The moment that Eddie died his vision going black eyes opened again as he looked around and settling took a deep gas within himself but oxygen did not enter into any lungs but the sensation was still there however as if he had truly taken a breath
"Where am I?!" The captain spoke but his words sounded strange they were like an echo through a metal can or distant and far away as though they were muffled and behind the wall his head turned from side to side before he realized just where he was
" I'm Home?" he said with a smile growing on his face as he got up but he didn't realize that he hadn't taken any steps he hadn't realized that he hadn't even pushed himself from the ground to readjust by being on two legs
his vision looked from side to side as he saw right exactly where he had been born
he had been a giant cabin at one point where his father and his mother had both stayed well she was giving birth to him. giant nurses shamans and warlocks that served as Midwifes.
At that time he hadn't been no bigger than an ordinary child that would have seemingly come from his mother but I quickly changed as he grew to outpace her even if she herself stood at nearly 11 feet tall
but now that cabin was gone it was rotted away the camp that was around of where Giants had feasted on large pieces of meat and told stories that were all inspiring to those who could listen was gone
he was not in the past that much was for certain
Eddie looked around more and more as he began to walk but as he did he slowly came to a stop and looked down.
his eyes wide and as he realized that his corporeal form was no longer physical it was a floating pair of legs that were almost gaseous like a mist is it furled and Tangled into tail has two hands that looked almost like skeletons but also like flesh and blood but were colored in a transparent icy blue took shape in front of his eyes
Fear and trepidation filled his eyes has his hands begin to shook as he realized the situation that he truly was in.
Hendri Eddie. had died he had died on that ship surrounded by all those that he had cared about he had utterly failed them and in that moment he realized that it's entire life that it led up to that very moment had been nothing but failure after failure because it's still resulted in the death of every person he cared about dying in a bleak place that was filled with nothing but death and darkness and Decay beneath the waves
suddenly a screech nay a whail came from his throat That Shook the ground as he stood there floating as an incorporeal form.
for days that was all he did she screamed and weighed like a lost soul banshees from old Tails was now what he had become screaming of fear shaking and Halloween the trees that hung high above him he stood in that very spotless people would pass by from Far distances and see nothing but a blue glow of an ethereal form that screamed and shuttered their very Souls
it wasn't until a week after that that he finally came back to sanity
again looking to his hands still they were not solid he could pass a hand through a hand and would Clump together as though liquid that had been melted like a sauce before like the surface tension of water snapping back into place with the properties of a rubber band his body was wispy and yet he could still feel as though that his hair was still there almost as if the form that he had whenever he had died had came back to represent his undeath
from there he floated he wandered for months weeks days hours seconds. Years past as he floated across the sea he saw a storm after storm rising torsions of waves beneath his feet and yet they never truly interacted with him they would push him around and yet he could never fully be submerged by the water as if he had infinite buoyancy he was still reach above the waves but it was there whenever he was consumed by the ways for moments that he realized exactly what had happened
stories of those affected by water as though they had been cursed by the very sea Mother Nature herself spitting in the face of their very existence and forbidding them from taking the path of least resistance that filled the entire world around them
he was a devil fruit user now.
but when had he eaten that fruits that fruit of undeath that fruit of Ravival… that fruit of spectralness…
That always been tales Of wondering lost souls that would wonder the very oceans of where they had died floating of top the waves like buoys that were not corporeal screaming as the last emotions they ever felt in life reverberated in death.
Wondering Souls were formed from the very remenint emotions that they felt in death. UInfulfillment, lack of purpose in life and only in death did they realized of how much they had failed how much they had lacked to achieve that this they had become a one in a million a one in a billion and were left has nothing but a spectral entity to float across the sea
And yet Eddie was different he had clear mind even after losing all sanity that he had as he traveled slower than a boat across those waves he was no longer as fast as he was and yet there was this piece of his soul that he could feel that was there that if he had had a body would be able to feel Supernatural movement. as if there was three parts of his soul that was there floating within him willpower, consciousness, and Power.
it was there that he understood exactly what was going on the soul the true shape of the soul and what it was meant to be
the soul was not a thing that was put on the Earth by some omniscient God or something that said to be a God Like That of the high Dragon Lords of holy Eden a top the red line
instead it was something that was intrinsic to humanity no not just Humanity every living thing that was considered sentient the very concept of given birth to a new energy the soul something that could transcend life and death if it were powerful enough and with that existence came the mental power of willpower made manifest into another energy that mixed together with the soul. And then there's a part of that willpower that was just pure unadulterated strength of spirits. Vigor!
at least that was what he had thought perhaps he was wrong perhaps he was right but unbeknownst to him he was certainly on the right path to truly understanding
and he had years to come to understand as for years and years and years the top those Azure waves night after night day after day month after month week after week year after year or decade after decades…
until he finally found where he had died. with no log pose, no map no Pace no tune it took ages for him to find it but once he did the bodies of those that he had once loved and known to be his crew or nothing more than piles of Bones left to not even bleach and the lack of sunlight
his body was left there next to the other two where he had died
But he asked himself there. why had he come?
but he knew very well he knew what he had to do. if he was given a second chance of life through undeath. he was going to make sure that for the rest of it he was going to pay Penance for what he had done.
all it took was simply moving back into that skeletal form for all bodily Sensation that truly come back even with the lack of nerves the spirit that literally filled bone after bone joint after joint and serve to puppet his Undead corpse served all the purpose that organic musculature and nerve endings originally had.
allowing him to feel taste Breathe Again!
it was another 10 years after that
Eddie stood there. on the Soronous Pirates ship he had taken to greatly caring for his crewmates putting them into places of comfort. they had a few Coffins on board some that they had made by scratch after the first year of being on the stretch because they had nowhere else to put the bodies.
they were also those that they used for decoration.
he became more familiar with that ship than anybody had or ever will.
over a hundred years an entire century
Alone