation, I closed my eye and listened to their small talk and Usopp's excuses, we finally docked and Usopp again tried to find a reason to retreat, to which he failed, obviously. Zoro sliced the gate open, which really wasn't needed since I could simply melt the bars, but it was probably for the better. Don't want to make the healing process longer than it needs to be, huffing as sweat dripped from my forehead.

"I think I miss the rain and cool breeze, heat has never been my specialty."

Fanning my face with my hand as I removed my coat and shirt.

"I hope the other half of this island isn't scolding either."

Silently praying in hope as I finished tying my jacket and shirt around my waist.

Usopp made the excuse of us trespassing being a crime, only realizing after that we all are technically already criminals.

"I wish Shoto was here, he'd easily cool this place down in seconds."

Muttering as I looked around, Usopp was trailing behind as the others discussed their thoughts of the island. Sighing, I slowed down with Usopp, he got startled by some lava splashing up at him from the unstable ground.

"Scaredy cat,"

Snickering while gripping the front of his shirt and pulling him off of the soon to be- lava consumed path.

"I-I'm not scared! J-Just, excited!"

He tried to cover, chuckling in amusement at his unconvincing words.

"Sure, the shaky knees are definitely from excitement."

Setting him on the ground again and patting his back to move him forward.

"Don't be too slow, never know what might happen if you're left by yourself."

I joined the others up ahead, the sound of rushed footsteps following a few seconds later as I tuned in and out to what the others were saying. We came upon a plateau of collapsed and burning buildings, Luffy shouted to see if anyone was in the heap of melting brick and fire. Continuing this as we walked through, Usopp had finally calmed down enough to eat his lunch. Figuring I should save mine just in case, besides, I wasn't really hungry considering I grabbed someone's uneaten strawberry yogurt from the fridge before we left.

I simply assumed Sanji might've made it for Nami or Robin but no one was around to say otherwise, and I was hungry. Can't blame me, 'specially if they don't know it was me. Usopp finally decided to question the fact that the guy on the snail said it was cold when in fact this place was blazing hot, Luffy apparently chalked it up to him being stupid, but Robin considered the fact of some part of the island being cold. "Did no one hear me when I said I hope the other half of this island isn't scolding? And yes, that would go best with the theory that this place wasn't always a blazing hell." Saying, seemingly to myself and the air, as they continued to talk and think.

There was a sudden loud echoing noise, it kind of sounded like, a growl maybe? Whispering? My brows furrowed as my head whipped around, my body following as my eyes widened.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me! A Dragon?!"

Surprisingly, the others seemed shocked as well. At least it's good to know that dragons aren't natural occurrences in this universe either, though very worrisome that somehow there is a dragon currently standing in front of us, looking like he's found his next meal.

Luffy cheered and jumped around it while I chased after him, it looked towards us before, talking?? My brows furrowed.

"How the hell can this thing communicate? Talking dragons? This isn't fairytail!"

I pulled Luffy away, he then pulled Usopp away from its jaws before telling him the dragon spoke. To which Usopp thought him crazy.

"No, I heard it too. Definitely not crazy, unless Crazy's crazy rubbed off on me somehow in the past second or so. Though hanging out with the league doesn't really improve my already trashy mental state, I can say it doesn't worsen it either."

Muttering off in a tangent before grabbing the two and dodging the dragon's tail.

While everyone was busy- mostly just Luffy and Zoro- fighting the dragon, I took the time to climb onto its back. Fire against fire doesn't work quite well, either way, it's a mystery if my flames can even get through its skin or not. To be fair this is my first time dealing with a dragon, and I haven't really read about them much. Since fairy tale stories aren't my kind of thing, so who's to say what does or doesn't work on the beast. I was mostly just trying to find maybe a weak spot, but instead of something helpful, what I found was a pair of legs stuck to the dragon.

My brows furrowed, taking the time to inspect them, the legs were flailing around so whoever's legs it is, they're still alive somehow. I nearly slipped at the sudden movement of the dragon, quickly grabbing hold of the legs as the dragon thrashed around, it wasn't much better when the legs farted. At least I heard the dragon talk again, it's good to double check my sanity.

"The hell?"

Plugging my nose at the vomit inducing smell.

"Disgusting!"

I didn't have much time to do, really anything, when the dragon started being thrashed around all over the place, before finally for some damn reason decided it was time to fly!

"Why did I decide this was a good idea? I'm already regretting it quicker than I regretted letting Hawks fly me."

Holding my lips tightly closed, my grip tightened on the pair of legs, not long after, Luffy shot up onto the dragon's back.

"Ah! Dabi, what are you doing up here? And what's with those legs?"

Taking the time to swallow down the vomit before responding.

"I came to find a weak spot, but then I found this and the dragon started flying. This is not the uber ride I signed up for!"

Luffy tickled the legs, getting them to talk.

'Oh sure, it talks for him but farts for me, thanks a lot.'

Luffy shouted down to the others, telling them about the pair of legs and how maybe someone could be stuck inside of the dragon. He then proceeded to make the dragon eat its own wing before Zoro sliced its head off.

"Hey, watch where you slice!"

I snapped at him before covering my mouth as we plummeted to the ground.

"I better get a bump free Uber ride after this!!"

~Eraser~

Sitting back watching the others as I stood on the upper floor of the ship, my brows furrowed when I noticed some sort of green gas floating towards the others, they passed out not long after it reached them. Quickly wrapping my scarf over my nose and mouth, before rushing into the kitchen.

"Cook, quick. Put something over your mouth and nose, there's some sort of sleeping gas being released on the ship."

Ushering him as he quickly listened.

"Let them come to us, we might have some protection, but it's not nearly enough to go out there and fight."

Ordering as he nodded, the door opened, we both were quick to act. I pulled them in before slamming the door shut, Sanji made quick work of them as more came. We repeated the previous actions until they had either been taken down or left and the gas had subsided, grabbing a small transponder snail before peeking out of the door, they had seemingly taken the others.

"Damn it, they took them. Most likely to the island, we should hurry if we want to catch up." He nodded before following me.

"Nami-swan, Robin-chan! Don't worry, I'm coming to save you!" Hearts shined in his eyes as we jumped into the water.

'Dabi and the others better be doing better than us. I still don't trust him, but he seems close with Luffy so I'm not worried about him possibly harming them. But it's a different story with me, so everything involving him and me, I need to be cautious about.' We somewhat followed behind the boat as it led us to possibly the leader of this island, I'll need a shower after this. Seawater doesn't smell great, especially the next day…'

-Short, like very short, preview of the next chapter- (Because I wanted to add it lol)

Groaning at the ache in my entire body, taking my time before standing up. "Note; falling with a dead dragon's body, not sugary, certainly spicy, but definitely not everything nice."