Beginning of her Quest
Staring between the note slowly dissipating into the wind and the egg in her hand, 'SHING SHING' her eyes shine in excitement at getting a new pet/bff. she stares into the sky as she trys imagining what will hatch from the egg.
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after a while 'swoosh swoosh' she shakes herself awake coming back to reality and takes a quick look at her devil fruit and takes a bite 'BLEGH' barely stopping herslef from hurling it back up.
"it tasted worst then I thought .. pthewy pthewy" trying to get rod of the taste in her mouth she spits a couple times. As she calms down she tries to focus and see how her power works. Closing her eyes she trys to imagine a spotted 🐢 for starters. When the little creature appears in her hand 'nagh' it cries out in happiness as she can feel its emotions.
She was excited at the ability and tries to imagine other species she knows from easter mud turtle to spine softshell turtle seeing that she could still keep going without a secong thought she even tried to make the Galapagos giant tortoise only to suddenly feel a large drop in her energy, loosing consciousness..
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During all this Aspidochelone just watched her doing all this, her eyes filled with intrigue. ' this human is different from the others I've seen ... and I feel that she will be able to do great things. .....maybe I can leave my 5th child with her, as it's her time to roam and grow. This girl ate grandfather's fruit and will be able to help her even more and through my daughter I will be able to watch her grow, how far she gets.... depends on her but I know she will go far.' She thinks to herself as she looks at the smaller shadow that moves around her in the water and shows a gentle smile
As I start to open my eyes again and see the bright sun in the sky, I sit up slowly and try to recall what happened again releasing a nervous 'chuckle' I laugh at myself for overdoing things in my excitement. After calming myself down and thinking up a plan, I look out at the sea in front of me and just now realized that the sea is calm, neither wind nor waves as far as the eyes can see.
'BULDGE' my eyes opened when in shock when I realized that of all places to start I ended up in the calm belt. And I'm not even sure which part of it I'm in either, am I close to Amazon lily or on the other side near weatheria? Unsure of what to do I ask Aspidochelone
" Aspi,, do you know were we are as I would like to ask if you could take me to a nearby inhabited island if possible?"
"We are currently in the calm belt little one near what you humans call Amazon Lily, and it is no trouble to bring you there. Though I would like to ask you to do something for me in exchange.?."
"Oh?.. what would you like for me to do??" Tilting my head in confusion at what could she want me to do for her..
" I would like for you to take my fifth child along your journey, as it is time for her to wander the sea but I fear she may be taken advantage of by others or worse, as my oldest almost lost her life to some humans with what appeared to be bubbles on there head." She asked in a motherly tone full of care and concern.
I was surprised by her request, as I would have never guessed she would ask that. When she mentioned the bubble head humans my face darkened in anger at those self proclaimed 'Gods' and what they may have wanted to use the poor creature for. It took me a moment to break out of my musing to give her a reply.
"Of course I would and we would become great friends. 'Sparkle'" I gave her an excited smile showing her how happens that would make me. And so she told me more about herself and her children, how they were tasked to watch over the calm belt and make sure the sea kings never over populate it, how her youngest shall be her last child and how she awaits her 1st grandchild. Though her species may live up to 3 millennia they may only lay there 1st egg when one third of there lifespan has past and loose all possiblity of have more in there last millennium of life, it is said to be the curse given by the world itself due to the 1st island turtle Nuwa and her attempts at consuming all the land in existence till only her shell will be home to all creatures and her desire to become a world-turtle is fulfilled. Her voice grew more cold as she spoke of it, showing how much her ancestors action have caused trouble to her kind.
To disperse the negative air accumulating around us, she told me the names of her children from oldest to youngest, "they are named Chukwa, Akura, Para, Janaraja and Hellebores." Her voice filled with motherly affection, as she thought of each of her children. When we finished talking she allowed to explore her shell, as she explored she came across other creatures living there many larger ones that she remembers from the manga and anime and other normal ones here and there, some show her aggression, some just ignored her and others showed her curiosity. Through the curious ones she learned how they live on Aspi's back, for the most part it is a normal island but at the times she goes into the sea for food they go into the mountain caves in the center of her shell that lead deeper in, allowing them to have air and dryness within her shell. It was like a hidden labrinth within her shell, there Marina even found vestiges of an old civilization though barely anything concrete. As she went through the path she took to return back to the surface she stubbles upon a beehive taking over a large piece of path there she finds what appears to be a little girl with light green skin, yellow and green hair, a floral and hive design dress and wings surrounded by bees 🐝 and sitting on a flower throne as she wave her hand and orders them around with a 'buzz buzz' sounding from her mouth. As I get closer I can hear the voices of some bees calling her queen and one in particular seemed to have told her it noticed me. When she looked my way and our eyes met I could hear the high pitched voice of a child trying to sound with authority.
'Who goes there ?!!' Though she sounded adorable it was laced with Graveness and authority.
"I'm sorry little one, I was just returning to the surface when I noticed this hive..... I could tell that you are a queen bee but how did you turn human?" I was very curious about her, why does she look human? Did she eat a devil fruit? How can there be flowers within this labrinth with no sunlight? How can all these bees go in and out of her dress? So many question popped into my head, though my curiosity isn't shared with her 'HHMPH, why should I tell a human about the great me?' She speaks to me with pride as she puffed her little chest out with her chin up.
"Giggle" her cute action amused me though my laugh may have anger the bees around her as she buzzing became more forceful 'BBBBZZZZZZ'. I tried to placate the situation, coaxing her into telling me more about herself, as she seemed to have the IQ of a toddler she told me about how they used to life on a tree outside one cave entrance and about how her children found 2 weird fruits right before the island sank into the sea as usual (most of the smaller/ normal sized animals are unaware that they live on an island turtle).
'At the time the hive was just growing and we were unable to get food in time for the change, at the insistence of my other children, i and my strongest child who will be the next queen were each given a fruit in hopes of at least our survival. After eating them we felt some strange energy in us, with which I became as you see here, as I changed flowers began to grow around me like a miracle with them my children were able to live. My child with her energy was able to make herself and the others smaller with which they were able to inhabit my body as we found out that I became like the flowers and could feed my children from my body.' She spoke with her eyes shining in happiness she told me all about them. She even told me the fruit names that she derived after they ate them, hers was human human fruit: Model Druid which I figured was at least a mythical zoan type fruit and the other was shrink shrink fruit which I figured was a paramecia type.