"Wow that was awesome! We couldn't see what happened from here but you got back so fast... Everyone is okay then?Where are they at?" Jarrett, one of Mashyuu's newest crew mates asked while climbing down the crow's nest to join the group. Mashyuu waved the comment off and tossed a small dial at Sky while she was at the helm of the ship. Quickly the young woman caught the dial and examined it. It was the one that the two had found when they first met, a breath dial and Sky knew exactly what to use it for.

Mashyuu slowly started to make his way towards the Captain's quarters and called back to Jarrett. "They started to run as soon as I took the first ship down, I didn't see the need to kill more people than needed. It's never been my M.O." He said, thinking of Harley asking him to not kill more than he needed to, even though he had once fully intended to be a Pirate that killed everyone who crossed him. Still since becoming less of a killer he had grown not only as a Pirate and friend but as a person as well.

The man stopped at the door to his quarters when his den den started to ring. Puru Puru Puru It was Dai and the image of him on the Den Den looked to be in a bad way. Mashyuu's body locked up and his voice carried out. "Sky, turn this thing around and get it going!" Mashyuu shouted. Sky didn't say a word but started to shout out orders to the ten others on the ship that were helping her run the Skycleaver. The ship started to turn and as the engines started to roar to life it propelled itself forward and started to skirt the island.

Mashyuu listened to Dai's plea for help and lifted his den den to speak into it. "Dai?.... Dai we're on the way, hang in there buddy!" Mashyuu shouted then started to run towards Harley's med bay as fast as he could. "Is there a reason you're just barging in here! I could have been changing or something!" Harley shouted at Mashyuu while folding her arms over her chest and turning to face him as he pushed the door open. "Dai needs a doctor!" The woman swore and pulled her doctors coat on over her shoulders then made her way up towards the main deck.

"I've got my bag, just fly me over there for now and when the ship catches up we can get him ready if needed. Besides I have a small supply of medicine on the Charon." Harley snapped and lifted her arms up so Mashyuu could fly. The man nodded and took off, grasping Harley by the arms and soared for the Charon.

It took longer than it had when he flew over the town but Mashyuu and Harley touched down on the deck of the Charon and Harley swiftly ran towards Dai while Mashyuu took off again to make sure the ship wasn't being followed. She dropped down and pulled her medical bag from her shoulder and went over the man's symptoms quickly in her mind while pulling the tools she would need to keep him from dying.

Blood loss, shock, no sign of the missing arm so it can't be put back on. Even if we had it, there is a good chance that its too late for that. Ughh he wrapped it with a sleeve, it's not clean and might get infected I have to work fast.

Harley quickly checked to make sure Dai was breathing and didn't need C.P.R. He seemed fine there, though a bit ragged he was getting plenty of air. Once she was sure that he was drawing breath and hadn't died of shock, Harley drew a roll of gauze from her bag and swiftly pulled the make shift wrap off of Dai's stump. She needed to stem the bleeding as quickly as she could without putting him into worse shock. Quickly she applied the gauze to Dai's injury and started to wrap him in it, around his shoulders, waist, ribs and back to the injured area until the spot was covered nice and tight so that blood wouldn't seep through it and pressure was applied to the wound. She couldn't be sure that there was no infection there yet but it was a start.

At that moment Mashyuu touched down and Harley snapped at him. "Get to any of the rooms, find me a solid surface that is a foot tall and bring it up here along with as many blankets as you can find in less than two minutes!" It was important to keep Dai warm and raise his legs. Until Mashyuu could arrive again after he ran off to do what Harley asked, she placed his head in her lap and pet his forehead. "Dai, if you can hear me, I need for you to respond to me and keep talking. I'm not gonna let anything happen to you. You're gonna be just fine." She assured Dai, knowing he could be afraid, or worse. She needed to keep him calm as long as possible until she could drug him and keep his body from moving safely.

The moment Dai started to joke Harley snarled and stood up. Her eyes narrowed in on the one armed Fishman and she actually felt anger and rage flow through her. His situation was bad and he was making jokes. Not only did Harley find that to be in poor taste but it made her feel like she was wasting her time. "Shut up. You talk to much and your jokes are bad. I'm here worried about you and you're joking about needing a tailor? Use that strength to stay awake you dumb shit." Harley snapped and started to walk away, content with leaving Dai to bleed out at that very moment. She only stopped when Dai started to complain about the marines taking his arm.

Slowly she turned to look at him and reached into one of her pockets to pull a small needle with a cap on it from her pocket. "You need two hands to tell someone how to steer a ship or read a log pose? You need two hands to swing a sword? Funny... I've seen Mashyuu and Yuurei both swing swords with one hand, and I've seen Sky, the Navigator on the Skycleaver not only steer a ship with one arm but read a log pose without her eyes. Feeling sorry for yourself isn't going to help you get any better. So how about you shut up calm down before you do more damage to yourself. If you don't keep your breathing in control then you're going to get your blood pressure up and that's going to make you bleed out faster. Now stay silent until we can get you on board the Skycleaver and into my clinic. I'd take you to the one in Mock Town but that place is a mess right now." Harley drooled on.

At that point Mashyuu returned with a blanket rolled up under one arm and a block of wood he used to prop his old sword up on and quickly tossed the blanket over Dai while Harley propped his legs up. Without a word she moved over to his head and found a vein in his neck. "Stay quiet and keep still. This will only hurt for a moment." She grumbled then stabbed the needle into Dai's vein and pressed the plunger down, pushing a warm liquid drug into him so that he would fall asleep for a few hours. "How bad is it? Is Dai going to pull through?" Mashyuu asked and Harley shrugged her shoulders. "He's got the strength to joke around, and he's not coughing up blood anymore. But he wrapped his arm in a dirty sleeve. Plus I don't think he's smart enough to realize that the salt water wasn't great for the wound. I need to get him onto the ship and not only cauterize the wound but make sure it's not infected. Then he's going to have to come to terms with the fact that he is missing an arm... If he weren't a friend I'd say we should leave him for the fishes and just take the ship. Luckily he's a friend and we all need help. But his joke really pissed me off." Harley replied while the Skycleaver started to appear in the distance.

"Your style huh? Well now you your style is changing to a one handed fast style. Or you're going to have to beef up your one arm. Maybe start using those sharp teeth of yours. Either way... it's time for you to sleep." Harley countered. "Hey Dai, good thing I had that Den Den on me. Got some new members to the crew that would like to meet you, so try to stay calm and put a smile on your face when the other ship arrives eh?" Mashyuu watched Dai while the Skycleaver made a sudden burst of speed and sailed to a stop next to the Charon. "Alright, five of you guys get over here and keep the ship following the Skycleaver! The rest of you get to helping Harley with whatever she needs!"
Mashyuu shouted out.

The boarding ramp of the Skycleaver stretched out and landed on the Charon Jarrett along with the others all rushed over, two of the men carried a stretcher found in Harley's med bay. "Thought this might come in handy Harley, where is the guy?" Jarrett asked and Harley gave the trio an approving nod. "Follow me..." Harley and the trio of Pirate grunts moved quickly over towards Dai, Harley picked up her bag and gave instructions while the others gently rolled Dai a little onto his good arm, Jarrett supported Dai's head and neck then the others gently set him down on the stretcher.

Carefully, but quickly the group moved Dai into Harley's med bay below the main deck of the Skycleaver. Once inside Harley got a good look at Dai's injury and winced with how bad it really was. As she pulled on clean operating gloves and a face mask after pulling her hair back into a ponytail and putting a cap on her head, she started to go over what she knew. "This is an avulsion amputation. Caused by crushing and ripping. With that alone I know it either came from being pinned between two dragging forces like ships, or a cannon hit his arm and ripped it off. With the average speed a cannon fires, how powerful a standard marine cannonball is... This was ripped by a cannon shot. Limb salvage isn't going to be possible. The subject is under and won't wake up for a long time. Lets get started..."

Harley placed a face mask with a tube over Dai's face so he could take in a steady and direct line of air. Then she placed two needles hooked to two different bags in his good arm. One pumped blood into Dai, luckily she had a few bags of his blood type left in her supplies thanks to the stuff they got from Percila and Mashyuu helping a small hospital in Mock town. The other needle streamed a steady supply of Morphine drips into him to keep the pain dulled so Dai wouldn't wake up.

Alright, I need to elevate him on one side to slow the blood flow to the wound while I clean and sew it up. Harley thought to herself and snapped her fingers. "Jarrett, you don't have a queasy stomach do you? I need your help. You need to keep Dai here perfectly still while I work. Blood is going to seep and you're going to see ripped tendons, muscles and veins... Along with fragmented bone shards. And that is best case." Jarrett took a soft gulp and nodded his head up and down then pulled on the same garments Harley had along with a white apron. Harley took a warm damp cloth of water and pressed it gently to the dressing she had given Dai's shoulder previously, after nearly five minutes of waiting the wraps started to slide off easily while Jarrett carefully rolled Dai onto his side.

Harley reached to a tray of sterilized tools and picked up a pair of tweezers that were about six inches long and a small bottle of antiseptic. Carefully she started to pull lose fragments of bone and muscle from Dai's shoulder and dropped the pieces into two different bowls. Once they were removed, Harley put the tweezers down and picked up a dry, clean cloth. She dampened it with the antiseptic and began to clean the wound carefully to make sure that the stub wouldn't become infected. She worked slowly, careful to not get in too deep or let the pain become too intense that Dai's body would go into shock or any other sort of pain. "How's he looking?" Jarrett asked while he continued to hold Dai steady. "So far so good. Still need to make sure the vein is closed and won't bleed out. Then I need to dress the wound and make sure Dai won't simply rip the dressing open and get to it to do more harm." Harely explained to the curious pirate. "But I have to also work slow so that his body doesn't go into shock and I can make sure that Dai will take to the drugs in him well."

"Go get Mashyuu, his electromagnetic powers are going to come in handy here." Harley ordered Jarrett and the man rushed out of the room while Harley prepared the tools she needed for the rest of the operation. She set aside a Swiss army knife, a small but high powered lighter, a clean set of tweezers and started to get bandages ready to work with. She still needed Mashyuu thought so he could preform diathermy to keep Dai's muscles relaxed and numb the pain she was about to put his shoulder through. As much as she was drugging him, the doctor wasn't sure her subject wouldn't awaken when having hot metal placed to nerves and veins. By the time Harley had finished prepping her tools, Mashyuu arrived to help. "Okay what do you need me to do?" Harley placed her hand on Mashyuu's, then made him put on some gloves and touch Dai on the head. As she changed her gloves she explained. "You are going to pump Dai's body with your electro magnetism. Not a lot though, and in waves. Think of it like gently pushing a small tin cup across a long table. Don't knock the cup over or throw it with your power. Just barely move it. Keep it in time with a heart beat." She tried to explain what to do in a way that Mashyuu could understand. "And you want me to do this for the entire time you work?" "No, only if he starts to bounce around. Your powers could mess with my tools. If he starts to go into shock you're just going to lock his body up with your powers so he can't shake around too much." Harley went on. Mashyuu nodded his head in understanding and waited on stand by in case he was needed.

Harley drew a deep breath and steadied her hands. This was worse than when Mashyuu's chest was caved in. Bone was easy to fix, a missing limb... well Harley was just happy that Dai hadn't died yet. "Jarrett, come heat up this knife." She pointed to the lighter and the army knife. Jarrett quickly did as he was told and set to work while Harley looked at all the damage to the arm. The bleeding wasn't so bad now, but he had lost a lot of blood. If not for the blood bag he was set up to, Harley was sure he would have died.

With Dai rolled to his side and the knife heated up, Harley used her tweezers to grab the largest veing in Dai's shoulder and gently lifted it so she could see the ends of it. Gently she took a deep breath and repeated a mantra to herself. "Two second bursts. Gentle Doctor... Two second bursts. Gentle Doctor..." She whispered and placed the knife that wasn't red or white hot but hot enough to burn straight to the ends of the vein, melting the ends together with a series of two second presses. Once the first vein was cauterized and closed she stopped and waited. Making sure he wouldn't thrash about and that Mashyuu didn't need to act. Once she was sure he was okay she continued, moving around the wound until all the veins were closed. It was a slow process that took nearly an hour and a half due to her needing to break in order to clean and re heat the knife, keep Dai from going into shock and make sure she was steady.

"What's next?" Mashyuu asked after watching Harley work her magic. She dabbed her face to make sure sweat wasn't dripping into her eyes and changed her gloves once again. "Nothing for you, go make sure the ship stays steady." Harley muttered while picking up a set of thread and a long needle. She needed to stitch what was left of his flesh together so the scaly skin was pulled over the exposed muscle and bone to keep it from becoming infected later. Slowly Harley worked, wincing at the sound of Dai's flesh squishing and pulling each time she completed a stitch. Harley worked for twenty minutes on this, until there was a nice even and smooth patch of skin all stitched up at his shoulder. It was rough going but aside from the bumps of the stitches he would be fine there.

Next Harley moved over to her desk and pulled a large piece of plastic from it, the thing looked similar to a football players shoulder pad with straps on it. Harley carefully set about wrapping Dai's shoulder in some fresh bandages then placed the plastic cap against the covered wound. and strapped it to Dai's body. Gain she wrapped the straps up tight so that he wouldn't be able to simply get to the straps and take them off without help. Once she had finished that she slumped down in a chair near the table Dai was resting on and she sighed a long breath of relief.

"All we can do now is make sure he doesn't open the wound." She whispered to herself and Jarrett who stood on stand by in case Harley needed more help. Hours passed until Dai would awaken but Harley was there when he came around. "Stay still, you need to keep your breathing and blood flow under control for a few days still. Do you know where you are or what happened to you?" Harley asked, simply to make sure that the man didn't have any brain damage. She doubted he did after the joke he told her earlier but needed to be sure.

Harley nearly slapped the hell out of Dai when he started to get out of bed but as she raised her hand he slipped back into bed and started to calm down. Harley lowered her hand and frowned at the ranting man. "Dai... first of all I need you to shut up." She muttered, glad to know he was fine mentally... or at least as good as she could have hoped for. "You're on the Skycleaver, it's Mashyuu's personal ship. Things just seemed to work out well in that way I guess." She went on to say softly while removing her gloves and hair net. When he protested staying in bed she narrowed her eyes turned on him and put a finger in his face. "I'm gonna answer your questions then you're going to do what I say because if you don't, you're going to reopen those wounds and die. We don't want that now do we?.... No, I didn't think so. Because if you waste my time by killing yourself after I did all this work I'll use your body to learn about the dangers of brain damage. Then I'll eat you!" Harley snapped then pulled her hand back and smiled happily.

Slowly she shifted and started to go through her files on Dai, making sure she jotted down all the info about his blood type, his allergies and everything she knew about him in order to make sure she didn't kill him with the wrong drugs later. "Your sword is still on your ship, I can send someone for it if you want but we are going to transfer you back there in a few hours along with some people to make sure you don't do anything stupid. You have to navigate the ship but we are gonna give you six men to help get the thing moving and steer it, you just need to give orders from bed. Easy enough right? As for the bounty, its the same day. I have no idea. But nobody knows you sank a ship. Most marines might think you're dead. Besides your bounty is barely higher than mine so you're still a small fry. You got lucky to survive as is. So don't go crying about not getting a better bounty." Harley finished and tossed her clipboard down. "Glad to see you've decided to stay in bed. In an hour we are gonna help you get over to the Charon. Now you're going to go through the stages of having a phantom limb. You will try to do things with your left arm that you normally would. That is normal, but I need for you to ignore those feelings and just act with your right arm right now." Harley said gently.

An hour passed and Harley, along with Jarrett, Mashyuu and a few others joined Dai and helped him out of bed and over towards the Charon once again. Once there Jarrett considered shaking Dai's hand but thought better of it. "Hi there, I'm Jarrett and these are some of my friends. We joined up with the Captain on Jordsand and we are going to be helping you get the ship moving until we can all meet up again... well some of my friends will be. Mashyuu has asked me to stay aboard the Skycleaver. If you need anything my friends are at your service. If you want them." Jarrett bowed and took a step back to allow Dai the room to do what was needed while a few of the other Phantom Raider grunts got to moving around to get the ship moving.

It was Mashyuu's turn to walk up to Dai and he clasped the man's forearm in a grasp that showed they were brothers in arms. "I'm glad you're alive, and sorry I couldn't have gotten here sooner. But I'm not going to let anyone else suffer the way Yuurei has. We can't go save him now... We can only hope that he gets free and finds us at some point. I'm headed back to Jordsand to pick up the others but we have been left a fragmented crew. Then we are headed to Baltigo to recover and hope for the best. Meet us there. I tried to tell Gideon but have no idea if he heard me. We will find you a scientist to make you a new arm or a Devil Fruit that will help. Either way. We will see you in a few weeks." Mashyuu explained then left Harley to wrap things up. "Dai, take these pain killers daily, have someone help take that cap off and change the dressing on your arm until there is no more puss or blood. Clean the wound carefully and don't scratch at it. You need to let it heal. Don't play with it and do your best to get used to walking again first, then everything else. Your balance is going to be off for a while and like I said, watch out for that phantom limb." Harley placed a bottle of pain killers in Dai's hand and gently touched his face, showing that for all her anger and bluster, she cared about Dai enough to at the very least not want to see him hurt any more. Slowly she started to walk away and rejoined Mashyuu and the Jarrett back on the Skycleaver before Mashyuu started to pull the gang plank up and the ship took off, leaving Dai to head for Baltigo

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