Disclaimer: I don't own Blood-c or One Piece at all.
A/N: This is a SayaxZoro fanfic. Also this takes place after the 2 year time skip so everyone is together again (Yay!). And for the blood-c, Saya has realized everyone's betrayals, especially Fumito's betrayal. So she is on the go in this fic. And a little note for the future of this fic is that Luffy has successful saved his brother, Ace. Which means Ace is alive!*crying with joy!* WARNING! If you don't know anything about Blood-c and you want to read/watch the manga/anime and you are a person who does not like bloodshed(or at least too much bloodshed) then this anime/manga is NOT for you. Also this is a spoiler for ch.654 and up for the manga, One Piece!
Chapter 1
"What do you think people are made of? I'm not talking about blood or flesh. We do care about what's on the exterior, but we want to focus more on what people even now still call the "inside." You can also call it "nature." The way we, humans act. I guess you are either born this way or raised to act this way. Are people born like this or do they become like this? The answer is..."
It was a deep, dark, and blueish place where the Sunny-Go was at on this very moment. Right now they are sailing in the deep sea. The crew has finally left Fishman Island. So their plan was now going up the surface of the ocean and reach toward the New World.
"Ne Chopper, what do you think of my "shower tempo"?" asked Nami. She was taking a shower under a cloud in the bathroom that was formed by her newly improved climate baton. "Do you want to hop in too?" She completely trusted the innocent reindeer unlike some crewmates who were peeking behind the door to see Nami naked.
"I'm fine! I washed my body the day before yesterday, but more importantly, that cloud looks really yummy and sweet!" replied Chopper.
Unfortunately Brook and Sanji(the two biggest perverts in the ship) had heard Chopper's reply and took it the wrong way. "Huh? Something yummy and sweet...inside the bath?" "He's right, it looks so sweet and delicious~".
Apparently Nami must have felt their perverviness in the air because of the thunder cloud she had made. "Chopper, get away from that cloud" she said as Chopper was about to touch it out of curiosity. "GYAAAAAHH!" The cloud produced an electric shock and electrocuted Brook and Sanji. "I don't think I feel like eating that cloud anymore, after all" said Chopper as he realized what the cloud was and could do.
After Nami dealt with the two perverts she went to sink into the tub full of hot water. "Hahh~, this feels great" She said. "It's been 2 years since I have used Sunny's bath. Bathing and watching over the night sky-like deep sea...this is the life!" "Is the deck of the ship going to be ok without you there, Nami?" asked Chopper who was still in the bathroom with her. "I checked everything out before we hopped into this rising current, so it's fine. If any sea monsters come along, those guys can take care of it."
On Deck... "Hurry up Usopp!" cried Luffy who was on the stairs with Usopp. "Just hang on a sec...a weak and shoddy rope won't stand a chance against a giant fish!" said Usopp. Usopp was making a long, strong rope for Luffy to use to catch sea monsters. All Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Franky were hungry and of course Luffy's idea was to eat a sea monster. Nobody objected to the idea, not even Usopp who was still a coward.
"You all look like you're having fun" said Robin. Interested in what her captain was doing. "SHISHISHI! With all the excitement on Fishman Island, the idea didn't even occur to me, but...if we catch a "Deep Sea Fish," then when we get above water, Sanji can make some grub out of it, right?" Luffy said to her.
"That's a great idea! The day we break into the "New World". We should have a real party to remember it by." agreed Zoro .He was also in on the idea of eating a sea monster.
"I hope we get one that tastes like cola." murmured Franky.
All three Zoro, Luffy, and Usopp went close to the bubble that protected their ship and air to examine the sea monsters out there. "Maybe we could fry that one up...with a bit of salt." said Zoro, looking at a sea monster that had a long body with sharp, pointy teeth.
"I bet that one goes good with some mayonnaise on top!" commented Luffy. His choice was a fish that was round and fat with black, dotted eyes.
"This one would be tasty dipped in sauce and grilled." said Usopp who was pointing toward his choice of fish that looked like a snake.
Finally, Luffy had become impatient and decided to go with whatever sea monster that was out there. "It doesn't matter. Whatever Sanji makes it's gonna end up delicious! GOMU GOMU NO~ JET PISTOL!" And he targeted his own choice of sea monster.
"I knew it! You wanted to eat that one with mayonnaise, didn't you?" proclaimed Usopp. "But isn't it a little big?"
But Luffy ignored him. "Hurry, hurry! Catch it!" Luffy excitedly said to Usopp and so Usopp obeyed his captain's command. He prepared the rope he made earlier and…"HOKAKUBOSHI!" And he shot the rope towards the sea monster. The hook of the rope got caught to the mouth of the monster and Usopp started to haul the meat that was about to be for dinner.
"Alright! We caught a deep sea fish!" Luffy said happily. However Usopp was still a little unsure about the fish.
"But is that thing really a fish? It looks like an old man, doesn't it?"
"An old man!"
"Ah…"
Just then something caught Usopp's attention. The fish that Usopp just caught was eaten by a giant sea monster predator. "OWAAAH! IT ATE IT!" screamed Usopp.
Zoro, Franky, and Robin heard the commotion and came. Only to see a big, black-colored sea monster that was now chewing on its food. Immediately they were about to get ready to attack the beast, but they noticed something from the shadows and so did the sea monster. Slowly a huge shadow cast itself around the sea monster and revealed another one, but a much bigger and stronger looking one. The oh so bigger sea monster just then gobbled up the smaller fish that had been below it.
The Straw Hats looked wide eyed at scene that was happening before them. Usopp freaked out, "GYAAAAAAAH! Holy Crap, another one?"
"They're going in one after the next, like those nesting dolls!" exclaimed Zoro.
As the Straw Hats were flipping out on what to do on a situation like this. They realized that the rope Usopp used to catch their dinner was stuck in the mouth of the fish that ate it and that fish too, also became dinner as well to the much bigger fish. So in other words…Usopp's rope was hooked to the mouth of the biggest sea monster they have ever seen.
"It's too much! The ship's gonna capsize!" Franky yelled to everyone. The ship, as Franky said was tiling over and shaking on one side because of the weight of the sea monster they were tied to.
At the bathroom… Nami was still in the tub when she felt the shaking of the ship. "The ship is shaking around a lot and the deck sounds really noisy. Maybe it was a bad idea to leave them in charge after all." Said Nami and then signed. She was sounding really worried over the fact that she left the fate of the ship in Luffy's and the others hands(except Robin. She could trust Robin).
On Deck… Zoro was the only one who was not panicking. In fact he was quite bored until their little fish friends came along. He didn't care if it was a fish or any other type of monster. Anything that indicated that someone or something was his enemy he would fight it without a doubt. He was famished for a battle and was finally going to feast his hungry by fighting these fish fries.
He unshielded one of his swords and said one of his techniques. "ONE SWORD STYLE: 360 POUND CANNON!" and he swung his sword around 180 degrees. The attack pierced the sea monster's head. Zoro put his sword back in place and smirked, pleased that he did such damage to a monster that many people fear of.
Usopp and Luffy cheered Zoro for catching a much better sized fish. But all of a sudden, Sanji came out of nowhere looking like he was attacked by an explosion and survived it. His hair was all frizzy and his clothes were torn apart. Even his body was covered in ashes!
"I see, this is great! I can't wait to try my skills on "Deep Sea Fish Cuisine"!" He said, completely unaware what he looked like at this moment and looked happy at the catch they all made, examining the sea monster.
"Why are you all burnt" Usopp asked. Though his question was unanswered(guess what happened to him *laugh*).
"It gets even better! There's two more of them inside the big fish. More deep sea fish to go around!" Luffy explained to Sanji.
However as Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji were talking about how to cook the fishes they caught. The said fish was dragging the ship down deeper and deeper into the sea without anyone on board noticing. The fish's weight was too much for Sunny to hold on too.
"By the way…is this ship still moving forward? I'm no expert, but I get the strange feeling that we're sinking." Usopp noted.
Luffy grinned "It's just your imagination!"
But then Luffy noticed something. "Oh! What's that…a snake? A…GIANT SEA SNAKE!" Before Luffy was a long, curving, fluffy, white shaped-like-snake line.
"GYAAA!" Usopp screamed.
"Alright! Get closer to it." Commanded Luffy.
"WE"RE GONNA EAT THAT TOO! THE SHIP CAN'T PULL ANYMORE!" Usopp yelled at him.
"Hold on…that can't possibly be…" Robin said to herself, having a worried look on her face, but Luffy heard her. "Hm?" he tilled his head in confusion.
"WHITESTORM!" shouted Nami from the upper deck. She was done with her shower and came out of the bathroom with Chopper in a bathrobe. "That's "WhiteStorm" we've got to do something!"
"It looks like a live dragon and it is known to appear without warning on the sea floor. It's a giant white whirlpool!" explained Robin. "A whirlpool underwater?" Luffy said excitedly. "Ships that have been caught in its pull are usually found days later. In waters unbelievably far away. I might emphasize that only the ships are found."
"To waters unbelievably far away?" Usopp panicked when he heard this from Robin. "YOU'RE SAYING EVERY LAST PERSON ON THE SHIP DIES, RIGHT! HEY WE GOTTA ESCAPE!"
"So then that's the "warp zone" of my dreams?" said Luffy, admiring the fact that one of his foolish dreams has come true, but Usopp didn't agree. "NO, YOU IDIOT!" he yelled and whacked Luffy on the head.
Nami on the other hand was more worried about the WhiteStorm that she didn't even notice the giant sea monster the Luffy got. "Everyone hurry, we've got to get away from that Whitestorm!"
"Come on, you heard the navigator! We're running for it, you hear me!" Usopp yelled to the other crewmates.
When Nami went down on deck, she finally noticed the sea monster that the guys caught. "KYAAA! What's with the fish?" She screamed.
"Ahh, we caught it" Luffy said. Making a peace sign out of his hand. He felt happy to show to Nami to see what they will have for dinner when this crisis is over. Nevertheless, Nami didn't feel the same way.
"What the hell were you thinking? If the ship tries to pull something that big, there's no way it can move!" she yelled at Luffy while she punched him on the head.
But, while Nami and Luffy were having their argument about the sea monster. The said fish was being pulled in by the WhiteStorm and was also dragging the ship along with it too.
"Hey the fish is getting caught in the whirlpool." Told Zoro.
"Crap! Get it back!" ordered Sanji
"NO! Cut it loose! Nami told all the guys except Chopper, Franky, and Brook.
All the guys(again not Chopper, Franky, and Brook) made horrifying faces at her. Similar to the painting "scream"*.
"EEEEHHHH!"
"THE FISH OR YOUR LIVES, WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT? I TOOK MY EYES OFF OF YOU GUYS FOR TEN MINUTES AND LOOK AT THE TROUBLE YOU GOT US INTO!" She whacked them all the head for their stupidity.
"FRANKY, USE "COUP DE BURST"!" Nami instructed.
"Nope. It's super-way-too-late." Franky told her then did his SUPER pose.
"Ah."
"See."
The sea monster was sucked into the WhiteStorm and was pulling Sunny with it. "Uwah! We're in for it now~!" Luffy said excitedly.
As the ship was being pulled into the WhiteStorm, it made the ship uncontrollably spin, causing the Straw Hats to become dizzy. Even Sunny's figure head had swirly eyes because of dizziness.
"HOLD ONTO THE SHIP, HANG ON FOR YOUR LIVES~!" Luffy shouted to his crew mates as all of them desperately held onto any part of Sunny.
"AAAAHHHH!" all of them screamed as they were sucked and into a never ending tunnel of water, the WhiteStorm swirled the ship in circles like a dryer does. But suddenly the Sunny-Go hit something which caused the ship to exit the WhiteStorm.
"GYAAA!"
"We stopped?"
"We hit something!" Luffy realized.
That something shocked everyone, but mostly Brook.
"EEHH?"
Before them was an endless school full of Island Whales, the same species as Laboon. All the whales had the same scar has Laboon did and looked exactly like him.
Instantly everyone who met Laboon thought it really was him! Luffy's eyes bugged out of his head at the sight before him
"LABOOON?"
Brook however, was crying. Thinking about the time he made that promise to Laboon to come back to him.
"I swear. We'll make it around the whole world and come back here!" "PUOOO!"
"Laboon!" Brook started to say with tears streaming down on his skeleton face. "You have gotten so big!"
"Don't be an idiot! Laboon is in the first half of the Grand Line. His huge body can't even make it through the Red Line's "hole"!" Usopp protested. Trying to snap Brook out of his thinking-it's-Laboon head.
"This is incredible. We've run into an entire school of the miraculous Island Whales!" said Robin.
"They've got scars on their heads just like Laboon!" said Zoro.
"Yeah, the scar even looks exactly the same! Man that really surprised me! So they're not Laboon?" Luffy questioned.
Brook wasn't listening to what Usopp had said and instead he started to sing Binks Sake out loud. "~We'll go and drink this sake from Binks~! But Brook stopped singing when he realized that the Laboon look-a-likes weren't stopping to listen to him sing. He became confused.
"Laboon stop! Can you hear me? It's me, Brook!"
Finally, Usopp couldn't take Brooks tears for some whales that were not even Laboon. So he pushed Brook to snap him out of his addiction to Laboon and told him "Pull yourself together! They're just other whales, understand?"
"LABOON!" Brook cried out.
Even though everyone was busy looking at the whales, that didn't mean they were out of danger.
"This is no time to relax and go whale-watching! Even if we escaped the whirlpool, we're still in plenty of danger here!" Sanji warned them and continued to talk. "First of all, did anyone get washed away in the current just now? Let's do a head count. Nami-san?"
"Here."
"Robin-chan?"
"I'm here."
"Ok! Next we gotta get away from here! If any of those huge whales crash into us, the ship will be smashed!"
"Sanji, the rest of us are alive!" Usopp informed him.
"Count us too!" Chopper complained.
But Sanji ignored them and asked Nami for orders. "We're fine where we are" She told him.
"You hear that? We're fine where we are, you idiots. Now let's go whale-watching!" Sanji said and gave a thumps up to Usopp and Chopper.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Usopp yelled at him for his actions.
Nami looked at the whales for a minute until she realized the school of whale has created another current. A much stronger one which could put the ship in more danger than before. She informed the crew about this discovery and commanded them to open the sails and follow the direction the whales are in.
Although, Brook was more concerned about if this school of whales was the family of Laboon. "That's right; this is where Laboon was born!" Brook realized. "Are you his relatives perhaps?" He asked them. Trying to get closer to the whales so they can hear him talk, but Robin warned him.
"Look out, Brook!" but, Brook ignored her and kept trying to talk to the whales.
"Have you been looking for a baby whale that got lost from his school 50 years ago? Don't worry! He's in the sea on the other side! He's doing well and he's gotten big, too. So please try not to worry!" He assured them.
Just then, the ship was caught in the current and the sails burst into effect and helped the ship sail, leaving the Straw Hats out of danger.
Brook was so happy that he met Laboon's family that he sang "Binks Sake" with his violin. Everyone listened to the pirate song with smiles on their faces.
"Yohohoho~yohohoho~yohohoho~. This sake for binks~ we'll deliver and drink~! Wherever the ocean winds may take us~. Wherever the waves may wash us~. The sound of waves fill the evening~! And in the sky the moon does rise~. This is our island song~.
As Brook continued to sing, all the whales listened and grinned. They started to dance, allowing the ship to land on top of one of the whale's head.
"Hey, you're enjoying it?" Luffy asked the whale.
The whale gave a big grin and said "BUOOOO!" indicating that he is enjoying the music.
"Let's ride along with them just like this! It'll be just like riding the rising current." Nami suggested.
"We're going to bring this sake from binks. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, we dream this every night and we follow the shadow of your waving hand…we'll never meet like this again. You need not ever worry, the moon never hurries, but it still comes tomorrow. An endless, meaningless funny story."
"We're about to pass through the surface!" Nami notified everyone.
You could see the Sun's rays underneath the water and Luffy looked at it with delight.
"WE'RE OUT" he shouted.
The whales came out of the surface with the ship and cried out "BUOOO!"
The Sunny-Go(along with the fish) flew off the whale's head and was in the air, flying.
"WWWOOOAAAHH!" As both the crew and ship settled down, before them was the first island the Straw Hats have encountered in the New World. And it was something to behold. The weather was horrible. With all the gray clouds covering the sky you couldn't even know if it was day or night. The water color was as red as the color of blood. Lighting struck the island, but the island didn't seem affected and was far more dangerous looking than the weather. Fire could be seen from it and it looked like the fires from hell itself. Flames dying to lick, burn, and destroy anything in its path.
"The weather's terrible!" Usopp criticized.
Brook put his hand to his skull. "Yohoho~ the sky is pouring!"
"The wind is blowing strong." Robin commented.
"The Sea is crashing!" Franky exclaimed.
"The compass's needle is all over the place!" Nami realized.
Chopper sweat dropped. "The sea looks red!"
Sanji lit a cigarette, "A surging sea of flames!" he said.
Zoro smirked "It looks like the entrance to hell."
"PERFECT!" Luffy cheered.
Everyone was excited to see a new version of the Grand Line, unlike other pirates who see this as a darker part of hell and wish to go back to the first half of the Grand Line. They would call it "Paradise". And now each and every one of the Straw Hats is a step closer to their dream becoming true, but what awaits them in that inflamed island is what one calls a "cannibal". Someone who eats…its own kind.
To Be Continued…
A/N: So, do you guys like it? It's my first time writing a fanfic so please give me corrections if I made any mistakes. I am very bad at grammar, so if there are grammar mistakes then please tell me. I appreciate the help. Also I know this is bad so please help me improve my dialogue. The next chapter will be posted in about a week and a half. Just to let you know and also *laugh* do any of you know what happen to Sanji to make him look all dirty. If you do then you have a great memory! Also if any of you are wondering, Saya will not be introduced until the 3rd or 4th chapter. Also about the "Scream" That is a famous painting of a man looking horrified. His hands are at the side of his face and his mouth is formed of a shape of an O. That's what the guys look like when Nami told them to cut the rope.