Author's Note: Thanks to those who reviewed, I will continue this story!

Disclaimer: No, don't own One Piece, how many times do I have to say it?!

Chapter 3: Monsters and Giants

From the ship, Nami and Usopp were screaming as something huge broke the surface of the water. It was a gigantic turtle… like REALLY big. The Going Merry looked like a pea next to it.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Usopp yelled.

"What is it?" Nami screamed. "Is it a continent?!"

"I don't know! It's just a dream, just a dream! I don't see a thing!" Usopp sang.

"A dream? Really?" Chopper asked.

"Oh thank goodness, it's only a dream," they all said simltaniously. The started to walk away.

"Oh my," Robin commented. Nami, Usopp, and Chopper tensed up. "Those four were all just eaten along with the ship."

"DON'T SAY THAT IN SUCH A CALM VOICE!" Usopp screamed, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"But their air hoses are coming out of its mouth," Robin pointed out.

Chopper shrank into his little form in midair, his eyes wide. "I'd say that decides it," Robin continued.

"St…op!" Usopp moaned.

Chopper ran back and forth across the deck, screaming. "LUFFY AND THE OTHERS GOT EATEN!!"

"This is all YOUR fault!" Usopp told Nami. "YOU made them go to the bottom of the GRAND LINE! You said it would be OKAY when you had NO PROOF and now they're…!"

Nami hunched over. "You're right," she said gravely.

Usopp blinked. Chopper actually stopped screaming to stare at Nami. Nami was actually taking responsibility for her actions!?

Nami stood and looked at the turtle. She held up her hand. "SORRY!" she called. She crossed her arms and said, "Okay, I'm clear."

Usopp and Chopper fell down.

Suddenly, the turtle shifted a bit, stretching the air hoses and making the ship lean to one side. Everybody fell against the banister except for Robin.

"We need to cut their air hoses, or we'll be completely helpless," Robin commented as she leaned to keep her balance. "It's going to drag our ship underwater."

"But Robin! You're strong, right!?" Usopp cried. "Can't you do something!?"

"I can't. It's too big."

Both the salvager's ship and the Going Merry were starting to lean dangerously to one side now.

The salvager's ship's crew yelled out. "Yosh! Everyone! Reel in the ropes! Boss is still alive in there!"

"AYE!!!"

Usopp listened, and something flashed through his mind. "That's right!" he said to himself. "Times like this are when a crew's loyalty is put to the test!"

"Usopp!" Nami called.

"Yeah?"

"CUT THE LINES AND TAKE US TO SAFETY!"

Usopp fell down again. "You're a devil!"

A cloud fell between the sun and the ships. That wasn't too unusual in itself… but this cloud was so thick that it turned day into night!

Chopper rubbed his eyes. "Am I dreaming?!"

"Impossible," Nami muttered. "It's not even close to evening yet."

"THEN WHAT IS IT! AHH! LUFFY! ZORO! SANJI! HOSHI!!" Usopp screamed.

Robin glanced over at the other ship. "Sudden nightfall is a bad omen, Captain!" one of the monkey's subordinates was yelling. "It means monsters will appear!! This ship's gonna be sunk!"

"Hurry and reel in the boss!"

Robin's attention was distracted when a lump came flying out of the water and landed on the deck.

"Luffy!" Nami yelled. She ran up to him and kneeled by his head. This might have been a tender gesture had she not started repeatedly smacking his face. "Oi! Luffy! What's wrong? Are you dead?"

Three hands grabbed the banister, and Zoro, Sanji, and Hoshi hurled themselves onboard. All four of them carried huge sacks on their backs.

"Ah! You all are alive!" Chopper said, tears of relief streaming down his cheeks.

"Set sail!" Zoro gasped. "We've got to get away from here!"

"That guy is trouble!" Sanji added.

Hoshi just swallowed air as fast as she could, aqua eyes livid.

"I'm so glad you all are alive!" Usopp said. "You're right! Let's just get the hell away from that turtle!"

"Turtle?" Hoshi asked. "What turtle?"

"There was no turtle," Zoro told Usopp. "There was this monkey in the ocean."

"Must be some sort of sea monster," Sanji muttered.

"After we picked up this stuff from the ship, he started rampaging," Hoshi explained. "He was really a weirdo."

"That weirdo is Masira, a salvager!" Usopp told them.

"Oh, that explains why the ship was filled with air," Zoro said.

"But it's amazing you all escaped from that turtle's mouth!"

"What turtle?!" Hoshi demanded.

Usopp looked at the big turtle. "Huh? The turtle's acting weird… it's just staring with it's mouth ope- Oh! I see! That's how you all escaped!"

Zoro, Hoshi, and Sanji all looked behind them for the first time. "AH! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" they screamed simultaneously.

"NOTICE THESE THINGS!" Usopp yelled at them. "THAT THING ATE YOU WITH THE WHOLE SHIP!"

Luffy finally woke up. "Huh? Huh? What's going on? Why is it nighttime? Why is- AH!! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT TURTLE?!"

"Luffy come help!" Zoro yelled at him. "We're getting out of here!"

Hoshi had flown up the mast and was letting down the sails. "Luffy, hurry up! We've go-"

"HOLD IT!"

The monkey shot out of the water like a bullet and landed on their ship. "Don't think you're going to get away with barging onto Masira-sama's territory and stealing treasure!" he roared.

Nami's eyes sparkled. "Treasure!? You all found treasure!"

Luffy chuckled. "Yeah! There was a whole lot of it in the ship!"

Hoshi jumped off the mast, landing lightly on the deck. She quietly brought her whip to her hand behind her back.

This is bad, Zoro thought, reaching for his Maitou blade. If he starts rampaging on the ship…

Chopper was trembling with fear… but he was looking at something else other than the monkey. Robin paid Masira no heed as she watched the thing that Chopper was staring at.

"Boss!" they called from the other ship. "Boss!"

"What is it!?" Masira demanded irritably.

"O-over there!"

Everybody looked where the turtle was staring.

Everybody froze.

A gigantic shadow was rising out of the water. It was much bigger than the turtle… maybe six times as long as it. See how big it was? Now think as if that part of the shadow was only the thing's ankle.

There were five, spear-wielding giants standing out of the water, their shadows the only thing visible of them.

One of them began to raise its spear.

"MONSTERS!" Luffy screamed. "RUN AWAY!"

No ship could have caught the Going Merry at that moment. The ship flew across the water, rowed by its terrified occupants.

They reached the end of the cloud in record time, back into blazing sunlight.

Hoshi threw herself onto the deck, trembling. She had never been that scared in her life, but if it had come to a fight against one of those things, she had no doubt who would have won. Zoro looked over at her with concern. He would have said something if he had not been shaking badly himself.

After they had all calmed down a bit, Sanji lit his cigarette irritably, sitting on the ground. "Man, the Grand Line is just a big parade of one inexplicable thing after another," he said.

"Just today, a giant galleon falls down on us from the sky…" Zoro muttered.

"The Log Post's needle is pointing to Sky Island…" Nami continued.

"Some weird monkey comes and raises the ship…" Usopp gasped.

"Then a giant turtle came and gobbled up the ship…" Chopper said.

"Night falls in the middle of the day…" Robin sighed.

"And huge monsters way bigger than the giants at Little Garden appear!" Luffy yelled.

"Yeah, that was sure scary, I can tell you," Masira said.

Hoshi started laughing. "But it was so much fun!" she said between her laughs.

The crew looked at Hoshi and sweatdropped, before realizing something was wrong…

"GET OFF OUR SHIP!" Hoshi, Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy all roared. They circled him and kicked him. The combined force of four of the ship's fighters threw Masira into the air, and he flew… and flew… and flew… until he was a little star in the distance.

What exactly WERE those giants? Is there any hope of getting to the sky? Why does Hoshi think that almost getting killed by giants is fun? Is anything actually going to work out for the Straw Hats on this adventure?