5 Waking up

"Stryke... you know what this is right?...",Conis asks.

"A shell!...ummm no a dial!"

"Yes, and this is a rare one!", she points to a tiny blck cone shaped shell.

"HAHAHAH....yes, its very rare....I found it when I was roaming around the forest Stryke." Pagaya walks in saying.

He then takes the shell and threads a needle and a sting through it and makes a necklace and gives it to Stryke.

"Wear it!" He says.

Stryke puts it on,"I like it a lot , thank you dad, but what does it do?"

"I have no clue!" Pagaya exclaims.

He notices Conis pouting and reaches toward her, bringin her close he says " Do you want one too?", he gestures toward Stryke's new pendant.

She fervently nods her head,"YES!!"

Pagaya reaches and take out another dial, a round one."This is a light dial, and a rare one at that, just wear it around your neck and it will charge by itself and can be used instantly, and looks good too!"

He goes through the motions and hands Conis another pendant.

Slowly everything fades to black....

Stryke jolts awake, panting. he looks around him and sees a bunch of beds, he tries to call out, but no noise comes through, he can't smell anything, it seems empty.....

He tries his hardest to scream or at-least force a bit of his voice out but to no avail, then he breaths his hardest again to no avail. He thrashes around and he is in absolute despair. Hearing the commotion the rest of the crew run in and see him clawing at his throat.

SCRATCH...SCRATCH

The ships doctor pushes through and hugs him,"Hush...hush calm down.....calm down.... relax"

Stryke visibly relaxes and stops clawing at himself.

"Can you hear me?"

Furious nodding,

"Can you see?"

More nodding,

"Can you speak?"

Furious head shaking.

"You can't?....I see.....can you feel?"

After pinching himself, nods again.

"Anything else?"

He gestures to his nose and imitates sniffing....

"You can't smell?"

Furious nodding.

"Does your body hurt? Are you uncomfortable?"

A shake and a nod following.

"Your loss of body functions is something your body did to protect you from a lot of pain and discomfort. So you have to handle this pain and discomfort for a few years or less if you get stronger."

She sees the visible confusion on his face and says," You have awakened a type of power present in everyone, Haki, and once you are able to control it to a high degree you will be a lot stronger, you must have felt the everything happening around you a lot more clearer than usual, too clear in fact."

Nodding.

"By the way, did you eat a weirdly shaped fruit or something similar?"

Nodding.

"Okay.....that is a devil fruit, it gives you different powers based on what fruit you eat."

Nodding.

"Can you write?"

More nodding.

A nearby marine takes a note and a little pencil and hands it to him. Stryke takes it and looks at the doctor.

She asks,"What is your name child?"

'Stryke' he writes down.

"Stryke.... thats a cool name...So where are you from?"

'Sky Island'

"Oh wow ..... you are from the island in the sky! wow! we can't get you back home right now but you can be the the captain and his grandchild for some time...Okay?"

Nodding.

She leaves and pulls Garp aside and says ," He probably doesn't know where he is from.... he is in a confused state... just act as if sky island is a real place..Okay?"

"It is real." Garp then walks to Stryke who is searching for something, leaving the doctor dumbfounded.

Stryke sees this large man walk up to him and shrinks back.

"My name is Monkey D Garp. I'm the ship's captain.....oh this is yours I believe?"

He pulls out a shell pendant out and Stryke reaches out to grab it.... Garp pulls it back and says,"You come with me...I will train you and make you stronger and give you a temporary home till are able to find your way back home."

Garp shows a very big smile and Stryke nods wearing his pendant.

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