Legs? Bird human? Centaur?

~Dabi~

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."

Spending a moment to brush myself off before joining the others, to seemingly stare at the pair of legs that were still attached to the dragon's body.

"Now what should we do about him?"

Usopp brought up the question first.

"Let's pull him out!"

Luffy cheered excitedly before climbing up to the legs, he grabbed a hold of them before tugging.

"Hey, who are you?!"

The legs flailed and kicked.

"Get your hands off of me-bu!"

My brow raised.

"Hey! I'm helping you! Stay calm!"

Luffy exasperated.

"Here we go!"

He pushed his legs against the dragon's body, roughly tugging the pair of legs continuously.

"Wow, he's completely stuck in the dragon's body. How is that possible?"

Usopp pondered, humming. My hand raked through my hair, my fingers picking at the scalp.

"I don't think he's stuck in the dragon's body, I think his legs are stuck on. I'm thinking this might be devil fruit related."

Voicing my thoughts before walking over to help Luffy.

"W-What? A devil fruit? His legs are stuck on? What do you mean?"

Usopp sounded lost on what I had said.

"I mean, someone with a devil fruit ability; that allows them to decapitate someone without killing them, may have something to do with this."

Grunting while tugging on the legs.

"That would make sense as to why he hasn't suffocated yet, but then how is he able to talk?" Robin chimed in.

"That, I have no clue. It's your guys' world, I'd figure you'd know more about it then I would."

Huffing out before pinching the legs for kicking me.

"Who the hell is he, anyway?"

Zoro joined in as I timed my tug with Luffy's, the legs finally giving as we fell.

"I-I-It's missing!"

Usopp squealed, sitting up and rubbing the back of my head, my eyes scanned over the legs, noticing the black area where his upper body should have been.

"I'm guessing I might be right."

Muttering as Luffy groaned and sat up.

"What's missing?"

He stared at the pair of legs for a moment. Before suddenly freaking out.

"He's torn in half! I'm sorry!"

Seemingly assuming it was his fault for the missing upper-half. Usopp started freaking out as well, shouting at Luffy for "killing him." Sighing before standing up.

"Why do some people never listen? Usopp, we already discussed this."

Placing my hand on my face as I questioned why I was even trying to explain this again, Luffy wasn't even paying attention anyway. Sliding my hands in my pockets, when the pair of legs stood up,

"Oh, I'm finally separated from it-bu!"

The legs rejoiced as I continued to question the impossibly confusing things in this world.

Sure I've spent five, going on six weeks, in this world. But I've mostly been on the ship, and other than muscle man, pokey hunter, and that sea king. I've barely seen anything about this world, considering now I'm seeing a dragon and a pair of decapitated legs. Should I expect fairies next? I spaced back into what the others were saying as I glanced around a bit.

'A dragon and a pair of legs, I wonder what else is around here. Kraken maybe?'

My attention was drawn back by the pair of legs running off.

"Well if anything, he can certainly run."

Chuckling as he shouted about not letting "them" get away, and a warlord.

'Warlord huh? Robin said something about them before, the government's lackeys or whatever. Is there a warlord somewhere on this island?'

Luffy's eyes sparkled as he asked the pair of legs to join his crew, he really likes doing that, doesn't he? Usopp cut him off though by smacking him in the head,

"I'm gonna go catch him! Can you grill the dragon for me?!"

I couldn't help the sigh as he stood up and raced after the legs.

"Wait, legs!"

Rolling my eyes before running after him.

"Wait, Luffy! Don't run off on your own!"

"Hey! Wait, legs!"

I huffed in annoyance at the kids constant selective hearing.

"Luffy! I could tell you the same thing!"

It was getting hotter the more we ran, the flames were also bigger. Why couldn't we have landed in the cold part of this place? The pair of legs tripped and struggled to balance, caught on fire, and hopped around.

"What is he doing?"

Luffy laughed when he noticed something.

"Hey! There's a wall!"

Luffy stretched his arm to grab him but the legs dodged and jumped up the wall. Luffy's fingers got burnt as he retracted his hand and blew on his fingers frantically, allowing me to finally catch up, sighing as my hand gripped his shoulder.

"Do you ever sit still? Hey, let me see."

Grabbing his hand as I inspected it, his fingers weren't burnt much so it was relieving.

"He's fast."

Letting go of his hands, I looked over to the large rock hill.

"Yeah, for a pair of legs. You realize he can't hear us, right? He doesn't have ears." Informing as he paused.

"Oh...How do we talk to him then?"

Shrugging, the legs had said something but we missed it.

"Bu! I don't know who you are but what do you want from me-bu? If you stand in my way, I'll fight you!"

I rubbed the back of my neck.

"Man this is irritating, there's absolutely no communication."

Sighing as my hand combed through my hair.

"Stand in your way? What are you talking about? Cut that crap and join my crew!"

Luffy stretched his arms and grabbed onto the legs.

"Bu! What are you doing-bu?!"

"Gotcha!"

Luffy chuckled.

"Let me go-bu!"

The legs tugged.

"Now, why don't you join…"

My eyes widened as I quickly grabbed a hold of Luffy who shot us up to the pair of legs.

"...my crew?!"

Clinging tightly to him as I tried not to throw up.

'Why, first the dragon and now Luffy, I'm just glad I waited to eat my food. I said Hawks flying me was the last time this was going to happen, but no, I just had to be the one to follow Luffy.'

We slingshotted right into the legs' nuts, not a pleasant surprise I'm guessing.

"Ah, sorry."

Luffy apologized as I tried to recover, I honestly would be laughing if my stomach wasn't threatening to spill that strawberry yogurt I ate. And to make things worse, we ended up falling down the wall, not great, not great.

"Oh, that was surprising! Hey legs, are you alright?…!!!"

Rushing to the nearest hole, I emptied my stomach into it.

"I'm *Blurg* fine, thanks for *Hurg* asking."

Groaning, "Never again, never again."

Slowly standing up and looking back at Luffy.

"Hey, you oka-!" My eyes widened.

"What the…?!" Luffy shouted.

It was a confusing walk back to the others; I was just glad I didn't throw up more. My intestines were good for another day- or hour, knowing Luffy and considering what we might face later on. After the somewhat brief explanation of how Luffy gained his new extended body part, it was an equally confusing walk through the fiery wasteland. More and more confusing things keep happening as the day goes on, what next? A dinosaur? Sighing while wiping the sweat from my forehead, Usopp pulled the large thing of cooked meat as he talked to Luffy.

"I bet his upper half is looking for him. Give him back to his owner!"

Chuckling, "You make it sound like he's a pet."

Luffy chuckled with me.

"Where's your sense of adventure, Usopp? He was born like this, right?"

"No Luffy, no one is born without an upper body or head. He wouldn't be alive if that was the case."

I sighed, since he didn't seem to be listening, as he was more interested in trying to learn the leg's name.

"Hey, I know you're gonna eat most of this dragon meat so why don't you carry it?!"

Usopp exasperated to Luffy who simply chuckled before being slammed to the ground by the pair of legs.

"Hey, guys! Come and take a look at this." Zoro called as Luffy looked in interest.

"Oh, Zoro! Is it the samurai and the guy who got cut?"

"Look." was all he responded with as we stood on top of the building. My eyes widened as we looked out at the distance.

"What is it? What?!"

Usopp was the first to voice his surprise.

"S-Snow-capped mountains?! No, are those mountains of ice? There is a big lake in the middle and there are snow-capped mountains on the other side! But on this side, there is an active volcano and it's burning hot! What kind of island is this?!"

Usopp said with a perfect observation of the seemingly arctic side of the lake.

"Guess I was right, thank god. I thought I was going to start melting if we stayed any longer." Sighing in relief.

"So one of the mysteries is solved."

Robin remarked.

"Huh? Oh yeah, the man on the snail said he was cold! It means the killer samurai and the victims are on the other side!"

Usopp made the astutely obvious observation.

"This island is so interesting! There is snow on those mountains, huh? It's so hot here-I wanna eat a snow cone!" Luffy cheered, as carefree as ever.

"We're not gonna go there! It's too cold! And it's a long way, let's go back to the ship for now."

Usopp tried to convince.

"Speak for yourself! The cold is calling my name and I'm certainly not going to make it wait!"

Yelling while ignoring the others' comments and running down towards the direction of the lake, Luffy chased after as he called for snow cones.

"Besides, it would be longer to go back, adventure calls Usopp. Can't wimp out before it's even begun!"

The others followed soon after, Usopp probably drowning in despair. Until he interrupted Luffy's chanting of snow cones by screaming and crashing into Zoro.

"Ouch! What're you..?"

"I saw...I saw a monster! A bird! No, a human! A bird or a human, which was it?!" He said hysterically.

'Bird human? Hawks?' Pondering as I looked back over to where we were previously standing.

"Huh? What are you talking about? Nobody's there!"

Zoro grumbled in annoyance.

"Huh?"

Usopp looked back at the building with a puzzled expression.

"Gee! Hey, let's go!"

Zoro stood up and started walking.

"No, believe me! There was somebody just a minute ago! Believe me!"

Usopp nearly begged as he looked at me, my eyes stayed sharp on the building we had just come from.

'A bird human, huh? I only know one, but this place is different. And if Hawks fell into this universe, wouldn't he end up on the ship like Eraser and me? And if Hawks was there, he would've come out and said hi or something. Something feels off, I don't like it.'

Usopp was giving me a questioning look as I took one last glance back at the fiery inferno.

'I should probably keep my guard up, I've had it down most of this adventure because of Luffy and Zoro. But things could get serious, I won't be much help. But I can at least keep my eyes open and alert.'

Rubbing the back of my neck and sighing.

'Man, I should've slept longer. I feel like I'm gonna regret wasting those hours of sleep to read all those books.'

Turning back around and joining the others, Usopp followed quickly after, he seemed stuck in thought as he continued to stare at me.

'Weird.'

~Eraser~

We climbed out of the water onto the island; the wind was freezing and we needed a quick change of clothes. Luckily we found a few guards wandering the place and managed to knock them out, after drying off a bit and relishing in the warmth of dry warm clothes. It was time to get back to the key problem at hand.

"They're probably taking them to a cell of some sorts, I don't think they're good. But we could also be trespassing."

Assuming as we followed the group into the building.

"Careful, there could be camera's."

Noting to the cook as he nodded and followed my lead. We snuck down the hallways, it was hard to tell where things were. We had entered into some room with a bunch of machines, so that must have been a production area of some sorts.

It was only a guess as to where we were, it was undetermined enemy territory, and I wasn't taking any chances of getting lost or caught. We turned down a hallway when the sudden sound of quick and heavy footsteps could be heard, quickly pushing the cook back behind the wall and pressing my index finger to his lips. Listening, the footsteps neared as they stopped at the intersection; glancing out from the corner, my brows furrowed at the appearance of the man.

'He doesn't look like someone we should face right now.'

Noting to myself as he thankfully continued down the opposite way, removing my fingers and waving my hand, motioning for the cook to follow. We made several turns before hearing an explosion, glancing back at the cook, we shared perplexed expressions. It seems he is just as unsure as me.

"It might be the others, or it might be the boss." He seemingly deduced, nodding in affirmation of his assumption, we continued.

Staying back to watch the group of soldiers run down a hallway towards the explosion, giving me a pretty good idea what, or rather who, made the explosion. We bolted down the hallway, keeping to the wall while cautiously glancing around each corner, noticing the others. We ran over to them as the cook twirled his way towards Nami, rolling my eyes and tossing the transponder snail to her.

"We might want to inform the others of the current situation, we don't want them trying to go back to the ship and not have it be there."

Advising, she nodded in agreement.

"But maybe after we escape, those soldiers will be here any minute."

Continuing before she could pick up the phone, she paused and chuckled, her cheeks reddening as she put the snail away.

The cook seemingly got distracted by what seemed to be a decapitated head, which also seemed to be alive. It was thoroughly confusing, but I was also too tired to even question it. After he talked to it a bit, and the others gasped about it being a samurai, we finally made our way through the building. We entered a room only to stop when finding a bunch of giant and varying sized children, blinking a few times before sighing

'Where's my sleeping bag when I need it.'