"THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'LL HAPPEN!" Zoro yelled as he accidently flipped Valerie off his back. Luffy ignored him as he went back to yelling for Chopper, who was staring down at them from atop the castle. 'He's still looking for me.' Chopper thought as he looked down to see Luffy still calling him while Valerie sat back on Zoro and nearly crushed him with more weight than he can handle with an angry look on her face. 'I want to go,' he thought before shaking his head. 'But I can't! I'm not one of them!'
"CHOPPER!" Luffy called. He knew that he could use haki and find him, but Chopper would just keep running away. He stopped calling when he felt Chopper was close by and turned. "Chopper! Hey, you decided to join my crew?"
"I can't." Chopper said in a quiet voice with his hat covering his eyes.
"Sure you can! It'll be fun!" Luffy said.
"Think of a better arguement!" Usopp shouted as Vivi, Nami, Grace, and Nojiko helped an injured Sanji and Greg outside.
"Tony!" Nami said as she looked at Chopper. They all looked at Chopper as he finally looked up at them all. "I can't...I'M A REINDEER! I'M NOT A HUMAN! I'VE GOT HOOVES AND ANTLERS AND...AND A BLUE NOSE!" he cried out.
'Now that you know, do you think you can heal the wound in his heart?' Kureha's words played back to the ones who knew Chopper's past.
"I mean...I do want to be a pirate." Chopper said before shouting. "BUT I CAN'T EVER BE WITH YOU GUYS! I'M NOTHING BUT A MONSTER, SO I CAN NEVER BE YOUR FRIEND OR PIRATE ON YOUR SHIP!" He panted for breath before muttering "I just came here...to say thank you. I'm glad you asked me to join you. That was nice of you guys, so thanks." Chopper said. They all looked at him as Chopper stood there with his hat covering his eyes. Luffy just stood there with a blank expression as he knew what was coming next. "I'm gonna stay here for now," he said before looking up at them all with a forced smile. "But...if you guys wanted to...you could visit anytime."
"SHUT UP! LET'S GOOOOOOOO!" Luffy shouted. That was all Chopper needed as his eyes started welling up as the rest of Luffy's crew smiled.
"When was 'Shut up' an invitation?" Zoro asked himself as Chopper screamed out as well.
-Some time later-
Chopper had gone back into the castle to say goodbye to Kureha while the others were outside waiting for him.
"Hey Luffy." Gin said with a serious look.
"Huh? What's wrong Gin?" Luffy asked. Everyone looked at them both as Gin continued.
"How'd you guys get up this mountain anyway?" he asked.
"I climbed." Luffy said as if it wasn't anything special.
"What?" Usopp said in disbelief. "No way! There's no way you could've climbed up here. "It's true." Sanji said as he blew out some smoke. "He really climbed up here while we hung onto his legs."
"WHAT?!" most of them shrieked.
"No way!" Nami said.
"Do you have any idea how tall this mountain is?!" Valerie yelled.
"From what I heard that crazy hag say, about 3 miles." Sanji said as some of them looked over the ledge.
"Three...miles?" Vivi croaked out as they all stared at Luffy, who grinned back.
"No biggie." Luffy said, causing some of them to fall over.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'NO BIGGIE'?! THIS MOUNTAIN'S SO TALL, YOU CAN'T SEE THE BOTTOM FROM HERE!" Usopp roared. "So? If I had to, I'd have carried you all up here." Luffy said. That left them all speechless as the wind blew around them all. Some had thought that he was just saying that, but the look in Luffy's eyes said that he meant every word. Some of the more sensitive members felt their eyes well up at his statement.
'I knew he cared for his friends,' Vivi thought. 'But to go so far? Luffy's amazing!' The silence was soon broken as screams could be heard from the castle. Everyone looked to see Chopper racing out of the castle in his walk point while dragging a sleigh as Kureha chased him with a giant spiked ball swinging over her shoulder and looking crazy.
"GET ON THE SLEIGH!" Chopper shouted as the rest of them screamed in terror. Everyone jumped in and held on tight as Chopper pulled the sleigh down the ropeway.
"RUNNING OFF TO BE A PIRATE!?" Kureha yelled. "YOU'RE AS FOOLISH AS THAT QUACK DOCTOR!" She stood at the ledge as Chopper and them were soon out of sight. "They're gone." Dalton said as he walked up next to her. "Couldn't you have done that a bit better though?"
"Nah. He's just some pet that I was asked to take care of." she said as her eyes started welling up. "Besides, I hate sad goodbyes. Now shut up and follow me!" she ordered as she dragged him into the castle.
-Back with the Straw Hats-
Chopper, Luffy, and the rest were quickly making their way back towards the ship before the sound of distant cannon fire could be heard coming from the mountain.
"Is she firing at us?!" Avlida shouted before the whole sky lit up. Chopper stopped and stared as the whole sky went from white to a brilliant shade of pink. Chopper walked towards the mountain a few steps as the tallest mountain on Drum Island soon turned into the world's biggest Cherry Blossom Tree.
"Whoa!" Luffy cried out as Gin whistled. "It's...so...pretty." Grace said as they all stared up at it with a smile while Chopper's eyes soon filled with tears that quickly ran down his face.
'Doctor...Doctorine!' he thought as his father's smiling face came to mind before he broke down completely and sobbed his heart out. It was hear that he knew that there nothing was impossible. Kureha smiled from atop the mountain as tears fell down her face while Hiriluk's flag waved in the wind.
'Farewell, my stupid son.'
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