Neru Phenex

Neru's face while being consoled by Eustass Faro after the events of Sleepy Flashbacks

# Summary

Neru Phenex is a little girl who lives on Tenka Island, a island in the Dawn Archipelago renowned for its "magical hot springs" that are told to give visions. When the crew arrived on the island, they saw only masked people in sauna robes walking around sauna-to-sauna. The crew was reasonably weirded out by all this, but went inside one of these saunas and had visions of their pasts. Faro's vision featured an eleven year old Doctor Faro hiding out during a pirate raid on the small island. Upon seeing an Unnamed Pirate Captain shoot down opposing pirate forces, Faro was lured out of his hiding spot to watch. When an Unnamed Doctor split from the fighting to begin healing Faro's father, Faro ran to his side to help aide his father. The flashback ended with the Unnamed Doctor smiling. Ira's vision featured Ira Hale as a child playing with his unnamed sister. At some point, within their home, they heard the sounds of their parents fighting (it being heavily implied Ira's father hit Ira's mother). Ira entered the home after telling his sister to stay put, confronting his father. Ramirus also came into the sauna, but he never shared what his vision depicted, but he looked horrified upon waking up. When they woke up, they heard all the visitors try to get into the sauna where they were, and climbed up onto the rocks to avoid them. The Silly Pirates eventually made their way up a large hill which had steaming hot water pouring into each sauna, and stood there was a little girl(Neru). All she talked about is how she waited for people to come to this island to "make friends". Ira immediately leapt to try to fight the girl, to Faro's determent, urging him not too, him doing it anyway. After they defeated her, she exclaimed "all she wanted were some friends..." then passing out. Faro felt very mad at the fact that Ira would attack a little girl like that. When she got knocked out, the whole island started to shift around them, from a "Hot Sauna Wonderland" that the newspaper mentioned, to a desolate landscape with a small pool of steaming water, with no inhabitants on the island. It was revealed that Neru ate a Devil Fruit at allowed her to manipulate the senses of other people and enter their dreams, and that's why they had those visions in the sauna, she wanted the crew to realize they have potential in themselves, as individuals, as well as a team, though Ramirus' vision was still not very pleasant and she didn't know why. She awoke from her unconsciousness and Faro consoled and talked to this little girl as to why she would do this(reason stated above) as she wanted to make friends. Faro understood and told the little girl that she cant just force people to be her friend, and she needs to make them naturally. He had the idea to drop her off on the way to their next island, leaving her at the now totally fixed up Kokoro Island, where Dean's brother is now the mayor. She waved them off with a smile and on went the crew's adventure.

# Trivia

* Neru's name comes from the Japanese word for "Sleep"
* It is unknown where Neru got her Devil Fruit, but the crew realized it would be better in her hands rather than a strong enemy's
* Neru's power is much inspired by Uta's Devil Fruit, the Uta Uta no Mi, from One Piece Film Red, with this filler arc being directly after Owlcityofcl and Dylcheese watched the movie together in person
* If Neru was in the Pokémon World, she would be from the Kalos Region and her partner would be a Kirlia
* The introduction of Neru Phenex solidified the idea in Owlcityofcl's head that Ira just hates children for some reason, it started with Johan and now Neru (joking)