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"So this is the house of the person that we are going to see?" I asked Frederick as he parked the car in front of a big house.

"Yes, it is," he replied and he cut the engine with a sigh.

"Who or maybe what is this person?" I asked Frederick.

"An oracle," he simply replied and I looked at him surprised.

"There is another one here," I exclaimed and he nodded.

"Yes, he is one of the few oracles that doesn't hate me," he said and I gave him a questioning look, making him continue his explanations, "The others hate me because I didn't die like I was supposed to. Personally, I think that it is just jealousy. They are jealous of me because they are going to die and nothing is going to prevent their death unlike me who survive from this whole dying thing."

"By the way, why did Rain save you?" I asked Fred and he looked at me, something flashing through his eyes.

"I...," he started but then he shook his head, changing his mind, "It's complicated, we will talk about that later."

With that said, Frederick opened the door of the car and walked out. I remained sitting in the vehicule some more seconds, trying to think about what Fred was going to say but nothing came to my mind so then I got out of the car myself, bringing the book with me.

I followed Frederick as he walked to the door of the house. I caught with him just as he arrived in front of the house. He was going to knock at the door when it suddenly opened to reveal a feminine face which was familiar to me.

"Jennifer," I exclaimed in surprise and she too looked like she was surprised to see me there. 

"Luffy," she said, crossing her arms, "What are you doing here?"

There was a bit of harshness in her voice and I instantly knew why. Emma was her best friend and naturally she must be thinking that I was the one reason why Emma and Nicolas broke up. 

But what was she doing here at the house where a supposed oracle was supposed to be living?

"Jennifer, what is it?" another familiar voice asked, appearing behind Jennifer.

"Ken," I exclaimed again in surprise but he didn't look surprise to see me here. His eyes darted to Frederick before looking back at me with a smile.

"Luffy, Frederick, good to see you," Ken greeted us.

"Ken, what is Luffy doing here? You know what he did to Emma," Jennifer reminded him with a hard look.

"I think that you should go home. I will talk to you later," Ken told her.

"But-"

"Jennifer, just go home, we will talk later," Ken repeated again, interrupting her and she nodded reluctantly. She gave him a peck on the lips before walking away, bumping into me hard on the shoulder as she passed by me. I gave her a glare before looking back at Ken who was shaking his head at her.

"That girl seem to really like you, Luffy," Frederick told me sarcastically with a smirk and I glared at him.

"She is just under the influence of a prostitute. These one really know how to cause trouble," Ken said with a sigh, "But anyway, don't stay outside. Come in."

Frederick and I did as Ken's said and he closed the door behind us. He told us to follow him to the living room and we did. The TV was on when we arrived in the living room and Ken switched it off before turning to us.

"You  can sit on the couch," he told us, showing us a long couch and Frederick went to sit on it while I remained standing, looking at Ken.

"Wait a minute, what is happening here?" I asked them while I looked at Frederick, "You said that we were going to see an oracle."

"Yes, here he is," Fred said, pointing to Ken, "Here is your oracle."

I looked at him in disbelief before looking at Ken for confirmation and he nodded at me, telling me that it was in fact the truth. I sighed miserably as I let myself fall back on the couch, the book on me as I let this news sink in my head.

"You're an oracle," I repeated in disbelief, "Is there any more people that I know who are not human?"

"Don't worry the others are humans, I mean apart from Emma who is a prostitute," Ken replied as he sat on the opposite couch in front of us, "So, how may I help you people?"

"The Vins," Frederick simply replied and Ken nodded, thoughtfully.

"Do you know them?" I asked him and he looked at me.

"Who doesn't," he replied, "And I saw their arrival in a vision."

"Why didn't you tell us anything about it?" Frederick asked him in disbelief.

"I did," Ken replied, glancing at Frederick, "I warned Luffy about it."

"What?" I exclaimed in both surprise and confusion, "When?"

"At the night of the party. Who do you think was the voice that you heard in the car?" Ken asked me in return.

"It was you," I exclaimed in disbelief and he nodded.

"What voice?" Frederick asked in confusion and it was Ken who replied.

"I kind of got the vision of the arrival of the Vins while I was dancing on the dance floor and while I was literally lying on the floor with everyone asking me what I was getting, I warned Luffy about them," he explained to us, "But I was having some problems reaching Luffy's mind. Something was preventing me from reaching him and I wasn't sure if he heard me."

"I did hear you," I told Ken, "I mean I forgot about the party but when I was with Alexandro getting my memory back, I heard your voice and Alexandro said that he was going to find out who it was."

"Do you think that the Vins are searching for you?" Frederick asked Ken who nodded.

"They are," he said, "But Alexandro Vins is not an enemy. We can trust him."

"How do you know that?" I asked him.

"I saw it in a vision," he replied, "He is not here to warm us in any way. It's the complete opposite, he is trying to help."

"Okay then. What did you see apart from that?" Frederick asked Ken.

"I saw the reason why they are here and also what they want," Ken replied, his eyes going to me, "You already met him, didn't you?" 

I instantly knew what Ken was talking about at that moment and I knew that he knew that I knew what he was talking about.

"Met who?" Frederick asked.

"The other me," I replied and Frederick gave me a confuse look while Ken nodded. "So he is real."

"Yes, he is," Ken confirmed, "But who he is is still a mystery."

"Who are you talking about?" Frederick asked us in confusion.

"The other soul living in Luffy's body," Ken replied before looking at me, "You didn't tell him or anyone else?"

"I didn't know if it was true or not so I kept it for myself and besides, I completely forgot about it," I informed him.

"How can you forget something as important as having another soul living in your body?" Frederick asked me in disbelief, "And you should have told us about it the moment you knew it."

"If I had, you would have made this about me and not tell me anything about all of you," I told him.

"You could have told us after you learnt everything," Frederick exclaimed angrily.

"I just learnt that I was going to be the boss of some creatures that I didn't know anything about, I needed to be some time alone," I snapped back at him.

"Guys, now is not the time to fight. We have more important things to talk about," Ken told us and we calmed down a little bit. "What did you and the other soul in you talk about?" Ken asked me once we had fully calmed down Frederick and I.

And then, I told them everything that I saw and everything that was said. I told them about the fact that this soul living with me inside of my body was not only exactly like me but that I was also one of his replicas. I told them everything that the other me said and informed me about.

At the end, Frederick and Ken was completely silent. Frederick looked like he didn't believe his own ears while Ken looked like he was thinking about something. 

"So," Frederick  started at last, "The one that I saw in the vision wasn't exactly you, Luffy, but some kind of other you."

"Yes," I simply said and I looked at Ken, "Your thoughts about it, Ken?"

"Give me the book," Ken told me in response and I gave him a questioning look but passed the book to him anyway. He flipped through the pages obviously searching for something.

"What are you looking for?" Frederick asked Ken.

"The place where Luffy or more like the other Luffy is going to take full control of the body that they are both sharing," Ken replied as he continued to flip through the pages.

"I already know where it is," Frederick told Ken, "It's here at Storm Hill in the middle of a forest."

"You don't know everything," Ken said just as he stopped turning the pages, "Here it is. This is the important part that you missed."

Ken turned the book to us, showing us the page where he had stopped. I looked at him in confusion as well as Frederick.

"How is Cloud killing his first lover is important to us right now?" I asked him as I looked at the only page that I could see in this book.

"What is important is where it happens," Ken explained, "It's here at Storm Hill that everything happened. You know that Cloud massacred an entire village as well as his lover. All of it happened in one of the forest of Storm Hill."

"Okay, it's the same place but what exactly is your point?"  Frederick asked him and Ken looked at him like it was obvious.

"Luffy told us that the other him, we really need to find a name for him by the way, was betrayed by someone very dear to him and it was the same thing that happened between Eden and Cloud. Eden loved Cloud but the latter betrayed him by killing him. If the other you need to one day take control of your body, this place is exactly the best place to. And that would also explain why the Vins are searching for the book of Cloud. They are searching for this place," Ken explained to us.

"So the Vins are searching for the book to find this place," I said and Ken nodded.

"Yes, I saw it in my first vision about them. They can't put their hands on the book," Ken said, closing it and giving it to me, "Hide it, do everything you want with it but don't let the Vins get their hands on it."

"Maybe they won't need to get their hands on the book to know where the place is," Frederick said suddenly as I took the book from Ken.

"What do you mean?" I asked him and he looked at me.

"You had a nightmare about this event," Frederick explained, "And I told you that maybe someone might have made you seen it and maybe this person is the other you. He was the one to make you get the nightmare."

"It doesn't make sense," I told him, "The seal was not even broken then. He couldn't have done anything."

"Maybe the seal was weakening," Ken said, "Think about it, if you were going to imprison someone very powerful with a seal, the seal in question needs to be really powerful and nearly impossible to break and even thought, Alexandro Vins is someone pretty powerful, he is not powerful enough to break a seal of this strength unless the seal was starting to get weak."

"So as the seal was weakening, the other you could make you see the memory in the book," Frederick added, "He didn't even need a great amount of power to do so. The book was there in your room so he just had to transfer what happened to your head."

"Okay, I understand all of that," I said before adding, "But I had two questions: Why did he do that? And how did the seal weaken?"

"You're human," Ken said, "Basically everyone can get in your head and play with your memory. The Vins don't even have to get the book to know the place, they just had to come near you enough so that they can get in your mind and know where the place is."

"Great, now not only do we have to hide this book but we also have to make sure that nobody get in Luffy's head," Frederick said, letting his head flop back on the couch with a sigh.

"But what about the seal then?" I asked them.

"I don't know, Luffy," Frederick said.

"I have a theory," Ken added.

"Which is?" I asked him.

"I'm not sure about it but I think that-" Ken stopped in the middle of his sentence suddenly. I gave him a questioning look but he didn't reply anything, he just sat down and then his body just fell forward onto the floor. His eyes wide opened, his whole body started to tremble violent from up and down.

"Shit!" Frederick exclaimed, getting off of the couch to run to Ken's shaking body from the ground and I followed soon after him.

"What is happening to him?" I asked Fred in panicked as I kneel beside Ken's body, "Is he having a vision?"

"No, it's something else,"  Fred replied as he took Ken by his shoulders, "Ken, snap out of it! Damn it!"

Ken didn't look like he was hearing Frederick's shouting , he looked like he wasn't even there with us. He was babbling incomprehensible words quickly under his breath as he continued to shake from everywhere, his eyes were turning white.

Just as I was going to open my mouth to say something, a white light suddenly appeared from nowhere. It was literally blinding my eyes and I needed to close them to prevent me from seeing it.

"Fucking damn it," I heard Frederick cursed before I was suddenly projected in the air. My back hit something hard and my body fell to the ground. I groaned in pain. 

What was happening? I asked myself as I slowly tried to open my eyes. The light was still there but not as blinding as before and soon, it started to fade to reveal the last person that I was expecting here.

"Nicolas," I said slowly as I looked at the latter in confusion and he looked at me the same confusion on his face. He was standing, shirtless and with a short, in front of Ken's lying body on the ground.

"Buffy," he said, looking completely lost, "What am I doing here?"

"It's Luffy,"  I murmured as I tried to get my body off the floor but I ended up sitting against the wall. "What are you doing here? What did you do?"

"He is.." I heard Frederick started and I looked around to see him trying to sit up a few centimeters across the room. He was bleeding across the forehead which meant that he must had hit something hard. He caught his breath before finally completing his sentence, "He is the guardian of Ken."

"What?" I exclaimed just another light appeared. I instantly closed my eyes as I waited for the light to disappear. This time I wasn't projected anywhere and when I opened my eyes again the first thing that I saw was Nicolas with an afraid look on his face. I followed his gaze to see that it was in fact Cale and Calum that had just appeared in front of Frederick.

"Well," Cale started with a smirk, "It looks like we arrive just at the right time for the fun part."