Gideon had went about, stomping here and there, though the moment he heard a soft, light voice apologizing to him, he stopped and calmed, the claws had retracted and the insect- no, not an insect, some kind of talking fox or maybe a wolf cub, had slid down to his shoulder, he looked to the cub and gave an apologetic nod, feeling embarrassed how he overreacted to such a sweet creature. It seemed the rest of the children were introducing themselves to one another, and though Gideon thought he was expcted to leave, some of them had seem to be interested in him, even the cub called to him in such a sweet kindly voice, though the kid with the toothpick seemed more demanding and aggressive.

"My name is Gideon Wodan" he said simply, feeling a bit odd, as if he hadn't spoken in a few days, he cleared his throat and looked away, he wasn't sure what he was to do. Where were these children's parents? Were the slums so bad that children would get lost and they would have to fend for themselves? One child approached Gideon and handed him bread; he took a look at the group and noticed they were all eating bread, then looked back at the little girl who offered him a bigger piece, though that share could only fit on the tip of his finger.

Gideon smiled, appreciating the gesture from this little being. He leaned over and blew out the fire in the metal barrel like it was a candle before taking a seat on the ground. He reached over and pulled out a plate the size of a small table and stood it on the barrel before placing both of them before the children. He then blew a few times to cool down the cooked turkeys that still lay in the frying pan he gripped the entire time, nearly forgetting they existed, before placing them onto the plate-table, [coor=green] "Though there is three, please share it among yourselves"[/color] he told them.

Looking over to the tanned skin boy who treated himself like a king, Gideon replied to him "I promise I won't eat any of you" he chuckled lightly. For some time, this had been the first time the giant had smiled, he began to realize that through the eyes of children, the world seemed more innocent and troubles were more distance. So for the moment, he decided to break bread with this group. He picked up the piece of break the girl offered him and plopped it into his mouth before nodding his thanks towards her.

Amelia realized that staying with these kids and the giant creature was going to get her in some serious trouble, she wanted to stay but she had to go so she quickly just ran away without even a goodbye.

10 Years ago

Percila was super excited as she looked into her mirror at her outfit which consisted of a purple long-sleeved shirt designed like a sweater, a jean vest overlapping the original shirt while a necklace with a  golden angle dangling down her neck while she wore a red skirt matched with the same colored purple leggings that seemed to disappear into near knee-length boots, she adored her look with admiration, it was nothing fancy of the sorts and in fact looked dreadfully like any commoners clothing but that is exactly what she loved about it, as a noble part of Skypiea she always been confined in overly garnished dresses in the precious of others besides the times she snuck out of her lessons, and it just so happened   that her father and his king had some business off of Skypiea and her father decided it would be a good experience for her to see the outside world for only the purpose of making her a better advisor.

Unknowingly for her father, however, Percila didn't care for any of his reasons and prior to even leaving Skypiea she had done some digging and found out the route they were taking would just be passing by the island of Saboady Archipelago she has heard various others talk about as well as her own father, just nearly an hour and a half ago she slipped a rather potent sleeping tonic into the whole ships alcohol supply knowing that after their business was done her father and the king, as well as the one running the ship,  planned  to celebrate with ale and meat, at present everyone was sleeping and the tonic provided a whole ten hours for her to fly over to the island and get to witness it for herself without anybody regarding her noble heritage.  

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Although she was excited to go Percila was no near blinded by it in the least, she knew the dangers each island held for non-humans on the surface and although she wasn't as well trained she would like to be her handling of the sword was far from being that of an amateur as long as the opponent was not overly powerful, she went to her closet and took out a skypiean blade that the common guards used its hilt garnished with fake jewels to make it appears more royal in appearance and the blade itself only 68cm and about a inch thick only to get thinner near the tip, she secured it to her side by adding a belt to her waist and without another though stepped out of her room to the deck and began to make her way to port of Saboady.

Nearly fifteen minutes she is on the port, her wings and the blade at her hip the only reason she earned stares from passing strangers but by all means to them she was just a slightly abnormal girl but a normal girl she was and she reveled in that fact, however as she kept walking forward a crowd had gathered but the crowd was easily overlooked as Percila noticed even further up an excessively large creature stood, observing its skin was clearly that of flesh and bone she recognized the creature as a giant with the only reasoning being Skypieans kept close ties to other races then the humans did.

Making her way through the crowd Percila quickly figured out the reason why the giant was just standing there, a group of nearly 5 individuals was what he was paying attention to, a boy with an eyepatch over one eye and a blade at his hilt obviously trained some sort of way in combat, a girl with oddly covered hair enjoying what looks to be a piece of bread, another boy holding on to a golden necklace suspiciously eyeing the eyepatch boy and one finale male that looked no more then a commoner who hadn't bathed in years.

This group was catching way too much attention and it was quickly becoming unsafe, against her better judgement Percila jumped into the air as her wings flapped above the ground letting her take flight as she relocated herself in the middle of the children and giant slightly in the air, "I don't know any of you but my name is Percila, I suggest if you wish to talk we do so somewhere else as you have caught the eye of many and its quickly becoming a spectacle." Percila stated as her hand slightly pointed to the large crowd gathering around before heading towards the forest area of Saboady

Yuurei’s eyes were on the chain at the moment that he spoke, and when he had the chain snatched out of his hand he looked to see who the culprit was. It was the person that he took it from in the first place. His mouth formed a frown as he was still chewing on his food. He wasn’t happy that the chain was taken away from him, but it wasn’t his, to begin with.

”I wahs looking at that. I wahs going to give it back.” He swallowed the piece bread that was in his mouth after talking.

He pounded his chest for a bit as he had slightly choked on the bread, but after a few seconds of banging it would go down. It seemed like he was ignored from his earlier question, which he found it rude, but he didn’t let it get to him. Instead, he waited to see what the giant would do to the guy with the gold chain. It seemed like they were all ignoring him from what noticed; it was a weird feeling, but he would have been fine with it if that chain had never left his hand. He started walking towards the group when he noticed that Phillipa was trying to hand the giant a large bread. While he was walking towards Sofia who was near the giant, he looked up to hear the giant’s name. Gideon Wodan was the big guy’s name and all Yuurei could think of was his surname and how big it made the giant sound.

Yuurei’s hand gesture was stupid as he was constantly bringing his hands together and then spreading them out without any words to express what he was doing. While he was doing this he noticed that the girl that caused the giant to freak out had run away from the scene. He looked at her confused for a bit as he watched run off without saying goodbye.

”That’s a weird one if I say so myself.” He said out loud as he looked over to the chicken that was being placed down on the floor.

It was the smell that had got him to look, and it had caused his stomach to rumble. It smelled delicious and amazing. He didn’t know what to do, and honestly, he didn’t hear Gideon offer the chicken to them. He was too busy in his own world, which was his fault. His body had shifted in the direction where the chicken was placed, and he felt like it was a trap, but it was a good trip indeed. When he got too close he heard the voice of another. The voice was new, and it was coming from above everyone. Another giant? Shit, I think this is a trap. He thought to himself to see who it was.

It was a girl and the best thing about it was that she was flying and she was around their size and not the giant. He heard what she had to say, and noticed that she had gone off in a certain direction. He looked at the chicken, and then at the girl, but figured bringing attention to themselves was bad enough.

”Fine we follow the girl with the wings. Then we feast on the chicken because my stomach is hungry. Gideon can I have some chicken when we get to a location where we aren’t being watched as a play.” He asked the big man as he started walking off in the distance and towards the girl that named herself Percila.

”The name is Yuurei Percila! Nice to meet you! It seems you like swords too?!” He shouted out loud as she was in the air, and he wasn’t sure if she could hear him.

As soon as the talking animal arrived, she ran off just as fast. Gideon couldn't even take a moment to have a quick conversation with her, asking her what exactly she was and how she was able to talk, but taking a quick moment to think, the giant figured the little cub was a adolescent like the rest of the kids at his feet, quick, impulsive, and ignorant. Suddenly a new child arrived, though what made her stand out were her wings.

Gideon wanted to ask about the girl's wings, but when she pointed out the crowd that was giving them more attention than they needed. "Well this could be a problem" he said under his breath. Though he didn't mind the children's company, Gideon didn't desire attention from the elder population; adults were judgmental and some were racist, as for the authority, the giant wanted to keep a distance from them to avoid any possibility the marines might decide to try and capture him again, although he wasn't entirely sure if he was any kind of value.

He stood up, picked up the large table-like plate and began to follow before the flying girl. Though he wasn't sure where the little angel was going, he'd rather go off with the kids then to be the center of attention, such situations had gotten him into trouble he had to struggle to escape.

"You all can have as much chicken as you can eat, but let us just find a nice place away from crowds" he gave a small smile to Yuurei seem to be hungry.

After Percila notified the group that they were being watched by a gathering crowd the young boy with an eye patch agreed that they should follow her and mentioned something about feeding on poultry, it seems the boy name was Yuurei and just like her he seemed to have an interest in swords as he had one on the side of his waist, but before she could answer another one of the males with dark tanned skinned introduced himself as Nazaki and saying it was a pleasure to meet her.

"Likewise Yuurei and Nazaki, and if you wish to call me Angel Nazaki I won't stop you, however, biology-wise I am just human with the unique ability to fly. As for you question Yuurei...I do have an interest in the blade and I been training to become a master swordsmen of my homeland.." Percila didn't bother to tell him that she had been training in secret since the beginning because she technically wasn't allowed to do such an act because of her social status in the kingdom.

As she looked at each member of the group they all seemed to have many different things about each of them to the point she didn't really think they all knew each other before today, "So where do all of you come from? I'm sorry to ask but it just seems you all come from different places." Percila asked as they made their way out of the port and was now about thirty-two meters away from the jungle entrance.

Yuurei heard Nazaki’s agreement about the mink that ran off. He nodded as he was glad he wasn’t the only one who thought this.

”Yeah I guess she really wasn’t.” He said this to Nazaki as the two were facing each other.

Yuurei smiled back at Nazaki when he saw his smile and heard what he had said. He could only rub the back of his head as he took note of the extended hand. He was happy that he had been asked to be friends with him. It made him feel good to know there were people outside of his island that would become his companion. He extended his other hand out towards Nazaki and grabbed his hand to shake it.

”I won’t, today we will be friends, and hopefully, today would be the start of a long friendship.” He said this and at this point, Percila had shown up.

While they were walking through the area he could hear Nazaki speaking to Yuurei about Percilia. He didn’t know what a Skypiean was, but he figured it had to be the girl with the wings because she was in the air or sky. So that is what she is. He thought to himself as he heard the last few things that Nazaki had said about her. This made him blush a bit because he didn’t expect someone to ask that question. He looked over to Nazaki for a bit and slapped himself on his face to snap out of it.

”I…I think she is really pretty Nazaki.” He whispered to his friend as they were following Percila.

He looked behind him at this instant because of the giant had said something about the chicken. This made Yuurei’s stomach rumble more. He was excited to eat this chicken and it was because he never really ate so much before. He rubbed his stomach a bit because he was embarrassed by the noise it made. It wasn’t a noise that anybody could hear, but he thought they could.

”I can’t wait to eat the chicken, Gideon.” He said as he looked over to Percila.

The fact that she carried a blade meant she must have trained with one. He was intrigued by this and wondered who taught her this. His mother as the one who taught him how to use swords, but it was a style that her and his father had used. Yuurei was admiring her wings as he was happy nobody noticed that his arms were longer than the average person at this age. While he was thinking about all of this Percila brought him back to reality when he heard the question that she had asked them.

”I come from an island called Swordsman Island. The name speaks for itself as it’s an island filled with swordsmen.” He said to Percila.

”What about you Percila where are you from?” He asked, but knew that Nazaki and the others would get their turn first.

The group of kids would continue walking through the area and by the time they had all finish telling each other where they were from along with any other information they wanted to bring up they would be at the entrance of the jungle. The jungle was in complete silence, but there was something in the shadow already there. This thing was lurking and watching the group of kids who had gathered together. It kept its presence hidden as nobody knew what or who it was.

Sofia recovered her composure after being stunned by the Giant and the rest that was happening around her, it had all been quite overwhelming so she had been distracted by the moment, unable to really do much due to his rush of feelings. But now she was a bit better.

"Y-yeah I'm alright, sorry" the little girl replied to Nazaki, to then brush some crumbs out of her dress and look around to the rest.

She heard the others talk about chicken, but she was really much more into bread, but nonetheless, she wanted to be part of whatever they were doing, because it funner to have a sense of belonging with a group.

"W-what about chicken? Could I have some?" the little noble girl then asked, looking around to see where the chicken would be, still trying to get her bearings and orient herself after her daze from a bit ago as well. She had no idea that chicken could be sliced up and served, she had only heard about them in books - chicken wasn't a dish at Sofia. She knew it was some kind of short bird though, but not much else.

So, she was expecting some sort of feathered thing to be flying around, yet as much as she looked around, she couldn't find it.

"I think we might've lost the chicken..." she then said, starting to look around and wander a bit to try to find it. "Are you sure you still have it? Have you checked? Chicken can be pretty fast I think, no?"

As Gideon followed the group of children off towards a random direction, he began lightly sprinkling basi herbs and spices on top of the chicken that laid in the large table-like frying pan. For the moment, he wondered why he was following behind parentless children, but reminded himself he had nothing better to do and that innocent children were, at least at the moment, better company than judgmental adults.

He watched as the 'angel' flew forward, stating what she actually was, though Gideon never heard of a 'Skypiean', he didn't really care much, a person is a person at the end of the day, no matter the size. From what he could hear from near his feet, Gideon could make out that two of the boys were making comments on how they found the angel attractive, though one of them was a bit too lewd for his age, the giant began to wonder who's children these kids belong to.

Yuurei commented about the chicken again, which made Gideon feel bad he couldn't feed the boy already, "Once we find a spot away to sit, then you can eat" he assured the boy. He looked up and noticed they were heading towards a cluster of trees, probably a thick forest from his point of view, then he began to wonder if this 'angel' was leading them to some death trap, he then eyed her curiously; he wasn't afraid of such a thing, he was sure if that was the case, he would swat the demon with wings quickly ending it's life.

Gideon shook his head, trying to get the thoughts thrown out. His time traveling without much rest may have affected his mind and views on strangers, though he hoped it wasn't the case. The boy known as Nazaki asked for a lift and the giant felt bad for him, so he lifted him up with his free hand and sat him on his right shoulder. Then he heard the little girl who called herself Sophia ask about the chicken so niave that he couldn't help but feel bad for her as well, so he picked her up gently and sat her on his left shoulder, high enough to be able to see the fried chickens that sat in the large frying pan that the giant was carrying about.

Hopefully they'll reach the spot the 'angel' was leading them to.

The stupid girl had finally made her way off of the giant, if she didn't it would have been the end of them all for sure, well thats what the others were probably thinking. However as Oda was somewhat getting to know these children, the giant scaring Ameila disappeared. "Good riddance" Oda scoffed before turning his attention to the others, noticing that Sofia was trying to hand the giant named Gideon a piece of bread, such a sweet fool she was. Oda watched in a confused but hungry stare as the giant had began laying out the table and food for them, a voice had emerged from above them. Oda hated when he felt others above him, it pissed him off a bit. "Where the he'll are you!" He yelled before turning and seeing a female around their age.

She was a relatively normal looking girl besides the blade on her hip and the giant angel like wings that graced her back. She had told them her name was Percila and she thought that it would be best if they had moved, since people where starting to stare. "Sure, ill go winged female but only because i thought of it myself" He said as he began to move from his spot and following the others. Nazaki seemed to have some thing for the winged wench and discussed it with yuurei, who eventually confessed he thought that she was cute. How could these men like something like her? She wasn't the least bit attractive to him. Along the way to the jungle entrance, Percila asked them where they were from. Yuurei answered first, saying he was from a place called swordsmen island, a place Oda had ever heard of. He was reluctant at first but Oda spoke up "I'm from a place called Wano" he said with great pride, he barely remembered his home but he would represent it with all he had.

So it appears the boy with the sword like she had was named Yuurei and he came from an island called Swordsmen Island, it wasn't a name that left to the imagination of what kind of island it was, in fact, Percila felt a little jealous as she had to sneak out just to train yet Yuurei came from an island where it was he daily routine to engage in swordsmanship training.

Her thought process broken by his question asking the same question, "I come from far above the clouds in a kingdom known as Skypiea, you humans refer it as little more than a myth until the few brave of your kind dare to venture to its heights." Since everyone was stating where they came from Nazaki who wore the golden chain said he was from the slums of a place known as Baltigo and the conditions were less then normal and life was hard but he wouldn't have prefered it any other way by the way he said he loved it, although he mentioned he probably wouldn't invite any of his companions to the island.

Nazaki who had been talking stopped mid-sentence to check on the girl Percila had actually forgotten was there in part due to her silence, out of everyone in the group the girl seemed to be the most childish in nature despite everyone being quite young, it seemed she had heard the conversations earlier about the near future intake of poultry and began looking for it to realize it was missing, the giant Gideon ensured the group that once a proper place was located to sit that everyone could engage in eating. But by sheer surprise the filthy male is known as Oda who had been near silent since his agreement to come along decided to talk by saying he was from a place known as Wano, the arrogance and pride in his voice all but booming as he gazed at the group as those lesser to him.

Percila simply looked forward, up ahead there was a grove of large tree's in a triangle like formation covering about forty-two meters worth of space while the middle seemed to be all but clear, "I see a spot over there if you all still wish to eat before the sun goes down." Percila pointed out past the tree's.

His eyes shifted towards Percila who was now talking about where she was from. He heard where she was from, which surprised him, but made him excited to know there was a place in the sky were people lived. The young swordsman wondered what kind of island that place was, and hoped one day he would be able to see it for himself.

”Hopefully I could go there one day. It will be fun to see you there when the time comes.” He said to Percila.

Yuurei heard Nazaki’s words, and how loud he sounded when bringing them out. It brought him to blush and place his head down because this kid acted like a full blown grown up. When he finished saying where he was from Nazaki had spoken about where he was from; he was also from the slums of his island, so they were similar in that way. It was interesting to hear that he didn’t want his friends to go there, which was how he felt about where he lived. The island was nice, but if you weren’t making money then you were of course doing bad. He noticed that Nazaki had moved away from him and towards Sofia and the rest of them leaving him in front with Percila.

”I doubt it’s not that bad. I live in the slums to.” He said this to himself as Nazaki had already walked away from him.

Hearing Phillipa speak made Yuurei chuckled. She was saying things that he found weird, but at the same time he felt like the things she was saying was so innocent. She didn’t tell them about where she was from, and he didn’t want to push information out of her, if she didn’t want to share. It was then he saw that both Phillipa and Nazaki were grabbed by the giant and placed on his shoulder. Yuurei’s eyes widen when he saw this because they were so high up in the air that he could only imagine what would happen if they fell from there. Still, the widen eyes soon sparkled because he was excited and wanted to go up there as well. I should ask later, but not right now. I want to see how it is from all the way up there. He thought to himself.

He heard Gideon tell him they would eat when they got to a spot for it, which was good to hear. He rubbed his stomach as he looked up at Gideon. [i]”Just a little longer.” He thought to himself before speaking.

”Thank you Gideon are you a cook by the way?” He asked him as he knew the answer, but kids love answers to questions.

While they were walking though he did noticed that Oda had been following them. He didn’t think this guy would follow them, but it seemed like he was. He was okay with that, and he just heard him say that he was from Wano. That island sound familiar and he was sure that his father and his mother had talked about it before. He couldn’t put his finger on it, but he felt like hearing that name felt like home to him. It warmed his heart, and he wondered if he could ever go to that island.

”Sounds like a nice place Oda.” He said to the guy.

When they were finish talking they would find a spot that Percila had pointed it out. When she finished talking, Yuurei would run in that direction and take a seat on a nearby rock that he had saw. He was excited to eat food and honestly he couldn’t wait. His stomach would rumble and he would clench his tummy with his right hand.

”This chicken is going to be good.” He said as he drooled a bit.

The shadow could only smile with the presence of the kids reaching their destination. It was an area where he had been hoping someone would come for weeks and even months. There were six children here at the moment, but his goal was to find seven. This shadow counted the giant as a child, for he was in this shadow’s eyes. The shadow figure would start chanting to himself as he figured the seven kid would arrive soon enough. This was fate at its finest, and the figure knew today was the day.

Phillipa followed along them, not really understanding what this chicken thing was about but going with them anyways.

And then, she could feel it. A something. Eerie, empty. But there.

Somewhere in the vicinity, Sofia could feel something looking at her - but it wasn't the usual sort of feeling of that kind. It was that thing which was looking at her.

Something she had never felt before, yet felt so terrifyingly nostalgic, like a long-forgotten nightmare, just recently remembered.

The little purple-haired girl looked around, finding nothing that could really correlate with this feeling. There were just her new friends here, and not much anyone else. Was this all in her head? Was this what they were talking about when they meant the "chickens"? Chickens sure were extremely weird around here.

No.

It couldn't be chickens, Sofia realized. She felt so foolish to believe that for a moment. It was so much more otherworldy and inscrutable that a mere bird, above it.

As her mental perspective widened, her understanding expanding, reaching towards what this mysterious feeling was, she realized that she was but just a mere girl, in a town. On an island, in the middle of the Grand Line, existing but at a mere moment in time, a moment in time that will never exist ever again. Unique, unrepeatable, and never to be ever visited once more, lost forever in the ever-growing mass that is the past.


Her current self, her mere existence was but a mere speck in the vastness of the universe, the colossal size of time - but yet, this thing, whatever it was, felt even further beyond this. Grander than these very feelings, beyond it, even higher above.

Phillipa, feeling that she was starting to lose her balance with all of this, held onto the closest thing she could find - Gideon's shoe, and in an attempt to not collapse to the ground, climbed up onto it with what balance she had left and laid on it, gripping onto the shoelaces, not wanting to deal with what was to come - she wanted to block it all out.

"Just let me ride here for a bit, please, Giant..." she pleaded, slightly swaying side to side in dizziness. "I-I just need a moment."

She didn't want to deal with it, and just forget what she had just experienced, just ignore that the overwhelming feeling was still there. Growing. And just enjoy the gentle rocking of the movements of his foot. Someone else could deal with it, she thought, as someone always did.

Because she was lazy.

Sloth-like, even.