Chapter 31

Grandline, Paradise, Drum island

After helping the villagers and bringing the docs back to the castle, Azul had decided to explore the island a little to see what kind of beings originally inhabited this island. In his time sailing from one island to the next Azul had come about a theorie why the grandline was so different to the rest of the world when it came to the glaring differences between the different islands that were found on the grandline. Even though he hadn't seen much yet the differences were still rather obvious.

He had played through some scenarios in his mind but all of them seemed to be rather hard to proof and so Azul decided to start by checking the species that inhabited the different islands before the humans took residency on said islands. On little garden it was obviously the dinosaurs and due to that maybe, humans had decided to avoid the island.

Soon Azul stumbled upon some species which seemed to be in an uproar over something. Giant, white bunnies (?) with sharp a.s.s teeth and muscles to boot that were barely visible in all the snow around the island. Natural predetors it seemed. Though after taking a closer look, Azul was a little surprised to find two humans trying to fight of the barage of raging bunnies, with moderate success.

Walking closer Azul spotted a blonde man with curly eyebrows and a young man with a strawhat on his head. Though it seemed he was kind of handicaped from something rather large that he was carrying on his back. 'Would you look at that. I thought they would arrive later, no matter though.'

Walking closer to them Azul decided to help them out, since it seemed they were having quite the difficulties with the bunnies, as funny as it was for Azul to watch them fight these overgrown furballs.

On his way over to the two Azul unleashed a concentrated blast of his conquerors haki, which made the falling snow disappear for a few seconds, until it began falling again which was when the bunnies collapse with resounding thuds all around the two who were panting slightly and after taking deep breaths seemed to become rather confused at what had happened to their opponents and after surveilling the battlefield found Azul heading towards them.

"What brings you into these frozen waste ladies?" Azul asked with a calm smile that brought a small tick to Sanjis left eyebrow while angrily trying to ignite another cigarette as an outlet while Luffy just yelled in happiness: "Azuuuuul, what are you doing here?"

"I was walking around a little to check out the island before continuing on to the next" he replied while coming to a stop right in front of the two, after which he spotted what Luffy seemed to be carrying. It was Nami, with an extremely red face, panting and sweating from the looks of it. She seemed to be sick.

"Oh my, what happened to Nami? Shouldn't she be put to bed instead of being carried around some frozen wasteland? She looks rather sick..." Azul asked while putting his right hand onto Namis forhead which burned from a feever.

"Normally you would be right but her feever doesn't seem to be going down, ever since we came resumed our journey from little garden and soon after we found some kind of bruise or bite on her stomache, so we started to head towards the nearest island in the hopes to find a doctor. We were told that there is one residing upon that mountain in your back." Sanji replied while smoking his cigarette in peace.

"Ohh, you mean doc Kuleha and Chopper? Yes, they are up there. Hmm, I can take you there if you want. Would be a lot faster than climbing the mountain, judging from the route you're taking. What do you say?" Azul asked smiling at the three while spreading his arms as if in invitation to hug them.

"Sure thanks, but how would you do that? The carriages up the mountain are dead so climbing should be the only way..." Sanji replied with a frown.

"Ahhh, don't worry about it. Should only take a few minutes at best" Azul replied while walking over to them and heaving them onto his shoulders.

"Oy, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Sanji said, flabbergasted while Luffy was just whooping at the view he was having.

"Hold on tight ladies!" Azul only said before covering his feet once again in thick flames which made the twos eyes widen at the sight and Luffy to exclaim in awe.

A second later they were already sprinting through the air accompanied by jubilating and frightened cries, respective from Luffy and Sanji.

'Maybe the old doc was onto something and I should enter the transportation buisiness should my martial path end up in failure?' Azul thought to himself with a selfmocking expression while he had the feeling that someone all too familiar was crying in laughter in the afterlife at his thoughts...