Huge Revolution
I: The Dragon Dwelling in the Deep
The hydrofoil Blackbird was hardly an outstanding ship. Made mostly of the black steel common to Water Seven that did not rust, save for the deck built of wood leftover from the construction of the last pirate ship to leave the water city, it bore no insignia on its plain black sail and flag by which to identify itself, and was completely run by propellers and its engine, or by the occasional fire-power. It was built along a more streamlined blueprint than most ships, and floated on its red foils when it was not actively skidding on the surface of the Grand Line at speeds enough to outrun most ships by the direction of its masters and builders. As it was speeding, the yellow-painted aft of the ship would clearly stand out, giving the impression of a bird running on the water with yellow tail-feathers flashing.
There was certainly a need for speed involved in its construction; the Blackbird had borne, for the past two years, the three most notorious wanted persons on this side of the Grand Line. It was currently proving the validity of its construction as it sped over the Grand Line towards the floating mangrove known as the Sabaody Archipelago.
Sharp blue eyes scanned the crashing waves as the black hydrofoil sped onwards, away from the raging Marines and the monster lazily travelling behind. The owner of said blue eyes stood by the wheel. His toned skin shivered under the black tee, jeans, leather belt, navy denim jacket and long black gloves, not from the cold winds that blew on the ocean and whipped his gold-streaked black hair about his face.
No, Fudo Yusei had no reason to be shivering from the heat considering that the man standing next to him was an embodiment of fire.
Portgas D. Ace had outwardly changed very little since the Marineford Miracle. True, he was still recognisable by his wanted poster, being a childishly freckled young man with the build on the slight side, but with a much broader chest than Yusei over which he bore a red shirt with orange flame print. The shirt was matched with dark navy denims and black boots, and a leather belt with the 'A' insignia along with a matching spade buckle, some distance away from a dagger hung at the hip. Perched atop his own raven hair was an orange cowboy hat with a string of red beads framing a pair of blue smiley, one smiling and one frowning like some theatre design sitting along the rim. The only reason the hat was not being blown away was due to the straps bound to a bull's skull medallion holding the accessory to its owner's head. Along his left arm, beside the distinctive ASCE tattoo the pirate with the epithet 'Fire Fist' was known for, was a Log Pose which both men were currently consulting.
"If we're lost, you are aware that we'll be late for it, right?" Yusei was currently giving Ace the universal expression of 'are you sure?'.
"Well, you won't find another navigator that knows this route," the other defended. "Oi, Aki, you done behind yet?"
"No, it's as persistent as ever," she dropped onto the deck from the elevated aft of the Blackbird.
Doctor Izayoi Aki had matured, yet she continued to wear her trademark low-cut red corset with short, light green puffy sleeves and a high collar. This was matched by a sleeveless magenta trench coat that flared behind her, being shorter and pleated in the front. The ensemble was matched by a red neck choker and an emerald crested, golden cross-shaped medallion, as well as a pair of dark, elbow-length gloves with a pair of gold bracelets above them, with stockings of the same colour connected to her skirts and red sandals to complete the while thing. The woman herself was pale, and her brown eyes narrowed onto Ace as strands of her own long burgundy-red hair hanging from its hold via a red scrunchy whipped in the winds.
"Persistent idiot," Ace muttered. "Why did I have to follow you guys again... zzz..."
"This isn't the time to sleep!" Aki yelled at the snoozing navigator as Yusei spun the steering wheel, narrowly avoiding the latest volley of Navy cannon.
"Hang on a bit more!" Yusei noted as he spied land and bubbles reflecting off the sun. "We're almost there!"
"Oh, I fell asleep," Ace snapped back to consciousness as the female doctor threw him to the aft.
"Your turn!" she called, removing the Log Pose from his wrist on time.
"Geez, crazy woman." Ace muttered as he stood to face the Marine ships in hot pursuit of the Blackbird. "You left this many for me?"
Flames licked at his arms as his power activated. "Hiiken!"
Yusei blinked as a random floating ember caught onto his jacket, which, if you looked closer, bore several burns and singes. "The deck's on fire." He then blinked. "Aki, fire extinguisher. He's caught me on fire again."
"You idiot!" Aki quickly doused Yusei with the fire extinguisher as she yelled behind at the pirate. "Do you want to die?"
"And what are you gonna do?" Ace snorted as he watched the last of the ships sink to the monster trailing behind in the waters. "Damn, still there..."
Very quickly, a plate-like object snapped into place on her wrist.
"Crud," Ace swore as he made his way towards the yellow slipper beside a smoking and wet Yusei, who gave him a miserable yet sympathetic look as the yellow object was thrown overboard and Ace followed it. Orange flames drove the boat away at the same time a large serpentine dragon with large red wings like rose petals appeared over the boat, roaring at the sky.
"Get him!" Aki commanded the Black Rose Dragon as she herself got on the dragon.
Yusei sighed as he steered the Blackbird towards the Sabaody Archipelago. Aside from that, he made no other movement save to dock the ship in Grove 42.
"Oh, Yusei Kun," Silvers Rayleigh was an old man, yet Yusei was not fooled.
"Rayleigh San. I thought you were still on Rusukaina."
"Nonsense. Luffy Kun just needed a bit of training in the first eighteen months. He'll be here soon with the Kuja Pirates."
"I see," Yusei gave Rayleigh a significant look before looking at the ship of the Straw Hats, Thousand Sunny, parked next to the Blackbird. "I wasn't aware that a welcoming committee was in order."
"Yo," the green-haired samurai behind Rayleigh snorted. "It's been a while... Yusei."
"Zoro San," Yusei gave a small grin as the samurai clapped him on the back. "It's been a long time too. How is Mihawk San?"
"Sore about the dragon, but holding up," Zoro wryly replied. "Congratulations, number two."
"No," Yusei shook his head. "I need to do something first before I can arrive. Rayleigh San... your coating skills are needed."
"What's that?" Zoro squinted behind him. "A sea monster?"
"That's what I need to do," Yusei replied as both pirates took a step back. "I can't do anything overt... not here, at least. I have to hurry up or it'll follow us to the New World."
"Sounds like a plan," Zoro nodded. "Right then... I'll leave that to you, handyman."
"I'll see you aboard the Sunny," Yusei acknowledged as he turned to look at the waters lapping the Archipelago. "Swordsman."
"So, where's the crazy stalker woman?" Zoro remarked.
"Aki? Oh, she's chasing Ace San right now. I hope she doesn't injure him too badly."
"...I pity the man." Zoro and Rayleigh nodded wisely.
"Yo!" Franky's voice hollered as the shipwright appeared on land. "Yusei, is that what I think it is?"
"Yeah, I made it in Water Seven! Franky San!" Yusei replied.
"Super! Half of the Engineer Musketeers of the Thousand Sunny is back!"
Yusei's expression turned blank as he beheld the Battle Franky Thirty-Seven, a.k.a Armoured Franky. "...I don't know what you're talking about. I have a sea monster to handle first, after I dissuade Aki from killing Ace San."
"Poker face..." Zoro muttered.
"Where did he go..." the woman muttered under her breath qas the heels of her sandals clicked on the ground. "He ran..."
"It's the Straw Hats," the murmurs were passing along the street as she walked. 'What are they doing on the street?"
"Well, just now..."
"Don't look them in the eye. You can't fight them."
"Straw Hats?" Aki turned to look. "Please... even two years couldn't produce that much of a change."
"That's right, Luffy!" Chopper's high voice was unmistakable even after two years. "She could be kidnapped like Keimi!"
"Chopper..." Aki noted as she began to walk over towards them.
"Hey, stop talking in whispers!" Chopper was yelling at the fake Luffy.
"Oh well, let's leave it at that. That's her fate." the fake Luffy was saying.
"Isn't that further evidence that proves you're not Straw Hat Luffy?" Aki airily commented as she stopped before Chopper. "Chopper San, let's go."
"Eh? Aki!" Chopper yelled as he held onto her leg. "What d'you mean, he's not Luffy?"
"They're imposters," Aki replied, nodding as she led the tiny doctor away. "Let's go find the real ones. I think they'll be at the Sunny right now..."
"Who're you calling imposters, woman?" the fake Luffy stood before her, prodigious bulk wobbling as he levelled his gun at her. "Who're you anyway?"
She paused to glare at him, causing him to take a step back. "I do not feel like fighting imposters today. Chopper San."
"Aki!" Chopper panicked. "Robin's in trouble!"
"We'll have to help her then," Aki nodded as both of them moved off.
"Oi, wait!" the fake aimed and fired.
"Wall of Thorns!" the bullet bounced away to narrowly skim the fake Luffy as both ran off.
"That's-!"
"That wall... that light..."
"Don't tell me...!"
"The Black Rose Witch!"
"Huh? You mean they're imposters?" Chopper was exclaiming later as the bubble-bike hovered on its way, both Straw Hat doctors having met Nami and Usopp. "That's why there's two of Nami?"
"Oh please!" Nami sighed. "Robin's escaped the World Government for twenty years! It's unthinkable that she could be put in a bag and taken so easily!"
"I got it!" Chopper gasped in realisation. "I thought there was something wrong... she didn't even smell familiar!"
"You only just realised that...?" Aki sighed in fond exasperation. "True, there's a fake for every one of us, except Yusei, Ace and I."
"Ace I can understand, but why Yusei?" Nami asked. "Wouldn't people be more likely to impersonate the man who revived the dead?"
"Those fakes were found out and horribly lynched in public several times when they refused to perform a miracle, or they got killed by the Marines," Aki replied monotonously. "Anyone who tried to impersonate me often found themselves in the same fate."
"Now, I'm starting to get mad!" Chopper yelled. "What's with them? Posing like us? I won't allow them to imitate us! As if we're... stars~ those bastards!"
Nami slapped a waving Chopper about the head. "Don't let it go to your head! Well, it can't be helped if we have imitators since our captain became famous."
"I have to think about how to sign my autograph!" Chopper was saying.
"I have one already!" Usopp added.
"We're famous in a bad way! Don't you get it?" Nami scolded.
"We'll just have to handle it slowly," Aki sighed. "Still... it's good to see all of you again."
"Same too," Nami agreed. "Speaking of which... where's Yusei and Ace?"
In Grove 41, a swordsman and a cook were having an argument.
"I wanna go to sea. I wanna fish."
"No, you can't, shithead!"
"Why can't I? And why should I listen to you?"
"Do you think I'm walking with you because I want to? You'll cause me more trouble if you wander about this island again! You marimo! Everyone's coming soon so just walk to the ship with me!"
"Che!" Zoro scoffed, yawning. "Dammit! How can number seven talk so bossily to number one?"
"Why are you ranking us in the order of our arrival? You got here first by chance! Don't get carried away!"
"'kay, I'm sorry... number seven."
Incensed, real flames could be seen around Sanji. "Alright, I'll fight you! I trained my legs in hell for two years!"
Zoro came alight in blue flames. "Bring it on! I'll cut you in half!"
"Watch out!" someone yelled as red and blue clashed, a wall of orange flames burning between them.
"Crazy woman chased me for three days without food..." Portgas D. Ace landed on the ground in an undignified heap. "Hungry...zzz..."
"Oi, is this the time to fall asleep?" Sanji and Zoro yelled at the sleeping form of Ace.
"Damn," Sanji muttered. "As troublesome as his brother."
"Maybe it's passed down the bloodline," Zoro commented.
Both shivered at the thought of either of the D. brothers with children.
In the waters surrounding the Sabaody Archipelago, the Blackbird skidded over the waters as it revolved around the epicentre of a frothing whirlpool.
"Levia Dragon, Daedalus," Above the waters, a green bird-like monster flapped its wings, Yusei hanging from its clawed feet as he held up a card dispassionately in hand, Wrist Blader armed if only to keep his hands free. "I see... Draw."
The waves nearly reached him on the next roar, but Shield Wing flew higher, such that the concussive force behind the waves missed him.
"Stardust Xiaolong, summon!" he called, two cyclones revolving around him as the frothing stopped and the serpentine monster reared its head to growl at him.
"So cool!" Chopper screamed.
"Right?" Usopp agreed enthusiastically. "His body's just awesome!"
"He just grew bigger, with new attachments and more weapons," Aki sighed in fake exasperation. "Robin, you look well."
"Eh," Robin nodded. "So do you and Nami."
"What the hell happened to his body?" Nami commented, looking as Chopper and Usopp fawned over the 'new and improved' Franky.
Robin laughed quietly. "Who knows? I wouldn't understand him anyway."
"So this is the coating?" Nami commented as she set the shopping bags down on the deck, where the jelly-coating wobbled slightly.
"Oh, Nami? Hi!" Franky finally noticed the navigator.
"Yes, hi there," Nami muttered as she held up her hand. "What the hell was he doing for two years...?"
"You guys!" a strong voice called from land.
"Rayleigh San! Shakky!" Nami called down at them.
"Sorry to interrupt your reunion after two years, but trouble's brewing on this archipelago!" Rayleigh called back. "The Marines are coming."
"The Marines?" Nami echoed.
"Yes." Shakky agreed. "They think that the fake Straw Hats are the real ones and have begun to move. I have them wire-tapped, so there's no mistake. I told Brook Chan everything over the DenDen Mushi. He's on his way this very moment."
"Oh? So he's abandoning his stardom?" Franky commented. "The guy really does have some bones."
"Nami Chan, you're the navigator, right?' Rayleigh was saying. "I'm about to teach you how to navigate a coated ship, so pay attention."
"Oh, yes!" Nami nodded. "I'll do my best!"
"Oh, what's going on? Everything's gotten serious all of a sudden!" Usopp called from the upper deck. "But, Rayleigh! Luffy's not here yet!"
"No worries!" Rayleigh grinned enigmatically. "Luffy's already here!
Aki nodded, certain.
"That looks fun," Robin commented.
"I gave Sanji a baby DenDen Mushi earlier," Franky said. "He's with Zoro and Ace right now."
"Really? That's good, because you need to hurry." Shakky lazily analysed. "The Marines are almost here. So Monkey Chan's the only one we can't reach... you guys should take this Vivre card. It should lead you to him."
"What about Yusei?" Usopp looked around. "The Engineer Musketeers aren't complete without him!"
"Don't worry about Yusei-bro," Franky drawled. "He's dealing with monsters for our safe voyage right now. He'll be here. I know it."
"Grove 42 should be fine, it's by the sea," Rayleigh commented. "Take the ship and rendezvous over there! It's been a lot of work, but you've all made it through these last two years! It's time to depart on your new journey!"
"'Course," Franky drawled, already heading for the wheel. "One of the Sunny's soldiers is there as well. We can't leave the Blackbird behind."
"As for the rest, read this before you set out," Rayleigh handed a scroll to Nami. "You can learn how to operate a coated ship in detail."
"I understand, thank you!" Nami accepted the scroll.
"I wonder how Luffy has changed in these past two years. I can't wait to see him!" Usopp drawled.
"True," Robin agreed.
Nami pumped a fist into the air. "Okay, let's go to Grove 42!"
"Wait, I have to call Sanji and Zoro," Franky drawled as he moved for the DenDen Mushi.
"But, Luffy..." Robin considered. "I hope he doesn't get caught up in some trouble."
"Oh, that's right, it's Luffy," Nami sighed. "We never set out peacefully because of him."
"I wouldn't be surprised," Aki considered, looking out towards the seas. "Yusei... please come quickly..."
"Leave it to me!" Chopper offered. "I'm gonna go pick him up! I have an idea!"
In Grove 41, feet clashed with swords as both men of the Straw Hat Pirates fought.
"You've improved a bit, you third-class swordsman," Sanji growled, panting.
"You've learned some idiotic kicking skills yourself," Zoro shot back, also panting. "i hope your cooking skills worsened, you shitty cook!"
"What did you say?" Both of them yelled at each other at the same time before getting back to fighting.
"I'd normally hate to break up these fights..." Ace drawled as he stood at the sidelines of the fight between swordsman and cook. "But, don't you have a ship to get to?"
"Huh?" Both looked down as a DenDen Mushi rang.
"Ow! That's right! The Navy has set out and Luffy should be here somewhere!" Franky's voice poured in through the baby DenDen Mushi later. 'We're gonna take Sunny to Grove 42, so come meet us there!"
"Roger," Sanji drawled back before the DenDen Mushi hung up.
"What?" Zoro muttered.
"Weren't you listening?" Sanji muttered. "Well... Navy. Come. We. Ship. Run. Get that?"
"No, I don't!" Zoro retorted. "Why are you talking like that? Say it in a proper sentence!"
Sanji closed his eyes. "I thought a muscle-head like you couldn't understand sentences."
"Huh?" Zoro snarled back. "Okay. You. Later. Slashed."
"Yeah, yeah..."
"By the way, do you hear that uproar?" Zoro commented.
"You're right," Sanji agreed. "There. Noisy."
"My Luffy sense is tingling," Ace muttered as he turned to face the mangrove of Grove 46.
"Don't you have a dragon to run from?" Zoro retorted. "What did you do anyway?"
"I... may have accidentally set Yusei on fire," Ace nervously twitched. "Scary witch... Luffy!"
There was a huge burst of fire that scorched the tops of the mangrove trees as the cloud of flames called Portgas D. Ace made for the rove, and to hell with the rest of the scenery.
"I'm gonna kill him..." Zoro coughed, left in the wake of an desperate Ace. "You'd think two years with Yusei would give him some more sense... shitty bro-con..."
"Shitty idiot..." Sanji coughed. "Where's Yusei anyway?"
Shield Wing's flying had become increasingly desperate, in a bid to allow its master to evade the crashing storey-high waves that kept rising ever onwards. Beside him hovered a yellow dragon, a grey dragon and a giant hedgehog with bolts for quills.
"Bright Star Dragon's effect activates!" Yusei finally ordered. "I'll add two levels to Debris Dragon. I now tune Quillbolt Hedgehog to Debris Dragon! Clustering hopes will become a new shining star! Become the path its light shines upon! Synchro Summon! Take flight, Stardust Dragon!"
The white dragon shook the glittering dust off its wings as it looked down at the serpent and roared in reply.
"Stardust Xiaolong is summoned in attack position," Yusei breathed. "And, I remove from play Bright Star Dragon to summon D.D. Sprite!" The green-haired baby that appeared fluttered on tiny wings next to the screeching Shield Wing.
"Tuning, Stardust Xiaolong to D.D. Sprite!" Yusei commanded as they barely evaded another wave. "Clustering wishes will call out a new speed's horizon! Become the path its light shines upon! Synchro Summon! The power of hope, Synchro Tuner, Formula Synchron!"
The little multi-coloured race-car that burst from the starlight looked at Stardust Dragon, before nodding and revving forward.
"Tuning, level eight Stardust Dragon to level two Formula Synchron!" Yusei called out as the stars and rings of light began to shine. "Clustering crystal dreams open the door to a new evolution! Become the path its light shines upon!"
Even hanging from the back of a bird in the air with a sea serpent below raging at him, Yusei's eyes never wavered as the deck-case on his belt glowed, a single card falling from it to glow with bright white light.
"Accel Synchro!" Yusei called towards the light as the new, glowing dragon of stars spread its wings. "Be born, Shooting Star Dragon!"
The approaching Marine warships were being blocked by the Kuja ship, as the Straw Hats got ready to set sail.
"Ahh, everyone's here!" a black-haired simpleton in a red cardigan, blue denim shorts, sandals and with a straw hat perched on his head, remarked as he perched himself on the lion figurehead of the Sunny.
'Strawhat' Monkey D. Luffy. Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B400 million
"Feels like we're missing someone." a green-haired man in a green samurai's robe growled, one eye permanently closed by a cut. One hand drifted to the white one of three sheathed swords on his hip.
'Pirate Hunter' Roronoa Zoro. Swordsman of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B120 million.
"Shitty marimo, 'course we are," a blond man in a formal suit growled, smoking a cigarette.
'Black Leg' Sanji. Chef of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B77 million
"Calm down, both of you," a long-nosed brunet curly-haired man in yellow overalls groaned.
'Sogeking' Usopp. Sniper of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B30 million
"Yeah, yeah," a tiny reindeer standing on its hind legs with a huge head nodded in agreement.
'Cotton Candy Lover' Tony Tony Chopper. Doctor of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B50
"It's been a long time, and yet both Swordsman San and Cook San don't change," a mature-looking woman with long black hair chuckled.
'Demon Child' Nico Robin. Archaeologist of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B80 million
"Robin, you too?" a woman with long wavy orange hair and dressed in a striped bikini top and jeans groaned.
'Burglar Cat' Nami. Navigator of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B16 million
"That guy's making us wait a super long time, yo!" a... very colourful cyborg... posed.
'Cyborg' Franky. Shipwright of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B44 million
"Yohohoho!" A male skeleton with an afro in coloured pants, snazzy jacket and pink feather boa with a crown-hat chuckled. "When I read the bounty poster my eyes nearly popped out of my head, I was so surprised, Yohohoho! Ah, but I have no eyes!"
'Hummer' Brook. Musician of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B30 million
"Shoot! Shoot and sink them!"
"The Marines are here already!" Nami complained.
"In the distance!" Usopp called, spying with his telescope. "That's..."
"Ace!" Luffy glomped his older brother. "It's been a long time!"
"Yeah, it is..." the older D. had a soft smile on his face. "Two years or so already... I've been travelling around with the crew-mate of yours, since he completely missed out on the experience..."
'Fire Fist' Portgas D. Ace. Brother of Luffy. Relation yet unclear with the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B550 million
A roar sounded behind them, the usually brave Mera Mera user immediately paling as he heard it.
"Ah, you pissed Aki off," Luffy sagely nodded as he, too, heard it.
"Yeah..." he sank to the ground, depressed. "I'm not going to live to see the next day... forgive me, mother, old man, Luffy..."
"In the distance!" a Marine aboard one of the approaching warships screamed. "It's a dragon!"
"It's the black dragon! The omen of destruction... the Black Rose Dragon!"
"The Black Rose Witch, Izayoi Aki!"
"Aki!" Luffy cheered as the black dragon with the red florid wings floated above the deck, its slender red-haired beautiful mistress giving Ace a kick in the side.
"What was setting the boat on fire for?" she yelled at the cowering man in the orange hat. "He could've died!"
'Black Rose Witch' Izayoi Aki. Second doctor of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B190 million
"Eh?" Nami blinked. "Where's our resident miracle worker?"
The hydrofoil Blackbird might not be especially aesthetically wonderful, but it possessed a speed and mobility that was shown as it rammed to fly up over the railings to crash-land on the Sunny's deck.
"Sunny!" Franky yelled as the rider in navy and black dismounted. "Watch it, Yusei!"
"Er, Franky..." Zoro peered in. "There's no one inside."
"If Yusei's not there..." Aki murmured, "Then... ah! Behind the warships!"
Usopp looked closer with his telescope. "That's... a dragon! And on it... Yusei!"
A Marine dropped his binoculars into the ocean. "T- The..."
"What?" the Rear Admiral onboard yelled.
"The dragon!" the Marine yelled. "The Shooting Star, Fudo Yusei, is here!"
His declaration caused panic to break out on deck.
"W-What? He made it?" "We'll be killed!"
"Before we begin, a reading," Yusei drew five cards. "Effect Veiler, Hyper Synchron, Saviour Dragon, Nitro Synchron, Junk Synchron. Five tuners... guaranteed. We will have a good trip."
"That dragon's... different..." the Marine squinted.
"Fire!" the Rear Admiral ordered. "Shoot down that dragon!"
"Battle, Shooting Star Dragon!" Yusei commanded. "Stardust Mirage!"
Luffy stared. "The dragon..."
"Split into five!" Franky finished, as the entire crew watched the five dragons completely total the ship to recombine into one dragon that floated above the deck.
"Yusei!" Franky yelled as the rider leapt off the disappearing dragon to land safely on deck. "Watch Sunny, dammit!"
"Sorry, Franky San!" the rider grinned, stretching the yellow mark on his left cheek, blue eyes twinkling against the slightly darker skin tone of his face. "I missed everyone!"
"Yusei!" Chopper glomped the man built more along the streamlined front, crying. "Yusei~!"
"Our handyman is back!" Nami grinned.
"Yusei!" Luffy glomped him too.
'Shooting Star' Fudo Yusei. Handyman of the Straw Hat Pirates. Bounty: B210 million
"Seems like it's time to dive," Nami consulted her Log Pose. "You sure took your time, Yusei."
"We had to run from a sea monster," Ace grinned. "Yusei had to hold it back."
"Sea monster? Where?" Luffy looked around. "Is it good to eat?"
Yusei pointed down and out, towards the large serpentine body currently in the midst of breaking one Marine warship slowly and painfully in the deep ocean, the dark waters churning with white froth.
"...Yosh! Let's start!" Luffy cheered, turning away from the sight.
"He completely ignored it!" Usopp and Chopper yelled, slapping the air.
"Men!" Luffy yelled. "I've got a lot of things to share with you, but in any case, thank you for going along with my selfish decision for two years!"
"That wasn't the first time," Sanji remarked.
"And it won't be the last," Yusei nodded.
"He's right! You've always been selfish!" Usopp joked.
Luffy laughed, grinning as the ship submerged. "Spread the sails!"
"Yes!" "Yeah!"
For the first time in two years, the grinning skull and crossbones of the determination of the Straw Hat Pirates unfurled, waving its crew's determination to sail in the face of death.
"Set sail!" Luffy yelled.
"Yeah!" they all cheered, as the Thousand Sunny dived down into the deep ocean towards their next adventure.
"Let's go!" Luffy commanded happily, finally back on his own ship. "To Fishman Island!"
Please review!
Okay, I'm going to wait until the canon is sufficiently developed to write really long, so, chapters are going to have longer intervals but are more likely to be longer and contain more description. Meanwhile, I'll also be developing my brainchild, The Adventure of the Man of D., so do check that out if anyone wants to see the Straw Hat Pirates in the Sherlock Holmes world.
Having said that, I announce that Huge Revolution is also available for reading on Archive Of Our Own, and I will also be posting new fics there at the same time.
Until next time!
LLS