Dead?

Rizu POV

I slowly open my eyes and see a roof on top of my head. "Where am I?" I question out loud and look around seeing I was in a room. I try to lift myself up and groan feeling my whole body hurt. I look down seeing my blood dried up and some of it still coming out coloring my bandages and seeing my reddened uniform. "How am I even alive?" I mumble out as I look around the room.

I stop seeing bandages and some dirty rags beside me and my mask that lays off to the side. I scrunch my brows up and pick up my mask seeing that there were some scratches and dents in it with blood covering the inside of the mask.

"I need this to be cleaned...." I mumble as I pick it up and cover the bloodied part with some bandages for the moment. I slowly tried to pull myself up off of the floor as I used the wall for support.

Outside I hear yelling and shouting. I hold onto my chest as it throbs in pain along with the rest of my body and stick the mask on the side of my face. I pant as I struggle just to stand up. I continue to support myself using the wall and wobble as I walk.

As I get closer to the door I hear footsteps and voices on the other side. "You don't think she's dead right?" I hear a voice.

'Smack!'

"You idiot! Cut that talk out!" Another voice says and another voice pops up. "But...it may be possible. Luffy had found her bleeding all over the shore and when we came to pick her up she was covered in it and soaking wet."

"Well if you guys are that worried if she's dead or not then go in!" the voice yells and I scrunch my face at their loudness. "I'm not going in what if-" the first voice says. Another smack could be heard. "If you won't then I will."

As I finally almost to the door, I lose my step and fall down to the floor. "Ugh...." I groan out as I clench my chest just below my wound. Soon those voices become silent and I pant roughly as my whole body shakes.

I try to lift myself off the ground and hear the door creaking open. My arms shaking as I try to pry myself off the ground and stagger as I get off the ground. I look forward seeing a crack in the door and three pairs of eyes looking through it. I walk closer to the door and open it quickly as I use the door to hold me up.

"AHHH!" screams are heard as soon as I appear in the door way. I look down slightly seeing three boys huddling together as they looked at me. I pant and raise my eyebrow. They stop screaming and the three of them open their eyes slowly to look at me.

Their eyes widen and show shocked faces. The one in the middle with the straw hat moves forward. "H-hey! Y-your bleeding a lot!" he says pointing to my chest. As he says that I look down at my chest seeing even more blood staining the bandages. I pant and nod my head. The boy with the top hat grabbed the boy who came closer to me. "Stay back Luffy." he says and I look down at the boys some more and look in the hall where they were.

I slowly open my mouth as I pant. "..I....I'm not going to hurt you." I say as I start to wobble some more and my head started to feel fuzzy. The straw hat boy moves forward towards me as the other two watch me suspiciously. "A-are you okay?" he asks and the freckled boy hits the smaller boy. "Do you think she's alright? She's obviously not! DO you not see all the blood!" he yells at him and my head throbs even more.

"Luffy get Dan Dan." he tells the boy and my hand starts to slip from the door as the smaller boy rushes off. I start to fall forward a little bit and try to grab onto something to stop my fall. But as my head started to get fuzzy again my grip slipped. I close my eyes no longer feeling like I could keep them open.

I brace myself for the floor but feel hands on my arms and my shoulder keeping me from falling. I open my eyes slightly seeing the two boys from earlier holding me up with the two of them one on each arm supporting me.

"Why did you get out of bed in that condition?" the freckled boy asks with an irked expression. I open my mouth but no words could really come out. I take in a deep breath and steady myself with their help. "I'm sorry." I say as I remove myself from their hold and lean on the door. I look down at both of them seeing a little red on their faces.

Soon enough I hear other footsteps coming in our direction and they soon stand in front of me. I see the smaller boy with the straw hat stand with the other two boys and another person. I look up a bit and see a muscular women who had curly orange hair. I huff out a breath as I become light headed again. "You." she says and I continue to look at her.

She continues. "Why did you get out of bed!!? It's obvious what kind of condition you are in!" she yells at me and I close my eyes. She grabs my arm and pulls me as I stagger to the bed laid down on the floor. She puts me down nicely on the bed and grabs the bandages that laid next to the bed.

She turned towards the boys who stood in the door way watching. "Oi! Close the door and leave! Give us some privacy so I can change her bandages!" she yelled at them and the straw hat boy quickly jumped up and closed the door. Soon after you can hear their feet scurrying out of the place.

The woman turned towards me and gave me a worried look. "Your in a bad shape. You opened up your wound even more. Do you know how bad your condition is?" she asks me and I shake my head as I zone in and out. She sighs and has me move slightly so she could change the bandages.

"You have a high fever, most likely due to you being soaked wet in the water when the boys found you. That and you have this wound on your chest which is pretty deep. You have lost lots of blood. It's amazing how your still alive." she tells me and I nod my head. I wince as she takes off the last bandages.

"What's your name?" she asks me as I groan. I open my eyes a little bit and look at her. "Rizu." I say and shut my eyes as she wipes my wound down to clean it. "Ugh..." I groan and she removes the cloth to get a new one.

"Where am I and who are you?" I choke out as I wince again. She continues to clean the wound a couple more times till she is satisfied. "Curly Dadan. Your currently at Dawn island, now at the Mt. Colubo next to Foosha village." she says and I nod my head.

"Dawn island." I mumble out and open my eyes as she grabs new bandages. "Where is Dawn Island?" I ask and she raises her brow at me. "Where is it? It's located in the East Blue. If that's what your asking." she says.

I look up at the ceiling taking in the information. 'East Blue....Dawn Island...' I say to myself thinking that I came over quite the distance to make it to an island where I was in the middle of the sea far from any islands.

Curly Dadan helps me sit up as she wraps a new bandages around. "Where did you come from? And why were you washed up on the shore?" she inquired from me as she finished wrapping me up.

After she was done I laid back down on the bed. "I was on a ship and pirates attacked. Then after the attack, I was thrown into the ocean." I replied to her and she widened her eyes. "So the pirates did this to you?" she asked and I nodded.

Curly continued to look at me as she sat there and I spoke up. "Did you get me these new clothes?" I asked seeing a white buttoned up top. At first I thought it was my uniform but it turned out it was someone else's which I dirtied.

She looked at the shirt and nodded. "They're my clothes. We don't have girl's clothes and the boy's would be too small for you to wear so I had you wear mine. I changed you out of your torn and ragged plus bloodied clothes that you wore." she said. I nodded. "Sorry I dirtied your shirt. It got my blood and stuff on it." I say and she sighed. "It's fine it's just a shirt." She replies with and I just nod my head slightly.

"Thank you." I say as she gets up. She turns around to look at me. I speak again. "Thank you for saving me." I say and she nods her head. "Don't thank just me. I wasn't the one who found you and brought you back here. Those boys did." she said as she left the room and closed the door. My eyes widened slightly at hearing that.

I stare at the ceiling for a long time contemplating about everything. Thinking back to Zephyr. "I hope your okay...." I mumble out seeing him injured and I clench my hands in frustration that I couldn't do anything to help the fallen marines.

I cover my face with my arm as tears start falling. "I guess I really am useless but yet I'm still alive. Why?" I say to myself and lay there with tears falling.

As they dry up I turn my head to the side seeing my mask laying there when Dadan had pulled me over here. I picked it up and held it in my hands. 'I showed my face as well.....I'm surprised I didn't receive any of those looks.' I thought to myself remembering the last look that Sakazuki had given me as well as most of the marines. That look of despise and disgust, a condescending one that looks at me asking why I was there, why I was living. I shiver remembering those stares.

I place the mask back down beside me and stare up at the ceiling as I slowly drift out of my conscious.

3rd POV

After Dadan had told the boys to leave they rushed off to the forest to do their business. About 30 minutes later the group had returned when Ace had forgot something that they needed to make adjustments to their tree house. So the three of them came running back.

"Hury Ace!" Luffy said as he waited with Sabo. Ace grew irked and yelled. "Shut up! I'm getting it!" he yelled back as the two of them waited at the front of the house and Ace made his way to the side of the house to pick up the tool and some materials.

"--okay...." the words mumbled from the side of the room could be heard. Ace ignored the sounds that came from the room and picked up the tool and stacked the materials in his arms. He huffed. "It would've been helpful if they came over here to help carry these." Ace grumbled. As he started to walk away he heard the girl's voice.

"I guess I really am useless but yet I'm still alive. Why?" the girl had said as her cries and sniffles are heard. Ace stopped and looked towards the room after hearing these words. He clenched his hands around the materials and looked down at the ground.

'Even I don't know myself.' Ace thought he too wondering and has been asking himself that same question. He shook himself out of his thoughts and continued to walk to the front of the house where he yelled. "Oi help me carry these to the tree house!" he yelled the his brothers.

Luffy and Sabo ran to him and took some stuff. "Okay Ace!" Luffy said happily as he bounced over to his brother. "What's wrong Ace?" Sabo asked seeing him a little bit different. Ace looked ahead and started walking towards the forest. "Nothing." he says.

The two other brothers looked at each other and shrugged before running to catch up with Ace.