"Heh. Sorry for talking to loud." Nami said as Grace sat up and looked around. "Feeling better?"
"Yeah." Grace said before Kureha came over and lifted Nami's shirt and Grace's right sleeve.
"Here's the problem." Kureha said.
"What is it?" Nami asked.
"The both of you were bitten by an insect called Kestia. When it bites someone, it'll spread a bacteria into that person's body. For five days, said person suffers from a high fever as the poison spreads throughout your body. Judging from these wounds, you both were bitten three day's ago. If left untreated, you'd be resting peacefully...in the afterlife!" Kureha explained, causing Nami and Grace to gulp in fear. "It was known as the five days fever, but Kestia was supposed to have gone extinct 100 years ago. I kept the antibiotic just in case. Where'd you two come from, some ancient jungle?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
"What the heck?" Kureha asked as all three were now staring at the door to the next room.
'That voice.' Nami thought. "Luffy?"
"NO! YOU BASTARD! GET AWAY FROM MY FRIENDS!" shouted Luffy from the next room.
"Doctorine! Help! This guy's going crazy!" came Chopper's voice. "Luffy!" Nami yelled as she tried to get ouf of bed.
"Stay there!" Kureha said as she pushed her back into bed. "You're still sick! I'll look!" she said before going into the next room. "What's going on here?!"
"This guy won't stop thrashing around!" Chopper said as he, along with Greg and Sanji, were now trying to calm Luffy down. "He's not even awake!" Chopper said as Kureha walked over.
"Calm down Luffy!" Sanji shouted as Greg was threatening to bomb him to shut him up.
"Let him go." she said in a calm voice before jumping towards them. All three jumped out of the way before Kureha kicked Luffy through the wall into the next room. "SHUT UP ALREADY!" she shouted as Luffy flew into the next room before hitting the wall and falling to the floor. He didn't move for a moment before sitting up and looking around, his eyes full of nothing but fear as he tried to catch his breath. "Noisy one." Kureha said. "Wha?" Luffy said before seeing Kureha, Chopper, Greg, and Sanji look through the wall at him. He sighed in relief before falling back to the floor. "Just a nightmare." Luffy said.
"Luffy?" Nami asked as she and Grace walked into the room with a blanket covering them.
"Nami! Grace!" Sanji said, glad to see the girls okay. "How are you feeling?"
"Better." Nami said and Grace gave a small smile.
"Didn't I tell you two to stay in bed?" Kureha said. "You still need to rest for three days."
"We can't wait here for three days!" Nami said. "We have to-" she said before Kureha jumped her and pinned her to the floor with a scalpel at her throat.
"My patients leave either when they're cured, or dead. Take your pick!" Kureha said. -Back down at Big Horn-
The Straw Hats and Dalton had finished fighting Wapol's men before they started looking for anyone who got buried under the snow.
"Hey, where's Valerie and Nojiko?" Usopp asked.
"Nojiko took off after Luffy's group after they dug her out of the snow and Valerie chased after her." Gin said.
"What?!" Vivi shouted. "Why would Nojiko go after them?"
"Probably to see if Nami's okay." Zoro said. "They are sisters after all."
"Where are you going Dalton?" one of the villagers asked.
"To fight Wapol!" Dalton said as he started walking towards the mountain. "If Wapol isn't stopped now, we'll never be free from his tyranny!" "He's right!" another villager shouted. Soon, others had grabbed some weapons from the soldiers, ready to fight alongside Dalton to be rid of Wapol for good.
"If we're going up there, we can take the lift." another man said.
"The lift?" Dalton asked.
"Yes. We recently found a ropeway tied to Dr. Kureha's old house near Gyasta." he said.
"Then let's be off to Gyasta!" Dalton said, earning a roar from the villagers.
"You do that. We're gonna go find our friends." Usopp said as he and the other Straw Hats started walking off towards the mountains.
"Some of you go with them." Dalton said. "When they find their friends, lead them to Gyasta." "Right." some of them said before prepping a sleigh and following them.
-With Nojiko and Valerie-
"Will you stop Nojiko?" Valerie shouted. Nojiko didn't answer her as she kept running towards the mountain, determined to find Nami. They kept running until a gust of wind blew Nojiko back a bit, giving Valerie a chance to tackle her to the ground.
"Get off me!" she shouted as she tried to get up.
"No!" Valerie said, increasing her weight so that they sank into the snow and pinned Nojiko to the ground. "You're gonna get killed either by the lapahns or this freezing cold!"
"I don't care!" Nojiko shouted as she struggled. "Let me go! LET...ME..." Nojiko said before she stopped struggling. She stared up at Valerie as her eyes welled up before she started crying. "NAMI!" she shouted as Valerie looked down at her. She watched as Nojiko cried out Nami's name in worry before pulling her into a hug.
"She's with Luffy." Valerie said as Nojiko hugged her back and cried. "I haven't been on your crew very long, but something tells me that Luffy will get her to the doctor safely." Nojiko calmed down a little as she buried her head into Valerie's shoulder. They both stayed like that until they heard something coming towards them.
"HEY!" shouted Usopp from the sleigh. He and the other Straw Hats were racing towards them until the stopped next to them. "Jump in! They found a ropeway up the mountain!"
"Alright." Valerie said before looking at Nojiko. "Come on. We'll go see your sister."
"Right." Nojiko said as they stood up and got in the sleigh before they started off towards Gyasta. "Hey, Valerie?"
"Yeah?" she said.
"Thanks." Nojiko said with a smile, which Valerie smiled right back.
"What were you thinking?" Alvida asked. "Going off into a blizzard like that?"
"I went because I worried about my sister okay?" Nojiko said. "Everyday that Nami was out getting money to pay off Arlong, I always kept worrying that she'd get in over her head and..." she said, unable to finish.
"So with her getting sick, plus that avalanche earlier," Zoro said. "You couldn't sit back anymore huh?"
"Right." Nojiko said. "If I were to lose Nami...I just can't think stomach the thought."
"Don't worry. You'll see her when we get to the castle up there." Usopp said. Nojiko looked to see all of them smiling at her.
"Yeah." she said as she rubbed her eyes and smiled. "You're right."
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