The domain falls apart. Mikey finds himself in a crumbling temple.

[Achievement Completed: Escape someone's Domain]

[Reward: 50 Emerald Nuggets]

He starts running around searching for the exit and eventually finds it.

Just when he makes it out, the temple falls apart.

"Mikey?" He hears a female voice behind him, it's Lucy.

"Oh, hey Lucy, man am I glad to see you." Mikey says with a smile.

"WHY ARE YOU SAYING SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHEN YOU'RE IN A CONDITION LIKE THAT?!" She shouts at him.

Mikey looks at himself, the adrenaline rush made him forget all the pain that his body was under, the adrenaline rush ends with Lucy's words and the pain hits Mikey at once.

Mikey passes out.

(About thirty minutes later)

Mikey wakes up. He's being carried by someone. It's Ragnar, he's carrying him on his shoulder. Mikey jumps down from Ragnar's shoulder.

"Oh, you are awake?" He asks Mikey.

"Yeah. Where were you carrying me? And where are the others?" Mikey asks.

"Right there." Ragnar points in front of himself. Mikey turns around, the others are walking somewhere and talking, they haven't realized that Ragnar had stopped yet.

Christina notices it and turns around, she tells Zoro and Lucy and they start running towards Mikey. Lucy hugs Mikey and starts crying out tears of joy.

"I thought that something happened to you Mikey." She says as she sobs.

"Good to see you again Mikey." Zoro says and smiles.

"Glad to see you back, captain." Christina adds.

"Don't cry Lucy, I am doing good can't you see?" Mikey says.

"Come with me." Lucy grabs Mikey by his hand and starts dragging him somewhere.

"Where are we going?" He asks.

"Hot springs." Lucy says.

"Hot springs?" Mikey asks.

The others laugh and follow them.

"That's right, look!" Mikey and Lucy reach the horizon of a small hill. There's a hot spring house built on the other side.

"Wait, was that there always?" Mikey asks.

"Nope, only the hot spring, we built the bath house."

Lucy gives an answer and grabs Mikey by his hand again. They start walking towards the hot spring house.

"When did you do that??" Mikey asks.

"Well, unlike you, we managed to deal with those guys pretty easily, I am sure it's because you were alone and we weren't, but putting that aside, we had a lot of time to spare after that, so we decided to explore the Island. We found a cave too and got a bunch of diamonds and other metals so that's great aswell." Lucy says.

"But all of that isn't really important, the most important thing is this hot spring." She adds.

"Why tho? It's literally just a hot spring." Mikey says.

"That's what we thought aswell." Zoro joins in the conversation.

"So, is there anything special about it?" Mikey asks.

"Yep, as you probably already know, hot springs have really good healing effects." Lucy says.

"Yeah, I know about that." Mikey replies.

"Well, this one is different. After me and Zoro defeated that skeleton king, we decided to search around the island, when we found this hot spring, I dived into it without a second thought. Before I realized it, all of my injuries started healing rapidly." Lucy says

"But, you're still injured." Mikey says while pointing at Lucy's visible injuries on her head and arms.

"Yeah, there were a lot of monsters in the cave that we explored. I received my injuries there." Lucy responds.

"I see." Mikey says.

They reach the building and enter. There are five locker rooms, one for each of them. Mikey enters one of them and wraps a towel around his waist while asking himself "How did they obtain towels?" He leaves the locker room and sees Zoro and Ragnar talking with eachother.

Mikey didn't have the chance to see it until now, but Zoro has actually a great physique. He isn't extremely big or anything like that, but his low body fat gives him some really defined abs. Overally he's really shredded. His genetics are on point aswell.

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Ragnar is really big on the other hand. He doesn't have visible abs, but the size of his muscles is crazy.

Mikey comes up to them.

"Yo Mikey, you ready?" Zoro asks.

"Yeah, let's go." Mikey says.

They enter the male baths. Lucy, Christina, Ragnar and Zoro decided to create three sections:

Men section, Women section and Mixed baths. Naturally tho, no one probably wants to go into the mixed baths.

Mikey, Ragnar and Zoro enter the hot spring.

"Woah, this is amazing." Mikey says and looks at his arms. They are starting to regenerate really fast.

"My soreness is going away too." He adds.

"So, what exactly happened to you in that temple?" Ragnar asks him.

"Well, it's a long story..."

Mikey goes on to explain all of the things that happened to him.

"That would explain all those scars on your body, especially your back." Zoro says while standing behind Mikey, inspecting all the scars on his back.

"I guess so." Mikey says. "Well, I actually had a lot of scars before this. Back from Earth."

"What did you do back on Earth?" Ragnar asks.

"Fight, I fought a lot. With different gangs and stuff." Mikey gives a short answer which leaves Ragnar and Zoro with questions.

"Any particular reason for that?" Zoro asks.

"Kind of. At first there was no reason, I just wanted to fight, but after one certain incident happened, I had to keep fighting." Mikey, once again, gives an answer which makes Zoro and Ragnar only more curious.

"You probably don't wanna talk about it right?" Zoro asks.

"Yeah, not really. Maybe some other day." Mikey responds.

(Meanwhile in the women's baths)

"Hmm, yep, they're definitely bigger than mine. I am envious." Lucy says while looking at Christina's chest.

"What are you looking at?!" Christina shouts, Lucy laughs. "Do you think they're going to peek?" Christina asks Lucy.

"Who? You mean the boys?" Lucy asks and thinks for a bit. "Nah, no chance." She continues.

"Really? I don't know them as well as you do I guess." Christina says.

"Well, first of all Ragnar. I can't imagine him peeking at women, he just doesn't seem like the person that would do it."

"Zoro is too nice for something like that. He definitely wouldn't peek." She says

"What about Mikey?" Christina asks curiously.

"Mikey? No chance. He doesn't seem to care about romance or anything sexual." Lucy says.

"Really? When I see you two talking, it feels different compared to when he's talking to me or the others." Christina replies.

"Huh, what do you mean by that?" Lucy retorts.

"Well, he's at ease when talking to you, you're definitely closest to him from the entire crew. I also think he likes you." Christina says with a smirk.

Lucy smiles and says. "No way, he thinks of me as his companion, nothing more." Lucy says.

"You think so?" Christina asks.

"Yeah, one hundred percent." Lucy crosses her arms and nods.

"Wanna bet on it?" Christina asks and smiles.

"Of course I do... wait, how are you even going to find out?" Lucy asks.

"How? Well, you're going to ask him to come with you in the mixed baths." Christina says and laughs.

"Huhhhh??!" Lucy says with a really suprised look on her face. "There's no way I could do that." She adds and blushes.

"Do you like Mikey?" Christina asks.

"I don't know... I mean, he's nice, he's strong, he's really handsome too, but I am not sure if I know him long enough to say something like that." Lucy says. "Also, I am actually older than him." She adds.

"Wait, you're older than him?" Christina asks shocked. "Aren't you only nineteen?"

"I am, Mikey is actually eighteen." Lucy answers.

"Wow, he definitely looks like he's in his twenties already." Christina says. "Well, even so, it's only one year difference, that doesn't really matter.

"Wait, how old are you? I don't think you've told me yet." Lucy asks.

"Twenty-one." Christina says.

(Meanwhile in the men's baths)

"What do you guys think the girls are talking about?" Zoro asks.

"Not sure." Ragnar says.

"Oh crap, thanks for reminding me Zoro." Mikey says, he takes his towel and starts walking out of the men's section.

"Where are you going?" Zoro asks.

"I need to ask Lucy something." Mikey responds and leaves the men section.

"He's so casual about this." Zoro says.

"Yeah, you think he's going to confess to Lucy?" Ragnar asks.

"Confess? I don't think so. Mikey isn't the romantic type..." Zoro says. "It's probably something serious, I think." He adds.

"Yeah, he doesn't strike as the romantic type does he." Ragnar responds.

Mikey is walking towards the women baths.

"Hmm, I need to somehow drag Lucy to the mixed baths without making it seem weird. How the hell am I going to do that?" Mikey asks himself.

Just before Mikey reaches the women's baths, he sees Christina exiting them.

"Oh, Mikey, what are you doing here?" She asks.

"Christina, can you please ask Lucy to come to the mixed baths alone? I need to talk to her about something important. Nothing weird trust me." He says.

This whole time, Lucy was standing in the doorway to the women's baths so she heard everything. Mikey can't see her from his angle, but Christina can. Christina gives Lucy a sideeye and says. "I'll tell her, give me a moment." She says and closes the door.

Mikey goes to the mixed baths.

"Did you hear that Lucy?" Christina asks and smiles.

Lucy is blushing, she doesn't even know herself why.

"What should I do?" She asks Christina.

"Just go, that's all I can tell you. I'll go to the men's baths and talk to the guys to give you two some privacy." She says with a smirk.

This entire situation turned a little bit dramatic. A small misunderstanding turned into something funny.

Just because Christina started the talk about Mikey...