Author's Note: Just a cute thing I hope people will enjoy.

Disclaimer: Don't own One Piece

Everyone… It was fun.

I used to just live in the harbor of a little island. Sometimes a man that looked like a sheep would take me out sailing. But not very often. It was sort of lonely.

Then you all came! I wasn't sure how I felt at first… you all seemed so crazy. But you all had good hearts, so I was glad to carry you.

As I started falling apart, you all never abandoned me. Always… all the time… you never gave up on me. All of you always worked so hard to keep me from breaking to pieces entirely. No matter how many times, you always patched me back together. I was so happy to be loved so much.

When you all took me up to the sky, I really started breaking, to the point I couldn't be fixed completely. But… I knew you all wouldn't be able to get back without me. You all were depending on me, I couldn't let you all down now!! So I put myself back together, because you all couldn't, no matter how hard you tried. I know you all tried your best, but I knew my time was coming. I could only carry everyone just a little farther.

Getting back down was so much fun! We fell through the sky, straight into a Marine base. I was laughing. You all were so awesome, getting me back even after I was captured by the Marines. I was laughing as you dressed me up as a Marine ship, and we got out.

We had so much fun together, didn't we? I was proud to bear your flag and call you my crew. Every single time the one with the straw hat sat on my head, I was overjoyed.

When the one with the long nose left… I cried. My being was being torn apart. Why… why me? The crew was being broken apart because of me!! I didn't want this!! Most of you left then, but the one with the long nose stayed.

My spirit was broken. I didn't want to sail anymore if it meant that you all wouldn't be there with me, all together, like we should be!!

There was a gigantic storm, I remember. I was lost in that storm, and I landed on a shoreline of poor ships. I knew I belonged there… I was all beaten up like they were, and I couldn't sail anymore, just like them. They had never been loved like I had, and I pitied them, but I knew, deep in my soul, you all were in danger. The only way you all could stay alive… is if I was able to save you!!

I begged a man with spiked blue hair to help me. He patched me up and sent me out on the ocean. I knew then that it was going to be my last time on the ocean, and I had already lived much longer than I should have. I always kept putting it off, I would be able to go later, not just yet, not now, just a little more…

When I saw you all fighting so hard to stay alive, I almost cried again. I called you from the bottom of my heart, willing you all to hear me! And… you did! Every last one of you jumped on deck with a spray of water and light. Feeling you all back where you should be, together and united again was why I had gone through that storm to save you all. You all made up my heart and soul, and living on without you all as a whole would be the same as being dead.

"The bottom of the sea is cold and dark, Merry. We'll part with you here."

I was so sad when I heard those words… but I knew it was time.

I wish… I wanted so much… All I wanted was to be able to carry you all farther… just one more island, just one last time, to hear you all laugh and smile and call me your ship…

But it's not to be. I've already gone. So sayonara everyone. Thank you so much for all the fun!!

TT I was almost crying as I wrote this… Merry!!